TILTON — Det. Nate Buffington and Chief Rob-ert Cormier of the Tilton Police Department ap-peared before selectmen last Thursday evening to propose a town ordinance that would ban the sale of synthetic marijuana, oth-erwise known as “Spice,” in the town of Tilton.
“Spice” comes in pack-ets, and is marketed as an incense. Rather than burn-ing it as incense, though, abusers are instead smok-ing the product and getting a dangerous intoxicating effect from the chemicals it contains.
The Drug Enforcement Agency found that prod-ucts like “Spice,” also known as bath salts or K2, had the chemical make-up of synthetic marijua-na. They called the wide-
spread unlabelled abuse of the products an “epidem-ic,” and in 2012 placed an emergency ban on their sale.
Since then, manufac-turers have changed their formulas from the pre-vious formula that was banned, and it is back on the shelves at many stores.
Buffington said the newer products are sold as incense and labeled that they are not for hu-man consumption, but law enforcement has seen an increase in problems as a result of its availability in Tilton and other area towns.
“They’re using different chemicals, not meant for ingestion, and spraying it on this incense,” said Buff-ington. “We know what it’s being used for.”
Proving this formula change to be synthetic marijuana is not always
easy for law enforcement, though.
Cormier said the state laboratory is so backed up that they don’t readily have time to test the newer products to see if they are of the same chemical com-pound already banned by the DEA.
“Spice,” the pair ex-plained to the board, is also being packaged in ways that make it attrac-tive with names such as “Scooby Snax,” “Atomic,” and “Klimax” that are tar-geting teens. Scooby Snax is even sold in a variety of flavors, such as blueber-ry and strawberry, which adds to the attraction.
The Tilton Police De-partment has also heard similar concerns from Belmont and Franklin who have experienced problems with “spice.”
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Forrester salutes new LRBRA presidentSen. Jeanie Forrester installs Ray Boelig as the 2014 President of Lakes Region Builders & Remodelers Association at their January meeting. Boelig is the owner of Hampshire Hardwoods.
MEREDITH — Due to restrictions imposed by our publication sched-ule, we were unable to include results from Tuesday’s District 1 Ex-ecutive Council Primary
in this week’s edition of the Winnisquam Echo.
A full re-cap of local results in the race to de-termine which Republi-can candidate will face off against Democrat
Mike Cryans for the seat left open by the recent passing of former Coun-cilor Ray Burton will be featured in next week’s edition.
NORTHFIELD — Local law enforcement officers, along with state and federal officials, conducted a raid on a methamphetamine lab in Northfield last Thursday, arresting six people and removing dangerous chem-icals from an apartment building where several fam-ilies, including children, re-side.
The drug operations, located at 6 Elm St., were brought to the attention of police in both Northfield and Franklin by a citizen who grew suspicious about activ-ities in two apartments with-in the building.
“Once sufficient evidence was gathered, Northfield Police obtained a search warrant, and on Jan 16, at approximately 9 a.m., teams comprised of officers from Northfield, Tilton, Frank-lin, Belmont, Sanbornton,
Merrimack County, Belk-nap County, New Hamp-shire State Police and the Drug Enforcement Agency converged on the property and conducted a search of the two units,” Northfield Police Chief John Raffaelly explained in a written state-ment released last week.
“We might have had more people than we needed, but I would rather know that afterward than have two less than we needed at the time. I’m a strong believer in hav-ing all area police involved in something like this,” Raf-faelly stated after the raid.
Because of the building’s close proximity to both Hall Memorial Library and the Union-Sanborn School, the procedure to arrest the sus-pects was carefully planned to ensure the safety of every-one in the area.
“Our biggest concern was that they would be ‘cooking’ the drugs when we went in, and that could have resulted
in an explosion,” said Raffa-elly.
Because of that very real possibility, Tilton-North-field Fire and Rescue was also on hand at the time of the raid.
School officials were alerted the night before of the impending operation, and Union-Sanborn School was consequently placed in lockdown about 15 minutes before the raid began.
The library, while not yet open at that time, was also placed in a lockdown status to keep staff and patrons from being in harm’s way.
The timing of the raid, police noted, also meant any school children in the resi-dences involved in the raid would not be present when law enforcement officials en-tered the apartments.
Methamphetamine is a varying mixture of many common ingredients, such
NORTHFIELD — If win-ter cabin fever is hitting your house, Hall Memorial Library has a cure for that seasonal ailment, offering services and programs for all ages and interests.
“Winter is quieter here, but we still have a lot of programs for children and adults, as well as art ex-hibits and a lot more,” said Advocacy and Publicity ser-vices staff member Maggie McCall.
Among some of the fun activities for the older crowd are the Sit and Knit group, which meets every Friday afternoon, as well as a regular chess group, and the occasional Canasta, Mexican Train Dominoes and Scrabble games that take place at the library.
“We recently held a Tar-ot Card reading night that went over extremely well, too. There was a second one planned that we had to cancel due to bad weather, but we hope to reschedule it for another night in maybe February or March,” Mc-Call said.
There are also greeting card making programs with Julie Dylingowski and an Open Craft Time for adults.
“I love coming here for the socialization,” said Carolyn Bartlett of North-field. “I was a little hesitant at first, but when I finally decided to try the Sit and Knit group, I found it was the most awesome group of women I ever met, and I come all the time now.”
Reading groups include the “Nooners Book Club” on Tuesdays, and on Mon-days, there is the Monday Bookies at 6:30 p.m., both of which discuss books be-ing read by each respective group.
Project Teen has been an-other big hit at the library this winter, bringing teens together for a number of ac-tivities, fun-filled scavenger hunts and movie nights.
Children are also a big focal point at the library, and there are story times each Wednesday at 10:30 and 11:30 a.m.. This month many of those activities, along with the 3:30 p.m. craft times, will focus on the Chinese New Year.
“Besides that, there’s a
craft time every Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 then every other Saturday we have an-other craft time at 10 a.m.,” said McCall.
On alternate Saturdays mornings when there are no crafts scheduled, boys and girls are invited to come expand their creativ-ity through some fun play-time with Legos.
Computers are available for use and, for those who would simply like a nice place to sit and relax for awhile, there are plenty of comfortable chairs where
Tilton selectmen consider banning controversial
incense products
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This apartment building, located at 6 Elm St. in Northfield, was the scene of a multi-agency drug raid last Thursday, when police received a tip that residents in two of the units were manufacturing methamphet-amine. The building is located across the street from both the Hall Memorial Library and Union-Sanborn Elementary School.
Authorities shut down local methamphetamine operation
Primary results coming next week
Hall Memorial Library offers wide array of winter programs
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Hall Memorial Library has plenty of ways for folks to enjoy the cold winter months. Displaying a sample from their card making program and a flier for one of their many special events are staff members Megan Yandian, Sarah Poirier, and Amber Groz.
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GILMANTON — Con-gratulation to Gilmanton students having Perfect Attendance for the first trimester of the 2013-2014
Johnson, Derek Kelly, Ky-lie Kelly, Matthew King, Samantha Knowles, Emily Kordas, Anastasia Locke, Lily Locke, Jaiden McK-enna, Madelyn McKenna, Paige Meserve, Kyle Mur-ray, Elijah Presby, Emma Ramsey, Ansel Randall, Colin Randall, Kylie Rector, Maddison Rector, Jackson Reed, Michael Richardson, Tessa Richardson, Char-lotte Robillard, Aidan Rod-ney, Tea Rodney, Jacob Sanders, Abigail Shute, Alan Smith, Emma Smith, Jovie Smith, Noah Smith, Delilah Smock, Audrey Thurston, Alexia Tread-well, Molly Wrobel, and Blake Zarta.
LACONIA — The Sun-day before Super Bowl marks the day Weirs Beach Lobster Pound hosts the Annual Chili Cook off, this year slated for Sunday Jan. 26.
Anyone with a penchant for fire and heat and a will-ingness to sample many chili offerings, is invited to join the festivities at this much anticipated eating event. Admission fee is just $10 per person, children under 12 may sample for free, at this family friendly venue.
The Chili Cook Off will kick off promptly at noon as a number of well known, and newer, area restau-rants vie for votes in the People’s Choice Award voted by secret ballot by all who come to taste.
The official judging pan-el comprising of Chief Ken Erickson, Laconia Fire Department, Chief Chris Adams, Laconia Police De-partment, and the City’s new Mayor, Ed Engler, will ultimately award bragging rights to the restaurant fielding the meanest chili in the Lakes Region.
Chief Chris Adams, re-turning judge on the offi-cial panel, quipped “It’s not all law and order in the Lakes Region. My de-partment and I are very supportive of the mission of the local animal shelter - we are a department of ani-mal lovers, and we all love chili.” Incoming Mayor Ed Engler also commented, “Long have the reporters at Laconia Daily Sun covered stories from the Humane Society, I am thrilled to join the panel since this event is for such a worthy charity, near and dear to my heart.”
Live entertainment with regionally famed Paul Warnick and renowned saxophonist Jonathan Lo-rentz ,will keep the crowds musically limber. All who participate in the chili cook off will be able to purchase tickets for the restaurant raffles and the 50/50 raffle. Awards and raffle drawing will be held 4p.m..
Weirs Beach Lobster Pound, owned by the Ray Brothers, Rich and Mike, and managed by Bob Wil-son, are strong animal ad-vocates and big supporters
of the New Hampshire Hu-mane Society. Their own Ambassadog, the beautiful Madison, serves to remind all the importance of stew-ardship of those who can-not speak for themselves. In support of the local ani-mal shelter, 100 percent of the event proceeds will be gifted to the Laconia based animal welfare agency.
Shelter spokesperson Marylee Gorham said, “We are so grateful to the Lobster Pound, the many restau-rants who have stepped up to the challenge this year, and the judges who agreed to lend their support on the 26th. Knowing we have so many friends in the com-munity inspires our staff, volunteers and supporters to do the very best they can every day, enriching the lives of the animals we are pledged to care for until adoption.”
Parking is plentiful at Weirs Beach Lobster Pound. The event will like-ly draw an even bigger crowd that last year. “With so many restaurants vying for bragging rights, we ex-pect a huge turn out from all who enjoy food, fun and are willing to risk their taste buds. My advice, wear a stretchy waistband!” laughed Gorham.
For more information about the event call Weirs Beach Lobster Pound at 366-2255 or check either Web site: www.wblp.com or www.nhhumane.org.
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SANBORNTON — The Sanbornton Fire Depart-ment responded to the re-port of an LP gas leak at the Sanbornton General Store at 7:46 a.m. Sunday morn-ing, where first respond-ers confirmed the odor of Methanethiol, known more commonly as “methyl mer-captan.”
Methanethiol is a chem-ical added to propane for safety purposes to give a distinct and somewhat un-pleasant odor to the other-wise undetectable gas.
Besides the commercial portion of the structure, the building also includes five residential apartments, which were immediately evacuated along with the store and all its occupants.
Chief Paul Dexter said that when the first compa-
ny arrived on scene, they used a four-gas meter to in-vestigate the complaint and found no further readings throughout the building. The propane company who supplies the commercial and residential complex was notified and responded to the scene to assess the situation.
“They noticed that the tank was near empty, and expelled the methyl mer-captan additive into the building,” Dexter said,
One occupant com-plained of feeling ill as a result of the odor, and after an assessment by the med-ical staff, that person was found to have not had any exposure, and was released at the scene.
After the building was fully ventilated by the fire department, residents and store personnel were al-lowed back inside, approxi-
mately two hours later.With winter in full
swing, the incident serves as a reminder for cold weather safety measures everyone should follow. Dexter said all residents should have both working smoke detectors and car-bon monoxide detectors properly placed in their homes and change the bat-teries regularly.
“They’re there to protect you and your family, and should always be heeded when there is activation of the detector,” he said.
Sanbornton Fire Depart-ment would also like to remind everyone to have their heating appliances cleaned and inspected by a qualified service techni-cian each year and to call 9-1-1 should they detect an odor of gas or have other issues with their heating system.
Sanbornton FD investigates gas leak
Lobster Pound hosting Second Annual Chili Cook-off
Tilton/Northfield
Monday, Jan. 27Kids Book Club, 4 p.m.Join our new book club!
Learn about the club, talk about your favorite book, and have a snack while making new friends. We hope to see you there!
Chess Club, 4-7 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 28Project Teen, 3-4 p.m.
Photo BlocksNooners Book Group“The Language of Flow-
ers” by Vanessa Diffen-baugh
Wednesday, Jan. 29Story Time, 10:30 and
11:30 a.m.Chinese New YearArts and Crafts, 3:30
p.m.Baking Soda Dough
Friday, Jan. 31Sit and Knit, 2-5 p.m.Library Live Chat, 4
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and get in on the chat.
Saturday, Feb. 1Lego Club, 10-11:30 a.m.We’re got a bin of Legos
and plenty of little peo-ple, so drop by and build a Lego creation to display.
New Books
“Fearless” by Diana Palmer
“Ice” by Linda Howard“The Truth about Lord
Stoneville” by Sabrina Jeffries
“Just Over the Moun-tain” by Robyn Carr
“Frozen Drinks: with or without the buzz” by Bruce Weinstein
“The Horsemaster’s Daughter” by Susan Wiggs
BELMONT — The Bel-mont Police Department responded to 147 calls for service and made the fol-lowing arrests during the week of Jan. 10 to Jan. 17.
Jason Scott Hurley, age 39, of Concord was arrest-ed on Jan. 10 for Receiv-ing Stolen Property.
Leonard Lurvey, age 53, of Belmont was arrest-ed on Jan. 10 for Suspend-ed Registration (Operat-ing — Misd.).
Michael Wing, age 26, of Belmont was arrested on Jan. 13 for Possession of Drugs.
Brent A. Minery, age 18, of Canterbury was arrested on Jan. 14 for Endangering the Welfare of a Child/Incompetent and two counts of Certain Uses of Computer Ser-vices Prohibited.
Tyler Benjamin Hobbs, age 24, of Laconia was ar-rested on Jan. 14 for Theft
By Unauthorized Tak-ing and three counts of Fraudulent Use of a Cred-it Card.
Bryan P. McLelland, age 19, and Justin David Lindbloom, age 18, both of Belmont, were arrested on Jan. 16, following an investigation of a distur-bance — McLelland for Unlawful Possession of Alcohol, and Lindbloom for discharging a firearm within 300 feet of a home.
