The Laconia Daily Sun, December 30, 2010

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NORTHFIELD — A smoky fire in a wax pit under an oven led to the evacuation of the second shift at the Wyman Gordon plant on Granite Street yesterday afternoon.

One worker who was standing outside said the foundry section lost power while a mold was being submerged into a bath of water and wax.

“When we lost power it only got half way into the bath. And that’s not good,” he said.

According to John Fitzmartin who was at the site and said he was authorized to speak for Precision Castparts Corp., of which Wyman Gordon is a subsidiary, the important thing is that none of the employees were injured and all were able to safely leave the building.

“We have accounted for everysee FIrE page 9

LACONIA — City Manager Eileen Cabanel told the City Council last night that officials of the HarleyDavidson Motor Company have assured her that the firm will return to Motorcycle Week in June, but indicated they were eying venues other than downtown where their rally “road show” has been staged for the past four years.

Cabanel said see h-d page 10

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Sugarloaf says ski lift was being shut down when it derailed CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine (AP) — Ski area employees working in blustery conditions were unable to realign a lift cable that was out of place and had restarted the lift at a slower speed to offload riders when the cable derailed, sending skiers plummeting 25 to 30 feet, the Sugarloaf resort said Wednesday.

High winds had shut down the lift in the hours before Tuesday’s accident, the worst in the resort’s 60-year history, but it was cleared for operations and reopened about half an hour before cable jumped its track. Five chairs fell, eight people were sent to hospitals and dozens were stranded on the crippled lift for more than an hour.

The wind contributed to the accident, state investigators said Wednesday, but they’re not ruling out other factors, and it’s not clear whether wind

or another cause initially pushed the cable out of place. The 35-year-old lift, which recently passed an inspection, was due to be replaced, possibly next summer, and was known to be vulnerable to wind long before its cable derailed.

Wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph were reported around Sugarloaf before the accident.

The resort worked to reassure skiers during the busy holiday week that Sugarloaf is committed to safety, and state inspectors vowed that their investigation would be thorough.

Steve Kolenda, who has skied 25 years at Sugarloaf, said skiers were impressed by the way Sugarloaf handled the emergency by shutting down the whole mountain to focus resources on the injured, and on rescuing skiers stuck on the lift. He also said it appeared that Sugarloaf was being transparent

about events leading up to the mishap.

“Everyone feels good about the mountain,” Kolenda said. “The place was jammed today.”

The 35-year-old East Spillway lift remained out of commission Wednesday, with part of its cable and several chairs still on the snow where they fell, as the investigation began.

Skiers and snowboarders agreed that it had been windy on Tuesday, a day after a blizzard whipped most of the state before blowing out to sea. But many of them disagreed over whether the wind was above and beyond what’s normally seen on Sugarloaf, the state’s tallest ski mountain.

“Yeah, it was windy. It didn’t keep me from coming up here,” Chuck Tetreau, a snowboarder from North Yarmouth, said after making a run Wednesday. see SKI LIFT page 6

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — Down to the last few days of the season and maybe Brett Favre’s career, the NFL ended a slow-paced investigation of tawdry allegations against the quarterback with a $50,000 fine and a rebuke for not being candid.

The league punished one of its marquee players for failing to cooperate with investigators who were trying to determine if the 41-year-old quarterback sent inappropriate messages and below-the-belt photos to Jenn Sterger in 2008, when both worked for the New York Jets.

The ruling came days before what could be the final game for the three-time MVP. He’ll start for Minnesota at Detroit on Sunday if he’s recovered from a concussion sustained Dec. 20 against Chi-

cago, and has said this will be his final season, though he’s unretired in the past. He made the declaration even before his NFL record for consecutive starts was snapped at 297 in mid-December.

It’s been a tough season on the field for Favre and his Vikings, and by the league’s own admission, the investigation begun in early October has generated plenty of bad publicity for all the parties involved — Favre, Sterger and the NFL itself.

Yet Commissioner Roger Goodell “could not conclude” that Favre violated the league’s personal conduct policy based on the evidence currently available to him, the league said in a statement announcing the fine.

Forensic analysis failed to establish that Favre sent the objectionable photographs to Sterger, the league said.

Favre’s punishment stems from Goodell’s determination that he was “not candid in several respects during the investigation resulting in a longer review and additional negative public attention for Favre, Sterger and the NFL,” the league said. The commissioner also told Favre that if he had found a violation of the league’s workplace conduct policies, he would have imposed a “substantially higher level of discipline.”

The NFL said its sole focus was on whether Favre violated workplace conduct policy, not to “make judgments about the appropriateness of personal relationships.”

There was no comment from Favre and his agent, Bus Cook, did not return messages.

The ruling drew a swift and bitter response from see FAVRE page 7

CONCORD (AP) — House Republican leaders want to lift a ban on guns and other dangerous weapons in the New Hampshire Statehouse complex put in place last year by Democrats.

House Speaker William O’Brien raised the issue Wednesday at a meeting of the Joint Legislative Facilities Committee, which is in charge of the Statehouse facilities.

Last year, the same legislative committee, led by Democrats, reinstated a ban on weapons that had been in place from 1996 to 2006. The committee,

now with Republicans in charge, plans to bring up the proposal to lift the ban next Tuesday.

O’Brien, R-Mont Vernon, said he wants to reverse the ban and proposed discussing it Wednesday.

But Senate President Peter Bragdon said one of his objections to the ban last year was that Democrats imposed it without enough notice to the public that it was being considered. People who wanted to testify on reversing the ban should be given notice to appear next week, said Bragdon, R-Milford.

At Bragdon’s suggestion, the committee recessed

without discussing the measure.

Criticized for not giving notice of its vote, the Democratic-led committee reconsidered the decision last year and arrived at the same conclusion. Attempts

by House Republicans to overturn the ban through legislation failed earlier this year.

Weapons at the Statehouse became a concern when people with guns stood and shouted at lawmakers from the House gallery during debate and votes on a resolution to reaffirm the state’s freedom see GUN BAN page 19

NFL fines Brett Favre $50k for ‘failure to cooperate’ with sexting investigation

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Expect Obama to attack Social Security Nicely in time for the end-of-year job ratings, President Obama has crawled from the political graveyard, where only a month ago wreaths were being heaped around his sepulcher. The official press commentariat now gravely applauds his recent victories in the U.S. Congress: repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” inhibitions on gays in the military; Senate ratification of the new START treaty on nuclear weapons with the Russians; passage of a $4.3 billion bill — previously blocked by Republicans — providing health benefits for emergency rescue workers in the 9/11 attacks of 2001.

Something missing from my list? Yes, indeed: first and absolutely foremost, the successful deal with Republicans on taxes, better described as a $4-trillion gift to America’s rich people, by extending the Bush tax cuts.

You give $4-trillion to the rich, and they express their thanks in measured terms. Their hired opinion-formers laud the spirit of admirable compromise enabling responsible members of Congress to come together in bipartisanship to keep the hog wallow open for business.

True, there are the naysayers, the left-leaning tribunes of the people who say, accurately enough, that the great “compromise” was, in the economist Michael Hudson’s words, “all for the rich ... not to promote stability and recovery ... creat(ing) new public debt to hand out to its bankers (which) future tax payers will spend generations paying off.”

It was a deal of refined cynicism, containing the poison pill of what has been billed as a generous gesture to working people — a $120 billion reduction in Social Security contributions by labor — reducing the rate of contributions to the Social Security pension fund from 6.2-percent of wages to 4.2-percent.

But in fact this is a tripwire, setting up an onslaught on Social Security a year down the road as underfunded, going swiftly bankrupt and ready to be auctioned off to Wall Street.

