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LACONIA — After nearly a week of struggling to get the pair of osprey to cease nesting on utility poles and instead settle into a man-made nest placed nearby, it appears the birds might have finally taken to the alter-native nesting site.

A female osprey was photographed Thursday morning checking out a man-made nest on the Laconia State School property off North Main Street. A concerted effort has been made to lure the bird and her mate away from a live utility pole located about 100 yards away. (Steve Anthony photo)

Osprey pair spotted house hunting atop pole erected just for them

The development came as Iain MacLeod, executive director of the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center, and Public Service of New Hampshire were planning to take down the nest and 40-foot pole and move them closer to the power lines along North Main Street, where the birds seemed deter-

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LACONIA — Monday evening, while Police Chief Chris Adams was telling the City Council of a rise in attempts to defraud senior citizens, the prompt action of a police officer and local banker spared an elderly woman from financial loss.

“It was around 8:30 p.m.,” the woman began. “I was sitting at the dining room table doing paperwork when the telephone rang.” She said that she answered to hear a woman speaking with an accent she could not place tell her that the government was issuing cards for senior citizens, which would contain their vital information in the event of an emergency.”She sounded very far away,” the woman said.

“I gave her my name, address and phone number,” the lady continued. “Then she asked me the name of my bank. I said Laconia Savings Bank and she said ‘isn’t that, Bank of New Hampshire now’ and I said yes it is.” Then the woman asked for her account number and the routing number of the bank. She read both numbers over the telephone and was then told to provide the same information to another woman.

Son, police & banker working late come to aid of Laconia women who provided scam artist with account information

By michAel KitchTHE LACONIA DAILY SUN

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Man leaves his car during Laconia road rage incident & ends at the hospital

LACONIA — An apparent road rage incident yesterday afternoon resulted in one man being transported to Lakes Region General hospital for treatement of non-life threatening injuries.

In a statement issued last night, police report that they responded to a motor vehicle disturbance at about 4 p.m. on Thursday on Court Street in front of Walgreen’s. Investigating officers concluded that two drivers appeared to have become engaged in a road rage incident which left one of the drivers with sufficient injury that he was transported to the hos-pital. Neither driver’s identity is being revealed.

Although the release notes that the incident remains under investigation, neither driver had

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida Highway Patrol sergeant opposed reopen-ing a fog- and smoke-shrouded interstate highway, but he was overruled by a higher-ranking officer shortly before a series of crashes killed 11 people, state investiga-tors said in a report released Thursday.

The Florida Department of Law Enforce-ment concluded state troopers made errors but found no criminal violations.

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(AP) — The first-graders in Ohio Pack 109’s Tiger Scouts didn’t know or care their den mother was a lesbian — at least not until the Boy Scouts of America threw her out over the organization’s ban on gays.

Now, parents who were aware of Jennifer Tyrrell’s sexual orienta-tion well before she took the boys on campouts and helped them carve race cars for the annual Pinewood Derby have rallied to her defense in a case that has re-ignited the debate over the Scouts’ policy.

“I teach my children to judge people on their actions,” said Rob Dunn, a father in Bridgeport, a village of about 2,000 across the Ohio River from Wheeling, W.Va. “Whether you agree with their lifestyle or not.”

The Boy Scouts of America, whose oath calls for members to be “morally straight,” maintains that as a private organization it has the right to exclude gays and atheists from its ranks.

That stance was upheld by the U.S.

PHOENIX (AP) — The United States could see an official about-face in the coming months in how it confronts illegal immigration.

Supreme Court justices, weighing argu-ments over Arizona’s tough immigration law, seemed to find little problem Wednes-

(AP) — It had all the makings of a feel-good hockey moment — except the guy who scored the goal was black.

Soon after Joel Ward eliminated the defending Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins on Wednesday with a Game 7 over-time goal for the Washington Capitals, Twitter erupted in a shower of n-words and other racial insults.

“Go play basketball, hockey is a white sport,” ‘’4th line black trash” and “white power” were some of the nicer phrases

Hockey fans erupt with racist comments after Bruins losstweeted by angry Boston fans. One said that the fact that a black player scored “makes this loss hurt a lot more.”

The Bruins and the NHL quickly con-demned the tweets that cast a pall over one of the most thrilling moments of the season and numerous Boston fans went online to denounce the racist tweets. But the outburst was a reminder of the difficul-ties hockey has had overcoming the idea that black people are unwelcome on the ice or in the stands.

“These classless, ignorant views are in no way a reflection of anyone associated with the Bruins organization,” the Bruins said in a statement.

Anson Carter, a black winger who played four seasons for the Bruins during a 10-year NHL career, said he was “very sur-prised” by the reaction because the Boston fans had treated him well.

“I thought we were beyond that. But then again, nothing surprises me,” Carter said.

see HOCKEY page 4

Trooper who wanted Florida interstate kept closed was overruledsmoke mixed with fog blanketed six-lane Interstate 75 near Gainesville where it cuts through Paynes Prairie State Park, a low area that lacks billboards or other lighting.

Highway Patrol Sgt. Bruce Simmons wanted to keep the highway closed, but Lt. John Gourley gave the order to reopen it because visibility had improved. Gourley was worried keeping the highway closed also would be dangerous.

Within 30 minutes of the highway reopening, the first of six separate fatal crashes began, involving at least a dozen cars, pickup trucks and a van, six semi-trailer trucks and a motorhome. Some vehicles burst into flames, making it dif-ficult to identify the dead. Eighteen other victims were hospitalized.

Simmons used some rural slang in tell-ing a sheriff ’s deputy, in a conversation

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Tiger Scout leader ousted by BSA for being a lesbian

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Decision in Arizona immigration law case could lead to sweeping changesday with provisions that require police to check the legal status of people they stop for other reasons.

Over the last several years, states frus-trated with the country’s porous borders have rejected the long-held notion that Washington is responsible for confronting

illegal immigration. They passed laws to enable local police to address the problem.

If the court upholds those parts of Arizo-na’s law, the ruling would codify that type of local enforcement and open the door to such tactics in states with similar laws,

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefi ts remained stuck near a three-month high last week, a sign that job gains will likely remain modest.

The report disappointed economists, who had fore-cast a decline in unemployment applications. Even so, most analysts think employers will add about 175,000 jobs this month. That would be more than in March but less than the robust job growth achieved during the winter.

Last week, applications for unemployment aid dipped to a seasonally adjusted 388,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. That was little changed from the previous week’s fi gure, the highest since Jan. 7.

The four-week average, a less volatile fi gure, rose to 381,750, also the highest in three months. When applications fall below 375,000, it generally sug-gests that hiring will be strong enough to lower the unemployment rate.

The fi gures “aren’t bad; they’re just not as good as they have been,” said Jonathan Basile, an economist at Credit Suisse.

Applications jumped sharply three weeks ago, a

OSSIPEE (AP) — A judge has denied bail for a New Hampshire man charged with attempted murder accusing him of attacking his girlfriend with a rock and pushing her into a burning fi re pit.

Thirty-one-year-old David Ford of Wolfeboro also was charged with fi rst- and second-degree assault, reckless conduct and criminal trespassing on Thursday.

Police say Ford hit his girlfriend 10 times with a rock in the face and neck and then pushed her into a burning fi re pit early Tuesday morning.

WMUR-TV reports that police say the woman was too scared to call 911. Her father called police the following day.

LISBON, NH (AP) — A New Hampshire hunter has been indicted in a shooting that killed a 31-year-old Massachusetts man.

Forty-nine-year-old Wade Holmes of Lisbon has been charged with negligent homicide and reckless shooting in the death last November of 31-year-old Kenneth Brunelle of Marlboro, Mass.

Brunelle was unarmed and walking with his father and brother on opening day of fi rearm deer season when he was shot once and instantly killed.

WMUR-TV reports that the indictment charges Holmes with not pinpointing a target before fi ring.

A telephone listed to Wade is not in service. It was not immediately known if he has a lawyer.

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire mail carrier has been charged with a misdemeanor assault on a child in his postal vehicle.

Police allege the assault happened on 43-year-old Frank Saucier’s mail route in Manchester. They say he let several children into his vehicle and let them

Bail denied for Wolfeboro man accused of rock attack on girlfirend

Hunter indicted for shots that killed Mass. man in hunting accident

Manchester mail carrier charged with spanking child he let play in vehicle“play house” inside. Police said during one of these occasions, Saucier allegedly spanked a 10-year-old boy.

Police said parents in the neighborhood became suspicious of Saucier’s behavior and contacted police.

U.S. unemployment requests stuck at 3-month highsign that employers had stepped up layoffs and added fewer jobs. Economists said the increase might have been infl ated by temporary layoffs during the spring holidays, when many school employees are laid off.

But applications haven’t dropped back since then. And the consensus estimate that the economy will have added about 175,000 jobs in April is well below the average of 250,000 jobs added each month from December through February.

The rise in applications follows a report this month that hiring slowed in March, when employers added only 120,000 jobs.

Still, many economists suggested that weather distorted the March jobs report. A warmer winter likely pulled some hiring that normally would have occurred last month into January and February.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke agreed Wednesday that weather has likely disrupted recent data.

The warm winter “made perhaps January and February artifi cially strong and March perhaps arti-fi cially a little bit weak,” he said at a news confer-ence. “I wouldn’t draw too much conclusion from the March report.”


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Sick pet leads Belmont boy to raise money so other dogs can be treated, too

Devin Bricknell hold an envelope containing $300 that he raised for the Bailey Fund, which is named for his seven-year-old Boxer, who has lymphoma and is being treated at NorEast Veterinary Associ-ates in Belmont. The money will be used to pay for the treatment of other pets who have cancer. (Roger Amsden photo for the Laconia Daily Sun)

BELMONT — When 10-year-old Devin Bricknell found out two weeks ago that his pet Boxer, seven-year-old Bailey, had lymphoma, he was sad, but determined to do something about it.

‘’I felt really bad. And I thought about how some kids might lose their pets because it costs so much to for their medicine,’’ said Devin, who came up with a creative way to raise money to help others.

In less than two weeks he was able to raise $300 by setting up plastic jars with a hole in the top and a photo of his dog and a written explanation of why he was seeking donations at two locations, VFW Post 1670 in Laconia and the Our Place Family Restaurant on Union Avenue in Laconia.

Thursday afternoon, while Bailey was getting her toenails trimmed at NorEast Veterinary Associates, Devin dropped off an envelope containing the money to Veterinarian Brian Tier-ney, who said he was impressed by what Devin had done.

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‘’She’s doing really well and acts like a puppy. I like to take her for walks but she’s pretty strong and not too good with strangers.’’ he said.

Both his mother, Tasha Paquin, who works at the Our Place Family Res-taurant. and his dad, Shawn Brick-nell, who works at Mike’s Quality Car Care in Laconia, say they’re very proud of Devin.

‘’What he did is awesome, absolutely fantastic,’’ says Tasha.

Devin, who is a fourth grader at Bel-mont Elementary School, also has con-cerns for the health of someone else who is close to him, his grandfather Mark Paquin who was diagnosed last November with stage two liver cancer and stage four pancreatic cancer.

Tasha says that her father has been undergoing both radiation treatment and chemotherapy in recent months.

Devin says that when he thinks about his grandfather he finds it hard sometimes to focus while he’s in school. But he says he still keeps getting good grades, even though he admits that his favorite class is gym.

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“I know racism exists. But if people think all NHL fans are racist, that’s the furthest thing from the truth.”

He called Ward’s goal, which pro-pelled the seventh-seeded Capitals into the second round, one of the big-gest NHL moments ever for a black player, rivaled only by Jarome Igin-la’s exploits for the Calgary Flames. Ward had scored just six goals all year before he slammed home a rebound at 2:57 of overtime to give the Capitals a 2-1 victory.

The reaction to Ward’s goal “sets the league back in terms of perception,” Carter said. “The league has come a long way. To the casual fan, people

may have in the back of their minds that it’s a racist sport, and this vali-dates that idea.”

Ward called the tweets “shocking” but brushed them off, saying that he wasn’t even aware of them until a teammate brought them to his attention on the plane ride back to Washington.

“It doesn’t faze me at all,” he told USA Today, adding that he had never expe-rienced any racism in the NHL, only a few remarks at youth tournaments when he was growing up in Canada.

“I think it is just kids,” Ward said. “It has no effect on me whatsoever. I’ve been playing this game long enough and I’ve not had any encounters of that nature.”

Willie O’Ree was the league’s first black player, breaking into the Bruins’ lineup in 1958, and there are now 28 blacks and a total of 68 non-whites in a league of 876 players. There have been a few racial incidents over the years, including a banana thrown at the Philadelphia Flyers’ Wayne Sim-monds in a preseason game last fall.

“It’s disgusting,” Simmonds said Thursday about the reaction to Ward’s goal. “Things like that have happened to me before. It’s not something you want to happen, but it’s sad in this day and age that it continues to happen.”

The NHL said in a statement that the tweets were, “ignorant and unac-ceptable. The people responsible for

these comments have no place associ-ating themselves with our game.”

Said Capitals owner Ted Leonsis on his blog: “Shame on these folks who decided to take to their keyboards and show their ignorance and their racism and hate.”

After Ward’s decisive goal, Carter tweeted “Warrrrrrrrrrdo!!” and was soon subjected to several racist tweets himself. Carter said he tracked down one of the tweeters, a student at East-ern Connecticut State University, and called the school president’s office Thursday. Later that afternoon, the student called Carter to apologize, and Carter accepted it.

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GILFORD – The selectmen have hired a local government consulting fi rm to assess the staff needs of the Town Clerk-Tax Collector’s offi ce, a move which the selectmen believe is prudent, but the town clerk-tax collec-tor sees as a waste of money.

Selectmen Chairman John O’Brien said that selectmen decided to engage Municipal Resources Inc. of Mere-dith before deciding whether to fi ll a vacancy in the Town Clerk-Tax Col-lector’s offi ce which handles voter registrations, motor vehicle registra-tions, and vital records, and collects property taxes and water and sewer bill charges.

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“I followed the proper procedure and the voters have spoken,” said Gonyer, who is an elected offi cial. “In my humble opinion the Board of Selectmen has a moral obligation to follow the will of the voters.”

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departments than the Budget Com-mittee or the small number of voters who attend the Deliberative Session held one month prior to town elections when the budget is actually voted on.

“Denise got a slight win (at the Deliberative Session) to support this position,” O’Brien acknowledged. “But we’re closer to the situation than the Budget Committee or the Delibera-tive Session.” O’Brien said that during the budget process Gonyer argued the position was needed because her offi ce was “swamped” with work. “We differ with that position,” he said.

Up until March the Town Clerk-Tax Collector’s offi ce staff was comprised of fi ve full-time workers, including Gonyer and her deputy. In addition, there is one part-time worker and one volunteer, according to Town Admin-istrator Scott Dunn. He said the offi ce runs on a budget of $350,000, of which $308,000 is personnel-related costs.

Dunn said Tuesday the full-time employee who left in mid-March did so because she wanted full-time work. Now, before selectmen decide whether to replace that person with a part-timer or permanently reduce the size the offi ce staff they want an independent assessment of personnel needs. MRI will be paid $2,200 to do the study, he said.

Gonyer said she was aware the employee had been exploring other career opportunities since the begin-ning of the year because of all the talk of staff reductions.

Gonyer said starting last Septem-ber selectmen and the town adminis-trator discussed possible shorter offi ce hours as a way to trim costs. She con-cluded the offi ce hours should remain unchanged. But in November she said

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she proposed reducing one full-time position to part-time “in order to help with fi nding additional budget funds.”

In mid-December Gonyer sent a memo to Dunn in which said, “I owe it to the citizens of Gilford to try to keep the level of service the same. If the taxpayers choose not to fund it then I will accept that and adjust the level of service as needed.”

But O’Brien said that Gonyer wants to fund a position “that we are not absolutely sure is needed.” That is why, he said, MRI is being brought in to do a time and workfl ow analy-sis of Town Clerk-Tax Collector offi ce as well as compare its operation with other town clerk-tax collector offi ces around the state. He was unsure when

exactly MRI would have its personnel conduct the on-site study.

Gonyer said that an MRI study con-ducted in 2004 recommended a second part-time worker be added to the Town Clerk-Tax Collector’s offi ce, and that that report is still being used to jus-tify the staffi ng in other departments. Gonyer said her offi ce staff today is down 1 1/2 positions from what the 2004 study recommended and that while in 2004 it had funding for 244 staff hours a week, the offi ce now operates a total of 188 personnel hours.

