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Always a white Christmas in this New England villageMary King of Lakeport has nearly 200 miniature houses in her lighted Christmas Village, which includes countryside, village and seaport scenes. (Alan MacRae/for The Laconia Daily Sun)

LACONIA — Christmas is a special time at the King home on Massachusetts Avenue in Lakeport, where there are sev-eral Christmas trees in several different rooms, one devoted to a Charlie Brown Christmas theme, another to Dale Earn-hardt, one for comic book super heroes and another which features Annalee Doll

creations.But the biggest display is one set up in

Mary King’s sewing room, where nearly 200 lighted Christmas Village houses are set up on shelves and display just about every type of winter scene that can be imagined in New Hampshire.

There are ski lifts with functioning gon-dolas, a fire lookout tower, a sugar house complete with buffalo, just like the Bolduc

Farm in Gilford, a blacksmith shop and an ice fishing village like those found on Lake Winnipesaukee during the winter months, even a covered bridge with a fun local reference to Bump Bridge.

On the opposite side of the room is a large display of village scenes, ranging from a drug store and barbershop to a village store with Christmas shoppers

By RogeR AmsdenFOR THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

see VILLaGE page 23

LACONIA — Con-vened in the wake of concerns about the availability and dis-tribution of parking downtown, the Park-ing Committee will offer its first recom-mendations to the City Council when it meets Monday night.

The committee is composed City Coun-cilor Brenda Baer (Ward 4), whose ward includes much of downtown, Andy Pat-terson of the Laco-

Downtown parking committee ready with first recs

see ParKING page 23

Tilton police charge Laconia 20-year-old with prostitution TILTON — A Belknap

County grand jury indicted a Laconia woman for one count of misdemeanor prostitution and one count of felony possession of oxycodone after Tilton police nabbed her during a prostitu-tion investigation.

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ments for her alleged actions on October 8, 2012 were the first time Chantel L. Labounty, 20, of 734 White Oaks Road was charged with prostitution.

Tilton Police said they heard there was a problem with pros-titution and one of their officers set up an online advertisement on Craigslist under the casual encounters section for a man

looking for companionship.Det. Matt Dawson said a

confidential informant went to meet a woman who responded and Labounty broached the subject of money. Dawson said once a financial arrangement was made, Labounty made another stop in Tilton and pur-chased some oxycodone. She was arrested and then released

on personal recognizance bail.Dawson said at the time she

was living in Tilton.On October 22, police said a

man came to the Tilton Police Deparment at 12:30 a.m. to report a woman named “Channy” had taken money from him.

Affidavits obtained from the see PrOstItutION page 23

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MERIDA, Mexico (AP) — Dec. 21 started out as the prophetic day some had believed would usher in the fiery end of the world. By Friday afternoon, it had become more comic than cosmic, the punch line of countless Face-book posts and at least several dozen T-shirts.

At the ruins of the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza, thou-sands chanted, danced and otherwise frolicked around ceremonial fires and pyramids to mark the conclusion of a vast, 5,125-year cycle in the Mayan calendar.

The doomsayers who had predicted apoca-lypse were nowhere to be seen. Instead, people showed up in T-shirts reading “The End of the World: I Was There.”

Vendors eager to sell their ceramic handi-crafts and wooden masks called out to passing visitors, “Buy something before the world ends.”

And on Twitter, (hash)EndoftheWorld had become one of the day’s most popular hash tags.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Guns and police officers in all American schools are what’s needed to stop the next killer “waiting in the wings,” the National Rifle Association declared Friday, taking a no-retreat stance in the face of growing calls for gun control after the Connecticut shootings that claimed the lives of 26 children and school staff.

“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” said Wayne LaPierre, the group’s chief executive officer.

Some members of Congress who had

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday nominated Mas-sachusetts Sen. John Kerry, one of Wash-ington’s most respected voices on foreign policy, as his next secretary of state.

The move is the first in an expected over-haul of Obama’s national security team heading into his second term.

As the nation’s top diplomat, Kerry will not only be tasked with executing the president’s foreign policy objectives, but

NRA calls for armed cop in every schoollong scoffed at gun-control proposals have begun to suggest some concessions could be made, and a fierce debate over legisla-tion seems likely next month. President Barack Obama has demanded “real action, right now.”

The nation’s largest gun-rights lobby broke its weeklong silence on the shoot-ing rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School with a defiant presentation. The event was billed as a news conference, but NRA leaders took no questions. Twice,

they were interrupted by banner-waving protesters, who were removed by security.

Some had predicted that after the slaughter of a score of elementary-school children by a man using a semi-automatic rifle, the group might soften its stance, at least slightly. Instead, LaPierre delivered a 25-minute tirade against the notion that another gun law would stop killings in a culture where children are exposed daily to violence in video games, movies and music

see NRA page 8

Obma nominates Kerry to succeed Clinton as secretary of statewill also have a hand in shaping them. The longtime lawmaker has been in lock-step with Obama on issues like nuclear non-proliferation, but ahead of the White House in advocating aggressive policies in Libya, Egypt and elsewhere that the presi-dent later embraced.

“He is not going to need a lot of on-the-job training,” Obama said, standing alongside Kerry in a Roosevelt Room ceremony. “Few individuals know as many presidents and

prime ministers or grasp our foreign poli-cies as firmly as John Kerry.”

He is expected to win confirmation easily in the Senate, where he has served since 1985, the last six years as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.

Kerry would take the helm at the State Department from Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has long planned to leave the administration early next year.

see KERRY page 11

Mexico’s Maya heartland greets dawn of new era

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CONCORD (AP) — Five more people have been diagnosed with the same strain of hepatitis C a former traveling hospital worker is accused of spreading through tainted needles, bringing the total to 44 in four states.

Hepatitis C cases linked to Exeter Hospital worker rises to 44David Kwiatkowski, whom prosecutors

have called a “serial infector,” is charged with stealing painkillers from New Hamp-shire’s Exeter Hospital and replacing them with saline-filled syringes tainted with his own blood. He pleaded not guilty earlier

this month to 14 federal drug charges and has been in jail since his arrest in July.

Thirty-two New Hampshire patients have tested positive for the same strain of the liver-destroying disease Kwiatkowski

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Jim Hightower

What’s for dinner?As we enjoy the traditional holi-

day season of food-centered celebra-tions, let’s not only consume, but also reflect on, discuss and consider, what we can do to shape our food future.

We’re presented with two starkly different visions of that future: the industrialized, conglomeratized, globalized, monopolized, plasticized and heavily subsidized vision of Agri- business, and the localized, democratized vision of Agri- culture, in which sustainable farmers and food artisans practicing the art and science of cooperating with Mother Nature, rather than always trying to overwhelm her. This is a fight for the control of our dinner, and it’s one of the biggest and most impor-tant populist struggles in our soci-ety today.

“Agriculture is no longer a way of life,” former Ag Secretary Earl Butz infamously barked at farmers 40 years ago. “It’s a business,” he lec-tured, callously adding that they should “get big or get out.”

Butz, an agribusiness apostle of full corporatization of our food economy, was wrong, as today’s fast-spreading Good Food movement is showing. It turns out that farming is a good business — literally pro-ducing an abundance of goodness — specifically because agriculturists see it as a way of life.

This spirit was recently summed up in one word by Lee Jones, a sus-tainable farmer in Ohio who was asked what’d he’d be if he weren’t a farmer. He replied, “Disappointed.” To farmers like these, food embod-ies our full “culture” — a word that is, after all, sculpted right into “agriculture” and is essential to its organic meaning.

Patrick Martins, co-founder of Heritage Foods USA, works with small farmers across the country to bring nearly lost breeds of sustain-ably raised cows, pigs and turkeys to market. He measures sustain-ability not just by environmental standards, but also by whether the animals are happy! Asked what makes a turkey happy, Martins said simply: “Room. That’s the biggest thing. It can walk around.”

Space to walk is reasonable, right? Visit one of the massive fac-tory feeding operations of agribusi-ness, where the vast majority of American turkeys are raised, and you’ll find no such concession to the most basic of creature com-forts. Thousands of the large birds are crammed side-by-side in cages, spending nasty, brutish and short lives with barely enough room to move, much less walk.

To true agriculturalists like Mar-tins, these meat factories amount to animal concentration camps. “No living creature should be forced to spend its entire life in a box,” he says.

That’s the icky stuff, but there’s

good stuff, too. For starters, if you’re looking for Good Food items — from organic tomatoes to pastured turkey — localharvest.org can help you find them somewhere near your home. Enter your zip code, and this web-site will search for the small-scale farmers, artisans, farmers markets and other resources in your area.

And guess who’s planting seeds for urban revival! For years, media outlets have covered a bad-news stories about Detroit: drugs, eco-nomic collapse, population flight, intractable poverty, dilapidation, etc. So how about a good-news story from the Motor City?

A quiet, vibrant, populist revival has taken root and is spreading across this hardscrabble urban landscape — propelled by (of all things) agriculture. Well, agricul-ture is the means, but it has really been propelled by a sense of justice, sheer necessity, and the inspiring spunk of ordinary, working-class Detroiters who have created and are expanding one of the finest models of a self-sustaining urban food economy in America.

Their grassroots network includes such groups as Grown in Detroit (a widely popular cooperative market and professional training center that sells foods produced by gar-dens and in-city farms located within a mile of downtown); Feedom Freedom, a community garden that supplies local restaurants and sup-ports a hands-on education program called “Youth Growing Detroit” that enlists hundreds of young people; People’s Kitchen Detroit, operating a mobile food bus and gardens to supply top-quality, low-cost food to low-income people, while also orga-nizing around local food issues; and the Detroit Food Justice Task Force, a consortium of food-focused groups writing a plan for an urban food security system that can deliver sustainable, healthy, affordable food for all, even as it provides good jobs and new economic opportunities.

What you and I choose to eat, where we choose to get it, what policies and politicians we choose to support or oppose, what groups we choose to help and whether we even choose to think about the food we eat — all are choices directly affect-ing the nature of food production and of food itself. In ways big and small, you and I are central to the struggle. And if each of us does just a bit more for the agri- cultural side, we’ll make the difference in Ameri-ca’s food culture.

(Jim Hightower has been called American’s most popular populist. The radio commentator and former Texas Commissioner of Agriculture is author of seven books, including “There’s Nothing In the Middle of Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos” and his new work, “Swim Against the Current: Even Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow”.)

LETTERSWhy are there so many customers for illegal guns & drugs?To the editor,

Joe was a Navy Corpsman. A good friend who saw so much combat that he was often cautious in making friends with any of the Marines he so valiantly served with. I once saw him shield a wounded North Vietnamese soldier with his own body in the heat of battle. Then treat his wounds. I owe him much for saving my life when I was wounded.

