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With just a scant amount of snow left on the ground it felt more like “Spring Fest” rather than Winter Fest at Prescott Farm Saturday afternoon. Folks enjoyed the warm temperatures while taking a horse wagon sleigh ride provided by the Swain family of Heritage Farms as part of the days festivities. (Karen Bobotas/for the Laconia Daily Sun)

Prescott Farm’s Winter Fest treated to spring-like conditions

GILFORD — “We have 45 trails open,” Greg Goddard, general manager of Gun-stock Mountain Resort declared yesterday, “and I defy anyone to find a bare spot on one of them. We’ve got great snow and are looking forward to terrific skiing through the month of March,” he continued. “We have no intention of closing before April 1 just as we always do.”

By Michael KitchTHE LACONIA DAILY SUN

Goddard said that despite the lack of natural snow and seasonal temperatures recent investments in snowmaking equip-ment and capacity have enabled Gunstock to overcome less than favorable winter weather conditions to offer a full menu of winter recreation — skiing, both down-hill and cross-country, snowboarding and tubing — throughout the season.

“We don’t need Mother Nature,” Goddard remarked. “We’re grooming trails overnight

every night,” Goddard said. “It sets up by morning and softens up during the day. Our skiers have been astounded by the con-ditions and given us rave reviews.”

Acknowledging that so far attendance may be as much as 25-percent less than last season, Goddard hastened to add that last winter drew a record number of visitors to Gunstock. He noted that schools elsewhere in New England are on vacation this week

see GUnsTOCK page 7

Beer hereParks & Rec Commission decides to allow beer at Muskrats games

By Michael KitchTHE LACONIA DAILY SUN

LACONIA — The Parks and Recreation Commission last night granted the request of Noah Crane, general manager of the Laco-nia Muskrats, to sell beer during the 21 home games played at Robbie Mills Field in the 2012 season.

When Crane first made his request last month Commis-sioner Rodney Roy moved to approve it, but no one seconded it. “It’s done,” said Commissioner George Hawkins, serving as chairman in place of Jeff Pattison, who as a member of the advisory board of the Muskrats had recused himself. Last night Pattison reopened the issue by explaining that because no vote was taken at the ear-lier meeting, Crane’s request was still before the commis-sion. Then once again he recused himself from the discussion.

Crane told the com-mission that beer sales were intended to boost revenues. “After two seasons we’ve yet to break even,” he said. Drawing on the expe-rience of Holyoke and Lynn, Massachusetts, the only franchises in the New England

see BeeR page 8

GILFORD — While School Board chal-lenger Doug Lambert and Budget Commit-tee challenger Barbara Aichinger verbally danced for their supper at last night’s stu-dent-sponsored candidate’s forum, most of the rest of the candidates were given a free pass from the tough questions.

Tough candidate forum questions directed only at Lambert & Aichinger

The format of the forum was designed to prevent conflict - questions were submitted to the students who asked them without revealing the name of

the person who asked the questions. There were no follow-up questions allowed.

Despite the format or perhaps because of the anonymity it provided, some of the questions were tough ones — most tellingly one person wanted to know how much time Aichinger spends in Gilford and another one wanted to know if Lambert supports all students - including the gay ones.

“I did a stupid thing, I apologized and I paid the price,” he said, referring to his 2009 tirade against the openly gay leader of the state’s Democratic Party on his former blog Gilford Grok.

His rant, for which he did apologize, cost

him his spot on the Budget Committee - he stepped down - his weekly column in the Laconia Daily Sun, and his prominent posi-tion on Gilford Grok - a conservative blog he partially ran.

As to the direct question of whether or not he would support all students, Lambert said, “When the mission is education and community, I don’t see how anybody could be discriminated against.

“We’re all God’s children,” he said, adding that, if elected “every child in this building would get his support and protection.”

Aichinger said she travels frequently

By Gail OBerTHE LACONIA DAILY SUN

see GILFORd page 8

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VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. nuclear agency acknowledged its renewed failure Wednes-day in trying to probe suspicions that Tehran has worked secretly on atomic arms, in a statement issued shortly after an Ira-nian general warned of a pre-emptive strike against any nation that threatens Iran.

BRUSSELS (AP) — The bailout has saved Europe, for now, but it’s unlikely to save Greece.

The 130 billion euro ($172 billion) rescue — agreed to Tuesday after an all-night summit of European ministers — pre-vented an uncontrolled bankrupcty and calmed investors worried that a Greek default would have started a chain reac-tion across Europe. But it left key prob-lems unresolved.

Draconian budget cuts could keep Greece

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan will ask Interpol for help in arresting ex-President Pervez Musharraf for his failure to prevent the assassination of former Prime Minis-ter Benazir Bhutto, the interior minister said Tuesday.

Rehman Malik said the government was seeking Musharraf’s arrest because he allegedly failed to provide adequate secu-rity for Bhutto, who was killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack in 2007.

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— Keith RobinsonCARACAS, Venezuela

(AP) — President Hugo Chavez announced Tuesday that doctors in Cuba found a new lesion in the same place where a cancerous tumor was removed last year and said that he is not deathly ill but will require surgery.

“It is a small lesion of about two centimeters (less than one inch) in diameter, very clearly visible,” Chavez told state television from Barinas, his home state.

The announcement thrust Venezuelan poli-tics into new uncer-tainty because the socialist leader is seek-ing re-election this year, hoping to extend his more than 13 years in power with a new six-year term.

He did not say when or where he would undergo the surgery, other than “in the coming days.” He said he would meet with his inner circle and expected to provide more details after a Wednesday Cabinet meeting.

Chavez, 57, said the operation should be less complicated than what he underwent in Cuba

Europe meltdown averted, for now, by Greece bailoutmired in recession after five straight years. The deal doesn’t directly address the debt problems in other struggling countries in the 17-country zone that uses the euro. Spending cuts could reduce tax revenue and possibly worsen the government’s finances.

“You can’t shrink your way out of a reces-sion,” said Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the lib-eral Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington. “What they are doing to Greece really makes no economic sense.”

In Athens, Greeks reacted with a mix-ture of relief and fear of a dark future.

“I don’t see it with any joy because again we’re being burdened with loans, loans, loans, with no end in sight,” architect Valia Rokou said in the Greek capital.

Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos said the agreement managed to prevent imminent catastrophe: “we avoided the nightmare scenario,” he said.

The agreement was the second massive see GREECE page 9

Pakistan government to seek arrest of ex-president MusharrafHe made the comments in a televised

address to lawmakers in Sindh province, Bhutto’s political stronghold.

An Interpol spokeswoman said any eventual request from Pakistan would be “assessed in accordance with our rules and regulations.” The spokeswoman for the Lyon, France-based international police agency was not authorized to be publicly named according to Interpol policy.

Musharraf, a one-time U.S. ally, went

into self-exile in Britain in 2008 after being forced out of the presidency he secured in a 1999 military coup. The current govern-ment is being run by Musharraf’s political rivals, and the president is Bhutto’s wid-ower and political heir.

A Pakistani court issued an arrest war-rant for Musharraf last year over the alle-gations.

Musharraf, an ex-army general who see PAKISTAN page 11

U.N. nuclear agency reports failed talks toward cooperation from IranThe double signs of defiance reflected

Iranian determination not to bow to demands that it defuse suspicions about its nuclear activities despite rapidly grow-ing international sanctions imposed over its refusal to signal it is ready to compro-mise on the atomic dispute.

With the International Atomic Energy Agency already failing to dent Iranian stonewalling in talks that ended just three weeks ago, hopes were muted that the latest effort would be successful even before the IAEA issued its statement.

Venezuela’s Chavez faces more cancer surgery

see CHAVEZ page 11

see MUSLIMS page 9

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PHOENIX (AP) — She has been dubbed the “trailer park Mata Hari,” an attractive ex-stripper recruited by the feds to befriend identical twin brothers accused of a white-supremacist bombing and to get them to admit to the crime.

She moved into the same Oklahoma campground, dressed provocatively, used racial slurs and talked like a separatist.

And she won the brothers’ confidence over a five-year period in part by sending them racy photos of herself, including a shot from behind of her in a Con-federate-flag bikini bottom.

As the trial of the 61-year-old brothers winds down in federal court, defense attorneys are argu-ing that the government’s conduct was outrageous and that the informant’s actions amounted to sexual entrapment.

During closing arguments Tuesday, prosecutor

NEW YORK (AP) — The mayor faced off with the president of Yale University on Tuesday over an effort by the city’s police department to moni-tor Muslim student groups for any signs that their members harbored terrorist sympathies.

The Associated Press revealed over the weekend that in recent years the New York Police Depart-ment has kept close watch on Muslim student asso-ciations across the Northeast. The effort included daily tracking of student websites and blogs, moni-toring who was speaking to the groups and sending an undercover officer on a whitewater rafting trip with students from the City College of New York.

Yale President Richard Levin was among a number of academics who condemned the effort in a statement Monday, while Rutgers University and leaders of student Muslim groups elsewhere called for investigations into the monitoring.

“I am writing to state, in the strongest possible terms, that police surveillance based on religion, nationality, or peacefully expressed political opinions is antitheti-cal to the values of Yale, the academic community, and the United States,” Levin wrote.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, speaking to report-ers on Tuesday, dismissed those criticisms as baseless.

“I don’t know why keeping the country safe is antithetical to the values of Yale,” he said.

He said it was “ridiculous” to argue that there was anything wrong with officers keeping an eye on web-sites that are available to the general public.

“Of course we’re going to look at anything that’s publicly available in the public domain,” he said. “We have an obligation to do so, and it is to protect the very things that let Yale survive.”

Asked by a reporter if he thought it was a “step too far” to send undercover investigators to accompany students on rafting vacations, Bloomberg said: “No. We have to keep this country safe.”

“It’s very cute to go and blame everybody and say we should stay away from anything that smacks of intel-ligence gathering,” he said. “The job of our law enforce-

Authorities ID mountain man suspect in burglariesSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities on Tues-

day identified a man sought for more than five years in dozens of cabin burglaries in the mountains of southern Utah.

In a statement Tuesday evening, the Iron County Sheriff ’s Office said tips from the public and foren-sic evidence have linked Troy James Knapp to the crimes.

Authorities said an arrest warrant has been issued for his capture. The 44-year-old faces mul-tiple counts of burglary and a weapons charge.

The identification of the serial cabin burglar, who has been considered armed and dangerous, was the result of “good old fashioned investigative work along with tips provided by the public,” according to the statement.

It said the suspect had been “forensically linked” to the burglaries, but provided no further details.

But in court documents filed Jan. 27 in Kane County in southern Utah, authorities indicated they matched Knapp’s fingerprints lifted from one cabin to records from a 2000 theft arrest in California.

Last week, Iron County Sheriff’s Detective Jody Edwards said investigators hadn’t made a definite identification but were getting close. However, charges against Knapp were filed in neighboring Kane County about three weeks ago, according to court records.

NYPD monitoring of Muslim students sparks outrage

ment is to make sure that they prevent things. And you only do that by being proactive.”

Bloomberg, an inde-pendent, added that he believed that police officers had respected people’s pri-vacy and obeyed the law.

The campus monitor-ing program was part of a broad effort by the NYPD, initiated after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, to try to spot any burgeoning terror cells in the U.S. before they had a chance to act. The NYPD monitor-ing of college campuses included schools far beyond the city limits.

Police talked with local authorities about professors 300 miles away in upstate Buf-falo. The undercover agent who attended the City College raft-ing trip recorded stu-dents’ names and noted in police intelligence files how many times they prayed. Detec-tives trawled Muslim student websites every day and, although pro-

see MUSLIMS page 9

Edwards has been working the case since 2007. He didn’t return a telephone call seeking comment on Tuesday evening.

“We believe Mr. Knapp is our guy,” Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal Michael Wingert told The Associated Press. “This guy is probably about as true a survivalist as Davy Crockett.”

Knapp has eluded capture for more than five years and is responsible for more than two dozen burglaries across a swath of mountains not far from Zion National Park. He’s roamed 1,000 square miles of rugged wil-derness where snow can pile 10 feet deep in winter.

Authorities have said Knapp has been breaking into remote cabins in winter, living in luxury off hot food, alcohol and coffee before stealing provisions and van-ishing into the woods with guns and supplies.

“This suspect is known to be armed and could be possibly dangerous if cornered,” the statement released Tuesday said.

Edwards had said last week that investigators were still scouring for clues. He indicated authori-ties were getting close to solving the case after they got the first pictures of the suspect from a motion-triggered surveillance camera outside a cabin. The photos taken sometime in December showed a sandy-haired man in camouflage on snowshoes, a rifle slung over his shoulder.

Feds used ‘trailer park Mata Hari’ to ensnare white supremacists Michael Morrissey told the jury that the hiring of the informant, identified in court records as Rebecca “Becca” Williams, was “entirely permissible and nec-essary” to the investigation of Dennis and Daniel Mahon.

“There was no use of sex to obtain evidence,” he said.

The jury began deliberating whether to convict the brothers, who have pleaded not guilty, after closing statements ended late Tuesday. A verdict is expected by the end of next week.

The brothers are accused of sending a package bomb in 2004 that maimed Don Logan, a black man who was the diversity director for the Phoe-nix suburb of Scottsdale at the time. Logan, 54, was hospitalized for three days after the bombing and needed four operations on his hand and arm. The

see MATA HARI page 10


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Pat Buchanan

Is America still God’s country?

The political beliefs of Barack Obama, said Rick Santorum last week, come out of “some phony theology. ... Not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology, but no less a theology.”

Given the opportunity on “Face the Nation” to amend his remarks, Santorum declined the offer and plunged on: “I don’t question the president’s faith. I’ve repeatedly said that I believe the president is a Christian. He says he is a Christian. I am talking about his worldview and the way he approaches problems in this coun-try. ... They’re different than how most people do in America.”

