BELMONT — A noise or-dinance and the fire depart-ment’s apparatus and equip-ment fund brought abouttwo of the lengthier discus-sions at Belmont’s second-ever Deliberative SessionSaturday morning, with lit-tle comment on the $6.7 mil-lion operating budget.
Approximately 80 peopleturned out for the session,which ended with one minor
amendment to the warrantbut plenty of informationfor voters to think about be-fore Election Day.
Many of the warrant’s 36articles were passed overwith no discussion oramendment proposals. Themorning started off with de-bate over the use and regu-lation of biosolids and end-ed with deliberation overthe purchase of the oldNorthway Bank building onMain Street (see separate ar-
ticles on A3).Comstar Account
Resident Thomas Mur-phy, also amember of theBelmont FireDepartment,proposed anamendment toArticle 6,which calls forthe abolish-ment of a longstandingFire/Ambulance Equip-ment and Apparatus fund.
The fund, also known as theComstar account, currentlyhas a balance of approxi-
lectmen recommend discon-tinuing the fund and de-positing all future ambu-
lance revenues into the gen-eral fund to offset taxes. Fu-ture fire/EMS equipmentand apparatus purchaseswould be funded throughthe establishment of a capi-tal reserve fund, which theselectmen and Budget Com-mittee are recommending ina separate warrant article.
Murphy opposed the arti-cle and said that since thefund was established in1994, the fire departmenthas been able to purchase
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half of Engine 2, a tanker,three ambulances, two de-partment cars, and a pickuptruck, without using taxdollars. His proposedamendment would havekept the fund in tact butcapped the yearly deposit at$150,000, with the rest to gointo the general fund.
Town Attorney LauraSpector advised that shewasn’t sure whether the De-partment of Revenue Ad-ministration would allowthe amendment, but shewasn’t sure that it wouldn’t.She said that if the amend-ment passed and DRA ap-proved, it would go through,but if it passed and DRA didnot approve, the ambulancefund would revert back toits current use.
In opposing the amend-ment, Selectman DavidMorse argued that it costs
See more BelmontDeliberative
session stories onpage A3
Creative Steps will ‘Dance to Heal, Dance to Help’Performance tobenefit Haiti isSaturday nightBY MEGHAN [email protected]
TILTON — Taking ashort break from the up-coming competition sea-son, Creative Steps dancersare focusing their energieson a series of fundraisingevents for Haitian relief,culminating in a benefitperformance that includescompetition routines aswell as new dances choreo-graphed especially for theevening.
Dance to Heal, Dance toHelp is the dance school’sresponse to the Jan. 12earthquake in Haiti. Cre-ative Steps owner Sue Har-rington said that after hear-ing news of the destructionand devastation, thedancers “were all express-ing feelings about it” andasked what they could do.
“It snowballed fromthere,” Harrington said.
The dancers, ranging inage from 7 to 18, havearranged three events, withproceeds from all going toSave the Children. Har-
MEGHAN SIEGLERA ballet class takes the barre in preparation for Creative Steps’ Dance to Heal, Dance to Help performance
rington said her husbandresearched reputable chari-table funds, and this onealigned with the students’desire to help Haitian chil-dren in particular.
The first of the three
events is a Tap Jam Friday,Feb. 12, from 7-9:30 p.m. atCreative Steps. This im-provisational tap event willfeature a live band and isopen to tappers of all agesand abilities.
“(We’ll) just have a goodtime,” Harrington said.
The fee for the Tap Jam is$5 per person, including ob-servers.
The second event is aworkshop for dancers, with
instruction provided inclassical ballet, tap, jazz,hip hop and contemporary.The workshop is being heldSaturday, Feb. 13, at the Con-
Police stationconstructionput on holdCommittee saysland purchasestill vitalBY MEGHAN [email protected]
TILTON — A bond articleasking for $3.77 million tobuild a new police station willbe on the warrant at TownMeeting for discussion pur-poses, but it is no longer therecommendation of the LifeSafety Building Committee,the Budget Committee or theselectmen to move forwardwith construction at thistime.
LSBC Chairman Ben La-Belle told selectmen Thurs-day night that the committee,in a 4-2 vote, decided to adjustits recommendation for sev-eral reasons, including thepublic’s reaction to the pro-ject’s price tag and the lack oftime before Town Meeting toshave costs off the architect’sproposal.
“We don’t feel like we havegood, clean costs,” LaBellesaid. “We (would be) puttingsomething before (voters)that we haven’t completelyvetted out.”
Pending votes in North-field and the Tilton-North-field Fire District that coulddissolve the district were alsoworrisome, LaBelle said, asthe outcome “may shift pri-orities.”
“What if the fire districtsplits? Folks are telling usthey can’t afford both,” La-Belle said.
Meanwhile, the warrantarticle to purchase the landon Route 132, between Wal-green’s and J. Jill, for $540,000is still being recommended bythe LSBC, and the selectmensupport that recommenda-tion. Both groups agreed thatthe asking price is a bargain,and LaBelle said that once theland is secured, the commit-tee can seek out grants.
The Budget Committee isnot recommending the landpurchase, which board Chair
With fire district’s future in jeopardy, few attend hearingBY DONNA [email protected]
TILTON — In a joint pub-lic hearing Monday night,the Tilton-Northfield FireDistrict Budget Committeepresented its recommendedoperating budget of$1,342,451, while the firecommissioners reviewedwarrant articles that total$240,000.
Kevin LaChappelle of theBudget Committee wentthrough each section of thebudget proposal, fieldingquestions as they arose atthe sparsely attended meet-ing.
Comments from the pub-lic mainly centered aroundwage increases, as the Bud-get Committee recommends$625,501 for 2010, up $18,000
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Old-school fire services See story page A3
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over last year. LaChappellesaid this number was agreedon by the committee as theylooked at insurance cost in-creases for employees. SinceTNFD pays 16 percent of theinsurance, employees carrythe greatest burden of thesecosts. The committee wasdismayed to hear some ofthose with a family wereforced to put their childrenon New Hampshire'sHealthy Kids program dueto the expense of the familypolicy.
"It doesn't seem fair to me.We could give them an in-crease. They're municipalemployees, and if we canhelp take care of them, weshould," he said.
Employees would receivea 1-ercent merit increase inthe committee's proposal.
The committee allotted$50,000 for pressurized hy-drant expenses, despite thecommissioners negotiatedprice and recommended ex-penditure of $115,000 to theWater District for the serv-ice. Peter Fogg said thatprice, in the opinion of theBudget Committee, was nota fair one. When they lookedat pressurized hydrant feesacross the state, he said theyfound Tilton-Northfieldnear the top of the list.
"$50,000 is still high, but
it's a good starting point,"Fogg said.
Commissioners have sub-mitted a warrant article ask-ing for the $115,000 theyagreed upon with the waterdistrict.
Apparatus and Equip-ment Fund expenses, sepa-rate from the operating budg-et, were projected to be$103,418 by the budget com-mittee, giving an extra $1,000
towards rescue equipmentthan the commissioners rec-ommended. LaChappellenoted that this year, due tomany requests from the pub-lic, voters will be presentedwith an itemization sheet ofcosts for fire and EMS equip-ment, on which the moneycould be spent. This list doesnot mean those items mustbe purchased, but was usedas a guideline when the com-
mittee was determining howmuch to allow under thisfund. Purchase requests willstill go to the commission forapproval and could includeother items, but cannot ex-ceed the recommendedamount of $35,563.65 for fireequipment, $45,704 for EMSand $3,600 for rescue equip-ment.
SEE BELMONT PAGE A12
SEE DANCE PAGE A12
SEE HEARING PAGE A8
SEE POLICE STATION PAGE A8
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Tilton hammers out decreased budget proposalBY DONNA [email protected]
TILTON — Tilton’s 2010budget proposal, with cutsmade wherever possible anddepartments seeking onlybare bones funding, standsat $4,860,376, a decrease of1.15 percent over 2009.
The selectmen's recom-mendation was slightly lesswith their draft showing$4,855,699 for the upcomingyear.
Committee Chair Toni Be-lair fielded questions at ahearing Jan. 27 and ex-plained salary increases forthe Deputy Town Clerk/TaxCollector and Finance Direc-tor positions. The committeewas also asked to reconsidersupport for the Caring HandsAcross Tilton, a new organi-zation to assist elderly anddisabled residents of thetown.
The salary increase forthe deputy clerk, Belair said,was needed to remain com-petitive with other compara-ble positions in the region.
"We brought her pay up towhat it should be," she said.Selectmen recommended a38 percent increase in theoverall Town Clerk/Tax Col-lector departmental budgetfor a total of $106, 095, but theBudget committee trimmedtheir recommendation to alittle over 26 percent for anincrease of $98,364.
The Finance Director in-crease, however, was a "vig-orously" debated topic atbudget committee meetings.After considering the hoursTim Pearson has put in to theposition and his innovativework, which increased sav-ings through better contractnegotiations, the consensuswas that a pay increase was"within tolerable limits tous," Belair said. The pro-posed budget for that depart-ment remained less than thatauthorized in 2009 despitethe increase, with both se-lectmen's and budget com-mittee proposals listed with-in $100 of each other; theBudget Committee recom-mending the slightly higheramount of $862,025 for FY2010.
Resident Scott Davis ex-
pressed concern for contin-gency funds being a line itemin the town budget. He toldthe committee that no RSAexists for a town to have acontingency fund and he feltthat money should be part ofa warrant article instead ofa line item.
"I wish that was the routewe would take with this. It'sthe proper route," he said.
Belair explained that byhaving it listed as a line itemwithin the budget it remainsaccessible as emergencyfunds should the town re-quire it. The committee didcut the contribution to thefund this year to $50,000 de-spite the fact they feel it willfall short of the $500,000 bal-ance they would like to see.Selectmen opted to removecontigency money from theirbudget citing the poor econ-omy as not the time to beplacing money in such afund.
Pat Consentino, a memberof the CHAT committee,made one more plea for $500for the new committee. Themoney, she said, would bespent for printing ofbrochures to inform the pub-lic and local healthcareproviders of the services of-fered by CHAT. Belair, how-ever, said she would prefernot to fund the programthrough the town budget andrather have it introduced asa petitioned warrant article.Concerned about potentialliability issues and the pos-sibility of a "blooming budg-et" in the future, Belair toldher she felt CHAT fundingwas important enough to gobefore the voters. Davisspoke up in support of thework the CHAT volunteersperform each day and said,"If that what it takes (to getmoney) than that will hap-pen. Elderly are too often for-gotten."
Across the board, the com-mittee was very pleased withthe cooperation they re-ceived from town depart-ment heads as they preparedtheir individual budget rec-ommendations. The policedepartment dropped its re-quest slightly with newer of-ficers recently hired de-
creasing salary expenses,and Health and Human Ser-vices was down slightly intheir financing, too. The on-ly department with a sub-stantial increase was thehighway department wherethe Co-op solid waste con-tract and the curbside pick-up contract for trash removalwere both higher along withthe increased cost for streetlighting. Selectman repre-sentative to the Budget com-
mittee, Norm Boudreau saidthere had recent discussionon perhaps shutting offlights in Riverside Park overthe winter to lower that ex-pense but no final decisionon the matter has been made.
Belair thanked the outsideagencies and town depart-ment heads for their requestsfor level funding or, in somecases, even less. The budgetcommittee, she said, spent alot of late nights "hammer-
ing out this budget" and shewas appreciative of all thosewho helped keep expenseswithin reason.
Residents took a momentto remind the committee thatdecisions by voters concern-ing a new police station andthe possibility of a split inthe fire district could make abig impact on town expenses.
"Keep that in mind. Youneed to get figures and agame plan together for that,"
urged Consentino, who is al-so a member of the Board ofSelectmen.
Belair said she had not yetread the bond issues and war-rant articles coming beforethe town but the committeewould review those items attheir next meeting. Follow-ing that, a second publichearing was scheduled forFeb. 10 to address thosebonds and warrant articles.
BELMONT — SumnerDole, finance chairman forShaker Regional School Dis-trict, presented the 2010-2011budget in a public hearing onFeb. 2, saying that to reachthe $17,833,935 operatingbudget, there were a lot of"little cuts" everywhere.
The budget comes in 1.36percent higher than last year,with retirement and insur-ance benefits and collectivebargaining salary increasesamong the biggest increases.On top of the operating costsfor 2010-2011, the committeeproposed transferring an ad-ditional $1,635,000 to otherself-funded services listed asFood Service, federal grantsand trust funds from surplusmonies.
Cuts in the athletic pro-grams were made to keepnumbers as low as possible.Condensing programs at themiddle school where thereare two or three teams avail-able in sports like soccer andbasketball was one meansused to lower expenses. Atthe high school level, boysand girls cross country andalpine ski teams would becombined and an assistanttrack coach position will notbe filled in the coming year.John Goegel, a coach at thehigh school, was concernedabout the lack of an assistantcoach for the track teams.
"What provisions will bemade to insure the safety ofinjured students?" he asked.A coach generally attends toany injuries, transportingthe student for medical treat-ment if necessary. With onlyone coach, that person willno longer be free to leave ameet.
"That's the nice thing abuttwo coaches. Not in the
coaching aspect but for thesafety factor," Goegel said.
School board memberTom Goulette said he hasbeen in that position as acoach but parents were al-ways available to assist andare often times the personwho transports injured ath-letes. The need to condenseservices overrode the con-venience of having twocoaches for the team and hesaid he was certain parentswould continue to help whenneeded.
Warrant articles this yearcall for the establishment offour expendable trust fundsto be used for energy, facili-ties and ground mainte-nance projects, energy con-servation upgrades in thedistrict and a final one forschool technology improve-ments. Members took turnsin explaining their reasonsfor proposing these funds.
Article VI will place mon-ey into a fund that ChairmanDiane O'Hara said would be-come a reserve in the eventthere is another spike inheating costs.
Dole stated that Article VI-II will allow for an energy au-dit to assist the district inidentifying issues in build-ings that, if the energy con-servation trust is approved,could lower costs in the fu-ture.