I spent over 28 years attempting to track down Joe and talk about old times and thank him. “You would not have been able to find me”. He said. The reason was that he had been in U.S. Customs and had no listing of his telephone number.

When Joe returned to the states and left the Navy he became a police officer. While on patrol one day he was dispatched to a bank robbery in process. The robber didn’t hesitate to shoot at Joe, who in turn did not flinch but took aim and shot the gunman. His training and combat experience had saved his life, his partners life and any who might have gotten in the way. This is what police officers do. Joe later was hired by U.S.Customs.

Joe shared this with me:”While serving in U.S.Customs we inspected a Chinese cargo ship and opened a cargo container and it was loaded with AK-47’s destined for the gangs of L.A.” He went on to tell me that President Clinton was upset, not about the rifles

but about the surprise inspection.The AK-47 rifle has been around

for a long time. I have shot a few. and have been shot at by them. The bullet is .30 caliber and has great penetrat-ing capabilities. It has a high rate of fire and its durability is unsurpassed by any other weapon. While the M-16 shoots a .223 caliber bullet and often jammed in combat while the commu-nist rifle was dependable even follow-ing days and weeks of exposure to heavy wet monsoons. How many of these rifles are being carried by gang members throughout the country? How many other weapons and explo-sives might be floating among those who have no respect of the law? That’s why we call them outlaws.

Remember, one cargo container equaled one shipment of guns des-tined for a gang. If we cannot stop the flow of drugs into this country how can we stop the shipments of illegal assault weapons that places them in the hands of a violent subculture. Both have customers. Where do the custom-ers originate? Broken homes would be a good place to start. During the 50s, television networks aired a public announcement titled, “The Family that Prays Together Stays Together”. This is an interesting equation that might cause the godless to turn red and dribble all over themselves.

Gene F. DanforthDanbury

This is heart-felt concern to mitigate gun violence & preserve lifeTo the editor,

On Tuesday, this publication wit-nessed a new low in submissions to this forum. Don Ewing shamefully used the tragic events of Newtown to advance his bias political agenda. The gun smoke had barely cleared, the parents, the town, the nation were in shock, but Ewing felt this was the prime time to lay the blame at the feet of liberals. While those throughout the political spectrum are trying to make sense of this senseless act, Ewing has belittled the lives of these innocence and their six mentors with a prejudi-cial political statement.

In his comments, he makes reference to respect, respectful, and disrespect. He need look no further than himself to wit-

ness a lack of respect and a total disre-spect for the young lives lost last Friday. We all, as a nation, share in this loss and to use it to further a political agenda is a blight on those who incorporate it.

Crawling into the gutter, right behind Ewing, is Steve Earle. While the nation, including the NRA, are contemplating the issues of respon-sible gun ownership, Earle would like us to believe it is only “progressives” who have a concern and that it’s all about “GUN CONTROL”. I’m sure Earle would find it hard to believe that it goes beyond gun control and is a genuine heart-felt concern to miti-gate gun violence and preserve life.

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LETTERSGOP lost House & Senate seats because Boehner would caveTo the editor,

According to the Washington Post on Tuesday, Speaker Boehner’s fiscal cliff deal is a one-for-one tax increase for spending cuts deal that includes counting savings for ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is basi-cally revenue neutral and counts money not spent on a war that has been over for a year. Why bother? The deal was always supposed to be three dollars of cuts for each dollar of tax increases.

The speaker’s willingness to cave on spending cuts is why the Republicans lost the House and Senate seats they did in the last election.

Our Republican representatives talk the talk but when push comes to shove they fold like a cheap suit.

They keep increasing the debt ceil-ing while wailing that we have a spending problem, but refuse to stop it. The Republicans control the House. They can shut down the govern-ment to get the president’s attention. Instead they wet a finger to see which way the wind blows to keep them in their $170,000 a year jobs.

A good look at the District 1 Con-gressional election results is a lesson Republicans should learn from. Carol Shea-Porter didn’t win with a major-ity. Congressman Guinta lost to a Libertarian candidate that garnered 15,000 disaffected Republican votes. Votes that if he had done 30 percent of what he ran on in 2010 he would have had and would have been re-elected. But he went to Washington, took his orders from Speaker Boehner and did

nothing for two years but increase the deficit, raise the debt ceiling and kick the spending cuts can down the road with the misguided view that the president would lose the election.

The Republicans may be looking at their last chance for years to come to bring spending under control, but they have to be ready to play hardball and do the job they were elected to do for a change.

I wrote a letter to the editor a few weeks ago and said that at 61 years of age this train wreck of a government isn’t my problem anymore. What I meant by that statement was I am not going to pay the bills the government is wracking up, my kids are and my grandchildren are.

That these elected representatives continue to saddle future generations with debt to fund people who can work but don’t, ethanol subsidies, farm subsidies, weapon systems the armed forces don’t want, bases in every country in the world, the Rural Electrification Administration and on and on and on is unconscionable. But even worse is the refusal of the voting public to demand the govern-ment stop mortgaging their children’s future from a fear of losing their own perceived entitlements or intentional apathy. Either way they are allowing generational theft that if allowed to continue will erode their children’s and grandchildren’s standard of living so the rich of tomorrow will look like the poor of today.

James EdgarMeredith

Obama’s great deal: buy GM at $49.50 a share & sell for $27.50To the editor,

MERRY CHRISTMAS from Obama. Open your stocking wide, the head grinch has a gift to stuff in it. Several lumps of black coal from his sack of GM “election buying” exploits. Taxpayers coughed up 75 BILLION DOLLARS to save GM’s WORK FOR MORE, inefficient unions that had bankrupted the company, making it uncompetitive in the global car busi-ness. At the same time Obama stiffed every stockholder, bond holder and debt holder with hundreds of billions losses that cut the value of pension accounts for tens of millions of work-ing Americans. The “Government Motors” saga of failure just won’t end.

Here is the latest stocking stuffer from Obama and the Democrats. The U.S. treasury still owns 500 mil-lion shares of GM stock which it paid $49.50 each for. It is now doing a quick deal to sell 200 million of those shares back to GM. For HOW MUCH you ask? Answer: $27.50 each or a LOSS of almost FIFTY PERCENT on every share. The treasury says it will sell its remaining 300 million shares over the next 15 months. Expect more gigan-tic losses. the stock is already down 20 percent since it’s rescue. The total REAL LOSS for taxpayers will be in the billions. It will be made up with higher taxes on all. The illegal bailout did purchase every UNION VOTE for Obama four weeks ago. Idiots, Like Veverka suggest the Koch brothers do their best to influence election out-comes. Golly gee, here in the BRIGHT

LIGHT OF DAY we have Obama NOT INFLUENCE an election outcome but BUY ONE right in front of your very eyes and mine. Not with his money, but YOURS.

I save the grinch’s best and biggest gift for last. The box is big and once again has a “for union members” gift card attached. Hold your holiday shorts for this little gem. This is the gift that never stops giving. Under NORMAL bankruptcy, which is what should have happened at GM, any company’s financial records become ancient history. A new buyer starts with his own clean slate. But Barack Obama is to union interests what Bill Clinton was to Monica Lewinsky. It was not enough for Obama to harm GM creditors of every type for hun-dreds of billions while handing a huge chunk of the company over to unions at everyone else’s expense, Barack had to go the further, like election buying with an INSURANCE rider.

The old GM had $48 BILLION in LOSS CARRY FORWARDS. A loss carry forward allows any company to offset current and future profits against those previous losses. In a normal bankruptcy those losses are expunged. If The new buyer makes a PROFIT in year one he pays corporate income taxes. Not this GM deal. The OBAMA “we need to buy the election team” demanded the $48 BILLION in loss carry forwards remain on the books. Result? If OBAMA GM makes $2.4 BILLION in profits this year it

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LETTERSOur Judeo Christian society withers under light of humanismTo the editor,

Out with the old tradition and in with the new sayeth the “Godless Secular Humanists” to the faint-hearted Christian leaders. The pro-gressives defend their ideology with all the fervor of the Muslim Brother-hood. Before you can say “Winter Sol-stice”, the ACLU sought once again to crush the Christmas tree like a Tuckerman’s Ravine avalanche. They demand more secularity before citi-zens dare to gaze with festive jocular-ity. Governor Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island meekly acquiesced, calling it a holiday tree and turned the view-ing tradition into a “drive by lighting ceremony” by giving a mere one half hour notice before hitting the lights.The lamestream media scoffs at the notion of a “war on Christmas” — it’s pure overblown hyperbole by the radi-cal Christian element they decry. The atheists deserve equal and fair holi-day footing they decree. It’s at least an angry and unruly police action says me.

Outside the Loudoun County court-house in Virginia recently, hung the crucified skeleton of ole St. Nick, until mercifully decapitated by perhaps some angry elves. Mark Steyn notes, regarding the message to the joyous little children, “Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus . . . and he’s hanging life-less in the town square”.

In Santa Monica, CA, the kybosh was put on the 59 year old community celebration of the Christmas story — the birth of Jesus. Seems an ambi-tious group of atheists secured 18 out of 21 permits in order to display their seasons’ greetings. One of the favor-ites was cleverly placed over portraits of Jesus, Santa and Satan, “37 million Americans know a myth when they see one”. Ho, Ho, Ho!

Last year, the Wellesley Middle School 6th graders took a field trip to a controversial mosque, the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center. After telling their students that Islam was very advanced in recognizing women’s rights, the teachers forgot their own rules and five boys took part in a prayer session when they were only supposed to observe. The ACLU was no where to be found.

Perhaps because the ACLU was oth-erwise occupied, the Arkansas Society of Free Thinkers (ASF) made darn sure that Charlie Brown would not convert any unsuspecting youngsters into the cult of Christianity in Little Rock, Arkansas. Though the Terry Elementary School staff still wanted to make the field trip to the Agape Church for the matinee showing of a “Char-lie Brown Christmas”, pastor Happy Caldwell sadly canceled the showing. This activity would have blurred the line between church and state accord-ing to the ASF and the pastor feared the school would be sued by the offended progressive secularists or the “nativity scene hating” atheists.

There was an unconfirmed report that the Little Rock Opera house was going to show a production of “The Atheist Who Stole Christmas”, per-formed by the “Thespians for a God-less Society”. Rumor has it that the Salvation Army demonstrated outside while praying for the actors’ salvation and they left in tears and abject fear before the first act.

There is no truth to the rumor that Lucy is a closet Muslim which would have explained her distaste for hold-ing the pigskin and why she enjoyed harassing poor Charlie. And this just in. It appears that Linus has been arrested for playing “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” on his piano while stationed on the front lawn of the Arkansas statehouse. I have yet to verify that story however. The historical timeline purporting that Charlie Brown is the grandson of Elmer Gantry is patently absurd.

