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LACONIA — Less than a year after opening its doors the Laconia Antiques Center has outgrown its space next door to Bootleggers and has begun moving its operation across Main Street to what was Bloom’s Variety store.

Tom Smith, who operates the business in

Bloom’s building back in business; antiques center moving in from across Main Street

partnership with Charlie St. Clair, said yester-day that they have taken a lease with an option to purchase the property from Gary Bloom and expect to be up and running at the new location in the latter half of February.

“We outgrew the space, in about six months” St. Clair said, adding “we had to turn away dealers wanting booths and could not accept more consignments, espe-

cially furniture.”Smith recalled that when the two first

planned the business St. Clair approached Bloom about leasing the space, but the two failed to reach agreement on the terms of a lease. ‘It just wasn’t the right time,” Smith said.

With the move, the antique center will expand from 7,800-square-feet on one floor

By Michael KitchTHE LACONIA DAILY SUN

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LACONIA — In 2010, the first full year with a single-stream recycling program in effect, the amount of recycled materials collected in the city topped 1,000 tons for the first time.

During the year, res-idents and businesses recycled 1000.12 tons of trash, 181.44 tons or 22-percent more than the 818.68 tons collected the year before. Curbside col-lection jumped by 131.38 tons, from 497.69 tons to 629.07 tons, an increase of 26-percent, while the tonnage taken to the three public collec-tion points climbed by 50.06 tons, from 320.99 tons to 371.05 tons, an increase of 16-percent.

Ann Saltmarsh, who manages the recy-cling program at the Department of Public Works, attributed the record results to the introduction of single-stream recy-cling and acceptance of a greater variety of plastics. “We’ve passed a real mile-

Laconia’s annual recycling total tops 1,000 tons for the first time

By Michael KitchTHE LACONIA DAILY SUN

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy brusquely fired the captain of the USS Enterprise on Tuesday, more than three years after he made lewd videos to boost morale for his crew, timing that put the military under pressure to explain why it acted only after the videos became public.

Senior military officials said they were trying to determine who among Navy leaders knew about the videos when they were shown repeatedly in 2006 and 2007 to thousands of crew members aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

An investigation by U.S. Fleet Forces Command in Norfolk, Va., also is seeking to determine whether Capt. Owen Honors was reprimanded at the time.

The episode has raised serious questions about whether military leaders can behave

Navy fires captain of USS Enterprise over lewd videosbadly so long as the public doesn’t find out.

“He showed bad judgment and he embar-rassed the Navy. Those are things that are going to be hard for the Navy to ignore or to forgive,” said Stephen Saltzburg, the general counsel of the National Institute of Military Justice and a law professor at George Washington University.

Just two days after the videos were shown repeatedly on television, the Navy called a news conference Tuesday in Nor-folk to announce that Honors was stepping down as ship commander and being reas-signed to administrative duties ashore.

“After personally reviewing the videos created while serving as executive officer, I have lost confidence in Capt. Honors’ ability to lead effectively,” said Adm. John Harvey, head of U.S. Fleet Forces Command, in

Norfolk. Harvey declined to answer ques-tions from reporters.

The Pentagon said the disciplinary system isn’t foolproof but generally works.

“There are always going to be people do things they shouldn’t,” said Marine Corps Col. Dave Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman. “They will be held accountable.”

Yet Honors was set to deploy with the USS Enterprise this month as the ship’s commander when The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk obtained videos he made three and four years ago as the carrier’s executive officer. Honors, who took command of the ship in May, appears in the videos using gay slurs, simulating masturbation and staging suggestive shower scenes.

One video also briefly included Glenn see NAVY page 6

S P R I N G F I E L D , Mass. (AP) — “Reckless and illegal actions” by a former police chief led to the accidental death of an 8-year-old boy who shot himself in the face with an Uzi sub-machine gun at a gun show, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

But others, including the boy’s father, made the fatal decisions, a defense attorney said.

Former Pelham Police Chief Edward Fleury, whose company co-sponsored the event, has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaugh-ter and furnishing a weapon to a minor in connection with the 2008 death of Christopher Bizilj of Ashford, Conn.

“As a direct result of that reckless and illegal behavior, Christopher died,” District Attorney William Bennett said in his opening statement to the jury in Hampden Superior Court.

Bennett said Fleu-

DA tells jury ‘reckless’ behavior on part of gun show led to boy shooting himself with an Uzi

DETROIT (AP) — Auto sales rose in the United States last year for the first time since the recession. They’re still far from what they were just a few years ago — but that’s just fine with the downsized auto industry, which can post profits even if it sells millions fewer cars and trucks.

For the year, new car and truck sales came in at 11.6 million, up 11 percent from last year, automakers reported Tuesday. For December alone, sales were 1.14 mil-lion, also up 11 percent from a year earlier.

While the figures have some in the industry talking about a return to the glory days, it’s a fragile idea. Rising gas prices or

U.S. auto sales up for the first time since recession beganmore economic trouble could still shake the confidence of American car buyers.

But for now, executives are optimistic about this year. General Motors, Ford and Toyota all predict sales will come in at 12.5 million to 13 million for 2011. It will take years, analysts expect, to get back to the peak sales of 17 mil-lion reached in the middle of the decade.

“The economic downturn has lasted quite a while,” says Jessica Caldwell, director of pricing and analysis for consumer website Edmunds.com. “It’s going to be slow and gradual rather than a fast bounceback.”

Toyota was the only company that sold fewer cars and trucks than in 2009. The

company was stung by sudden-accelera-tion recalls in early 2010 and never fully recovered despite luring buyers with gen-erous incentives. Production problems at its San Antonio plant cut its supply of Tundra and Tacoma pickup trucks, and troubles importing the Prius hybrid also hurt sales. The company lost nearly two percentage points of market share, slip-ping behind Ford to rank third in the U.S.

“We’re coming off what was arguably the most challenging time in our 53-year his-tory,” says Don Esmond, senior vice presi-dent of Toyota’s U.S. operations. He says he is optimistic that sales will rebound in 2011.see next page

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CONCORD (AP) — A Republican-dominated legislative committee voted Tuesday to repeal a year-old ban on guns and dangerous weapons in the New Hampshire Statehouse complex.

Republican members of the Joint Legislative Facilities Committee and ban opponents cited the public’s con-stitutional rights to bear guns and defend themselves as why the change was warranted.

They left intact a rule giving secu-rity guards the right to search people for weapons. Anyone who does not want to be searched has the right to leave the building. Nothing in the rules allows security to confi scate weapons.

Weapons at the Statehouse became a concern when people with guns stood and shouted at lawmakers from the House gallery in March 2009. The disturbance was during debate and votes on a resolution to reaffi rm the state’s freedom from interference by the federal government. The resolu-tion failed.

Democrats controlled the Legisla-ture then and reinstated a weapons ban that had been in place from 1996 to 2006.

“Gun free zones, if we wake up and smell the coffee, are a killing zone,” state Rep. Al Baldasaro, a Lon-donderry Republican, told the com-mittee in seeking the ban’s repeal Tuesday.

Reps. Jennifer Coffey, R-Andover, and Susan DeLemus, R-Rochester, testifi ed that they did not feel safe walking to the legislative garage where their cars are parked.

“I’m feeling very threatened as I walk past people who seem a little shady,” said DeLemus.

Ban supporters said the public, par-ticularly schoolchildren, touring the Statehouse shouldn’t be put at risk. Police have the training, not the public, to deal with volatile situations, they said. They also said police would have a hard time distinguishing among those with guns who were defending themselves from the aggressors if the ban was lifted.

Former state Rep. Valerie Hardy,

GOP legislative leaders repeal ban on guns in N.H. Statehouse

a Litchfi eld Democrat, read a list of incidents around the nation involving gun violence.

“There’s too much violence in this world,” she said.

House Republican Leader D.J. Bet-tencourt of Salem challenged her.

“The vast majority of places where those took place were gun free zones, were they not?” he said.

“I can’t understand why people feel they have to have a gun everywhere they go,” she replied.

Carol Backus of Manchester said gun rights are not absolute and the Statehouse should be a safe haven, particularly for schoolchildren tour-ing with their classes.

“Why should random members of the public be allowed to carry loaded handguns into Representatives Hall or the governor’s offi ce?” she said.

Senate Democratic Leader Sylvia Larsen of Concord was the lone Dem-ocrat present and voted against the repeal.

“Our most important job this ses-sion is to address economic issues,” she said. “We’re spending our fi rst day addressing an issue I fear will cause problems over time.”

She predicted diffi cult debates would produce “passion, disappoint-ment and defeats.”

“Our job is to promote civil discourse and not to allow disruption,” she said.

The House also will consider chang-ing its rules Wednesday to allow people to carry weapons in the House chamber, anterooms, cloakrooms or any area of the Statehouse adjacent to those rooms. The rule will prohibit their display, but will allow them to use weapons in self-defense and to defend others.

Currently, only law enforcement offi cers can carry deadly weapons on the House fl oor or adjacent areas.

The change would leave it to the House and Senate sergent-at-arms to keep order in the respective cham-bers. State police and the Legislature’s chief of protective services would keep order in other areas of the complex.

Senate President Peter Bragdon, R-Milford, said he did not know of a similar proposal to the Senate’s rules.

ry’s advertising for the event falsely said there was no age limit or license required to shoot machine guns.

“Fleury represented that it was all legal and fun,” Bennett said. “The evi-dence will show that one of the pur-poses of Fleury’s enterprise was to furnish machine guns to children.”

Bennett said the boy’s father, Dr. Charles Bizilj, “thought this would be a great adventure and a lot of fun for the boys.”

Bizilj brought his two sons, 11-year-old Colin and 8-year-old Christopher, to the event. Colin fi red the Uzi fi rst with no problem.

Then Christopher went to fi re the gun. Bennett said an unlicensed and uncertifi ed 15-year-old boy was helping Christopher. The teenager gave the Uzi to Christopher and had one hand on the boy and one on the gun, Bennett said.

“It was illegal to allow that child to

have the weapon in the fi rst place,” Bennett told the jury. “Christopher is not capable of controlling this weapon. You will learn that this weapon fi res 1,200 rounds per minute.

“He (Christopher) puts his fi nger on that trigger. It fl ips back. The small size of the gun makes it possible for the muzzle to come right back into his face,” the prosecutor said.

Bennett said a bullet went through Christopher’s face.

A retired state medical examiner, Dr. Loren Mednick, testifi ed Tuesday that Christopher suffered such exten-sive brain damage and bleeding that it was impossible to save him.

A graphic video of the accident recorded by the boy’s father is expected to be introduced as evidence. Judge Peter Velis ruled Monday over the objections of prosecution and defense attorneys that there is no legal reason to prohibit media access to the video.

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LONDONDERRY, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man says he’s going to fi ght a speeding ticket he received after rushing his wife to the hospital when she was in labor.

State Police say John Coughlin hit a speed of 102 mph on Interstate 293 on Sept. 18 as he rushed to Catholic Medical Center in Manchester with his wife Angela. Coughlin is due in court Thursday.

