The Laconia Daily Sun, March 5, 2013

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Pike defends Another wild night on County Drive; convention also refuses to endorse agreements with unions Association (SEA), representing county consist of $63,113 in health insurance B M K his ties to employees, and proceeded to adopt the 2013 premiums, $22,640 in retirement contricounty budget as agreed to by a majority a butions, $17,400 for longevity bonuses, LACONIA — As expected the Belknap Belmont at week ago. $49,579 for sick pay bonuses, $9,240 for County Convention voted last night not to The cost items totaled $283,474, of which taxes, $2,400 in workers compenfund the collective bargaining agreements BHS forum negotiated between the Belknap County $96,000 was allocated to fund a merit pay payroll sation and unemployment payments and Y

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BELMONT — In the final salvo between incumbent Selectman Jon Pike and challenger George Condodemetraky, it appears those in the audience, including former Town Administrator Don McLelland Sr. had the final say at the candidates’ forum at the high school last night.

In front of about 50 people, Pike and Condodemetraky exchanged the expected verbal quips about whether or not Pike was entitled to see PIKE page 3

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see COUNTY page 24

LACONIA — Ignoring previous advice of legal counsel and defying the county commissioners, the Belknap County Convention last night decided to ask an attor-

ney from the Mitchell Municipal Group of Laconia to defend the convention against the suit brought by Tom Tardif charging it violated the Right-to-Know Law by electing

its current officers by secret ballot.

There was a sense of urgency about the issue since if an attorney fails to file an see LAWYER page 27

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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The National Rifle Association is taking its relationship with racing to a new level as the title sponsor of a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.

The deal with Texas Motor Speedway comes at a time when the NRA is involved in a renewed debate on gun violence in the wake of the December shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

“It’s not about politics. It’s about sports marketing,” TMS president Eddie Gossage said Monday after the announcement of the one-year agreement with the NRA that includes a renewal option.

The April 13 race at Texas, the first scheduled night race in the Cup Series this season, will be known as the NRA 500.

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87-year-old died in Calif. after nurse refused to do CPR BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — A nurse’s refusal to give CPR to a dying 87-year-old woman at a California independent living home despite desperate pleas from a 911 dispatcher has prompted outrage and spawned a criminal investigation.

The harrowing 7-minute, 16-second call also raised concerns that policies at senior living facilities could prevent staff from intervening in medical emergencies. It prompted calls for legislation Monday to prevent a repeat of what happened Feb. 26 at the Glenwood Gardens in Bakersfield.

Lorraine Bayless collapsed in the dining room of the retirement home that offers many levels of care. She lived in the independent living building, which state officials said is like a senior apartment complex and doesn’t operate under licensing oversight.

“This is a wakeup call,” said Assemblywoman Mariko Yamada, chair of the California Assembly Aging and Long-term Care Committee. “I’m sorry it took a tragedy like this to bring it to our attention.”

Yamada cautioned that while it’s not yet

known whether intervention would have saved the woman’s life, “we want to investigate because it has caused a lot of concern and alarm.”

Independent living facilities “should not have a policy that says you can stand there and watch somebody die,” said Pat McGinnis, founder of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, a consumer advocacy group. “How a nurse can do that is beyond comprehension.”

In all her years of advocating for the see CPR page 10

14 young musicians charged with manslaughter in college band death

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Twelve former Florida A&M University band members were charged Monday with manslaughter in the 2011 hazing death of a drum major.

Ten of the band members had been charged last May with third-degree felony hazing for the death of 26-year-old Robert Champion, but the state attorney’s office said they are adding the charge of manslaughter for each defendant. They also have charged two additional defendants

with manslaughter, though they have yet to be arrested.

The second-degree manslaughter charge announced during an afternoon status hearing carries a penalty of up to 15 years in prison.

Champion died in Orlando in November 2011 after he collapsed following what prosecutors say was a savage beating during a hazing ritual. It happened on a bus parked in a hotel parking lot after

Florida A&M played Bethune-Cookman in their annual rivalry football game.

Authorities said Champion had bruises on his chest, arms, shoulder and back and died of internal bleeding. Witnesses told emergency dispatchers that the drum major was vomiting before he was found unresponsive aboard the bus.

Christopher Chestnut, an attorney for Champion’s parents, said Pam and Robert see BAND page 4

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Former speaker O’Brien to introduce alternative plan to gas tax hike today CONCORD (AP) — The state shouldn’t raise the gas tax to pay for needed highway repairs, Rep. William O’Brien said in an email to his colleagues on Monday.

Instead, the Republican former House speaker announced he will introduce a floor amendment before a vote on the increase on Wednesday. He said the amendment would eliminate expenditures from the highway fund for any purpose other than road and bridge projects.“We shouldn’t be raising alarm among voters about deficient roads and bridges” and then spending that money for other purposes, O’Brien said in an interview following his announcement.

The state has more than 1,600 miles of road rated in poor condition. It has red-listed 140 state and 355 municipal bridges, meaning it deems them structurally deficient and recommends they be closed until they can be repaired or replaced.

Several agencies besides the Department of Transportation receive money out of the highway fund. The Department of Safety receives the largest amount after transportation, close to $75 million of nearly $260 million appropriated annually to the highway fund. All the other agencies receive a combined $3 million.

Democratic Rep. David Campbell, sponsor of the gas tax increase, said O’Brien’s proposed solution “plugs a hole in the state highway budget by creating a hole in the safety budget.”

Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan’s office said in a statement Monday that cutting the Department of Safety out of highway funds would have a “devastating” effect on public safety and jeopardize more than 300 state trooper positions that are paid for in part with highway money.

The state’s gas tax, 18 cents per gallon, is the lowest in the Northeast and hasn’t been raised since 1991.

PIKW from page one stay on his ex-wife’s health town-sponsored health insurance policy following his divorce but it was McLelland who asked Condodemetraky why he felt he was capable of being a selectman.

“I still haven’t heard why you qualify,” he said, reminding Condodemetraky he runs every year for office and never wins. “I’m not hearing anything good here. I’m hearing vendettas.”

McLelland also said that former Selectman David Morse, who publicly challenged Pike’s legal residency last night, has a vendetta against Pike and Condodemetraky has sued the town in Belknap County Superior Court.

Condodemetraky explained his loses by saying the Attorney General “didn’t want to be bothered” and the Belknap County Superior Court judge who dismissed his challenge to Pike’s payout was “prejudiced.”

“You continue to bring it up and it’s very bad for the town,” McLelland said.

Pike was also supported by resident Jim Spiller who said he has sat with Pike in his Belmont kitchen and knows first hand where he lives. Pike has served 12 years on the Planning Board and six years as selectman.

Pike himself said he lives on 55 Brown Hill Road and has owned a business in Belmont for years. He

said town’s people are always stopping by his garage and asking him for advice and/or assistance and he is always accessible for any residents.

He said he has “a lady friend” who lives in Plymouth and the two spend quite a bit of time with each other. He said he has never voted anywhere but Belmont.

Spiller also questioned Condodemetraky’s about the construction of Solar Village and whether or not he buried tanks and electrical lines when he wasn’t supposed to.

Condodemtraky said he followed every law that was required of him at the time.

When questioned about what he would do differently if he were selectmen, Condodemetraky said he would never have voted to buy the former Northway Bank building in the village.

Pike replied that the selectmen didn’t buy the bank building, the voters did. He also said that had he known about the issues with the fourth floor of Belmont Mill before he supported buying the bank building, he likely would have held off on the purchase.

He said when the discussions were centering around the former bank, the town had no idea about the structural issues with the Mill, which the board has since learned stemmed from shortcuts taken by contractors at the time of its restoration.

Pike said the one thing he would never do as long as he was a selectman was to support a municipal project that didn’t have a clerk of the works — or someone who works only for the town and ensures that contractors do what they are being paid to do.

He said the town is trying to recoup its investment in the mill by following up on insurance policies held by the contractors when the mill was renovated.

Pike said likely the bank building will sit idle until the town knows what it will cost — if anything — to repair the mill, which has tenants and is a priority.

Other contested seats in Belmont include that of Library Trustee. Diana Johnson has lived in Belmont five years and has two small children.

A former educator, she said her and her family have participated in a number of activities at the library.

“It’s small but we love it,” she said.

Challenger Sheila Sullivan said she has lived in Belmont for 13 years, moving from Laconia. She is a retired paralegal and is a volunteer on the Auxiliary Board of LRGH. She is the chair of their scholarship committee.

When asked if she went to the library, she said she doesn’t go regularly but that she works well with people and reading is her Number 1 down-time priority.

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By Gail OBer

BELMONT — Along with the other items on next week’s SB-2 ballot, voters will be asked to decide whether or not the zoning ordinances governing Best Way Disposal recycling facility on Route 140 should be amended to including solid waste transfers.

As it stands now, the site, which is operated by Casella, Inc., functions only as a transfer site for construction and demolition debris and recyclables.

If voters approve Article 2 as proposed, the site will be able to be used for transferring general household waste as well as the other uses already allowed.

Belmont has no curbside recycling and those who wish to recycle can bring their recylcables to the Casalla site.

Town Planner Candace Daigle said yesterday that the early idea is that if the zoning ordinance is passed and allows household waste disposal to the uses already allowed in the industrial zone, Casalla said it is likely the Route 140 facility will initially stay the same size.

Daigle, who said her written and verbal statements to the media in support of the change reflect the feelings of the majority of the Planning Board and its chairman.

She noted that of the 230 operating municipal and private transfer stations in the state, the Department of Environmental Services is not aware of any significant spills from permitted stations. She said

all of them must have contingency plans and all permits must meet state and town requirements.

Daigle and Town Administrator Jeanne Beaudin also noted for earlier news articles that towns that host MSW sites can enjoy a financial benefit as well.

Beaudin noted that Belmont has budgeted just over $500,000 annually for 2013 for municipal waste and the costs are expected to rise at tipping fees – or the cost charge to towns to dispose of waste, rise.

But not everyone in town is 100 percent on board with changing the ordinance.

Conservation Commission Chair Ken Knowlton isn’t entirely convinced allowing household waste to be collected direclty above an important aquifer is the right things to do.

Knowlton said yesterday that the Conservation Commission has discussed the proposed zoning amendment at the more recent meeting and its membership is torn.

“We really couldn’t oppose it with the information we were given,” he said, saying his main concern was in the future and concerned about the amount of expansion that could occur over the aquifer.

He described his feelings as more “uneasy” than against the proposed ordinance change.

He said he just wants voters to keeping in mind that the industrial zone is over the aquifer and there is a lot of household waste like batteries and lightbulbs that he would not like to see possible pollute the area.

BAND from page 2 Champion, Sr. were pleased with Ashton’s decision to upgrade the charges.

“These charges are commensurate with the acts committed,” Chestnut said. “It sends the right message regarding zero-tolerance of hazing in the FAMU band.”

Prosecutors had originally filed felony hazing charges that only required that they prove the defendants took part in a hazing that resulted in death. It didn’t require them to prove who struck the fatal blows.

A spokesman for State Attorney Jeff Ashton’s office said the prosecutor would not comment. Ashton, a 30-year veteran who was on the team that failed to convict Casey Anthony of murder in 2011, was sworn in as the area’s top prosecutor in January after beating his former boss in a hotly contested election.

David S. Weinstein, a former federal prosecutor now in private practice in Miami, said it would be easier to prove felony hazing charges than it would be to prove manslaughter.

“The easy way out is you charge them with felony hazing. That’s what they decided to do initially. You’re still holding someone accountable,” Weinstein said.

“Now you have somebody new who comes in, takes a look at the evidence, and for a combination of reasons decides the manslaughter charge is warranted.”

Weinstein also said it was not unusual for prosecutors to go ahead with the lesser charge while still gathering evidence and then later upgrade.

Two former band members whose cases were resolved last year weren’t among those charged Monday. Brian Jones and Ryan Dean have already been sentenced after pleading no-contest to thirddegree felony hazing last year.

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Must register by 3/10/13. Call 603.273.9012 or register online www.laconiafitstudy.com Four people in their early 20s were taken to Lakes Region General Hospital after a two-car crash yesterday at about 3:30 p.m. on Route 106 at the intersection of Dutile and Leavitt Roads. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Gail Ober)

Another wreck at dangerous Belmont crossing

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BELMONT — Four people from one car were taking by two ambulances to Lakes Regional General Hospital with what appeared to be not lifethreatening injuries after a two-car crash at the corner of Dutile Road and Route 106 yesterday around 3:30 p.m.

Lt. Richard Mann said it appears that the driver of a pickup truck — Steven Osmer — was trying to cross Route 106 from Dutile Road to Leavitt Road when he hit the Chevrolet Malibu, driven by Ryan Coutu, as he was driving through the intersection headed south on Route 106.

Police said it appears Osmer was stopped at the stop sign and didn’t realize how close Coutu and the Malibu were to the intersection before he tried to cross the highway.

The Malibu is likely a total loss and the truck sustained damage to the driver’s side and front.

Traffic was detoured for about 45 minutes around the crash site.

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driver of the Malibu had a head laceration and one complained of chest pain which could likely have been caused by the seat belt.

He said all of the four people in the Malibu appeared to be in their early 20s and included the driver, one male and two female passengers. The air bags in the Malibu deployed.

He said all four were able to get of the Malibu by themselves.

Belmont Fire And Rescue responded with two truck and both ambulance and were able to handle the crash themselves.

Belmont Police directed traffic along with the assistance of a New Hampshire State Trooper who happened to be in the area.

Both Mann and Parenti said the intersection at Route 106 and Dutile and Leavitt Roads is one of the more dangerous in Belmont and has been the scene of repeated accidents, both major and minor, over the years.

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A few things to ponder The Affordable Care Act, aka “ObamaCare”, is, essentially, an expansion of Medicare to all citizens. It was thought that by forcing younger people to buy health insurance, that would prop up the financially strapped Medicare. You see, by its own admission, Medicare claims to have $36 trillion in un-funded liabilities. Add to that, ten thousand “baby boomers” are retiring every day and going on the Medicare rolls. Those numbers will continue for the next 19 years.

And government appears to have made it easier for those who have exhausted their unemployment benefits, to file for Social Security disability. After 18 months, they too, will qualify for Medicare benefits. If there’s $36 trillion in un-funded liabilities now, how much more will it be when the entire citizenry is on it?

If you make something cheaper, or if you make it easier to do, more of it will happen. With that in mind,and considering we already have a physician shortage, and considering many of the seats in our medical schools are occupied by foreign students here on temporary student visas who will return to their home countries after becoming physicians, and acknowledging that many physicians have said they will take early retirement when “ObamaCare” kicks in, how do you think we will accommodate the increasing demands on the medical network?