On a deadly serious note, the “Great Progressive Church” continues to grow and prosper while our Judeo Chris-tian society continues to wither under the harsh light of secular progressive humanism. Tis the season to be ever vigilant as we worry and wonder if a progressive jihad is about to envelope this nation. Especially since we can no longer count on the formerly “fourth estate” media, who subjectively treat these issues as though they are staff writers for the anti-Christian left. Merry Christmas to all and may God bless us everyone.

Russ WilesTilton

Many have tried to recast Christmas for their own purposes To the editor,

Christmas presented special prob-lems for the Nazis. In reality, the birth and message of Jesus Christ contra-dicted their world view. Driven by their anti-Semitic philosophy, how could they reconcile prophecies that the Messiah would save Judah? In a realm that exalted Adolf Hitler, how could they proclaim that the Lord Jesus had come to “reign as King”?

How could they justify the Holy Bible’s promise that Jesus would be the Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6)? And as they sought to inslave nations, how could they proclaim that Jesus had come to release the captives and set free all who were oppressed by the devil (Luke4:18)?

In 1940, recognizing these issues, the party announced that they would not celebrate Christmas on December 25. Instead, they would observe the Winter Solstice on December 22.

Governor Wilhelm Kube of Bran-denburg Province explained how “the Christmas celebration in Germanic lands is not an invention of the Chris-tian Church but of our forefathers.” The solstice was more important, he argued, because this was a day that “was holy to our ancestors, “ a time “filled with the fairyland magic of the Nordic soul.”

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The latest discussion in the nation’s capitol, you know, the Peoples Repub-lic of Washington, is the so called “fiscal cliff”.

Here is the problem, which nobody is talking about: we are running a trillion dollars in the hole every year. How can anybody with a straight face talk about “cutting taxes”. We in this country are faced with hard times. The gravy train for the “Wall Street gang” is over. Bushy ,your good friend is no longer in office. He is the blame for this mess. He fought two unneces-sary wars, cut taxes for his friends, bailed out his banking friends and allowed them, the large banks and yes the Wall Street gangsters to run amok with little or no regulations.

People have forgot, I guess, that the “Clinton tax rates” provided this country with the longest period of prosperity in our history and, most importantly, a balanced budget.

Today, I listened to John “Bonehead” say that he could not get his pals in Congress, to vote for a tax increase for his pals. The Wall Street Gang has threatened to put us in a recession. It is in two words, “too bad”.

These are also the people who gave lifetime Secret Service protection to former presidents , millionaires in there own right, who can well afford to provide their own security, while cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits to our hard working seniors. Go figure.

The good news with all this, is that the Clinton tax rates will be back, Medicare will be strengthened, Social Security will also be improved, and more important, we will be on the way to a “balanced budget”.

It will be tough in the beginning, but I truly believe that their will be “a light at the end of the tunnel”.

Bill KnightlyGilford

Questioning writings of the ranters just invites more rantingTo the editor,

I have become painfully aware that the letters section of The Sun is increasingly monopolized by 3-4 long-winded people who apparently have nothing better to do than submit endless rants against Obama, the Democrats, “liberals” etc. Wouldn’t the paper’s readers be served by limiting the length of letters, and limiting let-

ters from particular individuals to one every week or two? Perhaps then we would see a wider range of subjects and points of view.

Unfortunately, as things stand, it seems that submitting a letter that questions the ranters simply invites retaliation from them (in print).

Peter BaldwinGilmanton

Many throughout time have sought to recast Christmas for their own pur-poses — separating the Lord Jesus from Christmas, His own Birthday. In order to serve commercial objec-tives or celebrate cultural traditions. Yet Believers know that Christmas is not a date, but about the birth of our

Savior. We celebrate because He was born, died, and rose again. He is the promised Messiah, God with us.

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City Prosecutor Jim Sawyer said Paul Dunham, 24, of 24 Cleveland Place allegedly called his wife on the day after he allegedly assaulted her and was ordered by the court to stay away from her.

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“Before Congress reconvenes, before we engage in any lengthy debate over legislation, regulation or anything else; as soon as our kids return to school after the holiday break, we need to have every single school in America imme-diately deploy a protection program proven to work,” LaPierre said. “And by that I mean armed security.”

He said Congress should immedi-ately appropriate funds to post an armed police officer in every school. Meanwhile, he said the NRA would develop a school emergency response program that would include volun-teers from the group’s 4.3 million members to help guard children.

His armed-officers idea was immedi-ately lambasted by gun control advo-cates, and not even the NRA’s point man on the effort seemed willing to go so far. Former Republican Rep. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, whom LaPi-erre named national director of the program, said in an interview that deci-sions about armed guards in schools should be made by local districts.

“I think everyone recognizes that an armed presence in schools is sometimes appropriate,” Hutchinson said. “That is one option. I would never want to have a mandatory requirement for every school district to have that.”

He also noted that some states would have to change their laws to allow armed guards at schools.

Hutchinson said he’ll offer a plan in January that will consider other mea-sures such as biometric entry points, patrols and consideration of school layouts to protect security.

LaPierre argued that guards need to be in place quickly because “the

next Adam Lanza,” the suspected shooter in Newtown, Conn., is already planning an attack on another school.

“How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame from a national media machine that rewards them with wall-to-wall attention and a sense of identity that they crave, while provoking others to try to make their mark?” LaPierre asked. “A dozen more killers, a hundred more? How can we possibly even guess how many, given our nation’s refusal to create an active national database of the mentally ill?”

While there is a federally maintained database of the mentally ill — people so declared by their states — a 1997 Supreme Court ruling that states can’t be required to contribute informa-tion has left significant gaps. In any case, creation of a mandatory national database probably would have had little impact on the ability of suspected shooters in four mass shootings since 2011 to get and use powerful weapons. The other people accused either stole the weapons used in the attacks or had not been ruled by courts to be “mentally defective” before the shootings.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the NRA is blaming everyone but itself for a national gun crisis and is offering “a paranoid, dys-topian vision of a more dangerous and violent America where everyone is armed and no place is safe.”

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., called the NRA’s response “both ludicrous and insulting” and pointed out that armed personnel at Columbine High School and Fort Hood could not stop mass shootings. The liberal group CREDO, which organized an anti-NRA protest on Capitol Hill, called LaPierre’s speech “bizarre and quite frankly paranoid.”

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The Dec. 12 methamphetamine bust at a Tilton home was the result of a 21∕2-month investigation by local and federal authorities that included sur-veillance on the house and monitoring pseudoephed-rine purchases of the residents and frequent guests.

Details of the investigation came to light Thursday during probable cause hearings at Franklin’s district court for several of the people arrested in the bust. Tilton police Officer Nate Buffington testified against three of the six suspects. Buffington is also certified by the DEA to participate in raids of clandestine, or ille-gal, laboratories. He testified in court against James Joyce, charged with possession of a controlled drug, intent to distribute and manufacturer of a controlled drug; Hon Luu, charged with criminal liability for the conduct of another and conspiracy to manufacture a controlled drug; and Debra Miller, charged with crimi-nal liability for the conduct of another, conspiracy to manufacture and endangering the welfare of a child. Her 3-year-old son was in the same room as the meth lab during the raid.

The police first received tips in May that meth-amphetamine was being used and possibly sold at 263 Laconia Road in Tilton, and an official investi-gation began in October, Buffington said in court. Over the next few months, authorities developed a list of the residents’ names, as well as a list of people who frequently visited the house. Marie Chacon, one of the suspects, owned the house, and the other five resided there full time or were frequent visitors, Buffington said.

Beginning in October, the police began monitoring pseudoephedrine purchases of those people and found several of them were making frequent purchases at different area pharmacies. Pseudoephedrine is an ingredient in over-the-counter decongestants such as Sudafed and is a key ingredient in the production of meth. In 2005, a law was enacted regulating the amount of pseudoephedrine an individual can pur-chase within a specific period, but pharmacies don’t share that information, Buffington said. The process of traveling to different pharmacies to avoid the law and purchase pseudoephedrine for meth production is called “smurfing,” he said.

Between Oct. 5 and Dec. 5, Luu allegedly purchased pseudoephedrine six times from four pharmacies. Most of those times he purchased 2.4 grams, or a box of 48 pills, which is an extremely high amount to purchase over two months, Buffington said.

“Just monitoring the laws, that would jump off the paper,” he said.

The police applied for a search warrant of 263 Laconia Road and any vehicles on the property in early December. On Dec. 12 officers from the Tilton Police Department, the state bomb squad, the fire marshal’s office and the DEA clandestine lab team met for a briefing. Buffington was conducting sur-veillance at the house about 7 p.m., he said, when he noticed the upstairs lights were on and the window was wide open – two signs, according to the tipsters, that the occupants were cooking meth, he said.

At 8 p.m., the officers executed the search warrant. Buffington was the first to enter after knocking on

the door and announcing his presence, he said. He found Luu sitting on the first-floor couch and Miller coming up from the basement after changing a load of laundry.

Upstairs, officers found Chacon, Michael Caissie and Miller’s 3-year-old son sitting in a small bed-room with a one-pot meth cooker wrapped in a heat-ing pad on a small table next to the bed. Chacon was about two feet away from the cooker, and the child was only about four feet away, Buffington said. Production of meth emits dangerous chemicals and gases and is highly volatile. Every officer who entered the home was wearing a sensor to detect ammonia and other gases, and “as soon as officers got to the top of the stairs these sensors started going crazy beeping,” Buffington said.

There was a black sheet draped over one wall, and behind that sheet was a door shut with two locks. The police entered that room, a small closet made into a bedroom, and found Joyce, Gabrielle Dande-neah and James Dragon attempting to throw meth production equipment out the window, Buffington said. He did not witness the upstairs actions directly but said other officers described the scene to him.

The materials in the small closet included a hydro-gen chloride gas generator and a large bag that included “every component necessary for manufac-turing meth,” Buffington said. Several small baggies, called “bindles,” full of a white powder were also in the room. In the master bedroom, where the officers found the one-pot meth cooker, they also turned up several pipes used to smoke meth and more baggies of white powder. The police said they believed the baggies indicated intent to sell the drug.

When all of the suspects and the child were out of the house, the state police bomb squad removed the lab and neutralized it outside of the house. All of the adults were taken to jail, and the child was sent to the hospital for medical testing and released into protective custody, Buffington said.

Buffington testified that Miller, the mother of the child, confessed to her involvement and the actions of several others following the arrests. She said she purchased pseudoephedrine to give to Joyce for the purpose of manufacturing meth, and she said that she had witnessed him manufacturing the drug three or four times. She also said she was well aware of the danger meth posed to her and her son, Buff-ington said.

