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THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 2015 GILFORD, N.H. - FREE
Police expansion, new chief, Liberty Hill among year’s top stories
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Jim Ash, Vice President of GEI Consultants, describes the work to be done on the Liberty Hill site.
BY ERIN PLUMMER
Voters approved the expansion of the police station space as next steps were taken on the Liberty Hill project and the fate of Kimball Cas-tle. These were among many stories from the town this year.
In March, voters ap-proved a warrant article for $1,213,000 toward im-provements to the police department space.
Lt. Kris Kelley of the Gilford Police Depart-ment gave a presenta-tion on the current po-lice department space, and the need for reno-
vation and expansion of the space. Kelley said the department space was built in 1988. In the past two decades, that space has been filled in. The lack of space has created a number of pressing problems in the police department. Con-cerns have included a lack of space for private discussions, inadequate evidence storage, a lack of space for administra-tive needs, meeting, and training and numerous other issues for person-nel and the department.
The proposed expan-sion will create space where sensitive conver-sations can be held as well as safe access areas. There will be adequate space for work to be done, including areas for training and briefings as well as space for the Emergency Operations Center. The renovation will also add person-al space for employees
such as a break room and separate restroom for dispatchers. There will be a new booking area as well as better evi-dence storage and a new security system.
Alan Yeaton of
Amoskeag Architectur-al Group presented the plans for project during an earlier public hearing leading up to town meet-ing voting.
Yeaton said this will give the police depart-
ment more space to meet its needs for the next 20 or 25 years. The cur-rent police space is 4,800 square feet; the proposed expansion will be 10,500, or 6,400 square feet of SEE GILFORD YEAR PAGE A7
Veterans-first responders support
group seeks donationsGILFORD — The Pa-
triot Resilient Leader Institute (PRLI), a local charitable organization that runs Camp Resil-ience for veterans and first responders, is seek-ing donations to conduct its third session in late January.
This visit by 15 veter-ans and one police offi-cer will take place Jan. 26-29 if sufficient funds can be raised by then. USMC veteran and PRLI Treasurer Chris Ray of Gilford pointed out that the PRLI has already run two very successful veterans visits.
“Through the gener-osity of local people and organizations, coupled with the donations of ad-ditional supporters out of state, we have been able to conduct these first two events,” said Ray.
“Now we’ve got just five weeks to fund-raise enough money to cover the January visit and really need everyone’s help,” Ray added.
The January event will feature a mix of life skills training and phys-ical activity; a formula for success learned from other veterans support groups nationwide. The veterans will enjoy ski lessons and skiing at Gunstock Mountain Re-sort plus an afternoon of snowshoeing and winter hiking. On the life skills side, they will learn the calming effects of yoga as a regular exercise as well as some basic cook-ing skills to make them more self-reliant. Oth-er activities including water aerobics and light exercise workouts are also possibilities. The veterans/first respond-er will be billeted, once again, at the Gunstock Inn. “Despite deep and very generous discounts from area merchants including the Gunstock Inn and Gunstock Moun-tain Resort, we still have significant costs to cov-er” stated PRLI founder Kurt Webber, US Army Retired. Anyone or any group wishing to make a donation to support the upcoming PRLI Camp Resilience session may donate via PayPal or credit card on the PRLI website (www.prli.us). Donations may also be
sent to the PRLI account c/o Bank of New Hamp-shire, 62 Pleasant St., Laconia, NH 03246. “We have seen the positive rehabilitative effect our PRLI visits can make on struggling veterans. Their personal feed-back, and that of their VA counselors, attest to that” said Webber, “and we’re hoping to keep the
SEE VETERANS PAGE A7
New principal, projects among the year’s top school stories
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Diane Tinkham demonstrated the bagging process for lunches at the beginning of training for volunteers of the Gilford Got Lunch program.
BY ERIN PLUMMER
A new principal, a book controversy, and new projects benefiting students in the district were among the many stories from the Gilford School District in 2014.
After 40 years as a teacher and administra-tor in New Hampshire schools, Marcia Ross an-nounced her retirement. Ross served as Principal of Gilford Middle School since 2009.
Three top candidates were named for the po-sition: Alton Central School Principal Sydney Leggett, GMS Assistant Principal Kara Lamon-tagne, and Gilford High School Assistant Princi-pal Anthony Sperazzo.
After final interviews and review by the school board, Leggett was then named the new principal of Gilford Middle School.
Leggett lives in Gil-ford, and her three
children go to Gilford schools, including the middle school.
After a transition pro-cess, Leggett took the po-sition on July 1.
A group of concerned
parents turned out in force during a school board meeting to ex-press their anger at not being made aware be-forehand of explicit con-tent in a novel assigned to students. “Nineteen Minutes” by Jodi Pi-coult was assigned to a freshman English class and parents expressed concern over a scene in-volving a graphic sexual situation.
The book has been used in the school’s cur-riculum since 2007, but this year, notices were not sent home informing parents of its sometimes graphic content, prompt-ing the school board to issue a public statement apologizing for the un-intentional breach of
policy.William Baer brought
his concerns over the passage in question to several media out-lets and stated that his 14-year-old daughter was assigned the book as part of her curriculum for her English class. However, he said he was not made aware of the book’s content until a friend of his pointed out the scene in question, which Baer found to be inappropriate.
A number spoke against having the book in the school while oth-ers defended the book.
Frustrated at being al-lotted only the standard time of two minutes to address his concerns before the board, Baer continued to voice his dissatisfaction and com-ment on other speakers’ attempts to defend the book from his seat in the audience, despite be-ing asked repeatedly by board Chair Sue Allen to quiet himself. Ultimately Allen asked that Baer be escorted from the room by a police officer who attended the meeting at the board’s request to keep order.
Baer was subsequent-ly placed under arrest for disorderly conduct. According to published reports, Baer was later cleared of the charges.
Gilford Got Lunch kicked off this summer to provide lunches for kids in need.
Gilford Superinten-dent Kent Hemingway said there are approxi-mately 301 children in
the school district on free and reduced lunch. Families in need could sign up for the program, whether or not they were on Free and Re-
SEE SCHOOL PAGE A4
Gilford students, volunteers receive recognition in 2014
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Members of the Gilford High School chorus practice “I Want to Know What Love is” with direc-tor Denise Sanborn. The students performed the song onstage with Foreigner at Meadowbrook.
BY ERIN PLUMMER
The work of students and volunteers in the Gilford School District received many kudos over the course of the year.
Members of the Gil-ford High School Cho-rus took the stage at Meadowbrook over the summer, joining the classic band Foreigner after winning a contest. The chorus won a con-test to be able to perform onstage with the band during their hit song “I Want to Know What Love Is.”
