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By MICHAEL COUSINEAU
NewHampshire Sunday News
Nancy Young was driving in
a military convoy in Iraq when
a roadside bomb set up an am-
bush, resulting in a re ght
with insurgents hiding out in
palm tree groves.
We took re and we re-
turned re,
the retired
Air National
Guardsman
said Fri-
day. Id say
thats direct
combat.
S e v e n
years later,
the Auburn
resident said
the military
should lift
the ban on
women en-
gaging in direct combat roles.
I think women have proven
themselves again and again,
said Young, a legal assistant
who works at defense contrac-
tor BAE Systems in Nashua.
If a woman is physically and
mentally capable of being in a
specialty (job) which puts them
in harms way, they should be
allowed to do it.
This month, the Military
Leadership Diversity Commis-
sion, authorized by Congress,
recommended in a report that
the military gradually remove
the restrictions that prevent
women from engaging in direct
ground combat.
More than 200 women serve
in the New Hampshire Army
National Guard, with about 140
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Astronauts
legacy
Forty years after
his Apollo 14 moon
mission, the late
Alan Shepard and his
accomplishments are
still revered by young
people. One student,
Kealey Cela, from his
alma mater, Pinkerton
Academy, has set her
sights on outer space,
too. VPage B1
NEW HAMPSHIRE
911 call shows response to stabbing
Jurors heard the tape of an emotional 911 call made
after Christopher Vydfol was stabbed at a Halloween
party in 2009. Zachary Cassidy, 20, of Londonderry told
the court he called 911 after his friend Vydfol stag-
gered up the driveway after being stabbed in the chest
with a knife during a party at 157 Bedford Road in
Merrimack. VPage B7
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BUSINESS
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Tucked inside a Salem industrial park is a business
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By GARRY RAYNO
NewHampshire UnionLeader
MANCHESTER With the New Hamp-
shire Presidential Primary only a year
away, theres been more political shad-
ow boxing but less brawling than seen
in 2008.
Thats how some political observers
see it. But they say its unfair to compare
the two cycles because 2008 was an ex-
ceptional year, with open presidential
races on both sides of the ticket and can-
didates on every street corner leading
up to the rst-in-the-nation primary.
Behind-the-scenes courting of activ-
ists and organizers has been going on as
usual. And in the past few days, word has
leaked about some of the better-known
potential candidates Mitt Romney,
Rudy Giuliani, Newt Gingrich head-
ing to New Hampshire in the next few
months.
The relatively slow start is not just a
New Hampshire phenomenon either,
said University of New Hampshire po-
litical science department Chairman
Possible
primary
rivalries
on pause
.
Waiting game: Presidential
political activity off to slower start
than in 2008.
By PAUL FEELY
NewHampshire UnionLeader
MANCHESTER Fireghters on the
Hazardous Materials Response Team
havent taken a department-provided
physical in the past ve years, and one
alderman thinks that might violate fed-
eral regulations.
Its not just about watching out for
the health of the guys on the hazmat
team, said Ward 4 Alderman Jim Roy,
himself a former reghter. I think
theres a question of liability. I think it
needs to be looked at. Its spelled out by
the EPA that they need to be done, and
Hazmat
physicals
spur debate
.
Not in five years: Manchester
alderman and firefighters disagree
over whether doctor exams are
optional.
Panel:
Allow
women
in battle
.
N.H. view: Sen.
Shaheen and some female
Guard members also say
time has come to allow
infantry role.
By NANCY WEST
NewHampshire Sunday News
A former Manchester woman says attor-
ney Thomas J. Tessier got away with stealing
$1 million from her in 1982, long before he
was disbarred and imprisoned last March
for stealing $2.3 mil-
lion from two cousins
he represented.
Suzanne LeBlanc
Dunham is now try-
ing to get at least some
of that money back.
Dunham, who with
her then-husband, Gerald LeBlanc, owned
J.J. Moreau and Son hardware store on Elm
Street, said she only discovered the theft ve
Widow: Lawyer stole $1 million payout
HOT WEEKEND ON GRANITE STATE ICE
Granite
Thunder
VIconic image:
197th Fires Brigade
recalls rst Gulf
war Page A10
By LARISSA MULKERN
Sunday News Correspondent
MOULTONBOROUGH Carloads of spectators park
with headlights facing the frozen Berry Pond as pit
crews ready drivers and race cars on the opposite
side of the pond.
Anticipation builds as the engines of stock and
modied race cars rumble loudly. The cold 30-degree
air smells like gasoline.
Its just another day at the races the Daytona of
Ice Racing, that is.
Thirty-eight drivers, including ve teenagers in
the junior class, raced for trophies and to raise
money to ght cancer during Saturdays 27th Annual
Latchkey Cup, presented by the Lakes Region Ice
Racing Club. Since its inception, the race has raised
more than $212,000 for cancer research and patient
services at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dart-
mouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. The center is the
only facility in the state that has a pediatric oncology
.
Latchkey Cup: Hundreds attend
Moultonborough fundraiser to fight cancer.
Racers put on slick show for good cause
By ALLEN LESSELS
NewHampshire UnionLeader
CONCORD The Govs got game.
So says Ray Champagne, who knows a
thing or two about ice hockey.
New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch and
Champagne, a star of the Manchester
Blackhawks of old, are among the 350
or so hockey players lacing them up this
weekend for the inaugural 1883 Black Ice
Passion, pride meet
in pond hockey series
MARK BOLTON/UNIONLEADER
Concords Mark Ruddy of the Senior Turkey Pond Flyers is pressured
by Gov. John Lynch, right, of the Lynch Gang during the 1883 Black
Ice Pond Hockey Championship this weekend in Concord.
In her Florida
home, former
N.H. resident
Suzanne
LeBlanc
Dunham looks
at documents
from a life
insurance
company.
COURTESY PHOTO
.
Thomas J. Tessier: Already jailed
for theft of $2.3 million, hes accused of
bilking an insurance policy beneficiary.
Inside
VMoreaus
remembered:
Store a Manchester
landmark for a
century Page A8
VSee Tessier, Page A8
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Dear Abby...................... F9
Dr. Gott ........................ F11
Editorials........................B2
Harrigan ........................B1
Heloise........................... F9
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Lifestyles ..................F6-12
Lotteries ....................... A2
MenuPlanner................ F7
Money Week .................D7
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Wall Street Journal ...D4-5
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Weddings ...................... F8
LARISSA MULKERN
Cars line up for the 27th annual Latchkey Cup presented by the Lakes Region Ice Racing Club on Saturday in
Moultonborough, where a frozen Berry Pond was converted into a racetrack. Proceeds from the event will be
donated to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center.
VSee Combat, Page A10
Kealey Cela stands in
front of a portrait of
astronaut Alan Shepard.
VSee Pond hockey, Page A9
VSee Latchkey Cup, Page A9
VSee Primary, Page A4
VSee Physicals, Page A4
ITS A COMMON SAYING
around Concord that when
youre in a hole, stop digging.
Republicans have been grab-
bing shovels. Theyve led a list
of tax cut and repeal bills that
would reduce state revenues
by more than $240 million over
the next two years.
The revenue shortfall in the
next budget already is any-
where between $600 million
and $900 million.
It gets to more than $1 bil-
lion if even some of the GOP
tax bills pass,
if you go with
the Ofce of
L e g i s l a t i v e
Budget Assis-
tants current
shortfall esti-
mate of nearly
$900 million.
The bills are not products
of any anti-tax fringe players.
Sponsors include House Fi-
nance Committee Chairman
Ken Weyler, Senate President
Peter Bragdon, Senate Finance
Chairman Chuck Morse, Senate
Majority Leader Jeb Bradley and
House Major-
ity Leader D.J.
Bettencourt.
There are
plans to cut
the rooms and
meals tax, the
tobacco tax
and the busi-
ness prots tax
and to eliminate the gambling
tax. Bills also propose a nearly
full exemption of reasonable
compensation from business
taxes and add years to the time
a company could carry a net
loss for tax purposes.
Theres also a change that
would raise the threshold for
paying the business enterprise
tax (BET), a $15 million change
over two years, according to
the Department of Revenue
Administration (DRA) esti-
mates, as well as an extended
BET tax credit.
The largest single change in
tax law would be on reasonable
compensation, in SB 125. By it-
self, it would cut state revenues
by nearly $100 million over two
years, according to the DRA.
The change would give busi-
nesspeople pretty much free
rein to take any prots as sal-
ary. That kind of practice drove
Republicans to pass the BET
two decades ago.
The compensation bill is
identical to one led last year
during the LLC revolution, but
the DRA couldnt determine
its effect back then. The new
bill would exempt from tax all
amounts that are fairly attrib-
utable to the personal services
of the proprietor, partner or
member. Once you claimed
the deduction, the burden
would be on the DRA to prove
youre wrong.
Morse, R-Salem, is skeptical
of the $100 million estimate
on the bill, which he co-spon-
sors. I have some questions
for DRA about how they came
up with that, Morse said. How
do they go from an undeter-
minable de-
crease to $49
million per
year? Actual-
ly, DRA Com-
mi s s i o n e r
Kevin Clough-
erty thinks its
$49.8 million.
He explained
that data systems at the DRA
have improved over the past
year. Instead of manually re-
viewing thousands of returns
to determine how tax changes
would hit revenues, he said,
the department implemented
new systems that are getting
better data that we can provide
to the Legislature.
The costs of other tax bills
would run the gamut. A busi-
ness prots tax rate cut to 8
percent from 8.5 percent would
cost $45 million over two years.
The business enterprise tax cut
would cost about $12 million.
Cut the tobacco tax by 10 cents
a pack, lose $16 million to $30
million. Extend the net operat-
ing loss carry-forward, $32 mil-
lion. Rooms and meals tax cut,
between $30 million and $50
million.
Eliminating the gambling tax
would trim roughly $5 million,
but that one is not so simple.
The tax drove out-of-state
gamblers away from off-track
betting sites and carved out a
chunk of Powerball sales and
other lottery revenues. Repeal
could drive up sales and offset
the loss of tax money.
Tobacco changes, too, could
boost sales if the tax here was
far less than those in neighbor-
ing states.
Morse said hes trying to cre-
ate stability and predictability
for business owners.
He said they are becoming
a source of revenue for state
government. Were not here to
do that. By saying we will em-
phasize stability, were saying
were going to live within our
means up here, he said. Our
job is to reduce spending and
to live within our means, and
well do it.
The Senate gets started on
the gambling tax repeal in SB
130 with a hearing Tuesday.
