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Little ShopOf Horrors0Vol. 7 No. 43 • April 15, 2016

Kicking The Habit. A First Person Account OfBattling & Beating Heroin Addiction. Page 8

An Edition Of The Caledonian-Record

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In This Issue

News BriefsPage 5

ObituariesPage 6

Police LogsPage 6

Get OutPage 10

ClassifiedsPage 15

Three Bethlehem men arrested in Friday’s methamphet-amine bust – the result of a nearly year-long investigation– face felony charges of drug manufacturing that couldland them several years or more behind bars.

See Coverage Page 4

The saga surrounding Northern Pass and the Balsamsreached a new pitch after two members of the North CountryChamber of Commerce board of directors resigned and athird said board members were under duress by Balsams de-velopers when they changed their vote on the project.

See Coverage Page 4

Three In CustodyAfter Meth Lab Bust

Chamber Vote OnNo. Pass Causes Split

What’s Inside

Bobcat Hunting, Trapping Season

Withdrawn Amid Opposition

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — There won’t be a bobcat hunting and trap-ping season this year in New Hampshire, because state hunting regula-tors on Wednesday withdrew a proposal for the hunt amid strongopposition.

The Fish and Game Department released a statement announcing thata hunt that would have awarded 50 permits via lottery was abandonedafter considering the objection by the Joint Legislative Committee onAdministrative Rules. The committee said the state hadn’t gotten theOK from federal regulators who oversee protection of a lynx that sharesthe same habitat.

The department consulted with the Fish and Game Commission,which had approved the return of a limited season after hunting andtrapping was banned in 1989. It had concluded the bobcat populationcould endure a modest hunt of around 80 animals.

But in hearings earlier this year, much of the testimony was in oppo-sition to the season. Critics, including environmental and animal wel-fare groups, questioned the need for the season, the science behind thedecision and whether the commission took into account all of the pub-lic comment.

Many of those groups welcomed the decision Wednesday, since manyblamed hunting for causing the bobcat population to fall at one point toaround 200. Now, the state estimates there are over 1,100 resident adultsand that number doubles to 2,200 in the spring.

Thirty-eight states have bobcat seasons, including Maine, Vermontand Massachusetts.

Littleton players listen to head coach A.J. Bray following a sea-

son opening win at Woodsville on Monday.

On The CoverFYI

Overcoming Addiction

A North Country resident offers an honest, personalstory about heroin addiction – and how they managed toget clean.

See Coverage Page 8

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I’ve got the blues. It’s a dreary rainy day as I’m sitting

down to write this. It has been a drearyweek, actually – the sky full of heavygray clouds for the last few days, andthe cold temperatures and blusterywinds making it feel more like mid-February than mid-April. Mother Na-ture’s been cruel this year. We hadmild, spring-like weather in winter,when everyone wanted snow, and nowthat it is actually spring, and thoughtshave turned to gardening and riding bikes, thetemperature has dropped. At our house, the scoot-ers and hula hoops that came out two weeks agoare back in the garage; the soccer ball we werekicking around is now abandoned and probablyfrozen to the ground under the big pine tree.

A 25 degree day in January? We’d be unzip-ping our coats and rejoicing. But 25 degrees inApril feels bitterly, devastatingly, cold.

The weather’s reflecting my mood, too – ormaybe it is the other way around. Regardless, I’mfeeling melancholy. The kids have been pickingat each other and quarreling, and I’ve been shortwith them. The house needs airing out, I am outof creative ideas for what to make for dinner, andI’m sick of all the clothes in my closet.

It’s official: I’ve got the blues. Now, I don’t mean to be wallowing in my own

misery. I tried to write a different column, oneabout silver linings, positive attitudes and makinglemonades out of lemons. But that felt tired andcliche. Most importantly, it didn’t feel honest.One of the best things about writing is that itguarantees that you are listening to yourself. Thiscolumn, then, is me wondering out loud why Ifelt like I had to write something more upbeat,something sunnier. Why do we often try to avoidor deny sadness?

It’s a fact, I think, that we tend to be uncom-fortable with sadness. Culturally, we don’t do agood job of being sad or acknowledging sadnessin others. In fact, being sad gets a pretty bad rap;it is looked on as something to be avoided orfixed. How to become happier is a popular topic;a quick search on Amazon of “happiness books”yields tons of titles with names like “Happiness:12 Habits of Really Happy People and How TheyCan Work for You.” There are movements andlife coaches and mantras, a veritable happinessindustry, sending us the following message: it isnot OK to be sad! Let’s fix that sadness right up!

Now, I’m all for being happy. Happiness is

fabulous. I’m not advocating for theblues. I do think, though, that there is aplace in life for some sadness once in awhile. Instead of always pushing it tothe side, I want to give my melan-choliness a little room to exist withoutfeeling like it is something that has tobe “fixed.” My sad days are genuineand valid; they have merit and worthof their own, and I’m going to ac-knowledge them as such. They don’toverpower my happy days; I’m not on

the brink of some awful depression. But I’mhuman, and I feel the whole gamut of emotions,and I should be okay with that.

