The Laconia Daily Sun, February 1, 2013

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A bob-house belonging to Jim Burgess of Gilmanton was perched precariously on the lip of a stretch of open water (top, inset) north of Ellacoya State Park on Lake Winnipesaukee on Thursday morning and was brought to shore with the assistance of Steve Powell and Jason DeCoff of Lakeshore Park in Gilford. (Roger Amsden/ for The Laconia Daily Sun)

January thaw = bob house rescue timeGILFORD — Ice fishermen scrambled

in mid fifty degree temperature early Thursday morning to rescue their bob houses from an ever-widening stretch of open water off from Ellacoya State Park.

‘’It’s unbelievable. There’s a seam in the

ice right next to my bob house and yester-day I measured nine inches off ice there,’’ said Jim Burgess of Gilmanton.

He was looking through zoom binocu-lars while sitting in the front seat of Al Bagley’s pickup parked near the beach at Ellacoya, where a half dozen bob houses had been dragged close to shore, some

with the aid a of a four-wheeler, and pon-dered whether or not to venture out to the edge of the ice some 300 yards away to try and bring in his bob house

Burgess’ bob house was perched precari-ously on the very lip of the ice, right next to a 100-yard wide stretch of open water

By RogeR AmsdenFOR THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

see BOB HOUSE page 14

BELMONT — The town has hired the assessing company of Commerford, Nieder, Perkins, LLC to com-plete a full list-and measure of all taxable property.

The town’s assess-ing office said yes-terday that the N.H. Department of Rev-enue Administration requires every prop-erty in Belmont to be reassessed at least once every five years and 2013 is its year.

Notifications of the revaluation have been posted on the town’s Website, at the U.S. Post Office and at Town Hall. Advertise-ments have run in local newspapers.

The town decided against a mass mail-ing because of the expense involved.

Already about three

Belmont begins reval list & measureSome residents spooked by unexpected visitors with tape measures; town didn’t mail individual notifications in order to save money

By gAil oBeRTHE LACONIA DAILY SUN

see rEVaL page 11

GILFORD — Police Chief Kevin Keenan said he can attribute the nearly 50 per-cent increase in driving while

Arrests by Gilford police for DWI up 50% in 2012intoxicated arrests in 2012 to extended training throughout his department.

In 2011, police made 47 arrests for DWI. In 2012, 75 people were arrested for DWI.

Sgt. Prosecutor Eric Bredbury said most of those arrested pleaded guilty and he recalls loosing two of the cases in court.

Keenan and Operation Lt. James Leach said Wednesday

that a big help to Gilford, and other police departments, was extending the N.H. full-time police academy to 14 weeks and including Intoxilyzer training.

By gAil oBeRTHE LACONIA DAILY SUN

see dWi page 13

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — An explosion at the main headquarters of Mexico’s state-owned oil company in the capital killed 14 people and injured 80 on Thursday as it heavily damaged three floors of the build-ing, sending hundreds into the streets and a large plume of smoke over the skyline.

There were also reports that as many as 30 people were trapped in the debris from the explosion, which occurred in the base-ment of an administrative building next to the iconic, 52-story tower of Petroleos

MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — Speaking into a 4-inch-wide ventilation pipe, hostage negotia-tors tried Thursday to talk a man into releas-ing a kindergartener and ending a standoff in an underground bunker that stretched into its third day.

The man identified by multiple neighbors and witnesses as 65-year-old retired truck driver Jimmy Lee Dykes was accused of pulling the boy from a school bus on Tuesday and kill-ing the driver. The pair was holed up in a small room on his property that authorities com-pared to tornado shelters common in the area.

James Arrington, police chief of the neigh-boring town of Pinck-ard, said the shelter was about 4 feet under-ground, with about 6-by-8 feet of floor space and a PVC pipe that negotiators were speak-ing through.

There were signs that the standoff could con-tinue for some time: A state legislator said the shelter has electricity, food and TV. The police chief said the captor has

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican sen-ators hammered former GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel at his confirmation hearing Thurs-day on issues ranging from Israel and Iran to his support for a group that advo-cates the elimination of nuclear weapons. But with most Democrats in his corner, an unflustered Hagel seems headed for approval as defense secretary.

Hagel, a former two-term senator from Nebraska, described his views as main-

MIDDLETON, N.H. (AP) — New Hamp-shire police say a stand-off with an armed man who took a woman hostage and barri-caded himself in a home in Middleton has ended without incident.

Foster’s Daily Democrat reports that police took the suspect into custody min-

14 dead & 80 injured in Mexico oil company blastMexicanos, or Pemex.

There was no immediate cause given for the blast, which also damaged the first and second floors of the auxiliary building in a busy commercial and residential area. But in an earlier Tweet, Pemex said it had evacuated the building as a precautionary measure because of a problem with the electrical system.

“It was an explosion, a shock, the lights went out and suddenly there was a lot of debris,” employee Cristian Obele told

Milenio television, adding that he had been injured in the leg. “Co-workers helped us get out of the building.”

The tower, where several thousand people work, was evacuated. The main floor and the mezzanine of the auxiliary build-ing, where the explosion occurred, were heavily damaged, along with windows as far as three floors up.

“Right now they’re conducting a tour of the building and the area adjacent to the

see MEXICO BLAST page 8

Republicans hammer defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagelstream and closely aligned with those of President Barack Obama, the Democrat who nominated him. But several GOP members of the Armed Services Commit-tee sought to portray him as radical and unsteady. Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., called his ideas “extreme” and “far to the left” of Obama.

Hagel said he believes America “must engage — not retreat — in the world,” and insisted that his record is consistent on

that point.He pointed to Iran and its nuclear ambi-

tions as an example of an urgent national security threat that should be addressed first by attempting to establish dialogue with Iranian rulers, although he said he would not rule out using military force.

“I think we’re always on higher ground in every way — international law, domes-tic law, people of the world, people of the

see HAGEL page 14

Police say armed man released female hostage in Middleton, N.H.utes after 5 p.m., shortly after the woman was allowed to leave the home.

After the stand-off ended, Middleton middle school students who attend school in Farmington were allowed to leave the school and go home. They had been kept there as a precaution.

Middleton Police Sgt. Jason Lamontagne said the incident started around 2 p.m. when police were told a man had broken into his brother’s home and stolen multiple guns. Police said the woman who had been held hostage was not related to the suspect.

Negotiators talking to Alabama hostage taker through pipe

see ALA page 12

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LETTERSIn 2006, Senator Obama knew the danger of too much U.S. debt

Michelle Malkin

Amnesty Gang treats law abiders as chumps

President Obama and the bipar-tisan Gang of Eight in Washington who want to create a “pathway to citizenship” for millions of illegal aliens have sent a message loud and clear to those who follow the rules: You’re chumps!

Have you patiently waited for months and years for the State Department and Department of Homeland Security to slog through your application? You’re chumps!

Have you paid thousands of dol-lars in travel, legal and medical fees to abide by the thicket of entry, employment, health and processing regulations? You’re chumps!

Have you studied for your natu-ralization test, taken the oath of allegiance to heart, embraced our time-tested principle of the rule of law, and demonstrated that you will be a financially independent, pro-ductive citizen? You’re chumps!

Unrepentant amnesty peddlers on both sides of the aisle admit their plan is all about votes and power. Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain continues his futile chase for the Hispanic bloc. Illinois Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez is openly salivating at the prospect of millions of new illegal aliens — future Democratic Party depen-dents of the Nanny State — who could be eligible for ObamaCare and a plethora of other government benefits despite clear prohibitions against them.

These cynical pols insist that the rest of law-abiding Americans and law-abiding permanent residents must support Washington’s push to “do something” because “11 million people are living in the shadows.”

To which I say: So? There are 23 million Americans out of work. Why aren’t they Washington’s top prior-ity anymore? Didn’t both parties once pledge that j-o-b-s for unem-ployed and underemployed Ameri-cans was Job No. 1? Why is the very first major legislative push of 2013 another mass amnesty/voter drive/entitlement expansion?

If Washington is really concerned about people “living in the shad-ows,” how about prioritizing the jaw-dropping backlog of 500,000-plus fugitive deportee cases. These are more than a half-million illegal aliens who have been apprehended, who had their day in immigration court, who have been ordered to leave the country, and who were then released and absconded into the ether. Poof!

After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, pols pretended to get serious about fixing the broken deporta-tion system and enacted absconder apprehension initiatives to track down these national security risks. But over the past dozen years, only 100,000 out of 600,000-plus fugitive illegal aliens targeted by the pro-gram have been found. Why isn’t

the search and removal of these repeat offenders more important than giving “11 million people living in the shadows” a “pathway to citi-zenship”?

Question: If border security and immigration enforcement are truly a priority to our elected officials, why must these two basic govern-ment responsibilities be tethered to benefits for line-jumping illegal aliens? See whether any politician can answer without sputtering about “11 million people living in the shadows” or invoking the over-worn race card.

(By the way, we all know that moldy “11 million” statistic can’t be right. Open borders groups have cited it for nearly 15 years as amnesty measure after amnesty measure attracted new generations of illegal aliens to the country.)

You know who else deserves more attention and compassion than “11 million people living in the shad-ows”? The 4.6 million individu-als around the world who legally applied for sponsored green cards and followed the established legal immigration process. They’ve been shunted aside while the Obama administration ushers illegal alien “DREAM” waiver winners to the front of the line.

As Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies points out: “It is clear that there is no way the roughly one million or more poten-tial Dreamers can be accommodated by (the U.S. Citizenship and Immi-gration Service) without noticeably slowing down the processing of legal immigrants (emphasis added). The agency already processes six mil-lion applications a year without the amnesty add-ons.

There have been nearly a dozen major amnesty laws, affecting at least five million illegal aliens, passed since the Reagan 1986 amnesty. These beneficiaries and their families have crowded out legal immigrants and increased their application waiting times in untold ways. GOP Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas asked the Obama administration last summer to dis-close data on how much the DREAM waiver amnesty alone has affected adjudication/processing times for everyone else. The White House has failed to answer the request.

Want a reality check? Not one of the past federal amnesties was associated with a decline in illegal immigration. Instead, the number of illegal aliens in the U.S. has tripled since 1986. The total effect of the amnesties was even larger because relatives later joined amnesty recip-ients, and this number was mul-tiplied by an unknown number of children born to amnesty recipients who then acquired automatic U.S. citizenship.

see next page

from preceding page

To the editor,Here is an open letter to the presi-

dent concerning the debate on increas-ing the debt limit.

Mr. President:The fact that we are here today to

debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our government’s reckless fiscal policies.

Our federal debt has increased by ... $8.6 trillion. That is ‘’trillion’’ with a ‘’T.’’ That is money that we have bor-rowed from the Social Security trust fund, borrowed from China and Japan, borrowed from American taxpayers.

Numbers that large are sometimes hard to understand. Some people may wonder why they matter. Here is why: This year, the Federal Government will spend $220 billion on interest. That is more money to pay interest on our national debt than we’ll spend on Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. That is more money to pay interest on our debt this year than we will spend on education, homeland security, transportation, and veterans ben-efits combined.

And the cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and states of critical invest-ments in infrastructure.

Every dollar we pay in interest is a dollar that is not going to invest-ment in America’s priorities. Instead, interest payments are a significant tax on all Americans — a debt tax that Washington doesn’t want to talk

about. If Washington were serious about honest tax relief in this country, we would see an effort to reduce our national debt by returning to respon-sible fiscal policies.

But we are not doing that. Unfortu-nately, the principle was abandoned, and now the demands of budget disci-pline apply only to spending.

Our debt also matters internation-ally. Now, there is nothing wrong with borrowing from foreign countries. But we must remember that the more we depend on foreign nations to lend us money, the more our economic secu-rity is tied to the whims of foreign leaders whose interests might not be aligned with ours.

Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘’the buck stops here.’’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leader-ship. Americans deserve better.

If these words sound familiar you might be right. These words are taken directly from the Congressional Record of March 16, 2006 and were made by a United States Senator who spoke about how irresponsible it is to continually increase the debt limit for unnecessary spending. These remarks end with the following:

“I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt limit” — Sen-ator Barrack Obama, March 16, 2006

If it was wrong to carelessly borrow money then is it still wrong today?

Greg KnytychNew Hampton

Meredith selectmen have done good job of holding line on taxesTo the editor,

Space considerations may have made it difficult for The Sun fully to reflect my views, but I am concerned that I might be seen as a “tax and spender”, which I’m not. I don’t enjoy paying taxes any more than anyone else and want to avoid tax increases to the extent possible. Meredith’s Selectboard has done a commendable job in holding the line on taxes during the past four recessionary years. In large part, this was accomplished by drawing on the town’s “fund balance”,

a rainy day fund, and by deferring spending on roads and replacement of equipment.

In their proposed budget for 2013, the Selectboard again draws on the fund balance to hold down taxes but also to set aside funds for capital equipment. The challenge faced in future years is to be able to replace equipment and provide other neces-sary spending without tax increases or major drawdowns from reserves.

Lou KahnMeredith

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LETTERSJohn Q. Citizen needs to calm down & quit buying his wife a gun

Hopelessly naive (or stubbornly self-deluded) freshman GOP Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida insists that any new recipients of the Gang of Eight’s Grand Pander scheme will have to “go to the back of the line and wait behind everybody who applied before them, the right way.” Rubio emphasizes to conservative talk show hosts that there will be background checks and rigorous vetting.

