The Laconia Daily Sun, March 5, 2011

Unemployment dips under 9%

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Odds starting to tilt in favor of The Lodge

By Michael Kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

BELMONT —The fortunes of The Lodge at Belmont brightened somewhat this week when the two principal investors bought out the third to avoid a foreclosure and the House and Senate expressed support for legislation, chiefly repeal of the tax on gambling

winnings, promising increased earnings and employment.

Last month, Tony Tarbell of Keystone Management Company, Inc., a property management firm headquartered in Concord, who held a $700,000 first mortgage on The Lodge gave notice of intent to foreclose on March 3. At the time Rick Newman, general manager of

The Lodge, said that the initiative arose from discussions among the investors about the weakened financial condition of the enterprise. Last November The Lodge suspended parimutuel wagering and laid off 22 employees as both its handle, or value of total wagers placed, and revenue shrank by half.

Last week, on the eve of the

scheduled foreclosure, Craig K. Potts of Minneapolis, the founder and former chief executive officer of Cash Systems, Inc., and Marlin Torguson of the The Torguson Gaming Group of Biloxi, Mississippi, purchased Tarbell’s mortgage and retired the debt. Potts holds an $8,150,000 mortgage see LOdGE page 12

Now, here’s a hopeful sign

LACONIA — Laconia police announced on Thursday that no charges would be brought as a result of a recent traffic accident involving a city fire engine and a vehicle driven by a city resident. Fire Chief Ken Erickson added that firefighter Chris see CrasH page 12

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State says level of care remains high as Arches reorganizes under Chapter 11

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NORTHFIELD — The Arches, an Alzhiemers Care Facility located at 9 Summer Street, filed for Chapter 11 reorganization bankruptcy protection last month.

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Gadhafi strikes back; at least 37 die in fighting TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Moammar Gadhafi’s regime struck back at its opponents with a powerful attack Friday on the closest opposition-held city to Tripoli and a barrage of tear gas and live ammunition to smother new protests in the capital. At least 37 people died in fighting and in an explosion at an ammunitions depot in Libya’s rebellious east.

The bloodshed signaled an escalation in efforts by both sides to break the deadlock that has gripped Libya’s 18-day upheaval, which has lasted longer than the Egyptian revolt that led to the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak and inspired a wave of protests across the region.

So far, Gadhafi has had little success in taking back territory, with several rebel cities repelling

assaults and the entire eastern half of the country under rebel control. But the opposition forces have seemed unable to go on the offensive to march on pro-Gadhafi areas.

Meanwhile, in Tripoli — Gadhafi’s most important bastion — his loyalists have waged a campaign of terror to ensure that protesters do not rise up in significant numbers.

Friday’s assault on the rebel city of Zawiya, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) west of Tripoli, appeared to be the strongest yet by Gadhafi’s forces after repeated earlier forays against it were beaten back.

In the morning, troops from the elite Khamis Brigade — named after the Gadhafi son who commands it — bombarded the city’s western edges

with mortar shells, heavy machine guns, tanks and anti-aircraft weapons, several residents said. By the evening, another brigade had opened a front on the eastern side. Armed Zawiya citizens backed by allied army units were fighting back.

The commander of the rebel forces — Col. Hussein Darbouk — was killed by fire from an anti-aircraft gun, said Alaa al-Zawi, an activist in the city. Darbouk was a colonel in Gadhafi’s army who defected along with other troops in Zawiya early in the uprising.

A witness in Zawiya’s hospital said at least 18 people were killed and 120 wounded. Libyan state TV reported the attackers had retaken the city.

But al-Zawi, the witness and other residents said it see next page

WASHINGTON (AP) — Companies added more workers in February than in any month in almost a year — a turning point for the economy that finally pushed the unemployment rate below 9 percent. Economists say the stronger hiring should endure all year.

The 222,000 jobs the private sector created more than offset layoffs by financially squeezed state and local governments. They slashed 30,000 jobs, the most since November. The unemployment rate sank to 8.9 percent, the lowest since April 2009. The rate has now fallen almost a full percentage point in just three months — the sharpest drop in a generation.

Hiring last month was broad — factories, trucking companies, health care providers, construction firms, hotels and restaurants all added jobs.

“Bottom line: The labor market is turning the corner,” said Michael Darda, chief economist at MKM Partners, an economic research firm.

The figures suggest the economy has entered a healthier phase typical of what economists call a virtuous cycle: Americans are spending more, which raises corporate profits, which leads to hiring and then more spending and growth.

At UPS, for example, revenue and profits have both risen because of the growing economy. The company has nearly 250 job openings for salaried positions, up from 100 this time last year, and is hiring hourly workers at 150 locations.

Normally, the company just rehires its temporary employees from the holidays if it needs them. But

this year, “we’ve already hired a lot of those folks back, and we still have more needs,” said Matt Lavery, UPS’ head of recruiting.

During the recession, the cycle was more vicious than virtuous: Waves of layoffs suppressed consumer spending, which lowered corporate profits and triggered more job cuts.

On Wall Street, another spike in oil prices rattled investors and overshadowed the good news on hiring. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 88 points, one day after posting its biggest gain of 2011.

Other forces are still working against the economic recovery. State and local governments are expected to keep shedding jobs. And inflation and higher gas prices resulting from the Middle East unrest pose threats.

Burst of hiring in February sends U.S. unemployment rate below 9%

Harvard president welcomes ROTC back to campus after a 4-decade-long ban

BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University officially welcomed the ROTC back Friday as other elite campuses considered whether to lift their decades-old bans now that Congress has voted to allow gays to serve openly in the military.

Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus signed an agreement that establishes the Naval ROTC’s formal presence at the nation’s oldest college for the first time since the Vietnam War era. Other schools, including Columbia, Yale and Brown, are discussing whether to follow suit.

“Both the American military and higher education have been engines of inclusion and wellsprings of service,” Faust said during the ceremony. “The relationship we renew today marks progress in that common pursuit.”

The Reserve Officers’ Training Corps first left Harvard and other prominent universities amid anti-Vietnam War sentiment, and schools lately kept it off campus because of the military’s policy on gays, which they considered discriminatory. But Faust began working toward ROTC’s return after Congress repealed the so-called don’t ask, don’t tell

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The 17-year-old policy requires soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines to keep their homosexuality a secret or face dismissal.

The White House praised Harvard’s decision to reintroduce the ROTC. “With our nation at war, this sends a powerful message that Americans stand united and that our colleges, society and armed forces are stronger when we honor the contributions of all our citizens,” Press Secretary Jay Carney said in a statement.

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N.H. House Speaker unveils plan to keep education funding out of courts CONCORD (AP) — Republican House Speaker William O’Brien proposed a constitutional amendment Friday that he said would end “an ongoing cycle of hostility and funding chaos” by keeping education decisions out of the courts and giving the Legislature full discretion to decide how much, if anything, to pay for school.

O’Brien’s proposed amendment would nullify the state Supreme Court’s landmark 1997 decision requiring the state to provide an adequate education for all public schoolchildren. Instead, it would give the Legislature the authority to define educational standards, determine the amount of state funding for schools and mitigate disparities among communities.

“It is my ardent belief that today will mark the start of the end of this chaos and the beginning of an era of sustainability, consistency and a focus on helping real students in need,” he told a special House committee. “No more battles pitting communities against each other, and taxpayers in front of the judiciary.”

The current law requires a base amount of aid be distributed per pupil to provide an adequate education. More money is distributed based on other factors, such as poverty.

O’Brien said his proposed constitutional amendment goes hand in hand with a bill sponsored by Rep. David Hess, R-Hooksett, that would change the

school aid formula under which the state currently distributes $578 million from various state taxes and $363 million that communities raise through a statewide property tax.

Under Hess’ bill, property-rich communities would no longer be required to help poorer communities with their education costs, something many of the wealthier, so-called “donor” towns have complained about for years.

“This amendment will eliminate statewide property taxes and make sure donor towns are a memory never to return,” O’Brien said. “However, this is not an effort to merely do away with state aid. It frees us up to give aid where it is needed.”

Constitutional amendments need approval by 60 percent of the House and Senate to be placed on the ballot and approval by two-thirds of voters to take effect. O’Brien’s amendment is among more than four dozen that have been proposed since 1997; none

have passed the House.

Republicans now hold supermajorities in both chambers, but some have expressed doubt that any plan without a guarantee of per-pupil funding could pass. Democratic Gov. John Lynch supports changing the constitution so state aid can be targeted to needier communities but also wants to maintain the state’s responsibility for education.

“We’re going to look at this language and see if it conforms to those principles,” Lynch’s deputy chief of staff, Pam Walsh, said Friday.

Senate President Peter Bragdon said he supports the concept behind O’Brien’s amendment, and that he sees his role as playing peacemaker, trying to address the concerns of both House leadership and the governor.

“We’re closer than we’ve ever been,” he said.

A public hearing on O’Brien’s proposal is set for Wednesday.

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Police ID driver of truck with flying roof ice issue

BEDFORD (AP) — Police in New Hampshire say they now know who was driving a tractor-trailer whose roof ice flew off and crashed into another vehicle, smashing the windshield and seriously injuring its driver. His name wasn’t released.

New Hampshire State Police say the truck involved in Thursday’s mishap on Route 31 in Mason belonged to Hillside Plastics, in Turner Falls, Mass.

No charges have been filed.

Sixty-four-year-old Stanley Raczelowski, of Westford, Mass., suffered a broken nose and broken jaw.

Investigators found sheets of ice 3 feet long in his vehicle afterward.

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from preceding page remained in rebel hands, with skirmishes continuing after nightfall.

A doctor on the scene said pro-Gadhafi fighters would not allow medics to treat the injured, opened fire on ambulances trying to assist and hauled away the bodies of some of the dead in an apparent effort to keep death toll reports low. The gunmen killed a wounded rebel with three shots as a medic tried to pull him to safety, then even threatened to shoot the medic, the doctor said.

The doctor and witnesses spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.

The day’s other fighting took place at Ras Lanouf, a small oil port 380 miles (620 kilometers) east of Tripoli, just outside the long swath of eastern Libya controlled by the opposition.

Rebels attacked Ras Lanouf on Friday afternoon, feeling flush with victory after repelling Gadhafi forces who attacked them days earlier at Brega, a larger oil facility just to the east. Fighters armed with Kalashnikovs and heavy machine guns were seen streaming in pickup trucks and other vehicles from Brega heading in the direction of Ras Lanouf.

They battled about 3,000 pro-Gadhafi troops, mainly around the facility’s airstrip, said a resident of the town. She reported heavy explosions starting around 4 p.m. As night fell, the explosions eased, she said, but it was not clear who was in control of the complex, which includes a port and storage facilities for crude coming from fields in the deserts to the south.

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Pat Buchanan

Why Scott Walker must win The anti-democratic methods President Obama’s union allies are using in Wisconsin testify to the crucial character of the battle being fought. Teachers have walked off in wildcat strikes, taking pupils with them. Doctors have issued lying affidavits saying the teachers were sick, a good example of ethical conduct for the school kids. Thousands of demonstrators have daily invaded the Capitol, chanting, hooting, banging drums. Hundreds have camped out there and refused to leave so the Capitol building can be cleaned.

Is this democracy in action? Is this what 9-year-old Christina-Taylor Green went out to see that Saturday morning in Tucson?

Picketers have carried placards with the face of Gov. Scott Walker in the cross hairs of a gun sight. He has been compared to Hitler, Mussolini, Mubarak. Democrats have fled the state to deny the elected Wisconsin Senate a quorum to vote. Such tactics cannot be allowed to triumph in a republic.

Why is the left behaving with desperation? Because it senses what this battle is all about. Not just about pay, but about power.

The Republicans are not only resolved to guarantee government workers pay a fair share of the cost of their pensions and health care.

They are in a purposeful drive to disarm and demobilize the tax-subsidized armies of the Democratic Party and end sweetheart deals between unions and the poodle politicians they put into office.

“Walker wants to end collective bargaining,” is the wail.

Actually, what the governor wants to end is the scandalous practice of powerful unions raising millions and running phone banks and getout-the-vote operations for politicians who thank them with wages, benefits and job security no private employer can match. Since the 1960s, government unions have been able to sit behind closed doors with the politicians they put in office and write contracts, the cost of which is borne by taxpayers who have no one at the table.

They call this collective bargaining. A more accurate term is collusive bargaining. And Walker means put an end to the racket.

When Ford sits down with the UAW, Ford negotiators represent the executives, directors and shareholders. Should they give away the store and Ford have to raise prices, and be undercut by Honda, all Ford workers, shareholders and executives suffer.

This is a healthy adversary procedure where Ford and the UAW each represents the interests of those who sent them, and both share a stake in keeping Ford prosperous.

When government unions sit down with the politicians they put into office, the relationship is not adversarial. It is not healthy. It is

incestuous. And taxpayers must pay the cost of their cohabitation.

Gov. Walker also seeks to end the practice of having the state government collect union dues from state workers. Indeed, why should a Republican administration collect dues for the benefit of union bosses who constantly labor to see to it those Republicans are not reelected? Let the unions collect their own dues.

Walker would also require public service employee unions to hold annual elections by secret ballot to determine if state workers want the union to represent them, or if they would prefer to have their deducted union dues put back in their paychecks.

Legislators submit to voters every two years. Why ought not unions to do the same?

In Wisconsin, the die is cast and Walker cannot yield. For if he yields, the state and its 3,000 cities, counties, towns and school districts will be forever at the mercy of these unions.

If he yields, it will be a triumph for the tactics of intimidation, wildcat strikes and mass demonstrations to block legislative action. The senators who fled will come home heroes, and Walker will have broken the hearts of the people who put their faith in him.

If Walker yields, governors and legislators across America will read the tea leaves and back away from taking on government unions. That means higher and higher taxes, as in Illinois, and eventual sinking of the states into unpayable debt and default.

The correlation of forces is in Walker’s favor. Time is on his side.

When you are holding a winning hand, you do not offer to split the pot. After his opponents invaded the Capitol, called him Hitler, fled the state, and tried to shout down and shut down the legislature with raucous demonstrations, what other cards do they have left to play?

Walker has recalled Ronald Reagan’s firing of the air traffic controllers as an example of how a strong leader must stand up even to a popular union when it is wrong.

There is an earlier example. When the Boston police went on strike and criminals ran amuck, and Sam Gompers came to the defense of the cops, Gov. Calvin Coolidge sent a telegram to that founding father of the American labor movement, “There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.”

Scott Walker cannot lose this fight, because his country cannot afford to have him lose it.

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

LETTERS I certainly don’t know it all but I do know how to ask questions To the editor, To the voters, taxpayers, and residents of Center Harbor; I would like to quell any moves on the part of the gossips and rumor mongers who love to spin tales about people because to them it is their fun. Yes, I am a candidate for the office of selectman, and yes I am a 35 year bureaucrat. I know how things can get done and how they have been done. I have returned to my hometown because I like it and plan to be here the rest of my life but I am concerned that I will not be able to afford to live here. Town spending is planned but is it realistic? Come to Town Meeting Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m., as well as Vote on Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Center Harbor is a great town and tries to keep up with the rapid society around us. Center Harbor does need its Police Department. I am in full support of the officers of our department. Residents in small towns need to have a working relationship with their few law enforcement employees.

