Snowflake Village initiative brings a blizzard of community spirit to downtown Bristol

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1 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2018 INDEX Volume 5 Number 51 Opiio...A4 Tows... A5,A6 Churches... A6,A7 Health...A7 Busiess...A9 Sports... B1 & B6 Classifieds...B2-B5 20 pages i 2 sectios 2018, Salmo Press, LLC. Call us at (603) ewfoud@salmopress.ews FREE IN PRINT, FREE ON-LINE Tis the seaso for early deadlies The offices of the Newfoud Ladig will be closed Moday ad Tuesday, Dec. 24 ad 25, i observace of Christmas, ad agai Moay ad Tuesday, Dec. 31 ad Ja. 1, i observace of New Year s Day. To esure that our Dec. 27 ad Ja. 3 editios arrive o local ewsstads o schedule despite these holiday closures, our submissio deadlies for those weeks have bee moved up two busiess days from whe they would ordiarily fall. Ay press releases, letters to the editor, ad obituaries iteded for publicatio o Dec. 27 must be i our hads o later tha oo o Friday, Dec. 21, ad ay submissios for the Ja. 3 editio must reach us by Friday the 28th at oo to be cosidered for publicatio. As always, submissios ca be dropped off at our offices, located at 5 Water St. i Meredith, or ed to Editor Breda Berube at breda@salmopress.ews. For iformatio o the holiday deadlies for display advertisig, please cotact Lori Lych i Sales at or lori@salmopress.ews. The staff of the Newfoud Ladig thaks our readers ad advertisers for their cooperatio with our holiday schedule, ad wishes the etire commuity a safe ad very happy holiday seaso. BY DONNA RHODES drhodes@salmopress.com ALEXANDRIA O Thursday, Dec. 13, the Alexadria Coservatio Commissio met at the tow offices to reveal the 13 photograph etries that were chose for iclusio i their 2019 caledar, which features scees of life i the commuity. Judgig the 50 etries received this year for We also chose sowflakes because they re all differet, but whe sowflakes stick together, they make a big impact, Spears said. To get the project rollig, they had reached out to the Newfoud Area School District ad Superitedet Stacey Buckley agreed to have elemetary school studets ivolved. Next was a call to the seior ceter where older residets were also eager to take part. Sice the, hudreds of sowflakes have come pourig i from all the elemetary schools. Bridgewater-Hebro Village the photo cotest was photographer David Redma. Redma said the decisios he had to make were difficult but he took time to give his professioal critique o why some were selected over others. People featured i a photo, he said, were always a plus. Some he selected for the colors, others for the surroudig sceery or feeligs COMPLIMENTARY Sowflake Village iitiative brigs a blizzard of commuity spirit to dowtow Bristol BY DONNA RHODES drhodes@salmopress.ews BRISTOL There s a blizzard of carig ad sharig happeig i dowtow Bristol this year, thaks to seiors ad school childre who have pitched i to help local merchats raise moey for commuity members i eed. A Sowflake Village project bega o Dec. 1 whe Nacy Spears ad some of her eighborig shopkeepers wated to show some commuity spirit by addig some more decoratios to the busiess district. After a bit of braistormig, they decided sowflakes i the widows would be a great seasoal additio that could stay up all witer. Doa Rhodes Dozes of paper sowflakes are ow decoratig widows i dowtow Bristol as part of A Sowflake Village, a fudraiser that is raisig fuds for the elderly ad families who are strugglig this witer. Ope House at Alexadria Village School gives families some time to bod BY DONNA RHODES drhodes@salmopress.ews ALEXANDRIA The Alexadria Recreatio Advisory Coucil held a holiday ope house at the Alexadria Village School last weeked where families took time out to relax, read ad play with the childre as they all ejoyed some refreshmets. Coucil member Sue Cheey said the evet was made possible through use of fuds from the Perkis Trust Fud, which supports activities i the oeroom schoolhouse. I additio to the sacks provided that day, there was a great selectio of gifts available for childre to chose from before they left, alog with cady caes, ad other small gifts of potpourri ad tree oramets for parets as well. AVS was the commuity s last remaiig oe-room schoolhouse for may years, providig classes for kidergarte through as high eighth grade, depedig o the eeds of the tow each year. Several years ago it was fially take off the rolls of the Doa Rhodes Three-year-old Lucas ejoyed lookig over some of the gifts available durig the holiday ope house at Alexadria Village School last Suday afteroo. Newfoud Area School District, sedig studets istead to Bridgewater-Hebro Village School, the o to Newfoud Memorial Middle School ad the regioal high school. Cheey said AVS is ow available to the public for use i ay sort of veture they may have i mid. Should someoe eed space to hold a meetig, craft ights, discussio groups or ay other small gatherig, they ca simply cotact the tow hall to reserve a date. School ad Bristol Elemetary School eve made it a special project by teachig the studets how to make beautiful three-dimesioal sowflakes. There have also bee doatios of ceramic sowflakes ad oe local residet has bee busy crochetig sowflakes for the project. These are all very special sowflakes though. Each oe o display represets a doatio made toward the purchase of gas ad gift cards that will the be split betwee Bristol s Tow Welfare Officer ad the Bristol Seior Ceter. We wated to help SEE SNOWFLAKE, PAGE A14 Doa Rhodes Caroly Sharp s photo of a moth sittig o a fer frod graces this year s cover of the Alexadria Coservatio Commissio s 2019 caledar. Joiig Sharp last week i displayig the caledar were Selectma Bob Piehler, board represetative to the commissio, ad Commissioer Erie Lamos. Alexadria Coservatio Commissio selects photos for 2019 caledar that came through i the shot. A beautiful red fox i the sow by Ro MacLea ad Caroly Sharp s February photo of a bluebird huddled o a tree brach were two that really caught his eye. Poitig to the bluebird, Redmod said, If you ca get the glare of the eye i a photo, that s good. SEE CONSERVATION, PAGE A14

2 Local A2 AQUAMAN Admiistratio: Lawmakers attempt to brig clarity to default budget leaves much to legal iterpretatio BY THOMAS P. CALDWELL Cotributig Writer BRISTOL Lawmakers who earlier this year ameded RSA 40:13, the Official Ballot Law, sought to brig clarity to the provisio of that law that has caused the most cofusio through the years: the default budget. They tried to do a better job of defiig how the goverig body the muicipal or school board that determies the default budget makes the calculatios ad explais that method to the legislative body the voters. School Admiistrative Uit 4 Busiess Admiistrator Michael Limai, however, says the tikerig still leaves a lot of area for iterpretatio. I suggestig the default budget that the Newfoud Area School Board should cosider for the fiscal year, Limai said the school admiistratio did its best to straddle the lie betwee what was reasoable ad what was allowed by the ew laguage. Cetral to the issue was the revised law s use of the word authorized whe referrig to the previous year s budget. Limai said that the top lawyers i the field have cocluded that, whe voters reject a proposed budget as Newfoud voters did this year Fri.-Su.: 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 PM Mo.: 1:00, 4:00 PM Tues.: 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 PM Wed.-Thurs: 10:00 AM, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 PM MARY POPPINS RETURNS MEREDITH CINEMAS Meredith Shoppig Ctr BARNZS Week of 12/21-12/27 PG-13 SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE PG Fri.-Su.: 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30 PM Mo.: 12:45, 3:45 PM Tues.: 3:45, 6:45, 9:30 PM Wed.-Thurs: 10:00 AM,12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30 PM ad a default budget goes ito effect, it is ot a authorized budget ad, therefore, i calculatig the ext year s operatig budget, officials have to go back to the last budget that voters did approve to determie what qualifies as cotracts previously approved ad how to calculate what the ew figure should be. Vicet Paul Migliore, the school board member from Bridgewater who also serves i the state legislature, has a differet uderstadig of what the laguage meas. He argued that whe voters rejected the proposed budget, they were, i effect, authorizig the implemetatio of the default budget. Therefore, i his view, it is the most recet budget that serves as the base for calculatig ext year s default budget. There was also disagreemet about what costitutes a cotract. Migliore felt the laguage was very clear, statig Cotracts as used i this subdivisio meas cotracts previously approved, i the amout so approved, by the legislative body i either the operatig budget authorized for the previous year or i a separate warrat article for a previous year. He therefore could ot uderstad why Holy Triity Parish aouces Christmas Mass Schedule REGION Followig is the Christmas Mass schedule for Holy Triity Parish s churches i Plymouth, Bristol, ad Ashlad. Christmas Eve, Moday, Dec p.m., Our Lady of Grace, Bristol 4 p.m., St. Matthew Church, Plymouth 6 p.m., St. Matthew Church, Plymouth 9 p.m., St. Matthew Church, Plymouth Christmas Day, Tuesday, Dec :30 a.m., St. Matthew Church, Plymouth PG Fri.-Su.: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 PM Mo.: 1:15, 4:15 PM Tues.: 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 PM Wed.-Thurs: 10:30 AM, 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 PM No shows after 5pm o Christmas Eve Fid us olie at: BarZs.com CASS INSURANCE INC. Nac & Michelle PO Box 406 Newport, Vermot PERSONAL AUTOS, WORKMAN S COMP. GENERAL LIABILITY AND EQUIPMENT HOMEOWNERS, SNOWMOBILES, ATVS Work FAX cassisurace@myfairpoit.et Limai was proposig a $120,000 icrease i health isurace. Limai explaied that the teachers cotract referred to a structure for calculatig health isurace costs. The specific amout is affected by the umber of teachers ad whether they are takig a idividual or family pla. He said that, if they calculated the amout accordig Tow of Bristol, NH Local cotractors wishig to bid o work for the ew Tow Office project at 5 School Street should sed their ame, compay ame, , phoe umber ad type of work iterested i performig to Nik Coates at towadmi@towofbristolh.org by December 31. Work icludes: Demo Millwork. Cabiets. Doors / frames / hardware Drywall ad framig Pait Floorig ACT Ceilig Lift / LULA Mechaical ( HVAC & Plumbig ) Electrical Work is expected to be Jauary through May. All who submit their ames will be mailed the bid packages for submittal. to the staffig level ad projected icrease from the last approved budget, it would result i a $400,000 icrease. That did ot make sese, he said, ad they used the lower figure, based o the curret staff umbers ad curretly projected health isurace rates. The school board has the right to say SEE BUDGET, PAGE A13 Newfoud Regioal High School hoor roll BRISTOL Newfoud Regioal High School has released its hoor roll for the first markig term of the school year. BRISTOL It has come to our attetio that a attempt by oe of our correspodets to expad o a recet statemet made by a member of the Newfoud Area School District s Budget Committee may have resulted i a misperceptio as to the itetio behid that statemet. A article published i our Dec. 6 editio cocerig the school district s proposed budget for fiscal year stated that Do Frakli, who curretly 9th grade High Hoors: Dyla Collis, Loga Glidde, Julia Huckis, Mackezie Jekis, Daiel LaPoite, Eva Labote, Lidsey Lacasse, Elsa McCoologue, Kayli Parker, Madelie Sarget, Emma Sawyer, Cassadra-Marie Zick Hoors: Sabria Ala, Jesse Bartlett, Abigail Bauer, Margaret Bedaz, Rya Berg, Paige Blad, Riley Boyto, Hayse Broome, Cassie Coffi, Kately Corell, Coor Dowes, Ryder Dowes, Noah Eckert, Alaa Frame, Gabriella Frasca, Luke Gordo, Nathaiel Hatch, Devi Hershberger, Aida Hill, Paulia Huckis, Kaileigh LeBlac, Emily Lower, Brado Marsach, Caleb Moores, Jamie Norto, Joh Norto, Aria Periger, Tristi Porter, Michelle Sallies, Ezekiel Shedd, Bodhi Smith, Abbey Spriger, Domiique Swaso, Haah Tobie, Ashley Tomaso, Coor Va Lige, Caoilai Voelbel, Bria Watso 10th Grade: High Hoors: Adele Meyer, Madiso Perry Hoors: Larry Abbott, Jacob Bloui, Mackezie Bohlma, Autum Braley, Tiffay Doa, Haley Dukette, Sadira Dukette, Adria Ehma, Bailey Fairbak, Owe Hery, Jacob Huckis, Mackezie Jollie, Matthew Karkheck, Sereity La- Page, Jucas Logphee, Jeifer MacDoald, Tyler MacLea, Michael Mackli, Mialora Mahmoud, Alyssa McDoough, Gretche McGowa, Megha Murray, Olivia Obara, Haah Owe, Huter Pease, Hayde Reyolds, Shya Seymour, Simo Shedd, Oceae Skoog 11th Grade: Hoors: Haah Babbitt, Leah Buell, Lillia Colby, Evely Cuttig, Carter Davis, Isaiah Dokus, Duca Farmer, Maura Gelderma, Ashly Hatch, Mark Hederso, Madelie LeClerc, Carolie Marchad, Brado Marcoux, Kasadra McClay, Hayleigh Pabst, Alex Peterso, Alexis Raimodi, Ezekial Richardso, Madiso Royea, Michael Sylvai-Stott, Aa Watso 12th Grade: High Hoors: Jillia Buchaa, Madiso Clarificatio serves as Hebro s desigated represetative to the budget committee, suggested durig a recet board meetig that givig voters a chace to decide could result i buildig maiteace gettig delayed. He favored icludig capital projects i the operatig budget where it would be more difficult for voters to locate ad remove the fudig. Mr. Frakli subsequetly cotacted the Ladig cotedig that his statemet had bee misrepreseted. At his urgig, we reviewed video footage from the Oct. 22 school board meetig at which he spoke ad determied that his actual statemet, i its etirety, was Let the board remember that puttig the CIP [Capital Improvemet Pla] projects out for warrat approval, you ru the risk of the voters votig them dow, despite the sigificat eed for those projects to be completed. He did ot explicitly speak to a belief that icludig capital expeditures i the budget rather tha brigig them forth as warrat articles would make it more difficult for voters to sigle them out. Our correspodet Gould Hoors: Gabriel Bauer, Aaro Belyea, Jakob Beshta, Joatha Blake, Lilyaa Cloutier, Makayla Coffi, Cia Coor, Julie Costiga, Erika Crooker, Madiso Dalphose, Mackezie Davis, Kathry Drapeau, Ashley Durat, Haah Eastma, Elliot Ecoomides, Cole Frye, Nicholas Gree, Greta Gruss, Specer Lacasse, Matthew Libby, Kimberly Lower, Rylee MacPherso, Deaa Marti, Madiso Marti, Maso Marti, Josiah Page, Madiso Paige, Dyla Perkis, Jacob Pfister, Ary Prescott, Cheyee Reilly, Loga Rouille, Gracie Schillig, Leslie Shattuck, Mega Stafford, Triity Taylor, Mia Tomassetti, Naomi Wade, Reid Wilkis maitais, however, that he uderstood that to be the itetio behid Mr. Frakli s statemet, ad felt a duty to relay that iformatio for the beefit of readers. We believe that our correspodet s attempt to expoud upo Mr. Frakli s origial statemet was a hoest effort to reflect what he uderstood Mr. Frakli s itetios to be. The fact remais, however, that the wordig i the article attributed setimets to Mr. Frakli that were ot actually expressed, ad he has our sicere apologies for ay embarrassmet or difficulty this ufortuate misuderstadig may have caused him.