Long waiting lines? Rationing? Services denied to the elderly?

Another issue is that Medicare essentially regulates prices. Doctors and hospitals can set their fees.

Today, those fees can be paid by those not on Medicare. However, if the patient is on Medicare, the fee paid to the doctor is set by the government. For example, the physician may charge $105 for an office visit. Medicare may only allow $65 for that visit. Medicare pays 80 percent of the $65 and the patient or his secondary insurance pays the balance. For surgeries, tests, and hospital stays, the reduction in allowable charges is even more pronounced. Prior to the Affordable Care Act, doctors and hospital could recover some of these lowered reimbursements from the amounts paid by non-Medicare patients. As that capability ceases, how does the medical community maintain its financial health? Does the entire medical system become part of the government? Just think, the government, which has Medicare with $36 Trillion in un-funded liabilities, running the entire system and

expanding that number to infinity.

Perhaps we should get China’s permission first.

When Social Security was introduced back in the mid 1930’s, there were sixteen people paying into the system for every one collecting a benefit. Today, there are less than three people contributing for every one receiving. Also, back at its inception, life expectancy was 57 years and eligibility for benefits was 65 years of age. As you can see, it looked like a good deal for the government . . . making benefits available eight years after people were expected to have died. Well, things have changed. Today life expectancy is 76 years for men and for women it is 81, but the full retirement age for Social Security has only increased by one year, to age 66.

In 1964 President Johnson needed monies to fund his “Great Society” programs. Until then, Social Security funds were kept separate from general funds. For the first time Social Security contributions were borrowed and mixed with general funds.

Government securities in the amount of the borrowed Social Security monies were put into the proverbial lock box. Those transactions didn’t impact Social Security until the annual payout of benefits exceeded the annual receipt of funds. That has happened and will only get to be more of an issue as those baby boomers continue to retire at the rate of 10,000 per day for the next 19 years.

In order to redeem those government securities, the government must sell new securities to get the funds necessary to redeem them. While the transaction doesn’t increase the debt or deficit, it may increase the interest paid and it will certainly transfer the burden of paying off the newly purchased securities to a future generation.

In 2010, the net present value of Social Security’s un-funded liabilities was estimated at $15 trillion.

Added to the Medicare un-funded liabilities of $36 trillion, we have a staggering total of $51 trillion dollars being dumped on future generations . . . our children and grandchildren and their children.

While there is no easy fix for Medicare and Social Security, each must be addressed soberly and changes made. The addition of the Affordable Care Act into the mix may be the proverbial straw on the camel’s back.

These are but two of our spending issues. Don’t you think it’s time they get addressed honestly?

(Bob Meade is a Laconia resident.)

LETTERS Vote ‘no’ on article 26. Ashland needs a Budget Committee To the editor, The Ashland Selectboard decided to add one last warrant article to present to the voters of Ashland. That is Article 26 which states: Are you in favor of abolishing Ashland’s Budget Committee pursuant to RSA 32:14,V and instead having the Board of Selectmen prepare and present the budget and hold the required public hearings?

In our current system, we have a nine-member Budget Committee consisting of seven elected members, an appointed Selectboard member (and alternate), and an appointed School Board member (and alternate).

Prior to the budget season, the Budget Committee meets with each of the department heads, the school, and the utilities at least once during the year to review current budget status and upcoming fiscal issues.

In the fall, the town department heads prepare their budgets, which are then reviewed and/or adjusted by the Selectboard and presented to the Budget Committee. The school goes through the same process with staff, administrators and the School Board before presenting to the Budget Committee. The utilities, which are primarily funded through fees and not property tax, prepare their budgets and present them to the Budget Committee for review and/or adjustment.

The Budget Committee then meets with each department to understand all issues. As it reviews and adjusts each individual budget, it considers not only the individual department needs, but also the larger picture of the town’s medium and long-term needs, revenues, other funding sources, and the potential effect on the property tax dollars that will be required. Each meeting of the Budget

Committee also provides an opportunity for public comment.

During this year’s budget season, the Budget Committee also conducted two financial forums (available on Local Public TV) in an effort to inform the public on the current financial situation of the town and provide the opportunity to offer feedback.

The Budget Committee presents the budget at a public hearing where public input is taken and then may make additional adjustments based on the public’s feedback. The budget is presented at the deliberative session where voters have the opportunity to amend the budget or warrant articles.

The final budget is then voted on by the voters in March.

We believe that the current process allows for a transparent and effective budget review and preparation with a perspective from the departments, the governing bodies, and the budget committee. This provides an effective look at the impact of all budgets as a total on the property tax burden, a balanced approach to short and long term needs and allows the voter to be better informed in their decision process.

Ultimately, Ashland voters need to decide if a majority vote of two Selectboard members should govern the town, and also prepare and present the town and utility budgets to the voters, while the school would prepare and present their budget is the preferred structure to best serve the short and long term needs of Ashland.

We recommend that you Vote NO on article 26 A No Vote on Article 26 will keep the present Budget Committee process in place Ashland Budget Committee Steve Felton, Chairman

Don Guarino will not try and rule Gilmanton as a kingdom To the editor, I have had the opportunity to work with both candidates for Gilmanton selectman. With that said, I fully support Don Guarino for selectman.

Don has always had his own mind and has been his own man. He did not rule Gilmanton as a kingdom or rush to judgment with snap decisions.

all sides knowing that no one person is always right. He remembers that as an elected official he works for the taxpayer.

Don’s intelligence, kindness and compassion for everyone makes him ideal to hold office. Please elect Don Guarino on March 12th.

Jim Hurst

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LETTERS I was willing to be dramatic to enact reasonable constraints To the editor, Earlier this week, I received a call from WMUR asking to my surprise if they could interview me concerning a school board meeting from February 21. It seems that someone by the name of S. Taylor who I do not know, sent them a personally text-edited You Tube tape of my denunciation of the current and pending school board policy of allowing concealed legal weapons such as AK-47s and Bushmasters on school property as long as they were secured out of sight in a vehicle by a non-student adult. (By the way according to the law it is okay to have the ammunition separate as in the non-students’ pocket.) S. Taylor made this either on her own or with political advice, because the media (Baysider) was present at this same meeting and then wrote an extensive article about the meeting in the February 28th edition. Funny thing though, this event was never even mentioned because it was not particularly newsworthy. If a professional media representative does not deem this newsworthy then the only possible conclusion is that it was politically motivated. As Louie in “Casablanca” once said, “...time to gather up the usual suspects.” The elementary school’s policy also permits a weapon on school property as in the case of a non-student adult carrying a legal knife. I declined to comment for the story without first notifying the superintendent, which I did by e-mail. Not receiving a response, I got to watch it the next morning with everyone else.

I also witnessed Keith Dube who lost his election against me when he ran for school board and lost again after the recount derided my actions. Think he has an agenda? Mr. Ingoldsby, who no longer works for Alton Central School, criticized my actions after I fought him tooth and nail against out of sequence raises and additional custodial hirings. Think he has an agenda?

So what really happened? You can watch the text-edited You Tube version for entertainment, or if you are seriously concerned about our children’s safety, the uncut unedited version on You Tube entitled “Alton School Board Public Hearing and Meeting February 21, 2013, part 2 of 2. Since I cannot lie or obfuscate because it is on tape, you will see and hear my arguments for a no tolerance elementary school weapons policy banning the ability to bring a concealed firearm and knife on not only school property, or within 1,000 feet of the school or on a school bus, or on a school field trip like stated in the “Gun Free School Zone Act”. Is it too much to ask an adult to leave his gun at home when picking up their child, visiting the school, or watching a ball game? What possible reason is there to take your gun and or knife with you when visiting an elementary school? What extraordinary hardship would be created for any reasonable adult? You cannot have

a gun at a federal building, library, airport or a college campus. Does it make sense to have a lower standard where our 3-year-old to 14-year-old children are most vulnerable? I guess it can’t happen in Alton, it sure can’t happen in Newtown, and it could never happen in Aurora.

Why then would we allow a knife?

Is it because it can do less damage?

Potential homicide or suicide is not okay, but maiming is? There are no constraints in the elementary school policy that says the knife must be folded, or that it must be in a case, or that it must be hidden from view.

Only that it must be on the person of a non-student adult, which is anyone over 21 years of age. There is no mental capacity constraint, maturity constraint, or any other constraint.

There is no size constraint, there is no design constraint, and there is no security constraint to touring the building including the pre-K areas with one. The reason is that New Hampshire is the only state without any knife laws unless you are a convicted felon. St Cyr, Noyes, and the most vocal, Argiropolis, are adamant in passing this policy 80 percent because they agree with it and 20 percent because I am opposed to it. With one more reading of the policy to go, I chose to use a prop to show how outrageous and ill-conceived this policy is. I showed an example of a pocket knife with a 3.5 inch blade that is legal to carry around in the elementary school including the music room where the school board was meeting. It is ridiculously wrong that I or anyone 21 years of age, can possess a knife in our elementary school.

St.Cyr said the knife must be folded.

I wish he was right, but not according to school policy. It can be a fixed blade and still be legal at the school.

Argiropolis then said on tape at the meeting there probably are people in the audience with concealed firearms.

She was probably right and it is absolutely wrong. I then asked the board if they were offended because I am.

Only one person answered, Mrs. Argiropolis said, that she indeed was “not offended”. Her justification to having a knife legally in an elementary school because firearms should be allowed is ludicrous and sophomoric at best. The policy allows a 21-year-old substitute teacher to have my kind of knife in his pocket all day. What could possibly go wrong? How about an immature assistant coach with my type of type of knife or a “legal” switchblade in his pocket?

What could possibly go wrong?

I was willing to be dramatic in my presentation to put reasonable constraints on this policy. If all the talk going on about this policy, on TV, in the newspapers, and at the school changes peoples’ minds about keeping our children safe, then I would gladly do it again and again.

Steve Miller Alton

Convention Republicans only ones showing concern for bill payers To the editor, The Republican majority in the Belknap County Convention is fighting county tax increases. These Republicans seem to be the only people in any level of government showing concern for the bill-payers (taxpayers) most of whom are already struggling in today’s poor economy.

In January, President Obama raised working people’s taxes and everyone’s cost of living. ObamaCare increased health insurance premiums and includes new taxes. And now we know that ObamaCare costs three times what President Obama promised.

Since President Obama was inaugurated, the value of middle class incomes has declined by about $4,000 annually. The percentage of people in the workforce is at a 30 year low, jobs are lost every month, and Obama’s regulations and tax policies are so anti-employer that few people are willing to take the risk of hiring more employees. Most middle income people struggle even before new government driven cost of living and tax increases.

Governor Hassan proposed increasing our state budget by almost 8 percent. The governor is committing N.H. to ObamaCare, which initially costs $4 million more just to administer and which will force huge future tax increases. If the speculative income that Hassan’s budget assumes doesn’t materialize, the state will again have to make drastic cuts or/and tax increases.

The Inter-Lakes School District proposes a 3 percent spending increase which will significantly increase Meredith property taxes. Are they educating 3 percent more students? Have they done a 3 percent better job of educating our children?

Even our selectmen propose to increase Meredith Town spending.

While a 2 percent increase is small, it’s on top of all the other tax increases.

Our nation is in desperate financial trouble. During the prosperous times of the last 60 years, politicians grew government and used government power and taxpayer money to support special interest groups while taxpayers were busy working and trusting politicians to properly manage government. That trust was misplaced.

Bad policies eventually have bad results. Now our governments spend more than taxpayers can afford. Low priority, ineffective, and unaffordable programs must be cut. But special interest groups don’t want to cut back, they think tightening one’s belt is something that only taxpayers are supposed to do.

The special interests, and their politician supporters, scream “excessive”, “mean”, “unfair”, “improper”; they try intimidation to maintain the flow of hard-earned taxpayer dollars.

Most Belknap County Republicans, under the leadership of Convention Chairman Colette Worsman are being scurrilously attacked by special intersee next page

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TRIMMING & REMOVAL OF TREES ON SCENIC ROADS Application from Public Service Company of New Hampshire (applicant) for consent from the Sanbornton Planning Board to conduct trimming and/ or removal of trees along certain “scenic roads”.

As per NH RSA 231:157-158, the Sanbornton Planning Board will hold a Public Hearing at 7:15 pm on Thursday, March 21, 2013 at Sanbornton Town Office 573 Sanborn Road (NH Route 132), Sanbornton NH to consider a request from Public Service Company of New Hampshire (PSNH) to trim and/or remove trees and brush adjacent to and beneath PSNH power lines along certain “scenic roads” in the Town of Sanbornton.

Scenic roads affected by this application include the following Town roads or portions of said roads: • Oak Hill Road (Southern Portion) • Steele Hill Road (Northern Portion north of Taylor Road) Property owners located adjacent to the affected “scenic roads” are invited to attend the Public Hearing in order to obtain information concerning the proposed tree cutting/removal project and to provide testimony to the Planning Board. Property owners having any questions may contact the Sanbornton Town Planner on Tuesdays or Thursdays at the above-listed telephone number.

Following the Public Hearing, the Planning Board shall consider granting written consent to the applicant to conduct such trimming and removal of trees.

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LETTERS When are you packing your bags to go out west and pick fruit?

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING SANBORNTON PLANNING BOARD Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 7:00 PM Meeting Room of the Sanbornton Town Office, 573 Sanborn Road, Sanbornton NH FIRST PUBLIC HEARING FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE FOLLOWING PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO SANBORNTON ZONING ORDINANCE AS PER NH RSA 675:3 and 675:7 Amendment #1 Are you in favor of the adoption of Amendment #1 as proposed by the Planning Board to add a new definition to Article 3 of the Sanbornton Zoning Ordinance? The proposed addition is to ADD THE FOLLOWING NEW DEFINITION TO ARTICLE 3 (DEFINITIONS), as follows: “Senior Housing shall mean a building or group of buildings containing dwellings whose occupancy is restricted to persons sixty (60) years of age or older, or couples where one family member is at least sixty (60) years of age. This does not include a development that contains nursing facilities.”

Reasoning: Approval of this addition to the definitions section of the Zoning Ordinance simply defines a type of housing. It does not amend the Zoning Ordinance to allow Senior Housing in any zoning district of the town.

(The Planning Board supports the adoption of this amendment.)