Foreigner has collab-orated with the Grammy Foundation for a pro-gram to raise money for school programs. Work-ing with WLNH, the group held a contest for local high school chorus groups to join the band onstage during its July 6 show at Meadowbrook and sing the choral parts
of “I Want to Know What Love Is.”
Contestants were asked to make a video of their respective perfor-mances of the song.
The winner received the opportunity for up to 25 students to perform onstage with the band, as well as receiving $500 to-wards its arts programs.
“Being here in the town, we didn’t have a choice but to do this vid-eo,” said GHS Choral Di-
rector Denise Sanborn.With the videography
skills of student Anna Malek, the chorus com-piled a video and en-tered it into the contest. The chorus was chosen and performed onstage during the July 6 show.
Dedication, hard work, and talent paid off for a group of Gil-ford High School drama students, who took big awards in the regional festival and went onto
the New England fes-tival in Vermont. Cast members from “Almost, Maine” performed scenes from the play at the Regional Drama Festival in Coe Brown Academy in Northwood. Director Sarah Cook said the performance got high marks from the audience, and the judges followed suit.
In the end, the perfor-mance won five awards,
SEE KUDOS PAGE A5
Notes from the Gilford Public LibraryA2 THE GILFORD STEAMER AlmAnAc THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 2015
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BY MOLLY HARPER
Library Correspondent
The start of the New Year is often one of the most exciting and busy times of the year. The first few weeks of Janu-ary are usually devoted to upholding the reso-lutions made on New Years Eve – a commit-ment to eating better, ex-ercising more, or maybe being a more attentive friend. Resolutions can be as varied as the peo-ple who make them. I of-ten resolve to eat better or call my family more often, but last year I also added a new resolution to my list – a reading resolution. A reading resolution can be just about anything - a com-mitment to read a book a week, an entire series or trilogy, or a book ev-ery once in a while that is far outside of your reading comfort zone. A reading resolution could simply be to read more, or to re-read some old favorites – all in all, the most important part of making a reading resolu-tion is simply to commit to reading and taking a little time for yourself to disappear into the pag-es of whichever book is waiting on your night-stand.
In addition to being a busy month for uphold-ing New Year’s resolu-tions, January is also commonly known as National Hobby Month. A hobby is any activity that you might take up in your spare time to explore interests in vari-ous fields. A great way to try out a new activity or hobby is to get involved in one of the many activ-ities the Library has to
offer. We have a full calen-
dar of programs ongo-ing throughout the year and each month we also feature special presenta-tions and activities. Did you know that you can use the Library’s Check-Out-An-Expert service to get computer help or a second set of eyes on a piece of writing? You can also line dance, knit, learn to rug hook, play bridge, meet a local au-thor, listen to talented lo-cal musicians, or take an evening crafting or bak-ing workshop. Some of our programs can even help you out with those reading resolutions! If you’re looking to read outside of your comfort zone, or want to get more involved in reading a va-riety of authors, try out the Library’s monthly book discussion. We’ve picked out 11 books that we just can’t wait to talk about and would love to have your input! We have also started a clas-sic book club that will meet every other month, starting in February – if your reading resolution is to read more classic literature, here’s your chance!
There is truly some-thing for everyone here at the library, just make a resolution to use the Library in a new way this year, and you just might find a new hobby too!
Classes & Special Events
Thursday, Jan. 1 Library is Closed
Friday, Jan. 2Social Bridge, 10:30
a.m. - 12:30 p.m.Knit Wits, 1:30-2:30
p.m.Conversational Ger-
man Class, 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 5Yarn Therapy, 9-10:30
a.m.Lego Club, 10:30 a.m.
– noon. Join us for a
Lego free-build morning. Bring your imagination and we’ll supply the Legos.
Mahjong, 12:30-3 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 6
Social Bridge, 10:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m.
Drop-In Rug Hooking, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Writing Expert, 3-5 p.m. Want some extra writing help? Come “check out an expert.” Bring any type of writing - schoolwork, resumes, fiction, poetry, family
history - and we’ll work together on it. Half-hour blocks, no renewals.
Wednesday, Jan. 7Line Dancing for Be-
ginners, 9-10 a.m.Check – Out – An – Ex-
pert!, 10 a.m. - noon
Sen. Jeanie Forrester to address Belknap County Republican Committee WednesdayBELMONT — The
Belknap County Re-publican Committee (BCRC) has announced that their next monthly meeting has been sched-uled for Wednesday, Jan. 7 at 6:30 p.m. at the Top of the Town Restau-rant, 88 Ladd Hill Rd. in Belmont. Please note that the BCRC meet-ing has been scheduled to take place one week earlier than normal to coordinate with the An-nual State Committee
meeting scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 10 at the Pinkerton Academy.
The guest speaker for the Jan. 7 meeting will be State Sen. Jean-ie Forrester (R-District 2), Chairman of the Sen-ate Finance Committee. Sen. Forrester will dis-cuss the budget and al-ternatives to address the reported deficit, as well as the Senate’s Agenda for the next two years.
In addition, the Com-mittee will be holding
its bi-annual election of officers for the upcom-ing two years. Recently elected members of the State Committee repre-senting Belknap County are encouraged to attend this month’s meeting to vote for the slate of offi-cers.
As is the Commit-tee’s common practice, if you’re interested in having dinner (at your option) and/or wish to socialize before the meeting, plan to arrive
as early as 5 p.m. And, the Committee reminds everyone planning to attend that winter is a very difficult time for those less fortunate. So, please be sure to bring a non-perishable food item to the meeting for distri-bution to local food pan-tries.
For more informa-tion, please check our Web site at www.Belk-napCountyGOP.org, or send an email to [email protected].
“Another is Waiting”…another great night of music and fun, that is!
GILFORD — The Bank of New Hampshire Pa-vilion at Meadowbrook is excited to announce its first show of the 2015 Eastern Propane Con-cert Series! The Avett Brothers with very spe-cial guest John Prine will rock the stage Friday, June 12! Tickets go on sale Friday, Dec. 19 at 10 a.m., and range from $35 to $77. To get your tick-ets, call the Box Office at 293-4700 or log on to www.BankNHpavilion.com.
Playing music togeth-er since childhood, Scott and Seth Avett set their sights on a more perma-nent musical partnership in the 1990’s and have tak-en their unique folk rock and bluegrass sound to amazing heights.
An integral part of the love of music movement stretching the globe, the Avett Brothers pride themselves on breaking down the “smoke and mirrors” of traditional entertainment, leaving behind the true beauty of the song. If you are look-
ing for the excitement that follows a song – a song that sings to your heart and dances with your soul, you’ll find it June 12, when the Avett Brothers take the stage. Don’t miss it!
