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Gilford backs

Havenstein, Brown

BY ERIN PLUMMER

eplummer@salmonpress.com

Gilford voters gave their support to Walt Ha-venstein, Scott Brown, Frank Guinta, and many others running for office in the Tuesday election.

On Tuesday, Gilford voters went to the polls at the Gilford Communi-ty Center to make their choices for federal, state, and county offices.

In the race for gov-ernor, Republican Walt Havenstein was Gilford’s pick. Havenstein re-ceived 1,718 votes against incumbent Gov. Maggie Hassan, who received 1,625 votes.

Gilford voters picked Scott Brown for US Sena-tor, receiving 1,793 votes. Incumbent Sen. Jeanne Shaheen received 1,549 votes in Gilford.

For Representative in Congress, Gilford gave more votes to Republi-can Frank Guinta than Democratic incumbent Carol Shea-Porter. Guin-ta received 1,848 votes to Shea-Porter’s 1,462 votes.

Currently seated Ex-ecutive Councilor Joseph Kenney received more votes in Gilford than his Democrat challenger Mi-chael Cryans. Kenney received 1,927 votes in Gilford to Cryans’ 1,238 votes.

In the race for State Senator for District 7, incumbent Sen. An-drew Hosmer received only five more votes than Republican Kathy Lauer-Rago. Hosmer received 1,616 votes in Gilford against 1,611 for Lauer-Rago.

For State Represen-tative in Belknap Coun-ty District 2 (including Gilford and Meredith), Gilford voters favored three Republican candi-dates and one Democrat. Republicans Russell Dumais received 1,922 votes, George Hurt re-ceived 1,747 votes, and Glen Aldrich received 1,582 votes, and Dem-ocrat incumbent Rep. Lisa DiMartino received 1,589. Republican incum-bent Rep. Herb Vadney received 1,545 votes and Democrats Nancy Frost received 1,271 votes, Sandra Mucci received 1,108 votes, and Dorothy Piquado received 1,102 votes.

Combined with the votes from Meredith, Vadney, Dumais, Hurt, and Aldrich were chosen.

The remaining county races were uncontested.

Sheriff Craig Wiggin received 2,652 votes, Me-lissa Countway Guld-brandsen received 2,570 votes for County At-torney, Michael Muzzy received 2,568 votes for County Treasurer, Judy McGrath received 2,599 votes for Register of Deeds, and Karen Brick-ner received 2,590 votes for Register of Probate.

GMS students honor veterans

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Members of the Gilford Middle School Chorus under the direction of Denise Sanborn sing during GMS’ Veteran’s Day celebration.

BY ERIN PLUMMER

eplummer@salmonpress.com

Students at Gilford Middle School celebrat-ed Veteran’s Day with a schoolwide ceremony, but their efforts and con-nections to veterans go beyond one day.

On Friday, GMS stu-dents gathered for the school’s Veterans Day celebration. The eighth grade class officers wel-comed the audience. The event featured patriotic songs performed by the band and chorus under the respective direction of Paul Warnick and De-nise Sanborn.

The event was orga-nized by the school’s social studies teachers: Kim Watterson, Kim James, Andrea Damato, and Rob Meyers with additional support from Student Council advisor Beth Zimmer.

“I think that it helps them understand just making connections in their world,” Damato said.

Middle school stu-dents are also doing oth-er projects to celebrate veterans.

There are two links to videos from History.com about veterans.

Damato said the social studies classes across the grades have been spotlighting veter-ans. Students discussed who veterans are and did various projects on veterans. The seventh grade made five back-boards for the branches of the armed services. Students also read the

book “America’s White Table” about the honor-ary table remembering POW/MIA’s.

During Community Block on early release day, students will make place settings for resi-dents of the New Hamp-shire Veterans Home for Thanksgiving.

Students will also be

visiting the Veteran’s Home in four separate field trips. Damato said this is the beginning of a new relationship be-tween the school and the Veteran’s Home.

The school has also given support to stu-dents who have a parent in the military, especial-

SEE VETERANS PAGE A11

Tommy Turkey gears up for 10th Plunge

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Tommy Turkey awaits the 10th Annual Turkey Plunge on Nov. 22, Opechee Beach in Laconia.

LACONIA — Tommy Turkey wants to remind everyone that the 10th Annual Salvation Army Turkey Plunge will take place at Opechee Cove Beach on Saturday, Nov. 22 starting at noon. Gates open at 10 a.m.

This family-oriented fun time features folks in bathing suits or cos-tumes plunging into the balmy waters of the lake while raising funds for the Salvation Army. Once again, WEMJ DJ Pat Kelly will handle the announcing tasks and urge the crowd to cheer on the participants. This year our Turkey Plunge mascot, Tommy Tur-key, will be joined by his friend Max from the Monarchs Hockey Team at the Plunge…bring the kids and snap a photo of the dynamic duo: Tom-

my and Max. The public is also in-

vited to the delicious luncheon provided by well-known area restau-rants and catered by the

Culinary Arts students of Lakes Region Com-munity College starting at 12:30 at the Laconia Middle School cafeteria . A $5 donation qualifies

the general public for the luncheon as well as the chance to win valu-able door prizes. Salva-tion Army Commander Captain Scott McNeil

urges sports teams, businesses, church and school groups to start assembling their team of intrepid Plungers to help raise awareness of, and financial support for, the local Salvation Army. Last year’s Plunge generated more than $16,000, but the needs are great in this economy said Captain McNeil. He has offered to have Tom-my Turkey visit your business or group to personally collect pledge cards for the November Plunge. Contact Captain McNeil at 524-1834 if in-terested in a Tommy vis-it. You may also register on-site the morning of the Plunge as an individ-ual or as a team. You’ve heard about the Plunge, come on out and join the fun. See you at Opechee Beach.

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Fred Butler gives his three-year-old son Finn a boost during the throw for Layup 4 Lauren during Gilford Elementary School’s Family Fun Night.

Family Fun Night deliversBY ERIN PLUMMER

eplummer@salmonpress.com

Dancing, books, treats, and even a free throw for a good cause could be found during Gilford Elementary School’s Family Fun Night.

On Friday night, families gathered at the school for a night of fun activities and to connect as the families of GES students as well as meet teachers and staff.

The Family Fun Night was organized by the Volunteer Steering Committee.

“The idea is come and enjoy the elementary school community fam-ilies and friends,” said Katie Guest, Chair of the Volunteer Steering Com-mittee.

Guest said this event also gives families an op-portunity to meet teach-ers and staff.

The event was offset with funds raised by the Volunteer Steering Com-mittee.

“We have a very

strong volunteer group at the elementary school,” Guest said.

Guest said volun-teers will help out in classrooms, make phone calls, contribute food to potlucks, and many oth-er tasks.

Principal Danielle Bolduc said there are other Family Fun Nights throughout the year. “We usually schedule it at the same time frame of the book fair and parent/teacher conferences,” Bolduc said. “It’s just a great night that families can come out and meet (others).”

Around 170 people came to last year’s fun night and Bolduc said the same number were expected that evening.

A dance took place in the gym lead by teachers Jennifer and Chris An-derson.

“We decided to have the kids get a little ener-gy out,” Chris Anderson said.

He said the dance would go on for around

an hour before games, a special free throw, and other activities took place.

In the library, fami-lies perused the selec-

tions at the Scholastic book fair with members of the library staff check-ing out their purchases.

Librarian Anne Nute said Family Fun Night is

always a fun event, espe-cially watching children in the dance.

“It’s a great event for all the kids because they get to come and stay up later,” Nute said.

Nute also recognized the work of the volun-teers.

The evening featured a special basketball event called Layup 4 Lauren. Participants would spin around five times and then try to shoot a basket with their nondominant hand.

The activity was cre-ated in honor of Lauren Hill, a student at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati who was diagnosed with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), a form of brain cancer. Hill captured national attention and recently played her last college basketball game.

Layup 4 Lauren raises awareness for The Cure Starts Now, a national organization for pediat-ric brain cancer. People SEE FUN NIGHT PAGE A11

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If you grew up in New Hampshire, it’s likely that you’ve been to a barn dance, and it’s also likely that Dudley Laufman, one of our country’s most beloved classic country dance musicians, played the fiddle and called for that dance. Here at the Gilford Library, we’re thrilled to join with the Gilford Historical Soci-ety to welcome him for Contra Dancing in New Hampshire, Then and Now on Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 6:30 p.m.

“It all started way back in the day,” Dudley says of his entrance into the dance. “I worked on a dairy farm, and they used to hold dances in the kitchen.” It was in an old farmhouse, and the farmer’s wife called the dances. “There would be a fire in the fireplace,” he says, “and I think it was the combination of wood smoke … and the women in the firelight … I was hooked for life.”

As a young man, Dud-ley studied agriculture, and while in school he learned to call square dances, and that’s what began his career. Now he’s a seasoned fiddler and caller with more than fifty years of expe-rience. In 2009, Dudley received the nation’s highest honor for folk and traditional arts: a National Heritage Fel-lowship. And it’s no wonder—in many ways, it was Dudley himself who kept this tradition-al dance alive in our

country.“Back in the late ‘60’s

and ‘70’s, we were the only show in town,” he says. “Dancing had fall-en on bad times, and peo-ple were using recorded music.”

But he changed that. Rather than offering “real contra dances” in which people take the dancing, which can be complicated, very seri-ously, or “square danc-es,” whose name itself turned people—partic-ularly hippies—away, Dudley began to play “barn dances.”

“I let the crowd get rowdy,” he says, and this way, Dudley brought back to life a dance that only a few old-timers still knew. He quickly gained favor with those who wanted to go out and have a good time dancing, and soon he be-gan to get calls to travel for dances. Over time, more and more players and callers began to pop up. Now, it’s thanks to Dudley’s role in this tra-ditional art form that we have spent more than a quarter century danc-ing at schools, barns, churches, and festivals across New England.

Today, Dudley Laufman and his wife, Jacqueline, play to-gether as Two Fiddles. They’ll be here on Tues-day, Nov. 18, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., with fiddles, an accordion, and stories to tell for their New Hamp-shire Humanities Pro-gram, Contra Dancing in New Hampshire, Then and Now.

Classes & Special Events

Thursday, Nov. 13Toddler Time (18

months - three years), 10:30-11:15 a.m. Sign up in the Children’s Room.

Brown Bag Book Dis-cussion, 12:30-1:30 p.m. This month we are read-ing our own Abi Max-well’s debut novel “Lake People”. Copies of the book are available at the Circulation Desk. The discussion will be led by Betty Tidd. Bring your lunch and we’ll provide dessert.

Open Painting at the Library, 1:30-3:30 p.m.

C o n v e r s a t i o n a l French Class, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Crafter’s Corner, 6-7:30 p.m.

Evening Book Discus-sion, 6:30-7:30 p.m. This month, we are reading our own Abi Maxwell’s debut novel “Lake People.”

