WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2011 VOL. 20 NO. 4 BERLIN, N.H. 752-5858 FREE 1 0 7 M a i n S t , B e r l i n , N H • 7 5 2 - 1 5 2 0 • w w w . g r e e t i n g s j e w e l e r s . c o m W E B U Y G O L D ! 1 4 6 M a i n S t . 7 5 2 - 7 5 6 9 Maureen’s Boutique & Tanning Salon Lots of Spring Arrivals Buying or Selling Real Estate? Call WAYNE MICUCCI 723-7015 RE/MAX Northern Edge Realty 232 Glen Ave Berlin 752-0003 Council selects two new councilors City Clerk Debra Patrick sworn in two new city councilors Monday night (l-r) Ward I Councilor Russell Otis and Ward IV Councilor Roland The- berge. (BARBARA TETREAULT PHOTO). BERLIN – Two new city councilors were selected and immediately sworn into office at Monday’s city council meeting. Selected to fill the Ward I vacancy was Russell Otis while Roland ‘Lefty’ Theberge was chosen as the new Ward IV councilor. The council interviewed candidates in work session and then voted by ballot to select one for each ward. Councilor Mark Evans argued both votes should be made publicly so the public and candidates would know how each councilor voted. When the council over- ruled his request, Evans refused to vote by ballot and left the room while the voting was conducted. Three candidates applied for the Ward I position; Otis, Carl Gagnon, and Beverly Ingersoll. Grenier explained that Ingersoll was not present in large part because of a snafu at city hall. The mayor said Ingersoll had dropped off her letter of intent when the city clerk was out and had not been told about Monday’s meet- ing in advance. He said her absence should not be held against her and reminded the council she had served as a councilor in the past and ran for the position in the last election. Otis received three votes, Gagnon got two votes, and Ingersoll did not receive any votes. Otis told the council he is a lifelong resident of the city and a three-year resident of Ward I. He is employed by White Mountain Distributors and described him- self as pro-development. Otis said, however, it is also important to maintain some services while working to keep taxes down. He said he has a young child at home and hopes to help create a future for him in Berlin. There were two candidates for the Ward IV posi- tion, Theberge and Joseph LaPuma. Both men had BY BARBARA TETREAULT THE BERLIN DAILY SUN Council rejects BEA contract BY BARBARA TETREAULT THE BERLIN DAILY SUN BERLIN – The city council Monday night unanimously voted to reject a proposed one- year contract with the Berlin Education Asso- ciation. The present five-year contract with the teach- ers union expires at the end of the current school year. The proposed contract would have frozen sal- aries, step increases, and longevity payments at the current level and accepted some savings in health insurance. In total, the contract would have saved the school district $204,068 in 2012. It also called for freezing the dollar amount of the employee’s health insurance premium co- payment at the 2011-12 level until a new con- tract is negotiated. If the contract expires with no new contract in place and health insurance increases 18 percent in 2013, that premium would cost the city an additional $59,943. City officials declined to comment on the BEA contract, noting it is still a matter of negotia- tion. In other business: * Jim Michalik and Kathy McKenna requested the council’s support in an effort to improve and promote local television access in the valley. The two explained they are co-chairs of an Androscoggin Valley Public Access Com- mittee that is focused on producing and broad- casting local programming that would stress the positive attributes of life in the valley. Michalik said he believes there is a lot of posi- tive stuff happening in the valley that is not getting out to the public. He said the committee would work to broadcast public events, docu- SAU 20 seeks grant for community forums GORHAM— SAU 20 plans to submit a grant appli- cation seeking funds to start a series of community forums to determine the best ways to collaborate with other schools to best meet students’ needs. SAU 20 Superintendent Paul Bousquet last week presented the grant application to Gorham Randolph Shelburne Cooperative School board that he plans to submit to the Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund through the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. The grant seeks $20,000 to contract with a facilitator that would coordinate forums throughout the Androscoggin Valley between school boards, staff and residents. The idea behind these conversations is to gener- ate ideas and thoughts on how the schools can create more shared services or programs to provide better programming for area students. “The purpose of these forums will be to bring our cit- see COUNCIL page 5 see BEA page 7 see GRANTS page 7 BY CRAIG LYONS THE BERLIN DAILY SUN Public meeting on Laidlaw request set BY BARBARA TETREAULT THE BERLIN DAILY SUN CONCORD – The N.H. Site Evaluation Com- mittee will hold a public meeting on April 22 on Laidlaw Berlin BioPower and Berlin Station LLC’s joint motion to transfer the certificate of site and facility from Laidlaw to Berlin Station. The SEC granted a conditional certificate to Laidlaw Berlin BioPower last November. Ear- lier this month, Laidlaw announced a corporate reorganization and a change in its major con- tractor and fuel supplier. The SEC Monday announced its schedule for the motion by the two parties. The hearing on April 22 will get underway at 9 a.m. at the Public Utilities Commission offices in Concord. People wishing to intervene in the proceed- ings have until April 15 to file a motion. Objec- see REQUEST page 6
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Council selects two new councilorsCity Clerk Debra Patrick sworn in two new city councilors Monday night (l-r) Ward I Councilor Russell Otis and Ward IV Councilor Roland The-berge. (BARBARA TETREAULT PHOTO).
BERLIN – Two new city councilors were selected and immediately sworn into offi ce at Monday’s city council meeting.
Selected to fi ll the Ward I vacancy was Russell Otis while Roland ‘Lefty’ Theberge was chosen as the new Ward IV councilor.
The council interviewed candidates in work session and then voted by ballot to select one for each ward. Councilor Mark Evans argued both votes should be made publicly so the public and candidates would know how each councilor voted. When the council over-ruled his request, Evans refused to vote by ballot and left the room while the voting was conducted.
Three candidates applied for the Ward I position; Otis, Carl Gagnon, and Beverly Ingersoll. Grenier explained that Ingersoll was not present in large part
because of a snafu at city hall. The mayor said Ingersoll had dropped off her letter of intent when the city clerk was out and had not been told about Monday’s meet-ing in advance. He said her absence should not be held against her and reminded the council she had served as a councilor in the past and ran for the position in the last election. Otis received three votes, Gagnon got two votes, and Ingersoll did not receive any votes.
Otis told the council he is a lifelong resident of the city and a three-year resident of Ward I. He is employed by White Mountain Distributors and described him-self as pro-development. Otis said, however, it is also important to maintain some services while working to keep taxes down. He said he has a young child at home and hopes to help create a future for him in Berlin.