3 Local A3 Circle Program receives grat from Speedway Childre s Charities LOUDON The room was filled with holiday spirit o Dec. 6 as New Hampshire Gov. Chris Suuu ad Machester Mayor Joyce Craig joied Speedway Childre s Charities New Hampshire Chapter at its 10th aual grat distributio ceremoy at The Palace Theatre i Machester. Grats were haded out to 55 local oprofits totalig $75,190 i frot of the festive backdrop from A Christmas Carol. I could t be prouder of this team today, said David McGrath, executive vice presidet ad geeral maager of New Hampshire Motor Speedway. We all get caught up i the everyday hustle ad bustle, but it s days like this that really show us what s importat ad make you feel good. Sice its iceptio i 2009, New Hampshire Motor Speedway ad Mayhew Program oe of 55 charities to receive grat from Speedway Childre s Charities LOUDON The room was filled with holiday spirit o Dec. 6 as New Hampshire Gov. Chris Suuu ad Machester Mayor Joyce Craig joied Speedway Childre s Charities New Hampshire Chapter at its 10th aual grat distributio ceremoy at The Palace Theatre i Machester. Grats were haded out to 55 local oprofits totalig $75,190 i frot of the festive backdrop from A Christmas Carol. I could t be prouder of this team today, said David McGrath, executive vice presidet ad geeral maager of New Hampshire Motor Speedway. We all get caught up i the everyday hustle ad bustle, but it s days like this that really show us what s importat ad make you feel good. Sice its iceptio i 2009, New Hampshire Motor Speedway ad SCC have distributed more tha $1.7 millio, supportig more tha 749,000 childre i the local commuity. I am just overwhelmed with joy, said Hillarie Scott, director of Speedway Childre s SEE MAYHEW, PAGE A13 Courtesy Mayhew Program represetatives acceptig the grat durig a ceremoy held at The Palace Theatre i Machester last week hoorig all grat recipiets. Witer 2019 Classes with Holderess Recreatio Adult Swig Dace Starts Ja. 13th Tai Chi Starts Ja. 2d Basket Makig - Ja. 12th Cookig Classes - Ja. 17th Fiacial Plaig Feb. 11th Call , recreatio@holderess-h.gov or visit for more ifo. SCC have distributed more tha $1.7 millio, supportig more tha 749,000 childre i the local commuity. I am just overwhelmed with joy, said Hillarie Scott, director of Speedway Childre s Charities New Hampshire Chapter. To see everyoe from all of the orgaizatios come together after aother year of hard work ad dedicatio from our board ad voluteers is so heartwarmig, kowig how may kids are beig helped. It certaily makes it all worth it ad the settig just really Courtesy (Left) Circle Program represetatives acceptig the grat durig a ceremoy held at The Palace Theatre i Machester last week hoorig all grat recipiets. helped to put everyoe i the holiday mood. Fuds raised through the New Hampshire Chapter icludes evets such as a comedy show, the Dale Jr. Foudatio Safe Kids 301, a motorcycle ride, Laps for Charity, Ricky Crave s Oe for the Kids Golf Touramet, Champios Breakfast, the Wicked Good Live Auctio, helicopter rides, Track Walk Preseted by PPG, the Red Bucket Brigade by PPG, the Charity Clay Shoot, Full Throttle Fall Weeked, 24 Hours of Lemos, Yule Light Up The Night Ru/Walk ad Gift of Lights. Both Craig ad Suuu expressed how importat it is to support the orgaizatios, ot oly i Machester ad throughout New Hampshire, but across New Eglad that work SEE CIRCLE, PAGE A13 DO YOU WANT TO TURN THAT CLUNKER INTO CASH? Truck is movig daily ad is ready to make the cluker to cash switch for you! Call Caro's (603) GERMANY EUROPE POLAND BERLIN, PRAGUE, KRAKOW AND BUDAPEST Studet/Multi-Geeratioal Trip April 2020 Ivitatio Iteratioal Travel is a Priceless Gift for Plymouth/Lakes Regio area studets grades 8-12, staff, parets, gradparets ad commuity members to this 10-day Vermot schools sposored educatioal trip to Europe. Iteratioal travel is so importat i today s challegig ad ever-chagig world. We will experiece so much immersig ourselves i cultures, history, laguages, food ad people creatig may ispiratioal experieces that will last a lifetime. Please check out our trip s web page at eftours.com/ wm to see more details of our trip or to sig up. For more iformatio, please cotact Group Leader Joatha Freema (retired NH Pricipal/ Plymouth residet) at joathamimi@aol. com or call him at There is a early bird registratio discout of $200 if you sig up durig December $3075 or $199 mothly for studets, $3575 or $232 mothly for adults (15 mothly paymets icludig discout). CZECHOSLOVAKIA SLOVAKIA HUNGARY

4 Opiio A4 Thursday, DECEMBER 20, 2018 From the Editor s Desk Put a little love i your heart Alogside the bright red ribbos, boughs of holly, ad coutless images of Jolly old Sait Nick that seem to greet us everywhere we go durig the holidays, those of you who have braved the malls or, better yet, stayed closer to home ad browsed the shops i your ow commuity this seaso have likely ecoutered aother icoic holiday image i your travels the dedicated voluteers who budle up ad brave the chilly air with jiglig bells i had to collect doatios for the Salvatio Army. These hearty souls ca be see every- where, from their traditioal outpost o Mai Street i Lacoia to the etrace of the recetly re-modeled Wal-Mart superceters i Gilford ad Tilto. Always seemig to be ready with a cheerful greetig ad a warm smile for the crowds of shoppers who file past them every day, their presece serves as a importat re- mider to all of us that ow, more tha ay other time of year, is the time to tur our thoughts toward the less fortuate amog us... ad that sometimes, the greatest gift of all ca be a helpig had i a time of eed. With the cotiuig cloud of ecoomic ucertaity causig may of us to tighte our belts more tha usual whe it comes to our holiday shoppig i recet years, ad the stress of dealig with family dysfuctio or travelig away from home for the holidays occupyig our thoughts, it ca be all too easy to forget that times are that much harder for those who have bee victimized by the stagat ecoomy of the past few years. Right here i our ow backyard, there are a great may families who have falle o hard times, ofte through o fault of their ow, ad who have owhere left to tur for help but the geerosity of stragers. Fortuately, there are o shortage of charitable orgaizatios throughout the area that are prepared to meet the growig demad for assistace, but oly with the support of their respective commuities. So as they rush aroud this weeked grabbig those last-miute stockig stuffers or that much sought-after game system, we ecourage our readers, as we do every year at this time, to thik of their fellow ma ad put a little love i their hearts (as Jackie DeShao oce sag) ad remid themselves of the true meaig of the seaso by offerig a helpig had to those who eed it. Whether it be through a doatio of caed goods to the Lakes Regio Food Patry i Moultoborough; a moetary gift to the Tilto-Northfield-Saborto Christmas Fud; a doatio of used clothig to the Goodwill or Salvatio Army thrift stores i Lacoia ad Belmot; a shoppig trip to fulfill the wish list at Bristol Commuity Services; a doatio i support of the aual Keep The Heat O fudraiser i Plymouth; or simply by slippig a hadful of bills ito oe of the bright red Salvatio Army coffers maed by those spirited, bell rigig voluteers, remember that it may oly take a small amout of effort to make the seaso bright for a eighbor i eed. Newfoud Ladig Proudly servig Alexadria, Bridgewater, Bristol, Dabury, Groto, Hebro, Hill, New Hampto ad the surroudig commuities. Established September 18 th, 2014 Offices at 5 Water Street, P.O. 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This purr machie loves suggles, plety of sushie to warm i ad a comfortable bed to ejoy her seior years. She does have a thyroid coditio, which is easily maaged through her diet. She is good with other cats ad ejoys a good log chi rub. Cooey has bee with us sice early October after beig give up by her ower due to a livig arragemets chage. Visit with this curious, hypotic gree eyed CADY Corer BY DEB NARO Executive Director CADY is excited to share iformatio about our amazig youth ad our progress over the past year. We see growth every day i the ispirig faces of our youth as they lear ad thrive. Why does everyoe at CADY get up every morig ad apply our very best efforts to our missio? Simply because the youg people i our commuity cout o us ad beefit from our work. Our o-profit orgaizatio exists because our programs work. Together, with our commuity parters, we empower our youth to BY LARRY SCOTT Talk of usug heroes, outstadig me who were largely igored ad soo forgotte, ad Joseph, Jesus stepfather, goes to the top of my list. The last we hear of Joseph is i the Gospel of Luke, chapter 2, where we read that Jesus father was preset o a jourey the family made to Jerusalem whe Jesus was 12 years old. Eve the, Joseph is ot amed. That s it! We ever hear of him agai, ot eve as to his death. Much has bee made of Mary, ad rightly so. She was a special woma give a role secod to o oe else i the aals of history. We ca oly imagie what a movig experiece it must have bee the beauty ad experiece the absolute joy first time she realized she was holdig God i her hads! But she was ot aloe. For Joseph, also, it was a awesome resposibility. As head of the family, it fell to Joseph to give Jesus the stability ad the security He eeded as a child. Durig his tee years, he watched as Joseph maaged the affairs of their home. Jesus uderstadig of truth ad hoesty, self-disciplie, morality, respect for authority, ad godliess were all iflueced by what he observed i the ma he called, Dad. He watched as Joseph respoded to the frustratios ad challeges of maagig a busiess i first cetury Israel. It was, udoubtedly, a critical factor i His of givig your heart ad home to such a educatio. Keep i mid that Joseph was a ormal ma. He, like each of us, eeded to discover the stregth of character that ca be developed oly through the give ad take of life. There were surely times whe he blew it, ad perhaps occasios whe he did t respod well to the growig-up atics of his uique stepso. But he was a good ma ad God Himself chose him for the rearig of his beloved so. Although history records little of Jesus childhood, oe ca surmise that Jesus also saw Joseph smile ad relax as together they spet may a quiet afteroo fishig ad ejoyig each other s compay. What a sweet ad deservig cat. Happy, Happy Holidays! achieve so much more tha they would otherwise do. We might be biased, but we believe our youth, ad our programs, are oe of the very best ivestmets you ca make i our commuity. We hope you feel the same way. Whe you ivest i CADY: You provide the opportuity for local tees to participate i asset-buildig, yearroud, real-world programmig through our atioally-recogized Lauch Youth Etrepreeurship Program. Sice 2005, 280 youth have participated i the Lauch. You help local youth Strategies for Livig develop high-level leadership skills through our award-wiig Youth Advisory ad Advocacy Coucil (YAAC) where these youth ifluece positive chage with their peers, commuity, ad state. Sice 2009, over 100 youth have served as leaders i prevetio. You provide opportuities for youth to experiece Alex s Story of HOPE (Heroi ad Opiate Prevetio Educatio). Sice, 2015, this sigificat, life-chagig program has bee preseted to the New Hampshire Legislative Task Force o Opioid Addictio, The New Hampshire Associatio of Couties, the Norther New Eglad Society of Addictio Medicie, ad hudreds of New Hampshire high school ad middle school studets (a program spotlight is icluded o our website at cadyic.org. We are very proud to collaborate with the PSU TIGER (Theatre Itegratig Guidace, Educatio, ad Resposibility) o this importat program that educates through the arts, sciece-based iformatio, ad lived experiece. You provide opportuities for the Juior Actio Club (JAC), a program for eleme- SEE CADY, PAGE A13 O usug heroes ad outstadig me impact the may coversatios they had together must have made o Jesus outlook o life! Joseph, as o other ma o earth, helped make Jesus the ma he was to become. As we face the ew year, it prompts a lesso we all eed to take to heart. If we are typical, we develop our self-respect, ideed, our very attitude toward life, by the thigs we ow ad the success we have experieced. We admire wealth, power, ad fame. God, however, seems to have a very differet ageda. He is far more iterested i who we are tha i what we do. Character is primary! Our accomplishmets may be limited. We may be ukow SEE STRATEGIES, PAGE A13