The police allege that Miller and Luu exchanged the pseudoephedrine for meth, making them com-plicit in the manufacture of the drug. Text messages on cell phones recovered at the house show Miller asking Chacon whether she could come upstairs for a “bump,” Buffington said.

Judge Edward Gordon presided over the prob-able cause hearings. For Joyce, he found probable cause on possession of a controlled drug and intent to sell, but not on the charge of manufacture of a controlled drug. Joyce is being held on $200,000 cash bail. For Luu, the judge found probable cause on criminal liability for the conduct of another but not conspiracy to manufacture; he is being held on $50,000 cash bail. The judge found probable cause

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Attorneys for both Dandeneah and Chacon requested a continuation as new charges have been added, and they will face probable cause hearings next week. Chacon is being held on $100,000 cash bail, and Dandeneah is being held on $5,000 cash bail. Dragon, who faces charges of possession of a

from preceding page controlled substance for suboxone, conspiracy to manufacture and criminal liability for the conduct of another, waived his right to a probable cause hearing. His bail was set at $1,000 cash. It is unclear why his bail was significantly lower than the other suspects.

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Shelli Shumway and Stephanie McKim opened Lakes Region Cupcakes in September. It’s a new type of storefront for the region and a new experience for the sisters, who had never owned a business before. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Adam Drapcho)

Sugar & serendipity: sisters open cupcake shopTILTON — When Shelli Shumway was laid off

from her graphic design job at a local publication, she decided the time was right to break out in a new direction. “I had to do something completely differ-ent,” she said.

If losing her job left a bad taste in her mouth, Shumway, in partnership with her sister Stephanie McKim, and lots of help from the rest of their family, was able to replace that flavor with something sweet indeed. On September 29, the sisters opened Lakes Region Cupcakes, a shop on Main Street specializ-ing in palm-sized pastries.

Business, according to McKim, has been “really good, we’ve been doing quite well.”

Though the bakery offers just one type of deli-cacy, the sisters said there has been no shortage of demand. There was a line of customers waiting for the door to be unlocked for their first day. They were swamped with Thanksgiving orders, and are expect-ing the same for Christmas and New Year’s Eve.

While cupcake speciality shops are a rarity in the Lakes Region — the nearest locations are in Man-chester and Conway — market research conducted by the sisters uncovered a wealth of them in other parts of the country. “In Boston, there’s cupcake shops everywhere,” said Shumway. “It’s coming,

there’s going to be a wave of them.” Shumway and McKim expect to be in prime position when that wave crests.

For both sisters, Lakes Region Cupcakes rep-resents their first experience as entrepreneurs. Although the ownership of a business is new to them, creating palate-pleasing foods is not. “I’ve always liked to bake, Stephanie loves to cook, we saw there was a need for something,” said Shum-way. McKim added, “We’re from a big family, food has always been a big part of our family.”

Shumway and McKim are from a five-sibling family. Both of them graduated from Belmont High School and they both are raising their own children in the region. To give them a chance to juggle family life with their business venture, the cupcake shop is open Thursdays through Sundays.

Why are cupcakes trending in popularity? As McKim said, each individual cupcake is about the equivalent of a slice of cake. Unlike buying a sheet cake, though, customers can select an assortment of flavors to satisfy diverse appetites, whether it’s at a family gathering or office party. The trend has extended to weddings, too, where the top tier of a wedding cake might be a conventional layer cake, reserved for the bride and groom, and the rest of the wedding guests have their pick from among various

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For now, nearly all of their cupcakes are sold through their front door. Lavinia’s, a restaurant in Center Harbor, is offering them on its dessert menu, and the sisters are hoping to find other distribu-tion partners. They’ve also added a party room for patrons who want to hold a gathering. In the future, they’d like to add baking classes and are looking to develop a recipe for gluten-free cupcakes.

Thanks to the work of McKim’s 16 year-old daugh-ter Sydney, the shop offers vegan cupcakes on Sat-urdays.

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LACONIA — Upon returning to the New Hamp-shire House of Representatives after nearly four decades, Representative David Huot (D-Laconia), who served two terms on the Appropriations Com-mittee of the New Hampshire House of Representa-tives between 1970 and 1974, has been appointed to its namesake, the Finance Committee, by Speaker of the House Terie Norelli.

Huot, a retired district court judge whose father J. Oliva Huot served in Congress from 1965 to 1967, topped a field of eight to win one of the city’s four seats in November. Describing himself as “a good old-fashioned traditional Democrat,” he said he was moved to “go back to the family business” by the actions of the Republican majority that ruled the House in 2010 and 2011. He favors “strategic invest-ments,” particularly in higher education, where the curriculum should be tailored to skills required by employers, and infrastructure.

Representative Beth Arsenault (D-Laconia), who was elected in the newly drawn district of Laconia and Belmont, was named one of eight assistant majority leaders and assigned to the House Educa-

Laconia House reps get committee assignments; Huot will serve on Appropriations; Arsenault on Education

tion Committee. A longtime member of the Laco-nia School Board, Arsenault twice ran for the state Senate, in 2002 and 2004, before being elected to the first of two terms in the House in 2006.

Representative Don Flanders (R-Laconia), chair-man of the Byse Agency, Inc., an insurance firm owned and operated by his family for 75 years, will again serve on the Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee where he has spent most of his seven consecutive terms in the House.

Re-elected to a fourth term in the House, Repre-sentative Frank Tilton (R-Laconia), will remain on the Public Works and Highways Committee, which suits his 32 years with the Army Corps of Engineers and spell as the city’s Director of Public Works.

Representative Bob Luther (R-Laconia), who is serving his second term in the House, will return to the Constitutional Review and Statutory Recodifica-tion Committee. A former Laconia police officer and security guard at LRGHealthcare, he served seven terms on the City Council and was first elected to the House in 2010.

— Michael Kitch

Clinton is recovering from a concussion sustained in a fall and did not attend the White House event.

In a statement, Clinton said, “John Kerry has been tested — in war, in government, and in diplomacy. Time and again, he has proven his mettle.”

Obama settled on Kerry for the job even though it could cause a political problem for Democrats in Massachusetts. Kerry’s move to State would open the Senate seat he has held for five terms, giving Republicans an opportunity to take advantage. Recently defeated GOP Sen. Scott Brown would be his party’s clear favorite in a special election.

Kerry would join a national security team in flux, with Obama expected to choose a new defense secre-tary and director of the Central Intelligence Agency in the coming weeks.

The 69-year-old Kerry already has deep relation-ships with many world leaders, formed both during his Senate travels and as an unofficial envoy for Obama. The president has called upon Kerry in particular to diffuse diplomatic disputes in Afghanistan and Pakistan, two countries that will be at the forefront of Obama’s foreign policy agenda early in his second term.

At times, Kerry has been more forward-leaning than

Obama on foreign policy issues. He was an early advo-cate of an international “no-fly zone” over Libya in 2011 and among the first U.S. lawmakers to call for Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak to leave power as pro-democ-racy protests grew. Obama later backed both positions.

Kerry would take over at a State Department grappling with the deaths of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans during a Sep-tember attack on the consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Kerry, during a hearing on the attacks Thursday, hinted at how he would manage U.S. diplomatic per-sonnel working in unstable regions.

“There will always be a tension between the dip-lomatic imperative to get ‘outside the wire’ and the security standards that require our diplomats to work behind high walls,” he said. “Our challenge is to strike a balance between the necessity of the mis-sion, available resources and tolerance for risk.”

His only other rival for the job, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, faced harsh criticism from congressio-nal Republicans for her initial accounting of the consulate attack. Obama vigorously defended Rice, a close friend and longtime adviser, but GOP sena-tors dug in, threatening to hold up her nomination if the president tapped her for the post.

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Grace Presbyterian Church 174 Province Street, Laconia • www.gracepcanh.org

‘Mere’ Christianity is like a hall out of which doors open into several rooms... But it is in the rooms, not in the hall,

that there are fires and chairs and meals. (C.S. Lewis)

Sunday worship services at 10:15am and 6pm

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Christmas Eve: 4:30 P.M. (Prelude Concert at 4:00 P.M.)

Christmas Day: 9:00 A.M.

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Christmas Eve: 4:00 P.M. Children’s Mass (Prelude Concert at 3:30 P.M.)

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Christmas Day: 9:00 A.M.

Sunday Worship 10:00 am Services held at

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291 Union Ave. Laconia, NH

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30 Church St. Laconia, NH

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Tel: 528-1549 Dial - A - D evotional: 528-5054

Head Pastor: Robert N. Horne

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Sunday School Classes 9:30 am Morning Worship Service 10:45 am

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THE BIBLE SPEAKS’ CHURCH THE BIBLE SPEAKS’ CHURCH 40 Belvidere St. Lakeport, NH

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Fourth Sunday of Advent

Christmas Eve: Candlelight Worship at 7pm and 11pm (Communion)

Sermon - “Mary Remembers” Music Ministry - Wesley Choir & Karissa Zackowski

First United Methodist Church “Serving the Lakes Region”

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NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — As the nation paused to mark a week since the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, new details emerged Friday about the gunman, Adam Lanza, who acquaintances said was able to take apart and reassemble a com-puter in a matter of minutes but rarely spoke to anyone.

In high school, Lanza used to slither through the hallways, awkwardly pressing himself against the wall while wearing the same green shirt and khaki pants every day. He hardly ever talked to classmates and once gave a presentation entirely by computer, never uttering a single word.

“As long as I knew him, he never really spoke,” said Daniel Frost, who took a computer class with Lanza and remembered his skill with electronics.

Lanza seemed to spend most of his time in his own large space in the basement of the home he shared with his mother — the same basement where she kept a collection of guns, said Russell Ford, a friend of Nancy Lanza’s who had done chimney and pipe

A week after massacre, new details of Lanza’s life emergework on the house.

A week ago, Lanza fatally shot his mother before blasting his way into the school, killing 20 children and six teachers with a military style rifle. As police approached, he used a handgun to commit suicide.

Multiple funerals and visitations were held Friday as the community and the nation continued to mourn the lives lost at Sandy Hook. At the hour of the attack, 9:30 a.m., a bell tolled 26 times, once for each victim killed at the school.

Nancy Lanza was often seen around town and regularly chatted up friends and acquaintances at a local restaurant, but her 20-year-old son was a mys-terious figure who was seldom spotted in this com-munity of rolling hills and clapboard colonial homes, according to Ford and other townspeople.