There were two candidates for the Ward IV posi-tion, Theberge and Joseph LaPuma. Both men had
BY BARBARA TETREAULTTHE BERLIN DAILY SUN
Council rejects BEA contract
BY BARBARA TETREAULTTHE BERLIN DAILY SUN
BERLIN – The city council Monday night unanimously voted to reject a proposed one-year contract with the Berlin Education Asso-ciation.
The present fi ve-year contract with the teach-ers union expires at the end of the current school year.
The proposed contract would have frozen sal-aries, step increases, and longevity payments at the current level and accepted some savings in health insurance. In total, the contract would have saved the school district $204,068 in 2012.
It also called for freezing the dollar amount of the employee’s health insurance premium co-payment at the 2011-12 level until a new con-tract is negotiated. If the contract expires with no new contract in place and health insurance increases 18 percent in 2013, that premium would cost the city an additional $59,943.
City offi cials declined to comment on the BEA contract, noting it is still a matter of negotia-tion.
In other business:* Jim Michalik and Kathy McKenna
requested the council’s support in an effort to improve and promote local television access in the valley. The two explained they are co-chairs of an Androscoggin Valley Public Access Com-mittee that is focused on producing and broad-casting local programming that would stress the positive attributes of life in the valley.
Michalik said he believes there is a lot of posi-tive stuff happening in the valley that is not getting out to the public. He said the committee would work to broadcast public events, docu-
SAU 20 seeks grant for community forumsGORHAM— SAU 20 plans to submit a grant appli-
cation seeking funds to start a series of community forums to determine the best ways to collaborate with other schools to best meet students’ needs.
SAU 20 Superintendent Paul Bousquet last week presented the grant application to Gorham Randolph Shelburne Cooperative School board that he plans to submit to the Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund through
the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. The grant seeks $20,000 to contract with a facilitator that would coordinate forums throughout the Androscoggin Valley between school boards, staff and residents.
The idea behind these conversations is to gener-ate ideas and thoughts on how the schools can create more shared services or programs to provide better programming for area students.
“The purpose of these forums will be to bring our cit-
see COUNCIL page 5
see BEA page 7
see GRANTS page 7
BY CRAIG LYONSTHE BERLIN DAILY SUN
Public meeting on Laidlaw request set
BY BARBARA TETREAULTTHE BERLIN DAILY SUN
CONCORD – The N.H. Site Evaluation Com-mittee will hold a public meeting on April 22 on Laidlaw Berlin BioPower and Berlin Station LLC’s joint motion to transfer the certifi cate of site and facility from Laidlaw to Berlin Station.
The SEC granted a conditional certifi cate to Laidlaw Berlin BioPower last November. Ear-lier this month, Laidlaw announced a corporate reorganization and a change in its major con-tractor and fuel supplier.
The SEC Monday announced its schedule for the motion by the two parties. The hearing on April 22 will get underway at 9 a.m. at the Public Utilities Commission offi ces in Concord.
People wishing to intervene in the proceed-ings have until April 15 to fi le a motion. Objec-
see REQUEST page 6
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Mr. Almlie, 37, has been shocked, he says, at what he calls unfair discrimination, based mainly on irrational fears: that a single pastor cannot counsel a mostly married fl ock, that he might sow turmoil by fl irting with a church member, or that he might be gay. If the job search is hard for single men, it is doubly so for single women who train for the min-istry, in part because many evangelical denominations explicitly require a man to lead the congregation.
Mr. Almlie, an ordained evangelical minister who lives in Petaluma, Calif., has also had to contend with the argument, which he disputes with scriptural citations of his own, that the Bible calls for married leaders. “Preju-dice against single pastors abounds,” Mr. Almlie wrote in articles he posted on a popu-lar Christian blog site in Jan-uary and February, setting off a wide-ranging debate online on a topic that many said has been largely ignored.
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CAIRO (NY Times) — Flames engulfed the upper fl oors of a building in Egypt’s Interior Ministry compound on Tuesday, after a pro-test by thousands of police offi cers demanding higher wages and the resignation of the newly installed interior minister. It was the second time in a month a police protest at the ministry ended with the building ablaze.
The seven-story building houses the minis-try’s communications center and is topped by a towering radio antenna. Ambulances and fi re engines raced to the scene under a thick plume of black smoke that hung over downtown Cairo.
More than a thousand onlookers — most of them uniformed police offi cers — stared up at the fl ames as paramedics and fi refi ghters pushed through the throngs. At least eight people were injured, said security sources, and 12 protesters were arrested on suspicion of arson.
The police offi cers had spent the day pro-testing for higher wages, health care benefi ts and the return of Mahmoud Wagdy as interior minister. He had been replaced by Mansour el-Essawy after a cabinet shake-up on March 3 removed the last Mubarak-era offi cials.
As Cairo police protest, fi re engulfs ministry building
TOKYO (NY Times) — Work-ers at Japan’s ravaged nuclear power plant on Tuesday renewed a bid to bring its com-mand centers back online and restore electricity to vital cool-ing systems but an overheat-ing spent fuel pool hampered efforts and raised the threat of further radiation leaks.
Workers sprayed water to cool down the spent nuclear
fuel in the fourth reactor building at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant.
The storage pool at Fuku-shima Daiichi Power Station’s No. 2 Reactor, which holds spent nuclear fuel rods, was spewing steam late Tuesday, forcing workers to divert their attention to dousing the reac-tor building with water. If
unchecked the water in the pool could boil away, expos-ing the fuel rods and releas-ing large amounts of radiation into the air.
“We cannot leave this alone and we must take care of it as quickly as possible,” Hide-hiko Nishiyama, deputy direc-tor of Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, told reporters.
Spent fuel hampers efforts at Japanese plant
Obama tries to patch rift on Libya role
WASHINGTON (NY Times) — Allied fi ghters struck targets in Tripoli on a fourth day of airstrikes but forces loyal to Col. Muam-mar el-Qaddafi showed no signs of ending their sieges of rebel held cities, as the Security Council has demanded, while President Obama spoke on Tuesday with the French and British leaders in an effort to defuse a disagreement among the allies over how to manage the mili-tary action against Libya.
At least three bomb blasts were heard in the capital Tuesday eve-ning as fl ares from Libyan anti-air-craft guns arced across the sky. But attacks by pro-Qaddafi forces were particularly intense in the western cities of Misurata — where snipers and artillery killed 40 people and wounded 189, a rebel spokesman said — and Zintan. Both cities have been under siege for weeks.
Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III, an American offi cer who is the tac-tical commander of the mission, said that his intelligence reports confi rmed that Colonel Qaddafi ’s forces were attacking civilians in Misurata on Tuesday.