"There should be a pay-back. If the fund is estab-lished we can start lookinginto energy improvements,"he said.
Board member Sean Em-bree explained technologyexpenses are usually pulledfrom the operating budget tosave money each year, but thedistrict needs to be preparedin the event of a server crashor other high cost problemthat can arise at any time. Ar-
ticle IX will help to preparefor such an emergency.
Selectman David Morsesaid he disapproved of themultiple funds and wouldprefer to see the $125,000 to-tal of these funds placed en-tirely into one fund but Doledisagreed. The trust funds,he said, would receive left-over money at the end of ayear for these specific areasof improvements to the dis-trict so voters could seewhere it went and what it wasused for.
Goulette added, "They'redesigned to help us. The dis-trict can address long-term,big ticket goals with thesefunds."
With the budget they havedevised, local tax rates areprojected at $10.03 per thou-sand in Belmont and $10.13for Canterbury. The com-bined state and local tax rateis projected as $12.29 and$12.33 for Belmont and Can-terbury respectively.
Voting on the budget andwarrant articles will takeplace on Friday, March 5, inthe BHS gymnasium. Pollswill open at 6 p.m. for Arti-cles I and II, to elect a mod-erator and three schoolboard members. At 7 p.m. theDistrict Meeting will beginat which time the budget andremaining articles will beacted upon.
Petition to dissolveTNFD presented fordistrict meetingBY DONNA [email protected]
NORTHFIELD — A peti-tioned warrant article callingfor the dissolution of theTilton-Northfield Fire Dis-trict was delivered to the FireDistrict last Tuesday filledwith signatures from North-field voters who support thecreation of an independentfire department in theirtown.
"We got the required sig-natures, they were certifiedas being valid and the peti-tion is now in the hands ofthe fire district," NorthfieldTown Administrator GlennSmith said last Thursday.
The petition asks for anend to the decades-old jointfire district in the towns ofTilton and Northfield in ac-cordance with RSA 5221,which states, "Any villagedistrict now in existence hav-ing the rights and powers ofa village district, may, at anannual meeting by a two-thirds vote of its legal voters,terminate its existence anddispose of its corporate prop-erty."
The residents request intheir petitioned warrant arti-cle that a charge be made tothe District Commissionersto pay any remaining debts ofthe district, consult with thetowns of Tilton and North-field on the distribution ofthe assets and, at no charge to
either town, distribute the as-sets in relation to the propor-tionate contribution of thetwo towns in purchasingthem, all to be done in a man-ner that is felt to be fair andequitable.
The fate of the district willnow lie in the hands of votersof both towns in March.Northfield’s town meetingwill take place Saturday,March 13, at 10 a.m. The Dis-trict Meeting is scheduled totake place Monday, March 15,at 7 p.m. All warrant articleswill be presented for discus-sion and a vote at that timeand, should the dissolutionarticle fail, newly elected of-ficials will be sworn in im-mediately after the meeting.
Elections for the Fire Dis-trict will be held on Monday,March 9, in conjunction withboth towns' annual elections.The only contested race is fora commissioner’s seat. In-cumbent Kevin Waldron ofNorthfield is seeking re-elec-tion to the commission whilePat Clark of Tilton is lookingto fill the seat should the dis-trict continue.
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Biosolids brings biggest debate at deliberative sessionBY MEGHAN [email protected]
BELMONT — More thanan hour of Belmont’s Delib-erative Session was spentdebating the use ofbiosolids, with nearly equaldiscussion both for andagainst its prohibition.
Two articles on the war-rant pertain to biosolids,the treated byproduct ofsewage and wastewaterthat is as applications onfarmlands.
The first article wouldprohibit any and all use ofbiosolids in the Town ofBelmont. The article is sup-ported by both the PlanningBoard and the Conserva-tion Committee.
Planning Board Chair-man Peter Harris said thetown currently has in placeseveral regulations pertain-ing to the use of biosolids.However, he said there is noconclusive evidence that itwon’t cause health prob-lems, and there are someuncertainties, such as whowould be liable or pay forcleanup should there be a
contamination problem. Healso said there is no guar-antee as to where the treat-ed sludge would come from.
“The town must err onthe side of safety,” he said.
Conservation Commis-sion Chairman Ken Knowl-ton said that until he start-ed researching the subject,he thought biosolids weresimply a cheaper way forfarmers to get their fertiliz-er. However, he discoveredthat there are two schools ofscience – on that saysbiosolids contain no harm-ful contaminants, and onethat says there are a lot ofunknowns withinbiosolids.
“At this particular pointin time we could not recom-mend to the Planning Boardthat it was a good idea forbiosolids to be spread inany capacity,” Knowltonsaid. “We didn’t find this aneasy decision, because wetruly believe in agricul-ture.”
Several farmers in Bel-mont spoke against the ar-ticle, saying that banning
biosolids altogether is ex-treme and unnecessary.
“The last few years, fer-tilizer has gone through theroof,” said resident Ken El-lis, adding that the Class Abiosolids spread on fieldsare well tested and regulat-ed by the state. “I feel thatthey’ve gone overboardwith this.”
Resident Tom Clairmontsaid he was “feeling prettyguilty,” because in trying tomake the town’s process ofregulating biosolids “worka little better,” he inadver-tently prompted the recentdebates and accompanyingwarrant article to ban theuse altogether – somethinghe disagrees with.
“This is an extrememeasure,” Clairmont said.
Denise Naiva, vice chair-man of the ConservationCommittee and a local fam-ily nurse practitioner, dis-agreed.
“There aren’t enoughgood studies to rule out thepotential health problemsassociated with the use ofbiosolids,” she said.
Naïve said that the De-partment of Environmen-tal Services allows sludgeto contain human waste,chemicals, pathogens,heavy metals, and othercontaminants.
The second article is acitizen petition that wouldeliminate any town-im-posed regulations onbiosolids. Harris said thePlanning Board does notsupport the article.
“If this petition passes,it will exclude what we havefor control,” Harris said.
Town regulations in-clude the need for a special
exception, notifying landabutters, and inspection,among other things.
According to Town Plan-ner Candice Daigle, thetown has only received twoapplications for permissionto use biosolids, and thereis currently only one activespreading site in town.Mark Roberts owns that siteand said he has been usingClass B biosolids for wellover a decade, after theSwains of Heritage Farm inSanbornton started usingit. He said DES spent morethan a day taking soil sam-ples and ensuring all regu-
lations were followed dur-ing a recent spreading.
“I don’t see any problemwith it,” Roberts said, not-ing that farmers through-out the country have beenusing biosolids for severaldecades. “It seems like ifthere was gonna be a realbig problem, it would’veshown up in the past 40years.”
Moderator ThomasGarfield suggested that res-idents read up on matterprior to casting their votes.
Harris also pointed outthat, “If we approve both ar-ticles, we’re in trouble.”
Northway Bank building gets another chanceBY MEGHAN [email protected]
BELMONT — Next monththe town will have anotherchance to purchase the oldNorthway Bank building onMain Street, and several peo-ple spoke in favor of the arti-cle at Saturday’s DeliberativeSession.
The warrant article, rec-ommended by the BudgetCommittee and the Board ofSelectmen, would raise andappropriate $275,000 for theland and building at 154 MainStreet. It would be funded en-tirely through the MunicipalFacility Capital ReserveFund should voters approveeither of the two articles thatwould place additional mon-ey into that fund. Shouldthose articles not pass,$260,000 would come from theCapital Reserve Fund and$15,000 would come from gen-eral taxation.
The property’s location tothe library, Town Hall andthe mill was a selling point
for the selectmen, both nowand when it was first up forsale a few years back. Chair-man Ron Cormier called it “anice, central location” andpointed out that when thetown held its special townmeeting back then, the pur-chase failed by only a hand-ful of votes. The cost is slight-ly lower than last time and isbelow the assessed value.
“We think we might havesome uses for it,” said Cormi-er, who toured the buildingearlier in the week with Bud-get Committee ChairmanRon Mitchell.
The Water and Sewer De-partment is currentlyhoused in the basement ofTown Hall and the GeneralWelfare Department ishoused in the Corner Meet-ing House. Cormier said bothdepartments could move tothe Northway building.
The main floor of TownHall also has space issuesthat could be resolved,Mitchell said. In particular,
the Northway building’s up-stairs already contains avault, which would work wellfor the Town Clerk/Tax Col-lector’s Office.
“We’ve spent money timeand time again trying to ren-ovate (Town Hall) … to makedo with what we’ve got,”Mitchell said.
Several residents agreedit is time to stop pouringmoney into the deterioratingbuilding.
“It’s time this town actedand did something smart,”resident Don McClellan said.“$275,000 is the right price,because now we own every-thing across the street.”
“I think that piece of prop-erty completes our village,”resident Steve Dalton agreed.
Resident George Condo-demetraky said that hethinks the building is worthbuying but is concerned thatthe selectmen didn’t covertheir bases by having theproperty appraised.
LOOKING BACK...Tilton Fire Department's Horse-Drawn Truck
Kathy Tobine, administrative assistantfor the Tilton-Northfield Fire and EMS,provided this look back at what was thencalled the Tilton Fire Department. Fea-tured are the firemen posed in dress uni-form before their horse drawn fire truckat the Center Street station. While there isno date on the photo, it was obviously tak-en sometime after 1927, which is the yearthe land and building for the fire depart-ment were bought by the Town of Tilton.Horse drawn equipment was used by firedepartments for many years through theturn of the century and this one may havestill seen some use, perhaps for paradesand other events, in the late 1920's and1930's. The first motorized truck for the de-partment was a Velie chaise that wasbought from a Mr. Lovern then finished bythe firemen themselves. It was purchased
around 1910.There is little information on the pho-
to but, according to what was written onthe back, the driver is Tom Horne. Nameswere not provided for all 12 men in thephoto, but it was noted that the firemanstanding third from left is George Plum-mer and on the end (right) is Bill Simpson.The photo was presented to Arthur Spitzeron May 9, 1935 by 12-year old James Smith.It is now part of a collection of historicphotos in the fire district.
The station itself grew in size in lateryears with an addition, which was con-structed in 1950 according to the tax cardfor the property. While it has had a bit ofa "facelift" over the years, the building isstill a familiar site in Tilton today, servingthe Tilton-Northfield Fire District buthousing equipment much more sophisti-cated than horse drawn trucks.
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February 11, 2010
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SNOWBALLRequired reading for all prospective bunny people: “Wa-tership Down” by Richard Adams, followed by somesensible research on line through The House Rabbit So-ciety, which sounds terribly official but it’s a great re-source to learn all you can about these endearing littlecreatures .. and then, you will drive quickly to NewHampshire Humane Society to meet Snowball.Our resident Dwarf Hotot (pronounced Oh-Toe) is allwhite with little black eye patches. Snowball is guaran-teed to capture your heart. Small in size, but big oncharm, he is affectionate, playful and loves to hoparound with his shelter buddies, who all happen to befeline.Left unceremoniously in a cardboard box on a cold rainyday in November with a note about how loving his homewas, but please find him a new home, dumped the dayafter Thanksgiving, before shelter staff arrived at ourfacility on Meredith Center Road, Laconia. Snowball isprobably about 2. He looks like a little powder puff, andhis gentle demeanor suits his cute face.February is Adopt a Bunny Month; please considerSnowball.
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It’s all in how you use it
If it’s used to its full potential, SB-2 canoffer the best of two worlds. We discov-ered this at Belmont’s deliberative ses-sion Saturday, which lasted about fourand a half hours and felt very much like
a traditional Town Meeting. The difference, ofcourse, was that voting only took place for acouple of proposed amendments, not for eacharticle, amended or as written, on the ballot.Missing out on the opportunity to discuss ar-ticles is one of the things SB-2 opponents havealways disliked, arguing that voters will showup and vote on a ballot that they know nothingabout. Well, that won’t be the case for thosewho engaged in or listened to the thoughtfuldiscussion in Belmont.
On the other hand, Gilford had two deliber-ative sessions recently, one for the town andone for the school district. Neither were wellattended, and neither lasted long. This couldbe because there are few contentious items onGilford’s ballot, or it could be because the SB-2 process has a major fault: it allows people tovote without necessarily being informed. At atown meeting, if you’re going to vote on an is-sue, chances are you’re going to listen to com-mentary about it beforehand. With SB-2, youdon’t have to attend the deliberative session inorder to vote. However, we’d argue that if (andthat’s a big if) residents do turn out for a mean-ingful deliberative session, as they did in Bel-mont, then SB-2 is the better form of govern-ment. You have the opportunity to gather in-formation and then vote by secret ballot, sothere is no intimidation – the best of bothworlds.
Again, in Belmont that process has workedwell this year – so far. Last year there was somequestion as to whether residents would havevoted differently on certain articles if they hadbeen more informed, and that could very wellhappen again this year, because although thedeliberative session was informative, therewere still fewer than 100 people in attendance.
So did Gilford residents do their town a dis-service by not taking full advantage of theirdeliberative sessions? Maybe. But then, thetown has routinely had good voter turnout onElection Day, with many more residents votingthan would ever turn up at a traditional townmeeting. Is it better to have more less-informedvoters, or fewer more-informed voters?
When it comes right down to it, it doesn’tmatter whether you’re an SB-2 town or a townmeeting town. It’s all in how you use it.
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cupies my thoughts today.Doris “Granny D” Had-
dock turned 100 last month,and has now traveled to Ari-zona to work on her secondbook, with co-writer DennisBurke. Granny D’s wonder-ful thinking capacity puts in-to perspective the loss of theMcCain-Feingold, Biparti-san Campaign Reform Act of2002, after the U. S. SupremeCourt’s conservative mem-bers struck it down. “We cannow rebuild better reform,”she said at her N.H. StateHouse birthday party. “That
old McCain-Feingold wasleaky, anyway,” likening it toa patched-together cabin thatburned down. It didn’t stopbig, corporate money enter-ing political campaigns, es-sentially bribing our electedrepresentatives (not all ofthem, but many). Now theproblem of big money skew-ing our campaigns is open todaylight, making it less slip-pery.