Obama’s surrogates on the Sunday shows charged Santorum with questioning the president’s faith.

Not exactly. What Santorum is saying is that in the struggle for the soul of America, though Obama may profess to be, and may be, a Christian, he is leading the anti-Christian forces of what Pope Benedict XVI has called “radical secularism.”

In Plano, Texas, last week, San-torum was even more explicit: “They (the Obamaites) are taking faith and crushing it. Why? Why? When you marginalize faith in America, when you remove the pillar of God-given rights, then what’s left is the French Revo-lution. ... What’s left in France became the guillotine.

“Ladies and gentlemen, we’re a long way from that, but if we ... follow the path of President Obama and his overt hostility to faith in America, then we are headed down that road.”

Santorum is saying that where Thomas Jefferson attributed our human equality and our right to life and liberty to a Creator, secu-larism sees no authority higher than the state. But what the state gives, the state can take away.

The media think Santorum is singing “Onward Christian Sol-diers” while heading off into the fever swamps. But Santorum is wagering his political future on his assessment of where we are in 2012. He sees America dividing ever more deeply between those who hold to traditional Christian views on marriage, life and moral-ity, and those who have aban-doned such beliefs. He believes that the former remain America’s silent majority, and he is offering himself as their champion against a militant secularism that has lately angered more than just the right.

Last week, Santorum declared that radical environmentalism is also rooted in this same anti-Bib-lical view of mankind’s purpose here on earth. “I think that a lot of radical environmentalists have it backwards. This idea that man is

here to serve the earth as opposed to husband its resources and be good stewards of the earth. Man is here to use the resources and use them wisely, but man is not here to serve the earth.”

This is straight out of Genesis: “Then God said, ‘Let us make human beings in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

Santorum seems to want to steer his primary and general election campaign into a conflict that goes back deep into Ameri-can history and has surfaced time and again.

An early triumph of secular-ism came with the Scopes trial in 1923 in Dayton, Tenn. Clarence Darrow, defending a teacher who had violated state law by intro-ducing Darwin’s theory of evolu-tion into the classroom, mocked the Old Testament teachings of the Evangelical Christians, to the merriment of the establishment. From that day on, Darwinism was taught in our schools, first as theory, then as fact, then as higher truth. With the Darwinian tenet — we evolved, we were not created — established truth in the public schools, secularism set about driving its enemy, Christi-anity, out completely.

Under the Warren Court in the 1950s and 1960s, it succeeded. All Christian commandments, holidays, prayers, pageants and plays were gone. Where Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman and Jimmy Carter had declared that America is a Christian nation, Obama has declared, “We do not consider our-selves a Christian nation,” but rather a nation of all faiths.

Santorum is undeniably taking an immense gamble here. First, he is wagering that by emphasiz-ing his moral, social and cultural conservatism, he can trump Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital job-cre-ator card.

Second, he is wagering that Obama, with his latest attempt to impose secular values on Catholic institutions, can be portrayed as possessed of an “overt hostility to faith in America.”

Third, he is wagering that he has the rhetorical and political skills to make this case to the nation through the prism of a hos-tile media.

Fourth, he is betting that these issues are also the concern of a plurality of Americans in a coun-try far different from the one he grew up in.

Finally, Santorum is betting that Americans still believe this is God’s country, that America’s laws

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LETTERS

To the editor,Over the last three years, there has

been considerable debate on construc-tion of a new large municipal complex in Center Harbor. At last years’ Town Meeting, opponents of spending mil-lions to expand facilities needed to say little and the project was soundly defeated for a second year in a row. This year, the Selectboard is once again pursuing a project of similar scale (year three), and, once again, the only way that they will succeed is to have few voters show up to vote, because once again, the project is inappropriate for this town; and the residents and tax payers know it.

Center Harbor is not much larger today than it was a quarter century ago, no school, no interstate, no major public parks, nor any large shopping complexes, the types of items that often drive expenses up for a town. In fact, Center Harbor could be a model to evaluate how government grows disproportionally while a community remains the same.

With a population of just over 1000, Center Harbor can be compared to about a dozen other towns in the state of similar populations, to compare “taxes to be raised”. Looking at the 2010 U.S. Census Data and the taxes to be raised from the N.H. DRA, in this

group, Center Harbor leads the pack in dollars raised, at over $5,000,000 per year. This is nearly a million dol-lars a year more than the next closest town and almost double the average of similar sized towns.

The one saving grace town residents have, is that each year, there is a chance to effect this by either approving budgets, or not, but once millions in debt and inter-est are pledge by our tax base, there is no going back. Our children’s, children will be paying the bill and Center Harbor will be just another government that “blew-it” by loading up on debt.

Whether Center Harbor needs more than 10,000-square-feet of municipal space and employees with compensa-tion packages over $100,000 per year has been argued to nausea. The facts are simple and easy to understand, the only real issue is whether voters show up and vote. The March 13th meeting will be a secret ballot, and will need the same voter turn-out as last year to defeat this project. It will be sad to see a low turn out and have those with a vested interest laden this little hamlet with a burden the size of many cities. So, we will all see each other at Town Meeting, or we will be seeing each other next year at City Hall.

Keith & Pam MarkleyCenter Harbor

Center Harbor municipal government is disproportionately big

To the editor,This country and people in it have

been going to hell in a hand basket in recent years. And it keeps getting worse every day, in my humble opinion.

In 1782 George Washington, not yet our first U.S. president, established awards and medals for military heroes and issued severe military punishment for anyone who claimed to have won medals but had not actually done so. In modern days there have been many people who falsely claimed military awards, so in 2006 a federal law was passed, The Stolen Valor Act, to stop it. Yeah right! Yet some liar nearly had the U.S. House of Representatives name a U.S. Post Office after him!

Now the U.S. Supreme Court will be hearing an appeal of a Chronic Liar, according to his attorneys, who claimed he was a wounded war veteran and

Medal of Honor winner in violation of the Stolen Valor Act. Why? Because the man has “Freedom of Speech” and he can say whatever he wants to say even if it is a LIE. The lawyer said the man did not hurt anyone by saying he we won a war medal and was wounded so should not be charged with a crime and be made a criminal. Can he tell every-one he is an FBI agent as part of his “Freedom of Speech”?

Are they serious? Lawyers and poli-ticians never cease to amaze me! How many campaign promises have you seen come true in the past four years?

If this argument is true, then should I not be able to sit in a crowded movie theater and say “ FIRE” as part of MY free speech rights ?

What do you think?Jim MartelGilford

Latest sign of apocalypse: liars hiding behind ‘Freedom of Speech’

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should refl ect his Law, and that they will elevate to the presidency a man who presents himself as the instru-ment to carry out God’s will.

(Syndicated columnist Pat Buchanan has been a senior advisor

to three presidents, twice a candidate for the Republican presidential nomi-nation and the presidential nominee of the Reform Party in 2000. He won the New Hampshire Republican Primary in 1996.)

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To the editor,On February 18, I read with great

interest the letter submitted by Ms. Mucci, and I couldn’t agree more with the many important points that she articulated. I appreciated that she expressed her concerns in a thoughtful manner, and that she pointed out the real reason the board is there — our students. I have also been thoroughly impressed with the student represen-tatives who have served on the board. Inter-Lakes had been truly fortunate to be able to have a student’s perspective and well-spoken input on issues that concern students on a day-to-day basis.

I also agree with Ms. Mucci’s point about the contributions that Ms. Mer-rill has made to our district. Working with students on the Eco-Challenge was a great success in many ways, and in no way would I consider dimin-ishing the work of any of the many volunteers who make substantial con-tributions to our schools every day.

In response to the larger question that Ms. Mucci posed about the actual tone of the board, I have to say that I think that it could be improved upon. School Board members are charged with the task of being able to rep-resent all communities, take in all perspectives, and to make informed decisions. This task is made almost impossible if there is a lack of trust among members. A sense of distrust greatly diminishes the effectiveness

of the board. There has to be a level of professionalism and respect among members so that many different view-points can be articulated and consid-ered which leads to better decision making and respect for the process. This is a belief that I hold true, not just in respect to the board, but also in my own classroom.

During my time on the board the accomplishments that I am most proud of are, that I always took into consideration all sides of the issues, I made diffi cult decisions that I felt I could stand behind, and I did not approach my position with a sense of ego or personal agenda. I continued my own learning about how to be an effective board member and intro-duced the idea that the board should consider implementing a self-assess-ment, because I believe that we all can learn to be more effective.

I look forward to participating in the “Meet the Candidates Forum” hosted at the I-LHS Community Auditorium on February 23. This event begins with candidates from the town of Mer-edith at 6:30, with candidates running for School Board positions beginning at approximately 7:45.

As always, I am also available for discussion, to hear community member concerns, and to answer any questions at, [email protected].

Rebecca AlosaMeredith

LETTERSThere has to be a level of respect among school board members

To the editor,Way to go Nancy Parsons! Too bad we

are still fi ghting to get the vote! It’s the small mindedness of men such as they who wanted to keep us barefoot and

pregnant along with totally ignorant!My hat is off to you Nancy, keep up

the good fi ght!Judi LeavittBristol ,Connecticut

My hat is off to you, Nancy, please keep fi ghting the good fi ght


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To the editor,After reading Barbara Aichinger’s

highly inaccurate letter to the editor on Friday, I considered letting her statements speak for themselves, however, as my students know so well, I am not able to let things slide.

First of all, as those in this tight-knit Gilford community already know, Meg Jenkins is in fact the high school school nurse and Rosanne Sheridan is the middle school nurse.

Secondly, I am not sure that Bar-bara is aware that our nurses here at Gilford have been here for few many years, 18 years for Meg and not abso-lutely certain but I am pretty sure Rosanne has been working in the Gilford district since crows could fl y. Barbara so kindly gives us a resource to “compare” salaries of nurses in our state but I am not sure was able to research their years of service.

Thirdly, I am sure Barbara is aware that there are many different kinds of nurses with several expectations of education which often contributes to salary. Both of our nurses in the middle and the high school are not only registered nurses but carry mas-ters degrees. To say that 36.6-percent higher than the average nurse in N.H. is a grossly misleading number.

Fourthly, I would beg to differ incredibly on whether both of these

women do not work nearly as hard as a regular nurse in a hospital. I would love to have Ms. Aichinger come hang out in our nurses offi ce for a day, see how long she would last. Espe-cially the past two weeks with the Nirovirus going on. Our nurses not only deal with runny noses, hygiene, bruised knees, concussions, broken bones, issues with puberty, kids with cancer, diabetics, and life threaten-ing allergies (to name a few) on a DAILY basis but they also are work-ing with the psychosomatic symptoms our students are experiencing due to family diffi culties and fi nancial issues brought on by this economy.

I am pretty sure, judging by the fact that Ms. Aichinger has not one but two houses on Governors Island, she has no idea what it is like to see fami-lies struggle like they have been. Not to worry Ms. Aichinger, I am sure the voters will not be fooled. It IS about the kids. The people of this commu-nity know that. My guess is that the people who read your last letter have lost respect for your “cause” consider-ing most of them have had Ms. Sheri-dan and Ms. Jenkins as their school nurses and know what they do for the people in this town year round.

Chantelle MoynihanMeredith ResidentGilford Middle School Employee

Ms. Aichinger should pull a shift in the school nurse’s offi ce

To the editor,In response to Nancy Parsons Satur-

day letter: you’re still missing the point. I was not trying to insult you because of you speaking to women’s health. I was trying to point out that your question of “why do men have the right to an opinion on birth control” was ridiculous. Abortion is a serious topic in which men and women should both ‘have the right to an opinion’.

And two thirds of your letter was spent on how archaic the Catholic Church is with the way they view birth control. That is where I came from with the religion. It’s obvious that you’re not Catholic. I don’t know why you’re criticizing them, for any of their members who feel the same way as you, well, they can quit and go join another form of Christianity or what-ever. My point was our government shouldn’t have the right to step in and micro-manage any religion, period.

As to your vasectomy point, perhaps you don’t understand what most pro-life people believe, so let me break it down for you. We believe at concep-tion, when the sperm fertilizes the egg, that is when life begins. I reason that because over 90-percent of the world believes in an afterlife of some sort, then a soul is in us at some point right? Now from the start of concep-tion to birth, who am I, or who is anyone really to say when that soul becomes part of that life. Since you can’t know precisely, then life starts at conception in my mind. If you don’t interfere, those cells will be a person. So killing that zygote is kill-ing a person. Keeping that in mind,

a vasectomy means the man is ster-ile, so therefore there is no concep-tion during sex, and no life has been started. Thus your vasectomy point is moot. Abortion and some forms of birth control deal with killing a zygote once its conceived, and those are the forms that the Catholic Church are against supporting because it goes against their core values.

My point is you’re trying to demon-ize an organization who values life more than anything. I’m not Catholic, but I can admire their view in today’s world of shrinking values and morals. I myself almost participated in an abortion, then we decided at the last minute not to go through with it. What I have now is more valuable than anything I could have ever possibly conceived. My daughter has been my salvation, my proudest accomplish-ment and I love here like words could never explain. I cannot believe that we almost snuffed out her precious life. It is troubling to me that other people do just that because having a baby would make their life more diffi cult.

I actually agree with a lot of both your letters; it is bothersome that there are no women on the congressio-nal board discussing this, the Catholic Church ways are dated and I wouldn’t be a part of them and Rick Santorum is much too socially conservative for my liking. I do still believe that it is important for men to be part of the debate though, because life is not an issue particular for either sex to decide all alone.