Sadness is an important part of any life. With-out days feeling blue, perhaps I would lose someperspective on what it means to be happy. Per-haps my good times would lose some of their vi-brancy if I didn’t have something with which tocompare them.

Sadness is also important because good cancome from it. We grow through adversity andhardship. My struggle with depression after mystepmom’s death has made me less judgemental(most of the time) and more empathetic. Do Iwish that time never happened? Absolutely yes.Can I acknowledge that I have changed for thebetter in some ways because of those hard times,because of that sadness? Absolutely yes.

So here’s what I’m going to do today when Iget home. I’m going to put on my sweatpants.I’m going to light a fire in the woodstove, putsome water on to boil for tea, and I’m going tocurl up on the couch under a blanket. Maybe I’llread a book that I already know by heart. MaybeI’ll watch old episodes of Little House on thePrairie (which I discovered, by the way, you canrent on Amazon! The complete nine seasons!Talk about happiness!) If my neighbor and goodfriend Meg stops by to borrow a cup of sugar, andasks how I am, I won’t say “fine.”

Instead, maybe I’ll reply “eh, feeling a bitdown in the dumps.” That acknowledgement islike opening a door; after I admit it, then we cantalk about it, and I bet I’ll feel a bit better by thetime she leaves.

Hey, self: it’s OK to have the blues. Amy Lawton is a teacher/librarian over at the

Monroe Consolidated School. More of her writ-ing can be found in the New York Times Mother-lode blog and on her home computer under“future book.” She lives in Easton with her fam-ily.

Community Voices

The Blues

By Amy Lawton

LHS TO SELL OFF SPORTS CHAMPIONSHIP BANNERS

Littleton High School is in the process of fundraising in order to replace the existing State Cham-pionship banners with new ones as we are running out of space. In order to help pay for these ban-ners we are auctioning off the existing banners. You can find a link for the on-line bidding atwww.littletonschools.org. The link will allow you to view the banners and current bids as well as sub-mit a bid to the athletic department. The bidding will be open from April 15 until May 15. If you needassistance or have questions please call Greg Fillion or Judi Hazlett at 444-5186.


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Three Bethlehem Men Taken Into Custody In Meth Bust

BeTHLeHeM — Three Bethlehem men ar-rested in Friday’s methamphetamine bust – theresult of a nearly year-long investigation – facefelony charges of drug manufacturing that couldland them several years or more behind bars.

Taken into custody during a federal, state andlocal police raid Friday afternoon were IanChase, 26; Adam Boucher, 26; and Jamie R.Boucher, 29.

each faces two Class A felony counts each ofmanufacture of methamphetamine and conspir-acy to manufacture methamphetamine.

All three were scheduled for probable causehearings Monday.

The raid involved some 30 law enforcementofficers from the U.S. Drug enforcement Ad-ministration’s New england Field Division Clan-destine Lab Team, N.H. State Police and NHSP’sexplosives disposal unit, and the Bethlehem Po-lice Department after two search warrants wereexecuted at a residence along WhitefieldRoad/Route 116 near the Littleton town line.

In support were the Bethlehem Fire Depart-ment Bethlehem Ambulance.

Several one-pot methamphetamine manufac-turing kits were found on two properties there,Bethlehem Police Chief Michael Ho-Sing-Loy

said Monday.“All the materials used to

make it were right there,” hesaid.

The investigation was alengthy one that began in themiddle part of last year, hesaid.

The search warrants andaffidavits for arrest are cur-rently under seal and policedid not say how muchmethamphetamine was foundand how many manufactur-ing kits there were.

Because of their toxicity,the materials used to makemethamphetamine can be ex-plosive and lethal to first re-sponders without protectivegear, and it took a specialDeA team much of the day toclean up the property Friday,said Ho-Sing-Loy.

“They can be pretty dan-gerous,” he said. “It took awhile to clean up what theyhad there.”

One-pot manufacturingkits are colloquially called

the “shake and bake” method in which solventsand flammables with an igniter such as lithiumbatteries are blended to make methamphetamine.

While larger meth labs in homes were not un-common across the country a decade or moreago, the trend now is to make the drug in one- ortwo-liter bottles in a car, backpack or closet.

In the North Country, where towns are alreadywracked by the heroin and opiate epidemic,methamphetamine is a drug police say is on therise.

In February, for the first time in several years,Littleton Police discovered an abandoned one-

pot methamphetamine kit inside of a backpack.That case remains under investigation and it

appears those responsible might be from out ofthe area, Littleton Police Chief Paul Smith saidMonday.

It doesn’t mean, however, the meth made was-n’t sold to Littleton residents, he said.

Of Friday’s meth bust in Bethlehem, Smithsaid, “We are very happy Bethlehem workedwith different agencies to shut that operationdown. We had been aware of some activity andtheir efforts directly result in the safety of the cit-izens of Littleton.”

By ROBERT BLECHL

Staff Writer

Jamie Boucher

Jamie Boucher

Adam Boucher

The saga surrounding Northern Pass and theBalsams reached a new pitch after two membersof the North Country Chamber of Commerceboard of directors resigned and a third said boardmembers were under duress by Balsams devel-opers when they changed their vote to neutralon the controversial project.