Since Granny D headedwest, a democracy-threaten-ing opponent to Rep. CarolShea-Porter has declared hisintent for her CongressionalDistrict 1 seat: Richard
Ashooh, Vice-President ofGovernment Relations atBAE Systems in New Hamp-shire. The big B stands forBritish. A Britain-headquar-tered international corpora-tion, BAE wins lucrative con-tracts all the time from ourmilitary. How fun it will be topoint our activist fingers atMr. Ashooh’s campaignawash in money (U. S.-paid-in and foreign-paid-in) easilygained, because it can bla-tantly funnel in from the mil-itary-industrial complex thatRepublican Pres. Eisenhow-er warned us about as he leftoffice.
Something pleasant to donow: use a stamp, send avalentine to Granny D, c/oDennis Burke, 1126 W. Edge-mont Ave., Phoenix, AZ,85007. Thank her for her wis-dom, benefiting us all, andrevving it up because of thatrecent U. S. Supreme Court,poor decision. Her 3200-milewalk for campaign financereform when she was 89 and90 needn’t be for naught, ifnow many will take up thecause and tell her so.
Lynn Rudmin ChongSanbornton
Split would reduce level of fire, emergency services
To the Editor:The voters of the Tilton-
Northfield Fire District willmake an important decisionregarding the future of theFire District at its annualmeeting on March 15. It is im-portant that voters be in-formed before making such adecision about the protectionof the lives and property ofthe taxpayers and visitors ofthe towns of Tilton andNorthfield.
The recommendations ofthe Northfield Fire ServicesCommittee are worrisome;they will drastically cut thelevel of service provided tothe residents of Northfield.Currently the District isserved by full-time profes-sional cross-trained Fire-fighter/EMTs 24 hours per
day, 365 days per year re-sponding to over 1500 emer-gencies annually, over 500 inNorthfield alone last year.The need for services inNorthfield has shown asteady increase over the past10 years, a 43 percent in-crease in calls for emergencyservice since 1999. The rec-ommendation of the com-mittee is to reduce thisstaffing to daytime hours on-ly, Monday-Friday. This willreduce full-time staffingfrom 100 percent of the timeto only 36 percent of the time.In that case there will be noguaranteed coverage or re-sponse to a majority (56 per-cent according to the call da-ta) of Northfield’s emer-gency calls.
Northfield’s current por-
tion of the Fire District budg-et is $561,794. The Fire Ser-vices Committee has pro-posed a bare-bones budget of$521,454 for the proposedNorthfield Fire Department.Their budget does not in-clude startup costs, potentialvehicle acquisition as well asother costs associated withdissolving the District,which would be significantto say the least. This alsodoesn’t take into account theimpact to other areas of thetown’s budget when theystart a new department. Inother words, this is an annu-al savings of 7 percent, or$22/year on the tax bill for a$200K property. Is losing 64percent of your full-time fireand EMS coverage worth a 7percent budget decrease?
The decision to draft awarrant article to start a firedepartment without havinga budget for start up costs ap-pears to be an example of“putting the cart before thehorse.” The fact is that theNorthfield Fire ServicesCommittee relied heavily onoutside sources for informa-tion to base their decision.The Committee never re-quested testimony from theDistrict’s Fire Chief, admin-istration or commissioners.
As a homeowner and tax-payer in the town of North-field I am not willing to sac-rifice emergency services tomy family and neighbors tosave $22 next year.
Greg MichaudNorthfield
Safety our first priorityTo the Editor:
Citizens of Northfield:Recently we recommendedto the Northfield Board ofSelectmen that given themassive spending increasesbeing proposed for theTilton/Northfield Fire Dis-trict it would be in the bestinterest of the citizens ofNorthfield to vote onwhether to continue or dis-solve the TNFD.
In a recent public hearingit was asked if cost was ourmost important factor inour decision. Yes, cost wasvery important in our deci-sion process, but it was notthe only factor. The factspresented to us over the pastthree months indicated thecosts will increase substan-tially in the immediate fu-ture yet we failed to identifythe added services forNorthfield residents to jus-tify such costs. In fact, sev-eral of our members are onrecord as believing that if it
were guaranteed that theTNFD costs were to stay ‘asis’ then Northfield would beprudent in staying in theDistrict.
It has been suggested thatthe committee put moneyahead of the safety of resi-dents. This is not true. Toeven suggest that committeemembers, some of whomare former Northfield fire-fighters and emergency re-sponse personnel, would putforth a plan that jeopardizesour residents is politics atits worst.
We have heard recent re-marks indicating that re-sponse times will suffer if afire station is not staffed24/7. While this may intu-itively seem true, welearned through researchthat response times do notsuffer. Response times forthe type of combination de-partment we propose are nogreater than those of 24/7departments in towns simi-
lar to Northfield.The fact is we believe our
plan will provide servicethat is equal to that which isprovided now.
Our plan will cost far lessthen not only the projectedcosts the District proposesin the near future, but thecurrent costs Northfield ispaying in the District today.
Our plan provides for 7days a week 6 a.m. – 6 p.m.full time staffing in North-field at the Park Street Sta-tion.
Our plan calls for aNorthfield exclusively fund-ed department where theresidents have 100-percentsay as to the budget, staffingand future.
Our plan proposes an on-call staff trained at Statestandards, the same stan-dards that TNFD is requiredto meet. Residents of Alton,Auburn, Gilmanton,Charlestown, New Boston,Loudon, Moultonboro, Al-
lenstown and many othertowns have similar depart-ment models. It works andworks well at a reasonablecost.
Our plan will galvanizethis community bringingforth a spirit of responsibil-ity and volunteerism.
Please take the time tolook at our proposal objec-tively. Educate yourselfwith the facts while alwaystaking into considerationsafety and costs. As a com-mittee we unanimouslyagreed now is the time toplace an article on the TNFDwarrant asking the voters tomake this important deci-sion. It will ultimately bethe voters of both North-field and Tilton, by a 2/3vote, to dissolve the district.Regardless of the vote out-come we all have to recog-nize the importance to worktogether as a communityand as neighbors.
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Get ready to open your walletTo the Editor:
Are we going backwards?Going in front of the votersin March is a Petitioned War-rant Article by a group ofSanbornton parents andschool district employees toeliminate the WRSD BudgetCommittee. The petitioner’sobjective is to have no posi-tion reductions and smallerclass size. This will result ul-timately in more taxes to beraised.
From 2001 to 2007 the totalWRSD budget increased 60%from $13,873,916 to$22,167,967. In March of 2007the voters of Northfield, San-bornton and Tilton appar-ently had enough and votedfor a Budget Committee. This
committee would look out fortaxpayer’s interests. Since2007 the WRSD budget has in-creased to $23,753,229.
The 2007 budget was builton a total student enrollmentof 1,773. The student enroll-ment for the 2011 budget is1,576.
The Budget Committeehas the obligation to meetwith the Administration andSchool Board and to reviewall the proposed appropria-tions that are wanted. TheBudget Committee has rep-resentatives on the FinanceCommittee, the Transporta-tion Committee, the Technol-ogy Committee and the Cap-ital Improvement PlanningCommittee. The Budget
Committee also reviewed theBio Mass financial proposaland reviews expendituresthroughout the school year.All of this is designed to as-sist the District in requestingand spending what is neededand presenting this informa-tion to the voters.
The Budget Committee al-so has to consider the voter’sability to pay taxes especial-ly in the current economicconditions.
Because a small group ofparents and school districtemployees now want tothrow this all away and goback to the blank-checkbookapproach of a few years ago,the rest of us will see skyrocketing property tax rates.
Remember, in Northfield 53percent of the tax rate is forthe schools, 50 percent inTilton and 57 percent in San-bornton.
The Budget Committeeencourages public input ateach monthly meeting. Weare holding a Public Hearingon the 2010-2011 Budget onWednesday, Feb. 17, at theWinnisquam Regional Mid-dle School at 7 p.m. All War-rant Articles, including thisPetitioned Warrant Articlewill be presented and dis-cussed. Please come and pro-vide your input.
Curt McGeeVice Chairman
Winnisquam Regional School DistrictBudget Committee0
Humorous (Hopefully) Dispatches From The Granite State
LIVE FREE ON RYE By Tin-can Caldwell ■
This being a cen-sus year, Ithought that Imight offer up afew thoughts on
the subject of populace enu-meration and demographictrends.
The U.S. population is onthe move, following careers,industries and all sorts ofother things, and it’s wreak-ing all sorts of havoc on theterritorial norms and localfolkways of our dear coun-try.
Congressional districtsand states that were once re-liably in one party columnor the other now find themselves changing hands in awhirlpool of colors. Oncedependably red or blue ar-eas now appear as purple onthose political maps that ap-pear in Time Magazine.
Likewise, regions thatwere once monolingual arefinding themselves tasked
with finding second lan-guage speakers in theircourt, city and educationalsystems. Second and thirdlanguages are now poppingup on road signs, menus andbathroom doors.
This is not even to men-tion the change in pop cul-ture trends from one quar-ter of our country to the oth-er.
For instance, I attended acountry music concert thisfall, (courtesy of my goodfriend Jon; I’m not sure I’dever willingly pay for a tick-et) and under a cold clearNew Hampshire sky I hearda large crowd sing alongwith Alan Jackson’s hitsong “Small Town SouthernMan.” (With the last choruschanged “Simpson’s style”to “small town New Hamp-shire man”)
But all of this geograph-ic tomfoolery pales in com-parison with the troublingfact that I can now (if I wasso inclined) purchase a NewYork Yankees baseball capin many stores in my area.
How and when did thishappen?
All this migration has ledto a muddling of sports loy-alties, and it’s now possibleto see a Pittsburg Steelersteam flag flying from a
house in my in-law’s Lowell,Mass., neighborhood.
Forty years ago it wouldhave been unthinkable tomeet a local Yankees fan,but I can now count on twohands the friends I have thatbleed pinstripes and dresstheir children in A-rod jer-seys and “Got Melky” t-shirts.
This migration of fanshas been noted by the mar-keting department of mybeloved Boston Red Sox andpitched as “The Red Sox Na-tion” with a nod to the exo-dus of Sox fans to all partsof the globe. So it’s safe toassume that in some neigh-borhood in the Los Angelesarea there is a house with aRed Sox flag flying proudlyfrom the front door.
The sports fan scene getseven more jumbled at mychurch. Our youth pastor isa Chicago Bears football fan(the self same Bears whobeat up on our beloved NewEngland Patriots in the Su-per Bowl back in ’86) and ofthe men on our board of eld-ers, one is a Chicago WhiteSox baseball fan (the firstone I have ever met) and an-
other proudly wears his vin-tage Hartford Whalers hock-ey jacket.
And speaking of migra-tions, I don’t have the heartto tell him that the Whalershave now moved to NorthCarolina and are now calledthe Hurricanes.
Wait, a professional hock-ey team south of the MasonDixon Line?
Yes, and they recentlywon the Stanley Cup.
It get’s worse.They beat a team from
Canada.Somewhere Lord Stanley
(a Canadian Prime Ministerand the giver of the firstchampionship cup one hun-dred years ago) is turningover in his grave.
We live in confusingtimes indeed.
And after all this region-al extrapolation, I have toask myself this question: isthis the melting pot that ourfounding fathers envi-sioned?
After all, wasn’t our firstpresident himself a fan ofthe hometown WashingtonWizards?
From the ridiculous tothe sublime! That prettymuch sums up the legisla-tive session on Feb. 3. Wewent from trying to commitfiscal suicide to dictatinganother country’s foreignaffairs.
A number of bills frommy Ways & Means Commit-tee went to the floor thatwould have either created aCalifornia-type budgetaryfiasco or gutted the 2010-11budget already passed bythe legislature and signedby the Governor last year.CACR23 (a constitutionalamendment) would have re-quired a super majority (662/3) of the legislature topass any new or increasedtaxes or fees. A few stateshave adopted such provi-sions. The most publicizedone is California, which ison the brink of bankruptcy.California’s governor andlegislature have been un-able to reach agreement ona balanced budget, throw-ing the state into fiscal grid-lock. Super majorities shiftlegislative power to a small
minority and, possibly, tothe executive branch of gov-ernment. I argued on thefloor that we didn’t want NHto become “the East CoastDisneyland of make believefiscal irresponsibility.”Four Belknap County rep-resentatives actually votedfor this measure.
Next, we debated a seriesof bills (HB 1622, HB1633,HB1640, HB1641, andHB1669) that would have re-scinded virtually every taxand fee increase in our cur-rent budget. We have had along-standing principlethat once our budget ispassed, we don’t go backand make systematicchanges that would wreakhavoc with our fiscalhealth. This budget waspassed in the normal leg-islative process. Was it awonderful budget thatmade everyone happy?Clearly, the answer is “no.”It never is. Critics includedcampers, smokers, the eld-erly, the towns, and restau-
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PUBLIC NOTICESHAKER REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
ABSENTEE VOTINGAccording to law, provisions shall be made by the schooldistrict so that any voter who is absent from that school dis-trict on the day of the annual or special election or meet-ing, or who, by reason of religious observance or physicaldisability, is unable to vote in person, may vote at suchelection or meeting for school district officer. Such votershall be provided will all official ballots, which are to be pro-vided at the polling place on the day of the balloting. If youare interested in obtaining an absentee ballot, please con-tact Stacy Kruger, Clerk, at Belmont Middle School at 267-9220 or the Superintendent of School’s Office, 58 SchoolStreet, Belmont, NH 03220 at 267-9223.
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NORTHFIELDJoin your neighbors who have already made the commitment to serve inthe Northfield Fire Department as call firefighters and/or EMTs if adepartment is created by the voters at the Town and District meetings.
