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Christmas Eve house fi re results in arson charge

As fi refi ghers works to set up ladders and hose lives, smoke billows from a home at 17 Croft Way Monday afternoon. Firefi ghters from a number of surrounding communities including Franklin and Holderness fought the two-alarm blaze. Police charged a 22-year-old man who lived in the home with arson. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Gail Ober)

LACONIA — Police charged a young local man with arson on Christmas Eve for allegedly setting his 17 Croft Way home on fi re earlier that afternoon.

Police said Jordan C. Feaster, 22, of 17 Croft Way admitted setting the fi re to Police Chief Christopher Adams during an investigation begun immediately by

city police and the N.H. Fire Marshal after fi refi ghters from multiple communi-ties extinguished the two-alarm blaze.

Police said after Feaster’s arrest he was taken to Lakes Region General Hospital for an involuntary mental health admis-sion. Charged with arson, he was released on $10,000 personal recognizance bail and given a court date in February 2013.

Laconia Fire Capt. Bob Landry said the

fi re was confi ned to the back of the second fl oor and attic of the home in the South Down Shores/Long Bay community. He said there were bedrooms and a bathroom in that section of the house.

Firefi ghters were alerted to the blaze at 1:16 p.m. December 24 by a neighbor who saw smoke pouring from the eaves.

When fi refi ghters arrived, smoke was see FIRE page 13

BY GAIL OBERTHE LACONIA DAILY SUN

Let the borrower beware: payday & car title loan companies operating only online are escaping state regulatory functions

LACONIA — The experience of a local woman serves as a reminder of the risks of payday and title loans, or borrowing against the next paycheck or a

vehicle title, particularly from fi rms operating exclusively over the Internet.

Not long ago the working woman whose family was faced with eviction took out a payday loan with a company advertising

on the Internet, borrowing $200 for seven days. She was charged $60 for the loan and authorized the company to withdraw the funds from her bank account. However, instead of withdrawing $260 from her account after the

seven days passed, the company “rolled over” her loan, charging a fee of $60 each week for the next fi ve weeks.

When the woman discovered that $300 had been withdrawn

BY MICHAEL KITCHTHE LACONIA DAILY SUN

see LOANS page 13

PLYMOUTH — A new business incuba-tor focused on help-ing small businesses get off the ground or grow to the next level is being viewed as having a tremendous potential impact on the economy of cen-tral New Hampshire, according to those associated with the initiative.

At a ceremony held earlier this month, offi cials of Grafton County, Plymouth

Enterprise Center on the horizon in PlymouthBY MIKE MORTENSEN

FOR THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. holiday retail sales this year grew at the weakest pace since 2008, when the nation was in a deep recession. In 2012, the shopping season was disrupted by bad weather and consumers’ rising uncertainty about the economy.

A report that tracks spending on popu-lar holiday goods, the MasterCard Advi-sors SpendingPulse, said Tuesday that sales in the two months before Christmas increased 0.7 percent, compared with last year. Many analysts had expected holiday

WEBSTER, N.Y. (AP) — An ex-con killed two firefighters with the same caliber and make military-style rifle used in the Con-necticut school massacre after typing a note pledging to burn down his neighbor-hood and “do what I like doing best, kill-ing people,” police said Tuesday as another body, believed to be the gunman’s missing sister, was found.

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CAIRO (AP) — The official approval of Egypt’s disputed, Islamist-backed con-stitution Tuesday held out little hope of stabilizing the country after two years of turmoil and Islamist President Moham-med Morsi may now face a more immedi-ate crisis with the economy falling deeper

BOSTON (AP) — Ben Affleck is taking his name off the list of pos-sible candidates for U.S. Sen. John Kerry’s seat, which would be open if the Democratic senator from Massachusetts is confirmed as secretary of state.

Affleck says in a Monday posting on his Facebook page that while he loves the polit-ical process, he will not be running for public office.

Speculation about the Cambridge, Mass., native rose slightly when he did not com-pletely rule out a Senate bid during an appear-ance on CBS’ Face The Nation on Sunday.

In his Facebook post-ing, Affleck says he would continue working with the Eastern Congo Initiative, a nonprofit organization that helps direct humanitarian aid to the war-torn region, and for other causes.

Affleck says Kerry would make a great sec-retary of state.

Christmas shopping up over 2011, but just a tiny bitsales to grow 3 to 4 percent.

In 2008, sales declined by between 2 per-cent and 4 percent as the financial crisis that crested that fall dragged the economy into recession. Last year, by contrast, retail sales in November and December rose between 4 percent and 5 percent, accord-ing to ShopperTrak, a separate market research firm. A 4 percent increase is con-sidered a healthy season.

Shoppers were buffeted this year by a string of events that made them less likely to spend: Superstorm Sandy and other bad

weather, the distraction of the presidential election and grief about the massacre of schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn. The num-bers also show how Washington’s current budget impasse is trickling down to Main Street and unsettling consumers. If Ameri-cans remain reluctant to spend, analysts say, economic growth could falter next year.

In the end, even steep last-minute discounts weren’t enough to get people into stores, said Marshal Cohen, chief research analyst at the market research firm NPD Inc.

see SHOPPING page 4

New York firemen’s killer left chilling note; sister also deadyears in prison for manslaughter in the 1980 hammer slaying of his grandmother, set his house afire before dawn Christmas Eve before taking a revolver, a shotgun and a semiautomatic rifle to a sniper posi-tion outside, Police Chief Gerald Pickering said.

The death toll rose to three as police revealed that a body believed to be the killer’s 67-year-old sister, Cheryl Spengler,

was found in his fire-ravaged home.Authorities say he sprayed bullets at the

first responders, killing two firefighters and injuring two others who remained hospi-talized Tuesday in stable condition, awake and alert and expected to survive. He then killed himself as seven houses burned on a sliver of land along Lake Ontario.

Police recovered a military-style .223-cal-see KILLER page 10

Ben Affleck says he won’t run for Kerry’s U.S. Senate seat in Mass

Egyptian voters approve new Islamist-backed constitutioninto distress.

In a clear sign of anxiety over the econ-omy, the turbulence of the past month and expected austerity measures ahead have some Egyptians hoarding dollars for fear the currency is about to take a significant turn for the weaker.

The battle over the constitution left Egypt deeply polarized at a time when the government is increasingly cash-strapped. Supporters of the charter campaigned for it on the grounds that it will lead to stabil-ity, improve the grip of Morsi and his allies

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GILFORD — The 2013-2014 School District budget adopted by the Budget Committee last week will likely raise the local school tax rate by 39 cents, said district Business Administrator Scott Isabelle.

The Budget Committee Budget of $24,098,170 will appear on the March ballot. It is $44,445 less than that rec-ommended by the School Board. The default budget is $23,993,713, which is $104,457 less than the budget rec-ommended by the Budget Committee.

The reason for the spike in the tax rate, Isabelle explained to the Budget Committee last week during it’s fi nal deliberation, was because the 2012 rate was offset when the School Board chose to return $824,000 surplus from the 2011-2012 school year to lessen the tax rate that was set earlier this month.

Because, said Isabelle, the projected surplus for this school year, 2012-2013, is $363,000, the amount that will be used to offset the 2013 local school tax rate will be less, making the rate higher.

“If we didn’t want spikes we would have spent the money,” Isabelle told the Budget Committee. “Because we gave it back, we see the spike.”

Isabelle said 31 cents of the pro-jected 2013 increase comes from the difference in the money the district will return at the end of this school year. Eight cents of the projected increase in the rate comes from a drop in the state education adequacy grant contribution that will drop from $4,075,248 in this school year to $3,951,415 in 2013-2014.

Until this year, school districts were not able to keep any of their surplus funds as a general reserve. Superin-tendent Kent told the Budget Com-mittee that the state law permitting a reserve has been enacted but he is not recommending creating a one at the 2012 annual meeting.

Hemingway said the School Board and his administration would like more time to examine the law and determine if it would work for Gilford.

Another discussion held by the Budget Committee last Thursday was whether or not the school should con-tinue to offer full-day kindergarten.

David Horvath, Sr., who said he is not against full-time kindergarten per se but opposes the way the district enacted it after voters in 2005 turned it down, initially made a motion to remove $227,000 from the school budget and put all-day kindergarten

2013-14 school budget Gilford voters will say yay or nay to is $44k less than one recommended by school board

to a vote in the district.The $227,000 was the amount of

money on the 2005 warrant article that initially proposed all-day kinder-garten and it was defeated at annual school meeting.

Budget Committee Kevin Leandro seconded the motion.

School Board Chair Paul Blandford explained the district implemented all-day kindergarten within the budget allocated by the voters. He and Superintendent Kent Hemingway said they accomplished it by taking fi rst-grade remedial reading teachers and adding them to the half-day kin-dergarten team.

Gilford has fi ve session of all-day kindergarten and employs fi ve kin-dergarten teachers and one teaching assistant. Before kindergarten began in 2009-2010, there were 2.5 teachers for kindergarten, one teaching assis-tant and 2 reading recovery teacher.

Isabelle explained that if the district returned to the half-day kindergarten model, the district would save on-half of a full-time employee plus $30,000 to $32,000 for having to pay the bus company for mid-day busing.

Isabelle said with full-day kinder-garten the district has all but elimi-nated the need for the fi rst-grade remedial reading teachers. He said the elimination of the $227,000 would kill both all-day kindergarten and, if kindergarten returned to half-day, he would need the money to re-institute the remedial reading programs in fi rst grade.

He said the combination of going to half-day kindergarten and eliminat-ing one-half of a teacher and adding the busing would cost voters money.

“The voters didn’t say no to all-day kindergarten,” said Isabelle. “At the time they said no to paying for it.”

Horvath allowed that Isabelle made a good argument so he suggested they leave the money alone and simply put a warrant article on the ballot asking the district’s voters if they approve all-day kindergarten.

Leandro wanted to know if the stu-dents had improved academically since the implementation and also reminded Horvath that the Budget Committee only deals with the bottom line budget and cannot put a non-money warrant article on the ballot.

The vote to remove kindergarten and the $227,000 failed with only Horvath and Leandro voting for it.

A public hearing on the Gilford School District Budget will be Janu-ary 8, 2013 at 7 p.m. in the Gilford High School auditorium.

BY GAIL OBERTHE LACONIA DAILY SUN

“A lot of the Christmas spirit was left behind way back in Black Friday weekend,” Cohen said, referring to the traditional retail rush the day after Thanksgiving. “We had one reason after another for consumers to say, ‘I’m going to stick to my list and not go beyond it.’”

Holiday sales are a crucial indica-tor of the economy’s strength. Novem-ber and December account for up to

40 percent of annual sales for many retailers. If those sales don’t material-ize, stores are forced to offer steeper discounts. That’s a boon for shoppers, but it cuts into stores’ profi ts.

Spending by consumers accounts for 70 percent of overall economic activity, so the eight-week period encompassed by the SpendingPulse data is seen as a critical time not just for retailers but for manufacturers, wholesalers and

SHOPPING from page one

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CONCORD (AP) — The deadly shooting of a police chief and wounding of four police officers in a Green-land drug raid was one of New Hampshire’s top news stories in 2012.

Tributes poured in from all over the country for Greenland Police Chief Michael Maloney, 48, who was days from retirement when he was shot once in the head on April 12 as he scrambled to pull his injured colleagues out of the line of fire.

Another big story was the arrest of a traveling medical technician at Exeter Hospital, who was

Greenland chief’s slaying & hepatitis C outbreak in Exeter top N.H. story list for 2012accused of stealing drugs and infecting patients with hepatitis C through contaminated syringes.

Also in the news was a busy election year as the state, in its first-in-the-nation presidential primary, picked Republican Mitt Romney to challenge Presi-dent Barack Obama, said goodbye to popular, four-term Gov. John Lynch, shifted the Legislature from a Republican to a Democratic majority, and became the first state to elect an all-female slate to Congress.

Maloney considered the raid at Cullen Mutrie’s home to be the last bit of police work he had to clear

up. Officers arrived at Mutrie’s house, but Mutrie was ready, opening fire as police tried to gain entry. Mutrie then killed a female companion before turn-ing the gun on himself.

Among the many in uniform attending Maloney’s funeral was Manchester Police Officer Dan Doherty, who had survived multiple gunshot wounds during a March pursuit of a suspect in an unrelated case. He testified against Myles Webster, who recently was convicted of attempted murder. Webster’s law-yers said it was a case of mistaken identity.

Hospital worker David Kwiatkowski pleaded not guilty to multiple federal charges of tampering with a consumer product and illegally obtaining drugs. Until May, he worked as a cardiac technologist at Exeter Hospital, where 32 patients were diagnosed with the same strain of hepatitis C he carries. U.S. Attorney John Kacavas called him a “serial infector.”

Before Exeter, Kwiatkowski worked as a traveling technologist in 18 hospitals in seven states, despite having been fired twice over allegations of drug use and theft.

Thousands of patients in Arizona, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, New York and Penn-sylvania have since been tested for hepatitis C, a blood-borne viral infection that can cause liver dis-ease and chronic health issues. In addition to the New Hampshire patients, six patients Kansas, five in Maryland and one in Pennsylvania have been found to carry the strain Kwiatkowski carries. His case is scheduled to go to trial next October.

companies at every other point along the supply chain.The SpendingPulse data include sales by retailers

in key holiday spending categories such as electron-ics, clothing, jewelry, luxury goods, furniture and other home goods between Oct. 28 and Dec. 24. They include sales across all payment methods, including cards, cash and checks.

It’s the first major snapshot of retail sales during the holiday season through Christmas Eve. A clearer picture will emerge next week as retailers like Macy’s and Target report revenue from stores open for at least a year. That sales measure is widely watched in the retail industry because it excludes revenue from stores that recently opened or closed, which can be volatile.

Despite the weak numbers out Tuesday, retail-ers still have some time to make up lost ground. The final week of December accounts for about 15 percent of the month’s sales, said Michael McNa-

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mara, vice president for research and analysis at MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse. As stores offer steeper discounts to clear some of their unsold inventory, they may be able to soften some of the grim results reflected in Tuesday’s data.