The prime constant factor in American politics across the past six decades has been a counterattack by the rich against the social reforms of the 1930s.

Twenty years ago, the supreme prize of the Social Security trust funds — the government pensions that changed the face of America in the mid-1930s — seemed far beyond Wall Street’s grasp. No Republican president could possibly prevail in such an enterprise. It would have to be an inside job by a Democrat. Clinton tried it, but the Lewinsky sex scandal narrowly aborted his bid.

If Obama can be identified with one historic mission on behalf of capital, it is this — and though success is by no means guaranteed, it is closer than it has ever been.

This brings us to the upcoming 112th Congress, reflecting Republican gains in November, which will spend the evening of Feb. 2 listening to Obama’s “bipartisan” agenda laid out in his State of the Union address.

The Politico website — reflecting the climate of informed political opinion in Washington, D.C. — recently predicted that in this next address, “the teleprompter in chief is expected to announce cuts in Social Security.” As Robert Kuttner of Politico speculates: the rationale will be “to pre-empt an even more draconian set of budget cuts likely to be proposed by the incoming House Budget Committee chairman, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), as a condition of extending the debt ceiling. This is expected to hit in April.”

But surely for progressives, infuriated by the tax giveaway to the rich, and whose support Obama will be counting on for re-election in 2012, cuts in Social Security will be the last straw? Don’t bet on it. As political beasts of burden, progressives have backs that can sustain a virtually infinite number of straws.

Against the tax betrayal these middle-class progressives will tout the end of “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

Identity politics will trump class politics, as has been the case for middle-class progressives for the past quarter-century.

Nor will they make much of another major failure by Obama: failure to get the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act through Congress. This would have enabled millions of undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. before they turned 16 to become conditional permanent residents and then citizens if they graduated from high school, completed military service or college and kept their noses clean.

Republicans blocked the bill in the Senate, though it would have passed if Democrats had shown unity. But the White House was markedly disinclined to expend any political capital on this, just as it has failed to live up to any of its commitments to blacks or to labor, whose money and organizers were the determining factor in getting Obama elected in 2008.

Right now, Obama’s job approval rating is running at about 46-percent, as against the disapprovers, who are around 48-percent, having dropped back from an early-autumn high of over 50-percent. He’s now fairly set upon the right-wing course Clinton embarked on after 1994: wars abroad (Yugoslavia for Clinton, Afghanistan for Obama); a war-on-terror policy worthy of BushCheney, as exemplified in the abandonment of pledges to shut down Guantanamo and the swift drafting of new and repressive espionage see OBAMA next page

LETTERS Why can’t we repeal legalized murder & be promoters of life?

To the editor, I would like to offer a different viewpoint than the two women who wrote letters in the Dec. 28th Sun. These writers seemed to be upset by legislators taking time to address the issues concerning women’s right to “choose” and their unborn children, rather than finding ways to mend our economic woes.

Once again, as I have done in the past, I will speak up for those who always seem to be forgotten in these matters, every unborn child. They have had no voice and no choice since 1973, when abortion was made legal. It is about time we ALL spoke up in defense of every child still in the womb that has the misfortune of being unwanted, inconvenient, or just the wrong sex, and who is in danger of death by abortion.

We cannot claim to be in favor of protecting the health of women, and at the same time allow their unborn

children to be killed. We cannot protect their children, and neglect to help the mothers bring these children to birth. I have a question for the public; why can’t we love them both? Why does one or the other have to be sacrificed at all? Why can’t the tax dollars we pour into the UN and Planned Parenthood’s worldwide abortion mills be used to provide care for mothers AND their unborn babies?

Why can’t we repeal legalized murder and be promoters of life? How can killing future generations of children bring prosperity or happiness to anyone? It can’t, and we know it in our hearts. That’s why this issue will not stay settled, and until we do face up to this evil practice of abortion, it will keep coming to our attention, thank God. And so, on behalf of all little ones yet to be born, I will once again make this plea. LET US LIVE! Doris Morrisssette Laconia

Mr. Brooks’ statement about women is out of the 19th Century To the editor, It’s been interesting reading the various letters by “jail house lawyers” submitted to this forum in reference to the Bird verdict and sentencing. One I found most disturbing was the recent letter from G.W. Brooks in which he states that “we know for a fact that a person, ESPECIALLY A WOMAN, can make a knowingly false statement to authorities of a man’s intent and they will react on it by arresting him”. This statement is right out of the 19th Century. Brooks infers that the alleged victim in this case cannot be believed because she is a woman, and that Mr. Bird’s statements of the events that occurred are more factual because he is a man.

I totally agree with Mr. Brooks when he speaks to the issue of over reacting. As he states in his letter, “We were

not there”. We don’t know who said or did what, other than what’s reported in the media, second-hand accounts, rumor, or highly emotional rhetoric from the parties involved.

Mr. Brooks makes reference to Rep. Gary Condit as an example of how “especially a man” can be ruined by lies told by women. Mr. Condit has only himself to blame. Had he been the faithful “family values” husband as he had led us to believe, he would not have been caught up int he Chandra Levy tragedy. Because of his affair with the young intern there was a high probability of him being involved in her murder, and it would have been irresponsible of investigators not to include him as a suspect.

L.J. Siden Gilmanton

Pharmacies should warn of mixing certain foods with meds To the editor, I just want to know why the pharmacy does not list the dangers of medications with certain foods people eat. An example is grapefruit juice and cholesterol medication. When you take the medication and have had grapefruit juice it turns into gel and

can create many serious problems.

Licorice is another bad thing to mix with blood pressure medication. That can be fatal.

So why can’t they list the foods you should not mix with your medications?

They list all the side effects and they see MEDS next page

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LETTERS Take a look at an ultrasound when mom is about 3-4 months pregnant To the editor, Pro-Choice? Pro-Life? I see the issue has surfaced in your paper again with letters from the Hugheses and Greg Knytych. Just a note here to remind us that the taking of a human life is murder, whether it be before birth or after birth. Life begins at conception and advances with a clear line of progression from that point.

A pregnant mom, the dad of an unborn baby, a doctor, or an abortionist may choose to end a baby’s life, and this murderous act is permitted by law up to the time of birth. But why end there? If you believe in choice, why not follow the suggestion put forward by Jonathan Swift over two hundred years ago?

Swift’s “Modest Proposal” was intended to reduce the number of poor children in the London slums. He proposed that the law be changed to allow the murder of children up to the age of 10. Would Choicers like this?

Certainly this would reduce the cost of education and other costs involved

in raising the youth of our nation.

Fewer children, lower taxes. Our law could be moved in gradually, maybe to begin with extend that “choice” law from its now-point of birth up to when a child is one. After all, some would argue that a one-year-old doesn’t know much about life, and the death would be quick and painless.

I, for one am glad my mother chose life for me, and the readers of this paper are most likely thankful that their mothers also took the life choice.

If you are a pregnant mom, the father of an unborn child, a doctor, or an abortionist, please think about your choice . . . murder is murder, no matter the stage of development.

P.S. If you don’t think that an infant is human before birth, take a look at an ultrasound picture of a baby when Mom is about three or four months pregnant. The picture clearly shows a live, developing human.

Harry Mitchell Laconia

Stop complaining and say something good about the world To the editor, After a few long visits to the V.A. and getting of my problems taken care of, I felt that I would write and say “Happy Holidays” to all. Different approach, huh?

I mean, it’s not the usual whine and cry and complain bit is it? Oh, I still keep up with the times and the letters written in. I thought to myself, gee, it’s kind of sad seeing everyone crying and complaining about the world today.

I saw a boy and his sister talking to Santa Claus last week. It was really exciting listening to what they wanted. The boy asked for something for his sister and the girls asked for something for her brother. Strange, huh?

