E E R F Saturday, auguSt 31, 2013
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Obama preps for missile attack
President says there’ll be no American ‘boots on the ground’ in Syria — P. 2
VOL. 14 NO. 63
LaCONIa, N.H.
THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
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LACONIA — To be ready to lead the Lakes Region Parade of Homes during the Columbus Day weekend, the Children’s Charity House, built at Windemere Ridge by volunteer tradesmen with donated materials to benefit the WLNH Children’s Auction, needs painting.
Dale Squires of Lakes Region Builders and Remodelers Association, whose members have undertaken the project, is calling for volunteers to lend a hand on Tuesday, September 3 by painting the entire interior in just one day. John Groesser of JG New Age Interiors enlisted four of his competitors — Sherkanowski Drywall, Wyatt Drywall, Cullen
Drywall and Vergato Drywall — to do in one week what would have taken one contractor three and by Monday the walls will be ready for painting. Squires said that volunteers, wearing only broad smiles and painting clothes, are needed to start work on Tuesday at 7 a.m. and put in as much time as they can. The see PaINt CrEW page 10
Mystery urn containing ashes left at Alton cemetery
Fri. August 30 - Mon. September 2 SCREEN 1
We are the Millers (R) Plays First Co-feature Conjuring (R) SCREEN 2
Get Away (Pg-13) Plays First Co-feature Elysium (R) SCREEN 3
Despicable Me 2 (Pg) Plays First
Co-feature Mortal Instruments (Pg 13) SCREEN 4
Planes (G) Plays First
Co-feature Smurfs 2 (PG) Help us go “Digital” Vote daily in Honda’s “Project Drive-In” contest. Ends Sept. 9. Also on our website & Facebook http://ProjectDriveIn.com/vote_41 Text VOTE 41 to 444999
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Box office opens at 7pm. Shows start at DUSK or approx. 8pm. Admission: Adults $10, Children 11 and under are FREE. Minimum $20 charge per car. Come early & enjoy our snack bar & see 2 movies in one of the Country’s Last Drive-In Theaters. weirsdrivein.com & Find us on Facebook
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Doug Diamond backs his truck into one of the newly aligned diagonal parking spaces along North Main Street in Bristol Square to patronize the TD Bank on Thursday afternoon. Diamnind is among a number of residents who are not pleased with the new parking arrangement that is explained on the sign at right. (Daryl Carlson for the Laconia Daily Sun)
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BRISTOL — Parking in parts of downtown Bristol is all backward now, thanks to a major upgrade to Central Square. But please, town officials are urging locals, bear with the changes and you will get used to them. The introduction of some two dozen back-in diagonal parking spaces in the square area seems to be getting more attention than the other elements of the $1.6 million project, which included
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Volunteer paint crew needed at Children’s Charity House on Tues. By Michael kitch
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the installation of new water and sewer lines, improvements to the storm drains, the creation of traffic islands, a complete rebuilding of the roadways of the square and its immediately adjoining streets, and the addition of new landscaping and new streetlights. The project is now essentially complete, according to Town Administrator Michael Capone. The only work that remains is a few “to-do” items on a punch list, he said. see BrIstOL page 8
ALTON — Police are reaching out to the general public for help in identifying a urn holding what appears to be human ashes that was left in one of the local cemeteries. Chief Ryan Heath said workers in a small, townowned cemetery just off Route 11 near the Gilford line found the square copper urn on August 16. He said a bag in the urn looks like one that would be used by a crematory but police don’t want to disturb the contents and area funeral home owners are equally stumped. “We’ve been trying to identify who it belongs to but we’ve go no idea,” Heath said yesterday afternoon. He said it’s rare to find discarded ashes but said it usually happens after a house is burglarized and the thieves discover what they’ve stolen and feel bad about it. “They’ll abandon the urn somewhere and we’ll quietly return it to the victims,” he said. see urN page 11
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