Amendment #2 Are you in favor of the adoption of Amendment #2 as proposed by the Planning Board to add a new definition to Article 3 of the Sanbornton Zoning Ordinance? The proposed addition is to ADD THE FOLLOWING NEW DEFINITION TO ARTICLE 3 (DEFINITIONS), as follows: “Front Setback shall mean the minimum required distance between the front lot line and the front line of a building or structure extended to side lot lines of the lot.”

Reasoning: This is a “house-keeping” amendment which will clarify questions concerning setback requirements by adding the definition of Front Setback.

(The Planning Board supports the adoption of this amendment.)

Amendment #3 Are you in favor of the adoption of Amendment #3 as proposed by the Planning Board to AMEND ARTICLE 4 (GENERAL PROVISIONS), SECTION X, Sub-section 1.(c), which pertains to standards for accessory apartments. The proposed amendment is to replace existing language with the wording shown in bold italics: “The accessory apartment may contain no more than two (2) bedrooms, with a maximum floor area of 850 sq. ft., and shall meet all applicable building codes and environmental regulations.”

Reasoning: This change will increase the number of bedrooms allowed in an accessory apartment from one bedroom to two bedrooms. The addition of one more bedroom will necessitate an increase in the allowable square footage for an accessory apartment from the current 700 square feet to the proposed 850 square feet. This amendment is recommended by various housing experts and will help satisfy a state mandate concerning workforce housing.

(The Planning Board supports the adoption of this amendment.)

Amendment #4 Are you in favor of the adoption of Amendment #4 as proposed by the Planning Board to AMEND ARTICLE 12 (AQUIFER CONSERVATION DISTRICT), SECTION D.(3); as follows: add the following language at the end of Section D.(3): “unless a storm water management system is designed, approved, installed and maintained to retain on-site all precipitation and to purify and recharge said precipitation into the ground. The afore-mentioned storm water management system shall be maintained by the applicant and all subsequent owners of the property. In those cases where these conditions are met, the Planning Board may permit the following: 1) Additional uses which may include multi-family residential, commercial or industrial uses; and 2) Maximum impervious coverage on the lot not to exceed 60% impervious coverage.”

Reasoning: This change will allow the Planning Board, in those cases where proper environmental safeguards are provided and where the other provisions of the Aquifer Conservation District are satisfied, to grant site plan approval for additional uses such as multi-family residential, commercial or industrial uses and to grant site plan approvals for developments which propose increased impervious lot coverage.

(The Planning Board supports the adoption of this amendment.)

The exact wording of the proposed amendments is available for inspection at the Selectmen’s Office and the Town Clerk’s Office in the Sanbornton Administrative Office Building during its published working hours. Voters and interested persons are encouraged to come in during office hours and review the proposed zoning amendments prior to the Public Hearing.

At the Public Hearing, the Planning Board may announce the date of a future Public Hearing as per the requirements of NH RSA 675:3 and 675:7.

To the editor, To Mr. Ewing: The REAL answer is that illegal aliens are NOT eligible for government assistance. This includes welfare. This doesn’t mean that sometimes they do get it, for example Texas gives about $70B in welfare but mostly due to fraud or to the children of illegals who are eligible. The biggest problem we have with all these benefits is fraudulent claims mostly medical, or anything else they can sneak by with. Remember there are many store owners here that will, for a few dollars, accept an illegal welfare check which hurts us all. The major problem is that there are not “welfare police” to straighten out this mess. As usual this has been going on for years and years but now it’s all Obamas fault.

I have to laugh when you say they are stealing our low paying jobs. When are you packing your bags to go out west to start picking fruit? They were doing these jobs before we were in that part of the country so please get real. The

last thing Obama wants to do is cut jobs, like those that will be cut due to this sequester. The GOP love it because it increases the unemployment rate and makes Obama look bad. Didn’t work the last election did it? Even though you don’t believe this, most of your claims can be put onto the backs of the GOP and NOT Obama. But overall the bottom line REAL problem is that the two parties will not work together for anything positive. Your GOP will say “no” to anything Obama wants, even if they wanted it at one time. So the Dems don’t waste their time trying to cross the aisles because the GOP will just change their minds again. The GOP is becoming so crazy that they made Gov. Christie an outcast because he did his job for the people of Jersey and actually spoke with the president.

Lastly you also have Mitch McConnell who fillibustered his own bill.

Ashley Judd should have fun with him next year.

Jon Hoyt Franklin

We are lucky to have Lou Kahn volunteer to serve Meredith To the editor, I’m writing this letter to endorse and support Lou Kahn for Meredith Selectman.

I got to know Lou through my volunteering with the FRIENDS of Meredith Parks and Recreation. At the time, our focus was on the Childs Park project. Those that have lived in Meredith Center for a long time know how badly this park needed to be updated.

It was a long process but in the end the community was able to celebrate the grand opening this past fall. As a community, we approved several warrant articles and also raised money through private donations — but we still had not reached our goal. After a few discussions with Lou, who has been a resident of Meredith for a number of years, he stepped forward to donate the remaining funds so the Childs Park project could be completed. The donation was made in the name of Lou’s late wife, Bobby Smyth. As many of you

know, Bobby loved Meredith and cared deeply for Meredith Center.

Lou has stepped up numerous times and served the town in a number of capacities, including volunteering for a number of different boards and committees in town. These are valuable experiences that I believe will serve as a strong foundation for Lou as he navigates the various responsibilities of being a Meredith Selectman .

Many people in our community are busy and, due to work and family obligations, are unable to volunteer their time, attend community meetings, and serve the town. We are lucky to have someone like Lou, and all the other volunteers in our community, who do have the time, experience, and willingness to step forward for the good of our community.

Please cast your vote for Lou Kahn on Tuesday, March 10th.

Tami Carpentiere Meredith

Say ‘no’ to Plymouth zoning amendments #2, #3 and #4 To the editor, Plymouth is at a crossroad: — The Environmentally Sensitive Zone is protected by state and federal regulations as well as the Shoreline Protection Act. The Plymouth Zoning and Planning boards have always worked diligently to adhere to all regulations.

— Say no to zoning amendments #2, #3 and #4.

— In 2007/2008 the sitting Zoning and Planning Board approved the Lowe’s development on the same property being developed now. from preceding page est groups and their supporters for working to get County spending under control. They deserve our enthusiastic thanks.

Our country needs representatives at every level of government who are similarly dedicated to effective and affordable government.

Don Ewing Meredith

— Then during a two year period, abutters had challenged the legality of this development and violations by the Zoning, Planning Board and town. All were exonerated. This challenge cost the town of Plymouth almost $100,000 of your tax dollars.

Also Lowe’s was going to put in a town baseball field, canoe and kayak launching site and give the town land for a West Plymouth fire annex.

— The State Supreme Court as well as two lowers courts, Zoning Board and Planning Board, and town attorney determined all was lawful and complied with all regulations and laws. That ruling affirmed the local board’s decisions on all points, both procedurally and statutorily.

— All the permitting on the current development has been approved by the state and federal agencies and has complied with all current regulations of the ESZ. The water from this development with its filtration see next page

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LETTERS Let’s not damage our economy on the whims of environmentalists To the editor, Family and friends have assured me that hurricanes and droughts have increased to new and terrifying levels in recent years. How do they know this? These supposed facts have been reported repeatedly in the mainstream media including our cherished “Weather Channel”. This should come as no surprise to anyone who understands the dynamics of Obamamania in the media. Our president asserts that climate change is causing droughts to become more common and storms to become more severe. He has decreed that it is so and so, it has been written in stone. Or at least in the N.Y. Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post and all over the television landscape, save for the Fox News Channel.

Here is some additional data as a followup to my previous letters on this subject. This comes from a Nature Climate Change Journal report from last fall. Measurements accumulated by tropical cyclone and hurricane activity indicate that this activity has actually been quite low in recent decades. The report goes on to assert that, “there

has been little change in drought over the past 60 years” when measured on a global scale.

The whole point of my letters on this issue is as follows: (1) producing inefficient electric cars that are too expensive to sell; (2) putting up gigantic, landscape crushing wind turbines around Newfound Lake with little proof of their net efficiency; (3) confiscating huge sums of public money to invest in unproven green technologies in order to make politicians and environmentalists feel good about themselves are morally and ethically repugnant endeavors and economically damaging to the fiscal health of our country.

Let’s keep our environment clean and sustainable through real and honest debate based on verifiable scientific facts shall we? Let’s all act like adults and not damage our economy based on the whims of the environmentalists who apparently have succumbed to the intoxicating lust for power and money. Is that really too much to ask?

Russ Wiles Tilton

Are you arguing people in Tilton should only pay for what they use?

To the editor, There seems to be some unhappy taxpayers in Tilton. They are upset over last year’s Warrant Article that spread all sewer betterments to all the taxpayers .They have petitioned a new Warrant Article for March16 to put the tax burden back on the shoulders of 518 property owners, some whom still have tax leans from past betterment bills. Thier biggest complaint is, “Why should we pay for something we are not connected to, nor use.?” ITS UNFAIR. Good point .NOW HERE’S MINE. For the last 25 years my wife and I have paid property taxes to the Town of Tilton. We have no children, yet part of our taxes over the years have helped pay for your kids education. In 25 years we have never used the town library, the parks, the transfer station or, thank God, been in need of health and welfare aid. Our taxes help pay for all these

amenities that we have never used .

You don’t hear us WHINING. You see TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME. What about the lake front seasonal property owners? They are assessed through the roof .They come up here three months a summer, most of their homes are on private roads, their tax dollars help keep our town running 12 months a year. I don’t hear them WHINING either.

You might want to think about these things before you vote March 16.

There has been three sewer projects in Tilton over the last 15 years, which have greatly improved the quality of our lakes, rivers, and streams, from which we ALL benefit. Do we as taxpayers want to start fractionalizing future town improvements. Be careful, THAT DOOR CAN SWING BOTH WAYS. Tom Sellew Lochmere

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Ayotte complains about partisanship while she votes with far right To the editor, We keep seeing Senator Ayotte in the news. She spends most of her time acting like a parrot as she speaks the sound bites of the “Grumpy Old Men”.

It is time that she stops trying to promote her career and starts worrying about the people of New Hampshire.

In 2010, in her campaign, she spoke in support of Social Security and Medicare and the benefits for her mother. She talked jobs, jobs and more jobs. As a senator she has become a pseudo authority on Benghazi and a from preceding page system will return to the soil in better quality than the runoff from Tenney Mountain Highway.

— It is time we attract companies that will employ people from the local

supporter of the filibuster to hold up the will of the majority. Where are the jobs? Have you heard her fighting for the people who sent her to the Senate?

She complains about partisan politics as she votes the positions of the far right. She talks about her ideas without sharing the details with us.

We need to store her performance in our memories and make sure she is a one term senator!

Paul Bonneville Lochmere (Tilton)

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Again Say “NO” to Zoning petition amendments #2,#3,#4.

John Randlett Plymouth

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Fire Chief Ken Erickson said the owner of 325 Darby Drive had just returned home from work at about 8:30 p.m. and was taking the trash out to the garage.

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elderly, McGinnis said: “This was so horrifying. I’ve never seen this happen before.”

State officials did not know Monday whether the woman who talked to the 911 dispatcher actually was a nurse, or just identified herself as one during the call. She said one of the home’s policies prevented her from doing CPR, according to an audio recording of the call.

“The consensus is if they are a nurse and if they are at work as a nurse, then they should be offering the appropriate medical care,” said Russ Heimerich, spokesman for the California Board of Registered Nursing, the agency that licenses health care providers.

The executive director of Glenwood Gardens, Jeffrey Toomer, defended the nurse in a written statement, saying she followed the facility’s policy.

“In the event of a health emergency at this independent living community, our practice is to immediately call emergency medical personnel for assistance and to wait with the individual needing attention until such personnel arrives,” Toomer said.

“That is the protocol we followed.”

Toomer offered condolences to the woman’s family and said a thorough internal review would be conducted. He told KGET-TV that residents of the facility are informed of the policy and agree to it when they move in. He said the policy does not apply at the adjacent assisted living and skilled nursing facilities.

Multiple calls to the facility and its parent company seeking more information were not returned.

Unlike nursing homes, which provide medical care, independent living facilities generally do not.

“These are like apartments for seniors. You’re basically living on your own. They may have some services provided by basic nursing staff, but it’s not their responsibility to care for the individual,” said Dr. Susan Leonard, a geriatrics expert at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Staff members are “required to perform and provide CPR” unless there’s a do-not-resuscitate order, said Greg Crist, a senior vice president at the American Health Care Association.

Bayless did not have such an order on file at the facility, said Battalion Chief Anthony Galagaza of the Bakersfield Fire Department, which was the first on the scene. That’s when firefighters immediately began CPR, continuing until she reached the hospital.

Dr. Patricia Harris, who heads the University of Southern California’s geriatrics division, said the survival odds are slim among elderly who receive CPR. Even if they survive, they are never the same.

She said she would override the home’s policy and risk getting fired “rather than watch somebody die in front of me.”

During the call, an unidentified woman called from her cellphone, and asked for paramedics to be sent to help the woman. Later, a woman who identified herself as the nurse got on the phone and told dispatcher Tracey Halvorson she was not permitted to do CPR on the woman.

Halvorson urged the nurse to start CPR, warning the consequences could be dire if no one tried to revive the woman, who had been laid out on the floor on her instructions.

“I understand if your boss is telling you, you can’t do it,” the dispatcher said. “But ... as a human being ... you know, is there anybody that’s willing to help this lady and not let her die?”

“Not at this time,” the nurse answered.

Halvorson assured the nurse that Glenwood couldn’t be sued if anything went wrong in attempts to resuscitate the resident, saying the local emergency medical system “takes the liability for this call.”

Later in the call, Halvorson asked, “Is there a gardener? Any staff, anyone who doesn’t work for you? Anywhere? Can we flag someone down in the street and get them to help this lady? Can we flag a see next page

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Justin Fortier of St. Raymond, Quebec smiles after hearing on Sunday afternoon that his team won the Laconia World Championship Sled Dog Derby. Fortier, 20, became the youngest musher ever to win the derby. He is congratulated by Diane Marquis of St. Medard, Quebec, co-owner of his kennel. (Roger Amsden/for The Laconia Daily Sun)

20-year-old rallies on final day to win Derby

BY ROGER AMSDEN LACONIA — Justin Fortier of St. Raymond, Quebec, became the youngest driver ever to win the Laconia World Championship Sled Dog Derby by overcoming a deficit of more than three minutes with a nearly flawless Sunday run that catapulted him from third to first place.