The basement of the Lanza home was fully car-peted and had artwork, including a picture of a horse, on the walls. There was a computer, a flat-screen television, couches and an elaborate setup for

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Luke 2:8-16 Pastor Dave Spencer

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Worship Service 10:00am

Mass Schedule Saturday 4:30 pm

Sunday 8 am & 10:30 am Reconciliation Saturday, 3:30-4 pm

Weekday Masses Mon., Tues., Thurs. - 8am; Wed. 6pm

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Gilford Community Church 19 Potter Hill Road

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Rev. James Smith - 49 Church St., Belmont 267-8185

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LifeQuest Church

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Wednesday: 7:00 p.m. Marriages & Baptisms by

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500 Morrill Street, Gilford 524-9499

Sunday Mass: 7:00 a.m. & 9:00 a.m. Daily Mass: 8:00 a.m.

Mass on Holy Days of Obligation: 7:00 a.m. & 7:00 p.m.

The Lakes Region Vineyard Church 175 Mechanic St. Lakeport, NH • 603-527-2662

Sunday morning celebration ~ 8:30am & 10:30am Contemporary Worship

Sunday School & Nursery • Tuesday night Youth Mid-week Bible studies.

Christ Life Center Food Pantry Thurs. 9 am– 12 noon • 524-5895

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Empowered Evangelicals, who proclaim the Kingdom of God, minister in the power of the

Spirit and keep Christ at the center of life. “It feels like coming home.”

Weirs United Methodist Church 35 Tower St., Weirs Beach 366-4490 P.O. Box 5268

Reverend Dr. Festus K. Kavale Childcare available during service

9am Bible Study 10am Sunday School & Services

First Church of Christ, Scientist 136 Pleasant St., Laconia • 524-7132

10:30am Sunday Services and Sunday School 7 pm Wednesday Services

All Are Welcome Reading Room Open Mon, Wed, Fri 11am-2pm

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church

Pastor Dave Dalzell 2238 Parade Rd, Laconia • 528-4078

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The Reverend Dr. Russell Rowland Join us Sunday at 10 a.m. for worship

Sunday School every week ~ Grades K-12

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CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF LACONIA Veterans Square at Pleasant St.

Rev. Dr. Warren H. Bouton, Pastor Rev. Paula B. Gile, Associate Pastor

8:00am - Early Worship 9:30am - Family Worship & Church School

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Nursery Care available in

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Social Fellowship follows the 9:30 service.

A Song of Love Luke 1: 39-55

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876 North Main St. (Rt. 106) Opp. Opechee Park The Episcopal Church Welcomes You

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video games. Nancy Lanza kept her guns in what appeared to be a secure case in another part of the basement, Ford said.

“She was from gun culture. Live free or die. That was truly her upbringing,” said Ford, who often met the New Hampshire native and other friends at a regular Tuesday gathering at My Place, a local res-taurant.

Ford did not know if Lanza brought her son shooting.During the past year and a half, Ford said, Nancy

Lanza had told him that she planned to move out West and enroll Adam in a “school or a center.” The plan started unfolding after Adam turned 18.

“He wouldn’t be dwelling with her,” said Ford, who

remembered that Adam Lanza never spoke to him or even made eye contact.

“She knew she needed to be near him,” he added. “She was trying to do what was positive for him.”

Ford said Nancy Lanza didn’t elaborate on what type of services she wanted her son to receive. He hadn’t seen her in about a month and a half, and said she made fewer appearances at the restaurant in recent months.

Mark Tambascio, owner of My Place, said Nancy Lanza described the same plan to him, saying she might move to Washington State.

Back in high school, Frost recalled, Lanza once made a class presentation about how to change the

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Real Estate Emergency Rescue Vehicle

Lakes Region Real Estate Market Report / Roy Sanborn

If you are reading this then the world didn’t end yesterday as predicted. That means we really have to finish Christmas shopping for sure. But 2012 is coming to an end soon and we are headed down the homestretch with 86 residential sales last month in the communities listed in this Lakes Region real estate market report. That’s a 44 per-cent increase over the 60 sales posted last Novem-ber! The average sales price came in at $332,653 with a median price point of $172,600. There have been 858 residential home sales at an average of $301,311 for the first eleven months of 2012 compared to 684 transactions at an average of $306,504 for the same period last year. That’s a 26 percent increase in the total number of sales over last year which is great! Over half (57 percent) of the transactions were under the $200,000 mark compared to 50 percent last year, so there is a bit of a edge toward the lower priced homes and that definitely affects the overall average sales price.

I have always tried to keep up with the current real estate trends and be as forward thinking and innovative as I possibly could in order to better serve my clients. It seemed to me that something was missing in the way of real estate services but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it until I saw a

commercial on TV for Best Buy and the Geek Squad. You know, the Geek Squad are the guys in the white VW Beetles with black fenders that will come out to take care of your computer emergency. That got me thinking.

I am excited to announce that I am taking delivery of the area’s first Real Estate Emergency Rescue Vehicle. Actually, it is the first of its kind in the entire country, so this is really a pretty big deal. Truthfully, I already had the vehicle, but I am taking delivery of the highly expensive medi-cal equipment to outfit it. Given the near epidemic proportion of real estate emergencies I am sur-prised no one else thought of this before. These emergencies are a direct result of all the stress, tension, and anxiety that goes with selling a home and range from simple maladies such as head-aches to life threatening events such as a heart attack or stroke. These issues may be best dealt with at home and not at the emergency room at the local hospital (you know, all these new insur-ance laws cause even more stress, anger, and fur-ther complications.)

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pretty quick so I can get to the distressed client before an ambulance. It is kind of small, but speed is the thing here and I am not going to be transport-ing patients like those other emergency vehicles. I am taking out the back seat (as no one can sit on it anyway) and installing the equipment necessary to handle the most common ailments encountered in real estate transactions. Since blue and red strobe lights are already in use by those other emergency providers I am utilizing green lights to let everyone knows that this is a real estate emergency and that they should immediately pull over to let us by.

The most important pieces of equipment in my vehicle are defibrillators (you know; the paddles) for heart attack victims. These are used most commonly after (a) the seller is told what his home is worth in this market or (b) a seller receives his first low ball offer. I will also have oxygen on board for those sell-ers that are having trouble breathing. The tanks are also piped into the Mini’s engine intake to give it a little more power. I am also going to carry smelling salts but that’s not as much fun as using the paddles. For those sellers that have been self medicating a little too much in an attempt to reduce stress, I will have adrenaline on board so I can inject it directly into their heart if they overdose and become non-responsive. I am also going to carry smelling salts but that’s not as much fun as using the paddles or stabbing someone with a six inch long needle. Of course, these are the extreme emergencies.

I really expect most rescue calls will be for less serious issues. Homeowners that are stressed out to the max may experience dizziness, headaches, and sleeplessness. These symptoms can easily be con-

trolled with proper medication and counseling. The Mini will be stocked with a variety of pharmaceuti-cals to dispense for these conditions. No home seller should go without a restful night’s sleep. As an expe-rienced real estate agent, I have been counseling sellers for years anyway so I will need no additional training in that area. Psychiatry has always been an integral part of our profession and we go to many continuing education classes to stay up to date on the latest and greatest.

Some of the emergency calls are from buyers who also a succumb to the stress of trying to find the perfect home. Most stress, however, comes as a result of the financing process which has almost become unbearable for the new home buyer no matter how good his financial health is. It seems like the lenders have also gotten into internal medicine and are specializing in financial colonoscopies. Unfortunately, they are performing them without anes-thesia so this is a very, very painful process for anyone. I have had a number of buyers who have experienced total mental breakdowns as a result of this intrusive proce-dure. It’s not a pretty sight.

As a cooperating agent and member of the National Association of REALTORS®, I will render emergency service to any seller or buyer regardless of who they are working with. It is the least I can do. Please call 1-888-8RE-HELP if you or a loved one is experiencing a real estate health emergency.

Please feel free to visit www.lakesregionhome.com to learn more about the Lakes Region real estate market and comment on this article and others. Data was compiled as of 11/20/12 using the Northern New England Real Estate MLS System. Roy San-born is a REALTOR® at Roche Realty Group and can be reached at 603-677-8420

from preceding page

Jim Viar took Best Overall Photo with “Along the Crawford/Ridge-pole Trail” in the SLA’s 1st annual photo contest. (Courtesy photo)

HOLDERNESS — The Squam Lakes Association (SLA) is proud to announce the winners of their first ever photography contest. More than 50 photo-graphs were submitted over the summer and early fall.

Winners were selected in the following categories: Best Overall, People’s Choice, Recreation, Scenic, Nature, and Youth. From sunrises and sunsets to youth and wildlife, there is true diversity in the Squam experience. Each submission captured the essence of Squam in a unique way, and it was a dif-ficult task selecting winners.

Best Overall 1st place photo, “Along the Craw-ford/Ridgepole Trail” went to Jim Viar. The People’s Choice, chosen on the SLA’s Facebook page, went to Jack Olmstead for “Sunset on Squam.”

The following took first place in the respective

The Squam Lakes Association announces winners of first-ever photography contest

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categories: Recreation – Jeff Thomsen “untitled” (kayaker in golden light), Nature – Olgo A Russo “untitled” (eagles framed by tree), Scenic – Jeff Thomsen “untitled” (Chocorua at sunrise), and Youth – Elizabeth Bardwell “untitled” (two children on Bowman Dock).

“Everyone enjoys Squam in a different way,” says

SLA Ecological Manager Rebecca Hanson. “That was apparent in both the breadth and beauty of all the sub-missions.” The winners can be viewed at squamlakes.org and all 55 entries are on the SLA’s Facebook page.

The Squam Lakes Association is dedicated to con-serving for the public benefit the natural beauty, peaceful character and unique resource values of the Squam Lakes and surrounding watershed.

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During National Influenza Vaccination Week, a national campaign conducted December 2-8, 774 local students received a vaccination against the seasonal flu, according to Lakes Region Partnership for Public Health associate director Susan Laverack. The vaccination efforts are aimed at protecting the individual, especially those at high risk of complications, and those around them from an illness that claims over 25,000 U.S. lives each year. The local local students received their vaccinations through a collaborative project with the New Hampshire Immunization Program. Pictured here are second grade students are Aubrey Burner and Lily D’Amico. (Courtesy photo)

In one week, 744 local students received flu vaccine

Tina Borrin holds winning ticket for the $5,000 raffle held at the Moultonborough Holiday Fair

Moultonborough Lions Club members Bob and Eileen Zewski along with President Ed Meskys, right, present a check for $5,000 to Tina Borrin, winner of the Holiday Fair Raffle. (Courtesy photo)

MOULTONBOROUGH — The Moultonborough Lions Club drew the winning raffle ticket at the close of the Holiday Fair at the Moultonborough Central School. And the lucky winner of $5,000 cash was Tina Borrin from Moultonborough.