The House gets into the act
on Tuesday when it hears the
rooms and meals tax cut in HB
166.
Weyler said hell proceed
carefully as revenue projec-
tions come into focus.
.
Tom Fahey is State House bureau chief
for the New Hampshire Union Leader and
New Hampshire Sunday News. E-mail him
at tfahey@unionleader.com.
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ABCs This Week: Ronald Reagans children, Michael Reagan, Ron
Reagan and Patti Davis; Newt Gingrich.
NBCs Meet the Press: Sen. Mitch McConnell; Democratic Na-
tional Committee Chairman Tim Kaine.
CBS Face the Nation: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton;
White House Chief of Sta Bill Daley.
CNNs State of the Union: Edward Walker, a former U.S. ambas-
sador to Egypt; Clinton; Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Charles
Schumer, D-N.Y.; Alan Simpson, co-chairman of the Presidents
decit commission; former U.N. Ambassador John Negroponte.
Fox News Sunday: Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio.
WMURs CloseUp: N.H. GOP Chairman Jack Kimball; U.S. Com-
merce Secretary Gary Locke; remembering the Challenger disaster.
What about the revenue shortfall?
Now that the states largest
teachers unions, NEA-NH,
has pulled the plug on its
Read Across America event,
House and Senate leadership
have started a program of
their own. Senate President
Peter Bragdon and House
Speaker William OBrien an-
nounced Celebrate Reading
Day will be held at the State
House on March 7.
Students and legisla-
tors alike will be invited to
bring their favorite book to
Concord for a pep rally for
reading, the announcement
said.
NEA-NH cited its mem-
bers concerns that guns at
the State House have been
in the news lately, and they
dont want their program to
bring children into an envi-
ronment where they could
confront guns.
OBrien and others in the
GOP say the presence of guns
does not pose a threat to
safety.
Were delighted to be able
to invite schoolchildren to
the State House to celebrate
literacy, OBrien said. No
word on whether NEAs
hallmark Dr. Seuss hats will
be available.
Tom Fahey
Readers re-invited to Capitol
CLOUGHERTY
BRAGDON
BRADLEY
CONCORD Bills scheduled
for public hearings at the Leg-
islature this week include:
Tuesday, Jan 31
In the House:
HB 147: expanding the death
penalty to home invasion mur-
ders; Representatives Hall, State
House, 10 a.m.
HB 162: making all murders
punishable by death; Reps Hall,
State House, 1 p.m.
HB 212: barring executive
branch employees from politi-
cal campaigning, Legislative
O ce Building, Rm. 308, 1 p.m.
HB 218: repealing the N.H. Rail
Transit Authority, LOB Rm. 203,
1 p.m.
HB 166: reducing the meals
and rooms tax rate, LOB Rm.
202, 2 p.m.
SB 1 and HB 326: repealing
the evergreen clause law
regarding public worker con-
tracts; LOB, Rm. 307, 3 p.m.
In the Senate:
SB 57: raising interest rates
limits on car title loans; LOB Rm
102, 10:15 a.m.
SB 130: repealing the tax on
gambling winnings, State
House, Rm. 100, 1 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 3
In the House:
HB 295: allowing long-term
use of antibiotics for Lyme
disease treatment, LOB, Rm.
205-207, 9 a.m.
HB 474: on freedom of choice
on whether to join a labor
union; Reps. Hall, SH, 10:30 a.m.
HB 187: extending carry-for-
ward on business enterprise tax
credits; LOB Rm. 202, 1:45 p.m.
In the Senate:
SB 93: expanding the kinds
of vaccines pharmacists can
administer; LOB Rm. 102, 1:20
p.m.
SB 69: allowing motorcycles
to go through red lights after
stopping; LOB Rm. 103, 10 a.m.
Friday, Feb. 4
In the House
HB 233: blocking the judicial
branch from reviewing educa-
tion funding complaints; LOB
Rm. 207, 9:45 a.m.
A full listing of public hearings
is in the House calendar: www.
gencourt.state.nh.us/house/
caljourns and in the Senate
calendar at gencourt.state.
nh.us/scaljourns.
Legislative hearings
WASHINGTON (Bloomberg
News) President Barack
Obama will send a multitril-
lion-dollar budget to Con-
gress on Feb. 14, spokesman
Kenneth Baer said, setting up
a conict over spending that
may dominate a divided Con-
gress for the rest of the year.
The budget for scal 2012 is
a political document that will
put into precise language the
administrations priorities for
increasing economic growth
and creating jobs. Republicans
who campaigned on promises
to slash spending took control
of the U.S. House of Represen-
tatives and reduced the Dem-
ocrats majority in the Senate.
The sooner Washington
ends its dependence on more
spending, the sooner our
economy will see real growth,
Sen. Ron Johnson of Wiscon-
sin said in Saturdays weekly
Republican radio address.
Obama says hes ready to
trim or eliminate programs,
specically mentioning com-
munity action grants to local
governments, to allow spend-
ing increases for his priorities.
We want to cut with a scal-
pel as opposed to a chain saw,
Obama said.
Obama to send
his budget to
Congress Feb. 14
12 animals die
in Deereld re
DEERFIELD A dozen
animals died in a barn re that
may have been sparked by a
heat lamp Saturday morning,
authorities said.
Five pigs, four adult goats
and three baby goats perished
in the re, according to Fire
Chief Mark Tibbetts.
A baby goat may have
knocked down the heat lamp
in the barn, which included
stored hay and grain, he said.
It just took a spark with the
hay, Tibbetts said.
Arriving reghters found
a fully involved barn at 105
Mount Delight Road shortly
after 11 a.m. The barn burned
to the ground. A nearby
chicken coop sustained minor
damage, and the chickens
inside were saved, he said.
There were no injuries. The
barn is owned by Scott and
Diane Partridge.
Shipyard to get
$16m for construction
The Portsmouth Naval Ship-
yard in Kittery, Maine, will re-
ceive $16 million in Navy funds
for construction and modern-
ization work on one of three
dry docks used for submarine
engineering overhauls, U.S.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H.,
announced Friday.
Last November, several
senators, including Shaheen,
expressed concern that the
shipyard has had to rely on
funding requests from indi-
vidual members of Congress.
In a letter to Jacob Lew, di-
rector of the presidents Ofce
of Management and Budget,
the senators wrote that without
such funds we will have seri-
ous concerns about the ability
of the Navys facilities to sup-
port efcient shipyard opera-
tions and to protect the safety,
health and quality of life of the
thousands of employees who
work there every day.
City man faces
robbery charge
MANCHESTER An off-duty
Manchester police ofcer
caught a robber trying to steal
goods from the Sports Author-
ity on South Willow Street.
On his way to work, Det. Sgt.
John Patti saw three people
run out of the store entrance,
get into a vehicle and then ee
the area. Patti was able to iden-
tify the license plate before the
vehicle disappeared.
At the same time, another
male was attempting to leave
the store with what police de-
scribe as a signicant amount
of merchandise, assaulted a
store clerk as he ed and ran
from the parking lot.
Patti chased the suspect on
foot and called headquarters
for assistance.
Patti caught 17-year-old
William Delisle of 15 Malvern
St., Manchester, and took him
into custody by the time ad-
ditional police arrived. Delisle
was charged with robbery and
violation of bail conditions.
WILD NH Day
coming April 30
CONCORD The state Fish
and Game Department will
hold its annual Discover
WILD New Hampshire Day
on Saturday, April 30, at its
headquarters, 11 Hazen Drive,
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admis-
sion is free.
Live wildlife, big sh, retriev-
er dogs and trained falcons
will be on hand for this annual
family event. Hands-on activi-
ties include wildlife crafts, ar-
chery and casting, and dozens
of environmental, conserva-
tion and outdoor organizations
will sponsor exhibits.
New this year is the Won-
ders of Watersheds ex-
hibit from the Sylvia O. Conte
National Wildlife Refuge. It
is co-sponsored by Fish and
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Politics
A 7 PERCENT decrease in
the sewer rate wasnt sup-
posed to be controversial.
But when it came before
the Committee on Admin-
istration and Information
Systems on Tuesday, the
item passed by a slim 3-2
margin. Before the meeting
ended, Ward 8 Alderman
Betsi DeVries notied her fel-
low members she wanted to
reconsider her vote, and the
sewer rate decrease that had
been headed
for the full
board was
tabled.
DeVr-
ies said on
Thursday that
some of her
constituents
have been
waiting for
public sewer service for a long
time, and she was concerned
this rate decrease could make
the wait even longer. But in
a conversation with Public
Works Director Kevin Shep-
pard, she learned the Glen
Forrest and Lone Pine Drive
neighborhoods were on
track to get public sewerage
through the ongoing Cohas
Brook
project.
DeVr-
ies other
concern
was the
massive,
federally-
man-
dated
combined
sewer overow (CSO)
abatement program, which
requires that Manchester
separate the storm water
from the waste water in the
public system. Sheppard told
the committee the second
phase of the project was sup-
posed to begin this year, but
because the details are being
renegotiated with the U.S.
Environmental Protection
Agency, its been put on hold.
While Manchester waits, the
city has opted to give resi-
dents a break on their sewer
rates.
Some aldermen, including
Dan ONeil and Garth Corriveau,
who voted against the rate
decrease, are concerned be-
cause Man-
chester still
has to pay
for the CSO
program at
some point. If
the aldermen
vote for a
rate de-
crease now,
they worry
residents would get hit with
a huge increase later. The
city laid out a nancial plan
for this sewer project, ONeil
said, and it should stick to it.
Were going to need that
money, said ONeil. Were
setting up the public for a
large increase down the road,
and I think thats wrong.
I dont disagree with your
comments, Sheppard said.
A rate reduction will require
rate increases in the future,
perhaps earlier in the future.
With the economy down,
people need it now, and
hopefully down the road they
can handle a rate increase.
DeVries said she hopes the
city will soon get some an-
swers from the EPA so alder-
men will be more informed in
their decision, but the delay
hasnt sat well with Mayor Ted
Gatsas, who lobbied for the
decrease.
Im sure the full Board of
Aldermen will have an oppor-
tunity to vote on that, said
Gatsas. The commission that
reviewed it and agreed with
the reduction are people we
put in that position and that
the aldermen voted for, and I
would hope we would listen
to their recommendations.
.
THE MANCHESTER Re-
publican Committee wants
more of its members on the
top city boards in 2012. To
help achieve that goal, the
newly-elected ofcers have
launched a recruiting effort
thats focusing on Republi-
cans who lost their bid for
state ofce in November and
small-business owners with
political ambitions, similar to
state Sen. Tom DeBlois.