We are looking for:• Experienced certified firefighters, EMTs and Paramedic personnel.• Persons whose EMT or paramedic certifications have lapsed and
who are willing to seek recertification.• Persons interested in serving as firefighters or emergency medical
response personnel who are not certified and are willing to seekcertification.
If the voters approve creation of a Northfield Fire Department the townwill pay for training.
All interested people should contact Glenn Smith at Northfield TownHall 286-7039 or by email at [email protected]. All inquires orletters of interest will be treated with confidence.
Notice to Citizens of theWinnisquam Regional School District
PUBLIC HEARING ON THEPROPOSED SCHOOL BUDGET FOR 2010-2011
The Winnisquam Regional Budget Committee will conduct a publichearing on the proposed school budget for 2010-2011 on Wednesday,February 17, 2010, in the Winnisquam Regional Middle SchoolCafeteria starting at 7:00 PM. This hearing is an opportunity for theBudget Committee to explain the proposed budget and gather input andrecommendations from the public prior to the Budget Committee’s finaladoption of the budget. After the Budget Committee adopts the budget, itwill be presented at the annual school district meeting to be held onMarch 20, 2010, starting at 10:00 AM in the Winnisquam Regional HighSchool gymnasium. In its continuing efforts to provide the best possibleeducation for students of the District, the Budget Committee and theSchool Board are urging citizens of the Towns of Northfield, Sanbornton,and Tilton to attend this public hearing.
PUBLIC NOTICESHAKER REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
CHECKLIST REVISIONThe Supervisors of the Checklist for the Shaker RegionalSchool District will be in session for revisions and additions tothe school district checklist on Tuesday, February 23, 2010.
Belmont - Belmont Town Hall 7:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. andCanterbury - Sam Lake House 7:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
You can also register at your town clerk’s office during regularbusiness hours.
– PUBLIC NOTICE –THE TILTON PLANNING BOARD
PUBLIC HEARINGTUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2010
TILTON TOWN HALLAGENDA:6:30 PM Call to order
Minutes of January 26, 2010 CorrespondenceOther business: Lot Mergers to be signed
6:35 PM Case #10-01 Huckins Subdivision & Lot Consolidation.Application is for a two (2) lot subdivision and lot consol-idation. Property located at 329 Sanborn Road, Tilton, NH03276 in the Rural Agricultural District. Tax Map R4 Lot10 & 11A.
One of the first wordsthat comes to mind whenspeaking with BelmontMiddle School seventhgrader Ashley Fenimore is"focused." This young ladyis more than willing to dowhat it takes to meet notonly her own goals and ex-pectations but those seenin her by people who areimportant in her life. Start-ing with what she called aterrific daycare that gaveher a good start, she saidthere are a lot of people,like her former babysitterMiss Deb, who saw some-thing in her and want herto go far in life.
"Without their support Iwouldn't be in this spot to-day," Ashley said.
'This spot' is an impres-sive one for a seventhgrade student. Ashley is atop student, a member ofthe National Junior HonorSociety where she per-forms a lot of communityservice, is on the schoolvolleyball team, part of theGifted and Talented pro-gram and an active 4-Hmember, where she showsdairy cows in local events.
"It's definitely fun andkeeps me out of trouble,"she said about her 4-H in-volvement.
Working with springcalves on two farms shehas learned through hercousin how to love and
Ashley Fenimore
Student of the WeekEchoes of Excellence
care for the animals. One par-ticular cow, "Peanut," shesaid was a big fuzzy cow thatcould hug her with her headand "listen and tell you whatyou need to know." For fairsshe prefers to show the youngspring calves because oftheir smaller size, makingthem easier for her to handle.
"When it's me and my tinyself against this cow that's100 pounds bigger, well, that'ssomething to think about,"she laughed.
Her greatest honor in 4-Hso far was to win an awardfor good sportsmanship. Nowthat Ashley is older thansome of the members, shelikes working with theyounger children and showthem things she has learnedalong the way. Being part of4-H, she said, has been a goodexperience where she is sur-rounded by "good kids," ad-vice she was given by her par-ents as a tool for success.
Doing well in school iseverything to her. Ashley hasalready decided she wouldlike to attend Princeton Uni-versity and study law. Whileshe had once thought shewould become a veterinari-an, her decision to become alawyer, she said, was basedon the fact she would reallylike to help fight for what isright.
"I'd really like to try andmake the world a betterplace."
She said she loves Bel-mont Middle School but triesto avoid the "drama" of teenyears.
"I can't afford to getwrapped up in all of that. Ihave to buckle down and getgood grades," she said.
With an eye on an IvyLeague college, those gradesare a must for her and she isdetermined to do what ittakes to get scholarships andthat all-important accept-ance into Princeton one day.
Ashley loves her classes,saying each has its own "per-sonality." Math is her favoritesubject but she enjoys walk-ing into a room full of differ-ent people for each class.
On the volleyball court sheagain finds herself among agroup of girls she respectsand likes being around.
"We don't win all the timebut we have a lot of fun. Thatmakes it great for the coachbecause what's on the score-board doesn't matter if we'rehaving fun playing."
In her younger years Ash-ley was very close to hergrandfather, who has sincepassed away, but she said hewas a big part of her life andtaught her a lot. Though herparents are divorced she isgrateful they each continueto support her and push herto be her best. Aunts, uncles,cousins and other familymembers are all part of whatshe termed a “clean andclose” family unit based on afarm in Hooksett, where shehas learned good values andbeen inspired to do well inlife.
"We'll see where it takesme now," Ashley said with asmile.
Middle School, SanborntonCentral School, and South-wick School all held school-wide spelling bees duringthe last few weeks. TheScripps National SpellingBee is the nation's largestand longest-running educa-tional promotion, adminis-tered on a not-for-profit ba-sis by the E.W. ScrippsCompany. The purpose ofthe bee is to help studentsimprove their spelling, in-crease their vocabulary,learn concepts, and devel-op language skills that willhelp them throughout theirlives.
Congratulations to thefollowing students fromWinnisquam RegionalSchool District who partic-ipated in spelling bees:
Nicholas JohnsonAubrey St.OngeNathaniel WilsonBlaine ManningHannah PearsonKaylee TierneySocorra SummersTaylor WilsieTheresa BullockConner YoungSarah Joseph
Hayley Reed
A very special congratu-lations to David DeCoste,Anthony Luangrath, andConner Young, who willrepresent Winnisquam Re-gional School District atthe regional spelling bee inEpsom on Saturday, March13. Good luck to all!
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TILTON — WinnisquamRegional School Boardmembers finalized theirbudget at a public hearingFeb. 3 in preparation for thedistrict's annual meeting,where they will presenttheir budget proposal for$24,305,513 while the BudgetCommittee will seek voterapproval of its slightly low-er operating budget of$23,952,987.
No citizens attended thehearing.
Contractual agreements,insurance rates for districtemployees and retirementplans continue to be theitems seeing the greatestcost increases while ex-penses were trimmed else-where in an attempt to keepthe budget as low as possi-ble.
Roof replacements andrepairs are the largest ex-pense for warrant articlesas the district enters thethird year of its Capital Im-provement Plan. The boardis seeking to re-roof a sec-tion of Union SanbornSchool and replace insula-tion in it. The Voc-Ag roofis scheduled to be replacedand Vice-Chairman JasenStock said Sanbornton Cen-tral School's roof is in des-perate need of repairs, withleaks causing a lot of prob-lems in the structure.
"They'll need to do an in-frared scan so they can takeout any fiberboard that'swet then replace the roof,"he said.
Southwick School alsohas leaks in some valleyportions of its roof struc-ture that need to be re-paired. Proposals are beingmade to replace a door to theplayground and an exteriordoorframe at SanborntonCentral School. They alsoseek approval to replace apair of exterior doors at theMiddle School, both frontdoors at Union SanbornSchool, fund Phase I of theUnion Sanborn playgroundproject and purchase of aswing set for it.
Other improvementswere in the original CIP butnot recommended to bebrought before voters thisyear.
"We may have some sav-ings from sanding and plow-ing this year and the boardcan discuss these improve-ments later," Business Ad-ministrator Cheryl Sommasaid.
The warrant article willask for $492,722 for theseprojects to be done.
Another article seeks toraise $250,000 for the Capi-tal Reserve Fund- BuildingRenovations and Repairs.With Southwick Schoolscheduled for over $700,000in roofing repairs in thenext few years the boardwould like to have moneyavailable through this fundto help pay those costs.
The board is also askingfor the establishment of anexpendable emergencytrust fund in the amount of$50,000 this year.
"The budget is tight,” Su-perintendent Tammy Davissaid. “We really need thismoney for when an emer-gency comes up. You never
know what may happen toany of these buildings orsomething else in a year."
The final warrant asksfor no money at this timebut would create the abili-ty to settle on any of thelawsuits currently pend-ing against the district,with the amount deter-mined at a later time.
"This is to let peopleknow we're getting close toa settlement. By havingthis article in there withno dollar amount, we'reable to call a meeting whenthe number comes in," ex-plained Stock.
Any settlement, none ofwhich are expected to takeplace before the March an-nual district meeting,would then have to be ap-proved by voters.
Petitioned warrant ar-ticles were still pendingand were not available forthe board to review at itshearing.
Winnisquam SchoolDistrict will meet to act onthese items on March 20 at10 a.m. at the high school.
Winnisquam students save $42,900 on LRCC tuitionTILTON — Winnisquam
Regional High School stu-dents, along with otherLakes Region schools, havebeen participating in a dualenrollment program, Run-ning Start, with Lakes Re-gion Community College inLaconia.
The Running Start Pro-gram allows juniors and sen-iors in high school to earncollege credits while at thesame time completing highschool graduation require-ments. Secondary schoolteachers who are qualifiedto teach at the college levelpartner with college profes-sors to ensure college-levelperformance. Students earncredits at LRCC which aretransferable throughout theUniversity System of NHand to hundreds of collegesand universities across thenation. Students registerwith LRCC and pay a $100fee, saving almost $500 perclass.
“High school studentstaking LRCC Running Startcourses experience a signif-icant savings, over 80 per-cent,” said LRCC RunningStart Coordinator ClayGroves. “Governor Lynchsupports Running Start inevery possible way, in fact,
providing scholarships forstudents who cannot affordthe $100 fee. WRHS studentsseem to be getting the most‘bang for their buck.’ Overthe last three years 25 per-cent of all Lakes RegionRunning Start studentswere from WRHS.”
This week Joe Linko’sWRHS Principles of Mar-keting Running Start stu-dents held a business focusgroup to discuss the market-ing of the Running Start pro-gram. Three of Linko’s stu-dents are earning collegecredit through this class andhad already earned collegecredits through previousWRHS Running Start class-es. Linko teaches three addi-tional Running Start cours-es at WRHS: Accounting, In-tro to Business and Person-al Financial Management.
Kathlene Robitaille(Northfield) has taken sixRunning Start courses earn-ing her 18 credits and said,“Running Start has shownme what college courses arelike and it has been a greatexperience.”
Two other students inLinko’s class, MatthewSmarkel (Northfield) andEmily Belcher (Northfield),have earned 12 and 15 cred-
its respectively.Running Start courses
are available for most sub-ject areas, including history,sociology, science, mathe-matics, and psychology.
“Winnisquam RegionalHigh School teachers arevery committed to offer aca-demic programs that allowcontent involvement both inand out of the classroom,and students have an oppor-tunity to continue their aca-demic interests after Win-nisquam,” said David Ro-gacki, WRHS teacher andRunning Start Liaison. “Thecontent of the RunningStart courses goes outside of
the textbook and applica-tions are easily found in thereal world. The teachers en-joy teaching at the collegelevel and continue to extendtheir work effort to expandthe learning experiences oftheir students.”
Running Start studentsare treated as LRCC part-time college students andearn a transcript that is thesame as students who attendLRCC on Prescott Hill. Run-ning Start is available inevery NH high school. Forinformation contact Grovesat LRCC, 581-8084, or byemail [email protected].
COURTESY PHOTOWRHS RUNNING START TEACHER JOE LINKO (CENTER RIGHT) PAUSES FOR AMOMENT WITH HIS PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING STUDENTS MATHEW SMARKEL (FARLEFT), KATHLENE ROBITAILLE (CENTER LEFT), AND EMILY BELCHER (FAR RIGHT).
Winnisquam finalizes its budget
"When people arrive atthe district meeting andhear a number of $35,564 it'sonly fair to show them forwhat," LaChappelle said.
Commission ChairmanKevin Waldron added thatthis amount will not neces-sarily be spent, but wouldbecome the limit if ap-proved.
Revenues were projectedto be up approximately$20,000 in this fund,, withthe budget committee esti-mating it at $148,382. ChiefSteve Carrier explainedthat a more aggressive ap-proach to collections forambulance and EMT serv-ices have raised this num-ber. The percentage of col-lections has risen to ap-proximately 71 percent inthe past year.
Warrants will be a fluidissue at the district meet-ing, dependant on the out-come of petitioned WarrantArticle 6, calling for the dis-solution of the district. Wal-dron said no discussion onhow to handle any outcomeof this article has been hadby the commission at thistime but said they would beaddressing it in the near fu-ture. Commissioner TomGallant, in response to crit-icism from some in atten-dance, agreed that these dis-cussions should have al-ready been underway.
"The chief wrote a five-page response to the com-mission and to Steve Bluhm(chair of the NorthfieldFire Services Committee,which has recommended anindependent fire depart-ment in that town). Weshould be planning andcoming up with a response,"Gallant said.
While he had called for a
meeting about the article,he said the chairman re-fused, as was his preroga-tive to do. Waldron re-sponded by saying the issuewould be discussed at theFeb. 18 meeting of the com-mission and they wouldmost likely be seeking legalcounsel.
Discussions ensued as tothe legality of Article 6, butWaldron said that despiteany legal issues that may befound within the petition itmust be accepted as writtenand handled at the districtmeeting. He added that hewas disappointed no mem-bers of the Fire ServicesCommittee were in atten-dance at the evening's hear-ing to discuss the article.
