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Berlin teachers accept new insurance planBERLIN — The district’s schoolteachers have

agreed to a new two-year contract that will save the city over $600,000 by moving to a health insurance plan that the Berlin Education Association head

said will shift some health costs to teachers.BY BARBARA TETREAULTTHE BERLIN SUN

see CONTRACT page 5

Treasurer of the Randolph Foundation, Angela Brown (left), meets virtually through the magic of Photoshop with Diane Booth, activity director at the Coos County Nursing Home, to present a $500 donation from the foundation to the Coos County Nursing Home. (AUTUMN BROWN PHOTO)

County nursing home gets activities grantBERLIN — Coos County Nursing Home recently

received a $500 grant from the Randolph Foundation. The funds, earmarked for the activity department, will be used for a newly established resident shop and

for a future resident trip to the Living Shores Aquar-ium in Glen.

see GRANT page 5

City fi nance director set to retire in July

see FINANCE DIRECTOR page 14

BERLIN — City Finance Director Patty Chase will be retiring in July, after guiding the city through one last fi scal budget.

The announcement was made at Mon-day’s city council work session on a night when CPA Jared Vartanian of Vachon Clukay & Company reported the just completed 2019 audit was solid. While he recommended the city work to bring its undesignated fund balance up, he said it is still within acceptable levels.

Vartanian said Chase has done a great job, providing his fi rm with timely and accurate fi nancial numbers. He said she has completely changed the atmosphere in the fi nance offi ce.

Mayor Paul Grenier said Chase will be diffi cult to replace and noted she took over the position during a tough period. He said she helped put the city’s fi nances in order and he is proud of the work she has done.

“My hat’s off to Patty,” he said.City Manager James Wheeler also

praised Chase’s work and dedication noting that the budget process has gotten better every year.

Chase thanked the council for the oppor-tunity to serve in the position.

“It’s been a fantastic experience,” she said.Chase took over as fi nance director/comp-

troller in January 2012 after serving in the position on an interim basis for several

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(NY Times) — Research released Wednes-day shows a rise in food insecurity without modern precedent. Nearly a fi fth of young children are not getting enough to eat, according to surveys of their mothers by the Brookings Institution. The rate is three times higher than in 2008, at the worst of the Great Recession, reports Jason DeParle.

When food runs short, parents often skip meals to keep children fed. But a survey of households with children 12 and under by Lauren Bauer, a Brookings fellow in economic studies, found that 17.4 percent reported the children themselves were not eating enough, compared with 5.7 percent during the Great Recession.

Inadequate nutrition can leave young children with permanent developmental damage.

“This is alarming,” Bauer said. “These are households cutting back on portion sizes, having kids skip meals. The numbers are much higher than I expected.”

Bauer said disruptions in school meal pro-grams might be part of the problem, with some families unable to reach distribution sites and older siblings at home competing for limited food.

Bauer has been collecting data for the Hamilton Project and the Future of the

Middle Class Initiative Survey of Mothers with Young Children. Analyzing a separate nationally representative sample, the Covid Impact Survey, Bauer found that nearly 23 percent of households said they lacked money to get enough food, compared with about 16 percent at the worst of the Great Recession. Among households with children, the share without enough food was nearly 35

percent, up from about 21 percent in the pre-vious downturn.

The fi ndings come as Democrats and Republicans are at odds over proposals to raise food stamp benefi ts. Democrats want to increase benefi ts by 15 percent for the duration of the economic downturn, arguing that a similar move in 2009 reduced hunger during the Great Recession.

Nearly 1 in 5 children in U.S. are not getting enough to eat, research fi nds

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WASHINGTON (NY Times) — President Donald Trump, contradicting his com-ments from Tuesday, said the White House coronavirus task force would “continue on indefi nitely,” though perhaps with different members.

His announcement, made on Twitter, came a day after Vice President Mike Pence, who has led the group for two months, said it would probably wrap up its work around the end of May. But in a series of Wednesday morning tweets, Trump appeared to contradict that statement and empha-sized his desire to reopen the economy despite a continued rise in coronavirus cases and public health warnings that more commerce will mean more deaths.

Because of the task force’s “success,” Trump wrote, it would “continue on indefi nitely with its focus on SAFETY & OPENING UP OUR COUNTRY AGAIN.”

Trump spoke with reporters in the Oval Offi ce on Wednes-day afternoon about why he had changed his mind.

“I thought we could wind it down sooner,” he said. “But I had no idea how popular the task force is until actually yes-terday, when I started talking about winding it down.’”

Trump said later Wednes-day that Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the federal government’s top infectious disease expert, and Dr. Deborah L. Birx, the coro-navirus task force coordina-tor, would remain on the task force in their current roles.

He continued to call for schools to reopen, even as nearly every state has decided it would not be safe for them to do so this aca-demic year, and as two new studies offered evidence that children can transmit the virus.

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AMC closes huts, lodging facilities for summerPINKHAM NOTCH — The Appala-

chian Mountain Club has announced that it will be closing its high mountain huts for the season as well as other facil-ities due to the coronavirus pandemic.

However, both Pinkham Notch Visi-tor Center and the Highland Center at Crawford Notch are still slated to open July 1.

Nina Paus-Weiler, AMC digital media and communications man-ager, announced Thursday that “Little Lyford Lodge and Cabins in Maine will be closed for the duration of 2020, as will our full system of high huts in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

Paus-Weller, who is based out of the club’s headquarters in Charlestown, Mass., said: “These are painful conclu-sions for staff, volunteers, members and visitors alike. Please know that we come to them with our collective health and safety as our top priority.”

Chris Thayer, AMC director of North Country programs and community relations, said it was a diffi cult decision given the history, heritage and popular-ity of the huts.

“It has been both heart-wrenching and heartbreaking to read the com-ments on social media of not only our

OH (Old Hutmen) members but also those who looked forward to serving the public this summer as hut ‘croo’ mem-bers,” Thayer told the Sun on Friday. “But the safety of our staff, members and the public is paramount.”

Greenleaf Hut on the shoulder of Mount Lafayette. (AMC PHOTO)

He said the club annually hires about 50 people to work in the AMC hut system in the White Mountains. Thayer estimated that the impact of the loss of lodging revenue to be “in the millions.”

The club operates the huts under spe-

cial-use permits from the White Moun-tain National Forest for seven of the huts and from the state of New Hamp-shire for Lonesome Lake in Franconia.

Spaced a day’s hike apart, the eight High Huts of the White Mountains from west to east are Lonesome Lake, Green-leaf, Galehead, Zealand Falls, Mizpah Spring, Lakes of the Clouds, Madison Spring (the oldest, fi rst opened in 1888) and Carter Notch.

Lonesome Lake, Zealand and Carter Notch operate on a caretaker self-serve basis in winter.

All of the AMC facilities closed in mid-March due to the pandemic.

The huts are staffed by a team of fi ve to nine caretakers, mostly college stu-dents who work during the full-service summer season. “Croo” members work 11 days on, three days off. During their 11 working shifts, croo members must make four trips down to get perishable food and other supplies, carrying heavy loads. Normally, at the beginning of each season, fuel and supplies are fl own into the huts by helicopter.

Becky Fullerton, AMC archivist, notes this is the fi rst tie that all of the huts have been closed at the same time, although many of the huts were closed

see HUTS page 14

BY TOM EASTMANTHE CONWAY DAILY SUN

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, manag-ing cash fl ow is a major challenge for every business, large or small. That task, however, is especially challenging for small busi-nesses that sell goods or services to larger companies, otherwise known as business-to business (B2B) companies. Under pressure to cut costs and preserve cash, large compa-nies are forcing their smaller suppliers to accept extended terms on their pay obligations, such as 90 or 120 days, instead of the normal 30 days. This, in turn, forces the smaller companies to cut back on their spending or to borrow to fi nance their receivables.