But as I’ve reported for the past two decades, the background check pro-cess has been corrupted under both Democratic and Republican admin-istrations. In the 1990s, the Clinton administration turned immigration policy into a massive Democratic voter recruitment machine through the Citizenship USA program. Natu-ralization officers simply abandoned background checks wholesale. In 2003, an INS center in Laguna Niguel solved the massive backlog problem by putting tens of thousands of applica-

tions through a shredder. And in 2006, I exposed how some high-immigrant regions rewarded adjudication officers with bonuses for rubber-stamping as many applications as possible without regard to security.

You want “comprehensive immi-gration reform”? Start with reliable adjudications, fully cleared backlogs, consistent interior enforcement, work-ing background checks for the existing caseload, and efficient and effective deportation policies that punish law-breakers and do right by law-abiders.

And please don’t pretend that piling millions of new illegal aliens onto an already overwhelmed system is going to fix a darned thing. Chumps.

(Syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin is the daughter of Filipino Immigrants. She was born in Phila-delphia, raised in southern New Jersey and now lives with her hus-band and daughter in Colorado. Her weekly column is carried by more than 100 newspapers.)

from preceding page

To the editor,There comes a time when cooler

heads must analyze what some of the more passionate members of our society have to say. Being in posses-sion of a cooler head, I will attempt to shine some light on the great Second Amendment debate. Both the Consti-tution and the amendments thereto were an attempt to create a document that put all the newly independent states on the same page as related to governance. It was, admittedly, not a perfect document. Hence the amend-ments were created to get the whole thing passed in each of the state leg-islatures. Some liked the main docu-ment others liked the amendments but all felt the need to get it done because the Articles of Confederation were making them vulnerable to take-over by perceived enemies.

I understand that there are a lot of people who use the Second Amend-ment as a security blanket. It allows them to have some physical protection from real or imagined treats to their safety. However, extreme individual members of our society, both legal and illegal, are bending the meaning of the aforementioned amendment. For the time being, we will set aside the ille-gal aspect of our society as relates to gun possession because that is a police problem covered by laws already on the books and deemed enforceable and constitutionally sound.

Let me now digress and use my own history with firearms. I prefer to call them that because that is what the manufacturers call them. I grew up in the state of Kansas. As a boy of the plains, I had a daisy air rifle when I was eight. By the time I was twelve I was allowed to use a 22-caliber rifle for hunting small game for food. I became quite accurate because my teacher and father did not like me to do body shots. I was allowed to use his 12 gage as well. I never really liked it much because I couldn’t get anywhere near the accuracy of my dear old dad. He was a master of the shotgun. He used to let me get the first shot and the bring the bird down after I had missed. I more or less failed the test

and contented myself with carrying the birds when I went out with him for pheasant, quail or prairie chicken.

When I joined the Coast Guard I quite easily qualified on both the side arm and the M-One carbine. The ser-geant always liked the country boys; made his job easy he said. He took us aside and showed us the basics of field stripping and put us in charge of teaching the “city boys” how to do the same. Although I never got into any active combat, I was trained on some seriously lethal guns and other fire-power aboard ship.

After service, I gave up guns com-pletely except when I visited the old homestead. For old time’s sake I would go hunting and fishing with dad. Col-lege, marriage and family and a career in teaching took me away from home for good. Fast forward 40 years or so and I once again owned a gun. In order to spend some quality time with my new son-in-law, I bought a Winchester 30/30 bolt action with iron sights. Deer hunt-ing was the objective. I got off a few shots but never hit anything. Probably needed a scope but too cheap to buy one. The son-in-law usually got his deer and I helped drag it out of the woods. Sound familiar? After a few years of that, I quit going out and sold the gun to one of his friends. He was in need of some fishing instruction so I endeavored to make him an expert in that area of sporting.

Now, to the purpose of my letter without further trips down memory lane. Number one, I do not feel threat-ened in either my home or my com-munity. I know lots of people who own guns now and I trust that will not ever invade my home in anger or sell their guns to someone who would use them illegally. Most of the people who own the guns that I am aware of, possess them for hunting or for protection in their business requiring them to carry cash or other valuables. They own pis-tols, rifles or shotguns. Not a semi or full automatic in the bunch. Maybe a few own small caliber automatics but only because they learned and feel comfortable carrying with a con-cealed permit. I have had a few lively conversations with these friends and

most agree that the ban on assault rifles and pistols with expanded clips was and would be a good and proper restriction, second amendment con-siderations not withstanding. The permitting issue is ripe for revision and concentrated enforcement. This is especially true in our urban areas. Local police and the federal agencies need to review their options. Laser focus is needed on their training pro-cedures and, once trained, their offi-cers need support when it becomes evident assault weapons are being

use unlawfully in their precinctsFurther, John Q. Citizen needs to

calm down and quit going out and buying their wife a gun. Instead, go out and by a few trigger locks or a gun safe so the kids don’t come into pos-session of a gun. In most cases, the average high school freshman has no firearms training and is a danger to him or herself and others. The others usually includes their parents, friends, siblings and teachers.

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LETTERSThere’s no Utopia; equality and liberty do not go hand in handTo the editor,

After reading Rosemary Landry’s letter that was published in The Laconia Daily Sun on the 30th day of January I can say I commend her, not once but twice.

First, for standing up to the social-ist bullies at the Moultonboro Library. And second, for writing of her expe-rience. From her letter it becomes evident that she is well read and understands the dilemma this coun-try faces. She has a grasp on the lib-eral agenda and her courage to stand up for American principles shows she Loves America.

May I share this with the readers:While Ezra Taft Benson was Sec-

retary of Agriculture during the Eisenhower administration, he was assigned to host the Soviet butcher Khrushchev on his visit to the United States.

Khrushchev had expressed a desire to learn something of American agri-culture, and “after seeing Russian agriculture I can see why”. Said Sec-retary Benson. Russia was once an exporter of wheat. After the Revolu-tion of 1917 they were starving.

During the conversation Khrush-chev stated to Benson that his grandchildren would live under com-munism. Secretary Benson assured him otherwise.

“You Americans are so gullible. No you won’t accept Communism outright. But we’ll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you’ll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won’t have to fight you. We’ll so weaken your economy until you fall like over-ripe fruit into our hands”.

Are we there yet?Facilitators and change agents have

been subverting our ways for a long

time. FDR surrounded himself with them. The Department of Agriculture was a safe haven for a Soviet cell during the 1930s. It was their first cell.

John Abt operated there. In 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald asked Abt to rep-resent him. Harry Dexter White, Lee Pressman and Alger Hiss had FDR’s listening ear. All were Soviet agents (facilitators, change agents).

Communism is a wretched phi-losophy that thrives on the envy of the masses. Its goal is to degrade all in equal misery. Its stench is felt in towns, cities, and state govern-ments. Washington D.C. is the hive of such activity where they subvert our Founding Document and invent new powers that oppress the people. Our founding charter gave the federal government only so many definable powers (authority). Any thing more or less is usurpation of our rights. We have only to compare our Declara-tion of Independence to see where we stand today. We have gone from red coats to the red thread of communism.

They have planned their craft well. The atheistic ideology have left one major consideration out. We were founded upon Christian principles. Divine miracles assisted our founding generation in forming this Constitu-tional Republic (democracy is a fraud) and divine miracles will save it. Those who still hold our charter dear to our hearts do not stand alone.

Liberals who strive for their Uto-pian society will be the first to quake when they get what they asked for.

“Legislatures and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time are either psychopaths or mountebanks “ — Goethe

Gene F. DanforthDanbury

To the editor,As a chili aficionado I have been

watching The Laconia Daily Sun for a report on the winners of the Chili Cook-off held this past Sunday at the Weirs Beach Lobster Pound. It is understand-able that the Sun, with no Monday edi-tion, would not dispatch a reporter on a Sunday afternoon to prepare a story that would be “old news” by the time the Sun hit the streets on Tuesday. Never-theless, I submit that the Sun owes it to their readership to inform the chili-lovers among them who-is-who among the local restaurants that feature chili on their menus.

So let it be known that 300(+) chili-fans tasted 15 different recipes on Sunday and were empowered to vote on their favorites for “The People’s

Sun owed us information on results of Saturday’s Chili Cook-off Choice” award. Personally I took great satisfaction that potential restaurant-goers agreed with me that the Lyons’ Den concoction was the favorite. But then too, the Mug’s and Looney Bin’s formulas were worthy runner-ups.

An “official” panel of three judges (Laconia’s Mayor Michael Seymour, Police Chief Chris Adams, and Deputy Fire Chief Deb Pendergast) awarded winning status to three other chilies: The Looney Bin, the Lobster Pound, and Christmas Island Resort.

To my taste all 15 chilies were win-ners of one sort or another. But if I only have one taste left to live, I’m heading to the Lyons’ Den for the ulti-mate spicy experience.

Bob LongabaughAlton Bay

Obama sees government dependency as his great accomplishmentTo the editor,

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Obama, in his inaugural address, paints his sows ear of economic fail-ure into a silk purse portrait. If being artificially propped up by GOVERN-MENT for your next free meal, free health care visit, free college Pell Grant, or your government subsidized free rent/heat then yes you are surely

living the “silk purse” life paid for by others. We are a nation now deter-mined to live off the work, success and tax payments of our neighbors across town. Obama sees GOVERN-MENT DEPENDENCY as the great-est accomplishment of his presidency. Half of this nation is now getting some type of transfer payment from govern-ment monthly, from welfare to disabil-ity. This is an ORGASMIC FANTASY

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When I say the welfare society, the DEPENDENT society and the loaf-ing society, believe it. There are now FEWER people WORKING in Amer-ica today than there were20 YEARS AGO. More people dependent on Obama to eat than ever. He LOVES IT. His best product is FAILURE. Democratic failure assures SUCCESS in POLITICS. Every human failure gets outfitted with a donkey NOSE RING , becomes subservient, submis-sive, SURRENDERS their FREE-DOM TO THINK and their vote in the deal with the DEVIL.

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2. SOCIAL SECURITY DISABIL-ITY. The general health of Americans has improved over recent years and the number of dangerous jobs done by people has been reduced dramatically with robots and technology. Still, dis-ability claims since Obama took office (like food stamps) have gone into hyper overdrive. Unbelievable numbers of Americans have SUDDENLY caught BAD BACKS and become NUT cases in the past five years, unlike any time in history. By the way both conditions are impossible to prove anyone is feel-ing one tinge of pain. Almost EVERY person (no matter what ailment) seeking disability gets approved. Lit-erally, NO ONE who says “my back hurts” gets turned down for disability. The entire program is riddled top to bottom with fraud and deception to get a LIFETIME check from OBAMA paid for by YOU. Millions have fig-ured out disability is the gravy train of all gravy trains because it NEVER ENDS, Three million people were on disability in 1990. A number that hardly changed year after year for decades. It has suddenly TRIPLED in the past few years to 8.6 MILLION PEOPLE. The DISABILITY TRUST Fund will now GO BANKRUPT during Obama’s current term because so many sore backs affixed with new Obama nose rings have been added to the rolls. Now add the disability

BANKRUPTCY to the Social Security and MEDICARE bankruptcies, all BANKRUPTCY GIFTS to YOU from Democrats.

3. PELL GRANTS. This program began in the 1960s with about 10 per-cent of the country qualifying. Now 60 percent of America qualify because the rules have been so loosened. Pell grants are being given to THOUSANDS of FAMILIES that are MILLIONAIRES. How? They make their children INDE-PENDENTS with few assets and little money and voila a check for thou-sands of dollars from GOVERNMENT arrives. Every government hand out is SKINNED ALIVE with one DECEP-TION or another, including Pell Grants. Pell Grants are sending countless mil-lions of kids to college who will NEVER financially benefit from that educa-tion. In fact many of them will become VICTIMS of the liberal lunacy. These people will be the first candidates to file for bankruptcy from crunching student debt that can not repay at low level jobs. Delinquent college debt is becoming epidemic nation wide. It WILL BE the next emerging crisis Democrats will try to VOTE BUY with a GOVERNMENT BAILOUT on your DIME. We have more than a MILLION retail clerks today with COLLEGE DEGREES working at stores like Wal-Mart and Kohl’s. In fact half the people working today have degrees performing jobs that the gov-ernment says are NOT NECESSARY to perform them. A college degree today is now WORTH LESS than it has ever been. Why? Because the cost has gone SO HIGH relative to the added wages a degree can demand PLUS the LOSS of four years of work time that often extends to SIX. The return on invest-ment of a degree keeps shirking and shirking. Liberal idiots scream we need more state aid for colleges. All state aid does is throw red meat to a pack of union, professor wolves that HISTORY proves OVER and OVER only results in ever higher tuitions. Look at the graphs going back 20 years. There is no debat-ing that fact.

4. EXTENDED UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS. Since the 1930s, unem-ployment benefits were intended to be a short storm stop gap between jobs, It now has become a way to milk the system and STAY UNEMPLOYED longer, intentionally. There are count-less studies that prove longer unem-ployment benefits only delay the honest hunt for real work.

