Wednesday, december 28, 2011 VOL. 12 nO. 148 LacOnIa, n.H. 527-9299 Free wednesday Unspeakable tragedy Indiana girl dismembered in decrepit trailer park teeming with sex offenders — P. 2 FREE Laconia 524-1421 Fuel Oil 10 day cash price* subject to change 3 . 4 9 9 * 3 . 4 9 9 * 3.49 9 * OIL & PROPANE CO., INC. Drew Swedburg of Moultonborough Academy goes airborne on his way to the hoop during opening day action against Prospect Mountain (Alton) at the 38th Annual Lakes Region Holiday Basketball Tournament at Gilford High School. The Timberwolves won the game, 48-39. Eight local schools are sending both boys’ and girls’ teams to the event. Eight games were played on Tuesday and eight more are scheduled for today, from 9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. The finals will be played on Thursday night. See story on page 11. (Karen Bobotas/for the Laconia Daily Sun) 38th Annual Holiday Tournament now playing in Gilford LACONIA — The fallout over the Ponzi scheme perpe- trated by two local men continued last week when Federal Bankruptcy Trustee Steven Notinger filed suit against nearly 50 people and busi- nesses that allegedly received money from the defunct Financial Resources Mortgage, Inc. of Meredith. One of the latest tar- gets of the bankruptcy trustee is the Laco- nia Christian School — an alma mater of both FRM owner Scott Farah and both of his sons. Notinger, who is the court appointed trustee for the disso- lution of FRM and its servicing arm CL& M have claimed that from November of 2005 through October of 2009 — one month before the two compa- nies collapsed — FRM, either through its New Hampshire office or its office in Tulsa, Oklahoma, unlawfully transferred $58,406 to Bankruptcy trustee sues to get $58k in FRM money back from Laconia Christian School BY GAIL OBER THE LACONIA DAILY SUN see FRM page 6 LACONIA — College student Brie Dassatti, who decided she would coach girls basketball while still in eighth grade, became the 24th Brie Dassatti is 24th recipient of Bieniarz Award recipient of the Debra Bieniarz Award, given annually to honor an individual’s contribution to enlivening and enriching the lives of the city’s youth. In presenting the award last night, Mayor Mike Seymour said that Dassatti began coaching in middle school and continued through high school. In addition, she formed and coached the Laconia Pride, which competed in an AAU league, as well as teams associated with Project Extra. Dassatti also established, raised funds for and managed a summer girls basketball league for middle see dassaTTI page 6 LACONIA — Many of the mis- givings voiced by city councilors when changes in the regulation of vendors during Motorcycle Week were first presented earlier this month were allayed by city officials who appeared before the council last night. However, the council remained cool to a pro- posal to reassign to public safety the prime space on Lakeside Avenue leased during the last two rallies to Progressive Insur- ance, a major corporate sponsor of the annual rally. A public hearing on the changes proposed will be held at the next regularly scheduled meeting of the City Council on January 9. Initially Councilor Bob Hamel (Ward 5 ) charged that tighter regulations on food vendors to reduce the risk of fire were intended to shut them down. However, Deputy Fire Chief Charles Roffo explained last night that regulations requir- ing fire suppression systems and spacing between assembly tents, were imposed by the New Hamp- shire State Fire Marshall. In the past local fire departments could waive rules or make exceptions, he said, but no longer. “What can be excluded?” asked Hamel. “Not much. Most of this stuff is pre-existing law,” Roffo replied. Councilor Henry Lipman (Ward 5) said that “there is a balance to achieved by not causing chaos and undermining the vendors.” Reminding the councilors that he was a veteran of nine rallies, Roffo said “there are challenges every year, but we mitigate the issues. We don’t shut people down. I haven’t done it yet. We’re going to work with them.” Police Captain Steve Clarke City Council warms to wisdom of most proposed Bike Week rule changes BY MICHAEL KITCH THE LACONIA DAILY SUN see BIKe weeK page 11
Drew Swedburg of Moultonborough Academy goes airborne on his way to the hoop during opening day action against Prospect Mountain (Alton) at the 38th Annual Lakes Region Holiday Basketball Tournament at Gilford High School. The Timberwolves won the game, 48-39. Eight local schools are sending both boys’ and girls’ teams to the event. Eight games were played on Tuesday and eight more are scheduled for today, from 9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. The finals will be played on Thursday night. See story on page 11. (Karen Bobotas/for the Laconia Daily Sun)
38th Annual Holiday Tournament now playing in Gilford
LACONIA — The fallout over the Ponzi scheme perpe-trated by two local men continued last week when Federal Bankruptcy Trustee Steven Notinger filed suit against nearly 50 people and busi-nesses that allegedly received money from the defunct Financial Resources Mortgage, Inc. of Meredith.
One of the latest tar-gets of the bankruptcy trustee is the Laco-nia Christian School — an alma mater of both FRM owner Scott Farah and both of his sons.
Notinger, who is the court appointed trustee for the disso-lution of FRM and its servicing arm CL& M have claimed that from November of 2005 through October of 2009 — one month before the two compa-nies collapsed — FRM, either through its New Hampshire office or its office in Tulsa, Oklahoma, unlawfully transferred $58,406 to
Bankruptcy trustee sues to get $58k in FRM money back from Laconia Christian School
By Gail OBerTHE LACONIA DAILY SUN
see FRM page 6
LACONIA — College student Brie Dassatti, who decided she would coach girls basketball while still in eighth grade, became the 24th
Brie Dassatti is 24th recipient of Bieniarz Award
recipient of the Debra Bieniarz Award, given annually to honor an individual’s contribution to enlivening and enriching the lives of the city’s youth.
In presenting the award
last night, Mayor Mike Seymour said that Dassatti began coaching in middle school and continued through high school. In addition, she formed and coached the Laconia Pride, which competed in an AAU league, as well as teams associated with Project Extra. Dassatti also established, raised funds for and managed a summer girls basketball league for middle
see dassaTTI page 6
LACONIA — Many of the mis-givings voiced by city councilors when changes in the regulation of vendors during Motorcycle Week were first presented earlier this month were allayed by city officials who appeared before the council last night. However, the council remained cool to a pro-posal to reassign to public safety the prime space on Lakeside Avenue leased during the last two rallies to Progressive Insur-ance, a major corporate sponsor of the annual rally.
A public hearing on the changes proposed will be held at the next regularly scheduled meeting of the City Council on January 9.
Initially Councilor Bob Hamel (Ward 5 ) charged that tighter regulations on food vendors to reduce the risk of fire were intended to shut them down. However, Deputy Fire Chief Charles Roffo explained last night that regulations requir-ing fire suppression systems and spacing between assembly tents, were imposed by the New Hamp-shire State Fire Marshall. In the past local fire departments could waive rules or make exceptions, he said, but no longer.
“What can be excluded?” asked Hamel. “Not much. Most of this stuff is pre-existing law,” Roffo replied.
Councilor Henry Lipman (Ward 5) said that “there is a balance to achieved by not causing chaos and undermining the vendors.”
Reminding the councilors that he was a veteran of nine rallies, Roffo said “there are challenges every year, but we mitigate the issues. We don’t shut people down. I haven’t done it yet. We’re going to work with them.”
Police Captain Steve Clarke
City Council warms to wisdom of most proposed Bike Week rule changes
By Michael KitchTHE LACONIA DAILY SUN
see BIKe weeK page 11
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Democrats on Tuesday lamented Sen. Ben Nelson’s decision to retire rather than seek a third term in Nebraska, fearing the move could give Repub-licans a crucial victory in their effort to reclaim control of the chamber next year.
Nelson, the lone Dem-ocrat in Nebraska’s fi ve-member congres-sional delegation, faced a tough re-election cam-paign against Republi-cans who believed his support for President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul and fed-eral stimulus legisla-tion would spell his downfall in the increas-ingly conservative state — and help the GOP gain one of the four seats they must net to take back the Senate.
After months of specu-lation, the 70-year-old conservative Democrat told supporters he felt it was time that he “step away from elective offi ce, spend more time with my family, and look for new ways to serve our state and nation.”
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — To assist her dying father, Tarah Souders made a choice: She moved her three young girls to a run-down trailer park in rural Indiana to help take care of him as his lungs rotted from emphysema.
She knew it could be dangerous. The park of about two dozen homes was teem-ing with convicted sex offenders, with one living at nearly every address. She worried about neighbors with sex offense records
NEW YORK (AP) — After a disastrous holiday shopping season, the parent com-pany of Sears and Kmart will close at least 100 stores to raise cash — a move that sparked speculation about whether the 125-year-old retailer can avoid a death spiral fed by declining sales and deterio-rating stores.
Sears Holdings Corp., a pillar of Ameri-can retailing that famously began with a mail-order catalog in the 1880s, declared
BEIRUT (AP) — Tens of thousands of defi ant Syrian protesters thronged the streets of Homs Tuesday, calling for the execution of President Bashar Assad shortly after his army pulled its tanks back and allowed Arab League monitors in for the fi rst time to the city at the heart of
Indiana mom brought 3 young girls to live in trailer park teeming with sex offenders, including their grandfather; 9-year-old beaten to death
who had been helping her father get by, according to trailer park residents. And before she arrived, she even asked her father if her children could be at risk for abuse from two specifi c men — including a suspect now accused in her daughter’s death.
“He said, ‘No. They will not touch your children. They’re doing everything they’re supposed to do,’” said Greg Shumaker, one of 15 convicted sex offenders who live at
the park and the other man that Souders had inquired about.
Weeks later, police say, a horrifi c tragedy unfolded. Her 9-year-old daughter, Aliahna Lemmon, was brutally killed. Police say 39-year-old Michael Plumadore told inves-tigators that he bludgeoned her to death with a brick, then dismembered her and hid her head, hands and feet at her grand-father’s trailer before dumping the other
see INDIANA page 10
Retailing giant to close at least 100 Sears & Kmart storesTuesday that it would no longer prop up “marginally performing” locations. The company pledged to refocus its efforts on stores that make money.
The closings are the latest and most vis-ible move by Eddie Lampert, the hands-on chairman who has struggled to reverse the company’s fortunes.
As rivals Wal-Mart and Target Corp.
spruced up stores in recent years, Sears Holdings struggled with falling sales and perceptions of dowdy merchandise.
Some analysts wondered if it was already too late, questioning whether the retailer can afford to upgrade stores as it burns through its cash reserves.