Still, this season’s weak sales could have reper-cussions for 2013, he said. Retailers will make fewer orders to restock their shelves, and discounts will hurt their profitability. Wholesalers, in turn, will buy fewer goods, and orders to factories for con-sumer goods will likely drop in the coming months.

In the run-up to Christmas, analysts blamed the weather and worries about the “fiscal cliff” for putting a damper on shopping. Superstorm Sandy battered the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states in late October. Many in the New York region were left without power, and people farther inland were buried under feet of snow. According to McNamara, the Northeast and mid-Atlantic account for 24 per-cent of U.S. retail sales.

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Pat Buchanan

Our gargantuan welfare state is now permanent

“God put the Republican Party on earth to cut taxes. If they don’t do that, they have no useful function.”

Columnist Robert Novak was speaking of the party that embraced the revolution of Ronald Reagan, who had hung a portrait of Calvin Coolidge in his Cabinet Room and set about cutting income tax rates to 28 percent.

But, to be historically precise, the GOP was not put here to cut taxes. From infancy in the 1850s, its mis-sion was to halt the spread of slav-ery. From 1865 to 1929, it was the party of high tariffs. Mission: Build the nation and protect U.S. industry and the wages of American workers.

And if the Deity commanded the GOP to cut taxes, the party has had an uneven record. Warren Harding and Coolidge cut Woodrow Wilson’s wartime tax rates by two-thirds, but Herbert Hoover nearly tripled the top rate. Under Dwight Eisenhower, when the top tax rate was 91 per-cent, the GOP ratified the New Deal and provided the tax revenue to balance the budget at the elevated levels of spending 20 years of Demo-cratic rule had established.

Richard Nixon followed suit. Medi-care, Medicaid, food stamps, aid to education, the Peace Corps, the arts and humanities endowments, all of the Great Society programs grew — with Nixon adding OSHA, EPA, the Consumer Product Safety Commis-sion and Cancer Institute.

Reagan cut tax rates to 50-year lows, but also accepted new gaso-line and payroll taxes. George H.W. Bush then raised the top rate back to 35 percent.

George W. cut tax rates, but put two wars, prescription drug ben-efits for seniors and No Child Left Behind on the Visa card. Speaker Boehner is about to sign on to higher tax rates.

Point of this recitation: Republi-cans may talk of reducing the size of government, cutting taxes and bal-ancing budgets. But the history of the last century suggests the party has been driven into what may be described as an inexorable long retreat.

When Coolidge left the White House to “Wonder Boy,” as he called Hoover, federal spending was 3 percent of gross national product. Today, it is around 23 percent. Add state, county and municipal govern-ment spending, and we are at 38 percent. Anyone think this figure is going down in our lifetimes?

Can anyone say the GOP, if it is the party of small government and low taxes, has over the past 80 years been a successful party? Or does the America of today look more like the country Socialist Norman Thomas had in mind in 1932?

How, conceivably, can spending go down when, from 2012 to 2030, 75 mil-

lion baby boomers will be retiring and going on Social Security and Medicare at a rate of 10,000 every day?

How can spending go down when a million legal immigrants arrive annu-ally, 85 percent from the Third World, and most lacking the academic and linguistic abilities or the work skills of Americans? These immigrants — and, with “immigration reform,” 11 million to 12 million illegals, as well — will be eligible for welfare, earned income tax credits, food stamps, rent supplements, Medicaid, Head Start, free schooling K-12 with two or three free meals a day at school, Pell Grants and student loans at graduation, job training and unemployment checks for 99 weeks.

Under Bush and Barack Obama both, these programs have exploded. And with 40 percent of all babies now born to single moms in Amer-ica, does anyone believe these pro-grams will shrink?

When the Great Wave of immi-grants came between 1890 and 1920, these programs did not exist. In the 1930s, welfare was seen even by FDR as a temporary necessity to get through the hard times.

Our gargantuan welfare state of today, however, is permanent, as are the millions of government employees who milk and manage it. Consider our largest government expenditures.

They would be, at the national level, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, defense, homeland secu-rity and interest on the debt. At the state and local level, education, transportation — streets, highways, subways — and public safety.

If God put the Republican Party on this earth to cut taxes, how do we do his work in the face of these inexorable forces for increased spending? Do we ignore the surging deficits and soaring debt?

Mitt Romney said cutting tax rates would lead to a balanced budget. But when? The Bush tax cuts never did. His were the larg-est deficits of all, until the coming of Obama.

If we would see our future, we should look to Europe. There, the governments consume more than 40 percent of GDP and, in countries like France, almost 60 percent.

In Europe, the militaries have been hollowed out. Political parties face repudiation. Taxes in France have hit 75 percent. The wealthy flee. Pension promises are reneged upon. Government salaries are cut; employees laid off. Unemployment is astronomical for the young. The divisions deepen; the protests grow. Now, Europe’s banks, fearing social unrest, have started to emulate the Fed and buy up regime debt.

Looking at the West over the last century, the arc of history bends toward socialism and insolvency.

LETTERSGuns are designed & manufactured to kill, a stimulus incentiveTo the editor,

They say guns don’t kill. People Kill. Correct! Well! Sort of! Guns are designed to kill!

The presence of a gun creates a stimulus incentive!

Many people do not snack between meals. Except, the presence of a sticky muffin at home or at work cries out “Pick me up! Eat me. Don’t you want to eat me! Pick me up. Eat me!” This captures the notion and power of a STIMULUS INCENTIVE..

A gun is a stimulus incentive. A super gun is a super stimulus incentive.

Cool cars are stimulus incentives. “Just touch me. Just get in me. Just get behind the wheel. Get your hands on it; see how it feels!. Just drive me around the block”

A velvet martini is also a stimulus incentive. Why not another, and a third for lunch?

(Of course most stimulus incentives are not specifically designed to kill people.Guns are designed and manu-factured to kill.)

Many people believe that the gun lobby have our congressional repre-sentatives under their financial and electoral thumbs. Do our representa-tives mind that this is a moral issue? Seems that getting elected is a higher priority. Just got to get re-elected!

So, “Just don’t bother me, ‘cause I can’t cope.!” I’m just an ignorant coun-try dad, granddad, great granddad, and uncle to all the local kids.

Peter BaldwinLower Gilmanton

President Obama is out in Hawaii looking for the ‘Fiscal Cliff’To the editor,

I have been studying all of my maps of Hawaii and I cannot locate this “Fiscal Cliff” on any geographical map. I believe that if this is such an important place to be then our presi-dent should have stuck around and actually presented a form of a budget compromise plan.

I did not vote for Barack Obama, Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi, so why are these people holding all of the rest of us HOSTAGE? If I turn down the incessant noise of President Obama’s constant speaking and just evaluate

his actions, it is quite apparent that he would rather appease and please the Muslim Brotherhood and his cam-paign donors (the real one-percenters) than work to help American manufac-turing and the American people, not to forget how he poorly approaches the importance of protecting and sup-porting our wonderful military forces. If we go over this Fiscal Cliff we will ALL suffer big tax increases. Call your present and future Congressmen.

Aloha!Tracy TramontanoGilford

Thanks to lots of help, Trinity Church was able to deliver 281 coatsTo the editor,

The third year of our Tilton, North-field, Sanbornton, Franklin Coat Drive was a great success! Because of your kindness many will be warm this winter. With the help of the One Warm Coat nonprofit, the sites that allowed us to place collection boxes, the news media, including 94.1 FM, and the generosity of the greater com-munity, Trinity Episcopal Church in Tilton was able to deliver 281 coats and 235 other winter items, includ-ing hand knitted mittens, scarfs, and hats to our area Community Action Program. The folks at CAP were very

happy to get these items and will be moving them out into the community to keep many warm this winter.

We want to especially thank the places that sacrificed valuable space, welcomed our collection boxes, and without whom our drive would have been severely limited. They were Grand Ma Judy’s, Hannaford’s, Market Basket, Franklin City Hall, Tilton Town Hall, Pines Community Center, The N. H. Veterans Home, Sanbornton Church, and Hall Memo-rial Library.

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LETTERSThose of us in the trenches know the value of vaccination To the editor,

To Russ Wiles: my challenge was simple prove your point that chiro-practic care improves the immune system.

You call me disingenuous, however in your letter you never mention Dr. Pero’s research. The main point of my challenge.

You wonder why I did not challenge you on your comments on the fl u vac-cine. The same reason I do not correct every child on their beliefs about the tooth fairy, Santa clause or the Easter Bunny, most people understand the importance of it, and routinely get it. You have your beliefs, as wrong as they are, and I know I am not going to change them. I did choose to challenge you on your statement regarding chiro-practic manipulation and the immune system because those misguided and fraudulent claims do impact people in general. This is not the fi rst time you have attacked me and my offi ce on this issue. You wrote a letter a few years back titled “I’m living proof, “in which you made a similar claim. In your letter you claim that there is a tremendous amount of anecdotal evi-dence proving your point. Do you even know the defi nition of anecdotal? Let me help you, anecdotal means “Not necessarily true or reliable, because based on personal accounts rather than facts or research”. Russ, I am wondering what is your academic or science background that allows you to come to the conclusion that anecdotal evidence should be proof positive and those of us in the medical fi eld should accept it because you say so? I guess my 32 years in the health care fi eld including two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa in TB con-trol, 10 years in pediatric intensive care medicine, six months working on the Pakistan/Afghanistan border training Afghan freedom fi ghters as medics during which I was the medi-cal coordinator for a CIA run opera-tion as part of “Charlie Wilson’s War” does not qualify me to have a science-based opinion that anecdotal evidence is total BS?

You say that “every health care professional is duty bound to present patients with the best of care which should include complementary/inte-grative medicine”. Once again your wrong, Russ. Patient care is based on science based medicine or as we call evidence based medicine. To do other-wise would be malpractice.

FACT: Prior to 1995, when the wide spread use of the chicken pox vaccine was started, an estimated 4,000,000 cases a year were reported and of those 10,500 to 13,000 children were hospitalized and between 100-150 deaths occurred each

year. Since the use of this vaccine we have seen a 90 percent drop in cases and a 97 percent drop in deaths in children and adolescents. A recent article in Pediatrics: published on line July, 25 2011, is titled NEAR ELIMINATION OF VARICELLA DEATHS IN THE U.S. AFTER IMPLE-MENTATION OF THE VACCINATION PROGRAM. The authors conclusion, “The impressive decline in varicella deaths can be directly attributed to suc-cessful implementation of the one dose vaccination program. With the current two dose program there is potential that these most severe outcomes of a vaccine preventable disease could be eliminated.

FACT: The use of haemophlus infl u-enza infections dropped from 40-100 cases per 100,000 population to 1.3/100,000 cases. The effi cacy of this vaccine is in the 95-100 range and the incidence of H fl u infections have dropped 99 percent. Against this data you want to me to consider “anecdotal “ chiropractic evidence. Have you ever seen a case of invasive H Flu infec-tion it is especially impressive when it involves the epiglottis. That is the little piece of tissue that protects your wind pipe, you see the classic case of this is a young child who is sitting for-ward, drooling, and extremely fearful. You see the child knows any move-ment, any startle can cause them to completely block off their airway. Watching the seconds tick off as you are trying to assemble your team to try a save this child are the longest seconds I have ever been involved with. I never want another parent or child to experience that.

FACT: The MMR vaccine — within the fi rst 20 years of the wide spread use of this vaccine in the U.S. it is estimated that it prevented 52,000,000 cases of measles, preventing 5,000 deaths. A study by WHO and UNICEF estimated that in a fi ve year period from 1999-2004, 1.4 million deaths were prevented from worldwide use of this vaccine.

FACT: Four billion people who do not have to worry about small pox and the near eradication of polio through aggressive vaccination campaigns. Against this you want me to consider the anecdotal evidence you provided, regarding the improvement in the immune system following chiropractic manipulation. Give me a break. Not only are you arrogant Russ, your igno-rant. This is how we practice medicine in the 21st century.

You ask the question why am I so against chiropractic care? You do not know me well; I do refer to chiroprac-tors who recognize their limitations within the musculor/skeleton system. Anybody who goes outside that system, in my eyes, are quacks and

frauds. And those who blindly and without signifi cant supporting evi-dence (peer reviewed not “anecdotal”) and who then become apologists for them are idiots.

Is there an issue between the medi-cal and chiropractic professions? You bet your life there is. I will defer to Dr. Thomas Ballantine, a much more learned and educated physician . He was on staff at Harvard Medical School as a neurosurgeon and this is what he had to say: “The confrontation between medicine and chiropractic is not a struggle between two profes-sions. Rather it is more in the nature of an effort by an informed group individuals to protect the public from fraudulent health claims and prac-tices”. I am proud of my attempts to demean frauds and quacks who prey on the uninformed. I am proud to be in the informed group.”

And fi nally, you really confuse me when you say that I should enter the 21 st century in my practice of medi-cine. And yet you seem to want me to incorporate the 19th century tech-niques of chiropractic manipulation, which have never been scientifi cally proven. In fact the father of Chiroprac-tic Medicine, D.D. Palmer, is widely considered one of the greatest medical frauds of the last century, and inter-estingly his theories have never been proven even after 115 years of prac-tice. This whole subluxation theory is just that, a theory.

And in closing, you want to know what really gets my goat? People like you and Moneysmith who sit on their high horses and think they have all the answers. You pontifi cate in your long letters, never saying anything of importance, you present misinforma-tion as proof positive and when asked to support your claims you are unable to do so. You, as my son would say , are a poser. Have you or Moneysmith ever gotten your hands blooded or dirty, taking care of real patients? Have you ever had to witness the helplessness

in the eyes of a village of mothers in West Africa whose children were dev-astated by a measles outbreak? Have you ever had to console a mother whose 13-year-old son, went to school with just a small fever and cold and ends up dead from invasive haemo-phlus disease? Or the fear in the eyes of a young couple when you have to tell them that this same bacteria has caused meningitis and caused so much damage that the child will be lucky to be able to feed itself and probable will be unable to walk on his own? Have you or Moneysmith ever had to tell the young girl that when she returns from surgery her legs will be gone, to try and save her life from the menin-gococcemia bacteria which is ravag-ing her body? I have and many others health care providers know only too well stories like these.

So get off of your high horse Russ, these today, are diseases prevented by vaccines. Those of us in the trenches day in and day out know the true value of vaccinations. Vaccines have done more for the health of millions, no bil-lions of people than quacks with their anecdotal evidence can ever imagine.