In other words, small companies are pro-viding a hefty portion of the fi nancing to help big companies get through the crisis.

Two questions naturally arise. First, if we want small businesses to survive, does it really make sense for them to fi nance their larger customers? And second, is this a “back door” for large companies to indirectly — and improperly — benefi t from the Pay-check Protection Program (PPP) intended for small business?

The COVID-19 challenge may be new, but this type of cash fl ow problem is famil-iar to small businesses. There has been a trend in recent years by large companies to aggressively manage cash fl ow in order to minimize borrowing and maximize cash bal-ances. They have aggressively demanded, and received, extraordinarily favorable terms from smaller suppliers. It’s an open secret in the Business-to-Business industry that if you want to do business with a large corporation, you have to play by their rules.

As an owner of a B2B company myself, I have seen this problem many times. Small business owners recognize that power imbal-ance and simply try to adjust accordingly. However, the COVID-19 crisis is making a bad situation exponentially worse.

The $2 trillion CARES Act divided money to help businesses into two piles: small busi-nesses got $377 billion and big corporations got $500 billion. The small business funds have been funneled through the Paycheck Protection Program, which turned out to be so in demand that it ran out of money in less than two weeks before countless mom-and-pop businesses ever saw a dime.

That indicates a desperate and alarming level of need among small businesses, and the woeful inadequacy of the government response.

After that $377 billion was depleted, news broke that many notable large, public compa-nies received funding by completely manipu-lating the rules of the program. While many very small borrowers - the intended recipients

— were left out altogether.On April 24, Congress

added a much needed $321 billion to the PPP and mod-ifi ed some of the rules to better target the funds. This is a great step, but if we truly want to ensure

the survival of small businesses, we need to make rules that stop large companies from passing their problems on to their smaller suppliers.

Under the CARES Act, big corporations have access to $500 billion by working directly with the Treasury Department and the Fed. These two programs should not be considered totally separate - they are interconnected by the way that larger cor-porations relate to their smaller suppliers and partners. If large corporations receive massive bailout funds with minimal strings attached, they can and likely will spend that money to enhance their bottom lines and improve their stock price. Those are all well and good business activities in normal times, but in a crisis where millions of small businesses are on the line if those compa-nies don’t pay their bills, there will be many unnecessary casualties.

The Fed and the Treasury Department could mitigate this problem by requiring companies that benefi t from that $500 bil-lion fund to pay their smaller suppliers on time and according to reasonable terms. For many small B2B businesses, this could mean the difference between survival and total failure. They and their bankers des-perately need this kind of support, and it wouldn’t even cost the government one additional penny. It’s an easy way for our government to demonstrate real and tangi-ble support for small businesses.

Frank Patitucci is the CEO of NuCompass Mobility, a small B2B company. He is an active member of Patriotic Millionaires.

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If we want small businesses to survive, does it really make sense for them to fi nance their

larger customers?

Let’s get back to work in New HampshireTo the editor:Most of us need our pay-

checks. And we need the food, lumber, paper, and a zillion other products we used to produce. We have been living off inventories and those inventories are running out. Check out your grocery store. They are out of toilet paper and paper towels, pork, beef, Quaker Oats, lotta stuff. We have plenty of hospital beds.

By all accounts the Corona virus is not terrible dangerous for the young, (under 50) and the healthy. They ought to be allowed to get back too work, they need the money, and we need the production. Those of my age are at higher risk. Yet I am fully prepared to take that risk just to enjoy eating something besides my own cooking for once. We ought to let manufacturers, retail-ers, barber shops (I NEED a haircut), restaurants, motels, campgrounds, just about

everything to open. We ought to allow anyone who feels going back to work is too dan-gerous to stay quarantined at home and draw their unem-ployment. Businesses should be able to require their cus-tomers and employees to wear face masks. We should protect local businesses from preda-tory lawsuits. Workers or cus-tomers should not be allowed to sue businesses just because they came down with Corona virus.

Many of us in New Hamp-shire make our living sup-porting the tourist trade. We cannot give our tourists from Massachusetts the cold shoul-der. It’s reasonable to ask them to wear face masks, it’s reasonable to take their tem-peratures. It is not reasonable, not is it polite, to drive them back to Massachusetts.

David Starr, State Senator, District 1

Franconia

To the editor:Voting is a cornerstone of

our democracy. Elections must be fair and available to all eli-gible voters in a way that does not compromise their health or security. The State of New Hampshire has the responsi-bility to provide for these fair, secure and safe elections.

Covid-19 has arrived and delivered a heartbreaking litany of death and sickness. It is real and the threat will be with us for months. Gov. Sununu and Secretary of State Gardner must act NOW to put in place procedures that will protect the coming elections as

well as N.H. citizens.A comprehensive plan could

include online or mail in voter registration, as well as voter registration on Election Day. Every voter should have the option of absentee balloting with a statewide absentee ballot application website and/ or every registered voter auto-matically receives an absentee ballot in the mail. There also needs to be in place a way to accept and count the mail in ballots, again in a secure and safe way. A fi nal component to making elections fair for all is

Voting is a cornerstone of our democracy

to provide the necessary education for voters as to what they can expect and how they can carry out this most important aspect of our democracy.

An individual’s right to vote is of paramount

importance. All those eligible must be allowed to vote in a safe and secure way. The State of New Hampshire is duty bound to provide this for all its citizens. They must act now to be ready.

Ruth PerencevichConcord

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PERENCEVICH from preceding column

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Noting it was Teachers Appreciation Week, BEA President Jamie Welch told the city council Monday night that the willingness of the district’s teachers to change health plans will result in “remarkable savings to the city.” But he reminded that council that the new health plan was not an upgrade. Superintendent of School Julie King described the new health insurance policy as “less robust” than the current one.

Thanking the city’s teachers, the council unani-mously approved the cost items. King said teachers will receive a 3.9 percent salary increase in 2021 and no increase in 2022. The cost of the salary increase will be $269,504 in 2021 and zero in 2022 for a total cost of $110,539. But the health insurance savings will total $665,442 over what the district had budgeted.

Addressing the council before the vote, Welch asked the body to remember the dedication of its teachers. Last year, he said both the school budget and state funding were cut, leaving teachers in many cases spending their own money to purchase supplies for their classrooms. He said teachers spent hours of their own time packing up their classrooms and setting up in their new classrooms to accommodate the district’s school reorganization due to the closing of Brown School. As they adjusted to the new school layout, COVID-19 struck and teachers had a week to adjust to new technology and redesign their curriculums to an on-line platform.

“We have learned to do more with less,” Welch said, but he said the city cannot expect teachers to continue to take less without getting something in return.

“These are Berlin’s heroes right now,” said school board member Louise Valliere, noting it has been a tough time for the district’s teachers.

School Board Member Matt Bureau said students have complete access to teachers despite the diffi cul-

ties remote learning presents. As a parent, Buteau said he couldn’t be happier with the services his kids are receiving.

Board member Ann Morin noted that King has faced a lot of challenges since taking becoming super-intendent.

“Year One has not been an easy one for her,” she said.King had more good news for the council. She said

increased revenue fi gures may help trim as much as $750,000 from the board’s fi scal 2021 school budget request.