Yes, they need better accommodations and appropriately designed and they know what it should encompass. BUT, we the taxpayers need to express what we can afford and when we can afford it. Do we need to do it this year, or can we put some more effort into a process and design that works and we can afford?

Yes, I am not in favor of the current proposed building project as it stands.

I believe the town does not need to purchase private property when town property is available. We should table this project for a year as we have been receiving so many questions and ideas that could improve the project. Recent

labor studies around the downturn in the economy say that the labor and material costs are suspected to remain fairly flat over the next 18 months. So what is the rush? There has been no consideration about Green technology or design, which would help keep ongoing maintenance costs down over the next 50 years.

“Did you also know that New Hampshire has a renewable portfolio standard, which calls for N.H. to be run on 25-percent renewables by 2025? And the federal governments goal of being 80-percent reliant on renewables by 2040? With a bond that is scheduled to be paid off in 2042 and no renewable or energy efficient initiatives included in the proposal, what kind of example is our local government sending?” That’s a quote from Derek Kline.

If the majority of voters support an idea of either an addition to the current town building, (which is feasible — just find a different architect who knows how to do this), or build on town land in the village. There are lots of choices here for people and you all need to ask questions good and bad of all involved, including myself.

Because I don’t know it all, but I know how to ask questions.

This Saturday, March 5, friends are having a “Meet and Greet” at the Bernice Gilpatrick Hall from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Please come on in and talk, ask questions, have a coffee or a dish of ice cream. Everyone is welcome. The hall is at the back of the church next to the Post Office. I hope to meet a lot of people there.

David Hughes Center Harbor

Tuesday’s SB-2 will not apply to the Inter-Lakes School District To the editor, Richard Juve’s letter in the March 4 issue of The Laconia Daily Sun is misleading, since the SB-2 petition he originated called for the adoption of SB-2 by the Town of Meredith, not by the Inter-Lakes School District.

Regardless whether one believes (as does Mr. Juve) that adoption of SB-2 might prevent surprises at Inter-

Lakes School District meetings, the SB-2 warrant article on the Town of Meredith ballot, if adopted, would not apply to the School District.

The issue that will be on the Town of Meredith ballot will be whether the town, not the school district, will adopt SB-2.

Lou Kahn Meredith

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LETTERS Alton School Board fully supports Article 3, the amended budget

The proposed police station cannot be described as ‘massive’

To the editor, I write this letter to the citizens of Alton regarding the upcoming School District election and warrant vote on March 8.

At the deliberative session on February 5, 2011, the Alton School Board and the Alton Budget Committee presented a budget that both groups supported, which included the operating budget for Alton Central School (ACS), Alton’s share of the cost for Prospect Mountain High School, and the debt service for Prospect Mountain High School. Both groups recommended $12,949,663 dollars.

During the budget review earlier this year, the Alton Budget Committee removed $30,000 dollars from the Buildings and Grounds budget that would be used for snow plowing and snow removal from the roof at ACS. Given the annual winter storms our region faces, snow removal is an important part of school and pupil safety. The Budget Committee chose to make this reduction because the school board would not put forward a warrant article on the ballot to cover current operating costs that will be paid in fiscal year 2010-11.

The school district attorney has determined this action to be unlawful. Past history has shown that other municipal budget committees have tried similar maneuvers against other school boards and the courts have reversed their actions. (See Salem School Board vs. the Budget Committee of the Town of Salem Rockingham County Superior Court, 01-E- 36 (2001)). A Budget Committee cannot make reductions to the governing body’s (i.e. the board’s) proposed budget because the governing body did not agree to a demand made by the Budget Committee to put certain items in a special warrant article. The Budget Committee’s removal of snow plowing/snow removal from the ACS roof poses a safety risk to next year’s

To the editor, Once again, in his letter of March 2, Mr. Markley tries to terrify the voters of Center Harbor with a collection of numbers that has little relationship to reality. Further, he seems to be implying that he has come up with these numbers despite sinister obstruction on the part of the selectmen and, I assume, other town employees.

He claims that when he “submitted a Freedom of Information request” (melodramatic – and totally unnecessary as all public information contained in the town office is readily available either in person or over the phone) “their answer was…” and he goes on to quote part of RSA Chapter 91-A:4 VII, which, in fact, supports the town’s position that while it will supply any amount of public information, it cannot, nor is it required to, “compile” or “assemble” the data to suit an individual need. I called the Town Office to ask if he had been denied help. He was not: virtually every bit of raw data he asked for was mailed to him within a week.

But to the numbers: Mr. Markley clings to his estimate of between $2,700,000 and $3,000,000 for the total project cost. But he bases this estimate on confusing assumptions. For example, in addition to the $996,000 construction cost, he cites: “$150,000 spent as of 12/28/10”. Yes, this money was spent on site planning, architectural design, construction drawings, etc. – originally for the Morill Park property but readily adapted to the McCahan land.

A $300,000 land cost. Where does this figure come from? The McCahan property is valued at $250,000: $110,000 for the existing structure and $139,000 for the land. Or Is Mr. Markley talking about lost tax revenues? In 2010, the property was taxed at $2,234.22, At

students and takes money from the 2011-12 budget for an item that will be paid during the 2010-11 fiscal year.

An amendment was offered by a citizen of Alton to restore the $30,000 dollars cut by the Alton Budget Committee for snow plowing and snow removal. The amendment passed by majority vote therefore changing the total proposed budget number to $12,979,663. As per RSA 40:13 (IV), each citizen has the ability to offer word changes or dollar amount changes to warrant articles presented at the deliberative session. The action taken by those present at the deliberative session is the will of the voters and is now the proposed school budget that will be voted upon on March 8.

Due to state law, the Alton School Board and the Alton Budget Committee cannot revise their recommendation on the budget article, as it is not considered a special article. A special article, as defined in NH RSA 32:3 VI, is: a) a petition article, b) a bond vote article, c) an appropriation for a separate fund such as a capital reserve fund or d) an article designated as a special article. The original recommendations will remain on the warrant article showing a $30,000 difference between the two numbers.

Be assured that the Alton School Board fully SUPPORTS the amended budget and urges the citizens to adopt Article III as presented on March 8 at the polls held at Prospect Mountain High School from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

To learn more about Article III and to get copies of the budget documents, visit www.alton.k12.nh.us or visit the SAU #72 office at 252 Suncook Valley Road to get a printed version of the budget documents.

Sincerely and thank you for your support.

Jeffrey St. Cyr Alton

According to state, Inter-Lakes per pupil cost in only 32nd highest To the editor, Data from the state do not support claims in recent letters to the editor that the Inter-Lakes School District is one of the most expensive in the state.

On the contrary, the school tax obligation to residents of the Inter-Lakes district is among the lowest in the state: 90-percent of N.H. towns have higher local school tax rates than Meredith, Center Harbor, and Sandwich. Of the 236 N.H. towns that collected local school taxes in 2010, the rate for Meredith ($4.95/$1,000 of assessed value) was 212th from the top followed by Sandwich ($3.88) at 221st, and Center Harbor ($3.68) at 225th. (http://www. nh.gov/revenue/munc_prop/2010Proper tyTaxRatesRelatedData.htm) The N.H. Department of Education tabulates the annual cost per pupil

for each school district in a consistent fashion. In its 2010 tabulation, the Inter-Lakes District ranks 32nd of 164 districts in its cost per pupil. (http://www.education.nh.gov/data/ financial.htm).

Residents should thank the teachers, staff and school board of the InterLakes District for providing a quality education for local children at modest cost. They can express their gratitude on March 8th by re-electing Richard Hanson to the at-large position on the board which he chaired this past year and led efforts to keep the budget as lean as possible. Inter-Lakes voters can then attend the March 12th school district meeting and vote to approve the proposed 2011-12 budget.

Margaret Merritt Center Sandwich

I’m not against the library but my name shouldn’t have been used To the editor, This request to correct the record may seem to indicate that I am against the Gilmanton Year-Round Library, which I am not.

On March 4, a letter requesting the support of readers for a warrant article in the Gilmanton Town Warrant

Round Library was published in this paper, and my name was listed among the signers of the letter.

Although I am the selectman’s representative to the Gilmanton YearRound Library Board of Directors, I was not a signer of that letter.

Betty Ann Abbott, Chairman

that rate, It would take the town about 130 years to realize his $300,000. And it’s unlikely the property will increase measurably in value. True, there’s a view of Winnipesaukee in the distance but the near outlook is of Rt. 25 and the backyards of three or four houses. It’s far more likely that the property would be sold to a young family with children and the going cost to the town for sending a child to Inter-Lakes is over $19,000 per year.

Unimaginable costs for such things as furnishings, legal fees, insurance, telephones, etc. But the PD already has much of the equipment it will need as well as insurance coverage, etc. The “crime lab” consists of a 93-squarefeet space with a sink and counters and has already been factored in to the building cost. Just under $80,000 (what’s left over after you subtract the building cost of $996,735 and the property purchase price of $199,000 from the total project cost of $1,275, 000) will go to make up for any equipment shortfalls.

Finally, Mr. Markley gives a figure of “about $925,000 in interest”. I take this to mean the interest that will be paid on a 30-year mortgage. But don’t most of us who have bought our homes with the aid of mortgages or financed our cars and trucks over time, consider the added cost a fair exchange?

In his bright orange mailer, Mr. Markley writes of “unprecedented growth in spending” and “millions of dollars of debt” for a “huge” and “massive complex”. The proposed building is nothing of the kind: it’s a polite 4,000-square-foot one-story residential-looking building. It will cost each of us about $0.15 in taxes per $1000.00 of our assessed property value per year.

Jo Ann Wood Center Harbor

I’ve always been impressed with how well ‘KP’ knows her job To the editor, I’d like to take a minute and urge Meredith voters to re-elect Kerri Parker as their town clerk when they go to the polls on Tuesday. While I am not a Meredith resident, I have known Mrs. Parker and her family personally for several years now and I can assure you, as hopefully you already know, that she is the right choice for the job.

Yes, the fact that she is the town clerk already is an obvious factor as to why she should be re-elected, but it goes beyond that. She is someone who truly cares about Meredith and its people. Her children attend the InterLakes school system and they are active students and participants in the local dance academy, scouts, and sports. Her husband is a Meredith firefighter when needed — and serves the community full-time in his capacity as a dispatcher at Lakes Region Mutual Aid, as well as helping with scouts and other town programs. The Parkers are community people.

As for her previous experience, let’s

consider what it means to the public to have an experienced town clerk. It means the right answers to your questions; it means fast service at town hall; and it means you saving time and money! We are very busy in our everyday lives. When we pop into into the town office with a question or concern, we don’t wait to wait for someone to find the answers or someone to take their time addressing your needs because of their own inexperience.

Now, I said I am not a Meredith resident, but I call Kerri and ask her my question before I call my own town clerk. What does that tell you? Also, when spending time with her family socially, our discussions often turn to talk about our respective jobs and it is impressive how well Kerri Parker knows hers. For these reasons Meredith voters need to remember only one name for town clerk on Tuesday — Kerri Parker. Or you call call her KP like I do — she’ll let you.

Joe Collie Belmont

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LETTERS CAP programs provided $795,714 in services to Gilford residents

There’s a lack of cohesiveness & direction on Shaker board

To the editor, As voters go to the polls to determine how tax dollars will be spent, Community Action Program, Belknap/Merrimack Counties, Inc. (CAP) is asking the voters of Gilford to support Article 18 in the town warrant and appropriate $8,762 to support the local area center office located in Laconia. Last year CAP programs provided Gilford residents with $795,714 of services returning $90.81 of service to Gilford residents for each dollar spent in support of the Laconia area center. This request is not for any social service program but solely for the operations of the area center. Staff salaries are the major budget expense.

The area center serves the residents of the City of Laconia and the five surrounding towns. We ask the city and each town we serve to share the expense of maintaining the office so that, when residents experience a hardship and find themselves unable to obtain basic needs such as food, shelter or fuel, the area center staff will be there to help them access resources for these basic life sustaining elements.

CAP works in partnership with local town and city welfare offices to assist residents in need using resources OTHER than local tax dollars. We are awarded contracts by the State of New Hampshire to administer programs to provide basic necessities to New Hampshire residents.

We are also entrusted with grants from many businesses and individuals to provide needed assistance to

To the editor, My name is Richy Bryant, and I am running for election to the Shaker Regional School Board. As a long time resident and public employee of the town of Belmont, I have had a front row seat to the politics of small town government. As a father of four boys, I have had the wonderful opportunity to experience all that Shaker has to offer. I have witnessed the growing pains of our school district and applaud the efforts of all who have worked tirelessly to create a vision for Shaker. I am grateful to those who have held true to the Shaker mission of educating our young people.

I was assigned to Belmont High School 10 years ago as one of the first School Resource Officers (SRO) in Belknap County, and I remain in that position today. I also currently serve as the town’s Juvenile Prosecutor.

This assignment puts me in a position to work closely with school administrators, teachers, staff, parents and children.

As a parent of four, I have been involved in a variety of activities. I volunteered as a coach with the BBO (kick-ball, tee-ball, little league), elementary school soccer and basketball, middle school basketball and soccer, indoor soccer teams, and I spent year after year chaperoning the many field trips in which my children participated. My children were involved with sports, band/chorus, drama and a slew of co-curricular activities. Additionally, I have served on the Old Home Day Committee and spent years performing maintenance on the Old Man of the Mountain with David Neilsen and his crew.

While performing my role as the SRO at Belmont High, I have coached/ assisted with baseball, softball, soccer and volleyball. I have worked with many dedicated coaches. I am a regular at most events, and I assist with drama and many of the school clubs.

I reintroduced the Outing Club and have taken students rafting, hiking, winter camping, kayaking & climbing. This is all of the fun stuff that I get to do. However, I also have the opportunity to see the uninspired, the kids who have given up, and the many hurting families in our community. I see poverty and empty homes. I see all facets of the educational structure at Shaker and how it impacts our community from the inside out. I believe that this range of experiences gives me the knowledge to help me make thoughtful, competent, and reasonable decisions if elected to the board.

Recently, I have watched our current school board struggle to find its identity. There is no question that the departure of our long-time superintendent has left a significant vacuum in leadership. I am disappointed by the continued perception of many that the current board is rudderless and not maintaining the established Shaker vision.

The recent budget hearings, cutting and restoring of programs and the public’s response is evidence that there is a lack of cohesiveness and direction. As an audience member, I hear the questions and then the responses. Many times, the questions

residents seeking help in their time of need. All of the private funds donated to our agency are used exclusively for assistance. No administrative costs are provided, therefore we ask for the city and towns to share, with other federal and state funds, in the support of the area center so that staff will always be available to assist families and individuals in need.