Very special guest, John Prine, will be join-ing the Avetts for this great show. Some four decades since his re-markable debut, John Prine is a rare talent who writes the songs other songwriters would sell their souls for. Long considered a “songwrit-er’s songwriter,” his ex-tensive catalog has been recorded by the likes of Johnny Cash, Bonnie Raitt, Kris Kristofferson, Carly Simon and others. Recently honored at the Library of Congress by US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, Prine’s been el-evated from the annals of songwriters into the realm of bonafide Amer-ican treasures.
Mark your calendars for Friday, June 12. It’s sure to be a night of high
energy and incredible music! Contact the Box Office at 293-4700 or log on to www.BankNHpa-vilion.com for your tick-ets!
Located on the banks of beautiful Lake Win-nipesaukee in Gilford, Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion at Meadow-brook is New England’s premier outdoor venue with 6,000 seats under a large pavilion roof and a spectacular lawn seat-ing area for an addition-al 2,000 patrons. Bank of New Hampshire Pa-vilion at Meadowbrook is known for attracting world-renowned artists from Keith Urban to San-tana, from Train to Cros-
by, Stills & Nash, and especially for its state-of-the-art audio system. Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion at Meadow-brook was nominated for the Music Venue of the Year Award by the Acad-emy of Country Music six times; Pollstar Magazine Red Rocks Award for best small outdoor venue four times; named USA Today’s 10 Best Concert Venues in the USA; and, it’s first Country Music Association nomination for Music Venue of the Year in 2014. Each sum-mer more than 100,000 concertgoers enjoy the venue’s beautiful loca-tion, clean facility, and friendly staff.
Family History and Genealogy SeriesLACONIA — Laconia
Historical and Museum Society and Laconia Public Library will spon-sor a three part seminar series as a follow up to seminars held earlier this year. The series will provide the basics of navigating through the online genealogy site familysearch.org.
This series is to be led by Richard and Cindi Cote, experienced gene-alogists and will begin on Monday, Jan. 5 at 10 a.m. – noon at The La-conia Public Library. Continuing sessions will occur in February and March.
This series is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is pre-ferred. For more infor-mation about this event, or to pre-register, call The Laconia Public Li-brary at 603-524-4775 or Laconia Historical and Museum Society at 527-1278 or email [email protected].
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Aerial photo of the Liberty Hill remediation site taken Dec. 19.
The process of remov-ing tar-contaminated soil for off-site treat-ment, from Liberty Hill Road, is more than half-way complete. Liberty Utilities wrapped up the first season of work last week after more than 1700 truckloads of soil were removed for treat-ment.
“We’re very pleased with the way the proj-ect has progressed this year,” said John Shore, spokesman for Liberty Utilities. “Having the expertise of our environ-mental remediation con-tractor, Charter Envi-ronmental of Boston, has helped keep this project on schedule with very few unexpected issues.”
The contamination occurred in the early 1950’s. Waste tar liquids from a former manufac-tured gas plant in Laco-nia were disposed of at the site. The area was formally home to a sand and gravel pit where the owner at the time ap-proved of the disposal. The remediation project involves the removal of 93,000 cubic yards of soil, of which approximately 45,000 cubic yards will require offsite treat-ment.
According to Shore, the remediation, which started in April, is now
more than 65 percent complete due to efficient work and favorable weather conditions.
During the 2014 con-struction season, the contractor excavated ap-proximately 47,000 cubic yards of non-contami-nated soil and excavat-ed approximately 29,000 cubic yards of contami-nated soil. The contam-inated soil was loaded onto trucks for shipment to ESMI in Loudon for thermal treatment to remove the tar-related contaminants. Approx-imately 13,000 cubic yards of the treated soil were returned to the site for backfilling along with the stockpiled un-contaminated soil.
Work has ceased, and the site has been secured for the winter months. The contractor will return in the spring of 2015 to begin phase two of the remediation. The project schedule, if weather remains favor-able, points to an early autumn 2015 completion date.
For more information about the project please visit www.lowerlibert-yhillsite.com or call the project hotline at 216-3600.
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Bolduc Park Cross Country Ski Program begins Jan. 10
The Gilford Parks and Recreation Department will be offering four weeks of Cross Country Ski Lessons at Bolduc Park this winter. Les-sons begin on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015 and will continue through Jan. 31, 2015 (in the event a day is cancelled because of poor weather, it will be made up the week(s) following Jan. 31). Les-sons begin at 10 a.m., and rental skis may be picked up at 9 a.m. at Piche’s Ski Shop!
Registration forms are available at the Gilford Parks and Rec-reation Department, Bolduc Park and Piche’s Ski Shop. Please mail, fax or drop off your reg-istrations directly to
Piche’s Ski Shop.Cost: $70 per person
includes rental equip-ment; $40 per person if you have your own equipment!
If you have any ques-tions, please contact Bob or Pat Bolduc at 524-2068.
Boston Celtics bus trip scheduled for
Jan. 16, 2015The Gilford and Bel-
mont Parks and Recre-ation Departments are co-sponsoring a bus trip to Boston to see the Celt-ics take on the Chicago Bulls on Friday, Jan. 16. Cost of the trip is $123 for lower level Loge seats and $93 upper level bal-cony seats and includes round trip motor coach from Gilford or Belmont
and tickets to the game. Our deluxe motor coach will depart from Gilford High School at 5 p.m., and the Belmont Park & Rideshare (Route 106) at 5:15 p.m. You will have time to visit the pro-shop and dinner on your own prior to the game. Our seats are in section #5 (Loge) and 303 (Balcony) for the 7:30 p.m. game. Seats are limited; a reg-istration form must be completed accompanied by payment and tickets are non-refundable.
For more informa-tion, please contact the Gilford Parks and Recre-ation Department at 527-4722 or visit their Web site at www.gilfordrec.com.
Solomon Kee as Sammy Davis Jr. returns to Interlakes Summer Theatre
MEREDITH — The Interlakes Summer Theatre is proud to an-nounce that Solomon Kee will be returning to Meredith with the latest version of his Sammy Davis, Jr. show on Satur-day, Feb. 7 at 2 and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Feb. 8 at 3 p.m.
“Mr. Davis, A Night with Sammy” is the new Sammy Davis, Jr. musi-cal show. Audiences will be transported to the Las Vegas Strip and, you’re sure to believe you’re sitting at the Sands Ho-tel singing, swinging, and crooning with Sam-my. The show highlights classic hits like “Candy-man,” “Mr. Bojangles,” “Once in a Lifetime,” and “What Kind of Fool Am I?”