King said she felt comfortable guaranteeing the school district will end the year with a minimum surplus of $300,000. She said the district is also expecting to receive between $100,000 and $150,000 in Medicaid reimburse-ments that will come in after the fi scal year has closed at the end of June. King said the district has also been told it will receive just over $600,000 in CARES Act funding to offset costs incurred because of COVID-19. In addition to the health insurance savings, King said the district is also projecting a savings of $144,000 in heating oil based on the bid the city received.

The school board has requested a fi scal 2021 school budget of $20.3 million, up 11 percent or $2,048,121. At an earlier meeting with the board, Grenier said there was no way the city could afford that increase. The city is receiving an additional $2.1 million in state educational funding but he said the money is a one-time appropriation. He said the city cannot use it for operational expenses because there is no guarantee there will be similar funds the following year.

Given the impact of COVID-19 and social distancing on the economy, Grenier said he is committed to fi nal-izing a budget that will not raise taxes. But he also promised that he will do all it can to insure the schools are properly funded. He said meeting those goals will require everyone working together.

CONTRACT from page one

“The newly established resident store will provide residents a means of procuring affordably-priced essential items for themselves without waiting for a shopping trip or a visitor to bring it to them,” said Diane Booth, the activity director at CCNH. “The need for a resident store has been highlighted by the isolation enforced by the current pandemic sit-uation. We are so grateful to the Randolph Founda-tion for recognizing our need and awarding us this timely grant.”

While trips out into the community appear to be far in the future at this point in time, part of the grant will be held to make it possible for several residents to visit the aquarium who otherwise would not be able to. Excursions beyond the walls of CCNH are stimu-lating and exciting for the residents, but come with costs that are beyond what some individuals may be able to afford. The funds will also help offset costs for necessary staff and volunteers so that the maximum number of residents will be able to participate.

“Visits to points of interest in our area provide a sense of normalcy for residents as well as stim-ulate memories of previous or similar experiences. We look forward to the time in the future when we can again make these kinds of memories for our res-idents,” said Booth.

The Randolph Foundation is a non-profi t organiza-tion created and sustained by the residents and friends of Randolph. The Foundation supports the needs of Randolph and its neighboring towns in a variety of areas including conservation, communication, educa-tion, recreation, town history, leadership, health and welfare, and other important issues as determined by the Board of Directors and the Randolph community. For more information visit randolphfoundationnh.org.

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been gearing up for a busy week just as some busi-nesses are reopening under Gov. Chris Sununu’s Stay At Home 2.0 guidelines.

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doors and is allowing people in the shop, a couple of people at a time. She is encouraging them to wear facemasks if they have them.

She’s also happy to take orders over the phone for free local delivery or curbside pickup and provides delivery to nursing homes, hospitals and private homes.

She expects less foot traffi c and more phone orders this Mother’s Day and said, with the pandemic, she said there are more people sending fl owers to nearby friends and family that they can’t visit in person.

“You can’t be there, so you can say it with fl owers,” she said.

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since the holiday was created at the turn of the last century when West Virginian Anna Marie Jarvis campaigned for its creation in memory of her mother.

Jarvis, whose mother died in May 1905, began giving out white carnations in her memory of her on the anniversary of her death in 1908.

Congress initially rejected the idea in 1908, but West Virginia led the way two years later and by 1911, states around the country were celebrating it. In 1914, it became an offi cial national holiday for the second Sunday in May.

As far as fl owers go, Jarvis was for keeping it simple — red or pink carnations for mom and white carnations to represent those who had passed away — as part of a day the included going to church and sons and daughters writing heartfelt letters and poems to read to their mothers.

Today there are no limits on the choices of fl owers and arrangements people make to celebrate mom and bring a smile to her face. If you have questions about just what to get, your local fl orist can help you pick out the perfect bouquet or perhaps a live plant to brighten the home.

Terri Colarusso, owner of Gorham House Florist at 10 Exchange St. in Gorham said the motto in her shop is “Our specialty is your order” and she enjoys helping customers fi nd that special something unique to them and their recipient.

“I like to personalize things. I ask is there a favor-ite fl ower? If people are looking for ideas, I’ll send them to my website and Facebook page to see what we offer,” she said. There people can fi nd teacup fl owers and designs with butterfl ies and teddy bears alongside traditional bouquets.

“We like to cater to our customers,” she said.Florists have been able to stay open through-

out the COVID-19 crisis, having been identifi ed as essential services, but many shut down initially to gear up for their new normal, which at least initially, kept customers out of the shop.

Gill’s Flowers at 164 Main St. in Berlin has been closed for several weeks but is reopening just in time for the holiday.

Owner Lori LaCasse said she has opened her

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Mama bear bouquet at Gorham House Florist. (COURTESY PHOTO)

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“I can’t have Mother’s Day and not allow people in the shop. It’s impossi-ble,” Colarusso said, adding, “I let people do what they’re comfortable with.”

Raegan Burlock of Floral Designs By Raegan at 1219 Main St. in Berlin said she is still doing curbside pickup and delivery only to protect employees who work have compromised immune systems or with the elderly.

“We’ve been very cautious. It’s changed our dynamics, but we’re adjusting,” she said, adding that most customers have been very willing to work within their guidelines and the current limitations of the fl oral industry.

Flowers are an international indus-try and the cut fl ower arrangements that make their way to tabletops in Northern New England homes in cooler months come from as far away as Ecuador and Holland as well as other parts of the United States.

Many of those fl owers have been

delayed or not been able to be deliv-ered due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We’re in a weird time. We’re fi nd-ing that we’ve had a limited supply. We still have a lot of fl owers but some fl owers are hard to get,” Burlock said.

“It’s a designer’s choice. People give us a price range and we work with that,” Burlock said.

“We’ve been selling a lot of silk arrangements and a lot of plants and outdoor hanging plants,” Colarusso said. “I’ve never sold so many artifi cial arrangements as I have this year.”

Burlock said Floral Designs by Raegan has also been very busy with live plants.

“It’s a shift in what we’ve usually seen,” she said. “It’s just become a big part of my business since this. I’ve never sold more indoor plants.”

LaCasse said she too is selling a variety of plants as well as cut fl ow-ers but said selling plants has always been a strong part of her business.

Colarusso said she enjoys deliver-

ing fl owers to people. Being careful to wear a mask and use hand sanitizer and other precautions, she calls fi rst then takes fl owers to people’s homes. Once they’re she says, she knocks at the door and waits for someone to come and acknowledge the delivery with a wave from a window, then she backs off, gets in her car and they can open the door and pick up the fl owers.

“It’s so nice to see the happy people,” she said, noting that many older women especially don’t go outdoors at

all these days and really appreciate the gift of fl owers.

“They smile at me and wave through the window,” she said. “Some call me later to thank me. I tell them I didn’t buy them the fl owers, I just deliver them, but they say ‘I wanted to thank you for being open and delivering. It means so much.’”

Contact Floral Designs by Raegan in Berlin at (603) 752-7600; Gill’s Flowers in Berlin at (603) 752-1800; and Gorham House Florist at (603) 466-5588.

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GORHAM — U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan spoke with a variety of New Hampshire nonprofi t and com-munity organizations about how they have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

On the call, organized by the New Hampshire Center for Nonprofi ts, Senator Hassan thanked these organizations, as well as their workforces, for continuing to serve as a vital resource for Granite Staters, even as they experience their own chal-lenges, including an increased demand for services and a reduction in staffi ng and fi nancial resources.

“The challenge of your work has never been greater than it is right now,” said Hassan.

“I know that right now the demand for your ser-vices is up while your resources are down — resources both fi nancial and the number of employees who are available, the way that you can confi gure your work if you do have a physical site that is currently oper-ational, and then of course having to adapt services to follow public health guidelines.