We have a national debt and defi-cit that is crippling us. We desperately need more people in the work force paying taxes on their incomes, paying their own way. What are we doing as a nation? Making NOT WORKING a lot more incentivized than working. Is it any wonder we have tens of millions deciding to stay unemployed as long as possible. The new American way of life is qualifying for as many government nip-ples as they possibly can using what ever “my back hurts chicanery” to do it. Staying unemployed beats working at Wal-Mart or MacDonald’s and many other places for eight bucks an hour. I guarantee you free food, free health care, subsidized rent, subsidized heat, an unemployment check or a lifetime disability check (obtained by simply declaring you’re nuts) from never earned a nickel GOVERNMENT surely looks like a much better option than working 8 to 5.

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LRPA-TV is the public, educational and government (PEG) cable sta-tion serving central New Hampshire broadcast by MetroCast Cablevision on channels 24, 25 and 26. It is a nonprofit corporation with an annual operating budget of approximately $126,000 funded by contracting municipalities, grants and sponsor-ships.

The station is perhaps best know for its annual live broadcasts of the WLNH Children’s Auction, which have been widely credited with taking the financial results of that 5-day event into the stratosphere over the last decade or so.

Denise Beauchaine, director of LRPA-TV, said that the station’s signal reaches 21 municipalities in four counties — Belknap, Merrimack, Grafton and Rockingham — encom-passing more than 50,000 households.

MetroCast bills its subscribers a franchise fee, which it then disburses to the municipalities in return for being able to operate a monopoly public service within their boundar-ies. But there is no direct legal con-nection between the franchise fees and LRPA-TV.

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sors, Beauchaine said “we’ve been running on thin margins for several years.”

Beauchaine believes that the dwin-dling support from municipalities reflects doubts among municipal offi-cials that LRPA-TV fails to command a significant audience and conse-quently is of little value to their com-munities. The survey was intended to test that notion.

The online survey was conducted by Dave Ferruolo, who collected data for about a year, from December 5, 2011 until December 19, 2012.

Altogether 868 viewers responded, of whom 86-percent said they watched LRPA-TV. Of these, two-thirds said that that the station returned high value to their local communities and another 26-percent said it was of mod-erate value. Only seven-percent, 60 respondents, found LRPA-TV offered little value.

The survey also sounded viewers about programming and found that the largest share favored the cur-rent format, but would like to have more shows about “local happenings,” adventure and the outdoors, history and municipal information. Signifi-cant numbers responded they would prefer less religious and political pro-gramming.

To the embarrassment of Ferruolo, “New Hampshire Alive,” which he has produced for eight years, topped the rankings of most popular shows, fol-lowed by the “Humane Happenings,” a production of the New Hampshire Humane Society, “Living United,” offered by the Lakes Region United Way, and “Lakes Region Spotlight,” hosted by former Meredith town man-ager Carol Granfield.

Ferruolo said that survey remains on LRPA-TV’s website, LRPA-TV.com, and encouraged interested viewers to complete the brief questionnaire.

Beauchaine said that the directors have yet to thoroughly digest and discuss the survey. But, she expected that “in the near future” the board would develop a strategy for leverag-ing the results to bolster LRPA-TV’s financial position as well as to tailor its programming to meet the require-ments of the communities and prefer-ences of the viewers it serves.

By Michael KitchTHE LACONIA DAILY SUN

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A reporter at the scene saw rescue workers trying to free several workers trapped. Television images showed people being evacuated by office chairs, and gurneys. Most of them had injuries likely caused by falling debris.

“We were talking and all of sudden we heard an explosion with white smoke and glass falling from the windows,” said Maria Concepcion Andrade, 42, who lives on the block of Pemex building. “People started running from the building covered in dust. A lot of pieces were flying.”

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Prospect Mountain’s Logan Roberts (24) and Zach Robertson (32) reach for a rebound during Tuesday’s game at Belmont High School. Prospect Mountain won, 56-40. (Alan MacRae/for the Laconia Daily Sun)

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ALTON — It didn’t take long for Prospect Moun-tain High School’s boys’ varsity basketball team to establish itself as one of the bulls of Division III. Though only in its ninth season, the team has appeared in a semi-final game in three of the last four seasons. Twice the team has played its way into the state championship match, including last year, when the Timberwolves gained a one-point lead with ten seconds to go, only to lose to Berlin, 51-53.

Could Prospect Mountain make it back to the big game this year? At the beginning of the season, it was looking doubtful. The Timberwolves were 1-2 after the first three games, and had lost their two highest scorers of the previous year. Looking back,

coach Tom Bordeau thinks his team was suffering from a “championship hangover.” Soon, though, the malaise wore off and Prospect Mountain went on a ten-game winning streak. “Losing two of the first three woke them up,” Bordeau said.

With six games remaining in the regular season, Prospect Mountain has nine wins, three losses. And, although the team’s record isn’t as impressive as last year’s was at this point, Bordeau thinks this year’s Timberwolves will be stronger when they hit the post-season.

“This team is scoring more points, getting more rebounds,” he said. No single player has stepped into the void left by the graduation last year of prolific scorers Zach Drouin and Pat Cassidy, said Bordeau.

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Belmont-Gilford hockey eager for Saturday’s re-match v. Berlin

After driving to Berlin on Wednesday to suffer a 5-6 loss, the Belmont-Gilford hockey team is eager to return the favor when Berlin comes to the Laco-nia Ice Arena on Saturday afternoon.

Referring to the undefeated Berlin, Belmon-Gilford coach Jay Londer said, “They’ve a very good team, there’s a reason they’re number one.” All the goals in the back-and-forth game were scored during penalties, said Londer, who added that the loss came after a long bus ride and in a hostile environment. He looks for-ward to facing Berlin on his home ice on Saturday, and the opportunity to smear Berlin’s pristine record. “We didn’t play our best game and we only lost by one goal,” he said. “We need to be tougher on the pucks and we need to finish our checks on Saturday.”

Londer added that he hoped to see a crowd of sev-eral hundred cheering on the Bulldogs on Saturday. The game begins at 4:40 p.m., and he noted that Bel-mont or Gilford high school students who wear their school colors won’t be charged admission.

The Laconia High School varsity basketball teams saw split fortunes when they played Plymouth on January 29.

The LHS boys’ team, playing at home, lost 55-58. Their record is now two wins, nine losses.

The girls’ team, playing in Plymouth, came away with a 51-41 win, improving their record to 11-2.

LHS girls’ basketball team on a three-game winning streak

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Does Bordeau think this is the year for Prospect Mountain? He won’t tempt fate by guessing. “I don’t think of the finals. I hope to get to the final four. You get to there and anything can happen. We’re looking at the final four.”

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SPORTS

Ice racing season opens in Moultonborough

The Lakes Region Ice Racing Club opened the 2013 season of automobile, oval track ice racing last Sunday on Lee Pond. The Milton ice racing club did not have enough ice to race and many of their mem-bers traveled to the Lakes Region to race. Lots of cars and lots of fans made for a great show. Compet-itors raced in the following divisions: juniors, four-cyclinder, V8 stock and modifieds.

Adam Cahoon, driving his bright orange Ollie’s Garage number 99 Monte Carlo, won the V8 stock divi-sion. Moultonborough’s Jackie Martel won the junior division. Rick Martel of Moultonborough took first in the modified race. In the four-cylinder competition, Tim Chase, driving last year’s championship-winning number 40 MR2, took the checkered flag.

The Club’s Latchkey Cup to benefit the Norris Cotton Cancer Center is scheduled for next Saturday. Area drivers will gather Saturday at 10 a.m. to race in the 29th annual cup. Check the club’s website at www.LakesRegionIceRacingClub.com or facebook page for the latest race/ice status, information about coming events, and for race photos and video.

Lac-Winnisquam hockey earns 2nd win of season

The Laconia-Winnisquam hockey team played Con-Val Tuesday to a 4-1 win. Kolby Fournier had two goals, 1 assist for the Wolfpack; Rob Goodell had two assists, Jackson Weeks had his first high school goal, Matt Missert scored a goal and Brayden Harri-man had 19 saves.

Laconia-Winnisquam then lost 1-5 to the coopera-tive Moultonborough-Inter-Lakes team the next night. Matt Missert scored the lone goal for the Wolfpack and Brayden Harriman had 45 saves. Laconia-Winn-isquam’s record now stands at two wins, nine losses.

LHS bowlers take fourth place Laconia High School bowling team hit the lanes on

Saturday, traveling to Merrimack to face three tough schools, Souhegan, Hollis-Brookline, and Pinkerton. Although Laconia finished in fourth place after the standard games, the team had a very good week. Out of the nine bowlers Laconia had on the lanes, six of them bowled their average or better and three bowled withing two pins of average. Leading the pack was Trevor Lange who bowled 290 and increased his average by six pins. Behind him were Peter Stivali and Cheyenne Noyes, both increasing their averages by five pins. Laconia was up against top seed Souhegan in the first Baker match. Laconia had a tough time putting marks together, losing first two games 170 to 125 and 128 to 116. Souhegan went on to beat Hollis-Brookline to take first place for the day. “It was a good week for us. The lanes were a little different then what the team is use to practicing on but they adjusted well”, said coach Jack Batchelder.

LHS ski team races at Pat’s PeakThe Laconia High School ski team, competing on

Wednesday in a meet at Pat’s Peak against Bow, Bishop Brady, St. Thomas, Hillsboro-Deering, Gil-ford and Merrimack Valley, finished in sixth place for girls and a fifth place finish for the boys.

Earning points for the LHS girls’ team was Susan Ross, who finished in 27th place, and Erin Cash-man, who finished 30th among the field of 40 skiers.

Sean Cashman, who finished in 11th place out of 36 skiers, was the fastest among LHS boys. Trevor Weeks (17), Griffen Nyhan (25) and Cody Yale (26) also earned points for Laconia. Matt Westcott also skied, earning a 31st place finish.

The Lakes Region Wavemakers traveled last weekend to White River Junction, VT to attend the 2013 Connecticut Valley Invitational. Competing against 10 other teams of various sizes, their hard work and determination earned them the 6th place trophy. Many swimmers had top ten placements and/or achieved new personal best times.

According to Head Coach Dave Gingrich, “For all the swimmers attending this meet it was a fun day of swimming that was well rewarded.” Over the next few weeks, The Wavemakers will host their first home meet of the season on Feb. 2nd at Laconia Athletic and Swim Club, and then will gear up for the New England Regional Meet in White River Junction.

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The charred ends of a tree the landed on power lines closing Mer-edith Center Road yesterday can be seen from about 30 feet away. Area police and fi re departments were kept busy throughout the day as high winds swept through the state knocking trees on to wires and branches on to roofs. (Laconia Police photo)

LACONIA — A portion of Meredith Center Road was closed for two hours yesterday afternoon after a gust of wind blew a tree down onto a power line.

With the line still electrifi ed and the tree coming closer and closer to falling during the wind gusts, police and fi re offi cials closed the road from the corner of Eastman Road and Lane Road to the Heri-tage Free Will Baptist Church.

At times the burning tree would fl are and the fl ames could be seen from Eastman Drive.

Police manned the Eastman Drive intersection while the fi re department put barriers and caution tape across the road in front of the church. The road remained closed from about 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. when the power company and a tree service fi nished removing the tree.

At least twice, people got out of their cars and moved the barriers on the church side so they could go through the road.

Police Det. Kevin Butler chastised the people who

Some motorists ignore police road block after high winds knock trees into power lines along Meredith Center Rd.

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crossed the barrier line as they reached him at East-man Road and later said he was very angry that people would remove a safety barrier deliberately put there to keep them safe.

Fire Lt. Chris Shipp said at one point a fi refi ghter saw one driver remove the barrier and lift the tape to allow other two cars to go through. He echoed Butler when he said police and fi refi ghters put bar-riers in the road to stop people from getting hurt.

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Town offi cials said those complaints are being addressed with CNP. They also want residents to know that all CNP’s employees will be wearing iden-tifi cation.

The town said it is in every homeowner’s best interests to allow the assessors into their home so they can get an accurate measure of its worth. People who don’t allow access to their homes cannot challenge their assessment through the abatement process.

The latest fi gures show that Belmont’s equaliza-tion ratio is at 126 percent — meaning the town as a whole is over assessed compared to the actual recorded sales. Theoretically a house should sell for 100 percent of its assessed value and in Belmont, houses are selling well below their assessed value, driving up the equalization percentage. The DRA allows for a town to be between 90 and 110 percent of 100, which is considered perfect, or it can order a complete revaluation.

Last year, Belmont’s equalization ration was 115 percent but, knowing the fi ve-year list and mea-sure was coming this year, the DRA didn’t order the revaluation.

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LACONIA — More than a year-and-a-half after it burned, a large multi-family residence, housing six apartments, at 158 School Street in the Lakeport section of the city is being demolished.

Planning Director Shanna Saunders, whose responsibilities include code enforcement, said yes-terday that Paul Fortier of Nashua, the owner of the property, was on “a countdown clock,” explaining that he had been ordered to demolish the building by a date certain or face legal action. “It has been a very lengthy process,” she said, adding that she is pleased that demolition has begun.

Last May, almost a year after the fire, no steps had been taken to either demolish or salvage the building. At the time, Fortier told The Daily Sun he intended to raze the most severely damaged part of

School Street apartment building being knocked down a year & one-half after fire

the building and rebuild what remained in anticipa-tion of selling the property. At the time, he explained said that city officials treated him fairly.