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Huot students celebrate peaceIn honor of the spirit of Martin Luther King jr., equality and world peace, Careers in Education students and preschoolers participated in a “Peace March” throughout the center. Students created and planned the lesson as an educational tool for children from the Huot Child Development Center. The children created hearts for peace and they gave to all the Huot teachers throughout the march. Pictured here are teacher of Law Enforcement Chief (Ret.) Moyer, LPD, receiving a heart from the Huot Child Development Center – Allie Baron and student Kelsey Dunn.
Gilmanton School students recognized for perfect attendance
GILMANTON — The project to conserve the ex-traordinary views from Frisky Hill, Route 107, plus rich agricultural lands in two other locations in Gil-manton, came to fruition in late December.
The properties, formerly owned by long-term Gilman-ton resident George Twigg III, have been conserved for agriculture and public enjoy-ment, under conservation easements held by the Five Rivers Conservation Trust. Gilmanton Land Trust, a lo-cal organization, undertook the project, in cooperation with Five Rivers, to raise the nearly $1.2 million needed to secure the future of four key properties owned by Mr. Twigg, including the views long admired by residents and travelers through the Town.
In addition to contribu-tions from more than 200 individuals, the project was made possible, in part, by funding from the New Hampshire Land and Com-munity Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP), the State’s “Mooseplate” Conservation Grant Program, the Town of Gilmanton’s Conservation Fund, and the US Depart-ment of Agriculture’s Farm and Ranchland Protection Program (FRPP). All of the properties include import-
ant agricultural soils and are currently used for hay by lo-cal farmers.
The land conserved in-cludes four parcels: (1) the 15-acre tract on the top of Frisky Hill (Route 107) with views to the north and east over fields, hills and the Belknap Mountains; (2) a 21- acre par-cel, also on Rt. 107, looking northerly over Loon Pond to rolling hills and Mount Ke-arsarge beyond; (3) an 8- acre field on Loon Pond Road pro-viding access to a cemetery once used by the Osgood fam-ily; and (4) a 41- acre tract of fields and forests with ex-tensive frontage on Meet-inghouse Pond across from the historic Smith Meeting-house complex. This parcel
includes a flax retting pond, where farmers prepared flax
LACONIA – A host of lo-cal stars and dancers will be joining forces for anoth-er year of Dancing with the Lakes Region Stars.
On March 8, seven pairs of dancers will do routines on the Inter-Lakes High School stage before a panel of judges. The winning team will receive half the show’s proceeds for the charity they represent.
Dancing with the Lakes Region Stars started four years ago, organized by Laura Brusseau and Ashley May Halsey. The event was a fundraiser for a group of Inter-Lakes High School stu-dents to travel to Denver for a Habitat for Humanity proj-ect. After the event, Brusseau said 10 students were able to travel to Denver for free.
“As soon as Dancing with the Stars was over, Ashley and I were inundated with calls,” Brusseau said, saying many people asked when there was going to be another one.
Planning got underway for another event, this time to raise money for a variety of charities around the Lakes Region.
Each dance team consists of a local “star” teamed up with a dance expert to put to-gether a performance. Each of the performances will be judged by a panel of judg-es. Supporters will also be able to buy audience votes for their favorite team. The judges votes and the audi-ence votes will be combined
to choose the winner, who will receive 50 percent of the show’s proceeds for their charity. The remainder of the proceeds will be split be-tween the other charities.
So far, Dancing with the Lakes Region Stars has raised $25,000 for several dif-ferent Lakes Region Chari-ties.
On Sunday night, this year’s participants gathered at Stages Dance Academy in Laconia for the kick-off meet-ing.
This year’s stars are: lo-cal star James Abreu; Bryan Halperin, Executive Director of the Winnipesaukee Play-house; Krista Marrs, Editor of the Laconia Citizen; Gina McGuire, a teacher at the Huot Technical Center and an author; Kyril Mitchell, Assistant Vice President of Bank of New Hampshire’s office on Lakeshore Road in Gilford; Meghan Noyes, Pro-gram Director of the Greater Lakes Child Advocacy Cen-ter; and Kerri Parker, Mere-dith’s town clerk.
Abreu will dance with Er-ica Kloetz, owner of Stages Dance Academy of Laconia, to benefit the WLNH Chil-dren’s Auction. Halperin will perform with Trista Pat-ten, dance teacher at Stages Dance Academy, to benefit the Winni Playhouse’s schol-arship program for chil-dren’s activities. Marrs will team up with Christy Dunn, owner of Broadway North in Belmont, to benefit the La-conia Santa Fund. McGuire and Meredith-based profes-sional dancer Shelvy Parker
will dance to benefit the New Hampshire Humane Society. Mitchell will join Kelsey Pip-er, a professional from the Plymouth State Dance Team to benefit Hands Across the Table. Noyes and Suzanna Derynioski, also a profession-al from the Plymouth State Dance Team, will perform for the Greater Lakes Child Advocacy Center. Parker and Jessica White, a profes-sional dancer from Lakes Re-gion Dance, will perform to benefit the American Cancer Society.
Each team will put togeth-er a two to four minute dance routine with costumes and props. Participants can prac-tice up to 12 hours leading up to the show; studio space and lessons were offered for free.
The show will take place on March 8 at the Inter-Lakes High School Auditorium starting at 6 p.m. This year’s show will be hosted by Fred and Amy of Mix 94.1 FM.
Look out for a full story on the performers on this year’s Dancing with the Lakes Re-
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Hill School District Clerk, Cathy Viau, announc-es that the election of the Hill School District Of-ficers will be held on March 11, 2014, at the Hill Library, 30 Crescent Street, Hill. The positions to be filed are: one 1-year School Moderator, one 1-year School Clerk, one 1-year School Treasurer, and one 3-year School Board Member position. Filing for candidacy will begin on January 22nd and close on January 31, 2014 at 5:00 PM. To file, candidates may apply at the Superintendent’s Office, the phone number is 934-3108, weekdays. The District Clerk will also be at the Hill Town Offices on January 31st from 3:00 – 5:00 PM for the convenience of those wishing to register then.
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2014 Budget RecommendationsThe Tilton Budget Committee will hold a first public hearing on Wednesday, February 5, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. and a second public hearing on Wednesday, February 12, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. Both hearings will be held upstairs at the Tilton Town Hall, 257 Main Street, Tilton, New Hampshire 03276 for the purpose of receiving public comment on the FY 2014 Budget Committee’s Recommended Operating Budget and Warrant Articles. Copies of the budget will be available on the Town’s website www.tiltonnh.org and at the Tilton Town Hall prior to the public hearings.
Jon Scanlon, Chairman Tilton Budget Committee
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The cast of this year’s Dancing with the Lakes Region Stars on March 8. From left to right: back row: Kyril Mitchell of Bank of New Hampshire; professional Trista Patten; Bryan Halperin of The Winnipesaukee Playhouse; James Abreu, local celebrity; Erica Klotez, owner of Stages Dance Academy; Kerri Parker, Clerk of Town of Meredith; Gina McGuire, local author; Shelvy Parker, professional dancer; and Krista Marrs, Editor of the Laconia Citizen. Middle: Suzanna Derynioski, professional dancer; and Meghan Noyse, child advocate. Front, center: Ashley May Halsey and Laura Brusseau, co-founders and directors of Lakes Region Dancing with the Stars. Missing from photo: professional dancers Kelsey Piper, Christy Dunn, and Jessica White.
Dancers, stars will come together for benefit show
TILTON — The Masons of Doric-Centre Lodge #20 are continuing their public breakfasts and bake sales on the fourth Saturday of each month from 7 to 9:30 a.m. at the Masonic Build-ing, located at 410 West Main St. (the junction of Routes 3 and 11 West) in
Tilton (where “The Ark “ day care center is). Put it on your calendar and come socialize with friends each month.
This month’s break-fast will be held on Satur-day, Jan. 25. They serve a full breakfast, including eggs cooked to order, and
the cost is $7. Proceeds will benefit the various charities the Lodge sup-ports. The Masonic Lodge will also be open for public tours and information. For more information about the breakfasts or about the Ma-sons, contact Woody Fogg at 524-8268.
Masons hosting monthly breakfast/bake sale Saturday
Gilmanton’s Greatest Views conserved for everyone forever!
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George Twigg III (center), former long-time Gilmanton resident, now of Kennebunk, Maine, executes final documents to assure that Gilmanton’s Greatest Views, over property he owned, will be con-served for agriculture and public enjoyment. Looking on is the closing team: (L-R) Tom Howe of Gilmanton Land Trust; Attorneys David Osman and Paul MacDonald, Jay Haines of Five Rivers Conservation Trust and Anna Mae Twigg.
Opinion
To the Editor:People in the Lakes Re-
gion continually show their generosity. This year, the Saint Vincent de Paul food pantry had 840 families sign up to receive Thanksgiving food baskets.
As in the past, we were able to fulfill the requests with the help of the food and cash donations we received. These donations came from
individuals and businesses, schools and clubs, places of worship and “food party drives.” We even had dona-tions from children who re-quested food for the pantry instead of the usual gifts for their birthday. Wow!
The pantry is current-
ly helping to support the monthly food needs of over 1,000 people. These growing
numbers show that while the economy is recovering for many there are still a large number of families that need a “bridge” to better times. With the do-nations we have received during the holiday season, we will be able to assist in providing this “bridge.” Even so, with numbers this large, our current food sup-ply will run down quickly.
If each family that is able would donate a few cans of food a month it would go a long way to “help us help others.”
Thank you for you continued support. This
community is the best!May God bless,V-Jo Carignan
Manager and VPSt. Vincent de Paul Food
Pantry
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PET OF THE WEEK DAISY & BOTwo teenagers who
have endured abandon-ment at a young age, Bo & Daisy have been though a lot together. Found as kittens, they came to New Hampshire Humane So-ciety in August 2013. We think they were born out-side, since they seemed so terrified of people to begin with.
Feline volunteers have been working with Bo, a very handsome tabby, and the beautiful grey coated Daisy. Our Shy and Fear-
ful Program at New Hamp-shire Humane Society has worked wonders for their confidence and trust, help-ing scared kittens learn that humans will not hurt them.
The purring and the willingness to be held has been witnessed by all. We know they are ready now for their forever home-to-gether!
If you are a savvy cat person understanding they need a little more time to acclimate to your home
after the hubbub of shelter life, then these two lovely little cats will be a great ad-dition to your home.
Please visit them im-mediately. Call 524-3252 or check www.nhhumane.org.
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From one world to another, the dog would come along
In New York, meaning New York City for most of the world, an assump-tion that small-town and rural New Yorkers proba-bly hate, people walk their dogs on the sidewalks, or pay someone else to do it for them. Sometimes (I have actually seen this), professional dog-walkers have half a dozen or more leashes in hand, and walk as if pulled by a tractor.
I’ve seen this in Lower Manhattan, where I go to visit my older sister, who lives there after a long newspaper career, and my son, who is in the book pub-lishing business. In this, he endures an hour and a half commute to work and back home in Connecticut at the end of the day, a life I can scarcely imagine.
Recently, I had to ar-range an appointment with a specialist in Manchester (hey, at 66, who doesn’t?), and was trying to explain the geographic challenges to the nice woman fielding the calls. “What do I have to bring or send?” I asked. Translate: I was desperate to avoid multiple trips.
I discovered that now, as then, state geography is not taught in school. “Ordinarily you would get your preliminary tests done,” she said brightly, “and then come back for a consultation with the doctor, and then come back for the procedure, and then come back for a follow-up.” That added up to four trips. I thought, as I always do, that perhaps some of this stuff could be done in Colebrook.
“I can see Lower Que-bec from my front porch,” I offered. Not much of a response there. “It’s three hours, on a good day, to the middle of Manchester,” I added. Again, not much of a response.
All of this is about geog-
raphy and different habits and situations and desires, things I love to look at and think about.
It is both people’s need to have dogs and the folly of having dogs that drive the Dog World of Manhat-tan. If you had to think up the worst-case scenario for a dog being a dog as dogs were meant to be, and asked the dog where it real-ly wanted to live, it would not be Manhattan.
The thinking about all this came the other morn-ing, when I let my dog Mil-lie out for a whiz in the barnyard, just shy of the 45th Parallel. She can go as far out as she feels safe (we have abundant ever-more-wolf –like coyotes), and is vehicle-savvy from living in a world of trucks, tractors and all sorts of log-ging and farm and mowing equipment on down the line.
Off she went, stiff-legged, in the miniature poodle patrolling style of a strutting trooper, and suddenly went stiff, locked on, tail quivering, in re-sponse to some sound from the woods. She has utter-ly no hope of catching the chipmunks and squirrels that cavort around the back yard and barns. They taunt her, which makes me think “Monty Python” and “ a shrubbery.” She is doomed to failure, but doesn’t know it.
Not many dogs get to lead such a life, with no boundaries except mutual ones and the spoken com-mand. There are no leash-es or pooper-scoopers in this dog’s world. There are 165 home acres and huge tracts of neighboring land to roam on, always accom-panied, of course, by me, and always under voice command. My short list of commands and questions include “Wanna go out?” and “Wait,” and “Stay,” and “Hot dog?” (she loves hot dogs) and in extreme cases (porcupines, bears, moose, deer, the occasional skunk or passerby), “No.”
I have a hard time un-derstanding a dog’s life in the confines of a built-up is-land at the center of world trade and celebrities and fashion and finance, things that do not seem to matter here, at least to me, but of course they do. In the eyes
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To the Editor:I live in Sanbornton, near
Pyareo Home, a small as-sisted living home. I have known the place from its be-ginning, and always had the greatest admiration for the people who work their in its mission of service.
Recently, I saw an arti-
cle in its Newsletter by my cousin-in-law Melissa An-derson, whose father, Col. Raymond Beaupre, has now moved into Pyareo. It is a touching story for me, since Melissa lives just up the road from Pyareo, and initially viewed it with skepticism. Who wants an
old folks home right in the neighborhood? She writes of her feelings now that she sees it from the inside, so to speak.
Here is the article online, at the Pyareo Web site, if anyone would like to read it. I hope more people can get to know how good it is.
http://pyareohome.org/
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Fletcher LokeySanbornton
A change in perspective on the Pyareo Home
To the Editor:Every taxpayer in Belk-
nap County should be aware that the 2014 budget proposed by the County Commissioners contains an eight percent increase over last year. During the Jan. 7 Belknap County Delegation meeting, Rep. Colette Worsman did an excellent job explaining to the county commissioners and the general public how health insurance, salaries, and administration costs are unsustainable and spi-raling higher. For all her
efforts, she was immedi-ately accused of trying to “micro-manage” the county budget process.