“Kee is astonishingly like Sammy Davis, Jr. in both song styling and body language,” says In-terlakes Theatre produc-er, Nancy Barry.
“The show isn’t about imitation. I’m just being Solomon on stage,” says Kee, who plays Sammy. “I sing his songs and add a few Sammy Davisisms here and there. I don’t believe anyone can im-personate him. He was one of a kind. I just wan-na make the world taste good like he did.”
Solomon Kee per-formed his one-man show here in October 2013, and since has con-tinued the development
with help from New York City producers and directors. He returns with his Musical Direc-tor, Joshua StecherRoss and Interlakes favorites David LeBlanc (“Dave, the drummer”) and bass-ist Dr. Anthony Varga.
“Everywhere I go in town, folks have asked me to bring him back, so on my recent trip to NYC, Solomon & I sat down together and made a plan!” says Barry.
All tickets are $25 and can be purchased by call-ing 70-6035, by visiting our Web site, www.inter-lakestheatre.com, or can be purchased at the door. Seating is reserved.
A4 THE GILFORD STEAMER OpiniOn THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 2015
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Some goals (okay, pedestrian), as this year yields to the next
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Camaro is a 5 year old neutered male of mixed breed who has been waiting for a forever home since August 29th, 2014.
A former stray found at our local Chevrolet dealership where all are animal friendly, one of the caring staff brought this handsome devil to New Hampshire Hu-mane Society.
Camaro, well named, is a turner of heads and a bit of a show stopper. He has some interesting flame point markings and beautiful blue eyes. There might be some
fancy breeding in his DNA, we reckon!
Meanwhile, Camaro resides in a feline social wing. He is the official greeter when you walk in. Friendly, sweet, a real cuddle muffin. He raises his paw for atten-tion, ever so gently. Ca-maro gets along just fine with others and truly is an instant, well round-ed, adorable pet for any home.
Please could he have his loving forever home before the new year ar-rives? Call 524-3252 or check www.nhhumane.org.
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History and Hangi — November 27, 2011 New Zealand was
unoccupied until 1280 when some Polynesians paddled their wakas — hand-hewn, carved canoes — to its shore. The islands had but one mammal, the long-tail bat — not great eating — but an abundance of birds, many flightless. Thus the diet of the peo-ple was plants, fish and birds. Previously with-out predators, many large flightless birds were over-hunted and have become scarce or extinct (ex: the moa). One small, nocturnal, flightless bird became the country’s symbol; the kiwi is a bird, a fruit, and the nickname for New Zealand’s inhabi-tants.
Several different Mao-ri tribes settled mostly on the North Island due to its more favorable climate. Unfortunately they didn’t always get along. Go figure! Yes, there was cannibalism and yes, when the Eu-ropeans showed up in the 1800’s some of them became dinner, mission-aries being particular-ly tasty. But that is the small story. The larger truth is that the Euro-peans and the Maori got together and signed The Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. It wasn’t perfect, but New Zealanders take great pride in the peace it brought among its peo-ple.
More than one hun-dred years later the Maori had become so assimilated that they were losing their cul-ture, arts and language. Today there is a renewal of Maori arts and cul-ture and the language is taught, not only in the Maori schools but in all the public schools.
HangiAt the Visitors Cen-
ter, we met the bus that would take us to Mitai for our Maori experi-ence. Also waiting were Jessica and Jimmy.
Once at Mitai we were ushered onto a trail lined with fern-trees. The fronds of the silver fern tree, laid upside down, have historical-ly been used for laying tracks for night walking. The silver stands out against the dark ground
for months. From the bush we watched the approach of Maori war-riors paddling up the river in waka toward a tribal celebration where they would tell their sto-ries through song and dance.
Next we were led to the pit where the food was being cooked on coals in the ground. There were whole chick-ens and lamb roasts. Potatoes, kumara (a native kind of sweet po-tato), and stuffing were wrapped in foil. Hmm. Coals? Lamb? Foil? I question the authentic-ity.
We were directed on to a theater where we were treated to a story-telling performance of the history of the Maori with native dance and ceremony. Traditional-ly, men were tattooed in a primitive way which involved cutting the skin, letting it heal, then, cutting it again. The tattoos or ta moko are symbolic. Most per-formers today use body paint to depict the elab-orate Maori Art. Tattoos were meant to make the men look ferocious as were their facial expres-sions. A warrior would open his eyes as wide as possible, stretch out his tongue to the extreme and let loose a guttural growl. That and a spear would send me running!
Dinner was presented buffet style in a building not unlike one of our Elks or VFW halls. We sat at long tables seating ten people. It was here that we met Jessica and Jimmy:
She was tall and reed slender with long, straight, ash-blonde hair, blue eyes and del-icate features. He was hardly taller, hair a shade darker, weeks the wrong side of a haircut, days from a shave, laugh lines at the corners of blue eyes. Both appeared to be in their twenties, and were as adorable as golden puppies. We no-ticed them first in the visitor’s center in Ro-torua the previous day, then again outside the visitor’s center waiting for the same bus as we to the hangi. We noticed them because they were so damn cute and be-cause when the boy sat on the stone wall sur-rounding a small garden
we could see the band of his underwear proclaim-ing him to be the world’s sexiest man.
After the Maori cere-monial reenactment we discovered the couple at our table for dinner. Chris was sitting closest to them and got some of their story, though the room was noisy with chattering tourists and the Maori version of an aging lounge lizard, his long grey hair tied back, wearing a shabby black suit and Aussie bush hat and singing Presley and Joel songs.
Jessica and Jimmy
were from York in the UK. They had been un-able to find jobs after graduation from uni-versity, so set out on an eight month holiday: South America, South-east Asia, New Zealand and Australia. They were touring New Zea-land in a camper. Jim-my was making up for the spare meals they had been eating, by fill-ing his plate often from the buffet of chicken, lamb, potatoes, kumara, greens and desserts.
Keep your eyes open. We’ll be seeing more of the beautiful Brits.
John harrigan
The outdoor wood furnace, ready (like me, I hope) for the dead of winter. The furnace is why I get to claim that I’m solar heated — but it’s 40 years old.This is written on the
24th of December, and will come out on the 31st of 2014. There are sever-al things I intend to do to celebrate the New Year.
One is to take an appreciative look at my Winter Piggybank Woodpile, which is what I hold in reserve when I get sick and tired of dragging and cutting up logs. So far, it looks good — pretty good to get me past Mud Season.
Another is to shut down the outdoor fur-nace to let it cool down so I can clean it out. This, two or three days later, involves me pulling my bucket-loader up to with-in shovel-distance and using a flat-bottomed square shovel. If I’m careful about planning, there’ll be enough coals that I can sequester in a front corner so I won’t have to rekindle. I’m jealous of the celery-stalk-sized kindling that I take so much pleasure splitting up in the shop, in front of the logging camp Atlantic stove that I warmed myself in front of in my teens.