The sales weakness “begins and some would argue ends with Sears’ reluctance to invest in stores and service,” Credit Suisse analyst Gary
see SEARS page 6
Democrats scrambling as Nebraska senator decides not to run again
see NELSON page 6
Mass protests against Assad erupt in Syrian city as Arab League monitors arrivethe anti-government uprising.
The pullback was the fi rst sign the regime was complying with the League’s plan to end the 9-month-old crackdown on mostly unarmed and peaceful protesters.
Yet amateur video released by activists showed forces fi ring on protesters even while
the monitors were inside the city. One of the observers walked with an elderly man who pointed with his cane to a fresh pool of blood on the street that he said had been shed by his son, killed a day earlier.
The man, wearing a red-and-white check-see next page
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BEIT SHEMESH, Israel (AP) — A shy 8-year-old schoolgirl has unwit-tingly found herself on the front line of Israel’s latest religious war.
Naama Margolese is a ponytailed, bespectacled second-grader who is afraid of walking to her religious Jewish girls school for fear of ultra-Orthodox extremists who have spat on her and called her a whore for dressing “immodestly.”
Her plight has drawn new attention to the simmering issue of religious coercion in Israel, and the increasing brazenness of extremists in the insu-lar ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.
“When I walk to school in the morn-ing I used to get a tummy ache because I was so scared ... that they were going to stand and start yelling and spitting,” the pale, blue-eyed girl said softly in an interview with The Associated Press Monday. “They were scary. They don’t want us to go to the school.”
The girls school that Naama attends
CONCORD (AP) — A New Hamp-shire fugitive has been shot and killed during an arrest in Florida.
The U.S. Marshals Service says 22-year-old Joseph Cleary of Roches-ter, N.H., was shot Tuesday after he pointed a fi rearm at a law enforce-ment offi cer.
U.S marshals in Florida were asked to fi nd and arrest Cleary, who was considered armed and dangerous.
DOVER, N.H. (AP) — A Dover, N.H., woman accused of killing her boyfriend on Christmas morning says she accidentally shot him in the head after an argument.
Twenty-four-year-old Jessica Rivera Padilla is charged with manslaughter in the death of 25-year-old Shaheen Michaels, who was found dead Sunday in their Dover apartment.
FRANKLIN (AP) — A New Hamp-shire developer is hoping to convert two blighted, barely-occupied brick buildings in Franklin into safe, afford-able housing.
The New Hampton-based company New England Family Housing is plan-ning to buy the buildings at 188-198 South Main St. for $615,000 on Jan. 3.
Company owner Kevin Lacasse is applying for a $500,000 federal Com-munity Development Block Grant to renovate the buildings, which were
NE Family Housing eyes 2 Franklin buildings for purchase & renovation
constructed in the late 1970s, but have not had any capital improvements in decades.
Lacasse tells the Concord Monitor the building is full of avocado green countertops and blue shag rugs.
Only eight of the 30 units in the two buildings are currently occupied.
Franklin police Chief David Gold-stein says his offi cers frequently respond to complaints at the building and the renovations would improve that.
Dover woman arraigned for Christmas morning shooting death of boyfriend
Foster’s Daily Democrat reports that Padilla admits shooting Michaels but says she was trying to scare him by holding the gun to his head as he was on the ground. Padilla cried hys-terically during her video arraign-ment Tuesday morning.
A probable cause hearing is set for Jan. 6 in Dover District court.
N.H. fugitive shot & killed during Florida arrest attemptOffi cials say that when they found
him in Cape Coral and tried to arrest him, he pointed a fi rearm at an offi -cer and was shot by a sheriff in an exchange of gunfi re. No law enforce-ment offi cers were injured.
The Marshals Service said Cleary was wanted in Strafford County in New Hampshire for bail and proba-tion violations, stemming from a 2008 assault with a knife in Barrington.
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ered headdress, then called for the moni-tor to walk ahead to “see the blood of my second son” also killed in the onslaught.
“Where is justice? Where are the Arabs?” the old man shouted in pain.
Syrian tanks had been heavily shell-ing Homs for days, residents and activ-ists said, killing dozens even after Assad signed on early last week to the Arab League plan, which demands the gov-ernment remove its security forces and heavy weapons from city streets, start talks with opposition leaders and allow human rights workers and journalists into the country.
But a few hours before the arrival of the monitors, who began work Tuesday to ensure Syria complies with the League’s plan, the army stopped the bombard-ment and pulled some of its tanks back.
The British-based activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confi rmed that government forces fi red
on protesters while the monitors were inside Homs and said at two people were killed from the fi re.
About 60 monitors arrived in Syria Monday night — the fi rst foreign observers Syria has allowed in since March, when the uprising against Assad’s authoritarian rule began. The League said a team of 12 visited Homs.
After agreeing to the League’s pullback plan on Dec. 19, the regime intensifi ed its crackdown on dissent; government troops killed hundreds in the past week.
from preceding page
Degradation of Israeli girl highlights confl ict with ultra-Orthodox extremists
in the city of Beit Shemesh, to the west of Jerusalem, is on the border between an ultra-Orthodox neigh-borhood and a community of modern Orthodox Jewish residents, many of them American immigrants.
The ultra-Orthodox consider the school, which moved to its present site at the beginning of the school year, an encroachment on their terri-tory. Dozens of black-hatted men jeer and physically accost the girls almost daily, claiming their very presence is a provocation.
Beit Shemesh has long experienced friction between the ultra-Orthodox, who make up about half the city’s population, and other residents. And residents say the attacks at the girls’ school, attended by about 400 stu-dents, have been going on for months. Last week, after a local TV channel reported about the school and inter-viewed Naama’s family, a national
see ISRAEL page 9
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LETTERSThank you Republicans for all the wonderful gifts under my tree
Pat Buchanan
Make Congress vote it they want war with Iran
Returning from Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta dropped some jolting news. Asked by CBS’s Scott Pelley if Iran could have a nuclear weapon in 2012, Panetta replied: “It would probably be about a year before they could do it. Perhaps a little less. But one proviso, Scott, is that if they have a hidden facility somewhere in Iran that may be enriching fuel.”
Panetta was saying the mullahs are a year or less away from an atom bomb, and if they have a hidden site for enriching uranium to weapons grade, they may be even closer. “That is a red line for us,” Panetta added. “If we get intelligence they are pro-ceeding with developing a nuclear weapon, then we will take whatever steps necessary to deal with it.”
Panetta is raising the specter of pre-emptive war.
When Pelley’s report hit, however, the Pentagon immediately began to walk the cat back. “The secretary was clear that we have no indication that the Iranians have made a deci-sion to develop a nuclear weapon,” said Pentagon press secretary George Little. “He (Panetta) didn’t say that Iran would, in fact, have a nuclear weapon in 2012.”
Little added that U.N. inspectors remain in Iran and have access to its uranium stockpile, and should Iran attempt a “breakout” by divert-ing low-enriched uranium to a hidden facility to convert it to weap-ons grade, U.N. inspectors would instantly detect the diversion. “We would retain sufficient time under any such scenario to take appropri-ate action,” said Little.
In short, the Pentagon does not believe Iran has made a deci-sion to build atomic weapons, and the department is confident that, should it do so, the United States would have ample warning.
Little’s definitive statement, “We have no indication that the Irani-ans have made a decision to develop a nuclear weapon,” coincides with the consensus of all 16 U.S. intel-ligence agencies, including the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency, in December 2007. In that report, the entire U.S. intelligence commu-nity stated unanimously, with “high confidence,” that Iran had given up its drive for an atom bomb back in 2003.
Yet the Pentagon’s categori-cal statement this week, and the 2007 declaration by the entire U.S. intelligence community that Iran abandoned its bomb program in 2003, raises a question. How could the International Atomic Energy Agency conclude, as it did last month, that Iran “has carried out activities relevant to the develop-ment of a nuclear device”? Did the IAEA discover clandestine bomb-building that our own intelligence community failed to detect?
If Iran is doing experiments con-sistent with building an atomic bomb, as the IAEA reports, why does the U.S. intelligence community not revise and update its 2007 report? Why are CIA and DIA silent? This is no minor matter. For not only have Panetta and Barack Obama talked about “all options on the table” regarding Iran — i.e., we do not rule out military strikes — so, too, have the GOP presidential candidates, save Rep. Ron Paul.
Sen. Rick Santorum says we are already at war: “Iran is a country that has been at war with us since 1979. ... The Iranians are the exis-tential threat to Israel.”
In fierce rebuttal to Paul’s sugges-tion that the real threat to America is being stampeded into a new war, Rep. Michele Bachmann retorted: “We know beyond the shadow of a doubt that Iran will take a nuclear weapon, they will use it to wipe our ally Israel off the face of the map. ... The Iran Constitution ... states unequivocally that their mission is to extend jihad across the world and eventually to set up a worldwide caliphate.”
But is all this consistent or cred-ible?
If Iran is an “existential threat” to Israel and intends to use a bomb it is now building on Israel, why have the Israelis, with 200 to 300 nuclear weapons, who have bombed both Iraqi and Syrian nuclear sites, not removed that “existential threat” themselves?
Second, assume the Bachmann horror scenario that we know “beyond the shadow of a doubt” that Iran, as soon as it gets the bomb it is building, will use it on Israel. If that is so, who does Bachmann think will then be establishing that caliphate in an Iran that an Israeli retaliatory strike will have reduced to atomic ash?
Lest we forget, the Israelis are a “Never Again!” nation.
And there is another serious matter here. While Obamaites, neo-cons and Republicans are talking about “all options on the table,” the war option, if we still have a Con-stitution, cannot be used against a nation that has not attacked us, unless Congress, which alone has the power to declare war, has autho-rized military action. When did Con-gress tell Obama or any president he can bomb Iran as soon as he concludes Iran is building a nuclear weapon? If, after leaving Iraq, we are going into yet another war of choice, let the Congress debate and vote on this new war with Iran.
(Syndicated columnist Pat Buchanan has been a senior advisor to three presidents, twice a candidate for the Republican presidential nom-ination and the presidential nomi-nee of the Reform Party in 2000. He won the New Hampshire Republican Primary in 1996.)
To the editor,On Christmas Eve I decided Santa
might need some bribing so my wife and I baked some fabulous fresh cook-ies to leave out. I wasn’t sure if Santa considered me a good boy in 2011 so we even left chocolate milk for him! Whether the bribe worked (it works in Congress!) or I was actually a good boy in 2011 I will never know but when I awoke Christmas morning I was amazed at what lay under the tree! The mountain of presents was matched only by my childhood Christ-mas mornings. Honestly, I couldn’t decide on which gift to open.