What utter nonsense. She and her conservative partners are merely at-tempting to “oversee” a process that is clearly out of control. Belknap is rat-ed seventh out of a total of 10 counties in New Hamp-shire, with a population 47,567. Yet our Registry of Deeds, Sheriff, and Human Resource Director are high-er paid than in any of the other counties in the state,
including Hillsborough (population 402,922) and Rockingham (population 297,820).
Furthermore, Belknap County pays the second highest for County Attor-ney and Financial Officer, fourth highest for Nursing Home Director, and fifth highest for County Admin-istrator. Our Nursing Home Administrator and Correc-tions Superintendent are the seventh highest paid in New Hampshire, compared to their peers. Obviously, something has to be done.
Rep. Worsman’s oppo-nents say the solution to skyrocketing costs is to ne-gotiate “as we have done in the past” or to put it an-other way “rubber stamp” what the County Commis-sioners propose. Plainly, the old way isn’t working, at least for the taxpayer. Oversight is what’s needed. Fortunately, Rep. Wors-man and her supporters on the County Delegation are up to the task, and right on track.
Roger GreySanbornton
Worsman is on the right track
LACONIA — Students in the Lakes Region will have more choices in their education next fall. The J. Oliva Huot Center is pre-paring to expand two exist-ing programs and launch a new Resort and Recreation Management program for fall of 2014. The Huot Center, located in Laconia, current-ly provides career and tech-nical education courses to more than 500 students from six different high-schools making it one of the largest centers in the state.
The newly renovated center has seen a surge in enrollment, and is adding more sections and programs in response. The two cur-rent programs slated for expansion are Law Enforce-ment and Biotechnology. Law Enforcement will ex-pand from a one-semester exploratory course to a full two-year program prepar-ing students for a variety of protective service careers. The exploratory course, taught by former Laconia Police Chief Mike Moyer, has been proven very popu-
lar. The hope is to grow the law program into a full pro-tective-services academy featuring elements of law enforcement, fire fighting and EMT training. Also on the agenda for expansion is Biotechnology which will be adding a second year option. The upper level course will provide students increased skills an improved college readiness for the expanding career sector.
Biotechnology, like many health-related fields, has seen steady job growth and provides salaries starting in the upper $40,000 range immediately out of college, with significant potential for advancement. Biotech-nology careers include work with gene-therapy, develop-ment of vaccines and med-icine and variety of other laboratory based medical ca-reers. Laconia High School students currently have the option to take Biotechnol-ogy for Honors credit and the Huot Administration is hopeful that other sending high schools will follow suit. Students in Biotechnolo-
gy can earn college-credit through Southern Maine Community College and stu-dents in Law Enforcement can pursue dual-enrollment with Central Maine Com-munity College.
The newest program, Re-sort and Recreation Man-agement, will prepare stu-dents for a variety of careers in the hospitality industry.
“Travel and tourism is a defining part of what makes this region unique” says Huot Director David War-render. “Students in the Resort and Recreation Man-agement program will liter-ally have the entire Lakes Region as their classroom.”
Students will have the opportunity to earn a series of nationally-recognized cre-dentials from the American Hotel and Lodging Associ-ation. The goal, explains Warrender, is not to simply get students their first-job, but to show them the ca-reer-ladder for a variety of management level occupa-tions within the hospitality industry. Area groups and businesses such as Gun-
stock Mountain, The Lake Opechee Inn and the Lakes Region Association have already stepped up to show their support. The Huot Center is also in the final stages of creating an agree-ment with the Margate Re-sort through which students would spend their entire second year on-site learning all aspects of resort opera-tions. This model has been successfully used at several other career centers in New Hampshire with many stu-dents walking directly into jobs upon graduation.
An open-house, tentative-ly planned for mid-March, will provide students and parents and opportunity to learn more about these and other educational opportu-nities at the Huot Center. Students normally spend two years in a technical center program beginning in their Junior year. Any current sophomore who is interested in learning more about Hout Technical Cen-ter should contact their high school guidance counselor or call the center at 528-8693.
Huot Technical Center expands programming
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LACONIA — “Death of the Moon,” a new mu-sical CD by Dr. Jack Po-lidoro that also features his daughter, Stephanie, demonstrates the transfor-mative power of music.
“The Good Dr. Jack” says he was going through a difficult time in his per-sonal life when he was working on the album, and much of the CD reflects that dark side with songs of pain and loss. Yet it also of-fers hope, and it challenges listeners to move on after tragedy.
The song that best cap-tures that hope for the fu-ture is “Hey, Boston, Fin-ish the Race Now,” which is his tribute to the victims of the 2013 Boston Mara-thon bombing. Deeply af-fected by the tragedy, Jack said he did not rush the writing of the song, work-ing on it for more than three months in order to come up with something uplifting that would get people back on track.
“Hey Boston, you’ve got heart,” he sings. “We’re all patriots in this land.”
Jack has been in contact with the Boston Athletic Association and the Bos-ton Red Sox with the hope of having the song featured in conjunction with this year’s Boston Marathon.
Another song that com-bines patriotism with a lament for lives lost is his very personal “Goin’ Off To War” which he describes as “a father’s lament.” Dedicated to his son, Commander Michael A. Polidoro, USN, it is an anti-war song that never-theless comes off as being very patriotic. He wrote it after Michael, who is in the Naval Reserve at Annap-olis, was called up for the fourth time, at age 45, to serve at an embassy right at the time that embassies were being bombed.
“To put him in harm’s way a fourth time, I felt that enough is enough,” Jack said, adding, “It took me 40 years to write an anti-war song, and I never thought I would.”
The Good Dr. Jack got in-terested in folk songs while he was in college and he took up the five-string ban-jo, inspired by such groups as the Kingston Trio and Peter, Paul and Mary. He struck up a friendship with the members of the Kings-ton Trio and his brother, Tony, urged him to take up music.
When he was in grad-uate school (Jack earned a Ph.D. in Veterinary and Animal Sciences at the
University of Massachu-setts), he an old, 12-string Martin guitar, and that did it for him. When a techni-cian the lab introduced him to the music of Gordon Lightfoot, Jack decided that was “exactly the stuff I wanted to write.”
Today, Jack has sever-al signed photographs and album covers from Gordon Lightfoot who had prompt-ed him to start writing in 1966 and 1967. Since 1984, Jack has made six CD’s, and has written 150 songs.
“It was really fun to do a team with Steph on this al-bum,” he said of his collab-oration with his daughter, “and it’s a legacy for her.”
Steph’s contribution is an instrumental piece called “Speranza” or “Hope.” Currently a fresh-man at the University of Vermont, where she plans to major in Research and Experimental Psychology, Steph said she wrote the piece for piano five years ago, when she was 13.
“I cranked out a lot of songs,” she said of that pe-riod, “and it was like ther-apy; really relaxing. All the other ones had words. This didn’t.”
When Jack was going into the studio this past summer, he encouraged her to go along and record her song.
“I thought I could add lyrics to it, but she said no,” Jack recalled. “I offered to do guitar work behind it, but she said no again. She knew what she wanted, and she arranged it.”
Steph said the musi-cians at Rocking Horse Studio in Pittsfield were very helpful and offered many suggestions for back-up, but she had a sense of what she wanted and she did the arrangements for the instruments that did back her up.
Joey Pierog, who plays acoustic and electric bass on the album, as well as providing programming and harmony vocals, is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Bos-ton and she found him to be particularly helpful. He plays standup bass on “Speranza” and contrib-uted to the naming of the song by telling Steph that it gave him a feeling of hope.
“Songs on the radio,” Steph said, “you listen to the main points; but, in the studio, every piece is recorded separately, and there’s days or months of work behind it. It’s a whole different experience. And Joey was incredible.”
Many of the songs on the CD reflect love lost, be-ginning with “Dark Side
of the Moon” which opens the album and inspired its title of Death of the Moon. “I’m on the dark side of the moon tonight,” Jack sings. “You took the moonbeams when you left that night.”
“A few songs are about personal, life-changing events,” Jack acknowl-edged. A line illustrating that is on “Two Hearts That Were One”: “Nev-er knew there was such a pain in your heart.”
One of Jack’s favorite songs on the album follows up on that theme, but with a little more levity: “I Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Woman.” The fiddle and electric gui-tar accompaniment raise it above the bitterness that underlies the lyrics, while Jack adds a parenthetical “right now” that implies he may change his mind later.
“It’s up tempo and re-peats that phrase,” Jack said, adding, “The stu-dio wanted to make it rock’n’roll. I said, for this recording, I wanted it my way.”
Jack called in Dave Mey-ers of Gilford to play his Fender Stratocaster, the only electric guitar on the album. “He worked hard to augment what I’d done,” said Jack. “That guitar piece changed it from folk contemporary to semi-rock’n’roll.”
The other song reflect-ing love lost is “You’ve Got Your Reasons” which reflects resignation and a willingness to move on. “Sometimes love will take you down a different path.”
The song “Dresden Rose” was written for the centennial of birthday of Jack’s mother, Mary F. Polidoro, who died in 1985, and his final contribu-tion to the album was “A Daughter’s Love” which Jack said was more per-sonal and a late-comer, but something he wanted on the album.
“The album was basical-ly done,” Jack said. “I went into the studio, laid down the guitar and vocal, and said, “I’m done, now you can finish it.’ I wanted to surprise her with the song, as she’s always been there for me.”
Asked what she thought when she heard the MP3 that her father sent to her at college, Steph said, “I cried.”
The Good Dr. Jack per-forms at open mic nights at The Mill in Bristol, the Common Man in Ashland, and Giuseppe’s in Mere-dith. Death of the Moon and other CDs are avail-able at longtailpublishing.com which also offers his literary works.
New CD features transformative music born of pain and loss
GILFORD — Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion at Meadowbrook is proud to announce MONUMEN-TOUR, featuring Fall Out Boy and Paramore on June 30! Joining the two super-groups on stage will be New Politics! You’re not going to want to miss this epic night of rock n’ roll! Tickets go on sale Fri-day, Jan. 17 at 10 a.m., and range from $40.75-$85. To order, call 293-4700 or log on to www.BankNHpavilion.com.
“Save Rock and Roll” is the gold certified fifth stu-dio album from the Gram-my-nominated band Fall Out Boy, and features the multi-platinum hit “My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up)” and the new hit “Alone Together.” “Save Rock and Roll” debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Top 200 and #1 on iTunes in 27 countries when it was re-leased in April 2013. This is the band’s second #1 debut; Platinum selling “Infinity On High” topped the chart in 2007 which followed multi-platinum break-through album “From Under The Cork Tree” re-leased in 2005. Hailing from Chicago, Fall Out Boy—Patrick Stump (vocals/gui-tar), Pete Wentz (bass), Joe Trohman (guitar) and Andy Hurley (drums)—has ap-peared on the cover of Roll-ing Stone and other pres-tigious publications. They have performed on Satur-day Night Live, The Today
Show, America’s Got Tal-ent, The Voice, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The To-night Show with Jay Leno, Conan, The Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live and many more. They wrapped up 2013 with an appearance with Taylor Swift at the Victoria Secrets fashion show in December follow-ing their second sold out tour of 2013, performing in arenas in support of “Save Rock and Roll.”
After forming Paramore ten years ago in Nash-ville, the three-time-Gram-my-nominated rock group – comprised of Hayley Williams, Taylor York and Jeremy Davis – released their fourth studio album, “Paramore,” in 2013. The self-titled album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart, and was named “Best Rock Al-bum” by Entertainment Weekly. “Paramore” fea-tures the Top 10 radio hit and platinum single “Still Into You,” along with the upcoming single “Ain’t It Fun,” heading to radio this month. “Paramore” follows the success of the band’s gold-certified debut “All We Know Is Falling” in 2005, followed by a string of platinum and gold singles including, “Misery Busi-ness,” “Crushcrushcrush,” and “That’s What You Get” from 2007’s platinum-cer-tified Riot!, “Decode” from 2008’s “Twilight” soundtrack, and “The Only Exception” from 2009’s plat-
inum “Brand New Eyes.” Paramore has performed on a series of arena tours, including their most re-cent headline trek on “The Self-Titled Tour” in 2013 with their first headline show at Madison Square Garden, the 2010 Honda Civic Tour, and multiple visits to Europe, Asia, Aus-tralia, New Zealand, and South America. The group will set sail on ParaHOY, their first headline concert cruise in March 2014.
New Politics, the Brook-lyn via Copenhagen based three-piece rock band, re-cently hit top five at mod-ern rock radio with their smash “Harlem,” and are already top 20 with their new hit “Tonight You’re Perfect.” They spent 2013 touring sold out venues across the world with the likes of P!nk, 30 Seconds to Mars, Panic! at the Disco and Jane’s Addiction. The band has performed on nu-merous TV shows recently including Conan, Fallon, VH-1 Big Morning Buzz and New Years Eve Live, and has had their music in many TV commercials in-cluding Taco Bell and Dis-ney’s Frozen.
Don’t miss out on this
incredible night of rock at Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion at Meadowbrook! Tickets go on sale Friday, January 17th and range from $40.75-$85. To order, call 293-4700 or log on to www.BankNHpavilion.com.
Bank of NH Pavilion at Meadowbrook takes on MONUMENTOUR!
TILTON — The follow-ing Tilton/Northfield-ar-ea students have received academic and effort achievement acknowl-edgement for the first quarter at Tilton School.
To be included on the Academic Achievement Honor Roll, students must demonstrate evidence of learning that exceeds the basic standards (ES) in all courses, while signifi-cantly exceeding the stan-dard (SES) in at least one of these courses. Habits
of Mind grades must at a minimum meet the ex-pected standard.
Grade 10: Ethan RhineGrade 12: Jordan
Bluhm To be included on the
Scholarly Effort Hon-or Roll, students must demonstrate Habits of Mind at a level that sig-nificantly exceeds basic standards (SES) in at least three courses and exceeds the basic standard (ES) in the remaining classes.
Grade 12: Jordan
Bluhm About Tilton SchoolTilton School is an in-
dependent, coeducational, college preparatory school serving students from ninth to 12th grade and postgraduates. Tilton’s student body of approxi-mately 230 students draws from 15 states and 13 coun-tries. Although the Tilton Experience is different for every student, it challeng-es all students to try new things, learn new skills, and set new goals.
Locals named to Tilton School honor roll
LACONIA — Bank of New Hampshire is proud to announce that Kathryn “Katie” Reid has been pro-moted to Portfolio Manag-er.
Reid joined Bank of New Hampshire in 2004 as a bank service representa-tive and in 2007 transferred to the Commercial Depart-ment as a commercial ser-vices representative. Reid has successfully complet-ed several banking cours-es and is currently work-
ing toward a diploma with AIB in Commercial Lend-ing. She is active in her community, and serves as a board member of the Laconia Little League, and is a committee member for the LRGHealthcare Red Dress Gala.