Londonderry man to fight speeding ticket he got while rushing laboring wife to hospital

The Coughlins called 911 after a trooper tried to stop them and said the baby was about to be born. The trooper turned the pursuit into an escort to the hospital.

WMUR-TV says baby Kyle was born six minutes after the Coughlins reached the hospital.

John Coughlin says the trooper con-gratulated him on the birth of his son and then gave him a ticket.


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Jim Hightower

LETTERSTea Party movement is only hope of stopping plunge into tyranny

By gollies, America is still an exporting powerhouse. In fact, the good ol’ U.S.A. is No. 1 in the world in exports! Our corporate leaders, backed by Republicans and Demo-crats alike in Washington, are now routinely exporting America’s most precious goods — our jobs, facto-ries, technologies and middle-class opportunities.

With unemployment and under-employment devastating millions of families in our country, perhaps you’ve assumed that U.S. corpora-tions simply aren’t hiring these days. Nonsense. They added 1.4-mil-lion jobs last year alone — overseas.

For example, more than half of Caterpillar’s new hires in 2010 were in foreign countries. Many more of this giant’s jobs are headed offshore in the near future, for Caterpillar, which was once an iconic Ameri-can brand, has recently invested in three new plants in China. It’ll not only manufacture tractors and bull-dozers there, but it’ll also begin to ship its design work and technology development jobs to China.

Likewise, DuPont, once proud of its U.S. workforce, has slashed its number of American employees in recent years, while increasing its Asia-Pacifi c workforce by more than half. Indeed, DuPont no longer con-siders itself American — “We are a global player,” sniffs its chief inno-vation offi cer.

Such homemade brands as Coca-Cola, Dell and IBM are also among the multitude of corporations aban-doning our shores and our middle class. Of course, they keep their posh headquarters here so they and their top executives can continue enjoy-ing all that America has to offer.

Calvin Coolidge once famously asserted that “what’s good for busi-ness is good for America.” That’s myopic enough, but today’s narcis-sistic CEOs are even more self-cen-tered, declaring that “what’s good for business is good for business, America be damned.”

In fact, profi ts are up, the stock market is roaring, corporations are awash in cash, CEOs are reaping fab-ulous paychecks again, and — did you hear? — holiday spending reached its highest level in four years.

Forget last year’s talk of gloom, all economic indicators are now on zoom, headed for a new boom!

Well, maybe not all indicators. There is still that pesky little prob-lem of joblessness, for instance. Most politicos and economists, however, no longer want to be bothered with the fact that millions of our people are either unemployed or underem-ployed. Jobs, they say dismissively, are merely a “lagging economic indi-cator,” a problem that’ll take care of itself in the by and by. Just be patient. And be quiet.

But jobs have been “lagging” for years now, and there’s no sign that this problem will ever take care of itself. To the contrary, America’s cor-porate elite have learned that they can prosper by deliberately hold-ing the workaday majority in a new normal of job insecurity.

No one at the top wants to admit it, but big business has quietly been imposing a structural transforma-tion on our economy, shifting from a workforce of permanent employees to one in which most jobs are tempo-rary, scarce, low-paid, without ben-efi ts and with no upward mobility. Of the 1.2-million jobs created by the private sector last year, for example, 26-percent were temporary positions, and in November, temp jobs soared to 80-percent of that month’s total.

What’s happening here is not merely a matter of a few million folks being momentarily down on their luck, but of an intentional dis-mantling of America’s middle-class structure.

The Powers That Be can talk all they want about a boom, but work-ing families — America’s majority — know better. A boom for whom? they ask. They can plainly see that self-serving elites are jury-rigging the job market, lowering the stan-dard of living and closing opportuni-ties for millions.

The elites don’t know it yet, but they are playing with dynamite. Our society can tolerate such raw selfi sh-ness by the privileged few, or it can have democracy. It can’t have both.

(Jim Hightower has been called American’s most popular populist. The radio commentator and former Texas Commissioner of Agriculture is author of seven books, including “There’s Nothing In the Middle of Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos” and his new work, “Swim Against the Current: Even Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow”.)

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Free Ward Bird, don’t pardon him; he committed no crimeTo the editor,

I want to know why Ward Bird was singled out to be arrested when Ms. Harris said he waved a gun? Funny she could see a small gun but not all those “No Trespassing” signs. Furthermore, Mr. Bird’s niece had told Ms. Harris not to go on posted property.

Also, in your paper you had an article that supposedly Mr. Bird’s brother-in-law shot at him but noth-

ing was done to the brother-in-law. Which is more dangerous? A suppos-edly waving of a gun or an supposedly actual gun shot? Both cases were he said or she said — no proof either way.

Free Ward Bird, not by pardon. No crime was committed. He should have been freed a long time ago, this was a miscarriage of justice.

Betty FortierLaconia

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To the editor,While United States citizens were

enjoying their eggnog and toasting the new year with champagne, our ever intrusive and power hungry government was busy dictating food safety plans for not only it’s clueless subjects, but also for foreign govern-ments. Ridiculous, absurd you say? Well, just check page 217 of the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010. This according to Mike Adams of the NaturalNews.com report. This global “food safety” plan is to be developed under the consultation to the Depart-ment of Homeland Security and the U.S. Treasury. It will adopt a global-ist food plan — Codex Alimentarius — which was developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) under United Nations auspices.

According to Mr. Adams, the FDA will “harmonize” the U.S. food and dietary supplement industries with global codex requirements. I may have take funds from my IRA to stock-pile nutritional supplements. Appar-ently, this will give the FDA (aka our nanny state government) the power to outlaw healthy doses of vitamins and minerals. Selling Vitamin D in healthy maintenance doses of 4000 to 50000 IU per capsule may very well be criminalized. Products can be seized and destroyed by FDA agents. This will result in a nutritionally defi cient, diseased population which will make Big Pharma euphoric beyond it’s wild-est dreams. Yeah, so many more sick people to treat with medication, vac-cinations and chemotherapy.

Historians have so often noted that a defi ning characteristic of falling or collapsing governments is stepped up aggressiveness especially toward it’s own citizens. According to Robert Scott Bell, the supposed exemptions in the bill for small family farms is a scam. Our totally power drunk gov-ernment is also engaged in lobbying other countries to accept genetically-modifi ed organisms in their food. Is our own government, specifi cally the FDA declaring war against those of us who believe in our health sover-

eignty under the guise of a so-called Food Safety Modernization Act? Sure sounds like it to me.

While the Islamist terrorists use stealth means (takia) to destroy our country when bombing doesn’t work, our government takes a back seat to no one when it comes to ignoring the Constitution and bypassing proper legislative governance in favor of administrative fi at. Passing bills with-out having read them while adding layers upon layers of bureaucratic red tape that is killing our economy. It’s not enough that the government has it’s boot on the throat of entrepre-neurs and small businesses, now they will be using their viral boots to crush our freedom to decide how to care for our bodies. This is complete insanity and it is all happening so fast under the current administration at mind numbing speed.

To quote Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, “I believe in Liberty, I believe in America’s founding principles and I believe in the Bill of Rights. And I will fi ght to defend it. Nowhere in the world is there another country that is more free than America once was. This freedom is worth fi ghting for”. Our freedoms are disappearing at dizzy-ing speed and the time is indeed grow-ing short. I fear the point of no return is drawing ever close like a nor’easter churning up the eastern seaboard. I truly believe that the Tea Party move-ment is our only hope of stopping this nightmarish plunge into progressive tyranny and the demise of the great-est liberty experiment in the history of mankind. I am ready for the fi ght of my life to preserve the liberties I’ve enjoyed so that my children and grandchildren will have the same chance during their lifetime. If you are not upset and angry and ready to defend your freedoms, then you are either not paying attention or you just don’t appreciate the Republic that our founding fathers presented to us. Benjamin Franklin wondered if we would be able to keep it. We are about to fi nd out.

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LETTERSLegislature is going to downshift cost to local property taxpayersTo the editor,

The holidays are past, 2011 has begun. I have had a couple of months to refl ect on my experience of running for the New Hampshire House of Rep-resentatives.

What an experience it was! I will say that the best part of it was meet-ing so many great people, making so many new friends and the heartfelt sincere support that I received.

The worst part of it for me was real-izing the negativity and how angry people have become with politics. I certainly understand. I fi nd it very disheartening myself and so would Gouverneur Morris.

While reviewing the some 875 Leg-islative Service Requests for 2011, I also have come to realize that many people run for offi ce for wrong and self-centered reasons. That may sound naive, but the campaign taradiddle that is coming to the surface is ridicu-lous. Most of the proposed legislation for this session has absolutely noth-ing to do with creating jobs, cutting spending or shrinking government.

Speaking of shrinking government,

while each LSR costs N.H. approxi-mately $1,500 why would the new General Court submit close to 900 LSR’s, most of which are meaningless, will not create jobs, will not help our economy and will cost us a ballpark of $1,332,000?

I urge constituents to read the pro-posed Legislative Service Requests ( http://gencourt.state.nh.us/). Click on 2011 Bill Requests (LSR’s) then click on see all Bill Requests. I am sure that you will fi nd the read interesting. You may even decide to contact your legislators.

It is obvious that the incoming legis-lature is going to concentrate on bills that will result in downshifting on the local property tax payers. That will be tragic, since many people who are living on fi xed incomes in our local communi-ties will be paying the consequences.

Hold on for the ride. Luckily, going in reverse is much slower moving than going forward!

As someone says, just my honest opinion.

Carla HorneMeredith

The purpose of government is to help people who are in needTo the editor,

Mmmm. Tears are shed. Here it’s New Years Day 2011 and history repeats itself, it was a sad day for America. If you still travel around the country on the trains and the turn-pikes, back roads, you still will see Americans with their children, home-less veterans after fi ghting a war, living in camps, tents, cardboard huts, sleeping in back alleys, on the river-bank, in fi elds. It hasn’t gone away — we have.

I believe it is up to Congress to help make their lives better, if we can go to other countries and call their leader-ship evil for the way they treat their citizens, what do we call ours? We, they, Congress, our leaders, can have everything in life they want if they

just help others to get the things they need. No one chooses to be homeless, without jobs, food, medical care.

I think we lost track of what the purpose of government is. The pur-pose of government, is to help people when in need. If people prosper, so will our country. Some live in a bubble, they don’t see or feel the suffering.

Yes, history has repeated itself, well we continue in the same selfl ess way? We throw God and country, yellow ribbons, patriotism in everything we “say.” But what do we “do?”

“For if you do for the least of these, you do for me.”

Pray for America, we need all the help we can get.

Nancy LeclercNorth Woodstock

Anna, calm down and enjoy life, you don’t have to be so angryTo the editor,

I guess you could say this mostly for Anna DeRose. Anna, why do you have so much anger in your heart? When I read your letters, they are always in large print and sound violent. You don’t have to use large print to make a point, or to get our attention.

And yes, Christmas is Christmas, but there are other holidays also: Happy Hanukkah, New Years and others ways of saying Merry Christmas. And, yes, the true meaning of Christ-mas is of the

Christ child being born.I’m sure everyone who believes in

Christ knows that, Anna. You have many a good point in the letter you have written, without large letters. No one, I’m sure, is picking you out of the crowd to yell at. People complain about different things others say, too.