FACT: In the history of Nobel Prize winners in medicine, a few MDs have won for their work in vaccines and the immune system. Nope Russ, no chiro-practors have ever won. I guess that demonstrates bias by the Nobel com-mittee. I guess the committee agrees with me that as you put it, “the heal-ing afforded to untold millions is noth-ing but a great big lie”. Yes it is.

Russ, by responding it appears you accepted my bet. Your letter did not even address the main issue, being Pero’s research, and that which you choose to present is woefully lacking in substantial medical facts. There is no dishonor in admitting your wrong , but there is if you accept a bet and refuse to pay up upon losing.

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LETTERSChoice is between liberty with order & anarchy without eitherTo the editor,

As the nation re-engages with the gun-control debate in the aftermath of Sandy Hook, we might want to spend a few minutes considering the basic nature of our Constitution and the implications of our assessment.

Is the Constitution steadfast, invio-late and prescriptive? If the answer is yes, Congress probably has three choices: (1) follow it to the letter, (2) follow it according to original mean-ing or (3) amend it.

Advocates of this approach are “strict constructionists.” They argue lawmakers have few prerogatives. If the Constitution does not specifi cally bestow a power, Congress does not have it. The result would be a small, domestically enfeebled national gov-ernment. Such a government is con-sistent with Tea Party goals and with many goals espoused by moderate conservatives.

There is, of course, another school: “broad constructionists.” From their perspective, the Constitution is a living document. The judiciary should interpret it in the context of the times.

They say the Constitution instills lawmakers with implied powers. The so-called “elastic clause” (article 1, sec-tion 8, clause 18) says Congress can enact any law “necessary and proper” to implement the Constitution.

Broad constructionists believe law-makers must exercise implied powers in pursuit of “a more perfect union.” The result would be a national gov-ernment able to control and shape events. That kind of government embodies progressive goals. Some lib-erals go further, advocating programs to coerce individual behaviors.

The contrast is striking. Strict con-structionists are saying government has no business “interfering” in the lives of its citizens. Broad construc-tionists are saying government has a duty to “intervene.”

The argument is as old as our union. Thomas Jefferson, a strict construction-ist, struggled unceasingly with Alexan-der Hamilton, a broad constructionist, over the role of government.

Jefferson preached the federal government should leave the people alone and to their own devices. Power belonged to the people and the states. Minimal taxation was the ideal.

Hamilton, on the other hand, drove the federal government to transform a nation of farmers into an economic colossus. He advocated for a federal banking system, road building and general infrastructure investment. The Constitution enumerates none of that.

It was then as it is today, extremely divisive. The Electoral College elected George Washington president with 100 percent of the vote. Within a few years, however, the strict versus broad debate ripped unanimity asunder and split the electorate into two political parties. Jefferson led one party, the Democratic-Republicans. Hamilton led the other, the Federalists.

To drive the extent of the divineness home, remember Aaron Burr was Jef-ferson’s vice president when he killed Hamilton in a duel.

In our time, the right to privacy was probably the most far-reaching success of broad constructionism.

The word “privacy” does not appear in the Constitution. Yet, in 1973 (Roe v Wade), the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) invalidated most laws restricting abortion. The court based its decision largely on a woman’s Constitutional right to pri-vacy. The decision ignited culture wars that have strained our civility and unity for 40 years. If the 2012 political campaigns are the measure, culture wars are intensifying as they enter their fi fth decade.

Even as culture wars escalate, how-ever, gun control threatens to replace privacy on the scale of far-reaching.

On the surface, the language of the Second Amendment appears clear: The government “shall not infringe” the people’s right to bear arms; that is, government cannot restrict the right.

For most of our history, prohibitions against infringement applied only to the federal government not state or local governments. Also for most of our history, SCOTUS had little to say about the Second Amendment. For over 200 years, there just was not much controversy requiring adjudica-tion at that level.

In 1897 (Robertson v Baldwin), the court ruled states could regulate concealed weapons. In 1939 (United States v Miller), SCOTUS allowed the feds to outlaw certain fi rearms and prohibit interstate transportation of unregistered weaponry.

Recently, however, SCOTUS has shredded any thoughts it might treat Second Amendment issues as set-tled. In 2008 (District of Columbia v Heller), the court ruled the right to bear arms is an individual right; that is, people do not have to be members of state militias or any other groups to exercise their rights to bear arms. In 2010 (McDonald v Chicago), the court said the ban on infringement applies to state and local governments as it applies to the national government.

If, as now seems likely, the govern-ment moves to outlaw certain weap-ons, restrict the size of magazine clips, limited an individual’s arsenal, require extensive background checks on buyers across the board and/or confi scate (or buy back) the millions of weapons that would no longer be legal, how will SCOTUS react? More importantly, how will the nation receive that reaction?

Presidents nominated four of the nine current justices (Samuel Alito, John Roberts, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas) precisely because they had strong, strict construction-ist credentials. A fi fth (Anthony Ken-nedy) is a staunch conservative. While he may side with the so-called liberal wing of the court on occasion, no one should mistake him for a broad con-structionist. In other words, this court may not allow gun-control legislation enacted in the wake of Sandy Hook to survive Constitutional muster.

What then?Does the nation turn its schools and

public buildings into armed menager-ies waiting for a spark? Does it allow cities to continue replicating Shiloh and Gettysburg in slow motion? Alter-natively, does it refuse the violence and pluck something wholesale out of the Bill or Rights?

In 1949, Justice Robert Jackson, dissenting in a First Amendment case (Terminiello v City of Chicago), may have captured the essence of issues now percolating with the Second Amendment. He wrote, “This court has gone far toward accepting the doctrine that civil liberty means the removal of all restraints from these crowds and that all local attempts to maintain order are impairments of

the liberty of the citizen. The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anar-chy without either. There is danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practi-cal wisdom, it will convert the consti-tutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.”

Robert MoranMeredith

I’m quite capable of determining what food I will consumeTo the editor,

I am not a Democrat, liberal, Republi-can, left or right winger. I am an Ameri-can who over the past 60 years has seen individual freedoms stripped from us, in the name of what’s good for us.

I recently read about a well-known bakery in the town I grew up in, Chel-sea, MA, being hounded by the gov-ernment, because of trans fat. When I drove a taxi back in the 70s, this bakery was a godsend being open at late hours of the night. I wasn’t under the illusion that I was purchasing health food, but having a pizza bagel at 11 p.m. hit the spot and kept me going. It seems now the good citizens of the Chelsea area (and soon other areas) will be denied their special treats, thanks to mother government.

To all our federal, state, and local offi cials, please get out of the kitchen. You were not elected to be our dieti-tians. Before you ban trans fats from our diets, shouldn’t you ban real kill-ers like tobacco and alcohol? (Oh right, you’ve solved those health prob-

lems by putting a “sin” tax on them.) Maybe you can solve this new health problem with a “fat” tax (to be politi-cally correct you can call it a “trans challenged” tax.)

How about protecting us from things we have no control over, like banning motorists from using hand held cell phones or worse, texting. We can choose what we eat, but we can’t choose whether or not we will have an encounter with a distracted driver.

I am and always have been quite capable deciding what foods I will or will not consume or how much soda to drink. To all food establishment owners, please stand up and do not let the government dictate what you can serve or what your customers can eat or not eat. This is or was American, home of the free!

To our representatives in govern-ment, please cut the “fat” and stick to issues that really need legislative intervention.

Dennis RobitailleLaconia

In 2008, Bush carried Ohio by 160,000 votes & claimed mandateTo the editor,

Letters written by Peter Baldwin and L.J.Siden (Dec. 22) were right on target.

I am writing in reference to a letter written by Steve Earle on Dec. 14. Steve fi rst mentioned Eric Shirley, who was my neighbor years ago at the Gilford fl ea market. We always had some different opinions, however we had one thing in common, we both are military retired. Steve writes that President Obama did not win by a mandate, even though he won by over three million votes. To contradict that, Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the state of Florida by a question-able 578 to President Bush, with help from his brother, Gov. Jeb Bush and other corrupt state offi cials. A month later,the Supreme Court SELECTED President Bush. In the next elec-tion Pres Bush beat Sen. John Kerry by 160,000 votes in Ohio. One of the fi rst things he said was he won by a mandate and had political capital to spend. During his presidency he went from from a balanced budget to a 10 trillion dollar debt. What do you con-sider a MANDATE, Mr. Earle?

While I won’t say the Fox News people are liars, they have contribu-tors who are bald faced liars. In a interview on Nov. 5, Sarah Palin’s pig with lipstick, hog jawed Dick Morris,

stated that Romney would win by 7 to 10 percent of the vote and would win 300 to 330 electoral votes.The follow-ing night on Fox News, Mr. Rove had foam running out his mouth and his nose was running and I swear his hair started to grow when the network declared that President Obama had won Ohio before all votes were in. Do you remember that Mr. Earle? Your party is washed up. The left-wingers won the national vote by a land slide. The state of N.H. threw the whole lot of you under the bus except for the state Senate.The right wing nuts in Congress will do nothing to help the president because they are owned by the NRA and Grover Norquist, the no tax increases man. When Presi-dent Obama took offi ce, he recieved a nation with a 10 trillion dollar debt, a 7.9 percent unemployment prob-lem and a nation losing 700,000 jobs a month. I don’t always agree with things he’s done but over all we are much better off.

I want you to reread your letter and you will see why no one responds to your lies.

I got one thing to say to all the nit-pickers in this letter, if you don’t like this country, leave it. (Merle Haggard)

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We must draw back from seeing ammo-releasing as a solutionTo the editor,

What Mr. “NRA” LaPierre keeps getting quoted on, since his press con-ference, is, “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” When a good guy with a gun came upon the scene of Congress-woman Giffords’ shooting, he nearly drew on a bystander who was hold-ing down the shooter. That looked like a bad guy to him, fast assessment. A good guy with a gun coming along can extend the emptying of weapons’ ammo. More chance for struck or dead bystanders.

What comes to mind is that in the wide world, the reasoning LaPierre uses is precisely the one that keeps our military spending rising way beyond the spending of all the rest of the world combined. The U.S. spends insanely into huge debt on our military (while other

needs are neglected), so we can be the good guy with the gun coming along to take out the bad guy with the gun. We are the NRA to the rest of the world. No wonder LaPierre doesn’t see his reason-ing as laughable.

Really, for the cultural change we need, post Sandy Hook Elemen-tary’s victims, we must draw back from ammo-releasing and fighting as solution to problems. Exploration of options is needed. How else can we get to peace without obliteration being the result of our “helping”? I look for leadership that thinks this through and breaks the mold that gets us perpetual and costly war and war readiness. Everyday and non-stop war, sadly, accustoms us to death and murder. This can and must change.

Lynn Rudmin ChongSanbornton

Why are Republicans in D.C. trying to convince us that they won?To the editor,

Thank you for publishing James Edgar’s recent letter. We are so tired of the long ideological rants of Mr. Boutin and Mr. Earle nearly every day that a letter so well written and succinctly defining the issues inside the Republi-can Party is finally refreshing. James just nails it as so many of us were turned off by these phony conservatives as to recently cast our votes for pixie dust. I still have the private money PAC glossy from “Retire Safe”, urging us to support Frank Guinta for his supports for Medi-care Rx-D. Frank running on a platform

promising NO! SHARED SACRIFICE on entitlements but to protect all over age 55 from any entitlement cuts. Pat Buchanan predicting Romney to lose the election in his column of the last week in August, as Romney brazenly campaigned for INCREASED military spending, mostly for what Mr. Edgar describes as “weapons systems... and bases in every country in the world”.

Who are these Republicans in Wash-ington trying to delude us this time into accepting their delusion that they somehow won the last election? The rest of the top earning 20 percent of

Americans who are mostly truly in the middle class are going to have their tax cuts sacrificed to sustain the cuts for the top 2 percent? The end of the pay-roll tax for the rest is not a tax hike on them as well as on “the 47 percent”? The new leadership of the Republican Party must be embodied in what Chris Christie spoke to in his RNC keynote speech: “It’s been easy for our leaders to say not us, AND NOT NOW, in taking on the tough issues. And we’ve stood silently by and let them get away with it. We must ALL SHARE in the sacri-fice. Any leader who tells us differently is simply not telling the truth.”

Frank tried to get elected with out telling us the truth. The truth is that those entitlements he and his big money PACs were telling us he would pro-tect are now one of the main obstacles to getting a compromise to extend the existing tax structures. It is however the Republican CAUCUS that wants deeper cuts to entitlements than the victorious president is willing to con-template at this time! I would not vote for either pandering politician in this past election for D-1 Congressman. So Mr. Edgar is right about the Republican I previously supported with my vote. Just business, my vote went to Tony Soprano. Frank and Charlie had their chance to get the significant spend-ing cuts we desperately need in what Congress appropriates and spends. But they voted for the debt ceiling to be increased instead, when they had the power to get those spending cuts accom-plished by voting “NO!” on a higher debt ceiling. Now the electorate has spoken.

One group for protecting their social safety net for everyone not just the over 55s. The other deserting the Republi-can spineless political hacks like Bass, who gave us Medicare Rx-D, then said the $65 billion annual funding of it was part of the Medicare Trust Fund and in the last election said to me, “Entitle-ments need to be addressed”, after he voted for an extension of the debt ceil-ing with Frank. Still another group... the big money PACs that ensured the nomination of the Prince of the Plutoc-racy, who pledged ever more military spending and then the PACs that out-spent the Republican PACs to get the president re-elected. They were all just exercising their 1st Amendment rights, buying the primary and election out-comes? Now the president holds all the cards on this tax extension and spend-ing prioritization debate. Too bad for the “Bonehead” that the president may after four years of selling out his core constituencies, finally show that he has more spine than the Republican caucus. All the president needs do to get what he wants is nothing. “Sometimes noth-ing is a pretty cool hand”! After the New Year, the tax breaks for those 2 percent are gone and the debate will be forced to focus on what can be salvaged for the other 98 percent.

All this fuss over less than $2 trillion in reductions to the deficit spending by Con-gress over the next 10 years, that amount to a flour paste patch on the debt and cur-rency crises we are NOT facing up to. Not us and certainly not now.