Another will be to ap-preciate, again, where I live, what I see, and what I do. I live in what I believe is the greatest country on the planet, and as a student of his-tory and a guy from a
family with a long his-tory of military service, I appreciate what it took to make it so.
But what I see — what a glorious place. The view goes 35 miles. There are only two all-night lights in my vision. If I want, I can cancel them out by going out onto the rooftop deck and reclin-ing on a sleeping bag, and the Milky Way al-most breaks my eyes.
The final thing I hope
to do, before 2014 ends, is to set off some fire-works left over from the Fourth of July. No per-mit is needed, because this is the Live Free or Die state, and the Land of the Free (because of the Home of the Brave), and there is snow on the ground, the time-hon-ored requirement for burning brush, if not for setting off fireworks.
For the eyes, and the mind, and the freedom,
and the stars, and the best for 2015 and beyond, Happy New Year.
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duced Lunch. Gilford Got Lunch
provided a week’s worth of lunches for students in the community who might not have ready ac-cess to food outside of the school year. Volunteers packed five days worth of lunches with a variety of foods as well as cou-pons to Vista Foods.
The program ran until Aug. 18. Overall, around 600 lunches were packed and delivered over the summer.
Got Lunch committee president Thom Fran-coeur said around 120 people volunteered for the program over the summer, whether rep-resenting businesses or volunteering individual-ly. Throughout the pro-
cess, the program has received strong support from the community.
The program was lat-er expanded to include weekend and school vacations throughout the year. Beginning Oct. 3, each child regis-tered through Gilford Got Lunch Program re-ceived a two-day supply of breakfast and lunch food items. In the sum-mer months Got Lunch will resume its summer program process and deliver the food bags to participating children’s homes on a weekly basis.
Plans are being made to replace Gilford Ele-mentary School’s play-ground, and the students themselves had the chance to design their
own playground, ideas that will be factored into the project’s final design.
The Playground Com-mittee is in the process of review and planning to replace the current
Imagination Station. The current playground is 26-years-old.
“It has seen its time,” said GES Principal Dan-ielle Bolduc.
The new Imagination Station is in the budget as part of the Capital Improvements Plan and $100,000 is in the bud-get to replace it pending voter approval. Further fundraising has been done and will continue for elements that are out-side of the budget.
A Playground Com-
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THE GILFORD STEAMER A5Obituaries/The Rest of the StoryTHURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 2015
Now that 2015 is upon us, you may be thinking about making some New Year’s resolutions. Perhaps you’ll decide to take up a musical instrument, or hit the gym more often, or even learn a new language. All these are worthy goals, of course — but you could also gain some key benefits by working to achieve some financial res-olutions.
Here are a few to con-sider:
• Fill “gaps” in your investment portfolio. From time to time, you — or pos-sibly your financial advi-sor, if you work with one — might identify “gaps” in your investment portfolio. For example, you might find that you are making insuffi-cient progress on a key goal, such as saving for a child’s college education. Or you might discover that you need to place additional resources in a particular asset class to achieve proper diver-sification, which can help reduce the impact of market volatility on your portfolio. (Keep in mind, though, that diversification by itself can’t guarantee profits or protect against loss.) So put “filling portfolio gaps” high on your list of New Year’s financial resolutions.
• Boost your 401(k) con-
tributions. If your salary has gone up with the new year, consider boosting your con-tributions to your 401(k) or similar employer-sponsored retirement plan. You may not be able to afford to con-tribute the maximum annual amount — which in 2015 is $18,000, or $24,000 if you’re 50 or older — but if you increase your contri-butions every year, you can greatly speed your progress toward your retirement sav-ings goals. You can put this New Year’s resolution into effect by contacting your human resources or benefits department as soon as you get back to work in 2015.
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term stimuli. • Review your estate
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LACONIA — Joan D. Hamilton, 80, a longtime resident of Gilford, died Friday, December 19, 2014 at the Lakes Region General Hospital in La-conia following a period of failing health.
Joan was born in La-conia, March 29, 1934, daughter of Clarence and Caroline (Lyman) Dube. She spent her youth in Belmont and graduated from Bel-mont High School. She was employed for sever-al years at the Belknap County Court House, and later worked at O’Shea’s Department Store and Gail’s Gentle Persuasion in downtown Laconia. She and her late husband “Pat” were active members of the Lakes Region Sled Dog Club, and she served as treasurer.
For 13 years, Joan and Pat would head south to spend the winter at Zolfo Springs, Fla., where they made life long friends. She had many talents and was known to be a superb cook by family and friends. She enjoyed
socializing and serving good food for everyone to enjoy. She was an exceptional doll maker and birdwatching was a favorite hobby. She also enjoyed taking her grandchildren to Gilford Beach. Known as Aunt Joanne to many, she had the gift of friendship and showed it with her beau-tiful smile. She and her late husband were pa-rishioners of St. Joseph Church in Laconia.
Joan was predeceased by her husband of 55 years, Wilfred “Pat” A. Hamilton, who died in 2009.
She leaves her son, Charles L. Hamilton, and her two grandsons, Matthew William Hamil-
ton and Andrew Charles Hamilton, all of Alton; her brother, John Dube and his wife Jeannine of Canterbury and her sister in law and special friend, Phyllis Hamilton of Great Falls, Mont., nu-merous nieces and neph-ews.
According to Joan’s wishes, there will not be any public calling hours. A Mass of Chris-tian Burial was celebrat-ed Friday at 10 a.m. at St. Joseph Church of St. Andre Bassette Parish, Church Street in Laco-nia. Burial followed in the family lot at Sacred Heart Cemetery in Laco-nia.
Arrangements are un-der the care of the Wil-liam F. Smart Sr. Memo-rial Home of Tilton.
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one for Cook as direc-tor and acting awards for Heather Hunt, Jack Harding, Summer Mc-Gaffigan, and Ryan Hall.
Cook said getting so many awards for one school is not a common occurrence. Hunt said it would be notable if even one of them walked away with an award.
The company was then chosen to represent the state in the New En-gland Theatre Festival in Vermont.
Obsessive Image, the Literary/Art mag-azine of Gilford High School, was named the “Most Outstanding High School Literary-Art Magazine” (school year 2013, small schools) in the country for the third straight year. The maga-zine is scored in the ar-eas of content coverage, organization, design, presentation, and cre-ativity. Out of a possible 1,000 points, Obsessive Image scored 990 points.