“My feeling is that (this new) MRI study is unnecessary, a waste of tax-payers’ dollars and has become a per-sonal target on the (town clerk-tax collector) and her offi ce,” Gonyer said.

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Boston being racist, but I got noth-ing but love there,” said Carter, who scored 70 goals for the Bruins. “I was a black hockey player — so what. I was a Bruin, and that’s all that mattered.”

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LETTERSTouts of Medicare’s low administrative costs are misleading

Michael Barone

Nostalgic liberals don’t understand jobs of future

I don’t know how many times I’ve seen liberal commentators look back with nostalgia to the days when a young man fresh out of high school or military service could get a well-paying job on an assembly line at a unionized auto factory that could carry him through to a com-fortable retirement.

As it happens, I grew up in Detroit and for a time lived next door to fac-tory workers. And I know something that has eluded the liberal nostal-giacs. Which is that people hated those jobs. The assembly-line work was boring and repetitive. That’s because management imbibed Frederick W. Taylor’s theories that workers were stupid and could not be trusted with any initiative.

It was also because the thousands of pages of work rules in United Auto Workers contract, which for-bade assembly-line speedups, also barred any initiative or fl exible response. That’s why the UAW in 1970 staged a long strike against General Motors to give workers the option of early retirement, 30-and-out. All those guys who had gotten assembly line jobs at 18 or 21 could quit at 48 or 51.

The only problem was that when they retired they lost their health insurance. So the UAW got the Detroit Three auto companies to pay for generous retiree health ben-efi ts that covered elective medical and dental procedures with little or no co-payments. It was those retiree health benefi ts more than anything else that eventually drove General Motors and Chrysler into bank-ruptcy and into ownership by the government and the UAW.

The liberal nostalgiacs would like to see an economy that gives low-skill high school graduates similar opportunities. That’s what Barack Obama seems to be envisioning when he talks about hundreds of thousands of “green jobs.”

But those “green jobs” have not come into existence despite mas-sive government subsidies and crony capitalism. It’s become appar-ent that the old Detroit model was unsustainable and cannot be revived even by the most gifted community organizer and adjunct law professor. For one thing, in a rapidly changing and technologi-cally advanced economy, the life-time job seems to be a thing of the past. Particularly “lifetime” jobs where you work only 30 years and then get supported for the next 30 or so years of your life.

Today’s young people can’t expect to join large organizations and in

effect ride escalators for the rest of their careers.

The new companies emerging as winners in high tech — think Apple or Google — just don’t employ that many people, at least in the United States.

Similarly, today’s manufacturing fi rms produce about as large a share of the gross national product as they used to with a much smaller per-centage of the labor force. Moreover, there’s evidence that recent growth in some of the professions — the law, higher education — has been a bubble, and is about to burst.

The bad news for the Millennial generation that is entering its work years is that the economy of the future won’t look like the economy we’ve grown accustomed to. The “hope and change” that Barack Obama promised hasn’t produced much more than college loans that will be hard to pay off and a health care law that lets them stay on Mommy and Daddy’s health insur-ance till they’re 26.

The good news is that information technology provides the iPod/Face-book generation with the means to fi nd work and create careers that build on their own personal talents and interests.

As Walter Russell Mead writes in his brilliant the-american-interest.com blog, “The career paths that (young people) have been trained for are narrowing, and they are going to have to launch out in directions they and their teachers didn’t expect. They were bred and groomed to live as house pets; they are going to have to learn to thrive in the wild.”

But, as Mead continues, “The future is fi lled with enterprises not yet born, jobs that don’t yet exist, wealth that hasn’t been created, wonderful products and life-altering service not yet given form.”

As Jim Manzi argues in his new book “Uncontrolled,” we can’t pre-dict what this new work world will look like. It will be invented through trial and error.

What we can be sure of is that cre-ating your own career will produce a stronger sense of satisfaction and fulfi llment. Young people who do so won’t hate their work the way those autoworkers hated those assembly line jobs.

(Syndicated columnist Michael Barone is senior political analyst for The Washington Examiner, is a resi-dent fellow at the American Enter-prise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor and co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.)

To the editor,A recent caller to Neil Young’s radio

show, “The Advocates”, claimed the administration cost for Medicare is much lower than for private insur-ance companies. Since government effi ciency is not consistent with my experience, I investigated. It turns out that Medicare’s formula for comput-ing administration costs does NOT include all its real costs, costs which government demands are included in the calculations for private compa-nies. So the comparison is not valid, and the claim is, at best, misleading.

The formula used to compute Medi-care’s administrative cost excludes more than half of its real costs: some of its management costs, policy set-ting costs done by Congress, tax and fee collection services provided by Social Security and the IRS, costs of capital, and many services provided by other government agencies.

If you try to compare these admin-istrative costs, Medicare has some advantages. Medicare doesn’t have to compete for clients, seniors are forced by buy it. Medicare doesn’t offer a wide variety of policies to meet different customer needs but which increase costs. Medicare doesn’t have to pay state and federal income taxes, real estate taxes, regulatory fees and compliance costs, taxes on premiums, collection costs, capital costs, commis-sions to sales people, and essentially it does no fraud prevention. Private companies spend money on effective fraud prevention to keep premiums low, and some offer disease manage-ment services which help customers, and but these value adds increase administration costs. Private com-panies need to maintain adequate reserves to cover unexpected expenses and meet regulatory requirements, and earn a return for their sharehold-ers. Medicare doesn’t.

Big government supporters will claim that profi ts are a big factor in private company administrative costs (profi ts are included in administra-tive costs). But, the combined profi t of the top 10 (most from the top 5) health insurance companies is about $12.7-billion. $12.7-billion is small compared with the $48-billion or more

that Medicare loses to fraud annually.

Medicare fraud, about 9-percent of the Medicare budget, is a cost borne by every Medicare recipient and tax-payer. Every administration claims they will reduce Medicare fraud, but none actually do. Medicare should have to spend to stop fraud. That would increase its administration cost but it would save taxpayer money.

There are various studies that compare Medicare and private com-pany administrative costs. One study adjusts Medicare to include inap-propriately excluded expenses and adjusts private company costs down to eliminate some factors not appli-cable to Medicare. The result is that Medicare costs come in at 6-8-percent versus 8.9-percent. The study com-ments that the private company pro-vides extra value for the higher cost.

Another study acknowledges that there are a variety of ways to compare the administrative costs. They claim the correct comparison results in pri-vate company administrative costs being less expensive than Medicare.

The basic problem is that comparing the administrative costs of Medicare and private companies is like com-paring apples to asparagus, they are just VERY different entities. Making a fair comparison would be very dif-fi cult, people would have to agree on many complex factors: what costs really constitute administrative costs, how to adjust for differences in client sizes and demographics, how to adjust for extra value services, to include or not include fraud costs, how to adjust for costs that government forces on private businesses but not on govern-ment entities, etc.

What do you call something that is so misleading that it gives a totally false impression? Is it a lie? Is it just misleading? Is it just taking advan-tage of people’s ignorance?

Whatever you want to call it, the claim that Medicare’s administrative expense is substantially less than pri-vate company administrative expense is so misleading as to give a totally false impression.

Don EwingMeredith

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LETTERSSanta Claus distorts the market for higher ed & costs skyrocket Those who care about community will defeat SB-2 for 13th time

To the editor,The “You’re on your own” folks in

Sanbornton are at it again: they want to shelve Town Meeting, where discus-sion happens around voting on warrant articles, in favor of solitude in the voting booth (SB-2). Solitude in the voting booth can mean that among warrant articles will be some the voter hadn’t considered and doesn’t understand for repercussions — and certainly may not understand for need. The voter can be confused, think about costs, so, under-standably, vote no automatically. Where does this leave our town? With lots of “no” votes that with shared understand-ing possible at Town Meeting may have been “yes” votes, because what is put before us is not frivolous stuff. It’s the stuff that makes a town cohesive, func-tional, healthy.

The SB2 - “no” people in Sanbornton want, simply, lower taxes. They talk concern for “participation numbers,” needing to mask their real issue. They don’t care about community.

At an SB-2 deliberative session the small, agenda-driven number present could zero the library budget. So all the voters could do in the solitude of their voting booth during all-day voting is say “yes” or “no” to not budgeting the library, but not set a responsible library budget number. Yeah! a win for the “You’re on your own” folks. They could share among themselves, “Good! The library gets noth-ing.” Towns with SB-2 haven’t seen low-ered property tax rates, however.

The pro-SB-2 people suggest that

the system’s deliberative session will be people “discussing the articles pre-sented by the Board of Selectman (sic) and Budget Committee” (Brian Gal-lagher letter). Let’s get this straight: the SB-2 people voice that Town Meet-ing is under-attended, but they think a replacement meeting will be more attended? This surely is double-talk. A meeting is a meeting. Why would any thinking person swap a meeting (Town Meeting) where you can both discuss and vote right there, with one (SB-2 deliberative session) where you can amend the wording and numbers but not vote, and still have to put in time later to vote? Some SB-2 towns have half an hour in the solitude of the voting booth with more than 40 articles and weariness setting in. This isn’t good.

The socializing at Town Meeting, with the Firemen’s Auxiliary selling sandwiches, cookies, fruit cup and drink, is a bonus good, by the way.

Town Meeting is better. Sanborn-ton will be defeating SB-2 petition-ers a 13th time, if this year we can do it again. Please make sure to vote on May 8th and to vote “NO” to SB-2. Preserve our Town Meeting that, by the way, we moved to May some years ago, to satisfy many of these same petitioners who then fretted about participation by those returning from being away in the winter, or at least pretended that fret.

Lynn Rudmin ChongSanbornton

World evil has never been so well organized as in our time

To the editor,Macro education is the most failed

industry in America, not only academ-ically but economically. Student loan debt now tops one trillion. It exceeds the total charged on every credit card in America. Higher education has managed to increase tuition fees 300-percent since 1990, out striping inflation by a factor of four. We have turned our nation on its head produc-ing a bloody slug fest over health care costs that have increased half that of education while ignoring the com-plete, total melt down of education. People providing life saving health care are handed Obama scarlet let-ters while tenured union professors are handed higher wages and better benefits in silence. Ever increasing wage and benefit costs pass through dollar for dollar as higher tuition fees. Main Street America now finds its budgets buckling under the thumb screw like pressure. The failure to STOP the educational fright train of higher costs has resulted in N.H. stu-dents graduating with the highest average debt load of any state in the country — thanks in large part to in-state tuition rates that are among the highest in the nation and never STOP INCREASING.

What are the primary reasons that have allowed this catastrophe to occur?

1. Teacher unions dominate educa-tion at almost every level. The best interests of unions oppose the vital economic interests of every student and every parent helping to pay the enormous costs of college. Unions have four areas of primary concerns. None of them involve lowering the cost of higher education.

A. Perpetual increases to wages.B. Perpetual improvements to ben-

efitsC. Employment security (tenure)

D. Expand the membership of those paying dues

2. Government has decided to play Santa Claus, distorting the economic market for higher education. They wrap college bound students in thou-sand dollar bills. This produces noth-ing but a feeding financial frenzy at every college and university across America. Dangling sacks of money are seen as the perfect excuse to never stop raising fees. Colleges and Uncle Sam have constructed the perfect crony capitalism economic relation-ship. Universities never stop increas-ing fees and Uncle Sam never stops sending kids with bags stuffed with ever more money to offset the higher costs. Democrats never stop demand-ing government contribute more and colleges respond by charging more.

Colleges have little interest in controlling costs at any level. This explains why the price of their ser-vices never fall. The productivity improvements needed to mitigate the non-stop increases in labor costs are just a mirage and fantasy of the logi-cal. Higher labor efficiency is the last thing teacher’s unions are interested in. This opposes all unions stand for because it could reduce the labor force.

Lastly, colleges have concluded pos-session of a degree, that likely affords its owner hundreds of thousands in future earnings potential, is an item in such demand that they can liter-ally charge anything they want for it. Until the public joins hands and threatens to boycott target schools like UNH by not sending their kids there, colleges will never CONTROL COSTS. Increasing government sub-sidies of any kind merely induces uni-versities to raise tuitions as we have all witnessed so painfully for the past 25 years.

Tony BoutinGilford

To the editor,Victimology seems to be the order

of the day. The language of the left cannot dig themselves out of the mire they dug for those who fell for their line. Progressives have nursed a romantic relationship with the poor. The hard working Americans who built America and created wealth for others have become the oppressor according to the party line of the left.

The Welfare State: A creation of the left has placed the poor in bondage and created an “under-class” mired in a culture of dependency. Children without fathers, abortions on demand, and a host of many programs to keep the down trodden elements of society even further disconnected has created a monstrosity of adults who cannot function socially in a productive world.

Self reliance is an inner strength that if perpetuated throughout soci-ety, government would dwindle in their ever encroaching growth upon our lives. The state would no longer reign over its people as task-masters and towns would be more concerned with the welfare of its people than the

power of regulating.The Federal Government would

do only that which the Constitution grants it. No longer assaulting the states with programs of “totalitarian-ism”. Liberalism, fascism, socialism, progressivism, atheism, and commu-nism would lose their flavor and favor to an enlightened America.

By doing so, evil elements within the world would lose their ability to organize under false pretences. Enti-ties like the United Nations would no longer be able to build its socialist world government.

Evil has never been as well orga-nized as in our time. Its effects can be felt throughout the world. By learning who and what it is we gain the ability to combat it. By understanding who the enemy really is and understand-ing their ways we gain control over our lives and become more self reliant and a happier people.

Teach your children well. There are many out there who desire their soul.

Gene F. DanforthDanbury

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LETTERSBismark was anything but a dictator; read before you writeMedicare costs are going to go up and coverage is going downTo the editor,

Regarding Steve Earle’s dance away from the fact that he didn’t know the Nazis did not socialize medicine (which he stated emphatically): its easier just to admit you didn’t know. We all take our turns at making the mistake of speaking before research-ing. Instead now, you have made up an excuse about confusing dictators.

The man responsible for putting Germany’s modern welfare programs together was non other than Otto Von Bismark. Responsible for the unifica-tion of Germany, the great German statesman Bismark was hardly a dic-tator. So once again, Steve did not do a simple Google search to find our who the other dictator was who was not really a dictator at all. And this was 62 years prior to Hitler’s power.

Bismark was a staunch conserva-tive but was able to govern with some moderacy. He ranks wirh Winston Churchill in his use of his language. His foreign policy kept Europe out of war until 1914. He was anti-union, anti-socialist and anti-liberal.

The reason why the welfare state was expanded in late 1800s was because Germans were going to America in droves because of higher pay. Bismarck sought to offset this with non-wage benefits for the work-ers. In this, he was largely successful and was able to slow the immigration to a trickle. How much ya wanna bet Steve didn’t google Bismark before he called him a dictator?

Regarding Harry Mitchell’s letter about abortion: The lowest rates of abor-tion are in nations that have the easiest access to family planning services and abortion is legal. Belgium’s rate is 7 per 1000 while ours is 21 per. 300-percent!

Shameful! In some places where abor-tion is illegal, the rates are over 40 and 50 per 1000 women and tens of thou-sands of women die from unsanitary medical procedures. Is that what we want? No. Taking the the pragmatic approach, not the legalistic, religious one is the only way unwanted pregnan-cies and abortions will be reduced. Any other way resembles the drug war suc-cesses. How is that working out for the Americas? Conservative approaches are legalistic failures that are naive about our animal nature. Pro-life solu-tions mean MORE abortions, more sickness, more death, more unwanted pregnancies, more teen pregnancies, more poverty, more single parents.

As far as William McCoy goes, he also has it backward. Under Bush we had an administration that missed all the warning signs of 9-11. We had Enron and others where millions lost billions due to GOP love of a lack of regulations and oversight. We had the worst stock market crash since 1929, losing 700,000 jobs a month as his administration breathed its last breath. With continual obstruction, the plan of all the GOP from the start (Mitch MConell’s own words) was to make Obama a one term president. EVERYTHING THEY DO is based upon that plan and it is their politics that caused our market crash.

No, the real McKoy is having a president who fights through all the hate and obstruction to fix the fiscal and military mess GW Bush put us in. Bush was our 9-11-stock-market-crash-Pearl-Harbor President. Obama is the fixer just as Clinton fixed the Reagan-Bush fiscal mess.