Newly appointed city
committee President Je
Frost said the search for
hard-working, conservative
candidates was the subject
of discussion at a committee
meeting last week.
Im looking for people
with some re in their belly,
said Frost.
The com-
mittee will
soon relaunch
its website
and plans to
employ more
social media
outreach.
It has also
scheduled a
nonpartisan
event on the history of the
New Hampshire Primary
on Feb. 16 at Saint Anselm
College with New Hampshire
Secretary of State Bill Gardner.
MRC ofcers, elected Jan.
19, also include 1st Vice
Chairman David Hurst, who
served on the boards of the
MRC and the Young Repub-
licans; 2nd Vice Chairman
Ronnie Schlender, who was
named the Greater Manches-
ter Chamber of Commerces
2010 Volunteer of the Year;
Secretary Aaron Goulette, who
has ample political experi-
ence on local and national
campaigns in New Hamp-
shire and elsewhere; and
Treasurer Lisa Swank, a Re-
publican activist who worked
to elect the West Sides
entirely Republican delega-
tion, including husband Rep.
Matt Swank.
.
IF THERES a Democrat out
there considering running
against Mayor Gatsas, its the
best kept secret in town. With
the exception of Alderman
Corriveaus cryptic reference
to running for something on
the city ballot this fall, no one
has even hinted at a Demo-
crat willing to step up.
City Democratic Chairman
Mike Brunelle, who usually
plays such political moves
close to his vest anyway, said
voters could expect a candi-
date in the coming months.
When pressed for a more
concrete time frame, he said,
I would say sooner rather
than later.
Democrats are busy work-
ing on city and state bud-
gets right now, concerned
about the possible massive
downshifting
to the city of
Manchester
and what
that would
mean for city
services such
as police, re
and public
schools.
Brunelle
was clear about the partys
intention to hold on to the
13-seat majority it has on the
Board of Mayor and Alder-
men by focusing on their
records.
Democrats on the board
have been extremely respon-
sive to their constituents, and
I think that matters, said
Brunelle.
.
CITY RESIDENTS have
heard plenty about the
troubled budget outlook, but
on Wednesday, Feb. 9, Gatsas
is expected to highlight more
than just city nancials at the
Greater Manchester Chamber
of Commerce State of the
State/State of the City break-
fast forum at the New Hamp-
shire Institute of Politics at
Saint Anselm College. Gov.
John Lynch will also speak at
the event, offering an update
on the state of New Hamp-
shire. Tickets are available at
manchester-chamber.org.
.
ATTORNEY EDWARD
STEWART JR. of the law rm
Shaheen and Gordon has
been appointed to the Man-
chester Transit Authority to
ll a term that expires in May.
LAC Group recruiter and
former Manchester City Li-
brary staffer Kathleen Schmidt
has been nominated to the
Arts Commission, to replace
Celia Nardo; Planning Board
alternate Robert Campbell has
been nominated to replace
resigning member Christo-
pher Thompson; Joan Bennett,
president of The Write Con-
nection, has been nominated
to ll Campbells seat as a
Planning Board alternate; Lyn
Gelinas of the Citizens Finan-
cial Group has been nominat-
ed to ll Donna Danekes spot
as a Planning Board alternate;
Robert Dastin has been nomi-
nated for another term on
the Airport Commission; and
interior design consultant
and New Hampshire Institute
of Art instructor June Trisciani
has been nominated to ll
a vacancy on the Heritage
Commission. Louis DeMato
has stepped down from his
spot on the Planning Board.
.
Read Bth LaMontagne Halls coverage of
Manchester City Hall during the week in the
New Hampshire Union Leader. E-mail her at
bhall@unionleader.com.
Proposed sewer rate decrease stopped up in committee
City Hall
Beth
LaMontagne
Hall
ONEIL
DEVRIES
GATSAS
THE POLICY DIRECTOR.
A long-time top adviser to
former candidate for governor
John Stephen has landed a key
post in Speaker of the House
Bill OBriens ofce.
Greg Moore is now House
policy director, a new full-
time post that he said pays
$75,000 annually.
Moore will offer the leader-
ship advice on policy and
communications efforts and
track the progress of bills.
He is expected to attempt
to keep the leadership and
House GOP message focused
on scal issues. Its appar-
ently not coincidental that
his hiring comes after several
weeks of embarrassing issues
faced by the leadership, from
the abandoned effort to oust
state Democratic Party Ex-
ecutive Director Mike Brunelle
from the House to Rep. Lars
Christiansens petition in sup-
port of a convicted rapist.
As far back as mid-Decem-
ber, after former Democratic
state Chairman Kathy Sul-
livan wrote an op-ed ripping
OBriens creation of a Consti-
tutional Review and Statutory
Recodication Committee,
Moore advised leadership not
to respond directly but to in-
stead refocus on creating jobs
and on balancing the budget
without raising taxes.
Moore, a Manchester
resident, was Stephens policy
and communications adviser
during the gubernatorial cam-
paign.
When Stephen was com-
missioner of Health and
Human Services, Moore was
the departments director of
public affairs and government
relations from 2003 to 2007.
He has also run his own public
relations consulting shop.
.
HURST IN MINNESOTA.
Former Manchester City
Republican Committee Chair-
man Cli Hurst was in Minne-
apolis last weekend attending
what he called a strategy
session for the soon-to-be
presidential campaign of
former Minnesota Gov. Tim
Pawlenty.
Hurst in 2008 was state
campaign chair for Mike
Huckabee. He said he hasnt
committed to Pawlenty, but is
interested in him. Hurst noted
that Huckabees plans appear
far from certain at this point.
.
GROWING INFLUENCE.
Fresh from its success in help-
ing Jack Kimball get elected
chairman of the Republican
State Committee, the Repub-
lican Liberty Caucus of New
Hampshire is getting more
involved at the State House.
The group, which endorsed
107 of the current House
members, on Friday launched
The RLCNH Report, an
e-mail to members and sup-
porters pointing out bills of
interest.
Andrew Hemingway, RLCNH
chairman, said, Its the rst
time we have ventured outside
of elections. We created this
report to keep activists noti-
ed of when we need them to
show up at the State House.
This weeks action alert
focuses on House Bill 318.
Sponsored by liberty move-
ment Rep. Andrew Manuse,
R-Derry, it would allow
property owners to refuse
entry to property assessors
without forfeiting their due
process rights, according to
the report. A public hearing is
slated for Feb. 3.
.
OBAMA NAMES HELMS.
Former state Health and
Human Services Commis-
sioner Ned Helms has been
appointed to a health-related
advisory commission by Presi-
dent Barack Obama. Helms
was an original backer of
Obamas presidential run.
Helms is now on the
Advisory Group on Preven-
tion, Health Promotion and
Integrative and Public Health,
which, according to Modern-
Physician.com, was created
last year to provide feedback
and policy recommendations
on prevention and manage-
ment of chronic diseases,
integrative health and the pro-
motion of healthy lifestyles.
Helms since 2001 has been
director of the New Hamp-
shire Institute for Health
Policy and Practice at the Uni-
versity of New Hampshire.
.
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE
WAY. A constitutional
amendment question pro-
posed by Rep. Al Baldasaro,
R-Londonderry, would
remove the words faith and
true allegiance to the United
States from the New Hamp-
shire oath of ofce for elected
ofcials and would require
that they bear faith and true
allegiance to the State of New
Hampshire and support
the U.S. Constitution as well
as the state constitution.
Baldasaro, a U.S. Marine
veteran, says the intent of
the proposed amendment is
certainly not to keep elected
ofcials from swearing al-
legiance to the United States
of America, but rather to
ensure U.S. senators and U.S.
representatives swear alle-
giance to the state and its own
constitution as well as to the
U.S. Constitution.
He said of U.S. senators and
House members, Some of the
stuff they vote against is not
the New Hampshire way.
Citing Obamacare, which
was supported by Sen. Jeanne
Shaheen and the two former
Democratic members of the
U.S. House, Baldasaro said,
There are certain votes that
show they are not paying
attention to New Hampshire.
So whether theyre Republi-
can or Democrat, we want to
make sure that theyre not just
taking the oath for the U.S.
and theyre taking the oath for
New Hampshire also.
We have a constitution that
you have to comply with also,
he said, not just the U.S.
Constitution.
.
John DiStaso is senior political reporter of
the New Hampshire Union Leader and New
Hampshire Sunday News.
GOP turns to Moore to help keep the party focused
Granite Status
John DiStaso
LAST YEAR, this column
noted that Superintendent
of Schools Thomas Brennan
would be taking the Penguin
Plunge at Hampton Beach
on Sunday, Feb. 6, to ben-
et Special Olympics New
Hampshire.
Last week, Special
Olympics athlete Ben Soule
challenged members of the
Board of Mayor and Alder-
men to join Brennan in the
plunge.
Soule told the board on
Tuesday that Manchester
boasts 140 Special Olym-
pics athletes and that his
participation has given him
condence to play sports at
the high school level. Seeing
that Brennan who he du-
biously noted is 63 years old
is willing to do it, you at
age 60 should be able to take
the plunge and frolic in the
waves longer than him.
Mayor Ted Gatsas said
there was no way anyone
was getting him in the water
next weekend, but he and
the aldermen broke out their
checkbooks and donated to
Special Olympics on Soules
behalf.
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thats not being adhered to.
Manchester Fire Chief James
Burkush, however, said, We
are required to offer the physi-
cals. Its up to the individual to
take one or not. We cant force
someone to take a physical. We
meet our requirements by of-
fering it.
The issue arose during
Thursdays budget discussion
when someone asked about
an increase of $80,000 in the
Human Resources budget. The
money is earmarked for these
physicals, was the response.
Thats when Roy raised his con-
cern that the units certica-
tion could be in jeopardy if the
physicals arent administered
each year.
Its my understanding that
no one has taken the physicals
for a while but that there are
talks regarding the issue, said
Manchester Human Resources
Director Jane Gile. The in-
crease was put there in case
something comes out of those
discussions.
Physicals are given to em-
ployees when they join the de-
partment, not subsequently.
We havent had anyone take
us up on a hazmat physical in
ve years, said Red Robidas,
security manager for the city,
who is responsible for employ-
ee testing for drug, alcohol and
medical issues. No one has
opted to take part in them.
Ryan Cashin, president of
Manchester Professional Fire-
ghters Association Local 856,
has a different view of the situ-
ation. We arent in any dan-
ger of losing our certication,
he said. We have gone over it
and over it again with lawyers.