“As long as you keep them informed that there is some progress, they are very patient,” he remarked.

Saunders said that once demolition is complete, the site will be inspected to ensure that the build-ing is down, the debris removed and the lot secure. “We will want to make sure the property is safe,” she said, “and that there are no problems with stormwa-ter or erosion.”

Fortier purchased the property, which sits on a 0.28-acre lot at the corner of School Street and Sher-idan in May, 2003 for $237,530 as an investment. The building was last assessed at $21,800 and the lot at $51,600 for a total property value of $73,400.

Fortier could not be reached this week for com-ment on what his current plans are for the property.

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“He will have to give up sooner or later because (authorities) are not leaving,” Arrington said. “It’s pretty small, but he’s been known to stay in there eight days.”

Midland City Mayor Virgil Skipper said he has been briefed by law enforcement and visited with

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Republican Rep. Steve Clouse, who represents the Midland City area, said he visited the boy’s mother Thursday and that she is “hanging on by a thread.”

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GILFORD — Deputy Chief Rick Andrews said yesterday that the repair company that is fixing Engine 2 will provide the town with two invoices — one for the repair of the transmission and one for the repair of the air fittings and brake sensor dam-aged while the truck was being towed.

Andrews said the intent of the fire department is to have Rusty’s Towing pay for the damage allegedly caused when the driver towed the engine from the fire station on Cherry Valley Road to the garage off Lake Shore Road.

He said it was his understanding that the driver disconnected the drive shaft before the tow but the transmission reengaged while in route and the drive shaft begin turning. Andrews said there was some

damage to the airlines and the Anti-Lock Brake Sensor (ABS) was damaged. The engine was towed with a strap, with all wheels on the roadway.

Andrews said he got a call from Repair Services of New England early Thursday afternoon telling them Engine 2 was back together and was ready for a test drive.

In the interim, Gilford has been able to use Laco-nia’s Engine 1 with the exception of last Friday when Laconia took it back because one of their engines was out of service.

Andrews also said Lakes Region Fire Apparatus in Tamworth was making good progress on repairs to Engine 4 and he hopes it will be back into service on schedule.

“Hopefully, the pump will get fixed and stay that way for a while,” Andrews said.

By Gail OBerTHE LACONIA DAILY SUN

Incumbent Gilmanton School Board member Malcolm Macleod has not signed up yet for another

Correction: In Gilmanton, Macleod not running for school board againterm. His candidacy was incorrectly reported in an article that was published on Page 8 on January 31.

Correction: Alton School Board vote on construction project was 4-1An article in the Thursday, Jan. 31 edition of The

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Intoxilyzer is the brand name of the type of alcohol breath test used by the Giford Police.

“With the academy lengthened, they come out with more certifications,” Keenan said noting that every patrol officer in the department is certified to use the Intoxilyzer.

One thing Keenen found most impressive was the increase in DWI arrests came at the same time that other police activity increased. He said historically, when other calls for service increase, the amount of time patrol officers can spend patrolling and looking for impaired drivers can decrease.

Keenan said all of his patrol officers have gone through additional training for seeking and field test-ing intoxicated drivers. “The ones who were already certified went through additional training,” he said.

Keenan said a DWI report is very detailed and can take a number of hours to complete correctly and accurately. In addition, recent changes in state law require that every DWI arrestee be brought before a judge within two weeks. He added that every arrest report is reviewed thoroughly by Bredbury and a supervisor for accuracy, which helps insure a better

conviction rate in court.To keep up the trend, Keenan said he has included

DWI patrol grants requests from the Department of Safety for both 2013 and 2014. Unlike sobriety road blocks, these grants pay wages to police officers to be out on special DWI patrols.

He said the grants get an extra cruiser on the road during peak drinking times and are often more effective than traditional road blocks.

He also said that as more training opportunities arise, all of his officers will be participating.

The department has instituted a “stop, walk and talk” policy that means more officers are get-ting out of their vehicles and speaking with resi-dents. Keenan said the extra communications has improved the way people perceive the police and has made them more likely to call a report an impaired driver or a suspicious person or vehicle.

“If residents can put a face to a name they’re more comfortable calling us,” he said.

“Don’t think you’re wasting our time. Call us. It’s our job,” he said. “We’d rather get a call and find a raccoon in the garbage than spend the next day investigating a burglary.”

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Clouse said the mother told him that the boy has Asperger’s syndrome, an autism-like disorder, as well as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. Police have been delivering medication to him through the pipe, he said.

The normally quiet red clay road was teeming Thursday with more than a dozen police cars and

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Dykes was known around the neighborhood as a menacing figure who neighbors said once beat a dog to death with a lead pipe, threatened to shoot chil-dren for setting foot on his property and patrolled his yard at night with a flashlight and a firearm.

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which extended from Dinsmoor Point to the south all the way north to Welch Island. A wind from the west was whipping up waves in the open water and was showing signs of gaining enough velocity to make any attempt to untether the bob house from its rope anchor and bring it ashore virtually impossible.

Burgess, whose bob house is well-known to other ice fishermen in the area for its excellent interior woodwork, had left all of his ice fishing equipment and ice augur in the bob-house overnight.

He put ice creepers on his boots, donned a life jacket and grabbed a coil of rope saying that he was at least going to try and get close enough to his bob house to better assess the situation.

He was joined in his journey out to the edge of the ice by Steve Powell and Jason DeCoff, both of whom live next door in Lakeshore Park and had been out earlier hauling their own bob house and several belonging to friends off the ice.

Burgess said that when they got to the bob house they could see water on top of the ice around and that Powell got right to the edge of the ice and was able to cut the anchor rope, allowing the trio to start pulling the bob house towards shore.

But there were some more obstacles on the way, including a strong gust of wind which nearly took the bob house over the edge of the ice, and the dif-

ficulty of the trio keeping balance on the wet surface of the ice.

‘’It took us awhile to get our technique down. I slipped and fell once because I was trying to get some traction and got my boots at an angle. Once you do that there’s no way you can stay up,’’ said Burgess.

As the trio got closer to the beach they were joined on the ice by two other men, who had earlier pulled a bob house belonging to Brad Cronin of Meredith ashore,and soon they were able to get the bob house safely ashore.

‘’I guess I used up my quota of bravery for the day,’’ said Burgess, who then turned to Powell and DeCoff and said ‘’I owe you both one at Patrick’s.’’

He said that he will be putting his bob house back on the ice as soon as it the area freezes over again, which he expects will be within a few days.

At least one bobhouse is thought to have sunk when the water opened up during Wednesday night’s heavy rain, an orange one which had been seen at dusk on Wednesday but wasn’t visible Thursday morning.

The water opened up less than two days after ice-in had been declared on Lake Winnipesaukee by Dave Emerson of Emerson Aviation, who flew over the lake Tuesday morning and reported that the last open sec-tion of water near Welch Island had frozen over.

Emerson said he would be back checking on ice conditions after Thursday’s high winds abate but

expected with night time lows dropping to single digits it wouldn’t be long before lake was covered once again.

The 4th annual New England Pond Hockey Clas-sic will open this morning on Meredith Bay, where the ice is still 10 inches thick and the 21 rinks which had been created for the 1,400 players who have arrived for the tournament withstood the warm weather and rain.

Among those taking part is a team of eight players from Raleigh, North Carolina, who flew into Boston Thursday morning and showed up at mid-afternoon to check out the ice conditions.

‘’We just talked with Scott Crowder, who runs the tournament, and he told us things are shaping up fine,’’ said John Rodgers of the Fun Unlimited team, which is competing in the over 35 Just for Fun group.

The players said none had has had any recent ice time and that they all skate in indoors roller hockey. One said that the last time he had been on skates at all was when he was 10 years old and joked that entering the tournament ‘’sounded like a good idea at the time.’’

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region to be with us on this — if we have ... gone through every possibility to resolve this in a respon-sible, peaceful way, rather than going to war,” he said.

He pushed back on the notion — first raised by one of his harshest Republican critics, Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma — that he favors a policy of appeasement.

“I think engagement is clearly in our interest,” Hagel told Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., who denounced the idea of negotiating with a “terrorist state.”

“That’s not negotiation,” Hagel said. “Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.”

After the daylong hearing, committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., said the panel could vote as early as next Thursday if Hagel quickly provides additional material requested by some members.

The nominee’s fiercest exchange came with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a fellow Vietnam veteran, onetime close friend and a vote that could carry con-siderable sway. Politics and Hagel’s evolving opposi-tion to the Iraq war caused a split between the two men that was on full display.

McCain suggested that Hagel and his critics were not quibbling over small matters.

“They are not reasonable people disagreeing; they are fundamental disagreements. Our concerns per-tain to the quality of your professional judgment and your world-view on critical areas of national security,” he said.

McCain pressed Hagel on whether he was right or wrong about his opposition to President George W. Bush’s decision to send an extra 30,000 troops to Iraq in 2007 at a point when the war seemed in danger of being lost. Hagel, who voted to authorize military force in Iraq, later opposed the conflict, comparing it to Vietnam and arguing that it shifted the focus from Afghanistan.

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Lakes Region Community College (LRCC) Graphic Design Honor Student, Stefan Wollmar (Belmont), displays his illustrations of “Snitch the Fraccoon” and “Tangerine Turtle.” (Courtesy photo)

BELMONT — Lakes Region Community Col-lege (LRCC) Graphic Design Honor Student, Stefan Wollmar has worked for four months completing the 40-page book illustrations for “Snitch the Fraccoon” and “Tangerine Turtle”, the fi rst of a series to be developed by Bag-O-Loot headquartered in Laconia. Wollmar has traveled to Boston, New York, and to local fairs and schools promoting the book and related products.

“I took the opportu-nity to illustrate ‘The Adventures of Snitch the Fraccoon in Search of the Magic Crystals’ because I saw it as a great way to improve my LRCC portfolio,” says Wollmar. “My hard work combined with LRCC’s ability to help students fl ourish is sure to increase my future possibilities as an artist. It has done exactly that.”

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GILFORD — Gunstock Mountain Resort is host-ing two sanctioned Telemark Giant Slalom (GS) races under the lights on Saturday, February 2. This event includes two back-to-back GS races and pro-vides a chance to meet and race with members of the U.S. Telemark Ski Team.

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Lakes Region Planning Commission TAC taking up priority projects

MEREDITH — The Lakes Region Planning Com-mission (LRPC) Transportation Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) will meet at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, February 6 at the Humiston Building, 103 Main Street in Meredith.

The meeting will include discussion about crite-ria for the evaluation of regional priority projects for inclusion in the NH Ten Year Transportation Plan. The TAC will also establish a sub-committee to evaluate the town of Bristol Safe Routes to School application to construct sidewalks near the elemen-tary school.

The LRPC Transportation TAC encourages all members of the public who are concerned about any aspect of transportation to attend and provide their input. For additional information about this meet-ing contact the Lakes Region Planning Commission at 279-8171.

Moultonborough Rec plans trip to Boston Flower ShowMOULTONBOROUGH — The Moultonborough

Recreation Department plans a trip to the Boston Flower Show at the Seaport World Trade Center on Thursday, March 14.

This year’s theme is “Seeds of Change” and will highlight dozens of new plants, methods and mate-rials for gardens and outdoor spaces. Enjoy the gar-dens and displays and vote for your favorites. Have a gardening challenge? The Massachusetts Master Gardeners Association will host an informational station to answer your questions.

The coach bus will depart the Moultonborough Recreation Department at 7:30 a.m. and will return

to the MRD at approximately 6:30 p.m. A light snack will be provided en route. The cost of this trip is $50 per person which covers transportation, snack and admission to the show.

The bus will stop at the Cracker Barrel Restau-rant in Londonderry on the way home for an early dinner. Dinner cost is not included. The tour will be traveling with the patrons of Belmont Recreation and the bus will stop in Belmont both ways. Space is limited. Reserve a seat by contacting the Moulton-borough Recreation Department at 476-8868 or visit www.moultonboroughnh.gov


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ARIES (March 21-April 19). As your guiding planet slips into a water sign, you may feel as though the ideas you spark are being quickly extinguished. That’s why you need to surround your-self with similarly bright and hopeful creative people. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Is con-sistency too much to ask from people? You’re so rock solid when it comes to keeping your commitments that you can’t wrap your head around the fl akey way some people live. Just know that they have their reasons. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Your popularity secret is simple: You’re usu-ally looking for ways to add value to what others are doing. And you take just enough to let others know that you’re participating in appreciation. CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’re usually most comfortable in your own space. So when you feel very much yourself in a place outside your home, it will get the wheels of your mind turning. Can you bring elements of this place into your abode? LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). There’s no such thing as too much loveliness, and you’ll quest to fi ll your senses with the beauty you know is out there. But where is it? You’ll have to branch out to fi nd it. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). As you traverse new territory, you’ll be wise to bring a machete. Whacking through weeds and brush will be hard work, but only once. Next time your way will be clear. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). The moon in your highly aesthetic sign gives a silver glow to all you do. Don’t be surprised if people want to take your picture, scribble notes when they talk to you or document your presence in other ways.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Some-times it feels as though if you don’t get the privacy you need, you’ll go bonkers. The human animal can be as territorial as a bear, and it’s only natural to fi ght for your space. Just try not to eat anyone. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Tom Jones insisted, “It’s not unusual to be loved by anyone...” And yet, if your nearest and dearest enjoys amorous attention that’s not coming from you, it’s also not unusual to become seriously annoyed. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). It’s not like you to unthinkingly jump into speech, but an unusual environ-ment can inspire you to make that leap. Likely, it will feel as though there’s no time to sort things out; you just have to act. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Your life’s work doesn’t culminate in a day. The projects you’ll be known for will happen over the course of months or years. So forget about the long term, and settle into what you must accom-plish today. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Some-one likes the way you laugh at jokes, forward conversations in interesting directions and add to collaborations in unpredictable ways. Do you know who your fan is? TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Feb. 1). You’ll reinvent yourself and make a comeback this year. This month, seek experts and listen to them. The next six weeks bring an interview process -- sometimes you’re asking the questions, other times you’re answering. You’ll nab a sweet job in May. June and October bring travel, passion and fun. Cancer and Leo people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 11, 46, 19 and 38.