James VeverkaTilton

To the editor,Well here on Monday there are only

three days until the NFL draft, one of my favorite non-sporting, sporting events. But disturbingly political news distracts me from my pleasurable anticipation of that event. It comes from a column in the N.Y. Post written by Benjamin E. Sasse, former assis-tant U.S. Secretary of Health, and Charles Hurt, columnist for the Post.

(Warning seniors: this may cause your blood pressure to rise uncontrollably.)

Sasse and Hurt reveal that one of the most oppressive aspects of Obamacare is not supposed to kick in until after the 2012 election. Obama’s plan calls for money to be taken from the Medi-care Advantage Program, part of the billions in Medicare CUTS built into the plan, designed to force people into his plan. This will SLASH (their words) reimbursement rates starting next year. Heck if your a senior, like me, or a boomer soon to be retiring and going on the Medicare program, this is BAD NEWS. Our costs are going up and cov-erages will be going down. This would be bad for Dems in an election year but hey, they have a plan.

Eight billion dollars is to be taken from the Department of Health and Human Services under a 1967 law allowing that department to spend money without congressional over-sight on experimental medical medi-cal techniques, procedures and such. This money will be used as a TEMPO-RARY, one year fix for the MAP. It’s cover story is to be called a “study”. Make no mistake this is a ruse to get past the election without anger-ing seniors. It kicks the can down the road for that one year and one year only. Then retired folks get the kick in the guts that comes with Obama’s great plan. Pile that on top of rising energy costs (another Obama benefit) and millions of us old farts will be in real binds. Now you can be sure this will effect retired Democrats as well as Republicans so what retired work-ers have to decide is, is Obama really looking out for you? Is he really doing what is best for the millions and mil-lions of elderly or soon to be retired citizens of America? I don’t think so, what do you seniors think?

Steve EarleHill

Why didn’t high taxes reduce entrepreneurial incentive in 50s & 60s?To the editor,

The Republicans claim that higher taxes on the rich will reduce their entrepreneurial incentive to produce jobs. The reasoning is that they will lose their incentive because the money they can earn will be taxed away. This fallacious reasoning is laid bare in the following figures, which can be veri-fied by any one using the Internet.

The dollar amounts used here reflect the loss in value of the dollar over the years reported. In other words, the dollars have been adjusted to reflect today’s dollar.

— 1952 top tax 92-percent on all income over $3,600,000.

— 1969 top tax 77-percent on all income over $1,400,000

— 1980 top tax 70-percent on all income over $600,000

— 2003 top tax 35-percent on all

income over $357,000The above taxes do not take into

account the large loop holes which the wealthy are able to use before reach-ing a much reduced taxable income.

The years from the 50s through the 80s were the years which pro-duced the explosion in employment, new technology, manufacturing and exports. This is a fact that the Repub-licans chose to hide in their claim that the way for increased jobs and employment is to cut the taxes on the wealthy. Look at the figures, let’s be honest with the voters. We need more income to pay for education, infra-structure and the health of our fami-lies. We are going to be behind the rest of the developed countries if we con-tinue on this course.

Kent WarnerCenter Harbor

We’re so grateful for birthday party benefit in memory of ‘Bobbo’To the editor,

The entire family of Robert “Bobbo” Horn want to thank his friends and local businesses for their compassion and support by holding the birthday party benefit. Meghan (The Heat) orchestrated this entire event with the help of Jared Milne (The Looney Bin), Ashley Doptis, Doug Decosta, Brit-ney Waldrip, Joey Townsend, Jimmy Webtser, Nina Jordan, Jeff Jelinek, Dave Pirtle, Randy Peterson, Heather Webster, Cortney Hews, and Al Rozzi (purchased stickers), Davida Cook (owner of The Heat), Michelle (owner of the Looney Bin, Jason foster (DJ),

Gateway Spa, Fitness Edge, Forever Bonnies, TAT2ING, Star Nails, Maui Tanning, Hart’s Turkey Farm, LHOP, and The Corner House Inn.

Bobbo had a huge heart and always looked at each individuals good side first and foremost. His motto was “No Drama, Just Be Happy!” Over 300 people came to his viewing because he really cared about people as the people listed about cared about him.

Thank you everyone for your kind-ness and support.

The Horn FamilyLaconia.

2 Sanbornton selectmen signed SSB-2 petition that I circulated To the editor,

Voters of Sanbornton, I hope you will consider voting for SB-2 this May 8.

I circulated the SB2 petition to be put on as a Warrant Article. I believe SB-2 will allow more voters to par-ticipate in the decision making of the town and please keep in my mind that more voters are a good thing!

I have been chairman of the San-bornton Budget Committee for several years and find that at Town Meeting often people vote for reasons that might make sense at that moment but when they get home and look further into it they find it wasn’t what they thought. With SB-2 you go to a deliberative ses-

sion which is much like a regular town meeting you can make changes to the articles and hear the positions of the selectman as well as the Budget Com-mittee and address any other concerns that voters may have.

Thirty days later in the voting both you decide and vote on the individual articles. These thirty days allow you to further research questions you might have had from the deliberative session, if you vote NO on an article; that line gets stuck with last years budget. If you are out of town or ill you can vote by absentee ballot. Today our lives have become very busy and this

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CONCORD — Franklin, Bristol, Hill, Sanbornton and New Hampton are among the cities and towns left out-of-pocket while the governments of New Hampshire and Massachu-setts wrangle over how to compensate them for land taken for flood control projects nearly 60 years ago.

This week Senior Assistant Attorney General Peter Roth told the Legislature that his office will formally demand that Massachusetts to pay its share and if the Bay State fails to comply file suit in the United States Supreme Court before the summer is out.

In 1953, the state took some 40,000 acres from 18 cities and towns along the Merrimack and Connecticut rivers where high water can be held to mitigate flooding downstream. The Merrimack River Valley Flood Control Compact stipulated that Massachu-setts would contribute 70-percent and New Hampshire 30-percent to reim-bursing the municipalities annually for the foregone property tax revenue on the sequestered land.

About seven years ago Massachu-setts began withholding its payments. Meanwhile, New Hampshire paid Massachusetts’s share in addition to its own until last year when it paid only its 30-percent and this year when it budgeted even less.The New Hamp-shire Department of Revenue Admin-istration has yet to tally the arrearage owed by Massachusetts, which some claim to be $4-million.

When the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on Senate Bill 326, which would require that payments be made directly to the municipalities, several town officials told lawmakers that being short-changed posed problems since they

Sanbornton & New Hampton among towns looking for full restoration of promised flooding rights payments

projected the revenue in their 2012 budgets.

Franklin, which ceded 1,284 acres, was due $38,000, but received $11,400; Bristol, which ceded 193 acres, was due $11,300, but received $3,400; Hill, which ceded 820 acres, was due $40,000, but received $12,000; New Hampton, which ceded 560 acres, was due $25,000, but received $7,100; and Sanbornton, which ceded 782 acres, was due $39,000, but received $11,700.

Altogether the 14 cities and towns subject to the Merrimack River Valley Flood Control Compact were slated to receive close to $500,000 from Mas-sachusetts in 2011-2012. The city of Keene and towns of Dublin Roxbury and Surry are subject to the Connecti-cut River Valley Flood Contol Compact.

Sanbornton Town Administrator Bob Veloski said that the town lost valuable waterfront property on the east bank of the Pemigewasset River above Franklin Falls Dam and though the compensation is not a large sum, “every little bit helps.”

Barbara Lucas, town administrator in New Hampton, said that town offi-cials “are very anxious to recover the lost revenue.” She said that frequent flooding of the Pemigewasset River during the past decade has led to clo-sures of roads in the floodplain and the Central Street Bridge, which was raised to accommodate high water.

Officials of the Massachusetts Exec-utive Office of Energy and Environ-mental Affairs claim to be seeking a thorugh explanation of how the loss of property tax revenue to New Hamp-shire municipalities is calculated.

“We want the towns to put pressure on the Attorney General to put pres-sure on Massachusetts,” Lucas said.

By Michael KitchTHE LACONIA DAILY SUN

recorded on the trooper’s in-car video equipment, that he argued against reopening it: “I tried to tell them to leave that ‘sumbuck closed and they wouldn’t listen to me.”

“I said it will roll in faster than you can shut it down,” Simmons contin-ued. “This crap wouldn’t have hap-pened if he’d have listened.”

Gourley told investigators he was unaware of any specific policy or pro-cedure and never received any formal training on opening or closing roads.

He did not immediately respond to a telephone message left at the High-way Patrol’s Gainesville office seeking comment Thursday. A home phone listing for him could not be found.

The report faulted the Highway Patrol for failing to create effective guidelines for such situations and said troopers did not adequately share critical information among themselves just before the crashes occurred. They never consulted technical specialists with the Florida Forestry Ser-vice or National Weather Service.

Once traffic resumed flowing, the Highway Patrol failed to actively mon-itor the highway conditions, the report said. It noted that Gourley left I-75 to patrol U.S. 441 while Simmons and another trooper took a meal break. A fourth trooper was parked writing a report and fifth was at his off-duty job working security at a rest area.

Simmons twice told Gourley about the potential for poor visibility to return. Gourley, though, was wor-ried that keeping the highway closed would result in secondary crashes based on his prior experience investi-gating such wrecks.

Other factors in his decision were that U.S. 441, the major detour route, also was closed and the only alternative was a two-lane road through a small town that couldn’t handle heavy traffic. He also worried that directing drivers onto unfamiliar roads in the early morning hours would be hazardous.

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The selectmen unanimously voted to join the suit during their meet-ing Wednesday evening. In taking the action, selectmen accepted the services of attorney Peter Millham, a long-time Gilford resident, and directed Town Administrator Scott Dunn to meet with Millham regard-ing the suit.

Dunn said Thursday that selectmen have also instructed him to negotiate Millham’s fee in connection with the case.

Under the redistricting plan, Gilford and Meredith would share a House district which would have four seats in the lower chamber. All four could be residents of the same town.

Critics of the plan say that some communities which have enough population to guarantee them one or more seats in the House were instead placed into multi-community districts, in violation of the N.H. Constitution.

Millham, a long-time Gilford town moderator, who met with town select-men April 11, has noted that based on the 2010 Census, the ideal population for each of the 400 seats in the House is 3,291. With a population of 7,126, Gilford qualifies for two representa-tives, leaving an excess population of 544, which represents a deviation from the ideal of 7.6-percent. Meredith, with 6,241 people, qualifies for one seat, but falls 341 people, or 5.4-percent, short of qualifying for two seats.

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Meredith in one district that would elect four representatives at-large, all of whom could be returned by either town, leaving the other without a rep-resentative.

Millham said that the Legislature feared that deviation greater than plus or minus 5-percent would lead the federal government to reject the plan. However, he said that the federal courts have accepted “reasonable” and “substantial” deviations, particularly to satisfy a constitutional provision.

Gilford joins other communities which are suing the state over the plan. Two of the state’s major cities, Manchester and Concord have filed the suit. Others potentially challeng-ing the redistricting plan are Mer-edith, Sunapee and Deerfield.

In other business at Wednesday’s meeting:

— Selectmen approved a plan to install two memorial benches in Lin-coln Park in Glendale, which over-looks Lake Winnipesaukee. One bench would be dedicated to the memory of David Barrett, who for many years was director of the state Division of Safety Services which includes Marine Patrol. The park is a short dis-tance from the Marine Patrol head-quarters and so Barrett would often sit in the park for “a little quiet time,” Barrett’s widow Wendy Barrett wrote selectmen. The other bench would be dedicated to the memory of Dr. Rich-ard Heidbreder another park regular who lived nearby.

— Selectmen authorized Parks and Recreation Director Herb Greene and Police Chief Kevin Keenan to testify at legislative hearings in opposition to House Bill 1341, which would repeal an existing law which prohibits shoot-ing a firearm in more densely popu-lated areas of a city or town.

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mined to continue building their nests.That determination persisted despite

PSNH employees removing the nesting material once the alternative nest was installed about a hundred yards from the utility poles. The osprey continued to nest on the poles, which caused a pair of power outages Monday once the sticks and twigs became saturated with heavy rains on Sunday. In response, power company workers again disman-tled the nests and re-engineered the tops of the poles so they wouldn’t be as welcoming to the opsrey.

Still, the birds continued to attempt to build nests on nearby utility poles, posing a risk to themselves as well as threatening to cause future power outages. Frustrated, MacLeod and PSNH began plans to relocate the alternative nest closer to the utility poles as a means to increase the odds that the birds would recognize it as a suitable home.

The work needed to be done on a tight schedule. Other local osprey, those with stable nesting situations, have already laid this year’s clutch of eggs and the pair in question was likely ready to do the same. Without a sturdy nest, the female would likely

abandon the eggs on the ground.With that clock ticking in the back of

his mind, MacLeod was quite pleased yesterday morning to hear several reports – one from a PSNH employee and many from local birdwatchers – that the osprey pair was seen perched on the new nest on Thursday morn-ing. With that development, he said the plans to move the pole have been put on hold if not cancelled altogether.

“That’s a great step forward,” said MacLeod. Perching on the nest is not synonymous with adopting it as a nest site, he cautioned, though it is a strong indication that the birds are trying the nest on for size. “He cer-tainly has decided to check it out and bring her to it,” he said. “Maybe it’s going to work after all.”

The saga of the Lake Opechee osprey has generated a significant amount of interest, and the alterna-tive nesting site selected by MacLeod provides an excellent vantage point for wildlife watchers. Only about 20 feet from the Ahern Park access road, MacLeod encouraged those who wish to view the birds to remain in their cars and watch from a comfortable distance. “Cars act as a wonderful

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MOULTONBOROUGH — After per-suading town officials to shelve plans to reconstruct a stretch of Sheridan Road to town standards a year ago, residents of the lightly traveled byway remain skeptical of planned improvements to be undertaken this summer, plan that will be presented at a public meeting on Tuesday, May 1.

Originally a cow path, Sheridan Road runs northward from Route 25 for a little more than two miles then forks into Range Road leading northwest to Squam Lake and School House Road heading northeast to Sandwich. Both the south-ern and northern reaches of the road have been reconstructed, leaving some 1,650 feet, or about a third of mile, in the middle in disrepair. Narrow and pictur-esque, the road is lined with mature oaks, maples and evergreens and stone walls.

Last year the town planned to widen the stretch of road to 22 feet with one-foot shoulders and drainage swales to match the remainder of the road, but returned to the drawing board when residents balked at stripping the verge of its mature trees and stone walls.

Bonnie and Don Muscavitz, who own property on either side of the road — a 200-year-old cape on one side and an auto body shop on the other — complained that widening the road to 22 feet would bring the pavement to within 18 inches of their bedroom and bathroom windows while the loss of stately trees and stone walls would amount to the “total destruction” of a country lane.

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Instead, on the recommendation of Town Administrator Carter Terenzini, the selectmen applied most of the funds budgeted for the project to other roadworks, including repaving 7,950 feet of Sheridan Road northward from Route 25, and allotted $10, 000 to KV Partners, the town engineer, to rede-sign the improvement of the disputed section of roadway.

Terenzini said yesterday that the new design calls for reconstruction of the contested section of the road to its existing width of 18 feet with a closed drainage system incorporating curb-ing and catch basins as well as recla-mation of 4,125 feet of pavement from the intersection with Jones Road to the Sandwich town line. The budget for the project is $425,000.

Terenzini said that fewer trees and no stone walls will need to be removed, though one stone wall would be moved during construction then reset when the work is complete. “Overall we’ve done what we can to address the con-cerns raised last year while protecting the investment of our taxpayers in the road,” he said.

Bonnie Muscavitz said she is still “very concerned” and has asked Teren-zini to mark the trees that will be felled and the walls that will be affected. “It’s just not necessary,” she said. “All that fancy drainage.” She said she counted 37 drivers who regularly used the road to travel from home to work and shop. “That’s almost $12,000 a driver,” she said. “The town needs a new fire truck. That’s a lot more important than fixing an old bumpy road.”

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able, the female will lay her eggs and then settle into the nest as for the 35 to 40 day incubation period. MacLeod said that only her white head will be visible, sticking up from the nest as she guards the eggs. Meanwhile, the male of the pair will focus his efforts on finding fish to bring to his mate. Until the eggs have hatched, MacLeod said, the female will fly away from the nest to eat while the male takes a break from fishing to sit on the eggs. “She will not feed on the nest until the clutch hatches,” MacLeod said.