If the city wants to put money
in there for physicals that no
one is going to take, thats their
business, but were in the mid-
dle of a scal crisis.
Roy, who helped establish the
citys Hazardous Materials Re-
sponse Team, cites language in
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) regula-
tions that says such physicals
shall be administered.
He added: You need to es-
tablish a baseline for the indi-
viduals health. The chemicals
they could be handling as part
of this job have different effects
on different parts of the body,
ones that arent always easily
spotted. We need to know what
condition that persons liver
was in before they handled the
chemicals, then again after,
to know what effect it had on
them. You need to have a base-
line to look at, and you need the
testing for that.
Without a physical, there can
be no baseline in the Manches-
ter department, he said.
Fire ofcials argue that be-
cause New Hampshire is not
considered an OSHA state
meaning OSHA has not
approved New Hampshires
health coverage it has to only
offer the physicals .
If we were in New Jersey,
which is an OSHA state, they
would have to take the test
every year, Burkush said. But
we arent, so offering it covers
our requirements to retain our
certication.
Roy disagrees, saying New
Hampshire is an EPA state,
meaning its occupational safety
and response plans are okayed
by the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency, which uses the
same language in its regulation
as appears in the OSHA rules.
Its something for the law-
yers to sort out, said Roy.
The language both sides dif-
fer over appears in Section
1910.120 of OSHAs regulations
for hazardous waste operations
and emergency responses,
which governs members of
hazmat teams.
That language includes a
line, All medical examinations
and procedures shall be per-
formed by or under the super-
vision of a licensed physician,
preferably one knowledgeable
in occupational medicine, and
shall be provided without cost
to the employee, without loss
of pay, and at a reasonable time
and place.
Fireghters cite another sec-
tion as proof of their point:
Medical examinations and
consultations shall be made
available by the employer to
each employee covered ...
I dont think theres a ques-
tion of liability here, said Cash-
in. If I respond to a hazmat
incident and handle stuff, and
my arm falls off, or I respond to
a re and my arm falls off, Im
still going to be out on disabil-
ity. Why should I have to take a
physical to respond to a hazmat
situation if I dont have to take
one to run into a burning build-
ing? I didnt know this was even
an issue. A lot of the guys get
their own physicals done.
Roy cites the physical stress of
being a member of the hazmat
team as another reason to con-
duct the physicals, aside from
possible certication issues.
This equipment is very cold
in the winter, and its like work-
ing in a rainforest when its
hot, said Roy.
Asked how he felt about
sending a team into a hazmat
situation even though the re-
ghters havent taken a physi-
cal recently, Burkush reiterated,
We offer the physicals, which
is all we are required to do.
Every lawyer we have gone
over this with has told us its
not a problem, said Cashin.
We can still respond, we arent
in danger of losing certication,
and we dont have to take them
up on physicals.
The issue came up unexpect-
edly at City Hall last week.
This was the rst time, to
my knowledge, that this has
ever been brought up, said
Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas.
Weve only begun looking at it,
but it will be a topic of discus-
sion for a while.
Dante Scala. It is more a na-
tional thing.
The candidates seem to be
taking their time getting up to
the starting line everywhere, he
said. They are pausing before
they are taking the plunge.
During the 2008 cycle, he
said, both Barack Obama and
Hillary Clinton had announced
by now, while on the other side
Romney had been running for a
while, and everyone knew John
McCain was a candidate.
One theory, Scala said, is that
the lack of a clear front-runner
has the eld unsettled. Some
of the candidates are looking to
other candidates to see if there
is going to be room for them
in the race, he said. Michele
Bachmann is watching Sarah
Palin, and Sarah Palin is watch-
ing Mike Huckabee.
Others see that Romney got
in early in 2008, but it didnt
help him, Scala said. Its wait
and see, but whoever the Re-
publican nominee, they are
going to have to raise an awful
lot of money, so they only can
wait so long, he said.
Scala said this cycle reminds
him of 1992, when the can-
didates were late getting into
the race. There were a lot of
candidates talking about run-
ning, including Mario Cuomo,
who didnt, and Bill Clinton,
the Democratic nominee, who
didnt come to New Hamp-
shire until the summer of 1991,
he noted. This may be one of
those years, Scala said.
Political consultant Rich
Killion worked for Romney in
2008, but to date is unafli-
ated in this cycle. He said com-
paring this primary to 2008 is
not an apt comparison. Each
presidential cycle has its own
rhythm, he said.
The 2008 race was wide open
for Democrats and Republi-
cans, he said, which meant lots
of public activity and a very
early start.
Although potential candi-
dates have not announced they
are running, he said, there has
been a lot of shadow boxing
and behind-the-scenes stuff
with the activists community.
For that kind of activity, it has
not been slow.
He said the presidential can-
didates were respectful of the
2010 state and federal candi-
dates. They were the focus,
and they needed to be the
focus, Killion said, and the
presidential candidates helped
as much as they could with
nancial support and as sur-
rogates to bring visibility and
notoriety.
Killion said the delayed start
has a potential effect on Re-
publicans because President
Obama becomes stronger
every day the Republican can-
didates dont dene him or cri-
tique him, as Democrats did to
President Bush in 2003 during
the presidential primary.
But he said starting in Feb-
ruary and March, activity will
pick up around the traditional
Lincoln Day dinners. That will
drive a lot of local news interest
and drive further interest in the
activists community, he said.
Romney and former presi-
dential candidate Giuliani are
both returning to the state in
the near future, as is former
House Speaker Gingrich.
The former New York City
mayor is slated to be the main
draw for the Manchester City
Republican Committees Lin-
coln-Reagan Dinner fundraiser
March 18 at the Executive Court
banquet facility.
Gingrich is scheduled to ap-
pear the day before at former
Executive Councilor Bernie
Streeters Wild Irish Breakfast,
beneting the PLUS Co., at the
Crowne Plaza Hotel in Nashua.
And Romney will be in the
state this week for private meet-
ings with key state Republican
activists. He is scheduled to be
the keynote speaker March 5 at
the Carroll County Republican
Committee Lincoln-Reagan
Dinner fundraiser at Bartletts
Attitash Grand Summit Hotel.
Two lesser known candidates
have spent considerable time
here already: former Pennsyl-
vania Sen. Rick Santorum and
former Minnesota Gov. Tim
Pawlenty. Santorum has visited
eight times and Pawlenty six.
Republican presidential can-
didates returning to the Granite
State will also nd a different
landscape than in 2008, when
Democrats had control of the
State House and three of the
four congressional seats.
Republicans now rmly con-
trol the State House, hold three
of the four congressional seats,
have a new party chairman,
Jack Kimball, who is associated
with the Tea Party movement,
and a new group of more con-
servative activists.
Scala said this presidential
primary cycle is shaping up to
be really interesting. The last
decade was the McCain de-
cade, he noted, when he won
the primary in 2000 and 2008.
This is going to be an inter-
esting one to watch, with the
internal changes in the Repub-
lican Party, with Jack Kimball
and the Tea Party movement,
Scala said. Its going to inter-
esting to watch someone like
Romney navigate all that.
The conditions on the
ground have changed since
08; there are different activists
out there. It really is going to be
an interesting one to watch, al-
though it may be late develop-
ing.
From left, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani are
among the potential presidential candidates with visits to New
Hampshire scheduled.
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Page A6 NEW HAMPSHIRE SUNDAY NEWS Jan. 30, 2011 Nation/World
By LORNA COLQUHOUN
Sunday News Correspondent
An early morning phone
call Saturday brought relief
to a Peterborough father who
had been anxiously awaiting
word from his teenage daugh-
ter living in Egypt.
Courtney Graves, 18, has
been living in Giza for a little
more than a month. She last
spoke to her father, Steven,
Thursday, as parts of Egypt
erupted in violent anti-gov-
ernment protests.
Steven Graves said the 4:33
a.m. ring of the telephone
was a big relief. He and his
daughter had talked about 10
a.m. New Hampshire time on
Thursday, just as cell phone
and Internet services in Egypt,
which were believed to be fu-
eling the unrest, were being
shut down.
She called as soon as the
cell phones came back on,
Steven Graves said. She
wants to stay; she feels safe.
But, he added, I am encour-
aging her as intensely as pos-
sible to rethink her plan to
live in Egypt for two more
months before setting out to
travel across the Middle East.
She plans to return home in
June.
Graves rst went to Egypt
last year, her senior year in
high school. She returned
there Dec. 29, and is living
with the family she stayed
with as a student.
When Steven Graves did
not hear from his daughter
Friday afternoon, he contact-
ed the U.S. State Department
and U.S. Rep. Charlie Bass,
R-N.H. He appeared on CNN
Friday night and began hear-
ing from other parents across
the country who have chil-
dren in Egypt.
We have started to net-
work with these parents,
Steve Graves said.
The early morning con-
versation was brief because
Courtney Graves did not have
many minutes left on her cell
phone. She told us she loves
us, Steven Graves said. She
was unaware of a lot that is
going on there.
The teen has a blog on
which she wrote about the
early hours of the protests last
week, which was picked up by
the BBC.
On Wednesday, she wrote
she had gone alone to Tah-
rir Square (in Cairo) to see
the demonstrations. (Midan
Tahrir, commonly referred to
as Tahrir Square, means Lib-
eration Square. Its a large
public square near the center
of the city.)
I surfaced from the Metro
station into a scene of happy
panic, she wrote. Riot po-
lice were lined up along every
street, and it was almost
impossible to move at rst.
From afar, I could hear a roar
of human voices coming from
one side of the square.
She said she dodged tear
gas red into the crowd.
She is witnessing history,
Steven Graves said.
His daughter is taking the
year off after her graduation
from Conant High School
to travel and is applying to
several colleges, including
Georgetown. She is passion-
ate about human rights, par-
ticularly the rights of women,
and it did not surprise him
that she wanted to be in the
middle of it, he said.
She hopes to pursue a ca-
reer in either journalism or
politics.I love that part of
her, he said Friday afternoon,
but were concerned.
NH family hears from teen in Egypt
COURTESY PHOTO
Courtney Graves posted this photo on her blog earlier this week,
as Egypt erupted in anti-government protests.
By ARSHAD MOHAMMED
and MATT SPETALNICK
Reuters
WASHINGTON The United
States told Egyptian Presi-
dent Hosni Mubarak Satur-
day it was not enough simply
to reshufe the deck with a
shake-up of his government
and pressed him to make good
on his promise of genuine re-
form.