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Theresa M. RoyBERLIN -- Theresa M. Roy of
Derrah Street passed away Saturday, March 19, 2011 at Coos County Nurs-ing Home in Berlin, following a period of declining health. She was 86.
Born on August 1, 1924, she was the daughter of Vidal and Mathilda (Matton) Cusson. She attended Angel Guardian School.
Over the years, she was employed at Ware Knitters, Granite State Rubber Company in the stitching department, Bass Shoe Company, and Gamm.
She was a communicant of Angel Guardian Church, now known as St Anne Church of Good Shepherd Parish in Berlin, where she sung in the choir, served as a lecturer, and was a member of the Marie Rivier Associa-tion.
Her pastimes included traveling to such places as Jerusalem, Hawaii, Key West, Bermuda, and Paris, singing, playing the harmonica, and guitar.
She loved entertaining children, playing Chinese checkers, the com-pany of her dogs Coca and Teaka, and dancing, especially to the Polka and cooking.
She is pre-deceased by her brothers Ernest, Armand, Aurele, Oliva, Clem-ent, Henry, and Paul Cusson, and sis-ters Florida Morin, Leontine Cusson, Laurentiene Lafl amme, Yvonne Cusson and a step-son Ronald Roy.
She is survived by her husband of 38 years, Maurice L. Roy of Berlin; sons, Leo Desgroseilliers and his
wife Elaine of Inglis, Fla., Dennis Desgroseilliers of Berlin, and Paul Desgroseilliers and his wife Diane of Manchester, NH; daughters, Marcelle
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and Janice Leeman and her husband Albert of Rochester; a step -daughter-in-law, Debbie Roy of Berlin; many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, step-grandchildren, step-great-grand-children; nieces and nephews.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 29, at St. Anne Church of Good Shep-herd Parish in Berlin. Rev. Mark E. Dollard will offi ciate. Burial will follow at St. Kieran Cemetery in Berlin.
Calling hours will be held from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, March 29, at Fleury-Patry Funeral Home, 72 High Street, Berlin, NH. (Use School St. entrance)
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Theresa M. Roy
BERLIN -- Mr. James L. Tibbetts, 81, passed away on March 22, 2011 at the St. Vincent de Paul Health and Rehabilitation Center in Berlin. He was born in Harrison, Maine, on Janu-ary 17, 1930, was raised in Maine and
has resided in Berlin for many years.There will be no services or call-
ing hours. Arrangements are by the Bryant Funeral Home. For a complete obituary and online guest book, please visit www.bryantfuneralhome.net.
BERLIN -- Lorraine J. Levesque of Park Street, Berlin, passed away Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at St. Vin-cent de Paul Nursing Home in Berlin, following a period of declining health. She was 72.
Born on June 26, 1938, she was the daughter of Edward and Georgianna (Morin) Webb. She attended Berlin Schools. On September 21, 1957, she married Raymond C. “Ozzy” Levesque. He passed away March 25, 2006 after 49 years of marriage.
Over the years, she was employed at Bass Shoe Company and Gamm in Berlin. She was a communicant of St. Kieran’s Church, now known as St Anne Church of Good Shep-herd Parish in Berlin. Her pastimes included playing lawn darts, mini golf, playing cards, bowling, and in earlier years, she enjoyed roller skating and berry picking.
Besides her husband, she is pre-deceased by her brothers, Ralph, Albert and Robert Webb, and sisters, Evelyn Dube, Florence Young, and Beatrice Seymour.
She is survived by her sons:, Darren Levesque and Daniel Levesque and his wife Naomi, all of Berlin; daugh-ters, Laura Ball and her husband Harold of Berlin and Elaine McGrath
and her husband Donald of Honolulu, HI; grandchildren, Carole Hamlin of Berlin and Harold Ball of Lancaster; great-grandchildren, Tyler Hamlin
and Kaeleigh Hamlin; sis-ters, Pauline Fitzmorris and her husband Vernon of Pen-nacook, NH, and Alice Sones and her husband George of Port Matilda, Penn.; several nieces, nephews, cous-ins.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Friday, March 25. at St. Anne Church of Good Shep-herd Parish in Berlin. Rev. Steven M. Lepine will offi ciate. Burial will follow at New City Cemetery in Berlin.
Calling hours will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, March 24, at Fleury-Patry Funeral Home, 72 High Street, Berlin, NH. (Use School St. entrance)
Memorial donations may be made to St. Vincent de Paul Nursing Home, 29 Providence Ave, Berlin, NH 03570. Online guestbook at www.fl eury-patry.com.
Lorraine J. Levesque
Lorraine J. Levesque
Vermont musician, Donald Knaack, aka “The Junkman”, a composer and classically trained percus-sionist, drums on pieces of “junk” with members of the Berlin Teen Center as part of a week-long residency coordinated by the Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire for the Tri-County Community Action Program.
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Traveling To New Zealand And Back
John Walsh
It was August of 1998, and my friend Jerry Kane and I were on our way to New Zealand. It was winter there in the far southern hemi-sphere, and we were on our way to ski the mountains, especially the Cook Glacier. We had a video of skiing on the glacier and it looked like a lot of fun. The plane would land on a relatively fl at spot. It was a seven mile run down and another fl ight up for a second run before heading back to Queenstown.
As the plane lifted from Boston we were excited at going to such an exotic place and excited about what we might fi nd there.
After landing at LAX we trundled our half ton of gear around to the international ter-minal on the far side of the airport too board a huge 747 for the long fl ight to Auckland where we would again change planes for the fl ight to Queenstown on the South Island. It would mean traveling for nearly 24 hours, but we were excited and the trip went fast.
Once in Queenstown, however, I had to cope with the fact that one of my bags, the one with my ski boots and some of my ski gear, had somehow gotten on a fl ight to London from LAX and wouldn’t be in Queenstown for a couple of days. I rented the gear I would need and we were on the bus the next morn-ing for a nearby mountain outside of Queen-stown for our fi rst try at skiing New Zealand snow. As we headed out of town it began to snow. The further up hill too the mountain we got, the thicker the snowfall became. By the time we reached the mountain, we were in a near whiteout, While we had a few misgiv-ings, we got into our gear and hooked up with a local gal whose job it was to take folks out on the hill who were there for the fi rst time. Off we went.
That fi rst run was a near nightmare. The snow was falling so fast and so thick that we had trouble following our guide. After kiss-ing the snow a myriad of times we fi nally got back to the lodge and decided to drink a coffee and decide whether to take another run. We
did go back out and skied the rest of the day, but it was pretty marginal.