Well, why not open the biggest one first? It was what I always wanted! The Tea Party GOP brought the approval of Congress to a new low of 11-percent as the president’s approval was rising. The fringe of the GOP was helping re-elect the president! Spend-ing a year fighting a tax hike for every dollar over a million made, the now moldy tea party insisted a tax cut for working families and the extension of unemployment benefits would not help the economy! That is Crazy Talk! Watching the GOP cave in only made the gift more to be treasured. They had aided and abetted the Occupy movement; the 99-percent!
The next gift I opened was something I had been hoping for recently. Called the “Kiss Heard Around the World”, the U.S. Navy poked right wingers and the GOP field in the eyes! The first-kiss is a Naval tradition for ships returning to port and this year a lesbian couple was chosen. While most of the GOP field gives in to the radical religious funda-
mentalists, the United States Navy moved easily into the future as other navies have. Bravo! Our social conser-vatives are like the autocrats and reli-gious fundamentalists who fight the changes demanded by the Internet savy students and middle classes of the Arab and Iranian world.
The next gift I opened was splen-did. Goodies! Being his turn, Newt Gingrich had floated to the top only to sink under his own weight. Sane Republicans were seeing that the Newt Gingrich of today was the same pugnacious pseudo-intellectual adul-terer-in-chief of the past. And like so many on the right, he demonstrated his total lack of constitutional knowl-edge by suggesting we drag judges before the Congress or just ignore the decision if they didn’t like the ruling. Heck, let’s just get rid of Article III, Newt. It was 1990s Newt that cured me of ever considering voting Repub-lican again. Newt and Rick Perry also failed to get on the Virginia Primary ballot which just reaffirmed my feel-ing that this year has been Amateur Hour in America.
After opening many more gifts, I finally made it to the last little box. Never judge a gift by its size! The federal court of the 9th district joined other courts in making the birthers look irrelevant again by denying them any credence. The court would not waste its time with hearing frivolous birther nonsense.
Happy New Year and heartfelt thanks again to Eric Cantor!
James VeverkaTilton
Mitt Romney will crack down on China’s currently manipulationTo the editor,
The New Hampshire Primary is fast-approaching, and Granite State Repub-licans and independents are faced with an important decision. I recommend that they choose Mitt Romney.
Romney has the broadest combi-nation of business and government experience. He was a successful, con-servative businessman who turned around struggling companies as well as the Olympics. While governor of Massachusetts, he turned a three bil-lion dollar deficit into a two billion dollar rainy day fund. He has the
most comprehensive plan to fix the economy of any candidate running.
One thing that especially drew me to him were his plans to crackdown on China’s currency manipulation. That’s something you haven’t heard many other candidates talk about. He also believes in peace through mili-tary strength. Don’t vote for the flash in the pan or the person with the most fiery rhetoric — vote for the most com-petent conservative Republican. That candidate is Mitt Romney.
Rep. Dennis ReedFranklin
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LETTERSPlease stop the closed door meetings and back room tactics To the editor,
Deja vu all over again. . . but please keep an open mind.
It was just two months ago that the Moultonboro Board of Selectmen, led by Betsey Patten, did a major flip flop, seemingly out of nowhere, to bring the question of the long contentious Lions Club/Playground Drive “debacle” back once again to the voters at Town Meet-ing. This occurred as a non-agenda item and was made to appear as a sudden revelation based upon a docu-ment the public has still yet to see.
Now two months later, also seem-ingly out of nowhere, the Moulton-boro Board of Selectmen. again led by Betsey Patten, again in a non agenda item, decided to place a question on the 2012 Town Warrant to form a Charter Commission which could potentially do away with Town Meet-ing. With little discussion and no dis-sent from any selectmen, the motion passed unanimously. How do these things happen?
Considering the potential drastic change in town government that a Charter Commission portends, one would expect that at the very least some of the board members would have been taken aback at this pro-posal. Surprisingly, not one “whoa Betsey”. Does anyone really believe that the Board of Selectmen never discussed this before?
To the Moultonboro Board of Select-men: please stop the closed door meet-ings and back door tactics like phone calls or e-mails and such to avoid the spirit and intent of the open meeting
law. Most importantly, please stop the “meeting before the meeting” that occurs literally in the back room before each selectmen meeting. At the very least, when announcements like this are made can some of you act surprised? To then tell the public that you want to conduct this process over the next year in an “open discus-sion” and expect to be believed is well, unbelievable.
I attended this particular selectmen meeting on Decemeber 15, and due to work committments and the fact that agenda items were complete, I left. I had no idea that this would even be discussed. How about giving us tax-payers and citizens a heads up before bringing up these major issues so that we can have an open discussion? To many of us not on the inside in town, it seems like the fix is in. An end game is already in mind.
I did a little research on Charter Commissions and will continue to do so and talk with other towns and inform the public on my blog, Moult-onboroSpeaks.blogspot.com.
I urge fellow citizens to keep an open mind on a Charter Commission as there are some possibilities with a new form of government to improve voter participation and make the deci-sion making process more inclusive. To do so, we need a blend of citizens, not just the core insiders. If we do this, let’s do it right. If the Town does decide to elect a Charter Commission, I intend to put my name on the ballot.
Paut T. PunturieriMoultonboro
To the editor,2012 will be a year when markets go
a roller-coaster ride that will see many asset classes crater only to be followed by some of the most powerful rallies ever seen. We are likely to see a panic cycle, a type of market volatility that comes along about every 12 years.
The last panic cycle was in 2000, which saw peaks in the DJIA and the NASDAQ and the end of the “peace dividend.” It was also the period that included the World Trade Center attacks. Prior panic cycles, bullish and bearish, were almost as dramatic. This time, the panic cycle of 2012 promises to be magnitudes greater than previ-ous cycles.
The Western world is drowning in debt. The levels are an estimated 25 times worse than anything seen prior cycles. Europe’s experiment with a single currency is failing. There has
Expect a stock market ‘panic cycle’ roller-coaster ride in 2012not been any recent time in history when so many important cycles have converged at the same time includ-ing the 54-year Kondratieff cycle, suggesting chaos in political systems and strong winds of deflation. The Kitchens business inventory cycle, the Juglar fixed investment cycle and more.
The U.S. dollar may open the year with a great rally, then a collapse. Gold should work just the other way around; first a major correction and then a huge rally. The euro is likely to become a train wreck. Seventeen nations with different cultures, dif-ferent languages, and different labor laws all barred from inflating their currency to ameliorate their debt. Not a recipe for agreement and problem resolution.
Happy New Year.Marc Abear
To the editor,The year is ending on a very positive
note for the Minot-Sleeper Library. We would like to thank all who have donated time to the library events and the many generous patrons who have contributed to the library building fund by buying bricks and by simple donation. The Minot-Sleeper Library would also like to thank the gener-ous and anonymous donor of $25,000 to the building fund. These donations are wonderful for the Minot Sleeper Building Fund and will help to ensure
Charette on new Minot-Sleeper Library building will be Jan. 7that the library is able to continue as a valuable asset to the town of Bristol, and all the Newfound area.
The plans for the proposed new building will be on display at the charrette held at the Tapply Thomp-son Community Center at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 7. Brackley Shaw, the architect, will be present to answer questions.
Please make time to come and see the proposed building. We think you will agree that this is a building that
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LETTERSElection of 2012 critical to future of our 2nd Amendment rights
is attractive, meets the requirements of it purpose, is sensible of the needs of the community, and appropriate to its location. That’s a lot to ask of a build-ing, but as you will see, this build-ing meets those expectations. Please
To the editor,This may be considered, by some,
as a recruitment ad for the National Rifle Association and in a way it is. As a longstanding member, I believe the NRA is our best protection against the ever present attempts at removing our Second Amendment rights to pri-vate gun ownership and use for any legal endeavor.
I believe that Obama, Clinton and Eric Holder, just to mention the top players, are just marking time, until after the next election, to launch a full scale attack on those rights and, indeed, the Second Amendment itself. You don’t have to look any further than Obama’s two appointments to the Supreme Court for damn-ing evidence of this fact, not my just opinion. These are two of the most anti-gun justices in American history. In order to gain Senate confirmation, Sotomayer actually lied, under oath, when questioned about the Court’s 2008 ruling in D.C. vs Heller. This ruling said that the Second Amend-ment protects an individual right of all law-abiding Americans. Sotomayer dodged the question by saying that she considered the Heller case to be “settled law”, and no attempt to get her to clarify this was successful. Now witness her complete reversal by join-ing in the dissent of the similar case of Chicago vs. McDonald less than a year later. She joined Justices Beyer and Ginsburg in their written dissent which actually urged the overturning of Heller and stated in part “in sum, the Framers did not write the Second Amendment to protect a private right to armed self defense.”
Justice Kagan used the exact same code words of “settled law” on this
question during her hearing.In this regard, here are some chill-
ing excerpts from a speech given by Michelle Obama on September 30, 2011 to a small affluent crowd of admirers in Providence RI. In part, she said that “in just 13 months, we’re going to make a choice that will impact our lives for decades to come”.
I could not agree with her more, espe-cially when she went on to say, “Let’s not forget what it meant when my husband appointed those two brilliant Supreme Court justices... let’s not forget the impact that their decisions will have on our lives for decades to come.” (Not my words, Google them up.)
Now consider the advancing age of several of the current justices. The next president will probably have the opportunity of appointing one or more new justices and the current margin of these Second Amendment votes has been just been one vote, 5-4.
There are many more indications that Obama is operating “under the radar” while setting the stage for an all out assault on our gun rights if he is re-elected. “Under the radar” are actually Sarah Brady’s own words as reported in a Washington Post inter-view on April 20, 2011 (look it up).
The Second Amendment is actually the one that supports the rest of the Bill of Rights. I sincerely hope that every-one that believes in these rights will not permit this man to win this election and continue to send this great country down his visionary road to nowhere. Your membership and support of the NRA will greatly assist them in fight-ing the battle to prevent this.
Donald LockwoodLaconia
If brains were dynamite these Obama critics couldn’t . . . To the editor,
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school-age students during each of the past two summers.
“She did it on her own,” Seymour said, “because it was something she wanted to do.”
“I didn’t do it on my own,” Dassatti politiely countered in accepting the award. She thanked her parents — Bob and Tracy Dassatti – for their help and encouragement along with the sponsors who have supported her efforts.