As angry protesters deed
a curfew in Egyptian cities,
President Barack Obama and
his administration kept up
pressure for Mubarak to heed
their calls for democratic
change and take seriously a
U.S. threat to review massive
aid to Cairo.
In Cairo, looted stores, burnt
out cars and the stench of blaz-
ing tires lled the streets early
on Sunday as Mubarak sought
to bargain with angry crowds
and security forces struggled
to contain looters.
100 killed
In ve days of unprecedent-
ed protests that have rocked
the Arab world, more than 100
people have been killed, inves-
tors and tourists have taken
fright, and Mubarak has of-
fered a rst glimpse of a plan
to step down and 80 million
Egyptians are caught between
hope for democratic reform
and fear of chaos.
Obama is performing a deli-
cate balancing act, trying to
avoid abandoning Mubarak
an important U.S. strategic
ally of 30 years while sup-
porting protesters who seek
broader political rights and
demand his ouster. But Wash-
ington has limited options to
inuence the situation.
The Egyptian government
cant reshufe the deck and
then stand pat, State Depart-
ment spokesman P.J. Crowley
said in a message on Twitter.
com after Mubarak red his
government but made clear he
had no intention of stepping
down.
President Mubaraks words
pledging reform must be fol-
lowed by action, he said, echo-
ing Obamas appeal on Friday
for Mubarak to embrace a new
political dynamic.
Crowleys statement
Crowleys comments, part
of an increasingly assertive
U.S. stance, came just before
Mubarak picked intelligence
chief and condant Omar Su-
leiman as vice president. It is a
post Mubarak had never lled
in three decades of rule, and
many interpreted the move
as edging toward an eventual
handover of power.
Obama huddled on Saturday
for an hour with his national
security team on the crisis in
Egypt, a linchpin of U.S. Mid-
dle East strategy.
White House focus
Afterward, the White House
said its focus remained on
calling for restraint, support-
ing universal rights and sup-
porting concrete steps that
advance political reform.
The U.S. administration was
caught off guard by the politi-
cal upheaval that has rocked
the Middle East in recent days,
from Egypt to Tunisia to Leba-
non to Yemen.
As U.S. ofcials weighed the
latest developments in Egypt,
protests emerged in Chicago,
Houston, Los Angeles, New
York and Washington, where
about 150 people marched
from the Egyptian Embassy
to the White House and stood
outside the gates chanting,
Hey Obama, dont you know,
Hosni Mubarak has to go.
In New York, nearly 1,500
people rallied outside the
United Nations headquarters,
chanting People want regime
change.
Brick by brick
Several hundred protesters
gathered outside the Egyptian
consulate in Chicago carrying
signs, singing the Egyptian
anthem and chanting slogans
such as Brick by brick, wall
by wall, we will see Mubarak
fall.
Call for elections
A top Republican called for
Mubarak to hold elections.
Mr. Mubarak should listen
to the demands of the Egyptian
people for freedom and imme-
diately schedule legitimate,
democratic, internationally
recognized elections, said Il-
eana Ros-Lehtinen, head of
the House of Representatives
Foreign Affairs Committee.
The people of Egypt no lon-
ger accept the status quo. They
are looking to their govern-
ment for a meaningful process
to foster real reform,
Crowley said unrest in
Egypts cities continued de-
spite Mubarak having ordered
the army to the streets.
Obama pressures Mubarak as U.S. protests grow
.
Protesters: They defied curfew in Egyptian cities and
took to the streets in New York, Los Angeles and other U.S.
cities.
By JON HURDLE
Reuters
PHILADELPHIA A tiny non-
prot organization operating
a 12-year national campaign
from a basement to get more
noncommercial radio stations
approved, may soon see its
dream come true.
On Jan. 4, the nonprot
Prometheus and other groups
seeking to diversify media
ownership, scored a victory
when President Barack Obama
signed into law the Local Com-
munity Radio Act. It directs
the Federal Communications
Commission, which regulates
the national airwaves, to allow
more low-power stations ac-
cess to the FM radio dial.
Once implemented, the law
is expected to result in as many
2,000 new stations, beginning
in about 2013.
That would more than
double the approximately 800
low-power stations currently
in operation, compared with
around 13,000 commercial
stations nationwide. About a
third of commercial stations
are owned by half a dozen cor-
porations, led by Clear Channel
Communications, Inc, with al-
most 900.
An increase in the number
of community stations could
mean more coverage of local
issues such as school board
meetings, high school football
games, health, education, local
music and literacy campaigns.
It also might allow more in-
depth discussions rather than
the sound bites on most com-
mercial radio, said Brandy
Doyle, policy director for Pro-
metheus.
It makes a lot more room
on a medium (FM radio) that a
lot of people still use, said Pro-
metheus founder Pete Tridish.
In the basement of Calvary
United Methodist Church
in West Philadelphia, Pro-
metheus ofces are hung with
banners from its demonstra-
tions in support of noncom-
mercial radio. They represent
the more than a decade the
group fought for the law.
Since about half the exist-
ing low-power FM stations are
owned by churches, some of
the new material is likely to be
religious.
Backers of the new law
spanned the religious and po-
litical spectrum, including the
Christian Coalition, a conser-
vative group, and the U.S. Con-
ference of Catholic Bishops, as
well as liberal groups includ-
ing MoveOn.org and Common
Cause.
Whatever the effect of the
new law, mainstream stations
are not likely to change their
programming, and clearly will
not be losing advertisers to new
noncommercial broadcasters,
said Dennis Wharton, executive
vice president of the National
Association of Broadcasters.
.
New law: It directs the FCC to allow more low-power
stations access to the FM radio dial.
New U.S. law could foster community radio boom
Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011 NEW HAMPSHIRE SUNDAY NEWS Page A7
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Mom who killed
teen kids in hospital
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Re-
uters) A Tampa woman who
admitted murdering her two
teenage children was taken to
a local hospital on Saturday for
evaluation, police said.
Tampa police said Julia
Schenecker, 50, admitted to
killing her 16-year old daugh-
ter Calyx and 13-year old son
Beau on Thursday night. Police
found the bodies of the two
children at their home on Fri-
day. Both had been shot.
Police had gone to the
home after getting a call from
Scheneckers mother in Texas
saying she was concerned
about her daughter and grand-
children.
The suspect (Julia Sche-
necker) confessed to killing her
two children. She described
the crimes in detail, Tampa
Police spokesman Laura McEl-
roy said in a statement.
Schenecker was arrested and
charged with two counts of
rst degree murder.
Her husband, Parker
Schenecker, 48, is a colonel
in the U.S. Army stationed at
Central Command headquar-
ters at MacDill Air Force Base
in Tampa. He was out of the
country on duty when he was
told of the killings.
Ohio bust nets 2,800
pounds of marijuana
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Au-
thorities in Columbus, Ohio,
seized about 2,800 pounds of
marijuana from Mexico with
a street value of $3.5 million,
as well as almost $1 million in
cash in two raids, police said
on Saturday.
The marijuana was seized
after a six-month investiga-
tion and was to be distributed
throughout central Ohio, said
Columbus Police spokesman
Sergeant Rich Weiner.
In the rst raid, on Jan.
26, police witnessed large
quantities of marijuana being
transferred from a South
Columbus warehouse to a van,
which police intercepted along
with two smugglers, Hector
Martinez, 36, of Columbus and
Luis Miranda, 24, of Phoe-
nix, Ariz. They were arrested
and charged with possession
of marijuana. In total, ap-
proximately 2,055 pounds of
marijuana were collected, said
Sergeant Rich Weiner.
Police quickly learned that
Luis Mirandas brother, Arnal-
do Miranda, 25, was involved
in the smuggling and inter-
cepted him with $946,000 in
cash at a residence he rented.
In the second raid on Friday,
the investigation led to the
seizure of an additional 800
pounds of marijuana at a
home in Columbus.
All three men were arraigned
on felony drug charges and are
being held at Franklin County
jail. Bail for each is set at
$500,085 and no court date has
been set.
Comcast completes
NBC Universal merger
NEW YORK (Reuters) Com-
cast Corp. has completed its
takeover of NBC Universal,
creating a $30 billion media
behemoth that controls not
just how television shows and
and movies are made but how
they are delivered to peoples
homes.
In a statement Saturday,
Comcast said the transaction
closed the previous day. To
close the deal, Comcast, the
No. 1 provider of video and
residential Internet service in
the United States, acquired a
51 percent stake in NBC Uni-
versal from General Electric
Co.
Executives at Comcast spent
more than 13 months working
on getting the deal through a
rigorous U.S. regulatory review
process with the Federal Com-
munications Commission and
Justice Department.
Regulators, who approved
the deal on Jan. 18 with condi-
tions, were concerned that an
all powerful Comcast might
stie competition from new
online video competitors in-
cluding Hulu, in which it now
owns a stake.
Among the conditions to
which Comcast agreed: relin-
quishing management rights
of its minority stake in Hulu.
North Dakota police
say four bodies found
CHICAGO (Reuters) Police
in Minot, N.D. were question-
ing a person on Saturday in
connection with the deaths of
four people at two locations.
A person of interest is being
questioned but has not been
arrested or charged, said
Winston Black, a Minot police
sergeant.
Police found the body of
a woman at a residence and
three additional bodies in a
trailer park just before 2 p.m.
local time on Friday. Black said
the victims have been identi-
ed, but the names have not
been released.
The cause of death also was
not released.
The community should not
have anything to worry about,
Black said. They should be all
safe.
Minot is located in the
northern part of the state,
about 100 miles north of
Bismarck.
Suicide bomber kills
Kandahar deputy gov.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Re-
uters) A motorcycle suicide
bomber killed the deputy
governor of Afghanistans Kan-
dahar province on Saturday, a
blow to U.S.-led forces trying
to bolster governance and
ght a robust insurgency in the
Talibans heartland.
Violence in Afghanistan is
at its worst since U.S.-backed
Afghan forces overthrew the
Taliban in late 2001 with
casualties on all sides at record
levels and militant attacks
increasing in number and
spreading to almost every part
of the country.
Deputy Governor Abdul
Latif Ashna was killed as he left
his home to travel to work in
Kandahar city, capital of Kan-
dahar province, the governors
spokesman Zalmay Ayoubi
said.
At least ve other civilians
who were wounded in the blast
had been taken to hospital. No
further details were immedi-
ately available about the attack
or about the condition of the
wounded.
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years ago while cleaning out a
box of old business documents
in her attic.