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Today is Friday, Feb. 1, the 32nd day of 2013. There are 333 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:On Feb. 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia

broke up during re-entry, killing all seven of its crew members.

On this date:In 1790, the U.S. Supreme Court convened for

the fi rst time in New York. In 1861, Texas voted to leave the Union at a

Secession Convention in Austin.In 1862, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” a

poem by Julia Ward Howe, was published in the Atlantic Monthly.

In 1922, in one of Hollywood’s most endur-ing mysteries, movie director William Desmond Taylor was shot to death in his Los Angeles home; the killing has never been solved.

In 1942, the Voice of America broadcast its fi rst program to Europe, relaying it through the facili-ties of the British Broadcasting Corp. in London.

In 1943, one of America’s most highly deco-rated military units, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, made up almost exclusively of Japanese-Americans, was authorized.

In 1960, four black college students began a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they’d been refused service.

In 1968, during the Vietnam War, South Viet-nam’s police chief (Nguyen Ngoc Loan) executed a Viet Cong offi cer with a pistol shot to the head. Richard M. Nixon announced his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

In 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (hoh-MAY’-nee) received a tumultuous welcome in Tehran as he ended nearly 15 years of exile.

In 1991, 34 people were killed when an arriv-ing USAir jetliner crashed atop a commuter plane on a runway at Los Angeles International Airport.

One year ago: A Southern California woman who’d fi led a small-claims action against Honda won her lawsuit when a judge ruled that the auto-maker had misled her about the potential fuel economy of her hybrid car. (However, another judge overturned the nearly $10,000 small claims judgment in May 2012.)

Today’s Birthdays: Gospel singer George Beverly Shea is 104. Actor Stuart Whitman is 85. Singer Don Everly is 76. Actor Garrett Morris is 76. Singer Ray Sawyer (Dr. Hook and the Medi-cine Show) is 76. Bluegrass singer Del McCoury is 74. Jazz musician Joe Sample is 74. Comedian Terry Jones is 71. Opera singer Carol Neblett is 67. Rock musician Mike Campbell (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) is 63. Blues singer-musician Sonny Landreth is 62. Actor-writer-producer Bill Mumy is 59. Rock singer Exene Cervenka is 57. Actor Linus Roache is 49. Princess Stephanie of Monaco is 48. Country musician Dwayne Dupuy (Ricochet) is 48. Actress Sherilyn Fenn is 48. Lisa Marie Presley is 45. Comedian-actor Pauly Shore is 45. Actor Brian Krause is 44. Jazz musician Joshua Redman is 44. Rock musician Patrick Wilson is 44. Actor Michael C. Hall is 42. Rock musician Ron Welty is 42. Roots rocker Jason Isbell is 34. Country singer Julie Roberts is 34. Actor Jarrett Lennon is 31. Rock singer-musician Andrew VanWyngarden is 30. Actor Lee Thomp-son Young is 29. TV personality Lauren Conrad is 27. Rock singer Harry Styles is 19.

CALENDARTODAY’S EVENTS

Blood Driver conducted by the American Red Cross. 1-6 p.m. at the Congregational Church in Center Harbor. For more information go to redcrossblood.org or call the 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767.

Tot Time at the Meredith Library 9:30-10:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. to noon.

“Souper Bowl” soup tasting event held at the Moult-onborough Public Library. 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Pitman’s Freight Room presents The Rackey Thomas Blues Band. 8 p.m. at the Freight Room in Laconia. Doors open at 7:15 p.m. Admission is $10. BYOB. For more infor-mation visit pitmansfreightroom.com or call 527-0043.

Oscar Night at the the Movies held at the Gilman Library in Alton. 7 p.m. Includes popcorn and drinks. Camp chairs and pillows encouraged for comfort. Children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. For more infor-mation call 875-2550.

Color Sketches of Ilulissat photography exhibit opens at the Belknap Mill in Laconia. 5-7 p.m. Free and open to the public. For more information call 524-8813.

VFW Post 1670 hosts a meat bingo to support a local member who lost everything in a fire. 6:30 p.m. Pot luck dinner and 50/50 raffle.

Al-Anon Meeting at the Congregational Church Parish House (18 Veterans Square) in Laconia. 9:30 to 11 a.m. each Friday. Al-Anon offers hope and help to families of alcoholics. No dues or fees. All are welcome. Call 645-9518.

Gilford Public Library daily events. Social Bridge, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Drop-In Storytime (Ages 3-5 yrs), 10:30 – 11:15 a.m. Knit Wits, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.

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

Sit and Knit at the Hall Memorial Library in Northfield. 2-5 p.m.

Mount Meredith 24ft. high indoor climbing wall open to the public at the Meredith Community Center. 5:30 to 7 p.m. Open to all ages. Admission is $3 for children under 10 and $5 per adult. Family rate is $10 per visit. Equipment provided. For more information call 279-8197.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2The Laconia High School Music Department presents

the 2013 Laconia Invitational Barbershop Festival. 4 p.m. at the Laconia High School Auditorium. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the door.

Inter-Lakes Summer Theatre auditions for the 2013 Summer Season. 10 a.m to 4 p.m. at the Inter-Lakes High School Auditorium. For more information visit interlakesthe-atre.com, call 1-888-245-6374 or email [email protected].

Snowshoe hike sponsored by the Society For The Protection of NH Forests. 9 a.m. to noon through Weeks Woods in Gilford. Group meets at Gilford Public Works parking lot. RSVP [email protected] or call 524-4173.

6th Annual Gilford Rotary Murder Mystery presented by the Gilford Rotary Club and On Stage Theater Com-pany. 5-8 p.m. at the Belknap Mill in downtown Laconia. Participants are asked to bring a food item for the Pot Luck Dinner. BYOB. Cost $15 per person. RSVP required by call-ing 387-9772 or emailing [email protected].

Ice Fishing Class offered by the New Hampshire “Let’s Go Fishing” program and the Laconia Recreation Depart-ment. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Laconia Community Center at 306 Union Avenue, Laconia. Open to all ages. Participants 16 years and younger should be accompanied by an adult. To reserve a spot call 524-5046.

The American Legion Post 33 hosts a Karaoke event. 7:30 p.m. at the Post at 6 Plymouth Street in Meredith. $5 donation requested for this event.

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According to law, provisions shall be made by the school district so that any voter who is absent from that school district on the day of the annual or special election or meeting, or who, by reason of religious observance or physical disability, is unable to vote in person, may vote at such election or meeting for school district officer. Such voter shall be provided will all official ballots, which are to be provided at the polling place on the day of the balloting. If you are interested in obtaining an absentee ballot, please contact Stacy Kruger, District Clerk days at 267- 9220 or the Superintendent of Schoolʼs Office; 58 School Street; Belmont, NH 03220 at 267-9223.

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OBITUARYCatherine M. Drake, 91

SANBORNTON — Catherine M. Drake, 91, of 262 Hunkins Pond Road, died peacefully at the Belknap County Nurs-ing Home on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 with her family by her side.

Mrs. Drake was born October 18, 1921 in Northfield, N.H., the daughter of John and Margaret (Looney) O’Connor.

Mrs. Drake lived in Sanbornton for most of her life and was a communicant of St. Mary of the Assumption Church.

Survivors include two sons, Allen Drake and Edward Drake and his wife, Carrie, all of Sanbornton; a daughter, Patricia Mer-riam, of Sanbornton; seven grandchildren; many great grandchildren and several nephews and nieces.

In addition to her parents, Mrs. Drake was prede-ceased by her husband, Lester Drake, who died in 1986, by a son, Paul Drake, who died January 29, 2012, by an infant son, Dennis, and by two brothers

and two sisters.Calling hours will be held on Sunday,

February 3, 2013 from 1:00-3:00 PM in the Carriage House of the Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N.H.

A Funeral Service will follow the call-ing hours at 3:00 PM also at the Funeral Home.

Spring Burial will in the family lot in St. John Cemetery, Tilton, N.H.

For those who wish, the family suggests that memorial donations be made to the New Hampshire Humane Society, PO Box

572, Laconia, NH 03247.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.

Al-Anon Meeting at the Lakes Region General Hos-pital in Laconia. 8 to 9:15 p.m. each Saturday in the first-floor conference room Al-Anon offers hope and help to families of alcoholics. No dues or fees. All are welcome. Call 645-9518.

All compulsive eaters are welcome to attend the Overeaters Anonymous meeting held each Saturday morning from 11 to 12 at the Franklin Hospital.

Narcotics Anonymous meeting. 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Uni-tarian Universalist Society (172 Pleasant Street) in Laconia.

The Hall Memorial Library in Northfield hosts a Take Your Child to the Library Day featuring a Special Story Time. 10:30 a.m. Snacks, crafts, and tours of the Library will be available.

The New Horizons Band of the Lakes Region meets every Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Music Clinic on Rte 3 in Belmont. All musicians welcome. For more information call 528-6672 or 524-8570.

Open Door Dinners offer free weekly meal in Tilton. 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. An outreach housed at Trinity Episcopal Church on Main Street, downtown. provides a free hot meal open to all members of the community. All are welcome to eat and all are welcome to help out. For more information, especially about volunteering, please call Pastor Mark at 286-3120 or e-mail him at [email protected].

Separated/Divorced Persons Support Group meet-ing. 6 to 8 p.m. on the first and third Saturdays of each month at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Belmont. Compas-sion and affirmation in a confidential atmosphere. Refresh-ments. Scholarships available. For more information call the rectory at 267-8174 or Ginny Timmons at 286-7066.

CALENDAR from preceding page

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2

At left: A South American jungle cat will be featured in ‘Live on Stage, the Rain Forest’ at Woodland Heights Elementary School Monday. (Courtesy photo)

LACONIA — ‘Live on Stage, The Rain Forest’ will be bringing the sights and sounds of the Amazon region, including exotic birds, kinkajous, jungle cats, monkeys and snakes to the Woodland Heights Ele-mentary School gymansium for shows at 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Monday, February 4.

Founder and current directir Mike Kohlrieser and his wife, Marcia, became increasingly aware of prob-lems in tropical rain forests during the 1980s and helped create the non-profit organization under-standing wildlife in 1992. Its goal is to educate and inspire people to help make a better world for all, including animals, to live in.

Exotic animals and birds from the Amazon at Woodland Heights stage on Monday evening

Darius Rucker playing Meadowbrook on June 22GILFORD — Meadowbrook has announced that

country superstar Darius Rucker will be hitting the ‘Brook on Saturday, June 22 as part of the Eastern Propane Concert Series. Joining him will be Rodney Atkins and Jana Kramer.

Tickets go on sale Friday, Feb. 1 at 10 a.m. and tickets range from $29.75-$76. To order, call 603-293-4700 or log on to www.Meadowbrook.net.

Darius Rucker is riding high with the release of his sophomore country album, Charleston, SC 1966, on Capitol Records Nashville.

The debut album is his chart-topping 2008 release, Learn To Live, an album that produced three con-secutive No. 1 singles and Top 5 smash, “History In The Making.” Rucker’s success in the country music format was recently recognized at the 43rd Annual CMA Awards when he received the Top New Artist

title and again with ACM, Teen Choice, and AMA Award nominations.

Atkins, an east Tennessee native has an impres-sive track record with hitting on sentiments that strike a chord with the country listener. He’s had six No. 1 hits from his first three albums, from “Watch-ing You” and “These Are My People” to his most recent smashes, “Take A Back Road,” and “Farmer’s Daughter.”

In 2011, Jana Kramer made her musical dreams come true when she signed a contract with Elektra Records. “Music has always been my heart, my pas-sion, and I want to be able to blend the two.” Her singing and acting lives crossed over when her song “I Won’t Give Up” appeared on One Tree Hill. Her self-titled debut album was released June 2012, and “Why Ya Wanna” broke the country top five in September.