Fortier, 20, a carpenter from a small town some 40 miles northwest of Quebec City, said that his decision to switch his lead dog on Sunday from a five and a half year old dog to one only 18 months old helped pave the way for his outstanding Sunday run. ‘’We were very good today. I’m really proud of my team,’’ said Fortier, as he waited at the finish line in a field off from Old North Main Street Sunday afternoon for confirmation from the official scorer that he had won. ‘’We did it!’’ he said as Lakes Region Sled Dog Club announcer Tony Roux announced over the loudspeaker that Fortier had pulled off a major upset by eclipsing the three minute, 19 second lead held by two-time champion Claude Bellerive of Charette, Quebec, and finished 50 seconds ahead with a threeday time of 2 hours, 14 minutes and 20 seconds compared to two hours, 15 minutes and 10 seconds for Bellerive.

Fortier was hugged immediately

by Diane Marquis of St. Medard, Quebec, co-owner of his kennel, and his mother, Andree Fortier, who was latter honored with the Keith Bryar and Charlie Ned Memorial Trophy as the best dog handler in the open class.

Fortier said that most of the dogs on his team are one and a half to two years old and many had not even been born when the last Laconia Derby was held in 2011. ‘’I didn’t race here two years ago

because I didn’t have a kennel.’’ said Fortier, who finished third in the 2009 six-dog event and has been driving sled dogs for eight years.

He raced with 16 dogs on Friday and Saturday and dropped down to 14 dogs on Sunday.

Marquis, who runs the Chenil Claudie Kennel, says that her dogs are an Alaskan Husky-German Shorthaired Pointer mix and that she has been breeding and selling sled dogs for 20 years. ‘’They are well-behaved, friendly dogs who are easy to manage,’’ said Marquis, who raced her own team in the six-dog class and finished seventh.

Fortier beat out not only Bellerive, who won the derby in 2007 and 2008, but also Keith Bryar Jr., of Moultonborough, defending champion, who won in 2011 and in 2002;, and Guy Girard of St. Thomas Joliette, Quebec, who had the second best times on both Friday and Saturday and has raced in Alaska.

Girard finished third with an overall time of 2:23.28 and Bryar was fourth with a time of 2:23.28.

Bellerive, whose daughter Melanie won the six-dog championship, was in trouble right at the start of Sunday’s race when he lost about 40 seconds as he had to switch lead dogs. He then lost a lost of time on one of the trail loops when his team went past a turn they needed to make and he had to walk them back around.

The youngest musher to win a Laconia race prior to this year’s 84th annual derby was John Piscopo Jr. of Tilton, who was 21 when he won in 1969. Piscopo, who won again the following year, was also the youngest musher ever to race in the Laconia Derby and was only 13 years old when he raced in 1961.

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Sgt. Jason Matson of the Bakersfield Police Department said its investigation so far had not revealed criminal wrongdoing, but the probe is continuing.

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Selectmen add $10k to budget for water system improvements in village BELMONT — Selectmen voted unanimously last week to allow $10,000 from the existing capital works fund to pay for additional engineering and design work on the Phase 2 portion of the village revitalization.

The purpose of the additional engineering is to relocate the existing water mains that cross private property in the Spring Street area on to areas the parallel the exiting streets in the area.

“This would be our time to move them,” said Public Works Director Jim Fortin to the Board of Selectmen on Monday.

Town Administrator Jeanne Beaudin said relocation of the water lines is outside the scope of the proposed $355,000 Phase 2 renovation scheduled to begin this spring and would be covered by the capital works accounts.

The Belmont Revitalization Project is

to energize an ongoing effort to reinvigorate the village area. The first phase began last summer and concentrated on Main Street, the reconfiguration of Mill and Center Street and upgrading the water and sewer system in the area.

Phase 1 included additional parking and more green space.

Phase 2, for which the town applied for a United States Department of Agriculture Community Development Block Grant last December, will replace the waterline on Gales, Spring, Nelson, Lawrence, the rest of Sargent, Memorial and School Streets.

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“The NRA 500 is the latest announcement in the long history of a growing partnership between the NRA, Speedway Motorsports and the NASCAR community,” LaPierre said. “NRA members and NASCAR fans love their country and everything that is good and right about America. We salute our flag, volunteer in our churches and communities, cherish our families and we love racing. On April 13, we’ll all come together at Texas Motor Speedway.”

The sponsorship does seem like a natural. It’s been a tradition at TMS that the winner of the Cup race gets to fire off a six-shooter in victory lane. And the winner of the pole gets a rifle as a prize.

At the Cup season-opening Daytona 500, Michael Waltrip drove a Toyota with a paint scheme supporting a relief fund for victims of the Sandy Hook shootings.

The Newtown-emblazoned car of Swan Racing was unveiled by NASCAR chairman Brian France in a news conference at Daytona, part of a one-race arrangement for the team.

France and his wife announced they would donate $50,000 to the Sandy Hook School Support Fund, which the NASCAR Foundation would match.

Texas is owned by Speedway Motorsports Inc. “They saw it was obviously a very attractive sports marketing opportunity and seized it. That’s what it’s all about,” Gossage said. “It’s about putting on one of the great sporting events in America.

I know in Atlanta last year they saluted a lot of the people that make America free. They are going to salute American freedoms and American families with this race. That’s their plan so it seemed to be a good fit.”

NASCAR said in a statement Monday that “race entitlement partnerships” are agreements directly between the track and the sponsor though NASCAR reserves the right to approve or disapprove those sponsorships.

“The race sponsor for Texas Motor Speedway’s April event falls within the guidelines for approval for that event,” NASCAR’s statement said.

Wayne LaPierre, the NRA’s executive vice president and CEO, expressed his excitement about the deal in a video message played during the track’s media day. Gossage said LaPierre wasn’t able to attend because of a scheduling conflict.

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SPORTS Belmont-Gilford hockey can’t get past Kennett The Belmont-Gilford hockey team was knocked out of title contention on Saturday night by visitors from Kennett. The Eagles scored first, often and last, beating the Bulldogs by the score of 5-2.

The fifth-seeded Kennett will next face top-seeded Berlin in the semi-final round. That game will be held on Wednesday night at the Everett Arena in Concord.

Kennett’s first goal, scored by Nick Ansaldi, came less than two minutes into the first period. Anthony LaRusso gave the Eagles a two-goal lead with about nine minutes left in the first. Ansaldi scored his second and Kennett’s third on a breakaway at the beginning of the second period. With 1:59 remaining in the second, Bryan Baker put Kennett up by four.

The Bulldogs resorted to pulling the goalkeeper halfway through the final period, a strategy which paid off as Belmont-Gilford’s Dylan Treamer put his team on the board with 3:17 remaining. Tom Kuntz pulled the Bulldogs within two with 1:43 left in the game. The resurging Bulldogs fell short, though. Kennett earned the final goal, when a clearing shot from behind Kennett’s blue line outpaced Belmont-Gilford’s racing defenders on its way toward an empty net.

LMS boys win Bow Invitational The Laconia Middle School boys’ A team concluded its season this weekend by being crowned champions of the 28th Annual Bow Invitational Basketball Tournament. The Sachems played five games over the winter break and were able to win four en route to the championship.

The week started with a game against Hudson. It was all offense in this one, as the young Sachems posted a 72-68 victory. Jake Filgate dropped a season high 30 points while the team’s big men, Carter Doherty (14 points) and Drew Muzzey (season high 17 points) came up big in their supporting roles.

Next game on the schedule was against Oyster River. It was another big offensive output by the Sachems, as they scored a 60-48 win. This time it was Doherty who went for his season high of 31 points to go with 10 rebounds. Nick Drouin added 9 points and Filgate had 8 points and 8 boards.

A sharp shooting Jaffrey/Rindge team was next.

Unfortunately the Sachems could not stop the Jafsee LMS page 15

Gilford’s Josh Joyce drives past Campbell’s Justin DiBenedetto during the NHIAA Division III quarterfinal game on Saturday evening.

(Karen Bobotas/for the Laconia Daily Sun)

Gilford upset by Campbell, 57-55

By AdAm drApcho THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

GILFORD — Chip Veazey said it seemed as though his team was marching toward a victory on Saturday night, when Gilford High School hosted Campbell in the quarter-final round of the NHIAA Division III basketball tournament. Campbell had jumped out to an early lead, but Gilford charged back, outscoring the visitors in the second period. Before the Golden Eagles could finally dig themselves out of the hole, though, the final buzzer sounded. Campbell had held on to win, 57-55.

“We got off to a slow start,” Veazey said on Monday, after having a day to think about the game. Campbell had throttled Gilford’s offense by employing a “diamond plus one” defense – a four-man zone with the fifth player assigned exclusively to shut down Josh Joyce, the Golden Eagles’ leading scorer. Veazey said his team wasn’t “completely surprised” by the defensive look, and had in fact spent a day of practice preparing for such. However, solving an anticipated problem at practice is different than facing the real thing in a game, the Eagles found out. “It took us see GHS next page

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SPORTS Gilford co-ed grade 3/4 allstars win invitational tournament in Franklin The Gilford co-ed grade 3/4 allstars won the 2013 Franklin Parks & Recreation Department’s 24th Annual February Vacation Invitational Basketball Tournament. Gilford played a tough Belmont team in the final game to win the tournament on March 2. Shown here, left to right, head coach John Mitchell, Riley Marsh, assistant coach Mike Marsh, Jack Mclean, Curtis Nelson, Alex Cheek, Allison Carr, Kelsey McKenna, Ken Valentine, Thomas Deyarmond, Jason Callahan, Alex Berube, Julia Spooner, Andrew Flanders, Johnathan Mitchell, assistant coach Brian Flanders. (Photo courtesy of Jenn Mclean)

Tilton School varsity girls are NEPSAC Class B basketball champions The Tilton School varsity girls’ basketball team captured the NEPSAC Class B Championship on Sunday afternoon, with a 49-41 win over Pomfret School. It’s the Rams’ second championship in four years, and the first since the team moved to Class B at the start of the 2011-2012 season.

The Rams found themselves trailing at halftime for the second consecutive game. Behind 22-19, Tilton was led by postgraduate and co-captain Abby Iannotti (North Bennington, Vt.) with seven points and five rebounds. Ianotti finished the game with 15 points and 12 rebounds for her eleventh doubledouble of the season.

Tilton came out of the locker room storming, led

by senior co-captain Alex Cohen (Nashua, N.H.) and the tournament MVP, junior Maureen Taggart (Mill River, Vt.) Cohen finished with 11 points, including two key threes to start a 9-0 run and give the Rams the momentum they needed to finish. Taggart, who hit three, three-point shots in the second, finished with 12 points and 7 rebounds.

“At this point I’ve had no better moment in my coaching career,” said fourth-year head coach Tara Brisson. “I’m unbelievably proud of the toughness and determination that this squad showed on a daily basis. After graduating last year’s starting lineup, I was unsure of who would step-up this season. And see next page

GHS preceding page half a game to figure out what we wanted to do.”

The Eagles, who came into the game as the fourth seed in the tournament and favored over the fifthseeded Cougars, went into halftime looking at a ninepoint deficit. By that point, Veazey said, his offense had found a way to find shots and the Eagles defense allowed the team to pull within one by the end of three and had tied the game early in the fourth.

As is always tempting after a close loss, Veazey looked back at missed opportunities that could have swung the decision in his favor. A missed open layup, a couple of uncontested but unsuccessful three-point attempts by an otherwise sure shooter, free throw attempts that bounced off the rim, Gilford was unable to assert command of the game.

Making Gilford’s mis-steps all the more glaring was Campbell senior guard Max Gouveia, who scored 21 points in the game. Many of those points came from the free-throw line, as Veazey said his players had trouble defending Gouveia’s drives. “We put him on

the line way too much.”

Regrets aside, Veazey said there were several aspects of the game the Eagles can be proud of. “We adjusted well, our defense for the most part was pretty good.” Veazey saw great performances from seniors Sam Prescott and David Sykie, who led the team’s offensive production. He also liked what he saw from younger players, such as Rich Edson, Cam Partridge and Jack Athanas. Max Troiano, a sophomore, “has really stepped up for us,” said Veazey.

Joyce is also a sophomore, as is Kaleb Orton, who has grown into a powerful post player.

Although this season ended abruptly for Gilford, Veazey noted that he’s only losing three seniors this year. “Everyone else is back. We had a very competitive JV team, the future is bright for this program.”

“It’s a nice group of kids, things look pretty good,” he continued, explaining that the players exhibit certain intangible qualities that mark a winning team. “The chemistry is good, that’s always important. They played well together.”

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Melissa Furbish performs in PSU Theatre production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot PLYMOUTH, — Melissa Furbish of Plymouth, an Interdisciplinary Studies - Theatre and English major at Plymouth State University will perform the roles of Gloria and Mother Teresa in a production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, March 7-10 at the Silver Center for the Arts.

Produced by the Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance at PSU, this controversial and comedic play by Stephen Adly Guirgis is set in present day Purgatory, with flashbacks to Judas’ childhood and adult life. The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is presented as a court case during which two lawyers bring numerous witnesses including Mother Teresa, Pontius Pilate and Satan before a judge to discuss Judas’ motives.

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LMS from page 13 frey snipers as they lost 43-38. Drew Muzzey led his team with 12 points and Ryan McCrea came off the bench to chip in his season high 10 points.

The loss put the Sachems in the loser’s bracket where they met Oyster River again. Hungry for another shot at Jaffrey/Rindge, the Sachems left no doubt as they posted a 55-33 victory. Doherty dropped 15 points to go with 8 boards, Drouin and Muzzey had 7 points each, and Dalibor Kresovic scored 6 off the bench. Filgate led the defensive effort with 6 steals.

They wanted Jaffrey and they got Jaffrey in the championship. Trailing by 8 at the half, Filgate took matters into his own hands, and led his team with 18 points and 11 rebounds. Coming off the bench and helping to shut down the Jaffrey team was Riley Roy with 4 steals and Drew Muzzey with 5 blocked shots. The game came right down to the wire as the Sachems held on for a thrilling 35-33 victory. Garnering awards for Laconia were Doherty, all tournament player, and Filgate, tournament MVP. “It was a great way to wrap up our season. They kids never gave up. They came to play and we accomplished what we wanted to accomplish. I am extremely proud of the season these kids had. They definitely over achieved this year.” said coach Rod Roy.

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Besides being NEPSAC champions and talented basketball players, they are just outstanding kids.

We accomplished what we wanted to accomplish.”

Tilton, who had been led throughout its 24-3 season by a balanced scoring attack, also received contributions from sophomore Giulia Orlando (Georgetown, Mass.) (10 points, six rebounds, 5 assists), and junior Jillian Fama (Lynnfield, Mass.)