“This is a real challenge at a time when you are doing everything that you can to meet the needs of the people you serve. I want to make sure that I am getting you resources as effectively as I can, that I am lifting up the work that you are doing because it is so critically important.”

“We are so pleased to have such an accessible fed-eral delegation, and Sen. Hassan has been thinking about nonprofi ts and focused on what is happen-ing here in New Hampshire while advocating for the state and for our organizations tirelessly,” said Kathleen Reardon, New Hampshire Center for Non-profi ts.

On the call, various organizations highlighted the need to focus on what support they’ll need in the future, including the need to support the nonprofi t workforce.

Patti Stolte, Family Resource Center at Gorham said: “We have a staff that rose to the occasion working tirelessly to address some of the immedi-ate needs for families in the North Country, but I do know it is a very taxing situation. Coming out of this I do fear our staff has been pushed to the limit.”

Hassan responded, “For all staff, whether they are physically frontline or virtually frontline, this is as hard a stretch as people are expected to have pro-fessionally.

“We are thinking through at the federal level what mental health and trauma related supports we’re going to need to get to people — during and at the other side of this, because it is such a signifi cant challenge.”

Are we all sick of virtual meetings yet? Per-sonally, I kind of like them. I’m an introvert by nature, so this quarantine has been relatively status quo for me.

Of course, I miss being able to sit at my favor-ite bar and catch a baseball game. Besides that, the online meetings have been quite suffi cient to quench any need for social interaction.

That said, there are others of you that are seriously jonesing for some quality “we” time. Since we’re going to be living this reality for a couple more weeks — at least those of us who are content with waiting for this thing to calm down a little further — I fi g-ured I’d share a few tips on making the most of those virtual meetings.

To be clear, most of these suggestions per-tain to not only business meetings but family and friends connecting as well. I have played poker with my group two or three times over the last couple weeks.

The game we play is online (of course) but has no video component. We simply jump on a Zoom call and are able to “visit” with each other as though they were right here at our kitchen table (almost).

I’ve connected with my family and friends this way and, of course, had a handful of busi-ness meetings. The goal here is to increase the personal and social aspects of these meetings.

One of the main goals for you, the person who will ensure this meeting is awesome, is to emphasize the social component. It’s true that having murmurings and tertiary conversations during a meeting is incredibly disruptive and rude. But for every thing there is a season.

Allow time for re-connections and gabbing. People are going to make mistakes. Some folks will be wearing pajamas (like me....every day). You can instigate some of this casual conver-sation and fun and even encourage it as folks begin to arrive and get settled.

Again, you don’t want it persisting throughout the meeting, but it is important that folks get more comfortable with being “online.” Remem-ber, this is not common for most of us.

Every one of us is handling this situation dif-ferently. I have had emotions ranging from true desperation and depression to a lack of concern

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BIA Asks governor, legislators for ‘Safe Harbor’ protection

CONCORD — As New Hampshire’s economy begins to reopen, the Business and Industry Asso-ciation, New Hampshire’s statewide chamber of commerce and leading business advocate, today pro-vided draft language to the Governor, key legislators, and state policy leaders serving on the Governor’s Offi ce for Emergency Relief & Recovery (GOFERR) and the Governor’s Economic Reopening Task Force which is aimed at protecting employers from unwar-ranted COVID-19 related litigation.

Calling on the governor to enact an emergency “safe harbor” order, and legislators and policy leaders to endorse similar legislation to protect employers, BIA President Jim Roche said, “New Hampshire employ-ers who are already struggling through the effects of this pandemic should not be further harmed by unwarranted COVID-19 related litigation.”

BIA pulled together a working group of private sector business leaders and many of the state’s top business lawyers to draft liability protection language. The group reviewed similar language

under consideration in other states to develop lan-guage for New Hampshire. The proposed language is intended to protect employers who are making “good faith” efforts to comply with federal and state health guidelines established for their industry sec-tors. Safer harbor protections would not extend to employers who are guilty of gross negligence, will-ful misconduct, intentional criminal misconduct, or intentional infl iction of harm.

In addition to asking Governor Sununu to enact an emergency order to establish liability protections for employers immediately, BIA also requested that policy leaders (including members of GOFERR and the Economic Reopening Task Force) endorse this concept, and legislative leaders take the issue up when the legislature fully reconvenes.

“Without safe harbor liability protection, some businesses will be deterred from opening and others from returning to pre-pandemic operations,” said Roche. “This is exactly the opposite of what policy makers hope to achieve.”

Jason Robie

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Connie Croteau, RNMichelle Lemoine, RNAudrey Cintron, RN BSNLucie Wyatt, RNChantal Perry, RNDarci Brochu, LPNTammy Gallant, RNLouise Marquis, RNBarbara Peabody, RNLynn Warren, RN

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To say this has been a challenging year for all of us would be an understatement. Each of you continue to face every new challenge head-on without blinking your eyes. Through your strength and commitment, you are seeing us through a national nursing workforce shortage. On top of this, you stand strong together, without compromising your ethics, integrity, or quality of services to your residents, and all this within the face of a global respiratory pandemic, COVID-19. Our most sincere and heartfelt appreciation goes out to our nurses who are on the front lines every day, who are committed to providing the highest quality of care for our residents. Today is your day of recognition, thank you for all you do:

You are all so valued and appreciated, each and every day!

Sincerely, Chantal Perry, RN Lynn M. Beede, RN, MSN Director of Nursing Nursing Home Administrator

and a fl ippant attitude toward the whole thing. And I continue to bounce around that spectrum on a weekly basis.

Each of the meeting attendees will also be somewhere along this range. It will depend on their overall attitude, state of mind, and which horrible news they’ve been watching. We’ve all heard enough of their negativity and sensation-alizing to last 10 lifetimes. If you can set the tone early-on in the meeting, it will serve you well.

You can’t simply ignore this pandemic, but you don’t have to focus on it. Acknowledge it. Express that we’re all feeling a little uncertain. Even feel free to share some of your own thoughts and feel-ings, but try to migrate that into a positive some-how.

Encourage folks to share some positive experi-ences they have had or seen. Without exception, sharing (and even listening to) positive thoughts and feelings improves our attitudes and helps elevate the mood.

Moving beyond that, encourage each of the members to keep their cameras turned on. One of the more limiting factors of our modern day com-munication is the inability to see how someone is reacting to what we are saying via telephone.

There is nothing more gratifying than being able to see your friends, co-workers and even list-ing clients or real estate professionals while you are talking to them. A simple quip may elicit a smile or a giggle that would go unnoticed on the phone. Being able to see everyone’s face simply makes the connection stronger and makes the whole conversation more personal.

I encourage you to get a decent headset or a

pair of Bluetooth headphones. Having to sit still (being tethered to a computer) for an hour or more is simply painful for me. (Hey, squirrel!) This also helps clean up any background noise in your home and is infi nitely better for you hearing everything that is going on.

“I strongly recommend wired or wireless head-phones for any online meeting (or phone call),” Badger Realty agent Janet Nickerson said. “It allows me to be hands-free during the meeting as well as be more relaxed and simply enjoy the connection more.”

Last, but not least, be aware of your back-ground. In many ways, you are holding this meet-ing in your home and all of the members of the group are going to be sitting in front of your desk facing you.

Take a second to spin around in your chair and tidy things up. It is also imperative that you not have a window behind you. You will end up looking like you’re in witness protection. I have colleagues who have hung a simple sheet behind them and then used the meeting software to dis-play a fake background (some of these are quite fun).

Online meetings are going to continue to be a strong component of the business world and (for a limited time) the personal world. You may as well get yourself set up for them now.