Friday, Nov. 14Social Bridge, 10:30

a.m. - 12:30 p.m.Storytime 10:30 – 11:15

a.m. We will gather to sing sings, read some stories, enjoy and snack, and create a craft that celebrates family and friends. Sign up in the Children’s Room.

Knit Wits, 1:30-2:30 p.m.

Conversational Ger-man Class, 2:30-3:30 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 15Greeting Card Class,

10:30 a.m. - noon. If you would like to have a stash of cards ready for the next unanticipated event then this is the class for you. Make four seasonal cards for a ma-terials cost of $4. Class size is limited. Sign up with your library card.

Monday, Nov. 17Yarn Therapy, 9-10:30

a.m. Come join us. Bring your crochet or knitting.

Sit and knit in the Chil-dren’s Room while your little one plays.

Mahjong, 12:30-3 p.m.Lego Club, 3:30-4:30

p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18 Drop-In Rug Hooking,

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.Social Bridge, 10:30

a.m. - 12:30 p.m.Storytime (ages three

to five years) 10:30-11:15 am

Babygarten (birth - 18 months), 11:15 a.m. -noon.

NaNoWriMo Teen Writing Workshop, 3-4 p.m. November is Na-tional Novel Writing Month and we’re cele-brating with a month long, drop-in fiction workshop. The NaNoW-riMo workshop will be led by Abi Maxwell, au-thor of the novel “Lake People.”

Contra Dancing Pro-gram, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Pre-senter Dudley Laufman

will bring the lively tra-dition of contra dancing to life through stories, poems, recordings and live music played on the fiddle and melode-on. This NH Humanities Program is co-spon-sored with the Thomp-son-Ames Historical So-ciety and is free. All are invited to attend.

Wednesday, Nov. 19Line Dancing for Be-

ginners, 9- 10 a.m.Check – Out – An – Ex-

pert!, 10 a.m. - noon.The Hunger Games:

Catching Fire, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Get ready for the upcoming release of the movie “Mocking-jay, Part I” with a film screening of “Catching Fire”. We’ll have Hun-ger Games, Trivia and snacks.

T-Day Craft, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Join us for a fun Thanksgiving-themed craft! Sign up in the Chil-dren’s Room.

LRPC to host broadband meetingWOLFEBORO — On

Monday, Nov. 17 at the Wolfeboro Public Li-brary, 259 South Main St., Wolfeboro, the LRPC Commissioners will hold its regular meeting and conduct a panel discus-sion on the Draft Lakes Region Broadband Plan.

The Lakes Region Broadband Plan is a local and regional planning initiative based on a state-wide plan and approach from the New Hampshire Broadband Mapping

and Planning Program (NHBMPP). NHBMPP is a comprehensive, multi-year initiative that be-gan in 2010 with the goal of understanding where broadband is currently available in New Hamp-shire, how it can be made more widely available in the future, and how to en-courage increased levels of broadband adoption and usage.

As technology is con-stantly changing and evolving, the Lakes Re-

gion Broadband Plan represents a “snapshot” in time and is likely rel-evant for no more than three years. The major emphasis of this Plan is the recognition of the crit-ical role that broadband and high speed Internet play in the long-term economic well-being and prosperity of the region.

The draft Lakes Re-gion Broadband Plan can be viewed on the LRPC website online at http://www.lakesrpc.

org/Broadband/BbPlan-101714FinalDraft.pdf.

Please join us on Mon-day, Nov. 17, for this ex-cellent opportunity to share information with those at the cutting edge of local and statewide Broadband work in NH. All LRPC meetings are open to the public. For additional information or special accommoda-tion, please contact the LRPC: 279-8171 or lrpc@lakesrpc.org.

Acknowledgement ceremony recognizes NHHS retired Executive Director Claudia Abdinoor

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Retired NHHS Executive Director Claudia Abdinoor with cur-rent Executive Director Marylee Gorham.

LACONIA — It’s been five years since Claudia Abdinoor retired from public life and the work-ing world. As the Exec-utive Director at New Hampshire Humane Society from 1998-2009, she spearheaded the campaign to build a new facility, the Adirondack style building all are so familiar with, standing now as a beacon for the lost, abused, neglected and unwanted creatures of the region, on Mere-dith Center Road, Laco-nia.

Abdinoor worked tirelessly to turn the shelter from an animal holding facility – pre 1998 - into an adoption agency offering full ser-vices to the surrounding community.

Competing Capital Campaigns in the region

necessitated a novel way to fund a new shel-ter. A “field of dreams’ approach to finance the facility was her brain-child, New Hampshire Humane Society had no time left to undertake a five or even ten year

plan. Dire conditions in-cluding a leaking roof, failed septic, substan-dard living quarters for the animals, poor venti-lation, dark, dank ken-nels, spring thaw flood-ing within the building, mold, frankly an OSHA nightmare in terms of human safety and work-ing conditions, pushed a time line of need.

The new building funded by USDA Rural Development Author-ity with major donors backing the initiative allowed the shelter to be built, and the original structure to be demol-

ished heralding a new beginning in animal wel-fare in the region.

At the fifth anniver-sary, NHHS Board of Directors hosted a short ceremony – to honor Ms. Abdinoor’s vision, unveiling in front of a select crowd of friends, animal advocates and staff, the American Dog sculpture created by Dale Rodgers. Quipped Abdinoor during the un-veiling, “you’ve all made some real headway in training, this dog – he’s exceedingly well man-nered, has he already learned sit and stay?”

New Hampshire Hu-mane Society is a pri-vate animal welfare agency providing care and comfort for the lost, abandoned, abused and neglected animals of the region. Founded in 1900 by M. Jeannie Kendall, it is the oldest shelter in the Granite State. The organization, a reg-istered charity, relies of gifts from those that support their mission, finding forever homes. To view currently adopt-able animals, check www.nhhumane.org.

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Gunstock Ski/Snowboard Program registration deadline Nov. 15

The Gilford Parks and Recreation Department is once again sponsoring a six-week learn to ski/snowboard program to be held at Gunstock Ski Area for Gilford chil-dren in grades K-6. This program will be running from 4:30 – 8:15 p.m. ev-ery Tuesday from Jan. 6 – Feb. 10, 2015. There is also rental equipment available to those who need it. Registration deadline is Saturday, Nov. 15. No registra-tions will be accepted af-ter this date!

For more informa-tion, please contact Parks and Recreation Director, Herb Greene at 527-4722.

Bolduc Park Cross Country Ski Program

The Gilford Parks and Recreation Department will be offering four weeks of Cross Country Ski Lessons at Bolduc Park this winter. Les-sons begin on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015 and will continue through Jan. 31, 2015 (in the event a day is canceled because of poor weather, it will be made up the week(s) following Jan. 31). Les-sons begin at 10 a.m., and rental skis may be picked up at 9 a.m. at Piche’s Ski Shop!

Registration forms

are available at the Gilford Parks and Rec-reation Department, Bolduc Park and Piche’s Ski Shop. Please mail, fax or drop off your reg-istrations directly to Piche’s Ski Shop.

Cost: $70 per person includes rental equip-ment; $40 per person if you have your own equipment.

If you have any ques-tions, please contact Bob or Pat Bolduc at 524-2068.

Senior Moment-um Movie and Breakfast –

Monday, Nov. 17 The Gilford Parks and

Recreation Department will be sponsoring a Se-nior Moment-um pro-gram on Monday, Nov. 17. We will meet at the Community Church, Fel-lowship Hall at 9 a.m. for breakfast and a movie! We will be watching the Thanksgiving comedy classic, “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” star-ring John Candy and Steve Martin. The mov-ie and coffee are free of charge. We will also have breakfast available for anyone interested at $2 per person featuring eggs, bacon and toast. So please join us to watch this timeless classic! Participants are asked to RSVP by Friday, Nov. 14.

For more information

or to RSVP, please call the Parks and Recre-ation Office at 527-4722.

Boston Celtics bus trip scheduled for

Jan. 16, 2015The Gilford and Bel-

mont Parks and Recre-ation Departments are co-sponsoring a bus trip to Boston to see the Celt-ics take on the Chicago Bulls on Friday, Jan. 16. Cost of the trip is $123 for lower level Loge seats and $93 upper level bal-cony seats and includes round trip motor coach from Gilford or Belmont and tickets to the game. Our deluxe motor coach will depart from Gilford High School at 5 p.m. and the Belmont Park & Rideshare (Route 106) at 5:15 p.m. You will have time to visit the pro-shop and dinner on your own prior to the game. Our seats are in section #5 (Loge) and 303 (Balcony) for the 7:30 p.m. game. Seats are limited; a reg-istration form must be completed accompanied by payment and tickets are non-refundable.

For more informa-tion, please contact the Gilford Parks and Recre-ation Department at 527-4722 or visit their Web site at www.gilfordrec.com.

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Hikers enjoy the view of Lake Winnipesaukee from the summit of Mt. Major.

Mt. Major successCampaign to protect 980 acres in

Belknap Mountains reaches summitALTON — From

around the nation and nearby, nearly 2,000 fans of Mt. Major donated to a fundraising campaign to buy land on and near the popular hiking des-tination, lifting the cam-paign to its $1.8 million goal.

The Society for the Protection of New Hamp-shire Forests (Forest Society), the Lakes Re-gion Conservation Trust (LRCT) and the Belknap Range Conservation Co-alition have successfully raised the money needed to purchase and protect four key properties – 980 acres – on Mt. Major and other parts of the Belknap Range, located southwest of Lake Win-nipesaukee. The Every-body Hikes Mt. Major campaign has resulted in the purchase of three separate properties on Mt. Major, East Quarry and Piper mountains, all in Alton and Gilford. The acquisition of a fourth tract, near the Mt. Major trailhead, is in the final stages.

The campaign re-ceived more than 1,900 gifts ranging from $2 to $340,000. Gifts came in from 31 states, from as far away as Hawaii, Ar-izona and Oregon. More than 25 volunteers rolled up their sleeves to pro-vide campaign informa-tion to hikers and to col-lect contributions at the Mt. Major trailhead.

“People have been telling us throughout this campaign how much they love hiking in the Belknaps, especially to the top of Mt. Major, and seeing the spectac-ular view of Lake Win-

nipesaukee,” said Jane Difley, Forest Society president/forester. “We are grateful to all of the donors and volunteers who made it possible for us and our partners to help to preserve access for hikers as well as to conserve the forests, wetlands and streams on these properties -- for people and for wildlife.”

“The Belknap Range, and particularly Mt. Major, has long been a treasured natural, rec-reational, and scenic resource enjoyed year-round by Lakes Region residents and visitors alike,” said Don Berry, LRCT President. “We greatly appreciate the hard work and generos-ity of everyone involved in this project, which have made possible the protection of these key parcels and their import-ant trails and natural re-sources, and which lay the foundation for future conservation successes in the Belknap Range.”