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Goddard conceded that some natural snowfall to serve as a reminder of winter would be welcome. “The only thing hurting us is perception,” he remarked. But, whatever the weather brings, he said that “there is plenty of snow on the slopes and we’ll even make more if nec-essary to provide terrific skiing condi-tions for the rest of the season.”

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LETTERS

To the editor,Let’s face it. No one likes to have to

pay taxes. We all would like to have more money in our pockets and be free to spend it, well, freely. However, we do live with other people in a plu-ralistic society that needs to consider the needs of everyone in it. And that is where taxes come in. Taxes pay for our roads (building them, repairing them, plowing them), fire protection (a neighbor’s burning house threatens mine), police protection, public safety and a host of other services that make living in a community good. And yes, taxes also pay for schools.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if costs and needs stayed the same form one year to the next? It would make our personal long-term planning so much easier and predictable. We would never have to vote on a tax bill or school budget because it would be the same every year. Clean. Simple. And I suppose that is why, to some, the idea of a tax cap is so appealing.

But in reality, tax caps are a way of ham-stringing the future. Will a hur-ricane or a flood destroy a road or a bridge? Will the roof collapse or leak after an especially heavy snowfall? Will school enrollment spike? Will the cost of heating oil or electricity go up? Will there be an outbreak of an especially virulent flu? Any of these, and many others, can have serious financial impli-

cations for the town and for the school.And what kind of school do we want?

For many of us of a certain age, schools were rather plain affairs. “Audio-visual aids” and “technology” might have meant a film strip once a month. Today, advances in technology require that all students are proficient in a host of skills that were unheard of a decade ago. And our schools have had to meet the challenge. Computers today are what textbooks were a generation ago-only much more expensive to update, repair or replace. Yet that literacy is just as important as the “three R’s”. Will those costs go down? Stay the same? What other new, necessary technology will we have to respond to in the next ten years? How does a tax cap deal with the reality of necessary spending?

Okay. I concede that “necessary spending” might be open to interpre-tation and debate. So let’s have the debate when the time comes. Let’s not start with an artificial spending cap that cannot predict what our needs will be and what we might want to, as a town and a society, dedicate our resources to. Let’s not tie our hands.

I urge everyone to vote against a tax cap. Please, on March 13, vote NO on Articles 6, 7, 8 and 9 on the School District ballot. And vote NO on a tax cap for the town budget.

Dorothy PiquadoGilford

Tax/spending caps cannot predict what our future needs will be

To the editor,Why the need for five Water Com-

missioners in Alton?The selectmen placed a warrant arti-

cle on the 2011 ballot, to increase the Water Commissioners from three to five members; this article was approved by the voters in 2011 election. The selectmen never consulted the Water Commissioners, at the time, as to their reason for going from three to five.

In the past years the Water Com-missioners have been able to erase a $30K deficit and hold the line on the budget as well.

In the past 12 years I have been on the Water Commissioners Board I only recall one time that the meeting was canceled for lack of a quorum.

The selectmen in public input when answering the question, “Why five?”, .indicated the Water Commissioners were not frugal in their purchases for the Water Department, because the Water Commissioners had approved the pur-chase of a remote start for our new pick up and a pair of deerskin work gloves.

My reasoning for approval of the purchase of the remote start was more safety than convenience. The remote start allows the vehicle to be started and left running with no keys in the vehicle. The vehicle will only run for 15 to 20 minutes when started with the remote start. I have on several occasions

witnessed the town vehicles running for extended time with keys in the vehicle. On one occasion the town vehicle ran for 3 ½ to 4 hours, while on another occa-sion the vehicle was left running with the driver’s door wide open for a period of 15 to 20 minutes. In neither case was it a police vehicle on detail.

I look at the remote start as a secu-rity device because no keys are in the vehicle and if the vehicle is entered and brake or gas pedals are depressed the vehicle shuts off. I look at it similar to a cut off switch in a police vehicle. It sure doesn’t make a lot of sense to leave an unattended vehicle running for any length of time; it sure wastes gas, and invites unauthorized use.

As for the work gloves, it seems better to purchase one good pair of gloves that usually last a year than purchasing 10 or 12 cheap ones in a year.

The total purchase price of these two extravagant purchases was a total of $415, remote start for $400.00 and $15 for work gloves.

The addition of two Water Commis-sioners will far exceed this amount for years to come.

I encourage the voters of Alton to vote Yes on Warrant Article # 48, which will help the Water Commis-sioners hold the line on the budget.

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Crane said that beer sales would be confined to a pavilion constructed beyond the left field fence where fans would have a good view of the diamond without encroaching on the seating for parents and children in the grandstand. By distancing and segregation the beer concession, he said “we can monitor and manage it,” stressing that the aim was not to let beer sales detract from the family atmosphere at the ballpark.

The pavilion, he continued, presented an opportu-nity to upgrade the facility and “add permanency” to the franchise. “We don’t want people asking ‘are the Muskrats coming back?’” he said. “And we want to invest the facility we call home.” The franchise would build pavilion for an estimated cost of $50,000 to $60,000 and once complete, it would become the property of city and, when not serving beer, could be used for other concessions at other events.

Referring to conversations with the commissioners, Crane addressed concerns expressed to him by readily agreeing that there would be no advertising of beer at the ballpark and the commissioners would be welcome to review the concession at least annually and more frequently if they wished. Likewise, if the commission felt the need for a police presence, it would be provided at the team’s expense. “We can’t have this reflect badly on the rest of our operations,” Crane said. “We are open to whatever conditions wishes to place on this.”

Councilor Matt Lahey (Ward 2), also a member of the advisory board of the Muskrats and one of four city councilors attending the meeting, told the com-missioners that “this team is only going to be here

as long as it is financially viable” and assured them that beer sales would be strictly limited to home dates. “We’re looking to keep them here,” he said.

Ruben Bassett of Burrito Me spoke in support of Crane, telling the commission that his restaurant serves beer without diminishing its attraction to par-ents with young children. “It’s possible to sell beer and maintain a family atmosphere,” he said. “We do it.”

After speaking against the proposal last month Councilor Brenda Baer (Ward 4) said “I would go along with the sale of beer at this time. We have to do everything we can to keep the Muskrats here.” She was echoed by Councilor Armand Bolduc (Ward 6) who said “we should do all we can to them here.”

Roy again moved to approve the request. This time Mitch Hamel seconded the motion and offered an amend-ment stipulating that there would be no advertising for alcoholic beverages as well as that the commission could reconsider its decision if circumstances warranted and would review the design of the pavilion to be built.

Dave Plourde expressed moral reservations while assuring Crane “it’s nothing personal,” but commissioners Roy, Hamel and Hawkins voted to grant the request.

Afterwards Crane said that he intended to complete the design of the pavilion and submit it to the Planning Board and the commission while seeking the requisite approvals from the municipal licensing board and the New Hampshire State Liquor Commission.

Pleased with the decision, Crane said that he hoped that beer sales would increase attendance as well as revenues. The Muskrats drew an average of 302 fans last summer, less than all but one of the 11 teams in the league, and some 15,000 in the team’s first two sea-sons. He said that “we want to expand our demographic to include the 21 to 35-year-olds,” noting that beer sales would draw them to the ballpark while doubting they would come to the ballpark simply to drink.

BEER from page one

for her job as a vice president and engineer for a N.H. owned tech company and spends about seven months a year physically in Gilford.

A resident since 2008, she said her husband is still a legal resident of Bedford, N.H. and the youngest of their three children, the child is a senior, remains in Bedford Public Schools so she could stay with her friends.

“I plan on retiring in Gilford,” she said, allowing that because she was asked the question twice that “it was an issue.”

She also said her residency in Gilford was settled when she fought, successfully, to overturn Gilford’s land use laws on involuntary lot mergers.

“If my residency was an issue, my neighbor who sued me would have gotten it out there,” she said referring to her prolonged court case that was trig-gered when she tried to build on an abutting lot she owns on Governor’s Island and realized the two lots had been made into one by the town without her knowledge or consent.

She and Lambert both have a history of citizen’s advocacy. With Aichinger’s victory in 2010 when the state law that disallowed involuntary lot merg-ers was passed by the legislature and became law and Lambert’s N.H. Supreme Court victory regard-ing the public’s Right-to-Know, both are proven and

effective advocates for what they believe.Aichinger also fielded one question from Atty.

Peter Millham - the audience knew it was Millham’s question because the student moderator couldn’t read his handwriting and asked him to read it aloud - who wanted to know if she still intended on sepa-rating Governor’s Island from Gilford because she testified to the same last year before a legislative subcommittee.

“If you read my testimony...” she began.“I read it,” Millham replied, providing the only

public exchange of words during the event.“The problem we have is we pay for services we

don’t get,” she said, without skipping a beat.“When we dial 9-1-1, Laconia shows up because

we’re so close to the Weirs,” she said. “Maybe we could contract with Laconia (for some of those ser-vices). Our own municipality isn’t Plan A.”

She also said the people who supported the bill, that would have created a study committee that would allow the island to form its own perfect union (or Plan B as she called it), didn’t have their own municipality as their goal.

“Plan A (the creation of Village Districts within existing municipalities) is why I’m here,” she contin-ued. “Before I stand before the legislature (and ask them for the permission to form their own munici-

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(The bill was determined to be Inexpedient to Leg-islate or, in English, it didn’t make it out of one of the legislative committees that considered it.)

For Aichinger, the goal is to lower the town’s tax rate to $15 per $1000 evaluation within three years by cutting spending and making better use of the resources the town already has.

Long range, Aichinger said lowering the tax rate would preserve property values, adding that many elderly people, in the pre-IRA and 401K investment days, bought property as an investment for their retirement.

Lambert said his main goal for both running for School Board and for suing the School Board over it’s decision to hire a superintendent despite two separate votes of the people for a different admin-istrative structure, was because the School Board has a habit of ignoring the people and his desire to “empower the parents.”

Along with the decision to hire a superintendent, Lambert was also asked if he supported full-day kin-dergarten. He answered that the decision to create a full-day kindergarten after the people voted “no under any circumstances” was another example of how the School Board does what it wants regardless of what the people who elected them want.

Current School Board Chair Kurt Webber - a can-didate for reelection - was also asked about the kin-dergarten decision and he said that after conducting a pilot program that determined the value and learning that it would save the district money, by eliminating a noon-time bus run, the School Board

unanimously supported full-day kindergarten.Webber was also asked why he hired the superin-

tendent the day before the vote, he said the Board had said all along that would continue the process for hiring a superintendent and timing of the deci-sion to offer the job to existing Superintendent Kent Hemingway was made because one of the three finalists had been offered another job in another dis-trict and it wasn’t fair to leave the three candidates “hanging in the breeze.”

He said the lawyers said it was “advisory only” and the members of both the Gilford and the Gilmanton School Boards was that it “makes no sense to move to a management structure with no one in charge.”

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Davis, Voivod and Grenier sent position letters that were read to the public while Space and Hoff-man were no shows. A couple of questions were directed to Murphy, who said he remains a fiscal conservative who is dedicated to reducing the size of the government.

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bailout of Greece following a €110 billion ($146 bil-lion) rescue in 2010 that didn’t return the country to solvency. It will give Greece €130 billion in loans through 2014 from other eurozone governments and the International Monetary Fund. It was secured after Greece agreed to painful and humiliating measures, including thousands of layoffs of civil service workers and cuts to the minimum wage, imposed by countries suspicious of Greece’s reform efforts after two years of what they called the country’s broken promises.

The finance ministers wrangled until the early morning over the details of the rescue, squeezing last-minute concessions out of private holders of Greek debt who agreed to lose 53.5 percent of the face value of their investment to avoid even more severe losses if Greece fails to pay €14.5 billion in debt due March 20.

The serious risks of the bailout’s failure include the likelihood that Greece’s economy remains in a deep recession instead of returning to growth in 2013 as the deal assumes. That would undermine chances of paying even the reduced debt load, esti-

mated at a still-high 120 percent of annual economic output in 2020, down from 160 percent now.

Additionally, political outrage over the cutbacks could lead Greece politicians to balk at the tough conditions. That could push rescuer countries — led by Germany — to cut off further funding.

Elections in Greece are expected in April. The leaders of the two main parties have committed to the cuts and reform program, but anti-bailout par-ties have been gaining in the polls.

Greece’s economy shrank 7 percent in the fourth quarter of last year and unemployment is 19 per-cent, a consequence of cuts in public wages and increased taxes inflicted during a downturn.

If that keeps up, even the rescuers acknowledge the reduction goal of 120 percent of GDP is long gone.

“The risks are clearly on the downside,” said Diego Iscaro, an economist at IHS Global Insight. “By aus-terity alone, Greece will not solve the problems it has at the moment. We don’t know when the econ-omy will return to growth and how it will grow.”

Greek politicians nevertheless greeted the pack-age as a turning point for their battered country.

fessors and students had not been accused of any wrongdoing, their names were recorded in reports prepared for police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.

Officers kept tabs on student groups at Yale; Columbia; The University of Pennsylvania; Syra-cuse; Rutgers; New York University; Clarkson University; the State University of New York cam-puses in Buffalo, Albany, Stony Brook and Potsdam;

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LACONIA — Superintendent of Schools Bob Champlin told the School Board last night that the plans for a Health and Wellness Academy are making good progress and that a number of initia-tives are being developed which will be spelled out in a work plan which the Laconia SAU is developing in cooperation with the Lakes Region Partnership for Public Health.

The initiative is being developed as a result of fed-eral requirements tied to the $6.5-million in Quali-fied Zone Academy Bonds that the district qualified for and which is being used to help pay for the reno-vation and additions to the Huot Regional Technical Education Center at the High School.

Champlin said that a work plan will be developed in March which will be submitted to the State Board of Education for its approval in April and that the school district will roll out the plan with staff in August and begin implementing it in September.