Lions Eileen and Bob Zewski, co-chairs of the raffle, along with President Ed Meskys, presented her with the check Tuesday. When told of her win-nings Borrin, the widow of long-time realtor and community leader Mel Borrin, said “It has always been Mel’s idea, and mine, to support locally in busi-ness and pleasure. It is my intent to continue that tradition with my winnings. My warmest thank-you goes out to both the Lions Club and the local com-munity”.

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In addition to the $5,000 Raffl e the Lions host the “Ed Selleck” Memorial Golf Tournament and run Bingo every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. The proceeds from these fundraisers go back into the community.

The Moultonborough Lions Club also pays for eye exams, eyeglasses and hearing aids for needy residents, established and continues to support the Annie Forts “UP” Syndrome Fund, collects used eye-glasses and hearing aids for Lions International, supports the NH Lions Sight and Hearing Founda-tion, awards $10,000 annually in scholarships to graduating high school seniors, sponsors the Twin State (NH-VT) Youth Soccer Tournament, partici-pates in White Cane Day with the help of the Scouts,

participates in the Adopt-a-Highway program, co-sponsors the Adopt-a-Spot program with Aubuchon Hardware and is involved in many more charitable causes.

Some of the projects and events held at the club include hosting the Annual H.O.P.E. Auction which supports local Food Pantries, providing a meeting place for senior meals program and a base for the Meals-on-Wheels program, sponsors and provides a meeting place for Boy Scout Troop 142 and Cub Scout Pack 369, provides a meeting place for the Moultonborough Women’s Club, co-sponsors a Town picnic on July 4th, and donates the use of the hall to the WIC program and the Men’s Breakfast on the third Friday of each month.

from preceding page

Lakes Region Community Col-lege (LRCC) Licensed Nursing Assistant (LNA) graduates, left to right, Patsy Slothower of Center Sandwich, Tete Robert of Laconia, Chelsey Brown of Wentworth, and Shannon Hub-bard of Barnstead, are shown with their certifi cates follow-ing the graduation held on Prescott Hill in Laconia. “The instructors were absolutely amazing,” says Hubbard, now seeking employment in the medical fi eld. “The whole course was very helpful. The books gave all of the informa-tion needed and the teachers were very patient with the students. Instructors went out of their way to help, even staying late with us if needed. It was an amazing experience!” LRCC LNA graduates have experienced 100 percent job placement for years. For additional information on LRCC’s LNA program, contact the Admissions Department at 524-3207 ext. 6767. (Courtesy photo)

Community college graduates class of LNA students

LACONIA — The winners of the Elks Hoop Shoot Held on November 8 will now move on to the North District Hoot Shoot hosted by the Lebanon Elks on Sunday, Jan. 6, 2012.

The winners of the Laconia Hoop Shoot in each age group are as follows: Boy’s 8-9, Camden Kirker;

Girls 10-11, Delaney Ross; Boys 10-11, Griffi n Embree; Girls 12-13, Linsey Drouin; Boys 12-13, Caleb Petell.

“I want to thank all the Elks members that helped make the Hoop Shoot a great success,” said Don Doherty, Chairman.

Elks Hoop Shoot winners advance to next level

MEREDITH — Trinity Episcopal Church has announced its Christmas schedule.

On Christmas Eve at 4:30 p.m. there will be a ser-vice especially geared for children, which includes a very interactive blessing of the creche, many carols, and a celebration of Holy Eucharist

Christmas Eve at 9 p.m. there will be a candle-light service including music by the choir, carols, and the celebration of Holy Eucharist.

Christmas day there will be a service at 9:30 a.m. with carols, communion and a more informal cele-

bration of the birth of Christ.On Sunday, December 30 at 9:30 a.m., the Sunday

after Christmas, while the 12 days continue, there will be more carols, communion,and joy and celebra-tion.

Saturday, January 5 at 5 p.m. a Twelfth Night cel-ebration will be held with a a pot luck supper, with the King’s Cake, fun and games. All ages welcome On Sunday, January 6 at 9:30 a.m. there will be The Arrival of the Magi, the feast of Epiphany and cel-ebration of Eucharist.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Every-thing can be dangerous: drinking too much water, sitting too long in the same position, playing video games. It’s something to tell those who worry about the risk you’re taking. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You don’t look in the rearview mirror when you’re driving forward, and you don’t bring up childhood pain when you’re trying to make a grownup impression. Others will learn from your dignifi ed approach. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’ll enjoy listening to people talk about what’s going on in their lives and/or businesses. You’ll learn tips and gain insights that you can apply immedi-ately. CANCER (June 22-July 22). The future looks bright, but not so bright that you can’t make out the details. You’ll spend time in the vision of your tomorrows, working out a few details in the process. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You may be the cat of the zodiac, but some people will encounter you as more of an arma-dillo: highly armored. It’s appropriate that you ward off certain elements, and you’re better off for the selectively pro-tective stance. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You learned this long ago: If you fi nd your-self wrestling the urge to change some-one, the best thing to do is change yourself. Seek guidance and encour-agement to reinforce the process. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You’ll take a step back and assess your ener-getic investments. If you give energy to a person or endeavor that doesn’t feed your soul in any way, you are stealing

energy from yourself. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You’re not always the best judge of what will bring you pleasure. You’ll fi nd yourself in an extremely pleasant scenario. You didn’t want or plan this, but it’s wonder-ful! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). The change you want in a certain rela-tionship is becoming clearer with each new development. A new aim is born out of a simple wish to be in a different spot one year from now. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Set a tone for relationships. There will be something to nip in the bud. If you put up with someone’s bad behav-ior long enough, it will eventually get worse. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You wisely realize that the one who looks like a giant may feel like a little kid inside. You sense how people feel about themselves and strive to help them improve the feeling. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). “Get rich quick” schemes almost never work, because to have a successful venture, you absolutely must spend time on it. Passion is important to your success, but time is the most critical ingredient. TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Dec. 22). Because you want the person you love to be your best friend, you’ll strive to create a relationship that works on many levels and will fi nd much suc-cess with this endeavor this year. Janu-ary and May are your luckiest months fi nancially. The professional success you’ll have in March is a dream come true. Aquarius and Libra people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 7, 39, 41, 35 and 20.

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Today’s Highlight in History:On Dec. 22, 1912, Lady Bird Johnson, the wife

of President Lyndon B. Johnson, was born Clau-dia Alta Taylor in Karnack, Texas.

On this date:In 1775, Esek Hopkins was appointed the

commander-in-chief of the Continental Navy.In 1808, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony

No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, and Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58, had their world premieres in Vienna, Austria.

In 1864, during the Civil War, Union Gen. Wil-liam T. Sherman said in a message to President Abraham Lincoln: “I beg to present you as a Christmas-gift the city of Savannah.”

In 1894, French army offi cer Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason in a court-martial that triggered worldwide charges of anti-Semitism. (Dreyfus was eventually vindicated.)

In 1910, a fi re lasting more than 26 hours broke out at the Chicago Union Stock Yards; 21 fi refi ght-ers were killed in the collapse of a burning build-ing.

In 1937, the fi rst, center tube of the Lincoln Tunnel connecting New York City and New Jersey underneath the Hudson River was opened to traf-fi c. (The north tube opened in 1945, the south tube in 1957.)

In 1944, during the World War II Battle of the Bulge, U.S. Brig. Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe rejected a German demand for surrender, writing “Nuts!” in his offi cial reply.

In 1968, Julie Nixon married David Eisenhower in a private ceremony in New York.

In 1984, New York City resident Bernhard Goetz shot and wounded four youths on a Man-hattan subway, claiming they were about to rob him.

In 1992, a Libyan Boeing 727 jetliner crashed after a midair collision with a MiG fi ghter, killing all 157 aboard the jetliner, and both crew members of the fi ghter jet.

In 2001, Richard C. Reid, a passenger on an American Airlines fl ight from Paris to Miami, tried to ignite explosives in his shoes, but was subdued by fl ight attendants and fellow passengers. (Reid is serving a life sentence in federal prison.)

One year ago: A wave of 16 bombings ripped across Baghdad, killing at least 69 people in the worst violence in Iraq in months days after the last American forces left the country, heighten-ing fears of a new round of Shiite-Sunni sectarian bloodshed.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor Hector Elizondo is 76. Country singer Red Steagall is 74. Former World Bank Group President Paul Wolfowitz is 69. Base-ball Hall-of-Famer Steve Carlton is 68. ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer is 67. Rock singer-musician Rick Nielsen is 66. Rock singer-musician Michael Bacon is 64. Baseball All-Star Steve Garvey is 64. Golfer Jan Stephenson is 61. Actress BernNa-dette Stanis is 59. Country singer-musician Chuck Mead is 52. Actor Ralph Fiennes is 50. Actress Lauralee Bell is 44. Country singer Lori McKenna is 44. Actress Dina Meyer is 44. Actress Heather Donahue is 39. Actor Chris Carmack is 32. Actor Logan Huffman is 23. Rhythm-and-blues singer Jordin Sparks is 23.

CALENDARTODAY’S EVENTS

Traditional Christmas sing-along held at the Onions Pub and Restaurant in Tilton. 5:30 p.m. Cash donations appreciated.

Lakes Region Singers present its annual Christmas Concert. 2 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church on Route 11-A in Gilford. Suggested donation of $8 per person or $15 per family (parents and children).

Line Dancing at Starr King Fellowship Sundays from 4-5 p.m. $5 per person. For more information call George at 536-1179.

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The Lakes Region Vineyard Church presents the chil-dren’s show The Living Nativity scene. 4-6 p.m in front of the church’s building on Mechanic Street in Lakeport in Laconia. For more information call 524-2662.

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

All compulsive eaters are welcome to attend the Overeaters Anonymous meeting held each Saturday morning from 11 to 12 at the Franklin Hospital.

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

The New Horizons Band of the Lakes Region meets every Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Music Clinic on Rte 3 in Belmont. All musicians welcome. For more information call 528-6672 or 524-8570.

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

Narcotics Anonymous meeting. 7 to 8:30 p.m. at 35 Tower Street in Weirs Beach.

Overeaters Anonymous offers a program of recov-ery from compulsive eating using the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of OA. The program is held Monday nights at 7 p.m. at the Laconia Congregational Church Parish Hall, 18 Veterans Square, (for mapquest use 69 Pleasant St.), Laconia, NH 03246. Use back entrance. Call/leave a message for Paula at 998-0562 for more information.

Chess Club at the Hall Memorial Library. 4-7 p.m. Adult Pick-up Basketball offered by Meredith Parks

& Recreation Department held at the Meredith Commu-nity Center Monday nights from 6 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. $1 per person - sign in and out at the front desk.