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While many sailors aboard the ship at the time have defended Honors on Facebook postings — contending he was simply providing a much-needed morale boost during long deployments at sea — senior military offi cials inter-viewed by The Associated Press said the videos were extreme and showed a disturbing lack of judgment.

No leaders in senior posts at the Pentagon and in the Navy could explain why, if Honors’ conduct was so questionable, he was promoted after the videos aired. Last week, the Navy said the videos were intended merely as “humorous skits” and stopped airing immediately after other senior offi cers became aware of them.

According to the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Chair-man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen weren’t aware of the videos until this week. They were said to have left any disciplinary action up to the Navy.

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus fi rst learned of the videos last weekend, spokespeople said, and both supported the decision to fi re Honors. They declined to say, however, whether either offi cial pressed for the dismissal, saying only that it was Harvey’s decision.

The lewd videos were far from the fi rst time that U.S. troops have been disciplined for misbehaving.

In 1991, the Navy became embroiled in the “Tailhook” scandal in which naval pilots were accused of sexually abusing female offi cers at a Las Vegas convention. During the Iraq war, shocking images surfaced of prisoners

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And in 2008, a Marine was kicked out of the service after being video-taped throwing a puppy off a cliff while on patrol in Iraq and joking about it.

A conservative group that has previ-ously clashed with Adm. Mullen on his support to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” ban seized on the latest incident on Tuesday. The group accused the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of turn-ing a blind eye to discipline problems that, they say, will make openly gay service diffi cult.

Mullen was chief of naval opera-tions when the videos were made.

“Now we know that Adm. Mullen’s rose-colored crystal ball is unreliable,” said Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness.

Asked to respond, Mullen spokes-man Capt. John Kirby said, “The chairman’s long record of command and leadership, afl oat and ashore, speaks for itself.”

The Pentagon said December’s con-gressional vote to end the “don’t ask, don’t tell” ban did not contribute to this week’s reaction to the videos. Lapan said anti-gay slurs have never been considered appropriate in the military.

Gates is expected to begin this week the process of pulling together a fi nal plan to repeal the rule against open service by gays. The law signed by President Barack Obama last month requires that before any changes are made the Pentagon must certify to Congress that lifting the ban wouldn’t hurt military effectiveness

Lapan said initiating that process will be one of Gates’ “highest priori-ties” this month.

Capt. Dee Mewbourne has been named the new commander of the USS Enterprise. He is a former com-mander of the carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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LACONIA — After winning a hard-fought battle last year to earn City Council’s blessing to seek state aid to renovate the Huot Technical Center, School Board members heard from Superintendent Bob Champlin last night that there are yet more politi-cal hazards in the road ahead. State funding for the project may evaporate when the state budget is constructed in the first half of this year, he said.

Laconia wants a one time cash pay-ment of $7.5-million — three-fourths of the anticipated cost — plus 40-per-cent help in making the principal pay-ments on the remaining $2.5-million.

Champlin told the board that he had met with Frank Tilton, a Republican representing Laconia in the state’s House of Representatives, to discuss the Huot Center and a “legislative breakfast” that Champlin planned to host for the purpose of presenting the slate of newly-elected local repre-sentatives with the argument for the renovation project.

“His first comments to me were, there may not be money for this,” Champlin reported to the board about his conversation with Tilton, who has a seat on the powerful Public Works and Highways Committee, the body which crafts the states’ capital budget.

The state is facing a structural budget deficit over the next two years that has been estimated to be in the $400-million to $800-million range. And the new Republican super-major-ities in both the House and Senate are expected to be more hawkish about cutting state spending than there Democratic predecessors were.

Superintendent warns school board to expect roller coaster ride as budget for Huot Center redo works its way through legislative process

Champlin said the key committee will begin its discussions this month but won’t submit its finalized budget until June. “We may be on a roller-coaster from January to June,” Cham-plin warned the board.

For the next several months, he said the district should follow “two tracks of Huot Center planning.” The first track is the political one, in which pro-ponents of the project lobby their rep-resentatives to protect state funding. The second track is the preparations of plans for renovation options.

Champlin said there will be at least two building options developed in the next several months. The first one, favored by the board, will be to build a new technical center on a new site, away from the high school. The second option will propose to renovate the center on the current Union Ave. campus.

NOTES: The board authorized a multi-year commitment with Primex, an insurance provider which covers the school’s worker’ compensation, property and liability policies. The provider will give the district a five percent discount each year as a result of the agreement. . . . . . The district will send a team of teacher leaders to Somersworth, where they will learn about a University of New Hampshire administered anti-bullying program. . . . . . The district will also learn about a program adopted by schools in the Kearsarge Regional School District in which students take home “blizzard bags” full of class work, which they will work on in the case of a school cancellation. Kearsarge schools were able to avoid making up two “snow days” last year thanks to the program, Champlin said.

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stone,” she said, “and I’m hoping we’ll recycle even more this year. The sky is the limit.”

Since the city pays a fixed price for recycling regardless of tonnage, every ton taken out of the waste stream and recycled reduces the cost of collecting, transporting and disposing of solid waste, which is funded by property taxes. A year ago the cost jumped from $128 per ton to more than $145 per ton and by the end of last year reached nearly $147 per ton. An increase in the tipping fee at the Concord Regional Solid Waste/Resource Recovery Coop-erative (Coop) from $45.90 per ton to $66.80 per ton represented the largest share of the increase.

Each ton of solid waste removed from the waste stream by recycling represents an “avoided cost” of about $145 per ton. During the year recy-cling reduced the cost of collecting, transporting and disposing of solid waste by $145,386.

In October, Bestway Disposal Ser-vices began collecting both trash and recyclables under a contract that pegs the cost of collecting recyclable mate-rials at $10,000 per month, regard-less of the tonnage. To the extent the “avoided costs” of handling solid waste

exceed the cost of collecting recyclable materials, the overall cost of man-aging solid waste is reduced. In the fourth quarter of 2010, 243.39 tons of recyclable materials were collected at a cost of $30,000, which trimmed the cost of collecting, transporting and disposing of trash by $34,936.54 — for a net reduction in solid waste expen-ditures of almost $5,000.

The coop plans to construct a single-stream recycling facility. Saltmarsh explained that if it were already open and operating, the city would be paid for each ton of recyclable material it delivered. “Depending on the price we receive we could more than double our savings.” she said.

However, Saltmarsh is eying even greater savings. “We only recycle about seven-percent or eight-percent of all our trash,” she said. “But, something like 60-percent of household trash can be recycled.” Saltmarsh estimated that by recycling 60-percent instead of eight-percent of all trash, the annual solid waste budget of $1.8 could be more than halved, which would prop-erty taxpayers more than $1-million. “And that estimate does not take into account any revenue we would get from the sale of our recyclable materi-als,” she added.

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Tom Smith’s Laconia Antiques Center will soon occupy all 22,000-square-feet of space in the former Bloom’s Variety building (back-ground) in downtown Laconia. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Michael Kitch)

to 22,000-square-feet on two floors, providing space for approximately 200 dealers. Smith estimated that the center will rank as the largest group shop in the state and once again make the Lakes Region a primary des-tination for the pilgrimages of dealers and collectors.

In the past five years fire destroyed Country Tyme in Belmont while Burlwood in Meredith and Bertha Mae’s Antiques Center in Gilford both closed.

Noting that many dealers were displaced by the closures, Smith said that the center offers very competitive rates and expects to a draw a variety of dealers, all offering quality goods. “The response

has been very encouraging,” he said, and added that “anyone interested in renting space can reach me at 524-9484.”

Smith said that the space includes a sprinkling system, excellent lighting, high ceilings and ample room for wide aisles. Apart from an array of deal-ers, the ground floor will also offer a soda fountain, complemented by a jukebox and Pepsi machine, and a comfortable reading area for those browsing the bookshelves. A model railroading enthusiast, Smith has designed a depot to house his Lionel Train outlet opposite the soda fountain on the ground floor.

The mezzanine will feature what Smith called “a gigantic model train layout” together with a selec-tion of antique dealers. Both staircases, one on each side of the building, will be opened and handicapped access to the mezzanine will be provided.

“We will have a lot more of what we have,” Smith said, “the largest selection of antique furniture around, jewelry, coins, ephemera, books and so on. All antiques and collectibles,” he stressed, explain-ing that the quality of the merchandise will be closely monitored. “There will be no flea market material,” he said.

To the consternation of many, the Bloom’s building has been vacant since the variety store held its final sale in the summer of 2008. Some have envisioned it playing a role in the revitalization of the Colonial The-ater, located next door, as a performing arts center. The city holds an option to purchase the theater complex

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Brandy McGirr, 26, apparently fled out the back door before police could execute a search warrant, however, and was still at large on Tuesday night.

Tilton Police said the incident began Monday just after 3:30 p.m. when they got a call of a theft at Walmart. Security employees told police a man, dressed in a blue hooded sweatshirt, had ran from the store and jumped into a silver Chevy Silverado pickup.

When Patrol Officer William Patton responded, he saw the pickup, which he noted was being driven by a woman, passing cars on the right in an attempt to flee the parking lot and road leading from Walmart.

He pulled over the truck and recognized Daniel A. Mason, 27,of 368 Union Road in Belmont as the passenger. A second male passenger gave him iden-tification showing he was from Belmont.

The driver identified herself as Kara Hughes. Patton said there were 12 X-Box and 2 Play Station 3 video games on the front seat wrapped in a shirt. The allegedly stolen items are valued at $780.

Patton drafted arrest warrants for the woman who identified herself as Hughes for criminal liability for the conduct of another and for Mason for willful con-cealment. He said police then contacted Mason and the woman who said she was Hughes but lost tele-phone contact with them.

Patton said Tilton Police notified Belmont Police and they met jointly at 368 Union Road.

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There was a heavy police presence at 368 Union Road in Belmont on Tuesday afternoon but the woman authorities sought in con-nection with an alleged shoplifting at Walmart in Tilton on Monday apparently slipped out the back while police waited for a search warrant. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Gail Ober)

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and were granted a search warrant to enter the home.Police also called the home’s owner, who met them

there and allowed them inside.Patton said the home was empty but they learned

the real name of the woman they sought was McGirr, Daniel Mason’s girlfriend.

Police noticed footprints leading from the back of the house through the backyard and were able to track McGirr to a nearby road. They believe she con-tacted someone who picked her up at that spot.

Patton said McGirr has an extensive criminal record in both New Hampshire and Massachusetts, where she was convicted of giving a false name to police.

While police prepared additional charges for McGirr that include operating after suspension and disobeying a police officer, State Police Trooper Ron Taylor went to Mason’s place of employment and arrested him on the willful concealment charge.

Anyone with any information on McGirr’s where-abouts is asked to call the Tilton Police at 286-4442.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- A New York-based dental chain unexpectedly shut down operations nation-wide because of cash-flow problems, leaving patients without access to their records and offices unreach-able by phone or computer.

Patients reported going to Allcare Dental & Den-tures offices for scheduled appointments begin-ning Monday only to find the doors closed in states including New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and New Hampshire.