During a series of meetings that ultimately led

to three board votes, Balsams developer LesOtten pressured business leaders and told themto back off on their opposition to Northern Passor the Balsams redevelopment is dead, said for-mer NCCC board member Bob Baker and pre-sent board member Jamie Sayen.

Otten on Tuesday said he never said that andhe asked the chamber board for neutrality onproposed Northern Pass hydroelectric transmis-

Chamber Board’s Northern Pass Vote Causes Split

See Split, Page 7

By ROBERT BLECHL

Staff Writer


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End Could Be Near For Free

Senior Skiing At Cannon

Legislation to eliminate free senior skiing atCannon Mountain cleared the state Senate inMarch and is now poised to pass in the House ofRepresentatives.

The House Resources, Recreation and Devel-opment Committee recommended 17-0 the pass-ing of Senate Bill 441, which ends the currentpolicy offering free mid-week skiing for thoseover age 65.

The House accepted that recommendation by a171-158 vote on April 6. The bill is now in theHouse Ways and Means Committee.

Co-sponsored by state Sen. Jeff Woodburn, D-Dalton, the will would allow the self-funded N.H.Division of Parks and Recreation to set rates forseniors based on market conditions.

Opponents of the bill, including state Rep. BradBailey, R-Monroe, say the state’s seniors havepaid taxes their whole lives and have earned theright to ski for free.

“Are there people over age 65 who can afford topay to ski mid-week at Cannon?” Bailey said in astatement after Wednesday’s vote. “Sure there are.But what about ‘Joe Six-Pack’? The guy whogrew up here, raised his family here, and paid forlift tickets his entire working life. He’s now on So-

cial Security and has no pension.”Bailey said, “Skiing for free at Cannon gets him

outside. It’s good for his physical and mentalhealth. We just punched him in the gut and tookthis away from him - something we’ve given toseniors for decades. I can’t fathom how anyelected official serving North Country constituentscould do this to our senior citizens.”

Supporters of the bill, among them Woodburn,say the state’s self-funded park system cannot sus-tain the free skiing and senior discounts in the fu-ture, when N.H. will have more seniors.

“This is been a long-term process,” Woodburnsaid Wednesday afternoon. “We tried to do this ayear ago and I supported that bill. They’ve nowmade tweaks to it to make it better. The bottomline is our parks system is self-funded, the onlyself-funded park system in the country, and I be-lieve we have to give the tools to run the businessmore effectively.”

The bill would generate a projected $232,800in new revenue. Woodburn predicts it would curbfuture attempts to privatize Cannon Mountain.

While seniors at Cannon are charged the usualski lift fee on weekends, they currently take the liftfor free during the week.

SB 441 would require all seniors who are cur-rently admitted to state parks for free to pay forthe use of ski lifts on weekdays and would elimi-

nate discount coupon fee books during summermonths.

It would, however, allow seniors to qualify forup to two-thirds off the normal skiing price dur-ing the week and one-third off on weekends.

According to 2015 season numbers, 19,840N.H. seniors were granted free admission to stateparks where fees are $4 at standard parks and $5at high-use parks; 1,574 seniors were granted freeadmission to the Flume Gorge in Franconia NotchState Park on weekdays and weekday when theadmission price is $16; and 49 seniors weregranted free admission to Cannon Mountain’s aer-ial tramway on weekday holidays when admissionis $17 in the summer and $59 in the winter.

Residents Not Keen On Nat’l

Guard Helicopter Hangar

WHITeFIeLD - It was a proposal that elicitedconcerns by many at Monday’s public hearing - a15,000-square-foot N.H. Army National Guardhangar at the Mt. Washington Regional Airport tohouse two Blackhawk helicopters and crew fortraining.

The NHNG currently makes flights from Con-cord on the weekends to the White Mountain Na-tional Forest for training, but a hangar closer to the

forest would allow for additional training time,said NHNG Col. David Mikolaities.

About 80 residents turned out at town hall tohear the proposal - conceptual at this point - withsome left standing for lack of chairs.

Of those who spoke, the majority voiced con-cerns about noise and impacts to wildlife and theadjacent 7,000-acre Pondicherry National WildlifeRefuge, impacts to nearby property values, pollu-tion, and that an approval could open up the wayfor more flights and activity in the future.

The town will be the ultimate decider, but it willnot go to a town vote and will instead be the deci-sion of selectmen, said Board of Selectmen Chair-man Wendy Hersom.

The 35-foot high hangar/flight operations cen-ter would facilitate high-altitude training in theWMNF, and in addition to the two helicopters,would accommodate 15 to 20 NHNG personnel,said Mikolaities.

With a current 30-minute flight from Concordto the WMNF and a 30-minute ride back - in allabout two hours of flight travel on a weekend - theNHNG wants to develop a training facility closerto its operations in the White Mountains, he said.