Keen State College senior Brie Dassatti accepts the city’s 2011 Debtra Bieniarz Award from Mayor Mike Seymour at City Hall on Tuesday night. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Michael Kitch)
A graduate of Laconia High School, Dassatti is a senior at Keene State College, majoring in education and intending to pursue a master’s degree in special education after graduation.
The Bieniarz Award honors the legacy of the late Police Officer Debra Bieniarz, who served the city and its youth with uncommon devotion, dedi-cation and distinction during her nine years with the Police Department before her premature death.
DASSATTI from page one
the local school.Check register memos provided as
evidence in the adversarial suit filed by Notinger said the transfers were primar-ily for advertising and contributions.
Trustees claim the transfers to Laco-nia Christian School “only benefited the (school)” because the money was co-
mingled funds held by FRM and CL&M that was supposed to be funding “hard money loans” brokered through the two agencies between private lenders, bor-rowers, and developers.
The suit also states that the two people who were involved with Finan-cial Resources Tulsa and Capital Funding were friends of Scott Farah.
FRM from page one
announcing today that I will not seek re-election,” he said in a statement. “Simply put: It is time to move on.”
Democrats banking on Nelson’s abil-ity to leverage his centrist stances and capture statewide races were left scrambling; many state activists acknowledged being taken by surprise.
While some floated the names of state Sen. Steve Lathrop of Omaha and Nelson’s former lieutenant gov-ernor, Kim Robak, as possible con-tenders, many said it was too early to know who might run.
“This virtually guarantees a Repub-lican victory in 2012,” said University of Nebraska Lincoln political scientist Mike Wagner. Democrats acknowl-edged the party will face a steep
uphill battle to hold on to Nelson’s seat, but pointed to a crowded GOP primary field with no obvious front-runner. The ticket includes Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning, state Treasurer Don Stenberg, state Sen. Deb Fischer, and investment adviser Pat Flynn.
National Republican party leaders recently encouraged Gov. Dave Heine-man to join the race, but Heineman has said it would take a lot to per-suade him to run.
The Senate’s Democratic campaign chairman, Sen. Patty Murray of Wash-ington, said she expected that Republi-cans would “have their hands full with a very divisive primary in the state, which will provide an opportunity for Democrats to remain competitive.”
Balter wrote in a note to clients.“There’s no reason to go to Sears,”
added New York-based independent retail analyst Brian Sozzi. “It offers a depressing shopping experience and uncompetitive prices.”
Sears and Kmart were both retail pioneers. Sears’ catalog and depart-ment stores were fixtures of American life stretching back to the 19th century before being hurt in recent years by competition from steep discounters and by missteps that included forays into financial services and the decision to sell off a lucrative credit card business.
Kmart helped create the discount-store format that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. came to dominate.
Some customers complained that they have a hard time connecting with the Kmart and Sears of today.
Preschool teacher Sara Kriz, pick-ing up hair conditioner at a Kmart on Tuesday in Manhattan, said she used to shop at Kmart often but now goes there only once every few months: “Only when I have to,” she said.
“It seems easier to go to Target and
Wal-Mart to get the same thing at the same price,” Kriz added. “The stores are cleaner and they’re better stocked.”
Sears Holdings has watched its cash and short-term investments plummet by nearly half since Jan. 31, from about $1.3 billion to about $700 million.
The projected closings represent only about 3 percent of Sears Hold-ings’ U.S. stores. And the company has actually added stores since the Sears-Kmart merger in 2005. It has about 3,560 stores in the U.S., up from 3,500 right after the merger, thanks to the addition of more small stores.
But the company hinted that more closings could be on the horizon as it focuses on honing the better-perform-ing stores.
The store closings were expected to generate $140 million to $170 million in cash as the company sells down their inventory. Selling or subleasing the properties could generate more money.
Spokesman Chris Brathwaite said the company had not determined which stores would close or how many jobs might be cut. He disputed speculation
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LACONIA — The lawyer for the owner of the charred remains of an historic Weirs hotel and restaurant said the city is trying to raise issues on its appeal that were never intro-duced at the original trial in Laconia District Court.
Friedrich Moeckel said the city is “pretending we never objected to any of (the city’s) reasons” for demanding the Wide Open Saloon be razed.
“In this case, the city’s purported RSA 155-B:2 order shall state, in writ-ing, the grounds therefor, specifying the necessary repairs, if any, a provid-ing a reasonable time for compliance,’” wrote Moeckel in his Dec. 5 response to the pleadings and oral arguments presented for the appeal before Judge James O’Neill on Dec. 2.
Moeckel said the city’s trial memo-randum unequivocally claims that Baldi did not preserve “any issues it now seeks to raise.”
Moeckel explained that an appeal is a second judge of a higher court reex-amining the ruling of a lower court’s judge — in this case 4th Circuit Court, Laconia Division Judge James Carroll, who ruled, after a trail held on May 26 the city had met it burden under RSA 155 and that the remains of the building on Rte. 3 North, at the foot of Lakeside Ave., should be removed before a date certain in mid June.
He said an appeal is not place for new evidence or to assert that his client didn’t dispute the allegations made by the city in a series of let-ters that were sent to Baldi by three different city officials, each claiming a different reason why the building should, come down.
“The city is wrong,” wrote Moeckel. “Not surprisingly, the city does not — and cannot — offer a shred of proof to back up its assertions. 38 Endicott (the legal name for the property’s owner, Brandi Baldi) properly preserved all of its issues on appeal.
Moeckel included attachments of each and every response Baldi or he made to the city officials who con-tacted them, first in January about a 2006 International Code Violation and then in March regarding the RSA 155 B claim made by a newly hired code enforcement officer.
Wide Open Saloon attorney claims city raising new & inappropriate issues during appeal of court tear-down order
Moekel’s attachments show his response to both the International Code Violations allegedly in a letter written by the city on Jan. 20 but never deliv-ered to his client until March 4.
Baldi responded on March 25 but the newly hired code enforcement offi-cer denied her appeal of the earlier order as “untimely.”
When Moeckel successfully argued the January order to demolish the building under the International Property code citing was void because certain provisions of that code were not followed, the city changed tack and issued a second order to demolish the building on April 6 — this time citing the N.H. RSA 155 B provisions.
In so doing, he went on to say that the city itself “recognized that the International Property Code of 2006 is not a valid component of this case.”
“What is a component of this case is the city’s pattern of attempting to enforce rules and laws, not doing so correctly, and them attempting to blame (the Wide Open Saloon) for its own failures,” he continued saying the burden of proof is on the city, that it must prove its case beyond a reason-able doubt and has not done so.
He said when the city’s only witness at trial said the real impetus behind get-ting the remains removed was upcom-ing Motorcycle Week and it’s response was to blame Baldi for not allowing the city officials access to the inside of the building for examination although the city actually ordered her to tear it down four months before it even asked for permission to inspect it.
At that point, Moeckel said the city only gave Baldi 48 hours to complete the demolition and removal of the debris and this is not consistent with RSA 155.
Attorney Walter Mitchell represents the city and was unavailable for com-ment yesterday. One of his associates said she didn’t think his office would respond to Moeckel’s Dec. 5 letter to the court but would trust O’Neill to decide on the merits of their memo-randums and arguments at trial with-out further communication.
O’Neill has yet to rule on the appeal. A ruling can typically take as many as 60 days.
The fire at the Wide Open Saloon was in September 2010.
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that the company will have problems surviving, noting it still has $2.9 billion available under its credit lines.
“While our operating performance has not met our expectations, we have significant assets,” including inventory, real estate and proprietary brands like Kenmore and Craftsman, Brathwaite said.
Still, the company’s announcements were grim. In addition to the closings, it announced that revenue at stores open at least a year fell 5.2 percent for the eight weeks ended Dec. 25, a crucial time because of the holiday shopping season.
Kmart’s layaway program, meant to help cash-strapped customers buy presents by paying for them a little at
a time, faltered as Wal-Mart and Toy R Us introduced or expanded compet-ing programs. Sears stores reported softer sales of home appliances, usu-ally a strength.
The company predicted that fourth-quarter adjusted earnings will be less than half the $933 million reported for the same quarter last year. It also expects a non-cash charge of $1.6 bil-lion to $1.8 billion in the quarter to write off the value of carried-over tax deductions it now doesn’t expect to be profitable enough to use.
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Rachel Kusch, left, owner of the Big Love Mexican Diner, talks with Nancy Beimel, right, of Washington, D.C., as Jillian Anderson, center, gets ready to take an order. (Roger Amsden photo for the Laconia Daily Sun)
SANDWICH — They’ve only been in business since July, but they’ve already served up thousands of their hefty 1.4-pound burritos, been featured on statewide television and developed a loyal local fol-lowing that looks forward to the weekly arrival of the big purple van in their community.
It all started when Dan and Rachel Kusch arrived in Sandwich a few years ago. Dan had landed a job in Wolfeboro, and, while they loved the area, there was something missing for them.
“Dan asked, ‘why can’t we get a burrito around here?’ We both loved Mexican food, Dan from his college days when he spent some time in Mexico, and both of us from when we lived in Boston and ate a lot of burritos and used to go to an amazing Mexican restaurant in Waltham, Mass. I couldn’t find a job here, so we said ‘let’s make our own job’ and that’s how the Big Love Mexican Diner got started.’’ says Rachel.
From the outset the couple were determined to use as many local ingredients as possible and work with local growers of chicken, beef, pork, as well as to grow their own vegetables. Rachel started making burritos in the summer of 2010, selling them at Mocha Rizing in Sandwich while the couple developed their plan to
Sandwich perhaps unlikely home to ‘Big Love’ burritos served from a traveling big purple van
turn a van into a mobile kitchen so that they could sell from different locations around the Lakes Region.
They opened for business right after the fourth of July this year near the Sandwich tennis courts and soon were selling out at that location, as well as the Tamworth Farmer’s Market on Saturday mornings. They also set up in Plymouth, on Green Street, not far from the bridge over the Pemigewasset Thurs-days from 4:30-6:30 p.m and on Fridays from 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the parking lot of The Etcetera Shop on Rte. 25 in Meredith.
The burritos feature generous amounts of brown rice, black beans, local veggies, local cheese (Mexi-can “queso blanco” made custom by the Sandwich Creamery), salsa, sour cream or chipotle-lime mayo as well as the choice of meat and weighed in at 1.4-pounds on the scale of their next-door vendor at the Tamworth Farmers Market last summer.