The next day dawned a little more promis-
ing. We fi rst called the airport to check with the people who would run the tour up to the Cook Glacier. The word was it was socked in and would be a no-go. We were advised to call each morning until we got the word about the weather on the glacier. We would fl y in on a fi xed wing plane and would need good visibil-ity to land at 10,000 feet up. We caught the bus for the mountain again that day.
Unfortunately on the way up we stopped at a scenic overlook and I hopped out to get some pictures. As I hurried to get back on the bus, I slipped on some ice and landed hard on my fanny. By the time we pulled in to the mountain, I was in pain. Jerry went skiing and I went to see the medics. I didn’t ski that day or the next.
The next morning we called the glacier tour folks and it was a go, but I was still in pain and we didn’t go. For the next week after, we called each morning but it never was a go. It was tough to miss out on the major reason for going to New Zealand but we got to do other things which made up for no glacier.
We skied some other mountains, toured the area and fl ew over to the Milford Sound for a day. The Sound is a deep fi ord surrounded by mountains soaring 5,000 feet straight up from the water. there is a huge waterfall drop-ping hundreds of feet into the water. Once we fl ew into the tiny airport we toured the sound by boat getting good looks (and good pictures) of its majestic dimensions.
Finally it was time to fl y home and that wasn’t something we looked forward to with much relish. It took 26 hours. We arrived home completely exhausted and bummed out by the extreme time change. It took me about three days to recover enough to even speak about the trip, but I remember it well now. It had been so much fun!
What’s Up With the United States of AmericaTo the editor:I wonder how many people
are proud of the The United States of America, today. We are not the country we once where, anymore. We have become a morally and fi nan-cially bankrupt nation. One thing leads to another. We have gone from a nation that protects the rights of its citi-zens to a nation that disre-gards them.
First of all, we do not pro-tect the rights of unborn defenseless babies to be born. We have gone from sending doctors to prison for per-forming abortions to giving them sanctions to do so. Doc-tors no longer have to say the “Hippocratic Oath”. Planned parenthood doesn’t help men and women become parents it helps them avoid becom-ing parents.
First they push birth con-trol pills which can cause all kinds of physical and emo-tional problems from breast cancer to nervous break-downs. Then, when birth control fails, it helps them to have the baby aborted. They are in the business to make money and our government has been giving them three hundred million dollars a year to do so. We have quite the government, these days.
Those of you who could care less about the unborn and vote for pro choice can-didates can chew on the fact that our government allows companies to leave the country and gives them tax breaks to do so. Who can pay those taxes? The people whose jobs are lost by our government paying compa-
nies to leave the country. Those companies should be expatrioted and their goods should not be allowed entry into the country. If that were the case this nation would not have an unemployment issue and economic problems as it does now.
It has allowed oil compa-nies to gouge prices for the last six years. The oil com-panies have accumulated wealth beyond their needs while everyone else, includ-ing our government experi-ences economic shortfalls, as a result. Some people never have enough. If you give them an inch they will take a mile. Oil companies appeared before the United States Senate six years ago and were investigated for price gouging and you can see the result. Our United States Senate let them pro-ceed to gouge prices and look at the situation of this countries economy, today. President Obama was on the podium last week and informed us he has made the effort to inform this nations attorney general and each states attorney general to keep an eye open for price gouging at the pumps. You might not be the President of the United States or an Attorney General but you can see for yourself the good job they are doing. This is the kind of personnel we have running our govern-ment. You can’t make me believe that raising the price of gas some sixty-three cents a gallon, for no concrete reason, within the last three
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It seems that this winter fi nds more of us driving advertising billboards, I mean, all those stickers on car-top ski carriers. So far I’ve only seen one promoting Taos, so I’ll make up some of the shortfall with my own endorsement of the sunny New Mexico slopes.
When I got up after my fi rst night in Taos, I found a row of dainty pastel-colored sneakers and numerous little lacy things draped on the lid of a suitcase in my two-room lodgings that weren’t there when I went to bed. Later that day, I found a sign on the top of the chairlift list-ing a whole category of terrain beyond “Most Diffi cult.” This indicated caution and I was already at 11,820 feet, a zone in which it is easy for a New England skier to overdraw his fi rst-day oxygen account, so I took a little while to get steady after the dizzying event that began the day and trying to breathe later on.
The terrain is like a teacup and a soup bowl set rim to rim with a dozen or so buildings tossed like sugar lumps into the bottom of the teacup. There’s a sign on the lift line asking, “Do you know how to self-arrest in a sliding fall? If not, ask the ski patrol or call 209.” Or, I’m thinking, call 911, because it doesn’t look like there’s any easy terrain here. A network of about 20 runs drops down from Kachina Peak, although the count is misleading because there are open groves of giant evergreens that blur the distinctions of trail and slope and glade, and the runs tilt this way and that, they have dips and humps and rolls and big bends, so it’s not just skiing down the wide hallways in many ski areas, the terrain is always changing: get light here and bank a turn there or take long easy leaners in another place, there are steep
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oil companies and does nothing about it. One explanation is that our politi-cians are paid big money by lobbyists, campaign contributors, and anyone who comes along to buy their vote. We should have a law that disallows any contribution being made to a politi-cian (bribe) of over one hundred dol-lars and no politician can use personal wealth to run for offi ce. Then, the poor people in this country would have a say into how our government is run.
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chutes that seem hardly wider than my elbows, and there are bump fi elds that remind me that my spine has been compromised by earlier excesses.
Partway into the afternoon a young girl in an adjacent chair on the lift calls out, “Mommy, do you have any sun stuff left? I don’t have the feeling of it on me anymore.” Others, not so prudent, are peeling down. I’ve already had skin cancer, so I stay well covered with the highest-rated sunblock available, and that afternoon I check my road atlas and see that Taos is on the same lati-tude as Charlotte, North Carolina, so when it’s 75 degrees at the inns the snow is still dry powder up above, because the humidity is only fi ve per-cent. This also explains the mahogany tans and permanent powder skiing at Taos.
It also explains the educational opportunities. At lunchtime of my fi rst day, two men chat enthusiastically about streamer chambers, left-right symmetry, and heavy nucleus frag-mentation. This is sub-atomic physics talk, they’re from the atomic labora-tory at nearby Los Alamos, the place that makes the kind of suns that do not attract tourists.
This exotic twist seems better suited to what Ernie Blake has done here, and before long I’m beginning to think that it’s also a sort of metaphor of everything at Taos, a homey place that Ernie keeps for friends who might drop by for a visit. Ernie grew up in Austria and Switzerland, and when he started here he’d close the lifts for a two-hour mid-day siesta.
