The Laconia Daily Sun, December 8, 2011

Thursday, december 8, 2011

VOL. 12 NO. 134

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Live on 98.3 FM & LRPA TV Channel 25 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 6 to 10 p.m.

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LAKES REGION — For the agencies that provide, in time for Christmas, clothing and toys to children of low-income families, the times have been tough and in some cases are getting tougher. However, with support from the community, especially from support through the WLNH Children’s Auction, those non-profits have so far been able to rise to the need.

Sheri Emerson manages the Mrs. Santa see saNta page 9

N.H. Governor John Lynch (left) chats with WLNH Children’s Auction founder Warren Bailey on Wednesday on the set at the Lake Opechee Inn & Spa Conference Center in Laconia. Many more auction items are needed to bring the event to a successful conclusion on Saturday. To donate call 527-5700. (Alan MacRae/for The Laconia Daily Sun)

Meadows plan scaled way back after DOT objects to drainage scheme

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GILFORD — For years, the School Board has been attempting to find a way to develop the property known as “the Meadows” in a way that would appease concerns of

the town’s Conservation Commission as well as the state’s Department of Environmental Services. On Monday night, the board approved what was called a “grossly scaled back” development plan.

In the end, it turned out

that the state’s Department of Transportation was the agency that threw up an insurmountable hurdle.

Sue Allen, School Board member and a member of the Meadows Committee, presented the board with the plan

to further develop the property, which was a working farm, into an athletic facility for the district. The new plan calls for no elevation changes or encroachment of wetlands on the property, elements which had see MEadOWs page 5

Barnstead committee concludes sheriff’s plan wouldn’t save town money

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The recently released Barnstead Regional Police Committee Report said the committee came to the conclusion that while there are pluses and minuses to each way of doing business, “there are no clear financial savings for the town’s taxpayers in entering into a contract with the county.”

The Committee further recommended

that selectmen should bring in “an outside, unbiased agency to perform an external audit of command climate survey.”

Members also said empirical data from the local court system that would show how effective the Barnstead Police Department was in terms of convictions and plea bargains was in relation to their call volume see POLICE page 10

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‘MythBusters’ Sandusky jailed on news child sex abuse charges cannonball rips through house & van in suburban San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Zany experiments testing scientific theories in real-world settings have earned the TV show “MythBusters” a devoted following, but a stunt gone awry met with an unhappy audience when an errant cannonball went shooting through a California family’s bedroom.

Sheriff’s deputies are still measuring how, exactly, the cannonball flew from a bomb range in the rolling hills flanking a suburban San Francisco Bay area neighborhood and rocketed into the front door of a home and through its master bedroom before landing in a neighbor’s parked minivan.

Hosts for the Discovery Channel show fired the cannonball Tuesday as they filmed an episode testing whether other types of projectiles shot from a cannon would pick up the same speed and have the same impact as the steel ball. Later, the production team plans to film flying stone cannonballs at a rock quarry in Northern California.

Instead of hitting a string of waterfilled garbage cans, however, the cannonball passed over the barrels, crashed straight through a protective cinderblock wall and careened off the hill behind it, said Alameda County Sheriff’s Department spokesman J.D. Nelson.

“It missed the target and took kind of an oddball bounce,” Nelson said. “It was almost like skipping a rock on a lake. Instead of burying it see CANNONBALL page 14

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — ExPenn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was jailed Wednesday after new child sex abuse charges were filed against him based on the claims of new two accusers, including one who says he screamed in vain for help while Sandusky attacked him in a basement bedroom.

The latest accusers are the ninth and 10th alleged victims described in grand jury reports that claim Sandusky befriended and then molested boys he met through his Second Mile charity for troubled youth. A grand jury document released Wednesday

echoed an earlier report, saying Sandusky gave the boys gifts while also making advances on them.

One of the new accusers said Sandusky kept him in a basement bedroom during overnight visits to Sandusky’s home, forced him to perform oral sex and attempted on at least 16 occasions to anally penetrate him, sometimes successfully.

“The victim testified that on at least one occasion he screamed for help, knowing that Sandusky’s wife was upstairs, but no one ever came to help him,” the grand jury report said.

Sandusky now faces criminal accusations from 10 young men and more than

50 charges stemming from alleged assaults over 15 years on boys in his home, on Penn State property and elsewhere. The scandal has provoked strong criticism that Penn State officials didn’t do enough to stop the alleged assaults. The scandal prompted the ouster of Hall of Fame football coach Joe Paterno and the school’s longtime president, Graham Spanier.

Sandusky, 67, has said repeatedly that he is innocent and has vowed to fight the case. In interviews with NBC and The New York Times, he said he showered and horsed around with boys but never sexually abused them. see PENN STATE page 5

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Over the course of nine years, former ballboy Bobby Davis told his story of sexual abuse at the hands of Syracuse University assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine to the police, the college, the local newspaper and a national TV network. Each time, either he was too late or his story couldn’t be proved.

When he went public again last month, he was maligned by Hall of Fame coach Jim Boeheim as an opportunist and a liar.

On Wednesday, a top law enforcement official became the first to say publicly he believed Davis was a victim and Fine had abused him.

At his news conference to explain that the statute of limitations would keep him from conducting an investigation, Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick addressed Davis directly.

“Bobby, I’m sorry it took so long,” he said. “I wish I had met you as a prosecutor in 2002. Even more importantly, I wish I had met you as a prosecutor back in the 1980s. We wouldn’t be here today.”

Davis, his stepbrother Michael Lang and a third man, Zach Tomaselli, of Lewiston, Maine, say Fine preyed on them when they were boys.

The statute of limitations expired

five years after Davis and Lang say they were molested. But the federal statute of limitations in place in 2002, when Tomaselli says he was abused

by Fine in a Pittsburgh hotel room, allowed a victim to bring charges until he was 25; Tomaselli is 23.

Fitzpatrick, however, said school and travel records may undercut Tomaselli’s account that Fine molested him in a Pittsburgh hotel room in 2002.

Fine’s lawyers, Donald Martin and Karl Sleight, said in a statement that it appears “that there is proof that Tomaselli fabricated this allegation.”

Tomaselli’s phone rang unanswered see SYRACUSE page 8

9 years after first telling, SU accusers’s abuse claim is believed

Obama & Clinton pledge to use diplomatic tools to promote gay rights around globe SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Obama administration’s declaration that it plans to use foreign assistance, international diplomacy and political asylum to promote gay rights abroad is a momentous step that could dangerously backfire if not pursued with delicacy and an appreciation of how the challenges faced by gays and lesbians vary by nation, human rights activists said.

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President Barack Obama, in a memorandum to executive departments, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, during a speech before the U.N. Human Rights Council, issued a coordinated denunciation Tuesday of anti-gay discrimination, stating that equal treatment of gay, lesbian and transgender people was an explicit U.S. foreign policy goal.

The White House said the twin

moves represented the U.S. government’s first comprehensive strategy to combat sexual orientation-based human rights abuses around the world. Gay rights groups cheered the actions, noting that gays and lesbians can be arrested, tortured and even executed in some countries.

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Carol Cloutier of Wolfeboro demonstrates jewelry making with polymer clay 11am-1pm

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Fritz Wetherbee tells stories, answers questions, and signs books including his newest one “New Hampshire Rocks” 1-3pm Sunday December 11

Local actors Frank and Vinette Wells (of Barnstormers fame) will delight us with Seasonal reading, songs and stories beginning at 4pm Admission is Free

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Noonan said, noting the plane flew right through the hull of the ship.

Noonan said two crew members of the U.S.S. Ward died that day and he and the rest of the crew were rescued immediately by nearby U.S. vessels.

(Located at Lakes Region General Hospital) “I never even got wet,” he said.

The U.S.S. Ward was also reportedly the first U.S. ship to engage the Japanese on Pearl Harbor Day and is alleged to have sunk a small Japanese submarine while on patrol around the Hawaiian Islands.

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TILTON — Gov. John Lynch yesterday joined area veterans, their families and local dignitaries at Riverside Park for a 70th anniversary commemoration ceremony of the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The “day that will live in infamy” brought the United States into World War II. Lynch spoke briefly about how happy he was to return to spend some time with the veterans who live in the nearby N.H. Veteran’s Home, many of whom joined him for the ceremony.

“Every day we get to enjoy freedom and liberty made possible only through the sacrifices of our veterans and their families,” Lynch said adding the nation and New Hampshire has to “make sure” to continue to support veterans and their families.

“It’s the least we can do,” he said.

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Police have not yet released name of 75-year-old pedestrian who died after being hit by pick-up LACONIA — Police as of press time on Wednesday night had not yet released the name of the 72-yearold pedestrian who died on Tuesday as a result of injuries sustained when he was hit by a pick-up truck traveling in the southbound traffic lane on Union Ave., just south of Lakeport Square.

Authorities say the man was struck near the center double-yellow lines about 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday. He was transported to Lakes Region General Hospital, where he died approximately four hours later.

The name of the driver of the pick-up truck has also not yet been released.

Police say their investigation of the accident is ongoing but they have determined the victim was attempting to cross Union Ave. from east to west when he was hit. He was not in a crosswalk, the area is not well lit and he was wearing dark-colored clothing.

Police also say that speed, alchohol or drugs do not appear to have played a role in the accident.

No witnesses have been identified.

MEADOWS from page one caused friction between the committee and DES and the town’s Conservation Commission.

Instead, the new plan calls for no changes to the existing football field. Work at the practice field will be limited to filling in holes and ruts which have developed. A third practice field, to be used by many high school sport’s team, will be developed by flattening the furrows on a piece of the property near Sawyer’s Dairy Bar. Scott Isabelle, the district’s assistant superintendent for business, said initial plans called for raising the playing fields so that an underground water drainage system could be installed. Earlier plans had also included the creation of an athletic field on an area labeled as wetlands. Those plans were revised, he said, when DOT engineers expressed concern about the possible increase of water flowing through a culvert underneath nearby Route 11 that leads to Lake Winnipesaukee.

“DOT would not give access to that culvert,” said Isabelle.

DOT engineers suggested other locations where additional culverts could be installed, he said, but the prospect became “cost-prohibitive” and so the committee revised its plans to address the fields without affecting water flow.

Isabelle said the district will soon submit its revised plan, which the board approved on Monday night, to DES. It is the Meadow Committee’s expectation that the state agency will allow the work to go forward, at which point the project will switch from planning to fund raising. The committee intends to complete the Meadows project without tax dollars.

Raymond and Barbara Carye gifted the 63.8-acre property to the School District in 2000, with the expectation that it would be the site of a new high school.

When voters rejected that idea the following year eyes were turned to using the land as a recreational amenity, which was allowable under the terms of the deed.

PENN STATE from page 2 Lawyer Joseph Amendola said Wednesday that he had not yet read the latest grand jury report but had no reason to doubt Sandusky’s claims of innocence.

Sandusky was wide-eyed and quiet during the arraignment in a cramped district magistrate’s office outside the small town of Bellefonte. He could not immediately pay $250,000 cash bail and was driven to Centre County jail by agents from the state attorney general’s office.

He had been arrested at his home, handcuffed behind his back and driven to court wearing a blue and white Penn State wrestling jacket and matching sweat pants.

After the hearing, Sandusky avoided eye contact and did not speak to about two dozen reporters and photographers waiting before authorities placed him in the back of a silver sedan that would shuttle him to jail.

The new alleged victims, who contacted officials after Sandusky’s initial arrest on Nov. 5, told the grand jury they met Sandusky through the charity he founded in 1977.

“I took it at first he was just a nice guy, like he went to church every weekend, his kids would come over every once in a while and stuff. And after a while, like, he got used to me and stuff and started getting further and further, wanting — to touchy feely,” the ninth accuser, who is now 18, told the grand jury.