The training would be one weekend a month forsix to eight months out of the year and flightswould occur from about 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. in about

News Briefs

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Patricia Ann FryerPatricia Ann Fryer, 1937-2016, a resident of Littleton, passed away

Sunday, April 3, 2016. Pat was born Feb. 15, 1937, in San Bernardino,California, the daughter of elmer G. and Ber-nice (Briggs) Motschman. A California native,she graduated from Pacific High School. As amember of the FFA, she enjoyed raising calvesand showing them at the county fairs. She mar-ried her high school sweetheart, Richard J.Fryer, on July 16, 1955. She traded in her cowsand Daddy’s hogs for raising children. Theyraised their family in the rural mountain com-munities of California. She was a wonderfulstay-at-home mom, and enjoyed sewing, cook-ing, and other domestic activities. She loved theoutdoors, especially camping, hiking, and fish-ing. She was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and served a mission for the Church with her husband intheir later years in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Pat is survived by her six children, Ann (Ross) Larson, Sarah (Dick)Donovan, elaine (Curt) Gray, Sandy White, Richard (Kellie Ann) Fryer,Grant Fryer, and Jim Fryer, 27 grandchildren, 49 great grandchildren,and 1 great great grandchild. She is also survived by a sister-in-law,Bonnie Motschman. She was preceded in death by her husband; abrother, Fred Motschman; a sister, Shirley Goodman; and a brother-in-law, Robert Goodman.

Funeral services were held on April 11 at the Church of Jesus Christof Latterday Saints, Rte 5 So. in Lyndonville. Interment will be atWheeler Hill Cemetery in Littleton. Services have been entrusted to thecare of Pearsons Funeral Home, Lyndonville.


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RecordPeopleObituaries

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LITTLETONChristopher Manzella, 30, of Littleton was arrested by Sgt.

Gardiner on Union Street at 10:27 p.m. April 1 for acts prohib-ited.

––––––––––––––Erik Reynolds-Mulleavey, 32, of Littleton was arrested by

Officer Barnum and Capt. Tyler on Interstate 93 at 11:49 a.m.April 1 for acts prohibited and indecent exposure and lewdness.

––––––––––––––Eric Rexford, 30, of Littleton was issued a summons by Of-

ficer MacKay on Main Street at 2:24 p.m. March 28 for drivingafter revocation or suspension.

––––––––––––––Jason E. Powell, 28, of Littleton struck parked cars belong-

ing to Laurie J. Vaughan, no age given, of Monroe and SallyC. Ayers, no age given, of Waterford on Green Street at 9:47a.m. March 31. All three vehicles were damaged, Powell wastransported to Littleton Regional Healthcare by Calex Ambu-lance.

––––––––––––––Richard Bergquist, 72, of Berlin and Douglas S. Elkins, 60,

of Littleton were involved in a two-car accident on BethlehemRoad at 12:26 p.m. March 30. Both vehicles were damaged, noinjuries were reported.

––––––––––––––Steffany Sleeper, 33, of Thornton and Joshua M. Riach, 26,

of Littleton were involved in a two-car accident on Main Streetat 1:37 p.m. March 28. Riach’s vehicle was damaged, no injurieswere reported.

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sion line.For several years a staunch opponent of Northern

Pass, the NCCC board, after several meetings withOtten in recent weeks, voted last week to become aneutral intervenor, three months after telling theN.H. Site evaluation Committee it will intervene inopposition.

The April 6 vote caused a split, with Baker, an at-torney from Columbia, and Pittsburg SelectmanSteve ellis, both Northern Pass opponents, resign-ing in protest from the board. Sayen, who remains inthe board, expressed his concerns about the last vote.

In a statement Monday, Baker said, “The boardhad taken a position opposed to the Northern Passproject a couple of years before they asked me tojoin. The board thereafter consistently voted to re-tain that position for my entire tenure until this pastWednesday. In fact, the board voted twice in thedays before Wednesday not to change its position onNorthern Pass even after hearing the Balsams de-velopers claim that they needed the chamber boardto neuter its approach to Northern Pass or theywould not get much-needed financing from North-ern Pass.

“Then last Wednesday we were told by the cham-ber’s senior officers that we had to vote again on theissue because if we didn’t change our views thatvery day, the Balsams project would be dead,” saidBaker. “I could not abide such intimidation and re-signed my position. Fear and greed were the moti-vators used by these developers. These are not newweapons and I can only hope that others up anddown the state will see through such tactics and for-give us our painfully obvious insecurities. Local op-

position to the Northern Pass is still strong in theNorth Country and we will recover from this des-perate move on the part of both sets of developers.”

Otten on Tuesday recounted several meetingswith the board, some he said he initiated and othersto which he was invited.

“I’m for green energy, period,” he told the WhiteMountain Record. “That’s my business. I have lotmore invested in my energy business than I do in theBalsams at this point. So I picked it up at the pointat which I decided there are good business reasonsto be working with Northern Pass and eversource.”

One, there is not enough power to turn on a snowgun at the ski area, but eversource has committedto rebuilding a line through a business deal, saidOtten.

The second reason is with all the mills closed aredeveloped Balsams would be the largest consumerof electricity in the region and it will need to get thatenergy from somewhere, he said.

“There are economic and business decisions thatare bringing our two companies together,” saidOtten. “We started talking last October about analignment that would be good for both of our com-panies. That’s when they made the $2 million in-vestment in our project to demonstrate they arewilling to invest in the North Country.”