5 Opiio / Tows A5 Nephews baished to Pluto, ad a multi-cultural kife Most people will read this colum o the 19th, plety of time for that last-miute shoppig, plety of time for (you guessed it) my well-wor Christmas Gift List colum, which cotais woderful ideas for your fratic tear-your-hairout last-miute shoppig. Well-wor is perhaps a ufortuate choice of words, ad does t reflect the hours upo hours of research I do each year to make sure the colum is relevat. The foregoig is writte o the assumptio that readers wo t kow that relevat is a code word i advertisig, educatio, publishig houses, sitcoms, ad all over society for keep the ewest geeratio s Tows Alexadria Merry Ruggirello sushie_eyes51@yahoo.com Glad to have successfully laded here with our colum. Ad o, I did't get stuck i a sow drift, or blow off the hillside, just lots of thigs goig o. Still makig great progress with the hip replacemet. Still doig physical therapy for a bit loger, ad o more doctor visits util March. Had X-rays take last week, ad the ew hip is healig well. Although I do't travel far or ofte, I've begu drivig agai. Tow Budget Committee Meetig Thursday, Dec. 20 at 6 p.m. i the Muicipal Buildig. Coservatio Commissio Meetig Wedesday, Dec. 26 at 6:30 p.m. i the Muicipal Buildig. Board of Selectme Meetig, Tuesday, Ja. 8 at 6 p.m. i the Muicipal Buildig. There will be a Budget Committee Public Hearig immediately followig the Selectme's Meetig. First Deliberative Sessio has bee scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 9 at 10 a.m. at the Tow Hall. These meetigs are all ope to the public, uless otherwise oted. NORTH COUNTRY NOTEBOOK By JOHN HARRIGAN attetio spa, which is ow dow to a teth of a secod. Before eraged readers bearig torches ad pitchforks ru me out of tow (good luck o that, because I do t live there), here it is, i a abbreviated versio (ot much space left here, o accout of gettig very close to goig off o a rat up there), my ot-sofamous Gift List. ---Does your short-list of Family ad Extremely Close Frieds, Maybe Too Close, iclude a hiker, camper, fisherperso, which we re all supposed to call aglers ow, or eve fisher (which to Alexadria UMC Office Hours ad Visitatio 11 a.m. util 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20. Advet Bible Study will begi at 6 p.m. i the Vestry. Suday, Dec. 23, the fourth Suday i Advet, worship begis at 9 a.m. ad is based o Luke 1: Christmas Eve Service Moday, Dec. 24 at 7 p.m. Happy December Birthdays to Larry Stickey ad Deb Bloui! I'd like to wish each ad every oe a very Merry Christmas! May your travels be safe ad may happy memories made. Thoughts ad prayers to those who will have a empty chair this year, ad those who caot be home for the holidays. Groto Ruth Millett rem1752h@gmail.com If you would like to doate food or witer clothig to the Groto Christmas Tree, please see Elizabeth at the Tow Clerks office or call Elizabeth works most afteroos from oo to 4 p.m. The Last day to doate will Courtesy Clipgroud.com Yup, that blip o the NORAD screes is Old Saty o his way to deliver gifts, some of them (by gum) suggested right here. me is a furry little aimal that sometimes actually rus aroud with a fish i its mouth, but we digress), or ayoe else who likes to totally waste hour upo hour i the great outdoors, eve by just sittig there whittlig o the porch ad be Dec. 21 as we will be distributig o Dec. 22. We have had a woderful outpourig from the people i Tow this year. As you ca see from the otice below, there has bee a good amout of witer clothig. The gifts for the childre are all sorted ad wrapped ad ready to go ad we have had good food doatios ad moey doatios towards food. We wat to thak you all for your geerosity. The Tow has acquired from doatios a large selectio of witer coats, sweaters, pats ad jackets i both childre's ad adult sizes. They are i the Tow Hall i the Commuity Room if you or someoe you kow has a eed help yourself. If you have specific eeds please let us kow ad we will attempt to help out. The Tow is still lookig for those who would be able to serve i differet capacities i the Tow. We are i eed of a Tow Auditor, Cemetery Trustees, Library Trustees, Old Home Day Committee, Zoig Board Members ad if you look at the Tow website we are still lookig to hire a Police Officer full or part-time, ad a part-time Miute Taker for several committees. If you would like to serve the commu- ity i ay of these ways, please cotact the Tow Offices at or ad we ll be glad to get your umber. Soo we will be lookig to have people to sig up to ru for these offices i the Tow Electios that will be held i March. We have several who are at the ed of their term ad will be lookig to be reelected, but some who are ready for a chage of pace ad so there will be lots of opeigs available. As these opeigs become evidet I will try to post them here so that whe the filig period comes aroud at the ed of Jauary we will have some sig-ups. Scheduled Meetigs ad Office Closures Select Board Work Sessios Tuesdays, Ja. 8 ad 15 at 6 p.m. at the Tow House SEE TOWNS, PAGE A6 oce i a while seakig a sip of Old Skuk from a jug hidde there i the woodpile, but guess what, Gramps, everyoe kows (wik, udge)? Well, get em a multiblade, multi-purpose, multi-faceted, multitasked, multi-cultural (gettig ito shoal waters here), multi everythig else o the plaet, a ot-so-geuie Swiss Army Kife. This last qualifier is because most of these kives are cheap kockoffs, ad ever got closer to the Swiss Army tha the Swiss embassy i Botswaalad. Ayway, these make a great gift---great for actually beig useful, ot so great for swaggerig (sample lie, from Crocodile Dudee ---WARNING: Not suggested--- That s ot a kife---this is a kife ). ---Telephoe Call Card. Now here s a radical gift idea. Do t have a clue what to give your childre (who are ow collectig Social Security but still livig i your cellar), grad-childre (sometimes ditto), ieces ad ephews who are actually the childre of people you ve ever heard of, or the childre of people who are distat cousis but ot quite distat eough to your satisfactio, which would be, say, the o-plaet Pluto? Well, this phoe call card will eable the youger set, which is everybody youger tha you are, to get their self-absorbed little beaks out of Game Boys ad edless other it s all about me devices ad urge them to pick up the telephoe ad sped a few miutes actually thikig about you. Imagie---someoe actually thikig about you. It s the perfect Christmas gift, the kid of gift that ca truly go right o givig, ot to them, but to you---all day, all week, ad beyod. (This colum rus i ewspapers from Cocord to Quebec ad parts of Maie ad Vermot. Letters, with cotact iformatio for questios, welcome at: campguyhooliga@gmail.com or 386 South Hill Rd., Colebrook, NH ) HIGHEST PRICES PAID All US ad foreig silver ad gold cois, estate jewelry, scrap gold, diamods. Free oral appraisals. NORTH COUNTRY COINS. Mai St., Plymouth, NH With over 20 years experiece, Dr. Kirscher combies cuttig edge detal techology, with a carig & getle touch. We give our patiets somethig to smile about! Call for a Appoitmet Today Now Acceptig:

6 Tows / Churches A6 Tows FROM PAGE A5 Select Board Meetigs (ope to the public) Tuesdays, Ja. 8 ad 15 at 7 p.m. at the Tow House Coservatio Committee Meetig Thursday, Ja. 10 at 7 p.m. Plaig Board Meetigs Wedesday, Ja. 23 at 7 p.m. at the Tow House Possible Plaig Board Hearig o Ja. 21 at 7 p.m. to discuss the Groto Proposed Zoig Ordiace. This meas a copy should be available i the Tow Offices by Ja. 10. The Select Board Office will be closed Dec. 24 through Ja. 1, ad will reope o Ja. 2, ad will be closig early o Ja. 7 at 1:45 p.m. The Tow Clerk/Tax Collector s Office will be closed Dec. 24 ad 25 for the Christmas Holiday ad Ja. 1 for New Year s Day. Tax bills for the 2018P02 warrat were due Dec. 14. They will be accruig iterest ow at the rate of 12 percet. The total i taxes due the Tow o Dec. 17 was $205, ad of that amout $20, is for 2016 lies, $51, for 2017 lies ad $47, for 2018P01. Payig taxes o time helps the whole commuity by reducig taxes for everyoe. I am grateful to those who have budgeted ad paid o time. Remember that we do take partial paymets ad eve prepaymets if that helps to be able to budget. The iterest o all licesed amouts is 18 percet, so the more lies are paid dow the better. We have taxpayers i Tow who pay a small amout each moth; especially those who are o a fixed icome. A ew law has bee passed that will reduce the iterest amouts o deliquet property taxes, but this will ot go ito effect util the 2019P01 tax warrat i Jue that will be due i July. All previous warrats will cotiue uder the curret iterest rates. Hebro Bob Brooks hebrohews@live.com Hebro UCC Church Christmas week schedule Our service o Suday, Dec. 23 is at 10 a.m. ad our Christmas Eve service is at 8 p.m. All are welcome to joi us. Hebro Historical Society Holiday Deal! Just i time for the Holiday Seaso, the Hebro Historical Society is offerig a complete package of Hebro history publicatios at a special discout price! For $100, you receive: A History of Joh Ordway with his Geealogy, 60 pages 2006 The History of Hebro, The First Two Hudred Years, 247 pages, 2008 Origi of Some Hebro NH Place Names, 22 pages, icludig maps locatig those places A Self-Guided Tour of the Hebro, NH Village Cemetery, 43 pages, 2012 A History of Newfoud Lake, 131 pages, 2014 Hebro Album ad Scrapbook, 300 photos, 289 pages, 2018 The Hebro Gazette - The First Fiftee Volumes -Combied. (thirty issues, 240 pages), 2018 I short, a comprehesive History of Hebro ad eviros - what a great gift for folks ew to Hebro! We ca accept checks, cash ad PayPal. Sed your check to Hebro Historical Society, PO Box 89, Hebro, N.H. For a PayPal paymet cotact the Society Treasurer, Ro Collis at rocollis@metrocast.et. For a cash paymet ad book pickup call the Society Presidet, Dave Brittelli at If we eed to mail the books to you please add $10. Bridgewater Coutry Store Sale! 20 percet off Apparel Storewide (o sigle items) Or BOGO 30 percet off the secod item equal or lesser value *Icludes footwear, gloves, hats, socks! Ad while there Please doate to the Turkey Trot fudraiser ad get a awesome t-shirt while supplies last! Gilford Holiday Basketball Touramet If you are lookig for somethig iterestig to do durig the holidays why ot head over to Gilford Middle High School for their aual Holiday Basketball Touramet? O Dec. 27, the Newfoud Girls are playig at 11:30 a.m. i the Middle School Gym ad followig that the Boys are playig at 1:30 p.m. i the same gym. Hope to see you there! How to Submit Obituaries & Aoucemets To Salmo Press Publicatios Obituaries ad Aoucemets of special evets such as weddigs, egagemets, ad aiversaries are published FREE OF CHARGE i ay/all Salmo Press ewspapers. Obituaries ca be set to: obituaries@salmopress.com Weddig, egagemet, ad aiversary aoucemets are welcome at: weddigs@salmopress.com Photos are also welcome, but must be submitted i jpeg format. Please cotact Executive Editor Breda Berube at (603) , ext. 111 with ay questios regardig the submissio process. Churches Ashlad Commuity Church Ashlad Commuity Church is located at 55 Mai St., o Route 3 i Ashlad (across from Shurfie Market). Parkig is available ext to ad behid the church. Pastor Erie Madde Phoe: accerie@hotmail.com Website: ashladcommuitychurch.com Sudays: 9 a.m. - Early Worship Service, followed by coffee ad fellowship i the church diig room. 10:30 a.m. - Cotemporary Worship Service. Coffee ad sacks are available i the back of the sactuary before the service. Toddler Zoe (for ifats - five years old) ad KidZoe (for K-6th grade) are available durig the Cotemporary Service. Special Needs Class - For tees-adults at the Cotemporary Service. Participats meet i the sactuary for sigig, ad are dismissed to their class at approximately 10:45 a.m. Kidzoe: Debbie Madde leads the K-sixth grade class. Kids will love the great videos ad games that teach age appropriate lessos i a lovig atmosphere. Alcoholics Aoymous Group: Moday's at 8 p.m. i the church diig room. It is our desire to help you uderstad God's icredible grace, mercy ad love. We believe that you will love Ashlad Commuity Church. We are a friedly, lovig, ad carig church that studies ad shares the word of our dear Lord ad Savior. Our Visio is to become a church that uchurched people will love to atted. Our missio is to lead people to live ad love like Jesus ad to help others to do the same. If you have ay questios please do't hesitate to cotact Pastor Erie Madde at ay of the cotact iformatio above. Real Church, Real People, Real Simple We look forward to seeig you o Suday, ad remember to just come as you are. No perfect people allowed! Bristol Uited Church of Christ ( the Church o the Hill ) We are hadicapped accessible! Our doors are always ope wide to all those seekig to fid a safe, but ivigoratig place for spiritual life, growth, fellowship ad service. Wherever you are o your spiritual jourey, you are welcome here! Sudays Pastor: Rev. Adrew MacLeod Itergeeratioal Service: 10 a.m. Coffee Fellowship: Followig service Suday School: 10 a.m. (No Suday School Dec. 23 or Dec. 30) Notes: Wheelchair accessibility ca accommodate up to three wheelchairs i our Sactuary! Locatio: P.O. Box 424, 15 Church St., Bristol, NH Phoe: Office Hours Mai Office Moday through Friday - 9 a.m. to oo Pastor's hours: Moday through Thursday - 9 a.m. to oo ad other times by appoitmet. Rev. Adrew's Home Phoe: pastorbucc@ myfairpoit.et Weekly Evets: Modays A.A. Step meetig 7:30 p.m. Bible Study 7 p.m. Tuesdays Boe Builders 9:30 a.m. Seior Crafts 9:30 a.m. Seior Lucheo Noo AA Discussio 8 p.m. Wedesdays Morig Reflectios cotiue through the moth of December with Rev. Adrew moderatig. We gather at 7:30 a.m. o Wedesday morigs i Fellowship Hall. Coffee is provided. Come joi us! Fridays Boe Builders 9:30 a.m. Mothly Evets WIC (Wome/Ifat/ Childre) Cliic 2d Moday at 8:30 a.m. T.E.A. (Time, Ecourage, Accept) for Wome 3rd Tuesday at 4 p.m. They will cotiue to meet for the moth of December. Meetig place varies. Wome's Fellowship Cheer bag preparatio, meetig ad pot luck lucheo/grab bag was held o Thursday, Dec. 13 ad a great time was had by all! Next meetig will be held o Thursday, Ja. 10 at 