In their remarks that go along with the award, ASPA states that “Obses-sive Image is an amazing publication! You have mastered not only the elements of a good pub-lication, but you have also published excellent works from your school population. Obsessive
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those up-and-coming magazines and inspira-tion for those magazines that haven’t quite ‘aced’ the necessary skills.”
A team of Gilford Mid-dle School students re-cently came out on top at a regional math compe-tition, moving onto the state championships. In February, a team of four students took part in the chapter Mathcounts competition. The team moved next to the state competition.
Gilford joined 10 oth-er schools from around the region at the chapter competition at Plymouth State University on Feb. 1. The team consisting of eighth graders Luke Harding, Jonathan Nel-son, Chris Weimann, and Connor Leggett came in first place in team competition and Leggett was the overall first place winner. Wei-mann also came in third overall and Harding came in seventh.
GHS student Kayla Vieten was selected as the February Francis Wayland Parker Essay Contest winner for the State of New Hampshire.
The essay contest is sponsored by the New Hampshire Association of School Principals, and encourages students to write an essay describ-
ing the innovative ed-ucational programs in place at their schools as compared to those imple-mented by Francis Way-land Parker, a pioneer in education in the 1800’s.
Vieten wrote about the excellent staff at GHS and their ability to con-nect with students and to provide extra help, the trimester schedule. This offers more oppor-tunities for students to take classes of interest, the writing center which helps students edit pa-pers, the opportunity for college credit through Running Start and AP courses, Delayed Entry Wednesdays and the much appreciated extra rest for students and ex-tra time for staff to col-laborate on curriculum and the fun and camara-derie of Winter Carnival.
School district vol-unteer Karyn Sasserson was given state recog-nition for her service to Gilford Elementary School.
For a number of years, Sasserson has vol-unteered her time in the Gilford School District and other community projects through the Vol-unteer Steering Commit-tee, PTA, and others. On Nov. 10 she was given a Spirit of New Hampshire
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mittee was formed to examine the needs of a future playground.
Bolduc said the play-ground committee want-ed to get the students’ input on what they want-ed their playground to look like. Students were asked to design their own ideal playground for the monthly STEM project.
The plans were pre-sented at the school board meeting and the Playground Committee looked at the students’ designs to pick out any common elements. The committee will then put together the specifica-tions of the project, in-cluding the ideas gener-ated by the students, and put together a Request for Proposal for an engi-neer.
Work on the first
phase of the Meadows Property project com-pleted this summer with the help of many volun-teer efforts.
The fields, which are used for football and lacrosse, are in need of renovation with plans in place to make them suitable for other sports such as soccer and Parks and Recreation sports. Superintendent Kent Hemingway said the Meadows Committee was charged with do-ing the project through fundraising and volun-teer efforts and without the use of school funds; a task the committee ac-complished.
The area of the old hayfield was plowed up and turned over. The area was then tilled and smoothed over with a machine to take out the
furrows. Grass seed was then spread over the area and allowed to grow followed by seeding and leveling.
The field is expected to be operational by next year and will become a new practice field.
An irrigation system was also installed on the game fields.
The project received volunteer services from a number of local busi-nesses as well as help from a number of com-munity volunteers, in-cluding student athletes and boosters.
Phase two of the Meadows project will be the creation of restrooms and a concession stand. Phase three will exam-ine the use of the build-ings on the property.
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with a vote of 570 in fa-vor and 296 against.
This year Gilford named a new Police Chief. Anthony Bean Burpee, the former lieu-tenant of the Kennebunk Police Department in Maine, was sworn in during an official cere-mony at the Town Hall.
Burpee took over for Lt. James Leach, who had served in the chief position following the resignation of former chief Kevin Neenan. In his first day as Chief in Gilford, Burpee trained with department person-nel in an effort to famil-iarize himself with the area, and with the inner workings of the depart-ment.
Burpee will oversee the project to renovate the space and determine further plans for the de-partment from there. Bringing in other new officers will be import-ant for Burpee given re-cent openings in the de-partment. Training and retaining these officers has been one of Burpee’s goals for the department. He also stressed the im-portance of liability is-sues.
Work began to re-move coal tar from a site on Liberty Hill.
Earlier in the year, project principals held a public information ses-sions outlining the pro-cess and measures that will be taken to protect the neighborhood and the community.
At the beginning of the summer construc-tion crews began the two-year process to exca-vate soil contaminated with coal tar and clean the site on Liberty Hill Road.
Project principals in-cluding representatives from Liberty Utilities, GEI Consultants, the Department of Environ-mental Services, and Charter Environmental gave a tour of the site to members of the local me-dia, as well as represen-tatives from the Gilford Fire and Public Works Departments. Jim Ash, Vice President of GEI
Consultants, said Liber-ty Utilities’ first priority is the safety of the public and the workers during the project.
The company has also made transparency with the public a major goal.
A website was created to share information on the project and a phone hotline for public infor-mation was also set up. Representatives also met with Liberty Hill residents throughout the process.
An estimated 93,000 cubic yards of soil (ap-proximately 30 tons) will be removed from the site and taken to ESMI in Loudon for treatment. The treated soil will then be taken back to the site and used as backfill.
Careful monitoring of air quality, noise, and vibration was done with conservative thresholds for action to keep the area safe.
This year town offi-cials and the public held discussions on the fate of Kimball Castle.
In April of 2013, the board of selectmen voted unanimously in favor of allowing the owners of Kimball Castle to tear down the structure. This decision was made in light of reports from the town Building Inspector that the structure was a safety hazard and gener-al observations of its de-caying condition.
The owners had until April 30 of this year to comply with the Build-ing Inspector’s “make safe” order.
A number of citizens urged the town to save the castle, resulting in a number of discussions between the board and residents regarding op-tions for the site. One option by a group of citi-zens was to purchase the property, allow the cas-tle to collapse natural-ly, and merge the 20.35 acres with the 179 acres of town-owned property around Locke’s Hill.
The Kimball Wild-life Forest Committee recommended that the land be purchased and merged into the town land around Locke’s Hill. The committee rec-
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ommended that the cas-tle be fenced off and the castle could naturally decay. The committee planned to seek other funds for the purchase, including grants and possible donations, but would not seek town funding.
In a press release from the board in Feb-ruary (published in the Steamer as a Guest Com-mentary), the selectmen said such an arrange-ment utilizing town re-sources would not be in the town’s best interest considering the total costs associated with keeping the castle stand-ing. The selectmen said they would rather see a single-family home con-structed on the property and plans to be put in place memorializing the castle on town property.
A public discussion took place in April where local residents voiced their opinions on the fate of the castle and its property. A number of residents and visitors supported the preserva-tion of the castle while a number also did not want to see taxpayer dol-lars go into its preserva-tion.