He said that if all works well, the district’s plans will qualify as a 10-percent local match for the $5.4-million in federal funds it is slated to receive in June as part Huot Center project.

He said that a recent workshop with community partners in the project developed four priorities: combating drug abuse, obesity, developing positive school climate strategies and increasing access to health care.

He said that an organizational structure is being developed which will an include an advisory board which will work with the school district and Lisa Morin of the Partnership for Public Health and that a program coordinator will be hired to oversee the multiple initiatives which are planned with more than 20 community partner organizations.

Among those initiatives are some already under-way such as immunization clinics and movement breaks in city schools. Others in the works include community emergency response training, emer-gency preparedness efforts, support for Stand Up for Drug Free Laconia, Family Fun Nights, Sun Safety and an Early Sprouts gardening program.

Laconia schools expect new Health & Wellness Academy component to be operational in fall

Champlin also said that some elements of the Health and Wellness Academy project, which is one of the first to be developed in the nation, might qual-ify for private funding support through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Board member Scott Vachon asked if the acad-emy’s programs would also help address the needs of parents and Champlin said that it would, noting that one of the partners, HealthFirst has a strong focus on families and can work with parents in ways which the school district can’t.

Champlin also said that some of the initiatives could see city-wide application through the Laconia Parks and Recreation Department.

The board also received an update on the Teach Like a Champion program from Laconia Middle School Principal Jim McCollum, who said that since the program was instituted last September disrup-tions and suspensions are dramatically lower and academic achievement is on the rise.

He said that second semester figures show a con-tinued drop in horseplay, insubordination, class-room disruption and rude and discourteous behavior while academic achievements are holding steady or increasing based on the number of students earning academic honors.

Sixth grade teacher special education teacher Peg Tetreault said that she has taught for 30 years and is impressed with the results she has seen from the Teach Like a Champion program.

“Every now and then something comes along that really makes a difference and this is one of those programs.’’ said Tetreault.

Key elements of the program include having the entire staff at the school committed to specific prac-tices, including hallway supervision between classes and lunches, after school programming and a class-room structure which provides order and predict-ability for the students.

Other elements include classroom procedures designed to force engagement, encourage reading and having teachers circulate throughout the class-room while instructing have helped increase partici-pation by all students.

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The trial, which began Jan. 10, has been filled with drama as Williams took the stand for several days, and Logan himself described the bombing in detail for the jury.

Williams, who is 20 years younger than the Mahons, said agents with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives recruited her after they worked with her brother, himself an informant, to infiltrate the Hells Angels motorcycle gang.

At the time, Williams testified, she was about to be evicted from her trailer and needed the money. She received a total of $45,000, including expenses, and said she was promised $100,000 upon the Mahons’ conviction.

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LACONIA — Police Chief Christopher Adams said yesterday that the person who fills the opening created by the imminent retirement of Capt. Steve Clarke will likely come from the department’s exist-ing employees.

In addition, since Clarke’s replacement would come from the existing supervisory staff, he said it is also likely the promotion of one of his team to captain will create vacancies at lieutenant, sergeant and finally, a patrol officer position.

Adams, who was the operations lieutenant before becoming chief, said the it was only nine months ago the department, under former Chief Michael Moyer, held what he called a “lieutenants board” - or a writ-ten and oral examination of the people qualified to take over as senior supervisory staff. In Laconia those ranks are captain and lieutenant.

“The examination was conducted by Moyer but I was allowed to sit in on it,” Adams said yesterday. “Ultimately, the decision about who will become cap-tain ... will come from that examination.”

He said the names of the officers who participated in last year’s oral and written exams are protected by personnel policy.

The Laconia Police Department is basically divided into three sections - the operations team that handles the day-to-day policing duties of the depart-

Replacement for retiring LPD captain likely to come from ranksment, the support team that handles the finances, administration and the budget, and the judicial divi-sion that handles the prosecutions.

All three department heads, Clarke in operations, Capt. William Clary in support, and Atty. Prosecutor James Sawyer in judiciary, report directly to the chief and the civilian Board of Police Commissioners.

Each captain has a lieutenant and there are five sergeants positions that function as shift supervi-sors under the operations command. The detectives bureau functions under the operations side although Clary is also the senior detective and supervisor within the bureau. There are six detectives.

“Every March (there) is a sergeants test and the next sergeant will come from those who qualify and who take the test,” Adams said, adding the Laconia Police Department has no lack of qualified officers and detectives to take that test.

As chief, he said he has to pick one of the top three candidates, who are scored on a point system, and then bring all his recommendations to the Police commissioners. He expects the commissioners to make their announcements in April. Clarke’s last day is May 31.

Adams also said he is “very hopeful” that the City Council will allow him to hire for a patrol officer’s posi-tion once all the shifting and promoting is finished.

“I am absolutely grateful to the City Council for its constant support of this department,” Adams said.

By Gail OBerTHE LACONIA DAILY SUN

last June, when doctors removed a tumor from his pelvic region.

From July to September, Chavez received four rounds of chemotherapy, both in Cuba and in Ven-ezuela, and he subsequently said tests showed he was cancer-free.

On Tuesday, Chavez denied rumors that the cancer had spread aggressively even as he said doctors do not know whether the new growth is malignant.

“I completely deny what’s going around that I have metastasis in the liver or I don’t know where, that the cancer has spread all over my body and that I’m already dying,” he said.

He has never specified the cancer’s exact nature or location, and critics have repeatedly accused Chavez of a lack of transparency.

Analyst Cynthia Arnson of the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington said Tuesday’s announcement seriously complicates Chavez’s pros-pects for re-election on Oct. 7.

“It’s now clear that Chavez’s cancer is far from cured. Chavez’s illness — his ability to campaign as well as to govern — is a major factor in the race. It erodes the aura of invincibility as well as inevitabil-ity that Chavez has always tried to create,” she said.

The governing party will also be vexed as it lacks an alternative with Chavez’s charisma and popular following, Arnson said. She predicted “a tight race (will get) even tighter” against opposition candidate Henrique Capriles, a 39-year-old state governor.

Chavez said rumors, including that the cancer has been spreading, prompted him to go public. He had been out of public sight since Friday, not announcing his trip to Cuba.

His government’s handling of unconfirmed reports that he spent the weekend there undergoing medi-cal tests turned out to be ham-fisted. On Monday, repeated attempts by The Associated Press to con-firm the reports went unanswered, and Communi-cations Minister Andres Izarra vehemently denied them online.

CHAVEZ from page 2

wants to return to Pakistan to contest what will be bitterly contested elections likely this year, said the government was playing politics over the case. Musharraf has repeatedly denied any legal respon-sibility for the killing.

“This is all politics,” he told ARY television station on Tuesday. “It’s just point scoring and nothing else.”

Pakistan may ask Interpol to issue a so-called red notice, the agency’s highest-level alert, equiva-lent to putting a suspect on its most-wanted list. Such a notice on Musharraf would alert police in all member countries to heed the Pakistani warrant and arrest Musharraf.

It is unclear whether Malik will go ahead with his threat.

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OBITUARIES

Andrew J. Moynihan, 91GILFORD — Andrew J. Moynihan, 91,

of Gilford and formerly a longtime resi-dent of Butler St., Laconia died peace-fully at the St. Francis Home, Laconia, on Monday, February 20, 2012 with his family by his side. He was the widower of Elaine (Grew) Moynihan who died in 1999.

Mr. Moynihan was born November 14, 1920 in Newport, Rhode Island, the son of Andrew P. and Madeline (Grauer) Moyni-han He was raised in Manchester, N.H., graduating from Manchester West High School in 1939. He graduated from Keene State College in 1947 with his Bachelor of Education Degree and graduated from Pennsylvania State College in 1952 with his Masters of Education Degree. He proudly served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1942-1945 with the VMF-115 Marine Fighter Attack Squadron. He kept a close connection with his WWII buddies attending annual reunions throughout the country.

Mr. Moynihan was a longtime resident of Laconia and was a communicant of St. Joseph Church.

He began his career in education in 1947 as an Industrial Arts Teacher at Laconia High School. In 1967 he became the Coordinator of Federal Funds, ESEA Title I for the Manchester School District. In 1970 he was chosen to serve in the position of Executive Director of the New Hampshire Advisory Council for Vocational-Technical Education, retiring from this position in 1985.

Mr. Moynihan was a lifetime member of the NEA. He enjoyed several years working on Christmas Vil-lage in Laconia, where in 1991 he had the honor of serving as the Mayor of Christmas Village. For fif-teen years, he served on the Laconia Conservation Commission. He was a member of the New Hamp-shire Selective Service Board from 1990-2010.

Mr. Moynihan’s greatest love, second only to his family, was his dearly loved camp on Lake Winni-pesaukee. Clearing the land himself, the camp is

the original “green” project constructed from lumber, fixtures and recycled mate-rials coming from many sources, each one with it’s own story. His creative mind and keen ability to visualize the outcome of his efforts make the camp a very unique place. He enjoyed entertaining friends and relatives showing every visitor the result of his hard work as he was very proud of the results.

Survivors include a son, John A. Moyni-han, and a daughter and son-in-law, Lisa

A. and Nathan Hazeltine, all of Gilford; two grand-daughters, Sarah Gagnon of Cincinnati, Ohio and Megan Caron of Newtonville, Mass.; a grandson, Henry Trachy, of Franklin, N.H. and a sister, Mad-eline Moynihan, of Manchester, several nieces and nephews and many friends. In addition to his wife and parents, Mr. Moynihan was predeceased by a daughter, Melanie, in 2004 and by two sisters, Dolo-res Murphy and Sarah Mirabelli.

Calling hours will be held on Thursday, February 23, 2012 from 6:00-8:00PM in the Carriage House of the Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N.H. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Friday, February 24, 2012 at 11:00am at St. Andre Bessette Parish, St. Joseph Church, 30 Church Street, Laco-nia, N.H.

Burial will follow in the family lot in Bayside Cemetery, Laconia, N.H.

For those who wish, the family suggests that memorial donations be made to the Andrew J. Moynihan Scholarship Fund c/o Lakes Region Scholarship Foundation, PO Box 7312, Gilford, NH 03247-7312

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

Edna A. Barton, 92LACONIA – Edna A. Barton, 92, of

Laconia, died Monday, February 20, 2012 at Belknap County Nursing Home.

She was born in Laconia on January 22, 1920, the daughter of Elie and Mary (Gagnon) Landry. She attended Laconia High School and was primarily a home-maker for most of her life, devoting time to her loving family. She also worked for the Rectory of St Joseph’s Church for a number of years as a housekeeper. Edna was a longtime member of St. Joseph’s Church in Laconia. Edna loved living near Opechee Park and enjoyed all the activities there. In her later years, she enjoyed living at Belknap County Nursing Home sur-rounded by many friends and caring staff.

She was predeceased by her husband, Harold C. Barton in 1982, three brothers; Raymond Landry, Arthur Landry and Roger Landry and one sister, Dorothy Levasseur.

She is survived by one sister, Evelyn L. Persons of Laconia, her son, Wayne Barton and his wife Bette of Alton Bay, two daughters; Cynthia Jenkins and her husband Greg of Ashland and Darnelle Bjorck and her husband Walter of Franklin, eight grand-

children; Gregory Jenkins of Jamaica Plain, Mass., Matthew Jenkins of Allston, Mass., Michelle Pestana Javery of Frank-lin, Brandon Pestana of Franklin, Beth Edwards of Dallas, TX, Lauryn Barton of Biddeford, ME., Caleb Lockwood Jr. of Concord and James Bjorck of Franklin, several great grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

Calling hours will be held from 9:30AM to 10:30AM on Saturday, February 25, 2012 at the Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-

Paquette Funeral Home, 164 Pleasant Street, Laco-nia, N.H. A funeral service will be celebrated at 11AM at the funeral home. Spring burial will be in the family lot in Sacred Heart Cemetery, Laconia, N.H.

For those who wish, memorial contributions may be made to the Belknap County Nursing Home Activities Fund, 30 County Drive, 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.

Kevin R. Pepin, 38BELMONT — Kevin R.

Pepin, 38, of 167 Daniel Web-ster Highway, died at his home on Wednesday, Febru-ary 15, 2012 after fighting cancer for twenty years.

Kevin was born July 24, 1973 in Laconia, the son of Robert and Lucille (Hueber)

Pepin. He resided in Bel-mont with his wife of thir-teen years, Katherine (Jones) Pepin, and their pets, Madi-son, Lopi and Stewie. He was a 1991 graduate of Belmont High School and been employed at the Tilton Outlet.

Survivors include his wife of 13 years, Kathy, of Belmont, his mother, Lucille Pepin, of Belmont, two grandfathers, Robert Pepin, Sr. of Berlin, N.H. and Maurice Hueber, of Belmont, N.H.; aunts, uncles, cousins; a brother-in-law, Ben Jones and his wife, Lisa of Alton, NH; a niece, Kelly, and two nephews, Benjamin and Brian, his Godson, Jacob Bancroft of Laconia and his God Parents, Jerry and Lorraine Noel of Belmont. Kevin was predeceased by his father, Robert, in 1995, by a brother, Keith, in 1992; his two grandmothers, Lucille Pepin, Sr. in 2007 and Jeanne Hueber in 1999 and by his mother-in-law, Ruth Jones in 2003.

A calling hour will be held from 2PM to 3PM on Saturday, February 25, 2012 at the Seventh Day Adventist Church, 241 Province St., Laconia, N.H A memorial service will follow at 3:00PM at the Church. Burial will be at a later date.

For those who wish, the family suggests that memorial donations be made to the Lakes Region General Hospital Oncology Department, 80 High-land Street, Laconia, N.H. 03246.