10 a.m. i Fellowship Hall. All are welcome! Choir rehearsal cotiues at 4 p.m. every Wedesday. Ogoig Bristol Commuity Services is i eed of, spaghetti sauce, baked beas, caed fruit, jelly, ad caed peas. Please help if you ca! Takig a break i December, The Dyamite Dier Crew will resume o Ja. 12 with a chowder supper! Chowders will be prepared by the Wome's Fellowship. Adults $9. Childre $4. Servig 5:30 to 7 p.m. Take Out Available: The ukelele bad is ow i full swig, ad havig a lot of fu! If you are iterested i joiig, please cotact Debbie Doe. The bad is gettig together oce a week o Wedesdays at 8:30 a.m. i Fellowship Hall for lessos ad practice. They performed their first sog for the cogregatio o Suday, Dec. 16! Rev. Adrew has idicated that several people have approached him with iterest i meditatio as a self-care practice. Please cotact him if you are iterested i havig a weekday program for meditatio. It's possible the group could meet ad lear ad practice a differet meditatio techique at each sessio. Remaider of the hour would be for quiet, idividual meditatio i whatever style works for you. Based o iterest, we will the proceed to schedulig. We are hopig to brig a labyrith to church durig the Lete seaso. If you would like to help with the plaig of this special eve, cotact Rev. Adrew! A big thak you to Tom Keega for shovelig our church walks ad pathways util someoe else is available! Note: Christmas Eve cadlelight service will be held o Dec. 24 at 7:30 p.m. All are welcome to a special service of carols, cadles ad scriptur readigs. Sharig i the service ca be a movig ad meaigful part of the holidays. B.U.C.C. cooperates with other churches ad commuity orgaizatios to serve the eeds of all people who live ear us. Our reach exteds aroud the world through our work with other members of the Uited Church of Christ! Hebro Uio Cogregatioal Church All are welcome to joi i our worship services o Sudays at 10 a.m., followed by fellowship ad coffee. Please come meet our Iterim Miister, Rev. Earl Miller. Our Christmas Eve Service is at 8 p.m. Oce a moth we make soup for members i our greater church commuity. Our ext Soup Route is Ja. 14. If you would like to receive soup, or would like to voluteer to make or deliver soup, please cotact the Church Secretary at the cotact iformatio listed below. Bible study will resume o Thursday, Ja. 10 at 9:30 a.m. i Commuity Hall. Ayoe is welcome to joi us. Our church is located i the ceter of historic Hebro village at the itersectios of North Shore Road ad West Shore Road. Our admiistrative assistat s office hours are Tuesdays from 9:30-11:30 a.m. ad Wedesday ad Thursday afteroos from 1-3 p.m. ad our phoe umber is Our address is 16 Church Lae, PO Box 67, Hebro, NH The secretary s address is staff@ hebrochurchh.org. To fid out more about our church, please visit the church website at www. hebrochurchh.org. Rev. Miller is also available to meet with parishioers ad commuity members. You ca call him at or you ca make a appoitmet by cotactig the Admiistrative Assistat, Lida Kriss, usig the cotact iformatio i the above paragraph. Holy Triity (Roma Catholic) Parish News The Peace Light of Bethlehem, brought here by Austria Scouts via Austria Airlies, ad passed o to the America Boy Scouts, is available for you to take home. Be sure to brig a cadle or later that is covered ad safe for travel. The Christmas Mass Schedule is: Christmas Eve Moday, Dec. 24 at 4 p.m. at St. Matthew Church ad 4 PM at Our Lady of Grace Chapel. There will also be a 6 ad 9 p.m. Mass at St. Matthew Church. There will be o Midight Mass this year. Parkig will be at a premium at St. Matthew as we cotiue to have the lot closed due to costructio. Parkig is available at the commuter lots o the corers of Lagdo ad High St. The 4 p.m. will be particularly crowded, as it is every year. A optio is to go the Mass at Our Lady of Grace at 4 p.m., where there is plety of parkig Christmas Day, Tuesday, Dec. 25: there will be a Mass at St. Matthew Church i Plymouth at 10:30 AM. There are still tags available o the Our Lady of Grace givig tree ad the gifts are due back wrapped with the tag o the frot by Suday, Dec. 23. This year, the Faith Formatio classes are hostig the tree ad we are sposorig Have Pregacy Ceter, local families ad NINH. For more iformatio, Chris at holytriitybristol@gmail.com. Restoratio Church, Plymouth (Assemblies of God) Greetigs from Restoratio Church Plymouth, located at 319 Highlad Street, Plymouth, NH If you do ot have a home church we ivite you to come ad joi our warm ad friedly family here at Restoratio Church. Please feel free to cotact us at hello@restoratiochurch.cc.. Our church phoe umber is still the same, Our schedule has chaged to the followig: Suday: 10:30 a.m. Morig Service Moday: First ad third Moday of the Moth Noo-2 p.m. Helpig Hads Food Patry Friday: Secod Friday of the moth 6 p.m. Food, Fu, Fellowship O Suday, Nov. 5, 2017, we officially lauched as Restoratio Church Plymouth. More details about this service will be icluded i the ext article. We also started a ew series e- SEE CHURCHES, PAGE A7

7 Health & Welless / Churches A7 Peumoia: What seiors eed to kow BY MARTHA SWATS Ower/Admiistrator Comfort Keepers Why Are Seiors Susceptible? There are certai serious health coditios that we ofte associate with older adults. Heart disease ad cacer are a few that top Churches FROM PAGE A6 titled, Stories. We will be cotiuig this series this week as well. We have our ow worship team durig our services i our auditorium ad the we watch as a Pastor Nate Gage preaches via video durig our service. Our Missio Statemet: Just Oe More! Everyoe is welcome to all of our services. The church is hadicapped accessible o the east etrace. A Shared Miistry of St. Mark s, Ashlad ad Church of the Holy Spirit, Plymouth Services: Suday 8 a.m., 263 Highlad St., Plymouth 9:30 a.m., 18 Highlad St., Ashlad Suday School: 9:30 a.m., St. Mark's Ashlad Thursday: 11 a.m. Healig ad Eucharist, St. Mark's Ashlad Christmas Eve service ad pageat Moday, Dec. 24, 5 p.m., St. Mark s, Ashlad. Ashlad Commuity Breakfast will be from 8 9 a.m. i Sherrill Hall o Saturday, Dec. 22. Please come ad brig a fried. Everyoe is ivited to help decorate the church for the Christmas ad Epiphay seaso by doatig a poisettia for our floral display at St. Mark's. Please drop off by Suday, Dec. 23. the list. But oe that may ot seem as obvious has the potetial to be just as life-threateig as others i the category. Defied as a respiratory lug ifectio caused by viruses, bacteria, or fugi, peumoia hospitalizes approximately oe CONCORD More tha 1,000 New Hampshire high school seiors from 20 public high schools submitted early 2,700 college applicatios durig the first week of the state s I Am College Boud/I Applied iitiative. This atioal program, coordiated by the America Coucil o Educatio, is desiged to help high school seiors avigate the complex college admissios process ad esure they apply to at least oe postsecodary istitutio durig a daytime evet at their high school. While the vast majority of submitted applicatios are for New Hampshire colleges ad uiversities, studets did submit applicatios to 189 colleges atiowide, states Valerie Castoguay, a college couselor with The NHHEAF Network Orgaizatios. We are grateful to the New Hampshire-based istitutios who have graciously waived their applicatio fees as part of this iitiative for participatig studets. I additio, we are pleased that each high school is provided with oe $500 college scholarship to award to a studet who submits applicatios as part of this iitiative. Aual Meetig Reports: If you have resposibility for a area of church miistry either sed a report to Heidi i the church office at holyspirith@myfairpoit.et or deliver it to the office (please leave i mailbox if office closed) at 263 Highlad St. by Wedesday, Ja 2, 2019 at the latest. May thaks for your work ad dedicatio. Check out our Facebook Page. Thaks to Katie Patte for takig care of this importat miistry. Visit ad like this page for ews of our shared miistry. Resource Booklet: A Resource Booklet has recetly bee put together for our at-home commuicats, our members who receive large prit ewsletters ad those who presetly do ot have iteret service. It is our hope that the booklet will grat them quick access to eeded telephoe umbers of commuity orgaizatios that serve to help those i eed of support services. It is also hoped that the booklet will impact the legth of our weekly e-ewsletter by replacig log articles with a shorteed list of If you would like to lear about the hoeybee ad the art of beekeepig - the Pemi-Baker Beekeepers Ass. have a BEE SCHOOL for you! millio Americas each year, accordig to the Ceters for Disease Cotrol ad Prevetio (CDC). May are 65 years of age ad older. But what is it, physiologically, that makes seiors more susceptible to peumoia tha other age groups? phoe umbers. Copies of the Resource Booklet will be available at the back of each church. Support orgaizatios: Church Office ; Rev. Kelly Sudberg Seama, ; Rev. Marya Davis, Deaco, ; Ashlad Commuity Ceter & Food Patry, ; Plymouth Commuity Closet, ; CHS Quilters Group, (leave message); Comfort Keepers I-Home-Care, ; Day Away Respite Care, ; Parkiso's Disease Support Group, ; Trasport Cetral ; Whole Village Family Resource Ceter, Stewardship 2019: Pledge cards were due o Dec. 16; however, if you did ot receive a 'Ivitatio to Give' to support your church, please phoe or the church office. Updatig Church Directory: If you have ot filled out a welcome card with your curret address, telephoe umber, ad address, please do so Dates: Saturdays: Ja 26; Feb 2,9, & 16, 2019 Time: 9:00 am to 2:00 pm I Am College Boud/I Applied iitiative helps 1,000 NH high school seiors The iitiative cotiues the week of Nov. 26 at these New Hampshire high schools: Colebrook Academy, Coat High School, Cocord High School, Eppig High School, Fall Moutai Regioal High School, Frakli High School, Kearsarge Regioal High School, Keett High School, Kigswood Regioal High School, Machester West High School, Masceic High School, Mascoma Regioal High School, Newfoud Regioal High School, Newport High School, Nute High School, Pembroke Academy, Pittsburg High School, Pittsfield High School, Salem High School, Steves High School, ad Wiisquam Regioal High School. For a complete schedule of evets, please visit IACB-ifo.asp. This statewide iitiative is coordiated by The NHHEAF Network Orgaizatios Ceter for College Plaig (CCP) i partership with NH colleges ad uiversities, NH school couselors, NH Departmet of Educatio, NH Charitable Foudatio, NH College & Uiversity Coucil, ad other statewide stakeholders. at your earliest coveiece. Cards available at the back of each church. Please also iclude special dates like birthdays ad aiversaries if you'd like us to hoor them. Star Kig Uitaria Uiversalist Fellowship Starr Kig Uitaria Uiversalist Fellowship, 101 Fairgroud Rd., Plymouth, is a multigeeratioal, welcomig cogregatio where differet beliefs come together i commo coveat. We work together i our fellowship, our commuity, ad our world to urture justice, respect, ad love. This week at Starr Kig: Dec Suday Worship 9:30 a.m. Witer Solstice: Beauty i the Dark Rev. Dr. Lida Bares, Worship Leader Sarah Da Joes, Music Director Locatio: America Legio Post 15; 39 Mai Street, Ashlad, NH Cost: $60 for iitial registrat (Icludes Study Guide; Beekeepig for Dummies; oe year membership to PBBA). There will be a $15 fee for a immediate family member who wishes to atted the classes (o extra materials available). (Childre uder 16 are free). Refresher Class: Space Availability Basis mo as a cold or mold spores i the home may lead to a ifectio of the lugs for seiors. Similarly, frailty especially from ogoig recovery ca make it harder for seiors to cough ad rid the lugs of certai ifectious elemets. Seiors may also be at greater risk if they have existig health coditios such as diabetes, Parkiso s disease, COPD (chroic obstructive pulmoary disease), HIV, ad heart disease. Despite its commoality, peumoia certaily does t represet a ievitable aspect of agig. While there is o 100 percet guarateed form of peumoia prevetio, there are steps seiors ca take to reduce their overall risk. Doig so ca help them cotiue to live life to the fullest safely, healthily, ad idepedetly. Ways to Reduce Peumoia Risk Get Vacciated: Because peumoia ofte appears i seiors who have the flu, gettig The celestial cosequece of earth s tilt away from the su offers us the chace to pause ad woder together, that without the darkess, we could ot appreciate the light. Dec. 24 Christmas Eve Service 5 p.m. Rev. Dr. Lida Bares, Worship Leader Sarah Da Joes, Music Director ad Choir For Christmas Eve we will gather together i this seaso of hope ad promise to celebrate the sacred gifts of love, light, ad oe aother. Visit our Web site As we age, the efficacy of our immue system dimiishes, ad our body s atural defeses become less reliable. This, i tur, makes us icreasigly vulerable to ay illess, eve if it s relatively mior. As a result, somethig as comvacciated agaist iflueza is recommeded. Vaccie optios iclude Fluzoe High-Dose, Fluad ad Flublok Quadrivalet. Seiors should talk to their physicia about which is best. Additioally, to help guard agaist peumoia, the CDC recommeds that seiors get the two available vacciatios: PCV-13 (peumococcal cojugate vaccie) ad PPSV-23 (peumococcal polysaccharide vaccie). Seiors should get PCV-13 first, the follow up with PPSV-23 approximately a year later. Prioritize Hygiee: It may seem like commo sese, but simply washig our hads ad usig had saitizer ca make a world of differece. Seiors should avoid germ-ridde surfaces (e.g., door hadles, grocery cart hadles) wheever possible, ad keep their distace from ay sick relatives or frieds. As metioed, it does t take much for seiors to develop peumoia, so eve the smallest of hygieic best practices are worth followig. Do t Smoke or Take Steps to Quit: Smokig egatively impacts just about everythig i our bodies, but the lugs obviously receive a sigificat amout of damage. Those who smoke are at a greater overall risk of peumoia because the lugs defese mechaisms ofte become compromised. Practice a Healthy Lifestyle: Seiors should follow a physicia-approved diet ad exercise regime. This will help bolster their immue system ad reduce the risk of ot oly peumoia, but a umber of other health coditios. Comfort Keepers Ca Help Whether seior cliets are recover- SEE PNEUMONIA, PAGE A14 Part Time Housekeeper wated Village Codomiium Waterville Valley Approximately 20 hours per week Occasioal weekeds Pay commesurate with experiece Call Or stop ito our office at: 8 Davos Way Waterville Valley NH Please make checks payable to Pemi-Baker Beekeeper s Ass. Registratio form is o our website: Sed registratio form ad paymet to: Mary-Elle Godville, 1090 River Road Plymouth, NH 03264