Many foundations and government agen-cies supported the cam-paign. The Steinwachs Family Foundation pro-vided a leadership gift, and a new trailhead on the Quarry Mountain parcel will be named in the family’s honor. Oth-er funders include the New Hampshire Land and Community Her-itage Investment Pro-

gram (LCHIP); the towns of Alton and Gilford; the Open Space Institute Land Trust, Inc.’s Resil-ient Landscapes Initia-tive, made possible by a lead grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foun-dation; the Bafflin Foun-dation; the S.L. Gimbel Foundation, Paul and Sandra Montrone; three anonymous family foun-dations, the New Hamp-shire State Conservation Committee’s “Moose Plate” Program; the New Hampshire Electric Co-op Foundation; NHCF Wolfeboro Fund; Samuel P. Pardoe Foundation; the William Wharton Trust; and Bank of New Hampshire.

The successful fund-raising campaign en-sures that the properties will remain open to the public for hiking, hunt-ing, skiing and other recreational activities. The LRCT owns and will manage the parcel on Piper Mountain and in the Moulton Valley of Gilford, while the For-est Society will own and manage the parcels on Mt. Major and the adja-cent E. Quarry Moun-tain, which hosts trails that connect to those on Mt. Major.

The Forest Society, the LRCT and other members of the Belk-nap Range Conservation Coalition view the fund-SEE MT. MAJOR PAGE A11

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Junior PicassosThe Gilford Youth Center and Gilford Parks and Recreation started their “Junior Picasso” program for Preschool-age children. The program introduces kids to famous artists, differ-ent types of art and expressions. Kids get to create their own art, which will be displayed at an “art show” at the end of the session. The GPRD and GYC hope to offer more sessions in the winter and spring which will introduce new types of art and different famous artists. To learn more about this program, visit www.gilfordyouthcenter.com.

Lakes Region Tea Party meets Nov. 19M O U L T O N B O R -

OUGH — The next meeting of the Lakes Region Tea Party will be Wednesday, Nov. 19 at the Moultonborough Public Library, at 7 p.m.

We would like to com-pile a list of five to 10 is-sues we want the Senate and House of Represen-tatives to move on and send that list to Senators Kelly Ayotte & Jeanne Shaheen and the leader of the House of Repre-

sentatives and future leader of the Senate.

We will have open discussions in the group to raise issues and offer solutions on a variety of issues facing our state and nation.

Come see another seg-ment of the US Constitu-tion DVD series by Rick Greene. For more infor-mation, please contact Hal or Peggy Graham, halpeg76@metrocast.net.

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A little darling of a tiny beagle type current-ly calls New Hampshire Humane Society home.

Mario, so named, a stray from Laconia- had some way for us to try to track down his own-ers. Alas, in spite of our best pet detective work, the trail went cold as we bumped up against incorrect and discon-nected phone numbers and folks who appear to have moved on, leaving this sweet little chap be-hind.

Mario is small, only about 35 pounds, in-finitely portable, loves to be with people, and respectful of cats and

Pet of the Week: Mario

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I still start my day with Ray!Editor’s note: The

following guest commen-tary was submitted for publication by Ken Nor-ton, the Executive Direc-tor of NAMI NH, the New Hampshire chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

Although this week marks the one year an-niversary of Executive Councilor Ray Burton’s death, today started much like every other day of the past twenty five or so years. After my shower I gave a few quick pulls on my blue unbreakable “Vote For Raymond S. Burton” comb and I was on my way. Oh to be sure, 25 years ago I had a lot more hair, it wasn’t grey, and the comb may have been red or black but it was one of Ray’s.

I don’t recall where I first met Ray, but I re-member he handed me a comb, pulled a three-by-five card out of his shirt pocket and wrote down my name and town. The next time I saw him, he remembered my name. Now I don’t care what folks say about Ray hav-ing a knack for names. Whatever talent he had for it, it also must have taken a fair amount of effort and concentration. And is there a better way to communicate to some-one that they are import-ant than remembering their name? Back then, I didn’t hold any posi-tion of importance and there was no real reason to remember my name except I lived in his dis-trict and that was good enough for Ray.

My town, Tilton, is at the absolute southern end of Ray’s district. I always loved seeing him hold up the entire state highway map, tuck one fold up from the bottom and proudly say “that’s my district!” I was re-lieved every time redis-tricting was over and we were still with Ray. I might live in central New Hampshire, but my heart is in the North Country! It was comfort-ing to know when I called Ray he would promptly return my calls, try to help when asked, or lis-ten and discuss an issue even when we disagreed. Not all other elected offi-cials over the years were as reliable or courteous.

When my bride first ran for Belknap Coun-

ty Attorney, we trans-formed our old Volvo 122 into a campaign vehicle and I went to DMV to get an Antique plate. When told my first choice “VOTE” was available, I said to the clerk “I can’t believe Ray Burton doesn’t have it.” Ray couldn’t believe it either, when we showed up at the first Old Home day parade of campaign season he exclaimed, “Where did you ever get that plate?” I always felt a little bad about it, giv-en his love of antique cars and always being three votes behind.

Ray enjoyed all forms of transportation. His airplane tour of the re-gional airports and his annual train ride were legendary. As the long-standing Chairman of the Governor’s Advisory Commission on Inter-modal Transportation, Ray also championed al-ternative transportation and the now flourishing network of pedestrian and recreational trails throughout our state.

Between the nearly seven terms my wife served as County At-torney, and my work in mental health and serv-ing on nonprofit boards, I came into increasing contact with Ray. He was everywhere, at pub-lic hearings and commu-nity or civic events in his district, and at the State House. He was of-ten accompanied by yet another wide eyed and wet behind the ears in-tern – getting a real life education.

But it wasn’t just the interns that learned from Ray, he taught me a lot and many others too. These were valuable les-sons about politics, peo-ple and life. Ray could work a room like no other, and he treated ev-eryone equally from the perennial presidential candidates that flocked to our state to the plumb-er down the street. Ray defined what it means to be a public servant. If Ray had a bad day he never showed it, he was always upbeat and mov-ing forward. Even when one of Ray’s aides was in-volved in a scandal and other elected officials called on Ray to resign, he apologized but stayed the course. And while his constituents voted out many who had called for his resignation, we

did re-elect Ray. He had done way too much good to be defined by one lapse of judgment which stemmed from believing in the good of people. Ray loved people and we loved him back.

So tomorrow, I will again start my day with Ray, and as his comb slides through my thin-ning hair and over my brain, I’ll make a con-scious choice and aspire to be positive, to enjoy and respect everyone equally, to promote civil discourse and to be a ser-vant leader.

other dogs. WE think he’s about 6 or 8 years old. He spends time in the administrative block enjoying sofa time and cozy time away from the kennels.

Please consider Ma-rio, he’s a super dog, as your next pet.

Visit during usual open hours, call 524-3252 or check www.nhhu-mane.org.

Thanks to Temple B’Nai Israel for supporting LRCSTo the Editor:

On behalf of Lakes Region Community Ser-vices (LRCS), I would like to thank the mem-bers of Temple B’nai Is-rael (TBI) and their ‘We Care’ program for select-ing LRCS to be the recip-ient of the net proceeds of their musical events this year.

The TBI ‘We Care’ program committee brought two diverse and

talented musical groups to the Lakes Region, with Gathering Time last June and most recently the Freese Brothers Big Band in October. Their efforts provided the Lakes Region with won-derful entertainment and benefitted LRCS and those we serve. As a nonprofit, we depend on relationships with others in the community to carry out our mission,

“dedicated to serving the community by promot-ing independence, digni-ty and opportunity.”

The friendships and relationships forged by working together this year, will go beyond these two events and for that I am apprecia-tive. To quote Margaret Mead, “Never doubt that a small group of thought-ful committed citizens can change the world, in-

deed it is the only thing that ever has.”

On behalf of every-one at LRCS, I thank the members of Temple B’nai Israel for their generosity, friendship, and hospitality.

Christine L. SantanielloExecutive Director

Lakes RegionCommunity Services

Supporters welcome to a celebrationTo the Editor:

I’ve had a few days to process the results of the election, and to think about what I did right and what I did wrong. I appreciate all the feed-back I’ve gotten. I’ve congratulated Mr. De-voy. I believe that he will

bring the openness, hon-esty, and compassion that he displayed in the campaign to his new job.

The next thing I want to do is thank everyone who donated to my cam-paign, who wrote letters of support, who placed and picked up signs, who

held signs, who shared their stories with me, who educated me, and, of course, who voted for me.

I’d like to invite all of you to a celebration on Nov. 19 at the Belk-nap Mill from 7 - 9 p.m. Please RSVP to votefor-

pollak@gmail.com if you can so I know how much food to provide.

Thank you all. I look forward to meeting those of you I don’t yet know on the 19th.

Sincerely,Dave Pollak

Laconia

The Gilmanton Food Pantry is making prepa-rations for sponsorship of the Adopt-A-Child project again this year. Toys and clothing are purchased for those Gil-manton children in need of assistance. Anyone wishing to help with this worthwhile project may either adopt one child, one family of children or just purchase one gift on a child’s wish list.

For persons who may not have the time or re-sources to go and shop for gifts, we will accept a monetary donation and purchase the gift(s) on your behalf. We also ac-cept donations of wrap-ping paper and bows.

Just as a reminder, we are collecting items for Thanksgiving and Christmas food baskets. All the usual things required for a holiday

meal. Especially cran-berry sauce, turkey gra-vy, stuffing mix, juice, sugar, coffee, cocoa, breakfast muffin mix, pickles, olives as well as turkeys. We also accept donations of money to purchase butter/mar-garine, milk, eggs, fresh fruit, potatoes, and on-ions.

For more information about the above projects and/or to sign up, please contact Beth Lavin at 267-1934 or Katie McEn-tee at the Gilmanton El-ementary School at 364-5681.

Requests for food baskets and the Adopt-A-Child project must be received by Nov. 19 in order to have time to ac-quire and distribute all requested items.

Donations of non-per-ishable food items may be dropped off at the Academy building, the

Year Round Library, and at the Pantry during open hours. Mone-tary donations may be brought in to the Pantry or mailed to the address listed below.

Winter coats and jack-ets are now available and the 50 percent off everything in the Thrift Shop Sale will continue until the end of Novem-ber. Ladies pants are selling at 2 pairs for $1.

Winter Hours: Wednesday, 3 – 7 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Telephone: 364-0114.Location: Route 140,

Gilmanton Iron Works.Parking & Entrance:

Gilmanton Community Church Parking Lot.

Mailing Address: Post Office Box 16, Gil-manton, N.H. 03237

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THE GILFORD STEAMER A5OpinionTHURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Kudzu: The Vine That Ate The SouthBY BONNIE CARNIVALE

Contributor

For those of you northerners unfamiliar with kudzu, let me in-troduce you. I have had a horror of, and fasci-nation for, this invasive plant since my first visit to our son and daughter-in-law in North Carolina a dozen years ago.