He said he was 11 or 12 when he first met Sandusky in 2004 and Sandusky took him to Penn State football games and gave him gifts and money, and sexually assaulted him over a period of years, according to the grand jury report.

The 10th accuser told the grand jury he was

referred by a counselor to The Second Mile in 1997, when he was 10 and experiencing problems at home.

He also attended Penn State games with Sandusky, spent time at Sandusky’s house, and was subjected to “wrestling sessions” in the basement of the home that led to Sandusky performing oral sex on the boy, the report said. The accuser also detailed being molested in a pool on the Penn State campus, and a time when Sandusky allegedly exposed himself in a car while driving and requested oral sex from the boy.

The boy refused, and after Sandusky expressed his displeasure, the boy told his foster mother he didn’t want to see Sandusky any more, the report said.

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from preceding page music. While he said he thought about lying about his age to get into the military and did many young men following the attack, he said he decided against it and joined the month after his 18th birthday.

In 1946 he was posted to Italy and later served in Korea. He served five and 1/2 years but said he left the military after he got married.

LaCourse was 3-years-old on the Pearl Harbor Day but as a young man joined and served 22 years in the Army, fighting both in Korea and Vietnam.

Also addressing the crowd were Tilton Veteran’s Home Commandant Barry Conway and Past American Legion Post 49 Commander John Chase.

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Susan Estrich

We’re protecting this?

Gulnaz is an Afghan woman who was raped. For reporting it, she was sentenced to three years in prison.

Her baby — a child of the rape — cries in the background. Her punishment for appealing her sentence was that it was increased to 12 years. She has been in prison for two and a half years, and her baby is with her.

The EU commissioned a documentary examining the way Afghanistan treats victims of rape.

Then they decided not to release it lest they jeopardize relations with Afghanistan. There was a flurry of publicity last week, which led Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai to pardon her. A condition was set that she must marry her rapist, becoming, it appears, his second wife.

This is how Afghanistan treats its women.

A hundred thousand American soldiers are risking their lives every day to protect this nation.

Osama bin Laden is dead. If we leave, as we should, some say there will be civil war. If you ask me, there is already civil war against the women of Afghanistan.

No one can say with certainty how many women like Gulnaz are sitting in prison or afraid to report their victimization, knowing that if they do, they will be imprisoned, and if they complain about it, they will be imprisoned even longer.

America must protect itself from terrorism. But bin Laden is dead.

Every day, brave young Americans give their lives not to protect us from terrorism, but to protect the people of Afghanistan from one another. Why? I have long believed that in so many fundamental ways you can judge a country by how they treat their women. I don’t expect Afghanistan to turn around and support rape crisis centers in every city.

Currently, the only hope for women in Gulnaz’s position is to find refuge in one of the secret safe houses that women have risked their lives to create for other women.

Gulnaz’s story is almost as shocking as the EU’s decision not to tell it. Who are we protecting? Why are

we so afraid to tell these stories?

Why are we spending billions of dollars to build a country that treats its women this way?

For many reasons, the United States should withdraw from Afghanistan and focus its efforts on fighting terrorists who threaten us rather than nation building. We can’t afford it. No one even can say for certain how many trillions we have spent when the hidden costs of contract soldiers and support are taken into account. No one can explain to me why it is worth American lives if it is civil war and not terrorism that we are fighting against.

But if there are any remaining doubts, Gulnaz’s story should be their answer.

Since I was raped three decades ago, I have spent much of my professional life fighting for legal reform so that no woman would suffer humiliation at the hands of the system after the humiliation at the hands of a rapist. But my fights — and believe me, I am proud of what so many of us have accomplished — seem trivial in comparison to the hardships and humiliations Gulnaz and so many women like her face. Without the publicity, she would have been in prison for another decade. Even with it, she might be forced to marry the man who raped her.

I don’t expect Afghanistan to adopt our system of an independent national judiciary, of life tenure and a civic faith in the rule of law. To try would almost certainly be counterproductive. But I cannot sit by silently as we support a system of injustice, whether administered by trial judges or the United Statessupported president.

Gulnaz deserves better. And so do the 100,000 Americans who are giving their lives to protect and preserve those who terrorize their sisters and daughters.

(Susan Estrich is a professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Southern California Law Center. A best-selling author, lawyer and politician, as well as a teacher, she first gained national prominence as national campaign manager for Dukakis for President in 1988.)

We’ll end up paying the bill because school system failed again To the editor, Recently a member of the Gilford School Board suggested the reconsidering of a proposal to allow “limited” use of cell phones at school. Is this another concession to pupil’s rights? Or another brainless idea that will only be an impediment to teaching? Do Gilford students eat food in classrooms, talk incessantly, use headsets and generally socialize during classroom time?

Isn’t it way past time we (all concerned) get serious about the value of education. On a world-wide scale we are far down on percentile grades.

Those that want to learn will have a tough time in the “allowable nonconforming” era that students have in today’s permissive structure. Jobs that require technical expertise will become more available in the world market. Only students will these skills will get these jobs; the rest will fall to the wayside and many will end up being wards of the state. We’ll pay the bill because the school system failed again to do their job!

Leon R. Albushies Gilford

LETTERS Accornero & friends have again embarrassed rational citizens To the editor, Some weeks ago, State Representative Harry Accornero (R-Laconia) wrote that he did not have time to “teach me history” and avoided explaining himself when I questioned his charge of treason against President Obama. He wrote that he was too busy doing “the work of the people of Laconia.”

What work is that? His recent reprehensible behavior in Concord? I thought his constituents elected him to improve the local economy and work on state and local issues. Instead, Rep. Accornero spends a great deal of time falsely accusing the president of treason, of not being a native-born citizen, of being a Muslim extremist, and of not being legitimately elected.

He sows hatred, fear, mistrust, lies, disinformation, and wild conspiracy theories in the newspapers and on right-wing reactionary talk shows. Is this what the voters really wanted?

One of his more racist conspiracy theories is that because the president is an African-American, no court will challenge him on his qualifications to be president. Actually, this has been challenged in the courts before by other “Birthers” and the Birthers have lost again and again. One would think if there was any validity at all to the Birthers’ charge, it would have been found out in the background check done on all presidents or it would have been brought up by the president’s opponents in Congress when Congress ratified the Electoral College’s decision.

Rep. Accornero has embarrassed rational citizens of the state by formally asking Congress for a “Commission of Treason,” a body which does not exist. Moreover, he seems to be unclear about the Constitutional process and requirements for either an impeachment proceeding or a

treason trial. His letters are confusing but maybe that is what he wants.

One would think that a member of the N.H. Legislature would understand the Constitution and how it works.

More recently, he and other extreme GOP legislators have again embarrassed rational citizens, this time including those of their own party, by calling the president an “Egyptian,” and trying to get the state Ballot Commission to remove Obama from the N.H. Primary ballot based on the same tired Birther conspiracy theories (Egyptian? Wait a minute: didn’t the Birthers say at first that the President was Kenyan?). When the commission unanimously disagreed, Mr. Accornero called the members “traitors” and even threatened them. The incident is now under investigation by law enforcement. House Republican leaders— themselves hardly moderate — are now distancing themselves from Mr. Accornero and other extremists in the Legislature. Is this what Rep. Accornero’s constituents elected him for?

Actually, Mr. Accornero’s outrageous tactics are not new among politicians.

The German Nazis called it the “Big Lie” technique. The Big Lie technique is based on the assumption that if you tell a lot of little lies, the people will eventually catch on. But, if you tell just a few big, outrageous lies and tell them over and over again, and they are told by people who are assumed to know what they are talking about, you can get even smart people to believe them.

If you are truly “doing the work of the people,” Mr. Accornero, what are you doing to help create good jobs, better education, or otherwise improve the lives of the people of your state and district?

E. Scott Cracraft Gilford

Santa’s elves in T-N-S need some help; please donate a new toy To the editor, Santa’s elves are seeking a little assistance with toy donations this year. The Tilton-Northfield-Sanbornton Christmas Fund, which serves children in all three towns, including Lochmere and Winnisquam, is in need of new, unused toys for the children in these communities. If you are able to

donate a new toy, please know that the elves will assist in finding it a good home. We have discovered after checking the lists, that there is an increase demand for toys this year due to all the GOOD children in the community! Unfortunately, at this date we have noted a dramatic decrease in see next page

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LETTERS Christmas Day is actually a latecomer to year end revelries

County has no authority to buy insurance for official’s spouses

To the editor, I was sincerely hoping to get through the holidays without any Christmas Wars. But Barbara J. Perry insists otherwise. She tells us holiday fairs are not holiday fairs; they are Christmas fairs.

Continuing, she tells us that without Christmas and December NOTHING would be happening.

Nothing could be farther from the truth about December celebrations.

They have been around for thousands of years and specifically in late December. There was no official Christmas holiday until the 4th century when the Emperor Constantine decreed that all the pagan holidays around the Winter Solstice and the New Year would become the celebration of the birth of Jesus.

Previous to this in the Roman Empire and the northern tribes, late December to the new year was a time of excessive partying, get-togethers and a good deal of drunken revelry.

People celebrated the Solstice and the Sun God because “the long nights” were over and the Sun with its life giving rays had returned to begin the renewal of life. Some folks took most of the month of December to Celebrate Saturnalia, too. It was a very festive period of family get-togethers and feasts, intoxication, singing, artful decorations, the lighting of candles and the tradition of exchanging gifts.

AND THE GOVERNMENT SHUT DOWN FOR THE HOLIDAYS! The Birth of Mithrais, Son of the Sun God, was celebrated for centuries

To the editor, The N.H. Supreme Court clearly stated ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE NOT EMPLOYEES. (Lambert v Belknap Count Convention). By law, every county shall have the power to provide group plan life, accident, medical, surgical and hospitalization insurance benefits, or any combination of such benefits, for all REGULAR EMPLOYEES of the county AND THEIR “DEPENDENTS”. Conversely, no law empowered the county to pay county employees longevity or an elected official’s dependents health insurance.

ELECTED OFFICIALS work without regard to the number of days or hours worked. They receive a periodic payment for each of the two year term. They take an oath and are compensated a salary and benefits established for the first year. The Convention Executive Committee, by law, makes a recommendation on every even numbered year, regarding elected officials salary which MUST BE approved by the Convention, prior to the filing date of elected offices for the ensuing 2-year term.

Moreover, benefits such as; vacation, sick pay, all becomes irrelevant, moot, i.e. “Salary is salaried”, no overtime hourly rate exist. Longevity pay and retirement may be allowed, but no known policy is found. Longevity ends automatically at the moment a term of office is completed, which occurs every two years. A new two year term commences with the oath of office. As for health insurance, even if it were adopted, it is for the elected office holder only. Unlike employees, the legislature made no provision for “dependents” of elected officials. (RSA 23:6 & 7) Also, the compensation shall be established biennially by the County Convention, which shall remain in effect during the 2-years. No evergreen clause exist, the compensation “shall be” re-established on every even numbered year. What is alarm-

before Christianity on December 25th.

At that time the calendar was a little off with the Winter Solstice being on December 25th. Mithras was a “saviour” who was born of a virgin and shepherds witnessed this. He healed the sick and even said in order to be saved we had to drink of his blood and eat of his flesh. He was called the Son of God, the way, the life and the truth. He even interceded for the righteous in Hades. In the northern parts of Europe is where evergreen trees and red berries were used in solstice renewal celebrations. Gifts were placed under them, too. Kissing under the Mistletoe is an ancient Celtic tradition far older than Christianity.

So really, its none of anyone’s business what other’s decide to celebrate.