Last year the staff visited 44 home bound elderly residents to provide nutritious meals-on-wheels. They provided over 100 residents with almost 1,000 meals from the emergency food pantry. Over 300 Gilford households were provided with $340,854 in fuel assistance and over 200 Gilford households receive a discount on their electric bill because of the work of the area center staff. Over $46,000 was spent weatherizing 19 Gilford homes and $1133 was provided to residents facing a utility shutoff. Without the CAP area center these residents would have sought assistance from the town welfare office and local tax dollars for assistance which the town is required by law to provide. CAP provides other resources and not local tax dollars to help the town meet its legal commitment. As a Gilford resident I encourage town officials to seek out resources other than my tax dollars to provide assistance to local residents.

I hope the residents of Gilford find the work of the staff of Belknap/Merrimack Community Action Program worthy of support from their town.

Judy Scothorne Gilford Resident

Don’t make it sound like Sandwich is just being given money To the editor, Once again Richard Juve does the name calling and accusation thing in his letters, now accusing Sandwich voters of adding $800,000 to the school budget last year. I wonder if he was writing all these letters regarding the school budget when his children were at Inter-Lakes. The truth, as most informed people know, is that only a portion of that money benefited Sandwich directly, and it was not “added” but simply put back in to the budget after it was omitted shortly before with no input from voters. It’s not Sandwich’s fault that we have a large amount of voters who are not

only passionate about our votes, but we actually show up to vote at the budget hearings and Town Meetings!

SB-2 is designed so people like Richard Juve can write his “misinforming” letters regarding his views how people should vote. Then he hopes those same people stay misinformed by not going and finding out for themselves what is really going on. Don’t forget, Mr. Juve, that Sandwich does pay our share of taxes going to our district for our schools. Please try not to make it sound like Meredith is just “giving” away money to Sandwich.

Martin Carney Sandwich

I certainly don’t know it all but I do know how to ask questions To the editor, With reference to Gail Morrison Letter dated March 3, entitled “Public employees paid for their pensions”: It is true that public employees work hard for their pensions and I fully agree that double-dipping by hiring paid managerial employees who retire and return to work with twice the pay and no bennies takes away good jobs for others and only benefits the company by saving money.

But, I must also add that it is not right for union members who are allowed to use their sick time, vacation time and overtime to boost their

pensions and then retire and return to work part-time to make even more money. This is just not right!

The money for such a boost in pension is just not there and we the tax payers must pick up the costs in our taxes. This certainly contributes to why states are going broke. If unions would address these problems internally instead of forcing politicians to do it, I think we all would be better off and more jobs would be available to the unemployed.

Al Beliveau Belmont

do not get answered. The perception is that the board is not intimately familiar with the very budget they’ve produced, or worse, that they are hiding something.

I am in favor of expanding the Finance Committee to include community members so that these suspicions can be put to rest. Currently, as I understand it, the board performs oversight responsibilities on themselves. The “unanticipated” fund balances have, to many, become “anticipated” (unanticipated) fund balances. I believe that this year’s budget is only a taste of what is to come next year. There will likely be more expense with less revenue.

The reality will be that hard choices will really have to be made. Capital improvements, books and materials, personnel and even sports will again be on the table. We can’t wait for the legislative branch and federal government to change their course; instead, we must create solutions that will best serve our community.

Failure of the board to successfully negotiate a teacher’s contract hurts the district’s ability to attract and retain quality teachers. As we fill vacancies this summer, we will be hard pressed to attract the best teachers available to sign on in a district without a contract. We run the risk of filling our applicant pool with candidates who are inexperienced or have been non-renewed in neighbor districts. Our middle school and high school tests scores have dropped.

Administrators have become increasingly frustrated over what is perceived to be a lack of confidence in their abilities to lead and manage their respective buildings and personnel without interference from above. If elected, I will encourage the board to spend less time interfering with administrators’ ability to lead their buildings, and less time discussing what kind of pizza the cafeteria serves, playing time, coaches and other personal agenda items that have recently become the focus of too many board meetings. I will insist that we perform the functions we were elected to do as a board, not as individuals with personal interests.

If elected, I will seek solutions through the wealth of knowledge that our experienced principals and staff have. I will reach out to the experts in our communities and invite them to the conversation. Within the Shaker employees, there are (11) certified principals and (2) certified superintendents in addition to our current superintendent. We have educators who have pursued graduate degrees in math, literacy, science, history, and technology. This pool of knowledge found amongst our educators and our community members needs to be included in the upcoming conversations so that sound solutions that everyone can live with can be found and implemented.

It is of utmost importance that we refocus on the district’s educational needs while developing a realistic budget. The recent attempt to make cuts only made headlines. It was a forgone conclusion that threatening to cut staff and sports programs would see next page

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LETTERS I have to urge all New Hampton voters to say no to Article 2

If you’re a hard-working taxpayer you should want SB-2 to pass

To the editor, Several weeks ago I attended an information meeting in New Hampton about the proposed new Public Safety Building being put on the ballot for the town election this Tuesday, March 8. The meeting was packed with many firefighter and police families and friends as well as the department personnel. From the people that showed up for the meeting, I was fairly certain that if a vote were taken then and there, this article would have passed by a landslide.

Now, I am not going to try and say that there is no need for an upgraded fire department and police facility as that is not the case. My problem stems from the fact that they want to pay for this facility mostly on credit.

In this economy I believe it would be a big mistake to go ahead with these plans. I for one am struggling to pay my taxes and other obligations as it is. I am sure there are many others in the same situation.

One thing that was mentioned at that meeting that amused me was the man who spoke about the hundred or

To the editor, We read and hear so much conflicting information about what having an SB-2 type of government would mean, by people trying to tell us how to vote on it, according to what is best for them.

Having read up on it as much as I could, it is clear to me that it is the way to go for some people, and a bad thing for others.

Nobody can tell you whether you should or should not vote for it without knowing who you are... because whether it is right for you depends completely on who you are, and whether it is right for them depends completely on who they are. My purpose here is to help each of you decide for yourself whether SB-2 is the right choice for you, regardless of how someone else feels about it. This can therefore serve as a sort of guide for you on Election Day, no matter which town you live in. Feel free to print this out and carry it with you to the booths on March 8…in case all the garbage you read between now and then gets you confused again.

If you are a town manager or selectperson, then SB-2 is surely be a bad thing for you, as it would strip you of much of your power and discretion. This is why we so often see town officials trying to talk down SB-2 initiatives. You know that your constituents are not smart enough to know how their money should be spent and that you can do a much better job deciding for them. You should vote “NO” to SB-2.

If you are a town department head, SB-2 could be a nightmare, because the people whose tax money you need are going to have much more control of how much they give you to spend, so you will need to watch and justify your spending much more carefully.

No more wasting money and then just asking for more next year. No more using up your budget on make-work to make sure you get more the next year. You should vote “NO” to SB-2.

If you are a town employee, then you surely do not want SB-2, because it would make it harder for you to get big raises, more holidays, more sick pay carry-overs, or bigger pensions.

This is why we saw the Meredith town employees pack the back of the room with their families and friends at last year’s Town Meeting and sit patiently until after their COLAs were voted down and all the taxpayers went happily home, only to bring the question back up for reconsideration at 10:30 p.m. and vote themselves the very cost-of-living raises that the taxpayers thought they had refused.

That can’t happen under SB-2. So you should vote “NO” to SB-2.

If you are on some sort of entitlement, like welfare, Section 8, AFDC, or SSID, then it probably doesn’t matter to you either way, but you might want

so individuals who always voted no on anything that would raise taxes. His solution to that perceived problem was to offer to buy all such people a one way ticket to Somalia to go live there.

While this might seem humorous on a certain level, it certainly was a rude way to deal with what he obviously thought was a problem. I have since thought of a more productive solution.

If we could convince this man and those who agreed with his solution to use that money from all those one way tickets to Somalia to pay for the Public Safety Building, the problem would indeed be solved, except for the fact that we would still have this man and his attitude among us. I suppose we could deal with that later.

For right now, I urge all New Hampton voters to vote no on Article 2. The voters spoke loudly in the last major election. Let’s not forget that this government whether local, state or federal needs to stop spending money that the taxpayers can’t afford.

Bob Ely New Hampton

I only meant that wealthier communities have higher test scores To the editor, I feel that I must respond to a Letter to the Editor written by Pam Bliss implying that my admittedly inarticulate statement about successful parents producing successful students made last week at the candidates forum in Meredith.

Ms. Bliss suggests that I am profiling low-income people as unsuccessful. She fails to mention the context of the remarks which were in reference to our NECAP and SAT scores being slightly below average. Mark Billings had compared our school district to some of the wealthiest districts in California and Massachusetts. I was attempting to clarify that our district is not a wealthy one as evidenced by the fact that almost one-third of our students are eligible for free or reduced lunch. My remarks were

meant to highlight the well known fact that wealthy communities are far more likely to have higher NECAP and SAT scores than communities having a significant economically struggling population.

I have spent my entire life devoted to working with young people of all economic backgrounds and feel far more in touch with and sensitive to the needs of those in our community who might be struggling in these difficult economic times than Mark Billings whose professional life experiences have focused on the financial world. Further, I would add that now more than ever our community needs the financial support from those of us who are more fortunate in providing the best possible education to all our students.

Richard Hanson Center Harbor

Richard Hanson would be the person for the board of education To the editor, How meaningful for Meredith that there are two qualified people seeking a seat on the Board of Education.

Over the past weeks there have been opportunities to read about and listen to the candidates. I have done so, since I must admit, I really did not know anything about either person running.

Each one would bring a high level

of expertise to the position but after absorbing all the information, I feel that Richard Hanson would be the best person for the Board of Education at this time and recommend him to those who may be undecided, as the best candidate.

Elizabeth Lapham Meredith

from preceding page

The answers will be found by fully utilizing the expertise of our community members.

I would appreciate your vote at the school district meeting on March 18th at 6 p.m. in the Belmont High School gymnasium. Absentee Ballots can be obtained from Stacy Kruger at Belmont Middle School, (603) 267-9220 or skruger@shaker.k12.nh.us.

Richard Bryant Belmont

create an unnecessary fervor with the district’s parents of school-age children and yet it was still attempted.

The process only created divisions among community members, and frustrated administrators and staff.

Indeed, Shaker has taken a step backwards. Let’s reverse the current course and move forward. The answers to these issues will not be found within the four walls of the board’s chamber.

to stand with those who write you the checks every month. You have nothing to lose by all the waste and bloat, and those damn taxpayers have more money than they deserve anyway. So you might as well vote “NO” to SB-2.

If you are a non-taxpayer, then it probably makes no difference to you either, so go ahead and vote “No”.

Unless you are a tenant and your landlord’s taxes go up and he has to raise your rent…then you’ll probably wish you had voted “Yes”. Do you feel lucky? Flip a coin.

If you are too lazy or stupid to want any part in how our taxes are wasted, or if you have so much money that you really don’t care how much is taken and for what, you probably were not going to bother to vote anyway, so what the heck?

But if you are a taxpayer who worked hard for the money you have and don’t feel you have too much of it, and think yourself reasonably intelligent, then you are part of the only group that should want SB-2 to pass. You likely want to maintain some degree of say over how much of your money the town takes from you every year and how much of that they waste. You probably want to know about and control how your money is spent without having to sit through every last selectman’s meeting and Town Meeting until the adjournment mallet is slammed. You probably want to live almost as well as the the civil servants you employ. You probably want to be able to record your vote against some new perk for the police by private ballot, rather than having to announce your vote in front of all those policemen. You probably want to vote against another $15K per teacher raise without having to say so in front of your neighbor the teacher. You probably want your opinion to count, even if you will be in Florida in March. You probably want the same voting rights, power, and privacy in March that you have in November. So you, and only you, should vote “YES” to SB-2.

After all of my research, which I have done so you don’t have to, I can tell you that ONLY if you are this type of concerned taxpayer, is SB-2 the right type of government for you. This is why there are so many people from all the other groups saying so many bad things about it.

When you do read the next article telling you how to feel and vote on this issue, the first question you should be asking yourself is; “Which of these groups is this author from?”. Once you understand that, you’ll recognize why he is opposed to or in favor of SB-2, and whether his opinion applies to you.

Ed Chase Meredith

Appointed 8 months ago, I’m now running for N.H. selectwoman To the editor, Thank you to the citizens of New Hampton for your support of me as appointed interim selectwoman. My name is on the ballot and I hope you will vote for me on March 8.

I was appointed eight months ago and have been learning about the position. There is a lot to learn! My education and business background

have been very helpful. My passion for the job is to see that we as citizens are treated fairly by our state and federal government, as directed by our N.H. State Constitution and our U.S. Constitution.

I ask for your support on March 8.

Dr. Valerie A. Fraser New Hampton

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LETTERS We’re electing someone to represent the needs of our children

Its a positive when teachers respect a school board member

To the editor, I find the school board race for the member at large seat in Inter-Lakes District to be disturbing. The focus has not been on the education we are providing our children but on budget cuts and tax rates. We need to return to the proper issue. We are electing a member to serve on our school board. We are electing a member to represent the needs and goals of educating our children.

Incumbent Richard Hanson has served on the board for 12 years.

He does an amazing job of hearing all sides of an issue. He listens with respect to every individual who addresses the board regardless of his position. Richard is currently the chair of the board and has never used his position to further his own agenda.

Richard has brought integrity and respect to the position of chair. He has worked hard to build strong bridges with teachers, administrators and staff, not burn them. He has facilitated communication between these groups and the school board that is positive, productive and professional. The proposed 2011 – 2012 budget is balanced and conservative. It allows our Inter-Lakes educators to continue their mission to provide the best possible education for our children. Richard Hanson was a huge part of creating that budget.

Richard’s opponent, Mark Billings, has a background in financial services. It is from this prospective that he approaches educating our children — in terms of dollars and cents.

He couches his spending cut policies behind the idea of a better education, but what he is truly interested in is lowering the property taxes on his multi-million dollar home and the homes of other mansion and vacation

To the editor, I am writing in support of Richard Hanson’s re-election to the Inter-Lakes School Board. I am not a personal or professional associate or friend of either Richard or his opponent Mark Billings. My position is based entirely on the backgrounds, positions and related accomplishments that I have read and heard from the two candidates. I also learned a good deal by talking with community members and attending the Candidates Forum held at the Meredith Community Center on Feb. 28.

While we have met many challenges in the past several years, we can expect that the challenges in the coming years will be equally as difficult. From all I have learned, I feel that Mr. Hanson has the educational background (BA in Philosophy/Sociology, MA in Counseling/Psychology and a Juris Doctor), the experience, as well as the demonstrated skills and accomplishments that give me confidence that he is the best prepared and most capable to meet the demands and challenges that our School Board and school system will face.