And, they didn’t complain about a thing! Santa asked what they wanted for themselves and they only wanted — get this now — “happiness” in the world. Really! No joke! It’s a true

story!

Now when was the last time you saw or heard something like that? My point? Well, why is everyone whining and complaining about everything instead of saying something good in this world? That’s my point.

Examples: “They charge too much for those toys!” “I can’t afford more than $10 a piece for the children!” “I wish Christmas never was!” Etc. etc. etc.

I ask you, what’s the true meaning of Christmas? Gifts? Turkey? Christmas trees and decorations? NO! Read the bible. It’s in there! The Christ child was born, bringing love and peace to the world — “happiness”, as the boy and girl asked for. They asked for NO TOYS! Remember, Christmas is about Christ, family and joy to the world.

P.S. I have no complaints.

E. J. Michael Winnisquam

MEDS from preceding page should list the foods that should not be eaten if you are taking certain medication. Makes sense? If they can’t do that then you as the consumer should ask the pharmacy about what foods not to

have if your taking certain medications.

This is food for thought and knowing this just might save you from a trip to the emergency room.

Anna DeRose Moultonborough

OBAMA from preceding page laws in the wake of WikiLeaks.

Clinton, the self-proclaimed “Comeback Kid,” took the same turn with his 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act. Clinton launched his successful onslaught on welfare in his second term, also the attack on Social Security, which Obama now aims to consummate.

As with Clinton, we have a Republican president and disconsolate liberals, and a press saying that Obama is showing admirable maturity in

understanding what bipartisanship really means. The landscape doesn’t change much, as evidenced by the fact that Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida and George W’s brother, looks as though he’s ready to make a bid for the Republican nomination.

(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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GILFORD — Selectmen last night authorized either the encumbrance or expenditure of a total of $114,000 at their final meeting for 2010.

As a result of this week’s snow storm, the Public Works Department incurred $38,155 in damages to equipment including a blown engine on one of the Ford F-550s that will cost $20,000 to repair.

“It’s just one of those first storm of the year expensive things that break,” said Chair Kevin Hayes.

The remaining $18,000 include fixing the conveyor belt on the sander and some loader parts that need replacing.

Other expenditures are for tires, uniforms and portable radio repairs

for the police department, $4,000 for bullet proof vests and $1,830 for dispatch monitors.

Selectmen also approve $9,000 for the fire department to purchase an additional thermal imager, the funds to come from savings in the operations budget. An additional $4,300 was authorizes for upgrades to an existing thermal imager and firefighter’s suit and gear.

The town also approved $61,000 for the purchase of road salt, splitting their purchase between two separate vendors.

Finance Officer Geoff Ruggles said an early estimate of the year-end budget picture shows the town may end up with about a $200,000 surplus but cautioned that the figures are not final or audited.

Correction: Bullet fired in 2002 traveled about 300 feet The story published in our Wednesday, Dec. 29 edition dealing with a 2002 gun discharge incident in Moultonborough involving Ward Bird, an editing error resulted in a misprint

of the distance a bullet fired by Bird traveled before entering a cottage in Suissevale. According to the police report filed at the time, the distance the bullet traveled was about 300 feet.

SKI LIFT from page 2 In Maine, ski resort lifts are overseen by the Maine Board of Elevator and Tramway Safety, whose inspectors are investigating the accident.

Annual inspections are the responsibility of the ski resorts, but the state licenses the inspectors.

Kolenda said he and his friends were looking forward to a replacement lift not because the old one was dangerous, but because it was slow.

“When we rode the lift, none of us were worried about safety. It was an old lift. It was like an old car. It’d break down occasionally. It was slow.

But we didn’t see it as a safety problem,” said Kolenda, 57, of Monmouth, Maine, who has ridden the lift “thousands of times.”

Nationwide, there’s no federal oversight of ski lifts, and inspection rules and procedures vary from state to state, said Troy Hawks of the National Ski Areas Association.

Deadly lift accidents are relatively rare. Since 1973, lift accidents have killed 12 people, including one in 1976 that killed four people in Vail, Colo., and another in 1978 in Squaw Valley, Calif., that also killed four people,

according to the Colorado-based organization.

In Maine, five of the injured skiers had been released from Franklin Memorial Hospital as of Wednesday, said hospital spokeswoman Jill Gray.

Two patients were taken by ambulance and one by helicopter to Maine Medical Center in Portland, she said, but a spokeswoman there declined to comment.

The lift is 4,013 feet long, gains 1,454 feet of elevation and nearly reaches the summit of 4,327-foot Sugarloaf. The resort had targeted the lift for replacement under a 10-year plan.

Sugarloaf’s general manager publicly stated he wanted this to be its last winter, partly because of vulnerability to wind.

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Other criteria the ZBA had to consider what whether property values in the area would be affected and if the proposed use is consistent with other uses in the area.

Earlier this month the Planning Board gave Cedarstrom it conditional approval as long as he got his variance.

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FAVRE from page 2 er’s attorney, who accused the league of favoritism.

“It clearly shows that an NFL star player was given preferential treatment and tells all other players that failure to cooperate may cost you some money but will not result in other punishment,” said Joseph Conway, who added there was “ample evidence” the photos were of Favre.

“Additionally, today’s decision is an affront to all females and shows once again that, despite tough talk, the NFL remains the good old boys’ league,” Conway said.

Conway said Sterger is undecided about whether to take legal action

against Favre, the Jets or the NFL. The league said its investigation dragged out because of difficulties in setting up interviews with “certain key individuals,” the complication of retrieving and reviewing electronic records and Goodell’s decision to meet with both Favre and Sterger before reaching a conclusion.

Goodell in a memo sent Wednesday to all NFL teams said that “every member of every club’s staff should be able to work in an environment free of harassment or hostility, and one in which every employee is valued, respected, and given a full opportunity to contribute to the goals of the club and the NFL.” Favre’s fine will help fund a new training program on workplace conduct around the league, though for the multimillionaire QB the penalty is a pittance. Even while sitting out of Tuesday’s game at Philadelphia because of post-concussion symptoms, Favre essentially earned $50,000 over about five minutes of action.

According to NFLPA data, Favre’s base salary for this season is $11.6 million.

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Adjustments were made, and the lift was stopped and started several times in attempt to realign the cable before the mechanics decided to shut down the lift altogether, Austin said. They’d restarted the lift at a slow speed to allow skiers to disembark when the cable jumped out of wheels holding it in place.

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“This will do no harm,”Cedarstrom said, noting the building in question at the corner of Lily Pond Road and Route 11 has been “used this way since the 1930s.”

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Cuba’s official Gazette said that effective Jan. 1, “personal cleanliness products” will join a growing list of products cut from the ration books that islanders have come to rely on for a small but steady supply of basic goods.

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A former model who was a Jets gameday hostess and later appeared on the Versus television network, Sterger refused to speak on the record to the website. Weeks after the story broke, she talked with league investigators and cooperated fully, according to her manager Phil Reese.

Deadspin editor in chief A.J. Daulerio acknowledged paying a third party for the material it posted on Favre and said that he could not guarantee the material was genuine.

The league also reviewed media reports that Favre pursued two massage therapists who worked at the Jets’ facility in 2008. But the NFL said that claim could not be substantiated because people with “potentially relevant information” declined to be interviewed or cooperate with investigators.

According to the league, its investigation included the following: “an analysis of publicly available reports; a series of interviews with knowledgeable individuals, including Sterger and Favre; a review of communications between the two furnished to our office; and independent forensic analysis of electronically stored material.”

The investigation was also limited in several respects because the matter was not brought to its attention until two years after it allegedly occurred, the league said.