In historical terms, Christmas is a late comer to the year end revelries. December’s family gatherings, feasts, exchanging of gifts, festive intoxication, candles, decorations, dancing and the rest of it would still dominate December even if there had never been a Jesus. Nobody OWNS December. December celebrations are in our DNA because of the sun and the seasons!

We have our pagan lights, our candles, our Celtic Tree and Mistletoe, our Saturnalian drinking, our exchange of gifts, our Roman family feasts and we celebrate the Solstice, a far more ancient celebration that is rooted in the cycles of nature and our bodies.

James Veverka (and like-minded wife Susan) Tilton

Your gifts have an enormous impact on strength of community To the editor, As you ponder your gift list this season think about the power of a gift of giving.

It could be that this year as well as giving to Salvation Army, your faith community, St. Vincent de Paul, or the Santa Fund you might consider a gift of time. Volunteers are needed in so many areas in the community.

Consider mentoring our youth, engaging our New Americans by teaching sewing and knitting skills, or helping welcome newborns into our community. There is also the opportunity to volunteer to help deliver food to children in poverty during the summer months when school lunch is not available.

These are some of the action groups currently meeting once a month at Better Together. The next meeting is on January 26, Thursday, at 4 p.m. at the Laconia Middle School. New mem-

bers are always welcome as are new ideas for helping bring our community from ordinary to extraordinary.

Or, perhaps you might like to know of some unique places where you could give a monetary gift in honor of someone on your gift list or in memory of a loved one whom you are remembering at this season. How about donating a book to the library? Sending a gift to Got Lunch (Got Lunch, UCC, 18 Veterans Square, Laconia) for next year’s food program for our Laconia youth?

Donating to the new Mentoring Together program (Laconia Middle School — memo line “mentoring”) which will provide mentors to Laconia Middle School youth?

Your gifts multiplied by others who give have an enormous impact on the strength of our community. Don’t forget — we are “better together”!

Joyce Selig Laconia

from preceding page donations to meet this growing need.

If you are able to assist the elves with donations and share the joys of the season then bring NEW toys to the following drop-off locations: — Tilton Town Hall, 257 Main Street, Tilton, NH 03276 — Pauli’s Restaurant, Main Street, Tilton, NH 03276 — Tilton House of Pizza, Main

Street, Tilton, NH 03276 If you can assist with the shopping, the elves will handle all the wrapping, so you need not bother with that task.

Thank you for your assistance and generosity at this time of year.

Heather Thibodeau, Welfare Director Patricia Cosentino, Chairman, Board of Selectmen Town of Tilton

ing is the published actual amount paid to the High Sherriff in 2006 was $146,977.48; 2009 - $128,972.92 and in 2010, $92,179.01. Also, in 2009 the actual Salary for the County Attorney was $110,369.00; 2010 - $109,720.31.

The Register of Deeds gross earnings for 2009 was $87,339.978; 2010 - $80,221.56.

Prior to 1987, RSA 23:7 empowered counties to establish salaries biennially, but did not require them to do so before the candidates’ filing deadline.

In 1987, the current deadline was added to the statute; see Laws 1987, 223:1. Speaking on behalf of House Bill 62, which added the deadline, Senator Pressly stated: The second aspect of (the bill) makes it possible that the salary reviews of the elected officials will only take place once in the biennium and it will take place prior to the election. This will mean that anyone running for those offices will know, prior to running, exactly what their salary will be and they will fully understand that it will not be reviewed while they serve in office.

160 NH 822 When will an investigation take place regarding the overpayments made regarding compensation; uniform allowance or health care benefits for dependents of elected officials?

In this computer world, the documentation regarding elected official compensation; resolutions or votes that authorized the salaries with undefined benefits should be readily available upon request. What is the real problem? Why should any taxpayer have to search all the minutes from 1987 to date for the required authorization that supports the money paid to elected officials? Either it exists or not? The commission requires this documentation to justify those payments. Is the cost copying $2 for the first page and $1 for the additional pages reasonable or is it a deterrent?

Thomas A. Tardif Laconia

Some towns will end up merely funneling money to retired workers To the editor, The finances of state and local governments represent a large threat to the country’s economy. Defaults totaling hundreds of billions of dollars are possible. Such a total would be enough to rattle America’s $3.7 trillion municipal-bond market. This dire warning was delivered a year ago by analyst Meredith Whitney. Her gloom now looks more justified.

Jefferson County, Alabama, filed the largest-ever American municipal bankruptcy on November 9th, with debts of $4.2-billion. Most were caused by building work on the county’s sewerage system. Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, did the same on October 12th; it faces a $300-million debt connected to a city-owned rubbish incinerator. In August Central Falls, Rhode Island; was facing unfunded pension and benefit liabilities nearly four times the size of its annual budget when it filed for bankruptcy. Boise County, Idaho also filed earlier this year.

Many state, county and munici-

palities face huge unfunded pension liabilities. City-dwellers will always need rubbish incinerators, sewers and other capital-intensive infrastructure financed by municipal bonds. These are unusually tough times for state and local governments. At the beginning of the 2012 fiscal year, states faced a collective budget deficit of $91-billion, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

That is down from a peak of $174-billion in 2010.

Every state except Vermont has a balanced-budget law. Closing the gap will be painful. The housing bust has hit cities hard. Property-tax receipts have slumped. Fees, sales and other tax revenues have fallen, too. Pension and health-care costs for city employees are rising. Federal stimulus funds are drying up. National League of Cities predicts this will be the fifth year in a row in which city governments see declining revenues.

Big though these problems are, they don’t have to lead to more defaults. see next page

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LETTERS Church policy is denying 82-year-old one of his last treasures To the editor, Let me first thank Gail Ober and The Daily Sun for their fair and impartial reporting of my concern about new parking restrictions at St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Tilton.

A week has come and gone with no discussion or resolution to this issue. The quietness from the Catholic Church is astounding and mimics the quiet that abounded during the sexual abuse scandal that was finally uncloaked from its secrecy, denial, hurt caused to the victims, and the community.

The Catholic Church was founded on its sense of justice which it outlines as it outlines in the following. Justice is here taken in its ordinary and proper sense to signify the most important of the cardinal virtues. It is a moral quality or habit which perfects the will and inclines it to render to each and to all what belongs to them. Of the other cardinal virtues, prudence perfects the intellect and inclines the prudent man to act in all things according to right reason. Fortitude controls the irascible passions; and temperance moderates the appetites according as reason dictates. While fortitude and temperance are self-regarding virtues, justice has reference to others. Together with charity it regulates man’s intercourse with his fellow men. But charity leads us to help our neighbour in his need out of our own stores, while justice teaches us to give to another what belongs to him.

Because man is a person, a free and intelligent being, created in the image of God, he has a dignity and a worth vastly superior to the material and animal world by which he is surrounded. Man can know, love, and worship his Creator; he was made for that end, which he can only attain perfectly in the future, immortal, and never-ending life to which he is destined. God gave him his faculties and his liberty in order that he might freely work for the accomplishment of his destiny. He is in duty bound to strive to fulfill the designs of his Creator, he must exercise his faculties and conduct his life according to the intentions of his Lord and Master. Because he is under these obligations he is consequently invested with rights, Godgiven and primordial, antecedent to the State and independent of it. Such are man’s natural rights, granted to him by nature herself, sacred, as is their origin, and inviolable. Beside these he may have other rights given

him by Church or State, or acquired by his own industry and exertion. All these rights, whatever be their source, are the object of the virtue of justice. Justice requires that all persons should be left in the free enjoyment of all their rights.

A few questions need to be asked and hopefully answered by the Reverend Gagnon or his superiors.

Does the Reverend Gagnon not believe in the above in his decisionmaking process? A process that affects community at large.

Doe he utilize the following fundamental Catholic prayer for social justice that follows in decision-making process?

Arouse in the hearts of those who call you Father a hunger and thirst for social justice and for fraternal charity in deeds and in truth.

Almighty and eternal God, may your grace enkindle in all of us a love for the many unfortunate people whom poverty and misery reduce to a condition of life unworthy of human beings.

Grant, O Lord, peace to souls, peace to families, peace to our country and peace among nations. Amen Does he not believe in the following from Pope John XXII on April 11, 1963, in the Pacem in Terris as outlined below.

Once again we exhort our people to take an active part in public life, and to contribute towards the attainment of the common good of the entire human family as well as to that of their own country. They should endeavor, therefore, in the light of the Faith and with the strength of love, to ensure that the various institutions whether economic, social, cultural or political in purpose should be such as not to create obstacles, but rather to facilitate or render less arduous people’s perfectioning of themselves both in the natural order as well as in the supernatural.

Is the following not concurrently a belief held by the Catholic Church?

In Caritas in Veritate, the Catholic Church declared that “Charity is at the heart of the Church”. Every responsibility and every commitment spelt out by that doctrine is derived from charity which, according to the teaching of Jesus, is the synthesis of the entire Law (Matthew 22:36-40).

Or the following: According to the Book of Genesis, the Lord God said: “It is not good for the man to be alone”.

from preceding page

That said the measures which municipalities must take to avoid default will hurt. Budgets will be tight; roads and schools may go unrepaired. Some municipalities will end up doing little besides funneling taxpayers’ cash to their retired employees. Public pensions, no matter how overgenerous, no matter how we may feel about them; are protected by law. They were bargained for under labor contracts. The contracts were voluntarily entered into, legislatively approved and signed by the executive branch.

You get what you vote for. Vote early.

Vote often.

Marc Abear Meredith

Pessimists see Harrisburg and Jefferson County as forerunners of doom but each municipality is its own story.

The bankruptcies of Harrisburg and Jefferson County are the result of years of financial mismanagement and political dysfunction.

Moody’s maintains a negative outlook for local governments but does not expect a significant number of defaults, bankruptcy filings or hefty downgrades. Historically municipalbond defaults are rare. Between 1970 and 2009, among the 80,000 state and local-government entities permitted to issue bonds, Moody’s lists 54 defaults.

Or that the Catholic Church teaches that man is now not only a sacred but also a social animal and that families are the first and most basic units of a society. It advocates a complementarian view of marriage, and family life, religious leadership. Full human development takes place in relationship with others. The family based on marriage (between a man and a woman) is the first and fundamental unit of society and is a sanctuary for the creation and nurturing of children.

Together families form communities, communities a state and together all across the world each human is part of the human family. How these communities organize themselves politically, economically and socially is thus of the highest importance. Each institution must be judged by how much it enhances, or is a detriment to, the life and dignity of human persons.

Has the Reverend Raymond Gagnon and the Catholic Church conviently forgotten the above or is their need to be right or at least portray a sense of rightness in order to reinforce their ever increasing need encase their shroud of secrecy with another layer of non-transpatancy as they did during the multitudr of sexual abuse scandals. Is the current state of Catholicism in N.H. and in the world?

Does he not believe in the following axiom of communication?

To discuss is to resolve, to remain silent is lay the cornerstone to further and more complex problems.

Should not the concepts that Mary

and her Assumption, the life and teachings of St. Paul, and desires of the Vatican as expressed through its writings be the guiding lights to the decision-making process to utilized by Reverend Raymond Gagnon and his superiors?

Should the signs strategically placed in the St. Mary of the Assumption Church not read, For the Betterment of the Community and an 82 year old 30+ year residence of this community be able to rest at night that one of his last treasured possession is close by in case he should be in need of this.

Is the Reverend Raymond Gagnon and the Catholic Church so uncaring of a fellow human being who has been a strong asset to his community that they are willing to allow this man be denied one of his last treasured possessions?