(5 points, 5 rebounds). Juniors Kelsey Brown (Barrington, N.H.) and Cori Marshall (Toronto, Canada) added valuable minutes off the bench for Tilton.

The Rams finish the season at 24-3, as Lakes Region Champions for the fourth consecutive season and as NEPSAC Class B Champions. They will lose six seniors to graduation: Ianotti, Cochen, four-year team member Mackenzie Gaudet (Concord, N.H.), four-year team member Taylor Cavanaugh (Tilton, N.H.), Olivia Abry (Boston, Mass.) and Sarah Morrissette (Laconia, N.H.) Tilton will return three starters from this year’s championship team, who will be eying a fifth consecutive trip to the championship game next year.

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Ann G. Hood, 81

LACONIA — Ann Graham Hood, 81 of 227 Ledges Drive, #322, Taylor Community, died on February 28th at Lakes Region General Hospital.

Ann, the daughter of Clifford Lloyd and Pearl Ivalou Graham, was born in Bristol, Tennessee and was raised in Laconia, New Hampshire where she was a graduate of her beloved Laconia High School, Class of 1950.

Ann graduated from Westbrook Junior College for Women in June of 1952.

On Memorial Day in 1957 she married Dr. Richard Frank Hood and moved to Boscawen for a brief period of time before settling in Concord.

She was an active member of The South Congregational Church where she taught Sunday school and served on several committees and helped organize social functions. Other activities included being an enthusiastic member of the Concord Junior Service League, a den mother for her sons Cub Scout troop and a leader for her daughters Girl Scout troop.

She resided on Norwich St. from 1959-1981 when she and Dick moved to Mountain Road in East Concord and became the first residents in the Blye Farm Condominiums where she served on the association’s board.

In 1992 Ann and Dick moved to the house that her father, Clifford had built in 1940. In 2007 they moved to Woodside at the Taylor Community.

She is predeceased by her husband of 53 years, Dr. Richard F. Hood and her older sister, Nancy G. Rich of Laconia.

Ann is survived by her five children: Nancy Ann Hood of Laconia; Gregory Graham Hood and his wife Linda of Manchester and their two sons Peter and

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There will be no calling hours.

A funeral service will be held on Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 11:00 AM at the Laconia Congregational Church, 69 Pleasant Street, Laconia, New Hampshire. Reverend Dr. Warren Bouton, Pastor of the church, will officiate.

A private family burial will be in Union Cemetery, Laconia New Hampshire.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Got Lunch! Laconia, NH, a summer lunch program for school children. Donations can be mailed to: Got Lunch! 18 Veterans Square, Laconia, NH 03246.

Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home and Crematorium Services, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, NH is in charge of the arrangements. For more information and to view an online memorial go to www.wilkinsonbeane.com.

Marshall D. Whedon, Jr., 92 LACONIA — Marshall D. Whedon, Jr., 92, of 177 Morningside Drive, died at the St. Francis Nursing Home & Rehabilitation Center on Thursday, February 28, 2013.

Mr. Whedon was born August 31, 1920 in Franklin, N.H., the son of the late Myrtle L. (Haley) and Marshall D. Whedon, Sr. He was a longtime resident of Laconia and was a 1939 graduate of Laconia High School. He served in the U. S. Army during WWII and had been employed by Willey’s Express, Inc., for forty-two years.

Survivors include three daughters, Marcia A. St. Louis of Tilton, N.H, Jean M. Baker of Elizabeth City, N. C. and Ginger A. Ainsworth and her husband, Bill, of Port St. Lucie, Florida; a son, James M. Whedon and his wife, Kathy, of Loudon, N.H.; twelve grandchildren; thirteen great grandchildren; two sisters, Patricia Batchelder of Whiting, New Jersey and Deanna Joyce of Hudson, N.H. and many nephews and nieces.

In addition to his parents, Mr. Whedon was predeceased by his wife of sixty-five years, Eugenia “Dolly” (O’Mara) Whedon, in 2007, by a son, Thomas

M. Whedon, in 2003 and by a sister, Priscilla F. Mazzaschi, in 2003.

Calling hours will be held on Tuesday, March 5, 2013 from 5:00-8:00PM in the Carriage House of the Wilkinson-BeaneSimoneau-Paquette Funeral Home, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N.H. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. Andre Bessette Parish, St. Joseph Church, 30 Church Street, Laconia, N.H. on Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 10:00AM. Spring burial will be in the family lot at St. Lambert Cemetery, Laconia, N.H. For those who wish, the family suggests that memorial donations be made to the New Hampshire Association for the Blind, McGreal Sight Center, 25 Walker Street, Concord, NH 03301 or to the Holy Trinity Catholic School, 50 Church Street, Laconia, NH 03246.

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

Audrey S. Hentz, 91 WALLINGFORD, Conn. — Audrey S. Hentz, 91, married to Donald N. Hentz for 66 years, died on February 27, 2013 at Masonicare Health Center in Wallingford, CT. She was born in New Haven, CT on May 26, 1921, daughter of the late Louis and Signe Samuelson Starbranch. She lived most of her life in West Haven, CT. Audrey is survived by her daughter, Barbara (Paul) Cran of Branford, CT and her son, Douglas Hentz, of Meredith. She is also survived by seven grandchildren, Erica Lindblad of New York City, PFC Douglas Lindblad, stationed at Fort Campbell, KY and Alexis Cran of Branford; Maura Hentz of California; Taryn Hentz of Colorado and Trevor and Max Hentz of Meredith.

stitch, crewel, bead, and chair caning. She enjoyed many summers at Camp Iroquois on Lake Winnespaukee, New Hampshire.

Audrey was a faithful parishioner at Bethesda Lutheran Church, New Haven, CT where for many years she was actively involved in the annual church fair.

A Memorial Service will be held on March 18, 2013 at 11:00 am at Bethesda Lutheran Church, 305 Saint Ronan Street, New Haven, CT. Interment will be private.

Beecher & Bennett, 2300 Whitney Ave, Hamden, CT in care of arrangements. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be sent to Masonicare Home Health and Hospice, 33 North Plains Industrial Road, Wallingford, CT 06492. To send a condolence

Eleanor B. Baker, 97

LACONIA — Mrs. Eleanor B. Baker, a resident of Laconia, New Hampshire and formerly of Melrose, Massachusetts passed away peacefully at home on Saturday morning, March 2, 2013, at the age of 97.

Mrs. Baker was born in Malden, MA on April 15, 1915, daughter of the late Richard C. and Agnes E. (Pearson) Baker. She resided for the first half of her life in the adjacent city of Melrose. She first vacationed on Lake Winnipesaukee in the 1920’s and later spent many delightful summers in the Lakes Region. She and her husband, H. Allan Baker, built their home in Laconia in 1973 and moved there permanently in 1977. She was a professional decorative painter and taught these skills for many years, with classes in Melrose and Laconia. Her accomplishments ranged broadly across other craft-related fields including quilting, cross stitching, rug braiding, rug hooking, ceramics, and card stamping.

She was predeceased by her husband, H. Allan Baker and is survived by her two sons, Richard A. Baker, and his wife Patricia of Kensington, MD, and Robert N. Baker of Weymouth, MA and Laconia, NH; by two grandsons, Christopher Baker and his wife Michelle Baker of Bethesda, MD, and David Baker and his partner Anthony Castelbuono of Hanover, NH; and by three great-grandchildren, Matthew, Lauren, and Andrew Baker of Bethesda, MD. Relatives and friends will gather in honor and remembrance of Eleanor’s life for her Funeral Service at the Robinson Funeral Home, 809 Main St., Melrose, on Friday, March 15 at a time to be announced. Interment in Forest Dale Cemetery, Malden. Gifts in Eleanor’s memory may be made to the New Hampshire Humane Society, PO Box 572, Laconia, NH 03246. For obituary, directions, or to express condolences online, visit RobinsonFuneralHome.com.

Richard Beaupre, 66

LACONIA — Richard Beaupre, 66, of 23 Holiday Lane, died at Belknap County Nursing Home on Monday February 25, 2013.

Richard was born in Laconia on December, 07, 1946, the son of the late Roland and Rita (Cloutier) Beaupre.

Richard was a lifelong resident of Belknap County, living in Laconia, before moving to Belmont 30 years ago.

Richard was self employed as a neuro muscular therapist for the past 30 years, working out of home, making home visits to his clients. He enjoyed watching old movies and was avid reader.

He is survived by his sister Terry Gordon, of Belmont, New Hampshire, one nephew Kevin Gordon and his wife Barbara of Goffstown, New Hampshire and a close friend of 12 years, Ann Sprague.

There will be no calling hours.

A graveside service will be held in the spring at the family in Sacred Heart Cemetery on Garfield Street., Laconia, N.H. For those who wish donations may be made to the Belknap County Nursing Home 30 County Drive Laconia, New Hampshire 03246, or the New Hampshire Humane Society P.O. Box 572 Laconia, N.H. 03247.

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

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Mark E. Dutton, Sr., 77 TILTON — Mark E. Dutton Sr., 77, a longtime resident of Tilton died at his home, Sunday, March 3, 2013 with his family at his side following a period of failing health. Mark was born at the Morgan homestead, Lower Gilmanton, May 16, 1935, son of the late C. Fred and Dorothy (Edgerly) Dutton. He was lovingly raised by family members, Alice Morgan, Mary and Frank Edgerly and his “almost mother” Marian Welch. He spent his youth and was educated in Gilmanton Corner School and graduated from Pittsfield High School. He later lived in the Belmont area before moving to Tilton in 1984. For many years Mark was employed as a truck driver, retiring after thirty five years with Willeys Express, twenty five years of which he was a member of the Teamsters, Local 633. He loved listening and dancing to Old Country and Western music, working in the woods, gardening and trips to the White Mountains, and visiting with his grandchildren telling stories about his life in Gilmanton. He had a great fondness for the Old Man of the Mountain, collecting memorabilia over the years. He was a member of the American Legion. Mark served with the New Hampshire National Guard, 281st Army Band for three years, playing the Sousaphone. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1953, honorably discharged in 1956. He served with the 1st Marine Division including,

Occupation in Korea.

He was predeceased by, a daughter, Cindy Sue Corson, sons Donald and David Dutton.

His family includes his wife of 28 years, Donna L. (Hosmer) Dutton of Tilton; sister, Frances Holt of White River Jct., Vermont; his children, William Dutton of Belmont, Daniel Dutton of Chichester, Douglas Dutton of Oklahoma, Mark Dutton of Belmont, Dean Dutton of Belmont, Joe Corson of Belmont, Patrick Sargent of Gilmanton Iron Works and Craig Sargent of Crestview, Florida, Loretta Fugere of Belmont, Elizabeth Fitts of Oklahoma, Dorothy Trask of Gilford, Debbie Cote of Oklahoma and Michele Foye of Lochmere; numerous grand and great-grandchildren and many cousins, nephews, nieces and friends from Maine to Florida.

Calling hours will be held Tuesday, March 12, 2013 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at the William F. Smart Sr. Memorial Home, Franklin-Tilton Road in Tilton.

Burial, with honors, will be at a later date at the Smith Meeting House Cemetery in Gilmanton.

Those wishing may make memorial contributions in Mark’s name to the Franklin Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice, 75 Chestnut Street, Franklin, NH 03235.

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Nellie C. ‘Nell’ Bryenton, 93 LAKEPORT — Nellie Clark “Nell” Bryenton, 93, of 167 Belvidere Street, died Friday, March 1, 2013 at Lakes Region General Hospital.

She was born in Laconia, the daughter of Herbert C. and Nellie M. (Clark) Bryant. Nell worked in younger years for Gile Mill and JJ Newberry’s. She worked for several years in the hot lunch program for the Elm Street School in Laconia. She was a member of the Lakeport Historical Museum and was a lifelong member of the United Baptist Church in Lakeport.

She loved reading, dancing, golfing and camping.

Nell also enjoyed refinishing furniture. She enjoyed traveling and baking for her wonderful neighbors, but most of all Nell enjoyed being with family the most.

She is survived by her son, Robert E. Bryenton and his wife Debra of Asheville, NC; one daughter, Fay E. Nutter and her husband Robert of Northfield and Sebring, FL; one brother-in-law, George E. Bryenton and his wife Ruth of Laconia; five grandchildren, Christopher C. Nutter and his wife Dawn, Kimberly E. Perron and her husband Adam, Amy L. Burke and her husband Gary, Travis J. Bryenton and Kibby J. Fergusson and her husband Donald; nine great grandchildren, Tyler and Zachary Nutter,

Anthony, Eliese and Joseph Perron, Rachel and Kevin Burke and Iain and Anna Margaret Fergusson; and several nieces and nephews.

In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by two sisters, Edith Bryant and Queen Ozog and two brothers, Herbert and Victor Bryant.

Memorial calling hours will be held from 10AM to 11AM on Thursday, March 7, 2013 at the Wilkinson-Beane-SimoneauPaquette Funeral Home, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, using the carriage house entrance. A celebration of life will follow at 11AM at the funeral home with Rev. Dr. Festus Kavale officiating. Burial will be held at Bayside Cemetery in the spring.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Lakeport Community Association, PO Box 6015, Lakeport NH 03246or to the Central NH VNA & Hospice, 780 North Main Street, Laconia, NH 03246.

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PLYMOUTH — Five contemporary French language films (three French and two Quebecois) will be shown over three days as the third annual Paris to Plymouth French Film Festival comes to Plymouth State University March 6-8.

All films will be shown in Hyde Hall Room 120 (on the corner of Merrill and Langdon Streets) and are in French with English subtitles. Screenings and discussions are free and open to the public.

Plymouth’s Six Burner Bistro will host a French-themed three-course, fixed-price meal ($24/person) at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 7, prior to the 7:30 p.m. film. Reservations are required and may be made by telephone to (603) 536-9099.

The film schedule includes: — 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, Tomboy, directed by Céline Sciamma, 82 minutes.

A sensitive portrait of childhood just before pubescence, Tomboy, the second film by writer-director Céline Sciamma, astutely explores the freedom of being untethered to the rulebound world of gender codes.

— 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, Monsieur Lazhar, directed by Philippe Felardeau, 95 minutes.

In Montreal, an elementary school teacher dies abruptly and Bachir Lazhar, a 55-year-old Algerian immigrant, hired to replace the deceased, finds himself in an establishment in

crisis, while going through his own personal tragedy.

— 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 7, Les femmes du 6éme étage (The Women on the Sixth Floor), directed by Philippe Le Guay, 104 minutes In 1960s Paris, a conservative couple’s lives are turned upside down by two Spanish maids during this social comedy that pits the propriety of a well-to-do French family with the earthiness and humor of the Spanish cleaning ladies who work in their apartment building.