Gabe Williams of Dayton, Ohio, said he paid more than $3,000 in advance for dental work but was locked out Monday when he showed up for an appointment that the company had rescheduled from Dec. 30.

After prepaying $750, Lynn Berger found herself in the same situation in Nashua, N.H. Allcare had called in mid-December to move a Dec. 27 appoint-ment to Monday, saying the corporate office had decided to shut down during the holidays.

“They knew they were closing when they were rescheduling,” she said Tuesday.

Hundreds of employees, meanwhile, wondered whether they would get paid for hours already worked and whether bonuses promised before Christmas would ever arrive.

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Dental chain operating in N.H. closes unexpectedlyanything,” said Tara Mongold, who worked at the company’s call center in the Buffalo suburb of Clar-ence for more than three years.

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LACONIA — Michael Anthony Nevin wasn’t due to be born until Thursday, January 6, which is what Danyelle Nevin was telling herself on Sunday night when she started to wonder if her first child had his own plans. “I didn’t know what to expect,” she said.

Nevin, a 19 year-old Salisbury resident, called her brother Deric Nevin, whose girlfriend advised her it was time to go to the hospital. After a 25-minute ride to Lakes Region General Hospital, and another hour of labor, Michael Anthony was born at 1:07 a.m. on Monday, January 3. Nevin estimates she was in labor for a total of five hours.

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ing 19 inches long, Michael Anthony Nevin was the first baby born in LRGH in 2011. Dr. Carolyn Drake assisted Nevin with the delivery.

Nevin was given baskets from Baby Threads NH and the LRGH Nursery Guild to equip with items to care for a newborn. She hoped to take him home today and introduce him to his furnished nursery.

There were 445 babies born at Lakes Region Gen-eral Hospital last year, which maternity ward staff said was slightly below the yearly average of 500 births.

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BOSTON (AP) — The youngest son of the late shah of Iran was found dead Tuesday of an apparent sui-cide at his home in Boston, after he had “struggled for years to overcome his sorrow,” his brother said.

“Once again, we are joined with mothers, father and relatives of so many victims of these dark times for our country,” the shah’s oldest son, Reza Pahlavi, wrote on his website in announcing the death of his brother, Alireza Pahlavi.

Pahlavi, 44, died from a gunshot wound that apparently was self-inflicted, said Jake Wark, a spokesman for the Suffolk district attorney’s office.

Boston police said officers responding to a 911 call found the man dead in his home in the city’s South End neighborhood shortly after 2 a.m. Tuesday. A police spokesman did not know who made the call or whether it came from the home.

Fardia Pars, who is close to Reza Pahlavi, said by phone from Paris that Alireza Pahlavi went into a deep depression following the 2001 death of his sister Leila Pahlavi, who was found in a London hotel room at age

Son of former Iranian shah, 44, found dead in Boston31 after overdosing on barbiturates.

Alireza Pahlavi never recovered, Pars said.“He became a different person,” he said.Pahlavi’s depression “grew over time — his depar-

ture from Iran, living in exile, the death of his father and then his sister to whom he was very close,” said Nazie Eftekhari, who works in Reza Pahlavi’s office in Washington and is a close family friend.

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2. Administration 9:30 AM b) Debra Shackett

3. Maintenance 10:30 AM c) Harold Powell

4. Deeds 11:00 AM d) Barbara Luther

Point of Contact - David Russell

LACONIA — A Belknap County Superior Court judge rejected the plea agreement reached between the man who was allegedly riding drunk when, last June, he struck a city police officer and the county attorney prosecuting him.

Zachary Morton, 27, of Manchester was initially charged with two counts of aggravated driving while intoxicated, which represent two versions of the same accident. A second charge of misdemeanor reckless conduct was added before yesterday’s scheduled procedure.

Police alleged he was intoxicated when he crashed his motorcycle into Patrol Officer Kathleen Yale when she attempted to stop him and two others while she was on bicycle patrol on Lakeside Avenue during last year’s Bike Week.

State Police Sgt. Brandon Davey, who is part of the state accident reconstruction team, investigated the crash.

Yale suffered a broken nose and other facial inju-ries and according to Laconia Police Chief Michael Moyer was out of work for a couple of days.

Both Davey and Yale had also agreed that Morton was cooperative with the investigation and volun-tarily took an alcohol breath test.

Morton, through his attorney Michael Craig, agreed to a negotiated plea of guilty on one count of misdemeanor reckless conduct and one count of misdemeanor driving while intoxicated.

He agreed to serve 12 months in the Belknap County jail with all but 30 days suspended and pay a $500 fine plus $26,000 in restitution. He would loose his drivers license.

Deputy County Attorney Carly Ahern also agreed that Morton could serve his 30 days on consecutive

Judge rejects plea deal offered motorcyclist who hit Laconia cop while allegedly riding drunk

weekends, complete a letter of apology to Yale and seek treatment.

But Judge James O’Neill did not buy the deal. Without giving a reason, O’Neill rejected the negoti-ated plea out of hand.

“This is not acceptable. The pending motion to sup-press [some of the state’s evidence] will be resched-uled,” O’Neill said.

Despite Ahern’s representations that Yale was satisfied with the plea deal and mostly wanted an apology and assurance that Morton would never repeat this behavior, O’Neill said no.

Prior to hearing O’Neill reject the plea, Craig told the court that Morton’s life was a perfect example of how one bad decision could turn someone’s world upside-down.

“He was working as a paramedic and lost his job of seven years,” Craig said, adding that prior to this accident, Morton had never had so much as a speed-ing ticket.

He said Morton now suffers from depression, has suffered from depression-related medical issues and was willing to accept responsibility for what he had done.

Speaking on his own behalf, Morton said he “feels awful” about what he did. “I worked with law enforcement in Manchester. I want to help people,” he said.

Speaking yesterday afternoon, Ahern said she would be preparing for trial. With the plea rejected, she said Morton still faces the two counts of aggra-vated driving while intoxicated and one count of reckless conduct.

She said she didn’t know why O’Neill rejected the negotiated plea but said he also rejected a second offer of 45 consecutive days in jail.

Craig could not be reached for comment.

By Gail OBerTHE LACONIA DAILY SUN

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Archdiocese of Milwau-kee said Tuesday it would file for bankruptcy protec-tion because pending sexual-abuse lawsuits could leave it with debts it couldn’t afford. A lawyer who filed many of those lawsuits, however, said he thought the archdiocese was using bankruptcy as a delay tactic to avoid opening its records to public scrutiny.

Clergy sex abuse has already cost the Milwaukee archdiocese $29 million to address almost 200 claims over the past 20 years, Archbishop Jerome Listecki said. Bankruptcy protection will allow the church to continue its work while ensuring other victims receive the compensation they deserve, he said.

Listecki said he felt “deeply ashamed” about what had happened within the church.

Archdiocese in Wisconsin seeks bankruptcy protection“In my installation homily on Jan. 4, 2010, I spoke

of the devastation of sin and its effect on us personally and as a community,” Listecki said. “We see the result of that sin today. This action is occurring because priest-perpetrators sexually abused minors, going against everything the church and the priesthood represents.”

The Milwaukee archdiocese is the eighth in the U.S. to seek bankruptcy protection since the clergy abuse scandal erupted in 2002 in Boston. The other seven are in Davenport, Iowa; Fairbanks, Alaska; Portland, Ore.; San Diego; Spokane, Wash.; Tucson, Ariz.; and Wilmington, Del.

Tuesday’s announcement drew scorn from attor-ney Jeff Anderson, of St. Paul, Minn., who has filed 23 lawsuits against the archdiocese.


John J. Smith, 91GILFORD — John J. Smith, 91, of Gil-

ford died at the Laconia Center Genesis Eldercare, Laconia on Friday, December 31, 2010.

John was born January 28, 1919 in Buf-falo, N. Y., the son of Sarah (Gafney) and James A. Smith.

John was a Navy veteran, having earned the rank of Machinists Mate Second Class. John served aboard the USS Hamilton DD-141 from 1937 to 1939, and aboard the USS Hughes DD-410 from 1939 to 1941, and was honorably discharged. John was working in Sperry Gyroscope Corp, a defense contractor in Lake Suc-cess NY and was drafted back into the Navy during WWII where he served as a “plank owner” aboard the USS Grady DE-445 from 1943 to 1946.

John had been employed as a mechanical tech-nician for Diebold, Inc. maintaining and repairing physical and electronic security systems for banks.

John is survived by his wife of 63 years Gertrude C. (Young) Smith of Gilford; a daughter Patricia

Smith Burkhart of Arlington, Mass; and two sons William J. Smith of Mattituck, NY and James J. Smith of Phoenix, AZ. John and Gertrude were both formerly of Bethpage NY, where they raised their three children before retiring to the Lakes region of New Hampshire.

John had a life-long love for boating and enjoyed motor, sail boating, canoeing and water skiing.

Graveside Services with Military Honors were held on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at the NH Veterans Cemetery, 110 Daniel Webster Highway, Boscawen, NH.

For those who wish, the family suggests that memorial donations be made to the New Hampshire Humane Society, PO Box 572, Laconia, NH 03247.

Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 164 Pleasant St., Laco-nia, N. H. is in charge of the arrangements. For more information and to view an online memorial go to www.wlkinsonbeane.com.

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New Certificate in Developmental Disabilities program to be offered at Lakes Region Community College

LACONIA — A new Certificate in Developmental Disabilities program will be offered by Lakes Region Community College (LRCC) beginning January 22.

The program will be part of LRCC’s Human Ser-vices Program and any credits earned may be used toward an Associate’s Degree in that program. Stu-dents are welcome to enroll in one course or pursue the entire certificate.

“While the Human Services Program is designed to afford students opportunities in the field of Human Service Agencies, we found that it was lack-ing in the area of Developmental Disabilities,” stated Human Services Department Chair Linda Ferruolo. “The courses in the program will be a combination of theory and hands-on application and are being designed so that they are appropriate for someone interested in the field, those relatively new in the field, or those wanting to expand their education.”

LRCC has worked closely with Lakes Region Com-munity Services (LRCS), a local non-profit corpora-tion that works with individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. Through collabora-

tion, LRCC and LRCS were able to combine talents to develop this certificate program.

Funding is available for the tuition, text books, and stu-dent fees associated with this program. The Institute of Disability at the University of New Hampshire, through its DirectConnect Initiative, is supporting this endeavor. DirectConnect is a project funded by the US Department of Labor, which is addressing the multiple issues within NH’s Direct Care Workforce, including training.

According to LRCS Executive Director Christine Santaniello, “We are so happy that the College has decided to offer this program. This will ensure that we will continue to have a qualified workforce to meet our current and expanding program needs. The timing is perfect for us and potential students with the availability of funds through DirectCon-nect. We are fortunate to have such committed part-ners of the college and the Institute on Disability.”

The first class in the certificate program will start on January 22 and run for nine consecutive Satur-days. Those interested in enrolling should contact LRCC by calling 524-3207 or visiting www.lrcc.edu.