A little more than a month after she first lays them, the eggs will hatch. The male will continue to bring fish, at a rate of several per day, to feed the growing family. If all goes well, the pair will produce up to three healthy chicks this year. In the fall, the osprey will fly to South America for their

winter home, a journey that only one of the chicks is likely to survive.

After a couple of years in the tropics, the surviving chicks will have reached sexual maturity and will return to New England to find a mate. MacLeod said male osprey typically return to nest within 10 miles of the nest they were born in, while females might find a mate further afield.

Osprey can live up to 25 years, and will remain reproductive for practi-cally all of their adult lives. The cur-rent pair is estimated to be about eight years old, meaning they have a decade or more of chick-bearing years ahead of them. MacLeod hopes they are suc-cessful in furthering the remarkable recovery of the state’s osprey popula-tion, which was nearly wiped out by the agricultural pesticide DDT. “Hope-fully they can get down to business,” he said. “It’s gotten them out of danger, that’s the most important thing.”

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LACONIA — Sim Willey, general manager of Hart’s Turkey Farm, said he learned the hard way that patrons at the Taste of the Lakes Region, when they come to his table, want what they want. He tried one year to bring some of the more unusual items from the restaurant’s menu, to the disappoint-ment of the diners. “The folks were like, ‘where’s the turkey?’ So now, that’s all I’ll bring to this event. They want that traditional turkey from us.”

Willey and the family-fun establishment have been partners with the Altrusa Club of Laconia’s Taste of the Lakes Region, held this year on Sunday, May 6, every year since it began 22 years ago. How-ever, patrons haven’t tired of Hart’s signature dish and its simplicity. Roasted turkey, carved to order, and topped with a ladle of their home-made gravy.

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relaxation.” He and Chris Bernard, who runs the restaurant’s purchasing and catering departments, will bring several 35-pound turkeys to the event. They’ll also bring an assortment of dessert items. Like the turkey, gravy and most everything at Hart’s, the desserts are made in-house. “We like to show off our baking skills as well,” he said.

The Taste of the Lakes Region gives diners the unique opportunity to sample creations from 20 of the area’s best kitchens. Held at the Conference Center at the Lake Opechee Inn and Spa on May 6 from 3 to 5:30 p.m., the event is also the primary fund raiser for the Altrusa Club, a service organiza-tion which provides scholarships and promotes lit-eracy in the area.

Tickets cost $25 per person and because there’s a cash bar, no persons younger than 21 will be admit-ted. Tickets may be purchased at Hector’s Fine Food & Spirits, Hart’s, Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Coldwell-Banker Residential Brokerage, or at www.altrusala-conia.com.

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“I didn’t lose a penny,” the woman said, praising the efforts of Carsen and Cornell. Cornell. “Dan told me to stop beating myself up,” she remarked, “but I’m still shaking and it’s Thursday.” She said that

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Male scout leaders who are gay have long been barred, but instances of women being excluded are not well-documented and probably rare. A lesbian couple in Vermont were told two years ago that they could no longer be involved with their son’s Scout troop.

Because of the policy, Tyrrell said she only reluc-tantly allowed her 7-year-old son to join up in Bridge-port, where she lives with her partner and their four children. Told, she said, by the local cub master that it didn’t matter that she is a lesbian, she was drafted to lead the pack in September.

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“She wasn’t trying to hide anything,” said Dunn, whose son is among the dozen or so members of the boys-only pack. “Nobody I know of has ever made a single complaint against her.”

Tyrrell said she was removed in April, right after she was asked to take over as treasurer of the local Boy Scout troop — which oversees Tiger Scouts, Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts — and she raised questions about the fi nances.

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LACONIA — The two dozen trustees of LRGHealthcare joined their counterparts from 10 of the largest hospitals in the state in charging that the New Hampshire Medicaid program is “broken”and asking the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Ser-vices, the federal agency that oversees the program, to intervene.

In a letter addressed to Cindy Mann, deputy administrator of the center, the trustees wrote that “our ability to care for the sick regardless of their ability to pay is substantially compromised because New Hampshire has abdicated its responsibilities as a partner with the federal government in the operation of a functional Medicaid program.”

The letter notes that New Hampshire, with among the lowest reimbursement rates of all the states, reduced Medicaid funding to the 10 hospitals by more than $130-million this fi scal year. These steps were taken without any “analysis of their impact on the entre delivery system” or “consideration of how they would affect the poor and needy. They were done for one simple reason,” the letter continues, “to balance the state budget and shift the state’s fi scal problem to our hospitals.”

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Describing themselves as community and busi-ness leaders, the trustees warn that “the failure of the Medicaid program will have potentially cata-strophic impacts in our communities.” In closing they write “New Hampshire is not listening to us. We need your help to fi x this ailing program.”

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Youkilis, mired in an early-season slump, hit his second career slam into the right-field bullpen during a five-run third inning against Humber, who was making his first start since pitching a perfect game in a 4-0 victory at Seattle on Saturday.

There was no such suspense Thursday. Humber walked leadoff batter Mike Aviles in the first, snap-ping his streak of 29 straight batters retired.

One out later, the right-hander allowed a single to Dustin Pedroia, a dribbler up the third-base line that was the first hit off Humber since Nick Marka-kis’ one-out double for Baltimore in the fifth inning of the Orioles’ 10-4 victory at Chicago on April 16.

Humber was tagged for a career-high nine runs

Humber far from perfect in 10-3 loss to Red Soxand eight hits in five innings. The nine earned runs he allowed after his perfect game were a record, topping the eight given up by Jim “Catfish” Hunter after his perfecto for Oakland in 1968.

The resurgent Red Sox have scored 34 runs in winning their last four games, a streak coming on the heels of a five-game skid.

Adrian Gonzalez followed Pedroia with an RBI double, and David Ortiz added a run-scoring single to give the Red Sox a 2-0 lead.

After throwing just 96 pitches to complete his mas-terpiece, Humber twice needed more than 30 pitches to get through an inning. He threw 92 pitches over the first four innings.

Saltalamacchia followed Youkilis’ slam with a home run just inside the right-field foul pole. He added a two-run shot in the fifth off Humber, his fourth homer of the season.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The New England Patriots traded up twice in the first round of the NFL draft to add a couple of players to the defense that allowed the New York Giants to march down the field for the winning score in the Super Bowl.

The Patriots sent the No. 27 overall pick, which they’d obtained in a deal with New Orleans, and a third-rounder to Cincinnati for the 21st pick and used it to take Syracuse defensive end Chandler Jones. Then they traded the No. 31 pick to Denver with a fourth-rounder for the No. 25 pick they used to take Alabama linebacker Dont’a Hightower.

“As usual, the draft always takes some interesting

Patriots twice trade up in draft to add to defensetwists and turns,” coach Bill Belichick said Thurs-day night after wrapping up the first round. “You just never know how it’s going to go.”

Despite winning the AFC title and reaching the Super Bowl for the fifth time in 11 years, the Patri-ots defense allowed the second-most yards overall and in pass defense last season.

Hightower, who is 6-foot-4 and 260 pounds, played for Belichick buddy Nick Saban on Alabama teams that won the NCAA championship twice in the past three years. Both he and Jones are considered ver-satile players who can fit into a variety of defensive systems.

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During arguments over the law, liberal and con-servative justices reacted skeptically to the admin-istration’s argument that the state exceeded its authority when it made the records check, and another provision allowing suspected illegal immi-grants to be arrested without a warrant.

Civil rights groups say Arizona’s and the other states’ measures encourage racial profiling and ethnic stereotyping.

Immigrant rights advocates, who believed the courts would reject attempts by states to grab more law enforcement power, were not expecting the jus-tices’ response. They said a Supreme Court valida-tion of the law would frighten immigrants further and cause Latinos who are in the country legally to be asked about their status.

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Grant leads to garden beds at local childcare centersTilton Academy students and Liz Lawrence from Franklin HEAL donated their time to build garden beds at ARK Christian Nursery and Learning Center in Tilton. (Courtesy photo)

TILTION — The Lakes Region Partnership for Public Health received an HNH Foundation grant to build and support eight raised garden beds at local childcare facilities: ARK Christian Nursery and Learning Center in Tilton, Huot Child Develop-ment Center at Laconia High School, High Spirits Child Care Center in Gilford, Head start Childcare Centers in Laconia/Concord, Inter-Lakes Daycare Center in Meredith, Lakes Region Childcare Ser-

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The partnership is looking for local support for supplies and hands on assistance with these gar-dens. If you are willing to donate your time or sup-plies to this project please contact Tammy Levesque, Community Health Educator at 528-2145.

LACONIA — Taylor Community is welcoming the public to tour its 104-acre campus in Laconia or their independent living cottages at Back Bay in Wolfeboro, Spokesfield Common in Sandwich or Meeting House Commons in Pembroke during any of their open houses this Spring.

— Laconia, 435 Union Avenue, every Thursday from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

— Back Bay in Wolfeboro, Taylor Drive (off Bay Street), every Wednesday from 10 a.m.-noon.

— Spokesfield Common in Sandwich, Heard Rd. (off Rt. 109) every Wednesday from 2-4 p.m.

— Meeting House Commons in Pembroke, off Church Road, every Tuesday and Thursday from 2-4 p.m.

Attendees will receive guided tours from Taylor Com-munity staff and residents, receive take-home informa-tional packets, plus for a limited time, Taylor Community is offering substantial savings on move-in options.

“We are excited to share these new incentives with people who are serious about living independently

but in the comfort of a retirement community like Taylor,” said Paul Charlton, Director of Marketing at Taylor Community. “We offer both apartment and cottage style living designed for seniors 62 years of age and older. As always, if these Open House times are not convenient, we can arrange private tours of any one of our properties; just call us to schedule an appointment.”

Amenities at Taylor Community give residents the option of fine dining at the Laconia campus’ newly renovated dining room and café, full use of the indoor pool, gym and other health services pro-vided on campus, plus social interaction through Taylor Community sponsored trips and activities. Residents can enjoy Taylor Community’s beauti-fully landscaped grounds and country setting while having the peace of mind knowing medical facilities are nearby.

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Members of the Gilford Fire-Rescue department posed for a group photo before the start of the 6th Annual Awards Ceremony at the Gilford Community Church. (Courtesy photo)

GILFORD — The Gilford Fire-Rescue department recently held its 6th Annual Awards Ceremony at the Gilford Community Church. The ceremony is a chance for the members, families and guests of Gil-ford Fire Rescue to get together for an evening of friendship and recognition of those that have given so much to the department.

The evening started with a group picture of the members of the department then moved into the Fel-lowship Hall where Chief Stephen Carrier welcomed everyone. The members and guests took part in a pot luck dinner prior to continuing with the ceremony.

Chairman of the Board of Fire Engineers William Akerley and Town Administrator Scott Dunn spoke briefly to the members and guests and thanked them for their continued professional service to the community.

Chief Carrier gave a review of activities and inci-dents for 2011. The department responded to 1411 incidents, the most the department has responded to in a single year. Members participated in a total of 2363 hours of training over the past year. Major personnel changes included the retirement of Chief John Beland, the promotions of Deputy Rick Andrews and Chief Stephen Carrier and the hiring of three new firefighter/EMT’s to fill vacancies.

Call company members that have joined the department over the past year were sworn in. Mem-bers being sworn in included FF Tom Hanks, FF Richard Raper and Driver Ron Skinner.

The awards portion of the ceremony included the presentation of a Letter of Appreciation to Driver/Operator Ron Skinner, who was recognized for

living the values of the department’s recently chosen slogan of “Community, Safety, Professional Service.”

Paramedic Rae Mello-Andrews was presented with the EMS Provider of the Year. Rae was recog-nized, among other things, for working well with all department members and being willing to learn from, as well as teach,her peers.

Firefighter Nick Proulx received the Firefighter of the Year award. Nick was recognized for being the type of person you call upon to get the job done com-pletely, competently and correctly.

Retired Chief John Beland was presented with the Fire Officer of the Year award. Chief Beland was noted as being proof positive of what love of the job and “blood, sweat and tears” can accomplish.

EMT Patrick McGonagle was presented with an Award for Commendable Service for initiating CPR and ensuring additional EMS personnel were noti-fied of a cardiac arrest of a participant in the 2011 Timberman Sprint Triathlon. Pat was participating in the bike portion of the triathlon when he wit-nessed another participant fall. Pat immediately stopped and began CPR. The patient was subse-quently revived and transferred to definitive care. Pat continued on to successfully complete the triath-lon. The patient was able to recover fully from his illness and injuries.

The department administration and Awards Com-mittee expressed appreciation to the Gilford Com-munity Church for the use of the Fellowship Hall, the award recipients and other members of the department for their time commitment, professional service and continued support of the department.

GILFORD — A Gilford Bicenteenial largest tree contest workshop will be held at Kitchen Cravings on Monday, April 30 from 4-6 p.m.

At the contest workshop, people will be introduced to and learn everything they need to know to par-ticipate in the contest including:

— identifying common New Hampshire tree spe-cies

— properly measuring a tree’s circumference— accurately recording a tree’s location— filling out a largest tree contest record form

This workshop is provided by UNH Coopera-tive Extension and presented by Belknap County UNH Cooperative Extension Forester, Andy Fast and Mary Tebo Davis, UNH Cooperative Extension Field Specialist in Community Forestry.

To register, for more information, or for special needs requests call 603-527-5475. Registration is required.

Support for this program is provided by the Town of Gilford, Bronnenberg Logging and Trucking and Barton Lumber.

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New Hampshire Music Festival releases summer classic concert schedulePLYMOUTH — The

New Hampshire Music Festival will be per-forming at the Silver Center for the Arts at Plymouth State Uni-versity every Thursday and Friday night for six weeks starting July 12.

Conductor Laureate, Paul Polivnick will lead the orchestra for the first three weeks.

“Having been the Music Director for almost 20 yearsPo-livnick is the face of the festival,” says Frank

Conductor Laureate Paul Polivnick. (Courtesy photo)

Pesci, NHMF executive director. “He is also provid-ing the artistic drive for the festival. He will also serve as a sounding board as the Festival continues its search for a permanent Music Director.”

The last three weeks of the concert series will be led by three candidates vying to be the next Music Director for the NHMF.

The New Hampshire Music Festival employs a complete orchestra all six weeks of the summer series, bringing a full complement of strings, winds, percussion, and brass to The Silver Center. Each week distinguished soloists will be featured.

— July 12-13. Jason Vieaux is a guitarist, one of the “youngest stars of the guitar world” (New York

Times, 2010). Vieaux is a musician noted for virtuo-sic and stirring performances, imaginative program-ming, and uncommon communicative gifts.

— July 19-20. Ron Patterson, a violinist, and Val-erie Muzzolini Gordon, a harpist, will perform at week two’s performance. Patterson, the festival’s concert master for many years, teaches violin, cham-ber music, orchestral repertoire, and pedagogy at the University of Washington School of Music. A stu-dent of Jascha Heifetz, Eudice Shapiro and Manuel Compinsky, Patterson has performed extensively in the United States and Europe since the age of 11, performing 45 works (including six world premieres) in more than 150 solo performances with orchestra. He has been acclaimed for his “skill, authority and imagination” by the New York Times.

Valerie Muzzolini Gordon, has been a member of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra since 2000 and has held the position of Principal Harp of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra since the age of twenty-three.

In demand both nationally and internationally, she has performed as guest Principal Harp of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Nice Philharmonic, and has also appeared with the

Philadelphia Orchestra.— July 26-27. One of the leading cellists of his

generation, William de Rosa, is the featured soloist for week three’s concert. DeRosa is noted for meld-ing distinctive artistry, profound musicianship and exquisite tone. DeRosa was described by the late Leonard Rose as “one of the most brilliant cello tal-ents in the world.”

Pesci who was recently named the Festival’s permanent Executive Director, concluded, “These are just some of the highlights demonstrating the level of this summer’s symphony performances. We are blessed not only with extraordinary musicians, but also with appreciative and supportive festival members and surrounding communities who have contributed to the vitality and longevity of the New Hampshire Music Festival.”

Founded in 1952 on Melody Island, in Lake Win-nipesaukee, the festival celebrates it celebrates its 60th anniversary this summer.

Complete concert information as well as subscrip-tion and ticket information is available through the Festival’s web site (www.nhmf.org) or by calling the Festival’s office 279-3300.