— 6 p.m. Friday, March 8, Le hérisson (The Hedgehog). Directed by Mona Achache 98 minutes Nimbly adapted from Muriel Barbery’s 2006 international best seller, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Mona Achache’s first film follows two parallel storylines: one featuring a morbid little girl, 11-year-old Paloma; the other a mysterious middle-aged widow, Renée Michel, the concierge of the luxury Left Bank apartment building where Paloma and her family live.

— 8 p.m. Friday, March 9, J’ai tué ma mere (I Killed My Mother), directed by Xavier Dolan, 100 minutes A semi-autobiographical story about Dolan as a young homosexual at odds with his mother, the film attracted international press attention when it won three awards from the Director’s Fortnight program at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.

LACONIA — Lakes Region Community Services (LRCS) and the Boys and Girls Club of the Lakes Region are proud to announce a new program designed for children in grades 5-8 entitled “Dude, That’s Rude” to be held at the Boys and Girls Club, 719 North Main Street in Laconia.

The program will begin Thursday, March 7 and run for 14 weeks, every Thursdays from 4– 5:30 p.m., as part of the Boys and Girls Club offerings.

The goal is to assist children by educating, empowering and demystifying the social world to help them be successful with typical peers. “We are excited to be able to collaborate with

such an amazing organization to assist children in forming friendships with peers, navigating the unspoken social rules, and feeling included in a variety of activities that other children are engaged in. I am so excited that the idea of inclusion, for all children is being promoted in our community.” says Jen Doris, Early Childhood Director of the LRCS Family Resource Center and an Act Early Ambassador for the CDC. Transportation is available in Gilford, Belmont and Laconia from school to the Club. Students will need to be picked up from the Boys and Girls Club after 5:30 p.m. Scholarships are available to see next page

Dude, That’s Rude – Social Skills for Middle School Students starts Thursday

Lakes Region’s Paul Warnick performing with Clint Black at Flying Monkey on Thursday LACONIA — New Hampshire musician Paul Warnick will be performing at the Flying Monkey Performance Center in Plymouth on Thursday, March 7 as the opening act for legendary country singer, guitarist and songwriter Clint Black.

Black has written and recorded more than 100 songs. He made his debut with the release of “Killin’ Time” which Paul Warnick. (Courtesy included four straight photo) number one hits on the Billboard and Hot Country charts.

Warnick is a seasoned singer and guitarist who has performed in and around New Hampshire’s Lakes Region for more than 20 years.

His performances include opening slots before Bob Dylan, Tom Jones, John Sebastian, The Little River Band, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Steve Azar, Big and Rich, Travis Tritt and many, many more rock and country legends.

Paul will be performing a mix of original songs from his own body of work along with songs written by his close friend and musical colleague Rick Page from Gilmanton. Together Rick and Paul have recorded and released the album “I’m Starting to Twang.” which will be available for sale on the night of the show.

People can purchase tickets for Thursday’s concert at the Flying Monkey Performance Center’s website: www.flyingmonkeynh.com or by calling the box office at 603-536-2551.

LACONIA — The second concert of the 2013 Taylor Community Music Series, sponsored by Bank of New Hampshire, is scheduled for Sunday, March 10 at 3 p.m. in Taylor’s Woodside Building, 435 Union Ave. The concert will feature the melodic sounds of The Lakes Region Wind Quintet. Members are Debbi Gibson, clarinetist; Nancy Goldenhar, bassoonist; Robin Jackman, French horn player; Kenda Corcoran, oboist; and

Doris Heney, flutist. The Quintet’s performance is sponsored by Melcher and Prescott Insurance.

Musical selections will range from Handel to Rogers and Hammerstein to John Phillip Sousa – all of which will be instantly recognizable to the audience.

The event is free and open to the public; however, those planning to attend must pre-register as seating is limited and musical performances usually attract a capacity crowd. Call 524-5600 for reservations.

MEREDITH — The Meredith Public Library Genealogy Club invites the public to a class on “Getting Started in Genealogy” on Thursday, March 7, from 10 a.m. to noon.

Participants will learn how to get started looking for their family history including how to use

pedigree/family charts, accessing free genealogy software online and using the library sponsored databases (Ancestry.com, HeritageQuest and AmericanAncestors.)

To register for this class call 279-4303.

from preceding page cover the $100 Club membership for the school year.

For more information on signing-up for the program contact Jen Doris at 581-1559 or jenniferd@lrcs.org.

Susan and John Scheinman, parents of a teenage son with autism and founders of Jacob’s Ladder Through Autism, a private nonprofit, have gener-

ously donated $1,000 to support scholarships for children to attend the program. As members of the Boys and Girls Club, students can attend the Club each day and participate in a variety of activities in addition to the ‘Dude, That’s Rude’ program.

For more information contact Joanne Piper Lang at 603-5224-8891or visit www.lrcs.org.

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Lance Houston Quartet plays Pitman’s on Thursday The Lance Houston Jazz Quartet will perform at Pitman’s Freight Room on Thursday March 7 at 8 p.m. Admission is $10 and Pitman’s is a BYOB venue. Lance Houston (Berklee College of Music) and his talented jazz quartet produce magical and imaginative interpretations of jazz standards. Houston has performed internationally with his distinctive approach to improvisation. After a five year hiatus from performing (law school), Houston has returned to the east coast jazz scene and performs with Davis Whitfield on piano and Raphael Pannier on drums. (Courtesy photo)

Free seminar makes downsizing & home selling easier LACONIA — An informative session entitled “Downsizing: It’s Not That Impossible and How to Sell Your Home” will be held Friday, March 8 from 11 a.m. to noon in the Woodside Building at Taylor Community.

The seminar provides helpful tips and advice from senior move manager Mariluz Flanders for anyone planning to downsize. The event is free and open to the public.

Many seniors have lived in their home for years, even decades, during which time they’ve accumulated a lot of personal possessions. Paul Charlton – who works with seniors planning their move to Taylor Community – notes it can be overwhelming for many. “I talk with people who are really excited to move. Then they go home and become paralyzed when they look at all the stuff in their closets, attics, sheds and basements. That’s where senior move managers can help; they do this for a living and their help is invaluable.”

The other major challenge many face when they choose to downsize is selling their home. While the housing market remains well off the peak of the market in 2006-07, experts point to encouraging signs.

Experienced Lakes Region real estate professional Jerry Love reports realtors are seeing a significant positive turnaround in activity. “We’re extremely busy right now and we’re not even into the time of the year when real estate transactions typically increase,” he said. “Sales of existing homes in our area are well up, interest rates are at historic lows, and there are active buyers out there.” Love noted that this is a good time for people to be listing their homes. “Interest rates at some point will start going up, so there’s merit to listing sooner rather than later. We’re also getting close to spring when more homes are bought and sold.”

To reserve a place at the seminar, call Taylor Community at 524-5600.

LACONIA — Happy Tails Dog Park of the Lakes Region is kicking off 2013 with a fundraiser on Friday, March 8 at 7:30 p.m. at the Beane Conference Center in Laconia.

There will be skits, music and so much more to

benefit Happy Tails.

The cost to attend is $10 pre-purchase and $12 at the door. To pre-order tickets, please call 848-0967 or email brie@happytailsdogparknh.org.

Happy Tails Dog Park of the Lakes Region is a 501(c)3 non-profit group of pet parents.

The organization was founded in 2008 with the mission of improving the quality of life for the human and canine residents of the Lakes Region through recreation, education and empowerment.

The organization is hosting fundraising events with the ultimate goal of building an off-leash dog park as well as continuing to educate and bring together pet parents across the Lakes Region.

Beane Conference Center is located at 35 Blueberry Lane in Laconia. Doors will open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 7:30 p.m. More information can be found at www.happytailsdogparknh.org or at www.beanecenter.com.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). A rebellious motive emerges in you. Why you suddenly have no desire to fall in line is a bit mysterious and perhaps a moot point. When you’re not into it, you’re not into it.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Weariness happens. It’s a function of working day after day, week after week without a break. Since you’ll be planning the future today, build a few breaks into the schedule to avoid future episodes of weariness.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Tuesday, March 5, the 64th day of 2013. There are 301 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On March 5, 1963, country music performers Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins died in the crash of their plane, a Piper Comanche, near Camden, Tenn., along with pilot Randy Hughes (Cline’s manager).

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 1933, in German parliamentary elections, the Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote; the Nazis joined with a conservative nationalist party to gain a slender majority in the Reichstag.

In 1934, the first Mothers-in-Law Day celebration and parade took place in Amarillo, Texas.

In 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his “Iron Curtain” speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo. In 1953, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died after three decades in power. Composer Sergei Prokofiev died in Moscow at age 61.

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

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.

In 1993, Palair Macedonian Airlines Flight 301, a Fokker 100, crashed after taking off from Skopje (SKOHP’-yah) Airport, killing 83 of the 97 persons aboard.

One year ago: President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met at the White House, where Obama urged pressure and diplomacy to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb while Netanyahu emphasized his nation’s right to a pre-emptive attack. Songwriter Robert B. Sherman, 86, who’d collaborated with his brother Richard on such movie musicals as “Mary Poppins” and “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” died in London.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor James Noble is 91.

Actor James B. Sikking is 79. Actor Dean Stockwell is 77. Actor Fred Williamson is 75. Actress Samantha Eggar is 74. Actor Michael Warren is 67. Actor Eddie Hodges is 66. Singer Eddy Grant is 65. Rock musician Alan Clark (Dire Straits) is 61. Actress-comedian Marsha Warfield is 59.

Magician Penn Jillette is 58. Actress Adriana Barraza is 57. Rock singers Craig and Charlie Reid (The Proclaimers) are 51. Rock musician John Frusciante (froo-SHAN’-tee) is 43. Singer Rome is 43. Actor Kevin Connolly is 39. Actress Jill Ritchie is 39. Actress Jolene Blalock is 38. Actress Eva Mendes is 38. Model Niki Taylor is 38. Actor Sterling Knight is 24. Actor Jake Lloyd is 24.

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CALENDAR TODAY’S EVENTS Storytime at Belmont Public Library. 3:30 p.m.

Chess Club meets at the Laconia Public Library on Tuesdays from 3 to 7 p.m. All ages and skill levels welcome. We will teach.)

Hands Across The Table free weekly dinner at St. James Episcopal Church on North Main Street in Laconia.

5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

The New Horizons Band of the Lakes Region meets every Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Music Clinic on Rte 3 in Belmont. All musicians welcome. For more information call 528-6672 or 524-8570.

Giggles & Grins playgroup at Family Resource Center in downtown Laconia (719 No. Main Street, Laconia). Free group for parents children from birth through age 5. For more information call 524-1741.

Lakeport Community Association meeting. 7 p.m. at the Freight House.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6 Film Series entitled “Touching Peace” sponsored by the Sanbornton Congregational Church — UCC. 6:308:30 p.m. on the second floor of the library. For more information 286-3018 or visit uccsanbornton.org.

The Thrifty Yankee (121 Rte. 25 - across from (I-LHS) collects donations of baby clothes, blankets and hygiene items for Baby Threads of N.H. every Wednesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 279-0607.

Laconia Elders Friendship Club meeting. 1:30 p.m. at the Leavitt Park Clubhouse. People 55 and older meet each Wednesday for fun, entertainment and education. Meetings provide an opportunity for older citizens to to meet for pure social enjoyment and the club helps the community with philanthropic work.

Country Acoustic Picking Party at the Tilton Senior Center. Every Wednesday from 7-9 p.m.

Duplicate bridge at the Weirs Beach Community Center. 7:15 p.m. All levels welcome. Snacks.

Preschool story time at Belmont Public Library. 10:30 a.m.

Overeaters Anonymous offers a program of recovery from compulsive eating using the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of OA. Wednesday nights at 5:30 p.m. at St. Joseph Church in Belmont. Call/ leave a message for Elizabeth at 630-9969 for more information.

Free knitting and crochet lessons. Drop in on Wednesdays any time between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. at Baby Threads workshop at 668 Main Street in Laconia (same building as Village Bakery). 998-4012.

Narcotics Anonymous meeting. 7 to 8:30 p.m. at 18 Veterans Square in Laconia.

TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly) group meeting.

5:30 p.m. at the First Congregational Church in Meredith.

The Country Village Quilt Guild meets 1:30 p.m. on the first and third Wednesday of each month at the Moultonborough Life Safety Building behind the Police and Fire Station on Rt 25 in Moultonborough, NH. All are welcome.

For information call 279-3234 or visit our website at Country Village Quilt Guild.

Life planning lecture at Rey Center Friday night

WATERVILLE VALLEY — On Friday March 8 at 7 p.m., the Margret and H.A. Rey Center presents Design Your Own Destiny: Life Planning for the 21st Century, the third and final in its Winter Lecture Series on Health and Wellness, presented see next page

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“Seeking the truth and printing it” THE LACONIA DAILY SUN is published Tuesday through Saturday by Lakes Region News Club, Inc. Edward Engler, Mark Guerringue, Adam Hirshan, Founders Offices: 1127 Union Ave. #1, Laconia, NH 03246 Business Office 737-2020, Newsroom 737-2026, Fax: 527-0056 News E-mail: news@laconiadailysun.com CIRCULATION: 18,000 distributed FREE Tues. through Sat. in Laconia, Weirs Beach, Gilford, Meredith, Center Harbor, Belmont, Moultonborough, Winnisquam, Sanbornton, Tilton, Gilmanton, Alton, New Hampton, Plymouth, Bristol, Ashland, Holderness.

Babe Ruth skill sessions start tonight MOULTONBOROUGH — Lakes Region Babe Ruth Skill Sessions are being offered starting tonight at 5 p.m. at the Moultonborough Central School gym.

Other sessions will be held Thursday, March 7 at the Inter-Lakes High School gym, Tuesday, March 12 at the Moultonborough Central School gym and Thursday, March 14 at the InterLakes High School gym.

The same schedule will be followed each night with Farm League (ages 6-8) running from 5-6 p.m. and Minor and Major League (ages9-12) from 6-7:30 p.m.

For general league info go to www. lakesregioncr.baberuthonline.com or contact Jim Sheehan, League President at sheehanj@metrocast.net or Deb Tolman, League Rep/Administrator at dltolman@msn.com.

BEDFORD — Getting the attention of the media community is key to the success of a small business with a limited budget.