Bank of New Hamp-shire, founded in 1831, provides deposit, lending and wealth management products and services to families and businesses throughout New Hamp-
shire. With 21 banking offices throughout New Hampshire and assets ex-ceeding $1 billion, Bank of New Hampshire is the oldest and largest inde-pendent bank in the state. Bank of New Hampshire is a mutual organization, focused on the success of the bank’s customers, communities and employ-ees, rather than stockhold-ers. For more informa-tion, call 1-800-832-0912 or visit www.BankNH.com.
Bank of New Hampshire promotes Katie Reid to Portfolio Manager
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LACONIA — Audrey A. Ekberg, 80, of Laconia died Friday, Jan. 17, 2014 at the Genesis Center in Laconia following a peri-od of failing health.
She was born in Hack-ensack, N.J., Nov. 21, 1933, daughter of Ed-ward and Doris (Young) Hauck. Audrey spent her youth in Hillsdale, N.J. and schooled at Park Ridge High School, New Jersey.
Following high school, she attended the Wood Secretarial School in New York City. She was employed for over sev-en years as an adminis-trative assistant at NBC in New York City. She moved from Westwood, N.J. to Belmont in 1969. She worked as a secre-tary to the principal at Belmont High School, Belmont, prior to retire-ment. Over the years, she served as treasurer to many Lakes Region
organizations. She and her husband moved to the Taylor Community in Laconia in 2012. She especially enjoyed her involvement and mem-bership with the Lakes Region Red Hat Society and was a charter mem-ber of the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in La-conia.
Audrey leaves her hus-band of 56 years, William G. Ekberg of Laconia; her sons, Karl W. Ekberg and spouse Karen of Mt. Rest, N.C. and Mark C. Ekberg and spouse Lau-rie of Belmont; daugh-ter Kristina Lynn Hall and spouse Todd of Cen-tral South Carolina;
grandchildren Alyssa Guptil, Joshua Guptil, Charlotte Ekberg and Georgia Ekberg; broth-er Edward Hauck and spouse Mary of Wood-cliff Lake, N.J.; numer-ous nieces, nephews and cousins.
Calling hours were held Tuesday, Jan. 21 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the William F. Smart Sr. Memorial Home, Frank-lin-Tilton Road in Til-ton. A committal service will be held at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 23 in the chapel of the New Hampshire State Veter-ans Cemetery, 110 D. W. Highway, Boscawen, NH 03303.
For more information, go to http://www.smart-funeralhome.com/.
TILTON — Fred “Ted” E. Hunt Sr., 87, a resident of Tilton since 2002, died at his home, Jan. 12, 2014 following a period of failing health.
Fred was born in Fram-ingham, Mass., Jan. 11, 1927, son of John Parkhurst and Ruth A. (Eldridge) Hunt. Prior to moving to Tilton, Fred lived in Burlington, Vt., where he resided for 26 years. He spent his youth and attended school in Hopkinton, Mass. He was a graduate of Hopkinton High School. He excelled in sports, and was the recipi-ent of the Scholastic Athlet-ic Award, and was invited to sign on with the Boston Red Sox.
Fred was a lifelong mem-ber of the Congregational Church. He later studied accounting and finance at the University of Massachu-
setts and Bentley College. For 35 years, Fred was em-ployed as a supervisor and subcontractor-buyer for the General Electric Co. in Pitts-field, Mass., Burlington, Vt. and Erie, Pa. He continued his education at Williams College on his own, and while working with General Electric attended classes at Croton on Hudson.
He served with the U. S. Army during WW II, Fifth Battalion Field Artillery.
Fred was predeceased by a son, Fred E. Hunt, Jr. (Ted-dy) of Berwick, Maine, Oct. 22, 2007.
He leaves his wife of 65years, Lorraine C. (Var-num) Hunt of Tilton, and sons R. Kevin Hunt of Lon-donderry and Paul E. Hunt of West Grove, Pa.; nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
According to Fred’s wish-es, calling hours will not be held. A service will be held Saturday, Jan. 25, at 10:30 a.m. at the William F. Smart Sr. Memorial Home, Frank-lin-Tilton Road in Tilton. A reception will follow at the Black Swan Inn, 354 West Main St. in Tilton.
Private burial will be in the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery, 110 D. W. Highway, Boscawen, NH with military honors at a later date.
Those wishing to make memorial contributions in Fred’s name may make contact with, the Wounded Warriors Project, 370 7th Avenue, 3rd Floor, Room 320, New York City, NY 10001.
For more information, go to www.smartfuneralhome.com.
Audrey A. Ekberg, 80 Fred E. Hunt, Sr., 87
LACONIA — Lakes Re-gion residents are encour-aged to bring items and ar-tifacts that tell stories about the history of their families and communities as part of the “Share Fair” co-spon-sored by the Belknap Mill and the Laconia Historical and Museum Society.
The event is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 15 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Belknap Mill in downtown Laconia. Event activities include vis-iting the numerous exhibits of family and community artifacts, opportunities for exhibitors to describe and talk about their
displays, and a general discussion about what we can learn from these items of material culture and what themes emerge for fu-ture family and community history initiatives in the Lakes Region.
Some examples of items appropriate for this Share Fair include family jour-nals, letters, photos, hand-iwork, clothing, postcards, jewelry, trade cards, pot-
tery, maps, deeds, movies, art work and more.
Exhibitors will have ac-cess to table space and elec-trical outlets.
“We’re not selling any-thing…or appraising any-thing…just sharing with others some of the tangible treasures we have from our past,” says Judy Buswell, a member of the Share Fare Planning Group.
“Most every one of us has ‘stuff’ that’s been hand-ed down through the years but we aren’t quite sure what they mean or what we should do with them,” Buswell explains. “I’m plan-ning to bring some colorful advertising trade cards from the late 19th and early 20th Century. Perhaps I can talk with someone else who has similar items. We’re just hoping to get people ex-cited about history!”
Warren Clement, local businessman and facilita-tor for this event, adds, “In addition to what individu-als bring, we’ll have local businesses like Irwins and
OShea’s sharing items from the early years of commerce in the Lakes Region.”
According to Clement, “Space is limited, so we encourage all interested to register now.” To register as an individual or busi-ness exhibitor, one may contact Clement at 520-7650 or at [email protected].
“Bottom line,” says Clement, “is that any phys-ical object that was made and used by those who lived before us is just what we hope to have on display for this Share Fair!”
Brenda Kean, Executive Director with the Laconia Historical and Museum Society, explains that this collaborative venture of the Mill and the Historical Soci-ety follows the New Hamp-shire Humanities Council fall series on writing and sharing family histories. “Our goal is to work togeth-er to help you retrieve, pre-serve, and share your fami-ly and community history!” Kean said.
Courtesy
Examples of material culture are these late 19th and early 20th Century advertising tradecards that will be displayed at the Share Fair on February 15th. These come from a family collection owned by Judy Buswell of Laconia.
Exhibitors sought for History Fair
LACONIA — LRGHealth-care is proud to introduce the Hospital Sitter Volun-teer program. The Hospi-tal Sitter Program is about improving the care, health and wellbeing of patients. Hospital sitters will provide one-on-one companionship to patients. As a volunteer Hospital sitter you may read, talk, play games, or just provide companionship to a patient.
Hospital sitters will be a valuable resource to many families that are unable to take time off to be in the hos-pital with family members who are patients. Sitters will provide these families with peace of mind knowing that a caring person is with
their sick loved one. Sitters will operate under the direct supervision of the patient’s nurse.
LRGHealthcare volun-teer services is searching for compassionate, caring, personable and reliable vol-unteers to become Hospital Sitters. Are you thinking of switching to a healthcare career? Are you in a health-care program and are look-ing for hospital experience? What a great way to give back to your community and help out! Volunteer ap-plicants must be 18 years of age or older. Volunteer shifts are available seven days a week from 8 a.m.-noon, noon-4 p.m., 4-8 p.m. or for those night owls, 8
p.m.-midnight. Still interest-ed and are unable to commit to a four hour shift - contact us and we will find the best hours to fit your schedule.
If you’re interested in this great volunteer op-portunity, please contact LRGHealthcare Volunteer Coordinator Darcy Peary at 737-6720 or [email protected].
LRGHealthcare is a not-for-profit healthcare charita-ble trust representing Lakes Region General Hospital, Franklin Regional Hospi-tal, and affiliated medical providers. LRGHealthcare’s mission is to provide quali-ty, compassionate care and to strengthen the well-being of our community.
Hospital volunteers needed for an exciting new program
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WINNISQUAM ECHO January 23, 2014
You need to save and invest as much as possible to pay for the retirement lifestyle you’ve envisioned. But your retire-ment income also depends, to a certain degree, on how your retirement funds are taxed. And that’s why you may be interested in tax diversifica-tion.
To understand the concept of tax diversification, you’ll need to be familiar with how two of the most important retirement-savings vehicles — an IRA and a 401(k) — are taxed. Essentially, these accounts can be classified as either “traditional” or “Roth.”
When you invest in a tra-ditional IRA or 401(k), your contributions may be tax-de-ductible and your earnings can grow tax deferred. With a Roth IRA or 401(k), your contributions are not deduct-ible, but your distributions can potentially be tax-free, pro-vided you meet certain condi-tions. (Keep in mind, though, that to contribute to a Roth IRA, you can’t exceed desig-nated income limits. Also, not all employers offer the Roth option for 401(k) plans.)
Of course, “tax free” sounds better than “tax deferred,” so you might think that a Roth option is always going to be preferable. But that’s not nec-essarily the case. If you think
your tax bracket will be lower in retirement than when you were working, a traditional IRA or 401(k) might be a better choice, due to the cumu-lative tax deductions you took at a higher tax rate. But if your tax bracket will be the same, or higher, during retirement, then the value of tax-free dis-tributions from a Roth IRA or 401(k) may outweigh the benefits of the tax deductions you’d get from a traditional IRA or 401(k).
So making the choice between “traditional” and “Roth” could be tricky. But here’s the good news: You don’t necessarily have to choose, at least not with your IRA. That’s because you may be able to contribute to both a traditional IRA and a Roth IRA, assuming you meet the Roth’s income guidelines. This allows you to benefit from both the tax deductions of the traditional IRA and the potential tax-free distributions of the Roth IRA.
And once you retire, this “tax diversification” can be especially valuable. Why? Because when you have money in different types of accounts, you gain flexibili-ty in how you structure your withdrawals — and this flex-ibility can help you poten-tially increase the amount
of your after-tax disposable income. If you have a variety of accounts, with different tax treatments, you could decide to first make your required withdrawals (from a tradition-al IRA and 401(k) or other employer-sponsored plan), followed, in order, by with-drawals from your taxable investment accounts, your tax-deferred accounts and, finally, your tax-free accounts. Keep in mind, though, that you may need to vary your actual sequence of withdraw-als from year to year, depend-ing on your tax situation. For example, it might make sense to change the order of with-drawals, or take withdrawals from multiple accounts, to help reduce taxes and avoid moving into a different tax bracket.
Clearly, tax diversification can be beneficial. So after consulting with your tax and financial advisors, consider ways of allocating your retire-ment plan contributions to pro-vide the flexibility you need to maximize your income during your retirement years.
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Igor Markelic is a se-nior at Winnisquam High School with an interesting path that led him to New Hampshire.
Markelic was born in Knin, Croatia to parents who were Serbian.
“They faced a lot of discrimination there, though, so we left when I was two and a half years old, and they brought us to the Franklin area as polit-ical refugees,” he said.
The family settled in and made a life for them-selves in their new home, and soon had a baby girl, the first and only family member to be born in the United States.
“It’s tough sometimes to have no extended fam-ily here, but we’re really close, so it’s all good,” said Markelic.
His grandmother visit-ed them once last summer, though, and the family has also gone back to Croatia a couple of times since they left.
“I got the chance to meet the rest of the fam-ily, but I’m not really ingrained in the culture over there,” he said.
What he is ingrained in, however, is being kind and helping others.
Markelic is a second year member of the Inter-Act Club at WRHS, which, through a partnership with the Tilton-Northfield Rotary, assists in commu-nity service projects and events, including Winn-isquam Regional School District’s annual Holiday Dinner.
He is a past Student Council member, and has also taken part in Dra-ma Club. In his freshman year, he was in their pro-duction of the play “Nois-es Off,” and he helped out as a technician for “The Crucible.”
“I recently haven’t had time to be involved in dra-ma, but I really liked it. It gives you a really big feeling of self-accomplish-ment,” he said. “It was a good experience and I learned a lot, but the big-gest benefit was the huge amount of support you got from everyone in the group.”
Markelic’s time is now spent on his studies. He is a state scholar at WRHS, and has been taking sev-eral Advanced Placement classes. This semester, he is tackling AP Physics and AP European History, both of which require a lot of his time.
“There’s a lot to learn and memorize in history. Mrs. Voight is really good, though, and I’ve taken a lot of AP history classes all along. I want to get at least four well-done AP classes in before I gradu-ate,” Markelic said. “You can earn some college credits, and they’re a good introduction as to how col-lege classes are run.”
He has also been build-ing on his knowledge of French, and is now in his fourth year of studying the language. In addition to French, he is also famil-iar with Serbian, which he said he understands a bit better than he can speak.
As he is filling out his college applications, Markelic said he’s still a little uncertain about what he would specifical-ly like to study, but feels it will definitely center around the fields of jour-nalism and communica-tions.
“I like watching VICE. It’s an online site with
videos and documentaries that explore the strange and unusual things going on,” he said. “There’s a lot of eye-opening things on there.”
Whatever he eventu-ally decides to do in life, there is one thing he is sure of though. Markelic said he wants to be able to travel around in his ca-reer and meet many types of people.
“I don’t think I could settle down in just one place,” he said.
So far, he has applied to UNH and Plymouth State University in his quest to stay in New England next fall at an affordable col-lege.
When not studying, Markelic enjoys going to concerts and spending time outdoors. He does a lot of hiking and exploring in the woods and said be-ing surrounded by nature is a calm, peaceful and in-trospective experience.
“We all need those mo-ments,” said Markelic.
He was once hiking on the lower levels of Mount Washington and recalled meeting a gentleman from Russia on the trail. He and a friend later heard that that the man died on the mountain after they had encountered him.
“We felt so bad to hear that, and wanted to do something, so we got some poppies and my friend took them up there as a tribute. We just felt it was the right thing to do,” said Markelic.