During a Northern Pass hearing March 7, Ottentestified in support of the project and its $200 millionForward N.H. fund, which would provide money tomunicipalities and organizations for economic de-velopment if the line is approved. The money wouldbe disbursed in $10 million installments annuallyduring a period of 20 years.

A week after that testimony, Otten reached out tothe board of the NCCC, whose members live andwork in Coos communities that would be impactedby the Northern Pass line. In 2013, the chamber

board went on record in opposition.“I asked them about their positions and why the

chamber is against Northern Pass when there areclearly members of the chamber who for it,” he said.“I asked them why they’re not neutral.”

Otten said all the chamber members aren’t op-posed and the letter sent by the NCCC board to theN.H. Site evaluation committee in December statingopposition was not an opinion of all chamber mem-bers.

except for 7 1/2 miles of buried line in upperCoos County, Northern Pass proposes overheadtowers through Coos and 52 miles of burial aroundthe White Mountain National Forest.

Otten told the White Mountain Record the Bal-sams redevelopment will not be dead if NorthernPass as proposed is not approved and said he didn’ttell the NCCC board the redevelopment would die ifthey continued to oppose Northern Pass.

Sayen saw it differently, and in a statement afterlast week’s vote called the chamber board’s vote “il-legitimate.”

“As a member of the NCCC, I assert that thechamber’s re-re-vote to change its three-year oppo-sition to Northern Pass is illegitimate because it wasmade under duress,” said Sayen. “New Hampshirecourts do not recognize contracts obtained byduress.”

On March 31, the chamber board voted to reaf-firm its opposition, but a week later, on April 6,voted to change its position to neutral after the di-

rectors were told if they did not take a revote thatday to become neutral “the Balsams project is dead,”said Sayen.

Opponents of Northern Pass say eversource en-ergy, its parent company, is trying to buy support foran unpopular project.

Otten declined to say how much the Balsamscould receive from eversource beyond the $2 mil-lion because it would violate a confidentiality agree-ment, but did say there would be “a significantfurther investment.”

He also said the Forward N.H fund would bene-fit other businesses and the region.

“I believe it is the best thing for the North Coun-try for Northern Pass to get built, and the $200 mil-lion will have emphasis in the North Country,” saidOtten. “Somebody needed to stand up and say thisis a good thing.”

While Sayen said the board members should notbe blamed for their vote to go neutral- saying thechamber had a “metaphorical gun to its head” - heminced no words on the Balsams-Northern Passpartnership.

“There never would have been a Chamber re-re-vote if the Northern Pass’ new chief lobbying outfit,formerly known as the Balsams, now more properlycalled NPBalsams, had not badgered, harassed, andmade what I believe were implicit threats to theNorth Country Chamber of Commerce,” he said.

Otten said, “I’m asking for neutrality. I’m not ask-ing anyone to pick sides.”


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Heroin came into my life when I was about 18 and wentto college. It was something that was experimented with,however it was never something that frequently waslooked for on our college campus. We wanted to ace tests,we had goals, we were going to reach those goals andthere was no one or nothing that could stop us. But thatdidn’t mean we couldn’t dabble with something on theside, right?

This is where I tell you that you’re wrong. Those smallintroductions to the drug I knew as ‘Brown’ was slowlygaining ahold of me, and I hadn’t the slightest clue. I usedoccasionally: a line here, a line there, and would go a fewmonths without seeing it. Then it would show its evil headat some house party and I would be reintroduced to thatold friend. every line, every time, every sick moment, Iwas becoming more and more seduced by that devil Iknew as brown.

To understand my situation you have to understandwhere I come from. I am the face of heroin addiction,however I was not the face anyone thought could becomeaddicted to ‘such a stupid drug’. I am the face of ‘it canhappen to anyone’. I am college educated, I come from awell-to-do family, I was a happy child, was given what-ever I wanted, I have an incredible work ethic, I pride my-self in looking good. I AM STILL THe FACe OFHeROIN. I was able to hide under the radar for a longtime because no one believed that I could have been ‘thatperson’.

There were a few levels to my addiction to heroin. Itstarted as fun: a little taste of letting it all go. Then one

night the ‘seduction’ phase came in. I was feeling downand discouraged about my life direction. I wasn’t surewhere I wanted to go in life, I was going through a breakup, and I was desperate for an escape. I went to a houseparty again and my old friend Brown showed his evilhead, and for the first time, he seduced me. The key mo-ment of my addiction was when I thought I needed that es-cape, and Brown was there for me. I forgot my problems,my pains, my fears, my shortcomings. All that matteredwas that focus on my breath.

My next level of addiction came from needing morequantity more frequently, and that’s when intravenous usebegan. However, that was when the overdoses started, theneed for that rush became more urgent and I started tolose my head. I was using almost $5,000 street value aweek, I was going against everything I held sacred to getthe drugs I needed, and I was losing who I was inside. Iwas becoming an addict, and the only way I could iden-tify with people was if they knew my pain as well. I lostwho I was, the only thing I knew about myself was theneed to get high and that girl who had big dreams, wassuccessful, was independent, and was beautiful, now hadbruises all over her, sunken cheeks, lost 30 pounds, could-n’t fit into her clothes, and couldn’t recognize herself inthe mirror. The only two things I held on to was I will notdo sexual favors for drugs, and I will not steal, but any-thing else was fair game.