To help women business owners craft compelling press releases, prepare for media coverage and grabbing an editor’s attention, Women Inspiring Women is hosting a Making the Most of Your Media Moments workshop on Friday, March 8. The workshop will have three sessions beginning with “Marriage and the Media – Creating the Perfect Relationship” which is being led by the wife-husband team of Tammy Boucher of Boucher Public Relations and Steve Boucher of Southern NH University.

Following them will be the dynamic co-owners of Epiphanies, Inc., Allen and Lani Voivod, who will lead a hands-on press release creation session and then Matt Mowry, Editor of Business NH Magazine sharing tips for getting the attention of an editor.

The workshop takes place at SERESC Conference and Training Center at 29 Commerce Drive in Bedford, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Early registration is $38 for members and $48 for non-members. Attendees can bring an additional guest for $20.

Reservations can be made at wiwnh. com. The WIW entrepreneurial series is sponsored by Centrix Bank.

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Help Me Remember My Son

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Women Inspiring Women workshop discusses maximizing media opportunities

Stroke prevention talk held on Friday

GILFORD — Belknap County Area Committee on Aging will host Mark LeBlanc, RN from HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital on Friday, March 8 at 10 a.m. He will speak about Strokes and Stroke Prevention and also we will be discussing exercising to build bone strength and flexibility – 2 things that are extremely important for all ages.

The Belknap County Area Commit-

tee on Aging meetings start at 10 a.m., the second Friday of each month. The committee meets in the Wesley Woods Community Room off Rte. 11A, behind the First United Methodist Church in Gilford. For more information contact Stace Dicker-Hendricks at 528-2555 or sdhendricks@wesleywoodsnh.org or Carrie Chandler at 279-8111 or cchandler@goldenview.org.

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by Mary Molloy.

The lecture will be held in the Art Gallery at the Margret and H.A. Rey Center located on the second floor of Town

Square in Waterville Valley. Lectures are free for Rey Center members and $5 per person for not-yet members. All proceeds help to support the Rey Center’s art and science education programs.

Together, we can save a life

The best way we can continue to express our love for Jason, is by following his heart and reaching out to help others as he did.

Saturday March 30th 9:00am-3:00pm Radisson Hotel “Armory” 700 Elm Street-Manchester

For Appointments-Call Red Cross 1-800-733-2767 or go online www.redcrossblood.org sponsor code 7898

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Support for families who have endured the loss of a precious child at any age, from any cause.

If you have lost a child please call 603 472-8805 or 603 864-8992

There is a group that can help, You are not alone!

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COUNTY from page one $23,100 for uniform allowances.

The convention voted eleven-to-six to reject the cost items, with eleven of the twelve Republicans present — Representatives Frank Tilton and Bob Luther of Laconia, Colette Worsman, Bob Greemore, and Herb Vadney of Meredith, , Chuck Fink and Mike Sylvia of Belmont, Jane Cormier and Stephen Holmes of Alton, Richard Burhell of Gilmanton and Guy Comtois of Barnstead — in the majority. The five Democrats — Representatives David Huot and Beth Arsenault of Laconia, Lisa DiMartino of Gilford, Ian Raymond of Sanbornton, and Ruth Gulick of New Hampton — were joined Republican Dennis Fields of Sanbornton.

During the budget process, the convention reduced personnel costs for both union and nonunion employees by more than $450,000. Funding for merit raises, together with the associated costs of payroll taxes and retirement contributions was eliminated. The convention stripped funding to defray a 7.3-percent increase in health insurance premiums.

The bonuses for unused sick time and longevity of service were also struck from the budget.

Without the convention’s approval of the cost items, the commissioners cannot ratify the collective bargaining agreements and county employees will work without a contract. However, under state law,

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This Weeks Activities

Children: Goss Reading Room Storytime

Future Activities

Children: Goss Reading Room Storytime

Tuesday, March 5th @ 3:30, at our Goss branch, 188 Elm St. in Lakeport for after school storytime.

For more information, call 524-3808.

Tuesday, March 12th @ 3:30, at our Goss branch, 188 Elm St. in Lakeport for after school storytime.

For more information, call 524-3808.

Wednesday, March 6th @ 10:00 Stories and crafts in the Selig Storytime Room.

Wednesday, March 13th @ 10:00 Thursday, March 14th @ 9:30 & 10:30 Stories and crafts in the Selig Storytime Room.

Preschool Storytime Adult:

Truth Be Told: exploring life through nonfiction titles Tuesday, March 5 @ 7:00 p.m. Laconia Rotary Hall “Behind the Beautiful Forevers”

by Katherine Boo Discussion leader: Sophia Woodley The author takes a look at the stark lives of the inhabitants of Annawadi, a slum across from Mumbai’s Sahar Airport, to reveal the wrenching inequality and urban poverty still endemic in India’s democracy.

Books available at the adult circulation desk.

Special Program!

Saving Buffalo and Cardinal: NH’s Environmentalist, Ernest Baynes Scholar James B. Atkinson introduces Ernest Harold Baynes (1868-1925), a man who fought to prevent the mindless slaughter of buffalo, even raising herds of them in New Hampshire. Images from his fragile glass slides show a team of buffalo pulling him to the Claremont Agricultural Fair. Rare colored images from these slides also show the varied wild animals he domesticated locally.

Brightly plumaged birds, like the cardinal, suffered at the hands of the fashion industry. He struggled to combat its efforts because, as an early environmentalist, he sought not to subdue nature but to preserve it. This program is sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council and the Laconia Public Library and will be held in Laconia Public Library’s Rotary Hall. Admission is free.

Preschool Storytime Booktalks for Kids

Thursday, March 14th @ 4:00 Laconia Rotary Hall “125 True Stories of Amazing Animals” is this month’s book for discussion.

Movies & More for Kids

Friday, March 15th @ 3:45 Laconia Rotary Hall “Springtime for Max & Ruby” PG This 96 minute DVD features 12 different episodes of Max & Ruby fun! Admission is free. Kids under 10 must be accompanied by a responsible caregiver.

Teen: YU-GI-OH!

Monday, March 11th @ 3:30 Laconia Rotary Hall Teens in grades 6-12 meet to play this popular card game.

Teen Movie:

Tuesday, March 12th @ 3:00 Laconia Rotary Hall 25th anniversary screening of “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”

PG Teens in grades 6-12 are invited to watch and admission is free.

Hours: Monday - Thursday 9am - 8pm • Friday 9am - 6pm Saturday 9am - 4pm For more information, call 524-4775.

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in order to ensure employers an incentive to negotiate, the terms and conditions of the prior contract, including benefits that do not have a detailed cost attached to them, remain in effect during what is called “the status quo,” and are contractual obligations, which must be funded.

Public employee union in N.H. do not have the right to strike in order to gain a new contract.

When the convention turned to the budget, Fields said “we’ve still got time to do it right and we have not done it right” and moved to adopt the budget presented by the commission back in December. When Worsman, who chairs of the convention, reframed his motion to read raising property taxes by 8.9-percent, as the commission’s original budget required, Fields protested, prompting Cormier to shout “you’re being disrespectful of the chair,” to which Fields shot back “I’m telling it like it is and you don’t like it.”

Fields motion failed by the same eleven-to-six vote.

Burchell then questioned the obligation to fund the terms of the conditions of the union contracts, claiming that the New Hampshire Supreme Court, in a recent ruling involving the Laconia Police Commission, ruled otherwise. Commissioner Steve Nedeau and Norm O’Neil, the county human resource director, both explained that the decision had nothing to do with the funding of benefits in the absence of a contract.

“If I had my computer, I could show you I’m right,” said Burchell.

“Go get your computer,” Nedeau replied.

Huot offered a motion to fund contractual obligations by drawing $125,000 and transferring money from other line items to make up the balance. In opposing the motion, Cormier insisted “we are not bad people. We are good people. We are not mean people. We appreciate the county employees,” she continued, “especially at the nursing home, where I volunteer.” She said that the convention did not cut the employees benefits, but instead “level funded” them.

“You’re making a budget out of ignorance and arrogance, not information,” charged Commissioner Ed Philpot.

“This is our meeting,” Worsman interrupted.

“I forgot about the rules,” Philpot remarked, alluding to an exchange last week when Worsman confessed the convention had no rules and Philpot replied “so they’re your rules.”

When Huot’s motion failed by an 11 to 6 margin, Raymond reminded the convention that “there are cost items in the agreements that must be funded and without knowing where the money is coming from the alternative could be layoffs.” Vadney answered “that’s up to the commission,” prompting boos from the public attending, along with at least two charges of cowardice.

Commissioner John Thomas told the convention “if you take $500,000 out of the budget that we must fund, I will guarantee you will end up in court.”

The convention adopted the line-item budget completed last week with the stipulation that the commissioners seek the approval of the Executive Committee of the convention to transfer funds between line items. It appropriates $26,184,616, which is offset by $12,085,456 in revenues from sources other than property taxes, leaving $14,099,160 to be raised by property taxes, an increase of 0.3-percent.

The convention reduced the total appropriations recommended by the commission by $651,980 and raised the revenues projected by the commission by $600,500, reducing the amount to be raised by property taxes by $1,252,480. Personnel costs represent approximately 70-percent of the reduced expenditures. On the revenue side, the convention drew $2,350,000 from the fund balance to offset property taxes. Originally the commission recommended applying $2.1-million, but subsequently suggested $2.6-million.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: I’m a junior in high school. I thought everything would happen this year -- the great friends, the boyfriend, etc. On all of the TV shows, the juniors are having boys over, getting drunk, going on dates, having sex and so much more. I know my life isn’t a TV show, but I’m no different than last year.

I want a boyfriend. I want to party. I want to have my first kiss. I want to be a teenager. But I feel as distant from my friends as ever. And there is a boy I really like who is sweet, kind, smart and nonjudgmental, but I’m not allowed to date.

I know that being a teenager means disobeying my parents, and though that seems like the worst thing I could ever do, I’m slipping.

I don’t know what to do. My grades and alcohol and this boy and drugs are all lurking in my mind. I’m tired of being this perfect little angel. I know I’m only 16, but what do I do?

-- Troubled in High School Dear Troubled: Don’t believe everything you see on TV. Those programs are an enhanced version of what the producers and writers think is exciting to watch. Seeing kids fall apart is interesting -- like watching a train wreck. Most high school juniors are not out partying, drinking, having sex and doing drugs. They are going to school, studying and working at part-time jobs. And the smart ones are also listening to their parents because they recognize that they have a future to consider.

Talk to your parents about dating -- most kids are allowed to do so at 16. You also can discuss these issues with your school counselor, favorite teachers and other adults you respect and trust. We totally understand that you hoped your life would suddenly become amazing, but please don’t be foolish enough to mess up the good things you have by let-

ting your hormones run away with your common sense.

Dear Annie: I am a 70-year-old widow who parted ways with my first love 50 years ago. Our only contact since then was five years ago, when I mailed some old pictures of him I had discovered. His thank-you note included an invitation to call “them” if I was ever in his area.

I will be traveling to the city where he lives in April. While I am eager to suggest meeting for lunch, I am not sure this would be proper. I believe he is married, but my intentions are only to catch up with someone for whom I once cared greatly. Should I invite him with his wife? Should I simply shelve the entire idea? -- Perplexed in Phoenix Dear Phoenix: You are over-thinking this. By all means, suggest meeting for lunch, and please include his wife. If you only want to reminisce and catch up, there should be no hint of ulterior motives. You might even make a new friend.

Dear Annie: “Conflicted Adoptee from Kansas” wanted her birth mother to tell her other children that they have a sibling.

I gave up a son 30 years ago. When he was 18, we got together to discuss why I gave him up. I had to tell my girls that they have a half-brother. Although that part went well, answering questions from my son was a lot harder. It opened up all kinds of wounds. I was worried about his opinion of me, but he was so mature. He said, “I know you are not the same person you were back then.”

It is difficult to open your heart to someone, even if you feel they have the right to the information. “Conflicted” should let her birth mother know she isn’t judging her, and that she respects her wishes about telling her children. Giving up a child was probably the hardest thing she has ever done. -- Mom on Both Sides

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, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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For Rent

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LACONIA- Fabulous 1,200 sq. ft.

2 bedroom on quiet street.

LaundryHook-ups/No pets $825+ utilities 455-0874

LACONIA: 2 bedroom, 2nd floor in duplex building. $220/week, including heat, electric & hot water. 524-1234, www.whitemtrentals.com.

DAY CARE OPENING Small home day care in Laconia has an opening. Full or part time.

I have over 20 years experience and excellent references.

527-8888.

For Rent

Autos $_TOP dollar paid for junk cars & trucks. Available 7-days a week.

P3 s Towing. 630-3606 1987 FWD Chevy Silverado with plow. 3/4 ton, 130K, no rust. $2,800/OBO. 603-759-2895

APARTMENTS, mobile homes. If you need a rental at a fair price, call DRM Corp. Over 50 years in rentals. We treat you better!

524-0348 or visit M-W-F, 12-5, at our new location, 142 Church St. (Behind CVS Pharmacy.)

BELMONTSmall 2 bedroom apartment. $650/Month, no utilities, References & security 520-3203

2005 Volkswagen Jetta GLPower windows, doors, sunroof, keyless entry. Heated leather seats, 118K, just inspected, in great shape. Asking 5,800 Call 528-3330

BOATS BOAT SLIPS for Rent Winnipesaukee Pier, Weirs Beach, NH Reasonable Rates Call for Info. 366-4311 DOCKS FOR RENT 2013 season, Lake Winnisquam Point.

Parking, Bathrooms, Showers,

LACONIA- Spacious 3 bedroom apartment. Parking,washer/dryer. $1,050/Month + utilities. Call 603-524-3759 and leave message for application.

LACONIA 3 Bedroom duplex.

Yard, parking, absolutely no smoking. Security & lease. $235 weekly. 556-7885 LACONIA: 2 bedroom, 1st floor.

Separate entrance, coin-op laundry in basement. $225/week, including heat, electric & hot water.

524-1234 www.whitemtrentals.com.

For Sale DELTA 16 1/2” drill press $300.

Dewalt 20” Scroll saw & stand $550. Trek 6700 Mountain bike 15.5 ” frame $225. Trek 2100 C Road bike, carbon fiber fork, stem & seat stays, $625. 524-9658

LOOKING to buy or sell Sports Cards Set up table at sports card Show. 520-4680 SMALL Heating Oil Deliveries: No minimum required. Eveningweekend deliveries welcome.

Benjamin Oil, LLC. 603-731-5980 WOOD Stove- Regency, 18 inch wood. 7 years old, burns very clean, $475/OBO. Electric cement mixer, 4 cubic feet. Used 1 job, like new, $250. 393-2632

Furniture AMAZING!