Tessier was the couples close
friend and trusted attorney,
Dunham said, when he stole a
$1 million life insurance pay-
ment after Gerald LeBlanc died
of meningitis on Oct. 31, 1982.
If he got away with it with
me, knowing Tom, I just cant
imagine he wouldnt have done
it to someone else, Dunham
said. Why me? Because it
was easy. I completely trusted
him.
Tessiers public defender
denies Dunhams allegations.
But a federal prosecutor asked
Dunham to detail her story to
the judge at Tessiers sentenc-
ing hearing last March on the
unrelated $2.3 million thefts
that took place between 2002
and 2006.
Attorney Steven Latici of Gil-
manton has led a claim on
Dunhams behalf that is pend-
ing before the N.H. Bar Asso-
ciation Public Protection Fund
seeking at least partial resti-
tution. The fund reimburses
people who have lost money or
property due to theft or misap-
propriation by their attorney.
Attorney Tessier stole and
cashed two checks in the
amount of $500,000 each that
were paid out on a life insur-
ance policy to my late husband
by Great American Life Insur-
ance, Dunham said in her
claim to the PPF committee.
Dunham told the New
Hampshire Sunday News that
for months after Gerald LeB-
lanc died, Tessier was adamant
that the insurance company
had refused payment on the
$1 million policy. Gerald had
sent the company a letter three
days before his death saying he
wanted to cancel it for the value
it had accrued. But the letter
wasnt received until after his
death, she said.
Tessier was one of the rst
people I called when Gerry
died because of our friend-
ship, Dunham said. He said:
Dont worry. Ill take care of
everything.
Dunham said Gerald LeBlanc
had also purchased a $700,000
life insurance policy from the
same company just prior to
his death. That claim was paid
to her, Dunham said, and she
used a portion of it to pay off
the business debts to Bank East
and to her mother-in-law.
The last time Dunham con-
fronted Tessier in his now-
defunct rm,
Christy and
Tessier in
Manchest er,
she was so
stunned by his
reaction that
she didnt con-
tact him again.
Tom said:
If you are here
because of what I think, you
can turn around and get the
hell out, Dunham said. He
told her that last time again that
the insurance company wasnt
going to pay the claim.
I said, Youre never taking
care of anything for me again.
That was it, Dunham said.
Time passes
Dunham moved on, even-
tually sold the hardware store
and remarried under the be-
lief Great American never paid
the $1 million claim. Then in
March 2006, she and her hus-
band, Robert Dunham, who
owns an embroidery business
in Conway, wanted to clear out
some old business records after
they moved to Florida.
Dunham found a sealed en-
velope with a letter dated Dec.
28, 1982, from the insurance
company to Tessier stating
the $1 million claim had been
paid. The letter contained a
photocopy of two checks made
out for $500,000 each, one to
J.J. Moreau, the other to Bank
East.
I opened it up and I about
died, Dunham said.
She immediately called her
brother, Peter Favreau, Man-
chesters former police chief.
He suggested she call the At-
torney Generals Ofce, which
she did.
Dunham said she also com-
plained to the U.S. Attorneys
Ofce and the Supreme Court
Attorney Discipline Ofce. She
had also unsuccessfully tried to
hire an attorney to ght Tessier,
but all said they had a conict.
Tessier nally admitted the
claim had been paid in a letter
dated Oct. 27, 2008, Dunham
said, in Tessiers response to
her complaint to the Attorney
Discipline Ofce.
As Tessier remembered it,
Gerald LeBlanc borrowed $1
million from the bank to save
his business, he told the ADO.
My memory is that the lend-
ing bank required a $1 million
insurance policy to protect its
interest. Gerry died during this
time period and I recall that
there was a delay in payment
while the insurance company
thoroughly investigated the
cause of death. The insurance
company nally made pay-
ment, and the insurance pro-
ceeds were given to the bank.
I remember that Ms. Dunham
(then Mrs. LeBlanc) wanted
a portion of the money but it
was impossible in light of the
outstanding balance due the
bank, Tessier wrote.
No nding
The ADO closed Dunhams
complaint without making a
nding because it was already
in the process of disbarring Tes-
sier on the $2.3 million theft.
On Thursday, Peter Ander-
son, who was a vice president
of Bank East when Gerald LeB-
lanc died, said the bank would
never have accepted a life in-
surance payment naming it as
beneciary because the policy
could have been for a larger
amount than the debt owed.
Anderson said he had known
Gerald LeBlanc because he
served on the banks board of
directors. The rst he heard
about the missing $1 million
policy was from Suzanne LeB-
lanc Dunham, he said.
I was abbergasted when I
heard that, Anderson said.
Public defender Bjorn Lange,
who represented Tessier at his
sentencing, argued against
Dunhams testimony being
considered by the judge last
March in U.S. District Court in
Concord.
Our position has been that
thats just not true, Lange said.
We dispute the Dunham alle-
gations.
But Assistant U.S. Attorney
Robert Kinsella investigated
Dunhams claims, and the gov-
ernment paid for her trip to
New Hampshire to testify that
day. Her testimony was intend-
ed to show Tessiers $2.3 million
theft from his cousins, Thad-
deus Jakobiec, who is blind
and disabled, and Thaddeus
brother, Dr. Frederick Jakobiec,
an eye surgeon, wasnt the
rst time Tessier stole money.
Lange wanted Judge Joseph N.
LaPlante to view Tessiers $2.3
million theft as an aberration in
an otherwise honest career.
Tessier had been a well-re-
spected Manchester lawyer and
well-known city water commis-
sioner for many years.
Kinsella said it was too late
to seek federal indictments
against Tessier in Dunhams
case.
By the time the allegations
were made known to the U.S.
Attorneys Ofce, the statute
of limitations had run out on
the offenses for which (Tessier)
could have been prosecuted,
Kinsella said. The statute of lim-
itations was ve years from the
date of the offenses, he said.
At the hearing, Kinsella said
it was also too late to obtain the
documents needed to prove the
charges because the pertinent
records had been destroyed.
Kinsella told Judge LaPlante
that when asked by the ADO,
(Tessier) acknowledged that
the proceeds from the insur-
ance policy had in fact been
paid and he used them for the
benet of the corporation.
Kinsella told LaPlante he was
also going to offer testimony
from an ofcer at the hardware
company who had reviewed the
records back to 1982 and would
say he knew for sure there were
no life insurance proceeds and
no money paid to the company
by anyone.
Judge believed her
Although Judge LaPlante said
he wouldnt use Dunhams tes-
timony in calculating Tessiers
sentence, he told her he be-
lieved her testimony, according
to a transcript of the hearing.
I want you to understand,
that doesnt mean your words
have fallen on deaf ears today
or that I doubt your testimony
in the slightest. I dont. I credit
your testimony, LaPlante told
Dunham.
LaPlante sentenced Tessier
to 51 months in federal prison
at Devens Federal Medical
Center in Ayer, Mass., in con-
nection with stealing the $2.3
million. Tessier must serve
some additional time in state
prison. He is expected to be eli-
gible for parole after serving a
total of ve years.
Even if the Public Protec-
tion Fund decides to reimburse
Dunham, it would be for far
less than her loss. There was
a $150,000 cap on awards per
lawyer when she led her claim,
and the Jakobiec brothers have
also led claims against Tes-
sier. Victims of the same lawyer
would receive only a percent-
age of the $150,000 cap, based
on how much they lost.
Tessiers brother, Michael
Tessier, 56, a retired Manches-
ter police captain and former
executive director of the New
Horizons homeless shelter, was
indicted in November, accused
in connection with $155,000 in
thefts from the same relatives
that landed his brother in fed-
eral prison.
Michael Tessier told the New
Hampshire Sunday News last
August that he is innocent and
was acting at the direction of
his attorney brother.
Assistant Cheshire County
Attorney John Gasaway, who
is prosecuting Michael Tessier,
said that investigation is not
completed. He declined com-
ment on Dunhams allegations.
As far as I know, there is no
criminal involvement on my
part, Michael Tessier said in
August.
Michael said he was just
doing what Thomas told him
after Michael became trustee
of a trust fund in 2002 for his
cousin, Thaddeus Jakobiec
of Manchester. Michael said
Thomas Tessier told him that
Thaddeus brother, Frederick ,
wanted Michael to have money
for caring for Thaddeus.
Michael Tessiers trial is
scheduled for July.
Dunham said she now be-
lieves she fought as well as she
could after discovering the $1
million policy had been paid,
but it did consume her for a
long time. I was easy prey.
Tom knew I needed him. I was
in shock. I had just lost the
person I loved more than any-
thing, Dunham said.
There were times she could
have used the money to help
her children, Dunham said.
I cant believe somebody
would do that to his best
friend.
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Reduction of an employees portion of Social Security, called the payroll tax
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percent of their frst $106,800 earnings to Social Security. Employers match that
amount, and each party also pays 1.45 percent into Medicare on all earnings. The
tax holiday will take the form of a one-year reduction of the employees Social
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By NANCY WEST
NewHampshire Sunday News
Long before the big-box
stores came to town, Manches-
ter shoppers combed the three
huge buildings that comprised
J.J. Moreau and Son Inc. hard-
ware and department store at
1127 Elm St.
Canadian tinsmith Joseph
Jean Moreau rst set up shop
on North Main Street in the
McGregorville section of the
West Side in 1890 before his
son, Arthur E. Moreau, joined
the business and moved it to
the Elm Street location in 1906,
according to Aurore Eaton,
executive director of the Man-
chester Historic Association.
I remember going in there
as a child. You went there for
everything from lamps to hard-
ware and light bulbs, Eaton
said.
Everyone knew the names of
all the clerks, who often dished
out advice on home repairs.
It was a real go-to place.
Later on, we had big depart-
ment stores, but before the big
stores, it was Moreaus, Eaton
said. It was a Franco-Ameri-
can institution, for sure.
Founder J.J. Moreau died
in 1920, and his son, Arthur
E. Moreau, who would later
become mayor, took over the
business. Arthur E. Moreau
served as Republican mayor of
Manchester from 1926 to 1931.
He was also instrumental in
forming Amoskeag Industries,
Eaton said, which bought the
assets of the Amoskeag Man-
ufacturing Co . in 1936 and
brought diversied industries
to the city to provide employ-
ment.
After a major re extensively
damaged the building in 1969,
Suzanne LeBlanc Dunham said,
her husband, Gerald LeBlanc,
the great-grandson of founder
J.J. Moreau, borrowed from his
inheritance and bought and re-
built the business.