My downfall was pretty quick, and my ‘rock bottom’wasn’t the same as some of my friends who have been

It’s a story that is becoming all too familiar across New Hampshire,

New England, and the country. It’s killing our daughters, sons,

mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles, and

friends. I’m sure you have already put it together: Heroin. My story

involving addiction is the same yet different than many people

my age, because I am beating it.

ADDICTION: ONE PERSON’S ACCOUNT

See Addiction, Page 9

This first-person account waswritten by a 20-something NewHampshire resident who wasraised in the North Country. Theiridentity has been withheld at theirrequest.

The author was inspired to sharetheir story by the Black Crow Pro-ject (see facing page) in the hopesit can help others in the grips ofaddiction find help and get clean.

Said the author, “I was intro-duced to the [Black Crow Project]when [founder] Erik [Becker]started posting on Facebook aboutwanting to help those fighting ad-diction. At that point I was stillfighting my own demons to allevi-ate the urge to use after gettingout of detox, and he was a hugesupport during that time.”

“Helping him understand why Idid what I did, helped me learnmore about why I was attracted tothe drug in the first place; thereforemaking the necessary changes Ineeded to make in order to kickthat habit.”

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trying to beat this addiction. I woke up one morning to hear afriend had passed away the night before: I had talked to her 10minutes before she was found. I was sitting in my bathroom withmy rig, a spoon, lighter, a gram of brown, water, and a Q-tip cry-ing. I was asking myself why she did such a big shot? Why was-n’t there anyone there with her? Why didn’t I go over? Then it hitme. I am asking all the wrong questions.

I then asked myself: why am I doing this? What is so irrepara-ble in my life that I need to completely numb myself from theworld? How am I solving any problems? Is making myself sickmultiple times a day really helping me be ‘happy’? Am I reallyhappy when I am high? Am I really happy when my friends arestarting to drop like flies? Or go to jail/prison? Ithought about this for a while. I would like to tellyou I didn’t use that day, but the sickness was set-ting in and I did not have the strength. However,I did make a call to a detox center in Massachu-setts. They could take me the next day. I made apromise to myself that I would give this shoteverything I had.

You might ask why I went to Massachusetts.The reality was I would have been dead beforemy name popped up for a treatment center inNew Hampshire. I found my strength that dayand I was not going lose out on the possibilities ofa new life. So I had to pretend to be a transient(homeless) in Massachusetts in order to receivetreatment without a $1,500 deposit. I had an ad-mission time for the next morning at 2 p.m.

This is the not-so-pretty part of addiction: at 10a.m. the next day I woke up in my bathroom. Itwas a disgusting scene. There was vomit, bile,and urine all around me. I was sick with what iscalled ‘cotton fever’. I lost all control of every as-pect of my body. I couldn’t open my eyes, I couldn’t lift my headas I vomited on the floor, and my stomach was contracting sohard I was urinating all over myself. I was picked up and put inthe shower by a friend, who then put me in the car and drove meto the detox clinic. During the 2 hour admission process I cried,I laughed, I started gaining hope.

During my time in detox and during my rehabilitation time, Ihad to start reintroducing myself, to myself. I wasn’t just an ad-dict, I was a person still. I still had interests, they were justclouded by that heroin haze. I had to gain strength to stick up formyself and for others because it’s not quite understood how wecould all be ‘so stupid’. At the same time, I had to be able to bestrong enough not to enable and not to make excuses for peoplewho were using. I had to explain to people that I cannot go tohouse parties because it was a trigger for me. I stopped drinkingfor a long period of time to ensure I didn’t go from one substanceto another. I also had to develop a strong relationship with mydoctor and a therapist because 9 years of heroin use destroyedmy ability to deal with stress. I chose to continue my road with-

out Suboxone or Methadone. I chose to go into my doctor everyother week for a drug test. I chose to go into a program wherethey randomly drug tested us.

At the end of the day, I chose to hold myself accountable. Istopped making excuses, I stopped blaming it on others, I stoppedblaming myself and I stopped hiding from my fears and worries.I owned the fact that I messed up and there was no going back. Iaccepted the stigma and I accepted that this will be a lifelong jour-ney. At this point in time, I have been clean for almost 14 months.I have changed my life and the people in it, I have dealt with hard-ships and have conquered through without heroin. I stepped outof my own way and forced myself to grow up and take on life.

Some may think I am speaking harshly, but I needed to beharsh. I need to tell myself that I deserved more than the easyway out and I needed to live my life to the fullest, and it certainly

wasn’t going to be laying on the couch noddingoff. People need to realize that addicts are stillpeople and need to be loved and supported, butthat doesn’t mean enabled. Tell them they aremessing up, don’t make excuses for them, don’taccept this drug addiction as their downfall. Ifyou accept them as a drug addict, you have ac-cepted their death. You’re going to save themthrough tough love, not coddling.