“What the hell is that obnoxious plant taking over all the shrubs and trees along the road-ways?”

“Kudzu, it’s every-where.”

And it is . . . ev-erywhere! It shrouds shrubs, overshadows trees, climbs utility poles and without con-stant cutting back, will overwhelm your porch or coil its tendrils around your unsuspect-ing kitty sleeping upon it. I learned that it was brought from Japan to use as erosion control and has become inva-sive. Invasive?

There must be a stronger word for a vine that is capable of stretch-ing across a paved road while you wait for the light to change, racing up a lamppost darken-ing the street below, and obliterating the sign di-recting you to the high-way onramp. The rumor that kudzu, in the height of its season, can grow an inch an hour, is a gross understatement! This ubiquitous plant has been thriving in south-ern soil and climate for years but is now adapt-ing to colder climates as

well. It has been found in New Jersey, Massachu-setts and as far north as Canada. Gulp!

When Jeff and Alphie bought a house with-in walking distance of downtown Asheville, kudzu was the last thing I thought would be a problem. I was mistak-en. Jeff has spent ten years keeping the weed from taking over their back yard. The roots are so deep it is impos-sible to extricate them with determination and a shovel. I have learned to hate kudzu for all of its dreadful character-istics. If I lived in the south I’d probably start a one-woman campaign to destroy it—wipe it out— kill it!

This week we are

visiting the “kids” for perhaps the last time in North Carolina. They will move to Dallas by the end of the year, 900 miles farther away from us! Before they leave, I feel it necessary to chronicle the evil plant. Camera in hand I take a short walk in their neighborhood to capture the essence of kudzu.

Back at their house I google the plant and by the time I finish my re-search, I think of “Jap-anese arrowroot,” the climbing, coiling, trail-ing perennial vine, from a different perspective. It is in fact invasive in naturalized areas and is considered a noxious weed that grows so rap-idly it destroys trees and shrubs by heavy shad-

ing not, by using them as hosts, sucking the life out of them the way ivies do, as I had surmised.

That was not my only misunderstanding about kudzu. I quote from Wikipedia:

“Kudzu was intro-duced to the United States as an ornamental bush and an effortless and efficient shade pro-ducer at the Philadel-phia Continental Exposi-tion in 1876. In the 1930’s and ‘40’s, the vine was rebranded as a way for farmers to stop soil ero-sion. Southern farmers were given about eight dollars an hour to sow topsoil with the invasive vine. The cultivation covered over one million acres of kudzu.” Yikes! $8 an hour . . . during the

Depression! (When the average wage was less than a dollar an hour) A million acres!

There is more. The plant can enhance the soil. Its deep taproots transfer valuable min-erals from the subsoil to the topsoil. It can be

used as animal feed; the tap roots can be used in basketry; it has poten-tial medicinal uses for migraines and virtigo; its starchy roots can be used as a thickening agent. Fibers from the roots can be made into clothing, flowers to jelly, leaves to tinctures and teas, soaps and lotions. And it makes good com-post!

Get on this people! Graze your goats on the road sides. Start a cot-tage industry of basket making. Tourists will love it! (Didn’t I spend a hefty sum for a hand woven sea grass basket in Charleston?) Cloth-ing and fabric designers: turn the green monster into next spring’s fash-ion line of clothing and home decorating; make kudzu the new hemp! I can see kudzu jellies and jams sold at the Farm-er’s Markets. And wake up medical science, herbalists and cosmetic companies. The future is encroaching; 150,000 acres a year!

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Obituaries THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Tiffany Marie Nieves, 28

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LACONIA — Tiffany Marie (Scanlon Fras-sica) Nieves, 28, of 24 Estates Circle, died as a result of a motor vehi-cle accident on Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014.

Tiffany was born June 30, 1986 in Haver-hill, Mass., the daugh-ter of Kathleen Scan-lon-Frassica and Joseph Frassica. Tiffany resid-ed in Streamwood, Ill. and Haverhill, Mass. for a number of years be-fore moving to Laconia. She had been employed as a medical assistant at Caring for Women for eighteen months.

In addition to her par-ents of Meredith, Tif-fany is survived by her husband, Juan Nieves, of Laconia; her two sons, Xander and Cris-tian, of Laconia; her in-laws, Juan and Blanca Nieves; three brothers, Ryan Frassica and his significant other, Sara Orlando, Cole McLane and Corey Frassica; two sisters, Kelcey Frassica and her significant oth-er, Cam Blanchette, and Devan Goodrich; her maternal grandparents, Robert & Louise Scanlon of Laconia; one niece and several aunts, un-cles and cousins.

Calling hours were held on Friday, Nov.

7, 2014 from 5-8 p.m. in the Carriage House of the Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Fu-neral Home, 164 Pleas-ant St., Laconia.

A Prayer Service was held on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014 at 10:30 a.m., also at the Funeral Home.

For those who wish, the family suggests that memorial donations be made to the TD Bank, 1402 Lake Shore Rd., Gil-ford, NH 03249, Tiffany’s Children’s Education Fund.

Wilkinson-Beane-S i m o n e a u - P a q u e t t e Funeral Home & Cre-mation Services, 164 Pleasant St., Laconia, is assisting the family with the arrangements. For more information and to view an online memori-al, go to www.wilkinson-beane.com.

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Mary Ann BurdettCHIEFLAND, Fla.

— Mary Ann Burdett died Oct. 31, 2014 in Chiefland, Fla.

She was born in Wo-burn, Mass. She was a schoolteacher, and taught in Laconia and Gilford. She graduated from Bates, and earned her Master’s at Salem State College, and was an avid quilter. She lived on Stockwell Road, Lan-caster, during the sum-mer.

Her parents, C. Fred and Dorothy Burdett, brother Charles, sister Sara May, Coraline and

her daughter Abby all predeceased her.

She is survived by daughters Melissa of Lebanon and Helen of Silt, Colo.; granddaugh-ters Jazamine of Albe-queque, N.M. and Lela of Gilford; stepson Scott Hodgkins and his wife Carol of Gilford; her hus-band, Allan Hodgkins of Lancaster, who winters in Chiefland Fla.; and grandsons Coleman and William of Lebanon.

Memorial services will held at Good Shep-herd Lutheran Church in Chiefland, Fla.

Ashley Elizabeth Thomas, 29

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PORTLAND, Maine — Ashley Elizabeth Thomas, 29, of Portland, Maine, formerly of Gil-ford, perished in a fire, with her dog, Daisy, in Portland, Maine on Sat-urday, Nov. 1, 2014.

Ashley was born June 28, 1985 in Worcester, Mass., the daughter of Nikki (Cabral) and Louis Thomas, Jr.

Ashley graduated from Gilford High School in 2003 and Hallmark Institute of Photogra-phy in 2008. She was a self-employed photogra-pher with her business partner and best friend, Mat Garber. Ashley will always be remembered for her infectious smile and laugh and love for life.

In addition to her parents of Gilford, Ash-

ley is survived by her brother, Louis Thomas III, all of Gilford; her paternal grandmother, Carol (Kirby) Thomas, of Shrewsbury, Mass.; her aunts and uncles, Karen (Thomas ) Moss and her husband, Todd, Kathy (Thomas) Perdu-ta and her husband, Pe-ter, Jeanne Cabral Gup-till, Marjorie (Cabral)

Bird and her husband, Michael, Linda Cabral Giguere and her hus-band, Richard; her busi-ness partner and best friend, Mat Garber; sev-eral cousins and several friends.

Ashley was prede-ceased by her maternal grandparents, Nick and Babe Cabral; her pater-nal grandfather, Louis Thomas; her paternal great grandmother, Lil-lian Kirby; her aunts, Nancy Thomas, Debo-rah O’Brien and Joyce O’Dougherty; and un-cle, Norman “Butch” Cabral, Sr.

Calling hours were held on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2014 from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Fu-neral Home, 164 Pleas-ant St., Laconia, using

the Carriage House en-trance.

A Funeral Service was held Monday, Nov. 10, 2014 at 11 a.m. at the funeral home.

Burial will be private.For those who wish,

the family suggests that memorial donations be made to the Ashley Thomas Fund, to help the family with final ex-penses and Mat Garber with business costs, at www.gofund.com/gle-gyg.

Wilkinson-Beane-S i m o n e a u - P a q u e t t e Funeral Home & Cre-mation Services, 164 Pleasant St., Laconia, is assisting the family with the arrangements. For more information and to view on online memori-al, go to www.wilkinson-beane.com.

By John harrigan

Columnist

Following the old Coashaukee trailNORTH COUNTRY NOTEBOOK

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The Coashaukee Indians, whence Coös County got its name, probably forded the Upper Ammonoosuc right about here.

During years and years of reading, since the age of four (my moth-er said), I’ve wondered about the trail up along the East side of the Con-necticut River from Lan-caster north.

This trail has not been written about, and thus one cannot find out much about it in the lex-icon.

Yet Eleazer Rose-brook, the first settler in the town of Colebrook, went up a trail with a horse and his pregnant wife astride, with a five-year-old kid and a teth-ered ox trudging along behind, their meager belongings on a travois (two long poles hitched to the horse’s flanks and bridged by a short pole

at the ends).Surely they crossed

the Connecticut at Guild-hall, being uncertain about crossing the river in Colebrook. Thus, they would have followed the blazed trail along the eastern shore.

The trail from the Haverhill settlement up on the opposite side of the river to Guildhall, Vermont, is well docu-mented. For many years Guildhall was the north-ernmost outpost. It is still there, by the way, with the original Guild Hall intact, and is well worth a visit.

This entire story as-sumes that ferries were operating in Haverhill, Lancaster and Guildhall, and indeed they were. These were rafts pulled back and forth by ropes, often by horse-power. But above Guildhall there were only blazed trails on either side of the river. The upper end of the North Country was, as so dramatically put in the times, a howl-ing wilderness.

These trails, blazed by Indians, explorers, trappers and adventur-ers, followed the high edge of the floodplain, and not the river itself, a myth fostered by the notion that the Coashau-kees, an offshoot tribe of the Abenaki, traveled by canoe. Today’s dams on the Connecticut and the calm waters behind have helped fostered that notion. The Indians walked.

Eleazer and his fam-ily surely followed the East bank, and relied on

finding a ford---a shallow place to wade across — to get over the Upper Am-monoosuc (Groveton) and Simms Stream (Co-lumbia) and the Mo-hawk River (Colebrook). They eventually pitched a camp just above what is now Lemieux Garage, at the foot of Cooper Hill in Colebrook.

Every now and then, when the hydro dam on the Upper Ammonoosuc is shut down for mainte-nance or repairs, a trav-eler on Route 3 can dis-cern the river’s ancient path.

This reveals a shallow point just about where the covered bridge is in Groveton. And I can envision Eleazer Rose-brook and his family splashing across there, headed north.