LaChappelle asked whatwould happen at the districtmeeting if Article 6 were topass. The commissionerssaid amendments wouldhave to be made, should thatoccur, to increase the legalline within the operatingbudget, but other warrantsarticles could still be ad-dressed.
"Dissolution or not, we'restill going to have to run thedistrict for a period oftime," Waldron said.
Other warrants call forclosing two older funds nowcovered by the Apparatusand Equipment fund,adding $100,000 to the Landand Building Capital Re-serve, $15,000 for upgradesto Center Street station and$10,000 for a committee andarchitect to design schemat-ic drawings for an additionto the Park Street station.
Copies of the budget,warrant and proposed by-laws for the district will bemade available at both townhalls, the fire departmentand other public locationsas well as on the Web sitefor the voters to read priorto the meeting in March.
Katherine Dawson said wasdisappointing. Selectman PatConsentino, the board’s rep-resentative on the LSBC,agreed.
“We don’t want to lose theopportunity for the land,” shesaid, calling it a “prime spotfor our life safety building.”
LaBelle emphasized thatthe committee recognizes the“dire need” for a new policestation and doesn’t want any-one to misconstrue its deci-sion as second-guessing.
“The building, we havecomplete faith in it,” LaBellesaid,“(and) it is absolutely theright location. What we don’thave faith in is the cost.”
Consentino agreed withthat as well.
“I think that we’ve come upwith a tremendous building,but there are many differentways that we can pursue cut-ting the costs now,” Consenti-
no said.In order to continue work-
ing with the architect on thisparticular plan, there will bea warrant article at TownMeeting asking voters to ap-prove another $20,000 to con-tinue its work. The committeewould be charged with refin-ing the proposal and lookingfor grants. It would reportback to the townspeople in2011 with a more concrete fig-ure.
“That way we’ve done ourhomework thoroughly,” Con-sentino said.
LaBelle said the committeelikely would not need the$20,000, but the selectmenagreed it was better to have itand not use it. Some of themoney may be used to preparefor a special meeting, shouldthe town decided to move for-ward before 2011. The com-mittee has about $10,000 leftout of the $50,000 it was allot-ted at last year’s Town Meet-ing.
Dawson said her biggestconcern with not moving for-ward with the current pro-posal is the liability the townfaces because of the currentpolice station’s inadequatesafety issues. She pointed outthat this is the thirdpolice/life safety buildingcommittee the town has hadsince the quest for a new po-lice station began.
“Six years later,and we stilldo not have a police station go-ing forward,” she said.
Dawson said that since theLSBC’s public hearing, shehad received over half a dozenphone calls from residentswho were alarmed at the pro-ject’s estimated price andwondered why the town wasabandoning the BusinessPark Drive building that ithad already purchased,at halfthe price of the proposedbuilding.
She said that, just like lastyear, the committee hasn’thad time to shave cost esti-
mates to present a more ap-propriate figure to voters. Thework of last year’s committeewas halted at Town Meeting,when residents voted to formthe LSBC to look into otheroptions. This vote stemmedfrom concerns that retro-fitting the Business Park Dri-ve building would cost morethan anticipated, and that thelocation was not adequate.
LaBelle said that althoughthe LSBC is disappointed, itwanted to make a responsibledecision.
“Rushing into anythinghas never worked out for thistown,” he said.
The selectmen agreed tokeep the police station articleon the warrant in the hopesthat it will allow for discus-sion at Town Meeting. Shouldthat article be tabled, the mat-ter may be discussed underthe warrant article asking forthe LSBC to continue its work,or the article to purchase theRoute 132 land.
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By JOHN HARRIGAN
COLUMNIST
From coast to coast, thoughts on passenger rail
I’m not a choo-choowing-nut, which eventhe most affable train-addicts will admit tobeing, but I am indeed
a big believer in travel (andfreight) by rail. This means,naturally, that if I’m ever of-fered a choice as to whetherto travel by car, bus, air ortrain, I’ll go for the trainevery time.
Because I’m pretty muchin command of my own time(writing stuff ahead of time,making sure that things atthe farm involving infra-structure, wood, hay andsnow are all set), I’ve beenemancipated from thestraight-line, A to B, eyes-narrowed, furrowed-
browed, deadly serious trav-eling that so afflicts the trav-eling public. To me, the tripshould be as good as, or evenbetter than, the destination.Because I don’t wear a wrist-watch and don’t punch aclock, and do my best toavoid the tyranny of markson the calendar, I can just go.Barring, of curse, the mon-ey end of things, which is thecurse of all vagabond travel.
This is why I try to saveup my spare change, in a va-riety or office-to-farm con-tainers. When I’m ready totake off on the next WalterMitty trip, the ever-accom-modating crew at the FirstColebrook Bank can counton me to cross the street withmy change, and I’m off (thelast time it was a brook-troutfishing foray into interiorLabrador).
A couple of weeks ago Ialluded to plans to travel byrail all the way from oneseaboard to another, as infrom Boston to San Francis-co, by Amtrak, to visit mylate brother’s family in Cali-fornia. This garnered quitea bit of mail, and somerolling of the eyes. “You’redoing what?” was the re-sponse, in increduloustones.
I did indeed travel by pas-
senger rail from Boston tothe West Coast, and it was agreat trip, and by no meansmy first. I’ve traveled viatrains all over the globe, in-cluding British trains,trains in Germany, Switzer-land and Italy, and Japan’svaunted Bullet Train, whichgoes at about Warp FactorFive without a drink spilled,and, not to be excluded assome poor second-cousin,the Quebec North Shore andLabrador Railroad, a classictrain of the Far North. Onthis train, as you steppedaboard, you encountered asign, which said somethinglike this: “I am the conduc-tor, Ferguson. This is mytrain. If you spit, curse, orfight, I will throw you off.Signed, Ferguson.”
Here is the summation ofthe Boston-San Franciscotrip, of which (of course) I’llwrite more soon, with, as theeditors say, pics. “A greattrip” does not even begin todefine it. It was three nightsand four days out, threenights and four days back. Ihad plenty of books andmagazines, and plenty ofscenery to admire out thepicture window on my chair-and-berth-equipped com-partment, and a journal tokeep. And the food was good.
But the unfathomablepart of all this is the reac-tion I got from all so manypeople who simply could notfathom, envision, or accept atrip that included (no, wasdriven by) being on a trainfor several days out and sev-eral days back. “Threenights on a train?” And then“Three nights back? Are youdaft?”
It was almost as if I werea Third World (sorry, politi-cally correct replacementhere, “developing nations”)hapless person and had nochoice, poor fool, and notenough money or ability toget to an airport and hop aplane. You know the sce-nario: Down-in-the-lucktraveler takes the bus, oreven worse (gasp!) the train,meets seedy characters, getsmarooned, maybe evenkilled.
I think I know where thisattitude is coming from,which is experiences, passedon through generations,about rail travel during thedemise of passenger rail,which began to happen afterWorld War II with the adventof air travel, the great eman-cipation of individual vehi-cle ownership, the 40-hourwork week, the proliferationof roadside stops, camping
areas and motels, and thesubsequent Ebola-like disin-tegration of passenger rail.All of a sudden, what oncehad been a practical, roman-tic, and sensible (inner cityto inner city) mode of travelbecame as outdated as thosegreat but anachronisticscenes in “North by North-west.”
Still, given all that, whatis it with this current atti-tude toward rail? Amtrak’strains are eminently afford-able, clean, fast, quiet andcomfortable, with good foodto boot. As witness to this, ifyou want to travel by long-distance train between Mayand September you’d betterget on the horn, lest you findout that everything is soldout. On a long-distancetrain, it bears pointing out,your sleeper accommoda-tion includes a lot, which inmy case amounted to threehotel rooms out, three back,meals included. Also, noparking fees, tolls, or hassle.Tote it up.
And what is it with this“subsidies are evil” hog-wash? No nation on earthcan run a national railroadwithout subsiding it. Butwilling, paying passengersare making one heck of adent, believe me. The highly
successful Portland toBoston Downeaster is a goodexample. So is the Acela fasttrain (150 mph), which hascaptured more than half ofthe commuter service fromManhattan to Washington,D.C. (it can get you fromSouth Station to Penn Sta-tion on Manhattan is aboutthree hours and change).
Second, why don’t politi-cians and decision-makersand media pundits noticethe morally bankruptdamnation of passenger railfor its dependence on subsi-dies? Every mode of travel,from Interstate highways toprimary state highways toharbors and airports andbus stations is subsidized.Talk about an insult to intel-ligence.
Well, anyway, that’s poli-tics. The next time I writeabout all this, and it will besoon, it will be about the funpart, which is always (orshould be) the trip.
(This column runs in adozen weekly papers cover-ing the northern two-thirdsof New Hampshire andparts of Maine and Ver-mont. John Harrigan’s ad-dress: Box 39, Colebrook, NH03576, or [email protected])
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rants. There was somethingin the budget for everyone todislike. However, as everyoneshould recognize, we were(and still are) in the midst ofthe worst economic down-turn since the 1930’s. Despitethat, we were able to craft abalanced budget within theallotted time frame thatavoided any new broad-basedtax and maintained a rea-sonable level of state servic-es. There are many statesthat would love to be able tosay that!
The five bills were defeat-ed but were hotly debatedand received a significantnumber of votes. The roll callvotes averaged about 190 tokill the bills, 160 to pass them.The passage of these billswould have made mandatorya reduction or elimination ofstate programs and servicesessential to the lives of NHfamilies, especially the livesof the most vulnerable – chil-dren, the elderly, the unem-ployed, and the poor. The to-tal price tag would have beenmore than $100 million. Inmy opinion, it was at theheight of fiscal irresponsi-bility.
Moreover, the FinanceCommittee sent two bills to
the floor that would have re-stored more funds in the cur-rent budget to our cities andtowns in the form of addi-tional meals and rooms taxrevenues (HB1128) and rev-enue sharing (HB1274). Thecost of these bills to the cur-rent budget would be $5 mil-lion and $50 million, respec-tively. This was “feel good”legislation that would allowus to return home to our com-munities and take credit forhelping lower property tax-es. Normally, I would havegladly supported the billssince I don’t like propertytaxes, but I didn’t. Nobodystood up to say where themoney was coming from! Be-cause the existing revenuesin the budget are already un-der pressure (more on thislater), the money would haveto come from additional cutsin programs. HB1128 passed;HB1274 did not.
Some comment relative toour current budgetary situa-tion is warranted. If you’vebeen following the news, youalready know we have rev-enue problems. First, thestate lost its bid to utilizefunds from the Joint Under-writing Association, thestate-sponsored medical mal-practice fund following a 3-2split decision by the NHSupreme Court. That deci-sion will carve out over $40
million from the currentbudget. Further, based on theJanuary 2010 report from theDepartment of Administra-tive Services, the state is run-ning about $40 million shortof projected revenues. Final-ly, the Department of Healthand Human Services willhave to cut approximately $28million from its budget dueto increased demand for serv-ices caused by the economicslump. The commissionerstill needs to identify anoth-er $15 million to balance hisbudget. If state revenuesdon’t turn around, there willbe additional cuts in stateservices.
Some critics would arguethat NH has a “spendingproblem” and should effectmajor reductions in staff andservices. While fiscal cir-cumstances may, in fact,make such reductions neces-sary, it’s not because we’re“big spenders.” Based on themost recent comparative sta-tistics (2007 Census Bureau),NH remains one of the low-est spending (37th based onstate spending per capital)and lowest taxed (49th basedon state tax collections percapita) states in the Union.These cuts will come, notfrom our extravagant over-spending – “the fat” in thebudget - but from badly need-ed assistance to our families
– “the meat and bone” ofstate services.
If that was the “ridicu-lous,” the sublime surfacedwith the time spent debatingHCR27, a House resolutionurging the United Kingdomto return the Parthenon mar-bles that were stolen byBritish Lord Elgin fromGreece some 200 years ago.Even thought the committeehad recommended the reso-lution favorably by a unani-mous vote, the House killedthe measure. Why would wewant to get involved in an-other country’s foreign af-fairs? In my opinion, in gen-eral, such resolutions are awaste of valuable legislativetime. This one was particu-larly meaningless.
If you’re thinking that theday was replete with such id-iocy, not so! We did passHB1444 making it legal to buycheaper drugs from Canada.Of course, many of you havebeen doing it directly your-selves. If the Senate and Gov-ernor concur, you’ll be ableto shop at your local phar-macy. Stay tuned.
Bill Johnson is a state rep-resentative from Gilford rep-resenting Belknap CountyDistrict 5, which includes Al-ton, Barnstead, Belmont andGilford. He can be reached [email protected] or524-8949.
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Children are stubborn,aren’t they? We’ve all seensnippets of this obstinate be-havior, whether with ourown kids or others, the latterbeing very reassuring to theformer. We’ve seen episodesat the grocery store where atoddler will cross his arms,put on his determined face,and refuse to leave Aisle 12until he has his Teddy Gra-hams. We’ve heard older kidsrecite the words “You can’tmake me” to whatever it istheir ogre parents are askingof them. I personally haveheard the word “no,” accom-panied by the aforemen-tioned determined face, fromboth of my children so oftenlately that I’m thinking ofbanning it from our house.
But a hunger strike? Thatcaught me off guard.
A few weeks ago, Ben andEisley started going to theirnew babysitter,Jaime.I knewit would be a rocky transi-tion. I imagined that Eisleywould have a harder timethan Ben, since he’d have alittle girl his age to play with,and since he’d had no prob-lem transitioning into pre-school. But, not for the firsttime, my kids proved mewrong.
On the first day, I droppedBen and Eisley off with littlefanfare, spending most of mytime double-checking tomake sure I’d brought every-thing I needed and tellingJaime everything I thoughtshe needed to know. The kidsseemed a little wary, but notunhappy.