Laconia Chapter of Barbershop Harmony Soci-ety meeting. 7:15 to 9:30 p.m. at the Gilford Community Church. Guests and singers of all ages and skills are invited to attend these Monday night rehearsals. For more informa-tion call Harvey Beetle at 528-3073.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: I want to reply to “Twice Bitten,” who is be-ing bitten by tiny bugs. I had the same problem. After several visits to the dermatologist and tests with no diagnosis, I tried lavender soap and lotion. Bugs do not like the smell of lav-ender. You also can sprinkle lavender fl owers on your carpet and use lavender sachets in your hamper and in and around your bed. -- Also Been Bitten Dear From: We heard from hundreds of readers on this sub-ject. When we initially did our research, we found too many possibilities to print. So here are a few more: From Casper, Wyo: My friend had a similar experience af-ter a cruise. It turned out she had contracted scabies, probably from an infected mattress. East Coast: As a pest control technician, I get many com-plaints like this. After a thorough inspection and fi nding no visible pests, I suggest quite a few of the same options you did. But I have noticed that this often happens when the weather turns colder and our furnaces kick back on. It tends to dry out the skin, with the sensation of being bitten by bugs. A humidifi er may do the trick. Louisville, Ky.: That poor woman who is plagued by bites has been bitten by “no-see-um” bugs. They are so named be-cause they are too small to see with the naked eye. I was bitten last summer and almost lost my mind until a friend told me to buy white vinegar and spray it on my sheets and pillows in the morning and leave them uncovered to dry. After several nights of this, the bites stopped. Ontario, Calif.: I had a similar problem, and it turned out to be rat mites. We got rid of the rats in our attic, but their tiny mites dropped down into the house. Our exterminator identi-fi ed them when I put one under a microscope. Washington State: “Twice Bitten” should see a doctor and

ask about the Norwegian scabies. Unlike regular scabies, they do not leave the telltale tracks and are harder to identify. Louisiana: Years ago, my husband returned from work-ing in a remote area. That night, I was bitten by some type of bug. We searched the bed for hours. Nothing. This went on for weeks, but with only a slight redness, there was nothing to show a doctor. My husband started to believe I was imag-ining things. After a month of ridiculously intensive house-cleaning, preventive bug spraying, bed checks and sleepless nights, I felt a bite and instinctively grabbed the culprit. It was dark brown and slightly larger than a pinhead. I took “the remains” to an entomologist. He studied it, said he’d never seen anything like it and asked if he could keep it. Greensboro: I, too, had bites from an unknown source show up around my face and neck. I went to a dermatologist, who gave me a strong antibiotic and a steroid cream and told me it was yeast. That didn’t work. After discussing it with my sister, who works at a hospital, she suggested that I see an allergist. He discovered that I am allergic to dust mites. Lady Lake, Fla.: My son had a similar problem. I checked his bed, changed laundry detergent, scrubbed, but nothing helped. Finally, I sat where he studied and felt a bite. I no-ticed mites fl itting about a nearby houseplant. I tossed out the plant, vacuumed thoroughly and sprayed with Lysol. Two days later, we were free of bites. New York: These people may have Morgellons, which the medical community doesn’t always recognize. The writer may have picked this up from contaminated clothing or furniture fabric, or from exposure to a contaminated pet. The cleaning you recommended is necessary, but so are antibiotics, anti-fungal medications and other treatments similar to those used for scabies.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please e-mail your questions to: anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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LACONIA 1st floor 2-3 bedroomapartment on Pleasant St. Walk totown & beaches, recentlyrepainted, carpeting, appliances,full bath. $1,000/Month includesheat & hot water. 524-3892 or630-4771

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LACONIA House to share- 2 roomw/full bath, shared kitchen &washer/dryer, TV included.Parade & Elm St. Separateentrance. $700/Month + 1/2utilities. No security/Referencesrequired. 303-746-0336 LeaveMessage

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LACONIA- 1 bedroom home.$850/Month + utilities. $850deposit, available immediately.Call 603-340-0936 No calls after8pm please.

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LACONIA: 2 bedroom, 2nd floorin duplex building with separateentrance. Recently renovated,$240/week including heat, electric& hot water. 524-1234,www.whitemtrentals.com.

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LACONIA: Gilbert Apartments.Call for available apartments.524-4428

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LACONIA: Large 3 & 4-bedroomapartments. Parking. $850/mo +utilities. 603-781-6294.

LACONIA: Spacious two bedroomapartment for rent. Rent is $844.per month with heat and hot waterincluded. On-site laundry, storageroom and off-street parking.Close to pharmacy, schools andhospital. Please call Julieat Stewart Property Mgt.(603) 524-6673 EHO.

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IBANEZ Gio electric guitar $100,Peavey Special 130W amplifier$150. Or both for $225. 286-4012.

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Left to right: Thomas Garfield, vice president of consumer services for Bank of New Hampshire; Tom Goulette, vice president of academic affairs for Lakes Region Community College; Dr. Scott Kalicki – President of Lakes Region Community College. The bank donated $25,000 to help the college equip the new Health and Science Building. (Courtesy photo)

Bank of New Hampshire helps to outfit Community College’s new Health and Science Building

LACONIA — The Bank of New Hampshire is proud to support Lakes Region Community College with a $25,000 donation towards equipping LRCC’s new Health and Science Building. “Bank of New Hampshire is dedicated to supporting our future leaders,” stated Thomas Garfield, vice president of consumer services for Bank of New Hampshire. “The addition that LRCC is making to their campus will accommodate increasing student populations in the high demand health care and specialized science careers.”

“College personnel are proud to be community partners with Bank of New Hampshire,” stated Dr. Scott Kalicki, president of Lakes Region Community College. “We appreciate their generosity and contri-bution to help us serve the community in the best possible way.

“The ongoing support of the Lakes Region business

community is critically important to maximizing the potential of LRCC,” said Kalicki. “Training students for skilled employment and economic expansion of the area and State is the basis of LRCC.”

To find out more about Lakes Region Community College, visit www.lrcc.edu.

Bank of New Hampshire, founded in 1831, pro-vides deposit, lending and wealth management products and services to families and businesses throughout New Hampshire. With 21 banking offices throughout New Hampshire and assets exceeding $1 billion, Bank of New Hampshire is the oldest and largest independent bank in the state. Bank of New Hampshire is a mutual organization, focused on the success of the bank’s customers, communities and employees, rather than stockholders. For more infor-mation, call 1-800-832-0912 or visit www.BankNH.com.

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Nine students from Laconia High School Music Depart-ment performed in the 2012 Plymouth State University All New England Festivals for Band and Choir on November 1. The students were sel-eced from among more than 500 students from six states to participate in the one-day festival. The students had the privilege to work under guest conductors and then perform in an evening concert. Shown here, in the back row, are: Sam Batchelder – alto voice, Mitch-ell Bailey – bass voice, Jas-mine Blais – flute. Front row: Destiny DeMond – soprano voice, Andrew Emaneul – clairnet, Gwen Hout – clarinet, Bryson Haddock – tenor voice. Not pictured are Sephanie Polidoro – alto voice and Mikayla Minor – trumpet. (Courtesy photo)

Nine LHS students perform at All New England Music Festival, held at Plymouth State University

Hot spots draw believers, but not doomsday

As the sun rose from time zone to time zone across the world on Friday, there was still no sign of the world’s end — but that didn’t stop those convinced that a 5,125-year Mayan calendar predicts the apoc-alypse from gathering at some of the world’s pur-ported survival hot spots.

Many of the esoterically inclined expected a new age of consciousness — others wanted a party. But, in some places said to offer salvation from the end, fewer people showed up than officials had predicted — much to the disappointment of vendors hoping to sell souvenirs.

Here are some key places being marked by the fascination over doomsday rumors:

MEXICOIn an area of Mexico that was once the ancient

Mayan heartland, spiritualists gathered in the dark-ness before dawn on Friday to prepare white clothes, drums, conch shells and incense. They believed the sunrise would herald the birth of a new and better age as a vast cycle in the Mayan calendar comes to an end.

Many people who came to Yucatan for the occasion were already calling it “a new sun” and “a new era.”

FRANCEAccording to one rumor, a rocky mountain in the

French Pyrenees will be the sole place on Earth to escape destruction. A giant UFO and aliens are said to be waiting under the mountain, ready to burst through and spirit those nearby to safety. But there is bad news for those seeking salvation: French gendarmes, some on horseback, blocked outsiders from reaching the Bugarach peak and its village of some 200 people.

Eric Freysselinard, head of local government, said the security forces had “partially stopped the new age enthusiasts as well as curious people from coming to the area.”

Meanwhile, some Bugarach residents dressed up like aliens, with tinfoil costumes and funnels and fake antenna on their heads, strolling around their village Friday to make light of the rumored UFO prophecy.

RUSSIADoomsday rumors have prompted some people

across Russia to stock up on candles, water, canned foods and other non-perishable foods. The apocalypse has proven a good business, with some shops selling survival aid packages that include soap and vodka.

In Moscow, salvation has also been promised in the underground bunker for the former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin — with a 50 percent refund if nothing happens. An underground stay was originally priced at 50,000 rubles ($1,625) but dropped to 15,000 ($490) a week ahead of the feared end.

The bunker, located 65 meters (210 feet) below ground, was designed to withstand a nuclear attack. Now home to a small museum, it has an independent electricity supply, water and food — but no more room, because the museum has already sold out all 1,000 tickets.

BRITAINHundreds of people have converged on Stone-

henge for an “End of the World” party that coincides with the Winter Solstice.

Arthur Uther Pendragon, Britain’s best-known druid, said he was anticipating a much larger crowd than usual at Stonehenge this year. But he doesn’t agree that the world is ending, noting that he and fellow druids believe that things happen in cycles.

“We’re looking at it more as a new beginning than an end,” he said. “We’re looking at new hope.”

Meanwhile, end-of-days parties will be held across London on Friday. One event billed as a “last supper club” is offering a three-course meal served inside an “ark.”

SERBIASome Serbs are saying to forget that sacred moun-

tain in the French Pyrenees. The place to be Friday is Mount Rtanj, a pyramid-shaped peak in Serbia already drawing cultists.

According to legend, the mountain once swallowed an evil sorcerer who will be released on doomsday in a ball of fire that will hit the mountain top. The inside of the mountain will then open up, becoming a safe place to hide as the sorcerer goes on to destroy the rest of the world. In the meantime, some old coal mine shafts have been opened up as safe rooms.

Windstorm cuts power to more than 30,000 in VermontBURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A windstorm that saw

gusts hit 86 miles per hour on the top of Vermont’s tallest mountain and 70 mph and greater at lower elevations ushered in the first day of winter Friday, knocking out power to almost 32,000 electric cus-tomers from one end of the state to the other.