I do not like letters that are sent in response to other letters but I am compelled to comment on one that was published this week. In his letter Fred Hayek stated, “So let me get this straight: At the same time Mr. Hanson was negotiating with our teachers to keep costs down he was also a teacher himself, trying to get the maximum pay and benefits for him and his fellow teachers? Is it any wonder that our teachers love him and think he is such a great listener?” Whether intended or not, this

home owners. He claims that he has ideas on how to improve our schools but when pressed for details he speaks in general terms and not specifics. He has not visited our schools when the kids are there to see them learning. Mr. Billings does not have the experience to differentiate between running a private company and running a public school district. He is fond of saying that he wants to divide the budget pie in new ways that are more productive, yet he can offer not one specific example of this. I challenge that if he were completely honest he would admit his interest is in making the pie significantly smaller. Regarding their education, Mark Billings does not have our children’s best interest at heart.

Mr. Billings continues to say that our schools should be leaders in the state in providing the best education.

Is he not aware that in 2007 InterLakes Elementary School Principal Dr. Steve Kelley won Principal of the Year for the state of New Hampshire? Or that in 2009 Inter-Lakes Elementary School won the School of Excellence award for the state? Our teachers, para-educators, staff and administrators are dedicated to providing our children the best education in the state. If we are to continue to improve our schools we need to support them financially.

Residents of the Inter-Lakes District can show that we care more about educating our children than lining the pockets of the already wealthy by turning out to re-elect Richard Hanson to the school board on March 8 and to approve the proposed budget at the district meeting on March 12.

Mary Williams, Parent Meredith

Richard Hanson best represents the interests of our students To the editor, As a Meredith resident and, more importantly, PARENT, I found James Edgar’s recent letter insulting to the Inter-Lakes teachers. Mr. Edgar is clearly stating that, in his opinion, the teachers are not doing a good job educating students because of standardized test scores. I strongly disagree, and I certainly hope that many other parents in this town feel the same way. My children’s teachers work very hard to educate the students. I have witnessed them using various strategies to teach math and reading skills, and also keep the “fun” in learning, which is not easy to do these days with all of the federal testing mandates. Every time I walk into the building, I see an atmosphere that is welcoming, positive, and happy.

Of course students are getting a great education in Inter-Lakes School District and are fully prepared for the future, although Mr. Edgar would have you believe the opposite. Children begin receiving technology instruction as young as kindergarten, and are exposed to other forms of technology even younger. My first grader already knows several different reading strategies, feels confident in math, and is proud to be working on her first research paper. Most important, she loves going to school and feels safe and happy in her classroom. None of this can be accomplished unless a teacher genu-

enthusiasm, and can effectively share their knowledge in a fun, enticing manner.

Inter-Lakes teachers deserve every step raise that they have received, and more.

They work long hours (I don’t know many teachers who leave the building at 3), are available after hours to discuss concerns (I have had many conversations around 6 with my child’s teacher, who gladly gives parents her home number), and care about the education of the children that they are entrusted with. I feel very confident that my children are getting a wonderful education in Inter-Lakes School District.

Mr. Edgar goes on in is letter to urge all residents to vote for one particular candidate. Well, Mr. Edgar, this resident is proudly voting for Richard Hanson, as I believe he represents the best interests of our students and fully understands that “my child is more than a test score.”

Mr. Edgar closes his letter with a clever definition of “insanity.” I will close my letter with a rebuttal to that definition: “You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.” ~(Clay P. Bedford) Standardized tests and test scores will NEVER accomplish that, Mr. Edgar. It is a job that only a good teacher can do.

Melanie Hodge

statement infers that Mr. Hanson was a teacher in the same school system where he served on the School Board.

A review of his resume shows that is not the case. From 1979 to 2008 Mr. Hanson was the Plymouth High School Guidance Director/Counselor; he retired in 2008. I spoke with him to confirm these facts and also learned that for the last 15 years he did not participate at all as a negotiator for the Plymouth teachers’ contract. So the implied conflict of interest in Mr. Hayek’s letter never existed.

I don’t know that the teachers “love” Mr. Hanson, but I have heard only positive things from teachers, other professionals and parents who have worked with him or observed him working. He certainly has the respect of those with whom he has worked and interacted. I consider it a positive thing that our teachers respect members of our School Board; that contributes to an environment that fosters meaningful collaboration especially when conflict exists. This benefits all parties. Listening is a skill that would benefit all of our elected officials, and all of us for that matter, but is a skill that often is not demonstrated by many. Many elected officials can’t stop talking long enough to listen, or more importantly to hear. So for Mr. Hanson to be considered a “great listener” is high praise.

Proven accomplishment and demonstrated skills are required to successfully fill the open At-Large position on our I-L School Board, for that reason I support Richard Hanson.

Denise Doyle Meredith

Ron Cormier has served our community well as a selectmen To the editor, The Tuesday, March 8 Belmont election for a selectman is an important one – with clear choice.

Ron Cormier has served our community well as a former Budget Committee member in 2004, Selectman since 2005 and the past five years as chairman. He has further represented town interests in Concord, and opened positive conversations on issues with our state and county legislators, among others.

He simply believes in Belmont: its citizens and future. Cormier was the first elected local leader to enlist others with village revitalization opportunities, encouraging collaboration and a town center vision. He also listened to concerns about Sargent Park and helped adapt that Main Street space with activities and equipment for younger children.

A successful grant application for updating Mill and Sargent Park lighting with energy conservation features was completed with his support, as well as an ambitious Land Water and Conservation Fund proposal for a pavilion, river walk and other amenities on the Tioga River banks. Both are federally-funded opportunities.

This selectman participates fully in

our town, whether perched on the Old Home Day dunking booth for a Belmont High School fundraiser, lighting the lights to Deck the Village at Christmastime, or participating with the Belknap County Economic Development Council.

Ron was raised in Belmont and educated in our local public schools before earning his undergraduate and graduate management degrees. And he chose to return and fully contribute to our town. At last week’s “Candidates Night”, in seeking re-election, he said “I will continue to be involved in our community, regardless of the election outcome.” His agenda is visible and consistent, and serves town interests first and foremost.

Please vote with us for Ron Cormier as Belmont Selectman on Tuesday, March 8 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Belmont High School. For absentee, new voter registration and other information contact Town Hall at 267-8300.

Woody & Christine Fogg Linda Frawley Glenda J. Hill Alyce Jewell Bob & Ginger Wells-Kay Wallace P. Rhodes All residents of Belmont

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LETTERS Mark Billings always brings a unusual mix of skills to the table

Please vote for the Belmont Pavilion and River Walk project

To the editor, We’re pleased to recommend Mark Billings to voters in the upcoming election for the At-Large seat on the Inter-Lakes School Board.

We’ve both worked closely with Mark for years in service to Meredith and the Lakes Region; Jacquie as a fellow member of the Meredith Conservation Commission, and Ken as a fellow member of the Meredith Energy Committee. And in both cases, we’re very glad Mark has been involved.

Mark was instrumental, for example, in the recent acquisition of the vital Page Pond property, and he played a key role in the success of the Meredith Regional Energy Fair in January.

Mark always brings an unusual combination of intelligence, commitment, personal energy, and a “can-do” attitude to the task at hand. He is a straight-shooter, and having made a career in discerning sound investments, he understands the economic realities of the world our children will enter. His experience has prepared him well for the School Board, because he readily grasps the situation at hand, appreciates both its quality and its financial implications, and works creatively to maximize overall benefits to our kids and community.

As demonstrated by his multiple community involvements, Mark is a

To the editor, I am writing this letter specifically to Belmont voters. I am asking you to please vote “YES” on Article # 19 (on the March 8 ballot) regarding the proposed “Belmont Pavilion and River Walk.”

There might be some confusion due to the required wording of the article.

“Shall the Town vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $178,359…” would lead the reader to believe that passage of this article would raise property taxes. This is not true. If you take the time to read the full text, you will see that $90,000 will come from a requested grant (that has already been applied for), and the remaining $88,359 “funded by in-kind donations of labor and materials.” If the grant request is denied, the proposed project will NOT start.

Like so many American towns and cities, Belmont center has not experienced the economic growth that the outlying areas along Routes 3 and 106 have. It is basically a place that people drive past and through. The goal of the proposed pavilion is provide a venue for various activities (car shows, farmer’s markets, flea markets, and youth activities to name a few) and to encourage people to stop and visit the village. The river walk will provide Belmont citizens with an easy walking trail along the old railroad bed and beside the Tioga River.

positive and pro-active advocate, and we appreciate his willingness to take on new responsibilities as a member of the Inter-Lakes School Board. His common sense and creative dedication to solving problems is just what we need in these difficult times, when tough decisions need to be made, yet we can’t disadvantage our kids’ future. We are confident that Mark will reach decisions thoughtfully and thoroughly, with the overall best interests of students, teachers, communities – and pocketbooks – in mind.

We no longer have children at home, but we certainly do have a stake in the quality of our community going forward. Many features – both natural and institutional – make our area a wonderful place to live, and one of those is high quality, cost-effective education. Another one is citizen involvement, so we are grateful when a talented, conservative, and yet concerned colleague like Mark Billings wants to share his skills and expertise to help ensure that a solid educational foundation remains a cornerstone of our communities.

We’re pleased to support Mark Billings for the At-Large seat on the Inter-Lakes School Board. We hope you will too.

Ken & Jacquie Colburn Meredith

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Again, these projects are being fueled and funded by a requested grant, donations of time, materials, expertise and the plain sweat equity provided by citizen volunteers who share in this vision. How much and how fast this project is accomplished will be directly proportional to how many people participate, donate and care about the village.

The creation of “Penstock Park” (a historic overlook of the last remaining water pipe used to run the Belmont Mill) is an example of what can be accomplished. This summer, brush was cleared by volunteers; a landscaping plan has been donated by a resident master landscaper, as well as a park bench by the Belmont Rotary Club and fencing from Lowe’s. This project has cost the taxpayer nothing, and will provide an attractive and functional space for Belmont citizens.

I hope that this letter will resolve any possible questions and confusion.

All of us that are involved with these projects are painfully aware of the economic hardships being suffered by many people in Belmont. I assure you that any project currently underway or that is undertaken in the future will be carefully scrutinized to insure the Belmont taxpayer will NOT be effected adversely.

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Electricity from the sun powers up Frase’s business SANDWICH — When the housing bubble burst several years ago, Kim Frase of Frase Electric was well-positioned to move his business in a new direction, taking aim at the growing market in producing electrical energy from the sun.

Over the last two years photovoltaic system installations have played an increasingly important role in his business, accounting for one-third of his business in 2009 and half of it last year.

During that time he’s installed 57 systems, 30 in Sandwich alone, which may have one of the highest concentrations of solar electric systems of any community in the state, as well as seven in Tamworth, four in Moultonborough and 16 in other communities around the state. Those installations now represent 236 kilowatts of power which produce about 250,000 KWH of electricity.

He’s always been interested in photovoltaics, but says that the high cost and long payback time for systems that until recently were priced in the $30,000-$35,000 range was just too long to make it economically feasible for most homeowners.

“At nine to 10 dollars per watt (4-5 years ago), it was out of the price range for most people, even those who wanted to do the right thing in terms of the environment by cutting down on fossil fuel use and reducing their environmental footprint,’’ says Frase.

He says that in recent years that has changed, with the price of PV systems dropping to the low $5 per watt range installed, lowering the overall cost for most homes to the $20,000-$25,000.

Frase says that the availability of a 30-percent federal tax credit, along with state rebates of up to $4,500, have helped provide the incentive for many homeowners to install systems to generate their own electricity.

“They can install a $25,000 system and have half of it paid for through the tax credits and the grant.

If their electric bill drops from $150 to $60 a month, they’re saving about $1100 a year and paying off their investment in 11 years or less. And after that the electricity is virtually free,’’ he says. He says that people pre-buy heating fuel all the time and that this is basically the same except they are buying for 30 or 40 years. Solar panels have a 25 year warranty with a life expectancy of 30-40 years.

Frase says that the state rebate program, which is funded by an assessment on utilities based on renewable energy goals, was opened up last year to businesses as well as homeowners and that the amount of funds available for homeowners was exhausted last fall. It should be re-funded in July 2011.

“I’ve got several jobs lined up where people are waiting to see about the rebate. It’s an important program which has helped over 500 homeowners install systems across the state and it should be kept going. The idea behind the rebates is with increased volume that they’ll reduce costs and help drive the

Kim Frase of Frase Electric with the 2.7 kilowatt photovoltaic system that he installed at Beam Construction in Sandwich which generates virtually all of the electrical power for the company’s workshop and office. (Courtesy photo)

price of solar installations down and at some point they will be phased out because photovoltaics will be on a level playing field with other energy sources,’’ says Frase Unlike the earlier off-grid systems, grid tied systems are linked to the power grid and send the electric meters in reverse as excess power is shipped to the grid.

“People who install a system are getting a six to nine percent return on their investment. So there’s a good economic reason as well as a social reason for going to photovoltaics.’’ he says.

Frase started his own business, Frase Electric, in 1990, after having worked for other electrical firms in the Meredith area for a dozen years.

“I wasn’t sure if I wanted to run my own business, but the company I was working for at that time went out of business . It was a tough time and the economy was pretty bad, but I started getting jobs and people liked my work and told other people about it. I’ve learned that there’s nothing better for a business than a satisfied customer. If people like what you do and you work with them to get the results they want, you’ve built a relationship based on trust and that’s invaluable, an asset that’s really priceless,’’ says Frase.

Over the last 20 years he’s grown his business to a point where he has five full-time employees in the field.

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Hobby says February was a little colder & snowier than normal LACONIA — February’s weather was cold and snowy, even for a month known for being such, according to local consulting meteorologist Russ Hobby.

The city saw temperatures as low as five degrees below zero but also saw two days well into the 50s.

The average temperature for the month was 22.3 degrees, slightly lower than average.

Snowfall, however, was significantly higher than normal for February. With 32.6 inches of snow, this year’s February was nearly double the average.

About a third of that total fell on February 25.

At the close of the month, the winter’s snowfall

has added up to 91.9 inches, about 10 inches higher than the total for an average winter and an amount that is within reach of the 139-inch record set three years ago.

“Winter ain’t over yet,” Hobby declared, noting that it’s well within the realm of possibility for this winter to exceed the standing record. His records show that March has seen as much as 60 inches of snow in Laconia, and that serious snow can fall in April, too. “We can have terrible storms this month and next,” he said.

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Sgt. James Leach said police were able to identify everyone at the party and there was no one there older than 21. The youngest person was 17.

The 17-year-old was released to a parent and two 18-year-old were allowed to remain in the home because they had not been drinking.

Charged with unlawful possession of alcohol were Morgan Davis, 18, of 86 Heights Road, Chantel-Renee Gagne, 18, of 50 Silkwood Ave. in Belmont, Christopher Fontone, 20, of 250 Dutile Road in Belmont and Mark Brown, 19, of 17 Grey Rocks Road in Belmont.

He said all of the alcohol was taken as evidence.

All are scheduled to appear in Laconia District Court on April 7.