Around 2:30 p.m., I calledto see how things were going.Eisley had been good, just alittle clingy. Ben, however,had not eaten a morsel offood or taken a single drinkall day. He’d also had an acci-dent, something that hasn’thappened in well over a year,because he refused to go tothe bathroom. Jaime tried of-fering all sorts of food, in-cluding Wheat Thins. Shesaid Ben’s eyes seemed tolight up when he saw those,but then he said he only likes“square crackers” at homeand wouldn’t eat any.
So, I did the only thing Icould think of. I made him apeanut butter and jelly sand-wich so he could eat the sec-ond he walked in the door. Bythe time Brandyn got homewith Ben and Eisley, it was al-most 5 p.m.I don’t think Ben’sgone that long without eat-ing, except when he’s sleep-ing, in his entire life. I wassure he’d walk through thedoor and faint.
He didn’t, but he sure diddevour that sandwich. Hetalked very little but didn’tseem overly upset –
until he started crying,mouth full of PB&J.
“I only like square crack-ers at home!” he sobbed.
Well then.Ben and I talked about his
day, and I asked why hewouldn’t eat at Jaime’s. Hedidn’t know. But I realized itwas his way of trying tomaintain some level of con-trol in a situation that he hadlittle control over. Fair
Hall Memorial Library Happenings
Monday, Feb. 15Library Closed for Presi-dent’s DayMonday Evening BookGroup, 6:30 p.m.“The Help” by KathrynStockett
Tuesday, Feb. 16NHLA Meeting
Wednesday, Feb. 17Story Time, 10:30 and 11:30a.m.Word Games, 3-5 p.m.NH Veteran’s Home BookGroup“Three Cups of Tea” byGreg Mortenson
Friday, Feb. 19Sit and Knit, 3-5 p.m.
New Books Available atHMLTake one home today.
“Cemetery Road” by GarAnthony Haywood“Dark Fire” by ElizabethLowell“Dirty Little Secrets” by C.J. Omololu“From Cradle to Grave” byPatricia MacDonald“Game Change: Obamaand the Clintons” by JohnHeilemann
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enough. But that didn’t solvethe problem of getting him toeat, drink, or pee.
The next day, I let Ben packhis own lunch, thinking if hebrought his own food, maybehe’d eat. Apparently Jaime’sbowls aren’t good enough,though, and so he couldn’t eathis soup.He did go to the bath-room, though, a small victo-ry.
The strangest thing aboutthe whole situation was thatBen never cried or whinedwhen I dropped him off, andhe never said he didn’t likegoing to Jaime’s – he just did-n’t want to eat there. For thefirst two weeks, every time Idropped the kids off andheaded to work, I worriedthat Ben was miserable. Butwhen Brandyn or I pickedhim up, he’d be laughing andplaying. Gradually, he hasstarted eating, but we’re stillletting him bring his ownfood. When he seems ready,we’ll start transitioning tothe food Jaime provides, butsince the last time he wasthere he refused French friesin favor of his own grapes, I’dsay we’re not quite there yet.
And then there’s Eisley,
who didn’t cry at all the firstcouple times I dropped themoff. Reports back from Jaimeindicated all was well. She atelike a piglet, slept well andseemed comfortable with thenew environment, and I wasrelieved that I only had onekid to worry about.
Until Day 3. And Days 4, 5and 6. That’s when it dawnedon Eisley that dropping heroff at Jaime’s meant I wouldbe gone all day, and appar-ently she didn’t like that. Soshe cried, and she clung tome, and she broke my heartas I closed the door andwalked away.
Heading into their fourthweek with the new sitter,bothkids have calmed down. Eis-ley’s stopped crying, andBen’s started eating anddrinking a bit more. They’realways smiling when we pickthem up, and not in a yay-I-can’t-wait-to-leave way, but inan I’m-having-fun way, whichmeans they can’t be that trau-matized.
Finding a new babysitterwas trying, and the transi-tion was tough, but I thinkthe worst is over. Fingerscrossed.
You can bring a kid to a new sitter, but you can’t make him eat
A local +38 wood bat base-ball league is looking for play-ers for the 2010 season. It is or-ganized baseball, mostlyplayed on Sundays with abunch of guys who all sharethe love of the game. Gamesare played from the Win-nisquam area down to south-
ern NH. Great exercise andcompetitive play. Modifiedrules to ensure safety and fun.Some league fees for balls,umpires and fields apply.
owner of The Quilting Cor-ner, and Joyce Morton aresponsoring a Quilts of ValorAutographed Star Block proj-ect.
On Monday Feb. 15, TheQuilting Corner, 322 WestMain St., Tilton, will be openfrom 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. as wehost our first Quilts of ValorBlock Day. On this special daysewing machines will be setup and Joyce, along with Nan-cy, will be on hand with pre-cut fabrics and sewing advice,giving you the opportunity tocome in and make your ownQuilts of Valor AutographedStar Block.
We are attempting to helpcomfort all those who servedin the War on Terror. Blocksmade on this day, along withother blocks that have been
sent to us, will be joined to-gether to make Quilts of Val-or, which will be donated toNH service members. TheQuilting Corner will also beoffering a 10 percentstorewide discount as ourthank you for joining us onthis special Presidents Dayevent.
No advance reservationsare required but you may con-tact us so that we will knowhow many of our communitymembers will be joining us.Make plans to stop in, sew ablock, and show your sup-port. We look forward to see-ing you.
For more informationplease contact Irene at TheQuilting Corner at 286-3437,[email protected], or visit www.quilt-ingcornernh.com.
Youth Flag Football League starting this spring in the Lakes RegionLAKES REGION — Hey
kids, looking for a new sportto play this spring? Sign upand join us for the inauguralseason of the Lakes RegionFlag Football League, a Na-tional Football League-spon-sored youth flag football
league, coming to the LakesRegion of New Hampshire.
Based primarily out ofMeredith, the league will befor all Lakes Region areayouths between the ages of 6and 15 with three age divi-sions as follows: Ages 6
though 8 co-ed teams; ages 9through 11 co-ed teams, ages12 to 15 boys teams and ages12 to 15 girls teams. Flag foot-ball is a non-contact sport,and there are no helmets orpads required. Players wearflag belts and are considered
“tackled” when the ball car-rier’s flag is pulled off his orher belt by a defender.
Easy online registrationwill be through the NFL Website; fees will be collectedthrough the NFL, and eachregistered player will receiveas part of their fee an NFL re-versible team jersey and a setof “NFL Flag” flag belts tokeep. The LRFFL is open tokids from all towns aroundthe Meredith area, such asCenter Harbor, Sandwich,Moultonboro, Gilford, Laco-nia, Belmont, New Hampton,Ashland, Holderness, and
Plymouth. Current fee forthe spring 2010 season is ex-pected to be $45.
The registration processwill begin on Feb. 12 with akick-off jamboree plannedfor early April, and pre-sea-son games expected to beginon April 17. Plans are under-way for a six-week season,followed by playoffs and Su-per Bowl championships inall age divisions. Long-rangeplans are in place for a falland spring season each year.
To express interest in pre-registering or to learn moreabout the Lakes Region Flag
The LRFFL is currentlylooking for sponsors to helpdefray the start-up costs ofthe inaugural season and tohelp keep registration fees aslow as possible for the play-ers. If interested, please con-tact the league [email protected] or call279-1254. Join and help uskick off the LRFFL’s inaugu-ral season! To learn more, goto the NFL Web site ornflflag.com/website/home/lrffl.
LAKES REGION CHAMPIONSHIPS
Photos by Josh Spaulding Belmont was one of eight teams at the Lakes Region Championships, held
Friday, Feb. 5, at Gunstock in Gilford. Belmont boys were fifth overall and thegirls were sixth overall. Jessica Palmer (8) skis in the morning slalom, whereshe finished second overall with a combined time of 81.24 for the two runs.Taylor Morrill skis in the one run of giant slalom. Delays led to the cancel-lation of the second run of the giant slalom. For Sant Bani, the girls placedseventh and the boys eighth at the Lakes Region Championships. CullinRobinson was 14th in the morning slalom for the boys with a time of 96.99.Cullin RobinsonJessica Palmer
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TILTON — Clarence Ay-otte, formerly of Laconia,passed away peacefully Sat-urday, Feb. 6, 2010 at the NHVeterans Home in Tilton,where he was cared for by thebest nursing staff available.
Clarence was born in VanBuren,Maine,in 1928 and wasone of 11 children. Clarencewas predeceased by his lov-ing wife, Wanda, and theiryoungest son, Michael.
Clarence joined the Navyat the age of 17 and then trans-ferred to the Air Force for therest of his military career.Clarence served in Korea,Germany, France and Viet-nam before retiring. After hisretirement, Clarence workedfor the New HampshireForestry Department.
Clarence was a joy to bearound. He enriched the livesof everyone he came in con-tact with. We will miss himvery much.
Clarence is survived by hisson and daughter-in-law,JohnAyotte, and his wife, Susan, ofLaconia; one sister, Lori Ro-drique, of Florida; threebrothers, Bert Ayotte andDanny Ayotte, both of Augus-
ta, Maine and Alyre Ayotte, ofVan Buren, Maine. In addi-tion to his wife and young son,Clarence was predeceased byfour sisters, MildredCharette, Jennette Coe, MonaGagnon and Francine Bouch-er and by two brothers,Alphe-dore Ayotte and Dominick Ay-otte.
There will be no callinghours.
Burial will be in the springin St. Lambert Cemetery, La-conia.
In lieu of flowers, pleasemake donations to the Dis-abled American Veterans inyour area.
For more information andto view an online memorialgo to www.wilkinsonbeane.
Clarence Ayotte, 82BELMONT — Sarah A.
Putnam, 57, of Belmont,died unexpectedly on Tues-day, Feb. 2, 2010.
Sarah was born in Mid-dlebury, Vt., on Nov. 20,1952 to Francis and Grace(Longley) Edney.
Sarah was a long timeemployee of Contract Sup-port Group in Belmont.She was a big NASCAR fanand loved doing crafts andneedlepoint.
Sarah will be loved andmissed by her family andfriends.
Survivors include herchildren, John Putnam ofLaconia, Christopher Put-nam of Tilton and CarriePutnam of Sanbornton;
her grandchildren, Devin,Lily and Emily; her long-time companion, George“Jake” Murray, of Bel-mont; her mother, GraceEdney, of Vergennes, Vt.; asister, Pearl Bullard, ofBrockton, Mass.; a brother,Andrew Edney, of St. Al-bans, Vt., and many nieces
and nephews.She was predeceased by
her father, Francis Edney,two sisters, Andrea Martinand Mary Edney, and abrother, Dennis Edney.
Calling hours were heldon Saturday, Feb. 6, in theCarriage House of theWilkinson-Beane-Si-moneau-Paquette FuneralHome, Laconia. A funeralservice followed the callinghours also at the FuneralHome.
Burial will be a laterdate in South Road Ceme-tery, Belmont.
For more informationand to view an online me-morial go to www.wilkin-sonbeane.com.
Sarah A. Putnam, 57
LACONIA — The Boys &Girls Club of the Lakes Regionwill be holding a Red CrossBabysitting Course, lead by acertified Red Cross instructor.
This course is designed foryouth ages 11-15 who want tobecome Red Cross certifiedbabysitters. Course contentwill include how to care for in-
fants and children, leadershipskills, decision making, safety,handling emergencies, infantand child CPR,resume writing,job interview, and more.
Two separate courses will beheld during February vacation:Tuesday, Feb. 23, and Thursday,Feb.25,from 9 a.m.to 4 p.m. Costis $35 per participant and in-
cludes Infant/Child CPR certi-fication, Red Cross Babysittercertification, and a 2009/2010annual membership to theBoys & Girls Club.
Space is limited; register byFeb. 18. For questions or to reg-ister, please contact Sara Nico-las 528-0197 or [email protected].
Babysitting course offered at Boys & Girls Club of the Lakes Region
ference Center at the LakeOpechee Inn and Spa in La-conia, which Harringtonsaid is donating the space.Registration begins at 8a.m. and the workshop runsfrom 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thecost is $30.
“We’re trying to bring allthe dance schools togetherfor a common cause,” Har-rington said, calling theworkshop a “giant danceclass.”
Dancers from otherschools have also been in-vited to participate in thebiggest Dance to Heal,Dance to Help event: thebenefit performance Satur-day night. The public is in-vited to spend the eveningwatching “the most talent-ed dancers from the Lakes
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the town $820,000 per year torun the ambulance service,and by putting some of therevenues back into the gen-eral fund, it would alleviatethat cost. He also says the se-lectmen can’t manage thefund by controlling howmuch goes in there, which iswhy the account has accu-
mulated $582,000.Selectmen Chair Ron
Cormier added that the fundbrings in about $150,000 peryear, so the amendment pro-posed by Murphy would es-sentially put all ambulancebilling revenues into theComstar account and leavenone for the general fund.
“(The amendment) is notsimply tweaking this article,it’s basically annihilating italtogether,” Cormier said.
Resident Barbara Binetsaid the fund needs regula-tions, and other departmentsshould be able to share themoney for capital purchases.That, however, is not possi-ble.
“It is restricted to only theequipment of fire and ambu-lance apparatus, which is thereason we want each agencyto have their own capital re-serve fund,” Cormier said.
Resident Don McClellan
spoke against the amend-ment and in favor of abolish-ing the fund once and for all.
“This has been an issuefor quite a few years,” hesaid.
In a hand count, 29 peoplevoted in favor of the amend-ment while 44 voted against.
The article will appear onthe warrant as written.
The article establishingthe capital reserve fund, orig-inally Article 26, was moved
to follow the Comstar ac-count article and was amend-ed to read that the fund willbe established contingent onthe passage of Article 6.
Noise ordinance
A petitioned warrant arti-cle submitted by residentKen Knowlton would “makeit unlawful to play any deviceat such a volume that it is au-dible at the property line,”among other restrictions, be-
tween 10 p.m. and 7 a.m.Monday through Saturdayand 10 p.m. on Saturday and10 a.m. on Sunday. The ordi-nance would also restrict thenoise levels of motor vehi-cles.