To the fellow addicts out there who are stillstruggling: find you again. Find what made youhappy before this drug took over your life andmade you a slave to it. You have so much to livefor and to see. If you have a pulse, you have theability to create a beautiful future for yourself. Iknow some days you feel like your life will neverbe anything more than looking for that next fixand running to the bathroom to puke your brainsout, but you are still a person that deserves loveand happiness. You need to start the process bybelieving you deserve more and not allowingyourself to settle for the life of a heroin addict.

Trust when I say my heart is with all of you, and I am in yourcorner, and I believe in you.

To those who don’t understand this addiction: I hope you neverhave to. I hope and pray that you will never have to come closeto understanding the struggle surrounding this.

To those who might run into heroin: run as fast as you can.Heroin is the equivalent to a spouse that lies, that is threateningto take everything away from you if you divorce while they con-stantly break your heart and poison you. For the love of God, justrun away from it.

To those fighting to help addicts: You’re our angels in disguise.The doctors, therapists, police, nurses, paramedics, fire depart-ments, ambulance crew, dispatchers, and activists. You do not getthe recognition needed. Keep doing what you are doing, becauseonce the fog clears, we realize how hard your job is.

To the families and friends of addicts: You’re position is noteasy, if anything it’s the hardest in the situation, but motivate,love, tell them how much they mean to you, remind them of goodtimes, and make them feel human again. The addict has lost them-selves, help them find who they are again.”

AddictionContinued from page 8

The Black Crow Project isseeking to raise awarenessand fight stigma surround-ing the rising heroin/ opiateaddiction epidemic facingNew Hampshire, focusingon the North Country.Through networking, col-lecting and sharing stories,and locating and sharingaccurate information wehope to bring the commu-nity together and inspirepeople to help with thisgrowing issue. Everyone inour communities has a roleto play and something tooffer, they may just not havefound it yet, or know whereto start helping.

We are currently workingon a documentary, featuringcommunity members fromall walks of life: Law en-forcement, healthcare, peo-ple in recovery etc. Ourhope is to really bring theproblem home to people,make it real. To make themaware and hopefully alterpeoples perception of theissue and where it comesfrom, because there is somuch misinformation outthere and a lot of stigma. Ifall goes according to planwe will be finished shootingby the end of the summer,and we hope to be ready toshow it by the end of theyear. “

COMING UP: To raisemoney for their cause, theBlack Crow Project is hostinga community event, Heroinin the North Country, fea-turing a panel discussion,documentary screening andfree Narcan training at theRialto Theatre in Lancaster,N.H. on April 29 and aconcert, Rialtopalooza, fea-turing 12 bands, also at theRialto Theatre on April 30.

About the Black

Crow Project

Is makingmyself sick

multiple times aday really

helping me be‘happy’? Am Ireally happy

when I am high?Am I really

happy when myfriends are

starting to droplike flies?

By Erik BeckerBCP Founder

LITTLeTON – The Upstage Players invites audiences to Lit-tle Shop of Horrors book & lyrics by Howard Ashman and musicby Alen Menken presented at the Littleton Opera House on April15, 16, 22, 23, & 24. A deviously delicious Broadway and Hol-lywood sci-fi smash musical, Little Shop of Horrors has de-voured the hearts of theatre goers for over 30 years. HowardAshman and Alan Menken (Disney’s The Little Mermaid,

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Little Shop is directed by Upstage Artistic Director, AndrewLidestri, with musical direction by Rachel Norton and choreog-raphy by Lidestri & Madalyn Sheehy. The cast will consist ofsome wonderful local talent including Connor MacDonald,Courtney Vashaw, Alyssa Comeau, Naomi Going, Kirstjar Niel-son, Owen Fogg, Brian Butler & Josh Bonilla. There is also awonderful chorus of local talent rounding out the production.Upstage is lucky to be working with an incredible set of AudreyII puppets from Paul McAvene design studios in Las Vegas andthis killer plant is sure to impress. The Opera House has beentransformed into the slums of Skid Row, NYC circa 1958 andyou won’t believe what you find in this little flower shop. A fullpit band orchestra will accompany these voices and bring thesenew orchestrations to life. This is Little Shop as you’ve neverseen it before.

Performances on April 15, 16, 22, & 23 will be at 7:30 pmwith a matinee performance on April 24 at 2pm. Tickets can bepurchased online at www.catamountarts.org/shows/little-shop-of-horrors , at the Littleton area Chamber of Commerce, as wellas at the door.

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The Upstage Players will perform a five-show run of the hit Broadway musical LittleShop of Horrors at the Littleton Opera Housestarting April 15. For more information seestory below.

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Now, Krieger carries on with an all-star band performing a showbilled as an evening of The Doors’ greatest hits.

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four-hour blocks, he said. A fuel truck would also drive up fromConcord on training weekends.

The wind conditions in the WMNF are conducive to real worldconditions, such as Guardsmen deployed to Afghanistan, and couldhelp in search and rescue missions in the WMNF, where secondscount, he said.

The NHNG participates in six to 12 rescue missions annually.The town of Lancaster has an NHNG armory, but no airport and

that is why the NHNG is looking at the existing regional airport inWhitefield, where the hangar property would occupy up to fouracres, he said.

“Bringing us here gets us to the maximum training value,” saidMikolaities.