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9 Busiess A9 The Real Report RECENT REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS Tow Address Type Price Seller Buyer Ashlad Riverside Dr. N/A $150,000 Ae Laszio Riverside LLC Ashlad Squam Poit Lodge Codo Uit 16 Codomiium $290,000 Bria J. ad Joh J. Spera Keeth M. Rodriques ad Claire M. Murphy Bridgewater 2775 River Rd. Sigle-Family Residece $274,000 Gerossie Fiscal Trust Bigelow & Laquerre Fiscal Trust Bristol Acre Wood Sigle-Family Residece $241,000 Charles M. Carpeter Thomas ad Amye Kaempfer Bristol 45 Gradview Dr., Uit L Codomiium $129,000 Charles H. ad Sharo A. Voyer Roger T. ad Christie J. Coer Bristol 22 Nyberg Rd. Sigle-Family Residece $62,733 Terri L. Phelps Estate Rachel C. Joes-Carlso Bristol Route 104 N/A $62,733 Gerald Gago Fiscal Trust Rachel C. Joes-Carlso Bristol 33 W. Shore Rd. Sigle-Family Residece $286,250 Kathry J. O Neil Estate Ko Voda LLC Campto 201 Alde Dr., Uit 7 Codomiium $105,000 Jeffrey ad Amy Rose Cheryl A. Hayes ad Keeth E. Hore Campto 104 Hogback Rd. Sigle-Family Residece $140,933 Marjorie Howard Joshua G. ad Paige F. Gadbois Campto 15 Overlook Rd., Uit 3 Codomiium $69,000 Craig Russell Lee A. Bruo Campto Page Road Residetial Ope Lad $100,000 Jaet A. Doer Fuat ad Leslie T. Ari N/A Campto 10 Weetamoo Trail Sigle-Family Residece $200,000 Steve A. Ross ad Weetamoo Ladig Trust QS Private Ledig LLC Campto N/A N/A $74,025 FNMA Kud ad Eric Hellested Campto N/A N/A $74,025 FNMA Kud ad Eric Hellested Campto N/A N/A $10,400 Matthew R. ad Nadia Boer Rya D. ad Holly L. Timms Holderess Lae Road N/A $180,000 Barbara E. Evas (RET) Albert Beett-Evas ad Emily Babois-Evas Holderess 3 Troo Terrace, Uit 21 Codomiium $170,000 James R. ad Lida A. Haluch Jeifer R. Cooper ad Lisa A. Hase-Cooper New Hampto N/A N/A $273,000 Jeremy J. Hiltz (RET) New Hampto School Plymouth 346 Daiel Webster Highway Sigle-Family Residece $80,000 Judith M. Gilmore ad US Bak NA Trust US Bak NA Trust Plymouth Mayhew Turpike (es) Lot Residetial Developed Lad $21,000 Erest R. Thompso ad Lisa C. Savage Chelsea Boyd Plymouth Page Street N/A $57,533 Byco LLC Maria Yelle Fiscal Trust Plymouth 33 Ridgewood Place Mobile Home $99,933 Doald ad Diae Dumot Gary Dickiso Rumey 544 Doetow Rd. Sigle-Family Residece $305,000 Michael E. ad Kare Johso Joseph C. ad Vicky S. Wieers Thorto Covered Bridge Road N/A $171,000 Katria Kedrick Jessica A. Hill ad Shawa D. Chase Thorto 12 Diamod Ledge Rd. Sigle-Family Residece $202,133 Gregg D. Locke Holly A. Rousseau N/A Thorto 65 Moutai River East Rd., Uit 53 Codomiium $145,000 Frederick R. ad Lida M. Wije-Rems Thomas F. ad Ae E. Boucher Thorto 38 Northpoite Rd. Sigle-Family Residece $313,000 William J. Burke Shaw A. ad Michelle L. Boisvert Thorto 52 Orris Rd., Uit 5 Codomiium $125,000 Mad River Properties LLC Peace of Mid Properties Thorto 143 Sowood Dr., Uit F3c New Costructio $146,000 Mary K. Allard ad Sarah L. Ziobro Nacy G. Perlmutter ad Joseph P. Feier Warre 45 Breezy Poit Rd. Sigle-Family Residece $71,086 William Hartley ad Citibak NA Citibak NA Warre 151 Pie Hill Rd. Sigle-Family Residece $205,000 Fracis J. ad Judy A. Flemig Chelsy Usher Wetworth 586 Atwell Hill Rd. Sigle-Family Residece $113,333 Earl L. ad Kare F. Schweizer Kelly Specer ABOUT THE REAL REPORT Here are recet real estate trasactios i Alto ad the surroudig areas. These sales summaries are iformatioal oly, ot a legal record. Names show are usually the first listed i the deed. Sales might ivolve additioal parties or locatios. Prices are usually based o tax stamps ad might be iaccurate for public agecy sales. Refer to actual public documets before formig opiios or relyig o this iformatio. Additioal publicly recorded iformatio o these sales, prior sales ad data from Departmet of Reveue Admiistratio forms is available at or Copyright Real Data Corp. I the colum Type : lad= lad oly; L/B= lad ad buildig; MH= mobile home; ad COND=codomiium. MARK ON THE MARKETS Strategies BY MARK PATTERSON Whether you use a fiacial plaer, advisor or do it yourself; plaig your fiacial future ivolves a pla, strategy ad tactics to get you where you eed to go. So let s take a momet to thik about the differece betwee these strategies ad tactics to maybe reflect o what you have or have ot doe with your persoal fiaces. To me a pla is the most macro or broad big idea regardig (i this example), your fiacial picture. But the we must create a strategy for your pla. The strategy represets a subjective time frame, for exam- ple, five years. The strategy idetifies the objectives you wat to accomplish ad attaches a loose timeframe to achieve your goal. My strategy may read like this; Accumulate ad grow my assets reducig the risk to the overall portfolio as I approach retiremet at age 70. Usig good Social Security plaig, some A rated fixed idexed auities for a small portio of icome ad a good fixed icome bod ladder for most of the steady, sustaiable icome. I wat to create a sustaiable icome that is ot subject to market risks. The with the remaiig assets I wat to cotiue to grow these assets with equities or stocks, maagig some mitigated market risks to keep me ahead of iflatio ad grow my legacy. I also wat to fud Log term care isurace (asset based), ad life isurace. Now that I have outlied a basic strategy, I eed to make tactical moves to get my strategy i motio. While I am still i the accumulatio phase, a tactical move may be; with a portio of my assets, I will sell cash covered puts to create icome or accumulate stock i compaies I wat to ow. Oce I ow this stock, I may sell covered calls for icome. This is a buy/ write tactic that aids i the overall accumulatio strategy. The poit is that your pla ad strategy should be well defied. Not that chages should ot be made, but a geeral idea of what you wat to accomplish ad how. The tactics that you or your advisor employ are more defied or maybe represet shorter periods of time. Tactics are just tools to help you reach your strategic goals which are a just a part of the overall pla. Readig this may seem simplistic to you, but I kow sometimes very basic cocepts ca be a valuable tool for solvig problems that may have seemed very complex. Buyig mutual fuds util you retire ad takig the moey out of them whe you eed it would Newfoud Ladig be a strategy ad pla. But that pla does ot iclude eough detail to esure that you wo t ru out of moey i retiremet. A very good exercise would be to write out your pla ad objectives, the create a strategy to work towards your goals. If you are comfortable with the details or tactics to fulfill your pla, the write those dow as well. If you are ot comfortable with ay or all of this the, call a plaer or you ca call my office. Mark Patterso is a advisor with MHP Asset Maagemet ad ca be reached at or Mark@ MHP-Asset.com. Coverig the Newfoud Lake Area & Surroudig Commuities Alexadria Bridgewater Bristol Dabury Groto Hebro Hill New Hampto A commuity publicatio full of local ews, sports & happeigs. FREE IN STORES! FREE ONLINE! Reserve your ad space today! ONLY $7.00/pci Call Tracy Lewis at (603) tracy@salmopress.com

10 A10 Seaso s Greetigs! from your frieds at Salmo Press ad these local busiesses 30 ways to celebrate a merry moth The holiday seaso begis i late November ad rus through New Year s Day. It is marked by various gatherigs of frieds ad family, decadet foods, cocktails, travelig, ad gift exchages. The Natioal Retail Federatio says cosumers will sped a average of $967 durig the holiday seaso. However, the joy of the holidays also is about all of the memorable experieces that ted to make the seaso so beloved. With that i mid, here are 30 ways to make the holiday seaso that much more merry. 1. Visit with a elderly or houseboud eighbor ad share coversatio. 2. Doate getly used toys to a childre s hospital. 3. Research the history of the holiday ad share it with people you care about. 4. Make hadmade Christmas tree ora- Happy Holidays From all of us at 24 Isurace24 Village Square 607 Teey Moutai Hwy. Plymouth, New Hampshire Phoe: (603) mets. 5. Doate moey to a charity or other good cause. 6. Ecourage pay it forward movemets i your commuity. Start by doig somethig simple like buyig a coffee for a complete strager. 7. Feed birds facig the cold, witer weather. 8. Take a ride or walk aroud the eighborhood to look at decorated houses. 9. Make a fire i a fire pit i the yard ad toast marshmallows while sippig hot chocolate. 10. Bige watch holiday movies. 11. Atted the cocert of a childre s choir. 12. Help a fried decorate his or her home. 13. Host a tree-trimmig party. 14. Schedule a day for bakig cookies. 15. Sig Christmas carols at a ursig Happy Holidays! 588 Teey Mt. Highway, Plymouth, NH Call home. 16. Put together care packages of items ad sed them to troops overseas. 17. Share the holidays with a military family whose spouse is i service ad ca t make it home. 18. Offer to shop for someoe who is homeboud due to age, a chroic illess or ijury. 19. Visit a large city to look at Christmas widow displays. 20. Buy ad hag real mistletoe ad use it. 21. Make a ew fried ad ivite him or her to a holiday party for the first time. 22. Babysit a ewbor so his or her parets ca get errads doe or just catch up o rest. 23. Voluteer at a soup kitche. 24. Share the religious traditios of your holiday with someoe of a differet faith. 25. If weather permits, go sleddig, build a sowma or have a sowball fight. 26. Share favorite memories at family holiday diers. 27. Remember a deceased loved oe with a special tribute. 28. Costruct a gigerbread house. 29. Teach someoe how to make a cherished family recipe. 30. Surprise a distat relative with a impromptu visit. have our professioal staff take care of all your witer electrical eeds Dock power for Witer Bubblers/Deicers Heat tape/ice melt equipmet Exercise Breakers (maufacturer suggests at least oce a year) Test smoke detectors (Should be replaced every 7-10 years, we chage batteries too) Verify geerator fuctioality Outside/flood lights Eergy efficiet light bulb upgrade Emergecy lightig & Life safety (commercial applicato) Extra power for holiday lightig Exterior Christmas light istallatio ttelectric@metrocast.et free estimates & fully isured call (603) Web: SERVING THE LAKES REGION AND ALL OF NH FOR OVER 12 YEARS

11 A11 Seaso s Greetigs! Holiday cookies the whole family will love May people ejoy bakig come the holiday seaso, ad perhaps o dish is more syoymous with holiday bakig tha cookies. Childre leave cookies out for Sata Claus o Christmas Eve, while adults may idulge ad ejoy a extra cookie or two at family gatherigs or holiday office parties. Cookies come i all shapes ad sizes, so bakers have a array of optios at their disposal whe plaig their holiday meus. Chocolate chip cookies may be amog the most popular types of cookies, ad bakers who wat to capitalize o that popularity while givig loved oes somethig a little differet may wat to try the followig recipe for Double Chocolate Chip Cookies from Maxie Clark s Chocolate: Deliciously Idulget Recipes for Chocolate Lovers (Rylad, Peters & Small). Double Chocolate Chip Cookies Makes about 12 large cookies 5 tablespoos usalted butter, softeed 5 tablespoos graulated sugar 5 tablespoos light brow sugar, sifted 1 large egg, beate 1 2 teaspoo pure vailla essece or chocolate extract (see ote) 1 cup plus 2 tablespoos self-risig flour 3 tablespoos usweeteed cocoa 1 4 teaspoo salt 2 3 cup (or more) dark ad white (or milk) chocolate chips (or roughly chopped chocolate) A heavy, ostick bakig sheet Preheat the ove to 350 F. Usig a electric mixer, cream the butter ad sugars together util pale ad fluffy. Beat i the egg ad vailla essece. Sift the flour with the cocoa ad salt i a small bowl. Fold ito the egg mixture with the chocolate chips. Place 4 heapig tablespoosfuls of the mixture o the prepared bakig sheet, spacig them well apart. Press dow ad spread out to about 1 4-ich thick with the back of a wet spoo or with dampeed figers (you may like to scatter some more chocolate chips over the top). Bake for 10 to 12 miutes. Let cool o the bakig sheet for 1 miute, the trasfer to a wire rack. Whe cool, store i a airtight cotaier. Repeat with the remaiig mixture. Note: Chocolate extract is a fat-free flavorig igrediet made from a bled of roasted cacao beas, water ad alcohol. Happy Holidays! Pie Shores Real Estate wishes you ad yours a Merry Christmas ad a Happy New Year filled with Health, Happiess, Peace ad Prosperity We sicerely Thak our Buyers ad Sellers for their cofidece i us. Happy Holidays! Tropical & Marie Fish Corals Iverts Birds Reptiles Small Aimals Supplies (603) Teey Moutai Highway Plymouth, NH 1120 Sceic View Road Holderess, NH From HAPPY HOLIDAYS! ghlad St., Plym Happy Holidays! 94 Highlad St. - Plymouth Holiday Greetigs! ADAMSKY LAW OFFICES Life & Estate Plaig Elder Law Edward H. Adamsky, Esq. Assistig Families with Agig ad Disability issues sice Wills Trusts Special Needs Trusts Medicaid Plaig Offices i Tygsboro, MA & Ashlad, NH Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all!