“I am not a fan of big gov-ernment or frivolous laws,”said Knowlton, who agreedit would be better if neigh-bors could work things outamong themselves. “All Iwant is peace and quiet …How does one get peace andquiet when the town does notstand on your side?”
Susan Condodemetrakyasked for clarifications onthe ordinance, such aswhether large trucks wouldbe exempt and how it wouldbe enforced.
Police Chief Vinnie Baio-chetti said the ordinance isdesigned to prevent control-lable noises, such asburnouts, donuts, loudtailpipes, in cars. Noises thatcome from large vehicles,such as logging trucks, can’tbe regulated.
Resident Linda Frawleyasked what kind of prioritythe noise ordinance wouldtake over other calls. Baio-chetti said more vital callswill still take precedenceand pointed out that whilenoise-related calls will be in-vestigated, not all can be re-solved.
“Just because you call thepolice doesn’t mean any-thing’s going to be doneabout it,” he said, promptinglaughter from the audience.
Operating Budget
Budget Committee Chair-man Ron Mitchell thankeddepartment heads and theselectmen “for proposingsuch a level-funded budget.”He explained that most in-creases are beyond thetown’s control, includinghealth insurance and solidwaste tipping fees.
Several other articlespassed through the delibera-tive session easily, many thatwill add money to previous-ly established capital re-serve funds. A petitioned ar-ticle asking residents to sup-port their right to vote onchanging the definition ofmarriage in the state consti-tution brought some talk ofwhether the town ballot wasthe proper forum for such anissue. This article has beenplaced on ballots in 150towns in New Hampshireand is a nonbinding vote.
There was little talk on anarticle to start curbside re-cycling for $128,814, whichthe Budget Committee andBoard of Selectmen say willreduce the amount of trashand thus the amount thetown will have to pay for tip-ping fees. A similar articlewas voted down last year.
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Region dance schools.”The performance is be-
ing held at Winnisquam Re-
gional High School at 7 p.m.Feb. 13. Tickets are $12 perperson and are available at
Creative Steps in Smitty’sPlaza in Tilton or at DanceOn in Laconia. If any tick-
MEGHAN SIEGLERCreative Steps tap dancers rehearse for this weekend’s performance
ets are left, they will beavailable at the door.
Some of the youngerdancers who are participat-ing said they heard aboutthe earthquake from theirparents or on TV. Nine-year-old MacKenzie said shewants to perform in the ben-efit show because she likesto dance and wants to helpthe kids in Haiti. Severalother kids, including Ella,8, and Taylor, 9, said danc-ing is fun and they’re excit-ed for the performance.
Eight-year-old Matthewtalked about the more seri-ous side of Dance to Heal,Dance to Help.
“I want the people to beable to survive and havefood and water,” Matthewsaid.
This isn’t the first timeCreative Steps has ralliedfor a cause. They tradition-
ally do a breast cancerwalk, and they perform atnursing homes as well.
“We’ve never done any-thing as quick, as lastminute,” said Harrington,who also noted that its beenthe dancers, not her, whohave done most of the workputting Dance to Heal,Dance to Help together.
Though Harringtonbooked the event locations,she made a longer list ofthings for the kids to ac-complish, and they took itfrom there. In the past threeweeks, they’ve come upwith new dance numbers,practiced extra hours, anddesigned posters and t-shirts for the benefit,among other things.
“I’m proud of them,”Harrington said. “Theytend to surprise me.”
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Winnisquam athletes promote good sportsmanship
PHOTOS BY DONNA RHODES(Left)Southwick third grade student Madeline Hastie holds up her winning essay on sportsmanship whilewearing the t-shirt she was presented before last Friday's girls basketball game at Winnisquam High School.Other winners were Evan Sullivan (fourth grade winner) and Theresa Bullock (fifth grade) who were honoredearlier in the week. (Right) The Trowsdale family, Allie, Thomas and WIlliam, were chosen as the Fans of theGame at a girls basketball game last Friday night, all part of the Winnisquam School District's Sportsman-ship Week celebration. Their posters were inspired by team member Kirstie Bean who babysits for them.
TILTON — WinnisquamSchool District had a busyweek celebrating goodsportsmanship through aninitiative of the NewHampshire Interscholas-tic Athletic Association topromote a positive atti-tude in students, coaches,parents and fans.
Athletic Director JeffCloos received the assis-tance of the WinnisquamHigh School's Student Ath-letes Leadership Councilin laying out a plan for theweek's events. The leader-ship council, compiled ofathletes from the school'svarious sports, helpedarrange a number of ac-tivities and special recog-nitions for students, par-ents and fans district-wide.
Elementary school stu-dents from grades three,four and five were asked towrite essays on whatsportsmanship meant tothem. Winners were givent-shirts and invited to readtheir essays before thehigh school basketballgames that week. Selectedfrom each grade level wereTheresa Bullock from fifthgrade, Evan Sullivan fromfourth and MadelineHastie of third grade. Allwere coincidently stu-dents of Southwick Schoolin Northfield, Cloos said.
The Leadership Councilalso held a poster contestfor high school studentsand their families. Entrieswere displayed in the gym-nasium for the week andlast Friday night the win-ner was announced. Tak-ing first place with aposter that read "Winningis for a day, Sportsmanshipis for a lifetime," wasJustin Dorr, his motherKim Daniels and brotherBrandon who all received
t-shirts for their win.The shirts touted the phi-losophy of former WRSDmentor and Chem-free co-ordinator Dave Tryon withthe motto "Tryon some
sportsmanship" written onthe back.
At each home basketballgame, Leadership Councilhad a student ambassadorquietly looking for a fanwho exhibited the quali-ties they want to see at agame. Jesse Pearce wasone such anonymous am-bassador last Friday nightas she sought the Fan ofthe Game.
"No one knows we'rejudging them, but we keepan eye on the crowd andmake a decision," Pearcesaid.
Friday night's choicewas the Trowsdale familymembers, 12-year old Allie,her 9-year-old brotherThomas, and 4-year-oldWilliam. Since Kirstie
NORTHFIELD — Markyour calendars for the nextFirst Mondays event at hallMemorial Library.
On Monday, March 1,from 6:45 to 7:45 p.m., pro-fessional landscaper Kath-leen Driscoll will share herlifetime of experience in theart of pruning shrubs andtrees and the importance ofplanting at the right height
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COURTESY PHOTOJames Watkins passes examples of his impressive cross-stitch work toa delighted group of adults at the first talk of Hall Memorial Library’s“First Mondays” series. A selection of his work can be seen in the Sitand Knit section of the library.
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Meredith plays host to first annual Pond Hockey Classic
Bean, number 24 on thegirls basketball team forWRHS, is their babysitter,they came to the gamearmed with a bean on a
stick, a Winnisquam Bearsposter and another thathad a "K" and a bean in sup-port of Kirstie. Sitting inthe front row they politelyand respectfully cheeredthe girls on against Inter-Lakes.
"We did it because it'sfun," said middle schoolstudent Allie.
They, too, got t-shirts tohonor them for their goodsportsmanship after the
third quarter of the game.Other winners during theweek were Karin Mahoneyand Wendy Evangello, bothparents of high school ath-letes.
Students Hailey Ryanand Justin Keith wereheard on Mix 94.1 FM radioall week, promoting goodsportsmanship in an adthey recorded with the helpof local radio personalityFred Caruso. High School
Principal Dr. RonnaCadarette was very pleasedto have them get their mes-sage out to the communityabout the importance ofsportsmanship.
"They did a great job andit was terrific that Fredhelped them spread theword," Cadarette said.
The basketball teams al-so helped to spread good-
SEE SPORTSMANSHIP PAGE B8
PHOTO BY ERIN PLUMMERTeams take to the ice during the first New England Pond Hockey Classic.
MEREDITH — Therinks were built and thehockey players flocked outfor the first annual NewEngland Pond HockeyClassic.
Around 77 teams fromacross New England andthe country gathered infront of the Inn at BayPoint Friday through Sun-day for the first in what isproposed to be a series ofannual tournaments.
The tournament wasstarted by former UMassAmherst hockey playerScott Crowder.
Nashua-native Crowderis the son of former Bru-ins player and collegehockey coach Bruce Crow-der and said he playedhockey with his brothersgrowing up.
Crowder said there arenumerous pond hockeyleagues in hockey hotbedssuch as Minnesota, Wis-consin, and Canada, butthere were none for theNew England area, whichis considered another ma-jor area for hockey.
Crowder summers onBear Island, which drewhis attention toward hav-ing the tournament inMeredith Bay.
Crowder received thego-ahead from the town forthe tournament and saidthe town manager was atthe scene on Friday.
The Pond Hockey Clas-sic brought 77 teams fromacross New England andteams from New York, NewJersey, Pennsylvania,Washington, D.C., and
Golden, Colo.Crowder said all the
teams are self-formed andto sign up to play.
Friday was the first offi-cial day of the tournamentwith teams going againsteach other in their divi-sions that day and Satur-day to determine whowould go into the playoffson Sunday.
Rinks were set up on theice in front of the Inn atBay Point for multiplegames to be played at once.Players could get their gearon in a “locker room” tentand go into Bay Point fordrinks and refreshments.
After each day of games,the rinks are flooded withwater to refreeze and theyare resurfaced.
Winners from all five di-visions had their initialson the Lake Winnipehock-ey Cup, a replica of theStanley Cup carved fromwood courtesy of NewHampshire Interiors. Eachwinning team also receiveda large team trophy and in-dividual trophies for theplayers.
At closing ceremonieson Sunday, trophies went toPaddy’s Pub out of Cam-bridge, Mass., in the OpenDivision; The Frozen
Hacks from Franklin,Mass., won in the 30+ Divi-sion; the Lakes Region-based Bumbles won in the40+ Division; the BudHeavies from Newbury-port, Mass., won the Leg-ends Division; and Montre-al Todd from Woburn,Mass. took the trophy forthe Just for Fun Division.
The weekend also saw acharity game featuringNHL legends, includingformer Bruins playersSteve Leach and BobbyCarpenter.
One rink was open forpublic skating and all sev-
SEE POND HOCKEY PAGE B8
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ALTON- WINNIPESAUKEE and mountain viewsfrom this 3 BR, 4 bath, 3400 SF, 2003 home.Cathedral ceilings, formal dining room. 36 x 18in-ground pool.$310,000 (2815906) Call 875-3128
ALTON- Top quality, affordable home to be built inMountain View Estates. Great floor plan with 4bedrooms, 2.5 baths, large eat-in kitchen, hard-wood and tile flooring and attached garage.$269,900 (2814510) Call 875-3128
GILMANTON- Well maintained home with beachaccess and trails for hiking, biking and snowmobil-ing nearby. Nice bright kitchen, large master bed-room, new roof and many other recent updates.$144,900 (2815294) Call 875-3128
SANBORNTON- This one bedroom ranch isperfect for the first time homebuyer or a greatget-away to the Lakes Region. Sited on over 3acres w/outbuilding & offering quiet privacy andpeaceful setting! $142,000 (2809197) Call 253-9360
MOULTONBOROUGH- Winnipesaukeewaterfront, views south to southeast, 102’ onwater, large beach, 2 bedroom cottage plusbunk house, 40’ dock, waterfront is childfriendly, won’t last long! $669,000 (2803526) Call 253-9360
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Elegant detailing throughout, grand staircase,9’ ceilings, glassed-in sunroom, countless luxurious amenities, formal gardens, views of Lake Winnipesaukee, heated in-ground
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$1,595,000 (2795703) Call 569-3128
Spectacular home with carriage house inMoultonborough features A/C, granite coun-tertops, home theater, breakwater, 2 docks &140’ of waterfront. Beautiful sunsets, easyboat access to towns on Winnipesaukee.Call 569-3128 $2,595,000
With long 425’ of waterfront on LakeWinnipesaukee in Alton, this 1-acre parcel isideal for building your lake home. Beautifulviews across and up the lake must be seen.Existing 1850 cape on property.Call 253-9360 $775,000
ALTON- Rustic log home set on over 49wooded acres. Great for hiking and hunting.Views from house with some selective cutting.Minutes to Alton Bay.$249,900 (2813850) Call 875-3128
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Exceptional Lake Winnipesaukee waterfront inWolfeboro with 430’ shoreline, expansivebeach, extremely rare 60+ foot permanentdock, level, gorgeous views and a 3bd homeand guest cottage.Call 569-3128 $2,000,000
MOULTONBOROUGH- WATERFRONT- lot on Lake Kanasatka with southern expo-sure and views. 100 feet of lake frontage, sandy bottom, and nearly 2 acres.$139,000 (2677395) Call 253-9360
NEW DURHAM- 65 Acre lot with 1000’ gravel access road. Southwestsloping land. Attractive neighborhood of new homes. Below Assessment!$115,000 (2807870) Call 875-3128
VIEWS AND SUNSETS overlook-ing Lake Winnipesaukee areyours to enjoy year round fromthis spacious 5 room condo.Open living area with fireplace,deck, master bedroom suite withviews, double garage. Enjoybeach, pool, tennis courts.$195,000
SQUAM LAKE AREA - Attractivebright and sunny 3 bedroom ranchon 1.08 acres. Large 18x24 mas-ter bedroom, garage under &space for rec room. Separate30x48 heated workshop/garagefor your toys & tools. $229,000
LAKE WAUKEWAN - Plan yoursummer vacation at this 3 bed-room lakefront home with childsafe sandy beach, excellentviews. Large sundeck overlookinglake, boat dock, separate garagewith bonus room. Just reduced to$398,000
N.H.DEPT. of Agriculture weights& Measures Law requires: that cordwood (fire wood) must: 1. Be sold by the cord or fraction ofa cord; 2. Contain 128 cubic feet per cordwhen stacked; 3. Be accompanied by sales slip stat-ing the amount of wood sold & theprice.