He also mountain bikes along trails in the area, and spends a lot of time with his girlfriend in Moultonboro. Last sum-mer Markelic worked for a landscaping company and he hopes to find an-other job where he can interact with others at the same time.
“I like meeting differ-ent people, whether it’s in retail or whatever. Ev-eryone has something to bring to the table and I en-joy that,” he said.
Markelic, his younger sister and his parents re-side in Northfield.
Echoes of Excellence STUDENT OF THE WEEK
LYNDONVILLE, Vt. — Lyndon State College has announced the Dean’s List recipients for the fall 2013 semester. For inclu-sion on the Dean’s List, a student must have com-pleted at least 12 graded credits with no incomplete or failing grades and a min-imum grade-point average
of 3.50.Samuel Couture of San-
bornton is a Junior, and is majoring in Business Ad-ministration.
Joy Piper of Belmont is a Sophomore, and is ma-joring in Exercise Science- Sports Medicine Athletic Training.
Lyndon State balances
liberal arts and national-ly recognized professional programs that integrate theory with hands-on expe-riences to prepare individ-uals for success. Nestled in northeastern Vermont, the college of 1,500 students is well known for its tradition of enthusiasm, community service, and friendliness.
Vermont’s Lyndon State College announces Dean’s List recipients
LACONIA — Lakes Re-gion Community College in Laconia announces the President’s and Vice Presi-dent’s lists for the Fall Ses-sion ending in December 2013.
The President’s List, des-ignating a 3.75 Grade Point Average (GPA) or above, is the highest honor a stu-dent can achieve. The Vice
President’s List denotes an earned GPA of 3.30 to 3.74.
President’s ListBelmont — Tabitha Col-
vin, Steven Farkas, Nikki Miller, Timothy Moreau, Cindy Reid
Tilton — Heidi Joyce, Derrick Lambert, Jonathan Norton, Wayne Penney
Vice President’s ListBelmont — Kurt Ober-
hausen, Makenzie Moody, Brielle Moore, Kevin Pin-ette
Northfield — Emily Smart, Michael Sheehan
Sanbornton — Thomas Gaydos
Tilton — Cory Malette, Ian Keith
Locals named to President’s, Vice President’s lists at LRCC
MANCHESTER — The following Winnisquam area students have been named to the President’s List for the Fall 2013 se-mester at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester.
To be eligible for this honor, a student must compile an academic
The following stu-dents have been named to the Dean’s List. To be eligible for this honor, a student must compile an academic grade point av-erage of 3.500-3.699.
-Belmont — Wilbert Danger, Olivia Doucette
-Tilton — Andrea Glines
Local students named to President’s List and Dean’s List at Southern NH University
The day was planned by three professional educa-tors who graduated from the leadership program last year — Gilford Superinten-dent of Schools Kent Hem-ingway and Laconia School District’s Technology In-tegration Facilitator, Kar-en Switzer and Academic Coordinator for Learning Steve Tucker. The trio was assisted by Leadership Lakes Region Coordinator Jennifer McLean.
The Day began at Gilford Elementary School, where Principal Danielle Bolduc introduced three young students who demonstrat-ed their computer pro-grammed robotic vehicle. This was followed by three more students demonstrat-ing their interactive com-puter math lesson using a classroom “Smart Board.” Hemingway and Curricu-lum Developer Scott Lal-iberte then walked the Leadership class through various computer exer-cises demonstrating the State’s Common Core Stan-dards.
The Leadership group then traveled to the new Huot Technical Center for a delicious lunch prepared
by the Culinary Arts stu-dents under the guidance of Department Chairman Jack Aldrich and Instruc-tor Rhonda Fahrner. The students represented the towns of Gilford, Belmont, Tilton, Meredith and the City of Laconia. Following lunch, retired Huot Center Director Scott Davis led the group in a team building exercise followed by a pre-sentation by New Hamp-shire Ball Bearings’ Gary Groleau and Huot instruc-tor Ken Martin about the Manufacturing/Engineer-ing Program at the Center and the recent grant the Lakes Region Community College received to pro-mote and assist students pursuing manufacturing careers.
Next on the program were Assistant Principals Anthony Sperazzo from Gil-ford High and Christopher Ennis, himself a graduate of Leadership Lakes Re-gion, from Laconia Middle School, the Laconia High/Middle Schools Resource Officer, Laconia Police Of-ficer Steve Orton and the Director of the Huot Cen-ter, David Warrender. The four gentlemen covered safety and security issues as they pertain to schools in light of recent tragedies around the country. Sever-al area college students and
LHS senior Garrett Guill-mett conducted a panel discussion with LHS Guid-ance person Wendi Hamill on innovative ways now available to high school students to earn Alterna-tive Credit.
The Education Day con-cluded with the Leadership Lakes Region class of 23 area professionals taking a walking tour of the Huot Center, followed by a com-puter lab demonstration of the Career Cruising Soft-ware; a program which allows students unsure of their career options to in-put their personal interest and choices with the soft-ware aligning those inter-ests with potential careers to consider.
“Our day was jam-packed,” said Program Co-ordinator McLean, “but the class really learned a lot by “going back to school’ for this day.”
“We are indebted to LRG-Healthcare for, once again, sponsoring a Program Day for us with their financial support” McLean said. Leadership Lakes Region’s next program, Economic Issues Day, is scheduled for February 5th. Anyone interested in learning more about the leadership pro-gram can check the orga-nization’s website at www.leadershiplakesregion.org.
LRGHealthcare sponsors Leadership Lakes Region’s
Educational Issues Day
STORRS, Conn. — The University of Connecti-cut recently announced the students who attained the Dean’s List for the fall 2013 semester.
To make the Dean’s
List, students must be taking at least 12 credits, finish the semester with a grade point average that is among the top 25 per-cent of students enrolled in their school or college,
and have no grade below a “C.”
Among those named to the Dean’s List for the fall semester was Montana Joan Paulhus of North-field.
Northfield resident named to UConn Dean’s List
Sponsored by LRGHealthcare, New Hampshire Hospital
Association, Health First Family Care Center
and ServiceLink
LACONIA — On Satur-
day, Jan. 25 from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., certified counsel-ors will be at Lakes Re-gion General Hospital in the lower level conference rooms to assist the public in signing up for insurance in the Health Insurance Marketplace.
Individuals should bring their Social Security num-ber, employer name and income levels for entire household (information is on a current pay stub or W-2 form), and if currently insured, all information on insurance, including the current policy number(s).
Sponsored by LRG-Healthcare, New Hamp-shire Hospital Association, Health First Family Care Center, and ServiceLink, this service is free and open to the public.
LRGHealthcare is a not-for-profit healthcare charitable trust represent-ing Lakes Region General Hospital, Franklin Re-gional Hospital, and affil-iated medical providers. LRGHealthcare’s mission is to provide quality, com-passionate care and to strengthen the well-being of our community.
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LACONIA — Add a class to your night life and brighten your future this Winter with Laconia Adult Education, invites Mrs. Peggy Selig, Pro-gram Director.
Laconia Adult Educa-tion kicks off a new sea-son of exciting enrich-ment courses. Fly Tying, Belly Dancing, Welding, Gluten Free Cooking, Yoga, Quilting, Drawing, Knitting, Water Color Painting, Dog Obedience, and Computer classes are just a few of the courses offered for the Winter Se-mester 2014. Enrichment classes are scheduled to begin the week of Jan. 27-30. Laconia Adult Ed-ucation truly offers some-thing for everyone, notes Mrs. Peggy Selig, Pro-gram Director.
You can prepare for the SAT or the HiSET (High School Equivalen-cy Test), attend Laconia Academy to get your high school diploma, or enjoy the evening Wine Tast-ing Seminar and Gour-met Dinner. Enroll in a “free” Financial Success Workshop Series and learn how to make smart investments in stocks and bonds for today’s up and down markets. Learn how to make informed decisions in Planning for Future Retirement or find out about Investing Facts and Strategies for Savvy Women! Enroll in a Reiki, Tai Chi Chih or Cake Dec-orating Class. Be adven-turous and try your hand at Knitting for Beginners, or a beginning Welding classes. Learn how to speak Spanish or Sign Language. Enjoy a class in Mah Jongg Made Easy, Digital Photography or the Oil Painting Studio! Spice up your cooking skills and learn about French Country Cooking. Learn how to make Sushi and other easy and de-licious Chinese recipes. Computer classes for the Computer Illiterate are offered in addition to Mic-rosoft Office Basics: Word and Excel. Enhance your photography skills by Ed-iting Photographic Imag-es that have a visual im-pact! For the Beginning or Intermediate Golfer, play golf indoors this winter using Indoor Golf Simulators. Springtime Beginning and Intermedi-ate Golf Lessons will also be offered outdoors at La-conia Country Club.
Take a class in Weld-ing Basics Arc, Gas, Mig & Tig or Naked Eats and Raw Treats: Whole Foods and Plant Based. A Dig-
ital Photography course for the beginner or ad-vanced camera buff is also offered in addition to Woodworking and an Ad-vanced Welding special-izing in TIG Techniques. Find out about the ben-efits of Holistic Roots to Healthy Living and Life-style Choices taught by Brian Paterson, ND or enroll in an Estate, Wills, Trusts and Guardianship Planning Seminar taught by Scott McGauffin. Yoga: Just For Men is also of-fered that will help you lose weight and remove stress from your life. Sign up for an one night workshop on Acupunc-ture, Herbs and Holistic Medicine or Angel Cards: What Are They and Expe-rience a Reading. Learn about Astrology and how universal energy affects you!
Algebra I/Accuplacer, Chemistry & Lab or Hu-man Biology & Lab are all available for pre-nurs-ing students. Fill leisure hours and have fun in Genealogy. A free Reiki seminar is offered in addi-tion to a Reiki Level I and Reiki Level II Certifica-tion. Get rid of the stress in your life and learn Meditation for Health and Relaxation. Do you have a new puppy? Learn to train your dog in a Basic or Advanced Dog Obedi-ence class that will help fill leisure evening hours productively.
Learn to speak, read, write and understand English for those individ-uals living in the Lakes Region from a foreign country. The classes are free, and meet Tuesday & Thursday evenings from 6-8:30 p.m. for 11 weeks. Learn to speak and under-stand English in a friend-ly and nurturing envi-ronment. If you know of someone who needs ESOL help, please call the Laco-nia Adult Education Of-fice at 524-5712.
A high school diploma enables one to get a job or job promotion, enlist in the military service, get a pay increase, or improve one’s sense of self-esteem and personal self-worth. Laconia Academy, the adult high school diploma program, enables anyone wishing to return to the classroom at night, the chance to earn a high school diploma. Classes meet from 6-9 p.m., Mon-day - Thursday nights. A high school transcript from the last school at-tended is required. Credit is given for those courses successfully passed. Life
experience credits are also given for work and military service. Laconia Academy is also approved for anyone eligible for Veterans’ Benefits.
Laconia Academy also enables In-School Youths, lacking the proper num-ber of credits to graduate in June 2014 with their class, to enroll and take courses. Permission is needed from the princi-pal of the sending school in order for an in-school youth to enroll at Laco-nia Academy. Credits for courses successfully passed at Laconia Acad-emy will be transferred back to the day program prior to the June gradua-tion date.
Bank of New Hamp-shire is providing lim-ited Scholarship help to residents of Laconia, Gilford, Meredith, Moul-tonborough, Center Har-bor, Plymouth and Bris-tol, wishing to attend Laconia Academy and get a High School Diploma. Financial need must be demonstrated. The Adult Success Program through a Grant from the New Hampshire Charitable and the Pardoe Founda-tion will also provide lim-ited scholarship help de-pending on demonstrated financial need.
Statistics show that one out of seven adults in New Hampshire does not have a high school diplo-ma. You are not alone. 1,211 Lakes Region adults have earned their high school diploma through Laconia Academy. Ev-eryone knows how im-portant an education is. Do something special and treat yourself to a more successful career by earning your high school diploma. Laconia Acad-emy gives Lakes Region residents a second chance to go back to school and earn a high school diplo-ma so that no one is left behind. Call 524-5712 to set up an appointment to enroll in classes for the Winter Semester 2014.
Adult Basic Education Classes help adults to im-prove their basic math and reading skills in a classroom setting. The Adult Math and Reading Clinics emphasize basic math competencies and reading comprehension skills. It helps adults feel more competent in being able to meet their person-al, vocational and family obligations by improving their life coping survival skills. Classes are free, and meet from 6-8:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday
evenings. The High School Equiv-
alency (HiSET) Prepa-ration classes are due to start on Tuesday, Jan. 14 and Thursday, Jan. 16 from 6-8:30 p.m. for an 11 week semester. The HiSET Test offers adults a quick way to gain a sec-ondary completion. It is a HiSET Certificate and not a High School Diplo-ma. A HISET Certificate enables you to attend a Vocational-Technical or Community College or apply for a job where a High School education is required. The HISET Test is given by appoint-ment only. You must be 18 years of age or older to take the HISET Test. Anyone under age eigh-teen must be enrolled in a HISET Options Pro-gram in order to be able to take the HISET Test. A Daytime HISET Program is also available Monday through Thursday from
8:45 a.m. – 2:15 p.m. This Program is free. Informa-tion can be obtained by calling the Laconia Adult Education Office at 524-5712.
The Adult Tutorial Pro-gram for Belknap County helps non-reading adults learn to read, write, and do simple mathematical computations needed for everyday life. The Tuto-rial Program also needs tutors who are willing to help people learn to speak, read and write English as a second language. Vol-unteer tutors are needed to be trained to work on a one-to-one basis with adult students who can-not read and need to learn to speak English. There is no pressure in the Tutori-al Program. There are no grades involved. The Tu-torial Program is always on the lookout for adults who need help with read-ing or who are unable to read. Perhaps you know
of a relative, friend, or someone you work with who can’t read or needs to learn to speak English. Call 524-5712 and make a referral. All information is strictly confidential. In 2014, there is no need for anyone to be embarrassed because they can’t read or speak English, do not have a High School Di-ploma or a HISET Certifi-cate. Help is only a phone call away.
Brighten your future and light up your night life this Winter with La-conia Adult Education! Life-long learning and continuing education enables one to enrich leisure hours. Laconia Adult Education offers a wide variety of enriching opportunities and expe-riences for everyone in the community. Call 524-5712 or stop by the Adult Education Office located in Room #108 at Laconia High School.
LACONIA — Daytime HISET Preparation Class-es are held at Laconia Adult Education on Mon-day through Thursday from 8:45 a.m. – 2:15 p.m. These classes run from September to June, and are free. Classes begin on Tuesday, Sept. 4.