The next day, Town Administrator Scott Dunn said the property owners, Kimball Cas-tle Properties, LLC, in-formed him they made the temporary decision to install a fence around the castle before the April 30 deadline.
A proposed fireworks ban drew much atten-tion this year. A public hearing was held to so-licit input on a proposed ordinance that would implement a ban on per-
missible fireworks.Wesley Stockwell of
Gilford spoke regarding a letter he submitted re-garding this issue.
He stated that people who work early, people with an acute sense of hearing, and veterans with PTSD do not need these unwanted distur-bances.
Matt Shea, Vice Presi-dent of Atlas Fireworks, stated he is a firm believ-er that whether it’s fire-works or guns, people should not be prohibited from owning or using them, but should have certain guidelines to follow. Such guidelines could include noise ordi-nances allowing permis-sion during a select win-dow of time for firework use.
Selectman Gus Bena-vides opposed the ordi-nance, and mentioned le-gal issues for the public and the other selectmen to consider. He suggest-ed guidelines that would offer the public a means of using fireworks under restrictions. Selectman John O’Brien spoke in favor of the ban, say-ing many communities already have banned fireworks. He also gave stories on incidents in-volving the dangers of fireworks.
The selectmen vot-ed two to one to keep the current ban on fire-works while enforcing fines for firework use. Benavides was alone in
his vote against the ban.The fireworks ordi-
nance was later revisit-ed. Selectman Richard Grenier looked to make modifications to come to a better conclusion on this ban.
A public hearing was later held with opin-ions expressed for and against the ban. Some residents spoke on the dangers of fireworks while others spoke against the limitation.
The Board of Select-men ruled to amend the fireworks ordinance. The proposed fireworks ordinance was approved amending fireworks to be used between the hours of noon and 10 p.m., except for extend-ed period on New Year’s Eve and July 3-5, when fireworks would be al-lowed until 12:15 a.m. In addition, the amended ordinance would clari-fy that it is not illegal to possess or transport per-missible fireworks, but rather imposes fine for violations if fireworks are used during time-frames when they are prohibited.
The Ellacoya Country Store and Deli gained national attention for an alleged spectral resident when the video of a cake dome flying of the count-er on its own went viral.
The video, recorded on the store’s closed cir-cuit TV system, showed an incident on March 2 when a heavy glass
cake dome lifted into the air off the counter and smashed on the floor. Both General Manager Lisa Ferraro-Giles and owner Steve Buzzota re-ceived alarmed messag-es from associate Heidi Boyd about the cake top flying off yet leaving the homemade peanut but-ter cups underneath un-touched.
Eventually, Buzzot-ta looked at the securi-ty footage from behind the counter and saw the whole incident.
There have been nu-merous stories over the years of mysterious hap-penings, including peo-ple getting tapped on the shoulder by an unseen presence, footsteps in empty areas, and pieces of equipment turning off by themselves.
The store was visited by mediums as well as the Maine Paranormal Society, which is con-nected to the well-known TAPS group. A video posted on YouTube by the Maine Paranormal Society tried a number of experiments to repli-cate the incident. None of the experiments rep-licated the exact move-ments of the cake done in the video.
Buzzota insisted that the incident was not staged and there was no way that incident could have happened normal-ly.
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Bartlett, Harris combine for 30 as Eagles clip Kearsarge
JEFF LAJOIE
Gilford sophomore Stevie Orton goes up for a basket in the second quarter of the Eagles’ 56-49 win over Kearsarge.
JEFF LAJOIE
Maddie Harris (14) tries to pry away a rebound from Kearsarge’s Devi Kraushaar during action on Dec. 19. Harris had a double-double of 15 points and 14 rebounds in the win.
JEFF LAJOIE
Gilford’s Mariah Nelson (10) was a key spark off the bench, as she blocked three shots and scored six points to help the Eagles beat Kearsarge.
BY JEFF LAJOIE
GILFORD — With a multitude of weapons at his disposal this win-ter, Gilford High School girls’ basketball coach Rick Forge knows that different players are ca-pable of stepping up on different nights.
In a game that was not nearly as close as the final score indicated, it was the junior tandem of Cassidy Bartlett and Maddie Harris on Dec. 19.
The pair each scored 15 points as Gilford trailed for all of 1:02 at the beginning of the first quarter en route to a sol-id 56-49 win over visiting Kearsarge in Division III action.
The Cougars (2-2) used runs of 12-2 late in the third quarter and 11-0 late in the fourth quarter to turn what likely should have been a 20-plus point victory to single digits.
“It was a good win for the kids,” said Forge, whose team had moved to 4-0 on the young season afterwards. “I thought our defense was pretty good when we extend-ed some three-quarter court pressure against them. We built a little bit of a lead thanks to that and we did enough to hold on from there.”
Bartlett had her best game of the early portion of the season in victory. She scored seven points in the first quarter, get-ting out in transition and finishing around the rim. Harris was a pres-ence inside, as she add-ed 14 rebounds to her 15 points for a double-dou-ble.
Gilford jumped out to a 15-8 lead after the first quarter, thanks to
a pressing defense that caused havoc for Ke-arsarge. The Cougars struggled to get the ball over half court for a peri-od of time in the opening frame, and the Eagles responded. Stevie Or-ton scored four points during the run, while Jordan Dean and Bart-lett also added points to account for a 9-0 spree.
Things continued to go well for Gilford in the second quarter. Sparked by the play off the bench from Mariah Nelson (six points, three blocks) and Julia Harris (three points), the lead grew to
28-14 at halftime.The Eagles were nev-
er really threatened in the second half despite the two Kearsarge scor-ing runs. A three-point play from Bartlett put the hosts up 39-20 with 4:35 left in the third quar-ter, though the late 12-2 run pulled the visitors within 42-33 entering the fourth. But Shan-non Mercer and Bart-lett scored to open the fourth, and the margin grew as big as 56-38 with 2:40 left on a Dean jump-er and Nelson layup.
Kearsarge would close things out on an 11-0 run, though six of those points came in the waning seconds to ac-count for the 56-49 final.
Behind Bartlett and Harris’ 15 points, Dean and Nelson added six points, Orton tossed in five, Brooke Beaudet (four points), Julia Har-ris (three) and Mercer (two).
In the boys’ game on the road in North Sut-ton, the Gilford bench
came up big in holding off the Cougars, 58-49.
Zach Djabelarbi’s 17 points off the bench led the way, and he hauled in 11 rebounds for the victorious Eagles. Ju-nior Coby Goodwin also finished in double fig-ures off the bench for a deep Gilford squad, as he knocked down a cou-ple of threes to total 10 points. Max Troiano also scored 10 points in the win.