Thank you to Dr. Robert Friedlander, Sherry Cesati and Dr. Ronald Witkin.

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.

Jacqueline L. Vallee, 88LACONIA – Jacqueline

L. Vallee, 88, of 11 Howard Street, died Monday, Feb-ruary 20, 2012 at Laconia Center, Genesis Healthcare.

She was born in Laconia, the daughter of Archelas and Georgianna (Groleau) Simo-neau. She was a longtime resident of Laconia. She loved spending time with her chil-dren, grandchildren and all her family. She enjoyed gar-dening and was a member of Sacred Heart Church in Laconia.

She was predeceased by her brother, Archie Simo-neau Jr. and two sisters; Gloria McGrath and The-resa Egan.

She is survived by her husband, Regis Vallee of Laconia, three sons; Dennis Vallee and Norman Vallee, both of Laconia and Kenneth Vallee of New York, one daughter, Kathleen Jimenez of Califor-nia, one sister, Lucille Charpentier of California, 9 grandchildren, including John Adams of Maryland and 9 great-grandchildren.

There will be no calling hours.Graveside services will be held in the spring at

Sacred Heart Cemetery in Laconia.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.

BELMONT — Belmont High School’s French Club will hold an indoor yard sale on Saturday, March 17, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the high school cafeteria.

Vendors are being sought for a $10 rental fee and the club is accepting donations of items for the French Club to sell.

Contact Wendy Bordon to reserve a space or make arrangements for drop off of donations: 387-4234 or email [email protected]

Proceeds from the event will help send 20 stu-dents to France as part of the school’s foreign stu-dent exchange program. Last fall 20 students from Moissac, France visited Belmont, spending two weeks with students from Belmont High School.

The fundraising efforts by the club will help BHS stu-dents cover the costs of traveling and activities in France.

For more information contact BHS French teacher Edith Takantjas at 267-6525 or [email protected]

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Spaghetti supper at Elks Lodge benefits cancer victim Louie Thomas

GILFORD — A spaghetti supper fundraiser for local family will be held at the Laconia Elks on Saturday, February 25 from 4-8 p.m. in support of Louie Thomas who was diagnosed with Stage 4 Melanoma cancer.

Thomas was diagnosed with cancer in 2010 and has been through all the traditional treatments and is now going though some new treatments. Even with insurance, the day–to day costs of having to travel to Dartmouth Hitchcock, not being able to work and his wife losing time from work to care for him, is creating a significant finan-cial burden.

The spaghetti supper will consist of spaghetti with or without meatballs, chili, breads, salads, desserts and bev-erages. Donations to support the fund-raiser have come from the Laconia Elks, Hannaford of Gilford, Shaw’s of Belmont and Shaw’s of Gilford, and

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Advance tickets can be purchased at L&R Cleaning Unlimited at 203 Union Ave., Laconia for $8 or at the door for $10. The fundraiser will consist of great food, a 50/50 raffle and many raffle prizes. Prizes have been donated by local businesses, family and friends. Some prizes include gift certificates to TJ Maxx, Patrick’s Pub and Eatery, Sal’s Pizza, The Gateway Spa, Mt. Cranmore tickets, O’Du’s and All Sports Outlet, Lia Sophia Jewelry, Residential and Commercial Cleaning services and many others. Those who would like to make a donation can call L&R Clean-ing Unlimited at 528-0463 and ask for Sandra or Jo or email them at [email protected]

HOLDERNESS — Barry John Byron, 64, of NH Route 175, died suddenly at his home as a result of inju-ries sustain in an accident.

Born in Hanover, NH on May 21, 1947, he was the son of Eugene and the late Hazel [Adams] Byron.

He graduated from Con-cord High School, class of 1965. He also attended Clemson University, in Clemson, SC. Barry has been a resi-dent of Holderness since 1975.

He worked, for twenty-six years, for Freudenberg- NOK, as a super-visor, as a plant manager in Mexico and then became a business partner with Freudenberg. He also owned and operated Green Planet Spray Foam Insulation Company.

Barry was a communicant of Holy Trinity Parish, St. Matthews Church, in Plymouth, and a member of the National Rifle Association. He loved the outdoors and enjoyed scuba diving, hunting and fishing.

Barry was a great husband, father, grandfather, son, and brother. His family and friend will always remember Barry as a caring, selfless, hard working man. His smile and infectious personality would light up a room. He was a leader, who people looked up to and respected. Barry touched the lives of everyone he came in contact with and the world will never be the same without him.

Barry is survived by his wife of forty-four years, Jane E. [Hazelwood] Byron of Holderness, children, Christina M. LeBlanc and husband John, of Camp-ton, Ginger B. Derchsel and husband Matthew, of Lon-donderry, Connie Deyett and husband Michael of Springfield, NH, Shawn T. Byron and wife Kristen of Loudon, Jennifer A. Connon

and husband Jeffrey of Beverly, MA, Audrey M. Wujcik and husband Brian of Tilton, NH, fifteen grandchildren, his father Eugene of Colorado Spring, CO, brother, Eugene Byron and sister Teresa Amen, both of Denver, CO, sis-ters, Carole Mattice of Moument, CO, Ann Cardell of Essex Junction, VT, many nieces and nephews.

Calling hours will be held in the Mayhew Funeral Home, 12 Langdon St, Plymouth on Thursday 6pm to 8pm. A Mass of Christian Burial will be cel-ebrated on Friday at 11am in the Holy Trinity Parish, St. Matthews Church, School St., Plymouth. The Rev. Robert Cole, pastor of St. Katherine’s Drexel Roman Catholic Church, will be the cel-ebrant. Burial will be held at the conve-nience of the family. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Wildlife Heritage Foundation of New Hampshire, PO Box 3993, Concord, NH. 03301. For more information, please go to www.mayhew-funeralhomes.com

OBITUARYBarry J. Byron, 64

LACONIA — Laconia Parks & Rec-reation is offering a number of differ-ent alternatives for kids during the February 27-March 2 school vacation. It is extending some of its regular pro-grams and has added others.

Special programs include:— Monday, Feb. 27: Middle School

Age Basketball 1-4:15 p.m., Wii Time for High School age 3-4:15 p.m.

— Tuesday, Feb. 28: High School Open Gym 11 a.m.-noon, Middle School Age Basketball 1-4:15 p.m.,

Arts n Crafts for all ages 1-4:15 p.m.— Wednesday, Feb. 29: Elementary

Open Gym 1-4:15 p.m., Arts n Crafts for all ages 3-4:15 p.m.

— Thursday, March 1: Elementary Open Gym 9-11:00 a.m., High School/College Basketball Time 1-4:15 p.m., Wii Time for Middle School Ages 1-4:15 p.m.

— Friday, March 2: High School/College Basketball Time 1-4:15 p.m., Wii Time for Elementary Age 1-4:15 p.m.

For more information on these pro-grams call 524-5046.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Even though you’ll fi nd a prospect intimidat-ing, you’ll take the initiative to connect and go forward. It starts with a hand-shake. You’ll turn strangers into friends. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Drug companies are careful to point out (usually with a fast-talking announcer) that medication may have side effects. You’ll see other instances in which so-called solutions may bring with them a host of other problems. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). It’s a day of small but meaningful wins, the kind you will be able to build on in the near future. Set your sights on an inter-esting goal that you can achieve with what you have and know right now. CANCER (June 22-July 22). It’s one thing to be humble; it’s quite another to devalue your achievements. Speak up, especially since there are those around you who will take credit for just about anything, including whatever you don’t take credit for. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Too many things in life are uncontrollable, so we develop habits to keep us in the com-fortable rhythm of a pattern that we can more or less predict. Your rhythm may be thrown this morning, but a habit gets you right back in the groove. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You may want something that you know, intel-lectually, does not make a lick of sense for your life. Somehow that knowledge doesn’t squelch your desire. Would it harm anyone to let yourself have the fantasy for now? LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You are constantly thinking of new ideas, rumi-nating on your next creation and recon-fi guring the various ingredients of your life into a novel recipe. Your spirit of innovation makes this day delicious!

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). It is easy to tell where you stand on an issue, because you have no problem communicating your true feelings. This could lead you to a dicey social situa-tion today. It’s safest to avoid discuss-ing religion and politics. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). To avoid realms that are novel but unnec-essary, silly but useless, delightful but trifl ing, you’ll have to reel yourself in. But should you? Great joy is likely to come from what’s unnecessary, use-less and trifl ing. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You love a challenge. Your desire to overcome the odds may indeed be the secret to your success. Just be sure you’re really choosing worthy challenges instead of making ordinary things harder than they have to be. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). There are powerful indications that good fortune and continued blessings will come from a partner, especially if your partner happens to be peaceful, companionable and considerate. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your social mojo is dialed up. You’ll some-how avoid the quills of spiky personali-ties, warm up the cold ones and break through to the distant ones. You’ll bridge gaps and bring people together. TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Feb. 22). You’ll be more direct than ever when it comes to getting what you want. It’s as though you’ve been circling around a prospect for years, and now you’ll fi nally home in on it. Your talent for attracting helpful people and funding is highlighted in March, July and Novem-ber. April brings an important union. Taurus and Aquarius people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 48, 20, 14 and 16.

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Today is Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, the 53rd day of 2012. There are 313 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:On Feb. 22, 1732 (New Style date), the fi rst

president of the United States, George Wash-ington, was born in Westmoreland County in the Virginia Colony.

On this date:In 1784, a U.S. merchant ship, the Empress

of China, left New York for the Far East to trade goods with China.

In 1862, Jefferson Davis, already the provi-sional president of the Confederacy, was inaugu-rated for a six-year term following his election in November 1861.

In 1865, Tennessee adopted a new constitu-tion which included the abolition of slavery.

In 1909, the Great White Fleet, a naval task force sent on a round-the-world voyage by Presi-dent Theodore Roosevelt, returned after more than a year at sea.

In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge delivered the fi rst radio broadcast from the White House as he addressed the country over 42 stations.

In 1935, it became illegal for airplanes to fl y over the White House.

In 1940, the 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) was enthroned at age 4 in Lhasa, Tibet.

In 1959, the inaugural Daytona 500 race was held; although Johnny Beauchamp was initially declared the winner, the victory was later awarded to Lee Petty.

In 1967, more than 25,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, aimed at smashing a Vietcong stronghold near the Cambodian border. (Although the com-munists were driven out, they later returned.)

In 1973, the United States and China agreed to establish liaison offi ces.

In 1980, the “Miracle on Ice” took place in Lake Placid, N.Y., as the United States Olympic hockey team upset the Soviets, 4-3. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.)

In 1987, pop artist Andy Warhol died at a New York City hospital at age 58; talk-show host David Susskind was found dead in his Manhattan hotel suite; he was 66.

One year ago: A magnitude-6.1 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, killed 184 people. Somali pirates shot to death four Americans taken hostage on their yacht several hundred miles south of Oman.

Today’s Birthdays: Announcer Don Pardo is 94. Actor Paul Dooley is 84. Hollywood “ghost singer” Marni Nixon is 82. Movie director Jonathan Demme is 68. Actor John Ashton is 64. Actress Miou-Miou is 62. Actress Julie Walters is 62. Bas-ketball Hall of Famer Julius Erving is 62. Actress Ellen Greene is 61. Actor Kyle MacLachlan is 53. World Golf Hall of Famer Vijay Singh is 49. Actress-comedian Rachel Dratch is 46. Actor Paul Lieberstein is 45. Actress Jeri Ryan is 44. Actor Thomas Jane is 43. Actress Tamara Mello is 42. Actress-singer Lea Salonga is 41. Actor Jose Solano is 41. International Tennis Hall-of-Famer Michael Chang is 40. Rock musician Scott Phil-lips is 39. Actress Drew Barrymore is 37. Actress Liza Huber is 37. Singer James Blunt is 35. Rock singer Tom Higgenson (Plain White T’s) is 33. Actor Zach Roerig (TV: “The Vampire Diaries”) is 27. Actor Daniel E. Smith is 22.

CALENDAR

Solar energy open house at Pemi Valley Laundry in Plymouth. 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. Refreshments. Eight solar collectors heat up three 120-gallon water tanks.

“Safe Not Sorry: Staying Updated & Safe in Today’s World” — a presentation by Jennifer Frank, special investigator with the PSU Campus Police. 11 a.m. at the Taylor Community’s Woodside building in Laconia. Part of a Meredith Village Savings Bank-sponsored lecture series. Free and open to the public.

Vegan cooking class, dinner at documentary film (“A Diet For All Reason”). 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Pines Com-munity Center in Northfield. $18. for more information call Louisa at 729-0248 or e-mail [email protected].

Lakes Region Tea Party meeting. 7 p.m. at the Moult-onborough Public Library.

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

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.

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

Free knitting and crochet lessons. Drop in on Wednes-days 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.

Free community meal of hot soup and bread at Trinity Episcopal Church on Main Street in downtown Tilton. 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. every Wednesday. For more information call Pastor Mark at 286-3120 or e-mail him at [email protected].

Overeaters Anonymous offers a program of recov-ery 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 and leave a message for Elizabeth at 630-9969 for more information.

TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly) group meeting. 5:30 p.m. at the First Congregational Church in Meredith.

Concord Transplant Support Group meeting. 7 p.m. in Room 5C at Concord Hospital. Open to all pre- and post-transplant patients, friends and family. For more informa-tion, call Yoli at 224-4767.

ABC & ME time at the Meredith Public Library. 10 to 11 a.m. Crafts, songs and games geared toward ages 3-5. Children are encouraged to bring an item from home that starts with the letter of the week — “N”.

Study a Foreign Language with Mango Online at the Meredith Public Library. 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. This class will teach you how to get started learning Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French, German or Italian. Sign up at the main desk.