MEREDITH — A winter Senior Exercise Program, sponsored by the Parks and Recreation Department, will be held on Mondays and Thursdays at the Com-munity Center from 9 — 10 a.m. beginning January 10.

Senior adults will enjoy healthy exercise in a fun, safe, and supportive atmosphere. The session will run through March 3.

For more information, call Parks and Recreation at 279-8197.

Senior Exercise Program, presented by Meredith Parks and Recreation, to begin Monday, January 10

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Belknap County Delegation Law Enforcement Sub-Committee

The Belknap County Delegation Law Enforcement Sub-Committee will be holding work sessions on Monday, January 17, 2011 at the Belknap County Complex in the multipurpose room, 34 County Drive, Laconia, NH. The schedule is as follows:

1. Department of Corrections – 1:00 PM a. Daniel Ward, Superintendent

2. Sheriff’s Department – 2:00 PM a. Craig Wiggin, Sheriff

3. Belknap County Youth Services – 3:00 PM a. Brian Loanes, Executive Director

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Tom Garfield (right), executive vice president of consumer services for Laconia Savings Bank, pres-ents a $5,000 donation to Lisa Kling (left) and Carol Anderson (center), vice president and president, respectively, of the newly-formed Gunstock Mountain Historic Preservation Society. (Courtesy photo)

LACONIA — The Gunstock Moun-tain Historic Preservation Society recently received a major donation to its initial funding effort with a $5,000 donation from Laconia Savings Bank.

Accepting the donation on behalf of the organization were the Society’s President Carol Anderson and Vice President Lisa Kling. Anderson who thanked Tom Garfield, executive vice president of consumer services for LSB, said, “I cannot tell you how much this donation means to the preserva-tion society. With this donation we can now hire an engineer to perform a hill survey at the jump sites, which is a critical initial step in the restoration of these historic structures. Without this we would be behind our time-

line goals by at least six months. We cannot thank you enough.”

The Gunstock Mountain Historic Preservation Society, an all-volunteer non-profit organization, was formed to first restore the jumps located at Gun-stock Mountain Resort with a long-term mission to preserve all of the ski history connected to Gunstock as well as that of Belknap County.

Laconia Savings Bank is deeply rooted in the communities it serves and has been since its inception in 1831. The bank strongly promotes volunteer-ism and has a long history of providing financial support to non-profit agencies such as the Gunstock Mountain His-toric Preservation Society.

Gunstock Historic Preservation Society gets $5k donation from Laconia Savings

LACONIA — David A. Hough, county coordinator for the Belknap County branch of NH GenWeb, will ease newcomers into the art of genealogy research at the Goss Reading Room at 6 p.m. on Thursday, January 20.

An active member of the Laconia Historical & Museum Society, Hough has helped to document the gravesites at the Laconia State Cemetery in

Meredith Center and to feed historic data into the LHMS website. Like most genealogists, he enjoys sharing his knowledge with others.

Friends of the Goss Reading Room, a branch of the Laconia Public Library always welcomes new friends, mem-bers or opinions. Anyone needing a ride or wishing more information should call 524-7683.

Genealogy buff to speak at Goss Reading Room

LACONIA — The deadline for nom-inating residents and businesses for the annual awards presented by the Belknap County Economic Develop-ment Council (BCEDC) is Friday, January 21.

The Director’s Award is given to an organization or business that has con-tributed to the economic vitality of the region. Past recipients have included Lakes Region Community College, Lakes Region Linen, the Bahre Family of NH International Speedway, Mer-edith Village Savings Bank, Laconia Savings Bank, Meadowbrook Musi-cal Arts Center, Gunstock Mountain Resort, LRGHealthcare, the Belknap County banking industry, Eptam Plastics, The J. Jill Group, and Hamp-shire Hospitality Holdings.

Named for the late County Commis-sioner and businessman, the Norman Marsh Award honors an individual with a commitment to the region whose daily endeavors benefit its resi-dents. At the 2010 annual meeting, the Council lauded Peggy Selig for her work to promote self-development and independence through educa-tion, focusing especially on the adult learner. Previous winners include

BC Economic Development Council seeks nominations for annual awards

Jim Carroll, Alex Ray, Alan Robi-chaud, Bill and Erika Johnson, Mark Thurston, Tom Clairmont, Senator Carl Johnson, Judge Bud Martin, and Chief Bill Baker.

The Council’s Corporate Soul Award recognizes the work of a corporation, either for-profit or non-profit, with a deep commitment to the essence of community and which works to make a difference. Last year’s recipient was Patrick’s Pub & Eatery. Others honored since the award’s inception are All Metals Industries, USD Rural Development, Laconia Housing & Redevelopment Authority, The Taylor Community, Laconia Area Commu-nity land Trust, Lakes Region United Way, Lakes Region Day Care, Lakes Region Conservation Trust, New Hampshire Employment Security, and the healthcare industry.

Nominations of individuals, busi-nesses, or organizations should be mailed — each accompanied by a statement of support — to BCEDC Awards, One Mill Plaza, Laconia, NH 03246; faxed to 524-0314; or e-mailed to [email protected].

The BCEDC’s 2011 awards presenta-tion will be held Thursday, March 31.

LACONIA — “Weight No Longer,” a new weight loss program presented by LRGHealthcare, will meet at the HealthLink Building from 6:15 — 7:15 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning January 11.

Millions of Americans struggle with their weight. Obesity has become an epidemic in the United States and many lifestyle habits contribute to the likelihood of someone becoming over-weight or obese. Large portions, high fat foods, and lack of physical activity can all contribute to steady weight gain as people age.

Being overweight has many health implications such as increased risk for cardiovascular disease including heart attack, stroke, and diabetes. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States

and is no longer a “man’s disease.” In fact, women have a greater chance of dying from cardiovascular disease than from breast cancer and all other forms of cancer combined.

Taught by a registered dietitian, “Weight No Longer” will offer meal planning and calorie intake guide-lines, and will teach participants how to use a pedometer. Participants will keep a food and activity journal and, at the beginning and end of the pro-gram, will be screened for cholesterol, glucose, blood pressure, body fat com-position, body mass index (BMI), and waist circumference.

Classes will run through March 3. The program cost is $150 per person. For more information or to register, call 527-7120.

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present you. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). It would be dangerously unwise to drive while reading and eating a sandwich. In some way, you are trying to do this in your life -- trying to simultaneously take on incompatible tasks. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Part of the appeal of travel is that you don’t know what to expect. You can choose your destination, but you can’t choose your adventure because much of it is out of your control. Plan your next trip. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You have been given a plan to work from, but think of it as a guide instead of a hard-and-fast set of laws. Trusting your judgment will be more fun than adhering to a strict schedule, blue plan or list of rules. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). What you really want is doable, but something has to give in order to make it all work. Assess the situation, and determine what you can drop. It won’t be hard to decide. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your body wants something different from that which your schedule currently allows. Perhaps it’s more sleep or more exercise. Pay attention to what your body wants, and reconfi gure your schedule. TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Jan. 5). You hold the recipe for happiness, and all you have to do is follow it. You’ll have a cheering section this month. February brings better structure to your sched-ule. April is your chance to commit to a professional goal. There’s a big cel-ebration in May. Invest in yourself in June. A dear wish is fulfi lled in July. Leo and Virgo people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 40, 15, 32, 12 and 45.

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Today is Wed., Jan. 5, the fi fth day of 2011. There are 360 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:On Jan. 5, 1896, an Austrian newspa-

per, Wiener Presse, reported the discovery by German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen (RENT’-gun) of a type of radiation that came to be known as “X-rays.”

On this date:In 1781, a British naval expedition led by

Benedict Arnold burned Richmond, Va.In 1809, the Treaty of the Dardanelles,

which ended the Anglo-Turkish War, was concluded by the United Kingdom and the Ottoman Empire.

In 1895, French Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, was publicly stripped of his rank. (He was ultimately vindicated.)

In 1925, Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming became the fi rst female governor in U.S. history.

In 1933, the 30th president of the United States, Calvin Coolidge, died in Northamp-ton, Mass., at age 60.

In 1949, in his State of the Union address, President Harry S. Truman labeled his administration the Fair Deal.

In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed assistance to countries to help them resist Communist aggression; this became known as the Eisenhower Doc-trine.

In 1970, Joseph A. Yablonski, an unsuc-cessful candidate for the presidency of the United Mine Workers of America, was found murdered with his wife and daughter at their Clarksville, Pa. home.

In 1994, Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representa-tives, died in Boston at age 81.

In 1998, Sonny Bono, the 1960s pop star-turned-politician, was killed when he struck a tree while skiing at the Heavenly Ski Resort on the Nevada-California state line; he was 62.

One year ago: President Barack Obama scolded 20 of his highest-level offi cials over the botched Christmas Day terror attack on an airliner bound for Detroit, taking them jointly to task for “a screw-up that could have been disastrous” and should have been avoided.

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CALENDARTODAY’S EVENTS

Flu shot clinic for anyone over the age of 6 months. 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Salvation Army on Union Ave. in Laconia. Hosted by Central N.H. VNA & Hospice. For more information call Anne Marie at 524-8444 or visit www.chhnh.org.

Affordable Health Care at Laconia Family Planning and Prenatal. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 121 Belmont Road (Rte. 106 South). 524-5453. GYN and reproductive services. STD/HIV testing on walk-in basis from 4 to 6 p.m. only. Slid-ing fee scale.

Cub Scout Pack 143 meets at the Congregational Church of Laconia (across from Laconia Savings Bank). 6:30 each Wednesday. All boys 6-10 are welcome. For information call 527-1716.

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.

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

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

THURSDAY, JANUARY 6Free hot meal and great company brought to the

Bristol community by Food for Friends. 5 to 6 p.m. at the Tapply Community Center on the first Thursday of every month.

Laconia Fire Chief Ken Erickson speaks about fire safety for seniors at the Laconia Senior Center. 10 a.m.

Weight Watchers meeting. 6:30 p.m. at the Center Harbor Christian Church.

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 alcoholics. No dues or fees. All are welcome. Call 645-9518.

Affordable Health Care at Laconia Family Planning and Prenatal. 4 to 6 p.m. at 121 Belmont Road (Rte. 106 South). 524-5453. GYN and reproductive services. STD/HIV testing. Sliding fee scale.

Knotty Knitters meeting at the Meredith Public Library. 10 a.m. to noon. All levels of experience welcome.

Preschool Story Time at the Meredith Public Library. 1 to 2 p.m. Stories and crafts for ages 3-5. Sign-up is helpful.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 7Al-Anon Meeting at the Congregational Church

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

Affordable Health Care at Laconia Family Planning and Prenatal. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 121 Belmont Road (Rte. 106 South). 524-5453. GYN and reproductive services. STD/HIV testing. Sliding fee scale.

Indoor climbing wall drop-in time at Meredith Com-munity Center. 6 to 8 p.m. Climb Mt. Meredith, a 24-ft. indoor climbing wall. $1 per person. Please pay at the front desk.

Tot Time at the Meredith Public Library. 9:30 to 10:20 a.m. Stories , songs, crafts and fun for toddlers 1-3. Sign-up is helpful.