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iber semiautomatic Bushmaster rifle with flash suppres-sion, the same make and caliber weapon used in the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., that killed 26, including 20 young children, Pickering said.

The chief said it was believed the firefighters were hit with shots from the rifle given the distance but the investigation was incomplete.

“He was equipped to go to war, kill innocent people,” the chief said.

The two- to three-page typewritten rambling note left by Spengler did not reveal what set off the killer or provide a motive for the shootings, Pickering said. He called the attack a “clear ambush on first responders.”

He declined to reveal the note’s full content or say where it was found. He read only one chilling line: “I still have to get ready to see how much of the neigh-borhood I can burn down, and do what I like doing best, killing people.”

Pickering said it was unclear whether the person believed to be Spengler’s sister died before or during the fire.

“It was a raging inferno in there,” Pickering said.A next-door neighbor said Spengler hated his

sister and they lived on opposite sides of the house.Roger Vercruysse said Spengler loved his mother,

Arline, who died in October after living with her son and daughter in the house in a neighborhood of sea-sonal and year-round homes across the road from a lakeshore popular with recreational boaters.

As Pickering described it and as emergency radio communications on the scene showed, the heavily armed Spengler took a position behind a small hill by the house as four firefighters arrived after 5:30

a.m. to extinguish the fire: two on a fire truck; two in their own vehicles.

They were immediately greeted by bullets from Spengler, who wore dark clothing. Volunteer fire-fighter and police Lt. Michael Chiapperini, 43, driv-ing the truck, was killed by gunfire as the windshield before him was shattered. Also killed was Tomasz Kaczowka, 19, who worked as a 911 dispatcher.

Several firefighters went beneath the truck to shield themselves as an off-duty police officer who was passing by pulled his vehicle alongside the truck to try to shield them, authorities said.

The first police officer who arrived chased and exchanged shots with Spengler, recounting it later over his police radio.

“I could see the muzzle blasts comin’ at me. ... I fired four shots at him. I thought he went down,” the officer said.

At another point, he said: “I don’t know if I hit him or not. He’s by a tree. ... He was movin’ eastbound on the berm when I was firing shots.” Pickering por-trayed him as a hero who saved many lives.

The audio posted on the website RadioReference.com also has someone reporting “firefighters are down” and saying “got to be rifle or shotgun — high-powered ... semi or fully auto.”

Spengler had been charged with murder in his grandmother’s death but pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter, apparently to spare his family a trial. After he was freed from prison, Spengler — a felon who wasn’t allowed to possess weapons — had lived a quiet life on Lake Road on a narrow peninsula where Irondequoit Bay meets Lake Ontario.

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“County government is arguably the least well known and least under-stood level of government in New Hampshire’’ is how Brian Gottlob of PollEcon Research described the situ-ation in his 2006 study “Trends in New Hampshire County Government Finances 1996-2004’’, which was done for the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies.

And, while the $470 million spent statewide on county government last year is a big number, it still represents less than fi ve percent of total state, local and school district spending.

For instance Belknap County, with a population of 60,000, has a proposed budget for 2013-2014 of $26,784, 556, which is less than the city of Laco-nia, with a population of 16,000, will spend on its schools alone this year, some $30,203,196.

But the county has specifi ed areas of responsibility which have changed over the years since county govern-ment came to New Hampshire in 1771. Originally, counties were responsible for the care of roads, recording of land records and a law enforcement and court system and when Belknap County was organized in 1830 from northern portions of Strafford and Merrimack counties those were its responsibilities.

But over the years counties assumed more of the general welfare provi-sions of government, operating nurs-ing homes for the care of the elderly and county farms as well. The court system is now operated by the State of New Hampshire and roads are cared for by the state or the city or town in which they are located.

But counties still have wide-rang-ing and costly responsibilities. County government is responsible under state law for funding the long-term care and support for those individuals who are Medicaid eligible fi nancially and also medically eligible for nurs-ing home level of care who reside in a county nursing facility or private nursing facility or are cared for at home under the Choices for Indepen-dence program. Those private facility patients are fi nancially supported by the county, which is responsible for the counties portion (50 percnet) of the state’s long-term-care Medicaid programs.

In addition, under state law coun-ties must operate jails (or contract with other facilities for placement of county inmates, male or female).

County functions also include the funding and operation of the offi ces of the constitutionally elected Regis-ter of Deeds, County Attorney, Sheriff and County Treasurer and providing court-ordered services for juveniles.

Belknap County has an executive branch of government in the form of

County government in N.H. is all but invisible to many but still has many costly responsibilities

three elected part-time county com-missioners, who are responsible for the day to day operations in both fi scal and policy matters.

Current members of the commis-sion include its chairman Ed Philpot, a Democrat from Laconia, and Repub-licans John Thomas of Belmont and Steven Nedeau of Meredith. They supervise the management team, which includes County Administrator Debra Shackett as well as department heads such as the nursing home and jail superintendents, and prepare a recommended budget for the county.

Both Thomas and Nedeau are former chairmen of the Belknap County Convention, which is com-prised of the 18 state representatives from Belknap County, also known as the county delegation, and is the leg-islative branch of county government and has control of appropriations. The delegation currently has 13 Republi-can and fi ve Democratic members.

The delegation is chaired by Rep. Colette Worsman of Meredith with Rep. Robert Greemore of Meredith serving as vice chairman and Rep. Dennis Fields of Sanbornton as clerk. Those three are also members of the delegation’s Executive Committee, along with Representatives Herb Vadney of Meredith and Don Flan-ders, Frank Tilton and David Huot, all of Laconia.

The executive committee is empow-ered to act on behalf of the delega-tion in routine matters dealing with county government involving the del-egation’s oversight functions.

Commissioners say that the pro-posed $26.784 million budget for 2013 the have been presented with repre-sents a balancing act among the pri-orities they see for the county and the budget requests of the various depart-ments.

A budget presentation made by the commission included a chart showing that since 2009 the county has elimi-nated 37 full-time employment posi-tions, going from 208 in 2009 to 171 in 2013, while increasing the number of part-time positions from 26 to 46.

The largest item in the proposed budget is for the Belknap County Nursing Home, $11,248,552, with a projected defi cit of $3,491,741, which would have to be made up with an appropriation from county taxpayers. The budget is up by $145,000 over last year.

The nursing home, with 103 full-time and 34 part-time employees, is the largest county government employer. In 2009 it had 137 full-time and 19 part-time employees.

Second largest item is $5,667,488 for Human Services, which repre-sents the county’s share of funding for Medicaid eligible persons in private nursing homes. There are no county employees in that budget item. This year’s proposal is $96,000 more than last year’s appropriation.

Third largest budget line is $3,276,882 for the Belknap County Corrections Department, headed by

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Superintendent Daniel Ward which has 28 full-time and one part-time employee, the same number it had in 2009. The budget is up by $207,000 over last year.

Fourth largest budget item is $2,157,496 for the Belknap County Sher-iff’s Department, which is headed by Sheriff Craig Wiggin. The department has 18 full-time employees and two part-time employees, compared to 20 full-time in 2009. The request is $85,000 higher than last year. The department also has a $60,000 capital request for communica-tions improvements.

Other requests include:Outside agencies, $955,504, includ-

ing Community Action Program, Cooperative Extension Service, Belknap County Conservation Dis-trict, Belknap County Economic Development Council, Genesis and Child Advocacy Center.

County Attorney’s office, $777,876, eight full-time employees, up $35,000 over last year; had six full-time and one part-time employee in 2009.

Maintenance, $666,604, four full-time employees, down from $1.5 mil-lion last year when several projects, including $600,000 roof replacement at court house were completed.

Administration and Human Resources, $508,073, down $8,000 from last year, 4 employees.

Registry of Deeds, $452,075, up by $700, four full-time and one part-time employee, down by two employees

since 2009Finance, $305,261, up $2,800, four

employees.Youth Services and Diversion,

$230,413, up by $38,000, five part-time employees compared to two full-time employees in 2009.

The commission recommends total appropriations of $26.8-million in 2013. In 2012, total appropriations were $30.9-million. However, since the nurs-ing home was treated as a self-sup-ported “enterprise fund” for accounting purposes, transfers of $3,900,553 were entered as both expenditures and rev-enues. Adjusting for the nursing home transfers the total appropriation in 2012 was $26.9-million, of which non-recurrent capital expenses represented $600,000. There are no significant capi-tal projects included in the 2013 budget.

The major difference between this year and next, according to Commission Chairman Philpot, is on the revenue side of the ledger. In 2012, $3,750,000 of fund balance — excess revenues plus unspent appropriations — was used to offset property taxes while next year the commission recommends using $2,100,000, decreasing revenues from sources other than property taxes by $1,650,000. “If we used another mil-lion,” Philpot said, “the tax increase would be two-percent, not 8.9-percent.’’

County officials say they want to build up the county’s fund balance to gain favor with bond rating agencies, who currently have Belknap County listed as an excellent AA credit risk.

Members of the Laconia Rod and Gun Club present $1,000 checks to local charities. The funds were raised at the 38th annual Santa Jam, which featured local bands which performed at the club on December 8. Rod and Gun Club members, starting at left, who helped at the Santa Jam included John Woodbury, Keith and Penny O’Day, Tina Woodbury, Mark Conway, (dressed as Santa) and Mary Boder. Representing organiza-tions receiving checks were Chris McCarthy of the Santa Fund of the Lakes Region; Karen Welford of the Family Resource Center, Chris Guilmett of the Santa Fund; Debbie Sanville of Care for Kids, Dennis Phelps of the Santa Fund; Jo Carignan of Saint Vincent de Paul, and Cheryl Avery of the Boys and Girls Club. The Salvation Army also received a check. (Roger Amsden/for The Laconia Daiy Sun)

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CONCORD (AP) — A Portsmouth woman has been charged with inter-fering with the investigation into the disappearance and death of a Univer-sity of New Hampshire student.

The attorney general’s office says 19-year-old Kathryn McDonough was arrested Monday and charged with one count of hindering apprehension or prosecution and one count of con-

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Landry said no one was home when fi refi ghters forst got there and there were no injuries. He said there weren’t any pets in the house.

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A payday loan — sometimes called a “cash advance loan,” “delayed deposit loan” or “post-dated check loan” — is a short-term loan that may be secured by access to a bank account by means of a paper check or electronic trans-fer. A title loan is a short-term loan of 60-days or less, secured by a title to a motor vehicle.

All payday and title lenders doing business in New Hampshire, including those operating through the Internet, must be licensed by the New Hamp-shire Banking Department. There are currently fi ve companies licensed to offer payday and/or title loans — Car-bucks of New England, Inc. headquar-tered in Tampa, Florida; Loanmax, LLC,headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia; New England Auto Finance, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia; NH Cash, LLC, headquartered in Bedford, NH and Title Cash of New Hampshire, headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama. Only two, New England Auto Finance with an offi ce on Court Street in Laco-nia and Title Cash of NH with an offi ce on Main Street in Tilton, operate in the Lakes Region.

Since 2008, the Legislature has wrestled with regulating the annual interest rates charged by payday and title lenders, which reached 1,000-per-cent for the former and 350-percent for the latter. Legislation that became effective in 2009 capped the annual percentage rate (APR) for both types of loan at 36-percent, the limit set by the federal government on short-term loans to members of the armed forces on active duty.

In 2010 the cap was reaffi rmed and extended to all loans of $10,000 or less, prompting a number of fi rms to shut-ter some 20 offi ces and dismiss about 150 employees around the state.

In the following year the number of complaints lodged with the Banking Department against payday and title lenders jumped from 31 to 58, with unli-censed lenders, most offering payday loans on the Internet, representing 52 of the complaints. Some lawmakers claimed that capping the APR drove the industry into cyberspace, beyond the reach of regulators, and proposed lift-ing the cap to bring the industry under closer state supervision.

In 2011, the Legislature, now con-trolled by Republican majorities in the House and Senate, overrode the veto of Governor John Lynch to adjust the cap on title lenders from 36 per-cent per year to 25-per-month for the maximum 10 month term of the loan. As the governor explained in his veto message, a borrower with a $500 loan against a vehicle would pay $1,187 in principal and interest over the life of the loan at an APR of 250 percent.

That same year the Legislature sought to ease the cap on payday loans by allowing lenders to charge nominal interest of $15.50 per $100 installment. With 26 installments per year, the APR would top 400 percent, enabling a lender to charge more than $1,100 to repay a $500 loan. Again Lynch vetoed the bill and this time his veto was upheld.

Currently, the APR on payday loans remains capped at 36 percent while title lenders may charge 25 percent per month.

Meanwhile, as the local woman learned, those borrowing on the Inter-net are at risk of dealing with unlicensed fi rms that fail to comply with state law. For example, the Banking Depart-ment fi elded nine complaints against “Payday-Loan-Yes” — also doing busi-ness as Fastcash Advance, CashNet, CashNet500, First National Services, Global Payday Loan, LLC, United Cash Loans and Ameriloan — an unlicensed company based in Nassau, Bahamas. As well as issuing loans without a license, the department found that fi rm deducted excessive amounts from the bank accounts of the borrowers, both in violation of the law.

The Banking Department sent cer-tifi ed letters to the company at each of three known addresses — two in Utah and one in the Bahamas — requiring it to apply for a license and resolve the consumer complaints. All the let-ters were returned by the Post Offi ce. But, to this day Payday maintains an active website and offers loans to New Hampshire residents.

The Banking Department maintains a registry of licensed lenders offering payday and title loans along with a list of enforcement actions taken against both licensed and unlicensed lenders on its website (www.nh.gov/banking), which also provides information about payday and title loans.

The department stresses “it is very important that you deal only with licensed lenders in New Hampshire.” Although the department can take enforcement action against unlicensed lenders for failing to obtain a license, it notes that “our ability to intervene with the lender on your behalf can be diffi -cult and may not result in a satisfactory solution on your individual loan.”

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Already three companies have signed on to lease space in the center, according to Michael Tent-nowski, the center’s director. In addition, the center has fi rm commitments from two other enterprises and has received inquiries from fi ve others, he said. All told, the building will be large enough to accom-modate 20 businesses at a time.