Leach said the investigation continues and more charges could be forthcoming.

ARCHES from page one dents to assist themselves in an emergency.

In December of 2009, one drill was canceled when one resident fell down the stairs during the evacuation. He said 10 people remained on the second floor and two were still in bed.

His recommendation, which was endorsed by the

N.H. Department of Health and Human Services (BHHS), was to relocate seven of the second floor patients to more suitable facilities.

On Dec. 17, 2009 the fire department revoked the Arches ability to use the second floor and its occupancy level was reduced to 16.

According to John Martin of the DHHS, in the ensuing year, the Salchlis were able to reduce the acuity level of many of its residents and has been able to expand its capacity to 23 residents.

He said the Arches can use its second floor but must make sure the residents who live there are physically and mentally able to assist themselves in the event of an emergency.

Martin said yesterday, his department has conducted a weekly inspection of the Arches since the problems in late 2009 and has found no violations.

He also said because of the bankruptcy and reorganization, a patient ombudsman — or person designed solely to represent the residents — has been hired.

“The quality of care is excellent,” he said. “The see next page

from preceding page style solar hot water system installations.

The committee has won the support of selectmen for installing a 11 kilowatt photovoltaic system on the roof of the town’s central fire station which will provide about 90-percent of the building’s electrical needs.

Selectmen plan to bring the project before voters at this year’s town meeting and seek approval for the cost of the materials alone. All of the electrical and building work will be completed by volunteers according to Frase.

“We’re hoping that with grants and rebates the project will have zero impact on the taxpayers’’ says Frase.

He said the system, which would normally cost $55,000 +/- to install, will cost $41,500 and that the project has already qualified for an $8,075 rebate.

Frase projects that the system will save the town about $2100 a year on its electric bill and will generate an additional $300 in income from electricity which will go on to the New Hampshire Electric Coop’s renewable energy portfolio.

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THE LODGE from page one while Torguson, who acquired the former Lakes Region Greyhound Park from the Hart family for $4.1-million in 2005, an $800,000 mortgage on the property.

Meanwhile, committees in the House and Senate have endorsed nearly identical bills that would repeal the tax on gambling winnings introduced in 2009 as a budget gap-filler. The House Ways and Means Committee recommended House Bill 229 “ought to pass” by a vote of 19 to 0 while in the Senate both the Ways and Means and Finance committees unanimously endorsed Senate Bill 130. The Senate will vote on SB-130 next week and the House will take up HB-229 a week later. Both bills would become effective virtually at once.

Newman said that action at The Lodge slowed with the sour economy then stalled with the advent of the 10-percent state gambling tax, which he called “the last straw.” From 2009 to 2010, the Lodge’s handle fell from $30.4-million to $14.8-million as betting on simulcast thoroughbred racing plummeted from $17-million to $4.4-million. At the same time, the from preceding page issue is the acuity” Acuity is the term used to describe how infirm a particular resident is. The higher the acuity or level of infirmity the greater the federal and state reimbursements for their care.

Martin said by reducing the acuity of the residents actually cost the facility Mediare and Medicaid reimbursements that led to many of its financial woes.

Martin said under Chapter 11 protection, the Arches can continue operating. He said the hope is they can increase the number of residents to 25, which represents the break even point.

Lodge’s revenues from $6.4-million to $3.1-million.

Although the tax has taken a toll on the other gambling venues — Rockingham Park in Salem and Seabrook Greyhound Park — it has weighed most heavily on The Lodge, which has traditionally courted heavy bettors — “whales” — with rebating and account wagering by telephone. Newman estimated that telephone betting accounted for two-thirds or more of the wagers on simulcast thoroughbred, harness and greyhound racing taken at The Lodge.

Anticipating repeal of the tax, Newman said that The Lodge was preparing to restore pari-mutuel wagering in house by the end of July, which he said would immediately add at least 20 people to the payroll. “We’ll miss the Triple Crown races — the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes,” he said, “but, we’ll be back in the gaming business and expanding employment.”

Newman said a decision on the future of telephone betting has yet to be made. “We’re taking another look,” he remarked. “It takes time to get those people back, if they come back at all.” He said that a return to telephone betting would require hiring another six to twelve employees.

Since the suspension of simulcast wagering the venue has offered charity gaming and bingo while continuing to operate a restaurant and lounge and feature live entertainment, both music and comedy.

Likewise, Newman said preparations are underway for outdoor events in the spring and summer, particularly motocross staged on the site of the oval where greyhounds chased the lure.

Last month the Senate Ways and Means Committee considered a legislation — Senate Bill 13 — that would raise the limit on single wagers on charitable games, including table games, craps and roulette, from $4 to $30. Newman described $30 as “a stretch,” but said that even an increase to $10 would make the charitable games more competitive and profitable.

By statute, at least 35-percent of the proceeds from charitable gaming must go to the sponsoring charity and another 10-percent to the state, leaving 55-percent to venue, which bears all the expenses of hosting and staging the games. Newman estimated the income to The Lodge from charitable gaming at less than four-percent, However, he said that both charitable gaming and bingo, from which the house gets no return, increase food and beverage sales at The Lodge.

“There are not going to be any slot machines,” Newman said, “so we are moving toward making the most we can from charitable gaming, food and beverage sales, entertainment nd, hopefully, a return to pari-mutuel wagering.”

CRASH from page one Beaudoin was driving as his training taught him to in the moments before the accident.

“We reviewed it internally, the safety committee reviewed it,” Erickson said, and concluded that Beaudoin’s driving was appropriate for the situation and was legal under state statutes. “He was using reasonable care... he was doing everything in his

training,” he said.

The collision occurred at about 4:40 p.m. on February 23. Beadoin, responding to a fire alarm activation, was driving the citys Engine 5 north on Elm Street and was attempting to turn left onto Parade Road.

When Beaudoin approached the intersection, he pulled into the oncoming lane, with his lights, sirens and air horns activated, to pass traffic stopped at a red light. Simultaneously, School Street resident Sherwood Frazier was turning right from North Main Street onto Elm Street and his Honda Ridgeline collided head-on with the 33,000-pound fire engine.

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NFL & players’ union give themselves another week to settle differences

WASHINGTON (AP) — Timeout, NFL. And NFLPA. Buying time to try to close big gaps on big issues, the NFL and the players’ union agreed Friday to extend the deadline for negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement by a week.

The current labor deal had been set to run out Thursday night. But the sides used an initial 24-hour extension to discuss and vote on the second, lengthier delay. Now the league and union will take a break over the weekend to assess their positions, resume mediation Monday, then have until the end of next Friday to talk.

“We’re obviously having a lot of dialogue,” Commissioner Roger Goodell said Friday, the 11th day that he and NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith have spent time at the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. “We met for a lot of days. And we are going to meet for more.”

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“Usually when you have a fire truck or ambulance involved in an accident – it’s not good,” Erickson said, adding that he feared he would find a grisly scene when he heard the accident called in over the radio.

The fire engine is back in service, although Erickson estimated its damage would cost $30,000 and would be covered by insurance. He hoped Woods would be able to return to work next week.

With an estimated 15,000 vehicle trips per year, Erickson said, “Our accident rate is extremely low.”

Last year, he reported, one of the department’s cruisers was broad-sided on North Main Street by a driver who failed to yield. He couldn’t recall an accident prior to that one involving a city fire department vehicle.

Although the seven-day extension is the first true signal that owners and players might avoid a protracted legal skirmish and work stoppage, it’s clear they are not close to a new CBA. “It’s a challenge,” NFL general counsel and lead labor negotiator Jeff Pash said. “We’ve got very serious issues. We’ve got significant differences.”

Most significant: money.

One person with knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press that the NFLPA has not agreed to any major economic concessions — and that the NFL has not agreed to the union’s long-held demand that the league completely open its books and share all financial information.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because mediator George Cohen asked everyone involved not to comment publicly on the substance of the talks.

No one would say whether yet another extension would be possible if no new deal is reached by next Friday.

While Goodell and Pash declined to discuss any details as they spoke to reporters outside Cohen’s office at about 3 p.m., Smith did the same on a side-

walk in front of the NFLPA’s headquarters about three city blocks away.

Referring to next week’s round of bargaining, Smith said: “We look forward to a deal coming out of that.”

But when asked whether trust between the sides has been rebuilt, Smith replied: “When you say something about ‘trust’ or when you raise issues about things like ‘confidence’ — none of those things are repaired quickly.”

If the sides hadn’t extended the CBA, the union was prepared to decertify Thursday, meaning it no longer would represent the players, who would be giving up their rights under labor law and instead take their chances in court under antitrust law. The NFLPA took that course in 1989.

The owners, meanwhile, could have locked out the players, raising the specter of games lost to a work stoppage for the first time since the players’ strike in 1987.

“This is going to get resolved through negotiations, not through litigation,” Goodell said. “So talking is better than litigating.”

Allen golden for Celtics in 107-103 win over Warriors

BOSTON (AP) — Ray Allen scored 27 points and pulled down a crucial offensive rebound with 12 seconds remaining to help the Boston Celtics hold off Monta Ellis and the Golden State Warriors 107-103 on Friday night.

Paul Pierce also scored 27 for the Celtics, who let an 18-point lead slip to just one late in the fourth quarter and struggled to put away the pesky Warriors.

Ellis scored 28 of his 41 points in the second half as Golden State rallied and gave the short-handed Celtics a scare right to the end.

Boston wasn’t able to seal it until Allen snatched a rebound off a miss by Kevin Garnett with 12 sec-

onds left, then hit two free throws.

Jeff Green added 21 points and Rajon Rondo had 16 assists for Boston.

David Lee had 26 points and 12 rebounds and Dorell Write scored 11 for the Warriors, who took advantage of some shoddy defense by the new-look Celtics.

Boston was without forward Glen Davis, who has a strained tendon in his left knee, and then lost guard Von Wafer when he left in the second quarter with a strained right calf. Several of Boston’s recent additions got significant playing time and the Celtics struggled defensively.

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

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

Daily Mass: 8:00 a.m.

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

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

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

524-5800

Rules: A killjoy or safe play area?

Holy Eucharist: Saturday: 5PM - Informal Service Sunday: 8AM - Traditional Rite I & 10AM - Family Service Rite II Nursery Nook in Sanctuary

St. James Preschool 528-2111

The Rev. Tobias Nyatsambo, Pastor

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March 9th - Ash Wednesday services at noon and 7 PM

The Christian Job Description 2 Corinthians 5:11-21

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OBITUARIES

Gabrielle ‘Gabee’ Twitchell, 88 HILL — Gabrielle “Gabbee” (Thibault) Twitchell, 88, of Crescent Street, Hill died Monday, February 28, 2011 at Mountain Ridge Genesis Eldercare Center, Franklin following a short illness.

She was born in Berlin on April 4, 1922, daughter of Alex and Yvonne (St Hilaire) Thibault. She was brought up by Howard and Nellie D. Parker of Berlin. Gabbee, as she was known by her family and friends, graduated from St Patrick School, Berlin in 1936 and moved with Mr. and Mrs. Parker to Westbrook, Maine, graduating from Westbrook High School in 1940.

She was secretary to the principal of Westbrook High School for ten years, moving back to Berlin after the death of Mr. Parker in 1950 and Mrs. Parker in 1951.

In Berlin she worked in the office of superintendent of schools and later as secretary to the financial secretary of the United Brotherhood Local 75. When her husband, Sherman A. Twitchell, whom she married in 1957, accepted a job in Florence, Kentucky they moved there in 1963 where she was employed at Metal Craft and later as office manager at Woodspoint Nursing Home.

Upon her husband’s retirement in 1978 they returned to New Hampshire, living in Hill, where she became tax collector and also served as treasurer of

the Friends of the Library for a number of years. She was a member of the Congregational-Christian Church of Franklin, where she was on the flower committee and raised african violets to sell at their annual fair. She was also interested in oil painting and making scrap books.

Gabrielle was predeceased by her husband of 51 years, Sherman A. Twitchell in April of 2008 and her sister Mary T. White in 2005.

She is survived by her daughter, Beverly J. Caloggero of Laconia; sons, Archie J. Twitchell of Nicholasville Kentucky and Larry B. Twitchell and his wife Jane of Candia; a brother, Roland Thibault of Berlin; six grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren; two nephews and two nieces.

Memorial services will be held in the spring at the Congregational- Christian Church of Franklin. Burial will be at the convenience of the family in Hillcrest Cemetery, Milan.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Congregational-Christian Church Memorial Fund, c/o Carolyn Morrill, 102 Lawndale Avenue, Franklin 03235 or the Friends of the Hill Public Library, 30 Crescent Street, Hill 03243.

Carlton C. Ham of the H.L. Young & Company Memorial Home, 175 South Main Street, Franklin is assisting with the arrangements.

Kenneth W. Colburn, 78 GILFORD — Kenneth W. Colburn, 78, of 110 Morrill St., Gilford, died early Wednesday morning, March 2, 2011, at the Lakes Region General Hospital, Laconia, after a 5 month battle with cancer.

He was born July 15, 1932, in Plymouth, the son of the late Earle and Erma (Yates) Colburn. He was a graduate of Plymouth High School, Class of 1949, and took some summer classes at Maine Maritime Academy.

He had served in the Navy from 19501953, during the Korean Conflict, aboard the USS Philip 498.

Ken worked for Allied Leather for 35 years, three years with the US Geological Survey - Topographical Division, mapping South East Alaska, and in recent years with Bremco.

He was past president of NAPE, Manchester Chapter #1. He was also a Mason, being a member of Oliver Branch Lodge #16, where he received the General John Sullivan Medal and the Golden Trowel Award. He was recently awarded his 50 year membership award.

He enjoyed many years of travel with his family and friends. He had a love for Alaska and was happy to be there and celebrate with the people of Alaska the day it became a state.

He also enjoyed woodworking and working with his children on their homes and the time he spent with his 5 grandchildren. He enjoyed the times he worked on the Old Man of the Mountain with David and Debbie Nielsen.

Ken is survived by his wife, Margaret “Peg” (Lacy) Colburn of Gilford; his children, George Colburn and his wife, Kristen, of Concord and their children, Bradford and Katelyn Colburn; Leona Jenkins of Franklin and her children, Megan, Ben and Sadie Jenkins; Kevin Colburn of Eliot,ME, and his friend Michelle Korkan of Malden,MA; Kent Colburn and his wife Karen of Salisbury; and Patricia Ingalls of Standish,ME; He is also survived by his foster brother, Thomas Roy of Tilton, and many loved nieces, nephews and cousins.

Friends and relatives are invited to attend a memorial service on Tuesday, March 8, 2011, at 11am in the Squam Valley Masonic Building, 1 Route 3, Holderness, with refreshments to follow. Burial will be for family in the NH State Veterans Cemetery, Boscawen.

The Dewhirst Funeral Home, 1061 Union Ave., Laconia, is assisting the family with the arrangements.