(Gerald) was an extraor-
dinary person. Thousands of
people went in and out of the
store, and he remembered all
of their names, Dunham said.
In 1982, Gerald LeBlanc
died of meningitis at age 40.
Dunham sold the store three
years later to employee Roland
Gamelin.
The store moved to the Sun-
beam Mall, the former Cote
Brothers Bakery, at 87 Elm St.
It was sold to J. P. Heart Inc.,
a Bedford company owned
by Marc Jolicoeur and family,
Eaton said.
A victim of recession, J.J.
Moreau and Son closed on Nov.
9, 1991, Eaton said.
Moreaus motto was the
store that gives you more,
Eaton said. And it did.
J.J. Moreau and Son
was a real go-to place
.
Hardware business:
A fixture in Manchester for
more than a century.
FILE PHOTO
Gerald LeBlanc, great-grandson of J.J. Moreau and Sons founder, is
seen in the Manchester landmark store in this 1976 photo.
TESSIER
in a photo
from 1987
Tessier
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Lakes Region Ice Racing
Club members chose the ght
against cancer as their cause in
1984. Members say everyone
has either been affected by the
illness or knows someone who
has.
I think everybody is touched
by cancer, in a bad way. Any-
thing we can do helps, said
member and driver Rick Mar-
tel, 45, of Moultonborough.
The Latchkey Cup raises
money for a serious cause, but
drivers and spectators alike say
ice racing is a lot of fun. Ice rac-
ing engages entire families, ac-
cording to some drivers, and
for others its a pastime that has
been handed down to sons and
daughters alike. Whats not to
like about speed?
You get to go fast, said
Cody Ryder, 16, of Center Os-
sipee, who is now in his third
year of racing. Exactly how fast
these cars can run around the
icy oval track is unclear; Ryder
said the cars dont have speed-
ometers, radios or any ame-
nities. You have to strip out
all the interiors and take out
all the extra wiring you dont
need, he said. The cars are
equipped with safety features,
including roll bars or roll cages,
and the drivers wear helmets
and are secured with ve-point
harnesses. Ryders own car is
a hollowed out Honda Prelude
that he bought specically for
ice racing. He said he picked up
racing from his brother. Most
Sundays, hes ice racing at the
icing clubs events.
Martel got his daughter, Jack-
ie, 13, involved in ice racing for
the joy of it. He talked about the
camaraderie, teamwork, and
competitiveness of the sport.
Its a lot of fun, he said.
Were all a bunch of good
friends here. We help each other
out. It keeps us out of trouble.
Were good friends during the
week and are competitors on
the weekend, he said.
Jack Cook, an experienced
driver and club member since
1979, drew his granddaughter,
Alicia Taylor, 15, into the sport.
Im always nervous at rst, but
its fun when Im out there, said
Alicia. Shes in her third year of
racing. Together, the Cook and
Taylor households have ve
ice racing cars. Alicias father,
Matt Taylor, brother Chris and
nephew all race, said Cook.
I started doing this 32 years
ago, said Cook. Its a bad
habit.
Drivers invest time and
money into the sport.
I probably spend 25 hours a
week working on four different
cars, said Martel.
Cook declined to fess up his
investment. Dont want to say;
the wife might nd out, he
said.
The sport overall has a low
injury rate, said Cook. Mishaps
are rare, but these drivers ac-
knowledge they do occasionally
occur. You can get hurt shov-
eling your walkway, though.
We take all the precautions
we can, but theres always the
chance for a freak accident,
Cook said.
I cant remember the last
time someone had to go to the
doctor, though, Martel said.
Several cars slid off the track
during Saturdays event, with
no injuries reported. Tow trucks
stood by and quickly towed the
cars out of the snowbanks and
back to the pits. Berry Pond has
a 15-inch layer of ice, and on
Saturday a light snowfall made
things slippery on the track.
Cook described the conditions
as rough, with pits on the ice.
After a few laps, the track can
get slushy, he said.
The race cars are colorful,
but spectators visibility on the
track is at times obscured by
ice dust kicked up by chained
race car tires. The ve classes
include stock, modied, 4-cyl-
inder front wheel drive, 4-cylin-
der rear wheel drive, and Junior
(teens 13 to 15). A scheduled
highlight for the nal race of the
day featured a face-off between
special professional guest driv-
ers Kirk Alexander, Luke Royea
and Brad Leighton.
Organizers anticipated that
more than 500 spectators
would turn out for the Latch-
key Cup event. They included
Tom Davis, 39, of Campton, his
son Erin, 15, daughter Jessica,
17, and her boyfriend, Michael
Dow, 19.
We love racing, said Davis.
We follow NASCAR and snow-
mobile racing. If its racing, we
love it.
Spectators Saturday included
Lissa Silk, Miss Winnipesaukee,
from Dover. Silk, a University
of New Hampshire student,
is a contestant for Miss New
Hampshire. As such, she chose
the ght against cancer as her
public service platform.
Each contestant gets to
promote something they
strongly believe in. I had three
family members pass away
from breast cancer, so Ive been
actively promoting this cause,
said Silk.
This is the rst time shes
ever seen an ice race, but shes
already caught the racing bug.
I want to get out there, she
said with a smile.
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For race results, go to lakesregionicerac-
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Pond Hockey Championship
at White Park.
What a weekend, said
Bruce Gillies, who grew up in
Concord and played football
and hockey in the mid-1980s at
the University of New Hamp-
shire . You cant beat it. We
all skated here as kids. This is
pretty special.
The Black Ice event, a cele-
bration of the lengthy and rich
hockey heritage in the state
and city, is the kick-off of a
three-week stretch of outdoor
hockey tournaments in New
Hampshire. The seminals
and nals start this morning
at 9 a.m. and will wrap up by
noon.
More than 150 teams, nearly
double last seasons total, are
signed up for the second New
England Hockey Pond Classic,
which runs from Friday to Sun-
day next weekend on Meredith
Bay in Lake Winnipesaukee.
And the Manchester Mon-
archs Pond Hockey Classic, a
one-day event on Dorrs Pond
in Manchester, debuts on Feb.
12.
It all started here on Friday.
Heck, it all really started not
far up the road from White
Park almost 130 years ago. It
was 1883 when, it is believed,
the sport made its debut in this
country at St. Pauls School in
Concord.
Turkey Pond at St. Pauls
became renowned for its black
ice, the best around for skating,
and shortly after the turn of the
century the legendary Hobey
Baker, soon to become one of
the biggest names in amateur
hockey, arrived at SPS.
A nely crafted replica of
Bakers stick will be awarded to
the winner of each of ve divi-
sions today.
Photographs of Baker and
hockey at St. Pauls and across
the city lled a large makeshift
hockey locker room on White
Street between the park and
the University of New Hamp-
shire Law School.
Gillies had just gotten off the
ice with his teammates, includ-
ing Lee Lebo Blossom, who
came out of Concord and went
on to star at Boston College .
They changed up in one corner
of the room.
Champagne and Lynch and
the rest of the Lynch Gang
claimed a far corner of the
room between their two games
on Friday.
Champagne, who arrived
in Manchester from Canada
in 1964, turns 66 next month.
He had a couple of goals in the
teams rst game, a loss, and
offered an assessment of the
governors game.
I think he plays heads-up
hockey, Champagne said. He
knows where the play is going
to be. Hes got a good eye for
the game.
Lynch, a 1974 graduate
of UNH, reminisced about
playing hockey on the ponds
around Durham with his fra-
ternity brothers, including uni-
versity hockey players such as
Gordie Clark, Rick Olmstead,
Cliff Cox and Jamie Hislop.
Wed go down early and
play all day, Lynch said.
Theres nothing like playing
outside on the ponds. . . . This
is really meant to be fun. And
its about the camaraderie in
the locker room.
Soon the Lynch Gang was
back on the ice and the gover-
nor, who scored a goal in the
opener, added a couple more.
On the pond, pucks thud-
ded off boards on the six rinks
made of 2-by-4s, skates cut
through the ice and an an-
nouncer occasionally issued
reminders that checking and
goaltending were not allowed
in the four-on-four games.
The reminders were some-
times heeded, sometimes not,
in games that got a little, well,
spirited, at times.
Jack Edwards Teeth, a team
that included former UNH
standouts Mick Mounsey, Tim
Walsh and Corey-Joe Ficek ,
battled Team 82 on one rink.
Tom Champagne, a Concord
High captain in 1948 and one
of the few men still living who
played for the citys famed
Sacred Heart Hockey Club,
watched as his son, Tom, also a
former Concord High captain,
played Lynchs team.
Ray Champagne told Tom
Champagne Sr. once that their
families might have been relat-
ed back in Canada, but theyre
not sure of the connection.
The hockey brought back
plenty of memories for Tom
Champagne Sr.
We played on a lot of
ponds, too, he said. Long
Pond, Jordans Pond, Turkey
Pond. Everyone just seemed to
know where to go.
Thanks to Chris Brown and
a gang of volunteers and spon-
sors, White Park was the place
to go this weekend.
Plans for the Black Ice
championships grew out of a
discussion after a tournament
game in Meredith last winter,
Brown said.
We said, Why not Con-
cord? said Brown, the
president and chief operating
ofcer of New Hampshire
Distributors and a former
Concord High player.
Committees and a nonprot
were formed, and sponsors
and volunteers jumped on
board, all with a mission to
enhance outdoor skating in the
city and eventually provide a
new skate house at White Park.
Brown thinks proceeds could
reach $25,000 this year.
Fifty teams with names
such as Pond Jovi, Against
Medical Advice and Scared
Hitless signed up, and
Brown has already heard from
people planning to play next
year. He thinks the tourna-
ment could grow to at least 75
teams by then.
Jen Joscelyn, Concord High
Class of 1993, looks forward to
expansion.
She helped hustle together a
team called Babes of Glory,
one of three in the womens
division.
Hopefully, next year well
have six teams, Joscelyn said
and then laughed. If it gets
more established, maybe we
can get our own locker room.
Right now its co-ed. Thank
God for long underwear.
Pond hockey
Continued From Page A1
Latchkey Cup
Continued From Page A1
Jack Cook, left, of
Moultonborough,
has been racing with
the Lakes Region
Ice Racing Club for
the past 32 years.
His granddaughter,
Alicia Taylor,
15, also from
Moultonborough,
picked up the racing
bug three years ago.
LARISSA MULKERNPHOTOS
Thirty-eight drivers raced in the Lakes Region Ice Racing Clubs 27th annual Latchkey Cup on a frozen
Berry Pond on Saturday in Moultonborough. Once the cars pick up speed, above, their chain-clad tires
create clouds of ice dust.