Mark Scarano, executive director of the Graf-ton County Economic Development Council which together with Plymouth State University brought the Enterprise Center idea to life, says the mission of the center is to support entrepreneurial opportunities, small businesses and area economic development.

Scarano said that the construction of the center is the culmination of eight years of planning which began when staff members at the Economic Devel-opment Council sat down with offi cials from Plym-outh State to discuss ways to stimulate economic development.

The GCEDC is providing the physical location and the building for the Resource Center, using $2 mil-lion in federal, state and corporate funding. Of that total, $781,250 comes from the federal government

in the form of an Economic Development Assistance grant. Additional funding is being provided by the Northern Border Regional Commission, and the sale of $500,000 in tax credits. Bank of New Hampshire, Meredith Village Savings Bank and Northway Bank have each purchased $100,000 in credits.

Plymouth State will provide what Scarano and Tentnowski call intellectual capital to the center’s tenants: Counseling and mentoring from professors at PSU’s College of Business Administration, as well as assistance from Plymouth State students partici-pating in internships and work-study opportunities with the center’s tenants.

“There’s a lot of hidden talent in the hills,” Tent-nowski says of the center’s potential to spur eco-nomic development. “We hope to draw out some of that talent.”

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Armstrong is excited about moving his operation from Holderness to the Enterprise Center, partly because of the ideas he and his people will get from interacting with PSU faculty and students, and partly because the center will give him a chance to share ideas with other entrepreneurs like himself.

“To be in the same building with others going through the same exercises can be beneficial,” Armstrong said.

While many entrepreneurs have plenty of enthu-siasm, they can often also lack some essential busi-ness know-how.

Tentnowski says that growing companies benefit when they share space with similar ventures where entrepreneurs can communicate with one another and as well as those with specific business insights about a wide range of issues such as business basics, networking, marketing, and legal issues.

Like other business incubators, the Enterprise Center, will also give start-up and fledgling busi-nesses credibility, both with prospective employees

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As an incubator, the Enterprise Center will pro-vide a supportive environment to businesses. The way the GCEDC sees it its aim is to equip the cen-ter’s tenants with the expertise and proficiency to operate on their own in two to five years. Most businesses that participate in business incubators remain in the local area — 84 percent, according to the National Business Incubation Association.

Tentnowski says there are many home-grown businesses which have a good product but lack the resources to expand and seize new business oppor-tunities.

The Enterprise Center is seen as building the business base of central New Hampshire. That means more good-paying jobs and more tax revenue to support public services.

In addition to the GCEDC and Plymouth State, other partners in the project include the New Hamp-shire Electric Co-op, White Mountains Gateway Economic Development, and the Plymouth Regional Chamber of Commerce.

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In Mobile, Ala., a tornado or high winds damaged homes and knocked down power lines and large tree limbs in an area just west of downtown around nightfall, said Nancy Johnson, a spokeswoman for the Mobile County Commission. WALA-TV’s tower camera captured a large funnel cloud headed toward downtown.

“We haven’t verified what it was, but we have an area that we heard has damage to homes,” she said.

Meanwhile, blizzard conditions were hitting the nation’s midsection.

Earlier in the day, winds toppled a tree onto a pickup truck in the Houston area, killing the driver. Icy roads already were blamed for a 21-vehicle pileup in Oklahoma, and the Highway Patrol says a 28-year-old woman was killed in a crash on a snowy U.S. Highway near Fairview.

The snowstorm that caused numerous accidents pushed out of Oklahoma late Tuesday, carrying with it blizzard warnings for parts of northeast Arkan-sas, where 10 inches of snow was forecast. Freezing rain clung to trees and utility lines in Arkansas and winds gusts up to 30 mph whipped them around,

Christmas day tornados hit the deep Southcausing about 71,000 customers to lose electricity.

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No injuries were confirmed immediately, but fire crews were still making door-to-door checks in the hardest hit areas of Mobile. The Mobile Fire-Rescue Department, which was providing storm updates through Twitter, said Murphy High School was damaged and that there was a gas leak at a nearby apartment building.

Trees fell on a few houses in central Louisiana’s Rapides Parish but there were no injuries reported and crews were cutting trees out of roadways to get to people in their homes, said sheriff ’s Lt. Tommy Carnline. Near McNeill, Miss., a likely tornado dam-aged a dozen homes and sent eight people to the hospital, none with life-threatening injuries, said Pearl River County emergency management agency director Danny Manley.

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OBITUARIESKathleen S. Rafferty, 62

GILFORD — Kathleen Sue Rafferty, 62, died peacefully Thursday December 20th 2012 at the Hyder Family Hospice House in Dover, NH after a long battle against heart disease.

She was born July 29, 1950 in Daven-port, IA; the daughter of Allen and Jac-queline Baker. After attending Palmer College of Chiropractic she relocated to New Hampshire to start her family. Kathleen resided in Gilford, NH where she raised her two children Micah and Hannah. She enjoyed playing tennis, going to the beach, swimming, cooking, writing, and was actively involved with her church. She worked as an operator for AT&T, taught baton twirling to local children, and operated a small cheesecake business where she would sell to local restaurants

and businesses. The later years of her life were dedicated to writing a book about healing and the power of God’s word and volunteering her time and resources to her church, Faith Alive Christian Fellow-ship.

Kathleen was loved by all. She was a selfless, caring woman who treated every-one with love. She will be missed.

Survivors include her mother; son Micah of Portsmouth, NH; daughter Hannah of Laco-nia, NH; Sisters Sherry Daurer and Lisa Diaz; Brothers Gary, Shawn, Bruce, and Lance.

She is predeceased by her father and sister Cindy.A memorial service will be held after the holidays.

Please send contact information to [email protected] so information can be provided regarding the time and location of the service.

Susan L. Taylor, 50GILMANTON — Susan L. Taylor, 50, of

1 Applewood Ave, died Saturday, December 22, 2012 in her home after a brief illness.

She was born in Lynnwood, CA., the daughter of John and Adrienne (Austin) Walker. She worked for the Department of Corrections in Concord for sixteen years. Susan had a deep faith in God. She enjoyed attending her children’s activities in sports and theater and loved country music. Susan loved to travel and visit family.

She is survived by her husband, Brian Taylor of Gilmanton, three daughters; Raeven Checkos of California, Allie Taylor and Josie Taylor, both of Gil-manton, two brothers; Tim Walker and Don Walker, both of Gilmanton and her step father, Donald Coit of Gilmanton. She was predeceased by her father in 1993 and her mother, Adrienne Coit in 2008.

Calling hours will be held from 5:30 PM to 7PM on Friday, December 28, 2012 at the Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home, 164 Pleasant Street, Laco-nia, using the Carriage House entrance. Graveside services will be held in the spring at Pine Grove Cemetery in Gilmanton.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to American Liver Founda-tion 39 Broadway, Suite 2700, New York, New York 10006 or to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of NH, 814 Elm Street STE 300, Manchester, NH 03131-2230.

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 .

Hanako K. Pocock, 82MEREDITH — Hanako K. Pocock, 82, of Mer-

edith, passed away Monday, December 24, 2012 at Lakes Region Hospital, in Laconia after a brief ill-ness.

Born on November 26, 1930, in Tokyo, Japan, she was the daughter of Kosaburo and Itsu Kitahara. Hanako was raised in Tokyo before moving to the United States with her husband after WWII.

She and her husband Leon owned and operated the Kitahara Japanese food and gifts store in Mere-dith for many years. Hanako worked for the Amatex Corporation in Meredith for over 30 years, she also worked and volunteered for the Meredith Commu-nity Center’s Senior Program for many years.

Hanako is predeceased by her beloved husband Leon Sydney Pocock, in May of 2001.

She is survived by four brothers and two sisters in Japan; a son, Leslie Pocock and his wife Anne, of Meredith; granddaughter, Kimberley Knapp and husband Garrison, of Puerto Rico, and two great-grandchildren, of Puerto Rico.

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GILFORD — Norman G. DeBlois, 81, of 67 David Lewis Rd., Gilford, died Thurs-day afternoon, December 20, 2012, at his home surrounded by his loving family.

He was born May 3, 1931, in Laconia, the son of the late William and Rose (Gagne) DeBlois. He was a long time resident of Connecticut, returning to Gilford in 1995.

He was a veteran of the Korean Con-fl ict, serving in the US Air Force as a Staff Sargeant with the 326th Bomb Squadron. He had received the Good Conduct Medal and the National Defense Service Medal.

Prior to his retirement, he was employed as a fuel cell tester with Pratt & Whitney of S. Windsor, CT.

He was a former Communicant of Our Lady of the Lakes Church, Lakeport, and is currently a member of St. Andre Bessette Parish - Sacred Heart Church. He is a member of the American Legion Post #1 and the Knights of Columbus Council #428. He loved to snowmobile, plant and landscape. He enjoyed NASCAR and aeronautics and was an avid bird watcher.

Norman is survived by his wife, Gertrude D. (Gaudet) DeBlois of Gilford; a son, Ronald J. DeB-lois and his companion Debra A. Lacey of Laco-nia; daughters, Diane M. DeBlois of Gilford and Joanne D. Knowles and her husband Charlie F. of Bangor,ME; grandchildren, Katie M. Ayer and her

husband Alan of Lewiston,ME, Sara R. Goater and her husband John of Old Towne, ME, Traci L. Knowles of Bangor, ME, Christopher J. DeBlois and his com-panion Kristyn Hanover of Gilford and Nicole L. DeBlois of Gilford; great grand-children, Cassandra R. Knowles and Evan M. Knowles both of Old Towne, ME, Ava L. Middleton of Bangor, ME, Isabella E. Ayer of Lewiston, ME and Lily Hanover of Gilford; a brother, Richard DeBlois of Concord; sisters, Lorraine Parvin of Laco-nia and Beatrice DeBlois of Winnisquam;

several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by a brother, Raymond DeBlois of Tolland, CT.

Calling hour will be on Wednesday, December 26, 2012, from 10 - 11 am in St Andre Bessette Parish - Scared Heart Church, 291 Union Ave., Laconia, fol-lowed by a memorial Mass at 11 am in the church. Burial will follow in Sacred Heart Cemetery, Laconia.

In lieu of fl owers, donations may be made either to Central NH VNA & Hospice, 780 N. Main St., Laconia, NH 03246, or to St. Vincent DePaul Society, 1269 Union Ave., Laconia, NH 03246.

The Dewhirst Funeral Home, 1061 Union Ave., Laconia, has been entrusted with assisiting the family.

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MEREDITH — Rite Aid will start offering free pre-scription delivery service daily as well as extended pharmacy hours from its new temporary location in Rte. 3 at the former Meredith Ford dealership.

Rite Aid is offering this delivery service daily as of today, and it will continue even after the store opens at its new location at 89 Route 25 (north of Irving gas station) in the second half of 2013. That location will feature Rite Aid’s newest store format, offering Meredith residents an enhanced selection of well-ness products and resources, advanced clinical ser-vices and a private pharmacist consultation room.

Hours of operation are also being extended as of the beginning of the temporary relocation on Dec. 28:

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Customers seeking information on Rite Aid’s delivery service or extended hours should contact the pharmacy at (603) 279-4551.

Rite Aid also currently offers the following phar-macy services to Meredith residents:

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ALTON — Family Movie Night will be held at the Gilman Library at 7 p.m. on Friday, December 28.

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Family Movie Night at the Gilman Library on Fridayregistration but are not drop-off. Children under the age of 10 must be accompanied by an adult.

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PET OF THE WEEK IS MARLEY October IS Adopt a shelter Dog Month Marley has the stately gaze and regal demeanor that suggests a soul of wisdom. His eyes tell the story of a dog that has experienced some tough times prior to arriving at New Hampshire Humane Society. He’s an interesting mix of German Shepherd and Akita. Know that adopting this handsome, strong

dog will assure you a dedicated incredibly intelligent companion; (that’s the german shepherd part) melded with strength and self assurance - Akita traits. We have decided Marley is about 3 years young. Anyone with the knowledge of sharing life with Shepherds will be drawn to him, in fact, we are counting on that especially given the fact he has been living life in shelters, first in the North Country and then down here in the Lakes Region. October incentives to adopt must tip the scales in his favour. For more information please visit, call 524-3252 or check www.nhhumane.org

HOLDERNESS — The annual New Year’s Day Trap Shoot at the Pemi Fish and Game Club in Holderness will be held on January 1 at the club trap range off Beede Road. Registra-tion starts at 9 a.m. with the shooting beginning at 10 a.m.

t’s a 125-bird shoot: 25 at 16 yards, 25 wobble, 25 handicap, and 25 dou-bles. The fee is $40, which covers the match and prizes. And there’ll be free food and hot drinks (feel free to bring a pot of soup or chili or snacks). Half the proceeds will be divided between the top shooter and the fi rst place team.

Shooting will be held snow or cold unless it is 20 below and white out conditions. This has been a club tra-dition for over 43 years. This will be

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Those planning to take part should call either Paul Rheinhardt (603 707-7170) or George Hollingsworth (603 745-3679) as it very much helps with food planning.

This will be the last scheduled trap event until spring. The cost of plowing the 300 yard drive plus the parking areas is not supported by winter activity. Members are welcome however to use the range through the winter hiking in or, pending minimal snow cover as hap-pened last year, driving in to the range (the usual range fees apply).

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ALTON — The Alton Community Youth Activities (CYA) team and the Alton PTSA organization will host an ice skating event at the Laconia Ice Arena for Alton’s youth and fami-lies on Thursday, December 27 from 6-7:30 p.m.

The time is reserved is exclusively for the Alton Community to come together and have some winter fun. Also invited are Barnstead families that have youth who are attending Prospect Mountain High School. The event cannot accommodate hockey activity.

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There will be music and ticket drawings. There will be a box avail-able for donations of non-perishable foods for the Alton Food Pantry; Those who donate will receive a free surprise raffl e ticket.

Tickets are on sale at the Alton Profi le Bank on Main Street and from Debbie Lane at the Alton Cen-tral School Library. The ticket price is minimal per person; youth under age fi ve (5) skate free. Skates may be rented or sharpened free at the arena. Contact Dick Wallace 875-8221 for further information.