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Lakes Region Real Estate Market Report / Roy Sanborn

A new route to home ownership using Fannie’s HomePath Program There were 957 homes for sale at an average asking price of $552,033 in the towns listed in this Lakes Region real estate market report as of March 1, 2010. That is slightly lower than the 993 homes available last March which had an average price of $583,496. The current level of inventory represents a 12 month supply of homes on the market.

It’s no secret that mortgage giant Fannie Mae has got problems. Right now, who doesn’t? Not only does she have a name you can make fun of, she has foreclosed on so many properties that she, like all other lending institutions, needs to lose some weight. To encourage buyers to purchase her foreclosed properties, she is offering a mortgage program that might be just the ticket for you if you’re in the market for a new home. The HomePath program enables buyers to obtain a Fannie Mae-owned foreclosed property with down payments as low 3-percent (10-percent on investment properties), flexible mortgage terms, no PMI, up to 9-percent in seller contributions depending on the type of property and occupancy and, believe it or not, no appraisal! This program is available for primary residences, second homes, and investment properties with interest rates comparable to a conventional loan.

Buyers still have to qualify for this program (imagine that!) and their interest rate and down payment requirement depends on, like all other loans, what their credit score, income, and debt ratios are. Buyers with less than stellar credit may also qualify but with a higher down payment and interest rates. But this still could be a good way for them to go when you figure in the other benefits of the program. A buyer’s down payment can also come from a gift, a grant, or

loan from a nonprofit organization, state or local government, or even their employer.

Fannie Mae also puts selected homes into a program called First Look which gives buyers who intend their purchase to be a primary residence a chance to bid on the home without competing with bids from investors. This First Look period lasts for 15 days for the buyers that intend to occupy the property. After 15 days they will accept bids from investors to be considered along with any others. There is even a program that provides additional funding for any light renovation which needs to be done.

In our market, the HomePath program could also be very advantageous for anyone that finds a Fannie Mae owned condo. A standard conventional loan for a

condo generally requires 20-percent down and if you apply for an FHA loan, the condo association must be approved by FHA and the criteria can be very tough to meet. The HomePath program offers the lower down payment and does not require the association to be FHA approved.

In order to find out which properties are available for the HomePath program, you can go to www.homepath.com where you will also find all the details about the program as well as a buyer’s guide for Fannie Mae owned properties, and a list of approved lenders for the program in your area. The last time I looked, there were about 20 properties in Belknap County on the HomePath website. Check them out, you might find something you like!

Log on to my blog at www.lakesregionrealestatenews.com and leave me your thoughts on this report or the real estate market in general.

Roy Sanborn is a REALTOR® for Roche Realty Group, at 97 Daniel Webster Highway in Meredith and can be reached at 677-8420. Data was compiled as of 3/1/11 using the Northern New England Real Estate MLS System.

War Veterans Group counseling to be offered at Plymouth State University PLYMOUTH — The Counseling and Human Relations Center will offer a War Veterans Group to provide Plymouth State Universty students — and possibly non-students — who are U.S. military veterans of war an opportunity to address issues of coping, stress management, and the after effects of combat and/or non-combat war experiences with other veterans in a safe, confidential, and supportive environment.

The goals of the group include the increased ability to cope effectively with the stress resulting from military/war experience and from readjustment to civilian life; development/strengthening of healthy stress management tools; and mutual support in an environment of peers who have shared war expe-

Greater Meredith Program Board of Directors to host Annual Meeting March 10 MEREDITH — The Greater Meredith Program Board of Directors will host its 7th Annual Meeting at Church Landing at 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 10.

The meeting will begin with a cash bar and hors d’ oeuvres, followed by a brief program beginning at 6:45 p.m. This year’s speakers will include several board members of the Program who will highlight the accomplishments in 2010 and outline the 2011 workplan. The presentations will close with a raffle drawing.

The celebration is free and all are welcome to attend, but an R.S.V.P. is required. Call 279-9015.

riences. Group facilitators will be Robert Hlasny, Ph.D., and Michael Fischler, Ed.D. The meeting day and time will be determined

968 Laconia Road, Tilton (Next to Pirate’s Cove)

after considering members’ scheduling needs. To schedule an intake assessment, call the Counseling and Human Relations Center at 535-2461.

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Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce Ambassador Desma Oickle from Community Action Program, Belknap-Merrimack Counties, Inc; Chris Irwin, Irwin Zone owner; Chamber Ambassador Ginger Dubois from NH Employment Security; and LRCC Executive Director Karmen Gifford met recently to discuss the next Business After Hours event to be hosted by Irwin Zone March 9. All are welcome to attend.

(Courtesy photo)

LACONIA — The next Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce (LRCC) Business After Hours event will be hosted

by Irwin Zone from 5 — 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 9.

Irwin Toyota Scion Ford Lincoln celebrated their 60th Anniversary recently and will have more than 10 new vehicles on display at the event, which will also include hors d’oeuvres and door prizes.

A perennial winner of Ford and Toyota’s Presidents Award for Sales and Service Excellence Irwin’s was also

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The Irwin Family is committed to providing the absolute best buying and servicing experience in the automobile industry.

For more information about Business After Hours, call the LRCC at 524-5531.

Meredith Altrusa Club makes donation to Center Harbor, Meredith, and Moultonborough Community Caregivers MEREDITH — The Altrusa Club’s Community Service Committee has made a donation to Center Harbor, Meredith, and Moultonborough Community Caregivers for their operating budget.

Many times donations to non-profits are not for operating, but services provided cannot be met without money to direct and implement the tasks at hand.

This donation will have a direct impact on the communities.

CHMM Community Caregivers, founded in 1998, is a volunteer organization that provides supportive see next page

Lisa Davis (left), co-chair, Community Service Committee for the Meredith Altrusa Club, meets with Carol Gerken (right), executive director of Center Harbor, Meredith, and Moultonborough Community Caregivers. Altrusa recently supported CHMM with a donation.

(Courtesy photo)

New Hampshire Electric Cooperative hires Elster Group of Raleigh, NC for Advanced Metering Project PLYMOUTH — New Hampshire Electric Cooperative (NHEC) has contracted with the Elster Group of Raleigh, NC to provide equipment and expertise during the Cooperative’s installation of an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI).

As prime contractor, Elster will work with NHEC to provide meters, communications equipment, software, and technology solutions during the two-year project. When completed, the AMI system will enable nearly all 84,000 NHEC electric meters to wirelessly report their readings and provide members with a wealth of information that will help them better understand and manage their energy use.

All NHEC members are scheduled to receive new AMI meters starting this summer. NHEC expects to install approximately 35,000 meters by the end of 2011, with the remainder to be installed by the end of October 2012.

Members will receive notice from NHEC and its contract meter installer, Utility Partners of America, approximately one month before the scheduled installation of their new meter. Installation schedules and project updates will be posted on NHEC’s Web site (nhec.coop), as well as other information related to the AMI project.

Using Elster’s EnergyAxis energy management system that collects and processes meter data, NHEC will create a Web portal that provides members with detailed information on energy usage patterns, helping

reduce costs and improve energy efficiency. The AMI deployment will also deliver operating efficiencies for NHEC, including fewer truck rolls related to power outages and meter reads. Creating a wireless network of meters in NHEC’s hilly and heavily wooded service territory poses a particular challenge.

“We needed a partner that understood and could meet our unique geographic and technology requirements,” said Fred Anderson, NHEC president/CEO. “Elster has demonstrated success in rural areas and across different elevations with both large and small utilities, making us very confident that Elster will enable NHEC and our members to realize the benefits of the Smart Grid.”

Founded in 1939, NHEC is a member-owned electric distribution cooperative serving 80,000 members in 115 New Hampshire communities.

The AMI project and related construction of a microwave and fiber optic communications network is funded in part by a $15.8 million grant from the Department of Energy, which represents approximately 45% of the total project cost.

Elster is one of the world’s largest electricity, gas, and water measurement and control providers, having deployed more than 200 million metering devices in more than 130 countries over the last 10 years.

Elster’s products and solutions are widely used by utilities in traditional and emerging Smart Grid markets.

from preceding page services and information to our neighbors to assist them in their daily lives.

To learn more about the program and volunteer opportunities, call 253-9275

or visit www.chmmcommunitycregivers.org. To learn more about The Altrusa Club of Meredith, visit www. altrusadistrict1.com/meredith/.

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Belknap County Delegation Meetings/Public Hearings March 14, 2011 from 4:00 – 5:30 PM @ Gunstock Orientation and tour at Gunstock Mountain Resort, 719 Cherry Valley Road, Gilford, NH 03249 March 14, 2011 at 6:15 PM @ the County Complex County Attorney’s appointment at the County Complex, at 34 County Drive Laconia, NH 03246 in the multi-purpose meeting room.

March 14, 2011 at 7:00 PM Public Hearing on 2011 County Budget @ the County Complex Order of business is as follows: · Public Hearing on the 2011Belknap County Budget · Vote of Convention · Other business as necessary March 21, 2011 at 6:00 PM Public Hearing on the RAN and bond issue for Gunstock @ the County Complex To consider Revenue Anticipation Note and a new Bond issue for Gunstock Resort.

March 28, 2011 at 6:00 PM @ the County Complex To vote on the Revenue Anticipation Note and the Bond for Gunstock.

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By Holiday Mathis SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). If only you could grow without changing. Alas, you can’t. Luckily, you’ll be ready and willing to let go of the way things used to be when the time is right to transform into the new you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

It will be dangerous to get too much information from one source. Learn from many sources. Each teacher has a different strength and a unique way of presenting the lesson.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

Take precautionary measures to remember important details -- like the names of people you’ve met. If only everyone in the world could wear a nametag!

Your ability to keep facts straight will distinguish you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). The glow of charisma around you comes from your generous interest in others.

People see an extremely flattering reflection of themselves in the mirrors of your eyes.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your cheerleading will be essential to a loved one’s success. You can see the uniqueness and strength in this person, even when they cannot.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (March 5).

This year, your strong curiosity will lead you to new friends, hobbies and income sources. This month, you show that you care for people, and they treat you right. A special relationship influences your thinking and has a big impact on your domestic scene, too. Deals favor you in June and August. October brings adventure. Aries and Gemini people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 30, 2, 44, 11 and 5.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Everyone has potential, but it’s those who execute their potential who will find true greatness. Push against the limits of your talent, and you’ll find that you can break through into new realms.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You have always been attracted to strongwilled people with a mind of their own.

You don’t mind that you’re not always in agreement with your loved ones.

You’ll find new ways to cooperate.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’ll be working on a problem when assistance comes to you in the form of a stellar new idea, the funding you need or other resources to make your way easier.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You don’t have to be a wealthy philanthropist to make the world a better place.

You’ll smile at everyone you meet, and that will contribute to the good of society more than your dollars ever could.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). There are two ways to learn: through your own experience and through someone else’s. You’ll get both kinds of education today. You will approach people with a sincere desire to know more about them.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Empty the drawers and dig through the closets. There is still some clutter to clear out. Becoming increasingly organized will help the flow of next week’s schedule. Bonus: You’ll find something you lost, too.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Welcome fresh faces. Someone new will enjoy being a witness to your work process.

You may not realize just how creative you are until you see yourself through this person’s eyes.

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ACROSS 1 Emery board 5 Peaks 10 Disconcert; disturb 14 Press, as clothes 15 Molar or canine 16 Regretted 17 Speedy 18 Cavalry spear 19 One opposed 20 Plead 22 __ for Humanity; nonprofit group 24 Community college degs.

25 Wild 26 Not suitable 29 Ancient 30 Camel’s smaller cousin 34 Boys 35 Salary 36 Psychiatric hospital 37 Wedding words 38 Capital of Indonesia

40 41 43 44 45 46 47 48 50 51 54 58

67

Pie __ mode USAF enlistee Wine and dine “So be it!”

Great fear Scoundrel In a bad mood Go bad Sheep’s cry Cheat Most idiotic Get wet up to the ankles Fluttering tree Not working High cards Halo wearer Grows old Feathery scarfs Newspapers and magazines Mr. Gingrich

1 2 3 4

DOWN Small flute Tehran’s nation Was defeated Snares

59 61 62 63 64 65 66

5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 21 23 25 26 27 28 29 31 32 33 35 36

Book of maps Part of a threepiece suit Sunday’s follower: abbr.

Engraved Clip wool In a physically weak way Dad’s sister Fraternity letter Prepare text for publication Dine Raft wood Escape, as a bird Homer classic Low point Venerate Furniture wood Remembered Texas mission Pack animals “__ home is his castle” “Peter __” From __ Z; the whole gamut

38 Blasé due to excessiveness 39 Curtain holder 42 Insanity 44 Swift horse 46 Julius __ 47 Machine wheel 49 Hang on to 50 Hits a baseball,

51 52 53 54 55 56 57 60

but just slightly Mop the floor City in Texas Concept Lairs On __; uptight Slaughtered Examination As easy as __

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Saturday, March 5, the 64th day of 2011. There are 301 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his “Iron Curtain” speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo. On this date: In 1770, the Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers who’d been taunted by a crowd of colonists opened fire, killing five people.

In 1868, the Senate was organized into a Court of Impeachment to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson, who was later acquitted.

In 1953, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died after three decades in power.

In 1959, a fire at the Negro Boys Industrial School in Wrightsville, Ark., claimed the lives of 21 teenagers trapped inside a locked dormitory room.

In 1960, Cuban newspaper photographer Alberto Korda took the now-famous picture of guerrilla leader Che Guevara during a memorial service in Havana for victims of a ship explosion. Elvis Presley was discharged from the U.S. Army.

In 1963, country music performers Patsy Cline, “Cowboy” Copas and “Hawkshaw” Hawkins died in a plane crash near Camden, Tenn., that also claimed the life of pilot Randy Hughes (Cline’s manager).

In 1970, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons went into effect after 43 nations ratified it.

In 1979, NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe flew past Jupiter, sending back photographs of the planet and its moons.

In 1982, comedian John Belushi was found dead of a drug overdose in a rented bungalow in Hollywood; he was 33.

One year ago: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, visiting Guatemala, told reporters that demand for narcotics in the United States was fueling drug violence in Central America as she acknowledged a measure of U.S. responsibility for what she called “a terrible criminal scourge.”

Today’s Birthdays: Actor James Noble is 89. Actor James B. Sikking is 77. Actor Dean Stockwell is 75. Actor Fred Williamson is 73. Actress Samantha Eggar is 72. Actor Michael Warren is 65. Actor Eddie Hodges is 64. Singer Eddy Grant is 63. Violinist Eugene Fodor is 61. Rock musician Alan Clark (Dire Straits) is 59. Actress-comedian Marsha Warfield is 57. Magician Penn Jillette is 56.

Actress Adriana Barraza is 55. Rock singers Charlie and Craig Reid (The Proclaimers) are 49. Rock musician John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers) is 41. Singer Rome is 41. Actor Kevin Connolly is 37. Actress Jill Ritchie is 37. Actress Jolene Blalock is 36.

