The Laconia Daily Sun, February 18, 2011

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Alton shoe maker finds a niche with ‘ecofashionable’ products By adaM drapchO THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

ALTON — It might be an unconventional approach to footwear, but Matt Mahmet said his company’s success is due to its ability to reach customers with unconventional tastes. His company, called Wicked Hemp, is making a name for itself by using materials such as hemp and wood pulp in its shoes. see SHOES page 11

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City native Rachel Brown is keeping busy at 100 By Michael Kitch

I had a cart and delivered the clean laundry so we’d have something good to eat. And we had plenty to eat.” Married at 25, Brown and her husband William, who flew with the United States Army Air Force in World War II, raised two sons, David and Kelvin, born a year apart. David became superintendent of schools in Derry while Kelvin followed his father’s footsteps by pursuing a career in the air force. Both are returning from their homes in Florida to spend the weekend celebrating their mother’s centennial. During the war Brown worked at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. “I rode a motorcycle,” she said. “I went all around the yard delivering parts to all the different submarines. We launched 35 submarines, all named after fish,” she remembered. After the war Brown returned to Laconia where she worked at the Scott & Williams Company for 28 years. Today Brown lives independently in her own unit at the Bishop Bradley Apartments on the campus of the St. Francis Home. “I’ve With a hand from Debbie Sturgeon, Rachel Brown readied to celebrate her 100th birthday at the St. Francis Home yesterday. “They asked me got my right mind,” what I wanted for lunch,” she said, “and we all had Chinese food.” Brown lives on her own at the Bishop Bradley Apartments on the campus see raCHEL page 10 of the St. Francis Home. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Michael Kitch) THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

LACONIA — “I have a lot of good memories,” remarked Rachel Brown as she readied to celebrate her 100th birthday yesterday, then, with a twinkling eye and knowing grin added “but not to put in the

newspaper.” Brown said that she was born at home on Messer Street. Her father, Milo Saunders, was known as “Squeaky” by his teammates on the local baseball team. During the Depression her mother Louise Mary took in washing. She recalled that “my brother and

Sanbornton fire chief retiring to teach at Suffolk College deputy Chief Steve Surowiec temporarily promoted until replacement for John deSilva is found By Gail OBer

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SANBORNTON - Fire Chief John DeSilva announced his retirement last week and the Selectmen decided Wednesday to temporarily promote Deputy Chief Steve Suroweic until his replacement can be found. DeSilva, who came to Sanbornton in August of 2007, will be taking a retirement position at Suffolk College in Massachu-

setts as a teacher. He will leave the fire department at the end of this month. For Suroweic, a call fire fighter/EMT who farms nearby, this is not the first time he’s stepped into the void to run the department on an interim basis. He and the department’s other Deputy Chief Scott Taylor co-managed the department from April of 2006 when former Chief Jerry Busby resigned in the wake of allegations that he mistreated his staff until

DeSilva took over in August of 2007. It took Selectmen 16 months to replace Busby because shortly after his resignation, about 30 residents petitioned the town to return to a part-time fire chief. After the petition, Selectmen halted their search reasoning that it made no sense to seek a full-time chief if his or her position was to be eliminated by voters. At the time, Sanbornton held town meetsee SaNBOrNTON page 9

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