Do the members of the Catholic community want to be remembered as being collaborators in these uncharitable acts towards one of our elders or find them in the same position within their own community or should your words of reason, charity, justice, and respect be the standards that the Reverend Raymond Gagnon and his supervisors be held to when discharging their duties?

Please do not allow the chosen chasm of non-communication by Reverend Gagnon and his superiors continue to erode our sense of community and common needs during these difficult times.

Wayne Brock Tilton

America needs Romney to build businesses and create jobs To the editor, Let’s get real – Mitt Romney has what America needs. We don’t need someone who has spent their professional life as a politician. America needs a fresh face in Washington, one with a proven track record in turning things around and creating jobs. Look at the State of Massachusetts in 2002.

Romney took over as a Republican governor in a state dominated by Democrats. With his fiscally-responsible management skills and his ability to make tough decisions and work across parties, Romney replaced a $3-billion deficit with a $2-billion rainy day fund. Furthermore, he turned the job market around and created jobs by the thousands — all without borrowing or raising taxes.

America needs someone who knows how to build businesses and create

jobs; Romney has that experience, along with post graduate degrees from Harvard Law and Business School to back it up. Through years of experience, Romney knows businesses drive the economy and what it takes for them to be successful. Not to mention, Romney has deep family values. His 42-year marriage to wife Ann and their strong family of four sons speaks volumes of his commitment to family. Isn’t that what America needs during a time when family values are under attack?

Mitt Romney will turn this great country around but it’s up to us to get him there. Let’s hope New Hampshire and the states that follow will see through the political façade of other candidates and send Romney to Washington.

Carol Varney Belmont

SYRACUSE from page 2 Wednesday.

Tomaselli also is charged in Maine with molesting a teenage boy and said this week that he’ll plead guilty.

The 65-year-old Fine, who had been Boeheim’s top assistant since 1976, has adamantly denied wrongdoing.

The U.S. attorney’s office is investigating and has seized computers, cameras, phones and records during searches of his office, home and locker.

Even with the support of the district attorney, neither Lang nor Davis can bring civil action against Fine.

The statute of limitations in New York on bringing a civil suit for child sexual abuse is five years after the victim turns 18. New York lawmak-

ers are again considering a measure to lift it or open a one-year window for older incidents that, if approved, would open the way for a civil suit by Davis or Lang.

Davis went to the Syracuse PostStandard newspaper in 2002 and ESPN in 2003; neither media outlet could corroborate his claims. He went to the police, too, in 2002, and a detective told him the statute of limitations had expired. Three years later, he went to the university; Syracuse had its lawyers do an internal investigation and says it, too, couldn’t verify Davis’ accusations.

Then, on Nov. 17, with the country still caught up in the child sex abuse see next page

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SANTA from page one Fund in Alton, which seeks to provide for local children who otherwise might go without winter clothing, pajamas and toys. This year, Emerson’s case load is at the recent norm of about 50 children, kids for whom she’ll be able to provide.

The generosity of everyone is amazing, even in these tight times,” Emerson said. Her organization is riding a bumper crop of gifts donated by Toys for Tots, the rest of the needs she can fill using funds privately donated to the non-profit organization. “We get quite a few donations,” she said.

The Inter-Lakes Christmas Fund, according to volunteer who asked not to be identified, is serving about 22o children this year. “Each year it’s more, it’s year it’s more kids,” she said.

Not only are there more people seeking help, they’re also seeking more help, she said. “Times are tough, I feel badly for people.”

For any family that lives in the InterLakes School District and requests help, the volunteer said, the fund will provide toys and clothing for the children through eighth grade and a food basket for the family. About a month ago, when the number of applications began to outpace donations, the InterLakes Christmas Fund Committee submitted a letter to the editor, asking for help. The plea was answered.

“We were a little nervous, a little afraid that we couldn’t give what we wanted,” she said. “People came through, that’s what’s amazing about this community... the spirit of giving.”

Those who manage the TiltonNorthfield-Sanbornton Christmas Fund also have noticed a disparity between needs and donations and are

hoping a letter published in today’s paper will bring relief. Tom Gallant, who has administered the fund for 25 years said, “We’re finding applications are at least what we had last year,” when the fund assisted 175 households and more than 500 individuals.

For those families in the TiltonNorthfield-Sanbornton area, the Christmas Fund will provide boots and jackets for kids and baskets filled with gifts and food. Gallant said the cost of meeting the need is growing past $35,000 a year. He’s optimistic that help will arrive. “We’ve always met the need. We’ve always found a way to meet the need,” he said.

Janet Brough, a board member for the Santa Fund of the Lakes Region (for many years known as The Citizen Santa Fund), said her organization has seen a modest decline in applications compared to last year. Because her fund focuses on outerwear for children, she expects that many recipients of last year’s operation are finding their jackets and boots still usable this year, and thus the decline in applications.

Brough’s fund, like others listed above, have kept their programs funded through private donations and have benefited by grants from the foundation that manages the WLNH Children’s Auction. In the case of the Santa Fund of the Lakes Region, said Brough, Children’s Auction grants come in handy during post-Christmas discounting, when director Katy Wells goes hunting for bargains.

“Children’s auction usually goes right back into outerwear. We just turn right around and stock up for next year,” Brough said. “We’ve done alright.”

from preceding page scandal at Penn State, where a former assistant football coach is accused of molesting 10 boys, Davis came forward on ESPN. Lang came forward.

Ten days later, Tomaselli spoke out.

That day, Nov. 27, ESPN aired a tape in which a woman it identified as Fine’s wife tells Davis she knew “everything” that was going on.

The university fired Fine that day.

Fitzpatrick called the tape “devastating.”

When the news broke on Nov. 17, Boeheim vehemently defended his longtime friend and assistant and

said the accusations were lies to make money in the wake of the Penn State scandal. Victim advocates reacted angrily and called for Boeheim to resign or be fired. He later backtracked and said he was wrong to question the motives of the accusers.

Fitzpatrick said Fine hurt not only Davis and Lang but Boeheim and the university.

“He let his friend go out and attack the victims, never once warning him they were telling the truth,” Fitzpatrick said. “Then stood by and did nothing while that friend was vilified.”

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A crew from Tilton-Northfield Fire/Rescue attends to people injured in a Wednesday morning, two vehicle accident on Main Street in Tilton.

According to police, the black VW hit the rear end of the while school van, which was stopped at the time. (Tilton Police photo)

School transport van rear-ended in downtown Tilton TILTON — A small school transport van owned by the Kearsarge Regional School District and a car operated by a 19-year-old Belmont woman were involved in an accident at the intersection of Main Street (Rte. 3) and Park Street (Rte. 132) at 8:30 Wednesday morning.

Three people were transported by Tilton Northfield Fire Department to the Franklin Regional Hospital, including Kelsey Naroian of Belmont, the driver of the car involved, her passenger, Jennifer

Gardner of Franklin and a 12 year old boy who was a student on the school van.

Police reported their initial investigation of the accident determined that the van, operated by Lionel Clark of Hillsboro, was eastbound on Main Street and stopped to allow a west bound vehicle to turn left onto Park Street. At that point the van was struck in the rear by the car driven by Noroian.

Police say the accident remains under investigation.

POLICE from page one and types of calls was unavailable.

The report details what if found to be the positive aspects of subcontracting police services to the sheriff’s office. Those include the likelihood of less staff turnover, prosecutions handled by the county sheriff, a reduction in liability insurance for the town and additional resources, mostly technological, that stem from a larger agencies.

The negative were also addressed. Included on the list were an apparent lack of financial benefit if the county staffs Barnstead at four full-time deputies plus overtime, major cost increases at the county level driven by labor unions, no control over the overtime and the lack of ability to move money from the police budget to other departments.

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Police say Carroll County Jail escapee was after his ex & her new beau ALFRED, Maine (AP) — With vengeance on his mind, David Glenn Hobson escaped from a New Hampshire jail by scaling a razor wire fence before heading to Maine, where he eluded search teams for days by hiding in the woods and eliciting help from family and friends, officials said Wednesday.

Hobson was arrested Tuesday evening outside a store in Rochester, N.H., where his ex-girlfriend was employed but not working at the time.

Police believe revenge against his former girlfriend and her boyfriend drove him to escape from jail, send her a threatening text message and remain on the lam for five days as dozens of law enforcement officers searched for him with dogs, aircraft and even thermal-imaging equipment. Hobson apparently was angry that his ex-girlfriend had broken up with him and taken up with somebody else, officials said.

Given what they knew, police considered Hobson dangerous and resolute.

“The man climbed over a 10- to 12-foot fence with razor wire. That takes a certain amount of desperation, I would say,” Maine State Police Lt. Louis Nyitray said at a press conference. “He then made threats to his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend. When we put all those things together, it raised our anxi-

from preceding page arise if the voters choose not to fund a contract at some point during the 4-year contract period, because the committee didn’t know if “the selectmen can enter into a multi-year contract with no firm, fixed and known annual cost, such as a bond or mortgage.”

The committee also recommended that should the selectmen vote to put the matter on the town warrant, voters should be given information and appropriate warrant language that would establish a police review board, provide information about how long it would take the sheriff’s department to get a possible program operative in Barnstead, provide for a budget for police services in the interim, tell people how to dissolve the current Barnstead Police Department, and a complete time-table for the above.

Committee Chair Gordon Preston said last night that he was still a believer in some kind of regionalization if the town can find the right way to do it.

“A small contract between a small town and a county may not be the right way,” he said.

‘Lilly’ missing in Laconia; have you seen her?

“Lilly” went missing from her home on November 11. She was last seen on White Oaks Road in Laconia, not too far from Paugus Bay. Lilly is a spied female, pit-bull/boxer mix, brindle color, with while on all four of her feet, on her chest, under her chin and a little bit on her nose. She weighs about 35-lbs. She’s very sweet and friendly, and loves children, but is very shy with new people.

People having information regarding “Lilly’s” whereabouts are asked to call Holly at 630-6445.

ety level. He’s desperate. He’s determined.”

Hobson, 34, didn’t say anything during a brief appearance Wednesday in Ossipee District Court, where he was charged with escape. Bail was set at $500,000.

Hobson was awaiting trial on burglary charges in the Carroll County House of Corrections in Ossipee, N.H., when he escaped Dec. 1 by scaling a fence, climbing over razor wire and jumping off a 12-foothigh building.

A corrections officer in the recreation yard saw him jump the fence and radioed the control room, but he had disappeared into the woods by the time officers arrived, said David Sorensen, chairman of the Carroll County Board of Commissioners.

While on the lam, Hobson stole an SUV in Wakefield, N.H., that was found two days later on a rural road in Alfred with a bloody interior — believed to be from injuries he suffered while climbing over the razor wire.

Police later determined that Hobson drove the SUV late Friday to a Walmart in Scarborough, where he bought medical supplies, clothing, boots and snacks. Video cameras showed him inside the store and in the parking lot driving away, police said.

That same night, police arrested Hobson’s father on charges he left medical supplies, food, water, clothing and blankets near his Alfred home for his son. On Monday, police found another stash of clothing, medical supplies and the Walmart receipt near his aunt’s house in Alfred.

A tip led police to the grocery store where Hobson was arrested while getting into a car driven by another person. He had $3,000 in cash and illegal drugs on him, said David Cargill, New Hampshire’s U.S. marshal. Cargill declined to say who was picking up Hobson but said police think Hobson was ready to leave the area.

“We think he was looking to get away, looking for another car and going to head out somewhere else,” he said.

Hobson had cuts and bruises when he was arrested. After he first escaped, officials surmised that he was seriously hurt by the razor wire.

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CONCORD (AP) — After two failed deals this year, the stately resort where New Hampshire’s the first-inthe-nation presidential primary ballots have been cast for 50 years has been sold to two businessmen for $2.3 million.