Actress Eva Mendes is 36. Model Niki Taylor is 36. Actor Sterling Knight is 22. Actor Jake Lloyd is 22.

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CALENDAR TODAY’S EVENTS Lakes Region Hunting & Fishing Expo. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Laconia Municipal Airport (Hanger at 15 Aviation Drive). Hosted by the Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce. $5 admission. No charge for children under 12 when accompanied by adult.

Reception at the Gilmanton Year-Round Library for exhibit of more than 140 hand-hooked rugs by the Roberts/Barr/Humphrey families. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

American Red Cross Blood Drive at the Tanger Outlet Center in Tilton. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Celebrate Pink fundraising event at Sticks and Stones Farm in Barnstead to support BreastCancerStories.org.

11 a.m. to 7 p.m. $5/person. Horse-drawn sleigh rides, marshmallow toasting around a campfire, petting zoo, raffles, home-baked goods, entertainment and lots of kids activities throughout the day. For more information call Barbara at 776-8989.

Open Door Dinners offer free weekly meal in Tilton.

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

Al-Anon Meeting at the Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia. 8 to 9:15 p.m. each Saturday in the firstfloor conference room. Al-Anon offers hope and help to families of alcoholics. No dues or fees. All are welcome.

Call 645-9518.

All-you-can-eat roast beef supper at Trinity Episcopal Church in Meredith. 5 to 7 p.m. $10/person or $25 for immediate family.

SUNDAY, MARCH 6 Lakes Region Hunting & Fishing Expo. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Laconia Municipal Airport (Hanger at 15 Aviation Drive). Hosted by the Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce. $5 admission. No charge for children under 12 when accompanied by adult.

Kids’ Ice Fishing Derby on Lily Pond in Gilford. Hosted by the Belknap County’s Sportsmen’s Association. Free.

9 a.m. to noon. All children under 16 welcome.

Tryouts for Meredith Avalanche AAU Girls’ 16U basketball team. 9 to 11 a.m. at Inter-Lakes Elementary School. For more information call Christine at 387-7190.

Boston Bruins Alumni vs. Winnipesaukee Walloperds to benefit the Winnipesaukee Skating Club. 12:30 p.m. at the Laconia Ice Arena. $15/adults. $10/children.

MONDAY, MARCH 7 Support group meeting for those who are separated or divorced. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on the first and third Mondays of the month at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Belmont. Experience compassion, sharing and affirmation in a confidential atmosphere. You are welcome. Refreshments and free lending library available. For information call the rectory at 267-8174 or Ginny Timmons at 286-7066.

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

STD/HIV testing. Sliding fee scale.

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

Overeater’s Anonymous meeting. 7 p.m. each Monday night at the Congregational Church of Laconia Parish Hall (Veterans Square).

Weight Watchers meetings. Noon and 5:15 p.m. at Opechee Park Clubhouse in Laconia.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: My brother was scheduled for open-heart surgery involving three different procedures. I hadn’t seen him for several months and wanted to visit before the operation, as I feared he might not make it through.

The day before his surgery, my wife and I were driving the two-hour trip to his home when we received a call from his wife. She said she didn’t want us coming, that she was already stressed out and didn’t want anyone else using up the time she and her children had with my brother. I told her how much it meant to me to see him, but she said, “Don’t bother coming. My children and I don’t want you here.”

My sister-in-law has always been a strong-headed woman, but this was too much. Our conversation turned into a shouting match. I was so angry and upset that I could hardly drive the car back home. I told my wife that what she did was unforgivable and I would never speak to her again.

Fortunately, my brother’s surgery was a success, and he is recovering. I will see him as soon as I can, but only when his wife is not around. I will never get over what she did. How would you handle this? -- Angry in NYC Dear Angry: Your sister-in-law may not have dealt with this very kindly, but try to see it from her perspective. She thought her husband might die and wanted his children to have every second of his remaining time. She was under a great deal of stress, and your needs didn’t come into consideration. If you prefer to avoid her for the rest of your life, that’s up to you, but we’re sure your brother would appreciate it if you could somehow forgive her.

Dear Annie: My sister is almost 50 years old and still picks her nose in public. When I am with her, it is very embarrassing. She uses a tissue, but nonetheless shoves her fingers up her nose. It is not subtle.

I’ve told her to stop doing this and to blow her nose like a normal person, but she doesn’t listen. I know she often is alienated from co-workers, and I suspect this bad habit may be causing her to miss job-related opportunities. Maybe if you print this, she will listen to you. -- Picky’s Sister Dear Picky: Constant nose picking can be an obsessivecompulsive disorder triggered by stress. Or it could be that her nose itches a lot. Or she may have sinus problems, in which case using a saline spray might help. But some habits are so ingrained, they are done unconsciously. In order for your sister to stop sticking her fingers up her nose, she will have to be aware that she’s doing it and want to stop. At the very least, she should do it in private. It is not an attractive process to watch.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Illinois,” whose husband wants to keep their dog, “Buddy,” even though he doesn’t get along with their other four dogs and they are expecting a baby soon. I am a dog trainer and am always amazed at people who have numerous dogs and expect all of them to get along. That notion is totally insane. It would be like having five people with five different personalities living together 24/7.

As much as the husband loves this dog, for everyone’s sake, Buddy should be placed in a home where HIS needs are met. A multiple-dog home is simply not it. And in doing what is best for Buddy, it also is absolutely best for everyone involved. Otherwise, they are asking for some serious consequences for both the humans and the other dogs. -- Dallas, Ore. Dear Dallas: We appreciate the professional backup and agree that Buddy would be better off elsewhere -- and so would the rest of the family.

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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For Rent

For Rent

LACONIA 3 rooms nice quiet area, sunny, 2nd floor $525+.

Parking, storage. No smoking 528-3649.

LACONIA: Close to downtown, 5 room 2-Bedroom, 1.5 baths, first floor, includes 2-car parking, snow removal, landscaping, deck, washer/dryer. $180/week. 4-week security deposit & 1st four weeks in advance, references and credit check a must. No pets. Leave message for Bob, 781-283-0783

LACONIA Prime 2 bedroom apartment on Gale Ave. Walk to town and beaches. Carpeting, just repainted, private entrance, Garage. $900/month includes heat and hot water. 524-3892.

LACONIA Weirs Blvd 2 Bedroom, 2 bath, one level newly renovated condo year-round. Balcony with view of lake, pool, no smoking/pets, refs/dep required. $900/month. 366-4341

LACONIA: 1-2 Bedrooms starting at $550/Month. Includes Heat/Hot Water & Electric. No dogs.

496-8667 or 545-9510.

LACONIA- Large Rooms for rent.

Private bath, heat/hot water, electric, cable, parking included.

FREE WiFi Internet. $145/week, 603-781-6294

MEREDITH 1 bedroom first floor, carpeted, washer/dryer hook-ps, parking, near town, non-smoking, $600/Month no utilities 279-7887 or cell 781-862-0123

LACONIA-Large 1 bedroom apartment. Newly reduced to $650/Month. Newly painted, off street parking. Utilities not included. Available immediately.

References & Security deposit (1 month rent) required. 1 Year lease. 603-524-3759

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

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

Rick (781)389-2355

LACONIA: 2-Bedroom, 2nd floor apartment. No pets/smoking. $650/month +utilities. Security deposit and references required.

875-2292.

LACONIA: Downtown, 875 sq.ft.

1-bedroom condo, includes parking, dishwasher, washer/dryer, hot water, gym, cable TV and internet. $1,100/month + gas and electricity. No smoking. 387-1638.

LACONIA: Efficiency apartment, $135/week includes heat & hot water. References and deposit.

524-9665.

Animals

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For Rent

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LACONIA: Large efficiency, hear hospital, $150/week. Security deposit required. 603-573-5800.

Top Dollar Paid- $150 and up for unwanted & junk vehiclies. Call 934-4813

BRISTOL 1BR apt, heat and hot water included. $600 a month.

217-4141

BOATS

FRANKLIN 1 bedroom heat & hot water included, $550/ mo. First month rent and security deposit, 630-2614

Announcement

BOAT SLIPS For Rent At the Winnipesaukee Pier Weirs Beach, NH Reasonable rents installments payments for the season. Call 366-4311.

CUTE 1-bedroom remodeled apartment in Tilton. 1/2 month rent free! Heat/Hot Water included. $660/Month. 603-393-9693 or 916-214-7733

LACONIA: Near downtown, 1-Bedroom, $600 +utilities and 2-Bedroom, $750 +utilities.

References & deposit required.

387-3864.

THE Thrifty Yankee- Route 25 Meredith, NH. 279-0607. Open 9am-6pm Tuesday through Sunday. Consignments Welcome!

Autos 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee132K, 4-Wheel Drive, leather, automatic, loaded with options! $2,995 OBO. Call Scott at 603-369-0494 1998 Buick Century- 150K miles, remote start, new tires, $1200 or Best offer, inspectable. 524-9011 2000 Ford Taurus SE WagonVery reliable, good condition.

104K miles, grey with grey interior. 4 new tires, current on all maintenance. $2,800/OBO. 603-341-1529 2004 Chevy Impala. Leather seats w/heat. One owner. New 12000 warranty. Well maintained at Cantins. Very clean 366-4905.

ABLE to pay cash, cars average $300, trucks full-size 4x4 up to $500, truck batteries $8 each, alloy $9 each, in Epping we have scale, $1/ lb. for coded Copper wire, $3.00/ lb. for copper pipe.

(603)502-6438 BUYING junk cars and trucks ME & NH. Call for price. Martin Towing. (603)305-4504.

CASH FOR junk cars & trucks.

Top Dollar Paid. Available 7 days a week. 630-3606 CASH paid for unwanted or junk cars and trucks. Same day service possible. 603-231-2859.

GREAT Condtion! 2000 E-350 Box Truck with 7.3 Diesel engine.

Business Opportunities LACONIA- Unique opportunity.

Laundromat in well established location; Dryers, some equipment needs repairing or replacing. Free rent to get started. $3,000.

603-455-6662

RESTAURANT FOR LEASE

WEIRS BEACH Ideal for pizza. On Lakeside Ave., Weirs Beach, adjacent to the boardwalk. Most restaurant equipment included.

978-373-3685

For Rent $500 OFF FIRST MONTH S RENT at Mountain View apartments. 2-bedroom apartment, $700 + utilities; 2-bedroom townhouse, 1.5 bath, large deck, $775 + utilities; Quiet location with laundry and playgrounds. Integrity Realty, Inc. 524-7185.

APARTMENTS, mobile homes. If you need a rental at a fair price, call DRM Corp. Over 40 years in rentals. We treat you better!

524-0348 or visit M-W-F, 12-5, at 373 Court Street, Laconia.

ASHLAND: 1-Bedroom, 2nd floor apartment. Only apartment in building. Main Street location.

Utilities & WiFi included. Washer & Dryer. Non-smokers. No pets. $175/week or $750/month. Security deposit. 968-7800.

Belmont: 1BR, economical gas heat, quiet country setting, $595/month +utilities, security

DANBURY: 1 Bedroom, new $400/ month includes all utilities, no security deposit, references required, no pets/smoking.

290-9200.

FOR RENT OR SALE- Weirs Beach Condo. 2-bedroom, 2-bath, fully renovated. $900/Month + Utilities & Security deposit. Or, $1,000/Month utilities included + security deposit. Sale $110,000.

Many amenities. 603-279-5991

GILFORD, as/of 4/1 Great one bedroom, waterfront apt. laundry, views, balcony, private. $700/ month. 603-393-7077.

GILMANTON LARGE 2 bedroom Apartment. Easy commute, pets negotiable. $895/Month. 630-6812 LACONIA 1-Bedroom - Washer/ dryer hookup, storage, no pets.

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

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Affordable Housing Get your name on our waiting list PRINCE HAVEN or HILLSIDE APARTMENTS All utilities included Plymouth/Meredith, N.H. (Prince Haven has an elderly preference) If you are 62, disabled or handicapped, (regardless of age), and meet annual income guidelines, you may qualify for our one-bedroom apts.

Call today to see if you qualify.

603-224-9221 TDD # 1-800-545-1833 Ext. 118 or Download an application at www.hodgescompanies.com Housing@hodgescompanies.com

40% of our vacancies will be rented to applicants with Extremely Low Income. Rent is based on your household size and income.

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LACONIA: Large 4 bedroom apartment. Second floor, new paint and flooring, parking. $850 + utilities, security and references required. 603-781-6294.

Laconia- 3-Bedroom, 2nd Floor, Washer/Dryer, Attic Storage, Sunroom, $950/month + Utilities & Security Deposit. No Pets/No Smoking. 387-4471

AKC Cairn Terriers, Toto dogs, 2 neutered males, red brindle, Canadian Champion sired. Microchipped, UTD on vacs, 1 1 year old, 1 1.5 year old. CFMI (207)935-1320.

FRANKLIN- Riverfront, 1 Bedroom, 2nd Floor, Storage. $650/mo + Utilities, Security Deposit. No Pets, 387-4471.

LACONIA: Gilbert Apartments. Efficiency, 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments available. 524-4428.

LACONIA: Sunny, 1-Bedroom, hw floors, 3rd floor, washer/dryer hookup, heat, $600. Security & references. (603)293-7038.

LACONIA: 1-bedroom apartments in clean, quiet, secure downtown building. Very nice and completely renovated. $175/week, includes heat, hot water and electricity.

524-3892.

LACONIA: 1-bedroom apartments in clean, quiet, secure downtown building. Very nice and completely renovated. $175/week, includes heat, hot water and electricity.

524-3892.

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

MOULTONBOROUGH: 3BR, 1.5BA New England style home.

Walk to Center Harbor proper.

Garage, dishwasher, washer/dryer hookups. Wood & oil heat. No smoking. No pets. $1,150/month plus utilities. 603-253-9446.

NORTHFIELD Are you tired of living in run down, dirty housing, then call us we have the absolute best, spotlessly clean and everything works. We include heat & hot water and all appliances, Townhouses & apartments, in Northfield one block from I-93 Call 630-3700 for affordable Clean living.

OPEN HOUSE! Laconia Timberlake Apartments Saturday, March 12 11 am to 3 pm

at 150 Blueberry Lane #12 2 Bedroom$709 -1 Bedrm $639

Balcony, Parking, Laundry

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520-2915 or 668-8282

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

Ask about our Referral Bonus Rent is based upon 30% of your adjusted income Hurry and call today to see if you qualify, or download an application at:

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Help Wanted

PREMIER Gated Community

Cole Brook & Co. ladies leather jacket. Size 3X. Black, not worn much. $65. Call 524-8306

BAYVIEW Auto Body is looking for a full-time, experienced auto body tech. Must be able to do “start to finish” work and have experience with a fram machine.

Driver s license required. Apply in person, 26 Artisan Court, Gilford.