VImages from the ice: Look
online for a gallery of photos from
the pond hockey championship.
Theres more online at
more serving in the Air National Guard,
according to Capt. Robert Burnham, a
spokesman for the New Hampshire
National Guard.
Women account for about one of
every eight New Hampshire Guards-
men.
Nearly 50 women guardsmen from
units out of New Hampshire are de-
ployed in one of a half-dozen coun-
tries, including Iraq, Kuwait and
Afghanistan, Burnham said.
Female soldiers serve as medics and
military police and in administrative
roles. I know there are several female
soldiers that are machine gunners on
convoy escort teams, Burnham said.
Women, however, cant serve in the
infantry or operate mortars, which re
shells at enemies, Burnham said.
The issue may end up in Congress.
Only one of four members of New
Hampshires congressional delegation
has made up her mind on whether to
lift the ban on women serving in direct
combat roles.
I agree with the conclusions of
this study and think we should move
to allow qualied women to serve in
combat, said U.S. Sen. Jeanne Sha-
heen, D-N.H.
Women are already doing danger-
ous work in Iraq and Afghanistan and
are often attached to combat units
there. Women soldiers have seen
combat, and women soldiers have
been killed. Its time that these brave
Americans are allowed to serve in
combat and given the same career
opportunities as their male counter-
parts, Shaheen said.
Like Shaheen, U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte,
R-N.H., serves on the Senate Armed
Services Committee, which deals with
military issues.
Ayotte said she looks forward to ex-
amining this issue more closely.
Her husband, Joe, has own com-
bat missions in Iraq and remains a
lieutenant colonel in the Air National
Guard. The senator also recently visit-
ed Afghanistan, where she saw military
men and women working together.
From my time in Afghanistan, Ive
already seen that women are serving
in harms way, and that is certainly
a factor I will take into consideration
moving forward, Ayotte said.
Female Marines were among those
escorting our delegation to a market-
place in Nawa, and I learned that they
engage in a range of dangerous opera-
tions, she said. And females y and
engage in combat missions in the Air
Force. The generals who briefed us
uniformly praised the service of both
women and men serving in Afghani-
stan.
U.S. Rep. Charlie Bass, R-N.H., said:
Female service members serve our
nation heroically and selessly on
many different fronts, including on
the multidimensional battleelds of
Afghanistan and Iraq. Based on the
recommendations of our military
leaders, we should further examine
lifting the ban.
And U.S. Rep. Frank Guinta, R-N.H.,
said he was proud of the men and
women serving in uniform, especially
those serving heroically in Afghanistan
and Iraq. Because combat there often
occurs in urban neighborhoods and
on isolated rural roads instead of the
battleeld, sadly women are included
in the list of those who have made the
ultimate sacrice for their country.
If legislation is introduced to
change the current policy and allow
women to serve in combat units, I
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tion: I will examine it, weigh the pros
and cons, and vote to do what serves
the best interest of the people of New
Hampshire.
Several female soldiers interviewed
agreed with the commissions recom-
mendation.
If we are able to do the job, we
should be allowed the same opportu-
nities, said Spc. Kayla White of Man-
chester, a member of the 197th Fires
Brigade.
About 740 New Hampshire Guards-
men from the brigade, which is head-
quartered in Manchester, are serving
in Kuwait, providing security for con-
voys going in and out of Iraq.
Whether or not you are t for a po-
sition should be based on the person,
not the gender, said White, a videog-
rapher for the brigades public affairs
ofce.
Sgt. Elizabeth Hayes of Concord
also opposes the ban.
Of all the reasons Ive heard for
women not serving in combat roles,
none of them are valid, said Hayes,
who works as an IT specialist for the
197th .
Men shouldnt worry about protect-
ing female comrades, she said.
The idea of chivalry could be taken
care of during basic training. You can
train a soldier to think and act exactly
how you want them, Hayes said. A
female soldier who can hold her own
and complete the mission is just an-
other member of the team doing her
part. She shouldnt be treated any dif-
ferently.
Comments from Hayes and White
were relayed through a military public
affairs ofce in Kuwait.
An unscientic survey on union-
leader.com showed 53 percent of re-
spondents favored keeping the ban in
place.
A lot of civilians cant get over the
fact of letting women serve in a com-
bat role. I think its hard for them to
accept it, Young said before the sur-
vey was posted online. I think thats
why Congress, the Pentagon, whom-
ever is reluctant to change the ban.
The following is part of a reg-
ular New Hampshire Sunday
News series.
By SHAWNE K. WICKHAM
NewHampshire Sunday News
Its an iconic image: A bus-
load of soldiers heading off
to war passes through streets
lined with waving, cheering
folks. Someone holds aloft a
large American ag.
And one soldier has pushed
his head and shoulder through
an open bus window to give a
thumbs-up to the crowd.
It was late fall in 1990 and
Doug Stenberg was that soldier.
His New Hampshire National
Guard unit, the Hillsborough-
based 744th Transportation
Company, had been activated
in support of the rst Persian
Gulf war against Iraq.
To commemorate the 20th
anniversary of the Gulf War,
the photo published in Life
magazine in March 1991 was
recently posted on Granite
Thunder, the ofcial Facebook
page for the 197th Fires Bri-
gade. The brigade, deployed
in Kuwait, includes Stenbergs
former unit, now the 744th For-
ward Support Company.
Stenberg, who lives in North
Hampton, remembers he was
watching the TV news that fall
about the activation of National
Guard units across the country
in response to Iraqs invasion
of Kuwait that August. And the
phone rang. Thats when they
told me I was going.
He was 37 years old and had
two young sons. A Hillsborough
native, Stenberg had served in
the Navy during the Vietnam
War. He joined the National
Guard in 1986.
The 1990 activation order
was the rst for a New Hamp-
shire National Guard unit since
the Vietnam War. One hundred
fty members of the 744th were
sent to Saudi Arabia to provide
support for troop convoys.
But with Iraqi Scud missiles
a constant threat, Stenberg
became the commanders ad-
viser on nuclear, biological and
chemical warfare. He studied
weather forecasts, wind speed
and direction, and decontami-
nation tactics.
It was a heavy load for an E-5
sergeant, Stenberg said. I was
not allowed to leave the opera-
tions tent. If something came
down, depending on the cir-
cumstances, I had to be there
to do what had to be done. ...
Jim Cole, who has been a
photographer with the Associ-
ated Press for 31 years, took the
picture of the 744ths departure
from its Hillsborough armory
that November day in 1990.
Cole recalls arriving early to
set up. I was amazed, he said.
It seemed like the whole town
of Hillsborough turned out and
lined the streets.
He remembers the soldier
who stuck his head out of the
bus window. And he remem-
bers going through the nega-
tives after processing his lm.
As soon as I saw the frame, I
knew it was it.
Another tour
While the 1991 war was brief,
it wasnt Stenbergs last trip to
the desert. His unit again was
activated in late 2003 for the
second war with Iraq.
And this time, Stenbergs ci-
vilian job as a welding foreman
for the state of New Hampshire
proved invaluable.
It turned out the Army base
had a welding shop known
as Skunk Werks. Improvised
explosive devices had been
devastating the coalitions con-
voys, and the shop was working
feverishly to weld protective
steel onto the trucks that pro-
tected those convoys.
Thats where Stenberg and
his fellow guardsman, Spc.
Scott LaClair of Claremont,
ended up.
Our trucks had no armor on
them when we got to Iraq for
almost nine months, Stenberg
recalled.
He said he did everything he
could to make sure that every
soldier could go home the
same way he went over there.
Ive had a lot of soldiers ...
come back and thank me, he
said.
At one point, a group of Latvi-
an soldiers, coalition partners,
worked by his side to up-armor
their own trucks. They tried to
give him gifts to thank him, he
said. I wouldnt take them,
he said. I was there to protect
soldiers, and I didnt care who
they were.
Helping a child
The American soldiers
worked with local Iraqis in the
welding shop. One was a teen-
ager named Ziad, who told
Stenberg about his 9-year-old
sister, Zaharra, who was having
trouble breathing and eating.
Ziad reminded Stenberg of
his own son, who was about
the same age. So he and LaClair
brought the girls medical re-
cords to an Air Force trauma
physician, who looked at the
girls X-rays and diagnosed a
tumor in her sinus cavity.
The New Hampshire men
successfully pushed for Ameri-
can doctors to perform surgery
on the girl. Over the following
weeks, Stenberg and LaClair
continued to bring the child
and her family to doctors on
base to monitor her progress.
Just after Thanksgiving last
year, Stenberg got a surprise:
Ziad and Zaharra, who is now
16, contacted him using a Web
camera. Shes a real pretty
young lady, he said.
Of everything hes done in
the military, Stenberg said, hes
proudest of what he did for that
little Iraqi girl.
It is a great feeling to know
that we came all this way for
a war and ended up helping
somebody ... somebody who
had no idea that the Americans
did care about them, he wrote
of his experience.
Photographer Cole said that
if his 1990 photo of the 744ths
departure seems iconic today,
its in part because of the town
that turned out that day to say
goodbye. And I think it was
these people, proud to go.
With the memory of that day
reawakened, Cole last week
got in touch with Stenberg; the
two plan to get together next
month.
As for Stenberg, he is current-
ly laid off, waiting to be rehired
for his seasonal job driving a
tractor-trailer truck for a pav-
ing company. He retired from
the Guard in 2006.
He thinks often about his old
unit and his friends who are
back in Kuwait with the 197th
Fires Brigade. His message to
them: I just wish them all well
and cmon home.
Photo of NH soldiers going to war helps keep bonds
Page A10 NEW HAMPSHIRE SUNDAY NEWS Jan. 30, 2011
page 7SN1001A0130 CMYK
From Page One
Doug Stenberg waves to the crowd from the bus window as he departs the Hillsborough armory in
November 1990 with the N.H. National Guards 744th Transportation Company. The unit had been
activated for the first Persian Gulf war. The photo, which was printed in Life magazine in 1991, has
been posted on Granite Thunder, the Facebook page for todays 197th Fires Brigade, which has been
deployed in Kuwait and includes Stenbergs former unit, now the 744th Forward Support Company.
THOMAS ROY/UNIONLEADER
Nancy Young, a retired Air National Guardsman, holds the Air Force Combat Medal
given for her service in Iraq in 2004. Young, who lives in Auburn, says the military
should lift the ban on women engaging in direct combat roles. I think women
have proven themselves again and again, she says.
Combat
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