They run all day now, and after two days I’m getting used to the thin air, so I go higher up and fi nd Longhorn Chute, modestly rated at a single diamond. Gaining either confi dence or foolhardiness, I go on to Valkyries, which opens with a long double dia-mond leading through trees into a most unusual experience. Then I relax with some runs of only one black diamond, it’s sort of like the baseball player who swings two bats in the on-deck circle so when he goes to the plate one bat will feel light and whippy.
Loosening up is important, because there are six double diamonds strung along what seems to be the rim of a huge soup bowl, then nine more double diamonds on a sort of giant tea cup at
the end of the valley. This is serious business, which means that it needs all the relaxation I can muster. It’s hyper-chute skiing which is made a lot easier, (in relative terms,) by another surprise. There are no bumps here, just long smooth slides down through rocky walls where the angle is apparently too steep for edges to get enough bite to cut bumps. Ernie Blake tells me that when he fi rst saw the drops it seemed to him that skiers would need magnetism to hang on, but they became addicting for his friend Al Rosen, who’s name is on Al’s Run. Failing health took his breath away, but he keeps going with oxygen bottles strapped to his back.
Ernie Blake started skiing when he and two school chums were given a handful of tickets to the funicular lift serving the skiing in St. Moritz, Switzerland. These were from George Badrutt, who owned the Palace Hotel there and would come to America him-self when Charlie Chaplin would woo the mother of his best friend, then take them all out dancing.
He reached America in 1938 and went on to New Mexico, where he asked the Santa Fe chamber of com-merce if there was any business where he might fi nd employment. The Cham-ber people told him that this was a tourist town and they didn’t want any businesses. As he was leaving, some-one said, as a sort of afterthought, “There’s one thing, but you wouldn’t be interested, it’s too crazy. There are people who want to build a ski resort.” Ernie was interested and he was also an avid pilot, so he fl ew up a nearby canyon and found an inviting snow bowl at the end of it where he would go on to install the fi rst detachable lift in the New World, but it turned out to be a detaching lift – the chairs tended to fall off in mid ride.
Things got better after that. The place at the end of the canyon had been so remote and so widely ignored that it didn’t even have a name, but it went on to fi nd a secure place on my list of skiing favorites. Where else could I wake up to fi nd an unknown lady’s silks and laces before I’d even had breakfast? And, as it turned out, there was more to it than that. They had skiing here, and also Ernie Blake.
(Nicholas Howe is a writer from Jackson. E-mail him at [email protected].)
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interviewed three weeks ago for the vacancy fi lled by Diana Nelson. An electrician still working at the Cas-cade mill, Theberge said he was born in Berlin and has raised two chil-dren here. He described himself as a Laidlaw supporter and said Cate Street Capital represents a good opportunity for the city. Theberge
said he has been reading minutes of city council meetings to get up-to-date on issues. He said a lot of people know him and the public is not afraid to contact him.
After the work session, City Clerk Debra Patrick sworn in the two new councilors and they took their seat on the council for the regular meet-ing.
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Under the reorganization announced by Laidlaw and Berlin Station, NewCo Energy LLC, a proj-ect company managed by Cate Street Capital, would remain the principal owner. A new corporate entity, Berlin Station, will be formed to replace PJPD Holdings LLC and Laidlaw Berlin BioPower, LLC. While Berlin Station retains ownership and respon-sibility for the project, it will lease the facility to Burgess BioPower.
Laidlaw proposes to replace Homeland Renewable Energy and Fibrowatt Operations as the major
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Laidlaw is asking to be allowed to change fuel suppliers and replace Cousineau Forest Products with Rich-ard Carrier Trucking, Inc. Laidlaw noted Carrier is substantially larger than Cousineau and has operations in Milan, Henniker, Shelburne, and Brentwoo
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Andy Smith of Wareham, Mass., (l) and Mike Paquette of Penacook, NH, (r) bested a fi eld of 70 extreme golfers on their way to a victory at the 2001 Auger Open Ice Golf Championship held March 5, on the frozen Jericho Lake in Berlin. Tim Gillis of Gorham and Tom McKenna of Berlin, were the runners-up for the second year in a row (Chief’s jerseys).
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In the grant application, Bousquet writes that some of the possible outcomes of these discussions could be freely shared classes and teachers; devel-opment of combined early childhood education pro-grams; school consolidation; shared transportation; and shared administration.
Bousquet wrote in the grant application that work on these forums would starting during fall 2011,
continue through the remainder of the school year and be available for review and action in the spring of 2012.
Superintendent Corinne Cascadden briefl y described the grant application to the Berlin Board of Education last week.
The grant is designed to get a dialogue going between the school boards and members of the com-munity, said Cascadden. She added the topic will revolve around ways the two districts can do more collaborating in regards to programming.
Cascadden said she sees this as a chance for the public to get ideas for collaboration out on the table.
“It’s a good place to start,” she said.
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mentaries, health care programs, and cultural affairs that will show the region in a positive light.
“We view this really as an economic develop-ment tool,” he said.
McKenna said they are looking for support from the communities so they can demonstrate that it has local support when they go to founda-tions for funding.
Councilor Tom McCue noted public access television was a pet project of former Councilor David Poulin. He said he thought it was a great idea.
The council held a first reading of a resolution supporting the concept. A public hearing is set for the April 4 council meeting.
* The council passed a resolution applying for up to $3.5 million more for the Neighborhood Stabilization Program – the public-private part-nership that is in the process of rehabilitating 14 buildings in the city.
Kevin Lacasse of New England Family Hous-ing said they have 20 housing units completed and all but four of those are rented out. There
are 19 units that are in the final stages of com-pletion. If the partnership is successful in get-ting the grant, Lacasse said they have identified another 12 properties to rehabilitate.
Housing Coordinator Andre Caron reported the program received a total of $20,125 from Public Service of N.H.’s Energy Star Homes Pro-gram for installing energy efficient technology in the homes.
* The council approved a resolution autho-rizing the school board to apply for a $250,000 grant for engineering services to convert the heating system at Berlin High School to bio-mass. The school district is applying to the U.S. Forest Service’s Woody Biomass Utilization Grant Program.
* The council approved placing a ‘no parking’ sign at 124 Wight Street.
* The council approved creating 15 mph school zones on Sullivan Street between Grafton and Coos Streets and on Grafton Street between Rockingham and Cheshire Streets.