Gunstock 75th Anniversary season pass sale ends May 1

GILFORD — Gunstock will celebrate its 75th birthday next winter and has actually lowered the adult (18-64) unlimited, no blackout date pass to coincide with the 75th Anniversary to $375.

There is a May 1 season pass deadline.The unlimited season passes will be just $369 for

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Gunstock has upped the anniversary ante with more bonus offers as well. Purchase the pass prior to May 1 and receive a bonus for the Gunstock Mountain Adventure Park and can choose 1 of the summer 2 for 1 options that will include the ZipTour, Segway Tours or Aerial Treetop Adventures.

“These offers have to be redeemed before June 30, so buy your pass and make your reservation at the park at the same time,’’ says Greg Goddard, Gunstock’s General Manager. “After the May 1 deadline the rates will significantly increase, there are no blackout dates on this pass, so get them while they are hot.”

Passes can be purchased online, by phone or visit-ing Gunstock. The last benefit of the pass is that all preseason pass holders will be able to ride the lift all summer for half price.

The Gunstock Mountain Adventure Park opens Friday, May 18 and there are opportunities currently on the Gunstock Website for summer employment.

If you ordered plants through the Belknap County Conservation District this is the weekend to pick them up. There will also be surplus plants available for sale at the pick-up sites.

Those sites are: Gilmanton Iron Works Fire Sta-tion, Friday, April 27 from 5-7 p.m.; Picnic Rock Farm, Route 3 in Meredith, Saturday, April 28 from 10 a.m-2 p.m.and again on Sunday from 10 to noon.

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PLYMOUTH — The Pemigewasset Choral Society opens its 40th season with a three-concert series beginning on Thursday, May 10, at 7:30 p.m. at Gilford Community Church.

This performance will be followed with concerts on May 11, 7:30 p.m. in Franklin at St Paul’s Roman Catholic Church and Sunday May 13 at 3 p.m. at Hanaway Theater in Silver Cul-tural Arts Center at Plymouth State University.

All concerts are open to the public with admission by donation in Gil-ford and Franklin. General admission at Plymouth State University is $10. Tickets are available in advance by calling 535-ARTS with the remaining tickets available at the door.

This program titled, Songs of

Gratitude, under the direction of Robert St. Cyr with pianist, Hanna Kim expresses a sincere message – abounding in heartfelt thankfulness and love – and is a sentiment all of us can overtly share through words, actions, and music.

The music embodies four compo-nents of gratitude - faith, heritage, kinship, and love - with compositions from Gwyneth Walker’s Spring! and I Carry Your Heart to Brian Tate’s set-ting of the Sanskrit text, Gate gate. Joined by guest artist, Jessica Funk, PSU (‘13) the program also features Natalie St. Cyr, Margo Coolidge (Thursday and Sunday), and Kim Bossey (Friday).

For additional information, visit www.pemichorial.org.

LACONIA — Representative Frank Guinta (R, NH-01) will host a Manu-facturing Summit from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 1 at Lakes Region Community College as part of his ongoing “Getting Granite Staters Back to Work” jobs initiative.

Representative Guinta will listen as manufacturers, business leaders and economic development officials detail what steps are needed to promote and maintain manufacturing jobs in New Hampshire over the coming decade. The Laconia summit follows on the

first event in the series held in Ports-mouth on April 11th.

“Manufacturers repeatedly tell me Congress can help them by cutting red tape, stopping intrusive govern-ment regulation and ending Washing-ton’s out-of-control spending,” Guinta explained.”“In addition, they also need a workforce with the technical know-how to carry their industry well into the 21st Century. It’s important for the manufacturing sector and educa-tors to work together in order to meet this pressing need.”

Manufacturing summit at LRCC to focus on sector’s education-related needs

GILFORD — The Gilford Youth Center will be hosting free adult yoga classes in the months of May and June.

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FRANKLIN — Doris (Poole) Gibbs Smith, 90, a longtime resident of Tilton, died Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at The Golden Crest Community in Franklin following a brief period of failing health. Doris was born in Carbonear, Newfound-land, Canada, December 2, 1921, daugh-ter of Edward and Maude (Rowe) Poole. She moved to Golden Crest three years ago. Doris was a 1939 graduate of the Saugus High School, Saugus, MA. Doris was a longtime active member of the Pea-body Chapter, # 35, Order of the Eastern Star and traveled the State in 1963/64 as Grand Marshall when her husband Walter was the Worthy Grand Patron. She was a member of the Northfi eld-Tilton Congregational Church in Tilton where she served as a member of the Ladies Circle for many years.

She was predeceased by her fi rst husband, Walter E. Gibbs Sr. in 1980, her second husband, O. Albion Smith who died in 1998 and her sons in law, Richard Sullivan of Shrewsbury, MA and Jack Magoon of Tilton.

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Barbara of Alton Bay; daughters, Dianne Gibbs Sullivan of Shrewsbury, MA, Elea-nor Gibbs Magoon of Tilton and Karen Gibbs Brown and husband Duane of South Portland, ME; fi ve grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren; her sister, Helen Trefry of Saugus, MA; brothers in law, Edward Gibbs III of Meredith and Charles Gibbs of Franklin; sister in law, Alice Head of Epsom.

At Doris’ request, calling hours will not be held. Burial will be with her husband Walter in Park Cemetery in Tilton with a private committal service at a later date.

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Phyllis A. Turner, 69FRANKLIN — Phyllis Arlette Turner,

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Phyllis was born in Portsmouth June 23, 1942, the daughter of the late Ches-ter and Lela (Parent) Frost. She grew up in South Berwick, ME, moved to Franklin in 1971 and resided there with her family. She attended the Hill Center Church where she played music frequently.

Phyllis was employed as a cook at Mer-rimack County Nursing Home for 12 years until she retired. Following retirement, she worked for many years as a home care provider and then as an LNA at The Arches in Tilton. As an accom-plished musician, Phyllis was the lead singer and guitar player for The Westernaires and was voted New England’s Top Female Vocalist in 1964. She played at many churches, nursing homes and social establishments with her family and friends.

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LAkEs REGion Lakes Region General HospitalLaboratory and Radiology: Monday – Friday, 7 am - 6 pm; Saturday, 7 am - Noon


Rehabilitation Services at Hillside Medical Park: Monday – Fri., 6:30 am - 6 pm; 524-2852

Interlakes Medical Center – Meredith (A Clinical Department of LRGH)

Laboratory: Monday – Friday, 7 am - 5 pm

Radiology: Monday – Friday, 8 am - 4:30 pm


Rehabilitation: Monday – Fri., 7:30 am - 5 pm; 279-7208

Laconia Clinic (A Clinical Department of LRGH)

Laboratory: Monday – Fri., 8 am - 4 pm; 524-5151

Radiology: Monday – Fri., 8:30 am - 4 pm; 524-5151

Rehabilitation: Monday – Fri., 7 am - 5:30 pm; 527-2781

Ramblin’ Vewe Farm Board of Trustees. Front row, left to right-Diane Hanley, Ellen Mulligan and Dick Persons. Back row left to right – Jeff Keyser, shepherd, Mark Horvath, Mike Ware, Bill Seed, Sandy McGonagle and Weldon Bosworth. Missing from the photo was Pam Gerber. (Courtesy photo)

GILFORD — Ellen Mulligan, Diane Hanley and Mark Horvath, all residents of Gilford, have recently joined the Ramblin’ Vewe Farm Board of Trustees.

Mulligan, a life-long resident of NH, the last 24 years in Gilford, is one of top-selling realtors in the

area having been in the top 10 of over 800 area real-tors for the last few years. She is also a member of Gilford’s ZBA.

Hanley, a former earth science educator, is also the president of the WOW (Winnisquam,Opechee, Win-nipesaukee) trail and brings her interest and skills as a scientist to our mission of providing education in some of the natural phenomena that are found in our approximately 300 acre conservation area.

Horvath is a dentist who practices in the area and is a NEMBA (New England Mountain Bike Associa-tion) racer in the male Master Sport Class who fre-quently rides on the Ramblin’ Vewe Trails.

At the annual Board of Trustees meeting new offi-cers were elected for 2012. Dick Persons will remain president, Weldon Bosworth was elected Vice Presi-dent, Mark Horvath will replace Sandy McGonagle as Treasurer and Ellen Mulligan will replace Bill Seed as Secretary.

Ramblin’ Vewe Farm was established as a conser-vation trust through the generosity and vision of Dick and Betty Persons in the hope that this prop-erty will continue to be an example of sound farming and forestry practices, as well as providing recre-ational and educational opportunities for residents

Ramblin’ Vewe Farm adds three trustees to board, elects new officersof Gilford and surrounding towns for generations to come.

To learn more about outdoor recreational opportu-nities at Ramblin’ Vewe Farm and how you can sup-port its mission, visit RamblinVeweFarm.org.

MEREDITH — The Inns & Spa at Mill Falls, located in the historic village of Meredith and a premier lodging destination in New Hampshire’s Lakes Region, is one of the first properties in N.H. to launch a free and customized iPhone & Android mobile applications.

“Visitors and guests can download the free Mill Falls App to explore the Inns & Spa at Mill Falls and all the property has to offer,” said Gail Batstone, General Man-ager of the Inns at Mill Falls. “We are thrilled to offer this as a guest service because it will help our guests manage their stay, easily find their way around the property, and get quick answers right from their mobile device. When guests arrive, they will be prompted to download the app and they can immediately see images and video, learn about all the hotel amenities and how to access them, and discover upcoming events at the hotel or in an around Meredith.”

According to Batstone, guests can also browse guest relations information and receive exclusive offers directly on their iPhone/iPod Touch and Android phone. An interactive map will also serve as a guide to help guests find the location of all the nearest res-taurants, bars, shops, cultural venues, and attractions.

“Our guests are more tech savvy and connected than ever before, and we wanted to create this appli-cation that would provide them with information at their fingertips, wherever they may be. We are pleased to be able to provide this mobile service, and be one of the first hotels in New Hampshire to do so,” added Batstone. “We can also connect directly with our mobile guests and supply them with useful information about the hotel and the Lakes region , as well as exclusive values and opportunities.”

The Inns & Spa at Mill Falls contracted with Mobile Media Applications, a mobile solution for the hospitality industry, to develop the customized app.

“The team at Mill Falls is certainly an early adopter of this technology and recognizes the value of connecting with their loyal guests, either while planning their next trip or while already visiting,’’ said Tom O’Rourke, president of Mobile Media Applications of Newburyport, Mass. “They have taken our Ustay℠ Mobile App software platform, and have customized it with their own content, including last minute deals via push notifications, customized itineraries, and 24/7 guest access to hotel services -- as well as photos, videos, and an interactive map – to create an excellent and dynamic guest experience.”

“We are thrilled to bring this technology to our guests, and it’s just another way the Inns & Spa at Mill Falls goes above and beyond to create the best experience for our guests,” said Batstone. “We want our returning and new guests to feel equally knowl-edgeable about the goings on at our property, and provide them with all the things they need to make sure their visit with us is rewarding and relaxing.”

Inns & Spa at Mill Falls launches free customized iPhone & Android apps

LACONIA — Laconia Parks & Recreation is col-laborating again with Bolduc Park to offer youth and adults in Laconia golf lessons.

There will be 3 consecutive lessons on Tuesdays, May 8, 15 & 22 or June 5, 12 & 19 for the youth and Thursdays, May 10, 17 & 24 and June 7, 14 & 21 for adults. There are two different times available 5:30–6:30 p.m. or 6:30–7:30 p.m.

Cost for youth is $40 per person and adults will pay $60 per person. Golf clubs are available for those who do not have them. Call Laconia Parks & Recreation at 524-5046 to register. Space is limited.

Golf lessons at Bolduc Park


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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Today brings a surprise and the thrill of expe-riencing what you couldn’t have antici-pated. You are always fi nding new ways to unwind. Tonight, your favorite music will transport your mind to a beautiful place. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You are fi nding a new sense of identity apart from your family role. You accept that your family did their best for you, and this is what allows you to accept your-self. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). When your sign mate Walt Whitman wrote that there “will never be any more per-fection than there is now,” he wasn’t talking about the “now” that happened back then. He was talking about the “now” in which you are reading this. CANCER (June 22-July 22). Righ-teousness doesn’t solve anything and instead promotes a sense of inequality and division. That’s why you’ll focus on yourself and on doing what it takes to make your life better, regardless of the wrongdoings of others. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’ll be playing a social game of sorts. Some will take it far more seriously than you do, and this gives you an advantage. You’ll rise above the situation and form a strategy instead of reacting to the play-by-play. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’ll be brimming with cool, novel ideas for creating fun times with your loved ones. Of course, until you try them out, you can’t tell just how cool they are. Follow through, and bring a camera. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Like a silk cloth dropped from a monument, life reveals itself to you with a degree of pomp and circumstance. You’ll enjoy the way events will be framed in a cer-

tain context with accompanying rituals. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You recognize the sound of a soul’s cry, and it won’t be heard with your ears but with your heart. You’ll be in tune with the way others are feeling, and you’ll be a healer when those feelings are raw. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Usually, your actions are motivated by many different factors at once. What you do today will be motivated by a sense of duty, your own aesthetic enthusiasm and the chance for political gain. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). If you know what it’s like to love a certain person and not have that love returned, then you may also understand that it is just the kind of loss from which great art springs. You’ll turn past pain into some-thing beautiful. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You’re a true friend and a stellar partner, which you’ll prove with today’s approach to relationships. You’ll loan your strength to another instead of using it as a weapon of con-trol. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’ll plan your day intelligently in the hope that less time will be wasted in mind-less activities and useless chatter. Your forethought works brilliantly to keep you moving along your path. TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (April 27). You’ll break big goals down into small chunks and get to work in May. June puts a new person in your life, and you’ll be creatively inspired because of this infl uence. August is your chance to trade up on a big-ticket item. With great emotional maturity, you’ll lead the way for loved ones in September. Virgo and Pisces people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 20, 4, 17, 39 and 18.

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Today is Friday, April 27, the 118th day of 2012. There are 248 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:On April 27, 2011, powerful tornadoes raked

the South and Midwest. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, more than 120 twisters resulted in 316 deaths across parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Vir-ginia and Georgia.

On this date:In 1521, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand

Magellan was killed by natives in the Philippines.In 1777, the only land battle in Connecticut

during the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Ridge-fi eld, took place, resulting in a limited British vic-tory.

In 1805, during the First Barbary War, an American-led force of Marines and mercenar-ies captured the city of Derna, on the shores of Tripoli.

In 1822, the 18th president of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, was born in Point Pleas-ant, Ohio.

In 1865, the steamer Sultana exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tenn., kill-ing more than 1,400 people, mostly freed Union prisoners of war.

In 1932, American poet Hart Crane, 32, drowned after jumping from a steamer into the Gulf of Mexico while en route to New York.

In 1941, German forces occupied Athens during World War II.

In 1967, Expo ‘67 was offi cially opened in Montreal by Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson.

In 1972, the Apollo 16 mission to the moon ended safely.

In 1973, Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray resigned after it was revealed that he’d destroyed fi les removed from the safe of Watergate conspir-ator E. Howard Hunt.

In 1982, the trial of John W. Hinckley Jr., who had shot four people, including President Ronald Reagan, began in Washington. (The trial ended with Hinckley’s acquittal by reason of insanity.)

In 1992, the new Federal Republic of Yugosla-via was proclaimed in Belgrade by the republic of Serbia and its lone ally, Montenegro. Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics won entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

One year ago: An Afghan offi cer, Col. Ahmed Gul, killed eight U.S. airmen and one U.S. civilian during a routine meeting at an Afghan air force headquarters compound in Kabul.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor Jack Klugman is 90. Actress Anouk Aimee is 80. Announcer Casey Kasem is 80. Actress Judy Carne is 73. Rock musician Jim Keltner is 70. Rhythm-and-blues singer Cuba Gooding is 68. Singer Ann Peebles is 65. Rock singer Kate Pierson is 64. Rhythm-and-blues singer Herbie Murrell is 63. Actor Doug-las Sheehan is 63. Rock musician Ace Frehley is 61. Pop singer Sheena Easton is 53. Actor James Le Gros is 50. Rock musician Rob Squires is 47. Singer Mica Paris is 43. Actor David Lascher is 40. Actress Maura West is 40. Actress Sally Hawkins is 36. Rock musician Patrick Hallahan is 34. Rock singer Jim James is 34. Rock singer-musician Travis Meeks is 33. Actress Ari Graynor is 29. Rock singer-musician Patrick Stump is 28.