12 Local A12 SLA to host New Year hike at Mt. Israel HOLDERNESS Wat to brig i the New Year with a witer hike? Joi the Squam Lakes Associatio (SLA) o Wedesday, Ja. 2 for Plymouth State Uiversity studets Swipe it Forward for those i eed Secod-aual campaig results i more tha 1,100 meal card swipes doated to studets who are food isecure a hike to Mt. Israel. We will meet at 10 a.m. at Mead Base located i Sadwich ad take the Wetworth Trail to the summit. This four-mile hike Courtesy Plymouth State Uiversity studets recetly stepped-up to help fellow studets who are food isecure by doatig more tha 1,100 meal card swipes i the istitutio s secod aual Swipe it Forward campaig. The campaig, which kicked-off o Moday, Nov. 5, ad cocluded o Friday, Nov. 16, surpassed last year s effort by early 40 percet. Member of the PSU commuity show i photo (L-R): Corey Hoyt, Sydey Tetreault, Casey Krafto, Jacquelie Fitzgerald, Bria Gago, Rodey Ekstrom, Ava Tyler ad Je Smith New Hampshire Weddigs & Parties Guide Published: February 14, 2019 Sales Deadlie: Jauary 16, 2019 Full Color o Every Page Limited Availability is of moderate itesity, ad witer weather coditios may icrease the difficulty. Ejoy luch at the top ad sap some beautiful photographs of the PLYMOUTH Studets at Plymouth State Uiversity (PSU) take the uiversity s motto, Ut Prosim that I may serve to heart. PSU studets recetly stepped-up i a big way to help fellow studets who are food isecure by doatig more tha 1,100 meal card swipes i the istitutio s secod aual Swipe it Forward campaig. The campaig, which kickedoff o Moday, Nov. 5, ad cocluded o Friday, Nov. 16, surpassed last year s effort by early 40 percet. Plymouth State is ot the oly istitutio where food isecurity amog studets is a cocer it is a cocer shared by colleges ad uiversities across the coutry, said Casey Krafto, Active Citizeship ad Egagemet Associate, Plymouth State Uiversity. Whe fiaces are tight, some studets will forego food to meet other expeses. The Swipe It Forward program supplemets other resources o campus to esure that all studets have access to basic resources to help them thrive academically ad socially. 'Swipe it Forward' truly embodies PSU's commitmet to buildig commuity ad takig care of oe aother through active citizeship. Swipe it Forward is meat to aid PSU studets who struggle to access food. Doated meal card swipes ad equivalet cash doatios are placed i a virtual meal bak admiistered by the PSU Studet Support Foudatio (SSF). Studets may apply to the SSF to receive four meal card swipes, as well as other assistace ad resources to help them to access food. PSU piloted the Swipe it Forward program last November, ad the campaig exceeded expectatios, geeratig 840 doated meal swipes. About Plymouth State Uiversity Established i 1871, Plymouth State Uiversity serves the state of New Hampshire ad the world beyod by trasformig our studets through advaced practices where egaged learig produces well-educated distat White Moutais before headig back dow. Hikers will be back at the parkig lot by 3 p.m. Participats should brig extra layers that ca be udergraduates ad by providig graduate educatio that deepes ad advaces kowledge ad ehaces professioal developmet. With distictio, we coect with commuity ad busiess parters for ecoomic developmet, techological advaces, healthier livig, ad cultural erichmet with a special commitmet of service to the North Coutry ad Lakes Regio of New Hampshire. To lear more about Plymouth State Uiversity, visit Call Tracy at or Lori at tracy@salmopress.ews lori@salmopress.ews take off or added o to stay warm ad dry, rai or sow gear, a hat, a extra pair of socks, hikig boots, a packed luch, sacks, ad plety of water. Depedet o coditios, microspikes or sowshoes are also recommeded. The SLA ca provide sowshoes for up to six participats. Although hikers may be familiar with the trails aroud Squam Lake durig the summer, witer hikig i the regio ca provide a differet perspective, ad ew appreciatio, of the area. We ecourage ayoe iterested i a more challegig excursio to joi us o this guided hike, ad get the opportuity to experiece the atural beauty of the Squam Lakes Watershed durig witer. I additio, there are a umber of ew ad ogoig opportuities for SEE HIKE, PAGE A14 SLA to host backyard bird workshop HOLDERNESS Joi the Squam Lakes Associatio (SLA) o Suday, Ja. 6 from 1-4 p.m. for a feathered frezy workshop o backyard birds. Participats will make bird feeders, origami ad to lear how to idetify ative bird species. Lakes Regio Coservatio Corps (LRCC) AmeriCorps member, Joh Plummer, will lead the activities ad talk about New Hampshire s avia species alog the way. This workshop will feature a idoor educatioal sessio followed by a outdoor walk to view good examples of a bird-friedly ladscape. This is a great opportuity for kids to lear about some of the birds they may fid i the area ad also a chace to make atural crafts to brig home. If you ad your family love birds ad wat to lear more, sig up for this Adveture Ecology program o the SLA Web site (squamlakes.org) or cotact the SLA directly ( ). The SLA also offers other Adveture Ecology programs throughout the year. These free programs are ope to the public ad cover a variety of ature ad coservatio related topics. The Adveture Ecology programs are preseted by the LRCC AmeriCorps members at the SLA who perform importat coservatio work i support of the Associatio s missio. The Squam Lakes Associatio is dedicated to coservig for public beefit the atural beauty, peaceful character ad resources of the watershed. I collaboratio with local ad state parters the SLA promotes the protectio, careful use ad shared ejoymet of the lakes, moutais, forests, ope spaces ad wildlife of the Squam Lakes Regio. SLA to lead guided hike to Mt. Livermore HOLDERNESS Joi the Squam Lakes Associatio (SLA) o Wedesday, Ja. 9 for a witer hike to Mt. Livermore via the Cotto Moutai Trail ad Crawford-Ridgepole Trail. This hike is roughly four miles log. We will meet at 9 a.m. at the Cotto Moutai trail head (located off of NH Route 113, about 1.1 miles orth of US Route 3 i Holderess, or oe mile orth of the Squam Lakes Sciece Ceter). We ll start up Cotto Moutai Trail, reachig the peak after six teths of a mile. Afterwards, we will merge oto the Crawford-Ridgepole Trail for 1.3 miles before reachig the summit of Mt. Livermore. It is here where participats ca ejoy the view ad have a quick luch. After luch, hikers will head back to the Cotto Moutai trail head ad expect to wrap up aroud 1 p.m. This hike is for all ages, but is of moderate itesity ad may icrease i difficulty with ay icy or raiy weather. Participats should brig extra layers that ca be take off/added o to stay warm ad dry, micro spikes or sowshoes, rai gear, a hat, a extra pair of socks, hikig boots, a packed luch ad sacks, ad plety of water. The SLA ca provide sowshoes for up to six participats. This hike is oe of the SLA's Squam Rager challege hikes, so if you have t checked it off your list or are iterested i completig all the trails i the Squam Lakes etwork this is a hike ot to miss. I additio, SEE LIVERMORE, PAGE A14

13 The Rest of the Story A13 Mayhew FROM PAGE A3 Charities New Hampshire Chapter. To see everyoe from all of the orgaizatios come together after aother year of hard work ad dedicatio from our board ad voluteers is so heartwarmig, kowig how may kids are beig helped. It certaily makes it all worth it ad the settig just really helped to put everyoe i the holiday mood. Fuds raised through the New Hampshire Chapter icludes evets such as a comedy show, the Dale Jr. Foudatio Safe Kids 301, a motorcycle ride, Laps for Charity, Ricky Crave s Oe for the Kids Golf Touramet, Champios Breakfast, the Wicked Good Live Auctio, helicopter rides, Track Walk Preseted by PPG, the Red Bucket Brigade by PPG, the Charity Clay Shoot, Full Throttle Fall Weeked, 24 Hours of Lemos, Yule Light Up The Night Ru/Walk ad Gift of Lights. Both Craig ad Suuu expressed how importat it is to support the orgaizatios, ot oly i Machester ad throughout New Hampshire, but across New Eglad that work every day to improve the lives of childre. Durig the seaso of givig, we re comig together with may thaks to New Hampshire Motor Speedway ad Speedway Childre s Charities, said Craig. The oprofits here today are amog may woderful orga- Budget FROM PAGE A2 o, Limai said, but we feel [the umbers] are legally defedable. Migliore said the cost of healthcare was part of the discussio whe the legislature was debatig the bill, ad that cotract amout ca oly be what was previously approved. By icreasig the umber, he said, We ru the risk of havig it come out of aother lie item. Other board members agreed with Limai that the prposed umbers were valid. I thik I ca defed this, said Chair Jeff Levesque of Groto. It s ot takig advatage of aybody. I the ed, they agreed to set the default budget at $22,200,457, a umber that is higher tha the tax cap budget. Suzae Cheey of Alexadria, Heidi Milbrad of Bristol, ad Levesque voted i favor of the motio; Migliore was the oly vote i oppositio. Jaso Robert of Hebro izatios i Machester ad throughout our state that truly make a differece i the lives of childre i eed. I am so proud to be here to recogize the outstadig work they do. This evet really defies ot just what the seaso is all about, but what New Hampshire is all about, said Suuu. To be able to sped a little oe-o-oe time as opposed to just mailig a check really makes it special at this time of year. It was great to be here ad great to be part of somethig that really brigs out the best of everyoe at this time of year. The New Hampshire Chapter is oe of eight chapters aroud the coutry, ad combied, Speedway Childre s Charities raised more tha $3 millio atioally this year, brigig the total distributed to $55,300,000 sice it was fouded i The moey raised comes i large part thaks to the fudraisig efforts of Speedway Motorsports, Ic. s eight facilities: Atlata Motor Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Ketucky Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Sooma Raceway ad Texas Motor Speedway. Fudraisig cotiues durig the Gift of Lights preseted by Easter Propae ad Oil, where a portio of all proceeds beefits SCC. The two-ad-a-halfmile drive-thru light show is ope 4:30 9 p.m., ad admissio is $20 per car through Dec. 14 ad $25 per car Dec. ad Christie Davol of New Hampto were abset, ad Dabury has a vacacy o the board. While the school board developed a budget recommedatio that falls withi the tax cap (with Migliore votig agaist it), the budget that will go before the voters i March is the oe beig developed by the Newfoud Area School District Budget Committee, which is workig separately to put together a spedig proposal. 