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THE GILFORD STEAMER A7CultureTHURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Americans are pretty gen-erous — in fact, 83% of us donated money to charita-ble organizations last year, according to a Gallup sur-vey. And now that we’re entering the holiday season, charitable giving well may be on your mind. Your key motivation for making char-itable gifts, of course, is to help those organizations whose work is meaningful to you. However, by supporting these groups, you can also make life less “taxing” for yourself.

Specifically, by making charitable contributions, you may be able to receive some valuable tax breaks. To claim a deduction, though, you need to itemize your taxes, and you need to make sure that the organi-zation you’re supporting is qualified, from a tax-deduct-ibility standpoint. If you’re unsure whether a group is qualified, just ask to see its letter from the IRS. (Many organizations now post these letters on their websites.)

Here’s how the charitable tax deduction works: If you give $200 to a qualified char-ity, and you’re in the 25% tax bracket, you can deduct $200, with a tax benefit of $50, when you file your 2014 taxes. Consequently,

the net “cost” of your dona-tion is just $150 ($200 minus the $50 tax savings).

Of course, you are not con-fined to making cash gifts. In fact, if you donate cer-tain types of noncash assets, you may be able to increase your tax benefits. Suppose you give $1,000 worth of stock in ABC Company to a charitable group. If you’re in the 25% bracket, you’ll be able to deduct $250 when you file your taxes. And by donating the ABC stock, you can avoid paying the capital gains taxes that would be due if you had eventually sold the stock yourself.

Keep in mind that if you want to deduct your con-tributions for the 2014 tax year, you’ll need to make your gifts by Dec. 31. One more reminder: Retain your paperwork. If you made gifts totaling over $250 to any single charity — or noncash contributions of any items worth over $500 — the IRS requires written acknowledg-ments for your contributions.

If you want to take a lon-ger-term approach to chari-table giving, while incorpo-rating your gifts in planning for your estate, you might want to consider establish-ing a charitable remainder trust. Under this arrange-

ment, you’d place some assets, such as stocks or real estate, into a trust, which could then use these assets to pay you a lifetime income stream. When you establish the trust, you may be able to receive an immediate tax deduction based on the char-itable group’s “remainder interest” — the amount the charity is likely to ultimately receive. (This figure is deter-mined by an IRS formula.) Upon your death, the trust would relinquish the remain-ing assets to the charitable organization you’ve named. This type of trust can be com-plex, so to create one, you’ll need to work with your tax and legal advisors.

While the tax benefits associated with charitable giving are significant, they should not, ultimately, drive your gifting decisions. You should also consider the effect your gift will have on the other areas of your estate considerations — so make sure you communicate your plans to your family members.

In any case, though, be as generous as you can this holiday season and in the years to come. Your gen-erosity will be a rewarding experience — for everyone.

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Pitman’s Freight Room hosts a weekend of blues and comedy

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LACONIA — Pit-man’s Freight Room at 94 New Salem St. in Laconia is please to announce the follow-ing events scheduled for this weekend.

Friday, Nov. 14,

8 p.m., $15:Dance Night withThe Matt Stubbs

Blues Bandfeaturing

Dennis BrennanMatthew Stubbs was

named the 2009 Out-standing Guitarist from Blues Audience Mag-azine and was a 2009 Boston Music Award Nominee for Blues Act of the year. Boston-based roots guitarist Stubbs has a wicked way with a groove and an ability

to conjure vintage tones. His tasty arrangements make that vintage hard to pinpoint, thanks to the way he mixes swinging blues, funk, surf rock, and prickly R&B licks.

Dennis Brennan is a cagey veteran who can electrify audiences with his ability to cross bril-liantly from rock to soul, blues, country, and jazz, while breathing fresh life into each. He has been nominated for 4 NEMO awards and has won 2 NEMO awards for “Outstanding Roots Rock Band.

Catered dinner buf-fet available before the show. Call 527-0043 for reservations or vis-it www.pitmansfreight-room.com.

Saturday, Nov. 15,8 p.m., $15: Live Comedy featuring Karen Fitzgerald,Larry Myles and

Chris PennieKaren Fitzgerald per-

forms out of Side Split-ters Comedy Club in

Tampa, Fla. as well as clubs and events up the East Coast. Taking ev-ery day experiences and relating them in a hu-morous and sometimes sarcastic way has helped Karen move along in her comedy career. Never

afraid to laugh at herself, she is never at a loss for material! “I love come-dy...it has been a passion in my life for as long as I can remember. It has made the bad times bear-able and the goods time all that much better!

Larry Myles: “One of the best kept secrets in Boston, it’s just a matter of time before Larry Myl-es achieves national noto-riety. “Like the amiable wise guy you met at the local bar you love to hear complain about the Red Sox. He also has a keen topical sense. Though he offen plays the edge, the talented comedian never crosses the bound-aries of good taste. “Call me a square, but I usu-ally prefer clean jokes to the dirty ones, and I was happy that Larry did not overuse four-let-ter words and crude remarks. In fact, Lar-ry’s funniest jokes were also the cleanest. He’s a scream.” (New York News Day). The ability to work clean and still be on the cutting edge makes Myles a welcome addition to any comedy venue.

Chris Pennie has been a finalist in CMT’s “Next Big Comic” and a finalist in the Plym-outh Rock Comedy Fes-tival and Dick Doherty’s Beantown Comedy Riots as well as being invited to the Laughing Skull Fes-tival in Atlanta and the Boston Comedy festival. Also notably, Chris was a finalist in the Mohegan Sun “Funniest Amateur Comic in New England.”

Winni Players staging Woody Allen comedyMEREDITH — Take

one hapless government employee abroad, add in a bumbling tourist, a communist police offi-cer, and an Arab sheik and you have a recipe for… comedy? Crazi-ness will abound when the Winni Players Com-munity Theatre Group

presents Woody Allen’s 1966 comedy “Don’t Drink the Water” on the stage of The Winnipe-saukee Playhouse from Nov. 13 – 16.

It’s the mid-1960s, and paranoia and Cold War antics run rampant! The American Ambassador has left the Embassy

on business and plac-es his incompetent son Axel Magee in charge. Immediately, the Em-bassy is thrust into a crisis as the Hollanders, an American family on vacation, come rushing into the Embassy on the run from the Com-munist Secret Police.

Walter Hollander, the father, has accidentally wandered into a high security area and tak-en pictures, causing the communists to be-lieve that the family are spies. Axel digs the hole deeper and the embassy is surrounded, leaving the Hollanders trapped!

The play was a Broad-way hit when it opened, running for 598 perfor-mances. The Winni Players production is co-directed by Charles Fray and Johanna Halperin and features 14 local actors includ-ing regulars like John Piquado, Katie Dunn, Barbara Webb, Michael Baker, Lynn Dadian, Ken Chapman, Ray Dudley, Diane Nicker-son and Dana Gardner. Also featured in the cast are Chris Peck, Lynne Fox, Rita Toth, Steve Copithorne, and Doris Citron.

Performances will be Thursday – Satur-day at 7:30 p.m., with a matinee on Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $18 for the orchestra and $10 for the balcony and are available at www.win-nipesaukeeplayhouse.org or by calling 279-0333.

Annual Holiday Gala and Auction Nov. 21MEREDITH — Laco-

nia Christian Academy will hold its annual Hol-iday Gala and Auction on Friday, Nov. 21 at Church Landing in Mer-edith.

The event will feature a meal prepared by the Common Man Restau-rants as well as silent and live auctions. Auction items have been donated by community business-es, parents, and friends of LCA. Each of the Low-er School classes have

donated beautiful hand crafted items for the Live Auction. Other items to be auctioned off during the Live Auction include a cottage rental on Win-nipesaukee for one week in July, a two-bedroom condo on Sanibel Island during April Vacation, and four Patriots tick-ets for the Dec. 28 game against the Buffalo Bills.

The evening’s festiv-ities will begin at 5:30 p.m. with silent auction and hors d’oeuvres. Din-

ner will follow at 7 p.m. with the Live Auction beginning shortly there-after. All proceeds from the auction support the LCA Tuition Grant Fund which provides need-based scholarships for deserving Lakes Region children.

Laconia Christian Academy is a non-de-nominational Pre-K through grade 12 school committed to provid-ing a vibrant educa-tional experience in a

nurturing environment that fosters a passion for God’s truth. It is located in the heart of the Lakes Region at 1386 Meredith Center Road in Laconia. LCA strives to make the strengths of their pro-gram accessible to any family that truly want well-educated, spiritual-ly-sensitive, outward-fo-cused children. For more information re-garding the event or the Tuition Grant Fund, please call 534-3250.

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2015 Community Photo Calendars now available at MVSB

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Meredith Village Savings Bank’s Community Calendars are now available at the Bank’s 11 local offices. This winning image was taken by Joanne DeCesare of Gilford. Joanne’s photo, Meredith Bay Reflections, will be featured in the Bank’s Community Calendar and the Desktop Tent Calendar in November 2015.

MEREDITH — Mer-edith Village Savings Bank’s (MVSB) 2015 Community Calendar, featuring the work of talented local photogra-phers, is now available at the Bank’s 11 offices throughout the Lakes Region. The calendar is available free of charge while supplies last in two formats – tent style and traditional wall cal-endar style.

The featured images are the winners of the Bank’s annual commu-nity photo contest and include photos from Bo-nita Carnivale and Joan-na DeCesare of Gilford, Dan Hanson and Al Pos-nack of Alton Bay, Bob Ness of Wolfeboro, Dan Robusto of Meredith, Susan Francesco of Hol-derness and John White of Rye.

Community members can pick up a calendar at any of Meredith Vil-lage Savings Bank’s 11 offices: Alton, Ashland,

Center Harbor, Gilford, Laconia, Route 104 in Meredith, Route 25 in Meredith, Moultonbor-ough, Main Street Plym-outh, the Plymouth Han-naford and Wolfeboro.

Customers spending the winter out of state may request that a copy be sent to their winter address by calling (800) 922-6872 or using the contact form at www.mvsb.com.

Local photographers should note that the Bank will begin accept-ing photo entries for next year’s photo con-test on Monday, March 2, 2015 with a deadline for submissions of Fri-day, May 29, 2015. Pho-to entries should have a strong focus on those things that are unique and wonderful in the Lakes Region, such as community events local venues and attractions.

Meredith Village Sav-ings Bank, founded in 1869, is an independent

mutual savings bank with 11 offices serving individuals, families, businesses and munici-palities in the Lakes Re-gion and the Plymouth area. The bank and its employees are inspired by MVSB’s core values: respect, integrity, team-work, excellence, and stewardship. These val-ues are intrinsic to ev-ery decision made at the bank and are illustrated by the high priority they place on trust, quality service, and commit-ment to community sup-port. MVSB strives to make the communities it serves a better place to work and live. More in-formation can be found at www.mvsb.com.