CALENDARTODAY’S EVENTS

Performance of The Drowsy Chaperone presented by the Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance at Plym-outh State University. 8 p.m. in the Studio Theatre at the Silver Center. Tickets are $19/adults, $17/ seniors and $15/ youth. For more information call 535-2787.

Free Mom & Me Movie at Smitty’s Cinema in Tilton. “Bolt”. 11:30 a.m.

Lost & Found program on navigating through the woods at the Squam Lake Natural Science Center in Holderness. 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. $7/member, $9/non-member. Registration required by calling 968-7194. www.nhnature.org.

Family Movie Night at the Gilman Library in Alton. 7 p.m. Popcorn provided. For more information on the feature call 875-2550.

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

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

Poetry and Paint for ages 10 and up in the Children’s Room at the Meredith Public Library. 3 to 4 p.m. Painting (abstract or a scene) and talking about poetry. Munchies served.

Knit Wits gathering at the Gilford Public Library. 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. All knitters welcome.

SATURDAY, APRIL 28Electronic Waste Collection Day hosted by the Laco-

nia/Gilford Lions Club. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Lowe’s park-ing lot in Gilford. Disposal prices range from $5 for a laptop computer to $40 for projection TVs.

Lakeport Community Association’s first yard sale of the season. 8 a.m. til? At the Freight House, located behind the Lakeport Fire Station.

Join Hal Graham and the Belknap Range Trail Tenders (BRATTS) for a day of complete trail maintenance train-ing. 9 a.m. meet at the upper Carriage Road parking lot in Gil-ford. New volunteers urged to attend. Bring work gloves and lunch. Tools will be provided. For more information contact Hal Graham at [email protected] or call 286-3506.

Lakes Region Girls’ Softball (Bake Ruth Softball) reg-istration for 14U/16U & 18U divisions. 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Bryant Field in Belmont. For Belmont, Canterbury and Laconia residents ages 13-18. For more information call Candice at 560-3292.

Adult Dance hosted by the Laconia Youth Football and Cheer Association. 7 p.m. to midnight at the Laconia Elks Lodge in Gilford.

Roast Beef Supper hosted by Trinity Episcopal Church in Meredith. 5 to 7 p.m. $10/person, $25/family.

All-you-can-east spaghetti dinner hosted by the Pemi-Baker Valley Republican Committee. 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the American Legion Hall (37 Main Street) in Ashland. $10.

Spring Fever Cabaret features vocalist Elizabeth Soychak on behalf of the Main Street church’s Open Door Dinner Program. At the Trinity Church in Tilton. Light refreshments will be served. For more information and for ticket prices call 286-8269 or email [email protected].

Performance of The Drowsy Chaperone presented by the Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance at Plym-outh State University. 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. in the Studio The-atre at the Silver Center. Tickets are $19/adults, $17/ seniors and $15/ youth. For more information call 535-2787.

24th annual dinner banquet action held by the Daniel Webster Chapter of Ducks Unlimited. 4 p.m. at the Frank-lin Elks Lodge. For ticket information call 286-2461.

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Part time LPN positions, Belknap County, Laconia, N.H. - The Belknap CountyNursing Home, is seeking LPN’s to fill the following positions: (1) Part time 24 hourand (1) Part time 16 hour on our 7-3 shift. Come and be a part of our team whereour mission is: “To care for our residents, as ourselves, with compassion, dignity andrespect.” LPN’s, under the general supervision of the RN, renders nursing care toresidents within an assigned unit of the nursing home. For further information and toview a full job description, visit Current Job Openings under the Departments/Hu-man Resources tab at http://www.belknapcounty.org/. Minimum Qualifications:Must be licensed through the N.H. Board of Nursing. Application: An application isrequired and may be picked up during normal business hours or one may bedownloaded from our website. Resumes are encouraged, but will not serve as areplacement for the required application. You can fill out the on-line application andsave it to your hard drive. You must print it out, sign it and submit the application to:

Deb Laflamme, HumanResources 30 County Drive, Laconia, NH, 03246

Phone 603-729-1245Positions will remain open until the close of business on May 9, 2012

with initial interviews scheduled shortly after that time.An Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/DP/V.

Belknap Subaru…Due to tremendous growth in our service business atBelknap Subaru, we are looking to add an additional

technician to our staff. We are looking to hire someone who will compliment ourexisting staff. We are a flat rate shop; speed and high quality work are valued skills andwill be rewarded. A successful applicant must demonstrate these qualities.

A qualified applicant should possess, ASE certification. If you have recently graduatedfrom a recognized automotive technician program, we are interested in speaking withyou. If you have the right set of skills, we will train the right applicant!

If you have the qualities we are looking for, we offer a full range of benefits and a workenvironment that is both pleasant and financially rewarding.

Please apply online. Send resumes to [email protected] attention MarkTavares, Service Manager at Belknap Subaru. You may also call us at 729-1300, ask forMark Tavares.

Belknap Subaru35 Tilton Rd. Tilton, NH 03276

603-729-1300 or 800-358-4029Belknapsubaru.com

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WINNISQUAM: Small efficiencyand a cottage including heat, hotwater, l ights and cable.$160-$175 per week. $400deposit. No pets. 387-3864.

For Rent-Vacation

TIME share Near Disney, Florida.One week every odd year, bestoffer. Evenings 603-524-7336

For Rent-Commercial

Laconia-O’SheaIndustrial Park

72 Primrose Drive•10,000 Sq, Ft. Warehouse / Manufacturing. $5,800

FHA Heat/AC3 Phase Power

72 Primrose Drive, Laconia

(603)476-8933

MEREDITH BILLBOARD - OnRoute 3, between Route 104 and106 (Rotary). Available 5/1.279-1234

For Sale

18ft. F/G Boat- 55HP & trailer.14ft. F/G Sailboat. $1,500. (603)539-5194

2 new Rinnai tankless waterheaters. LP or NAT gas. Includesstandard vent kit. $1,075 each,will deliver. 603-944-7386

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

Bag Lady

Boutique/AntiquesFree desk. Spring tops $2/pants.Exciting finds! Rte. 3 Winnisquam.Turn into Appletree Nursery, inthe back. Thurs. 10-2, Fri. 10-3.455-1306

BAZOOKA Navigator 26" doublesuspension folding bike, silverwith gel seat, retails for $600,used 3 times, asking $300/obo,723-4032.

BERMUDA King pool. 24’ roundw/deck. All aluminum, heater.Asking $2,500/OBO. Paid$10,000. 286-4430

Classic IBM Selectric II Typewriter(blue) in excellent condition withextra font balls & extra blackcorrectable r ibbon. $275.528-2283

DESIGNER wedding gown (neverworn) Sofia Tolli Y2804 Irenesize-4, Swarovski Crystal em-bossed, $1000, paid $2100.455-8601

DREMEL jig saw with stand, $50.Boat trailer spare tire with alumi-num rim, $50. Harley Davidsonminiskirt, size 10, $100. Brancheskayak paddle, wood, $60.366-6277

Evinrude 3HP Outboard Motor-Built in gas tank 35lbs., Freshwa-ter used. Excellent condition, runsgreat! $250. Call Howard at630-0822

FIREWOOD - SANBORNTON.Heat Source Cord Wood.Seasoned & Green. Cut, split, anddelivered. Call 286-4946, leavemessage.

FIREWOOD: Green, Cut, splitand delivered (Gilmanton and sur-rounding area). $190/cord.S e a s o n e d a v a i l a b l e .(603)455-8419

Oak Roll top Desk & Chair- $250,3 cushion sofa $50. 603-279-5991

For Sale

Golf Equipment-Woods, irons,wedges & bags. Also remote con-trol for kangaroo power caddie.528-9661

Gray pavers (114) $95, Refracting

telescope (60mm) $55, 21” Sharpcolor TV $45. 279-6515

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

Lift Chair/Recliner- Tan color, likenew. Why pay $700 new? $450takes this away! Call 393-0105(leave message).

MOVING SALE - Queen bed, likenew, kitchen set, best offer267-7445, cell 998-5844.

Panamax m5400-PM Home Thea-ter. 11 outlet surge protector/volt-age regulator, $250. 496-8639

Sentry Fire Safe, Model OS3470,C o m b i n a t i o n / K e y e n t r y .

17”X17”X17”, $150. 496-8639

Sharp Aquos 32in. LCD TV.1080p, 120hz, $250. 496-8639

Ski Mobile Trailer 7ft. L X 8ft. W.$150. 14in-15in. Tires $25 and up.(603)539-5194

SUPPORT your local logger andheat with carbon neutral woodor wood pellets. Purchase aCentral Boiler outdoor woodfurnace on sale EPA qualified to97% efficient. (603)447-2282.

UPRIGHT Piano- 1905 Ivers &Pond piano, maunfactured in Bos-ton. Good condition, best offer.267-8540

Washer (Roper) & Dryer- Electric,(Maytag), $250. 496-8639

WOODWORKING Tools: Hand &Power. All kinds of wood. Pleasecall 524-7194.

Furniture

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

ETHAN ALLEN dining room set,cherry wood, table (2 leaves),hutch (2 piece), 4 chairs. $299.520-7054

MATTRESS & FURNITURE

CLOSEOUTS AND

OVERSTOCKS!

20% OFF ENTIRE STORE!RECLINERS $299, FUTONS,$299 BUNKBEDS, $399 SOFAS,$599 RUSTIC FURNITURE ANDARTWORK TOO! COZY CABINRUSTICS AND MATTRESSOUTLET 517 WHITTIER HWY.(RTE 25) MOULTONBOROCALL JAY 603-662-9066WWW.VISCODIRECT.COM

Free

18’ 1980 Glastron Boat, you haulaway Free. Call 387-7019

FREE Pickup for your unwanted,useful item garages, automobiles,etc. estates cleaned out and yard-sale items. (603)930-5222.

T&B Appliance Removal. Appli-ances & AC’s removed free ofcharge if outside. Please call(603)986-5506.

Heavy Equipment

HEAVYEQUIPMENT

RENTALMINI EXCAVATOR

Kubota mini excavator forrent. KX161 12,000 poundmachine. Rubber tracks & airconditioning. Hydraulic thumband push blade.

SKID STEERCaterpillar 277B skid steer forrent with bucket and/or forks.Rubber tracks.

MAN LIFTTerex TB50 man lift for rent.50 foot maximum platformheight and 500 lbs. maximumplatform capacity. Four wheeldrive with articulating jib.

Free delivery and pick-up

within 20 miles of Sunapee

with two or more days

rental. Rent by the day,

week or month. $300. a day,

$1,000. a week or $2,500. a

month. All insurance is

handled in house.

603-763-6005

Help Wanted

$9-$15/HR for project at Berlin,NH prison. Interviews Tuesdayand Wednesday at BerlinPrison. FMI (727)600-5448,e m a i l r e s u m e [email protected]

AAA Wanted: 10 people to loseweight and make money, risk-free30-day supply.americandreamteam.blog.comorchid44.freethinmagic.com

Help Wanted

AUTOBODY Tech/Painter neededfor busy shop. 6 paid holiday,paid vacation time, paid sick andpersonal. No weekends! Experi-enced techs only. Please apply inperson to Bayview Auto Body, 26Artisan Ct., Gilford.

BOAT CLEANING & YARD/

FACILITY MAINTENANCE

at Channel Marine, Weirs Beach.Yard work, painting, somecarpentry, boat cleaning, facilitymaintenance, work independently,f o r w a r d a p p l i c a t i o n t [email protected] or366-4801 X211 Christina.

Busy Laconia specialtypractice looking for an RN tojoin our team of nurses in a

very diversified practice. Mustbe able to work independently

in various roles.We are looking for someone

for 4 days per week. We offera very competitive salary.

Please call (603) 524-7402,

x 210, for more information.

FRONT DESK/SEATER- Nowhiring motivated team players withpositive attitudes for full and parttime positions. No experiencenecessary, we will train the rightcandidate. Flexible scheduleswith weekends and holidays amust. Apply in person at Hart�sTurkey Farm Restaurant on Rt. 3in Meredith or apply online atwww.hartsturkeyfarm.com.

EXPERIENCED CASHIERSMust have minimumof 5 years experience.

Flexible HoursNights & weekends a must!

Please apply in person.Ellacoya Country Store

Gilford

Help Wanted

Dental Office Patient

Customer Service

LACONIA

DR. R. THOMAS FINN, JR.

Our general dental practice hasan immediate opening for afull-time Patient Care teammember. Col lege degreerecommended and dental experi-ence/background/education pre-ferred but we will welcome andtrain an accomplished, eager,bright exceptional applicant with-out a dental background. Mustpossess excellent computer andcustomer service skills and be afast and eager learner. Maturity,enthusiasm, Self Initiative, confi-dence and high motivationare skills we value. If you aregreat with people, intellectuallycurious and accomplished, have adesire to help us provide excellent& healthy aesthetic oral dentalcare to our patients, possessstrong leadership and organiza-tional skills and are looking for anew dental home or a change ofcareer, please contact us now:Please email resume, references& academic da ta andprofessional licensing info to:[email protected] and complete jobdescription will be provided to allinterest ing and qual i fy ingcandidates.

HOUSEKEEPERS- Part TimeHelp- Looking for mothers or re-tired ladies in need of extra cashto help in my housecleaning busi-ness, summers into fall. Fine at-tention to detail, reliable and de-pendable. Must be able to workSaturdays July & August. Flexiblehours , must have car .References/background check.Call Bonnie 387-6708 Days.

LEAD TEACHERPart time (Tues.-Fri.) Must haveexperience, love for children and9 ECT credits. Call 528-8557.


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CNC Programmer – 1st shift

Must possess the ability to interpret and explaincomplex drawings. Understanding of CNC machiningprocesses, including; set-up, operations and controllanguage. A thorough knowledge of all programmingand companion software, including NX, Vericut andDNC. Requires a minimum of 2+ years’ CAD/CAMsoftware exposure and 5+ years’ experience with CNCmachines using Fanuc and Okuma controls.Unigraphics/NX training and multi-axis CNC Lathesand CNC Mills preferred.

Applications will be accepted untilFriday, May 4, 2012.

We provide competitive wages, shift differential, cleanwork environment, medical insurance, life insurance,short and long term disability insurance, dentalinsurance, vacation and holidays, flex benefits, tuitionreimbursement plan, profit sharing and 401(k) planwith company match.

Please contact Human ResourcesEPTAM Plastics, 2 Riverside Business Park

Northfield, NH 03276Tel: 603-729-5014, Fax: 603-215-2971

Email: [email protected]/AA

For an online application, visit www.eptam.com

Immediate Part Time Opening

LightingShowroom/Office Assistant

Team LE is looking for an energetic, creative selfstarter who is up to the challenge of building a newand exciting career in residential lighting sales whilelearning aspects of Marketing and Consulting. Thesuccessful candidate must have a positive attitude, becomfortable with computers and general officeduties, enjoy working with the public and be able towork Saturdays 8 am -Noon. Previous sales

experience helpful.

Apply in person or send resume to:

Chris RescaLaconia Electric Supply935 Union Avenue

Laconia, NH 03246

Family Seeking Full/Part-TimeDirect Support Professionals

Seeking individuals to assist family supporting acheerful and good natured young man in hiscommunity and at home with daily living skills,personal care, volunteer and fun activities.

Candidate should possess strong interactive skills andpositive, creative, and energetic attitude. Reliabletransportation required. Non-smoker.

Full/part-time positions available, M-F, 7-5.Competive wage. Excellent benefits for full time.Submit resume and/or work history to: PO Box 7106Gilford, NH 03249

Help Wanted Help Wanted

NowHiring

Full Time AssistantHead of Housekeeping

Experience NeededAlso Hiring

Part Time HousekeepersSaturdays a Must!

Please Apply In Person

177 Mentor Ave., Laconia

Laborer/Carpenter- Swift WaterConstruction is looking for de-pendable person for a small con-struction outfit. To qualify, musthave general liability insurance,transportation. Rates start at$12-$15 per hour. Call Ben at603-393-5352

Help Wanted

LACONIA COUNTRY CLUB

is now accepting applications forLine/Prep Cooks & DishwasherJune - September. Please applyin person 607 Elm Street, Laco-nia.