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LACONIA — A five-week class on Gluten-Free Cooking will be offered by the Adult Education pro-gram on Tuesdays from 6 — 8 p.m. beginning Janu-ary 25.

Up to one million Americans may have intolerance for gluten, a protein found in all wheat, rye, barley, and oat products. Allergy to wheat is one of the more common food allergies in children with symp-toms such as hives, difficulty breathing, and nausea. Wheat allergy is different from a disorder known as Celiac Disease, an immune system reaction that causes inflammation in the small intestines when a person eats any food containing gluten.

The only medically acceptable treatment for gluten intolerance and Celiac Disease is to elimi-

nate all gluten from the diet. Many people with other conditions may also benefit from a gluten and wheat-free diet including those with Attention Defi-cit Disorder, Multiple Sclerosis, Lactose Intolerance, Autism, chronic fatigue, indigestion, and malnutri-tion.

In the Gluten-Free Cooking class, Sarah Baldwin-Welcome, a culinary graduate of Newbury College and owner of Provincial Palate Inc., will teach stu-dents how to live wheat/gluten-free and still enjoy pasta, pizza, and crepes. Participants will learn how to prepare basic recipes with gluten-free ingredients and explore new gluten-free alternatives.

To enroll in the course or get more information, call the Adult Education Office at 524-5712.

Gluten-free cooking class will start on January 25

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Laura Tibbetts receives a congratulatory hug from her daughter, Skye, age 4. (Courtesy photo)

SANBORNTON — Laura Tibbetts has graduated from Lakes Region Community College’s Licensed Nursing Assistant (LNA) program.

In addition to Tibbetts, other LRCC LNA gradu-ates included Ashley Barry (Northfield), Hope Cochrane (Wolfeboro), Alzora Eldridge (Meredith), Teresa Merrill (Belmont), Elizabeth Purington (Bel-mont), and Kathleen Schumann (Rumney).

“My family has been extremely supportive,” said Tibbetts who earned her Associate Degree in Early Childhood Education from LRCC in 2005. “My hus-band, Kevin, has been a big help throughout the time spent in the LNA Program. I wish my class-mates great success in their futures.”

Tibbetts is strongly considering continuing her education with the goal of becoming a Registered Nurse and working in a hospital maternity ward.

Sanbornton woman among those earning LNA degrees from community college

GILFORD —Musicians and singers from local churches will join together to celebrate the Epiph-any at First United Methodist Church at 7 p.m. on Sunday, January 9.

The event, a decades-old community tradition, commemorates the visit of the wise men to the infant Jesus and will include numerous church choirs sharing music sung over the season in their own congregations. The evening will conclude with attendees invited to join the choirs in singing the “Hallelujah Chorus.”

The Gilford Community Church, St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church, Good Shepherd Lutheran, Laconia Congregational Church, the Gilmanton Community Church, the Unitarian-Universalist Society, and First United Methodist Church will all be represented at the festival. Hand bell choirs and flute and clarinet pieces will be featured.

Offering plates will be available for those who would like to give toward the work of the Carey House, a min-istry of the Salvation Army for the homeless supported by many churches in the Lakes Region.

For more information, call Vickie Wood Parrish at First United Methodist Church at 524-3289.

Local churches join in song on Sunday to celebrate Epiphany at Gilford church

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: I am a 24-year-old mother of a 9-month-old boy and a stepmother to three older children. My husband’s ex treats me like the third wheel. She walks into my house without knocking and goes through my stepchildren’s draw-ers and takes things. She won’t even look at me, let alone talk to me. To top it off, my husband refuses to stand up for me. He kisses the ground this woman walks on, even though she was the one who initiated the divorce. Whenever she calls, he drops everything and goes to her aid. When her car broke down, he gave her one of ours, and I ended up stranded at work. She constantly interrupts the few moments I have with my husband and son by calling and texting and asking him to do stuff. She rarely has her children with her, even though she gets paid a substantial amount of child support. And what-ever she buys for them, she asks us to reimburse half. I started going to counseling just to deal with the way my husband treats me because of her. How can I get him to stop doing everything she asks? I’m tired of feeling like -- A Third Wheel Dear Third Wheel: Your husband has put his ex-wife fi rst in your marriage, and this is grossly unfair to you. The fact that she initiated the divorce did not make him bitter -- it made him crave her approval. He needs to understand his motiva-tions for being at her beck and call and how this undermines his marriage. Ask if he would be willing to attend one of your counseling sessions. It could help a great deal. Dear Annie: Our son, “Troy,” is in love with “Jessica,” a young woman who got into debt with credit cards right out of high school. She has been repaying the money, but her credit history is ruined. The two of them now share an apartment, but Troy is not about to marry her unless she learns to be more

fi nancially responsible. Troy has told us that Jessica does not save any money, and that she purchases things she will never use and then refuses to get rid of them. The apartment is a mess, and while part of that is Troy’s sloppiness, the other part is Jessica’s profl igate purchases. They share the rent, but that’s all they share when it comes to income and expenses. Troy doesn’t want to nag Jessica and cause stress in the re-lationship. Do you have any suggestions on how he might address the money issue? -- Georgetown Parents Dear Parents: Troy is smart not to marry Jessica until she can work on her spending habits, but he cannot help her if he is afraid to address the problem. This is not simple irrespon-sibility. Shopoholism is an addictive behavior. Jessica suffers from a compulsion to buy things whether she needs them or not. Sometimes it requires therapy to overcome. Troy should fi rst contact Debtors Anonymous (debtorsanonymous.org) at 1-800-421-2383 for suggestions. Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Losing it in Canada,” the parents of two children who chew with their mouths open. I suggest giving each child 25 pennies at the beginning of each meal. Every time the child needs to be corrected, he must give up a penny by putting it in the middle of the table. At the end of the meal, whatever is left will be converted into nick-els, dimes or a quarter, which looks much better to them than pennies. They will soon realize they don’t want to part with their pennies. When they no longer need correcting, reward them with a special outing. -- Temecula, Calif. Dear Calif: Thanks for the great idea. Several readers wrote in with suggestions to correct a child’s table manners, and we will print more in future columns.

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, 5777 W. Century Blvd., Ste. 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045.

$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. REGULAR RATE:$2 A DAY; 10¢ PER WORD PER DAY OVER 15 WORDS. PREMIUMS: FIRST WORD CAPS NO CHARGE. ADDITIONAL BOLD, CAPS AND 9PT TYPE 10¢ PER WORD PER DAY. CENTERED WORDS 10¢ (2 WORD MINIMUM) TYPOS: CHECK YOUR AD THE FIRST DAY OF PUBLICATION. SORRY, WE WILL NOT ISSUE CREDIT AFTER AN AD HAS RUN ONCE. DEADLINES: NOON TWO BUSINESS DAYS PRIOR THE DAY OF PUBLI-CATION. PAYMENT: ALL PRIVATE PARTY ADS MUST BE PRE-PAID. WE ACCEPT CHECKS, VISA AND MASTERCARD CREDIT CARDS AND OF COURSE CASH. THERE IS A $10 MINIMUM ORDER FOR CREDIT CARDS. CORRESPONDENCE: TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL OUR OFFICES 9 A.M. TO 5 P.M., MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, 527-9299; SEND A CHECK OR MONEY ORDER WITH AD COPY TO THE LACONIA DAILY SUN,65 WATER STREET, LACONIA, NH 03246 OR STOP IN AT OUR OFFICES ON 65 WATER STREET IN LACONIA. OTHER RATES: FOR INFORMATION ABOUT CLASSIFIED DISPLAY ADS CALL 527-9299.

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Appliances

Maytag Washer & Dryer $150 orbest offer. 520-5892

Autos

1991 Honda Civic DX Hatchback:Red, automatic, good drive train,will run with new fuel lines. Goodcar to run or for parts. $400/bestoffer. 393-7786.

1995 Ford Taurus GL 205K, norust, new parts $850. Driven daily.Mark 832-3994.

2 1999 Dodge utility vans, lowmiles, run great $3,000 for bothCall Scott. 786-9955.

2000 Subaru Outback AWD, 4 cyl-inder standard, excellent condi-tion, new parts, 158K, snows.$4,100. 527-0194.

2006 Hyundai Elantra 48,000miles. Great condition, $6900. CallDon 998-6041.

89 Dodge Raider 4x4. Loaded,many new parts. Ski Box, bikerack & comlete parts vehicle.$3,500. 603-253-9581

ABLE to pay cash, cars average$250, trucks full-size $2300, truckbatteries $6 each, alloy $7 each,in Epping we have scale, $1/ lb.for coded Copper wire, $2.65/ lb.for copper pipe. (603)502-6438

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

CASH FOR junk cars & trucks.Top Dollar Paid. Available 7days a week. 630-3606

Autos

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

01 Subaru Limited OutbackWagon. Loaded, heated seats,winter package, dual sun roof.Grea t cond i t i on , 127K,$6,000/obo. 630-1950

Top Dollar Paid- $150 and up forunwanted & junk vehiclies. Call934-4813

For Rent

$500 OFF FIRST MONTH�SRENT at Mountain View apts.2-bedroom apartment, $700 +utilities; 2-bedroom townhouse,1.5 bath, large deck, $775 + utili-ties; 3-Bedroom townhouse, 1.5bath, large deck $850 + utilities.Quiet location with laundry andplaygrounds. Integrity Realty, Inc.524-7185.

1-2-3 Bedroom Apartmentsavailable in convenient

Lakeport location. All includeheat and hot water. On-sitelaundry, parking. Section 8accepted. Rents starting at$625. For application, call

524-1341.

APARTMENTS, mobile homes. Ifyou need a rental at a fair price,call DRM Corp. Over 40 years inrentals, 524-0348 or visit M-W-F,12-5, at 373 Court Street, Laco-nia.

BELMONTHeat/Hot Water Included• 1 bedroom, second floor, washer/dryer hook-up. $175 per week.• 1-bedroom 3rd floor apt. $175 per week. Small Animals considered.

Security required.Section 8 accepted.

998-4728

For Rent

BELMONT, NH - $699.00 amonth. 2 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath,W&D hookup, single wide mobilehome with yard for rent. Close toschool. Call Fairlane Homes at800-325-5566 for more informa-tion.

BRIDGEWATER/PLYMOUTH: 3miles to 93, fantastic views, veryprivate, family atmosphere.2-bedroom home. Available forlong-term rental. No smoking/pets. $850/month +utilities.253-8438.

CUTE 1-bedroom remodeledapartment in Tilton. 1/2 month rentfree! Heat/Hot Water included.$660/Month. 603-393-9693 or916-214-7733

GILFORD 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms,1-1/2 baths, attached one car ga-rage, excellent condition, $1200/month plus utilities, contact Deb-bie at Roche Realty 603-279-7046or 603-520-7769.

GILFORD At Glendale Docks:3-Bedroom, 2 story, porch, appli-ances, wood floors. Year-round.No dogs. $900/month.401-741-4837.

GILFORD: 3 bedroom apt, 2 bed-room apt., one bedroom cottageavailable including electricity, hot-water from $150/week, heat nego-tiable, pets considered. Security +references. 556-7098 or832-3334.