The Balsams Grand Resort Hotel in Dixville Notch, a remote, Victorian- and Alpine-style complex about 20 miles from Canada, has been sold to Dan Hebert and Dan Dagesse.

The sale was announced Wednesday by the Tillotson Corporation, which owned the nearly 150-year-old resort and surrounding property.

Dagesse, who owned auto dealerships in the Northeast, including some in northern New Hampshire, and Hebert, who owns a construction business in Colebrook, have been interested in preserving the hotel for more than a year.

“We care deeply about restoring the Balsams Grand Resort Hotel to its full glory as a world-class destination resort and seeing it thrive for decades to come,” Hebert said. “We want to provide a stable operation that we can all be proud of.”

The hotel is known for its woodpaneled Ballot Room, where residents of the tiny community are the first to cast their votes for president at midnight on New Hampshire’s primary day and on the nation’s Election Day. The owners say the Balsams will be closed for renovations for up to 18 months, but the Ballot Room, filled with a time capsule of political articles and cartoons from presidential campaigns and a special glass-encased ballot box, will be open for the Jan. 10, 2012 presidential primary.

“We will make that happen,” said Scott Tranchemontagne, a spokesman for the buyers.

The Tillotson family, whose patriarch ran a rubber factory and is credited with inventing the latex balloon, bought the resort in 1954. Before he died in 2001 at age 102, Neil Tillotson specified that the resort and other assets be sold or given away and the proceeds given to charities. But the hotel has been operating at a loss for

years, and the money has been coming out of the assets of a family trust.

The hotel and surrounding 7,700acre property was put up for sale in July 2010 and closed on Sept. 14, facing an uncertain future after deals with two prospective buyers — Ocean Properties in Portsmouth and a Maine-based consortium — fell through.

The last major renovations done at the hotel was 40 years ago. Hebert said the first step is to winterize the hotel and remove a biomass plant that Neil Tillotson built to use steam heat to run a factory building on the property, as well as the hotel. The factory is no longer running, and the hotel’s energy costs have been very high.

The resort started as an inn in 1861 named for the town’s first landowner, Col. Timothy Dix, who died in the War of 1812. In 1895, industrialist Henry Hale bought the Dix House and renamed it The Balsams. He completed a major renovation in 1918, doubling the resort’s capacity to 400 guests.

Generations of families have traveled there for summer vacations, The resort features Old-World elegance, fine dining and outdoor activities, including golf, boating and hiking.

There are no televisions in most rooms. In the winter, it is popular for skiing and snowmobiling.

As part of the deal, the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests has agreed to pursue placing about 6,000 acres of recreational trails, forestland and wildlife habitat under conservation protection. The land includes the popular overlook known as Table Rock that offers a vista across Coos County to Maine, Vermont and Canada. The society has to raise $850,000 to close the transaction.

“We’re confident that with help from donors, we can come through,” said Jack Savage, society spokesman.

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Ryan Brunn, who lived and worked at the apartment complex, was jailed on a murder warrant, said Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vernon Keenan.

Jorelys Rivera was last seen Friday evening leaving the playground to walk back home to get drinks for her friends. Authorities said they believe she was taken to an empty apartment in the complex, where she was sexually assaulted, stabbed and beaten to death. Her body was found Monday.

Keenan said Brunn, who has no known criminal record, had keys to the empty apartment and the trash compactor bin where Rivera’s body was placed.

“We are confident that Brunn is the killer and that is why he is in custody,” Keenan said, declining to detail what evidence investigators have against him.

According to a warrant obtained

by The Associated Press, Brunn was arrested on suspicion of murder and making false statements to authorities. The arrest warrant says, “the accused did unlawfully and with malice aforethought cause the death of Jorelys Rivera by hitting her on the head with a blunt object.” No other details are contained in the document, which was filed Wednesday.

Brunn’s brother says Brunn is not violent and says he doesn’t believe the

younger man was involved in the slaying. Steven Brunn, 26, told The Associated Press on Wednesday night that “the real person may still be out there” plotting another attack.

“I don’t know where this all is coming from,” Steven Brunn said.

“They said it’s innocent until proven guilty, but they already done proved him guilty.”

It was not immediately clear whether Brunn had an attorney.

He was being held at the Cherokee County jail. Lt. Jay Baker with the Sheriff’s Office said Brunn’s initial appearance in Superior Court was set for Thursday.

Brunn, wearing a blue hooded sweat shirt and jeans, was arrested at the apartment complex and taken in handcuffs to a sheriff’s patrol car surrounded by a handful of armed law enforcement officers. Video aired

by WSB-TV shows Brunn keeping his head down and ignoring comments shouted by an observer.

Keenan said investigators focused on Brunn after receiving information from the public. Brunn had been under police surveillance since Tuesday night. Keenan said the investigation will continue for several months.

“This is a mammoth case,” Keenan told reporters at a news conference in Canton. “We believe that this horrendous crime was planned and calculated, and we’ve recovered a lot of evidence.”

About 65 local, state and federal investigators worked the case and conducted several hundred interviews.

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Savage said the Tillotson Corporation has chosen to work with the society on conserving the land, rather than selling it to the Northern Pass project.

The Balsams employs about 300 full- and part-time workers depending on the season, making it one of the largest employers in the North Country, a region that has lost many manufacturing jobs in recent years. Hebert said he and Dagesse are committed to preserving those jobs.

“We recognize closing the hotel over an extended period for renovations will be difficult for employees, but it is absolutely necessary to endure the resort’s long-term viability,” he said.

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Tom Smith starts up a 1927 #262 Steamer at the Laconia Antiques Center upper level, where they have set up a model train extravaganza open to the public year round. (Karen Bobotas/for The Laconia Daily Sun)

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LACONIA — It was 1965 and Tom Smith was 8-years-old when he got his first American Flyer model train set. He said he ran downstairs to his basement in his Long Island, NY home and from that moment on, trains became his life-long passion.

His passion led him to own and operate a train store in Manchester for 20 years and to continue collecting into his retirement.

Smith, who now manages the Laconia Antique Center on Main Street, has recreated some of those images from his past in the upstairs portion of what was Bloom’s Variety Store.

The first stop at the top of the stairs is Santa Village and the Polar Express. Based on the hit movie, the attraction features a television screen with the movie “Polar Express”.

The next stop on Smith journey through the railroads is the industrial stop. Recreated with details like real logs from the logging cars and coal for engine, he has recreated America’s early industrial past when nothing went anywhere unless it went by train.

Next is the new England Village complete with little people boarding and deboarding the trains at stations.

The forth stop is a Charles Dickens Christmas Village recreated with the assistance of retired history teacher and fellow train aficionado Gerald Knight.

Smith said he and Knight set up the same village in the community room at Knight’s Beacon Street home last Christmas.

Surrounding the sides are hand-cars and replicas of the commercial buildings for the Lionel Tran Factory in Irving, N.J. The scenes are all interconnected by tracks.

“There lot of action and lots of visual movement,” Smith said.

The holiday train is available for view at the Antique Center, Thursday from noon to 4 p.m., Friday from noon to 6 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 3 p.m.

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No one was injured, and the home’s residents didn’t even wake up until the broken drywall settled on top of them, Nelson said.

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DOVER (AP) — Police in Dover, N.H., are looking for a man who shot at the window of a moving car with a BB gun and then robbed the driver of her cell phone.

The woman was driving in the area of the Spaulding Turnpike, Exit 8 overpass on Monday night when her passenger side window was shattered.

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GAY RIGHTS from page 2 organizations with anti-gay views, listed Russia, Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda, Iran and Zimbabwe among the nations that had recently “declared war on sexual minorities” and said that he hoped they would be chastened by the administration’s blunt talk.

“This was one of those times where our nation demonstrated true international leadership and made me incredibly proud to be an American,” Besen said.

“There were no carefully crafted and focus grouped code words that sugarcoated the abuses — just the honest truth spoken from the heart.”

Other activists focused on gay rights internationally were more restrained in their praise. Neil Grungras, founder of the San Francisco-based organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration, which represents gay asylum-seekers, said it was critical for the administration to secure allies on every continent to avoid looking like it was imposing American values on parts of the world that view the West with mistrust or hostility.

Recalling how large demonstrations broke out in Pakistan in June after staff at the U.S. Embassy held a gay pride celebration there, he said that Obama’s sincere commitment to improving the gay rights picture globally could inadvertently make life worse for gays and lesbians abroad.

“This cannot be seen as a U.S.-only issue because at the end of the day that would be counter-produc-

tive,” said Grungras, who was in the audience for Clinton’s speech. “In countries where U.S. moral leadership is not high and where increasingly Western values are negative ... there is a real danger people can use this issue and say, ‘No, we are cleaning up here, we are going to reject this American imposition of decay.’”

In his presidential memo, Obama directed the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development and other agencies to make sure U.S. diplomacy and foreign assistance helps gays and lesbians who are facing human rights violations. He also ordered U.S. agencies to protect vulnerable gay and lesbian refugees and asylum seekers.

But the directive does not make foreign aid contingent on a nation’s gay rights record or include specific sanctions for poor performers, making the policy more of a moral challenge to other governments than a threat.

“The struggle to end discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons is a global challenge, and one that is central to the United States’ commitment to promoting human rights,” Obama said in a statement.

Clinton’s audience in Geneva included diplomats from Arab, African and other nations where homosexuality is criminalized or where brutality and discrimination against gay and transgender people is tolerated or encouraged.

from preceding page thing that has been damaged is as good or better as before this started.”

Producers have used the cannon they built at the county’s bomb range, which is tucked in a valley in the suburb of Dublin, more than 50 times without incident, said Nelson, the department’s liaison to the show.

Once it was launched, the cannonball traveled about 650 yards, bounced in front of the home, then tore through the front door and exited through a wall on the back of the house.

The projectile then bounced at least once more and crossed the road before smashing the window and dashboard of a gold minivan, where it came to rest.

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“Mythbusters,” which is produced for Discovery Channel by the San Francisco-based Beyond Productions, issued a statement through publicist Katherine Nelson on Wednesday saying all proper safety protocol had been observed.

“Beyond Productions is currently assessing the situation and working with those whose property was affected,” she said.

The show, according to its website, mixes “scientific method with gleeful curiosity and plain oldfashioned ingenuity to create (its) own signature style of explosive experimentation.”

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OBITUARY

Etta M. Swanson, 90 LACONIA — Etta May Langley Codwise Swanson, 90, of 406 Court Street and formerly of 46 Dartmouth Street and Charlevoix Place, died at the Lakes Region General Hospital on Sunday, December 4, 2011.

Etta was born December 5, 1920 in Melrose, Mass., the daughter of Arthur Franklin and Edith (Foote) Langley.

Etta grew up in Melrose, MA and graduated from Melrose High School. Etta was a key punch operator for the Bank of Boston before she married her first husband Robert. She became a widow after only 3 years of marriage. Etta then used her key punch operator skills when she served her country in the U. S. Navy during WWII and she loved to tell stories of her adventures.

Etta lived in Uxbridge, MA over 30 years with her second husband Bror Fritz and they raised their family of two daughters here. Etta encouraged her family to continue the Swedish traditions Fritz brought with him from Sweden and enjoyed from childhood. There were many Swedish trinkets throughout the Swanson home.

Etta strongly encouraged her daughters to seek further education and her only regret was that she was not able to go to college as a young woman. She was employed as a baker for the Uxbridge School System for fifteen years, retiring in 1982. After her husband Fritz died, she moved to Laconia to be near her daughter’s family and helped to care for her grandchildren.