* Grenier appointed Kim Rozek to a vacant position on the board of assessors and the coun-cil affirmed his selection.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You will add an exciting appointment to your calendar. Make sure you tell others who might be affected by this commitment. Communicating well now will prevent misunderstandings later. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). There’s a challenge at work. You realize that there is a limit to how much you can improve the situation without making a signifi cant change. And yet, handling small details helps you wrap your head around the next move. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). The need to feel important is in everyone to some degree. What makes you feel important is not the same thing as what makes another person feel important. You’ll effectively cater your attention to the individual recipient. CANCER (June 22-July 22). You strive for a stress-free day and will attain it to a great degree. Keep in mind that some stress is good for you. Tran-quility for too long a stretch of time will breed stagnation and boredom. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Your friend needs a listening ear. Try to resist the urge to tell your own story -- especially if it happens to be more exciting and glamorous than your friend’s tale. The selfl ess attention you give others will be rewarded in time. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You thrive when you do work that you are well suited to doing. However, the per-fect work for you is not always what’s needed or wanted in the moment at hand. Remain fl exible and open-minded. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). The chal-lenges of the day call for boldness. You bravely speak your mind, support the side you think is right and facilitate jus-
tice. You’ll sleep soundly tonight know-ing you’ve put in a solid day’s work. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). A new friend enters your scene with romantic potential in tow. This may not involve you directly, but you and your loved ones will be affected by the amorous infl uence. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). All the little things about you that you think are so weird may just be the most appealing and adorable qualities of all. So come out of hiding -- bring your quirks into the light! CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Someone you know well is no longer seeing the full glory of who you are. When another person takes note of all of your wonderful qualities, it will shake things up. Suddenly you will get the attention you deserve. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You’ll take on an issue that affects many more people than just you. You will think of the problem differently than the others. Because of this, you will be an impor-tant part of the solution. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). A big assignment is in your future. As long as you are allotted enough time to do it well, you’ll be satisfi ed by the endeavor. If that is not the case, negotiate to make it so. TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (March 23). Your idealistic views will lift others up. As you strive for the highest good, you’ll be joined in your efforts. Next month brings a fresh source of income. You’ll hear loving declarations in May. June highlights far-away places and new transportation. Your studies will add up to an important decision in August. Leo and Libra people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 6, 24, 19 and 34.
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Thursday, March 24Free Small Business Coun-
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Saturday Story Time at GPL: Saturday story time, 10:30 a.m., Gorham Public Library. Snacks will be provided. Storytellers and snack providers always welcome, as well. FMI 466-2525.
Free Community Meal Delicious dinner with all the trimmings for everyone in the community. Sittings at 5 and 6 pm at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, Main Street Berlin just beyond the bowling alley. Free tickets at Gill’s Florist, Morin’s Shoe Store, or the church. Take out meals available. Great for a family outing or a get together with friends. 752-3504 FMI.
Sunday, March 27Masters of the Celtic Fiddle:
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WednesdayCarving Club: Meeting every Wednesday, 5 p.m.,
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Harvest Christian Fellowship Soup Kitchen: Free community dinner every Wednesday night, 219 Willow St., Berlin. Doors open 4 p.m., dinner 5-6 p.m. FMI 348-1757.
PAC Meeting. Child addicted to drugs? You’re not alone. Join us for the PAC (Parent of Addicted Children) meeting, 6 p.m., 151 Main Street, Berlin. FMI call 603-723-4949 or e-mail @ [email protected] Study: 6 to 7 p.m., Seventh Day Adventist Church, Mt. Forist St., Berlin.
Weight Watcher’s Meeting at the Salvation Army, Berlin—9 a.m. meeting, 8:30 a.m. weigh-in
Senior Meals: Guardian Angel School, Monday-Thursday Noon, Friday 8 a.m.-10 a.m. Suggested donations for 60 and over $3; under 60 $6. All are welcome. (FMI 752-2545).
Bible Study: 6 to 7 p.m., every Wednesday night, 7th Day Adventist Church, bottom of Mt. Forist St., Berlin. All welcome.
Gorham Public Library: Open M-F: 10am – 6pm; Saturdays: 10am – Noon. Children’s Story Time: Fridays, 1:30pm. The NH Downloadable Audio Book Program available to patrons, who are able to choose from a varied and extensive collection. FMI at 466-2525 or [email protected].
Artisan Gift Shop: 961 Main St., Berlin. Open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Family Involvement Group: a family support and activity group, meets the second Wednesday of each month from 6-8 p.m. in the downstairs hall of St. Barnabas Church, corner of High and Main Streets, Berlin. Light refreshments are served. FMI, call Linda at 752-7552.
Reiki Sharing Gathering: Third Wednesday of each month, 7 to 9 p.m., Pathways for Thursday’s Child Ltd., 3 Washington Street, Gorham. Open to anyone who has at least fi rst-level Reiki training. No charge. (FMI 466-5564)
Awana Children’s Club - 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM. Grades K-6th. Games, Worship, Bible Lessons, Workbook Time, Prizes, Fun. Community Bible Church. 595 Sullivan Street, Berlin. Call 752-4315 with any questions.
AA Meetings: 12 to 1 p.m., Discussion Meet-ing, St. Barnabas Church, corner of Main and High Streets, Berlin. Step Book/Discussion Meeting, , Tri-County CAP, Step I, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., 361 School St., Berlin.
Women’s Relationship Support Group: CCFHS sponsoring. Group meets 6:30 to 8 p.m. every Tuesday. CCFHS will provide transportation as needed. Limited space available. Call Carolyn at 752-5679 for more information.
Milan Public Library: Monday, 1:30 to 7:30 p.m.; Tuesday and Wednesday’s 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
VFW Post 2520: Monthly meeting third Wednes-day of every month. VFW Ladies Auxiliary: Meets every third Wednesday of the month, 7 p.m., post home, 1107 Main St., Berlin. All members encour-aged to attend. (FMI 752-4743 daytime, 752-4276 evenings)
Foot Clinics: Every second and fourth Wednes-days of the month, Berlin Health Department, Berlin City Hall, 8:30 a.m. to 112 noon and 1 to 3:30 p.m. By appointment only. Call 752-1272. All area residents welcome. Fee: $15.
Thursday Boy Scout Pack 207: meets every Thursday at
6:30 in the St. Michael’s School cafeteria. Berlin-Gorham White Mountain Rotary Club:
Meets every Thursday 730 to 830 a.m., Town & Country Inn Shelburne. FMI email [email protected]
Mt. Jefferson LDG. #103 I.O.O.F.: meets second and fourth Thursdays of month, 7 p.m., 701 Presi-dential Highway, Jefferson. FMI 1-802-892-6684 or 723-0766.
AA Meeting: noon to 1 p.m., St. Barnabas Church, 2 High St., Berlin.