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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: Two years ago, my son’s fi ancee recommend-ed we rotate who hosts Christmas dinner. That year, she and my son went to her mom’s house, and last year they were supposed to come to mine. Instead, they went to her mom’s again and were upset that I didn’t want to tag along. Annie, at the time, my 73-year-old mother was in a rehab facility. There was no way I could bring her along for dinner, and I refused to leave her alone for the holiday. A week before Christmas, my future daughter-in-law sent me a text asking me to reconsider. I again said no. She acci-dentally texted me instead of my son and said, “Your mom is a nasty liar.” I was dumbfounded. I immediately got another text saying, “I’m sorry, but my feelings are hurt.” I forwarded both of these to my son, who said he was at work and didn’t have time to deal with this. Right after the holiday, my mother fell and broke her hip. She ended up needing two surgeries. She refused additional treatment, saying she’d had enough. She went into hospice care and died a few days later. My son became angry with me, saying I deliberately short-ened Mom’s life by putting her into hospice. My son’s fi ancee still has not apologized for what she texted. I haven’t heard from either of them since. I am hurt and upset. I not only lost my mother, but it seems I’ve lost my son, as well. How do I handle this mess? My husband and I are both losing sleep. -- Hurt Dear Hurt: Our condolences on the loss of your mother. Your son may be feeling guilty for pressuring you to aban-don Grandma for his fi ancee’s Christmas dinner, not realiz-ing how short her time was. It is not uncommon to defl ect that by blaming someone else. And his fi ancee may be en-couraging his anger toward you because it gets her off the hook entirely.

Please forgive them so you can work on your grieving pro-cess without this additional sadness. Keep the lines of com-munication open, and try to maintain a certain superfi ciality. We hope this will allow the relationship to move forward. Dear Annie: We are getting tired of people telling us that the use of capital letters in our emails means we are “shout-ing” at them. This idea should be tossed out. We are visually impaired and have friends who have glau-coma, eye cancer and developing cataracts or are post cata-ract surgery, and some of us have macular degeneration in various stages. We are blessed that we can still use our com-puters, but are unable to read the small print of most mes-sages. We need and appreciate the larger capital letters. Please tell your readers to think outside the box before criticizing those of us with limited vision. -- Windows to the Soul Dear Windows: We are sympathetic to your plight, but us-ing all caps looks like shouting to most people. Of course, if that’s the only way you can see the type, by all means continue. However, please know that there are other ways to increase the type size. Try holding CTRL while pressing the plus sign or rolling your mouse wheel forward. Or hit “reply,” and then highlight the text and increase the font size. Your browser may offer other options in the manual or on-line. Dear Annie: Please tell “No Name, No Location” to get in touch with a local Cub Scout or Boy Scout troop for help shoveling snow or cutting their grass. Both groups of scouts are required to perform community service. When I was a Cubmaster, we organized kids to rake leaves for some el-derly residents. Paying it back by volunteering is a win-win. -- Problem Solved

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: $2.50 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.

Animals

DACHSHUNDS puppies. Heath& temperament guaranteed.Parents on premise, $375-$450,(603)539-1603.

GOLDEN Retriever puppies, born12/10/12. First shot, home raised,cat friendly. 2 males, 1 female.$500. Ready 2/4/13. 832-6494

LABRADOR Retriever puppies,AKC, gorgeous litter of out-standing pups. Exceptionalbloodlines, great tempera-ments , inhome ra ised.(603)664-2828.

Announcement

MAKE EXTRA CASH by consign-ing your unwanted furniture andhome decor items. Please call524-1175 or stop in at Too GoodTo Be Threw, 84 Union Avenue,Laconia.

Autos

$_TOP dollar paid for junk cars &trucks. Available 7-days a week.P3�s Towing. 630-3606

1990 Olds V-6 Auto. 138K miles,good shape, $1,495 OBO.630-0957

1994 GMC Sierra 4X4 truck. V6,$1,500/OBO. 1987 ChevySuburban 3/4 Ton 4X4 W/8ft.Plow system. Great yard truck,$1,500/OBO 630-8282 or455-1058

1998 BUICK Riviera- 113K,Excellent condition, green,leather, all options. Salvage title,$2,500. 603-496-5619

2002 Mercury MountaineerPremier 6-cylinder, AWD, loaded,tow package. 7 passenger, greatcondition $5,900. 978-270-2814

2010 Subaru Forester 2.5X,premium, auto, loaded, highwaymiles, full maintenance $14,500.630-4737

BUYING junk cars, trucks & bigtrucks ME & NH. Call for price.Martin Towing. (603)305-4504.

Autos

2010 Toyota Scion XD- Hatch-back, 5-speed, red. Remainder of3 year/36,000 and 5 year/60,000mile warranties, with no transferfees. Power windows/locks,tilt/cruise, ABS and traction con-trol. Pioneer AM/FM/CD/MP3. 30Kmiles, great gas mileage.$ 1 2 , 9 0 0 . 6 0 3 - 7 0 7 - 9 2 2 0evenings/weekends

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

PRE 1972 Classic 4 speed carswanted. Especially convertables.978-771-8818.

VOLKSWAGEN Beetle- 2010,29K miles, yellow, leather interior,immaculate condition, standardshift. $10,950 524-6946

BOATS

KAYAK Wilderness Systems,2002, 15.5 ft., yellow/ green,steering rudder, good condition,$599. 253-6163

OUTBOARD MOTORSwww.outboardrepower.net

Paddle King Paddle Boats,Custom Gheenoe Fishing Boats.Off season pricing. 603-738-2296

WANTED: Boat Dock/Slip onWinnipesaukee, 2013 season, fora 20ft. Century Runabout. Maturecouple, mostly weekday use.Kevin or Karen 802-263-5700

For Rent

APARTMENTS, mobile homes. Ifyou need a rental at a fair price,call DRM Corp. Over 50 years inrentals. We treat you better!524-0348 or visit M-W-F, 12-5, atour new location, 142 Church St.(Behind CVS Pharmacy.)

CENTER HARBOR- Walk tosupermarket/restaurants/water.Water/Mountain views. Newpaint/carpet, etc. 1 or 2 bedrooms,heat Included, from $645/month.No Pets. 603-937-1007

For Rent

BELMONT- 2 Bedrooms,$700 /mon th + u t i l i t i es ,washer/dryer hookup. LACONIA-1 Room Efficiency, utilitiesincluded $500/month. 2 Bedroomsstarting at $800/month +utilities. 3Bedrooms $1000/month +utilities.Call GCE @ 267- 8023

GILFORD : 1 & 2 -bedroom unitsavailable. Heat & electricity in-cluded. From $190/week. Petsconsidered. 556-7098.

LACONIA 1 bedroom apartment.Close to Bartlett Beach. Heat &lights, $175/Week + security &r e f e r e n c e s . N o p e t s .603-528-5940

LACONIA 1st floor 2-3 bedroomapartment on Pleasant St. Walk totown & beaches, recentlyrepainted, carpeting, appliances,full bath. $1,000/Month includesheat & hot water. 524-3892 or630-4771

LACONIA 2-bedroom 2nd floor onProvince St. Clean, sunny, leadsafe. Good neighborhood withprivate parking. Washer/dryeraccess, no pets, $800/Month +utilities. 508-423-0479

For Rent

LACONIA Elegant, large one bed -room in one of Pleasant Street�sfinest Victorian homes. Fireplace,beamed ceilings, lots of naturalwoodwork, washer/dryer. Walk todowntown and beaches. Heat/Hotwater included. $925. 528-6885

LACONIA Waterfront- 2-Bedroomcondo, quiet location, Clean/reno-vated, furnished-optional. Nosmoking/pets. $995/month.603-630-4153.

LACONIA- 1 bedroom home.$850/Month + utilities. $850deposit, available immediately.Call 603-340-0936 No calls after8pm please.

LACONIA- 1 bedroom, utilitiesincluded. $170/Week, no pets.603-781-6294

LACONIA- 2 bedroom house nearLRGH. Includes heat & hot water,washer/dryer, and snow removal.$1,000/Month. No pets/smoking.524-5455

LACONIA- Large 3 bedroom 1stfloor apartment. Newly painted,Washer/dryer. $1,100/Month +utilities. 1 month security depositand lease required. Availablenow. Call 603-524-3759 and leavemessage for application.

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

LACONIA- Nice 1 bedroom. Nopets/no smoking, $130/week plusutilities 387-6810

LACONIA: 2 bedroom, 1st floor.Separate entrance, coin-oplaundry in basement. $230/week,including heat, electric & hotw a t e r . 5 2 4 - 1 2 3 4www.whitemtrentals.com.

LACONIA: 2 bedroom, 2nd floorin duplex building. $225/week,including heat, electric & hotwater. 524-1234,www.whitemtrentals.com.

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

For Rent

LACONIA: Spacious two bed-room apartment for rent. Rent is$702. per month with heat and hotwater included. On-site laundry,storage room and off-street park-ing. Close to pharmacy, schoolsand hospital. Please call Julieat Stewart Property Mgt.(603) 524-6673 EHO.

LACONIA: Very nice 1-bedroomapartment in clean, quiet, down-town building. Recently painted.Nice kitchen and full bath.$175/week, includes heat, hot wa-ter & electricity. 524-3892 or630-4771.

LACONIA: 1st Floor, Large 3BR,2-bath apartment. Deck and park-ing. No pets, no smokers. Securitydeposit, references and leaserequired. $925/month plus utilities.875-2292.

LACONIA: Open 2-bedroom1-bath duplex. Basement w/stor-age, washer/dryer hook-ups. Bigyard, parking. No pets/no smok-ing, $800/Month, + utilities.603-387-6847

LACONIA: Pleasant Street, 1BR,$750. Heat/hot water included, nopets/smoking. 524-5837.

MIDDLE aged Woman to sharehouse. Washer/Dryer, cable TV,New room. $500/Month. 290-2324Call Al

MINUTES from Concord-2-bedroom 1-bath completelyrenovated energy eff icientapartment complex. $795, includ-ing hot water with free WiFi.Secured building access, onsitelaundry and more. Military dis-count available. Convenient Rte3 location in West Franklin!Must See, Ca l l today!603-744-3551

NEW HAMPTON: 2-bedroomapartment. Close to Rt. 93. Heat &Hot water included. $750/mo.279-5577.

NEW HAMPTON: Nice 1-bed-room apartment, sliders to privatedeck, 5 minutes from I-93.$620/month. + security., cat okay.(603)217-0373.

NORTHFIELD: 2BR mobile homeon own land, near Exit 19. Petsconsidered. $695 per month plusutilities. Call 286.4624.

ROOMMATESHome near Tilton/I-93. unfur-nished $115/Week. Furnished$125/Week. Utilities included, Nodrugs or drinking. Smoker/Petokay. 603-286-9628

For Rent

SANBORNTON: Efficiency apart-ment, close to Route 3. Clean,bright, newly painted. Heat &electric included. No smoking/pets. $700/month. Securitydeposit and references required.520-0859.

TILTON, charming Victorian car -riage house weekly or monthlyrentals. $200/wk $800/mo, cable,Wi-Fi, microwave, coffee makerand refrigerator. Call or text603-998-7881 or 603-455-5350 oremail: [email protected]

TILTON: Large room for rentdowntown. $150/week includes allutilities. 603-286-4391.

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

WINNISQUAM: Small efficiencyand a cottage including heat, hotwater, l ights and cable.$175-$225 per week. $500deposit. No pets. 387-3864.

For Rent-Commercial

For Sale

$1000 value Gift certificate IceHotel- Hotel de Glace, QuebecCanada. Feb 8th-9th. For 2 peo-ple, theme suite. Four course din-ner & breakfast at Le Dijon, ac-cess to hot tubs & saunas. Sec-ond night stay Hotel Le ConcordeQ u e b e c . $ 8 5 0 / O B O .603-393-8171

(3) Beveled-Glass Mirrors: Each22”x68” in wooden frame. Can beremoved from frame. $300.393-9418.

22 Cu. Ft. Almond Refrigerator,top freezer $100. LH interior fantop glass door & frame withhardware & keys. $75. 3 stormdoors and 6 storm windows. Callfor sizes/prices. 630-8282 or455-1058

26 inch Troy Built Snow Blower innew condition. $350. 286-8281

AMAZING! Beautiful PillowtopMattress Sets. Twin $199, Full orQueen $249, King $449. Call603-305-9763 See “Furniture” AD.

BOWLING Balls (4), Candlepin,Ram-Pro-Rubber, EPOD 72D,come with bag, used six strings,cost $220, asking $170. 496-8639

Bowling Shoes, Dexter SST8,9-2W, top of the line with inter-changable heels and sliders.Used three times, cost $180, ask-ing $130. 496-8639

CHINA: Lenox Hayworth. Eight5-piece place settings, sugar &creamer, gravy boat, 2 platters, 1serving bowl, 8 extra dessertplates, salt & pepper shakers.$700/OBO 744-6107


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CENTRALNEW HAMPSHIREVNA & HOSPICE

ON-CALL REGISTERED NURSE Week Night or Weekend Night

Overnight position working out of our Wolfeborooffice, providing phone triage for client calls & homevisits for emergent needs. Week night position:Mon.-Thu., 4PM to 8 AM. Or Weekend night:Fri.-Sun. 4PM to 8AM. Both positions offerguaranteed hours and incentive pay. Must be IV andcomputer proficient; training provided to qualifiedcandidate. Reliable transportation, valid NHprofessional license and strong assessment and clinicalskills required. This is a benefits eligible position.

RN WEEKEND COORDINATORWork with referral sources & patients, process intake,schedule staff & manage telehealth protocols for 3 coreprograms during day shift. Must be or willing tobecome IV qualified. Must be skilled with computers,well organized, have strong clinical, communication &customer service skills. Prefer some supervisory exp.

PER DIEM OR PART-TIME RN’SSee one patient at a time, receive paid travel time &mileage reimbursement. Provide home nursing care,promoting client health and teach self-caretechniques.Weekday and Weekend day positionsavailable. Must have excellent verbal/written skills, NHRN license and reliable transportation. We will workaround your other job!