15 Dec. 31. Be sure to check the schedule for days of operatio whe plaig your trip. About Speedway Childre s Charities (SCC) The missio of Speedway Childre s Charities is to care for childre with educatioal, fiacial, social ad medical eeds to help them lead productive lives. Fouded by Bruto Smith i 1982, Speedway Childre s Charities is a o-profit 501c (3) orgaizatio providig fudig for hudreds of o-profit orgaizatios that meet the direct eeds of childre. The New Hampshire Chapter of Speedway Childre s Charities was officially established i Sice the, the New Hampshire Motor Speedway Chapter of Speedway Childre s Charities has raised more tha $1.7 millio. The goal is to esure that every child i eed be give the tools to build a better, brighter ad healthier future. For more iformatio, visit Charities.org. For more iformatio about other upcomig evets for Speedway Childre s Charities New Hampshire Chapter, call Hillarie Scott at or visit SpeedwayCharities.org/NewHampshire/. For ticket iformatio for evets at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, icludig the Gift of Lights, Nov. 23 Dec. 31, visit the speedway website at or call Fa Relatios at Circle FROM PAGE A3 every day to improve the lives of childre. Durig the seaso of givig, we re comig together with may thaks to New Hampshire Motor Speedway ad Speedway Childre s Charities, said Craig. The oprofits here today are amog may woderful orgaizatios i Machester ad throughout our state that truly make a differece i the lives of childre i eed. I am so proud to be here to recogize the outstadig work they do. This evet really defies ot just what the seaso is all about, but what New Hampshire is all about, said Suuu. To be able to sped a little oe-o-oe time as opposed to just mailig a check really makes it special at this time of year. It was great to be here ad great to be part of somethig that really brigs out the best of everyoe at this time of year. The New Hampshire Chapter is oe of eight chapters aroud the coutry, ad combied, Speedway Childre s Charities raised more CADY FROM PAGE A4 tary studets, to lear about the positives of livig a drug-free life style. I this program, youth braistorm ways to brig prevetio messages to their peers, their school, ad greater commuity! The JAC program gives studets the skills ad opportuities to help others choose health! You reclaim futures by givig our regio s most vulerable youth a secod chace to overcome challeges, to grow, ad to tur their lives aroud through Restorative Justice, our regio s Strategies FROM PAGE A4 ad uheralded. No oe may ever squabble over our estate. But much like Joseph, that does ot determie our persoal worth. The tha $3 millio atioally this year, brigig the total distributed to $55.3 millio sice it was fouded i The moey raised comes i large part thaks to the fudraisig efforts of Speedway Motorsports, Ic. s eight facilities: Atlata Motor Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Ketucky Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Sooma Raceway ad Texas Motor Speedway. Fudraisig cotiues durig the Gift of Lights preseted by Easter Propae ad Oil, where a portio of all proceeds beefits SCC. The 2.5-mile drive-thru light show is ope 4:30 9 p.m., ad admissio is $20 per car through Dec. 14 ad $25 per car Dec. 15 Dec. 31. Be sure to check the schedule for days of operatio whe plaig your trip. quality of our life will be see i the lives of the family for whom we have bee resposible. As they follow i our footsteps, as they hoor the God they have met through our livig the will our About Speedway Childre s Charities (SCC) The missio of Speedway Childre s Charities is to care for childre with educatioal, fiacial, social ad medical eeds to help them lead productive lives. Fouded by Bruto Smith i 1982, Speedway Childre s Charities is a o-profit 501c (3) orgaizatio providig fudig for hudreds of o-profit orgaizatios that meet the direct eeds of childre. The New Hampshire Chapter of Speedway Childre s Charities was officially established i Sice the, the New Hampshire Motor Speedway Chapter of Speedway Childre s Charities has raised more tha $1.7 millio. The goal is to esure that every child i eed be give the tools to build a better, brighter ad healthier future. For more iformatio, visit Charities.org. For more iformatio about other upcomig evets for Speedway Childre s Charities New Hampshire Chapter, call Hillarie Scott at or visit SpeedwayCharities.org/NewHampshire/. For ticket iformatio for evets at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, icludig the Gift of Lights, Nov. 23 Dec. 31, visit the speedway website at com or call Fa Relatios at oly juveile court diversio program. May of these highrisk youth are already strugglig with substace use disorders whe we itervee early, we will prevet etry ito the addictio pipelie ad save lives. We hope this colum has highlighted for you some of the icredible thigs happeig at CADY. With your support, CADY will cotiue to grow as we head ito our 20th aiversary year. With your help, we will prevet youth substace misuse through awareess, educatio, collaboratio, metorig ad skill-buildig these protective factors chage lives every day. Please go to our Web site to see more details o our programmig. If you would like to make a olie doatio to CADY ad dedicate it to a specific program, you may do so o our website. All doatios are tax deductible ad very much eeded ad appreciated. We kow that it takes a commuity to build possibilities, potetial, ad promise we thak you for your cosideratio support. Everyoe at CADY seds our very best wishes to you for a joyous holiday ad Happy, Healthy New Year! persoal worth ad the impact of our lives become evidet. Our livig will ot have bee i vai! For more thoughts like these, please follow me o idefeseoftruth.et. Paid Advertisemet Paid Advertisemet Paid Advertisemet Paid Advertisemet Paid Advertisemet It probably does t happe as much as you d like, but you may occasioally have some extra disposable icome. For example, perhaps you have recetly received, or will soo receive, a year-ed bous. Or maybe you will get a sizable tax refud i just a few moths. Wherever this moey comes from, you will wat to put it to good use. Should you use the cash to pay dow debts or should you ivest it istead? There s o simple aswer, ad everyoe s situatio is differet, but here are a few suggestios for helpig you make a good choice: Edward Joes: Fiacial Focus Evaluate your cash flow. If you already have eough cash to meet your daily livig expeses, you might lea toward ivestig the moey, but if you are just gettig by, possibly due to heavy debt paymets, the you might be better off usig your ewfoud fuds to reduce your debt load. Aother way of possibly reducig your debt load is to build a emergecy fud cotaiig three to six moths worth of livig expeses, with the moey kept i a liquid, lowrisk accout. Oce you have such a fud, you could use it, istead of goig ito debt, to What s Smarter Payig Off Debts or Ivestig? pay for uexpected costs, such as a ew furace or a major car repair. Evaluate your debts. Some of your debts are actually more expesive to you tha others. This expese level does t ecessarily refer to the size of the debt, however. You might have a large mortgage, for istace, but because your iterest paymets are typically tax deductible, your after-tax iterest rate may be relatively modest. Therefore, you might cosider usig your excess cash for ivestmets, rather tha payig dow your mortgage. But if you have cosumer loas or credit cards that carry a high iterest rate ad whose iterest paymets are ot deductible, you might be better off payig dow this debt. Evaluate your ivestmet opportuities. You may have heard that oe seaso or aother is a better time to ivest but there s really o strog evidece to support this claim. However, ow that we are earig the ed of the caledar year, ad oly a few moths away from the taxfilig deadlie o April 15, you may wat to take advatage of at least oe time-related ivestmet opportuity. Specifically, you could use whatever extra moey you have to fully fud your IRA, if you have t doe so already. For the 2018 tax year, you ca cotribute $5,500 to a traditioal or Roth IRA, or $6,500 if you are 50 or older. (Depedig o your icome, you may ot be able to cotribute the full amout to a Roth IRA.) You ve got util the April 15 deadlie to fully fud your IRA, but if you have the moey sooer, why wait? The quicker it s i your accout, the faster it ca go to work for you. Oe fial suggestio: If you have a compay match as part of your 401(k) or similar retiremet pla at work, cosider cotributig eough to get your employer s full matchig cotributio before you pay dow debts do t leave this free moey o the table. Your year-ed bous, tax refud or other source of beyod-the-paycheck moey ca help you make progress toward your fiacial goals so evaluate your situatio ad optios carefully before makig ay moves. It will be time well spet. This article was writte by Edward Joes for use by your local Edward Joes Fiacial Advisor. 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14 The Rest of the Story A14 Sowflake FROM PAGE A1 Coservatio FROM PAGE A1 people here i tow who might be strugglig ad felt this was a ice way to do that, said Spears. I eve had two little girls come i just to doate a dollar toward the gift cards. She said sice the begiig of the moth some of the busiesses have ot oly purchased sowflakes for their widows but also doated gift cards. Others have reached out to sposor sowflakes for stores that are closed for the witer, like the dozes from Dabury Elemetary School that ow ador the widows of The Ti Shoppe. We oly came up with this idea o Nov. 29, ad so far, it s workig really well, said Spears. We like the idea of youger ad older residets workig together ad we ecourage people to take part. It s great seeig all the sowflakes aroud tow! Doa Rhodes Sowflakes made by seior citizes ad elemetary school childre are showig up i Bristol busiesses this witer as part of a special fudraiser to assist local residets. This three-dimesioal sowflake was oe of may cotributed by Bridgewater-Hebro Village School studets. Sharp explaied that that photo resulted from a chace sightig of the bird outside her widow ad was pleased it was chose for the caledar. Besides her bluebird (February s feature) ad MacLea s Backyard Fox for Jauary, other selectios were: Stella by Sea Mulchaey (March); Tavi o a Horse by Mary Hamawy (April); Erie Lamos photo titled Lee s Bear (May); Tom ad Leigha by Jey Tuthill (Jue); Tuthill s photo titled Girl at the Brook (July); Baby Rus to Horses by Mulchaey (August); Susie Putam s picture, Dyla at Mt. Cardiga Orchard (September); Hallowee Pumpki by Michelle Sabor (October); Tuthill s shot Sea ad Stirir (November); ad fially, aother photo by Tuthill called Child Waits for Sata. Gracig the cover this year is a photo of a moth perched o Doa Rhodes Photographer David Redma explaied some of the fier details i the photos he selected for the Alexadria Coservatio Commissio s 2019 caledar. greeery, also submitted by Sharp. Other cotributors this year were Paul Beaulieu, Marla Walls, Joe Kraemer, ad Tom Larso, each of whom cotributed equally great photos of Alexadria ad life i a rural tow. Copies of the caledar are ow o sale for at the Alexadria Tow Clerk/ Tax Collector s office. Next year s cotest theme will be Aroud ad About Alexadria ad the Coservatio Commissio ecourages everyoe to start sappig those photos ow. The cotest is ope to residets ad o-residets alike ad ca be take at ay time. The oly stipulatio is that they are each take from withi the Tow of Alexadria. I Jauary, the commissio will also offer photography classes by David Redma. For more iformatio or to register for the fourweek course, please call Jeifer Tuthill at or cotact her by at jetuthill@ gmail.com. Peumoia FROM PAGE A7 ig from peumoia or lookig to protect themselves, the trusted care team at Comfort Keepers ca help. Our caregivers ca remid cliets to take medicatio, provide trasportatio to scheduled appoitmets, ad support physicia-prescribed exercise regimes ad diets. Above all, our goal is to see that cliets have the meas to fid the joy ad happiess i each day, regardless of age or acuity. To lear more about our i-home care services, cotact your local Comfort Keepers locatio today. About Comfort Keepers Comfort Keepers is a leader i providig i-home care cosistig of such services as compaioship, trasportatio, housekeepig, meal preparatio, bathig, mobility assistace, ursig services, ad a host of additioal items all meat to keep seiors livig ide- pedetly worry free i the comfort of their homes. Comfort Keepers have bee servig New Hampshire residets sice Let us help you stay idepedet. Please call or visit our Web site at com/plymouthh for more iformatio. Hike FROM PAGE A12 members of the commuity to get ivolved i the coservatio of the watershed. Participats will get to hear about the coservatio work beig doe aroud Squam Lake, ad ways that they ca get ivolved i the comig moths as they hike up to the summits. For more iformatio, or to sig up for this Adveture Ecology program, visit the SLA Web site (squamlakes.org) or cotact the SLA directly ( ). The SLA offers Adveture Ecology programs throughout the year. These free programs are ope to the public ad cover a variety of ature ad coservatio related topics. The Adveture Ecology programs are preseted by the LRCC AmeriCorps members at the SLA who perform importat coservatio work i support of the Associatio s missio. The Squam Lakes Associatio is dedicated to coservig for public beefit the atural beauty, peaceful character ad resources of the watershed. I collaboratio with local ad state parters the SLA promotes the protectio, careful use ad shared ejoymet of the lakes, moutais, forests, ope spaces ad wildlife of the Squam Lakes Regio. Livermore FROM PAGE A12 there are a umber of ew ad ogoig opportuities for members of the commuity to get ivolved i the coservatio of the watershed. Participats will get to hear about the coservatio work beig doe aroud Squam Lake, ad ways that they ca get ivolved i the comig moths as they hike up to the summits. For more iformatio, or to sig up for this Adveture Ecology program, visit the SLA Web site (squamlakes.org) or cotact the SLA directly ( ). The SLA offers Adveture Ecology programs throughout the year. These free programs are ope to the public ad cover a variety of ature ad coservatio related topics. The Adveture Ecology programs are preseted by the LRCC AmeriCorps members at the SLA who perform importat coservatio work i support of the Associatio s missio. The Squam Lakes Associatio is dedicated to coservig for public beefit the atural beauty, peaceful character ad resources of the watershed. I collaboratio with local ad state parters the SLA promotes the protectio, careful use ad shared ejoymet of the lakes, moutais, forests, ope spaces ad wildlife of the Squam Lakes Regio.