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PLYMOUTH — Over the past seven years, the annual Keep the Heat On (KTHO) Dinner Auction has raised $150,000 for fuel assistance to 15 local communities, and hopes to go over the $180,000 mark in 2013.

This year, several members of the Plymouth Area Renewable Energy Initiative (PAREI) have combined their efforts to donate a truly unique live auction item that will give bidders the opportunity to contribute in two different ways to the KTHO cause.

PAREI volunteers, along with BTD Mechanical Contracting, Craig Kidger, Mauchly Electric, and Turley Construction are offering to provide a community member who receives fuel assistance a “Button Up Your Home Work Day” valued at $1,500 in labor and materials.

PAREI’s goal is to make a family’s home more comfortable and to help them reduce their energy bills. Once the family is identified, PAREI will work with them to identify the proj-ects to be completed, and the work will be done by April 2013.

Here’s where the KTHO bidders come in. PAREI is donating the labor and materials, and will not accept any money that is bid on this item during the live auction. All of that money that will go directly to the Plymouth Area Community Closet (PACC) fuel assis-tance program.

The KTHO Committee hopes that those at the January 16 event will come together with a group bid to go the extra mile in raising urgently needed funds for neighbors in need

that the Plymouth Area Community Closet (PACC) helps with these funds.

A PACC spokesperson said that many are older folks, some on Social Security, some not yet eligible. Some are young families. Some are single moms. In every one of their cases, something goes wrong. Illness strikes, leading to increased costs for treatment and pre-scriptions. A job is lost. There is a death in the family. A grandchild moves in, and the budget won’t stretch far enough to feed and clothe them on top of paying the fuel bill.

Funds raised through KTHO enable them to make ends meet. PACC con-tacts each applicant’s fuel provider to verify that they are struggling to pay their fuel bills.

PACC assistance is for home heat-ing fuel only, and not automobile gas. PACC funds for fuel assistance will not be available until late January, though the State’s Community Action Program has started to distribute funds.

PACC and the KTHO Committee thank everyone who has purchased tickets for the January 16 event at the Plymouth Senior Center. For those who still need tickets, they’re on sale now at Chase Street Market for $35 each, and are limited again this year.

Call Veronica Barbadoro at 536-7207 or Doug Grant at 536-5823 to reserve tables for 8 to 10 people. Keep the Heat On is organized and spon-sored by the Plymouth Area Demo-crats (PAD) partnered with PACC in their continued mission to provide assistance to our neighbors.

Keep the Heat On hopes to go over the $180,000 mark in assistance this winter

NEW HAMPTON —Live Free Home Health Care will be hosting an Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support Group beginning on Tuesday, January 15 at 6 p.m. and meeting monthly thereafter.

Anyone in a caregiver role with a person with Alzheimer’s or a related dementia is welcome. The meetings will be held at the LFHHC offices on Rt. 104 in New Hampton.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Infor-mation is more readily available now than it ever has been in any other time period. But wisdom can’t be Googled. It has to be legitimately earned, which is how you’ll come by it today. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Today highlights the difference between cau-tion and fear. This can be a very slight and personal difference that each indi-vidual must detect for him or herself. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You prefer the company of people who let you fi nish the sentences you start, but that’s not always the case. You’ll be exposed to a wide variety of people, and you may have to assert yourself in order to hold your own. CANCER (June 22-July 22). Just because you’re not talking to someone at the moment doesn’t mean you’ve lost the connection. Silence and space between people who share a strong affi nity often signifi es a strong bond, not a defi cit. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’ll expe-rience a merging of languages: the lan-guage of the senses, the language of emotions, the language of thoughts. You’ll create beauty by interpreting and interweaving many ways of communi-cating. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). When you spend time with people, you are also spending time with the remnants of their history, especially the childhood parts involving their family system. Knowing this, you should try not to take any of it too seriously. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You’ll rally for justice in a situation that hasn’t exactly been fair for a long time. Prog-ress may be slow, but slow is better than letting everything stay stuck. Your

work won’t be in vain. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You’re often more comfortable one-on-one than in a group, and today’s circum-stances will prove it. You’ll expertly read someone’s body language and be most infl uential as a result. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You’ll bring spontaneity to a group scenario, and those who follow your lead are sure to have a good time. But there’s also something tangible you hope to accomplish. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). This will be a surprisingly productive day. Stress can be highly motivating. You’ll take the tension you feel and pour it into an activity that requires a height-ened energy level to complete. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). When the timing is right, you will hit the jackpot you want. But for now, look around at the jackpot you already have. It’s pretty great. The more you appreci-ate it the better you feel. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’ll fi nd a wonderful bit of decadence set aside just for you, but indulge with caution. Like a rich dessert, the fi rst few bites are the best. Go too far, and a heavy feeling sets in, followed by regret. TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Dec. 26). The year starts in a swirl of mystery and excitement. One relationship stands out, and strong emotions will change your experience of daily life. Then Feb-ruary brings a development that lends practical assistance to one of your plans. A bonus comes in August. An unforgettable journey starts in Septem-ber. Aquarius and Libra people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 40, 1, 14, 34 and 16.

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CALENDARTODAY’S EVENTS

ABC and ME at the Meredith Public Library. 10-11 a.m. or 1-2 p.m. Preschool class ages 3-5.

Social bridge at the Gilford Public Library. 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Daily happenings at the Hall Memorial Library in Northfield. No Story Hour. Arts and Crafts featuring model clay play 3:30 p.m. Food for Fines begins today.Donate non-perishables at the library for a local food pantry and have your fines forgiven. Does not include fees for lost materials.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27Lego Buddies at the Meredith Library 1:30-2:30 p.m.Daily events at the Gilford Public Library. Conversa-

tional French, 3:30-4 p.m. Crafter’s Corner, 6-7:30 p.m.Hall Memorial Library daily happenings. Drop in Ori-

gami. Food for Fines. Donate non-perishables at the library for a local food pantry and have your fines forgiven. Does not include fees for lost materials.

Laconia Indoor Market. 3-6 p.m. at Skate Escape on Court Street in Laconia. Various farmers, food vendors, artisans, and independent sales representatives will be present. For a full list of vendors and specials go to http://laconiaindoorwintermarket.weebly.com/index.html.

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

Plymouth Area Chess Club meets Thursdays from 7-9 p.m. at Starr King Fellowship, 101 Fairgrounds Road. Form more information call George at 536-1179.

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

Knitting at Belmont Public Library. 6 p.m.Chess Club at the Goss Reading Room (188 Elm

Street) in Laconia. 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. each Thursday. All ages and skill levels welcome. We will teach.

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TUESDAY PRIME TIME DECEMBER 25, 2012 Dial 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 2 WGBH Breakfast Special 2 Christmas at Belmont Choir Charlie Rose (N)

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News Tonight Show With Jay Leno

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Blake Shelton-Xmas News Jay Leno

8 WMTW The Grinch Movie: ››

“Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas” News Nightline

9 WMUR The Grinch Movie: ››

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10 WLVIHart of Dixie Zoe tries to avoid her visiting mother.

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42 FNC O’Reilly Hollywood O’Reilly: News Quiz Compelling O’Reilly Hollywood

43 MSNBC Caught on Camera Caught on Camera Caught on Camera Caught on Camera

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Today is Wednesday, Dec. 26, the 361st day of 2012. There are fi ve days left in the year. The seven-day African-American holiday Kwanzaa begins today. This is Boxing Day.

Today’s Highlight in History:On Dec. 26, 1972, the 33rd president of the

United States, Harry S. Truman, died in Kansas City, Mo., at age 88.

On this date:In 1776, the British suffered a major defeat

in the Battle of Trenton during the Revolutionary War.

In 1799, former President George Washington was eulogized by Col. Henry Lee as “fi rst in war, fi rst in peace and fi rst in the hearts of his country-men.”

In 1862, 38 Santee Sioux Indians were hanged in Mankato, Minn., for their roles in an uprising that had claimed the lives of hundreds of white settlers. The Civil War Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, resulting in a Confederate victory, began in Mis-sissippi.

In 1908, Jack Johnson became the fi rst Afri-can-American boxer to win the world heavyweight championship as he defeated Canadian Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia.

In 1910, the London Palladium, Britain’s famous variety theater, fi rst opened.

In 1944, during the World War II Battle of the Bulge, the embattled U.S. 101st Airborne Division in Bastogne, Belgium, was relieved by units of the 4th Armored Division.

In 1966, Kwanzaa was fi rst celebrated.In 1980, Iranian television footage was broad-

cast in the United States, showing a dozen of the American hostages sending messages to their families.

In 1996, 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colo. (To date, the slaying remains unsolved.)

In 2004, some 230,000 people, mostly in southern Asia, were killed by a tsunami triggered by the world’s most powerful earthquake in 40 years beneath the Indian Ocean.

In 2006, former President Gerald R. Ford died in Rancho Mirage, Calif., at age 93.

One year ago: Dr. Luis Bonilla, a heart surgeon from a Mayo Clinic in Florida fl ying across the northern corner of the state to retrieve a heart for transplant, was killed with two other people when their helicopter crashed.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor Donald Moffat is 82. Actor Caroll Spinney (Big Bird on TV’s “Sesame Street”) is 79. Rhythm-and-blues singer Abdul “Duke” Fakir is 77. Record producer Phil Spector is 73. “America’s Most Wanted” host John Walsh is 67. Country musician Bob Carpenter (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) is 66. Baseball Hall of Fame catcher Carlton Fisk is 65. Retired MLB All-Star Chris Chambliss is 64. Baseball Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith is 58. Humorist David Sedaris is 56. Rock musician James Kottak is 50. Country musi-cian Brian Westrum is 50. Rock musician Lars Ulrich (Metallica) is 49. Actress Nadia Dajani is 47. Rock musician J is 45. Country singer Audrey Wiggins is 45. Rock musician Peter Klett (Can-dlebox) is 43. Rock singer James Mercer is 42. Actor-singer Jared Leto is 41. Rock singer Chris Daughtry is 33. Actress Beth Behrs is 27. Actress Eden Sher is 21. Actor Zach Mills is 17.


NEW YORK (AP) — Rajon Rondo lost his cool, and any chance at his-tory, in the second quarter when Boston last met Brooklyn.

This time, the second period fea-tured some of the best basketball the Celtics have played this season.

Rondo scored 19 points in his first full game against the Nets this season, and the Celtics won 93-76 on Tuesday in another game with some heated moments between the division rivals.

Rondo, sidelined in the first meet-ing and thrown out of the second after shoving Nets forward Kris Humphries into the courtside seats, outplayed counterpart Deron Williams and helped the Celtics take control early.

“We moved the ball; we rebounded the ball,” Rondo said. “They beat us pretty bad on the glass, so tonight we did an exceptional job on the glass,

Rondo leads Celtics past Nets, 93-76taking care of the defensive rebounds, and we got stops.”

A month after the teams scuffled in Boston, there was another skirmish in the fourth quarter that resulted in four technical fouls. But that was the most fight the Nets put up in a disap-pointing performance on the national stage of the Christmas opener. They were never in the game after the first 20 minutes, and their fans headed to the exits with under 2 minutes left as a “Let’s go Celtics!” chant broke out.

“It was a big game for us. It was a division rival. We were ready for a big game. It just didn’t happen,” Williams said.

Rookie Jared Sullinger tied a career high with 16 points and Jeff Green had 15 for the Celtics (14-13), who avoided falling under .500 with just their second victory in six games.

LACONIA — Public skate times at the Laconia Ice Arena have been announced.

— Monday & Wednesday - 1:15-2:15 p.m.

— Tuesday & Thursday - 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

— Thrsday Night - 6:15-7:45 p.m. (*cancelled 12/27/12)

Public skate times at Laconia Ice Arena— Friday - 12:15-1:15 p.m.— Saturday & Sunday - 12:00 noon

-1:30 p.m.Prices: $5 all ages, under 5 free.

Rental skates are available.For more information contact Tim

Walter, Laconia Ice Arena – Opera-tions/Facility Manager at 528-0789 or check www.laconiaicearena.com.

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on state institutions, restore investor confidence and bring back tourists.

“In times of change, politics are the driver of the economy and not the other way around,” said Mourad Aly, a media adviser for the political arm of the fundamentalist Muslim Broth-erhood, the backbone of Morsi’s presi-dency and the main group that backed the constitution.

But there are already multiple fights on the horizon.

The U.S. State Department bluntly told Morsi it was now time to make compromises, acknowledging deep concerns over the constitution.

“President Morsi, as the democrati-cally elected leader of Egypt, has a special responsibility to move forward in a way that recognizes the urgent need to bridge divisions, build trust, and broaden sup-port for the political process,” said Pat-rick Ventrell, acting deputy spokesman. “We hope those Egyptians disappointed by the result will seek more and deeper engagement. “

He said Egypt “needs a strong, inclusive government to meet its many challenges.”

After a spate of resignations of senior aides and advisers during the constitutional crisis, Morsi appeared to have lost another member of his government late Tuesday night when his communications minister posted on his Twitter account that he was resigning.

The minister Hany Mahmoud said he “couldn’t cope with the culture of government work, particular in the current conditions of the country.” The resignation could not be immediately verified because it came so late at night.

Morsi signed a decree Tuesday night that put the new constitution into effect after the election commis-sion announced the official results of

the referendum held over the past two weekends. It said the constitution has passed with a 63.8 percent “yes.” Turnout of 32.9 percent of Egypt’s nearly 52 million registered voters was lower than most other elections since the uprising nearly two years ago that ousted authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak

Morsi is expected to call for a new election of parliament’s lawmaking lower house within two months.

In the meantime, the tradition-ally toothless upper house, the Shura Council, will hold legislative power. But the chamber is overwhelmingly Islamist-dominated so any laws it passes could spark a backlash from the opposition. Many fear a legal crackdown on independent media, highly critical of Islamists.

In a bid to reach out to opposition, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood said he hoped the charter will be a “good omen” for Egyptians.

“Let’s all begin to build the renais-sance of our country with free will, good intentions and strong determi-nation, men, women, Muslims and Christians,” Mohammed Badie said on his Twitter account.

But the opposition said the passing of the document is was not the end of the political dispute. Critics fear the constitution will usher in Islamic law in Egypt and restrict personal free-doms.