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DEAR ABBY: I have read with interest your columns with tales of discontent involving overbearing in-laws. Some of them have been downright frightening, although, of course, not all in-law relationships are fraught with confl ict. I bring this up because I’m about to become a mother-in-law for the fi rst time. My oldest son will marry his longtime girlfriend early this summer. She’s a lovely girl, and we al-ready consider her to be a cherished member of our family. I remember a “Mother-in-Law’s Prayer” that ran in your column years ago. It was a kind of “pep talk” from a woman to herself as she approaches mother-in-law status. I found it quite humorous. Would you please reprint it for me and for other mothers-in-law as the spring wedding season beckons? Hopefully, I won’t need to refer to it often. Also, how can I get the booklet that contains it? -- KATHERINE M., FORT WAYNE, IND. DEAR KATHERINE: Congratulations on your son’s forth-coming wedding. The item you referenced has been asked for many times. Over the years, readers have requested that I reprint ar-ticles that have special meaning to them on subjects such as parenting, children, animals, aging, death, forgiveness, etc. My booklet (“Keepers”) contains 72 column pieces that peo-ple have told me they kept to re-read until the pieces were yel-low with age and falling apart. It can be ordered by sending your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $6 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby Keepers Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. Shipping and handling are
included in the price. You’ll fi nd stories, poems and prayers like the one below to inspire you, make you think or simply brighten your day. If all mother-in-law relationships were judged solely by the letters in my column, many people would conclude that it’s an emotional minefi eld. I discussed this subject with a psy-chiatrist who shared that a mother-in-law who is perceived as overbearing may be one who was a conscientious mother. But now that her child is grown, she fi nds it diffi cult to relinquish her role as teacher and protector and quit “hovering” -- an interesting observation. A MOTHER-IN-LAW’S PRAYER “O, Lord, help me to be glad when my son (or daughter) picks a mate. If he brings home a girl with two heads, let me love both of them equally. And when my son says, ‘Mom, I want to get married,’ forbid that I should blurt out, ‘How far along is she?’ “And please, Lord, help me to get through the wedding preparations without a squabble with the ‘other side.’ And drive from my mind the belief that had my child waited a while, he or she could have done better. “Dear Lord, remind me daily that when I become a grand-mother, my children don’t want advice on how to raise their children any more than I did when I was raising mine. “If you will help me to do these things, perhaps my chil-dren will fi nd me a joy to be around, and maybe I won’t have to write a ‘Dear Abby’ letter complaining about my children neglecting me. Amen.”
FIRST-TIME MOTHER-IN-LAW LOOKS TO PRAYER FOR GUIDANCE
by Abigail Van Buren
Doonesbury by Gary Trudeau
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at: Dear Abby, c/o The Conway Daily Sun, PO Box 1940, North Conway, NH 03860
ACCOUNT CLERKThe City of Berlin Health Department is accepting applications forthe position of Account Clerk. This position will be responsible formedical billing, and coordinating, executing and providing properrecord keeping of all Home Health and Health Clinic billing. Thisincludes billing for Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance and pri-vate pay clients. Medicare billing experience is strongly preferred.The position may also provide general department clerical support.The starting rate of pay is $11.74/hour. A full array of benefits in-cluding health insurance comes with the position. The regular em-ployment hours are currently 8:30a.m.-4:30p.m., Monday throughFriday.
For further information or to apply for the position, contactAngela Martin-Giroux, Welfare Officer, 752-2120.
Letters of Interest and Resumes should be submitted to theCity Manager’s Office, 168 Main Street, Berlin, NH 03570.
The position will remain open until filled.The City of Berlin is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
CITY OF BERLINNew Hampshire
HOUSING COORDINATORTEMPORARY FULL TIME
The City of Berlin is accepting applications for the position ofHousing Coordinator. This position will be of a temporary full timenature reporting to the City Manager for an undetermined length oftime. There will be no benefits associated with this position. Theprimary function of this position will be to continue to address theissue of surplus substandard or blighted housing within the City ofBerlin. Doing this involves competing for local, state and federalfunds, obtaining and dealing with hazardous substance remediationfunds via grant writing, managing any funds received, writing andadministering various types of contracts, work with other City de-partments concerning housing issues and assist the Finance Directorwith tax deeded properties and manage the sale or demolition ofthese properties as determined appropriate.
Educational requirements include a college degree in fields such asengineering, project management or equivalent. Must possess andmaintain a valid passenger motor vehicle operator license. Signifi-cant experience in project management and in writing plans, pro-posals and grants. The minimum requirements listed above may besatisfied by having any equivalent combination of education and ex-perience which demonstrates possession of the required knowledge,skills and abilities.
Job description is available at the City Manager’s Office(603-752-7532), Berlin City Hall, 168 Main Street, Berlin, NH03570, Monday thru Friday between the hours of 8:30 am and 4:30pm or on the City website www.berlinnh.gov. Letters of interest andresumes must be received at the City Manager's Office by ThursdayMarch 31st, 2011
The City of Berlin is an equal opportunity employer.
Animals
Low Cost Spay/ NeuterCats & dogs Rozzie May AnimalAlliance 603-447-1373
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2000 Audi A6 AWD, loaded,$6000/obo; 2008 Chrysler Con-vertible, Crossfire, $20,000/obo,603-449-2164.
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NEWLY renovated, two bed-room, two bathrooms, hot wa-ter only included, $500/mo.603-234-9507 ask for Bruce.
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BEAUREGARD Equipment caseKobelco dealer clearance. Case4 wheel drive ext. hoe backhoespriced under $30k. Dozer spe-cials and excavators priced tosell. Call Leo Blais, Sales Rep(603)848-4919.
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Legendary fi ddler, Richard Wood, to perform at St. Kieran Arts Center
BERLIN -- Legendary Canadian fi ddler Richard Wood with Gordon Belcher will launch a four part “Masters of the Celtic Fiddle” New England tour at St. Kieran Arts Center on March 27, at 2 p.m.. Tickets are $12 and available at the door.
Other performing arts centers hosting Wood’s tour include the Franco American Heritage Center in Lewiston, Maine on March 29, at Skye Theatre Performing Arts Center in South Carthage, Maine on March 30, and at Unity College Center for the Performing Arts in Unity on March 31.
For more than two decades, Richard Wood has impressed audiences all across Canada, as well as in the US, Europe, and Japan. Highlights include TV guest appearances with Shania Twain on “David Letterman” and “Good Morning America,” Carnegie Hall with Irish legends The Chieftains, a featured performer on CBC’s Canada Day on Par-liament Hill, “Rita MacNeil and Friends,” and with Jean Butler of Riverdance on “Celtic Electric.”