The HISET Test offers adults an alternative to complete a secondary edu-cation. It is a HISET Certif-icate and not a High School Diploma. A HISET Certifi-cate enables you to attend a Vocational-Technical or Community College
or apply for a job where a High School education is required. The HISET Test is given by appointment only. Anyone under age eighteen must be enrolled in a HISET Options Pro-gram in order to take the HISET Test. Information can be obtained by calling the Laconia Adult Educa-tion Office at 524-5712.
The HISET Test covers Reading Comprehension in the subject areas of Sci-ence, Social Studies and Literature and the Arts. The Math section requires students to be proficient
in basic Math, Fractions, Decimals, Percentages in addition to Algebra and Geometry. The Writing section of the HISET Test covers Grammar and Punctuation and a Writ-ten Essay. The HISET Test is written at a 10th grade reading level.
For more information about the Daytime or Eve-ning HISET Preparation classes or the HISET Test, please call the Laconia Adult Education office at 524-5712 or drop by Room #108 at Laconia High School.
GILMANTON — Car-ol N. Locke, Gilmanton School Principal, congratu-lates the following students for achieving Honor Roll status for the first trimes-ter of the 2013-2014 school year.
Sixth grade honorsDylan Booth, Alysha
Burton, Olivia Comeau, Jillian Cookinham, Karin Desrosiers, Eliya Fischev, Baylee Gill, Alexina Gil-lis, Kathleen Hackley, Sa-mantha Holland, Jocelyn Jarvis, Gwendalynn Knip-ping, Hannah Lord, Mol-ly O’Brien, Kara Presby, Brandon Rague, Maddison Rector, Alan Smith, Jaylin Tully, Maggie Vallee and Breanna Vezina
Sixth grade high honors
Noah Bolduc, Natalie Brown, Katiana Gamache, Taylor Hurst, Ramsey Landry, Kyla Mercier, Ra-chael Shute, Abigail War-ren, Jeremy Wilson and Molly Wrobel
Alexis Boisvert, Michael Eisenmann, Erika Mosher, Sarah Jansury, Michael Maltais, Emily Waite
Eighth grade HonorsConnor Adel, Jenna Bau-
meister, Jackson Brulotte, Julianna Coulstring, Cam-ryn Drew, Sarah Fillion, Sandor Gamache, Anthony Gentile, Mitchell Juneau, Jake King, Emily Kordas, Jacob Malburne, Julia Mathieu, Lydia Meserve, Dagan Poulin, Owen Ram-sey, Molly Vallee, Ryan Waring, Carly White
Affordable Care Act Enrollment Fair at LRGH Jan. 25
Challenge grant award kicks off fundraising
effort to complete major restoration of nationally
significant building
CANTERBURY — Canterbury Shaker Vil-lage, a National Historic Landmark, was recently awarded a $150,000 Land and Community Heri-tage Investment Program (LCHIP) grant for the pur-pose of renovating and re-storing the Shaker Trust-ees’ Office. The award of these funds, which re-quires a one-to-one match, officially kicks off a fund-raising effort to raise the additional $208,000 to com-plete the project.
The Trustees’ Office is one of the most important structures of the 30 build-ings within the 694 acre historic National Historic Landmark of Canterbury Shaker Village, and is part of the Shaker Village His-toric District created by the Town of Canterbury in 1994. The Trustees’ Office is situated along Shaker Road, one of New Hamp-shire’s first designated scenic and cultural by-ways.
The restoration and renovation project will consolidate the museum’s offices and create program and exhibit spaces on main floor, provide overnight accommodations for work-shop participants and lecturers on the second floor, provide collections storage on top floor, and create a rental apartment in the lower level with a centralized area for house-keeping. The total cost of the project is $358,000, and will rely on a combination of private donations and additional grant funding to match the LCHIP funds.
“Interpretively and his-torically, the Trustees’ of-fice was the center of Shak-er business transactions with the surrounding com-munity,” noted Funi Bur-dick, Executive Director. “Its story provides criti-cal context to the impor-tance and significance of commerce and industry to Shaker life. Once restored, the public will have access and visibility to the build-ing year round and the in-terpretation of Shaker life will be complete.”
The Trustee’s Office was designed as the hub of the Canterbury Shakers’ considerable commercial enterprises. It housed only those Shakers who had the authority to conduct business for the commu-nity. Here, they executed contracts for their inven-tions and manufactured goods (such as washing machines, medicines, seed packets and other dry goods), housed guests and clients who arrived from distant places, and met
with townspeople and lo-cal officials to discuss civ-ic matters. The building was continually used and occupied by the Shakers from 1831 through 1990, and was the home of the last members of the Shak-er Lead Ministry in Amer-ica. The Trustees’ Office has national significance as one of the best examples of Shaker architecture surviving in any of the original 19 Shaker commu-nities from Maine to Ken-tucky. The fact that the Shakers spent more mon-ey on the Trustees’ Office than on any other Shaker building underscores the significance and scale of their economic activities. The restoration will com-plete the interpretation of Shaker life in Canterbury.
The Trustees’ Office is the only masonry build-ing at Canterbury Shaker Village. Architecturally, the Trustees’ Office is the finest Shaker building of its type and houses some of the finest original Shak-er interiors (1831-1920s). The four-story, 22-room brick building is sited on a cut-granite foundation and retains much of its orig-inal character and many features not found in oth-er Shaker buildings or in domestic structures of the time period. The original Shaker style double stair-case, with one side for men and another for women, is completely intact. The en-tire building retains orig-inal doors, hardware and built-in cupboards. The upper two floors retain some original finishes. The lower level and main floor were selectively mod-ernized by the Shakers. The building also contains numerous technological
or building features that were advanced for the 1830’s.
Businesses and indi-viduals interested in sup-porting the restoration of the Trustees’ Office should contact Funi Burdick at 783-9077, ext. 201. For more information on Can-terbury Shaker Village, please visit www.shakers.org.
About Canterbury
Shaker VillageCanterbury Shaker Vil-
lage is dedicated to pre-serving the 200-year Shak-er legacy of innovative design, entrepreneurship and simple living by pro-viding a place for learning, reflection, and renewal of the human spirit. Visitors are encouraged to rethink tradition by learning about the life, ideals, values, and history of the Canterbury Shakers. The National His-toric Landmark includes 25 restored original and four reconstructed Shaker buildings, and 694 acres of forests, fields, gardens, na-ture trails, and mill ponds under permanent con-servation easement. The Village cafe offers simple lunch fare and the Muse-um Store features unique gifts and wares handmade by regional artists. Can-terbury Shaker Village, located at 288 Shaker Rd. in Canterbury, is open daily from May 27-Oct. 27 and weekends in May and November. For more information, visit www.shakers.org.
TILTON — Mark your calendar for Wednesday, Jan. 29 so you don’t forget to attend the Lakes Re-gion Chamber Business After Hours hosted at the Hampton Inn & Suites, Tilton, from 4 – 6 p.m. On-ions Restaurant & Pub is preparing delicious appe-tizers for the event, and the cocktails will be on us. We will have surprise door prizes, and for any-
body interested, we will offer a tour of the hotel.
Come and spend a love-ly evening with us and see firsthand our wonder-ful hotel! We hope to see you on Jan. 29 at 195 Laco-nia Rd., Tilton, NH 03276.
For more information,
contact the Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce at 524-5531.
Registration is now open on the Chamber’s Web site at
w w w . l a k e s r e g i o n -chamber.org.
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WINNISQUAM ECHO January 23, 2014
It’s a Good Time Every Nightof the Week at the Barn!
MondaysBURGER TIME$5.00 burgers all day!
mouth watering, big beefy burgerswith hand cut fries.Tuesdays
PIZZA TIME!Pizzas $10, up to 4 specified toppings,
dine in only,2 pizzas per party.
SWIRL, SIP & SAVEHalf off featured red and white wine.
WednesdaysFIESTA EN EL ESTABLO!
party at the barn!20% off Mexican items on menu,
$1 off margaritas.Thursdays
PRIME RIB DINNER15 oz. $14.95 (while it lasts)
live music 7-10 pmSundays
BEER SPECIALS1-4 pm
DailyEARLY BIRD GETS THE DEAL!
dinner specials 4-5:30 pm
293-8700Lakeshore Rd.Gilford, NHdirectly behind
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MEREDITH — With just hours left, Hermit Woods Winery received the necessary contribu-tions to successfully fund their on-line Kickstart-er Campaign. They had just 30 days to raise the $28,000 needed to complete their new tasting room at 72 Main St., Meredith. By the end of their cam-paign, they had more than 170 backers, and raised $28,980.
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With the added funds, work has begun on the final projects necessary to get their new tasting room open in the next few weeks. With a little luck, they hope to be open by Feb. 1, but much will need to happen for them to meet that goal. You can visit their Web site, www.her-mitwoods.com or www.facebook.com/hermit-woods for information on their official opening day.
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Hampton Inn & Suites in Tilton is hosting the Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours on Jan. 29, 4-6 p.m. Planning the festivities are Chamber BOD Member Elaine Blinn; Chamber BOD Secretary Ginger Dubois; Chamber Executive Director Karmen Gifford; Hampton Inn & Suites General Manager Sally Alward; Chamber BOD Chair Warren Bailey; Chamber BOD Treasurer Penny Raby and Hampton Inn & Suites Director of Sales Diana Sabadis.
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LACONIA — Taylor Community CEO Bob Se-lig is pleased to announce monthly musical concerts are coming once again to the local area. The 2014 Taylor Community Music Series Sponsored by Bank of New Hampshire kicks off Jan. 26 at 3 p.m. at Taylor’s Woodside Building in Laco-nia.
“By all accounts, last year’s music series was a great success,” said Selig. “The 12 concerts offered a variety of the highest caliber of musicians from throughout New Hamp-shire. Each performance attracted crowds of up to 180 residents of Taylor Community and the Lakes Region.
“We’re delighted Bank of New Hampshire has chosen to partner with us again this year, allowing us to invite renowned musi-cians from around the state and bring the love of mu-sic to the community each month,” he said.
“Bank of New Hamp-shire is pleased to be the lead sponsor of Taylor Community’s Music Series once again,” said Mark
Primeau, BNH’s President/CEO. “We look forward to a new year of performances and hope the local commu-nity enjoys all the talented musicians scheduled.”
This year’s concerts begin with an encore per-formance by renowned pianists Arlene and Chris-topher Kies. Arlene and her husband, Christopher, have premiered several two-piano compositions including performances at the Fromm Foundation at Harvard and the Washing-ton Square Series. They’re both faculty within the Mu-sic Department at the Uni-versity of New Hampshire in Durham, and were the first artists for 2013.
Selig added the music series wouldn’t have been a reality without Taylor Community resident Bill Bell.
“We’re grateful to Bill for introducing Taylor to his musical contacts through-out the state. He really took the lead and made it pos-sible to bring a variety of talented musicians to our community,” Selig said.
Bell was previously prin-cipal cello of the Lakes Re-
gion Symphony Orchestra, while continuing a lifetime of playing chamber music.
“The Lakes Region is a music lover’s community,” said Bell. “We already have a number of outstanding performers lined up for this year, and I think people will be very pleased with the results.”
“These types of events are one of the reasons so many people choose to move here,” said Taylor Marketing Director Paul Charlton. “We enjoy being able to offer a variety of entertainment at no cost to the general public.”
For more information on the music series, or about Taylor Community in gen-eral, call 524-5600.
LACONIA — New Be-ginnings – Without Vio-lence and Abuse is launch-ing an outreach campaign in observance of Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
New Beginnings, the local domestic and sex-ual violence crisis cen-ter, provides community outreach, education, and violence prevention pro-grams to the community. The organization, found-ed in 1991, is increasing its capacity to engage in education and advocacy around human trafficking. In honor of this awareness month it will be distribut-ing information to health care providers and law en-forcement agencies.
January marks Hu-man Trafficking Aware-ness Month. Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery where people profit from the con-trol and exploitation of others. Human trafficking encompasses both sexual exploitation and forced la-bor. The commonalities between these seemingly diverse types of victimiza-tion are elements of force, fraud, or coercion that are used to control peo-ple. That control is tied to inducing someone into commercial sex acts, or labor or services. Every year, human traffickers generate nearly $32 billion dollars in profits by vic-timizing millions of people around the world. It is the second largest criminal in-dustry in the world.
Sex trafficking occurs when people are forced, coerced, or defrauded into commercial sex acts, or when minors are induced to perform such acts. Sex trafficking exists within the broader commercial sex trade, and does so at much larger rates than most people would guess. Traffickers often prey on vulnerabilities of their vic-tims, especially youth.
Labor traffickers use violence, threats, lies and other forms of coercion to force people to work against their will. Com-mon types of labor traf-ficking include people forced to work in homes or as domestic servants, farm workers coerced through violence as the harvest crops, or factory workers held in inhumane condi-tions with little to no pay.
Despite the work that has been done to increase awareness of human traf-ficking, many myths and misconceptions still cloud people’s understanding of this complicated issue. To clarify some of the most common: trafficking is not smuggling or forced movement. To paraphrase the Polaris Project: “smug-gling is a crime against a country’s borders, hu-man trafficking is a crime against a person.” In fact, trafficking does not require border crossing
at all, and does not only happen to immigrants or foreign nationals. Sex trafficking of domestic victims (US citizens and legal permanent residents) is the most common form of trafficking in the US. Another misconception centers on the use of phys-ical force, violence, or re-straint; the reality is that physical force is not need-ed as psychological means of control and coercion are sufficient elements of the crime. Finally, it is im-portant to debunk the no-tion that trafficking only occurs in large cities with victims taken from rural areas. In addition to the reality that transportation isn’t always a factor in trafficking, it is important to note that the kinds of vulnerabilities traffickers play on can be found in all areas and that trafficking can be hidden in virtually any “legitimate” commer-cial endeavor. There have been reports of human trafficking in all 50 US states.
New Beginnings pro-vides services to people whose lives have been af-fected by domestic and sex-ual violence and stalking, which includes people who suffered sexual violence in the context of commercial sexual exploitation. Spe-cially trained advocates are available 24-hours a day to provide non-judg-mental support and ad-vocacy, emergency assis-tance, and referral to other programs and resources that victims of human traf-ficking may wish to utilize.