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Survivors include two daughters and sons-in-law, Karin and Bob Salome of Laconia and Darlene and Michael Schueler, of Clearwater, FL; four grandchildren who called her MÖR MÖR (which means mother’s mother in Swedish); Jeremy Salome, Lukas Salome, Tracy Schueler Bayne and Rebecca Schueler; three great grandchildren; two nieces and four nephews. In addition to her parents, Etta was predeceased by her first husband, Robert Codwise, in 1943 and by her second husband, Bror Fritz Swanson, in 1981 and by three sisters, Mable Creighton, Helen Langley and Edith Craigie, nephews Ross Craigie and Eric Swanson, and niece Barbara Swanson.

There will be no calling hours.

A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday April 14th at St. James Episcopal Church, 867 North Main Street, Laconia, N.H. Rev. Tobias Nyatsambo, Rector of the St. James Church, will officiate.

Burial will be in the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery, Boscawen, N.H. For those who wish, the family suggests that memorial donations be made to the St. James Episcopal Church scholarship fund, 867 No. Main Street, Laconia, N.H. 03246, St. Francis Rehabilitation and Nursing Center – Activities Fund, 406 Court Street, Laconia, N.H. 03246 or to Womens Vets assist at web site: http://www.blueridgelogcabins.com/extreme/ get_involved.php and donate a log to build homes for returning female veterans.

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‘Skate-A-Thon’ benefits Children’s Auction Lilac calendars available

LACONIA — Skate Escape Roller Rink on Court Street will be hosting a 24-hour Skate-A-Thon to benefit the WLNH Children’s Auction this weekend.

The event will begin at 8 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 9 and end at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 10.

Local youngsters will be skating, lap after lap, to collect on pledges made in support of them and their cause. Anyone can participate for any number of hours, or for all of them. In addition to lots of rollerskating there will be games, entertainment, snacks (for skaters) and even more rollerskating — around the clock.

Donations may be made directly at Skate Escape

at anytime through the end of the Skate-A-Thon.

Organizers Erica Duncan and Janine Page say they are excited to offer this opportunity for folks of all ages to work together to help those who are less fortunate. “Find a roller skater you know and donate directly to them, or stop by anytime during the Skate-A-Thon, check out the fun and donate to a wonderful cause,” they implored.

Questions about requirements for donation collection, parent drop-off and pick-up, etc. may be addressed by stopping by Skate Escape at 161 Court Street or by calling 556-7383. Inquires can also be sent to laconiaskateescape@gmail.com.

LACONIA — American Coin Buyers Guild will be at the Landmark Inn in Laconia starting Tuesday, December 13 through Saturday, December 17.

During this event collectors are hoping to see items

such as coins and paper currency issued prior to 1965, gold items including class rings, mismatched earrings, broken necklaces, gold coins and bullion. Hours are Tuesday-Friday, 9 a.m.–6 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m.–4 p.m.

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LACONIA — This city’s downtown merchants will be hosting their annual Christmas Open House this Saturday.

Shoppers can start their day with a pancake breakfast at the Congregational Church to benefit the Rich Velasquez Youth Sports Equipment Foundation, which runs from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

That will be followed by the Frozen 5K Race, run or walk, to benefit the WLNH Children’s Auction, sponsored by MC Cycle and Burrito Me. Registration will take place from 7-9:30 a.m. with the race getting underway at 10 a.m.

People can bring a non-perishable food item to Franklin Savings and enjoy hot chocolate, coffee and home baked cookies, or bring an item and help decorate an ornament for the Christmas tree.

Affordable Alterations, The Downtown Deli, Grace Capital Church, Frates Creative Arts Center, The Galleria and LaBelle’s Shoe are partnering to help Cash for Cans drive.

Stephen Gaudette from Sanbornton will be demonstrating glass blowing at Curious Goods and visitors can enjoy refreshments at Bootleggers or go to Prescott’s Florist, have warm cider and cookies, and sign up for a Yankee Candle Monopoly drawing.

Sunflower Natural Foods will offer snacks, holiday recipes and good cheer. People can grab a cookie at Laconia Village Bakery and take it to Burrito Me to decorate.

Visitors will also get to see Santa (don’t forget you camera) and bring a gift for Toys for Tots at More 2 Luv. All My Life Jewelers will have roasted chestnuts and people can taste wine and purchase Main Street ornaments and Ian Raymond photography calendars, both limited editions. They can also pick up a copy of Larry Frates’ new caricature drawing DVD, and maybe have one drawn.

There will also be a book signing at the Belknap Mill with Carol Lee Anderson and Penny Pitou and Anderson’s history of Gunstock Mountain Resort.

There will be specials at Awakenings, The Brickfront, Hector’s, and the Soda Shoppe. Visitors can enjoy the art at Paintbox Studio, experience The Studio where they have fun and funky ideas, or see next page

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Blue Star Mothers placing wreaths on graves of veterans on Saturday BOSCAWEN — Blue Star Mothers of New Hampshire will be laying 900 holiday wreaths on graves at the N.H. Veterans Cemetery on Saturday, Dec. 10, starting at 10 a.m.

Blue Star Chair Karen Thurston of Gilford said this is an idea that started with a Gold Star Family in 2007 and was inspired by the wreaths placed at Arlington National Cemetery. “The Blue Star Mothers decided we needed to answer this Christmas wish,” she said.

The “Wreaths for Boscawen” program would like help in placing wreaths in Sections 5 and 6 at the cemetery. The wreaths being placed are 12-inches in diameter and will have a red ribbon.

The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) will hold a ceremony at the Circle of Flags in the cemetery at noon, in conjunction with the Wreaths Across America program.

“We invite you all to stay and support the CAP and Wreaths Across America,” said Thurston.

Wreaths for Boscawen will be an annual event and the wreaths will be placed on different sections each year.

The plan is for a four year rotation of sections.

Donations to help Blue Star Mothers purchase the wreaths and bows may be sent to: Blue Star Mothers of NH — Wreaths, 11 Jameson Ave, Gilford, NH 03249

Ladies’ tea party Saturday at chi-lin gallery MEREDITH — This Saturday afternoon, December 10, from 2-5:30 p.m. the lakes gallery at chi-lin is having a Ladies’ Tea Party, an event not just for ladies.

The ladies, are colorful Chinese peasant paintings, but, as with much traditional art, they are disappearing. To celebrate many years of their company, the lakes gallery at chi-lin is having a 25—40% sale on remaining large and small lady paintings.

There will be all kind of teas and

holiday goodies to sample, even a sip of sherry to put shoppers in the spirit.

Chi-lin is located at 17 Lake Street on the corner of Lake and Main Streets. The gallery is open Thursday—Monday from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m and Sunday from 1-5 p.m. Call 279-8663 for more details.

Chi-lin is one of the galleries taking part in the Second Annual Artwalk to benefit The Meredith Emergency Food Bank this evening from 4:30-7 p.m.

ALTON — The Gilman Library is a Toys For Tots drop off location.

The U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program collects new, unwrapped toys during October, November and December each year, and distributes those toys as Christmas gifts to needy children in Belknap

County.

People can bring donations of new and unwrapped toys to the library during open hours on or before Thursday, December 15 at 7 p.m. For more information stop at the circulation desk, call 875 -2550 or visit the Toys for Tots website at toysfortots.org.

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Meredith Village Art Walk is today

Lakeland School students, 8th grader Dana Beauregard and 5th graders Abigail Johnson and Elise Hall, invite the community to participate in the Second Annual Meredith Village Art Walk, “Food for the Soul”, which is being held today from 4:30-7 p.m. In art classes, Lakeland students have been crafting ornaments to decorate their “Home for the Holidays” Christmas tree at the Chi-Lin Art Gallery.

Meredith art galleries will be participating in an evening of music, refreshments, unique discounts and a very special raffle for a 24’ x 30’ oil painting by Christine Hodecker-George called, “Autumn Birches” ”. The raffle is to benefit the Meredith Emergency Food Pantry. Raffle tickets are available at participating galleries: Hodecker-George Gallery, The Fine Carpet and Asian Antique Gallery, Vynnart, Gallery 51, Ogelthorpe Fine Arts and Crafts and the Lakes Gallery at Chi-Lin. Donations of non-perishable food items that have a minimum value of $5, can be dropped off at any of the galleries and people will receive a ticket for the raffle. Tickets can be purchased for $5 each or 15 for $50. (Courtesy photo)

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MANCHESTER — U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) announced today that a member of her staff will be holding the following office hours in Alexandria, Bridgewater, Grafton, Groton, Hebron, Orange, and Rumney to assist New Hampshire citizens with official business.

To ensure constituents have convenient access, a member of the Senator’s staff will be visiting the following town offices. Residents who are interested in meeting with a member of the Senator’s staff should stop by the town offices during the times listed below or call Simon Thomson at 6227979 to schedule an appointment.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’re feeling mighty independent, and you won’t measure your self-worth against how much another person demonstrates their love for you. You might even find someone’s attention annoying or distracting.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Dec. 8). It will be a year of renovation and revitalization. Progress in areas of education, communication, writing, computers, travel and sales will thrill you. The next six weeks are for making connections.

You’ll be praised for your integrity in the spring. Loved ones trust you and make you a bigger part of their world. Capricorn and Aquarius people adore you.

Your lucky numbers are: 2, 15, 49, 50 and 11.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20). The only reality is the one you perceive.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Your mood upon waking might not be ideal.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Thursday, Dec. 8, the 342nd day of 2011. There are 23 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 8, 1941, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Japan, a day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

On this date: In 1776, during the Revolutionary War, Gen. George Washington’s retreating army crossed the Delaware River from New Jersey into Pennsylvania.

In 1854, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the Catholic dogma of the Immaculate Conception, which holds that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was free of original sin from the moment of her own conception.

In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln announced his plan for the Reconstruction of the South.

In 1886, the American Federation of Labor was founded in Columbus, Ohio.

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In 1949, the Chinese Nationalist government moved from the Chinese mainland to Formosa as the Communists pressed their attacks.

In 1961, a fire at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut resulted in 16 deaths. The Beach Boys’ first single, “Surfin’,” was released.

In 1980, rock star John Lennon was shot to death outside his New York City apartment building by an apparently deranged fan.

In 1987, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed a treaty at the White House calling for destruction of intermediate-range nuclear missiles.

In 1991, AIDS patient Kimberly Bergalis, who had contracted the disease from her dentist, died in Fort Pierce, Fla., at age 23.

One year ago: President Barack Obama rejected claims that he had betrayed Democrats by cutting a deal with Republicans on Bush-era tax cuts and implored his party to back the compromise, arguing it could jumpstart the economy.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor-director Maximilian Schell is 81. Singer Jerry Butler is 72.

Pop musician Bobby Elliott is 70. Actress Mary Woronov is 68. Actor John Rubinstein is 65. Rock singer-musician Gregg Allman is 64. Reggae singer Toots Hibbert is 63.

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CALENDAR TODAY’S EVENTS “Little Shop of Horrors” presented by the Winni Playhouse Teen Ensemble. 7 p.m. at the Weirs Beach theater.

Tickets at 366-7377.

Brazilian singer Eliana Marcia at N.H. Jazz Center at Pitman’s Freight Room in Laconia. 8 p.m. $10. BYOB. Annual Rev. Ray Wixson Senior Dinner hosted by the Gilford Rotary Club. 6:15 p.m. at the Gilford Community Church. Free of charge for town residents 62 or older. Reservations recommended. Call 524-6057.

Art Walk of six galleries in Meredith Village. 4:30 to 7 p.m. Music, refreshments and a special raffle to benefit the Meredith Emergency Food Pantry. Includes lakes gallery at chi-lin, The Fine Carpet and Asian Antique Gllery, The Hodecker-George Gallery, Vynn-Art (Art Supply Store) and Oglethorpe Fine Arts & Crafts.