“This is not a constitution that will last for a long time,” said Khaled Dawoud, a spokesman for the main opposition group, the National Salva-tion Front, vowing to fight for more freedoms, social and economic rights.

In a sign that the new front for the opposition against Morsi’s policies may be the economy, Dawoud said the Morsi administration was “confused” both on the political and economic fronts.

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MORTGAGEEʼS NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

By virtue of the Power of Sale contained in a certain Mortgage Deed given by CHRISTOPHER A. LABRECQUE and PAULA J. LABRECQUE (the “Mortgagor”) to NORTHWAY BANK f/k/a PEMIGEWASSET NATIONAL BANK (the “Mortgagee”) dated September 23, 2005 and recorded in the Belknap County Registry of Deeds at Book 2223, Page 728, the undersigned holder of said Mortgage Deed, pursuant to and in execution of said powers, and for breach of the conditions of said Mortgage Deed (and the Note secured thereby of near or even date, and related documents), and for the purpose of foreclosing the same, shall sell at PUBLIC AUCTION On Friday, January 11, 2012, at 2:00 in the afternoon, pursuant to NH RSA 479:25, the mortgaged premises located at 17 Chicory Lane, Gilford, Belknap County, State of New Hampshire, being all and the same premises more particularly described in the Mortgage Deed (the “Mortgaged Property”). The auction will be held at the Mortgaged Property. TERMS OF SALE AND DEPOSIT: The property will be sold to the highest bidder who complies with the terms of sale. To qualify, bidders must register and present to the Mortgagee or its agent the sum of FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($5,000.00) by money order, bank check, or other form of payment acceptable to the Mortgagee or its agent prior to the commencement of the public auction. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid in full by money order, bank check, or other form of payment acceptable to the Mortgagee upon tender of the Mortgagee’s Foreclosure Deed within forty five (45) days after the sale, TIME BEING OF THE ESSENCE. The successful bidder shall also execute a purchase and sale contract with Northway Bank immediately after close of bidding. If the successful bidder fails to complete the purchase of the Mortgaged Property within forty five days, the Mortgagee may, at its option, retain the deposit as liquidated damages. Deposits of unsuccessful bidders shall be returned at the conclusion of the public auction. The premises will be sold “AS IS, WHERE IS,” without any express or implied warranties of any kind, and subject to: (a) any condition which a title search would reveal, (b) all unpaid real estate taxes and liens therefore, whether or not of record, (c) any facts which an inspection or survey of the premises might show, (d) mortgages, tax or other liens, attachments and all other encumbrances and rights, title and interest of third persons of any and every nature whatsoever which are, or may be entitled to precedence over the Mortgage Deed, and (e) subject to any existing tenants, tenancies or persons in possession. The Mortgagee reserves all rights, including, but not limited to, the right to bid at the sale, to continue, postpone or cancel the sale, to reject any and all bids, and to alter, amend or modify the terms, conditions or procedure for the proposed sale, either orally or in writing, before or at the time of the proposed sale, in which event such terms as altered, amended or modified shall be binding on all bidders and interested parties, and to convey the mortgaged property to the next highest bidder should any successful bidder default. ORIGINAL MORTGAGE DEED: A copy of the Mortgage Deed may be examined by any interested person at the offices of Cooper Cargill Chant, P.A., 2935 White Mountain Highway, North Conway, New Hampshire, during normal business hours. TO THE MORTGAGOR AND PERSONS HAVING A LIEN ON THE PREMISES OF RECORD: YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO PETITION THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE COUNTY IN WHICH THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE SITUATED, WITH SERVICE UPON THE MORTGAGEE, AND UPON SUCH BOND AS THE COURT MAY REQUIRE, TO ENJOIN THE SCHEDULED FORECLOSURE SALE. Failure to institute such petition and complete service upon said Northway Bank, or its undersigned attorneys, prior to the sale shall thereafter bar any action or right of action of the mortgagor based on the validity of the foreclosure. Reference is made to the provisions of RSA 479:25 (II). For further information respecting the aforementioned foreclosure sale, contact Tom McGlauflin, The McGlauflin Group, 99 Fairgrounds Road, Plymouth, NH (03264), (603) 536-6099. Other terms to be announced at the sale. Dated at North Conway, New Hampshire this 30th day of November, 2012.

NORTHWAY BANK By and through its attorneys,

COOPER CARGILL CHANT, P.A. Rebecca J. Oleson

2935 White Mountain Highway North Conway, NH 03860

Phone: (603) 356-5439

MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

By virtue of a power of sale contained in a certain corrective mortgage deed given by THOMAS A. POST , a married person, whose last known mailing address is 25A Cardinal Drive, Laconia, New Hampshire 03246 , to MEREDITH VILLAGE SAVINGS BANK , 24 NH Route 25, P.O. Box 177, Meredith, Belknap County, New Hampshire, 03253, dated October 4, 2010, and recorded on October 14, 2010 in the Belknap County Regi stry of Deeds at Book 2668, Page 835, which corrective mortgage was recorded to correct a certain mortgage d ated October 4, 2010 and recorded in said Registry on October 14, 2010 at Book 2668, Page 815 (the “Mortg age”) the holder of said mortgage, pursuant to and in execution of said powers, and for breach of conditio ns of said mortgage deed, (and the Note secured thereby of near or even date, and related documents) and for th e purpose of foreclosing the same shall sell at

PUBLIC AUCTION On January 10, 2013 at 2:00 o’clock in the afternoon, pursuant to N.H. R.S.A. 479:25, on the premises herein described being located at 21 Fells Way, Unit D, Laconia, Belknap County, New Hampshire, being all and the same premises more particularly described in the Mortgage.

TERMS OF SALE: Said premises will be sold subject to (i) all unpaid taxes and liens, whether or not of record; (ii) mortgages, liens, attachments and all other encumbrances and rights, titles and interests of third persons whic h are entitled to precedence over the Mortgages; and (iii) any other matters affecting title of the Mortgagor to th e premises disclosed herein. DEPOSITS: Prior to commencement of the auction, all registered bidders shall pay a deposit in the amount of Fi ve Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00). At the conclusion of the auction of the premises, the highest bidder’s deposit, if such high bidder’s bid is accepted by the Bank, shall immediately be paid to the Bank and shall be held by the Bank subject to these Terms of Sale. All deposits required hereunder shall be made in cash or by check to the order of the Bank, which is acceptable to the Bank in its sole and absolute discretion. WARRANTIES AND CONVEYANCE: The Bank shall deliver a Mortgagee’s Foreclosure Deed of the Real Estate to the successful bidder ac cepted by the Bank within forty-five (45) days from the date of the foreclosure sale, upon receipt of the bala nce of the Purchase Price in cash or check acceptable to Bank. The Real estate will be conveyed with those war ranties contained in the Mortgagee’s Foreclosure Deed, and no others. FEDERAL TAX LIEN: If the property to be sold is subject to a tax lien of the United States of America Internal Revenue Service, unless said lien is released after sale, the sale may be subject to the right of the United States of Ameri ca to redeem the lands and premises on or before 120 days from the date of the sale. BREACH OF PURCHASE CONTRACT: If any successful bidder fails to complete the contract of sale resulting from the Bank’s acceptance of such successful bidder’s bid, such successful bidder’s deposit may, at the option of the Bank, be retaine d as full liquidated damages or may be held on account of the damages actually suffered by the Bank. If such deposit is not retained as full liquidated damages, the Bank shall have all of the privileges, remedies and rig hts available to the Bank at law or in equity due to such successful bidder’s breach of the contract of sale. Notice of the election made hereunder by the Bank shall be given to a defaulting successful bidder within 50 days after the date of the public auction. If the Bank fails to notify a defaulting successful bidder of which remedy the Bank has elected hereunder, the Bank shall be conclusively deemed to have elected to be holding the deposit on accoun t of the damages actually suffered by the Bank. Upon any such default, Meredith Village Savings Bank shall h ave the right to sell the property to any back up bidder or itself. AMENDMENT OF TERMS OF SALE: The Bank reserves the right to amend or change the Terms of Sale set forth herein by announcement, w ritten or oral, made prior to the commencement of the public auction. NOTICE TO THE MORTGAGOR, ANY GRANTEE OF THE MORTGAGOR AND ANY OTHER PERSON CLAIMING A LIEN OR OTHER ENCUMBRANCE ON THE PREMISES: YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO PETITION THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE COUNTY IN WHICH THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE SITUATED, WITH SERVICE UPON THE MORTGAGEE, AND UPON SUCH BOND AS THE COURT MAY REQUIRE, TO ENJOIN THE SCHEDULED FORECLOSURE SALE. For further information respecting the aforementioned foreclosure sale, contact James R. St. Jean Au ctioneers, 45 Exeter Rd., PO Box 400, Epping NH 03042, 603-734-4348.

Dated this the 13th day of December, 2012. MEREDITH VILLAGE SAVINGS BANK By Its Attorneys Minkow & Mahoney Mullen, P.A. By: Peter J. Minkow, Esq. 4 Stevens Ave., Suite 3 P.O. Box 235 Meredith, NH 03253 (603) 279-6511

Publication Dates: December 19, 26, 2012 and January 2, 2013.

In elections, New Hampshire started the year looking at a bunch of Republicans in the presiden-tial, congressional and state legislative races — and ended up with a majority of Democrats, a reversal of fortune for a party swept largely from power in 2010.

Democrats picked up the state’s four electoral col-lege votes for President Barack Obama and the two congressional seats. Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter reclaimed the 1st District seat that Republican Frank Guinta had taken from her. Democrat Ann McLane Kuster, who lost to Charles Bass in 2010, easily beat him to take the 2nd Dis-trict seat.

Democrat Maggie Hassan was elected to succeed the retiring Lynch, a Democrat whose popularity remained so high after nearly eight years in office that Hassan campaigned she would lead in his foot-steps.

Election law also made news. Registered voters were asked to show photo identification before obtaining a ballot. Those who did not have photo identification with them or chose not to show IDs could still vote after filling out affidavits attesting to their identities.

The Legislature also changed the state’s voter registration forms. A section of the form, however, was put on hold after a court challenge by out-of-state college students, who traditionally have been allowed to vote in the state without holding legal residency.

Had it taken effect, new voters would have been required to sign a statement saying they declare New Hampshire their home and are subject to laws that apply to all residents, including laws requir-ing drivers to register cars and get New Hampshire driver’s licenses.

One venue famous for its first-in-the-nation voting, the Ballot Room at the Balsams Grand Resort Hotel, was closed on Election Day as its new owners work on renovations for a scheduled reopening in 2013.

The Legislature also overrode Lynch’s veto of a bill banning partial-birth abortions. Lynch said the bill was unnecessary because such procedures are already prohibited by federal law. Bill support-ers said they don’t trust the federal government to prosecute its law. On another issue, the Legislature failed to repeal the state’s gay marriage law.

Another big story: New Hampshire received an emergency disaster declaration as a result of Super-storm Sandy, which caused 210,000 power outages at its peak and one death, that of a 42-year-old Wood-stock construction company owner who fell and was buried in a landslide of mud, water and rock.

A decade after she moved to Manchester, Beatrice Munyenyezi found herself accused of lying about her role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide to obtain U.S. citi-zenship. A federal jury deadlocked on the charges; she awaits a second trial.

The state had its share of criminal cases. In one, Julianne McCrery of Irving, Texas, was sentenced to 45 years in prison for suffocating her 6-year-old son in a Hampton Beach motel room and leaving his

body along a dirt road in Maine.

Jessica Linscott and Roland Dow of Plaistow were arrested at the Universal Studios theme park in Orlando, Fla., two weeks after leaving her 3-year-old son behind at an Exeter hospital with brain injuries and burns.

University of New Hampshire sophomore Elizabeth “Lizzi” Mar-riott of Massachusetts vanished in October. Authorities believed she was thrown into the waters off Portsmouth’s Peirce Island, though her body has not been found. Seth Mazzaglia was charged with sec-ond-degree murder.

Other top news sto-ries of 2012:

— Two former U.S. senators for New Hamp-shire died — John Durkin, a Democrat who won his seat in 1975 in one of the clos-est elections in Senate history, and Warren Rudman, a Republi-can who co-authored a ground-breaking budget balancing law and led a commission that pre-dicted the danger of terrorist attacks years before 9/11.

— The Local Govern-ment Center, a non-profit organization that manages health insur-ance pools for public workers and retirees, was ordered to refund more than $50 million to cities and towns. The center is appealing.

— President Barack Obama picked Jim Yong

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LACONIA HIGH SCHOOL CAPITAL CAMPAIGN

Dr. John Grobman DW Bell Ed Emond Ed Engler Eileen Ladieu Elizabeth Squires Ethelyn Nutter Gail Hannabury Betty (Clow) Hjermstad George, Nick, Mary & Jim Noucas Jack Jones Jayme Duggan Jeannette Giguere Jennifer Wallace Joan Distefano John Heney Jack & Shirley Woodward & Family Joseph Sack Kathleen & David McCabe Lori Groleau Lorna McEwen Lou Athanas Youth Basketball LuAnn Walsh Lucien Bouley Mary Vandernoot Matt Lahey and Family

LHS Class of 1950 LHS Class of 1951 LHS Class of 1952 LHS Class of 1962 LHS Class of 1967 LHS Class of 1971 LHS Class of 1972 LHS Class of 1979 LHS Class of 1983 LHS Class of 1991 Alan Wool Alex Emery Altrusa of Laconia Ann Kaligian Barbara Luther Bob Hamel Brad Geltz Bruce Shumway Carmel Gill Carol Rawson Carroll Stafford Charlene Monroe Dawn Graves Dennis Doten Don & Judy Minor Doug Whittum

Lyman Jackson Malcolm Murray Mary Vandernoot Matt Lahey and Family Mike Seymour and Family Phelps Family Trust Reginald Clarke Richard Kelly Richard Schultz Rodney Roy Scott Davis Stephanie Ewens Stewart Dickson Subway Tara Columb The Champlin Family The Lou Athanas Jr Family The Selig Family The St. Lawrence Family Virginia Wakeman Trust

For more information please contact::

The LHS Athletic Field Capital Campaign P. O. Box 309 Laconia, NH 03247 603-524-5710

Kim, the president of Dartmouth College, to lead the World Bank.