Help Wanted

LINE COOKS: Now hiringexperienced line cooks who areenergetic with a positive outlookand a team player. Full and parttime positions available. Week-ends a must! Pay commensuratewith experience. Apply in personat Hart�s Turkey Farm Restauranton Rte 3 in Meredith or applyo n l i n e a twww.hartsturkeyfarm.com.

The Looney Bin

Bar & Grill

Now Hiring

PT Kitchen Help

Nights, Weekends

& Bike Week A

Required

Experience not necessary,but good work ethic &positive attitude are.

Please Apply In Person554 Endicott St. North

Weirs Beach

Seasonal Cleaning positionsavailable through October. We arelooking for honest and reliableemployees. 279-4769

Help Wanted

SERVERS: Now hiring motivatedteam players with positiveattitudes for year round orseasonal positions. Experiencepreferred but will train the rightcandidates. Flexible schedulewith weekends and holidays amust. Apply in person at Hart�sTurkey Farm Restaurant on Rt. 3in Meredith or apply online atwww.hartsturkeyfarm.com.

TOTAL security is looking for theright person to train in our fastgrowing alarm business. Driverslicense required. Back groundchecked and drug testing. Calltoday 524-2833

Home Improvements

LANDSCAPE: patios, retainingwalls, stonewalls, walkways,decks email: [email protected]. 603-726-8679.

Instruction

FLYFISHING LESSONSon private trout pond. FFF certi-fied casting instructor. Gift cert.available. (603)356-6240.www.mountainviewflyfishing.com

Mobile Homes

DOUBLE wide mobile home ForSale on corner lot. 3-bedroom2-bath with master suite. Openliving & dining room, gas fireplace,screen porch, shed, two drive-ways. Lake breeze Park Call393-6370

FOR SALE BY OWNER. Gjilfordwell maintained 1982 single widemobile home with improvements.Near lakes and shopping. Ed Gor-man 528-2903.

Mobile Homes

GILFORD Well maintained manu-factured home with many updateslocated next to Glendale Docks.(900 sq. ft. 3-bedbrooms, kitchen,living room, four season porchbathroom, 2 decks and smallshed. Enjoy all the lakes regionhas to offer. $23,500. Frank617-899-5731

Motorcycles

1999 Harley Davidson XLH 1200Custom: 9k miles, mint condition,original owner, $8,000. Call729-0137.

2000 Harley Davidson UltraClassic, metallic green andblack, new factory re-build Har-ley Davidson motor, looks andruns great, many extras, $7800call Paul in Berl in at603-752-5519, 603-915-0792leave message.

2004 Yamaha 1100 V-StarClassic: Runs great, real nicebike, must see, $4,500/b.r.o.603-707-7158. Leave message.

Dirt Bike 150CC Baja 5-speed4-stroke. New, test driven only.Nice! $900/OBRO. 253-1804 or393-2632

Buy • Sell • Tradewww.motoworks.biz

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

Recreation Vehicles

2007 Honda Recon TRX 250TMfour wheeler, $2000. Please con-tact Sheri 520-5340

24ft. Travel-lite Trailer by Honda.Well kept, sleeps 4. Must see for$6,900. Call 524-8860

Viking Pop-up camper. Loaded,excellent condition, $4,000. Call520-2444

Real Estate

LACONIA: Come experience lifein the country where you can hearthe loons croon from Winnisquamfrom the comfort of your deck.Watch turkeys and other birdsfeast, and live where the deermeet you as you drive up thedriveway at dusk. Smell theblooming fragrance of honey-suckle, tulips, hydrangea, colum-bine, petite roses, sedum, LadySlippers and lavender as springturns into summer. Can quarts ofpeaches from your own trees.Marvel at the turtles laying theireggs on your land as they�ve donesince time was ancient. A beauti-ful passive solar 3-bedroomhouse sits on nearly 16 acres offorested and fielded land waitingfor you to come Home. $259,900.Call Sharon, 520-6160.

Services


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Services

Affordable

Architectural

Plans

293-7040

New homes

Remodeling

Decks & Patios

Services

PIPER ROOFINGQuality Work

Reasonable Rates

Free EstimatesMetal Roofs • Shingle Roofs

Our CustomersDon�t get Soaked!

528-3531Major credit cards accepted

Clearview Builders& Landscaping

Property MaintenanceHome Repair, Painting, FinishWork, Decks, Dock Work,Lawn Mowing, Pruning,Mulching & Tree Trimming.

Call 387-9789

HARDWOOD Flooring- Dust Free

Sanding. 25 years experience.Excellent references. WeilerBuilding Services 986-4045 Email:[email protected]

Services

HANDYMAN

SERVICES

Small Jobs AreMy Speciality

Rick Drouin

520-5642 or 744-6277

HARDSCAPES, Field StoneWalls, Patios, Water Features,Small Excavation Projects,Deliveries, Mulch, Loam. 25 YearsExperience. Dean at HancockMasonry. 267-6048

Lt. TruckingBackhoe Services

All job sizes welcome

293-7040

Free Estimates

Fully Insured

Services

MOORINGSDock RepairsFast & Affordable

877-528-4104

MooringMan.com

QS&L Builders. Roofing, decksand more. 15 years experience.Fully insured. Free estimates.603-832-3850

RESIDENTIAL

WINDOW CLEANING

520-0313

Serving Belknap,

Carroll & Grafton

Counties

Services

OPEN FOR THE SEASON

126 Pease Rd. MeredithHalfway between Rte.104

& Parade Rd.

Wed-Sun 10-5

603-279-4234

Kero & Electric LampsShades • Supplies Glassware • Tools

& CollectiblesLamp Repair is our Specialty

[email protected]

STITT Painting and Papering.Also doing Pressure Washing,Sheetrocking, Roofing, Masonryand Additions. 393-0963

Wanted To Buy

TOOLSPower, hand and cordless. Cashwaiting. Call 603-733-7058

Yard Sale

BELMONT MOVING SALE- 97Cotton Hill Rd. 4/28 & 4/29, Sat.8-2, Sun. 8-12. 25 years of stuff;clothing, household items, toys,books, etc.

Gilford- Friday & Saturday,9am-3pm. 530 Morrill St.

LACONIA Moving Sale. SaturdayApril 28th Rain or Shine. 9am to1pm (No early birds). 1024Meredith Center Road. Furniture,rugs, lamps, dishes and misc.home goods.

Yard Sale

Laconia Multi-Family Yard Sale-April 28, 8am-3pm. 49 DartmouthSt. Baby-Adult items, somethingfor everyone!

LACONIA- Sat. 4/28 9am-3pm.Motorcycle parts, car parts, 89Sportster, old dirt bike, lots ofgoodies. 83 Lafayette St.

Lakeport Community

Association

First Sale of theSeason!

Saturday, April 288am-?

BEHIND LAKEPORT

FIRE STATION

MARK YOUR CALENDARS forSaturday, May 5th, 8am-2pm.Indoor Yard Sale at Inter-LakesElementary School, 21 LakerLane (down the hill behind theHigh School). Proceeds to benefitthe ILHS Chem-Free After-PromParty! Something for everyone!Gladly accepting donations whichcan be dropped off Friday 5/4,3-8pm or Saturday, 5/5, 7-8am inthe Multi-Purpose Room. Noelectronics please.

MEREDITH Garage Sale-4/27-4/29. Cleaning out thehouse! Something for everyone!Friday & Saturday 9-4, Sunday9-1 32 Windsong Place.

MOVING SALESaturday, April 28th, 8am-3pm.57 White Rock Circle, Lochmere(near Tilton). Route 3 west, leftbefore Winnisquam Auto. Greatstuff cheap prices. Tools, collecti-bles, jewelry, some furnture, com-puter monitor, printer, sound sys-tem. NO EARLY BIRDS!!!

MOVING Sale: Garage & house-hold items. Saturday, April 27,8am-4pm. 991 Meredith CenterRoad, Laconia.

SATURDAY, April 28, 2012, 8 am13 Willow Street, Lakeport, N.H.Western and romance books andmany more items.

Fun With Felting - Learn Needle Felting & Wet Felt-ing at Shepherd’s Hut Market at Ramblin’ Vewe Sheep Farm (637 Morrill St.) in Gilford. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. $7/person includes materials. Address questions to Joyce at 527-1873.

Public breakfast and bake sale hosted by the Masons of Doric-Centre Lodge #20 in Tilton. 7 to 9:30 a.m. at the Masonic Building (410 West Main Street). Full breakfast, including eggs cooked to order. $6. Lodge will be open for public tours and information.

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

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

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

Artsy Saturday at the Meredith Public Library. 10 to 11 a.m. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. In the Children’s Room. Discover dif-ferent art concepts, create and then take home for display.

SATURDAY, APRIL 28CALENDAR from page 22

Gilmanton Thrift Shop holding Mother’s Day SaleGILMANTON — Mother’s Day is just a few short

weeks away. In honor of mothers the Gilmanton Community Church Thrift Shop is having a 50 per-cent off sale for all women’s clothing and accessories.

There is also a 50 percent off sale on all children’s clothing and accessories, from infant up to juniors.

The Gilmanton Community Church Men’s Fellow-ship group has been busy making picnic tables to sell at the pantry. The proceeds from the sale of the tables will be split between the food pantry and the church.

The tables are very sturdy and well constructed of pressure treated lumber. The cost is $115 for a 6’ and $135 for an 8’ table. Delivery can be arranged.

The Food Pantry will be teaming up with the Gilmanton Girl Scout troop to construct and plant a community garden at the food pantry to provide

fresh produce for our clients at the pantry. The troop will be looking for donations of building materials, mulch, loam, plants and some other garden items.

Those interested in helping out with this project can Jane at 364-7437 or Beth at 267-1934 for more information or stop in at the GCC Food Pantry & Thrift Shop during business hours.

Those who have a prom or special occasion dress and accessories to donate are urged to think of the GCC Thrift Shop.

Items can be brought to the GCC Food Pantry & Thrift Shop during business hours; Monday 9 a.m.–1 p.m., Wednesday 3–7 p.m., and Saturday 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Those who wish to make a monetary donation can mail it to GCC Food Pantry and Thrift Shop, PO Box 6, Gilmanton IW, NH 03837.

Veterans Administration announces plan to increase mental health staff by 1,900WASHINGTON — Secretary of Veterans Affairs

Eric K. Shinseki today announced that the depart-ment would add approximately 1,600 mental health clinicians – to include nurses, psychiatrists, psychol-ogists, and social workers as well as nearly 300 sup-port staff to its existing workforce of 20,590 mental health staff as part of an ongoing review of mental

health operations.“As the tide of war recedes, we have the opportu-

nity, and the responsibility, to anticipate the needs of returning Veterans,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki. “History shows that the costs of war will continue to grow for a decade or more after the operational missions in Iraq and Afghanistan have ended. As more Veterans return home, we must ensure that all Veterans have access to quality mental health care.”

VA’s ongoing comprehensive review of mental health operations has indicated that some VA facili-ties require more mental health staff to serve the growing needs of Veterans. VA is moving quickly to

address this top priority.“Mental health services must be closely aligned

with Veterans’ needs and fully integrated with health care facility operations,” said VA Under Sec-retary for Health Dr. Robert Petzel. “Improving access to mental health services will help support the current and future Veterans who depend on VA for these vital services.”

To locate the nearest VA facility or Vet Center for enrollment and to get scheduled for care, Veterans can visit VA’s website at www.va.gov. Immediate help is available at www.VeteransCrisisLine.net or by calling the Crisis Line at 1-800-273-8255 (push 1) or texting 838255.


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Tilton $449,900 Spacious Lake Winnisquam home w/ In-law apt on a beautifully landscaped 1.22 ac lot w/

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Sanbornton - $235,000 Nice ranch style home just steps from Lake

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Gilford $269,000 Lovely, private setting for this cozy year round 2 BR cottage/condo in a small assoc w/ sandy

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Gilmanton $279,000 Private country Cape w/ loads of unique

features. Beamed great room, custom kitchen & large 60x40 garage. #4063371

Judy McShane 581-2800

Laconia $235,000 3 to 4 BR stand alone unit at South Down w/

private back yard. Walk to beach & enjoy all the amenities. #2825769

Nancy LeRoy 581-230 or Kathy McLellan 581-2821

Gilford $219,000 Comfortable & well maintained Samoset

condo. Amenities inc. pool, docks, moorings, tennis, beach & clubhouse. #4117760

Susan Bradley 581-2810

Tamworth - $110,000 Well maintained, turn-key chalet in White Lake

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Lisa Adair 455-3581 527-1111 Ext. 306

[email protected]

Gilford: 2002 Mobile Home, 2br, 1.5 baths with wood burning fireplace and central air. Pride of

ownership throughout. Close to Lake Winnipesaukee, Gunstock & shopping. $32,900

Sanbornton: Lake Winnisquam Waterfront with 2 homes on property. Primary home, 3

br, 2 bath, adjacent home 2 br, 1 bth,, Great rental income. $469,000

Sanbornton: Truly at Waters Edge on Lake Winnisquam, remodeled end unit condo with docking and swimming at your door step. On site rental manager. $219,900

Gilford: Like new 2007 Double wide MH in beautifully maintained coop park. 2 lg BR, lg den, 2 full baths. Private lot. Financing avail. with 5% down. $74,900

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FOR THE GROWING FAMILY. Excellent neighborhood with convenience and room to play. Lovely 4 bdrm home has french doors, a back deck, and a bonus room could be a 5th bdrm, office or children’s playroom. Nice open flow with a master suite, full basement & an easy low maintenance exterior. Alarm system , nice yard, and deeded access to Lake Winnisquam!

$349,000 Jane Angliss 630-5472

SURROUNDED BY WINNIPESAUKEE. Cross the bridge to this gated island! Immaculate detached condo in one of the most desirable communities in the area. Year-round home is literally “on the water”. Meticulously maintained with 2 bdrms, 2 baths, deeded dock with water and electricity, 3 beaches & gorgeous lake and mountain views.

$279,900 Roger Turgeon 717-4851

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Gorgeous Colonial on a Quiet Cul-de-Sac Directions: Rt. 11 to Depot St. Straight at the stop sign to Birch

HIll. Right on Chamberlain Way, right onto Hilltop Circle. $289,900 Monique Tenander 603-387-8235

EXCEPTIONAL WINNIPESAUKEE WATERFRONT. Completely remodeled in 2001 with 5 bdrms & 4 baths, & a great lake feel. Views from almost every room, hardwood floors, fully updated kitchen, 2 master suites & a heated garage. Outside is a waterside deck, fantastic landscaping, dock with 2 boat lifts, and a southwest exposure for maximum sun and beautiful sunsets

. $1,100,000 Scott Knowles 455-7751

ROOM FOR EVERYTHING! Well kept 3 bdrm, 2 Bath home has an attached two-car garage, a separate 26’ x 42’ detached garage with a bathroom, plus an in-law apartment with another bedroom and bath. Fireplace, huge farmers porch, and an ideal location sitting on 3.55 private level acres with gardens and grass. Perfect for your in-home business or extra vehicle storage.

$244,900 Travis Cole 455-0855

SUNDAY, APRIL 29TH — 11 AM - 2 PM 87 Tucker Shore Rd, Belmont

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Streetcar Co. marks 40th year with Schoolhouse Rock, Musical Preview

LACONIA — The Streetcar Com-pany is celebrating 40 years of produc-ing shows featuring local talent with a special spring production at Laconia High School May 18,19,20.

To kick off the celebration The Streetcar Company is launching a junior company, SKYT – Streetcar Kids and Youth Theatre. The fi rst pro-duction SKYT will produce is School-house Rock. The goal of SKYT will be to encourage kids and youth members of our company to get involved in more than just performing. An adult company member will be paired with a youth company member for all of the production roles, which are a part of creating a show.

The Schoolhouse Rock cast is com-prised of 25 local children from all over the Lakes Region. Playing prin-cipal roles in the show are brothers Braeden and Riley Alward, as well as sisters Cecilia and Kayla Zarella. Joining themare Ryan Witham and Becca Trumel. The School House Rocks kids are Becca Roy, Malachyte Lamos, Isabella Cottrell, Addison Clifford, Amber Faller, Sareia Henry, Jubilee Morris, Abigail Bryant, Eli-anna Morris, Brianna Smith, Myles Belove, Sophia Joyal, Haleigh Greene, and Callie Morris.