Favre has consistently refused to answer reporters’ questions about the allegations. He said early on that he had enough to worry about with the Vikings’ next opponent, and that’s certainly been true this season.

Convinced to come back for one more run at a title by three Minnesota teammates who flew down to see him in Mississippi, Favre’s second year with the Vikings has been nothing like the charmed run of last season, which ended with a heartbreaking loss to New Orleans in the NFC championship game.

With 11 touchdowns and 19 interceptions, Favre’s passer rating of 69.9 ranks ahead of only Arizona’s Derek Anderson and rookie Jimmy Clausen of Carolina.

Favre also has been battered by injuries to his ankle, chin, ribs, back, head and throwing shoulder — the one that forced him to finally miss a start, against the Giants on Dec. 13. But despite all his troubles, Favre has said all along that he did not regret coming back for a 20th NFL season.

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“If we want to keep them (Harley-Davidson),” Cabanel stressed, “we’ve got to work on it.”

Since 2007, the motorcycle giant’s corporate pres-

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The city has not charged Harley-Davidson any rent in an effort to encourage out-of-town guests to visit the center of the city.

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FRM from page one the Bureau of Securities Regulation and the Attorney General’s Office, Bank Commissioner Peter Hildreth unceremoniously retired — one step ahead of being fired — for the failure of his department, the primary regulator, to effectively police the company.

The evidence indicates that changes in the licensing and examining of mortgage bankers and brokers, introduced by Hildreth soon after he became commissioner in September, 2001 severely weakened the department’s oversight of FRM. In particular, by narrowing the scope of examinations, the department was unaware that the company was operating in the red for at least a decade and using its investment clients’ funds to hide its losses.

FRM was originally licensed as a mortgage banker and broker in 1989. In 2005, the firm began operating in tandem with CL&M, a servicing company managed by Donald Dodge, a longtime associate of Farah. At the time, Farah was ordered by the New Hampshire Bureau of Securities Regulation to redeem its preferred shareholders, to whom it had wrongfully issued promissory notes.

CL&M collected monies from clients investing in mortgages brokered by FRM while disbursing funds to borrowers and paying interest to clients.

All the funds were illegally co-mingled in two bank accounts. Farah told investigators that apart from servicing mortgages, CL&M was formed to pro-

vide FRM with “a line of credit” to retire its debt to preferred shareholders of between $2-million and $3-million as well as to defray its operating deficit.

The source of the “line of credit” consisted solely of funds invested by clients or pledged to borrowers.

Originally Farah “borrowed” $10-million, but by November 2, 2009, a week before the firms shut down, he had withdrawn a total of $20,348,321 in 260 separate transactions. Financial statements reconstructed by the securities bureau indicate that the borrowed funds represented $4.1-million of FRM’s revenue in 2005, $5.4-million in 2006, $4.9-million in 2007 and $2.9-million in 2008. In these same years FRM reported net income of $385,367, $302,374, $249,789, and $21,258. Discounting the borrowings, the firm actually posted losses of $3.5-million, $5.4-million, $4.5-million and $2.8-million.

In February, when Farah was questioned by attorney Jim Donchess, representing the trustee in the FRM and CL&M bankruptcy proceedings, he revealed that FRM’s operating losses began “years before 2005.” How, Donchess asked, did FRM cover its losses before it borrowed from CL&M? “Essentially we were doing the same thing on a much smaller scale,” Farah said. For example, he explained, that FRM might raise $100,000 for a construction loan, then disburse half to the borrower and book the balance as revenue. The magnitude of FRM’s operating losses prior to 2005 has not been disclosed.

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from preceding page always required licensees to be solvent in order to continue in business. In 1995, the Bank Department closed Flexible Mortgage Corporation of West Lebanon when it was found to be operating with less than the then required $100,000 of net worth. The current law prescribes that licensees must maintain a minimum net worth reflecting the value of the loans they originate.

Although FRM was insolvent for years, only the first of the six examinations conducted by the Banking Department, dated May 9, 2001 — four months before Hildreth became commissioner — refers to the company’s financial condition. The examiner found that as of December 31, 2000, FRM was insolvent. “The company,” he wrote, “has no liquidity and is insolvent in that it reports $0 in Cash and Cash Equivalents with outstanding liabilities of $699,662.”

In July, before the examination was acted upon, the Bank Commissioner Roland Roberge died suddenly and in September Hildreth replaced him. One of Hildreth’s first actions was to request the Legislative Budget Assistant to conduct an audit of the department. The audit was completed in March, 2002.

The auditors cited the department for failing to examine non-depository licensees, like FRM, every 18 months as the law prescribes. At the time there were 2,083 licensees, of which only 23 had been examined in the prior nine months. Five examiners were assigned to non-depository licensees, one of whom worked in the office processing applications.

A former employee familiar with the process, who asked not to be identified, said that the department bridged the gap between licensees and personnel in two ways. First, licenses were issued for one year and licensees were required to provide extensive documentation, including audited financial statements, annually in order to maintain their licenses.

Second, the largest and newest licensees, along with those against which complaints were lodged, were scheduled for examinations, which like that of FRM in May, 2001 included a statement of their financial condition.

Hildreth responded to the 2002 audit by adding personnel and restructuring the licensing and examination processes. The scope of examinations was limited to first and second residential mortgages regulated by RSA 397-A, which enabled the department to comply with the every 18-month examination schedule set by law. Unlike the first examination of FRM, the five subsequent examinations in 2003, , 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008 are confined to the residential portfolio, which represented

a small share of the business. None make reference to the financial condition of the firm itself.

“The exams became drive-by examinations,” said another former employee, “hardly worth the paper they were printed on.”

At the same time, the licensing process was changed. In place of an annual review, licensees were required only to be “in compliance” and pay the licensing fee. The law provided no application could be denied without reasonable cause. Moreover, the licensing and examination functions were segregated. Kimothy Griffin, an administrator at the department, testified that staff handling license renewals did not routinely review examination reports, though they were available to them.

Following the collapse of FRM, Hildreth repeatedly insisted that the department’s jurisdiction did not extend beyond the residential mortgage portfolio. He told the joint legislative committee investigating the affair that the department’s role was not to ensure that licensees failed, but to protect consumers from deceptive practices regulated by RSA 397-A. The department, he said, was authorized to assess the financial condition of licensees only to the extent it bears on their residential mortgage portfolio, without explaining how the net worth of a licensee could be determined by examining only a portion of its business.

In contrast, Mary Jurta, who heads the consumer credit division of the department that oversees non-depository licensees, told the committee that examiners determined the net worth of licensees.

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A police spokeswoman said Wednesday there have been no significant developments in the case since then.

MGM Resorts spokesman Alan Feldman told The Associated Press the chips were switched out at the tables within an hour of the robbery, and the Bellagio immediately filed to discontinue the chips.

Feldman said the move was designed to avoid inconveniencing players using the high value chips. He said he did not know how many chips existed and were uncashed.

“Obviously, anyone walking with one of the old series is going to be subject to a certain amount of questioning as to how they obtained them — assuming it isn’t someone we know,” Feldman told the AP. “It’s pretty unusual for someone we don’t know to come strolling up with a handful of $25,000 chips.”

CONCORD (AP) — New Hampshire Fish and Game officials say a Maine man is dead after he lost control of his snowmobile and hit rocks.

Officials say 48-year-old Jim Daigneau (DAGG-no) of Acton, Maine, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident on Wednesday afternoon on a private lane in Wakefield on the from preceding page licensed or not, CL&M was never examined. Nor was CL&M ever licensed, though FRM was twice cited for working with an unlicensed servicer.

Although all of the five examination reports filed during Hildreth’s tenure note that FRM’s financial statements were reviewed, none include a statement of FRM’s financial condition.