I strongly believe the more comfortable you are with online meetings, the more likely you will be to start initiating them with your friends and family. I can’t encourage this behavior enough. Get to it. We all need to connect and this is the best option we’ve got for now. See you online.

Jason Robie works for Badger Realty.

ROBIE from page 10

WASHINGTON — Following reports of scammers seeking to steal Americans’ identities and COVID-19 stimulus payments, U.S. Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Tom Carper (D-DE), and Ron Wyden (D-OR), are calling for the Internal Revenue Service to continue strengthening its fraud preven-tion efforts and further educate Americans about these scams.

As Senators Hassan, Carper, and Wyden warn in their letter to the Director of the IRS, “These scams often involve criminals impersonating the IRS or suggesting that they can help get individu-als their stimulus payments faster. Criminals ask for personal information in order to steal personal identities and stimulus payments.” Recent reporting highlighted the impact that these scams are having: some individuals who depend on these payments to pay for rent or groceries have logged onto the IRS portal only to fi nd that scammers already claimed the payment for themselves.

Senators Hassan, Carper, and Wyden, who serve on the Finance Committee, are calling for the IRS to fur-ther develop fraud prevention strategies for the online tools that Americans use to receive their stimulus pay-ments, and also urged the IRS to fully implement the Government Accountability Offi ce’s recommendations for the IRS to improve taxpayer authentication proce-dures and reduce identity theft.

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months after the previous director resigned. At the time, Chase had been assistant comptroller for less than a year and agree to take on the top position reluctantly when the city ran into diffi culty fi lling it.

In other business:• The council approved a Community Revitaliza-

tion Tax relief Incentive for Kendall and Lanetha Strahan. The couple purchased the former David Lee Mountain building on Main Street and plan to open a night café. Under the tax credit, the developer is not taxed on any increase in the building’s valua-tion due to the renovations for a period of up to fi ve years. The renovation must be at least 15 percent of the building’s valuation. The Strahans estimate they will spend approximately $28,000 on renova-tion. The building is currently assessed at $43,900.

• The council voted to accept a $5,000 donation to the Berlin police department from Jericho Power LLC. The money will be used for law enforcement tools to assist in community policing.

• City Manager James Wheeler said bids for heat-ing oil for the upcoming season are considerably lower than last year. He said the school department

is expected to save $144,000 in reduce heating costs because of the lower prices.

• Wheeler provided an update on city services during COVID-19. The city hall lobby continues to be closed but residents can make appointments to register their vehicles. Sewer and tax payments can be mailed in or paid on-line via Invoice Cloud. The city clerk’s offi ce continues to register dogs and pro-vide vital records by mail. Other things, like obtain-ing a marriage license or registering to vote, can be done by appointment. He said the library and rec-reation department continue to be closed. Public Works is working staggered shifts to reduce interac-tivity. Wheeler said in light of Gov. Sununu’s recent order allowing some activities to resume, the city may make changes in coming weeks. But he noted that most communities are not rushing to relax cur-rent measures and instead are waiting to see how the limited openings go.

• Next week the council work session will discuss when city streets should open this spring to ATVs. Wheeler said the ATV trails at Jericho Mountain State Park will open on May 23 but trails outside the park like Success Trail and Head Pond tract will remain closed.

intermittently during World War II, when they were staffed by couples and families with the shortage of “croo” men during the war as the huts were staffed by all male crews until the 1970s.

Paus-Weiler said that the AMC had planned to open limited public operations in early June but abandoned those plans given “increasing uncertainty” about the club’s ability to do that safely, “following public health trends in the communities where the club operates.”

She said: “We have now made the diffi cult decision to extend the full closure of all club facilities and staff-led, in-person activities to July 1, 2020.” She added that volunteer-led events remain canceled until June 4. Over the next two weeks, volunteers and staff will assess “if and how to move forward at that time.”

She said the AMC will continue to monitor the rec-ommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization and other government entities concerning the coronavirus and

public health. “All decisions about bringing facilities back online will be made in alignment with their guid-ance under the expectation that many services will need to be adapted to new and evolving health and safety protocols, including adjustments to lodging and food-service operations,” Paus-Weiler said.

According to the AMC, canceled and closed until July 1 are:

• All AMC facilities, shelters, campsites, trips, pro-grams and activities; guests and participants may rebook for later in the season or 2021, receive a credit to be used within two years or receive a full refund.

Closed for the remainder of 2020:• All AMC High Mountain Huts; guests may rebook

their trip for 2021 or move their existing reservation to another AMC facility.

• AMC’s White Mountain Hiker Shuttle.August volunteer-led camps and cabins should reach

out to their camp registrars for site-specifi c cancella-tion policies. To contact the AMC, call (603) 466-2727 or go to lodging@outdoors.org.

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Androscoggin Valley Gladiators Football is now holding player registration for the upcoming fall 2020 Football

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Berlin — A Berlin man was found alive and well during a search of the area around Jericho Road in Berlin on Monday.

Offi cials say that George Crowley III, 58, of Berlin walked away from his caretaker while at a residence on Jericho Road at approximately 11 a.m. The care-taker called for immediate assistance once Crowley did not return after a very short period.

The Berlin police department, N.H. State Police, N.H. Forest Rangers, and N.H. Fish and Game Conservation Offi cers responded and worked together to coordinate search and rescue efforts.

K-9 teams were deployed to search for Crowley at two locations: his point last seen and a cell phone ping location. Area searches were done and offi cers searched the Dead River by kayaks for Crowley. After these searches were not successful, New England K-9 (NEK9) and Upper Valley Search and Rescue were called to broaden the search of the wooded area.

While these additional resources were in route, teams on hand were being reassigned to cover other areas. After such assignments, a State Police team was driving up an access road to get to their assigned area, and found Crowley not far off the access road at approximately 5 p.m., within a quarter of a mile of where he was last seen.

Crowley told rescuers that he decided to take a walk up to the wind towers at the top of the mountain. He said that he did spend some time in the woods while on his walk.

Crowley was in good spirits and appeared to only sustain some small scrapes from his walk in the woods. He was brought back to his family and did not require immediate medical attention, as the family contacted Crowley’s doctor directly.

Offi cials also note that the public’s support and willing-ness to help locate Crowley provide a good example of a community caring for their citizens and their well being.

Missing Berlin man found safeLANCASTER — The Vermont man who

pulled a rifl e on a clerk at McDonald’s Restau-rant in Gorham in February will serve one to three years in state prison.

Under a plea agreement, Patrick Bolio, 31, of Wolcott, Vermont pleaded guilty to felony counts of armed robbery and unauthorized use of a rental vehicle and misdemeanor counts of theft by unauthorized taking and criminal trespass.

Bolio had placed an order at the McDonald’s drive-thru on the morning of Feb. 7. When he reached the take-out window, Bolio was wear-ing a mask. He pointed a rifl e at the clerk and demanded money. When the clerk backed away, Bolio took off in a white SUV, headed north. Later that day, a state forest and lands ranger discovered the unoccupied vehicle at Jericho Mountain State Park and notifi ed police who determined Bolio had rented the SUV from Enterprise Rent-a-Car in Vermont and not returned it on time. He was taken into custody at the park where he had been staying in one of the cabins, even though the park was closed.

On the armed robbery charge, Bolio was sentenced to serve one to three years with credit for 80 days of pretrial confi nement. He was given a suspended sentence of two to four years, which may be brought forward for up to fi ve years after he is released from prison. He must also must pay restitution of $4,574 to Enterprise.

On the two misdemeanor charges, Bolio received two 12-month suspended sentences in the House of Corrections.