As of 6:30 p.m. about 16,000 customers remained without power across the state.

Vermont’s largest electric utility, Green Mountain Power, said it could be Christmas Eve or even later before power is restored to all its customers.

Most of the damages and power outages were reported on the west-facing slopes of the Green Mountains, although outages were reported in all 14 of the state’s counties.

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carrying bags of gifts, a church, Christmas carolers and brightly decorated homes. There’s also a seaport scene with fi shing boats, waterfront hotels and tav-erns and and a captain’s home with ladies strolling on the catwalk and ‘’Pete’s Boat Shop.’’.

King says that she started the collection 19 years ago after having seen two or three of the Christmas Village scenes set up at her daughter’s home in North Carolina while visiting for the holidays and has been adding to her collection every year since then.

‘’I started looking for them in places like Sears, Wal-Mart, Michael’s, Lowe’s and even CVS,’’ she says.

A former Anna Lee Dolls employee who for years has run her own sewing business, King says that her husband, Gordon, himself a model plane builder and collector, has been an enabler in her project, helping her indulge her desire to create an unrivaled minia-ture Christmas Village.

‘’Armand Bolduc saw it and said he’d love to see it set up someplace downtown like the former Bloom’s Variety for the holidays. But that’s just too much work, taking everything down there, setting it up and then having to take it down and bring it back home,’’ says King, who does all of the setup by herself.

She said that it takes dozens of hours to get the Christmas Village items, all of which are kept in their original boxes, out of storage and set them up in the garage area which is normally her workshop.

Once it it is all in place it will stay up for a few months and is a popular destination for friends and neighbors, who stop by to marvel at the Christmas scene and all of the work that went into assembling it.

King says that she and her husband do help set

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nia Clinic and Chris Santaniello of Lakes Region Community Services, both major employers, John Moriarity, who owns property on Main Street, and City Manager Scott Myers and Planning Director Shanna Saunders from the city.

When the committee met for the fi rst time on December 6 the discussion turned on several issues raised by business owners and city residents earlier in the year — parking on Harvard Street and New Salem Street as well as the use of the city parking garage on Beacon Street East.

Since Lakes Region Community Services moved to the Federal Building on-street parking on Harvard Street has increased, creating risks for motorists leaving the Laconia Clinic by way of the Harvard Street exit.

The committee recommends prohibiting on-street parking on Harvard Street between North Main Street and Dartmouth Street and lifting restrictions on the spaces on New Salem Street. There are eight parallel parking spaces on the west side of New Salem Street and another 38 vertical spaces, includ-ing two handicapped spaces, on the east side, half of which are restricted to two hours. The committee recommends designating 34 of the 38 spaces behind the railroad station for all-day parking, except for four spaces immediately behind the station, which would remain restricted to two-hours for patrons of the businesses housed in the building.

The changes would become effective as soon as appropriate signage could be posted, but would expire when the winter parking ban is lifted in 2013, when after assessing the impacts of the changes, the city council would decide to abandon or continue them.

In a memorandum to the City Council, Myers said that those employed downtown who choose to use or avoid the garage are being asked about their concerns in order to gain a better understanding the issues and how to address them. He indicated the parking garage would be on the agenda pf the fi rst meeting in the new year.

— Michael Kitch

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6th Circuit Court, Franklin Division said the victim said he met her on a Website called “casual encounters.”

He said they exchanged phone numbers and via text messaging he agreed to pay her $100 for sex. He came to Tilton at 8:30 p.m. on October 31 and told police he met with Labounty.

Affi davits said the victim

up a similar smaller display at the Com-munity Center during Christmas Village each December.

She said that when her children visit they will play tricks on her by taking one of the people or animal fi gures on display and moving it to a different location, something which she sometimes doesn’t dis-cover until she’s taking the display down.

‘’One year they put Godzilla on top of one of the Christmas houses and I didn’t fi nd for weeks,’’ says King.

She says that last year she left the display up until late March but plans on taking it down earlier this time around so that she can start some of her spring and summer plants earlier next year.

Chantel L. Labounty(Tilton Police photo)

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said she took his money and led him through town to an unknown location where she bought some drugs.

He told police the two returned to her apartment where she requested more money, which he gave. He said she sent him to the store while she paid another person in a neighboring apartment some money. He said this happened a few times during the evening.

Affi davits said Labounty told him to wait outside in the parking lot near his vehicle and she would be right out. He told police he waited in the parking lot

but believed he “had been stood up.”Labounty never returned and the victim said he

was called her cell phone three times to no avail.He went to police and reported that she never per-

formed the sex act. He said the additional $550 he gave her was supposed to be a loan she would repay the next day.

Investigating offi cers said they viewed some of the text messages between the two.

Labounty was charged with breach of bail (for vio-lating the terms of her fi rst arrest, which was the one that went to indictment) and for prostitution.

She was held on $2000 cash bail by Judge Edward “Ned” Gordon on October 22. She has posted bail and is scheduled for trial in Franklin on December 31.

the ruins, Dec. 21 sparked celebration of what they saw as the birth of a new and better age. It was also inspiration for massive clouds of patchouli and marijuana smoke and a chorus of conch calls at the break of dawn.

The offi cial crowd count stood at 20,000 as of mid-afternoon, with people continuing to arrive. That sur-passed the count on an average day but not as many as have gathered at the ruins during equinoxes.

The boisterous gathering Friday included Bud-dhists, pagan nature worshippers, druids and fol-lowers of Aztec and Maya religious traditions. Some kneeled in attitudes of prayer, some seated with arms outstretched in positions of meditation, all facing El Castillo, the massive main pyramid.

Ceremonies were being held at different sides of the pyramid, including one led by a music group that belted out American blues and reggae-inspired chants. Others involved yelping and shouting, and drumming and dance, such as one ceremony led by spiritual master Ollin Yolotzin.

“The world was never going to end, this was an invention of the mass media,” said Yolotzin, who leads the Aztec ritual dance group Cuautli-balam. “It is going to be a good era. ... We are going to be better.”

Ivan Gutierrez, a 37-year-old artist who lives in the nearby village, stood before the pyramid and blew a low, sonorous blast on a conch horn. “It has already arrived, we are already in it,” he said of the new era. “We are in a frequency of love, we are in a new vibration.”

But it was unclear how long the love would last: A security guard quickly came over and asked him to stop blowing his conch shell, enforcing the ruin site’s ban on holding ceremonies without previous permits.

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folders in Microsoft Windows different colors. He did it without saying a word, just demonstrating the steps on a screen.

Someone in the class brought in a video game called “Counter-Strike,” a first-person shooting video game in which players compete against each other as either terrorists or counter-terrorists, Frost said.

Lanza “seemed pretty interested in the game,” Frost recalled, and would play it with other stu-dents. He remembers the weapons Lanza chose: an M4 military-style assault rifle and a Glock handgun.

During the rampage at the school, Lanza used a military-style assault rifle and carried handguns, authorities said.

A week after the massacre, authorities still have no clear reason why Lanza would lash out at defenseless first-graders and their caretakers.

State police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance said it is too soon to draw any conclusions. A final report on the investigation could be months away.

Lanza destroyed the hard drive of his computer before the attack, and investigators have been unable to retrieve any information from it, accord-ing to a person briefed on the case.

And while they haven’t given up, they aren’t con-fident they will be able to repair it, the person said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case publicly.

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carries, and a dozen other cases have emerged in some of the 18 hospitals in seven states where he previously worked.

Maryland health officials announced four new cases on Friday, all involving patients at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, where Kwiatkowski worked from July 2009 to January 2010.

The previously reported cases include one from the Baltimore VA Medical Center and six from Hays Medical Center in Kansas. Another case has been confirmed at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pennsylvania, a hospital spokeswoman told The Associated Press this week.

Over the years, Kwiatkowski was fired twice over allegations of drug use and theft, including from UPMC, where he was just a few weeks into his tem-porary stint when a co-worker accused him of swip-ing a fentanyl syringe from an operating room and sticking it down his pants. Citing a lack of evidence, hospital authorities didn’t call police, and neither the hospital nor the medical staffing agency that placed him in the job informed the national accredi-tation organization for radiological technicians.

CONCORD (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department says New Hampshire should no longer have to submit its election law changes to federal officials before implementing them.

New Hampshire is among a group of states that are required under the Voting Rights Act of 1964 to submit any election law changes to the Department of Justice for review to determine whether they would result in

racial discrimination. The state came under the act’s purview because of poor voter turnout in 10 towns in the 1968 presidential election and because it still had a literacy test on the books at the time.

On Friday, the justice department said it has reached an agreement with the state to “bail out” all 10 towns. A judge now decides whether to approve the agreement.

Justice Dept. agrees to let N.H. out from under election law review

WASHINGTON (AP) — With Congress in gridlock and stocks taking a fall, President Barack Obama issued a stern summons to lawmakers Friday to pass legislation to prevent year-end fiscal cliff tax increases on millions and avoid an imminent expira-tion of benefits for the long-term unemployed.

Republican House Speaker John Boehner said Obama himself must give more ground to reach an agreement. He added, “How we get there, God only knows.”

Congress was shutting down, and Obama was headed to Hawaii to join his family for the holidays. But both men indicated they’d be back working to beat the fast-approaching Jan. 1 deadline with an agreement between Christmas and New Year’s.

One day after House anti-tax rebels torpedoed Boehner’s ‘Plan B’ legislation because it would raise rates on million-dollar-earners, Obama said he still wants a bill that requires the well-to-do to pay more. “Everybody’s got to give a little bit in a sensible way” to prevent the economy from pitching over a reces-sion-threatening fiscal cliff, he said.

He spoke after talking by phone with Boehner — architect of the failed House bill — and meeting with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Boehner’s office quickly issued a statement saying the Ohio Republican intends to return to the Capitol after Christmas “ready to find a solution that can pass both houses of Congress.” At the same time, spokesman Brendan Buck said, “we remain hope-

Obama & Boehner agree there’s still time to avoid going over the ‘cliff’ ful he (Obama) is finally ready to get serious about averting the fiscal cliff.”

At the White House, Obama projected optimism as he struggled to deal with the wreckage of weeks of failed negotiations and political maneuvering. “So call me a hopeless optimist, but I actually still think we can get it done,” he said of an elusive deal.

The president spoke at the end of a day in which stocks tumbled and congressional leaders squabbled as the fiscal cliff drew implacably closer.

Boehner spoke in the morning, describing the increasingly tangled attempts to beat the Jan. 1 deadline and head off the perilous combination of across-the-board tax hikes and deep spending cuts.

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