If approved by selectmen, and if it passes federal environmentalimpact studies, the hangar could be built within two years, saidMikolaities.

River District Grant Application

Passes First Hurdle

LITTLeTON — Things keep looking up for the town’s river dis-trict revitalization project.

A month after voters overwhelmingly approved a $900,000 bondand a few weeks after the N.H. Community Development FinanceAuthority awarded $500,000 in Community Development BlockGrant money, the town has now been informed it passed a hurdle inits $1 million U.S. economic Development grant application.

“The process with the eDA is a two-step application process,”River District Redevelopment Chairman John Hennessey said Mon-day. “The preliminary application is reviewed by an eDA commit-tee and the applications they feel are qualified get invited to apply forthe second round of the application process. We were just notified wewere invited to apply for the second round. That’s good news.”

If the eDA grant is awarded, the project will have nabbed a totalof $2.5 million in just a few months, a sum that would go a longway to completing the total estimated $7.3 million redevelopment.

“We should know by this summer,” Hennessey said of the eDAgrant award.

Along with the town bond and CDFA money, the eDA fundingwould go toward a $2 million two-phase replacement of the sewerand storm water infrastructure along the Saranac Street-Mill Street-Ammonoosuc Street corridor as well as pay for road and sidewalkimprovements.

The second-phase eDA application, to be completed by North-ern Community Investment Corp., is expected to be submitted inabout a month, he said.

The town and river district commission are also working withNorth Country Council to submit, by the end of April, a second fed-eral grant application for $2.6 million to the U.S. Department ofTransportation’s Transportation Investment Generating and econ-omy Recovery program.

Notice of award of TIGeR grants are announced in the autumn.If the eDA and TIGeR grants are both awarded, the river district

project could have just about all of the needed money by the end ofthis year.

Whitefield Residents Plan For Town’s Future

WHITeFIeLD — As a small town advances into its third cen-tury, there is an effort afoot involving dozens of residents looking atwhat they can do outside of town meetings to facilitate economicdevelopment, engage youth, draw awareness to local businesses, andstrengthen the community spirit.

Though the five-committee group has no official name yet - it’scurrently dubbed the “Whitefield project,” said Sam Chase, who isamong those leading the effort - it is drawing interest, and a publicmeeting presenting the suggestions and ideas so far is scheduled forMay 4 at the C.D. McIntyre building.

Ideas include revitalizing the town common, drafting businessesto town, involving residents in community-wide efforts such as towncleanup day May 14 and fun events like field days in summer, andaddressing the buildings along the common that are vacant, he said.

Also being looked at is a comprehensive development guide forbuilding and zoning, a longer-term plan that will take several years.

One group, too, is looking at improving the town’s infrastructure,including its sidewalks, and another tasked with economic develop-ment is also finding ways to get youth involved in their town so theydon’t have to go elsewhere.

The project began last year during discussions about economicdevelopment. Then, Chase began talking with former North Coun-try Council executive Director Christine Frost, who began facilitat-ing the effort that evolved into the five committees.

Whitefield resident Gerry Pons suggested getting the Coos eco-nomic Development Corp. involved, and that agency has now comeon board as facilitator, said Chase.

The initial meeting of the Whitefield project was in November.The last general meeting, in March, drew 70-some residents as wellas local business owners who are involved, he said.

Proponent: Littleton, Monroe Could

Benefit From Vt.-Owned Dams

While no one as yet knows the ultimate impact, a proponent of theidea of the state of Vermont buying TransCanada’s hydroelectricdams along the Connecticut River says it could be a positive for thetowns, including Littleton and Monroe, where those dams are lo-cated.

After the Calgary-based TransCanada Hydro Northeast Inc. an-nounced last month it will be selling its properties in New englandand the Northeast as way to generate more than $7 billion to help fi-nance its planned acquisition of Columbia Pipeline Group Inc., Ver-mont state officials revived the proposal they tried more than adecade ago - submit a bid, create a public power authority and buyup the dams.

“I doubt you would see the adversarial relationship between anauthority and the towns as you’ve seen with TransCanada,” VincentIlluzzi, essex County state prosecutor and retired Vermont state sen-ator who was among those leading the buy effort in 2004, saidThursday.

Foremost in the minds of Littleton town officials and residents iswhat a possible Vermont purchase of the Moore hydroelectric stationand dam, which currently makes up about 25 percent of Littleton’stax base, could mean to the tax base.

TransCanada properties in Littleton were recently assessed at atotal of $208 million, up from the $177 million value TransCanadaand the town agreed to in 2010. That agreement came after years oflitigation that saw the town pay back $6.3 million to TransCanadaafter it lost tax abatement case. The $177 million assessment, afteran initial three-year term, was renewed for another three years in2013.

In terms of taxes, Illuzzi said Vermont would make regular taxpayments or an agreed-on payment in lieu of taxes.

TransCanada said it hopes to sell its properties to the highest bid-der by the end of 2016. The process, however, could take longer.

The Connecticut River dams include the 190-megawatt MooreDam in Littleton and Waterford as well as the 161-megawatt Com-erford Dam and 13-megawatt McIndoe Falls dam in Monroe andBarnet.

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