Coos Superior Court Justice Peter Bornstein conducted the sentencing Thursday at the Lancaster courthouse with Bolio appearing by video link from the Coos County Jail in West Stewartstown where he had been held since his arrest.

Vt. man sentenced for McDonald’s robbery

COVID-19 takes bite out of state revenuesCONCORD — The coronavirus has taken a bite out

of state revenues in one of the traditionally largest col-lection months of the fi scal year.

State revenues showed signs of trouble last month, but this month the damage is more clearly defi ned.

Major shortfalls for business taxes, as well as the interest and dividend levy and the tourism-sensitive rooms and meals tax resulted in a $76.3 million short-fall for April and $75.3 million defi cit for the fi scal year that ends June 30.

For April, the state collected $264.1 million, when budget writers anticipated $340.4 million, which is a 22 percent shortfall.

For the year to date, the state has collected $2.15 billion, when budget writers estimated $2.22 billion would be produced, a 3.4 percent shortfall, and $160.7 million less than what was inn state coffers last fi scal year at this time.

State budget writers projected business taxes would produce $147.7 million this month, but the two levies — the business enterprise and business profi ts taxes — only returned $89.9 million, a $57.9 million short-fall, and $151.6 million less than a year ago.

According to the Department of Revenue Adminis-tration, the decrease in business taxes in April is due to decreases in extensions, returns, estimates and notice payments, and an increase in refunds.

Because of the COVID-19 epidemic, an executive order granted business a two-month reprieve for taxes due April 15 for those who qualify, the department notes.

The number of fi lings for April this year was 50 per-cent below what was fi led in fi scal 2019, the DRA said.

April is also a large collection month for the interest and dividends tax and the returns are as disappointing as the business returns.

The levy produced $26.3 million, $18.1 million below estimates, or 43 percent, and $25 million below last April, a 47 percent reduction.

For the year, the levy has produced $77.3 percent, which is $20.3 million below projections and $19 mil-lion below last year.

With most restaurants and hotels, motels and inns closed, the rooms and meals tax also preformed poorly

in April, producing $16.1 million, instead of the pro-jected $28.3 million, or a drop of 43 percent. Last year, $26.6 million was collected in April.

For the year to date, the rooms and meals tax has produced $297.6 million, $13.9 million below estimates, but $2.9 million more than a year ago.

The April revenues for the rooms and meals tax were collected in March. The DRA notes for March the col-lection for rooms was down 54.3 percent from a year ago, and restaurant col-lection was down 36.8 percent.

The tobacco tax col-lected $20.5 million, which was above esti-mates by $5.3 million, but the DRA reports the sale of stamps were down 10 percent in April.

The real estate trans-fer tax was slightly ahead of estimates for April as were lottery revenues.

State budget offi cials expect revenue for the fi scal year to be at least $200 million below projections due to the virus’s impact on the state’s economy.

Garry Rayno may be reached at garry.rayno@yahoo.com

BY GARRY RAYNOINDEPTHNH.ORG State budget writers projected business taxes would

produce $147.7 million this month, but the two levies — the business enterprise and business profi ts taxes — only returned $89.9 million, a $57.9 million shortfall,

and $151.6 million less than a year ago.

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He Only Takes The BestGod knows you had to leave us,but you didn’t go alone, for part of us went with you,the day He took you home.To some you are forgotten,to others just part of the past,but to us who loved and lost you,the memory will always last.

Love your family

In Loving Memory

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One Year Anniversary

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opened wide, A loving voice said “Come”.

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Lovingly remembered and never forgotten, Dad, Mom, Spencer & Family

Anita Comeau passed away on Sunday, May 3, 2020, at the Coos County Nursing Home. She was 93 years old.

Born in Bowden Maine on Dec. 13, 1926, she was the daughter of Alphonse and Eleanore (Dion) LaBerge. Her early education was in Lewiston Maine and Errol N.H. She was a Communicant of St. Kieran’s Parish now Good Shepherd Parish, and a member of the Trapper’s Association. She worked at Converse Shoe Company, Brown Company and Dolly Cop Campground.

Anita spent most of her life in the outdoors, she enjoyed hiking, fi shing, hunting and trapping. Hiking was a true passion. One of her greatest accomplishments was hiking all 64 of New England four-thousand-foot mountains. At age 80 she went ski diving!

Besides her parents she was predeceased by her brothers, Roland and Raymond LaBerge, her sister Medora Snigger and two infant brothers Lionel, Lauriat.

She leaves behind two sons, David Comeau of Maine and companion Susan Guay, and Doug-las Comeau and wife Ann of Alaska; a daughter Debra Judson and husband Henry of Stark, N.H.; three grandchildren, Jennifer Edwards and part-ner Andrew Eisenberg of North Carolina, Joshua Judson and wife Michelle of Washington and Chelsea Smith and husband Ryan of Alaska; two great-grandsons Connor Judson and Elliott Smith; siblings, Roger LaBerge and wife Ida, Norman (Jef-frey) LaBerge, Annette Kilbride, Muriel (Midge) LaBerge all of Berlin, Constance (Connie) John and partner Ronald Foss of Milton, N.H. and Laurienne Beaudoin of Maine; many nieces and nephews.

At Anita’s request there will be no services. Arrangements made by the Fleury-Patry Funeral Home, fl eury-patry.com.

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Anita ComeauClimb to the Clouds auto hillclimb pushed to 2021

GORHAM – Offi cials with the Mt. Washington Auto Road in Gorham, the Sports Car Club of New Hamp-shire and Subaru of America announced that the Nation’s oldest automobile Hillclimb, the historic Mt. Washington Hillclimb, scheduled for July 9-12, 2020, has been rescheduled to July 8-11, 2021 due to con-cerns surrounding the current COVID-19 Pandemic.

Organized by the Sports Car Club of New Hamp-shire for the Mt. Washington Auto Road with sup-port from Subaru of America, the 2020 Subaru Mt. Washington Hillclimb was to serve as a three-day motorsports festival which would include an 80-car competition fi eld fi lled with some of the best road race, hillclimb and rally drivers from across North America and the world, as well as a contingent of rare vintage road race and rally cars, an autograph session, ven-dors, food trucks and other activities.

However, due to numerous health and safety concerns regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic that are yet to be resolved by the State of New Hampshire and the Fed-eral Government including limitations imposed on large gatherings, interstate and international travel, limited lodging availability and most importantly, the health and safety of everyone involved with the Hillclimb, event offi -

cials made the diffi cult decision this week to reschedule the historic hillclimb to July 8-11, 2021.

“As much as we’d like to welcome competitors, volun-teers, sponsors and spectators to the 2020 Subaru Mt. Washington Hillclimb July 9-12, 2020 as planned, we feel that as event organizers it’s the safe and prudent thing to do for everyone concerned to reschedule the Mt. Washington Hillclimb to July 8-11, 2021,” said Howard Roundy, Event Director for the Sports Car Club of New Hampshire. “We’d like to thank the offi cials, competitors, volunteers, sponsors and spectators for their support and understanding as well as the management team at the Mt. Washington Auto Road and Bill Stokes, Motorsports Manager at Subaru of America, for their help and guid-ance in making this diffi cult decision.”

Also known as the “Climb to the Clouds,” the Mt. Washington Hillclimb is North America’s oldest auto-mobile hillclimb event, fi rst run in July 1904—seven years before the fi rst Indy 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and twelve years prior to the inaugural Pikes Peak Hillclimb in Colorado. The Climb to the Clouds was run sporadically from 1904 -1961, then not again until 1990 when it was run consistently until 2001. Following a ten-year break, the Mt. Washington Hillclimb returned in 2011 as part of the Mt. Washing-ton Auto Road’s 150th anniversary celebration as the Auto Road fi rst opened on August 8, 1861. Since then, the Hillclimb has taken place in 2014 as well as 2017. Event offi cials, competitors, volunteers, and spectators have been looking forward to celebrating a 30-year milestone in July 2020 since the historic Hillclimb was brought back after a 29-year hiatus in July 1990.