— The state Supreme Court heard arguments in the fi rst death pen-alty case before the court in 50 years. It must decide if Michael Addison, the state’s only death row inmate, becomes the fi rst con-victed killer executed in New Hampshire since 1939.

— Dartmouth College fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon was accused of hazing, was put on pro-bation for three terms and ordered to par-ticipate in an extensive series of educational programs. The college makes changes to its hazing policy.

— Anthony Papile, who pleaded guilty to murder in the disap-pearance and death last year of a Maine woman whose toddler daughter was found abandoned in her car, was sentenced to 50 years in prison.

— Residents of Mont Vernon voted to rename a fi shing and skating spot that’s been called Jew Pond since the 1920s. The U.S. Board of Geographic Names approved the decision to rename the pond Carleton Pond, after one of the town’s found-ing families.

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A police helicopter belonging to Ukraine’s Interior Ministry crashed shortly after takeoff Tuesday in the central part of the coun-try, killing fi ve people on board, offi cials said.

The Mi-8 helicop-ter slammed into the ground at about 1400 GMT (9 a.m. EST) just after taking off from an airport in the city of Alexandria in the Kiro-vograd region, about 320 kilometers (200 miles) southeast of the capital, Kiev, ministry spokesman Serhiy Bur-lakov said.

Investigators were working to determine what caused the heli-copter to hit the ground as it was gaining speed Tuesday afternoon, Burlakov said. Three of the dead were crew members, and two were ground staff on board the helicopter.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: I have been dating “Stan” for fi ve years. We are both in our 60s. When we started dating, I was absolutely certain that I did not want to get married. But Stan and I have been through so much these past few years with various ill-nesses and the like. We have always stood by each other, and I have come to realize that I would like to be married to this man and have said so to him. Stan still has responsibilities to a surviving parent. Both Stan and his mom seem so dependent on each other that I feel like the proverbial third wheel. When I discuss this with Stan, there is a slight change, but only for a brief period of time, and then things go right back to the way they were, with me essentially on my own. I don’t want to walk away from Stan, but I need more than I am getting and want to know how to get my point across. I would hate for Stan to lose out on having a wonderful life with me at this stage of our lives. -- So Confused Dear Confused: You cannot force Stan to see the benefi ts of marriage through your eyes. His relationship with his surviv-ing parent takes precedence over his relationship with you, and right now, Stan interprets marriage as an abandonment of Mom. In addition, you have changed the rules midstream by wanting marriage when you initially precluded it. You would do better to absorb Mom into your life, making a commitment toward her care part of your relationship. And although that doesn’t promise marriage, it will make Stan more favorably disposed. Only you can decide whether the relationship with Stan the Man is worth keeping without the legal papers. Dear Annie: My husband, “Bob,” rarely washes his hands after using the bathroom. My son and I are really disgusted with this behavior and worry about the lingering germs that his hands pass on to everything else he touches.

Bob claims we are germophobes, and that a little bacteria is good for you. He thinks we overdo the hand washing, get-ting rid of the “good” germs. I have asked him to pose this question to his doctor, but he refuses. Please help settle this argument. -- Irritated in Indiana Dear Indiana: It’s true that over-sanitizing can be a prob-lem, but some degree of hygiene is necessary because not all bacteria are harmless. And we transfer these less helpful germs primarily through our hands, not only via contact with multiple surfaces that others have touched (or will), but also by rubbing our eyes, scratching our noses and covering our mouths with these same bacteria-laden hands. This is how easily diseases such as meningitis, fl u and hepatitis can get passed around. If your husband wants to swim in a swamp to see whether it boosts his immune system, that’s up to him. But he shouldn’t subject the rest of his family to his quirks. Dear Annie: This is in response to “No State,” whose 23-year-old cousin is now a police offi cer and brags that he can give out tickets to those who annoy him. A police offi cer who abuses his authority not only makes himself look bad, but also damages the reputation of his de-partment and all the other hardworking and dedicated offi -cers who put their life on the line day in and day out. Most police offi cers try to do their very best in diffi cult cir-cumstances. It is often a thankless job, but one we willingly accept. Trust me, other police offi cers do not like to see these abuses of power. “No State” should talk to this offi cer’s supe-riors. -- Retired Kentucky Trooper Dear Trooper: We suspect this cousin is all talk, but it might not take much for him to cross a line. We appreciate your counsel. Happy Kwanzaa to all our readers.

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.

Announcement

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Autos

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

1987 Mercedes 300-E 6 cylinder,auto, 230K, Looks good, runsgreat, no rust. Inspected and useddaily. 30MPG Hwy., 24 city.Selling due to illness. $4,500.279-7455 8am-8pm.

1998 Volvo S-70: 175K, goodcondition, dark green, leatherseats. $1,500. 508-560-7511Laconia

2000 Volvo S80- 141K, greatcondition, just inspected, loaded,moon roof, beige. $3,300.267-8493

2004 CHEVY 2500 XCab 4X4pick-up. White with fisher plow,

8’mm. Truck in good condition, allhighway miles. $11,800 or B/O.HK Powersports, Union Ave.,Laconia

2009 Toyota Camry- 4 cylinder,automatic, 40K miles, excellentcondition, loaded. $15,000/OBO.290-2324

2010 Subaru Forester 2.5X, pre-mium, auto, loaded, highwaymiles full maintenance $15,500.630-4737

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

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

MUST GO : 2000 Town & CountryChrysler Van. 1 Owner, 124Kmiles, snow tires. $1,200/OBO,Laconia [email protected]

Business Opportunities

HAIR SALON: Concord area.Profitable, award-winning, greatlease, equipment & staff. Call fordetails. 781-682-6209, ext. 208.ROI Business Brokers.

WILL BUYMillwork/woodworking business(w/or w/o real estate). 20 mileradius of Laconia. 207-754-1047

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.)

BELMONT2 bedroom apartment, heated,walking distance to theBelknap Mall. $195.00/wk,Four weeks security deposit,no pets. Call:

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BELMONT, NH- FURNISHEDRoom for rent available immedi-ately, (approx. 14X15) ingorgeous Large Victorianmansion overlooking LakeWinnisquam on 1 acre of land,covered in mature Englishgardens & trees and a fabulousgazebo to share. $425/monthincludes shared kitchens,bathrooms living room, etc. Alsoincludes heat, electric, digitalcable, wireless Internet & beachaccess on Lake Winnisquam.Call 603-527-8496

BRISTOL: 2BR apartment, newlyrenovated. $725/month, includesheat & hot water. 217-4141.

FURNISHED Room with privatebathroom. Heat, hot water & cableincluded. $150 per week.603-366-4468.

GILFORD: Spacious 2 bedroom,2 bathroom condo near Gunstock.Enclosed porches, great views, nosmoking, no dogs. $1,200 in-cludes all utilities. 603-781-4255.

For Rent

GILFORD

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Large yard, close toschool, downtown. $1,250+ utilities. Great condition,available soon.

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GILFORD 2 - One bedrm, streetlevel units available. 1 at $875/month & 1 at $1000/ month. Allutilities included, 1st & sec re-quired. Sorry no pets or smoking.Immediate occupancy. MineralSpring Realty 603-293-0330 orFred Nash Broker 603-387-4810.

For Rent

GILFORD, SINGLE male needsroommate(s) 2 bedrooms avail-able. $100+ per week, share utili-ties. Pets considered. 556-7098.

HOME FOR THE

HOLIDAYSLaconia: 2 bedroom house nearLRGH. Includes heat & hot water,washer/dryer and snow removal.$1,025/Month. No pets/smoking.524-5455

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-ROOMMATESwanted to share personal home.Clean, quiet, sober environment.All inclusive, $110-$150/week.455-2014

LACONIA- 1 BEDROOM,kitchen/dining/large den. Recentlyrenovated upper level, heatincluded, $160/week. Walk todowntown. References & deposit.No pets/ No smoking. 524-9436.

For Rent

LACONIA 3 BR Apartment, car-peting/Pergo floors, plenty of stor-age, very fuel efficient, porch andyard (yard work rent reductionsavailable). NH Housing Qualified,$925/mo. plus one month�s secu-r i t y . 6 0 3 - 5 2 8 - 1 8 5 0 o r603-486-3966.

LACONIA House to share- 2 roomw/full bath, shared kitchen &washer/dryer, TV included.Parade & Elm St. Separateentrance. $700/Month + 1/2utilities. No security/Referencesrequired. 303-746-0336 LeaveMessage

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

LACONIA- Huge 2-bedroom.Bright, sunny & clean, nice area oftown. $800/Month + Utilities.520-6931

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

LACONIA-1 bedroom $160/Week,includes heat & hot water.References & deposit. 524-9665

LACONIA- 3 bedroom, 2nd floorwasher/dryer hook-up, basementstorage, al l new carpet,$800/Month + utilities. 455-6983

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

LACONIA: Large 1 bedroom 2ndfloor. heat & hot water included.$150/week. 832-1639

LACONIA: Large 3 & 4-bedroomapartments. Parking. $850/mo +utilities. 603-781-6294.

LACONIA: Spacious two bedroomapartment for rent. Rent is $844.per month with heat and hot waterincluded. On-site laundry, storageroom and off-street parking.Close to pharmacy, schools andhospital. Please call Julieat Stewart Property Mgt.(603) 524-6673 EHO.

LAKEPORT: 5-room, 2-Bedroom.Inc ludes snow remova l ,washer/dryer, lake view. 2nd floorunfurnished. $180/Week. Leavemessage for Bob, 781-283-0783

NEWFOUND Lake Area, 3 BR, 3B, 15 acres, fields and woods,1835 ft on the river, mountainviews. $1400/mo. 1 plus yearlease, Roche Realty Group, askfor Chuck 603-279-7046 ext 342anytime day or evening.

TILTON: Spacious 2 and 3 bed-room apartments available. Heatand hot water included. Pleasecall Mary at Stewart PropertyManagement (603)641-2163.EHO.

STUDIO apt 15 minutes to Laco-nia, 20 minutes to Concord, allutlities included $675. 267-7129.

For Rent

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

TILTON/LOCHMERE - Two bed-room duplex apartment. Garage &washer/dryer available. Just 3miles from Exit 20. Ideal forcouple/single parent. $750/month+ utilities. No smoking/no pets.Call 527-6283.

WINNISQUAM: Small efficiencyand a cottage including heat, hotwater, l ights and cable.$165-$225 per week. $500deposit. No pets. 387-3864.

For Sale

1 Reddy kerosene Space Heateron wheels. 165,000 BTU, $150. 1Reddy kerosene heater 10,000BTU, $75. 677-2865

10-inch Bosch Contractor�s tablesaw. Portable fold up stand. $399.Like new. 603-387-7100

7ft snowplow with lights & hydroliclift $400. 524-4445

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

Firestone Winter Force SnowTires. 215/65/17. Four tires, likenew, $250 firm. 387-8051

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HD TV- Sceptre LCD 23", used asbackup TV w/LG Blue Ray Player$100. 267-0977

Honda Snowblower- Track drive,2-stage, 21 inches, runs great.$375. 393-7846

IBANEZ Gio electric guitar $100,Peavey Special 130W amplifier$150. Or both for $225. 286-4012.

LIFT Chair- $300 or best offer. 2rolling walkers with seat & brakes.Call 229-7180

LOG Length Firewood: 7-8 cords,$900. Local delivery. 998-8626.

MAHOGANY Antique rocker,antique pie crust table, Call267-1964 Barbara

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

Toy Trains- Lionel Holiday Train,$150. 125 Piece Wooden Trainwith table, $75. Like new. Call524-5145.

WHITE metal trundle bed. New,twin, (with mattresses). PerfectXmas. $300. 707-2878

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


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Services

DELETED YOUR PHOTOS?

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SNOW PLOWING: Commercial,residential, Meredith & surround-ing towns. Insured. 998-5339.

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CALL Mike for snowblowing, roofshoveling, scrapping and lighthauling. Very reasonably priced.603-455-0214

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CLEANING SERVICEReasonable rates, home andcommercial. No job too big orsmall. Call for free estimate today.603-717-6682

CUSTOM STONEWORK: Walls,patios, granite, ponds andwaterfalls. Free Estimates,insured 998-5339.

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

Help Wanted

BARBER WANTED 524-7978

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Director position available:20 hours per month. Excitingopportunity to support local

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Motorcycles

1980 FLH HD/Project bike. Runs,wiring needs to be finished, losteyesight. All original equipmentincluded, plus jack. $4,000.387-6524

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Real Estate

LACONIA lakefront house w/2 BR,1.5 bath, 985 sq.ft in quiet neigh-borhood on Lake Winnisquamview of Mosquito Bridge; 101�shoreline w/beach, .54 acre lot;great potential for expansion/renovation; brick fireplace,3-yr-old furnace; screened porch,walkout basement $625K; inquir-ies please call 455-5778

WILL BUYMillwork/woodworking business(w/or w/o real estate). 20 mileradius of Laconia. 207-754-1047

Roommate Wanted

ADULT person to share house inLaconia. $130/week. includeseverything. Pets okay. Femalepreferred. 603-524-1976

Furniture

TWO hope chests, $60 each. Onekids roll top desk, $150, 6 drawerbureau $50. Three trunks, bestoffer. 387-6524

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

Heavy Equipment

BLAIS EQUIPMENT: 1994 426BCat. Low hours, mint condition.20K. Buying Daily. 603-765-8217

Help Wanted

CASHIER & DELI5 years experience, open & closeshifts. Weekends & open availabil-ity a must. Friendly and outgoing,must be a people person. Apply inperson, no phone cal ls.2667 Lakeshore Rd. Gilford

CHURCH Secretary: 12 hours perweek, mid-day. Some computerskills, with Microsoft Officenecessary. Leave message atchurch, 253-7698 or call Dave at279-4553 SERVICE WRITER

WANTEDAutoServ of Tilton is looking for anEXPERIENCED service writer. Partsbackground is a plus. This is a full timeposition with pay based on experience.

Benefit options include Health, Dental,401K and more.

Please email resumes to:[email protected]

Automotive Office Assistant AutoServ of Tilton is looking for an officeassistant. Automotive office experience is amust. Pay plus benefits package includingHealth and Dental options, 401K, and more.

No phone calls please email resumes [email protected].

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