Storytime at the Gilford Public Library. 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. Songs, a story and create a craft for ages 3-5. Sign-up required.

Check out a computer expert at the Gilford Public Library. 10 a.m. to noon. First-come, first-served service for library card-holders only. 20 minute limit when others are waiting.

TODAY’S EVENTS

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23Better Together monthly meeting. 4 to 6 p.m. at Laco-

nia Middle School. New member orientation from 4 to 4:15 p.m. Action teams currently meeting include: mentoring, Got Lunch!, New Americans, Welcome Baby, Stand Up 4 Drug Free Laconia and Local Events & Activities. For more informa-tion call Shannon Robinson-Beland at 524-1741 - X15.

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Warrant for Annual District Meeting March 9, 2012

To the inhabitants of the pre-existing School Districts of Belmont and Canterbury comprising the Sha ker Regional School District, qualified to vote in Shaker Regional School District affairs: You are hereby notified to meet at Belmont High School, in the gymnasium, on the 9thth day of March, 2012 at 6:00 in the afternoon to act on the following subjects. Polls will be open from 6 pm – 7:30 pm to act on Articles I, II and III. ARTICLE I. To choose, by ballot, a moderator to serve for a term of two years. ARTICLE II. To choose, by ballot, two school board members, one for the pre-existing District of Bel mont to serve for a term of three years and one from the pre-existing District of Canterbury to serve for a term of three years. Candidates must be residents of Belmont and Canterbury respectively but will be elected at large. ARTICLE III. Shall we adopt the provisions of RSA-40:13 (known as SB-2) to allow official ballot vot ing on all issues before the Belmont Canterbury Shaker Regional School Board in March of 2012? (By Petition) (3/5 majority ballot vote required) ARTICLE IV. To see if the School District will vote to authorize the School Board to make applicatio n for, to accept and to expend on behalf of the District any and all advances, grants or other funds for ed ucational purposes which may now or hereinafter be forthcoming from the United State of America and its agenci es and/or the State of New Hampshire and its agencies. ARTICLE V. To see if the School District will vote to authorize the School Board to accept and expen d on behalf of the District private gifts and contributions for educational purposes. ARTICLE VI. To see if the School District will vote, by Ballot, to raise and appropriate the sum of twenty million two hundred seventy thousand one hundred thirty four dollars ($20,270,134) for the support of schools, the salaries of school district officials and agents, and for the payment of statutory obli gations of said district, and to authorize the application against said appropriations of such sums as are esti mated to be raised from the State’s equalized and building aids together with other income. The School Board sha ll certify to the selectmen of each of the towns of Belmont and Canterbury the amount to be raised by taxation of each of said towns. This article does not include appropriations voted in other warrant articles. (The School Board recommends passing this appropriation.) [Majority vote required.] ARTICLE VII. To see if the School District will vote, by Ballot, to approve the cost item included i n the collective bargaining agreement reached between the Shaker Regional School District and the Shaker Regional Education Association NEA-New Hampshire which calls for the following increases in salaries and benefits at the current staffing level:

Fiscal Year Estimated Increase 2013 291,963 2014 238,883 2015 245,651

And further to raise and appropriate the sum of $291,963 for the current fiscal year, such sum repre senting the additional costs attributable to the increase in salary and benefits required by the new agreeme nt over those that would be paid at current staffing levels, with the amount of $164,853 to come from the unreserved fund balance from the 2011-2012 budget which was the amount added at the March 18, 2011 Annual District Meeting for a teacher contract. (The School Board recommends passing this appropriation.) [Majority vote required.] ARTICLE VIII. Shall Shaker Regional School District, if article VII is defeated, authorize the governing body to call one special meeting, at its option, to address article VII cost items only? (Majority vote required) ARTICLE IX. To see if the School District will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of up to one hu ndred thousand dollars ($100,000) to be placed in the School Facilities and Grounds Expendable Trust Fund, which was established at the March 21, 1997 Annual District Meeting, with such amount to be funded f rom the June 30, 2012 unreserved fund balance available for transfer on July 1 of this year. (The School Board recommends passing this article.) [Majority vote required.] ARTICLE X. To see if the School District will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of up to fifty t housand dollars ($50,000) to be placed in the Energy Conservation Expendable Trust Fund, which was establish ed at the March 5, 2010 Annual District Meeting, with such amount to be funded from the June 30, 2012 unreserved fund balance available for transfer on July 1 of this year. (The School Board recommends passing this article.) [Majority vote required.] ARTICLE XI. To see if the School District will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of up to fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to be placed in the Technology Expendable Trust Fund, which was established at the March 5, 2010 Annual District Meeting, with such amount to be funded from the June 30, 2012 unreserv ed fund balance available for transfer on July 1 of this year. (The School Board recommends passing this article.) [Majority vote required.] ARTICLE XII. To transact any other business that may legally come before this meeting. Given our hands at said Belmont this 9th day of February, 2012. Shaker Regional School Board

Preston Tuthill Diane O’Hara Sean Embree Heidi Hutchinson Robert Reed Thomas Goulette Richy Bryant

The Chronicles entertain at the N.H. Jazz Center at Pitman’s Freight Room in Laconia. 8 p.m. $10. BYOB.

“Meet the Candidates” forum in Mer-edith. Inter-Lakes Community Auditorium. Town candidates from 6:30 to 7:30 and Inter-Lakes School District candidates from 7:45 to 8:45.

Alton Candidate’s Night hosted by the Centennial Rotary Club. 7 p.m. in the Music Room at Alton Central School. Can-didates for town and school offices have been invited to participate.

Winter Farmer’s Market at the Skate Escape on Court Street in Laconia. 3 to 6 p.m. Vendors offering local farm-raised meats, fresh-baked breads, organic tea, cofree, fudge, pastries, pies, cakes, fresh produce, jellies & jams, local wines, herbs, oils, plants, jewelry, wood workers, and fine art.

New Hampton Historical Society meet-ing. 7 p.m. at the Gordon Nash Library. Program will feature stories from the Civil War-time letters of Betsey Phelps, offering insight into New England life in the 1860s.

Community forum on the state of health services in the Lakes Region. 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Busiel Mill in downtown Laconia. Hosted by the Belknap County Democratic Committee.

Open House and wine tasting hosted by Wesley Woods in Gilford. 5 to 7 p.m. at 7 Wesley Court. Featuring wines from Gil-ford’s own Stone Gate Vineyards. Light hot & Cold appetizers will also be served. RSVP to Stace at 528-2555 or sdhendricks@wes-

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American Legion Post #1 Bingo. Every Thursday night at 849 N. Main Street in Laconia. Doors open at 4 p.m. Bingo starts at 6:30.

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

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

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

Toddler Time at the Gilford Public Library. 11:30 a.m. to noon. Songs, a story and movement to music for ages 18-36 months. Sign-up in the Children’s Room.

Book Discussion at the Gilford Public Library. Brown Bag session from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. and evening session from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. “Claiming Ground” by Laura Bell.

ABC & ME time at the Meredith Public Library. 1 to 2 p.m. Crafts, songs and games geared toward ages 3-5. Children are encouraged to bring an item from home that starts with the letter of the week — “N”.

Knotty Knitters group meeting at the Meredith Public Library. 10 a.m. to non. Open to all experience levels.

Brown Bag Book Group meeting at the Meredith Public Library. Noon to 1 p.m. “Dragonflight” by Ann McCaffrey. Pick up a copy at the main desk. Dessert and bever-ages will be furnished.

Maureen Bieniarz-Pond, one of the Artists of the Month, with her recent painting “Daisey”. (Courtesy photo)

LACONIA — The Lakes Region Art Association recently established the Artists of the Month program. As the association draws from the entire Lakes Region, this program is aimed at exposing the association and its members’ work across the larger area.

Each month,a jury selects from submissions by member artists to be featured at various businesses in the Lakes Region. These original pieces might be oil or acrylic paintings, watercolors, pastels, or collages. In the short time that the program has been in place the number of display loca-tions has more than doubled.

The following member artists will

each have art work on display from February 20 to March 20 at the follow-ing locations: Maureen Bieniarz-Pond, Northway Bank, Meredith; Joanne Reynolds, The Village Laconia Saving Bank, Gilford; Judy Palfrey, Franklin Savings Bank Main Branch, Franklin; Barbara McClintock, Meredith Savings, Moultonborough and Glenn Madden at Northway Bank, Laconia.

The Lakes Region Art Association holds its monthly meetings on the third Monday of each month, at the Woodside Building Conference Center at the Taylor Community, 435 Union Avenue, Laconia. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. and the public is welcome.

Art Association’s ‘Artists of the Month’ program puts focus on local talent

GILMANTON — Women, men, and children in more than 170 countries and regions will celebrate World Day of Prayer, Friday, March 2.

World Day of Prayer is a worldwide ecumenical movement of Christian women of many traditions who come together to observe a common day of prayer each year on the first Friday in March. It was founded on the idea that prayer and action are insepara-ble in the service of God’s Kingdom. Services begin at sunrise in the Pacific and follow the sun across the globe on the day of celebration. Each year a dif-ferent country’s committee serves as the writers of the World Day of Prayer worship service. This year, the women

of Malaysia have chosen the theme “Let justice prevail.”

The Gilmanton Community Church on Route 140 in Gilmanton Iron Works, will be hosting a worship service on Friday evening, March 2 at 7 p.m. The service will feature prayers, scrip-tures and readings written by women of Malaysia and read by women from our area churches; music from Malay-sia as well as familiar hymns, a video about Malaysia, and light refresh-ments served after the service. A free will offering will be taken to benefit the people of Malaysia and the work of World Day of Prayer USA.

For more information contact Bar-bara Moulton at 875-5651.

Day of Prayer service at Gilmanton church


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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: My husband and I were both widowed before meeting. We are now 70 and have been happily married for six years. We both have grown children. Everything is good in our blended family except for my son’s wife. “Stacy” has been a thorn in my side from the day they married 20 years ago. My former husband and I always managed to keep her quick temper under control. But since he died and I remarried, she’s gone completely overboard. She has stopped my son from having any contact with our family, including his brothers and me. Stacy has been unable to hold down a job because she can’t get along with others. She’s judgmental, critical and short-tempered. She is often jealous and has many unresolved is-sues from her childhood. She is keeping us away from her family, and none of us has seen my grandsons in three years. She says we aren’t trustworthy, but that isn’t true. We are not deceitful in any way, and our word is good. The rest of the family continues to get together without my son and daughter-in-law, but we miss them very much. Our blended family is kind and loving toward one another. But those two grandsons don’t know us, and it looks like that won’t change anytime soon. My son is overwhelmed with Stacy’s control issues, so he just goes along with whatever she wants. Cards, letters, phone calls and emails go unanswered. Do you have any suggestions? -- Grandma with a Broken Heart Dear Grandma: We are so sorry that your son and his wife have chosen to exclude themselves from a loving family. Without your son’s insistence, it is unlikely Stacy will come around. We understand that he is reluctant to rock the boat and possibly damage his marriage, but he shouldn’t be iso-lated from his family in order to placate his wife. It is a form of emotional abuse.

Please continue to send cards, letters and emails without expecting replies. You never know what gets through. De-pending on your state, you also could sue for visitation privi-leges if you so choose. A lawyer with expertise in grandpar-ents’ rights can help you. Dear Annie: My father’s secretary of many years smokes a pack of cigarettes every day in her offi ce. The ceilings are low, and the ventilation is poor. The secondhand smoke is detri-mental to my father’s health, which is already compromised by other medical conditions. My siblings and I have asked her many times to try to get help for her addiction, and to smoke outside or on the offi ce balcony. Do we have to let her do as she pleases, even though it hurts to see Dad breathing in her fumes? -- Montreal Fan Dear Montreal: We have to wonder whether this secretary harbors some hostility toward Dad. Nonetheless, your father is the one who needs to speak up, and apparently, he is un-willing. So put in some fans, smokeless ashtrays and other helpful devices that will minimize the damage. Dear Annie: I was bothered by the letter from “New York-er,” who volunteers at a nonprofi t that provides homework help to neighborhood school kids. Her assumption that many newer families are “stable and affl uent” could be wrong. We have friends and family who are struggling, yet they try to maintain a proud face. This after-school program might be the saving grace for a woman working two jobs. “New Yorker” should fi nd another way of volunteering in the community if she fi nds some children unworthy of her charitable works. -- M Dear M: You make a good point. These after-school pro-grams can be a true blessing to families and an educational boon to children regardless of income levels.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please e-mail your questions to: [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

$1-A-DAY CLASSIFIEDS • CALL 527-9299DOLLAR-A-DAY: Private Party ads only (For Sale, Lost, Autos, etc.), must run ten consecutive days, 15 words max. Additional words 10¢ each per day. does not apply to yard sales. REGULAR RATE: $2 a day; 10¢ per word per day over 15 words. PREMIUMS: First word caps no charge. Additional bold, caps and 9pt type 10¢ per word per day. Centered words 10¢ (2 word minimum) TYPOS: Check your ad the fi rst day of publication. Sorry, we will not issue credit after an ad has run once, and we do not offer refunds. DEADLINES: noon the business day prior to the day of publication. PAYMENT: All private party ads must be pre-paid. We accept checks, Visa Mastercard and Discover credit cards and of course, cash. $10 minimum order for credit cards. CORRESPONDENCE: To place your ad call our offi ces at 527-9299 between 9 am & 5 pm, Monday through Friday; Stop by our offi ce or send a check or money order with ad copy to The Laconia Daily Sun,1127 Union Ave, Laconia, NH 03246. You can email ads to [email protected], we will contact you for payment. OTHER RATES: For information about display ads or other advertising options, call 527-9299.