Free 2-hour Debt Triage workshop hosted by Laconia Area Community Land Trust and Franklin Savings Bank. 6 p.m. at the Laconia Police Department Community Room. To register call Debra Drake at 524-0747.

Workshop for new and beginning farmers. 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Mouultonborough Library. Hosted by UNH Cooperative Extension. Registration requeted at 447-3834.

Al-Anon Meeting at the Congregational Church Parish House (18 Veterans Square) in Laconia. 8 to 9:15 p.m. each Thursday. Al-Anon offers hope and help to families of alcoholics. No dues or fees. All are welcome. Call 645-9518.

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

Giggles & Grins playgroup at Family Resource Center in downtown Laconia (635 Main Street).

Mystery Book Group meeting at the Meredith Public Library. 10:30 a.m. to noon. “Dart Tort” by Dianne Mott Davidson. Refreshments. Books can be picked up at the main desk.

Preschool Story Time at the Meredith Public Library. 1 to 2 p.m. Meet downstairs in the Function Room.

Book discussion at the Gilford Public Library. 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. and again from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. “Hotel On The Corner of the Bitter & Sweet” by Jamie Ford. Refreshments.

Books available at the Circulation Desk.

Crafters’ Corner at the Gilford Public Library. 6 to 7:30 p.m. Bring young latest needlework design.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9 Pemigewasset Choral Society concert at St. Paul’sRoman Catholic Church in Franklin. 7:30 p.m.

Open to the public. Admission by donation.

“Little Shop of Horrors” presented by the Winni Playhouse Teen Ensemble. 7 p.m. at the Weirs Beach theater.

Tickets at 366-7377.

Lakes Region Kennel Club presents “Your Pet Photos With Santa”. 5 to 8 p.m. at Sal’s Pizza in the Belknap Mall in Belmont. Prices range from $5 to $9. Portion of proceeds will benefit the Pet Oxygen Mask Fund for local fire departments.

Christmas Nativity Display at the Meredith Bay Colony Club (Upper Mile Point Drive, off the Rte. 3 roundabout) in Meredith. Noon to 5 p.m. Over 80 creches representing 30 nations. Many sets handcrafted in native styles. Free admission.

Screening of “How The Grinch Stole Christmas” at the Gilman Library in Alton. 7 p.m. Popcorn and drinks provided. Children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. 875-2550.

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.

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Ski area history author Carol Lee Anderson speaking at Gunstock Inn gone as many changes as the neighboring recreation area and is today a successful, year-round inn.

The construction and renovations that have occurred at the inn are chronicled in Anderson’s new book, The History of Gunstock: Skiing in the Belknap Mountains. Many of the international skiing stars that competed in the early ski meets at Gunstock found lodging at the inn, and it quickly

An excavator prepares to demolish the center chimney of the Baraks, known today as the Gunstock Inn and Fitness Center.

Author Carol Lee Anderson will be returning to the inn to give a history presentation on December 14 at 6:30 p.m. (Courtesy photo)

GILFORD - Local author Carol Lee Anderson will be at the Gunstock Inn and Fitness Center to present a history of Gunstock Mountain Resort and the Gunstock Inn on December 14 at 6:30 p.m.

The historic inn, like Gunstock, is preparing to celebrate its 75th anniversary. The inn was built as a first-class ski lodge and first opened its doors as the Belknap Mountains Recreation Area (today’s Gunstock) was also opening to the public. It has underCALENDAR from preceding page

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9 Giggles & Grins playgroup at Family Resource Center in downtown Laconia (635 Main Street). Free group for parents children from birth through age 5. For more information call 524-1741.

Holiday Storytime & Sing-Along at the Gilford Public Library. 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. All chilidren invited.

Knit Wits gathering at the Gilford Public Library. 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. All knitters welcome.

Tot Time at the Meredith Public Library. 9:30 to 10:20 a.m. Story, song and craft for ages 1 to 3.

became a favorite gathering spot for skiers. In her presentation, Anderson explains the how the inn has progressed from a rustic lodge to today’s inn, which is now home to an indoor pool and fitness center.

The book will be available for purchase and the author will be available to sign copies after the presentation. For more information, contact the Gunstock Inn at 293-2021.

Capital Regional Development Council names Mary Jane Ricker of LSB Commercial Lender of the Year ing options to her customers,” says LACONIA — Mary Jane Ricker, Stephen Heavener, executive direcsenior vice president of commercial tor of CRDC. “She is a direct link to services for Laconia Savings Bank CRDC’s financial success this year has been named 2011 Commercial and we applaud her for her strong Lender of the Year by the Capital commitment to not only us, but ultiRegional Development Council. mately to her banking customers.”

The Capital Regional DevelopRicker is a senior vice president ment Council is a non-profit develand team leader in the Commercial opment corporation that provides Services Group and works closely a variety of economic development with Elizabeth Sweeney, CRDC’s services to businesses and local govsenior loan officer and economic ernments throughout New Hampdevelopment associate and Jennifer shire. The CRDC is a mission driven Boulanger, CRDC loan officer. non-profit focused on offering pro“Mary Jane is a seasoned comgrams that result in private sector Mary Jane Ricker, senior vice president, commercial lender job creation and local property tax for Laconia Savings Bank. mercial lender with us at Laconia Savings Bank and the one thing we base enhancement. Each year it (Courtesy photo) all know about Mary Jane is that presents the Commercial Lender of the Year award, which is based solely on the she advocates strongly for her customers,” says dollar volume produced together by a commerLouis H. Guevin, Jr., executive vice president of cial lender and CRDC. Commercial Services at Laconia Savings Bank.

“We look forward to celebrating Mary Jane’s “She works hard to ensure her customers are dedication to CRDC and her commitment to her offered the best loan products that fit their banking customers through this award. She introbusiness needs, and it’s clear she taps into all duces our financial options such as our SBA 504 resources like that of CRDC to make that posLending or New Market Tax Credits as gap fundsible.”

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MVSB Signs on as Red Dress Gala Sponsor Family Resource Center, middle school team up for parenting program

MEREDITH — Meredith Village Savings Bank has signed on as a Gold Sponsor for the LRGHealthcare Red Dress Gala for the third consecutive year.

“We are extremely grateful for this generous contribution from MVSB,” said Tom Clairmont, president and chief executive officer at LRGHealthcare.

“Their continued support of the Red Dress Gala has proven that the bank truly cares about the overall health of our community. We feel very lucky that so many of our local businesses are invested in making the Lakes Sam Laverack (left), president and chief executive officer at MVSB, and Rick Wyman (second from right), Region a better place to MVSB’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, present a gold sponsorship check to Suzanne Stiles (second from left), vice president of administrative and support services at LRGHealthcare, and Tom live, work and play.”

Clairmont (right), president and chief executive officer at LRGHealthcare. (Courtesy photo) The 8th annual Red Dress Gala will be held on Friday, February 3, 2012 at the Conference heart disease,” explains MVSB President and CEO Center at Lake Opechee Inn & Spa in Laconia, and Sam Laverack. “Heart disease is the number one includes dinner, live music, dancing and a silent and killer of American men and women. We are proud to live auction. participate in an event which aims to increase the The Red Dress Gala is open to all members of overall quality of life for our employees, customers, the community and is held each February to raise and neighbors.” awareness about heart disease and prevention. All Invitations to the event will be mailed in midproceeds from the event benefit cardiac services, December. To receive an invitation, or for additional programs, and technology at LRGHealthcare and in information about sponsorship, advertising, or donathe surrounding community. tion opportunities, please contact the LRGHealth“MVSB is honored to once again sponsor the Red care Office of Philanthropy at philanthropy@lrgh.

Dress Gala and support LRGHealthcare in raising org or 527-7063. awareness and funds to educate, treat, and prevent

LACONIA — Lakes Region Community Services’ Family Resource Center of Central New Hampshire is partnering with the Laconia Middle School to provide “Active Parenting of Teens”, a new parent education program to parents of “tweens” and teens.

The six-week program will be held at Laconia Middle School on Monday evenings from 6-8 p.m., with classes held on January 9, 16,23, 30, and February 6 and 13. Classes are currently offered to parents of current LMS students and will be facilitated by two parent educators from the Family Resource Center, Peter Andreasen and Erin Klasen.

Cost of the class is $20 per family and all families will receive a copy of “Active Parenting of Teens, 3rd Edition”. Scholarships are available.

“Parenting presents joys and challenges at every stage of a child’s growth”, said Shannon RobinsonBeland, community support coordinator at the Family Resource Center. “We are very happy to be able to offer this program specifically designed to support families experiencing the dynamic changes of teenage development.”

She says that the program gives parents the guidance and support needed to turn the challenges of raising a teenager into opportunities for growth.

Parents attending the classes can expect to learn: 1. Methods of respectful discipline.

2. Skills for clear, honest communication.

3. Concrete strategies to prevent risky behavior.

4. How to be an encouraging parent.

5. Insight on issues such as teens online, bullying and depression.

Jim McCollum, Middle School principal, is equally enthusiastic about the partnership and program. see PARENTING page 27

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: My 12-year-old son recently informed me that his 18-year-old cousin was molesting him. I immediately informed my in-laws. They were in shock and denial. Both said, “Are you sure? Maybe they were experimenting.” I was outraged and disgusted, and so was my husband. I went to the police and filed a report.

Both the perpetrator and the victim are their grandsons.

My husband no longer speaks to his brother because of what his son did. His brother said he should have been informed before I filed the police report. But the police advised us not to, saying it would give the perpetrator a chance to develop a defense. The cousin was arrested. He didn’t deny what he’d done. He was sentenced to a year in the county jail and will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life, which is absolutely fine with me.

The problem is that my in-laws have chosen to keep this a family secret. Whenever relatives visit and ask where the cousin is, they respond that he is away at college. I find this appalling. What happens when the cousin gets out of jail and goes back to live with his parents? Will they tell the relatives with little kids then? My husband no longer wishes to visit his parents. I know my mother-in-law is angry with me, and I’m OK with that. My primary concern is protecting my family and continuing to seek treatment for my son. We have found him a great therapist. Should I tell the family members who have children? -- Daughter-in-Law Dear Daughter-in-Law: Family members need to know the truth, but it would help if you could approach your in-laws with love and understanding, instead of anger and recriminations. This is breaking their hearts. Help them see how important it is for relatives to know why they cannot permit their young children to be alone with the cousin -- for his sake as well as theirs. When he is released from prison, he likely will

be prohibited from being near these children anyway, so the in-laws are only postponing the inevitable. Sympathize with how awkward it will be to inform others, but the sooner it is done the more supportive and trusting the family members can be. Please talk to your son’s therapist about the best way to word this.

Dear Annie: We have four kids. Three of them are doing well, but our youngest, age 23, still lives with us, does drugs and has no job. He sleeps all day and does nothing around the house to help. We have tried different ways to motivate him. We feed him and house him, and he acts as though he is entitled. What should we do? -- At the End of Our Rope Dear Rope: First try to get your son to a doctor to make sure there are no medical or psychiatric problems hampering his development. Then please take the necessary steps to make him responsible for his own life. It will not be easy for you (or for him), but the situation as it stands is untenable, and you have to consider your own well-being. Contact Because I Love You (bily.org) and Families Anonymous (familiesanonymous.org) for support and assistance.

Dear Annie: I was disappointed with your response to “A Devoted Grandma,” who thinks her friend “Betsy” should switch turns hosting Christmas Eve dinner because it will be easier with a new baby at Grandma’s house. Grandma stated that Betsy relented in an unfriendly way. It was Betsy’s year to hold the celebration, and just because there is a new grandchild doesn’t mean Grandma gets to demand it be at her house. At some point, most families have small children.