Misc. For Sale
AAA ORTHOPEDIC 9”THICK PILLOWTOP MATTRESS
AND BOX. NEW IN PLASTIC, COST $1200, SELL QUEEN $275,
FULL $250, KING $395. CAN DELIVER. 430-1116
BEDROOM 7 PC.SOLID CHERRY, SLEIGH BED,
DRESSER/MIRROR, CHEST AND NIGHTSTAND.
NEW IN BOXES. COST $2500, SELL $795.
CALL 433-4665.
Misc. For Sale
CABINETS CUSTOM GLAZEDCHERRY AND MAPLE. NEVER INSTALLED.
CAN ADD OR SUBTRACT TO FIT KITCHEN.
COST $8,000, SELL $1,595. CALL 427-2001
MATTRESS SETS, TWIN $199, FULL $249,
QUEEN $299, KING $399NH MADE BEDROOM W/MATTRESSES $999!
FREE LOCAL DELIVERY!CALL MIKE 603-217-7181 OREMAIL: [email protected]
Old NH Fish and Game, ca. 1890,bearing laws, penalties and seasons onmoose, caribou, furbearers, fish, etc.Measures 12”x18”. May be seen at theCoös County Democrat, 79 Main St.,Lancaster, NH. Price, $4; if mailed, $8. Call 603-788-4939 or email [email protected]
SOFA AND LOVESEATBRAND NEW IN WRAPPER.
AMERICAN MADE COST $2,000, SELL $800.
CALL 430-1116
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Apartments For Rent
1BR apartment on Meredith Bay,newly renovated, modern kitchen,W/D, Large deck overlooking lake,extra storage, $800/mo, no utili-ties. Available March 1st. CallHome 781-556-5080, Cell 617-460-1960 and leave message.
ALTON 1BR APARTMENT, 2ndfloor, quiet, clean, recently reno-vated. All new kitchen and appli-ances, new bathroom, energy effi-cient, W/D on site, plenty ofstorage, large yard. $650/mo.
Call 617-365-5486
DOWNTOWN MEREDITH 1BRApartment. Heat and hot water includ-ed. W/D on site. $725/mo. Call Ron603-651-7582.
FRANKLIN: Very nice two bedroomapts. available. Secure building, offstreet parking, on site laundry. $700per month plus utilities. 603-455-5055or [email protected]
MEREDITH Next to Meredith YachtClub, 25D Pleasant St. Remodeled,large 1BR. New Refrigerator and stove,W/D hook-ups, oak cabinets, big clos-ets, no animals. $995/mo. plus deposit.Includes heat. 603-622-1940 or 603-867-8678.
MEREDITH, Main St. 1BR efficiency.util. cheap. big bathroom with w/d. lotsof closets, bright/sunny. $600 per mo.+ utilities, sec. dep., ref. required, nosmoking or pets. Call 455-2562 or msgat 279-4170.
NORTHFIELD 41 Bay St. One BDRM1st floor,with updated kitchen and liv-ing room. W/D hookup. free wirelessinternet. no smoking or pets. $750 mo.plus utilities and sec. deposit. Availablemid Feb. Call 603-491-8144
Apartments For RentMEREDITH: Best Apartment, bestneighborhood, best landlord-that’swhat our last tenant said! 2 BR, 2 bath,apartment 2 miles from downtown andhigh school. Completely renovated,very large rooms, bright & sunny. Newdishwasher and carpet. Laundry roomon premises. Trash removal, plowingand parking. Beach rights. $1,050.INCLUDES HEAT. Sec. dep and refer-ences required. Call 603-279-5426.
NORTHFIELD 41 Bay St., Smallfirst floor 2 room studio with full bath,no pets or smoking, free wireless inter-net, free cable TV. $550/mo. plus utili-ties. Call 603-491-8144.
TILTON: 1 BEDROOM ApartmentHeat and hot water included.$700/mo. Call Ron 603-651-7582
Commercial Space ForRent
Brimstone House in Plymouth -Prime office space available. Firstlevel, will divide to suit, startingas low as $5 sq.ft., includes heat.Call 566-6757
Meredith S. Main St. Office space.Large furnished office. 1/2 bath. 600sq. ft., util. included. $400/mo. Lots ofwindows and parking. Bring your lap-top and coffee cup. Month to monthpossible. No smoking. Call 455-2562 ormsg. @ 279-4170.
Condo For RentLACONIA - 1-2BR, 100% remodelled,adult community, garage. $745/mo.Must see will go fast! Call 455-2014.
Houses For RentHouse for rent, Campton, NH, $800.00a month. Small 2 bedroom on RT 49,across from the river. Just 10 minutesto W/V, close to Interstate 93. Househas 2 bedrooms, living room, kitchen,one bathroom, nice yard, small porch.Great for a couple or single person.Utilities not included. First and lastmonth rent. No pets no smokers. 603-726-3481.
House for Rent. Moultonboroughhome with Lake Winnipesaukee accessin Balmoral Association. Three bed-rooms, two full baths, finished base-ment, laundry with washer and dryer,cable hook-up. One car garage. Petsnegotiable, Utilities extra. Rent$1000/month Call anytime (603)253-7353. Leave message if no one answers.
MOULTONBORO 2BR, 2 bath, yearround, 2 car garage, storage, W/D,yard, pets OK. $1200/mo. plus utilities.Call Mark at Century 21 Lakes RegionRealty 253-9871 Ext. 116.
MOULTONBORO 3BR, 2 bath,garage, fireplace, large yard, sunporch, $1100/mo. plus utilities.
Call 603-234-3241.
TILTON - 1BR year round home, par-tially furnished, private, near LakeWinnisquam, 1-2 people, possible useof garage for motorcycle, $750/mo.negotiable. Call for further details603-437-9186.
Vacation all year in your worry-free 3bedroom home on Newfound Lake!Kitchen/LR has cathedral ceiling, spa-cious loft. Two bedrooms, bath on first.$900/mo +utilities. References & cred-check required. 603-744-6158
WENTWORTH- House for Rent orSale. 3 bedroom, 2 full baths, com-pletely renovated inside, no smokingno pets, First month plus securitydeposit. $900/mo. plus utilities. Pleasecall 603-764-9993.
Rental SharingLACONIA: TWO ROOMMATESWANTED for 2 locations. $120 and up.Females preferred. All inclusive, manyextras, sober environment. Will go fast!Call 455-2014
RENTALS
Year Round Rentals
MeredithApartments from $1,500/mo.MoultonboroApartments from $700/mo.Homes from $1,100/mo.GilfordApartments from $800/mo.Condos from $1,100/mo.LaconiaHomes from $1,400/mo.Condos from $800/mo.
TuftonboroHomes from $1,500/mo.AltonHomes from $950/mo.
For additional informationwww.PreferredRentals.com
PIANO LESSONS Half-hour lessons$17.00-$19.00 in Holderness. Lessonstimes available all day. Call Melanie at536-3858.
Automobiles2008 Ford Taurus SEL AWD, Ice Blue.$20K, Bought new June 2009; 4,500miles, Sticker $28,340, perfect condi-tion, must sell. Loaded, incl. AM/FM 6CD Sirius Radio, traction control,leather seats, 2 row safety canopy, ratedsafest car in class; full Ford warranties.Call 603-968-7709.
Vehicles WantedLOWELL USED AUTO PARTS $150cash for junk cars and trucks. Freetowing. Call: 603-435-9385
CONTACT:
Kara Taylor,Human Resources/Payroll Manager
Mountain Club on Loon603.745.2244 x5361 • Fax: 603.745.2317
SALES MANAGER• Prior Group Sales Experience• Strong Communication & Organizational Skills• Ability to Work Well Independently• Confident Ability to Close Sales
BENEFITS: Health Insurance, DentalInsurance, Life Insurance, 401K, Health Club
Membership, Restaurant & Spa Discounts.
HELP WANTED
HELP WANTEDThe Hunter School and New England Salem Children’s
Village maintains a vegetarian and smoke free environment. All staff must be at least 21 years of age and
have a clean driving and criminal record. The ability to work as a team member is a must.
We are currently seeking a CERTIFIED GENERALSPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER for the Hunter School. The ideal candidate must be willing to participate closely
with IEP teams and have experience working with students with AD/HD, Asperger’s and Tourettes will be a plus. We
are also anticipating an opening for a CERTIFIEDREADING SPECIALIST to support our students with
reading skills deficits. Our family modeled dormitories have CHILD DEVELOPMENT COUNSELOR positions
open. A degree in Psychology, Education or a related field is required. Experience working with children with learning
and behavioral issues is preferred.
Please submit letter of interest, resumé and3 letters of reference before February 26, 2010 to:
Sandy Sexton Human Resources Mgr.,New England Salem & The Hunter SchoolPO Box 600, Rumney, NH 03266-0600.
The Holderness School Districtwill be holding its annual school district meeting on the
proposed 2010-2011 school district budget onWWeeddnneessddaayy,, MMaarrcchh 1100,, 22001100 aatt 66::3300 pp..mm..
at the Holderness Central School.
– WANTED –PART TIME
DEPUTY TOWN CLERK/TAX COLLECTORfor the Town of Thornton
Handling the public with processing motor vehicle registrations, assist-ing with vital records, collecting and posting of taxes semi annually, aswell as assisting Town Clerk/Tax Collector. Workweek will consist of 14hours and filling in when Town Clerk/Tax Collector is not available to bein office per RSA 41:18 Deputy Town Clerk.
You can pick up a job application at the Thornton Town Offices, Mon.-Thurs. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Please drop off or mail resume and application to:
The Purchasing and Contract Services Department at Plymouth State Universityseeks a full-time, temporary purchasing professional to process purchase ordersusing centralized general ledger system (Banner Finance), maintain contractsdatabase (Access) and other general office duties. The position will begin as soonas possible and is expected to end on October 1, 2010.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:• Three years of experience in purchasing office with automated PO production. • One year experience with contract database management – data entry duties.• Computer experience using Microsoft Word, Excel and Access.
ADDITIONAL DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS:• Good interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.• Self-motivated and good organizational skills.
SALARY: $15.00 to $20.00 per hour commensurate with experience.
APPLICATION: Interested applicants should send a (1) cover letter; (2) resume;and (3) contact information for three professional references via e-mail to [email protected]. Applications will be accepted until position filled.
Plymouth State University is committed to diversity amongst its faculty, staff and students. We are anAA/EEO employer and encourage women and minorities to apply. Hiring is contingent upon eligibility to work in the U.S.
CONTACT:
Kara Taylor,Human Resources/Payroll Manager
Mountain Club on Loon603.745.2244 x5361 • Fax: 603.745.2317
SALES MANAGER• Prior Group Sales Experience• Strong Communication & Organizational Skills• Ability to Work Well Independently• Confident Ability to Close Sales
BENEFITS: Health Insurance, DentalInsurance, Life Insurance, 401K, Health Club
Membership, Restaurant & Spa Discounts.
HELP WANTED
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Certified Medical AssistantFull time position (Monday - Friday, 1/2 day Saturday every 12 weeks)available in our Plymouth office. Successful candidate must hold certifi-cation as a Medical Assistant.
Medical ReceptionistFull time position (Monday - Friday, 1/2 day Saturday every 12 weeks)available in our Plymouth office. Responsibilities include answeringphone, checking patients in, scheduling appointments, etc.
Both positions require previous medical office experience positions;experience with electronic health records a plus.
Excellent Benefit Package.
If interested, please send resume or application to:Paula Roberge, HR Coordinator
Mid-State Health Center101 Boulder Point Drive, Suite 1, Plymouth, NH 03264
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PHOTO BY DONNA RHODESA poster that read, "Winning is for a day, Sportsmanship is for a life-time," by Justin Door, his mother and brother Brandon took first placein a poster competition at WRHS about sportsmanship last week.
will and sportsmanship toschools they competedagainst last week. Each op-posing team was sent homewith goodie bags the teamsput together, containingapples, crackers, browniesand water for their ridehome. Cloos said the good-ie bags were very well re-ceived by each team and abetter alternative than thetraditional stop at a fast
SportsmanshipCONTINUED FROM PAGE B1
PHOTO BY ERIN PLUMMERThe Lakes Region-based Bumbles won in the 40+ Division. The five-member team, consisting of Walt Cam-mack of Canterbury, Joe Galea of Moultonboro, Glenn Fusonie of Laconia, Jeff Kruger of Belmont, and JayTurmell of Alton, are all from different teams that regularly play at the Laconia Ice Arena.
en rinks will be availablefor other purposes after thegame is over.
Bruce Crowder said thetournament was all hisson’s work, with him pro-viding technical consulta-tion.
“For the most part hisdecisions that came to me
were pretty good and well-rounded,” he said.
He also helped get Leachand Carpenter to the event,who all have connectionswith Lake Winnipesaukee.
“It was good to the guysto come out and supportthe lake community.”
The event was a proudmoment for the Crowders.
“Lucy and I are justproud as proud can be forparents,” Bruce Crowder
said. “The big thing youwant to do is look at thesmiles on the faces of thepeople leaving the ice.”
Scott Crowder said hewants to bring the gameback next year.
“Everything went offwithout a hitch,” he said.
The classic supportedRestore Hockey, the SpecialOlympics of New Hamp-shire, Lakes Region YouthHockey Association, and
the Greater Meredith Pro-gram.
Crowder said the eventgained attention for thefour organizations as wellas Meredith in general.
“It’s going to be biggerand better next year,”Crowder said. “We’re going
to bring more people here.”Crowder also said he
wants to bring live musicand smaller changes to thetents and set-up. Otherwiseno other major changeswere needed and the eventhad no significant issues,“which was absolutely
amazing. Couldn’t be anyhappier.”
For more informationon the New England PondHockey Classic, visitwww.pondhockeyclassic.com.
Pond HockeyCONTINUED FROM PAGE B1
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While the week wasdeemed a big success for itsinaugural year, Cloos saidit was only the beginningin his efforts to see sports-manship play out not only
in the athletic arena but inthe stands and with thecoaches, too.
"The key now is to haveit keep going with a posi-tive focus on sports the restof the year," he said.