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When the governor and Executive Council heard a petition calling for Hildreth’s dismissal, his attorney, David Nixon, said that when he was appointed he found the Bank Department “in disarray.” By expediting the licensing process and narrowing the scope of examinations, the department increased the frequency of its examinations while divesting them of their purpose.

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Bellagio owner MGM Resorts International is giving public notice that it’s discontinuing its standard chip valued at $25,000 and calling for all gamblers holding the chips to redeem them by April 22.

After that, gambling regulators say each red chip with a gray inlay won’t be worth more than the plastic it’s cast from.

“The bottom line is that they’re not money,” said David Salas, deputy enforcement chief for the Nevada Gaming Control Board.

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LACONIA — Running Start, a program designed by the Community College System of NH (CCSNH), is allowing high school students like Spencer Pickering to earn dual credits at both the J. Oliva Huot Technical Center and Lakes Region Community College (LRCC).

Pickering took an Introduction to Business class for dual credit last year. When he begins studies at LRCC in the fall, he will already have six college credits completed.

“The Running Start program is an excellent opportunity for students to gain college experience while still in a high school setting,” said Carlene Rose, professor of Business and Accounting at LRCC. “Not only can students obtain knowledge at a college level before graduating from high school, they can get a feel for what the expectations are for college classes.”

More than 5,000 students throughout NH take advantage of Running Start through the state’s seven two-year colleges. As a result of the program’s tuition reduction, participating students saved almost $3 million last year.

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Police say Idaho man hit 15-year-old as plane left Las Vegas because teen wouldn’t turn off his iPhone BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Police say a man on a Southwest Airlines flight from Las Vegas to Boise struck a teenager who refused to turn off his cell phone.

Officers arrested 68-year-old Russell E. Miller at the Boise airport on suspicion of misdemeanor battery Tuesday. He has been released from jail on bond.

KBOI-TV reports witnesses told police the 15-yearold was playing games and listening to music on an iPhone when flight attendants instructed passengers to turn off their electronic devices. Boise police

spokesman Charles McClure say the plane was leaving the Las Vegas airport at the time.

Witnesses say when the teen didn’t respond, Miller got angry and struck the boy in the arm.

The Idaho Statesman reports that Miller says he “tapped” the teen on the shoulder after the boy refused to turn off the phone.

Miller told the newspaper that he may have “overreacted,” but that he did not punch the teen.

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You’ll enjoy learning how things work.

Once you understand the mechanics of a situation, you’ll come up with ways to improve the look and feel of them.

You’re a designer at heart.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

You have mastered the art of delegating. You can tell who would be best suited for a job, and you know just how to ask them to do it. However, today, if you can do it yourself, don’t ask another person to do it for you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You’ll take care of yourself in all the ways that matter to you. And someone else will fill in with care that you wouldn’t have thought of -- special extras to make you feel loved.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Everyone will be chipping in. The one who gives a dollar might be the biggest giver of all -- if it’s his only dollar. Contributions are relative. Only you know the size of your gift because only you know how much you have to give.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Dec. 30). You set an exciting goal for your personal life, and your entire scene is energized by this aim. Loved ones open up new resources just for you in January. You will be the authority figure in February, and you must be careful to use your power well. You will be featured in a performance in March. There’s a windfall in May. Cancer and Leo people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 1, 21, 16 and 50.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Making a favorable impression on the family and friends of those you love will be of extreme importance. Put forth the effort. It will come back around sooner than you think.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Instead of asking what would make you “pretty happy,” go for the big thrills. This day will be memorable no matter what you do, so you may as well do it up big.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Name dropping and boasting may impress some, but not you. You are unpretentious, and so you know to pay attention to the less flashy individuals around you. Look for quiet intelligence.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Doing twice what you did yesterday is possible because there will be no impedance. It doesn’t matter what anyone else is doing. You should consider this to be a very big deal.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You wisely realize that at the end of the day, your only concern will be whether you have loved enough. With this in mind, you’ll show your love and give generously of yourself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You think you’ve placed your hopes too high when in fact you may be undercutting yourself and wishing for far too little. Be bolder with your dreams, and then believe in them wholeheartedly.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). There’s something odd about today’s circumstances, and the strangest part of all is that no one seems to notice it but you.

In private moments, you chuckle to yourself. Tomorrow you’ll have someone else to laugh with.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You feel restricted in a certain situation, but

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Thursday, Dec. 30, the 364th day of 2010. There is one day left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 30, 1860, 10 days after South Carolina seceded from the Union, the state militia seized the United States Arsenal in Charleston, completing a takeover of all federal property in the city except Fort Sumter.

On this date: In 1813, the British burned Buffalo, N.Y., during the War of 1812.

In 1853, the United States and Mexico signed a treaty under which the U.S. agreed to buy some 45,000 square miles of land from Mexico for $10 million in a deal known as the Gadsden Purchase.

In 1903, about 600 people died when fire broke out at the recently opened Iroquois Theater in Chicago.

In 1922, Vladimir I. Lenin proclaimed the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

In 1936, the United Auto Workers union staged its first “sit-down” strike, at the Fisher Body Plant No. 1 in Flint, Mich.

In 1948, the Cole Porter musical “Kiss Me, Kate” opened on Broadway.

In 1972, the United States halted its heavy bombing of North Vietnam.

In 1994, a gunman walked into a pair of suburban Boston abortion clinics and opened fire, killing two employees.

In 2006, Iraqis awoke to news that Saddam Hussein had been hanged; victims of his three decades of autocratic rule took to the streets to celebrate.

One year ago: Seven CIA employees and a Jordanian intelligence officer were killed by a suicide bomber at a U.S. base in Khost, Afghanistan.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor Joseph Bologna is 76. Actor Russ Tamblyn is 76. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Sandy Koufax is 75.

Actor Jack Riley is 75. Folk singer Noel Paul Stookey is 73. TV director James Burrows is 70. Actor Fred Ward is 68. Singer-musician Michael Nesmith is 68. Singer Davy Jones is 65. Actress Concetta Tomei (toh-MAY’) is 65. Singer Patti Smith is 64. Rock singermusician Jeff Lynne is 63. TV host Meredith Vieira is 57. Actress Sheryl Lee Ralph is 55.

Actress Patricia Kalember is 54. Country singer Suzy Bogguss is 54. “Today” show co-host Matt Lauer is 53. Actress-comedian Tracey Ullman is 51. Rock musician Rob Hotchkiss is 50. Actor George Newbern is 47. Singer Jay Kay (Jamiroquai) is 41. Rock musician Byron McMackin (Pennywise) is 41. Actress Meredith Monroe is 41. Actor Daniel Sunjata is 39. Actress Maureen Flannigan is 38. Actor Jason Behr is 37. Golfer Tiger Woods is 35. TV personality-boxer Laila Ali is 33. Singer-actress Tyrese Gibson is 32. Actress Eliza Dushku is 30. Rock musician Tim Lopez (Plain White T’s) is 30.

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Vacation week drop-in craft time at the Gilford Public Library. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. In the Children’s Room. We’ll supply the materials.

Family Matinee at the Gilford Public Library. 1 p.m.

“Toy Story 3” (G). We’ll supply the popcorn.

Knotty Knitters meeting at the Meredith Public Library. 10 a.m. to noon. All levels of experience welcome.

Affordable Health Care at Laconia Family Planning and Prenatal. 4 to 6 p.m. at 121 Belmont Road (Rte. 106 South). 524-5453. GYN and reproductive services. STD/ HIV testing. Sliding fee scale.