EPTAM Plastics® supports affordable housing campaign

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LACONIA — EPTAM Plastics® continues to support the Lakes Re-gion and its workforce with the purchase of $25,000 in state tax cred-its as part of LACLT’s Portfolio Strengthening Initiative.

“We feel it is im-portant to invest in the people and programs within our community. Affordable housing is a very real need and we are proud to support LA-CLT’s mission,” stated EPTAM Plastics® Presi-dent Jeff Hollinger.

EPTAM Plastics®, es-tablished in 1981, started with just three employ-ees in Gilford. Since then they have grown to more than 100 employees in their 60,000 square-foot manufacturing facility in Northfield. They have had more than 20 years of success in New Hamp-

shire by delivering the highest quality poly-mer components for the aerospace, defense, pow-er generation, medical products, semiconduc-tor industries and more.

Last year, LACLT was awarded a total of $500,000 in tax credits to

sell by New Hampshire’s Community Develop-ment Finance Authority (CDFA). Once the cred-its are sold to business donors, LACLT can use the proceeds to contin-ue upgrading 60 units of permanently affordable rental housing in Laco-

nia. LACLT’s mission is to provide permanently affordable housing and support programs to low- and moderate-income families so that they become economically self-sufficient. LACLT’s tenants are employees of many area business-es and comprise a large portion of workforce in the Lakes Region in healthcare, manufactur-ing, service and hospi-tality industries.

Twenty years ago, LACLT began rehab-bing scattered-site apartments in Laconia to create permanent-ly affordable housing for working families. Now with the tax cred-its to fund a Portfolio Strengthening Initiative for these properties, LA-CLT is further invest-ing in these community assets with capital im-provements and green investment. LACLT seeks to improve per-formance by reducing expenses through roof repairs, boiler upgrades, installing new green flooring and energy-ef-ficient fixtures, among other improvements.

Last year, more than $4.1 million was recent-ly awarded through the CDFA Tax Credit Program. Twenty-three community projects throughout the state sought tax credit fund-ing; LACLT’s Portfolio Strengthening Initiative was one of only three applications awarded its full request. The Tax Credit Program enables businesses to donate to LACLT in exchange for a state tax credit that can be applied against the New Hampshire business profits, busi-ness enterprise, or in-surance premium taxes. The state tax credit is equal to 75% of that con-tribution. In addition, the contribution may be treated as a charitable deduction to the extent the federal laws allow. Tax credit may be car-ried forward during a five-year period. After both state and federal tax benefits are account-ed for, a contribution of $10,000 actually costs the company less that 11 per-cent, or $1,100. LACLT is responsible for securing donations/pledges from for-profit companies with a New Hampshire state tax liability.

For more information about purchasing tax credits from LACLT in support of their Portfolio Strengthening Initiative contact Linda Harvey at 603-524-0747, or visit www.laclt.org.

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GILMANTON — “Gil-ford High School Expres-sions” is the title of an art show featuring the work of students, and curated by Caledonia Hackley, Reese Hender-son and Kassidy Morris. These one-of-a-kind art pieces use the medium of print block making.

The curators report that “ideas for the print blocks were limitless, but did require us to use no words or logos. We sketched an outline on the block and continued to sculpt the design us-ing Speedball linoleum cutters.” Once the stu-dents finished cutting out the block, they ad-vanced to the next level of the assignment. Each student put a color of their choice on a plastic plate, and then used a brayer to smooth out the

paint on the block. Next, they put a piece of col-orful paper on top of the painted block to make the print come to life on the page. Each student was required to make at least ten different prints. At the end of the printing process, the students cut out shapes of their prints and created a collection of collages. The collages selected are presented at the Gilmanton Year-Round Library during the month of November.

The public is invited to meet the artists at a reception on Saturday, Nov. 15 from 1-3 p.m. The collection will be available for viewing during open hours at the Library. The Library is located on NH Route 140 in Gilmanton Iron Works, across from the Gilmanton School.

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There’s a place for us…Heather Hunt and Jack Harding play star-crossed lovers Maria and Tony in Gilford High School’s production of “West Side Story.” The show will continue this Friday and Saturday, Nov. 14 and 15 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults, $7 for students and seniors. Tickets are available at the Gilford Village Store, Greenlaw’s Music in Laconia, and at the door.

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Center builds lockers for the Gunstock Ski Club (GSC).

The club has grown in recent years, and storage lockers used by members were in short supply. The perfect solu-tion was to partner with the Building Construc-tion program at the Huot

Technical Center and local business Bou-lia Gorrell Lumber and Trustworthy Hardware.

The locker project was an excellent learn-ing tool for the Building Construction students that provided quality education emphasizing core academic content, workplace competen-cies, technical skills, and

better prepared stu-dents to meet challenges of the workforce. The

students successfully rose to all the challenges presented; the lockers were finished on time and completed to a high standard. Boulia Gorrell Lumber provided ma-terials for the project at discounted prices and Trustworthy Hardware donated the hardware

need to provide tamper resistant doors.

To ensure the success-ful delivery to Gunstock Mountain, the students committed to a 5:00am start on a cold and wet Saturday morning, they were all very competent, confident and happy to be part of the team.

GSC looks forward to having the quality built, low maintenance lock-ers for many years to come.

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LRCC helps close high-tech manufacturing gender gapLACONIA — Accord-

ing to a report by Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute, women make up a healthy 50 percent of the labor force in Ameri-ca, but only 24 percent of the manufacturing work-force. That won’t be for long if Don Brough, Lakes Region Community Col-lege project coordinator for New Hampshire’s Advanced Manufactur-ing Partnerships in Edu-cation initiative, has his way.

Under AMPed NH, Brough and his LRCC col-leagues work closely with employers to increase the number of women receiving cutting-edge

advanced manufactur-ing workforce training. The College offers an industry-approved Ad-vanced Manufacturing Certificate, as well as Electromechanical Tech-nician and Advanced Manufacturing Processes and Control associate de-grees.

“The skills shortage facing U.S. manufactur-ers is apparent, and the underrepresentation of women only contributes to the gap,” said Jennifer McNelly, president of The Manufacturing Institute in a statement released by Deloitte. “We must … inspire the next-genera-tion of young women to pursue manufacturing careers and encourage current female talent within the industry.”

Gary Groleau, corpo-

rate manager of labor re-lations and organization-al development for New Hampshire Ball Bear-ings, an LRCC industry partner, echoed her state-ment.

“My observation is that women tend to be very detailed-oriented, and with advanced man-ufacturing requiring so much more precision, that’s a perfect match,” said Groleau. “Now, there are thousands of advanced manufactur-ing jobs nationwide that, experts say, more women are starting to seek out.”

Brough said Groleau’s assertion is supported by an increase in women en-rolling in — and finding employment by way of — the College’s expanded advanced manufacturing programs.

Helen Stacy ended a successful 17-year stint in banking to pursue an Advanced Manufactur-ing Associate Degree program and was hired by New Hampshire Ball Bearings as a setup oper-ator before even finish-ing her studies.

A U.S. Army veteran and the mother of two grown sons, Stacy said she’d become burnt out in her previous profes-sion and “it was time for a change.” Hired in early October, she credited the industry connections of LRCC faculty and staff for helping her land the job.

“NHBB was my goal when I entered the pro-gram,” Stacy said. “The companies know the community colleges have

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ly when that parent has been deployed. Dama-to said the school has worked closely with families and communi-cated with them on sup-port and needs.

Students have sent care packages to local people who are serving overseas. Damato said they received a DVD from one parent on what they do in their day to day life in the military.

The assembly fea-tured a few local veter-ans, who shared their experiences and advice for this generation.

Richard Grenier served in the Army from 1972 to 1975, achieving the rank of Specialist 4th Class. He served in Korea for 15 months and also served in the Mili-tary Police.

“It was three years I’ll never forget,” Grenier said.

Grenier is now a Gil-ford selectman.

Grenier said one of the best parts of being in the Army was all the people he met while serving He entered the armed forces at the time of a draft and said the military was a micro-cosm of society. While in the Army he said he met the best friends he has ever had.

Grenier said he also

valued the discipline he gained while serving.

Grenier said he would like to ask young people what they think about serving in the military from their own perspec-tives. As a Vietnam era veteran, Grenier said veterans were treated poorly back home. These days the newer veterans are treated with much more respect.

“I would urge them, if they’re so inclined, to serve their country be-cause there’s not enough of that today,” Grenier said.

He said this service can include serving their local communities, including running for of-fice. Grenier noted how he ran for selectmen un-opposed, though he lost his bid for County Com-missioner.

“Even just running is an experience,” Grenier said.

He said it is import-ant for people to under-stand their community. He said there are many people who do not un-derstand how town gov-ernments work.

“You can’t be an in-formed voter if you don’t understand some of the basic things,” Grenier said.

Bill Davies was fresh out of high school when

are encouraged to take the challenge while be-ing filmed and post it on social media. The chal-lenge mimics the dizzi-ness and numbness that comes with DIPG.

The layup in Gilford was hosted by Jesse Thompson, whose son John Bradley Thompson passed away from DIPG this year. The Thomp-son family has orga-nized a chapter of The Cure Starts Now in New Hampshire. The founda-tion has a series of small events throughout the year to raise money and awareness.

“It’s more about awareness here at the school,” Thompson said of that night’s event.

Thompson said the

efforts have gone a long way to raise awareness of DIPG. He said re-search for DIPG is “real-ly underfunded.”

The evening also fea-tured school lunch for dinner and an ice cream bar, crafts, and games in the gym.

Renee, AJ, and Cali Henderson came out to the Family Fun Night with their mom Jen and grandmother Mary. Their mom Jen Hender-son said Renee is in kin-dergarten and this was her own first experience with the Family Fun Night.

This event gave her the opportunity to meet more people.

“I know a few people from preschool,” she

said. Abigail and Jaden

Morin explored the book fair with their dad Scott Morin.

“We come every year,” Scott Morin said.

The Butler family, including five-year-old Liam and three-year-old Finn, along with their parents Fred and Kathleen Butler, came to Family Fun Night, in-cluding taking the Layup 4 Lauren challenge. Liam Butler recently en-tered kindergarten and the family used this as an opportunity to get to know the school better.

“(We’re) starting to be able to put the names with the faces, making the connections,” said their dad Fred Butler.

FUN NIGHT (Continued from Page A1)

he entered the military. Davies served from

1976 to 1980 including stations in Virginia and Texas and working for NATO.

He was a full time sub-stitute teacher at Gilford for a year.

“It’s literally one of the best experiences of my working career,” Da-vies said.

Davies said he espe-cially valued the lessons he received in learning discipline and “learning to roll with it.”

“My message is to work hard,” Davies said.

Davies also urged students to give back to their community.