BERLIN — Berlin High School announces their Academic Achievement list for the third quarter. In order to be on the Academic Achievement list a stu-dent must have an unweighted numerical average of 90.0 or above. The Berlin Middle High School is proud of the hard work and dedication these stu-

dents have shown.Academic Achievement

for grade 12: Makaya Anderson, Amanda Anthony, Dylan Bisson, Kaelyn Blais, Trevor Breault, Hannah Brewer, Gregory Brown, Jadyn Campbell, Grace Clorite, Darrian Drapeau, Bryn Dube, Jenna Edwards, Trinity Gendron, Bree-anna Haas, Cora Huter, Matthew King, Aaron Lacasse, Jalen Lac-asse, Matthew Landry, Austin Letarte, Hayley Norton, Kaylee Peare, Libby Picard, Paul Salek, Natalie Williams, Joseph Young.

Academic Achievement for grade 11: Timothy Allen, Antonio Amato, Giuseppe Amato, Lily Camp-bell, Mia Dalphonse, Alyssa Delafontaine, Kylee Easton, Padence Henry, Jared Hoitt, Shawn Kay, Timothy Kay, Kelly McCormick, Emile Morris, Becca Pouliot, Julieenne Provencher, Dustin Rain-ville, Nicole Reynolds, Megan Riff, Tyler Rousseau, Chelsea Sloan, Mickailey Walsh, Sophie Wheeler, Kyra Woodward.

Academic Achievement for grade 10: Rayna Bour-beau, Chloe Dagesse, Adam Eafrati, Kadence Gen-dron, Jillian Hallee, Megan Heath, Jordan Lambert, Brayden Landry, Gwendolyn Pelchat, Carter Poulin, Isyss Remillard, Cole Ruediger, Ally Turmel, Adam Warner.

Academic Achievement for grade 9: Justin Ayotte, Ella Bacon, Ashley Baldridge, Jennifer Brewer, Kate-lyn Butler, Daniel Cardenas-Osorio, Dominick Cou-ture, Jacob Dalphonse, Sara Danoski, Nevaeh Diaz Veno, Jeremyah Dow, Eva Fortier, Elizabeth Gilcris, Sawyer Holbrook, Emma Labelle, Erin McCormick, Ryan Mercier, Kevin Murphy, Benjamin Neal, Casey Norton, Makenna Peare, Brian Perry, Katrina Pineo, Paige Pouliot, Arianah Richard, Cora Treiss, Saman-tha Vincent, Maya Wedge, Chester Winslow, David Young.

Berlin High announces honors

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Michelle K. L’Heureux, 46, of Berlin, N.H., passed away on Tuesday, May 5, 2020, at her home after a period of fail-ing health. She was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on Nov. 5, 1973, the daughter of Richard L’Heureux and Sharon (Poirier) Pelletier. Michelle graduated Berlin High School Class of 1995 and had been employed at the Community Services Center for the past 25 years. She loved music, dancing, Zumba and pizza. She loved God and enjoyed going to church. She loved people, especially her family and friends.

She is survived by her mother Sharon Pelletier and her husband Robert of Berlin; brother Cory L’Heureux of Conroe, Texas; nephews Austin L’Heu-reux and Colin L’Heureux of Conroe, Texas and Connor McKinnis of Okla-homa; step-brother Sean Pelletier of

Hillsboro, Fla.; step-sister Stephanie Pelletier of Clearwater, Fla.; step-niece Harmony Roman of Clearwater, Fla; several aunts, uncles and cousins. She was predeceased by her father Rich-ard L’Heureux; maternal grandparents Richard and Mary Poirier; paternal grandparents Luc and Rita L’Heureux.

A Memorial Service will be held on a future date to be determined. Those who wish may make donations in Michelle’s memory to the Community Services Center, 69 Willard Street, Berlin, NH 03570 or to North Country Home Health & Hospice, 536 Cottage Street, Littleton, NH 03561. Arrange-ments are entrusted to the Bryant Funeral Homes, Berlin and Gorham, N.H. Memories and condolences may be shared with the family online at bryantfuneralhome.net.

Michelle K. L’Heureux

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Huskies make the most of the sports world todayI would like to start this edition of SSS by saying

that I have had a few (5 percent) excellent responses to my “ice hockey goaltenders’ challenge” from last week. Maybe one trait of goaltenders is procrastina-tion or they are introverted and just don’t want to put themselves out there! Ha.

To refresh your memory I challenged local goal-tenders from the past and present, too, to respond to some questions I had posed regarding their history of goaltending. You can go to the April 30, The Berlin Sun to fi nd the questions. I am extending the dead-line to May 16, and you can send your responses to

me at steenm6@aol.com.Gorham Middle/High School recently “held” its

Winter Sports’ Award Night online. All coaches and Athletic Director Bill Goodrich had some excellent things to say about the teams and the athletes involved, thank you’s were distributed to all who have made Gorham sports’ teams what they are. In recent editions of the Sun, I highlighted each team’s season, recognition of seniors along with pictures, as information was provided to me by the individual coaches.

The Gorham girls’ basketball team coaches — Joe

Cassady and Peter Girouard — presented awards to the following: Junior Varsity Offensive Player of the Year — Madison Girouard, Leadership — Zoe Gron-din, Defensive Player of the Year — Halery Desilets, Heart and Hustle — Danika Daniels.

Varsity — Coaches Award — Danika Daniels, Most Improved — Jessica Burton, Defensive Player of the Year — Madisyn Buteau, Top Scorer — Karly Cordwell (257 points) and Honorable Mention Divi-sion IV All-State, Offensive MVP — Madison Rivard.

Seniors recognized were Karly Cordwell, Madison Rivard and manager Ema Stephenson. Coach Cas-sady had high praise for all three, calling Karly and Madison “pivotal teammates since grade 9, and Ema as a solid and reliable manager and scorekeeper — it will be tough coming back next year and not see their smiling faces.”

The boys’ basketball coaches — David Morrissette and Ron Legere — gave awards to two junior varsity players, Chase Carter for the Coaches Award and John Micucci for Most Improved.

Varsity awards were as follows: Rookie of the Year — Liam Cairns, Sixth-Man Award — Wyatt Deblois, Defensive Player of the Year — Ajay Landry, Offen-sive Player — Jesse Lafl amme and Aiden Etienne, and Coaches Award to Chase Malia. The coaches had high praise for seniors Ben Beals, Ajay Landry, Jesse Lafl amme, Chase Malia and Trevor Doherty.

Not to forget that the All-Scholastic Team con-sisted of Cullen Anderson, Trevor Doherty, Chase Malia, Karly Cordwell, Madisyn Buteau, Ben Beals, Wyatt Deblois, Katelyn Chase, Madison Rivard and Emma Bernier — congratulations to all.