“Penguins on Parade” at the Goss Reading Room at 188 Elm Street in Lakeport (Laconia). Noon to 5 p.m. each Tuesday and Thursday in December. Kirk Dougal’s collection of penguins includes brass, wood, ceramic, stuffed, great and small. Each young reader who visit the exhibit will receive a penguin gift, while supplies last. 524-7683.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31 Al-Anon Meeting at the Congregational Church Parish House (18 Veterans Square) in Laconia. 9:30 to 11 a.m. each Friday. Al-Anon offers hope and help to families of alcoholics. No dues or fees. All are welcome. Call 645-9518.

Affordable Health Care at Laconia Family Planning and Prenatal. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 121 Belmont Road (Rte. 106 South). 524-5453. GYN and reproductive services.

STD/HIV testing. Sliding fee scale.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 1 First Day Franklin celebration. Starting at 11 a.m. at Trestle View Park. Merrimack Valley Paddlers and Friends of the Winnipesaukee River will be braving the class III and VI rapids. Heated tent for spectators. Coffee, cocoa and chili provided.

Annual reception for Ray Burton’s intern program will be held on Jan. 5 in Concord

CONCORD — Since his first term in 1977 Executive Councilor Ray Burton has operated an Intern Program at his Statehouse Office. To date there have been 135 student interns who have earned academic credit through this program. Their work consists of working on various projects for the large Northern NH Council District of 98 towns and the four cities of Berlin, Lebanon, Claremont and Laconia spread across the five northern counties of Carroll, Coos, Grafton, Belknap and Sullivan. The interns often represent Burton’s office at legislative hearings and capitol city/government events. Several interns have also had projects relating to Burton’s duties as a Grafton County Commissioner and other counties in NH. All of them have gone into public service such as UNH intern (1989) Christopher Boothby of Meredith,who just completed 12 years as a Belknap County Commissioner.

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‘Its Not To Late to Vaccinate’ flu shot clinic will be held in Laconia on Jan. 5 LACONIA — Central New Hampshire VNA & Hospice will hold a public seasonal flu shot clinic for anyone over the age of 6 months at the Salvation Army from 10:30 — 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, January 5.

Most people who get influenza will recover in a few days to less than 2 weeks, but some people will develop life-threatening complications as a result of the flu. Millions of people in the United States get influenza each year. An average of about 36,000 residents will die from it, and more than 200,000 will have to be admitted to the hospital as a result of influenza.

Anyone can get the flu and serious from preceding page political lives as a part of sharing experiences in NH State Government for a semester. “It is indeed an honor to come to know them and support their aspirations for their futures,” Burton stated.

The interns and the program will be honored on Wednesday, Jan. 5 , 5-7 p.m. at a reception at the Eagle Deli in

problems from influenza can happen at any age. People age 65 years and older, people of any age with chronic medical conditions, and very young children are more likely to get complications from influenza. Pneumonia, bronchitis, and sinus and ear infections are a few examples of complications from flu.

“It’s Not Too Late To Vaccinate.” If you have Harvard Pilgrim or Medicare B, please bring your health insurance card for billing purposes.

For more information about flu shot clinics sposored by Central NH VNA & Hospice, call Anne Marie Mercuri at 524-8444 or visit www.chhnh.org.

Concord ( across form the NH Statehouse). Everyone is invited. Granite State College President Todd Leach will be a guest speaker and share his 25 years of experience in higher education and his future projects for the 3,500 learners in the statewide college. For information contact Councilor Burton’s home office at 603747-3662.

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Massage therapy certificate program starts Jan. 18 LACONIA — For the first time in its 40-year history, Lakes Region Community College (LRCC) will offer a new Massage Therapy Certificate program starting Tuesday, January 18,.

“LRCC is excited to be expanding once more in the health arena,” said LRCC Vice President Dr. James Vander Hooven. “New Hampshire employment projections show a growth rate in the massage profession of over 30% in the coming decade. The College expects significant student numbers given employment projections statewide.”

LRCC’s Massage Therapy Professional Certificate has 16 courses and 43 credits. Courses will include Anatomy and Physiology, Massage Therapy Principles and Practices, Spa and Hygiene Techniques, and Ethics

of Human Touch. Upon completing the Certificate, students will be able to qualify for certification in the field.

“The Massage Therapy Professional Certificate will include theory, handson labs, and field experience in a variety of massage techniques,” continued Vander Hooven. “Those completing LRCC’s program may directly enter the Lakes Region healthcare workforce and/or transfer to a two- or fouryear institution for continued study in a health related profession.

For additional information, contact LRCC Admissions Director Wayne Fraser at 524-3207 or stop by the Main Campus in Laconia. Applications will be accepted through the week of January 18 and financial aid is available.

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Dear Annie: I am a 17-year-old girl, and my parents are in the middle of a divorce. That is not the problem. I am really happy they are divorcing.

The problem is, my mother has been telling everyone that Dad had an affair and that The Other Woman is the cause of the divorce. This makes things really awkward for me, especially around my friends whose parents know my mom.

Annie, I don’t care if my Dad had an affair, and the truth is, I don’t blame him. I have sat on the stairs and listened to my parents fight for years. I have heard my dad beg Mom to love him back, to talk to him, to do things with him and be affectionate. I love my mother, but she is the real reason they are getting divorced.

Dad is now living with his “friend,” and I secretly hope they stay together. I like her. He is happy and so much more relaxed now. I love being around him and his girlfriend, but of course, I can’t tell anyone this.

Mom has poisoned everyone in the family, making them believe Dad is a horrible person who left her for another woman. How do I get her to stop saying things that will make people blame my father and feel sorry for Mom? -- Me Dear Me: Neither of your parents should be bad-mouthing the other. It is grossly unfair to you. Tell your mother to please stop saying terrible things about Dad because you love him and her comments make him an object of derision in your community, which reflects poorly on the entire family. Then speak to your school counselor and ask for help.

Dear Annie: My son and his beautiful wife, “Marie,” just had their second child. The entire pregnancy was turbulent, and Marie needed a C-section. My granddaughter was born healthy and wonderful, but I have been in complete shock since.

While Marie was being moved into her hospital room, there was already a line of well-wishers forming outside the door, all of them carrying stuffed animals, little outfits, baby blankets and on and on. It was almost like a competition, with everyone trying to out-do the other with gifts. I thought at any moment someone would walk in with a pony. Many were dropping gift bags onto Marie’s stomach, no less, and they were so unbelievably loud. Although Marie was appreciative and tried to show enthusiasm for the gifts, she was exhausted and in pain. She wanted to hold and feed her new daughter.

Even the nursing staff was having difficulty doing their job.

This was the rudest, most inconsiderate thing I have ever witnessed. Is this some new trend for friends and relatives to show up with gifts immediately after the birth? -- Please End My Confusion Dear Confusion: People can be enormously insensitive when visiting a new mother. Usually, a family member or one of the hospital staff will toss visitors out of the room when there are too many or the chaos is too great. We are surprised no one did this for Marie and can only assume she was enjoying it more than you thought.

Dear Annie: This is in response to “Confused,” whose wife has their mortgage in her name only, even though he helps pay for it. If his wife will not consider adding him to the mortgage, please, please have her add him as a beneficiary to the mortgage loan.

My late husband had our mortgage in his name only with no beneficiary listed. Three years later, I am still paying the mortgage and building his credit instead of my own.

When married couples do not have jointly owned property, the death of one can create a huge burden for the surviving spouse. -- Still Attempting To Find a Solution

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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01 Subaru Limited Outback Wagon. Loaded, heated seats, winter package, dual sun roof.

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GILMANTON LARGE 2 bedroom Apartment. Easy commute, pets negotiable. $895/Month. 630-6812 Laconia 1 Bedroom- Washer/dryer hookup, storage, no pets. Security Deposit & references. $600/mo. + utilities. 520-4353 LACONIA Efficiency first floor, with private entrance, quiet area in good location, $650/ month includes utilities, security deposit and references required, 524-4694.