“We grow our own peppers and tomatillos at the Booty Farm in Sandwich and get the chickens from a local chicken farmer. Our beef is local and we get out pork from a Vermont farmer.’’ says Rachel, who says that cooking Mexican food has become her passion.
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“Who’s afraid of an 8-year-old student?” said Sun-day’s main headline in the leading Yediot Ahronot daily.
Beit Shemesh’s growing ultra-Orthodox popula-tion has erected street signs calling for the separa-tion of sexes on the sidewalks, dispatched “modesty patrols” to enforce a chaste female appearance and hurled stones at offenders and outsiders. Walls of the neighborhood are plastered with signs exhort-ing women to dress modestly in closed-necked, long-sleeved blouses and long skirts.
Naama’s case has been especially shocking because of her young age and because she attends a religious school and dresses with long sleeves and a skirt. Extremists, however, consider even that outfit, standard in mainstream Jewish religious schools, to be immodest.
“This is a phenomenon that contradicts Jewish tradition and the spirit of the Bible,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday evening, “with one of the most central and important among them being: Love your neighbor as yourself,”
Thousands of secular and religious Jews attended Tuesday evening’s demonstration.
Protesters held signs reading, “Free Israel from reli-gious coercion,” and “Stop Israel from becoming Iran.”
The abuse and segregation of women in Israel
in ultra-Orthodox areas is nothing new, and critics accuse the government of turning a blind eye.
The ultra-Orthodox are perennial king-makers in Israeli coalition politics — two such parties serve as key members of the ruling coalition. They receive generous government subsidies, and police have tra-ditionally been reluctant to enter their communities.
The ultra-Orthodox Jews make up 10 percent of Israel’s population. In the past, they have generally confined their strict lifestyle to their own neighbor-hoods. But they have become increasingly aggres-sive in trying to impose their ways on others, as their population has grown and spread to new areas.
“It is clear that Israeli society is faced with a chal-lenge that I am not sure it can handle,” said Men-achem Friedman, a professor emeritus of Bar Ilan University and expert on the ultra-Orthodox, “a challenge that is no less and no more than an exis-tential challenge.”
Most of Israel’s secular majority, in cities like Tel Aviv and Haifa, is not directly affected, but in a few places like Beit Shemesh — a city of 100,000 people that include ultra-Orthodox, modern Orthodox and secular Jews — tensions have erupted into the open.
At the protest, Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni said, “It’s not just Beit Shemesh and not just gender segregation, it’s all the extremist elements that are rearing their heads and are trying to impose their world view on us.”
Last week, a young Israeli woman caused a nationwide uproar when she refused a religious man’s order to move to the back of a bus.
In Beit Shemesh, parents in Naama’s school take turns escorting their daughters into school property to protect them. The parents, too, have been cursed and spat upon.
Hadassa Margolese, Naama’s 30-year-old Chi-
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remains elsewhere.Shumaker said Aliahna’s family moved there
to help take care of 66-year-old James E. “Shorty” Lemmon, who also was a convicted sex offender and died Dec. 3. He said Lemmon was “getting old” and “had trouble breathing.”
Shumaker said he introduced Plumadore to Lemmon shortly after Plumadore moved into the trailer park, and Plumadore moved in with Lemmon a few days later. Shumaker said he knew Lemmon because they were both sex offenders and were in jail together.
Sheriff ’s department spokesman Cpl. Jeremy Tinkel confirmed that Lemmon was a sex offender. Indiana Department of Correction records show he was convicted of child molesting in March 2006.
Paulette Hair, 45, a former manager at the trailer park who lives at a nearby trailer park, said she also knew Lemmon was a sex offender.
“He stayed out of everybody’s way,” she said. “Shorty couldn’t take care of himself very well.”
Shumaker said Plumadore briefly moved away, but returned when Souders asked him to care for her father.
A man who answered the door at Souders’ home Tuesday afternoon referred all questions to the Allen County sheriff ’s department. The home was one of only a few at the trailer park — located off an expressway and across from an open field — that displayed outward signs of children: A small bicycle, play car and cars seat sat on the wooden porch con-nected to a long wooden ramp.
Aliahna and her two younger sisters were staying with Plumadore for about one week because their mother had been sick with the flu.
Richard Patee, 58, whose trailer is next to where Plumadore was living, said he didn’t think it was odd that Aliahna’s mother had him watching the girls for an extended period.
“They had known each other for somewhere of three to four years, I know that, and he took care of their grandfather,” Patee said. “I didn’t see any reason to question it at all.”
Shumaker said it wasn’t unusual for Plumadore to watch Souders’ children “because the kids liked him.” Souders and Aliahna were listed among nearly 600 friends on a Facebook page listed under Pluma-dore’s name that said he was “Self Employed and Loving It!”, and enjoyed fantasy novels.
According to the affidavit, Plumadore told police that after beating Aliahna to death on the front steps of the home in the early morning hours, he stuffed her body into trash bags and hid her in the freezer. He said he later cut up her body with a hacksaw and stuffed her remains into freezer bags.
The next morning, Plumadore made a trip to a convenience store to buy a cigar, according to sur-veillance video and The Journal Gazette.
Police said Plumadore told them he had hidden Aliahna’s head, feet and hands at the trailer and discarded her other remains at a nearby business. Police obtained a warrant to search the trailer on Monday and found the body parts.
Authorities didn’t say Tuesday why Plumadore killed the child, but Sheriff Ken Fries said investi-gators suspected Plumadore was involved since soon after she was reported missing Friday night because of inconsistencies in his story that the girl had van-ished while he went to a store that morning.
“Things that were said in 29 years of doing this that just didn’t make sense,” Fries said during a Tuesday news conference. “We needed to get him to talk.”
A judge ordered Plumadore held without bail or bond at an initial hearing Tuesday, Tinkel said. He has yet to be formally charged in Aliahna’s death.
Mike McAlexander, the Allen County chief deputy prosecutor, wouldn’t say whether anyone else was suspected of being involved and said “nothing has been ruled out.”
“How could you live?” asked Hair. “How could you sit in that trailer, knowing what you did, knowing what’s in your household when everybody is out there in the cold and the rain praying to God that she comes home safely and you’re sitting there”
A state website shows that 15 registered sex offenders live in the park that numbers about two dozen homes. Self-identified sex offenders living at the trailer park said Tuesday that they were given maps by the Indiana Department of Corrections and a local mission showing them where it was OK to live. The aerial maps show areas legally away from schools and daycare centers and help guide offenders when they are released from prison to new homes.
Plumadore is not on Indiana’s registered sex offenders list. He has a criminal record in Florida and North Carolina that includes convictions for trespassing and assault, and an Indiana conviction for forgery.
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cago-born mother, an Orthodox Jew who covers her hair and wears long sleeves and a long skirt, says, “It shouldn’t matter what I look like. Someone should be allowed to walk around in sleeveless shirts and pants and not be harassed.”
City spokesman Matityahu Rosenzweig con-demned the violence but said it is the work of a small minority and has been taken out of propor-tion. “Every society has its fringes, and the police
should take action on this,” he said.For Margolese, the recent clashes — and the price
of exposing her young daughter — boil down to a fight over her very home.
“They want to push us out of Beit Shemesh. They want to take over the city,” said Margolese.
“Many people have asked me if I intend to leave,” Margolese said at the rally Tuesday evening, “and my answer is absolutely not,”
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asked the council to consider banning or regulating dyno tuners and burn-out pits, both of which are con-trary to the noise ordinance. He acknowledged that dyno-turners served a “legitimate purpose,” (engine tuning) but recommended if they are allowed, opera-tors be required to obtain a permit. The police, he said, consider burn-out pits “inconsistent with what Bike Week is about.”
“I would hate to see burn-outs completely banned,” said Hamel. “That is what Bike Week is — crazy stuff.”
“That is your decision,” Clarke said, recommending that, like dyno-tuners, burn-out pits be permitted.
Lipman feared that if burn-out pits were out-lawed, some would perform the stunt elsewhere. Clarke disagreed, suggesting that if burn-out pits are allowed, “people will leave that location and mimic what they just saw.”
Councilor Ava Doyle (Ward 1), the owner of Sun Valley Cottages, which is across the street from the Broken Spoke Saloon, where a burn-out pit has operated in the past, said “the smoke (from burning rubber) is not contained and neither is the odor.”
Charlie St. Clair, executive director of the Laconia Motorcycle Week Association, agreed that burn-out pits “are a real nuisance, especially if they’re in the wrong place.” On the other hand, he said “I would hate to see a flat no. I like the idea of permitting them.”
Without forbidding burn-out pits altogether, the council agreed that requiring a permit would enable city officials to ensure that they operated in appro-priate locations.
The council accepted proposed changes to the traffic order closing Lakeside Avenue to four-wheel traffic after the Friday before the official start of the rally while keeping the Weirs Bridge open to four-wheel traffic at the discretion of the police. Clarke said that the rally has “downsized” and this year the bridge was never closed.
But, councilors were skeptical of the recommen-
dation that the six parking spaces leased by Pro-gressive be designated for police vehicles. Clarke explained that the police no longer maintained Sta-tion W, the temporary base at the Weirs Community Center, during the rally. Although the veterans gen-erously provided space for police to muster and relax on Lakeside Avenue, there was inadequate space for vehicles on nearby New Hampshire Avenue, a pri-vate road. Without the parking spaces, he said there was no space for cruisers and vans.
St. Clair said that the six spaces to the left of the train station were part of the sponsorship arrange-ment with Progressive. “I’m aghast at putting police cruisers and vans on those spaces,” he said, adding they should be reserved for a corporate sponsor or motorcycle parking.
“On way or another we need parking on Lakeside Avenue,” Clarke said, explaining that without Sta-tion W, people taken into custody are taken to the station downtown and most of the arrests are made in the vicinity of bars on Lakeside Avenue.
Referring to an ordinance requiring vendors to wear “appropriate clothing,” Hamel asked “are we going to be the clothes police?”
Planning Director Shanna Saunders said that “this year we had a problem with women in bikini bottoms and pasties. That’s not appropriate for ven-dors licensed by the city.”
NOTES: The council designated $30,000 from the non-capital reserve fund to replace the failing shingle roof on the Memorial Park House with a metal roof, leaving the fund with a balance of $140,625. . . . . . . The council also agreed to apply $120,000 in unexpended proceeds from the sale of general obligation bonds in 2009 along with $20,000 from the contingency account to fund the city’s share of the cost of a roundabout at the junction of U.S. Route 3 and N.H. Route 11B at The Weirs. The construc-tion of the roundabout is estimated to cost $1.4-million, of which the city must pay 10-percent. Work is expected to begin in the new year and be completed in 2013.