The alpine ski team awards were presented by outgoing head coach Sherrill Tracy and her replace-ment (she can never be truly replaced!) Robbie Munce. The top fi nishers were Amira Robertson and Ben Harmon, both seniors, Coaches Award — senior Olivia Halle, Scholar Award — senior Josh Godin, Most Improved — Luke Olson and the Granite State

see ENMAN page 23

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Without a jovial touch, people get bored and touchy. That's where you come in. You possess

an unusual talent, which you will use to help, amuse and delight others. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). While it is possible to be anything you want to be, it generally takes time. Meanwhile, you can dabble in whatever tone, feeling or mood you want to take on in an instant if you know the mental route to the place. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). More sunsets are caught than sunrises because a greater number of people are awake in the evening than are watching for the break of dawn. Get on an early tract. There's something spectacular in it for you. CANCER (June 22-July 22). Relationships will have a feeling that is greater than the sum of their parts. Just as there's a certain dynamic present in togetherness, there's also a dynamic present in apartness. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Goal setting doesn't

always work for everyone or every situation. Right now it's enough to be on a certain kind of path. Your motivation and momentum are slowly picking up. Trust the journey. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). The teacher/student relationship is cyclical. The teacher is always learning from the student and vice versa. And yet it is important to keep the roles intact today. That's what makes the relationship work. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). In all your dealings, seek fi rst to position yourself well. Where you are coming from matters big time. Get a fi rm footing and take a posture of readiness and strength right from the beginning. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Prioritizing becomes a challenge when everything coming your way seems to be a high priority. You'll have to ask more questions to learn the truth and decide what to participate in and what to skip. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Being rigid with your rules only leads to frustration. Regardless of what's bothering you, there's more than one solution. Stay agile and open-minded and you'll create advantageous

conditions for yourself. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). To stay calm and objective through everything that occurs is a sign of maturity and a quality of power players. It's also what robots do. Temper your strategic calm with great empathy and a drop of desire. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). One way to catch fi sh is to stir up the water and get them moving, jumping and showing themselves out in the open. Stay calm and scoop them up. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). When you're in a position of power, you don't have to observe the protocol that others do, and yet it is a sign of respect and high character to do so anyway. TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (May 7). Inspiration and insight strike. Through effort and care, you'll start moving like you couldn't before, your physical self invigorating other systems in your life. It will be a win for your group in August followed by a lucrative personal victory. What a relief in September, when a complicated arrangement fi nally gets hammered out. Cancer and Virgo adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 11, 50, 3, 20 and 16.

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DEAR ABBY: I am a teenage girl in an average family. I started get-ting interested in LGBTQ+ and other social justice topics when I was in fi fth grade. Since then, I have realized that, among other things, I’m a lesbian, a liberal and an atheist. This wouldn’t be a problem, but my father hates many of the things I am or stand for. He’s an extremely conservative, Christian, gun-rights person, and he wants me and my brothers to join the military. He constantly pushes me to be the best that I can be, and I try, but his idea of “best” is very diff erent from mine. I have several mental problems, which resulted in me getting special privileges in school. I use them whenever I can, but it is never enough for him. He keeps searching through my grade book until he fi nds something new for me to do, regardless of the date it was assigned or whether it can be graded anymore. I have various restrictions on my use of technology, so I can barely contact my friends. It has gotten to the point that I am worried about when I come out and looking forward to college just so I can get away. Please tell me what to do in the meantime because college is fi ve years away. -- WAITING IN VIRGINIA DEAR WAITING: You and your dad have very diff erent outlooks on life, and that’s OK. That said, you must live under his roof for the next fi ve years, so be diplomatic and keep some of your opinions to yourself as long as possible. You may think your father is heavy-handed in parenting you, but has it occurred to you that when he goes through your grade book, he’s trying to make sure you know how to work all the problems in it? Plac-ing restrictions on a minor’s use of technology is intelligent parenting,

at least for someone just entering her teens. Please try to cut him some slack. Recognize there is a bright future ahead of you if you concentrate on your studies to the best of your ability and buckle down now. DEAR ABBY: My 32-year-old son, “Jerry,” wanted to propose to his girlfriend, but didn’t have money for a ring. My husband off ered him my original engagement ring, assuming for some reason (or maybe just not thinking) that my old ring didn’t hold sentimental value to me, although I wore that 1/3-carat diamond every day for 32 years before getting a new, larger one. After the ring was off ered, I felt forced to let him have it. I knew it wouldn’t fi t his girlfriend, and I also didn’t think she would settle for such a small diamond, but I fi gured he would have the diamond put into a setting that fi t her. I got over my feeling of loss knowing he would use the ring. Well, he didn’t. He gave her MY ring, and then they went out and charged a nice-sized engagement ring that she selected. My original ring now hangs on a chain in her jewelry box. Should I ask for my ring back? -- MEANS A LOT IN TEXAS DEAR MEANS A LOT: Because your fi rst engagement ring is not being used as intended and was only a place holder until your son’s fi ancee got what she really wanted, I see no reason why you shouldn’t ask, and I also see no reason why she shouldn’t graciously comply.

— • —Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at: Dear Abby, c/o The Conway Daily Sun, PO Box 1940, North Conway, NH 03860

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All-Conference Team — Ben Harmon.Coach Tracy did thank everyone for their support

in making her 26-year coaching career at Gorham so special. That included parents, teachers, staff, four ath-letic directors and others. She concluded by saying, “It was never just about ski racing, it was so much more. With much gratitude.” She will be missed by many, including me as she was one the most prompt, cooper-ative coaches I have worked with since becoming the sports editor of the Sun, 2 1/2 years ago.

Both Berlin-Gorham boy’s and girl’s hockey coaches, Mike Poulin — Division III and Craig Bar-toli (Division I) respectively, had words of praise for their very successful seasons, as both teams copped their division championships.

Coach Poulin cited part of the success coming from the hard work and dedication of three Gorham student/athletes, Craig Dias, a junior varsity player, Landyn Croteau who had “great shifts from the forward position and always ready to play,” and the No. 1 goalie for the Mountain-eers, Anthony Pizzuto. “He had a great season but his best game came in the semifi nals — when we needed a save, he made three and without him, there is no state championship.”

Coach Bartoli was quick to say, “That we had an amazing season, with a team full of great ath-letes and people and that includes two key players from Gorham. Sophomore Sidney Chapman always worked hard and put in the extra effort to become a complete force out there on the ice. And junior Sophia Schoenbeck is one if not the best offensive-minded defenseman in the state — she strives to be the best she can be and I was fortunate to be able to coach her. And remember, she is the one who scored the overtime goal in the quarter-fi nals to help us move on in the tournament.”

Bill Goodrich, the long-time coach, teacher, athletic director and friend to all, is retiring after 37 years at Gorham High & Middle School. (COURTESY PHOTO)

The Gorham Booster Club head honcho Lynn Leclerc congratulated all of the teams and espe-cially the seniors for their hard work, dedication and sportsmanship throughout the season. She sends “big hugs” to all.

No one is sure yet where any summer sports’ pro-grams stand, and that includes baseball (T-Ball, farm league, Cal Ripken and Babe Ruth) — can you imagine summer without baseball and softball?

Baseball enthusiast/coach DJ Johnson did let me know that plans and schedules are being worked on as I write this in hopes things open up. People can go to the Berlin-Gorham Babe Ruth Program website to at least get further information and register your son to play. No fi nancial obligations are required at this point. Also, what will be happening to the summer recreation programs, softball, soccer, all the various summer camps that take place — time will tell I guess!

And last but certainly not least, there were some very kind words put out there for retiring, long-time coach, teacher, athletic director and friend to all Bill Goodrich. I know they had a special gath-ering early on for Bill to honor him for his years of dedication to the youth of Gorham, and I guess it was a good thing they did because he certainly deserves all the accolades sent his way, live and not online.

To fi nish out what has to be a very satisfying and enjoyable 37 years with no school, no spring sports, no real normal closure to his career must be some-what disappointing, to say the least. Thanks, Bill and best wishes for much success and joy in the days and years ahead.

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