KEN BARRETT AUCTIONSMonday, February 27 @ 6pm • Preview at 4pm

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trucks, trains, country primitives, Railroad, and much more!!

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Animals

LABRADOR RETRIEVERPuppies AKC bred for qualityand temperament. All 3 colors.In home raised. Taking depos-its. (603)664-2828.

Announcement

$100 Reward for information re:who shot my windshield in Tilton,the 26-year-old using my name,who ordered break-in to my Bel-mont home, any known relation-ship this has to unlisted pedo-philes. Information re: abuse in in-stitutions by police & courts.Janine Wallace, 4 Brookside Cir-cle, Belmont, NH 03220 or POBox 1555, Avon Park, FL 33825.

ALZHEIMERSUPPORT GROUP

Looking to start Alzheimer patientgroup to meet, to eat, to talk andto have some fun. Need a place tomee t . Ca l l Jo rdan a t603-968-4088.

IF you used Yaz/ Yazmin/ Ocellabirth control pills or a NuvaRingcontraceptive between 2001 andthe present and developedblood clots, suffered a stroke,heart attack or required gallbladder removal you may beentitled to compensation. CallAttorney Charles Johnson1-800-535-5727.

Announcement

PAT is back! SupercleanLaundromat. Clean & Restored.Right next to LHS. 7am-7pm, 7days.

WE Pay CA$H for GOLD andSILVER No hotels, no waiting.603-279-0607, Thrifty Yankee,Rte. 25, Meredith, NH.

Autos

1985 Ford van 85,000 milesF-350 Diesel fuel tanks, $1800.524-6592 or 455-5436.

1993 Dodge Ram Wagon B350Van Towing package, 43,000miles, $3000. 524-6592 or455-5436.

1997 Volkswagen Golf. Runsgood, great on gas. $1,895 orbest offer. 630-0957

2000 Pontiac Grand Prix GT4-door, 160K runs great, goodshape, $2000 takes it. 393-9954.

2001 Dodge Maxi-Van. 15passenger, 126K miles. Asking$3,995. 520-4864

Autos

2002 Mazda B-4000, pick up,4 wheel drive, 4 door, auto, 56Kmiles, cap with rack, all power.tow package, excellent cond.Book value $10,200 will sell for$9,500. 603-279-5599.

2002 Nissan Sentra Spec-V, 4cylinder, 6-speed, good gasmileage, $2995/ obo. Call Shane603-848-0530

2003 Dodge Dakota SLT 4x2 :Single cab, V-6, 5-Speed, red,Florida truck with no rust. Greatshape, 121k miles. $2,995. CallPhil, 393-7786.

BUYING junk cars and trucksME & NH. Call for price. MartinTowing. (603)305-4504.

CASH paid for unwanted or junkcars and trucks. Same day servicepossible. 603-231-2859.

BOATS

DOCKS for Rent: 2012 season,Lake Winnisquam Point. Parking,bathrooms, showers, launch onsite. 603-524-2222.

For Rent

Alton room w/private bath in quietcountry location, ten minutes fromAlton Circle and Wolfeboro.$450/Month includes utilities.Outside smoking OK. 875-6875.Must Love pets.

APARTMENTS, mobile homes. Ifyou need a rental at a fair price,call DRM Corp. Over 40 years inrentals. We treat you better!524-0348 or visit M-W-F, 12-5, at373 Court Street, Laconia.

AT Weirs Beach. Nice 2 Bedroom/1-Bath. Heat/HW incl Laundryhook-ups. $890/month. $500 se-curity. 296-5314.

BELMONT-Available Immediately.2-bedroom townhouse-style.Quiet, heat included. $225/week.All housing certificates accepted.267-0545-or 781-344-3749

For Rent

CENTER Harbor 1-bedroomapartment. Includes utilities,washer dryer. Quiet neighbor-hood. Dog/cat okay $775 mo.254-9551

GILFORD Lease to Own - $1,100/Mo.

5% or $10k Down3 bedrooms, oversized garage/workshop, need 5% or $10k downand owner will finance the rest.For pictures and more info, Call393-5756.

GILFORD 3 bedroom condo,$1,300/monthly. Parking garagesavailable. Heated pool, tenniscourt. Close to shopping and lake.Boat slip available. Washer/Dryerhook up available. NO PETS.References & security required.781-710-2208.

GILFORD- One-bedroom, secondfloor includes heat/HW, electricity.$740/Month. One month�s rent &security required. 603-731-0340.

Gilford- 1 bedroom, includes allutilities, washer/dryer. TV, Inter-net. Great view! No smokers/pets.$850/Month. 293-8976

GILMANTON Iron Works Village.One bedroom apartment, secondfloor. No pets/smoking, includesbasic cable & utilities. References& security deposit required.$700/Month. 603-364-3434

LACONIA Beautiful 2-Bedroom, 2Bath condo, screened in patio onPaugus bay. Private beach 50'f r o m y o u r d o o r .Parking,plowing,landscaping andsunsets included. $1000/monthplus utilities, references, 1 monthsecurity required. No pets, nosmoking. 393-5349

LACONIA Large 2-bedroom, WDhook-up, no pets/smokers. Refer-ences & security, parking & stor-age. $850/month +util it ies.528-5945

LACONIA Lg. 3-room refurbished,2nd floor apt. inc. heat/ parking,$175 week, no pets/ smoking.Refer. & Security deposit required.524-1874 or 524-4590

For Rent

LACONIA - 26 Dartmouth St., lowtraffic area near schools, park &downtown. 1/2 of a duplex, 8rooms, 3 bedrooms, walk-outbasement w/washer-dryer hook-ups, large open porch, level lot foroutside activities & ample offstreet parking. On the sunny sideof the house, clean w/hardwoodf l o o r s . N o n - s m o k i n g .$1,000/month plus heat &uti l i t ies. Call owner/broker396-4163

LACONIA 1 BR, heat & electricityincluded. $750/mo. 603-781-6294.

Laconia 1 room for rent. 118Court St. 1st floor, $125/Week in-cludes everything. Own bathroom,524-7218 or 832-3535

LACONIA 3-bedroom apt.nearpark & Beach. Washer/dryerhook-up, off-street parking.$900/Month + utilities. 455-6983

LACONIA, NHThree Bedroom Apartments$700.00 per month, utilities NotIncluded. NEW YEAR SPECIALSecurity Deposit, $700. First “fullmonths rent is free”. Section 8Welcome, Income RestrictionsApply. Well Maintained Units, OffStreet Parking, No Pets Allowed.CONTACT US TODAY FORMORE INFO! 1-800-742-4686,The Hodges Companies 201Loudon Road Concord, NH 03301

LACONIA Newly renovated, clean2-bedroom apt., private parking,washer/ dryer use available, $850/month heat/ hot water, referencesrequired, call 524-2507.

LACONIA Newly renovated,Sunny, clean, 3-bedroom apt, pri-vate parking, wash/dryer hookup,$950/month heat/ hot water in-cluded. References required,524-2507.

LACONIA- BIg 1-bedroom closeto downtown. Includes plowing,2-car parking & washer/dryer.Plenty of closet space. 2nd floor.$200 hea t c red i t , nodogs/smoking. $170/Week +4-week security deposit. Credit &criminal background checkrequired. Section 8 approved.Leave message for Rob617-529-1838

For Rent

Laconia- Clean, spacious 2bedroom. Includes heat/hot water,washer/dryer hookups, nopets/smoking. $875/Month.528-1829

LACONIA- Great downtownLocation. Rooms for rent. Shareki tchen & bath. Ut i l i t iesincluded. $107-$115/Week.524-1884

Laconia- Lakeport Area, 4-roomapartment. 2nd floor in quietneighborhood. Off-Street parking,storage area in attic. Nopets/smoking. $750/Month plusutilities. 603-293-0393

LACONIA- Large Rooms for rent.Private bath, heat/hot water, elec-tric, cable, parking included.$145/week 603-781-6294

LACONIA- Very nice one bed-room apartment in clean, quiet,downtown building. Carpeting,c o m p l e t e l y r e n o v a t e d .$175/Week, includes heat, hotwater & electricity. 524-3892 or630-4771

LACONIA-DUPLEX 2 bedroom 1bath, washer/dryer hookups,garage. $900/month, heatincluded. References & securitydeposit. No pets or smokers.524-8886

LACONIA: 2 bedroom, 2ndfloor in duplex bui lding.$230/week including heat,electric & hot water, 524-1234www.whitemtrentals.com.

LACONIA: Prime 2-bedroom apt.on Gale Avenue. Walk to townand beaches. Very large rooms.Beautiful hardwood floors, loadsof closets. Private porch and ga-rage. $1,000/month, includesheat and hot water. 524-3892 or630-4771.

LACONIA: 1-bedroom, $135-$150/ weekly includes heat & hotwater. References and deposit.528-0024.

LACONIA: 2+ Bedrooms,washer/dryer hook-up. $225/Weekincludes heat and hot water.References/deposit required. Nopets/No smoking. 528-6205.


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BIO - MED TECHNICIAN

needed for a Dialysis Center. Experiencepreferred, but not a must.

Please send resume to : Central NH Kid-ney Center, 87 Spring Street, Laconia,N.H. 03246 or call 603-528-3738.

Applications EngineerFull Time

Candidate must have knowledge in the machine tool industry aswell as a mechanical background. Strong CAD and problem solvingskills are required. This is a great opportunity to travel and growwithin our company.This is a full time position with an impressive benefits packageavailable along with paid vacations and holidays. Salary is commen-surate with experience. If interested, please send resume to theaddress below. All qualified candidates will be scheduled foran interview. EOE

Mitee-Bite Products LLCPO Box 430, Ctr. Ossipee, NH 03814 • (603)-539-4538

NURSE NEEDED

RN FOR KIDNEY DIALYSIS

Dialysis experience preferred, but not a must.Senior nursing students may apply.

Please send resume to Central NH Kidney Cen-ter, 87 Spring Street, Laconia, N.H. 03246 or call603-528-3738.

For Rent

LACONIA: 2-bedroom $180/ weekincludes heat & hot water. Refer-ences and deposit. 524-9665.

LACONIA: 3-bedroom house.$1,000/Month + utilities. Pets con-sidered. References & deposit.524-9665.

LACONIA: Charming sunny small2-bedroom, 2nd f loor nosmoking/dogs. $200/week.includes heat/ hot water.455-5569.

LACONIA: Gilbert Apartments.Call for available apartments.524-4428

LAKEPORT- Freshly painted, big5-room, 2-bedroom apartmentwith lake view. Includeswasher/dryer, hardwood floors,cabinet kitchen, 2 car parking,plowing and landscaping. Huge,bright and sunny master bedroomoverlooking lake. Section 8approved. $185/Week + 4-weeksecurity deposit. No utilities, nodogs, no smoking. Proper I.D.,credit check and backgroundcheck required. Showings on Fri-day only. Call Rob, 617-529-1838

MEREDITH: 2-bedroom, 1st floor,nice apartment. Walk to docks/vil-lage. Washer/dryer hookups,Non-smoking, utilites not included.$750. 279-7887 or 781-862-0123.

MEREDITH: 1-bedroom apart-ment. Oil forced hot water,1.5-bath, washer/dryer hook-up,nice yard. No smoking/pets.$750/Month 279-8247, Jim.

NORTHFIELD: Large 2 bedroomon 2nd & 3rd floors, $245/weekincluding heat, electric & hotw a t e r , 5 2 4 - 1 2 3 4 ,www.whitemtrentals.com.

NORTHFIELD: 3 bedroom trailerwith additions and storageshed in small park with on-sitelaundromat, $230/week includingheat, electric & hot water.524-1234.www.whitemtrentals.com.

LACONIA: 1-bedroom apt., 2ndfloor, South Main St. $650/monthincludes heat and hot water.Security deposit required.267-5228, evenings. Leave mes-sage.

SECTION 8 welcome 3 bedroomon route 106, Laconia, N.H. park-ing, garage, large yard, includesutilities. $1050/mo. 528-2227

TILTON2-Bedroom, 2-Bath, 2nd floor

apartment, offstreet parking, lockedstorage & basement, beautifullyrenovated including washer and

dryer. $975/month includes heat,hot water, a/c & snow removal.

No pets/smoking.934-2788

TILTON- TWO CLEAN,UPDATED one bedrooms.Heat/Hot Water included, nod o g s . $ 6 4 0 - $ 6 6 0 / M o n t h .603-393-9693 or 916-214-7733.

TILTON: 3-bedroom spaciousapt., 2nd floor, convenient loca-tion, no pets. $850/mo. plus utili-ties. Security deposit, references.286-8200

WINNISQUAM: Small efficiencyand a cottage including heat, hotwater, l ights and cable.$175-$185 per week. $400deposit. No pets. 387-3864.

For Rent

WINTER RENTALCEDAR LODGE Weirs Beach,Open Year Round ... Studios,1-bedroom or 2-bedroom condosstarting at $575 per month.Please call Wendy at 366-4316.

For Rent-Commercial

LACONIA - 1,200 Sq. Ft. of lightand airy 1st class, 2nd floorprofessional office space withexposed brick walls and beamedceilings; in downtown overlookingthe Winnipesaukee River andRotary Park in the HistoricBelknap Mill. $1,400/mo. pluselectricity and A/C. Call 524-8813for an appointment to see.

Laconia Office Suite 3 furnished offices, bathroom,shared conference space, allUtilities, HEAT, snow plowing in-cluded.

High traffic count and easy park-ing for your clients.

Second floor of Boothby Ther-apy Services at 806 North MainStreet, Laconia, (at the corner ofNorth Main and Oak).