The show will be co-directed by J Award and Erin Lovett Sherman with choreography by Sherman.

The second half of the spring pro-duction will be a Musical Preview.

This will be an entertaining, upbeat production of musical numbers from shows that Streetcar hopes to present in our next 40 years. The show will be comprised of fun small group num-bers as well as full cast numbers from shows such as Rent, Godspell, Wicked, Cinderella, Phantom of The Opera, and Hairspray.

The company includes: Allie Dennis, Scott Alward, Briana Plume, Peter Ayer, Carolyn Desrosiers, Tami Behan, Matt Richards, Erin Fitzmau-rice, Jane Charland, Suzanne Banis-ter, Larry Thompson, Jean Gentile, Stacy Jelinek, Kris Martel, Jenn Schillinger, Patte Sarausky, Jessica Alward, Jeremy Kercheval, Karen Jordan, Melissa Bigler, Jeremiah Morris, Kelli Powers, David Bownes, Lena Luongo, Frank Stetson, Lynn Dadian, Bo Guyer, Marcia Trimm, and Angelo Gentile.

This production marks the directo-rial debut of Erin Fitzmaurice with choreography provided by Patte Sarausky. Denise Sanborn and Phil Breton, who is also the musical direc-tor for the production, will accompany the cast on the piano.

Show dates are set for Friday May 18 and Saturday May 19 at 7 p.m. and Sunday May 20 at 2 p.m.

For more information check out the Streetcar Company web site at www.streetcarcompany.com or contact president J Alward (603-527-0752) or producer Matt Demko (603-387-2588).

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

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Sat 4/28..10am-12pm..36 Dartmouth St Laconia Newly Listed..$159,000

Sat 4/28..10am-12pm.. 17 Lynnewood Dr Laconia $450,000

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Sat 4/28..1pm-3pm.. 793 Elm St Laconia… $229,000

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1. 21 Golf View, Laconia (MLS 4086762)10:30-12:30 - Hosted by Kevin Shaw2. 128 Pine St, N Bridgewater (4127432)10:00-12:00pm - Hosted by Jeremy Avery3. 80 Pease Road, Meredith (4136119)11:00-2:00pm - Hosted by Maggie Braxton4. 142 Upper Mile Point Road, Meredith (4145004) 9:00-12pm - Hosted by Steve Baker5. 190 Krainewood, Moultonborough (4077124) 11:00-1pm - Hosted by Joe Sullo6. 28 Alpine Park, Moultonborough (4140851) 10:00-4pm - Hosted by Jim Cahill7. 19 Lakeside Dr., Sanbornton (4141763)10:00-1:00pm - Hosted by Ashley Grant8. 63 Evergreen Unit 1, Laconia (2835849) 11:00-1:00pm - Hosted by Sharyn Frassica9. 109 Hickory Stick Ln, Laconia (4119575) 10:00-1:00pm - Hosted by Joe MacDonald10. 18 Croft Way, Laconia (4121463)1:30-3:30pm - Hosted by Joe MacDonald11. 29 Prides Point Way, Laconia (4144720) 12:00-2:30pm - Hosted by Roy Sanborn12. 32 Liberty Ave, Franklin (4125810)11:00-1:00pm - Hosted by Greg Harriman13. Governor’s Crossing:(4128535, 2802831, 2802820, 4115902)12:00-3pm - Hosts: Nancy Williams / P.K. Zyla14. 99 Birch Haven Road, Laconia (4092769) 1:00-3:00pm - Host: Michelle Crumb15. 40 Ponds View, Laconia (4076702) 12:00-4:00pm - Hosted by Sue Ippolito16. 45 Timber Lane, Laconia (4117293) 1:00-4:00pm - Hosted by Lyne Bonneau17. 43 Beacon Hill Rd, Gilford (4140827) 11:00-2:00pm - Hosted by Gail Digangi18. 63B Nestledown Dr, Laconia (4133128) 3:00-5:00pm - Hosted by Gail Digangi

1. 4 Old Follett Rd, Meredith (4130396)11:00-1:00pm - Hosted by Maggie Braxton2. 190 Krainewood, Moultonborough (4077124) 11:00-1pm - Hosted by Joe Sullo3. 26 Oak Island, Meredith (4067591)10:00-4:00pm - Hosted by Jim Cahill4. 76 Varney Point Left, Gilford (4122209)9:00-12:00pm - Hosted by Ashley Grant5. 60 Scenic Dr. Unit 6, Gilford (4140962) 11:00-1:00pm - Hosted by Joe MacDonald6. 98 Natures View Dr., Laconia1:30-4:00pm - Hosted by Joe MacDonald7. 88 Scenic Drive, Gilford (4141970)11:00-2:00pm - Hosted by Christine Kemos8. 161 Dockham Shore, Gilford (4132160)1:00-4:00pm - Hosted by Lyne Bonneau9. 2836 Parade Road, Laconia (4021188)10:00-1pm - Hosts: Nancy Williams / P.K. Zyla10. 40 Upper Ladd Hill, Meredith (4121320) 10:00-1:00pm - Hosted by: Nancy Williams / P.K. Zyla11. Governor’s Crossing (4128535, 2802831,2802820,4115902) 2:00-4:00pm - Hosted by Nancy Williams / P.K. Zyla12. 615 Cherry Valley Rd., Gilford (4078445)10:00-12:00pm - Hosted by Michelle Crumb13. 5 Emily Circle, Meredith (4124899)1:00-3:00pm - Hosted by John Goodhue14. 7 Douglas Drive, Meredith (4146735)11:00-2pm - Hosted by Gail Digangi

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PLYMOUTH — Speare Memorial Hos-pital has received a Merit Award for its 2011 Annual Report “More than you expect’’. The announcement came from the 29th Annual Healthcare Advertis-ing Awards sponsored by Healthcare Market-ing Report, the nation’s oldest and largest healthcare advertising awards competition.

Over 4,000 entries, in more than 30 cat-egories were received in this year’s competition. Speare’s Merit Award was in the annual report category for hos-pitals with less than 299 beds. A national panel of judges reviewed entries based on cre-ativity, quality, message effectiveness, consumer appeal, graphic design and overall impact.

“We are thrilled to have our annual report receive this award,” notes Michele Hutchins, Speare’s director of com-munity relations. “This publication was six months in the making, beginning with a review of past annual reports and discussion with various audiences about what messages, images and information have impact. Step two was taking that feedback to our creative team at Millennium Integrated Marketing and having them develop a design template that would deliver and compliment our core message of More than you expect. As this award demon-strates, we succeeded and are excited to share this honor with Millen-nium.”

Hutchins explains that the 2011 Annual Report was released in Septem-ber last year and the kick-off to the hospital’s overall promotional cam-paign that includes the Web, Facebook, newslet-ters and advertising. To view or download a copy of Speare’s 2011 Annual Report More than you expect visit www.spearehospital.com/pdfs/Speare-Hospital-2011-Annual-Report.pdf.

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

www.cumminsre.com 524-6565 Fax: 524-6810

CAN’T MAKE OUR OPEN HOUSES ? Call a nd Schedule a Private Showing!! Need Directions? Call t he Office a nd we’ll email y ou!!

Directly Across The Street From The Beach!! Hw Floors, Fireplace, In Law Apt Screen Porch And Garage.

Agent Susan Cummins Harris

Newly Remodeled..New Open Concept Kitchen/ dining W/sliders To A New Deck. Nice 5 Bedroom New England Home W/garage. Great Location.

Agent: Mitch Hame l

Sat 4/28.. 10am-12pm…205 Shore Dr Laconia Now $229,000

Sat 4/28..10am-12pm..36 Dartmouth St Laconia Newly Listed..$159,000

Sat 4/28..10am-12pm.. 17 Lynnewood Dr Laconia $450,000

Custom Built “Whitcher” Colonial With Deeded Winnisquam Beach Rights, Boat Launch And Tennis. 3700sf, Hardwood Floors, Fireplace, Screen Porch 2 Car Garage And Stunning!!

Agent: Mitch Hamel

Sat 4/28,,,10am-12pm…31 Collins Brook Rd Meredith… $875,000

Lake Winnisquam Waterfront Adirondak Contemporary.. 168’ Of Shoreline, Dock, Beach And This 3800 Sf Home Plus 3 Car Garage. Dramatic & Beautiful!!


Sat 4/28…10am-12pm…20 Joy Ave Cates Mobile Home Pk Belmont $36,000

Nice 2br Air Conditioned 2004 Mh W/possible Boat Slip!! Garden Shed & Deck.

Agent: Susan Dutton

Lk Winnipesaukee/paugus Bay Yr Waterfront Home W/60’ Of Sandy Shoreline, U-shaped Dock, Sprinkler System, 7 Rms, 3 Br’s And Waterside Deck.


Totally Remodeled Hi-tech 10 Room Home W/attached 2 Car Garage. Gorgeous Kitchen, Hw Floors, Italian Tile, Exposed Beams, Fireplace, Exercise/office Rm, 4 Br’s, 2.5 Baths.

Agent: Susan Cummins Harris

Sat 4/28…1pm-3pm…122 Paugus Pk Rd Laconia.. $599,000

Sat 4/28..1pm-3pm.. 793 Elm St Laconia… $229,000

Sat 4/28…1pm-3pm… 316 Ladd Hill Rd Belmont… Now $135,000

Nice Country Setting..Open Concept 2-3 Br Ranch, Attached Garage, Patio, Workshop And Garden Shed. Great Condition..Available Now

Agent: Mitch Hamel

Sat 4/28… 1pm-3pm… 1145 Old No Main St Laconia.. Newly Priced..$339,000

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Agent: Mitch Hamel

Sat 4/28…10am-12pm…2579 Parade Rd Laconia.. Now $495,000

27+ Acres Of Lake Winnipesaukee And Mnt Views!! Plus This Charming Ranch W/finished Lower Level. Hw Floors, Arched Doorways, Fireplace, Views!!! Patio And 2 Car Garage. Endless Possibilities!!

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1. 21 Golf View, Laconia (MLS 4086762)10:30-12:30 - Hosted by Kevin Shaw2. 128 Pine St, N Bridgewater (4127432)10:00-12:00pm - Hosted by Jeremy Avery3. 80 Pease Road, Meredith (4136119)11:00-2:00pm - Hosted by Maggie Braxton4. 142 Upper Mile Point Road, Meredith (4145004) 9:00-12pm - Hosted by Steve Baker5. 190 Krainewood, Moultonborough (4077124) 11:00-1pm - Hosted by Joe Sullo6. 28 Alpine Park, Moultonborough (4140851) 10:00-4pm - Hosted by Jim Cahill7. 19 Lakeside Dr., Sanbornton (4141763)10:00-1:00pm - Hosted by Ashley Grant8. 63 Evergreen Unit 1, Laconia (2835849) 11:00-1:00pm - Hosted by Sharyn Frassica9. 109 Hickory Stick Ln, Laconia (4119575) 10:00-1:00pm - Hosted by Joe MacDonald10. 18 Croft Way, Laconia (4121463)1:30-3:30pm - Hosted by Joe MacDonald11. 29 Prides Point Way, Laconia (4144720) 12:00-2:30pm - Hosted by Roy Sanborn12. 32 Liberty Ave, Franklin (4125810)11:00-1:00pm - Hosted by Greg Harriman13. Governor’s Crossing:(4128535, 2802831, 2802820, 4115902)12:00-3pm - Hosts: Nancy Williams / P.K. Zyla14. 99 Birch Haven Road, Laconia (4092769) 1:00-3:00pm - Host: Michelle Crumb15. 40 Ponds View, Laconia (4076702) 12:00-4:00pm - Hosted by Sue Ippolito16. 45 Timber Lane, Laconia (4117293) 1:00-4:00pm - Hosted by Lyne Bonneau17. 43 Beacon Hill Rd, Gilford (4140827) 11:00-2:00pm - Hosted by Gail Digangi18. 63B Nestledown Dr, Laconia (4133128) 3:00-5:00pm - Hosted by Gail Digangi

1. 4 Old Follett Rd, Meredith (4130396)11:00-1:00pm - Hosted by Maggie Braxton2. 190 Krainewood, Moultonborough (4077124) 11:00-1pm - Hosted by Joe Sullo3. 26 Oak Island, Meredith (4067591)10:00-4:00pm - Hosted by Jim Cahill4. 76 Varney Point Left, Gilford (4122209)9:00-12:00pm - Hosted by Ashley Grant5. 60 Scenic Dr. Unit 6, Gilford (4140962) 11:00-1:00pm - Hosted by Joe MacDonald6. 98 Natures View Dr., Laconia1:30-4:00pm - Hosted by Joe MacDonald7. 88 Scenic Drive, Gilford (4141970)11:00-2:00pm - Hosted by Christine Kemos8. 161 Dockham Shore, Gilford (4132160)1:00-4:00pm - Hosted by Lyne Bonneau9. 2836 Parade Road, Laconia (4021188)10:00-1pm - Hosts: Nancy Williams / P.K. Zyla10. 40 Upper Ladd Hill, Meredith (4121320) 10:00-1:00pm - Hosted by: Nancy Williams / P.K. Zyla11. Governor’s Crossing (4128535, 2802831,2802820,4115902) 2:00-4:00pm - Hosted by Nancy Williams / P.K. Zyla12. 615 Cherry Valley Rd., Gilford (4078445)10:00-12:00pm - Hosted by Michelle Crumb13. 5 Emily Circle, Meredith (4124899)1:00-3:00pm - Hosted by John Goodhue14. 7 Douglas Drive, Meredith (4146735)11:00-2pm - Hosted by Gail Digangi

For Property Details orOpen House Information, Call Roche Realty Group:(603) 528-0088 Laconia Office

(603) 279-7046 Meredith Office

Or Visit: www.NHLakeProperty.com

Presented byRoche Realty GroupApril

17. 11:00-2:00pm - 18. 3:00-5:00pm -

Office (603) 267-8182

See our homes at: www.pinegardens.mhvillage.com

Pine Gardens Manufactured Homes Sales & Park

Park Rent - $390/Month 6 Scenic Drive, Belmont, NH

Under New Ownership Under New Ownership Under New Ownership Lowest Prices

Around!

Lots Available

Land in GiLford10 Lot subdivision with approvals! Several

lots have already been built and sold. Association clubhouse has been built in the existing 55+ community. Country setting with mountain views near shopping and skiing in the Lakes Region. Package deal includes 10 lots for $300,000, or the lots can be sold separately at $33,000 each.

$300,000 MLS# 4150011(603) 528-0088 (603) 279-7046www.rocherealty.com

883 Weirs Blvd #60 Laconia, NH

MLS #4140615

Lisa Meeken 603-496-2608

[email protected]

Saturday, April 28th,10am-Noon Sunday, April 29th, 10am-Noon

Listed at $184,900 JUST UPDATED! This condo at 4 Seasons is a must see! Brand new kitchen, flooring, paint and a new bathroom. Move in ready and a DEEDED BOAT SLIP! Beach and pool!

PUBLIC

OPEN HOUSE!

PLYMOUTH — Speare Memorial Hos-pital has received a Merit Award for its 2011 Annual Report “More than you expect’’. The announcement came from the 29th Annual Healthcare Advertis-ing Awards sponsored by Healthcare Market-ing Report, the nation’s oldest and largest healthcare advertising awards competition.

Over 4,000 entries, in more than 30 cat-egories were received in this year’s competition. Speare’s Merit Award was in the annual report category for hos-pitals with less than 299 beds. A national panel of judges reviewed entries based on cre-ativity, quality, message effectiveness, consumer appeal, graphic design and overall impact.

“We are thrilled to have our annual report receive this award,” notes Michele Hutchins, Speare’s director of com-munity relations. “This publication was six months in the making, beginning with a review of past annual reports and discussion with various audiences about what messages, images and information have impact. Step two was taking that feedback to our creative team at Millennium Integrated Marketing and having them develop a design template that would deliver and compliment our core message of More than you expect. As this award demon-strates, we succeeded and are excited to share this honor with Millen-nium.”

Hutchins explains that the 2011 Annual Report was released in Septem-ber last year and the kick-off to the hospital’s overall promotional cam-paign that includes the Web, Facebook, newslet-ters and advertising. To view or download a copy of Speare’s 2011 Annual Report More than you expect visit www.spearehospital.com/pdfs/Speare-Hospital-2011-Annual-Report.pdf.

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