Meredith Bay. 3500 sqft custom 4BDRM single family home, 2-car garage. Grand Winnipesaukee Views! Beach Club, Pools, Tennis! $3750/mo./yr lease. Call 800-559-4141 or jshea@meredithbaynh.com. www.MeredithBayNH.com TILTON- DOWNTOWN. Large room in 3-bedroom, 2-bath apartment, shared with 2 other responsible adults, $150 weekly, includes all. 286-4391.

WINNISQUAM: Small efficiency apartment and a cottage including heat, hot water and lights. No pets. $150-$175/week. $400 deposit. 528-2757 or 387-3864.

Custom Glazed Kitchen Cabinets.

Solid maple, never installed. May add/subtract to fit kitchen. Cost $6,000 sacrifice $1,750. 433-4665 DELTA 3HP 15 Inch Planer. Floor Model 22-785X Deluxe Floor Roller Stand, Dust Hood/Included.

Still in sealed, never opened shipping boxes. $1,535. Original price $3,250. 603-520-1114

GLASS SHELVING 3 x3 glass shelving unit, great for a store, $300 obo, other shelving available.

Call Shirley

For Rent-Vacation

630-0661

TROPICAL Paradise: Marco Island, Florida waterfront condo.

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For Rent-Commercial LACONIA/BELMONT LINE- Retail Showroom at Rt. 106 & Bypass.

1500+ Sq. ft., 10X12 overheaed door, security & fire system. $1,900/Month. 603-502-6437 LACONIA Prime retail. 750 sf., parking, includes heat. $550 per month. Also 1325 sf. $675/month Security deposit & references.

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RASCAL 326 Power Chair: Like new, $3,900. Includes ramp. Call John at 253-9863 or 455-9863.

RED Sox Tickets: April games, tickets $70-$120 (except New York games). Call for details.

630-2440 ROTEL RB-1090 380 w/ch stereo home audio/ theater power amp $1200. 496-8639.

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Meredith- Office studio space. 2nd floor 3 rooms, carpeted 1,000 sq. ft. heated, near town, non-smoking. $625/Month.

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3 Piece sectional sofa includes queen sleeper and 2 recliners for $400. Solid wood oval dining table with 2 leaves and 6 chairs $400.

279-4788 AMAZING! Beautiful queen or full pillow top mattress set $249, king $399. See ad under “furniture”.

BED- Orthopedic 11 inch thick super nice pillowtop mattress & box.

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235-1773 BEDROOM- 7-piece Solid cherry sleigh. Dresser/Mirror chest & night stand (all dovetail).

New-in-boxes cost $2,200 Sell $895. 603-427-2001

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

Help Wanted AUTO Detailer Wanted: I am looking for an experienced detailer to work at my facility in Meredith. Call Ken at 279-0775.

Belknap Landscape Company is now gearing up for Spring.

We are interviewing for team member and potential team leaders for our Grounds Maintenance crews. Team commitment, positive attitude and dependability are required. Pay based upon experience and willingness to learn.

Snow Division is still hiring temp positions for snow shovelers for the remainder of the Winter Season. No prior experience necessary! Storm pay for shoveling is $15/hr! Temps hired will also have opportunity to work into the next season for Spring Clean-Ups.

Help Wanted

Have IRRIGATION Experience?

Belknap Landscape Co. is getting ready for Spring and is now interviewing experienced candidates for our Irrigation/ Lighting Division.

Duties include start-ups, winterizations, along with installations and some service calls.

Experience in irrigation a must.

Must be quality-minded with strong work ethic. Experience in wiring a plus. Offering competitive wages and benefits, with seasonal overtime opportunities.

We perform pre-employment drug screen and physical.

MUST have valid drivers’ license and reliable transportation. Must be 18 or older. Apply to Human Resources at:

Belknap Landscape Co. Inc.

We perform pre-employment drug screen and physical.

MUST have valid drivers license and reliable transportation. Must be 18 or older.

Apply to Human Resources at:

25 Country Club Road, #302 Gilford, NH 03249

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SUMMIT RESORT Now Hiring Part-Time Front Desk Please apply in person 177 Mentor Ave, Laconia NOW accepting applications for experienced servers. Apply in person, Galley Restaurant, 405 Union Avenue, Laconia.

PART-TIME Administrative Assistant for professional office, downtown Laconia. Flexible hours, pleasant work environment. Call 524-4488.

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SENIOR MECHANICAL ENGINEER

The Lodge at Belmont is looking for part-time Poker Dealers.

Knowledge of the Game of poker and great Customer Service Skills required. nterview to include test of knowledge and skills related to dealing poker and other related games. Must pass criminal background check. Apply in PersonMon-Thur after 4:00PM, Fri-Sun after 12:00PM. Part-time Cooks.

We are looking for experienced cooks. Weekends a must. Apply in Person- Mon-Thur after 4:00PM, Fri-Sun after 12:00PM

GROWING Fiber Optic Company seeks the following full time position: Senior Mechanical Engineer.

Able to perform complex activities relating to design, testing and evaluation of mechanical systems, subassemblies and components.

Research and analyze design proposals, materials, specifications and other data. Responsible for all mechanical prototyping, costing, and parts procurement.

BSME preferred, 10 years of previous experience in Mechanical Engineering with at least 4 years in a senior role. Send resume or apply in person to Optical Design Manufacturing Inc, 143 Lake Street, Suite 1E, Laconia, NH 03246. No phone calls please.

WOLFEBORO / ALTON Part-time: Cleaning banks. $10 per hour. 6-12 hours/wk.

Mon, Wed, Fri evenings.

Must clear background.

SERVER: Now hiring motivated team players with positive attitudes for year round or seasonal positions. Expereince preferred but will train the right candidates.

Flexible schedule. Weekends and holidays a must. Training starts 4/4/11. Apply in person at Hart!s Turkey Farm Restaurant on Route 3 in Meredith or apply online at www.hartsturkeyfarm.com

603-524-9930 Instruction FLYFISHING LESSONS

on private trout pond. FFF certified casting instructor. Gift cert. available. (603)356-6240. www.mountainviewflyfishing.c om

LACONIA HARLEY-DAVIDSON

is offering an Exciting Sales Opportunity for Motivated and High Energy People. Sales experience is preferred but not required.

Great pay with Benefits available. Please apply online at www.laconiaharley.com.

Mobile Homes GILFORD: 55+ Park, 2BR w/carport, beach access, excellent condition, updated furnace, with appliances, $25,500. 524-4816.

Alton Central School K-8 Spring Coaching Positions Alton Central School is seeking qualified applicants to coach the following sports for the 2011Spring season: Girls’ Softball Coach Boys’ Baseball Boys’ Track and Field If interested please submit a letter of interest and resume and three letters of reference to: Alton Central School, c/o Kristi Hikel – Athletic Director, PO Box 910, Alton, NH 03809-0910 Deadline March 16, 2011 EOE

HEALTH care worker, for Monday and Tues., 16 hours, plus more available in summer for male stroke patient. Help with personal care. Very pleasant surroundings.

524-3892 for appointment.

Deburr – 2nd shift Adventure Park Operations Manager Seasonal Position Seeking energetic person to supervise the New Gunstock Mountain Resort Adventure Park. The person filling this position will be charged with creating a memorable outdoor experience for all guests visiting the park. Park activities will include some or all of the following: Aerial Treetop Adventure Course, Summit to Base Zip Tour, Off Road Segway Tours, Children’s Play Area, and more.

Responsibilities will include hiring, scheduling, assisting in training, and supervision of staff members for this 7 day per week operation. This position will also be instrumental in the creation of the financial plan moving forward.

Qualifications include 5 years of leadership experience and/or education in outdoor recreation. Leadership, problem solving, above average organizational skills and communication skills required. CPR/First Responder certificates required. Basic knowledge of high ropes adventure courses and zip lines preferred but not required. The job entails physically working quickly and accurately for long periods of time with the ability to climb, walk, and stand for the entire shift.

Work Schedule will require flexibility based on business levels.

This position will require weekends, evenings, and holidays.

This position is subject to a criminal background check.

Please forward your resume and cover letter to: Human Resources Department, P.O. Box 1307, Laconia NH 03247

Responsibilities include cleaning and removing all burrs and loose material from finished product, bagging and/or marking of product and ensuring product conforms to customer specific handling requirements.

Candidate must possess 3+ months manufacturing experience.

5-Axis Machinist 2nd & 3rd Shift Responsibilities include completing own set-ups, operating various pieces of equipment to meet production requirements and performing in-process inspection of parts produced. Candidate must possess 2+ years related experience.

We provide competitive wages, shift differential, clean work environment, medical insurance, life insurance, short and long term disability insurance, dental insurance, vacation and holidays, flex benefits, tuition reimbursement plan, profit sharing and 401-k plan with company match.

Please apply in person, via email or fax resumes.

EPTAM Plastics 2 Riverside Business Park Northfield, NH 03276 Phone: 603-729-5014 • Fax: 603-286-3977 Email: kdubois@eptam.com Applications will be accepted until March 25th

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Samuel P. Pardoe Foundation board member meets scholarship recipient at ‘Winterfest’

LACONIA — Spencer Pardoe Ballou of Richmond, VA, a board member of the Samuel P. Pardoe Foundation, recently met scholarship recipient Hilary Daub at Prescott Farm’s first annual “Winterfest.”

Ballou traveled with her children to the family’s homestead for the event, held at the Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center. While here, she had the opportunity to meet Daub, who will be a

June 2011 graduate of Laconia Academy, the fullyaccredited adult evening high school diploma program.

Daub dropped out of high school in the ninth grade but soon regretted her decision and decided to return to school at night. She is now the mother of an 18 month old daughter and wants to make a better life for herself and her child. Fortunately for her, Laconia’s Adult Education Program had received a grant from the Samuel P. Pardoe Foundation of Boston to help returning students like Daub with tuition and book costs. The Pardoe Grant enabled Daub to return to classes and eventually complete all her course requirements to graduate.

Like many others who return to school at night, Daub said it was a challenge juggling homework with her responsibilities as a mom, but she knew the end result would be worth the effort. She is now poised to enroll in a Criminal Justice college program and then has her sights set on a four year degree in Psychology.

Ballou praised Daub for her strong work ethic and study skills while Daub expressed her thanks for the Samuel P. Pardoe Foundation’s support, without which she could not have earned her diploma.

Ballou was also updated on the other successes of the Pardoe Grant by Peggy Selig, Laconia Adult Education director and Ginger Dubois, NH Employment Security, Employer Services representative.

These two organizations, in partnership with Lakes Region Community College and the Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce, manage the education initiative known as the Adult Success Program (ASP).

Anyone seeking information about the Pardoe Grant and the Adult Success Program is invited to contact the Adult Education office at 524-5712.

LACONIA — Invisible Children, dedicated to ending Africa’s longest-running war, will screen “Tony,” a documentary about child soldiers in Uganda, at the Lakes Region Vineyard Church at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 13.

A media-based non-profit, Invisible Children exists to raise awareness about children who are

abducted and forced to fight as soldiers in the Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel group currently terrorizing central east Africa.

“Tony” documents eight years in the life of a young Ugandan man, which have been marked by violence from terrorist groups like the LRA. The event was organized by Richard AuCoin, paster of the Lakes

Region Vineyard Church, as part of Invisible Children’s Congo Tour. Traveling throughout the United States, 17 teams of American volunteers and Ugandan speakers are screening the film and leading a follow-up discussion.

The Ugandan speaker at the Lakes Region Vinesee next page

A board member of the Spencer P. Pardoe Foundation recently had the opportunity to meet a Laconia resident and scholarship recipient at the Prescott Farm’s first annual “Winterfest.” (Left to right) Ginger Dubois, NH Employment Security; Spencer Pardoe Ballou, Pardoe Foundation, with son Hoby; Peggy Selig, Laconia Adult Education; Hilary Daub, recent graduate; Daub’s daughter Hennessey. (Courtesy photo)

Invisible Children to screen documentary at Lakes Region Vineyard Church

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Franklin Savings Bank purchases of Winnipesaukee Playhouse tax credits LACONIA — Franklin Savings

Bank (FSB) is continuing its com-

Amid some of the costumes at the Winnipesaukee Playhouse, Franklin Savings Bank President Jeff Savage (second from right) donates $10,000 to Executive Director Bryan Halperin (left), Trustee Barbara Morgenstern (second from left) and Managing Director Johanna Halperin (right) for the Playhouse Capital Campaign. (Courtesy photo)

mitment to the community with the purchase of tax credits to support the Winnipesaukee Playhouse conversion of the former Annalee Doll property in Meredith into a state of the art theatre arts campus.

“The Winnipesaukee Playhouse continues to do an exceptional job at bringing arts to the Lakes Region in a setting that truly depicts our region.

We are pleased to be a part of this unique and true community endeavor made possible by the dedication, participation, and contributions of businesses, individuals, and families,” said Jeff Savage, FSB president and CEO. The bank has chosen to participate in the New Hampshire Community Development Finance Authority (NHCDFA) tax credit program by buying $10,000 worth of the $500,000 tax credits awarded to the Winnipesaukee Playhouse.

Eliza Leadbetter, who is spearheading the tax credit program, explains how businesses can purchase state tax credits from the credits awarded to the Playhouse. The contribution is also eligible for a federal charitable donation credit and costs the business buyer a

net of 15% of the purchase. In the case of the Playhouse, these tax credit donations will be matched from the one million dollar challenge grant. Individual donations in any amounts will also be matched by the challenge grant.

To support the creation of the new campus, the Playhouse Trustees have undertaken a $2.5 million dollar capital campaign. A foresighted theatre-loving couple have offered a one million dollar matching grant, to be met by December 2011. Franklin Savings Bank, along with other area businesses, recognize the value of this venture to the lakes and central New Hampshire communities and have stepped up to take advantage of the tax credit program.

The Playhouse is one of 12 projects awarded state tax credits to sell.

NHCDFA is a non-profit public instrument of the State of New Hampshire.

The entity also administers Community Development Block Grants and Neighborhood Stabilization funding.

For more information about the Playhouse and the Capital Campaign, visit www.winniplayhouse.com or call 366-7377.

Bankers’Association recognizes Meredith Village Savings Bank for community service MEREDITH — Meredith Village Savings Bank (MVSB) was recently recognized for its outstanding service to the Lakes Region and Plymouth areas by the American Bankers’ Association (ABA).

Since 2006, the ABA has honored institutions that have taken an

innovative, creative, and effective approach to make a difference in their regions through their Community Bank Award Program. Each year, the ABA offers seven awards — each in different categories — to the community banks of the United States.

MVSB was awarded a certificate of

from preceding page yard Church presentation is named Robert Anywar. He will be accompanied by American volunteers Katrina AuCoin, Bailey Cox, and Justin

Mauldin. There will be merchandise for sale, including bracelets, handbags, and T -shirts made in Uganda.

For more information or to offer support, visit www.invisiblechildren.com.

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The selection committee noted that they were “very impressed with MVSB’s initiative, creativity, and commitment to meet the needs of [their] commu-

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For more information about how MVSB is helping local communities, visit www.mvsb.com.

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