$499 per mo. / 500 ft.Call Christopher Boothby

[email protected]

LACONIA- Prime Location. 1200sq. ft., with heated garageshowroom/office. $650/month plusutilities, parking. 455-6662.

LEASE OR SALECommercial Building

Former Hyundai Dealership

8,950 Sq. Ft. / 2 AcresBusy Route 3

Across from Belknap MallLACONIA

Current Market Pricing

(603)387-2311

For Sale

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

BEDROOM-SOLID CherrywoodSleigh bed. Dresser, mirror, chest,night stand. New! Cost $2,200 sell$895. (603) 235-1773

BUREAU: Maple, 11-drawers,comes with large matching3-sided mirror, quality construc-tion, 66”W x 19”D x 34”H. $250.496-8639.

CHILD!S DRUM SET: Purple,great condition. Paid $130.$50/best offer. 455-3686.

CLASSIC Wooden Motorola ste-reo phonic console LP and 45player 44”X30”X18” withAM/FM radio from the 1950'sstill works, $100, 723-4032.

Coca-Cola Canoe one of 50 madefor New England. ExcellentCondition $1,200. Colemancanoe, $300. 603-235-1519

COOK Healthy with a Black &Decker Food/ Rice cooker w/ in-struction booklet, hardly used,$15, 723-4032.

CUSTOM Glazed KitchenCabinets. Solid maple, never in-stalled. Cost $6,000 sacrifice$1,595. (603) 833-8278

FIREWOOD: Green. Cut, splitand delivered (Gilmanton and sur-rounding area). $190/cord.(603)455-8419.or (603)267-1934.

FIREWOOD: 1/2 cords seasoned,split wood. $125 cash and carry.Delivery extra. 524-8028.

I buy old stuff. House, barn, atticcontents. 528-0247.

MILWAUKEE 0-500 rpm rightangle heavy duty drill: Brandnew, in box, $125. Call 293-2026.

Riteway Air Tight wood stove-Good condition, takes up to

24 ” logs. $400. Ken-Coal stove,$250. Franklin fireplace stove$150. 603-235-1519

For Sale

New Yorker CastIron Oil Fired

BoilerNew, never installed,

complete with paperwork.model#

CL3-140-PWT-TBWIZSerial # 65232257

$1,800 OBOMUST SELL!

[email protected]

QUEEN-SIZE Bed w/Boxspring &metal frame, Lady Englander,Model 1650 1, Dacron, rated firm,excellent condition. $250.496-8639.

RUGER 10-22: Stainless steelrifle with scope, in original box,new. $275/best offer. Call293-2026.

SLEEPER Couch: 3-seats wide,jewel pattern (have to see), 80”Wx 34”D x 32”H, very good condi-tion, never used as sleeper.$250. 496-8639.

SNOWBLOWER, rear mount fortractor, 7-ft. wide, adjustablechute, $1900. 387-1367.

SOLID Oak 6! Hutch: Beveledglass, lighted top, best offer.524-6082.

SPEAKERS: Paradigm HomeAudio/Theater, Model Studio 100V.3, (3)7” Woofers, (1)7”Mid-Range, (1)1” Dome Tweeter,44Hz-22kHz +/-2dB, light maplecolor (must see), dark brown re-movable grills, excellent condition.$1,250/pr. 496-8639.

TIRES: (4) Michelin Harmony89T, 3k miles, P195/65R15, $480new. Asking $300. 524-5117,days.

WOODSTOVE, Vermont CastingDefiant $800, large soapstone$500 or $1000 for both. 387-1367.

Furniture

AMAZING! Beautiful Queen or Full-sizemattress set. Luxury FirmEuropean Pil low-top style.Fabulous back & hip support.Factory sealed - new 10-Yr.warranty. Cost $1095, sell $249.Can deliver 603-305-9763.

Help Wanted

AUTO technician, Full time, forsmall busy shop, must work inde-pendently, NH state inspection li-cense, ASE credentials and align-ment experience a plus, but notnecessary. Holidays and vacation.Send resume or drop off to 651Union Ave. Laconia.

Construction Companylooking for temporary officeperson for light office duties

including answering multiplephone lines, filing ,etc.

Job is temporary starting end ofMarch 2012 and running intoMid June 2012 pay $10-$11hour based on experience.

Must be able to pass back-ground check. Preemploymentdrug test also required.

Please apply on person to:Quality Insulation

1 Pease RDMeredith, NH 03253

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!!!!

Currently seeking positions for

customer service, kitchen help

and gaming dealers

• Competitive salary

• Full and Part-Time positions

available

• Must apply in person

Lakes Region Casino is an ex-

citing place to work. Under new

ownership and looking for hard

workers who are willing to work

hard and have fun at the same

time.

Lakes Region Casino takes

pride in its customer-focused

service culture of hospitality

and generosity.

Help Wanted

Now Hiring - Evenings

Servers& Bartender(with experience)

Apply in person, 4:30-6pm:CJ Avery’s

Lakeport (closed Mon & Tues)

SUMMER positions. Some Aprilthru October. All departments.Contact Greg at Geneva PointCenter. [email protected].

Help Wanted

OFFICE ASSISTANT/RECEPTIONIST

High-volume law firm seeksexperienced OfficeAssistant/Receptionist for 30 hours per

week. Duties primarily includehandling phone calls, file

management, word process-ing, staff support and clientinteraction. Candidate mustpossess strong office skills,

confidence on the telephone,complex filing capabilities,

word processing skills, and bereliable, accurate, organized,

detail oriented and able towork independently. Must be

a team player. We are aprofessional office with a

casual atmosphere.Please send your resume

and letter of intent to:Laconia Daily Sun

Box A1127 Union Avenue, #1

Laconia, NH 03246

PURCHASING/SENIOR BUYER

wanted for growing New EnglandIndustrial Supply Distributor. Ex-perience is helpful but no neces-sary. Please forward resume withreferences to:[email protected]


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Integrity ~ Quality ~ Respect ~ Resident Centered

Taylor Community has a career opportunity for

GROUNDSKEEPER

This is a year round full time position performing routinegrounds maintenance and landscaping throughout Taylor

Community property. The ideal candidate should have 3 to 5years experience with zero turn mowers, pruning,

snowplowing, general landscaping, irrigation systems and ismechanically inclined.

If you are interested in joining the caring staff of a wellestablished leader in a smoke free continuing care retirement

community services, please apply at our website

www.taylorcommunity.org

A valid NH Drivers license, criminal background check anddrug testing are required.

Taylor Community is an EEOC employer.

CITY OF LACONIA

ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARYThe City of Laconia is seeking an individual to perform re-sponsible and confidential administrative functions in theWelfare Office. The ability to work independently, a thor-ough knowledge of office procedures and the ability to dealeffectively with clients is required. Position description andapplications are available in the Finance Office or atwww.city.laconia.nh.us under Personnel.

Salary range: $14.31 - $18.73/35 hrs weekly

City applications will be accepted until Friday, March 2,2012 in the Finance Office, Laconia City Hall, 45 BeaconStreet East, Laconia, NH 03246, 8:30AM to 4:30PM.

EOE/ADA

FULL-TIME year-round officeposition, 9am-5pm. Will need toperform light bookkeeping, pur-chasing, filing, customer service,etc. This is a fast-paced busi-ness, that requires an energeticfast-paced employee. QuickBooks and Customer Serviceexperience are a huge plus.Health insurance is offered.E m a i l r e s u m e t [email protected] PHONE CALLS PLEASE.

Help Wanted

PAINTERS: Experienced withown transportation. Part/Full Time.Call 279-5755.

PART TIME ACCOUNTS PAY-

ABLE CLERK wanted for busyBelmont Steel Distributor. Dutiesinclude verifying daily receivingand matching with invoices, enter-ing invoices into A/P and prepar-ing weekly check runs. Pleases e n d r e s u m e t o :[email protected]

Help Wanted

TOWN OF MEREDITH PARKS & RECREATION

Department. Available Part Timeand Full Time Seasonal Positions.Summer Camp Counselor M-F40 Hrs. Lifeguards/ WSI M-F 25Hrs. Skate Park and Activity Su-pervisors Mon-Sunday 15-20 Hrs.Pay Range $9.17-$13.94. ALLPOSITIONS REQUIRE A CRIMI-NAL BACKGROUND CHECK. Po-sitions will remain open untilfilled by qualified candidates. Em-ployment Applications must besubmitted on line at www.mere-dithnh.org. The Town of Meredithis an Equal Opportunity Employer

Motorcycles

Buy • Sell • Tradewww.motoworks.biz

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

Real Estate

FOR Sale By Owner: 2-Bedroomhouse, 1-1/4 bath. 180 MechanicStreet, Laconia. 524-8142.

Services

PIPER ROOFINGQuality Work

Reasonable Rates

Free EstimatesMetal Roofs • Shingle Roofs

Our CustomersDon�t get Soaked!

528-3531Major credit cards accepted

M.A. SMITH ELECTRIC: Qualitywork for any size electrical job. Li-censed-Insured, Free estimates/603-455-5607

MR. Junk. Attics, cellars, garagescleaned out. Free estimate. In-sured. 455-6296

Services

BLUE RIBBON PAINTING CO.

Interior/ExteriorSince 1982 ~ Fully Insured

Paper Hanging

279-5755 630-8333 Bus. Cell

Storage Space

GILFORD garage for rent nearAirport. One large lighted garage.$170 monthly. 781-710-2208.

Yard Sale

VENDORS wanted for indooryard sale. Sponsored by the Bel-mont High School French Club.Saturday, March 17, 2012 8 am to2 pm Belmont High School Cafe-teria. $10 rental fee, donatioms ofitems accepted. Contact WendyBordon at 387-4234 or email:[email protected]

“New Hampshire Winter”is one of Diane Norton’s acrylic paintings on exhibit at the Busiel Community Room and Gallery located at One Mill Plaza in Downtown Laconia during the months of Febru-ary and March. Her solo show includes a wide range of subjects. (Courtesy photo)

Barnstead artist’s work exhibited at Busiel MillLACONIA — The Busiel Community Room and

Gallery located at One Mill Plaza in Downtown Laconia is hosing an exhibition of works by artist Diane Norton.

Norton began her painting career after retiring to Barnstead from Stow, Massachusetts. Her acrylic paintings cover a wide range of subjects, which include nature, still life, landscape and seascape studies.

“I had an interest in painting all my life but fi nally started taking art lessons when I retired,” said Norton. “I have enjoyed learning new techniques in the Monday morning, Alton Senior Center ‘Art To You Workshops’ created by Laconia artist, Larry Frates.

“These workshops were started three years ago to support the idea that art is ageless and is a perfect opportunity for life long learning,” says Frates.

This is Norton’s fi rst solo show and the over 20 pieces represent her ability to experiment and apply her newly found knowledge to her creations. Visi-tors will experience a gentle application of color that tells a story about life’s positive attributes.

A meet the artist reception will be held later in February.

Lakes Region residents invited to get involved with Better Together

LACONIA — Better Together of the Lakes Region’s monthly meetings are open to the commu-nity. Anyone interested in making the community the best place for children and families is encour-aged to attend on Thursday, February 23, from 4–6 p.m., in the Laconia Middle School Library.

Better Together, whose motto is “Taking our com-munity from ordinary to Extraordinary” is a grass-roots effort whose goal is to rekindle the spirit of neighborhood and community in the Lakes Region. Better Together was initiated in the spring of 2010 by the Lakes Region Children & Family Coalition, a group of organizations serving children and families throughout the Lakes Region committed to working together to strengthen families and community.

This month the following action teams will be repre-sented: Mentoring, Got Lunch, New Americans, Welcome Baby, Stand Up 4 Drug Free Laconia, Local Events and Activities. Attendees are welcome to participate in any of these teams or bring their own ideas and interests to form a team of their own.

Better Together meets regularly on the fourth Thursday of every month at 4 p.m. at the Laco-nia Middle School. Newcomer orientation is held from 4-4:15 p.m. For more information visit: www.BetterTogetherLakesRegion.org, email [email protected] or call Shannon Robin-son-Beland at 524-1741, extension 15.

LACONIA — Chain Line Cycles, located at 48 Winnisquam Avenue in Laconia, will be holding a prom dress drive from Monday February 27 to Friday March 30, for area girls in need of a free dress for their special night.

All donors will receive a $10 discount on a bike tune-up or other bike service. All prom dresses col-lected will be used at the Faith, Hope and Love Foundation’s 6th Annual Gowns for Girls Event.

Community members can drop off new or gently worn prom and formal dresses, Monday through Sat-urday between noon and 6 p.m, at Chain Line Cycles, which is owned by local resident Eric Lovering and has been a successful local business for the last six years.

Chain Line carries the popular Niner, Banshee, Colnago and Rocky Mountain bikes, as well as other accessories for the average biker to the competitive biker. Chain Line also offers group rides. For more information visit chainlinecycles.com, Facebook page, or give them a call at 528-6301.

The Gowns for Girls event will be held Saturday March 31 at the Meredith Bay Club Colony located up from the Meredith traffi c circle. This is a one day only boutique for all New Hampshire high school aged girls to come and pick out a prom dress for free. This is a fi rst come fi rst serve event, doors open at 1 p.m. and the event ends at 4 p.m.

The Faith, Hope, and Love Foundation is a local non profi t whose mission is to to bring relief to children and youth suffering from poverty, hunger and home-lessness and to give them hope through faith and love, so that they may accomplish all of their dreams. The Faith, Hope and Love Foundation has given out thou-sands of dollars to local youth in forms of scholarships and grants. For more information about Faith, Hope and Love or to ask questions about their grants, schol-arships, or events check out their facebook page or email co-founder Laura Brusseau at [email protected]

Chain Line Cycles teams up with Faith, Hope & Love for gown donations


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