SANBORTON, 3 BR, no pets, no smoking. References $1000/mo., plus utilities, and security deposit.

603-528-1428 after 4 pm.

TILTON: Large room for rent downtown. Shared kitchen/2 full baths. $150/week includes all utilities. 603-286-4391.

LACONIA 3 BEDROOM 2-car parking, no pets, rear yard + deck, washer/dryer hookup. $950/Month +utilities+ security deposit 603-524-8815 LACONIA 2-bedroom 2nd floor on Province St. Clean, sunny, lead safe. Good neighborhood with private parking. Washer/dryer access, no pets, $750/Month +

Beautiful Queen or Full-sized Mattress/ Box-spring Set. LUXURY-FIRM European Pillow-Top Style. Fabulous Back, Hip and Leg Support, Hospitality A+ Rating! All New Factory Sealed with 10-YR Warranty.

Compare Cost $1095, SELL $249. Can Delivery and Set-up.

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TILTON: Downstairs 1-bedroom. $600/Month. Heat and hot water included. No dogs, 603-630-9772 or 916-214-7733.

WEIRS BEACH . Nice 2 Bedroom/ 1-Bath. Heat/Hot Water included.

Laundry hook-ups. $910/month. $500 security. 279-3141

For Rent-Commercial GILFORD, Hair Salon for rent.

Busy traffic area.

Call 603-630-2212

LACONIA: Gilbert Apartments.

Call for available apartments.

524-4428 NEW trailer load mattresses....a great deal! King set complete $395, queen set $249.

603-524-1430.

LACONIA: 1 Bedroom apartment. $575/Month, heat/electricity included. No Pets/No smoking, Near LRGH. 859-3841 or 520-4198

TWO hope chests, $60 each. One kids roll top desk, $100, 2 Two Star brand wood heaters, small metal, great for garage or bob house $50/each, Frigidaire upright freezer 16 cu. Ft. $100. 387-6524

MEREDITH- First floor near town, living room, dining room, large sunny porch. $700/month plus utilities. 387-2426 NEWFOUND- Large 4 bedroom 2 bath, 5 acres, scenic view, private. $1,150/Month. $500/quick bonus.

352-735-1747

Free SOUTH Tamworth- 60’x30’ heated garage with toilet, large work room, 2 bays over head doors, showroom/ office. Great exposure on busy Rte. 25. Suitable for many uses. Available Immediately. Rent $1000/mo plus security. Call owner, 323-7065.

For Sale

GILFORD : 1 & 2 -bedroom units available. Heat & electricity included. From $190/week. Pets considered. 556-7098.

DESK TEAK DANISH MODERN Excellent condition, 3 drawers + filing drawer. 64” X 30”, $450.

387-6223 GE Water Softener- 40 gallon Model GXSF40H. excellent condition. Cost $499, $150 or best reasonable offer. 293-7641

2005 Jiffy 10-inch ice auger model 79XTS. Never used, $250/OBO. 2005 Aqua-Vu underwater camera. $200/OBO. 524-4445

BUYING junk cars, trucks & big trucks ME & NH. Call for price.

Martin Towing. (603)305-4504.

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

LACONIA- Large Rooms for rent.

Private bath, heat/hot water, electric, cable, parking included. $145-160/week 603-781-6294

For Rent MINUTES from Concord2-bedroom 1-bath completely renovated energy efficient apartment complex. $795, including hot water w/free WiFi. Secured building access, onsite laundry and more. Military discount available. Convenient Rte 3 location in West Franklin!

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AMAZING! Beautiful Pillowtop Mattress Sets. Twin $199, Full or Queen $249, King $449. Call 603-305-9763 See “Furniture” AD. BOWFLEX Treadclimber 3000Like new, only 65 miles. Asking $1,400. Gary 293-4129 or 455-8763 CHEST Freezer 7 cu. ft, like new, $125. Sails Jib and Spinnaker.

Call 603-524-5922 for details.

KUBOTA Tractor 2006 Front Loader with Woods Backhoe, 4 point hitch with counter weight, tire chains and forks. 250 hours

FREE Pickup for of unwanted, useful items. Estates, homes, offices, cleaned out, yardsale items.

(603)930-5222.

Help Wanted EXPERIENCED BARTENDERS Applications being accepted for full & part time. Apply Thurs.-Sat. between 1pm and 4pm.

Greenside Restaurant 360 Laconia Rd., Tilton. No phone calls please

FRONT DESK RECEPTIONIST/ASSISTANT at busy multi-location dental offices.

Patient focused, ability to multitask, and attention to detail a must.

Willing to travel between offices.

Experience preferred.

Send resume to: lakesassociate@hotmail.com PART TIME EXPERIENCED COOK. Weekends a must, age 18 or older. Apply in person. Winnisquam Market & Deli, 1021 Laco-

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Help Wanted

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CLINICAL SUPPORT-Primary Care RN, LPN, CMA

MONRO MUFFLER/BRAKE & SERVICE

We are looking for committed professionals to work in one or more of our practices

Base pay 20-45k Great benefits package available.

Full time & PT

603-387 0487

Full Time Monday – Friday Day Shift

Current license or certification and BLS required.

Forward your resume to lfowler@lrgh.org or apply at:

Laconia Clinic 724 Main Street Laconia, NH 03246 www.laconiaclinic.com CATERING SOUS CHEF Minimum 3 years experience strong creative ability with seasoning, flavors and plate appeal. Must have experience in catering and function setup. We require a strong team player able to direct and over see kitchen and Banquet staff.*

LEAD LINE COOK Minimum 3 years experience with fast paced, high volume line cooking in all stations. Require strong creative ability. Knowledge of food costs, ordering inventory, and scheduling. A strong team player with the ability to work with and direct others.*

EXPERIENCED LINE COOK Minimum 3 years experience with fast paced, high volume line cooking in all stations. Requires a strong team player with the ability to work with others.* *All positions require availability to work nights, weekends and holidays. Pay commensurate with experience and Benefits available.

Please email resumes to: harts@hartsturkeyfarm.com or mail to: Hart s Turkey Farm Restaurant P.O. Box 664, Meredith, NH 03253

Land WATERFRONT dock is in.

Cleared, septic outdated. $75,000.

Call owner 603-455-0316

Automotive Technician

PAUGUS Bay Marina Is seeking experienced marine lift operators.

Apply within, 41 Sheridan Street, Laconia, NH 603-524-1233

(occasional evening to 7:00 or weekend morning required)

Experience working as an RN or LPN in and office/outpatient care setting strongly preferred.

Certified Medical Assistants will be considered if they previous experience working in an office setting.

Working knowledge of computer applications required; previous experience working with Centricity EMR preferred.

Help Wanted

PAUGUS Bay Marina Is seeking experienced marine techs with G-3 training. Apply within, 41 Sheridan Street, Laconia, NH 603-524-1233

MOULTONBORO insurance agency seeking licensed applicants for sales and service positions, available immediately.

Base pay, commission, incentives, bonuses and benefits negotiable. Resume and cover letter to LREIA, LLC PO Box 884 Moultonboro, NH 03254 or email to Mike.Torrey@horacemann.com.

Motorcycles 1980 FLH HD/Project bike. Runs, wiring needs to be finished, lost eyesight. All original equipment included, plus jack. $4,000.

387-6524

Buy • Sell • Trade www.motoworks.biz

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

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

Tri-County CAP, Berlin, NH

Our Customers Don!t get Soaked!

Weatherization Director

Major credit cards accepted

528-3531

is hiring a

Must have experience in planning and carrying out weatherization jobs.

For more information about this position and how to apply, call Linda at 603-752-7001 or e-mail wxdirector@tccap.org.

TCCAP is an Equal Opportunity Employer

CENTRAL NH VNA & HOSPICE

LNA Lakes region home healthcare agency seeks experienced and compassionate LNA’s for F/T & P/T positions. Eligible for benefits. Enjoy independence and flexibility while working day shift only. Must have min. of 1 yr. LNA exp., reliable transportation/auto insurance & valid NH LNA and driving licenses.

Tri-County CAP, Berlin, NH is looking for an exceptional candidate for the position of

Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

For more information about the position and how to apply, please visit http://tccap.org/ and click on the link.

TCCAP is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Applications may be obtained at Central New Hampshire VNA & Hospice 780 North Main St. Laconia, NH or call 524-8444, ext. 2340 for more info.

See our web site: centralvna.org EOE

LACONIA SCHOOL DISTRICT LONG TERM SUBSTITUTE SPECIAL EDUCATION GRADES 2 & 3 Pleasant Street School is seeking a Special Education Teacher Grades 2 & 3. Candidate must be certified in General Special Education. Position will run from April 22, 2013 until the end of the school year in June.

Information must be sent in by March 8, 2013 For the above opening please send Letter of Intent, Resume, Transcripts, Certification and three Letters of Reference to:

Sue Carignan, Student Services Coordinator Pleasant Street School 350 Pleasant Street Laconia, NH 03246 Visit our website for information about the Laconia Schools at:

www.laconiaschools.org E.O.E

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LAWYER from page one appearance on behalf of the convention today, it would lose its case by default.

Initially the convention requested permission from the commissioners, in whom state law vests the authority to engage and direct legal counsel representing in the county, to hire its own attorney.

When the commissioners refused, the convention appealed the denial to itself.

Describing the convention as “the appellate body, Rep. Richard Burchell (R-Gilmanton) cited a law bearing on the defense and indemnification of county officials sued while acting within the scope of their official duties. It provides that the county attorney or, with the consent of the commission, outside counsel shall provide their defense. The law further provides that officials denied representation by the commissioners may appeal to the convention.

When the convention convened yesterday, after Rep. Bob Greemore (R-Meredith) moved to proceed with hiring an attorney, Rep. .Beth Arsenault (D-Laconia) asked how the convention could appeal to itself.

From the chair, Rep. Colette Worsman (R-Meredith) told Arsenault to confine her remarks to the motion on floor, reminding her that the convention had already voted to accept the appeal.

“This is going a little more haywire than I expected,” remarked Rep. Dennis Fields (R-Sanbornton), who has persistently challenged Worsman’s conduct of the proceedings.

Rep. David Huot (D-Laconia), a retired district court judge, said that never in his 25 years of practicing law and serving on the bench did he see a party appeal to itself.

Burchell countered that he had access to legal opinions that upheld the position taken by the convention on the strength of his advice. Rep. Ian Raymond (D-Sanbornton) suggested the convention should follow the counsel of a judge instead of “someone without a law degree.”

Commisisoner John Thomas of Belmont explained that the statute Burchell cited applied to individu-

als, not the entire convention, and that commissioners had not denied the convention legal counsel, but instead, following the statute, had retained attorney Paul Fitzgerald of Wescott, Millham & Dyer of Laconia, to defend it.

Worsman said Fitzgerald could not represent the convention because “we’ve never hired him.”

Last week, offering written advice paid for by the commissioners, Fitzgerald told the convention that under N.H. law it was the commissioner’s legal responsibility to hire counsel to defend the convention.

Last night, the motion to hire an attorney carried by a vote of 10 to 7. Ten Republicans — Representatives Greemore, Worsman and Herb Vadney of Meredith, Burchell, Jane Cormier and Stephen Holmes of Alton, Frank Tilton of Laconia, Michael Sylvia and Chuck Fink of Belmont, and Guy Comtois of Barnstead — voted in favor while two — Dennis Fields of Sanbornton and Bob Luther of Laconia — joined the five Democrats — Arsenault, Huot, Raymond, Ruth Gulick of New Hampton and Lisa DiMartino of Gilford — in dissent.

Sylvia proposed that the Melissa Gulbrandsen, the county attorney, represent the convention, sparing taxpayers the cost of outside counsel. “”That puts me in an awkward position between the two bodies,” said Gulbrandsen, aware that the county attorney works at the direction of the commission.

Worsman said, “I am very upset that we cannot choose the most cost effective of representation. Not being able to use Melissa flies in the face of taxpayers.”

Burchell suggested Worsman file an appearance to represent the convention pro se, or “for himself,” to meet the deadline and retain counsel later. However, Huot pointed out that because the convention is not an individual but a body, it cannot be represented pro se.

Ultimately, with Gulick the convention voted 15 to 1 to authorize Worsman to approach the Mitchell Municipal Group.

Commissioner Ed Philpot pointed out that the convention has no authority to enter a contract or to pay an invoice.

PENTAGON from page 2 Because the length of the school day can’t legally be shortened, teachers and staff will likely have to take one unpaid day a week off to meet the furlough requirements. The Pentagon said that each school may handle the staff shortfall differently, perhaps having classes double up or using administrators or other teachers to stand in for absent co-workers.

“We’re going to do everything we can to manage the furlough process in a manner that enables military children to receive an accredited school year for this academic year,” Little told reporters. He added that summer school also will continue to be offered.

The furloughs would affect about 8,000 teachers and 7,000 support staff in the 194 military schools around the world. The schools are located in seven states, a dozen countries, as well as Guam and Puerto Rico, and they serve about 86,000 students.

The schools are on military bases in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.

The cuts, which could run through the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, will have an impact on the current school year and the one that will begin in August or September.

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2001 Arctic Cat Panther 440 2-Up seat, electtic start, reverse, hand/thumb warmers. 2,900 Miles $1,800. 366-2352

Storage Space LACONIA: 20' x 18' two car ga rage for rent, $195/month including electric, 524-1234.

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Effective Monday March 11th, the Town of Gilford will be posting all of its Town roads to a maximum weight limit of 10 Tons during the spring thaw, per RSA 231:190-191.

Contractors, construction companies, parcel services, fuel services and solid waste haulers are asked to observe the posting by staying off soft road shoulders and reduce load weights.

Special permission may be given depending upon weather conditions and time of day.

Call the Public Works Department at 603-527-4778 with any questions.

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PUBLIC NOTICE-POSTED ROADS In accordance with the Town of Meredith Load Limit Ordinance, Section II and III, Meredith town roads shall be POSTED with a load limit of twelve thousand (12,000) pounds gross vehicle weight.

This posting shall be in effect starting Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 7 AM and will remain in effect until further notice.

All requests for temporary permits to haul loads over 12,000 lbs. on any of the posted town roads during this time must be applied for at the Public Works Office at 347 Daniel Webster Highway, Meredith and are issued at the discretion of the Public Works Director, Michael Faller. Permits issued on day to day basis. Failure to comply with the provisions of this ordinance shall result in a fine of $250.00 for first offense and $500.00 for each subsequent offense. Each load that is hauled over said road shall be a separate offense. Signed permit must be in hand when traveling over said posted road.

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