Call 603-524-8444 or send resume:[email protected],

FAX 603-524-8217780 North Main Street, Laconia, NH 03246

web site: centralvna.orgEOE

Town of GilfordP/T Recreation

Program AssistantThe Gilford Parks and Recreation Department islooking for a year round, part-time (averaging 18h/p/w) Recreation Program Assistant. Positionrequires some evening and weekend work. Positionwill assist with the creation, implementation andsupervision of recreation programs as well as supervisedepartment facilities, and volunteers. Qualifiedapplicant should be energetic, have a positive attitudeand a good working knowledge of athletics,recreational activities and facilities. The successfulcandidate will be required to pass a criminalbackground check. Starting pay rate of $11.50-$13.91per hour.

Please send resume and cover letter to:

Gilford Parks and Recreation47 Cherry Valley Road, Gilford, NH 03249

or call 527-4722 for an application.Deadline to apply is

February 22, 2013EOE

DISPATCHERThe Laconia Police Department is seeking applicantsfor full-time Dispatcher. $15.96 to $22.50/HR plusbenefits. Applicants must be a High School graduateor possess a G.E.D. and be able to pass an oralinterview, polygraph exam and extensive backgroundinvestigation. Experience/college education preferred.Resumes accepted at:

LACONIA POLICE DEPARTMENT126 New Salem Street

Laconia, New Hampshire 03246ATTN: Lieutenant Alfred Lessard

Deadline for Applications/Resumes is:Friday, February 15, 2013(603) 524-5257, ext. [email protected]

EOE

CLERICAL POSITIONPER DIEM

Laconia office seeks energetic,organized and flexible admin support for peak periodsand vacation coverage. Microsoft Office skills,multi-line phone coverage and strong customer serviceskills required. Send resume or sumit application to:

Central New Hampshire VNA & Hospice780 N. Main St., Laconia

or e-mail [email protected].

EOE

For Sale

Dry Firewood- 1/2 cord $125, FullCord $225. Cut, split, deliveredLaconia/Gilford. 387-2900

FIESTA Dinnerware: (4) 4-pieceplace settings. Colors: sunflower,tangerine, shamrock, seafoam.Excel lent condi t ion, $75.393-9418.

GREEN floral sofa, like new,barely used! $200. Black traycoffee table, excellent condition$100. 293-8116

JOHNSTONLOGGING FIREWOODCut, Split & Delivered

$200 per cord,Got trees need CA$H?

455-6100

KENMORE Washer: Large, only1 1/2 years old, works very well.$150/best offer. (603)279-5598.

LAMB -RAISED locally. Hormone& antibiotic free. Vacuum packed,frozen. 528-5838

PIANOS: What greater gift to givea child than a piano? Call524-1430.

PRINTER: 3 in 1 Lexmark P4330,used one semester at college,needs ink. $30. 455-3686.

Remodeling- Kitchenaid dish-washer, butcher block top, oldermodel, works beautiful. Entertain-ment center, hardwood 54inX54inwith glass doors, on coasters foreasy moving. Couch withmatching chair. Please ask aboutother furniture. 630-4523

SEASONED Firewood for Sale-Can deliver in Laconia area.$225./Cord 603-387-0147

SET of 4 Mastercraft snow tiresfor Ford Escape, used one sea-son. 23570R16, $300. 387-3083

For Sale

SET of 4 snow tires mounted onaluminum Jeep rims. 235-75-15.$150. Set of 4 snow tires mountedon Ford rims, 205-65-15, $150.630-0957

SMALL Heating Oil Deliveries:No minimum required. Evening-weekend deliveries welcome.Benjamin Oil, LLC. 603-731-5980

SNOWSHOES 2 pairs. Snowcraftwood and traditional bearclaw de-sign, 10” x 36”. 528-1260.

TREADMILLPower Incline, time, speed, dis-tance, calorie counter, safety shut-off. $175. 279-4668.

WALL TILES: Ceramic, Glazed,74 sq. ft., American Olean, 6”x6”,Sandy Ridge (color), $30. Pleasecall 455-3686.

Furniture

AMAZING! Beautiful Queen or Full-sizedMattress/ Box-spring Set.LUXURY-F IRM EuropeanPillow-Top Style. Fabulous Back,Hip and Leg Support, HospitalityA+ Rating! All New FactorySealed with 10-YR Warranty.Compare Cost $1095, SELL$249. Can Delivery and Set-up.603-305-9763

DINING Room Set- Cherry table40X80, six side chairs, smallbuffet, solid wood, original $2,300selling $590. 286-4759

NEW trailer load mattresses....agreat deal! King set complete$395, queen set $249.603-524-1430.

Free

FREE Pickup for your unwanted,useful items. Garages, vehicls, es-tates cleaned out and yardsaleitems. (603)930-5222.

Help Wanted

BOOKKEEPERConstruction Company seeksa full charge bookkeeper tomanage multiple company books.Responsibilities include but notlimited to payroll, accountspayable/receivable as well amonth and year end transactions.Must be a team player and able tomulti-task. Knowledge of QuickBooks Accounting Software andExcel is preferred. Email resumesto [email protected].

THE NUMBER ONERESORT MARKETING

COMPANYin the Lakes Region with aproven track record in growth;is seeking highly motivated,success driven individuals.Potential earnings averagebetween $17-$40 an hour.Daytime and evening shiftsavailable. No experiencenecessary, onsite trainingprovided. Call for applicationinformation:

603-581-2450

EOE

Help Wanted

FULL TIMELEGAL SECRETARYneeded for central NH firm.

Prior personal injuryexperience preferred. Must

have knowledge of MicrosoftWord, Excel law, Outlook andQuickbooks. Candidate mustbe able to follow instructionsconsistent with firm practice,

work independently, transcribelegal documents, preparemonthly reports, answer

phones, order supplies andfile maintenance.

Please Send Resumes To:Laconia Daily Sun

Box A1127 Union Avenue, #1

Laconia, NH 03246

FULL TIME TOW DRIVERMust have clean driving record,medical card and pass a

background check. Call 524-7441

Help Wanted Help Wanted


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Help Wanted

LICENCED Cosmetologist wantedfor small residential salon. Musthave 3+ years experience & someclientele. 527-8980.

MANUFACTURINGPOSITIONS IN LACONIA

& CONCORD

CURRENT OPENINGS ON 1st SHIFT

• CNC Set-up Operator• CNC Programming• CNC Operators

If you have CNC experienceand would like a pay raiseplease contact us to see howwe may be able to find you abetter opportunity.

WILSON EMPLOYMENTNETWORKS, LLC

www.wilsonemployment.com

CALL: 225-7300Or email your resume to;[email protected]

Help Wanted

THE Town of Meredith is currentlylooking to fill positions in ourParks and Recreation Depart-ment; to include: MaintenanceLaborers, Lifeguard/WSI, CampCounselors and Front DeskAssociate. Please visit ourwebsite; www.meredithnh.org forjob description and applicationsubmission requirements. TheTown of Meredith is an EqualOpportunity Employer.

Instruction

GUITAR LESSONSWith Mike Stockbridge- Berklee,UMaine All styles, levels, andages.www.mikestockbridge.com(603)733-9070.

Land

TWO Acres prime deep wateroceanfront. Cleared, soil tested.Driveway in. Location LubecMaine. $75,000 Firm. For moreinformation, call 603-527-2607

Mobile Homes

$37,995 72X14$58,995 52X28

$66,995 38X26 Cape$91,000 Ranch

1,650 sq. ft.

www.CM-H.com Open Daily & Sun.Camelot Homes

Rt. 3 Tilton NH

Motorcycles

Buy • Sell • Tradewww.motoworks.biz

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

Services

CHAIR CANINGSeatweaving. Classes. Supplies.New England Porch Rockers, 10Pleasant Street in downtownLaconia. Open every day at 10,closed Sunday. 603-393-6451.

Services

PIPER ROOFINGQuality Work

Reasonable Rates

Free EstimatesMetal Roofs • Shingle Roofs

Our CustomersDon�t get Soaked!

528-3531Major credit cards accepted

DICK THE HANDYMANAvailable for small and odd jobs,also excavation work, small treeand stump removal and smallroofs! Call for more details. DickMal ta is 603-267-7262 or603-630-0121

Services

DELETED YOUR PHOTOS?We can get them back! Call524-4042.

HANDYMAN FOR SALETravel time $.50 per mile.293-0683

HANDYMAN

SERVICES

Small Jobs AreMy Speciality

Rick Drouin

520-5642 or 744-6277

HARDWOOD FLOORINGDUST FREE SANDING

25 years experience. Excellentreferences. Weiler Building Serv-i c e s 9 8 6 - 4 0 4 5 E m a i l :[email protected]

Housecleaning, reasonable rates,dependable, references. Call Nikki520-4348

Services

MR. JUNKAttics, cellars, garages cleanedout. Free estimate. Insured.455-6296

PROFESSIONALPAINTING

Affordable price. Interiors are myspecialty. Michael Marcotte455-6296

QUALITY Firewood: Seasoned,dry hardwood. Pine or greenavailable. Call for details, compe-tative prices. 393-1708.

SPR Property Services-Miscellaneous & odd projects.Hauling, cleanouts, dump runs,etc. Reasonable. 603-998-6858Shannon

TOTAL FLOOR CARE,TOTAL HOME CARE

Professional Floor sanding,refinishing. Repair: remodeling,painting, cleaning. 603-986-8235

Snowmobiles

1985 Polaris Indy 500. Runs well,new track, boogies, windshield.$700/OBO 630-8282 or 455-1058

Over 40 members of the community are involved in putting on Big River: The Adventures of Huckle-berry Finn which the Winni Players will be performing at the Inter-Lakes Community Auditorium on February 15-17. Included in the cast are Laconia residents David Bownes, Rick Morten, Lissa Mascio, Brett Billings, Lea Mascio, Jim Rogato and Saphaedra Renee. (Courtesy photo)

Winni Players’ production of ‘Big River’ includes cast of more than 40

Awakenings Espresso Cafe features work of local photographer

GILFORD — Gilford photographer Emery Swanson will have a gallery showing of his work at Awakenings Espresso Cafe, 1429 Lakeshore Rd, Gilford, during the month of February.

Swanson is a founding member of the Gilford Clickers photography club, and two years ago formed his own company, which specializes in Landscape and floral photography for businesses and homes. His work features images primarily from the Lakes Region area.

“I joined the Clickers photogra-

phy club for something to do once a month”, says Swanson, “but that has blossomed into an all-consuming pas-sion. After encouragement from my family, Istarted doing art fairs as a way to turn this passion into some extra income. But after doing that, I realized that I get the biggest per-sonal satisfaction from seeing people look at my work and smile. Or listen to them reminisce about going to some of the places in my pictures. I love the stories. I get so charged up when I see that my work has touched someone.”

Program on preventing strokes hosted by Area Committee on Aging on February 8

GILFORD — As February is Healthy Heart Month, on Friday, February 8, the Belknap County Area Commit-tee on Aging will host Mark LeBlanc, RN from HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital to speak about Strokes and Stroke Prevention.

The Belknap County Area Commit-tee on Aging meetings start at 10 a.m, the second Friday of each month.

The committee meets in the Wesley Woods Community Room off Rte. 11A, behind the First United

Methodist Church in Gilford. All are welcome.

For more information contact Stace Dicker-Hendricks at 603-528-2555 or [email protected] or Carrie Chandler at 279-8111 or [email protected].


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Preowned Homes FOR SALE

6 Scenic Drive, Belmont, NH

Office: (603) 267-8182 See our homes at:

www.pinegardens.mhvillage.com

Pine Gardens Manufactured Homes

Lowest Prices Around! • Lots Available

BEAUTIFULLY FINISHED Gambrel style home has 4 BRs, 2 baths, large open kitchen, sun room, wood stove, oversized garage and a deck that surrounds half the house! Around the corner from Gunstock Recreation Area and Lake Winnipesaukee amenities.

$149,900 Dennis Potter 731-3551

MULTI-USE COMMERCIAL. Many capabilities with this recently remodeled unit. New flooring, plumbing, sheet rock, central air, paint & new 3-phase, 400 amp electric. Great reception & office areas w/full kitchen & bath. F or lease at $1,450/month NNN.

$175,000 Scott Knowles 455-7751

NEIGHBORHOOD NEW ENGLANDER. Spacious 4-5 BR home has a screen porch and detached 1-car garage. Lovely wood floors, tin ceilings. Updated kitchen, windows, siding and roof. Charming in-town home on nice corner lot.

$97,500 Jim O’Leary 455-8195

FIRST FLOOR UNIT has been lovingly cared for! 2 large BRs, 2 baths, open concept living area & a carport. Fantastic amenities include In-ground pool, tennis, clubhouse & gym. Make this your primary or vacation home! Minutes away from Meredith, Laconia, shopping, attractions & Winnipesaukee.

$84,900 Chris Kelly 677-2182

NICELY SET BACK FROM THE ROAD. Lovely country home on 7+ acres, yet close to amenities. 3 BRs, 2 baths & a comfortable layout w/an over-sized 2-car garage & expansion possibilities. Eat-in kitchen, 1st floor master, partially finished basement and a back deck overlooking a big back yard.