All community mem-bers can play a role in end-ing human trafficking and helping those who have been victimized. Local-ly, New Beginnings is in need of volunteers to par-ticipate in the upcoming
training and help provide support over the 24-hour crisis lines. Another way to help end trafficking is to learn more about this issue and help spread awareness among friends and family. The following websites offer extensive information for those who want to learn more about trafficking, including the warning signs and how to help:
New Beginnings’ website: www.newbe-ginningsnh.org, and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewBegin-ningsNH,
Polaris Project: The Na-tional Human Trafficking Resource Center: www.po-larisproject.org
Coalition Against traf-ficking in Women: www.catw.org
The United Nations Of-fice on Drugs and Crime: www.unodc.org
For more information, assistance, or to report a tip, call the National Hu-man Trafficking Resource Center’s hotline: 1-888-373-7888. If you or someone you know has been affect-ed by sexual violence or exploitation, domestic vio-lence, or stalking, New Be-ginnings can provide free and confidential support and advocacy 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. To speak with an advocate in your area, use the state-wide hotlines: 1-800-277-5570 (for sexual violence), 1-866-841-3574. For volun-teer opportunities, edu-cation and outreach pro-grams, and information about New Beginnings, call the office at 528-6511.
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LACONIA — The STRIDE (Sodexo Training and Employment for Indi-viduals with Disabilities for Employment) program at Plymouth State Univer-sity congratulated anoth-er class of graduates on Dec. 19. The ceremony for intern graduates and their families was held at PSU’s Hartman Union Building.
The goal of the 15 week program, sponsored by Lakes Region Communi-ty Services and Sodexo at PSU, is to create a pool of qualified individuals who will be trained and eligi-ble to apply for positions in the food services in-dustry within Sodexo and with other employers.
Rosemary Gelinas, the mother of STRIDE gradu-ate Chrissy Gelinas, said the experience was in-
valuable for her daughter. “She made great friend-
ships with interns and staff members,” said Ge-linas, adding that the rou-tine and expectations of the program helped her daughter to develop excel-lent work habits.
“She was excited about the program. She was get-ting up on time and mak-ing sure she had every-thing she needed before leaving the house. She’s really grown and ma-tured,” said Gelinas. “The program doesn’t limit them. It shows them pos-sibilities and opens new doors.”
Lakes Region Commu-nity Services is a nonprof-it, comprehensive family support agency with a pri-mary focus of providing supports to individuals
with developmental dis-abilities and/or acquired brain disorders and their families. A dynamic hu-man services organiza-tion, LRCS offers other essential and critical ser-vices to individuals in the Lakes Region from birth through a lifespan. At the core of LRCS’ work are in-clusion, acceptance, and building strengths and partnerships – whether at the individual, family or community level.
LRCS has offices in Laconia and Plymouth which combine to serve families residing through-out Belknap and South-ern Grafton Counties. To learn more about the Lakes Region Community Services contact Joanne Piper Lang at 524-8891 or visit www.lrcs.org.
PLYMOUTH — People who are thinking about downsizing are often shocked at the amount of possessions they’ve man-aged to collect over the years. They may be inter-ested in making a move, but look at everything in their garage, basement or attic and wonder, “What on earth are we going to do with all this stuff?”
Taylor Community is sponsoring a seminar to provide invaluable advice
to help in downsizing from start to finish. This free seminar will be held Fri-day, Feb. 7 at 11 a.m. at the Pease Library, 1 Russell St., Plymouth.
The presentation will include helpful, profes-sional advice from a senior move manager; options for disposing of unwanted items and words of wis-dom from people who have successfully managed a move.
Taylor Community is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit Continuing Care Retire-ment Community whose mission is to provide the highest quality retirement living options to support the independence, health and dignity of communi-ty residents. Visit www.taylorcommunity.org and check us out Facebook to keep up with all our events.
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Pictured (left to right) at this year’s STRIDE Graduation at PSU are: Samantha Ely (Belmont), Janice Nelson (Meredith), Chris Mongeon (Sodexo); Shaina Dickinson (New Hampton); Alden Hammond (Sanbornton); Chrissy Gelinas (Laconia), and LRCS staff member Shelley Shamberger.
STRIDE program graduates second class at PSU ceremony
Taylor Community presents What on earth are we going to do with all this stuff?
Taylor Concert series kicks off Jan. 26 with renowned pianists
Distressed parents have discovered their children dangerously high on the substance, and were afraid they were going to die. Many end up at the hospi-tal emergency room as a result of smoking it.
“I don’t think we can ever keep it out of Tilton, but at least we can have it not being sold in Tilton,” the chief said.
The City of Keene, Buff-ington told selectmen, has developed a very compre-hensive ordinance ban-ning sales of these prod-ucts, and he said that has resulted in all “spice” products being pulled from store in that city.
“They’ve only issued one citation so far, in Keene,” Buffington said.
In a similar ordinance that TPD outlined for the select board, there would be a $500 fine for anyone who sells, barters, gives, or even publicly displays synthetic marijuana prod-ucts either for sale or as an attempt to sell them. The items would also be subject to seizure by law enforcement.
Some selectmen were not sure that banning the substance is the route the town should take, howev-er.
Katherine Dawson cited cigarettes, fuel canisters for camp stoves, glue and hairspray as other legal substances that are carcin-ogens, or have been abused for intoxicating purposes.
“I think this is a parent-ing issue. Something else will just take its place,” she said.
She further stated she would prefer to see efforts made in the schools to ed-ucate children on the dan-gers of abusing their bod-ies with toxic substances rather than banning their sale to law abiding citi-zens.
Selectman Joe Jesse-man agreed, saying that while he did not advocate the illicit use of “spice,” a town ordinance against it could potentially set a precedent in banning many other types of retail products in the future.
“There’s just too many products out there to al-ter the state of conscious-ness,” he said.
Dawson also noted that since the product is avail-able in other towns, she was concerned that others might buy it elsewhere for use as intended, then get cited for possession of it in
Tilton.“If I go buy it and use it
properly, have I commit-ted a crime?” she asked.
Buffington assured her that that scenario was out-side the intent of the ordi-nance.
Selectman Albert LaPlante made a motion to accept the ordinance, and his motion was seconded by Sandra Plessner, but on reconsideration, the mo-tion was withdrawn when Chairman Pat Consentino suggested the board seek input from the public.
Selectmen unanimous-ly agreed to hold a public hearing on the matter, and are encouraging parents, educators, business own-ers, substance abuse coun-cilors and law enforcement to attend. The hearing will take place at 7 p.m. on Feb. 13 on the second floor of the Tilton Town Hall.
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“Scooby Snax,” “Atomic,” “Klimax” and similar incense products are being purchased by teens in select stores throughout New Hampshire who then smoke it for its synthetic marijuana properties. Tilton selectmen are now considering a proposal from their police depart-ment that asks for a ban on sales of the products in the town.
as Drano, matches, ephed-rine or pseudoephedrine cold tablets, lithium from batteries, Coleman fuel, brake fluid, lighter fluid, and other household items. Once combined, they are allowed to sit for awhile to create the crystallized methamphet-amine and can become high-ly volatile at that time.
“There was one pot they had ready to go when we went in,” Raffaelly said, “but luckily they hadn’t started it yet.”
The chief said last week’s operation was “text book” in its execution, and lasted only about 45 minutes. In
that time, he said the sus-pects were all taken into custody, and the DEA was able to obtain the evidence they needed from the meth-amphetamine production in the two apartments. There were no further incidents and no injuries as a result of the raid.
Arrested were 36-year-old Jason Buckley, 27-year-old Janell Dubreuil, 25-year-old Amanda Warner and 27-year-old Brian Batemen, all of 6 Elm St. in Northfield. Also taken into custody was 26-year-old Joseph Cole of Boscawen and 23-year-old Anthony Ottati of Tilton.
All six were held over-night at the Merrimack County Jail, and were ar-raigned in Franklin District Court last Friday on charges
relating to the manufacture of methamphetamine. War-ner was also charged with one count of endangering the welfare of a child for al-lowing a minor to potential-ly be exposed to the toxic substances. The child was not in the home at the time of the raid.
Raffaelly said no other arrests were expected in the case and he was pleased that the operation was such a success.
“We rely on anonymous tips like the one we received in this case to get these drugs off our streets. I couldn’t be more pleased with how well this worked out and I encourage others to let us know if they see something suspicious in their neighbor-hood,” he said.
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they can curl up with a good book, magazine or newspa-per. To help make patrons feel right at home, there is hot chocolate and coffee available for a small dona-tion.
Hall Memorial Library
also hosts the work of dif-ferent artists each month and in January people are welcome to stop in to enjoy both the metal sculptures of Hebron artist Darrin Chase, and the black and white photography of Mi-chael Shanahan.
A schedule of all events can be found on the library’s Web site, and each Friday at
4 p.m., people are invited to join them on Facebook to participate in a live chat.
Above all else, as Bartlett pointed out last week, the staff of Hall Memorial Li-brary is wonderful, too.
“They’re so helpful, and always have so much go-ing on. We’re very lucky to have this place right here in our community,” she said.
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for weaving into cloth in the early 19th century. The ex-tensive stone structure built across the pond’s bottom for processing flax is the only known example of such a feature in the State of New Hampshire.
The Frisky Hill view to-ward the Belknaps and the Meetinghouse Road parcels are now owned by the Town of Gilmanton (subject to con-servation easements held by Five Rivers) under the stew-ardship of the Conservation Commission. The remain-ing parcels, also restricted by the conservation easements, are now available for sale for agricultural use, with provi-sions that require mainte-
nance of existing fields and associated views; for more information about this offer-ing, contact Tom Howard, at 253-4999).
Tom Howe, of the Gilman-ton Land Trust, took the lead
in organizing the fundrais-ing campaign and working with several funding agen-cies to create conservation easements to preserve these special places for future gen-erations.
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This iconic view from Frisky Hill (Route 107) in Gilmanton has been conserved for future generations to enjoy. A conservation easement, held by Five Rivers Conservation Trust, will protect this special place, now owned by the Town of Gilmanton and managed by the Town’s Conservation Commission.
of many, including me, I live in a sort of Shangri La, a fragile and demanding place, great to live in but in subtle fashion requiring a commitment to steward in responsible fashion for the next temporary stew-ard after you’re gone. In the meantime, everyone scratches like hell to make a living.
Haute couture and walk-ing dogs in Manhattan? I
think about life halfway between the Equator and the North Pole, and tak-ing Millie to camp, where she courses ahead of me on the trail, scouting for danger, and positions her-self on the porch to scan, radar-like, for likewise (a moose draws a low growl), and then perches on the prow of the boat, trying to eat the trout I’ve caught and want to release. “Sus-tenance,” she concludes, and leaps at the flailing fish, which I save from her jaws and put back, at which she looks at me as in
“You stupid.”I’m lucky to have a dog
that can be a real dog, in dog environs, doing what dogs were meant to do. But loving dogs as I do, even if I were in Manhattan I’d probably have a dog, or more correctly, a dog would have me.
(This column runs in 13 weekly papers covering the northern two-thirds of New Hampshire and parts of Maine and Vermont. John Harrigan’s address: Box 39, Colebrook, NH 03576, or [email protected])
Just six days after a frus-trating loss on the road at Gilford High School, the Winnisquam Regional High School boys’ basketball team bounced back in a big way on Jan. 14. Sophomore point guard Christian Ser-rano scored 29 points, and the Bears used a 13-1 run to open the fourth quarter en route to a 57-50 victory in Division III action.
“It was night and day,” said Winnisquam coach Kevin Dame of the two games against Gilford. “We got absolutely killed on the boards in the first game so we did a much better job tonight. The guys knew they weren’t up to par last game so they were certain-ly charged up for this one.”
While the Eagles got second and third opportu-nities almost every time down the floor in the teams’ first meeting, that wasn’t the case the second time around. Winnisquam, led by Will Singleton and Mike Buxton in the paint, more than held their own down low, and in turn, the Bears were able to get out and run in transition, where they are particularly dangerous.
“We got beat in tran-sition a couple of times,”
admitted GHS coach Chip Veazey. “We’ve just got to play better all around than we did today. Winn-isquam is a good team and they’ve got some very good athletes. We didn’t finish a lot around the basket but we also didn’t get as many second shot chances as last time so give them credit.”
The Bears, who won their third straight game, led just 40-38 entering the fourth quarter, but the hosts took off in a big way to start the final stanza. Bas-kets from Serrano and Sin-gleton got things going, and a huge three-pointer from Spencer Pevine pushed the advantage to 49-39 with 2:37 remaining. That advantage eventually grew to 53-39, but the Eagles tried to close the gap late.
Gilford’s Kaleb Orton scored an old-fashioned three-point play, and Josh Joyce drilled a three of his own. Coby Goodwin also knocked down a three, with that quick 9-0 run taking just 29 seconds to cut the lead to 53-48 with 43 seconds left.
But Serrano iced things at the free throw line, and he finished with 10 of his 29 points in the fourth to lead Winnisquam to the 57-50 win.
“When we control the glass, we can get up and down and we were able to do that,” said Dame. “If you
can have a quiet 29 (points), that just shows you the type of player (Serrano) is. How many players in the state can have a quiet 29?”
Gilford was led by Or-ton’s team-high 19 points, while Joyce totaled 16 points including 12 in the second half.
“We haven’t been shoot-
ing very well lately and that was a problem for us again,” said Veazey. “But this is part of the learning process. We’ve lost a couple games here now but that’s part of putting a season together. You’re going to have times where you need to work on things and that’s where we are right now. We
have areas that need im-provement.”
Buxton chipped in eight points, including a pair of threes in the third quarter, for the Bears, while Pevine scored all eight of his points in the second half.
It was the first game of the season for Winnisquam with all three guard options (Serrano, Pevine, Tucker Normand) available at the
same time.“We have multiple guys
that can perform but it’s obviously nice to have all of them at your disposal,” Dame explained. “This is a big win for us. In the pre-season there wasn’t a Lakes Region team that didn’t point to Gilford as the team to beat. It shows that we can play to that level when we’re on our game.”
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Winnisquam’s Torrey Martinez goes to the basket for a layup with just five seconds left in the first half last week. The host Bears picked up a big 57-50 win over Gilford.
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Will Singleton powers up to the basket for two points during Winnisquam’s 57-50 win over Gilford.
play from Dakota Austin in the paint during the run, as she scored all 11 of her points during the 21-0 spree.
“Dakota gave us a spark,” Dutton said. “She’s feisty and worked really hard out there.”
With Austin in the paint and the back court combo of Howard and Tea Michalos-ki causing havoc at the top of the press, the Bears got easy baskets while forcing 18 second half turnovers.
“Credit to Winnisquam, they figured out our Achil-les’ heel in the fourth quar-ter,” said Forge. “We didn’t handle that pressure well.”