Gilford led just 28-27 at intermission after trailing 15-9 following the opening quarter. The Cougars led by as many as eight points in the third quarter, but the Eagles outscored Ke-arsarge by an 18-7 mar-gin in the fourth to pull away for the solid road victory.
Kaleb Orton (13 re-bounds) and Michael Madore (10 rebounds) led the charge on the in-terior for Gilford, which moved to 2-1 overall fol-lowing the win.
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Awards season:2014 edition
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GILFORD — With a successful 2014 in the books this week, it’s al-ways nice to reflect on what was a great year for the Gilford High School athletic depart-ment. Having trouble remembering what hap-pened? Well, here’s a refresher. Pretend that this is an awards show, a la the ESPYs. For fun’s sake, we can call it the GILYs. Here’s one man’s opinion of the awards for 2014 at GHS on the athletic front. (Note: no actual awards will be handed out, that would be expensive.)
Coach of the Year - Terry Wilson, boys’ ten-nis
Here’s the thing about Gilford High School: there are a lot of good coaches.
So picking just one as the ‘best’ of the year is not an easy task. But we’re going with boys’ tennis coach Terry Wil-son after guiding his team to their fourth state championship in five years. The amount of time and effort that Wil-son puts into getting his players ready each sea-son is quite impressive. His enthusiasm for the sport is infectious, with players working during the offseason and win-ter months to prepare for the spring season. He even sets aside different practice times and rou-tines to work with his players who are at dif-ferent levels of abilities. Talk about dedication.
Honorable mention: Dave Rogacki, Shawn Garrett, Dave Pinkham, Joan Forge, Matt Finch
Male Athlete of the Year - Keaton Quigley, soccer/alpine skiing/tennis
It’s hard to pick any-one else after Quigley won two state titles during the alpine ski season (slalom and gi-ant slalom) and then followed that up with a state title with the boys’ tennis team.
Add in the fact that he was the lynchpin of the boys’ soccer team in the midfield during a fall season where the Eagles reached the Final Four and you’ve got yourself a winner.
Honorable mention: Kyle Gaudet, Andrew Caulfield, Max Troiano
Female Athlete of the Year - Jordan Dean, volleyball/basketball/softball
There are a lot of three-sport athletes on the girls’ side. Dean gets the nod after reaching 500 career kills for the volleyball team during her junior year this fall in addition to being a starter on the basketball and softball teams. She should get credit for also playing in the Forge fac-
Golden Eagles kick off new track season
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Lauren Mercuri jumps during competition at UNH on Dec. 21.
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Connor Leggett breaks from the blocks during the 55-meter dash at UNH on Dec. 21.
DURHAM — The Gil-ford indoor track team kicked off the new sea-son on Sunday, Dec. 21, at the University of New Hampshire Fieldhouse.
The girls placed 10th overall on the day with all four girls earning top 10 results against a strong field of Division II squads.
Sophomore Alexa McNamara led the team with a fourth place fin-ish in the 1,500 meters in 5:54. Maddy Relf was sixth in 6:16 and Lizzy Relf finished ninth in 6:21.
Senior Lauren Mercu-ri finished in fifth place in the long jump with her distance of 13 feet, six inches.
On the boys’ side of things, Michael Wernig ran to 12th overall in the 1,500 meters in a time of 5:05 and then took 14th in the shot put with a toss of 31 feet, 7.25 inches.
Fellow freshman Con-nor Leggett was 13th in the 55 meters in a time of 7.4 seconds, with Antho-ny Eldridge finishing in 7.8 seconds, a new per-sonal best. Ian McNeil finished in 7.9 seconds.
In the long jump, Leg-
tory of sports, as she is on Joan’s volleyball and softball teams and Rick’s basketball team.
Honorable mention: Maddie Harris, Emily Parker, Caitlin Houston
Team of the Year - Boys’ tennis
Not surprisingly, 2014 was a good year for the athletic department at Gilford – most years are pretty good. But the boys’ tennis team nabs the win largely in part because of the ‘D’ word – Dynasty. Wilson’s team won its fourth Di-vision III state title in five years, a remarkable accomplishment in that span. The 5-4 win in the state finals over Bow was one of the best mo-ments for the program all year.
Honorable mention: Football, baseball, vol-leyball, boys’ soccer
Best Breakthrough Athlete - Sarah Lacha-pelle
Lachapelle had per-haps the toughest task of any Gilford athlete this fall. After a stand-out four-year pitching career in the softball cir-cle, Sydney Strout grad-uated in 2013 and Lacha-pelle, as a sophomore this spring, stepped right into the role and flourished. The Eagles had another fine season behind the right arm of Lachapelle, proving dangerous in the post-season. And oh yeah, she made the switch to field hockey this fall and be-came a defensive starter right away.
Honorable mention: Carter Mercer, Julia Normandin, Shannon Mercer, Coby Goodwin
Best Game - Boys’ basketball playoff win over Prospect Mountain, 59-53
This one can be about personal preference. But for me, this was the game that I’ll remember most from 2014.
With five players sus-pended, the Eagles need-ed someone to step up. Coby Goodwin answered the call, carrying Gilford on his back to the tune of 26 points. The place was rocking, as playoff games against local ri-vals can be, and Good-win was on fire from all over the floor. Just a week or so removed from a loss to PM with their full compliment of players, the Eagles pulled out the win with-out several starters in a game not many gave them a chance to win.
Honorable mention: Softball playoff loss to Hopkinton, field hockey semifinal loss to Hop-kinton, B-G hockey OT quarterfinal win over Kennett, boys’ tennis state championship win over Bow
Best Interview - An-drew Caulfield
I’ve interviewed a ton of the student-athletes at Gilford. Most of them are very good at answering questions during inter-views. There’s a reason that GHS is a top school in the state.
Caulfield gets the award from me for sev-eral reasons. He’s well spoken and elaborates well, and he knows ten-nis inside and out so de-scribing his matches is a breeze. But he’s also un-flappable, as I’ve inter-viewed him with tennis balls from other matches flying towards his head and he doesn’t flinch. That’s impressive.
Honorable mention: Alex Harris, Nolan Dw-yer, Maddie Laflamme, Jordan Dean
Lacrosse open gym sessions start Jan. 4LACONIA — Even
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gett was 13th at 13 feet, 4.25 inches, Eldridge was 15th at 13 feet, 1.25 inches and Wernig was 16th at 12 feet, 9.25 inches.
The team was in ac-
tion after (early) dead-line at UNH on Dec. 27. The team competes at UNH on Saturday, Jan. 3, at 9 a.m.
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Award at a ceremony in Concord.
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ceremony on Nov. 10 at the Capital Center for the Arts in Concord.
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