It’s not an excuse to give up traditions. And Betsy didn’t need to be “more gracious.” -- Another Grandma Dear Grandma: We agree about Grandma, but it never hurts to be more gracious, especially when friends are confronted with unpleasant choices.

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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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. $600-630/Month.

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

GILFORD, 2-Bedroom, 2-Bath, Balconies, no smoking/pets, $950/month plus utilities, Security deposit and references, 603-455-6662 GILFORD - Cute 2 bedroom house. Washer/dryer, garage, brookside setting. $1,000/month + utilities. 387-8433 GILFORD. 3 bedroom home for Lease/ option to buy, Owner financing available. Big yard, oversized garage. 603-393-5756.

GILMANTON ranch, 2/3 Bedroom with garage and lake and beach access. $1,250 a month.

630-9929 LACONIA 1 Bedroom- Washer/ dryer hookup, storage, no pets.

Security Deposit & references. $600/month + utilities. 520-4353 LACONIA 1-Bedroom Apartment.

Includes Heat.

Hot Water, Electric. Nice location., No pets/ No smoking. $650/month 630-4198 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

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

Lowered rent for qualified tennant with good credit.

630-2883 LACONIA 2 Bedroom. $800/Month plus utilities, no pets.

Security Deposit Required.

520-4353

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

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

630-2883 LACONIA House for Rent Spacious 3 bedroom 1 1/2 bath with washer/dryer.

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

$1,300/Month + Utilities

(603) 630-2882 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- 3 bedroom house. $1,000/Month + utilities. Pets considered, references & deposit.

524-9665 LACONIA- Large Rooms for rent.

Private bath, heat/hot water, electric, cable, parking included. Free WiFi Internet. $145/week, 603-781-6294 LACONIA- VERY nice 1-bedroom apartment in clean, quiet, secure downtown building. Recently renovated. $175/Week. includes, heat, hot water & electric.

524-3892 or 630-4771 Laconia-2 bedroom & 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-LARGE 2 bedroom 2nd floor . Quiet, clean, no pets. $800/month, Includes Heat.

556-1310 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: 1-bedroom for rent, heat/HW/electric included, no smoking, no pets, security deposit required. $750/month.

528-1685.

New Franklin Apartments, LLC Elderly and Disabled Housing Now Accepting Applications for Project-Based Section 8 Subsidized Apartments HUD Income Limits Apply One & Two Bedroom Units Available Located in Tilton, Franklin & West Franklin

Apartments Available Now For more information, please contact 603-286-4111 Or TTY 1-800-735-2964

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For Rent

For Rent

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: 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.

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

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

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

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

Smoking OK. Contact 707-9794 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.

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

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.

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

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

603-689-8683

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.

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.

Leave name and phone number if no answer.

Brand New Harvey Majesty 3-Lite Casement Window with Double Low-E glass and argon gas. All pine inside-Aluminum clad outside. Size 88 1/2” wide X 54 1/4” High with nailing fin. Retails for $2,100, asking $850. Must sell.

Call 224-9213

Free

ELECTRIC Wheelchair: Never used, many extras, $1,500.

524-2877.

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

No pets.

387-3864.

MOULTONBOROUGH- Spacious 1 Bedroom $775/month; Includes heat, hot water, electricity, on-site laundry. Security & references required, no pets. 393-8245

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

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.

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

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

455-5660

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

Furniture Cozy Cabin Rustics- Mattress and furniture year end sell-off! All mattress sets 20% off! NH made Shaker furniture by Cedar and Oak 20 % off! Log Hickory and Rustic Barnwood Furniture and Artwork 20 % off ! Recliners, Futons, Bunk Beds, Dining Room, Bedroom, Sofas, Platform Beds, MacMotion Chairs, occasional tables, art work. Unique, Locally made. Great Deals!! Call Jay 603-662-9066 or shop our website and email for special pricing www.viscodirect.com, jayw100@yahoo.com 517 Rte. 25, Moultonboro, NH

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

253-4850

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

Updated, New Hardwood floors, new bathroom, Washer/Dryer hookups, $1,250/Month. 566-6815 LACONIA: Large 3-bedroom apartment. First floor, parking. $850/mo + utilities, security/backgound check required.

603-781-6294.

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

WINTER RENTAL

For Rent-Commercial

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 IBM or Compaq laptop $110. IBM or Dell Computer $95. Surround Receiver $45. 524-6815.

Ice Fishing Equipment- sled can be hauled by hand or dragged by snow machine or 4-wheeler.

W/Extras, $50. Call 524-6755 Leave message.

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.

Nordic Track A2250- Paid $900 Asking $150/best offer. Professional duty, can fold up. Moving.

524-3613

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

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

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

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

Rent Negotiable.

603-524-0753

TENTERS or Tailgaters Christmas- Stainless campers kitchen.

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

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 2 Kindle E-readers 3-5 months old. 1 Wi-Fi and one 3G & Wi-Fi both 3rd generation $80-$100.

Sony portable DVD player. Model DVP-FX750 used once, perfect condition. $75. 267-0977.

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

BABY visiting for the Holidays?

New, original box, deluxe Disney Pack n Play $30, 387-3083.

CHRISTMAS TREES & wreaths.

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

Used Andersen Windows. Hot water heater & other miscellaneous items. Cheap! Call Dave 630-3986

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

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

Furniture 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.

NEW mattresses ...always a great deal! Starting; King set complete $395, queen set $249.

Help Wanted

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.

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

WINTER/ FALL RUSH

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.

Real Estate HOUSE FOR SALE-White Oaks Rd., Laconia. Very well maintained, 3-bedroom. 1 car garage, potential in-home business options.

Reduced, $145,000/OBO. By Appointment only, 524-3613

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

603-491-3535 leave message.

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Winnisquam elementary schools cash in pennies for the TNS Christmas Fund TILTON — What has become a tradition in the Winnisquam School district still produces thrills and chills. Union Sanborn School, Southwick School and Sanbornton Central School have partnered for the 4th year to host a student penny drive. Each year the schools impress the community by digging deep in collection through family, friends, couch cushions and other Southwick Principle Rich Hines with students and the SS penny creative locations to bring collection. (Courtesy photo) in penny after penny. The pride, enthusiasm and dedication Bank; at the main branch location in each year from our local young studowntown Franklin. Here, FSB allows dent residents is more than impresthe opportunity to run the pennies by sive; it is magical. school through the coin machine and The penny bags go home before then combine for one whopping check.

Thanksgiving and are to be returned This year, the students have reached the week following, a few local moms an all time high, with producing then collect (with help because who $1358.11, which is more than 130,000 knew pennies were so heavy.) The pennies, and weighs 763 pounds! pennies in all the bags, boxes, and conThe effort is more so important and tainers are carted to the local partnermagical due in part to the TNS Christing support bank, Franklin Savings mas Fund (Tilton/Northfield/San-

Roommate Wanted

Services

Services TILE INSTALLATIONS

MEREDITH ROOMMATE: Sunny, clean, spacious, walk to town.

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

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 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.

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

HANDYMAN SERVICES Small Jobs Are My Speciality

Rick Drouin 520-5642 or 744-6277 PIPER ROOFING Quality Work Reasonable Rates Free Estimates Metal Roofs • Shingle Roofs

Our Customers Don t get Soaked!

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

528-3531

MR. Junk. Attics, cellars, garages cleaned out. Free estimate. Insured. 455-6296

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

Yard Sale LARGE INDOOR YARD SALE save these dates for our large moving sale. Something for everyone at reasonable prices.

Friday-Saturday, 9am-3pm. No early birds please. 136 Watson Rd. #23. Stonewall Village Gilford

Major credit cards accepted

MATURE lady with 10 years experience available to help care for your loved ones. Companionship, outings, appointments, etc.

References available. 293-8237

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

(603)524-1430

CALL THE HUNGRY PAINTER: Painting, small tree work, dump runs, odd jobs, water damage/drywall repairs. 455-6296.

bornton). The TNS Christmas Fund is the driving organization to provide quality winter clothing, food, Christmas gifts, and Holiday Dinner to the areas less fortunate. There is a blessing of belief in our great community that no one person or child should not

deserve a meaningful Christmas at any age, in any year; the TNS Christmas fund and all their volunteer elves deliver just that.

The benefit to the WRSD Elementary Schools is that they can see and show others that every penny counts.

Barbara Ellis paintings on display at Busiel Mill Community Room

LACONIA — A collection of watercolor paintings by the late Barbara Ellis, mother of Peter Ellis of Gilford, is on display at the Busiel Mill Community Room and Gallery, located on the bottom floor of the Busiel Mill, between the Historic Belknap Mill and Laconia City Hall.

Described as museum quality by a local artist, the paintings will not disBarbara Ellis paintings are on display at the Busiel Mill in Laconia appoint. during the month of December. (Courtesy photo) Barbara Ellis was born Barbara Sleigh in Springfield, Mass., hundreds of trees. and, when she married Richard Ellis Barbara’s son, Peter, and his wife, moved to Petersham, Mass. Visitors Jane, have many of Barbara’s paintto almost any house in Petersham ings in their home as do their children, will find a Barbara Ellis painting over David, Richard and Corey. They have the fireplace. At 80, she had sold more put them on display for the month of than 700 of her watercolors.

December at the Busiel Mill.

Ellis studied with foremost artists, The Busiel Mill Community Room travelled extensively, taught school and Gallery is open to visitors from 9-5 children and was an illustrator for p.m. on weekdays and other times by Filene’s department store. As a nature appointment. Artists interested in dislover, she was head of the Shade Tree playing their work in this gallery should Commission in Athol, Mass., planting contact Joe Adrignola at 527-9176.

Alec Baldwin apologizes to passengers, not airline, for refusal to stop playing game LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alec Baldwin issued an apology Wednesday to fellow passengers on an American Airlines flight that was delayed by his refusal to stop playing a cellphone game — but stopped short of apologizing to the airline or the flight attendant he later mocked on Twitter.

The “30 Rock” actor’s note, posted to the Huffington Post (http://huff.to/ sENHR2 ), instead lamented the state of modern air travel. Baldwin noted the financial struggles of airlines, saying the result is that air travel has devolved into an inelegant experience, akin to riding a Greyhound bus.

Baldwin said the level of service on U.S. carriers has deteriorated.

“Filthy planes, barely edible meals, cuts in jet service to less-traveled locations,” Baldwin said.

Baldwin writes that increased security on commercial airplanes post-

9/11 has resulted in a “paramilitary” aura around air travel.

“September 11th was a horrific day in the airline industry, yet in the wake of that event, I believe carriers and airports have used that as an excuse to make the air travel experience as inelegant as possible,” Baldwin writes.

Baldwin’s letter is the latest volley in a dustup with American Airlines, with the airline taking to social media Wednesday to maintain it was following federal regulations when it booted an “extremely vocal customer” from a flight for refusing to shut off his cellphone.

The airline, which earlier cited passenger privacy in declining to discuss the matter, said on its Facebook page it decided “to provide the actual facts of the matter” after Baldwin stated publicly he had gotten kicked off the flight.

PARENTING from page 24 “We are excited to be partnering with the Family Resource Center to offer this informative program on the parenting of teens. It is our hope that it is perceived for what it is, an opportunity for concerned parents to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to be proactive in helping their children navigate the complex, constantly changing world they inhabit as they

mature into young adults.”

Parents will see flyers coming home in their children’s backpacks and should return their registration forms to LMS guidance by December 16. Parents seeking more information can contact LRCS Family Resource Center at 524-1741 x 15 and speak with Shannon. Attendance certificates will be provided to parents who complete the program.

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