Richard has played for Canada’s Prime Minister and Governor General, the Queen of England (in Toronto), and for the Emperor of Japan in Tokyo. In the late 1990s he toured the UK and Europe headlining concert halls and folk festivals. He’s since played at the Lincoln Centre in New York City, Epcot at Disney World, and was a featured performer in the touring fi ddle spectacle “Bowfi re.”
The program is made possible through the lead-ership of Skye Theatre and Celtic Arts New Eng-land and the sponsorship of Steve, Cindy and Nick Griffi n with support of the NH State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation/North Country’s Art Ventures Fund, an Anonymous Fund, Libby Family Fund, North Country Region Community Fund and the Stanton and Elizabeth Davis Fund. Richard Wood
BERLIN --Tri County CAP announces that it is still taking applications for the fuel assistance program. Households that have not yet applied for fuel assis-tance are encouraged to contact the community con-tact offi ce nearest them to apply. Benefi ts can pay for oil, kerosene, propane, wood, coal, electric heat or rent if heat is included. Benefi ts range from $150 to $1,125 per household. Applicants must call for appointments.
Offi ce locations are: Berlin-752-3248, Lancaster-788-4477, Ashland-968-3560,
North Country Flea Market 603-466-1140 • 161 Main St., Gorham
Sunday & Monday closed Tuesday- Saturday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
New Boston man rolls toward world record
NEW BOSTON — Eight years ago, Rick Fortin lost everything he owned in a fi re that destroyed his house — except for one proj-ect that could land him a place in the Guinness World Records.
“It wasn’t really an idea,” Fortin said of the 3-foot-in-diameter ball of copper he’s been making since 2001. It weighed 922 pounds when Fortin got it measured Thursday. “I just get bored in the winter.”
Before the weighing, Fortin guessed that the ball would be about “600 or 700 pounds.”
“I was quite happy with that number,” he said of the fi nal mea-surement.
As a landscaper, mason and self-described “recycling nut,”
Fortin said he often has leftover copper wire after a job. He started putting the ball together, sort of like balls of twine or rubber bands that have become Guin-ness records.
“I had so much wire coming in,” he said. “I made trees with it at fi rst. Then I started making this ball and got carried away.”
Sara Wilcox, public relations and marketing assistant for the Guinness World Records New York City offi ce, wrote in an e-mail that Fortin’s copper ball, if accepted by the organization, would make a new record, as there currently is no record for heaviest ball of copper.
“We have a record for tallest copper sculpture which is the closest,” Wilcox wrote. “This is an open record category as we are waiting on a claimant to submit
documentation still.”Fortin said he has acquired the
forms from Guinness and will submit a claim for a record. He thinks his chances are good.
“They seem to have records for all kinds of crazy things,” he said.
Fortin said a fi re consumed his house in 2003. All that was left to salvage, he said, was the ball.
The ball is not his only odd cre-ation, though. He said he also has a 4-foot-tall wax sculpture, made from wax recycled from mostly burned candles. It’s a mish-mash of objects, including dinosaurs, bears and grasshoppers.
“Like I said, I get bored in winter,” he said.
He said the copper in the ball is valued at $3,222. But is he selling?
“No,” he said with a laugh. “It’s worth more than that to me. It’s a piece of art to me.”
BY TIM BUCKLANDTHE UNION LEADER
17 hurt when tour bus rolls overLITTLETON — Seventeen
people were injured when their tour bus crashed in snowy condi-tions Monday night in Littleton.
The crash shut down Interstate 93 south for about nine hours. Police said the bus was carrying 25 people from Korea. It had left Quebec en route to Boston when it crashed north of exit 42.
When fi refi ghters arrived, they designated the scene as a mass casualty incident.
“All the occupants were still on the bus,” said Fire Chief Joe Mercieri. “Many of them were tossed around in the bus, tossed out of their seats, tossed under the seats.”
The crash forced police to shut
down the highway as ambulances from six towns were called. According to the fi re chief, 17 of the 25 people were taken to the hospital, but not before some of the injured had to be extricated from the bus. Five of those on board suffered serious injuries.
“They were impact injuries from impacting hard surfaces,” Mercieri said.
Littleton Regional Hospital took in 14 of the patients. Hos-pital CEO Warren West said the hospital holds mass casualty drills all the time, and the train-ing was put to good use.
“We brought in some additional staff and were able to accommo-date all the patients,” he said.
West said the biggest challenge the hospital faced was communi-cating with the injured, because few of them spoke English. But 11-year-old Rei Lee, who was trav-eling with his parents in the group, was able to translate.
“I tried to be calm and not be excited, and I was able to do the translation because I’ve lived in Vancouver for one-and-a-half years,” Lee said.
New Hampshire State Police are leading the investigation into the crash, and while no fi nal determi-nation has been made on a cause, troopers said it was snowing at the time, and the fi re chief said the road was very slippery.
—Courtesy of WMUR
CONCORD — State public health offi cials are seeking to allay residents’ concerns stem-ming from the ongoing nuclear reactor crisis in Japan.
“We’ve been getting calls since last week from people asking, ‘Should we get potas-sium iodide pills?’...” said Dr. Jose Montero, director of the state Division of Public Health Services. “The answer is no, there’s no need for that.”
Montero further cautioned that taking the pills can have adverse health effects. He said state authorities would let resi-dents know, in the event of an emergency, if the pills were
warranted.The state Department of
Health and Human Services issued a press release stat-ing that radioactivity from the Fukushima Daiichi reactors, crippled by the earthquake and tsunami earlier this month, is “not expected to reach New Hampshire in any quantity suf-fi cient to produce health con-cerns.”
Montero explained that equip-ment on the roof of his agency in Concord regularly monitors radiation levels. “We have a really good radiation monitor-ing system. We get reports every hour,” he said. “Radiation is everywhere. It’s part of our envi-ronment. We keep that baseline in mind, and if the system gets
elevate levels, we’ll be able to see that.”
Still, Montero said, the nuclear crisis in Japan is prompting state authorities to review their protocols, and it will be consid-ered when they conduct a sched-uled emergency drill in May.
“We have been discussing the ‘what-ifs,’...” Montero said. “All plans have to be tested and checked against reality when reality hits, and based on what happened in Japan, we’re likely to make some changes to that plan.”
There are three nuclear power plants in the region: Seabrook Station, the only one in New Hampshire; Vermont Yankee; and Pilgrim Station in Plym-outh, Mass.
No fallout in N.H. from Japan’s reactorsBY TED SIEFER