15 Newfoud Ladig Sports Sectio B Thursday, Thursday, December 20, 2018 What s O Tap The local high school teams fiish up regular seaso actio for the year as holiday touramets also begi i the comig week. At Newfoud, the ski team will be opeig the seaso today, Dec. 20, at Bretto Woods at 10 a.m. The Newfoud hoop teams will be takig part i the Lakes Regio Holiday Hoop Touramet o Thursday, Dec. 27, takig o Kigswood with the girls playig at 11:30 a.m. ad the boys playig at 1 p.m. The Plymouth wrestlig team will be hostig Pelham ad Kearsarge today, Dec. 20, at 6:30 p.m. ad will be at Cocord at 9 a.m. o Saturday, Dec. 22. The Bobcat hoop teams will wrap up the 2018 portio of the schedule o Friday, Dec. 21, with the boys hostig Coe-Brow at 6 p.m. ad the girls at Coe- Brow at 6:30 p.m. The Plymouth gymastics team hosts a meet o Saturday, Dec. 22, at 6 p.m. ad is at Pikerto o Thursday, Dec. 27, at 7 p.m. The Plymouth girls hoops team will be takig part i the Mike Lee Holiday Basketball Bash i Farmigto startig o Wedesday, Dec. 26, agaist the hosts at 7 p.m. ad they will play Li-Wood o Thursday, Dec. 27, at 3:15 p.m. Bobcats fiish seveth at NorEaster Ivitatioal BY JOSHUA SPAULDING Sports Editor PLYMOUTH The Plymouth wrestlig team cotiued its seaso with a pair of meets last week. The week bega o Wedesday whe the Bobcats took o Mascoma ad emerged with a wi over the Royals. James Philbi at 126 pouds, JC Gaumer at 138 pouds, Joe Cleary at 145 pouds, Huter Lessard at 152 pouds ad Steve Shute at heavyweight all took wis by pi. Nathaiel Philbi at 132 pouds took the wi by decisio. The rest of Plymouth s wis came by forfeit, with Ty Beauchemi at 106 pouds, Joe Peters at 113 pouds, Trevor Radlett at 120 pouds, Jo Paus at 170 pouds ad Nate Borger at 182 pouds all gettig the victories. The Bobcats traveled to Hollis-Brooklie o Saturday for the NorEaster Ivitatioal ad emerged with a seveth place fiish out of 22 teams. Charlie Comeau at 106 pouds came away with a secod place fiish overall. Lessard took third place at 152 pouds. The Bobcats had four wrestlers fiish i fifth place. Radlett at 120 pouds, Gaumer at 138 pouds, Cleary at 145 pouds ad Cole Johsto at 182 pouds all fiished i fifth place. Plymouth will be competig today, Dec. 20, at home at 6:30 p.m. agaist Pelham ad Kearsarge ad will be at the Cocord Quad meet o Saturday, Dec. 22, at 9 a.m. Joshua Spauldig ca be reached at , ext. 155 or josh@ salmopress.ews. Split JOSHUA SPAULDING Newfoud s Bailey Fairbak drives by a defeder i early seaso actio. The Bears split a pair of games last week, defeatig Frakli o Dec. 11 ad the fell to Fall Moutai o Dec. 14. Next up, the Bears will be playig i the Lakes Regio Holiday Hoop Touramet i Gilford startig o Thursday, Dec. 27, agaist Kigswood at 11:30 a.m. PSU softball offerig umerous cliics PLYMOUTH Plymouth State Uiversity head softball coach Bruce Addiso aouced the dates for the team's aual cliics o Wedesday. The first cliic is scheduled for Suday, Ja. 27, with special guest coaches Dick Blood ad Harold Sachs. Blood, a 1975 graduate of the Plymouth State College, recorded 606 wis ad five Ivy League titles durig his teure as head coach at Corell Uiversity. He will lead a hittig cliic from 9 to 11 a.m. Sachs led Salem High School to a record 18 state champioships ad accumulated early 600 wis before movig ito a role of pitchig coach at Merrimack College. He will direct a pitchig cliic from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Additioally, Plymouth State softball coaches ad players will lead four separate three hour-log cliics throughout February. Cliics will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. o Feb. 3, 9, 17 ad 23. All cliics take place i the Bak of New Hampshire Field House at ALLWell North o the Plymouth State campus. For additioal iformatio, icludig idividual costs, team discouts ad preregistratio istructios, please refer to the Plymouth State softball web page ( sports/sball/idex). Week two JOSHUA SPAULDING Newfoud s Eddie Spooer puts up a shot durig actio i the first week of the seaso. The Bears dropped a pair of games i the seaso s secod week, fallig Frakli by a score o Dec. 11 ad the fell to Masceic by a score o Dec. 14. Next up, the Bears will be playig i the Lakes Regio Holiday Hoop Touramet i Gilford startig o Thursday, Dec. 27, agaist Kigswood at 1 p.m. Sports Editor - Joshua Spauldig (phoe) (fax) - josh@salmopress.ews

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20 Sports B6 Brickley amed North Coferece Player of the Year Sabor ears Coach of the Year hoors BY JOSHUA SPAULDING Sports Editor REGION After a bit of a delay, the Divisio II Norther Coferece All-State selectios were aouced last week ad there was plety of local represetatio. After leadig his team to its third cosecutive Divisio II title, Plymouth coach Chris Sabor was amed Coach of the Year. After a stellar seaso i the Plymouth backfield, ruig back Owe Brickley was amed Player of the Year. First Team offesive hoors wet to Plymouth ruig back Patrick Malm, Plymouth offesive lieme Steve Shute ad Tracy Christiao, Keett offesive liema Sloa Rogers ad Keett kicker Sam Pollard. First Team defesive hoors wet to Plymouth lieme Camde MacDoald ad Jackso Amy Ais Touramet is Ja. 6 GILFORD The aual Amy Ais Volleyball Touramet is scheduled for Suday, Ja. 6, startig at 10 a.m. ad will take place i both the Gilford Middle School ad High School gymasiums. This fudraisig evet is a recreatioal co-ed volleyball touramet for HIGH SCHOOL SLATE Thursday, Dec. 20 NEWFOUND Skiig at Bretto Woods; 10 PLYMOUTH Wrestlig vs. Pelham, Kearsarge; 6:30 Friday, Dec. 21 PLYMOUTH Boys Hoops vs. Coe-Brow; 6 Girls Hoops at Coe-Brow; 6:30 Saturday, Dec. 22 PLYMOUTH Gymastics Home Meet; 6 Wrestlig at Cocord; 9 JOSHUA SPAULDING Coach Chris Sabor (right) was amed Divisio II North Coferece Coach of the Year ad ruig back Owe Brickley (15) was amed Player of the Year. Palombo, Kigswood liebacker Camero Ma, Keett liebacker Dom Joes ad Plymouth defesive backs high school age studets through adults. All proceeds go to the America Cacer Society ad the Amy Ais Scholarship Fud. This scholarship is give aually to a graduatig seior. The etry fee is $100. There is a 12-team limit ad will be o a first registered Huter Lessard ad Toy Velez. Joiig them o offesive First Team were quarterback Jacob Cole basis. Twelve teams will be playig o three courts ad each team will be guarateed three matches i pool play ad oe match i the touramet roud. To register a team or fid out more iformatio, please cotact Joa Forge at forge@worldpath.et. Wedesday, Dec. 26 PLYMOUTH Girls Hoops vs. Farmigto (Holiday Touramet); 7 Thursday, Dec. 27 NEWFOUND Boys Hoops vs. Kigswood (Holiday Touramet); 1 Girls Hoops vs. Kigswood (Holiday Touramet); 11:30 PLYMOUTH Girls Hoops vs. Li-Wood (Holiday Touramet); 3:15 Gymastics at Pikerto; 7 of Joh Stark, Ruig backs Steve Guerrette of Bow ad Simo Roach of Haover, receiver Jack Wixso of Bow, tight ed Jeffrey Holt of Haover, lieme Bobby Putam of Haover ad Adrew Berube of Bow ad kick returer Thomas Rolla of Bow. Also earig First Team defesive were lieme Noah Bellemore of Joh Stark, Matthew Nicholls of Bow ad Jack Loftus of Haover, liebackers Kega Silovich of Haover, Jacob Rideour of Joh Stark ad Christopher Wheeler of Bow ad defesive back Caleb Morse of Haover. Secod Team offesive hoors wet to It s (oe of) the most woderful time(s) of the year This is the fial colum to be prited prior to Christmas, though ext week s will be writte before the holiday rolls aroud. Christmas has log bee oe of my favorite times of the year. I m ot exactly kow as a jolly perso, but for whatever reaso, I ve always ejoyed Christmas. I do t really eed much of aythig so I usually do t ask for much, which admittedly drives my mother crazy because I ever really have a list for her. Part of the issue with me is that my birthday also falls i December. Last Thursday s paper came out o my birthday ad I was able to get through most of the day without thikig about it. Oe of my coworkers left me a couple of cookies ad a ote o my desk, my mother called ad I got a buch of Facebook messages, but for the most part, I did t really have to thik about it for most of the day. However, the cast of The Best Christmas Pageat Ever at the Village Players Theater i Wolfeboro foud it ecessary to sig Happy Birthday at the ed of dress rehearsal last Thursday ight. So I did t escape completely. Plymouth quarterback Cody Bao, Keett liema Cole Sweeey ad Keett kick returer Etha Ouellette. Secod Team defesive hoors wet to Keett lieme Bobby Graustei ad Jacob Stears, Plymouth liebacker Joe D Ambruoso, Keett defesive back Justi Olso ad Plymouth defesive back Nick Qualey. Also earig First Team offesive hoors were quarterback Alex Cheek of Gilford-Belmot, ruig backs Bo Lyos of Joh Stark, Rick Hazeltie of Merrimack Valley ad Griffi Youg of Haover, tight ed Patrick Carr SPORTING CHANCE By JOSHUA SPAULDING I do t particularly care about my birthday, it s just aother day, but Christmas is always a good time. It s oe of those days where there s o games goig o for me to cover so I ca take a bit of time ad relax for a day or two (though holiday touramets start the day after Christmas). Additioally, my brother traditioally makes it home for Christmas ad i most years, this is the oe chace durig the year that I get to see him, though this year I did go out to visit him over the summer. I am lookig forward to takig a few days off ad travelig orth to visit with family ad take a bit of a break. I am sure I will probably eat plety of crap that is ot o my diet ad probably ot exercise as much as I should, which will surely be good for my health. But sometimes, you just have to do what you have to do. As I write this, we are i the middle of our weeked of sellout shows at the Village Players, which is of Gilford-Belmot, lieme Lucas Guerrette of Joh Stark, Bejami Boisvert of Bow, Harley Huddlesto of Merrimack Valley ad Elijah Putam of Haover ad kicker Kayde Easter of Joh Stark. Secod Team defesive hoors also wet to liema Dakota Hachett of Haover, liebackers Joatha Mitchell of Gilford-Belmot, Seamus O Reilly of Bow ad Brado Jawidzik of Pembroke ad defesive back Nikos Biskaduros of Joh Stark. Joshua Spauldig ca be reached at , ext. 155 or josh@salmopress.ews. just aother good thig to celebrate. It seems that the Christmas spirit is alive ad well aroud Wolfeboro as we sold out all three shows over the weeked with ethusiastic crowds o had every ight. The week leadig up to the Christmas break will feature a umber of games, the first alpie meet of the seaso, early deadlies for the paper after Christmas ad auditios for ext sprig s show at the theater. Needless to say, the break startig ext weeked will be a welcome oe ad I am lookig forward to ejoyig it. Util the, to quote oe of New Hampshire s greatest, there s miles to go before I sleep. Fially, have a great day Cathy Fraser. Joshua Spauldig is the Sports Editor for the Graite State News, Carroll Couty Idepedet, Meredith News, Gilford Steamer, Wiisquam Echo, Plymouth Record-Eterprise, Littleto Courier, Newfoud Ladig, Coos Couty Democrat, Berli Reporter ad The Baysider. He ca be reached at josh@salmopress.ews at , or PO Box 729, Meredith, NH