Laconia 1 Bedroom- Washer/dryerhookup, storage, no pets. SecurityDeposit & references. $600/mo. +utilities. 520-4353

LACONIA Awesome 1 bedroomincludes heat, hot water, garage,on-site laundry, $725/mo. Nopets, 455-0874.

Laconia Efficiency: On quietdead-end street, $450/month. Allutilities included, Call 527-8363.No pets.

Laconia one bedroom: On quietdead-end street, $650/month. Allutilities included, Call 527-8363.No pets.

For Rent

LACONIA Second floor 2BR 1bath, heat and hot water incl, nopets, no smokers. $895 a month,sec dep and refs required.875-2292

LACONIA WATER VIEW

Efficiency first floor, with pri-vate entrance, quiet area ingood location, $650/month in-cludes utilities.

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524-4694.

LACONIA- 1 Bedroom starting at$600/Month. BELMONT-2 Bed-room $700/Month. No PetsPlease. Call 267-8023 GC Enter-

prises Property Management.

LACONIA-DUPLEX 3 bedroom1/1/2 bath, washer/dryer hookups,garage. $950/month, heat in-cluded. References & security de-posit. No pets or smokers.524-7419

LACONIA- Heat, Hot Water,&Electric Included.1 Bedroom$750/Mo. Call 267-8023 GC En-

terprises Property Management.

Laconia-Large 3-bedroom 1stfloor apartment. $1000/Month. 1month security deposit required/1year lease. Available now.603-524-3759

LACONIA-LARGE 1 bedroomapartment. $700/Month, newlypainted, utilities not included.Available now. References & se-curity deposit required, 1 yearlease. Off-street parking.914-826-4591 603-524-3759

LACONIA: 2 bedroom, heat in-cluded with private parking, stor-age, laundry area, snow removal,refrigerator and stove. $885/mo.Avail. Jan. 15. Sec. & creditcheck required. No pets.603-267-6114

LACONIA: 3 bedroom, 2 bath-room in duplex building, 1st & 2ndfloors plus access to attic andbasement with laundry hook-ups,$1,100/month plus util it ies,524-1234.

LACONIA: 1 bedroom, 2nd floor,$210/week including heat, electric& hot water. 524-1234.

LACONIA: 1 bedroom, 2nd floor,renovated kitchen & bathroom,access to attic for storage & base-ment with laundry hookups,$185/week including heat, electric& hot water. 524-1234.

LACONIA: 1-bedroom apartmentsin clean, quiet, secure downtownbuilding. Very nice and completelyrenovated. $175/week, includesheat, hot water and electricity.524-3892.

LACONIA: 3 bedroom, 2nd floor.Separate entrance, coin-op laun-dry in basement. $265/week in-cluding heat, electric & hot water.524-1234.

For Rent

LACONIA: 26 Dartmouth St. 1/2 ofa Duplex; 7 Rooms, 3 Bedrooms,1 Bath. Walkout Basementw/Laundry Hookups. Very clean,hardwood floors, private off streetparking for 2 cars. Convenient tolibrary, churches, downtown,Opechee Park & schools. Avail-able immediately non-smoking.$1,000/month plus util it ies.Owner/broker 396-4163

LACONIA: Close to downtown, 5room 2-Bedroom, 1.5 baths, firstfloor, includes heat, 2-car parking,snow removal, landscaping, deck,washer/dryer. $210/week. 4-weeksecurity deposit, four week in ad-vance, references and creditcheck a must. No pets. Leavemessage for Bob, 781-283-0783

LACONIA: Gilbert Apartments. Ef-ficiency, 1, 2 and 3 bedroomapartments available. 524-4428.

LACONIA: Small 3 bedroom,$200/ week, includes heat/hot wa-ter, references and deposit. NoPets. 524-9665.

LACONIA: S tudio, $135/week &1-Bedroom, $155/week, heat &HW included. 2-Bedroom,$185/week or $750/month, utilitiesincluded. No dogs. 496-8667 or545-9510.

Lakeport-Lake view 4 room-2 bed-room 1 bath. Includes snow re-moval, trash removal & landscap-ing, 2-car off-street parking,washer/dryer, partial heat. Nopets. $200/week. References &credit check a must. 1st week inadvance & 4 week security de-posit. Leave message for Bob.781-283-0783.

MEREDITH-In-Town Efficiencyapartment. 1-bedroom, 1-bath.Kitchen, large living room withdryer. Quiet location, no pets/nosmokers $800/Month + utilities.Rick (781) 389-2355

MEREDITH: 2 and 3-bedroommobile homes, $725-$800 +utili-ties, security deposit required, nodogs, 279-5846.

MEREDITH: 2-Bedroom House,3/4 bath, washer/dryer hookup, oilFHW. $900/month. 279-8247,Jim.

MEREDITH: In-town 1-bedroom,includes heat, $600/month. Park-ing w/plowing. No Smoking. Nopets. Security deposit. 387-8356.

MEREDITH: Large 2 Bedroomsecond floor. Main St, newlypainted, off-street parking, nopets/smoking. First month and se-curity, references required. $795 +heat/utilities. 603-630-2381.

SPACIOUS 1 bedroom apartment,within walking distance to LRGHfacil i t ies. Heat/Hot Water,Washer/dryer hook-up, Privateparking. NO SMOKERS ORPETS. References and securitydeposit required. $750/month.279-1080 leave message.


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Home Care: at the VeryHeart of Healthcare…..

Enjoy job flexibility, set your own hours, provide care toone patient at a time, work flexible days and hours. RN Case Manager: Full time, benefited position. Responsible for nursingneeds of home care clients, overseeing plan of care and coordinating care providedby other staff members. Provide clinical care, promote referrals to other disci-plines, teach/counsel patient and family. Min. 1 year exp., IV skills preferred;computer literacy required. Valid NH nursing license, NH driver’s license and reli-able transportation required.

Benefits include mileage reimbursement, tuition assistance and 403(b)retirement plan. Submit resume to HR, Central New Hampshire VNA & Hospice,780 North Main Street, Laconia, NH 03246, FAX to 603-524-8217, [email protected]. Visit our web site at chhnh.org. EOE

ARE YOU READY FOR A CHANGE? Enjoy the quality of life found in theMt. Washington Valley while working in a progressive hospital that matchesadvanced medical technology with a compassionate approach to patient care.Join our team and see what a difference you can make!In addition to competitive salaries, we offer an excellent benefits package that in-cludes health/dental, generous paid time off, matching savings plan, educationalassistance and employee fitness program. We have the following openings:

• Medical Coder- Full-Time. Exp. With E/M, Emergency Medicineand Outpatient coding preferred. Knowledge of Anatomy & Physiol-ogy & Medical Terminology pref. CCS or CPC or equivalent creden-tial pref.• OR-RN- Full-Time. 40 HR/WK with Rotating Call; OR Experi-ence, minimum 1 yr. preferred; ACLS, BLS & PALS with 3 months.• Physical Therapist- Per Diem. Min Bachelor’s Degree in PhysicalTherapy, prev inpatient exp pref. Wknd & wkday coverage.• Controller- Full-Time. Resp. for all financial reporting, GL mainte-nance, A/P, A/R, Charge Master & external reporting. Degree in Ac-counting, pref. CPA, plus 5 yrs full financial reporting required. Musthave exp in: Electronic Accounting Applications (pref CPSI); costbased reimbursement; accounting for payroll & benefits w/workingknowledge of regulatory requirements; 3rd party & regulatory payorsw/familiarity with regulations & contract compliance; demonstratedsupervisory exp.A completed Application is required to apply for all positions

Website: www.memorialhospitalnh.org.Contact: Human Resources, Memorial Hospital, an EOE

PO Box 5001, No. Conway, NH 03860.Phone: (603)356-5461 • Fax: (603)356-9121

Janitor/BuildingMaintenance

4 week temporary position. P/T, 25 hrs. per weekcleaning office bldg, providing light maintenance and coordi-nating service vendors for facility needs. Flexible hours.Must be reliable and have high level of job performance. La-conia location. Call 524-8444, ext. 301, for additional infor-mation or to set up an interview.

Submit resume to HR, Central New Hampshire VNA & Hos-pice, 780 North Main Street, Laconia, NH 03246, FAX to603-524-8217, e-mail [email protected]. Visit our website at chhnh.org. EOE

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NEW Hampton - stunning quality!Immaculate 2+bedroom/ 2 bathexclusive Condo. $1195/ mo. As-tonishing open stairwell extendingup to the 3rd floor lighted by theskylight in the cathedral ceiling.Brazilian wood floors, W/D hookup. Less than 3 minutes from I-93.Cal l today 603-744-3551.NEFH...Come on Home!!

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Are you tired of living in rundown, dirty housing, then callus we have the absolute best,spotlessly clean and every-thing works. We include heat& hot water and all appli-ances, Townhouses & apart-ments, in Northfield one blockfrom I-93Call 630-3700 for affordable

Clean living.

NORTHFIELD: 1 bedroom, 1stfloor, separate entrance, coin-oplaundry in basement. $195/weekincluding heat, electric & hot wa-ter. 524-1234.

SOUTH Tamworth 4 bed, 2 bathhouse, deck, available Jan. 1st.$1100, tenant pays utilities andheat (603)323-7065.

TILTON- 3 Bedroom house, 2-cargarage; near Ex i t 20 .$1,500/Month + utilities & security.626-5000

For Rent-Vacation

VACATION on Marco Island, FL:Waterfront condo, $600/week -1-month, $500/week - 2-months.Call 393-7077.

For Rent-Commercial

LEASE retail/office space, 1500+sq. ft. excellent visibility, plenty ofsignage., 516 Union Ave. Laconia,NH. 603-455-4230.

MEREDITH Office/Studio Space:3 rooms, 1,000+ sq.ft., heated,close to town and docks.Non-smoking, $625/month.603-279-7887 or 781-862-0123,cell.

For Rent-Commercial

MEREDITHGreat Location!31 Foundry Ave.

Off Route 104(Behind Olde Province Common)

1,500 Sq. Ft. with 17’ ceiling &14’ overhead door. Partial 2ndlevel balcony space. Finished

office cubicle on 1st floor. Perfect for graphi, woodworking,

artistry, retail, storage, etc.

$750/Month + Utilities279-0142 (Business)

677-2298 (Cell)

For Sale

BELMONT- 2 Bedroom Manufac-tured Home on 1/2 Acre. Townwater & sewer newly renovatedand energy efficient. Nice loca-tion. For Lease -$1,000/Month, forsale call for details. 267-8023 GC

Enterprises Property Manage-

ment

DRY firewood, all hardwood, cutand split 16” to 18” last winter,$265/ cord, $150/ half cord. JohnPeverly 528-2803 no calls after 8pm please.