“Maybe you don’t want to go into the mil-itary; join the Peace Corps, serve your local community,” Davies said.

raising effort as a first step in a long-term com-mitment to conserving and ensuring the wise stewardship of more land in the region. The Belknap Range features large, as-yet unfragment-ed forests covering more than a dozen mountains with extensive trail sys-tems and opportunities for hunting, fishing, hik-ing, snowmobiling, and cross-country skiing. The landscape is still in-tact enough to provide excellent habitat for wide-ranging wildlife species. In addition to their recreational, sce-nic and wildlife habitat value, these forests pro-tect the water quality of Lake Winnipesaukee.

“Mt. Major and the Belknaps make up a be-loved landscape – the backdrop of Lake Win-nipesaukee -- and we are excited to be working in partnership with the Lakes Region conserva-tion community to pro-tect it,” Difley said.

“The Belknaps, along with the Ossipee Moun-tains and Red Hill, form the natural setting for Lake Winnipesaukee. Protecting these uplands has been an import-ant priority for many years,” Berry said.

The popularity of Mt. Major’s trails has left them degraded by over-use, so the Forest Society has formed a steward-ship fund to repair and

maintain them. Anyone wishing to help can find more information at www.forestsocety.org.

Founded in 1901, the Society for the Protec-tion of New Hampshire Forests is the state’s old-est and largest non-prof-it land conservation or-ganization. Supported by 10,000 families and businesses, the Forest Society’s mission is to perpetuate the state’s forests by promoting land conservation and sustainable forestry. The organization owns 53,000 conserved acres of land in New Hampshire and holds conservation easements on another 130,000 acres.

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clout built on results. I’d applied before and didn’t get responses; then I got a couple letters of recom-mendation from instruc-tors and staff at LRCC. They made calls on my behalf, and now I’m very happy. I feel good about the future.”

Debbie Holton, manag-ing director of industry and technology for the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, said changing perceptions about man-ufacturing careers is an important step toward attracting more wom-en.\“We need to share the truth about careers in manufacturing — that they’re rewarding, lu-crative and creative. We need to get young women interested in the mechan-ics of ‘making things’ — things that make a differ-ence in people’s lives. We need to show them how exciting and fun that can be,” Holton said.

Groleau concurred. “The stereotype that ‘fac-tory jobs’ are redundant, physically taxing and dirty is just that — a ste-reotype,” he said. “The truth is advanced man-ufacturing is clean, safe, efficient, high-tech and computerized. Women can and are doing these technically demanding jobs very successfully.”

Pamela Falzone said she enrolled at LRCC to enhance her skills.

“I’ve been in manu-facturing my entire life,” said the quality control employee from NHBB, “I love the diversity of it — the automated systems and programs, and al-ways being on top of new technology. I recommend it for women; I’ve been saying it for years.”

Laura Jacques, en-rolled in the Advanced Manufacturing Certif-icate programs and is employed as a materi-

als logistics assistant at Praxair TAFA, said, “I love the job and the at-mosphere. It is always a team effort. Without good communication, you can’t get the job done, and I enjoy that closeness with the people around you.”

Jacques’ enthusiasm apparently rubbed off on her mother, Melinda Simms, who is pursuing an Advanced Manufac-turing Associate degree while running a janitori-al business. Her reason? The pursuit of knowl-edge.

“Back during World War II, there were a lot of women in manufactur-ing,” Simms said. “We’ve already shown we’re capable of doing all this work. This industry is supportive of both sexes. Combine that with new technology and we can go so much further.”

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A host of Golden Eagles swarm to I-L/MA ball carrier Andrew Brothers for a big stop in Gilford’s 28-13 win in the Division III North Conference playoffs Saturday afternoon at the Meadows.

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GILFORD – For the second year in a row, a November Saturday set-tled things between two local gridiron rivals.

But this time host Gil-ford High School defend-ed its home turf, as the Golden Eagles used a big third quarter to create some separation and ul-timately pull away from Inter-Lakes/Moulton-borough on Saturday. Second-seeded Gilford earned a 28-13 win over the third-seeded Lak-ers to avenge last year’s North Conference cham-pionship game loss, and in doing so advanced to play top-seeded New-port, a 34-14 winner over Mascoma Valley, for the right to place in the Divi-sion III state champion-ship game.

“I was nervous,” be-gan Gilford head coach

Shawn Garrett. “In-ter-Lakes is better than their record and they have a lot of talent on that team.”

Despite winning last year’s playoff tilt on the road, I-L/MA coach Jon Francis said his team had those memories in the rearview with anoth-er crack at the Eagles in their sights.

“Last year is last year. It doesn’t mean anything,” Francis ex-plained. “The only thing we took from it was that if you can do it once, you can do it again.”

Gilford (8-1) answered the bell from the very be-ginning, as Max Troia-no’s opening kickoff re-turn would’ve gone for a touchdown had the Ea-gles not been called for a late holding penalty. Still, the squad got excel-lent field position out of it, as they started their

opening drive at the I-L/MA 27 yard line. Just four plays later, Troia-no got the touchdown on a 9-yard run, and Kyle Gaudet’s two-point run put the hosts up 8-0 just 1:10 into the first quar-ter.

“Obviously, I’ll take that any time,” said Gar-rett of the special teams play to set up the TD. “But I think it really just showed what we can do.”

The Eagles took a 15-0 lead early in the second quarter, as quarterback Carter Mercer connect-ed with Gaudet for a 35-yard touchdown pass on a crossing pattern with 9:18 remaining. Zach Poisson kicked the extra point.

The Lakers (5-4) cut into the deficit on their ensuing drive. The big play came on a fourth down conversion, with quarterback Josh Blun-

do hitting Nick Broth-ers for a first down on a screen pass. Brothers would finish the drive off two plays later, as he broke a tackle and scored on an 11-yard TD to pull I-L/MA within 15-7 with 5:46 remaining in the second quarter after Dylan Sheehan’s PAT.

That score would remain into halftime, as the Lakers made a key late stop on de-fense and got the ball to open the third quarter. But after I-L/MA went three and out on its first possession, Gilford would answer with the game-changing play of the afternoon. Troiano fielded Sheehan’s put at his own 48 yard line, and he followed a Gaudet block to the outside for a 52-yard touchdown return that gave the Ea-gles a two-score lead at

22-7 with 10:51 left in the third.

“That was probably the turning point for Gilford,” said Fran-cis. “There were many points of conversation this week and (special teams) was definitely one of them. You just ask the most that you can with the guys you have.”

Garrett’s team has been a juggernaut on special teams this fall, scoring a multitude of touchdowns in that de-partment.

“It’s something we’ve worked on a lot this sea-son,” the Gilford coach said. “We’ve scored sev-eral special teams touch-downs and we consider that part of our offensive

game.”The Eagles would

tack on another score just before the end of the third, as fullback Dave MacDonald scored on a 17-yard run with 1:32 left for a 28-7 lead.

The Lakers pulled within 28-13 late in the fourth on a 12-yard run from freshman Andrew Brothers, but Gilford recovered the ensuing onside kick and ran the clock out for the win that sent the Eagles into the next round.

“Once we played them in the regular season, we stopped talking about (last year),” said Garrett, whose side won the regu-lar season meeting, 33-7.

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“We got the monkey off our back, so to speak, there. This one was just about not losing in the playoffs.”

Despite the loss, the Lakers were successful in slowing down Gil-ford’s high-octane pass-ing attack, which has stymied teams over the course of the regular season.

“The focus was to take care of their threat-ening pass game,” said Francis. “The guys worked really hard this week to prepare for that. We rented lights to practice later and they put in some long hours.

That definitely showed today.”

Gaudet did finish with a big day to lead the Eagles offense, as the senior receiver caught eight passes for 143 yards.

“They defended the pass very well,” lauded Garrett of I-L/MA. “It was probably the best we’ve seen all year. I think their pressure got Carter off his game a bit.”

Francis said his team’s overall game plan to keep the score close throughout has paid div-idends throughout the season and it worked for

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a half against Gilford.“We rely on our de-

fense a lot to keep it close going into the fourth quarter,” Francis said. “But our guys just nev-er seemed to cash it in offensively when we needed it. Gilford makes plays all around... of-fense, defense, special teams. They’re a great team and they capital-ized on some mistakes on our end.”

The win has Gilford now amongst the final four teams in Division III, and the Eagles will tangle with Newport this Saturday on the road with a state champion-ship game spot on the line. Gilford lost the reg-ular season meeting be-tween the two teams at home, 27-20, on Sept. 27.

“All eyes are already on Newport,” said Gar-rett immediately follow-ing the win. “We didn’t take care of the ball when we played them the first time.”

JEFF LAJOIE

Unified Eagles edged in playoffs The Gilford High School unified soccer team saw its season come to a close last week, as the Golden Eagles reached the Division I playoffs as the fifth-seeded team in the field. Gilford traveled to fourth-seeded Dover in the quarterfinals, dropping a 4-1 decision on Nov. 3. The Eagles, guided by head coach Tom Carr, finished their stellar season with a 3-2-1 overall record, finishing fifth out of 15 teams state-wide.

Double OT goal sinks Eagles in semifinals

JEFF LAJOIE

Gilford senior Brad Bergman (27) tussles with Prospect Mountain’s Joe Perry (18) during the Eagles’ 1-0 loss in double overtime in the Division III semifinals at Laconia High School’s Bank of New Hampshire Stadium on Nov. 3.

JEFF LAJOIE

Kaleb Orton of Gilford dribbles through the midfield in second half action against Prospect Mountain last week.

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LACONIA – Gilford boys’ soccer coach Dave Pinkham had a pretty good idea of where his team’s Division III semi-final was headed even before kickoff last week.

“If someone asked me before the game what the odds were that we’d be playing overtime, I’d have said 90 percent,” Pinkham explained.

After 80 scoreless minutes of action, that’s exactly the fate that his Golden Eagles encoun-tered on Nov. 3. With two of the best defens-es in Division III going at it, one goal was all it took for a game-winner. Prospect Mountain se-nior Alex Bennett scored that all important goal, as he headed a ball in on a cross from Joe Per-ry with 7:29 remaining in the second overtime to lead the second-seed-ed Timberwolves into the state championship game with a 1-0 victory over third-seeded Gil-ford at the Bank of New Hampshire Stadium at Laconia High School.

“Both teams are out-standing defensively,” lauded Pinkham. “We had our opportunities in the first half and we could’ve jumped on

them there. But what an effort, what a season. The boys should be very proud of the year that they had.”

Gilford (16-3 over-all) had its best scoring chances in that first half, including a shot that ap-peared to cross the goal line but was ultimately not called a goal. That came with about 10 minutes left, when Nick VanBennekum’s head-er off a Keaton Quigley corner kick was cleared away by a Prospect de-fender. The question

was whether or not the defender was standing inside his own net when he made the clearance.

VanBennekum also had a great chance earli-er in the frame, when he took a feed from Bran-den Lemay and went in alone on a quick break-away with 18:35 remain-ing. But his shot was knocked away by PM goalkeeper Jake Towle, who got a piece of the shot with his back heel and managed to keep the ball out of the net.