Gilford still had its chances down the stretch, as Cassidy Bartlett’s coast to coast layup with 56 sec-onds remaining closed the gap to 41-38. The sophomore point guard (13 points, sev-en assists, five rebounds) added a free throw with 41 seconds to play to make it a 41-39 game, but free throws from Michaloski and Dallis Austin pushed the advan-tage back to 43-39 with 11 seconds to play. Bartlett
scored a layup with four seconds remaining to close within 43-41, but time ran out for the Eagles.
“We did a better job un-derstanding situations to-night,” said Dutton, whose team took over a minute off the clock late with a stalling offense. “We now know we can come from behind if we need to. This is a huge win for us, a huge confidence booster after three losses in a row.”
Gilford, which led 27-15 at halftime thanks to a dominating 16-4 advantage in the second frame, got a career-high 15 points and 14 rebounds from senior Kay-la Orton, who came off the bench for a monster outing in the paint.
“That was a career night for her, to get a double dou-ble like that,” said Forge of Orton. “She controlled the paint and she’s really stepped it up the last two or three games for us.”
Stevie Orton added five points on the night for Gil-ford, while Jordan Dean and Kelsey Buckley com-bined for 10 rebounds. But the Eagles shot just 16 for 52 on the night, including 8 of 17 from the free throw line (eight missed free throws in the fourth quarter).
Michaloski added eight points in the win for the Bears, while Chapin and Howard each tossed in six.
“In the first half I thought Gilford really outplayed us,” Dutton said. “We just had to play tougher and we found that right com-bination of kids who were willing to keep battling and didn’t think the game was over when we got down (34-17).”
It was a bounce back ef-fort for the Bears after fall-ing in the first of the two meetings to Gilford the pre-vious week on the road.
LACONIA – While the snow outside might have slowed down travel to the game for some, the Bel-mont-Gilford hockey team had no problems moving quickly on Saturday night.
The Bulldogs scored three goals in the first 4:05 of the opening period and never looked back en route to a 6-0 victory over rival Moultonborough/In-ter-Lakes in Division III ac-tion at Laconia Ice Arena. The victory moved B-G to a perfect 6-0 entering a busy week of action.
“This was probably the best team win we’ve had all season,” said B-G head coach Jay Londer. “All 21 players contributed for us
and came together. That’s what we’re going to need moving forward, all 21 play-ers making plays.”
The best part of the victo-ry? Thirteen different play-ers recorded points, show-ing how deep the Bulldogs roster has been this year.
“We spread it around pretty good tonight,” Lond-er said. “We’re developing these younger kids for the future. We asked them to play at a high pace through-out and they were able to execute that. We kept it simple and they did a great job.”
Ethan Becker got the Bulldogs going just 1:33 into the first period, as his wrap-around bid surprised MAIL goalkeeper Connor O’Neil and he stuffed it home for a 1-0 lead with an assist cred-
ited to Powell Wilson.Just 1:15 later, B-G struck
again. This time it was Ja-mie Gill who tallied, as he poked home a rebound in front with assists to Nate Bowler and Jason Taylor for a 2-0 advantage.
The blitzkrieg continued just 1:17 later, as Daryll Ca-hill made it 3-0 when he put home a rebound off a Dylan Treamer shot. Brogan Hurst added an assist.
“They’ve got a good club,” said MAIL head coach Chuck Yaeger of B-G. “It’s nice to see a team in your own building playing that well. Then you mul-tiple that by the fact that Belmont-Gilford is a team that the players have a good relationship with as well.”
The Bulldogs took their 3-0 lead into the second pe-
riod, where sophomore Ca-leb Drouin scored his first of two goals on the night with 11:54 left. His wrist shot from distance had eyes for the back of the net, and the score made it 4-0 with an assist to Will Mahoney.
Drouin scored with 3:02 left in the second period to make it 5-0 as Andrew D’Amour fed him in front with a perfect pass that led to an open net tally. Hurst notched his second helper of the night on the goal.
“We’ve been working heavy on skills lately and that’s what we need to continue doing going for-ward,” said Londer. “That’s what makes us successful, when we’re able to be a well-rounded and skilled team.”
There was just one goal in the third period but it was an exclamation mark on the night. Sophomore Sarah Lachapelle poked home a loose puck in front of the net on the power play, with Kris Shepard earning the assist to account for the 6-0 final.
Calvin Davis and Bailey Defosie combined to make 17 saves in the B-G net, earning the team’s second shutout of the season.
The teams will meet one more time in Laconia this season, when MAIL will serve as the “home” team on Feb. 8.
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Balanced scoring leads B-G past MAIL
JEFF LAJOIE
B-G’s Daryll Cahill holds Cody Burns of MAIL off the puck during first period action in the Bulldogs’ 6-0 win at Laconia Ice Arena on Saturday night.
JEFF LAJOIE
Sophomore Caleb Drouin motors through center ice for the Bulldogs on Saturday night. Drouin scored two goals in his team’s 6-0 win.
Huge run propels Bears to comeback winBY JEFF LAJOIE
Host Winnisquam Re-gional High School trailed Gilford High School by a 34-17 score with 2:38 left in the third quarter after a Stevie Orton three-pointer gave the Golden Eagles a com-manding lead.
But something happened after that. Slowly, the Bears
chipped away with free throws to close out the third quarter. Then a full court press in the fourth quarter led to a blitzkrieg scoring spree. All told, Winnisquam took off on a 21-0 run over a 7:30 span from late in the third into the fourth, culmi-nating with a Hannah Chap-in layup off a steal from teammate Kaylee Howard. From down 34-17 to up 38-34, the Bears would hold on
down the stretch, forcing 31 Gilford turnovers en route to a 43-41 victory in Division III action on Jan. 14.
“I told the girls you just have to believe,” said Win-nisquam head coach Amu Dutton. “We had to work through the adversity and put some pressure on. Once we got into that groove, it was on.”
Gilford coach Rick Forge attempted to slow down
the huge Winnisquam run on several occasions, but nothing seemed to settle his young squad.
“With a young team, once you get them going... we tried everything,” he began. “We used timeouts, etc. to stem the tide but we just didn’t have anyone step up and grab that leadership role and calm things down the stretch.”
Winnisquam got great
JEFF LAJOIE
Winnisquam’s Madison Langan looks to put the ball back up over Gilford’s Jordan Dean during the Bears’ 43-41 victory in Tilton.
JEFF LAJOIE
Rachel Willcutt of Winnisquam (20) and Dallis Austin (23) try and corral a loose ball with Gilford’s Kelsey Buckley (12) in the middle last week in Tilton.
JACKSON – Freshman Talia Sperduto led the small contingent of Bel-mont High School nordic skiers on Jan. 14, as the Red Raiders competed in a skate race at the Jackson Touring Center hosted by White Mountains Regional High School.
Sperduto finished 33rd overall on the day, the best finish of the four Belmont competitors. She crossed the line in 28 minutes, 42 seconds, putting 72 points towards the team total. Carol Lipshultz was the other Raider in the girls’ race, and she finished 59th overall (36:22) for 64 team points. The girls’ team fin-ished with 136 points.
In the boys’ race, Riley Woods was Belmont’s top skier, as he posted a 65th place showing in 25:57 (64 points). Brennan Malone
also raced on the day, as he was 89th overall in 29:54 (61 points). The boys’ team to-taled 125 points.
Kingswood was the top team on the day in the girls’ race while host White Mountains won the boys’ race.
LACONIA – The Laco-nia-Winnisquam Wolf-pack played back to back games on Jan. 15 and 16 last week, battling hard in each game before ul-timately falling short in both games.
In the first contest, the Wolfpack hosted the Berlin Mountaineers for an evening matchup at Laconia Ice Arena. The Wolfpack played a phys-ical game against the Di-vision 3 powerhouse.
The opening period saw both teams trading scoring chances. The Wolfpack’s Kolby Fourni-er (senior-Laconia) had a great scoring chance early in the game, but the Berlin goalie came up with a big save to keep the game 0-0. The teams battled hard with the Wolfpack’s Travis Ryan (senior-Laconia) and Dylan Martel (senior-La-conia) both delivering hard body checks, play-ing physical and keeping Berlin off the board.
The second period opened with a 0-0 tie, and the physical play contin-ued, the Wolfpack were given a number of pen-alties, eroding their mo-mentum. Taking advan-tage of the momentum shift, Berlin was first on the board scoring a goal just over three minutes into the second period. They scored again 30 sec-onds later to go up 2-0. The Wolfpack continued to try to establish them-selves, but could not stay out of the penalty box, and Berlin took advan-tage, scoring a power play goal to go up 3-0.
The Wolfpack con-tinued to play hard and quickly responded. Blake Thoroughgood (junior-Laconia) battled hard behind the Berlin net to gain control of the puck, and he passed it out to Martel. Martel passed the puck to Matt Missert (senior-Laconia) who sent a hard slap shot into the back of the Berlin net
for the Wolfpack’s first goal of the game.
The teams began the third period with Ber-lin leading 3-1, and both teams continued with their physical games, trading multiple scoring chances. The Wolfpack’s Brayden Harriman made a number of spectacular saves to keep his team in it, but the team could not stay out of the penalty box. Berlin added anoth-er power play goal with five minutes left in the game, and then went on to add another goal two minutes later. The game ended in a 5-1 loss for the Wolfpack.
One day later, the Wolf-pack traveled to Plym-outh to face the Plym-outh Bobcats. The game began with both teams trading shots and some great action. On his first shift, L/W’s Tyler Pake (junior-Winnnisquam) picked up the puck in the neutral zone, made his way up the boards, and took a tough angle shot, just missing the open cor-ner of the net that near-ly scored the Wolfpack’s first goal.
The game continued with Wolfpack’s Erick Cheney (senior-Laco-nia) and Chris Dame (junior-Laconia) each playing a tough game with multiple shots on net. Plymouth’s goalten-der continued to make outstanding saves and kept the Wolfpack off the board. The first period ended 1-0 with Plymouth leading.
The second period opened with a notice-able increase in physical play by both teams. The Wolfpack pressured the Plymouth team and got a number of scoring chanc-es. Midway through the
period, Wolfpack’s Jere-my Bilodeau (senior-La-conia) received a great pass from Josh Shevlin (freshman-Winnisquam) from deep inside the Wolfpack’s zone. Bilo-deau raced up center ice, made a great move to send a hard wrist shot toward the Plymouth net. But again, the Plymouth goalie made an incredi-ble save to keep the Wolf-pack off the board. Not to be outmatched, Wolf-pack goalie Cody Yale (junior-Laconia) made a number of great saves to keep the game 1-0 to end the second period.
The third period opened with the best scoring chance for the Wolfpack. Brycen Mar-tin (sophomore-Laconia) chipped the puck out of the Wolfpack zone, where Jack Decormi-er (sophomore-Winnis-quam) picked it up and battled his way through a Plymouth defenseman, and made a hard shot on goal. The goalten-der misplayed the puck, dropped the puck right on the goal line, but it was quickly swept away by a Plymouth defense-man preventing the goal. Plymouth added a second goal at the 10:15 mark of the third period, then went on to add a late goal with 13 seconds left in the game with Plymouth win-ning 3-0.
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GILFORD – Behind an outstanding performance from Christopher Spoon-er-Bishop, the Belmont High School boys’ alpine ski team captured the top spot in a giant slalom meet they hosted at Gunstock Mountain on Jan. 17.
The Red Raiders totaled 369 points on the day, edg-ing out second place Goff-stown with 367. Oyster Riv-er, Souhegan, Portsmouth and Prospect Mountain also competed at Gunstock.
Spooner-Bishop was second overall in the boys’ race, as his two-run total of 58.74 seconds scored 99 points towards the team total. TJ Hennessey also added a top 10 finish for Bel-mont, as he was ninth over-all in 1:05.50 (92 points).
Cory Yelle nabbed the third scoring slot for the Raiders, and he was the third skier on the team to crack the top 10 in 10th place (1:06.88, 91 points). Brad Cyr rounded out the scoring performers on the day, as he finished 15th overall in 1:08.82 (87 points).
Nick Galambos fin-ished 32nd for the Raiders (1:20.06), while Andrew Spaulding (37th, 1:25.46) and Eli Allman (41st, 1:27.04) also raced at Gunstock.
In the girls’ race, Bel-mont finished fifth overall as a team with 335 points. Portsmouth claimed the top spot with 376 points while Souhegan was second (373 points).
Maddi Blajda had the best finish of any Red Raid-er, as the sophomore was 10th overall, crossing the line with a combined total of 1:07.39 (91 points). Kylie Donovan was also in the top 20, as she was next for Bel-mont in 16th place (1:13.91, 85 points).
Alexa Robbins took 23rd place (1:21.26, 80 points)
Spooner-Bishop leads Raiders to win at Gunstock
JEFF LAJOIE
TJ Hennessey of Belmont finished ninth overall as the Raiders hosted a meet at Gunstock on Jan. 17.
JEFF LAJOIE
Belmont’s Miracle Dillon moves through the course at Gunstock during action on Jan. 17.
Sperduto, Raiders ski in Jackson
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Belmont freshman Talia Sperduto competes in a skate race in Jackson last week. Sperduto was the top Red Raider on the day, finishing in 33th position with a time of 28:42.
with Cori Heimlich right behind in 26th place (1:14.67, 79 points) to round out the scoring. Melanie Nix fin-
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The election will occur during the annual meeting called to convene at Belmont High School, Belmont, New Hampshire on Friday, March 7, 2014 and will be conducted under the non-partisan ballot law.
Positions to be filled at the election are:Moderator – 1 member for a two-year term (2016).Belmont School Board Member – 2 members to serve for three years (2017)Canterbury School Board Member - 1 member to serve for three years (2017)
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PORTLAND, Maine – At the unofficial New Hampshire Division III
Indoor Track and Field Championship meet held at the University of South-
ern Maine on Sunday, Belmont High School’s Joseph Boles placed first in the 1,500 meters in a
new school record time of 4:19.44. Bruce Zimmer placed second in the shot put (40-1) and Kyle Patten
placed second in the 55 me-ters in a personal record time of 7.12 seconds. Also setting a new personal re-cord was Sabrina Robin-son in the 300 meters.
The Belmont boys’ team placed eighth (16 points) as a team behind
winner Monadnock (56.5 points). The girls team did not score.
Boles, Zimmer and Pat-ten have qualified to com-pete this Saturday (Jan. 25) at the Pre-State Meet to be held at the University of New Hampshire.
BRISTOL — Newfound Regional High School is looking to hire a varsity softball coach and a varsity football coach. If interested, please send a letter of in-
tent, resume and the names and phone numbers of three references to Peter Cofran, Athletic Director, [email protected] or call 744-6006, x119, with questions.