FIREWOOD HARDWOOD-Easy,sel f -serve, oversized 1/8cords/$25. 18 Arlene Dr. BelmontOff Union Road 1 mile from Pi-ches Look for Red & Yellow

Hodgman Quality Hip Waders.Size 9 Cushion insoles, fully guar-anteed. New in box, never worn.$25. 677-6528

BED Orthopedic 10” thick pillow-top mattress & box, new in plasticcost $950, sell Queen $285, Full$260, King $395. 431-0999

BEDROOM set brand new 6 pcesolid cherry Sleigh bed, all dove-tail sacrifice $750. 427-2001

HOT tub Mp3/ ipod dock, speak-ers, led lights, 5/6 person. All op-tions with cover. New in wrapper.Cost $8200, sell $4200. Will de-liver 235-5218.

Power Wheels- Ford F150 Pickuptruck. $100 or best offer. Excellentcondition. 524-6455

For Sale

KITCHEN cabinets solid Maplewith glazing never installed/ dove-tail. Cost $7000, sell $1650.235-1695.

SNOW Blower- Corded hoodcover on steel frame. $60. Call524-6145

STUDDED snows, like new,P215/60R-16 $25 each, metaldesk 5�x2� $25, free cage12x12x41” 528-2324.

Furniture

BEAUTIFUL, Queen Luxury Sup-port Pillowtop Mattress Set. Newin plastic. Cost $1095, Sell $249.Can deliver. 603-305-9763

GIRL�S Bedroom set. 4 posterdoublebed with canopy hardware,dresser, bureau, mirror, all inwhite. $500/ obo. 520-2477 or293-8155.

Jeff's Discount Furniture and Bed-ding needs room for 2011 mdse.Shop and save BIG during our In-ventory Blow-Out Sale! HUGESAVINGS on Futons, Mattresses,Dining Rm. Adult & Youth Bed-room sets, etc. SAVE!! at Jeff'sDiscount Furniture and Bedding!Rte 3, Laconia, NH (across fromFunspot) 603-366-4000.

Furniture

PROMOTIONAL New mattressesstarting; King set complete $395,queen set $239. 603-524-1430.

TRUNDLE bed set with mat-tresses. Excellent condition, littleused. $200/ obo. 520-2477 or293-8155.

Free

T&B Appliance Removal. Appli-ances & AC’s removed free ofcharge if outside. No TV’sPlease call (603)986-5506.

Help Wanted

Executive HousekeeperWould you jump at the opportunityto manage your own department?�Fireside Inn & Suites at Lake

Winnipesaukee in Gilford, NH islooking for someone to manageo u r h o u s e k e e p i n gdepartment.�The job includes su-pervising a staff of 8 to 15, sched-uling, finding, hiring and trainingnew people, counseling and disci-plining staff, inspecting rooms tomake sure they are spotless, or-dering supplies and generallymanaging the department.� Weare looking for someone who willmake us their home for the next20 or 30 years.� We offer excellentpay and first-rate benefits includ-ing, paid vacations, health insur-ance, bonuses, profit sharing,401(k), and more.� This is a yearround job,�and you must be avail-able weekends.� Pay will dependon your skills and experience.� Ap-ply in person and bring your re-sume, Monday thru Friday, 9AMto 5PM. Fireside Inn & Suites atLake Winnipesaukee 17 HarrisShore Road Gilford, NH� 03784

EXPERIENCED Waitstaff: Nights,Please apply in person, CJAvery�s, Lakeport.

Help Wanted

FULL-TIME Sales Position: Workwith the Lakes Region!s newestup and coming used car dealer-ship. Must be willing to workweekends. Experienced only.E m a i l r e s u m e t [email protected]

HOCKEY TEAM

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!!!

The Laconia Leafs JR Hockeyteam is searching for qualified vol-unteers. Experience not needed,but an understanding & love forhockey helpful. Positions Avail-able: game videographer (noequipment necessary), gameticket taker. All games are a 3hour period, approx. 8 games re-maining in 2011 season at Laco-nia Ice Arena. For More info con-tact: Coach Will Fay #581-7008

Seeking highly motivated peopleto join my Pampered Chef team.High earning potential! Call496-0762.

SUMMIT RESORT

Now Hiring

Part-time HousekeepingSaturday�s a Must! Please applyin person. 177 Mentor Ave., Laco-

nia.

Instruction

KARATEAdult and Children's Karate (Ages4+) classes held in Laconia, Gil-ford, Meredith and Moultonbor-ough.Improves balance, coordina-tion, focus, strength and flexibility.524-4780.

New Hampshire Aikido -Tuesdayand Thursday evenings at theBarn, Wadliegh Rd. Sanbornton.998-1419

TAI CHIExperience the gentle art of TaiChi. Improves balance, jointhealth, coordination, bone density,blood pressure, strength and flexi-bility. Ongoing classes held in La-conia, Gilford, Meredith and Moul-tonborough. All ages welcome.524-4780

Land

BELMONT: 3 acre building lot invicinity of high school, 100% dryland, driveway already roughed in,great gravel soils for building,$ 5 4 , 9 0 0 . O w n e r / b r o k e r ,524-1234.

Motorcycles

Buy • Sell • Tradewww.motoworks.biz

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

Roommate Wanted

LOOKING for female roommate toshare nice 2 level, 2 bedroom aptin Belmont. Deck, shed, laundryon premises. No smoking/pets.$115/wk includes everything,603-393-5998

SEEKING female roommate forP leasant St . apar tment .$450/month. Heat/Hot Water in-cluded. Call for details: 566-3831

Services

A Knotch Above Housekeeping.10 years experience, referencesavailable. Residential, Commer-cial. 603-545-7268

All Trades LandscapingConstruction • Irrigation

Excavation • MaintenanceSpring and Fall • Clean up's.Free estimatesand fully insured

603-524-3969

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


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PIPER ROOFING

& VINYL SIDINGQuality Work

Reasonable Rates

Free EstimatesMetal Roofs • Shingle Roofs

Our CustomersDon�t get Soaked!

528-3531

Services

HANDYMAN

SERVICES

Small Jobs AreMy Speciality

Rick Drouin

520-5642 or 744-6277

TIM!S Qual i ty Paint ing:“Affordable, professional painting.”Floors, repairs, wallpaperremoval. Insured, references, freeestimates. 603-455-5626.

Services Services

THE Hungry Painter: Roof Shovel-ing, Painting, small tree work,dump runs, odd jobs, drywall re-pairs. 455-6296.

Storage Space

STORE your car-boat-motorcyclebefore the snow in a clean andsecure brick building. Low prices.(603)524-1430

Wanted

Looking to buy a 4X6 Bob housewith 2 holes at a reasonableprice. 459-5591

Moultonborough Lions Club members (left to right) Joe and Vera Quaresima, and Sue and Denny Bacon present the $5,000 Raffl e winning check to Cliff Oliver (wearing hat) of Meredith. Missing in the photo are Lions’ Raffl e co-chairs Eileen and Bob Zewski. (Courtesy photo)

MOULTONBOROUGH — Lions Club members Sue and Denny Bacon, Joe and Vera Quaresima, and Eileen and Bob Zewski chaired the biggest fundraiser for the Moultonborough Lions Club, awarding the top prize of $5,000 to Cliff Oliver of Meredith.

The three couples coordinated the entire raffl e process and raised more than $9,000 doing it. In addition to Oliver, $500 was awarded to Tessa

Kramer of Moultonborough, $250 to Joe Lingel of Lynnfi eld, MA and $250 to Scott Langevin of West Chester-fi eld.

The Moultonborough Lions hold a business meeting on the fi rst Monday of each month at 7 .p.m and a dinner meeting on the third Monday of every month starting at 6 p.m. They also run Bingo every Tuesday night start-ing at 6:30 p.m. All are welcome.

Cliff Oliver gets check for $5k as winner of top Moultonborough Lions’ raffl e prize

LACONIA — Laconia Academy will offer a variety of classes during the Winter Semester 2011 beginning the week of January 18.

“This program provides adults with a ‘second chance’ to earn a high school diploma,” according to Peggy Selig, program director.

Literature in a Changing World, Algebra I, Life on Earth, Pre-Algebra/Math Concepts, U.S. History, Chem-istry & Lab, The Happiness Proj-ect, Math For Squares!, Economics, Accounting & Bookkeeping Basics Part II, and Human Biology & Lab are all on the academic schedule.

Students attending Laconia Acad-emy can earn high school diploma credits in several different ways. Credit is given for previous high school credits earned and life experi-ences such as military service, work experience, apprenticeship training, correspondence courses, certifi cate programs and homemaking. Cred-its are earned by passing courses at Laconia Academy. Laconia Academy is also approved for those eligible for

V.A. benefi ts.Laconia Academy also enables In-

School Youth, enrolled in day high school programs, to take courses at night if they have failed classes during the day. With the principal’s permis-sion, any In-School Youth may enroll at Laconia Academy. This coopera-tion with local area high schools helps prevent In-School Youths from drop-ping out of high school or having to repeat their senior year.

Laconia Savings Bank has estab-lished limited scholarship help for those students demonstrating fi nan-cial need living in Laconia, Gilford, Meredith, Center Harbor, Plymouth, Bristol and Moultonborough. This scholarship help will enable students to return to school at night and com-plete their high school education.

Anyone interested in enrolling or learning more about the program is urged to stop into the Laconia Adult Education Offi ce located in Room #108 at Laconia High School or call 524-5712.

Classes that’ll count toward high school diploma from Laconia Academy start Jan. 18

LACONIA — The Meredith, Paugus, Saunders Bays Subwatershed Manage-ment Plan will be presented to the public for the fi rst time at the Belknap Mill at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, January 19.

The web-based management plan is a multi-year effort of the Lakes Region Planning Commission, Lake Win-nipesaukee Watershed Association, North Country Resource Conservation &Development Area Council, the Uni-versity of New Hampshire, Plymouth State University, the municipalities of Meredith, Laconia, and Gilford, and the NH Department of Environmental Services. The Plan represents one fea-ture of a broader watershed informa-tion resource to be unveiled on the new “Winnipesaukee Gateway” website at www.winnipesaukeegateway.org.

The Winnipesaukee Gateway is a work in progress, with the initial release featuring information on the issues facing the Winnipesaukee River watershed, watershed maps,

water quality monitoring information, lake recreation, and subwatershed management plans. Future editions will include information and maps on natural resources, land use planning, forestry, agriculture, and more within the watershed.

Highlights of the evening’s presen-tation will include a summary of the Subwatershed Management Plan for Meredith, Paugus, and Saunders Bays; input from the communities on their participation and future imple-mentation efforts; water quality data and monitoring efforts,;future sub-watershed management planning currently underway; and a live dem-onstration of the “Winnipesaukee Gateway” Web site.

All are invited to attend and learn how to protect and preserve Lake Win-nipesaukee for current and future generations to enjoy. For additional information e-mail Pat Tarpey at [email protected] or call 279-8171.

Meredith, Paugus, Saunders Bays watershed management plans to be presented to public at Jan. 19 meeting

MEREDITH — Session III of the Youth Gym and Fitness program, pre-sented by the Parks and Recreation Department, will begin at the Com-munity Center from 12:45 — 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, January 11.

Pre-school children age 4 — 5 will

participate in active games and learn how to play in a group setting while meeting new people. Session III will run through February 8.

For more information, call Parks and Recreation at 279-8197.

Meredith youth fitness program starts Jan. 11


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the laconia daily sun, january 5, 2011

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