The Timberwolves

appeared to have the game’s first goal with 11:35 remaining in the second half, as Bennett pounced on a pass all alone in front from Matt Hamilton and snuck a shot past Gilford goal-keeper Nolan Dwyer. But Bennett was ulti-mately ruled offside by the linesman, and the Eagles avoided falling behind late in regula-tion.

In the first overtime session, Gilford had its best chance of the extra frames when Jacob Baer slid onto a lead pass in the box. But Towle beat him to the ball, getting most of it and knocking it away from danger.

The T-Wolves (20-0 fi-nal record after beating top-seeded Hopkinton in the finals) finally struck in the second OT, as Per-ry settled a Gilford clear-ance, took a touch on the right side and crossed it into the box. Bennett got his head on the ball,

placing it to the near post. Dwyer got a piece of the ball but it some-how snuck inside the post to send PM through to the state champion-ship game.

“I don’t think there was a team that wanted to see us in the tourna-ment,” said Pinkham of the Eagles’ run that saw them start the year 2-2 before rattling off 14 straight wins before the semifinal defeat. The team’s last loss actual-ly came to undefeated Prospect on Sept. 10. “At 2-2, everyone wrote them off. To come back and look what they ac-complished after start-ing the season like that is quite impressive.”

The Eagles allowed just eight goals in 19 games this season, with the defensive unit of Col-lin Hildreth, Eamon Al-dridge, Tyler Hanf and Cam Haradon gelling into an incredibly stout group as the season pro-

gressed in from of Dw-yer.

“In order to get back to where we were before, we had to get back to put-ting the emphasis on de-fending,” said Pinkham, referring to the great defenses he had during Gilford’s run of cham-pionships in the 1990s. “(Defense has) been our strength all year. We were able to put the kids in positions that helped make us a better team.”

Gilford will gradu-ate a substantial senior class, as there were 13 members of the Class of 2015 on the squad, in-cluding seven starters.

“We still had two freshmen, one sopho-more and one junior in the starting lineup but we do lose a really good group,” Pinkham ex-plained. “Yes, we lose players but now you’ve got motivation for the group coming back next year.”

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LRFFL preps for Thanksgiving weekend tourneyMEREDITH – On

Thanksgiving weekend, (Friday, Nov. 28, and Sat-urday, Nov. 29) the Lakes Region Flag Football League (LRFFL) and La-conia High School will be holding the first Turkey Bowl Flag Football Tour-nament at Laconia High School’s Fitzgerald Field.

This is a two-day tour-nament brought to you by Laconia football and Lakes Region Flag Foot-ball. There will be two divisions, an 18+ and a 30+ division. Registra-tion is $300 per team with a maximum roster size of 12 players. Proceeds go

to Laconia High School’s new weight room to ben-efit students and faculty and also go to the LRAAC (Lakes Region Athletic Advancement complex) a regulation-size indoor field enabling children and adults of the Lakes Region to stay active year round. Games are played 6-on-6 with a 20-minute running game clock. Each team will play a minimum of four games over the two-day tournament. On Friday, each team will play three games to establish seed-ing and the elimination games begin on Satur-

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not limited just to sum-mer men’s league teams and players. Players can certainly join in with their team from this past summer, or they can mix and match teammates, or invite friends who hav-en’t played before to join in. The league is reach-ing out across the Lakes Region (and beyond) in an effort to reach more

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Milford tips Eagles in semifinal sweep

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Gilford’s Stevie Orton is airborne for a swing on the ball with a pair of Milford defenders also rising for the block. Surrounding Orton is (left to right) Jordan Dean, Shannon Mercer and Cynthia Gagnon. Third-seeded Gilford was swept out of the Division II tournament via 25-18, 25-22, 25-23 scores at Pinkerton Academy.

JEFF LAJOIE

Junior setter Shannon Mercer tracks down a loose ball on the run for Gilford in the Division II semifinals at Pinkerton Academy on Nov. 6.

BY JEFF LAJOIE

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DERRY – One prob-lem consistently plagued the Gilford High School volleyball team: the tip-ping of Milford High School.

The second-seed-ed Spartans kept the third-seeded Golden Ea-gles off balance by mix-ing in some tips to offset the big swings, and as a result, Milford ended Gilford’s stellar season with a 25-18, 25-22, 25-23 victory in the Division II semifinals on Nov. 5 at Pinkerton Academy.

“Milford knew our weaknesses and they attacked them,” said Gilford head coach Joan Forge, whose team reached the semifinals for the 21st year in a row. “Defending against the tips is tough to do. We were back playing de-fense and they managed to tip to the holes.”

Milford head coach Chuck Roberson said tip-ping wasn’t in his team’s game plan, though sev-eral of his outside hitters did use it to their advan-tage.

“We didn’t really stress that but there were some occasions where the opening pre-sented itself,” Roberson said.

Roberson said the win was his first ever against the Eagles, and he used hyperbole to accentuate that fact.

“This was their 423rd consecutive trip to the (Final Four) so they’re clearly a powerhouse,” Roberson said. “I was worried about the at-

mosphere affecting our team. We haven’t been here in a few years. I wasn’t worried so much once we got going but more apprehensive. The biggest worry I had though was that if we don’t do well in the first game, would we be able to come back?”

Gilford knew it would have its hands full in the semifinal, due in large part to Milford star hit-ter Olivia Rougeau, who was named the Division II Player of the Year ear-lier in the week. Forge said the Eagles turned to assistant coach Lind-sey Carr, the former GHS standout who holds the state’s all-time kill record. Carr imitated Rougeau during practice leading up to the semifi-nal, and that preparation paid some dividends in the match itself.

“She can still pound the ball,” said Forge of Carr. “We had a scouting report on (Milford) and I thought we did a decent job against (Rougeau). It wasn’t her that beat us.”

The Eagles (15-4 over-all) played from behind for the majority of the night, and that was in-deed the case in the open-ing set. Milford created a bit of separation mid-way through the stanza, turning a 13-12 lead into an 18-12 advantage with six straight point be-hind a kill from Jessica Leach and a block from Rougeau.

The Eagles used an ace from freshman Brooke Beaudet to close within 19-16, but Rougeau had a block and

two straight aces to lead Milford to a 25-18 win in the first set.

“Olivia’s just good,” said Roberson of his ju-nior POY. “She only hit two balls out in three games.”

Gilford shook off the loss to take a 3-0 lead to start the second, but again Milford came back to snatch control. It was 20-15 before the Eagles made some noise. Junior All-State First Team selection Jordan Dean put down a kill, and classmate Maddie Har-ris added a block and a kill. Beaudet chipped in a pair of her own as Gil-ford clawed within 23-21.

Dean’s kill made it 24-22 Milford, but a hitting

error on set point by the Eagles gave the Spartans a 25-22 win to make it a commanding 2-0 advan-tage.

The third frame played out much like the second, with Mil-ford leading 18-13 and seemingly in control to close out Gilford. But the Eagles took advantage of some Spartan errors, pulling within 19-18. The Eagles would ultimate-ly tie the game at 21-21 when Milford put the ball into the net, but a kill from Leach put the Spartans back on top.

Beaudet came through with a big kill to keep Gilford within striking distance at 23-22, but Milford closed

out the match when a kill to the back corner of the court somehow landed in and the team secured the 25-23 victory to advance to the state championship match.

“We had some mo-mentum swings but un-fortunately they all fell a little short,” said Forge. “We got into the driver’s seat, as we like to call it, but just couldn’t finish it off.”

Roberson was pleased with his team’s ability to finish off games despite late Gilford runs.

“Both times (games two and three), they righted the ship,” the Milford coach explained.

It was still a very successful season for a Gilford team that gradu-

ated a good chunk of last year’s roster. The Eagles pieced things together nicely, playing their best volleyball down the stretch. That culmi-nated in a 3-0 sweep of sixth-seeded Portsmouth in the D-II quarterfinals, avenging a 3-1 loss to the Clippers during the reg-ular season.

“The improvement was enormous,” Forge explained. “Anyone who saw us in the preseason would not have expected us to get to the semifi-nals. We’re still young. We only have one senior so there are things to build on with the players we have returning.”

Milford advanced to play top-seeded Wind-ham in the state finals.

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WOLFEBORO: Pleasant Valley Road - Wonderful 2.54 acre, private, wooded building lot in a quiet country setting on a paved, dead end town road just minutes to town. $67,500 MLS #4348076WOLFEBORO: Berrywood Drive - Great in-town location and ready for your dream home in a great residential area. 1.99 acres with a large field and beautiful stonewalls. $115,000 MLS #4201350WOLFEBORO: Beach Pond Road - Three lots of record totaling 34 acres. 600’ of road frontage on Beach Pond Rd. and Furber Lane offers plenty of options, timber, subdivision, house lots and could have views with cutting. $175,000 MLS #4336344OSSIPEE: Pocket Mountain Road - Great 2.52 acre building lot with amazing views, a drilled well, electric on site, a 3BR approved septic design and driveway cut. Bring your new home design.$74,900 MLS #4368109

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WOLFEBORO: Terrific in town location within walking distance to shopping, restaurants, schools, town docks and more. Delightful 2 bedroom, 1 bath Cape on a level lot, wood floors in living room and offers 1152 sq ft of living space. Affordable too.$139,900 MLS #4337314

WOLFEBORO: Step back in time when life was easy & carefree. 100+ year old charm with this Winnipesaukee waterfront property, amazing Sewall Rd. location, town water/sewer, W-shaped crib dock, seasonal dock, walk in sandy frontage, gorgeous views and plenty of room for all in the main house, bunkhouse and studio apt. $1,499,000 MLS #4240664

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Ossipee • $182,000 • #4341492Aviation rights to Windsock, beach rights to Ossipee Lake & abuts conservation land on three sides for you to enjoy nature & your

privacy! A wonderful cape on a large level lot.Kay Huston 603-253-4345

Moultonborough • $975,000 • #4331074This Moultonborough waterfront home

is open, inviting and bright. Off the kitchen is the screened-in porch leading

to the waterfront deck. Nice level lot.Bob Williams & Danielle McIntosh: 603-253-4345

Ossipee • $199,000 • #4391205A stunning vision of Americana in the New

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Laconia • $149,900 • #4391471Well built 2 bedroom home with LR/

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plus carport & heated workshop.Barbara Mylonas 603-253-4345

Meredith • $295,000 • #4376101True 1800 Colonial & barn

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Center Harbor • $2,500,000 • #4351921Unbelievable opportunity to own 67+/- acres with 550ft of frontage on Big Squam Lake.

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Holderness • $98,900 • #4383451This classic Center Chimney Cape built around 1850 awaits your touch. Many

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Sandwich • $169,000 • #4391894Sublime mountain views of the Sandwich Range can be yours in this nearly 7-acre high meadow ringed by woodland groves. Perched high on a

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launch from this year round home on a large level lot with an easy commute to

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Gilford • $16,500 • #4391317Well maintained home with bright

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