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LACONIA One bedroom, heat included, $695/ month, cute and clean, large livingroom, eat-in kitchen, extra storage room, parking for 2 cars. 455-5253.

MEREDITH-In-Town Efficiency apartment. 1-bedroom, 1-bath.

Kitchen, large living room with dryer. Quiet location, no pets/no smokers $800/Month + utilities.

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Laconia, 1 bedroom, $130/wk, utilities included, ref & sec dep required, no dogs. 524-4428

MEREDITH: In-town 1-bedroom, includes heat, $600/month. Parking w/plowing. No Smoking. No pets. Security deposit. 387-8356.

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For Rent-Commercial

GILFORD PRICE REDUCED 14,000 sf. retail/commercial building on 2.5 acres for sale or lease; Corner location; Ample parking, access & visibility on Rte 11, across from airport.

MOVE YOUR BUSINESS HERE! Call (603) 430-4000 MEREDITH Office/Studio Space: 3 rooms, 1,000+ sq.ft., heated, close to town and docks.

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BRAND new 18.5 cu. ft. Frigidaire refrigerator $350, 150,000 btu master heater K1 with thermostat $75, toolbox fits small pickup $40.

Tonneau cover fits small pickup $75, chrome rollbar with lights $50. 286-3174

KITCHEN cabinets solid Maple with glazing never installed/ dovetail. Cost $7000, sell $1650.

235-1695.

ADVERTISING Sales for tourism publication, must have solid ad sales experience. Lakes Region, North Conway to Canadian Border. Commission only. Resume and references required.

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SUMMIT RESORT

PIPER ROOFING & VINYL SIDING

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DRY firewood, all hardwood, cut and split 16” to 18” last winter, $265/ cord, $150/ half cord. John Peverly 528-2803 no calls after 8 pm please.

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18 Arlene Dr. Belmont Off Union Road 1 mile from Piches Look for Red & Yellow

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GE Refrigerator White, 18.5 cubic inches, side by side, ice & water in door. 2-years old, like new. $300, will deliver. 603-393-8416

For Sale

Hodgman Quality Hip Waders.

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2008 Dodge Caravan- Showroom condition under, 6,000 miles. Asking $13,500. Can be seen at 72 Stark St. Laconia. Call 630-9901 Linda or 387-2276 Garey 7 foot plush sofa, like new, chocolate microfiber, scotchguard, $200. 267-0977 7.5 ft. Plow set up complete, off of 1987 Chevy Truck. Truck is included. $500. 630-0957 Diesel fuel tank with electric pump. $300. 630-0957

BED Orthopedic 10” thick pillowtop mattress & box, new in plastic cost $950, sell Queen $285, Full $260, King $395. 431-0999 BEDROOM set brand new 6 pce solid cherry Sleigh bed, all dovetail sacrifice $750. 427-2001 HOT tub Mp3/ ipod dock, speakers, led lights, 5/6 person. All options with cover. New in wrapper.

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MOVING SALE 287 DW Highway, Belmont (Old Double Decker) Friday, 10am-3pm Office furniture, winter tires, steele shelving, cord lights, tools, VW roof racks and a lot more! Make an offer!

Customer Service Help NEEDED NOW With several depts. to fill, we will begin training

NORDICTRACK Elliptical: $150.

Call after 5pm. 524-2239.

STUDDED snows, like new, P215/60R-16 $25 each, metal desk 5 x2 $25, free cage 12x12x41” 528-2324.

Wednesday January 5th 2011 We're seeking highly motivated individuals that are ready to work hard, and can handle a variety of functions.

Duties & Responsibilities include: • Customer Service • Filling Orders • Client Trial Assistance • Moving Merchandise • Setting up Displays

Now Hiring

Part-time Housekeeping Saturday s a Must! Please apply in person. 177 Mentor Ave., Laconia.

Instruction

Personals SINGLE white male seeks single white female, 40-60. Please call 733-8387.

Roommate Wanted SEEKING female roommate for Pleasant St. apartment. $450/month. Heat/Hot Water included. Call for details: 566-3831

Services

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XXL leather Harley Davidson jackets. Kidney belt, zipping liner, vent zippers. Cost $700, asking $250. (603)466-5676.

Furniture

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603-223-0765 EXPERIENCED Waitstaff: Nights, Please apply in person, CJ Avery!s, Lakeport.

Seeking highly motivated people to join my Pampered Chef team.

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The Gilmanton School District (SAU #79) is seeking a .5 FTE School Business Administrator.

Responsibilities include Budget preparation and presentation, Grants processing, and all aspects of financial management and forecasting. The successful candidate will assure the District’s compliance with State and Federal Regulations and oversee the fiscal operations of the district including the annual audit.

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MED-LIFT recliner, Brand new less than 6 mos. Cost $1600, sell for $800. 293-2026.

GILMANTON SCHOOL DISTRICT SCHOOL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATOR ONE HALF TIME POSITION

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The Belknap County delegation is seeking to fill an anticipated opening in the term of the recently elected Belknap County Attorney which expires in December 2012

HANDYMAN SERVICES Small Jobs Are My Speciality

Rick Drouin 520-5642 or 744-6277

All applicants should be aware that this position is elected biennially by the voters of the County. The County Delegation intends to make this appointment to the unexpired term following a public process which includes, but may not be limited to, a resume review and short list developed by the executive committee, public interviews and an extensive background investigation. The successful applicant must reside in Belknap County, be a member of the NH bar, have demonstrated an ability to prosecute all felonies committed in Belknap County except first and second-degree homicides. The office also prosecutes misdemeanor and juvenile appeals to the Belknap County Superior Court and conducts grand jury proceedings in the county.

The County Attorney’s Office assists police with advice on criminal investigations and with training on legal issues and may be asked to provide general legal advice regarding current issues under consideration by the county.

Minimum Qualifications: Juris doctorate and a demonstrated ability to supervise the County Attorney’s office as well as to fulfill all statutory requirements of the position. Must be a member of the NH Bar Association.

Salary: $89,164, with competitive health insurance benefits.

Instructions for Applying: Cover letter, resumes and 2 letters of recommendation must be submitted to the Honorable Alida Millham, Chairperson of the Belknap County Delegation, 34 County Drive, Laconia, NH, 03246 by no later than 4:00 PM on January 28, 2011.

For more information visit Human Resources at www.belknapcounty.org or contact Norman O’Neil, Human Resources Director at (603) 527-5400, email noneil@belknapcounty.org.

An Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/DP/V.

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Storage Space STORE your car-boat-motorcycle before the snow in a clean and secure brick building. Low prices.

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OBITUARIES

Henry ‘Mike’ J. Lamontagne, 76 LACONIA — Henry “Mike” J. Lamontagne, 76, of 45 Overland Street, died at the Lakes Region General Hospital on Tuesday, December 28, 2010.

He was the widower of Mary (Jefferson) Lamontagne who died in 2001.

Mr. Lamontagne was born January 7, 1934 in Meriden, Conn., the son of Wilfred and Delia (Fortier) Lamontagne.

Mr. Lamontagne was a Corporal in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He was a lifelong resident of Laconia and had been employed by the Laconia School System for over ten years, retiring in 1996.

Survivors include six sons, Stephen Lamontagne and his wife, Linda, Wilfred Lamontagne, Ronald Lamontagne, Donald Lamontagne and his wife, Marcia, Jon Lamontagne and his wife, Donna, and Henry Lamontagne; two daughters, Bridget Elliott and her husband, Ben, and Brenda Nelson and her husband, Todd; eighteen grandchildren; twelve great grandchildren, many nephews and nieces and his cousin and best friend, Fred Clavitte. In addition to his wife and his parents, he was predeceased by a

brother, Armand Boucher, and by two sisters, Rita Guyer and Dot Bowles.