$214,900 Bronwen Donnelly 630-2776

QUIET CONDO LIVING. Turnkey 3 BR, 3 bath home in a peaceful setting. Spacious and inviting w/a large kitchen with breakfast bar, living room w/FP, family room, & a wonderful deck. Lots of closet space, walk-out basement, hardwood floors, & fresh paint throughout. Must see!

$203,000 Chris Kelly 677-2182

Open HOuses

(603) 528-0088 (603) 279-7046www.RocheRealty.comMLs# 4144804

MLs# 4191193

Open HOuseThe havens aT The summiT

Saturday 2/2 & Sunday 2/3 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

5 Violette Circle, Laconia: Come live where you play at The Havens at the Summit! Unrivaled amenities package including a 25,000 sqft. amenity building with pools, a health club, and more!$439,000 MLS# 4144804

Saturday, February 2nd

11:00am-2:00pm: 17 Coquina Lane, Laconia $172,000 MLS# 4188594 12:00pm-2:00pm: 149 Watson Rd., Gilford $181,500 MLS# 4191193Governor’s Crossing Open HouseSaturday 2/2 from 2:00p.m.–4:00p.m.29 Butternut Lane, Laconia| $269,695 | 412853537 sterling Drive, Laconia | $229,900 | 420879619 sterling Drive, Laconia | $299,900 | 4208793

(603) 528-0088 (603) 279-7046www.RocheRealty.com

Directions: Rte. 3 (Union Ave, Laconia) or Rte. 106 (Parade Rd.) to Elm St., Laconia to Massachusetts Ave. Left on to North St. and then right onto Nature’s View Dr. to 53 Port Way.

53 Port Way, Laconia. Cape II: garage under, 2,374 sqft., 3 BR, family room FP, 3 BA, 12x12’ deck, sun room, and city water and sewer. $249,900.

15 Nature’s View Dr., Laconia. Cape I: 1,919 sqft., 3 BR (master on 1st floor), FP liv. rm., dining room, 12x12’ sun room, 3 BA , deck, and city water and sewer. $269,650

29 Port Way, Laconia. Cape I: Over 2,100 sqft., 3 BR plus bonus room, master BR on 1st floor, FP liv. rm., sun room, dining room, deck, and a 2-car attached garage. $274,300

Nature’s view opeN housesSAT. 2/2: 12 p.m.-3 p.m. & SUN. 2/3: 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

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3 BR Ranch: 1,400 sqft., 2-car garage. From $219,900

145 ft on Lake Winnipesaukee 3700 Finished Living Area, 5 Br, 4 Baths, First Floor Master Suite,

Deep Water Dock, Motivated Seller .

Meredith Lakefront — $1,125,000 603-630-2440

Registration is underway for Lakes Region Flag Football. (Cour-tesy photo)

MEREDITH — The Lakes Region Flag Football League, an NFL-affi liated youth fl ag football league, is open to all boys and girls in the Lakes Region area

between the ages of 4-17. There are fi ve co-ed age divisions: 4-6; 6-8; 9-11; 12-14 and 15-17.

NFL Flag Football is fun, fundamental, fast and safe. Flag football is a completely non-contact sport that offers all the fun and teamwork of football without the risk of injury. Played 5-on-5, the sport requires no helmets or equipment of any kind.

Online registration is easy and can be done right from the comfort of your own home at your conve-nience. Sign-up at: lrffl .com

Registration fee for the Spring 2013 season is $55 before March 1; $60 after March 1. Each player will receive an NFL Flag reversible team jersey and a set of NFL fl ags to keep. Credit card payments are accepted online, and checks are also accepted. Pay-ment is not necessary to the registration process.

Hour-long practices are one night per week and hour-long weekend games in the spring are played at the Inter-Lakes High School turf fi eld.

The LRFFL also offers a women’s spring fl ag foot-ball league and a men’s summer fl ag football league.

E-mail any questions to lrffl @metrocast.net.

Registration underway for fl ag football league

‘Pay Yourself First’ workshop offered at the Family Resource Center in Laconia on Feburary 19

LACONIA — The Family Resource Center of Cen-tral NH with support from the Bank of NH will to host the third of several fi nancial-literacy work-shops. “Pay Yourself First” will be held at the Family Resource Center’s location at 719 North Main Street, Laconia on Tuesday, February 19 from 6-8 p.m.

This free, one-time workshop is for anyone who wants to understand ways to save money and options to save towards large-expense goals, such as tuition, car or home purchase or a vacation. Information on Individual Devel-opment Accounts (IDAs) will also be provided. The class will be facilitated by Karen Wilson from the Bank of NH. Optional dinner is provided at 5:30 and child care/trans-portation is available upon request.

“Pay Yourself First” is based on an evidence-based curriculum titled “Money Smart.” On February 19, participants will learn how to determine goals, rec-ognize investment options that work best, and list ways to save for retirement.

Individuals interested in registering or for more information are welcome to contact the LRCS Family Resource Center at 581-1577 and speak with Erin Klasen or e-mail [email protected]. Attendance certifi cates will be provided to individuals that com-plete the workshop. Save the date for upcoming “Money Smart” workshops held every sixth Tuesday throughout the year: April 16 and June 4

For hundreds of families living in the Lakes Region each year, the Family Resource Center of Central New Hampshire, a program of LRCS, offers respectful, non-judgmental education and support to help families meet basic needs, keep children safe, and make posi-tive connections. The Family Resource Center believes strong families lead to strong communities.

Lakes Region Community Services (LRCS) is a non-profi t, comprehensive family support agency with a focus of providing supports to individuals with developmental

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GREAT CONDITION NEWLY LISTED BEACH RIGHTS

NEWLY LISTED

CONDITION! CONDITION! CONDITION! Spring is coming and we have a beautiful in-ground pool and an outdoor fireplace . Beautiful hardwood floors in the kitchen, dining and living rm. Master bedroom w/bath, 2additional BR’s, lower level family rm w/direct entry from the 2 car garage. A GREAT PRICE AT... $189,000

VILLAGE AT WINNIPESAUKEE CONDO ..right in the heart of Weirs Beach attractions! Two bedroom 2 Bath Garden Unit with a patio and partial lake view. Swimming pool and tennis courts..Affordable!... $77,000

OPECHEE TOWNHOUSE CONDO ..Second floor unit with a BIG Lake Opechee view..Watch the ice skaters from your balcony!! And the swimmers and ducks in summer weather!! Five rms, 2 bedrooms..Walk to schools, track and downtown..Affordable ! $65,000

BEAUTIFUL LAKEWOOD BEACH on Winnisquam is right across from your front door!! There is a permitted in-law apartment or open is up and you’ll have a sprawling 4 bedroom 2 bath Ranch. BIG LR with a brick fireplace, screen porch, deck, wood floors and 1 car garage. LOTS OF UPDATES!! GREAT LOCATION! $199,900

MOUNTAIN VIEW CO-OP IN GILFORD . No age restrictions and pets allowed! Great condition 2 bedrm 2 bath mobile home on a corner lot. Master bedrm has a big walk-in closet, fully appl’d kitchen and laundry. Private deck for summer BBQ’s. Recent updates include new carpet, wood flooring and new furnace. $27,900

VINTAGE FACTORY CONVERSION CONDO.. .Gorgeous top level corner unit with lots of windows!! 1147 SF 2 bedroom unit with windows in both bedrooms! TONS OF NATURAL LIGHT!! 24x13 living rm with built in bookcases, open concept, hardwood floors , granite kitchen and many custom updates. Kayak/canoe racks with access to Winnisquam, workout room and bike storage. $169,000

A GREAT PRICE NEWLY LISTED

E-mail: [email protected] 61 Liscomb Circle, Gilford, NH 03249

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524-6565 Fax: 524-6810

Gilmanton $248,000 Beautifully & meticulously maintained 4 BR

Colonial on a private, landscaped 1.45 acres. w/beach rights. #4134690

Luceen Bouchard 581-2844

Meredith $235,000 Immaculate 2,464 sf Colonial within

walking distance to Waukewan Beach, restaurants & more. #4134703

John Silva 581-2881 and Mary Seeger 581-2880

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32 Whittier Hwy, Center Harbor, NH 03226 • (603) 253-4345 348 Court St, Laconia, NH 03246 • (603) 524-2255

Laconia $145,000 Well maintained & updated 2 BR, 2 BA

condo close to public beach & short drive to all Lakes Region amenities. #4183759

Laurie Samson 581-2862

Belmont $129,900 Lovely updated 3 BR, 2 BA home w/

stainless appliances, new windows, sliders to 12x20 deck leading to great backyard.

#4098769 Pat Bernard 581-2843

Gilford $57,900 Warm, spacious & inviting describe this 2+

BR like new MH in a co-op park. Great location close to skiing & lake. #4213382

Shawn Bailey 581-2835

Gilford $199,900 Nice updated ranch w/ partially finished basement. Updates inc. vinyl siding, roof,

front & rear brick patios. #4137318 Lorraine Bourgault 581-2828

Gilford $164,900 Start building your memories here! 2 BR

cottage in Lakeshore Park! 3,000 of waterfront, 5 beaches, marina & more.

#4212981 Rose Cook 581-2854

Laconia $162,900 Room for everyone is this 5 BR, 2 BA home w/

new roof, windows, bath & updated electric plus large garage & 2 car garage. #4193879

Nancy LeRoy 581-2830 and Kathy McLellan 581-2821

Belmont $225,000 Meticulous home on a private 3.6 acre lot

on a dead-end road. Newer roof, furnace & Anderson Windows. #4213334

Kathy McLellan 581-2821 and Nancy LeRoy 581-2830

Gilford - $219,000 Like new Log Home with bright & open

design & lots of sun. LR/DR with a wall of glass & sliders out to 1 of 2 large decks.

#4212314 Ellen Mulligan: 603-253-4345

Pittsfield $199,900 Nice country setting for this to be built

Cape. Still time to put your own personal touches on this home. #4213426

Reed Heath 581-2822

Bristol - $259,900 Well maintained home on 2+ acres just

around the corner from Newfound Lake. Large open kitchen/dining/living room.

#4213632 Barbara Mylonas: 603-253-4345

Moultonboro - $630,000 A true family compound. 4 bdrms, 3 baths,

2 kitchens, 2 family areas & heated 3 car garage. 140’ quiet waterfront. #4052799

Bill Richards: 603-253-4345

Gilford $619,000 Newly re-built Contemporary Ranch w/

cathedral ceilings, guest cottage & 100’ dock in a protected cove. #4041762

Judy McShane 581-2800

Gilford $377,900 Everything you are looking for is in this great home within walking distance to

private beach & day dock. #4212929 Judy McShane 581-2800

Meredith $2,350,000 This new home has stunning views & desired privacy. At water’s edge enjoy

adorable bunk house, patios & U-shaped. #4193909

Susan Bradley 581-2800

Alton - $915,000 Open concept home on a private lot in a

protected cove. Large deck/dock right over the water. Newly finished LL. #4211862 Ellen Mulligan: 603-253-4345

Gilford - $675,000 Wonderful setting w/end of the road

privacy, level lot & gorgeous sand frontage. 2 homes, 2 car garage, dock & views.

#4212879 Ellen Mulligan: 603-253-4345

Financing Available thru Michelle Ricciuti, NEMoves Mortgage LLC NMLS#281314 (603) 581-2893 cell (781) 956-6899

Valentine block (Courtesy photo)

MOULTONBOROUGH — Old-fashioned Valen-tines will be featured as the February seasonal block for the Country Vil-lage Quilt Guild meeting on February 6 at 1:30 p.m. in the Moultonborough Life Safety building. All levels of sewers are invited to create a Valentine Block, reminiscent of days when a variety of heart shapes and construction paper equaled infinite designs, lacy paper doilies were added and everyone got a tongue depressor full of smelly paste to put it all together.

Now fabric will replace the paper and a fusible web will be used instead

of paste. For more information about the background block and supplies, contact Karen Sticht at 279-5682 or e-mail [email protected].

Old-fashioned Valentines featured at Country Village Quilt Guild meeting

disabilities and/or acquired brain disor-ders and their families.

A dynamic human services organi-zation, LRCS offers other essential and critical services to individuals in

our Greater Lakes Region communi-ties from birth throughout their lifes-pan. At the core of LRCS’ work are inclusion, acceptance, and building strengths and partnerships – at the individual, family or community level.

from preceding page

LACONIA — Laconia Little League registration is now open to residents of Gilford, Belmont and Laconia. Par-ents/Guardians are encouraged to register their children online at www.laconiall.org and then attend one of their in-person registration dates

listed below:February 9, 8 a.m.-noon at the Laco-

nia Community CenterFebruary 21, 6-8 p.m., Laconia Com-

munity CenterFebruary 28, 6-8 p.m., Laconia Com-

munity Center

Laconia Little League registration open


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2010 Cadillac SRX AWD #10280PA

$32,900 2010 Chevy Silverado 1500 LTZ 4x4

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$28,900 2010 Toyota Tacoma 4x4 Crew 4WD

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2012 GMC Canyon SLE1 4x4 Crew #10256PA

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$21,900 2008 Mazda CX-9 AWD

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2009 Chevy Silverado 1500 #13038A

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$15,987 2011 Kia Soul

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$13,900 2009 Dodge Charger

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$12,950 2011 Mitsubishi Lancer

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