BIKE WEEK from page one
GILFORD — After 9:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. action on day one of the 38th Annual Lakes Region Holiday Tournament on Tuesday, eight girls’ and eight boys’ basketball teams return to the high school gym here today for round two.
On the girls’ side, Newfound Regional (Bristol), King-swood Regional (Wolfeboro), Moultonborough Academy and Winnisquam Regional (Tilton) are still alive in championship play. Newfound will square off against Kingswood at 4 p.m. and Moultonborough will play Win-nisquam at 7 p.m. The winners of those two games will play for the title on Thursday night at 6 p.m.
In the boys’ bracket, Newfound, Kingswood, Pros-pect Mountain (Alton) and Gilford all won first round games. Newfound and Kingswood will play their semi-final contest today at 5:30 p.m., while Prospect Moun-tain and Gilford will tip-off at 8:30 p.m. The boys’ final
is scheduled for 8:30 Thursday night.Each team that enters the tournament is guaran-
teed two games. Consolation round games will also be played today. At 9:30 a.m., on the girls’ side of the draw, Laconia will face off against Belmont and at 12:30 p.m. Prospect Mountain will contest Gilford.
In boys’ consolation round play, Laconia will face Belmont at 11 a.m. and Moultonborough will play Winnisquam at 2 p.m.
Girls’ scores from opening round play were: New-found 60, Laconia 21; Kingswood 45, Belmont 28; Moultonborough 39, Prospect Mountain 35; and Winnisquam 28, Gilford 27.
Boys’ scores from day one were: Newfound 44, Laconia 43; Kingswood 48, Belmont 36; Prospect Mountain 48, Mouultonborough 39; and Gilford 44, Winnisquam 32.
Holiday hoops tourney in Gilford continues with 8 more games today
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There are lots of ways to celebrate the New Year in the Lakes Region
TILTON — There’s not much time left to party like its 2011 advises the Lakes Region Tourism Association, which points out that there are plenty of activities planned in central New Hampshire for a variety of ages and interests.
And with New Year’s Eve falling on a Saturday this year, now’s the time to plan and book a weekend getaway in the Lakes Region.
The Margate Resort promises ele-gance and romance during its celebra-tion. Dine on a five-course meal, dance to a classic rock cover band and raise champagne glasses for a traditional midnight toast. Overnight packages also include a hot breakfast buffet on New Year’s Day, and they begin at $239. The Margate is at 76 Lake St.,
Wolfeboro First Night is a nonprofit, alcohol-free event, ensuring fun for the whole family. This 16th annual event includes a puppet parade, perform-ers, ice sculptures, fireworks, visits from the Wildlife Encounters Travel-ing Zoo and the McAuliffe-Shepard Planetarium Discovery Center, and much more. Admission is $7 before Dec. 25 and $15 after; children 10 and younger are free. The celebration takes place in downtown Wolfeboro.
Keep the party going in Wolfeboro at the Wolfeboro Inn. Its New Year’s Eve two-night package includes dinner each night, breakfast/brunch, admis-sion to Wolfeboro’s First Night, and admission to the inn’s own New Year’s celebration, which includes music, hors d’oeuvres, party favors, cham-pagne toast and watching the town fireworks at its private beach. The inn’s party has a $10 cover charge; the New Year’s Eve package begins at
$289 per night. The Wolfeboro Inn is at 90 N. Main St., Wolfeboro.
Watch the fireworks in Meredith, with the display beginning at 10:30 p.m. It takes place over Meredith Bay, allowing visitors to see the fireworks’ reflections for twice the spectacle.
Opt to ring in the new year at the Historic Belknap Mill. The Holbrook Bell will be rung at midnight – a tra-dition going strong for more than 40 years. The bell was cast in 1823 by George Holbrook, an apprentice to Paul Revere, and is rung on special occasions such as this. Light refresh-ments will be offered. Free and open to the public. The Historical Belknap Mill is at 25 Beacon St. East, Laconia.
Choose to celebrate at the New Year’s Eve Gala at Church Landing over two nights. The formal year-end event includes a champagne toast, horse and wagon rides, dinner and dance music. Packages begin at $319. The Inn & Spa at Mill Falls is at 312 Daniel Webster Highway, Meredith.
Head to the New Year’s Eve Bash at Indian Head Resort. The two-night package begins at $209, and its Dec. 31 party features champagne and a mid-night breakfast buffet. There will be live entertainment, as well as an exclusive party just for teens. Indian Head Resort is at 664 Route 3, Lincoln.
The new Inn on Main is also plan-ning a New Year’s Eve party and spe-cials to ring in 2012. The inn is at 200 N. Main St., Wolfeboro.
Many area ski resorts are also offer-ing a night of entertainment for New Year’s Eve:
— “New Year’s Eve at the Summit,” Cannon Mountain, 9 Franconia Notch
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— “Gunstock Rocks New Year’s Eve,” Gunstock Mountain Resort, 719 Cherry Valley Road, Gilford: Enjoy skiing, riding, tubing, snow-shoeing, sleigh rides, fi reworks and more. Adults/teens, $48; children 6-12/seniors 65+, $38.
— “New Year’s Eve Family Celebra-tion,” King Pine Ski Area & Purity Spring Resort, 1251 Eaton Road, East Madison: Skiing, riding, music, games, parade and fi reworks. Adults, $24, juniors, $16. Package rates begin at $279 for two nights.
— “Town Square New Year’s Eve Cel-ebration and Fireworks,” Waterville Valley Resort, 1 Ski Area Road, Water-ville Valley: Family events throughout the day, games, sleigh rides and more. Reservations required.
— “Starry Nights and Sunny-side Timberlodge,” Waterville Valley Resort: Dinner, entertainment and skiing. $120; reservations required.
— “Dinner and Dancing Gala,” Waterville Valley Resort: Dinner, entertainment and midnight toast. Kids Bash for children Adults, $75; children 4-12, $20; reservations required.
For more information on these and other New Year’s weekend events in the Lakes Region, visit the Events Calendar on the LRTA website. To learn more about restaurants for New Year’s Eve dining options, visit the Where to Dine page.
The Lakes Region Tourism Asso-ciation is the offi cial tourism board of the region, representing close to 100 communities, 273 lakes and ponds, and more than 400 businesses in cen-tral New Hampshire, including area attractions, restaurants, retail estab-lishments and accommodations. For more information or visitors guides, visit LakesRegion.org, facebook.com/NHLakesRegion or follow on Twitter.
The LRTA offi ce is at Exit 20 on Route 3 in Tilton, and it can be reached by calling (800) 60-LAKES.
Blues Jam at Pitman’s Freight Room Jan. 7 will raise funds for police K-9
LACONIA — The Laconia Police Department is appealing to the com-munity, given the economic climate, for help in raising the funds needed for a new K9 unit. Jago, the current K9, will be stepping down from duty in March of 2012. In order to replace Jago the LPD needs to raise approxi-mately $10,000 to acquire and train a new K9 unit.
The L.P.D. has utilized K9 units full-time since 2000, the units have successfully tracked suspects, found missing persons, detected illegal drugs, and augmented offi cer safety.
Curious Goods and June Garren (Henry’s Pawprints) have organized the Open Blues Jam, hoping to raise the community’s awareness of the
need for it’s involvement.The Open Blues Jam will be held at
Pitmans Freight Room on Saturday, January 7. Music will start at 7 p.m. and run until 10 p.m.
In order to appeal to the whole com-munity, this will be a “chem free” event - meaning no alcohol will be served or allowed.
It is open to all ages with snacks and refreshments available.
Proceeds will go towards the Laconia Police Departments K9 fund. Tickets are on sale prior to the event at Curious Goods, $8 for adults and $4 for seniors and $4 for students with a school I.D. Admission can also be paid at the door - $10 for adults and $5 for seniors and $5 for students with an I.D.
MANCHESTER — U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) announced today that a member of her staff will hold monthly offi ce hours in Plymouth to assist New Hampshire citizens with offi cial business.
Staff will be made available on the fi rst Tuesday of every month
beginning Tuesday, January 3 at the Plymouth Town Hall from 2-4 p.m. Residents who are interested in meet-ing with a member of the Senator’s staff should stop by the Plymouth Town Hall during the regular hours or call Michael Scala at (603) 752-7702 to schedule an appointment.
Sen. Ayotte’s staff holding office hours in Plymouth on the 1st Tues. of each month
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SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Stud-ies prove that regular exercise bolsters your reserves of self-control. Even goals that are not fi tness related will be more easily accomplished because of today’s higher activity level. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). There’s a problem that keeps you from having what you dearly want. Truly, no one is to blame for this. You’ll make headway once you decide that you’re the one who will change the dynamic. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Things of value will come easily to you. And if you recognize the value and cherish these things, you’ll be among the few who do. Most people don’t see the value of something until they are deprived of it. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). No time to stop and assess where you are. Keep going until you get a sense of pride and accomplishment. For you, this will come only at the very end of a project. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You will be the astute one in your group, and they really need you to point out the little signs of improvement you see. You’ll note the incremental progress and inspire the others to continue for-ward. TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Dec. 28). You promote harmony and cooperation wherever you go. People work together under your guidance. The actions you take in January have unusual and unex-pected results, making it a memorable time. February brings freedom, and you’ll adventure on through the spring. May features a meaningful commit-ment. Libra and Gemini people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 5, 21, 24, 30 and 14.
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Today is Wednesday, Dec. 28, the 362nd day of 2011. There are three days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:On Dec. 28, 1846, Iowa became the 29th
state to be admitted to the Union.On this date:In 1694, Queen Mary II of England died
after more than fi ve years of joint rule with her husband, King William III.
In 1832, John C. Calhoun became the fi rst vice president of the United States to resign, stepping down because of differences with President Andrew Jackson.
In 1856, the 28th president of the United States, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, was born in Staunton (STAN’-tun), Va.
In 1908, a major earthquake followed by a tsunami devastated the Italian city of Mes-sina, killing at least 70,000 people.
In 1917, the New York Evening Mail pub-lished “A Neglected Anniversary,” a face-tious, as well as fi ctitious, essay by H.L. Mencken recounting the history of bathtubs in America.
In 1945, Congress offi cially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance.
In 1961, the Tennessee Williams play “Night of the Iguana” opened on Broadway. Former fi rst lady Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, the second wife of President Woodrow Wilson, died in Washington at age 89.