Calling hours will be held on Thursday, December 30, 2010 from 6:008:00 PM in the Carriage House of the Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N.H. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Friday, December 31, 2010 at 10:00 AM at Saint Andre Bessette Parish, St. Joseph Church, 30 Church Street, Laconia.

Following the Mass, a reception will be held at the V.F.W. at 143 Court Street, Laconia, N.H. Spring burial will be in the family lot in Union Cemetery, Laconia.

For those who wish, the family suggests that memorial donations be made to St. Andre Bessette Parish, 291 Union Avenue, Laconia, N.H. 03246.

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

Robert R. Nickel, Sr., 88 LACONIA — Robert R. Nickel, Sr., 88, of 21 Valley Street, Lakeport, died at the Lakes Region General Hospital, on Monday, December 27, 2010.

Mr. Nickel was born March 12, 1922 in Rochester, New York, the son of Joseph and Helen (McNair) Nickel. He lived in Florida for over forty years before moving to Lakeport three years ago.

While in Florida, he had been employed

by South Florida Water Management.

Mr. Nickel served in the U. S. Army.

He enjoyed golf, caring for this wife and rides around the countryside.

Survivors include his wife, Kathleen (Smith) Nickel, of Lakeport; three sons, Robert R. Nickel, Jr. of Laconia and his wife, Bethany, Michael Nickel and his wife, Rita, of Le High Acres, Florida and Christopher Nickel of Lakeport; a daughter, Barbara Rose, of Las Vegas; twelve grandchildren, two great grandsons; four sisters, Rosie, Ruthie, Winnie and June, and many nephews and nieces. In addition to his parents, Mr. Nickel was prede-

ceased by two sons, Robert and Jonny and by six siblings.

A calling hour will be held from 10:00 AM-11:00 AM on Monday, January 3, 2011 in the Carriage House of the Wilkinson-Beane-SimoneauPaquette Funeral Home, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N. H. A Funeral Service will follow the calling hour at 11:00 AM also at the Funeral Home.

Burial will follow at the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery, Boscawen, N.H. For those who wish, the family suggests that memorial donations be made to the Huntington’s Disease Society of America, 6 Court House Lane, Unit 12, Chelmsford, MA 01824.

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

Robert L. Nadeau, Sr., 65

LACONIA — Robert L. Nadeau, Sr., 65, of 91 Province Street, died at his home on Tuesday, December 28, 2010.

Mr. Nadeau was born November 16, 1945 in Worcester, Mass., the son of Dorothy F. (Roberts) and Melbourne H. Nadeau, Sr. Mr. Nadeau served in the U. S. Army.

He resided in Tilton for several years before moving to Laconia six months ago.

He had been employed at New Hampshire Ball Bearing and enjoyed fishing.

Survivors include a son, Robert L. Nadeau, Jr. of Franklin; a daughter, Andria L. Nadeau, of Laconia; three grandchildren, William Nadeau, Cali Nadeau and Cascidi Nadeau; two brothers, Mel Nadeau of Belmont and

David Nadeau of Franklin; a sister, Anna Chapman, of New Paltz, New York; eight nieces and seven nephews.

In addition to his parents, Mr. Nadeau was predeceased by three brothers, Bill Nadeau, Donald Nadeau and Gene Nadeau.

There will be no calling hours or funeral service.

Spring burial will be in the family lot in St. John’s Cemetery, Tilton, N.H. Wilkinson-Beane-SimoneauPaquette Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N. H. is assisting the family with the arrangements. For more information and to view an online memorial go to www.wilkinsonbeane.com

FAVRE from page 2 from interference by the federal government, except in areas where the U.S. Constitution gives it powers. The resolution failed, upsetting its supporters.

Democrats, who had control of the House and Senate until the November election, then reinstated the ban.

Gun rights activists demonstrated outside the Statehouse in protest. Ban

opponents said they should be allowed to carry guns as a safety measure.

Ban supporters said people who feel they need to bring guns to the Statehouse can give their weapons to security officers to hold until they leave the buildings. They said visitors include school children who should not be exposed to guns in the Statehouse.

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Affordable Vacation/year Round Home In Gilford. Bright &Sunny Open Concept Contemporary W/ Mnt Views. Vaulted Ceilings, 2 Bedrms, 2 Baths And Lower Level Family Rm. Sliders To Viewside Deck..Deeded Winni Beach Rights! $179,000

Big Lake Winnipesaukee View Right In Your Living Room!! Huge Lake From Almost Every Room In This Gilford Contemporary!!

Deeded Beach Rights Too..Multi Levels, View Filled Lr/dr With Fireplace, Family Rm, 2+ Bedrms, Den, 2 Baths And Garage.

Multi Level Decks..$279,000

Wall To Wall Charming!! ..2003 Custom Built Post&Beam Gilford Cape…Tongue& Groove Ceilings, Exposed Beams And Wood Floors Give It That Charming Country Feel. Master Suite, 3 Brs, 2.5 Baths, Country Kitchen W/hearth, Screen Porch And 2 Car Garage. Very Private…$299,900

CHARMING

VERY PRIVATE

OPEN CONCEPT

Charming& Traditional Cape Offers 2400+ Sf Plus Finished Lower Level. 5 Brms( 2 On 1st Floor), 2 Ba’s, H/w Floors, Lots Of Builtins, Lr W/ fireplace, Remodeled Kitchen, Newer Decks And Bonus Yr Rental Cottage. 2008 Mostly New Roof, Vinyl Windows, New Fhw Gas Furnace, Vinyl Sided And 2 Car Garage. $269,000

Sleigh Trails (We’ve Got Snow!) And A Sugar House!! Antique Post&Beam Cape On 12+ Gilford Acres. Barn, Pond, And A Mix Of Open Fields And Maple Trees.

Original Antique Features Throughout, 3 Bedrms And Mature Landscaping. Very Private! Just…$219,000

Charming Beacon St Factory Conversion …Ground Level 2 Bedroom Unit With Riverside Courtyard. Open Concept, Laundry Rm, H/w Floor, Common Weight Rm And Kayak Racks. Close To Public Winnisquam Boat Launch. 24 Hr Notice To Show Please…$165,000

PS…We Have A 1 Bedrm 1.5 Bath Unit W/ Carport..Now $109,000

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FROM ALL OF US AT CANTIN CHEVROLET, WE WISH TO EXTEND A SINCERE THANK YOU TO OUR CUSTOMERS AND FRIENDS WHO MADE THIS YEAR’S “TOYS FOR TOTS” DRIVE A HUGE SUCCESS. YOUR GENEROSITY HELPED TO FILL OUR SILVERADO WITH HUNDREDS OF TOYS FOR THE LESS FORTUNATE CHILDREN IN OUR AREA. WE HOPE YOU ALL HAD A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY NEW YEAR.

View Our Website For Complete Inventory: www.cantins.com 623 Union Avenue, Laconia, NH 603-524-0770 or 1-800-226-8467 “When other dealers can’t ... Cantin can!”

SHOWROOM HOURS: Mon., Tues., Wed. & Fri. 8:00-7:00pm Thursday - 8:00-8:00pm • Saturday: 8:00-5:00pm Disclaimer: Offers subject to change without notice. Photos for illustration purposes only. Not responsible for typographical errors. All payments subject to credit approval. Must finance with Ally Financial to qualify for Ally downpayment assistance. All payments are 72 months at 5.9% APR with $3,500 cash or trade equity downpayment. *Except: Cruze and Equinox are 39