In 1971, fi lm composer Max Steiner (“Gone with the Wind,” among many others) died in Hollywood at age 83.
In 1981, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the fi rst American “test-tube” baby, was born in Nor-folk, Va.
In 1991, nine people died in a crush to get into a rap celebrity basketball game at City College in New York.
One year ago: Eight young people were killed in a fi re that swept through an aban-doned New Orleans warehouse (some of the victims were squatters who had been living inside the building). Agathe von Trapp, the real-life inspiration for eldest daughter Liesl in the musical “The Sound of Music,” died in Towson, Md., at age 97.
Today’s Birthdays: Comic book creator Stan Lee is 89. Actor Martin Milner is 80. Actress Nichelle Nichols is 79. Actress Dame Maggie Smith is 77. Rock singer-musician Charles Neville is 73. Rock singer-musician Edgar Winter is 65. Actor Denzel Washington is 57. Country singer Joe Diffi e is 53. Coun-try musician Mike McGuire (Shenandoah) is 53. Actor Chad McQueen is 51. Country singer-musician Marty Roe (Diamond Rio) is 51. Actor Malcolm Gets is 47. Actor Mauri-cio Mendoza is 42. Comedian Seth Meyers is 38. Actor Brendan Hines is 35. Rhythm-and-blues singer John Legend is 33. Actress Sienna Miller is 30. Actor Thomas Dekker is 24. Actress Mackenzie Rosman is 22. Pop singer David Archuleta (TV: “American Idol”) is 21.
Lakes Region Tea Party meeting. 7 p.m. at the Moult-onborough Public Library. All interested persons welcome.
VacationWeek Camp at the Meredith Community Center. Early drop-off at 7:30 a.m. and late pick-up at 5:30 p.m. available. Call 279-8197.
Overeaters Anonymous offers a program of recov-ery from compulsive eating using the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of OA. Wednesday nights at 5:30 p.m. at St Joseph Church, 96 Main Street, in Belmont. Call and leave a message for Elizabeth at 630-9969 for more infor-mation.
TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly) group meeting. 5:30 p.m. at the First Congregational Church in Meredith.
Free community meal of hot soup and bread at Trinity Episcopal Church on Main Street in downtown Tilton. 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. every Wednesday. For more information call Pastor Mark at 286-3120 or e-mail him at [email protected].
Free knitting and crochet lessons. Drop in on Wednes-days any time between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. at Baby Threads workshop at 668 Main Street in Laconia (same building as Village Bakery). 998-4012.
Laconia Elders Friendship Club meeting. 1:30 p.m. at the Leavitt Park Clubhouse. People 55 and older meet each Wednesday for fun, entertainment and education. Meetings provide an opportunity for older citizens to to meet for pure social enjoyment and the club helps the community with philanthropic work.
Duplicate bridge at the Weirs Beach Community Center. 7:15 p.m. All levels welcome. Snacks.
Make It & Take It Craft at the Meredith Public Library. Noon to 3 p.m. Drop-in the Children’s Room and create a snowy, winter landscape complete with snowman. Display you work at the library or take it home.
Concord Transplant Support Group meeting. 7 p.m. in Room 5C at Concord Hospital. Open to all pre- and post-transplant patients, friends and family. For more information call Yoli at 603-224-4767.
Drop-In Craft Time at the Gilford Public Library. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For children Pre-K through Grade 4.
Friends of the Gilford Public Library meeting. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Anyone interested in supporting the library is wel-come.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29Saxaphonist Nick Goumas and his quartet entertains
at the N.H. Jazz Center at Pitman’s Freight Room in Laconia. 8 p.m. $10. BYOB.
Winter Farmer’s Market in at the Skate Escape on Court Street in Laconia. 3 to 6 p.m. Vendors offering local farm-raised meats, fresh-baked breads, organic tea, cofree, fudge, pastries, pies, cakes, fresh produce, jellies & jams, local wines, herbs, oils, plants, jewelry, wood workers, and fine art.
Winter Solstice Celebration hosted by The Rey Center in Waterville Valley. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Corcoran’s Pond Beach. Hot cocoa and cider provided. Desserts are pot-luck. Suggested donation of $5 per person. For more infor-mation call 236-3308 or visit www.thereycenter.org.
VacationWeek Camp at the Meredith Community Center. Early drop-off at 7:30 a.m. and late pick-up at 5:30 p.m. available. Call 279-8197.
Al-Anon Meeting at the Congregational Church Parish House (18 Veterans Square) in Laconia. 8 to 9:15 p.m. each Thursday. Al-Anon offers hope and help to families of alcoholics. No dues or fees. All are welcome. Call 645-9518.
Chess Club at the Goss Reading Room (188 Elm Street) in Laconia. 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. each Thursday. All ages and skill levels welcome. We will teach.
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Giggles & Grins playgroup at Family Resource Center in downtown Laconia (635 Main Street). Free group for parents children from birth through age 5. For more information call 524-1741.
Wintertime Music and Movement time at the Meredith Public Library. 1 to 2 p.m. Shake, rattle and roll the cold way with music, songs and fun. In the fuction room downstairs.
Time with Friends at the Meredith
from preceding page
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28
Public Library. 3 to 5 p.m. Meet your friends and play board games, paint, create chalk drawings, do sudoku/crossword puzzles or try stamping. Munchies served. Young adult program for ages 10 and up.
Winter Nature Exploration of Animal Tracks hosted by The Rey Center in Waterville Valley. 10:30 a.m. to noon from the Curious George Cottage. Dress in warm layers. For more information call 236-3308 or visit www.thereycenter.org.
Drop-In Craft Time at the Gilford Public Library. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For chil-dren Pre-K through Grade 4.
Crafter’s Corner at the Gilford Public Library. 6 to 7:30 p.m. Bring your needle-work project.
Lesser-known presidential candidates featured in forum airing on Public Access
LACONIA — New Hampshire prides itself with its brand of “retail politics” and the season for indulging the voters will shortly be coming to a close when the state conducts its Pres-idential Primary on January 10.
Even Democratic voters may be surprised on Election Day to find 13 others contesting President Obama to be the New Hampshire nominee. Republicans may be overwhelmed that there are 30 names from which to choose their preference as the party’s standard bearer. They have seen less than ten on national debates and may have little inkling on what the other 20 on the ballot are for, or against.
Recently the New Hampshire Insti-tute of Politics conducted a forum for the “lesser known” candidates to appear and make their positions known. The New Hampshire Coalition for Community Media (NHCCM) had their crew on the scene and the result-ing video is currently being shown on NHCCM member Public Access cable TV stations across the state.
On the western shores of The Big Lake LRPA-TV’s Channel 26 is carrying
the program all this week and will con-tinue showing it through Primary Elec-tion Day. The next showing on Channel 26 will be at 8 p.m. Friday, December 30. The program runs one hour and 50 minutes for those who rather record it for viewing at another time.
Of the 30 Republicans on the ballot, 10 appeared at the forum, made their opening statements and then responded to questions addressed to them from two moderators.
Seven Democrats were present to make their case why they should be preferred over the incumbent Presi-dent. One of these was the perennial candidate, who stands out from the crowd by wearing a black rubber boot on his head. The candidate to his left had pronounced himself against gay marriage. The boot-on-the-head can-didate concluded his summary by leaping to his feet, showering “fairy dust” on his opponent and declaring that the glitter now made him gay.
Alton Bay resident Bob Long-abaugh filmed and produced the show with considerable assistance from his spouse MaryBee.
PLYMOUTH — Due to incorrect information provided to the Laconia Daily Sun, the ticket prices for the Educational Theatre Collaborative’s January 25-29 production of the Wild Swans which were contained in an article published Dec. 23 were wrong. Tickets are $26–22 for adults; $22-18
for seniors, $20-16 for youth, all in sec-tions A and B: groups of 15 or more purchased at the same time, $14 in B seating only and can be obtained at the Silver Center Box Office 535-2787 or (800) 779-3869; Mon.–Fri., 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. or online at silver.plymouth.edu.
Correction: Article contained wrong ticket prices for ‘Wild Swans’
LACONIA — The next dog obedi-ence class will begin January 4, at the Laconia Community Center.
Beginners from 6-7 p.m., advanced 7–8 p.m. running every Wednes-day. The cost will be $50 for the four weeks. Dogs must have all of their
shots before joining the class.Pre-registration and pre-payment is
required. For questions and registra-tion, call Jeanine Beckett at 524-8559 or contact Laconia Parks & Recre-ation office at 524-5046 for follow up information.
Dog obedience classes start January 4
MANCHESTER — The New Hamp-shire Gay Men’s Chorus will be hold-ing auditions for its Spring 2012 concert series, beginning on Tuesday, January 10, January 17, and January 24,.
The auditions will be held at 6:30
p.m.at Brookside Congregational Church, 2013 Elm Street, Manches-ter, in the Manning House. All gay and gay friendly men, age 18 years or older, are invited to join. For further information, visit the website: www.NHGMC.com.
Gay Men’s Chorus holding auditions
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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: My sister is snide and competitive and makes hateful comments whenever we’re together. She’s a bully who has made my life diffi cult for the past 10 years. I tried to make things right for my parents’ sake, until I realized they were too spineless to say no to her. These days, I rarely speak to her. Her wedding is in three months, and I told her I would not be attending. After all, if she dislikes me so much, why would she want me there anyway? Now, of course, she is furious, calling me all sorts of names. My parents are hurt that I won’t attend, and my grand-mother says she doesn’t know what’s gotten into me. Frank-ly, I don’t care what they think. But I do care what my aunts, uncles, cousins and mutual acquaintances will believe about me if I don’t show up. If they ask what’s going on, I will tell them, but I’m sure my sister will come up with an alternate version, and who knows which one of us they will believe? They never notice how she treats me. If I boycott the wedding, a huge number of people con-nected to my family will look at me as the worst kind of person. What should I do? -- Massachusetts Dear Massachusetts: When you take a stand, you must be willing to live with the consequences: Avoid the wedding and take your lumps from the relatives, or attend and hope your sister will behave. But we also think you should tell your sister how much it hurts when she bullies and belittles you, and ask why she fi nds it necessary to treat you this way. If you can get to the root of her animosity, perhaps things could improve. Dear Annie: I recently moved in with my boyfriend, “Beau,” and his roommate, “Scott.” Scott is usually at his girlfriend’s house, so Beau and I pretty much have the place to ourselves. Scott splits the bills with us while unoffi cially
living with his girlfriend. Scott makes the payments, and we reimburse him in cash. The problem is, on more than one occasion, I’ve noticed he has been late. I just found out that the water bill is three months past due and they are ready to shut it off. We have already paid Scott our share, but I think he expects us to pay two-thirds of the past-due amount. I refuse to pay for this again, but don’t know how to say it. Should we let it go? Do we ask him to write a receipt? That seems extreme, and Scott is a close friend. Moving out is not an option. What do we do? -- No Way, I Won’t Pay Dear No Way: It is unfair to pay twice for the same bill. But it’s also unfair that Scott pays a third of the costs for a place he rarely uses. Offer to restructure your rental arrange-ments with Scott, and then perhaps you or Beau could take over the bill paying and let Scott reimburse you. And make sure he gets a receipt. Dear Annie: I disagree with your response to “Grandma in Missouri,” who requested payment for child care for her grandchildren. The parents now have resources. If they value having fam-ily care for their children, they should be willing to pay. The other option is to put the children in day care, where it will cost plenty. No one should expect others to watch their kids for free. -- Paid a Family Member for 19 Years Dear Paid: We are not disputing the merits of paying Grandma. The problem is, Grandma inadvertently pushed the daughter to transfer child care to someone else who will do it for free. Now Grandma doesn’t get to see the grand-kids. This is a diffi cult result, and we feel she should talk to her daughter and see if they can reach some accommoda-tion.
Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please e-mail your questions to: [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. Century Blvd., Ste. 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045.
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PARAEDUCATORS
Laconia School District
We are seeking candidates interested in working tosupport students with academic, emotional, social,physical and behavioral skill development in ourschools. Positions are available in our elementary andhigh school. NH certification as Paraeducator 2 pre-ferred.
These positions are part-time, 27.5 hours per week.
Please send letter of interest, resume and three
letters of reference to:
ParaEducator Search CommitteeLaconia School District
39 Harvard StreetLaconia, NH 03246
Please visit our website for information about Laconia School District
www.laconiaschools.org
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OBITUARIESEdward L. O’Hearn, 79
WEIRS BEACH — Edward L. O’Hearn, 79, of Pendleton Beach Road, died Saturday, December 24, 2011 at Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia.
He was born in Medford, Mass., the son of Edward L. Sr. and Mary E. (McCarthy) O’Hearn. Ed served in the US Air Force and graduated with his Bach-elors in Administration Degree from North Eastern University. He worked for 30 years for AT&T, begin-ning with Western Electric in Watertown, Mass, retiring as Section Chief . He lived in Tewksbury, Mass for 33 years before moving to Weirs Beach, NH in the 80’s. Ed then worked for 15 years for Irwin Marine in Laconia. He was a charter member of the Meredith Yacht Club, a life member of the American Legion and the Elks, a life member of the Pioneers and a member of the Weirs Beach Community Park Association. He was an avid Ham Radio enthusi-ast, known by his call sign AA1EO, and formerly WB1FYE. He enjoyed boating and skiing.
He was predeceased by his daughter, Helen Greene in December 13th of this year and one brother, John H. O’Hearn.
He is survived by his wife, Priscilla (Cooney) O’Hearn of Weirs Beach, two sons; Edward L. O’Hearn III and his wife Amy of Center Harbor, NH and Peter L. O’Hearn and his wife Claire of Gil-ford, NH, one daughter, Suzanne Marie O’Hearn of Weirs Beach, NH, two grandchildren; Emma Flor-ence O’Hearn and Lauren Elizabeth O’Hearn and one sister, M. Patricia Hilsinger of Burlington, Mass.
Calling hours will be held from 2 PM to 4 PM and from 6 PM to 8 PM on Friday, December 30, 2011 in the Car-riage House of the Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N.H.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11AM on Saturday, December 31, 2011 at St. Andre Bes-sette Parish at St. Joseph’s Church, 30 Church Street, Laconia, NH. Burial will be privately held at the NH State Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen, NH.
Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N.H. is assisting the family with the arrangements. For more information and to view an online memorial go to www.wilkinsonbeane.com .
Geraldine A. Moreau, 89GILFORD — Geraldine A. (Adams) Moreau, 89,
died Monday, December 26, 2011 at the Merrimack County Nursing Home in Boscawen following a period of failing health. She was born in Haverhill, MA, June 22, 1922, daughter of Nahum and Eva (Robitaille) Adams. Geraldine lived in Northfi eld for 30 years, later moving to Gilford where she lived for 25 years. She and her husband moved to Pitts-fi eld in 2008. She began her career as an operator in the 1940’s with the New England Telephone Com-pany, working in Massachusetts, Laconia and later Concord offi ces. She retired in 1985 as a customer service representative. Geraldine was a member of the New England Telephone Pioneers. She was a parishioner of St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Tilton.
Her family includes her husband of 60 years, Philip J. Moreau of the Merrimack County Nurs-
ing Home in Boscawen; her daughter, Jean Moreau of Gilmanton; her son, Philip J. Moreau of North-fi eld; fi ve grandchildren, Aimee Munsey, Norton Munsey, Maxine Munsey, Joshua Moreau and Chel-sea Moreau; her sister, Ethel Adams of Raymond; numerous nieces and nephews.
According to Geraldine’s wishes, there are no calling hours planned. A Mass of Christian Burial will be cel-ebrated Friday, December 30 at 10:00 AM at St. Mary of the Assumption Church, Chestnut Street in Tilton. Spring burial will be in St. John Cemetery in Tilton.Arrangements are under the care of the William F. Smart Sr. Memorial Home of Tilton.Those wishing may make memorial donations in Geraldine’s name to the Activity Fund, Merrimack County Nursing Home, 325 D. W. Highway, Boscawen, NH 03303
For more information go to www.smartfuneral-home.com
Seymour promoted at Franklin Savings Bank
FRANKLIN — Laconia Mayor Michael J. Sey-mour is one of fi ve Franklin Savings Bank employ-ees who received a recent promotion. He is now senior vice president of Marketing and Retail Ser-vices for the institution.
Seymour started his career at the bank as a cus-tomer service offi cer 20 years ago. Since that time, he has served in several capacities in business develop-ment and retail banking administration.
Seymour is also a trustee for LRGHealthcare, a board member of the WLNH Children’s Auction and a board member of Independence Financial Advis-ers, a wholly owned subsidiary of Franklin Savings Bank. In 2005, he was named a “40 Under Forty” recipient by the NH Business & Industry Associa-tion and the New Hampshire Union Leader.
Also promoted were Joseph A. Thornton, to vice president, Retail Sales & Branch Administration; Garrett C. Henry to assistant vice president, Infor-mation Technology offi cer; Dawn M. Phelps, to assis-tant vice president, Retail Lending offi cer; and Brian Slipp, to assistant vice president, credit manager.
“I am very pleased to announce the promotions of
Ouellette promoted at the Inns & Spa at Mills Falls
Joe Ouellette has been named Director of Sales. at The Inns & Spa at Mill Falls. (Courtesy photo)
MEREDITH — The Inns & Spa at Mill Falls has announced the pro-motion of Joe Ouellette to Director of Sales. Ouellette, who has been with the Inns at Mill Falls since April 2004, was most recently Sales Manager.
Ouellette previously worked as Senior Sales Manager at The Mar-gate in Laconia, and was Director of Market-ing and Advertising for the NASWA Resort.
“Joe brings excep-tional leadership and salesmanship to the Inns,” said Gail Batstone, General Manager of The Inns & Spa at Mill Falls. “He is a con-stant source of motivation, level-headed thinking, and he strives to take the sales team effort and the Inns to new levels. We wish him much continued success.”
A resident of Laconia, Ouellette has two sons, Cameron and Nicholas.
these individuals, who consistently demon-strate our standards of excellence in quality service and performance to our customers,” said Savage. “Their dedica-tion and enthusiasm, in their service to their cus-tomers and colleagues, is of the highest level.”
Franklin Savings Bank, a mutual savings bank, has provided loan, deposit and investment services to Central New Hampshire since 1869. The bank has offi ces in Franklin, Bris-tol, Boscawen, Tilton, New Hampton, Laconia and Gilford. Franklin Savings Bank can be reached at 934-4445, toll free at (800) 372-4445, online at www.fsbnh.com, or on Facebook at facebook.com/franklin-savingsbank.
Northern Pass foes plan Jan. 17 information sessionCAMPTON — An information and update meet-
ing concerning the Northern Pass project will be held at the Campton Elementary School on Tues-day January 17 at 6 p.m. for both affected towns of Campton and Thornton. Other town residents are also welcome to attend.
The Northern Pass project is a 180-mile above ground, high voltage transmission line proposed by PSNH and Hydro Quebec of Canada with towers ranging from 80-135 feet tall. The towers could be built amidst some of the most scenic and tourist sensitive areas in New Hampshire, including a ten-mile stretch through the White Mountain National Forest. Both Thornton and Campton are in the
direct path or “preferred route” for the project that will attempt to use the PSNH existing ROW across the state.
Speakers for the evening will be Peter Martin of Plymouth, Holderness resident Michael Merino, and Thomas Mullen of Campton. Those attending will be updated on the efforts of Northern Pass opponents on where the project is headed in regards to eminent domain laws, progress on PSNH efforts to purchase land for the northern route, and information on rights based ordinances for towns along the PSNH ROW. For more information visit www.nonorthern-pass.org or write to [email protected] for more information.
GILFORD — The twelve days of Christmas end on January 6. This is also the day churches tradi-tionally celebrate the visit of the wise men to the Christ Child, known as the Epiphany.
This year Epiphany falls midweek, so the choirs churches from Gilford and Laconia will join together on Sunday evening, January 9 at the First United Methodist Church at 7 p.m. to share music they have sung over the season in their own churches.
Musicians will be coming from the Gilford Commu-nity Church, St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church, Good Shepherd Lutheran, Laconia Congregational Church, the Gilmanton Community Church, the
Unitarian-Universalist Society and First United Methodist Church. Two churches are bringing hand bell choirs, and there will also be fl ute and clarinet pieces. The evening of music will end with a massed singing of the “Hallelujah Chorus”.
Offering plates will be available for those who would like to give toward the work of the Carey House in Laconia. The Carey House is a ministry of the Salvation Army for the homeless, and is sup-ported by many churches in the Lakes Region.
For answers to any questions, contact Vickie Wood Parrish at First United Methodist Church, 524-3289.
Area churches will celebrate Epiphany with music
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