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ECRWSS PRESORT STD U.S. Postage PAID Winnisquam Echo Postal Customer Winnisquam Echo THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2008 SERVING TILTON, NORTHFIELD,BELMONT & SANBORNTON, N.H. FREE Two towns discuss fire district BY ERIK ZYGMONT [email protected] Northfield selectmen had tions for Tilton to dissolve Northfield selectmen. services, or to dissolve the the message that the North- been uncooperative during the district and provide its Among other directives, district and form a new and field selectmen are willing to TILTON/NORTHFIELD its study of the fire district. own fire and EMS services. the selectmen charged MRI restructured one with neigh- meet with the company as a — Tilton Selectmen Chair The Tilton selectmen have “I’ve always said that I’d to provide detailed cost bene- boring communities. board. Katherine Dawson visited charged Municipal Re- be very surprised to hear fit analyses for Tilton to re- The completed study is “The Board of Selectmen the Northfield Board of Se- sources Inc. to analyze sever- them say that it’s in our best main in the Fire District, to due July 1. in Tilton would like your in- lectmen last week to discuss al aspects of the fire district interest to dissolve the dis- dissolve the district and pro- The Tilton selectmen have put,” Dawson told the North- the Tilton-Northfield Fire in the $18,000 study. trict,” Dawson told the vide its own fire and EMS contacted MRI, and relayed SEE FIRE PAGE A10 District study commissioned “The door has always by Tilton. been open over here,” said All three of the Northfield Northfield Selectman Chair- selectmen expressed in- man Glen Brown. “I just find credulity at the idea that it fascinating that somebody their board had refused to could put the statement in meet with Municipal Re- here that we refused to meet sources Inc., the company with them.” that is conducting the $18,000 Duggan’s letter also sug- study for the town of Tilton. gests that his company pos- MRI had insinuated in a let- sibly narrow the scope of the ter to the Tilton selectmen study, to, in Dawson’s inter- from MRI project manager pretation, taking a look at the Brian Duggan that the procedures and ramifica- State coming around to road problems BY ERIK ZYGMONT tions approved for the Y Pro- [email protected] ject. SANBORNTON — Select- Nickerson said that the PHOTO BY KEVIN SPERL man David Nickerson and town is trying to get the proj- Gross! Town Administrator Bruce ect going as quickly as possi- Winnisquam Regional High School junior, Betsy Doubleday, gets a first hand look, and feel, at a smoke damaged pig’s lung at the New Kneuer reported last week ble, and town engineers will Hampshire Local Government Center’s booth at the schools Career and Wellness Fair last Wednesday. that their repeated visits to be applying for the necessary the state regarding the state wetlands-impact permits roads “Y Project” seem to be “within the next week or so,” finally bearing fruit. and the town will be solicit- Baby Giovanni wins another fight for his life Kneuer and Nickerson ing bids soon after permits had met with DOT engineers are granted. BY ERIK ZYGMONT sary of the cord blood proce- to protect them from infec- the prior Monday,in their lat- For subsequent years, fin- [email protected] dure. He was sick with what tion. He was scheduled to re- est of several meetings with ishing off Upper Bay Road, BELMONT — Coming off was later determined to be ceive his first vaccinations state officials regarding the and reconstruction on Park- the ventilator he had needed RSV, a respiratory infection on March 28, Guglielmo said, four-year Y Project, which er Hill, and a 0.6 mile section to breathe for the past 12 common to children but po- but fell ill before that date. currently has a $1,050,000 of Lower Bay road will cost days, “Baby Giovanni” tentially lethal to Giovanni. Guglielmo also noted that, funding limit, with 2/3 of in the neighborhood of $2.7 Guglielmo overcame yet an- He was airlifted to Boston in this latest fight for his that being state money, and million, Kneuer said, money other dire threat to his life Children’s Hospital, where son’s life, doctors had to over- 1/3 contributed by Sanborn- over and above the current Y on Sunday evening. he was placed on a ventilator come a very high tolerance to ton. Project funding amount of “Right now, Giovanni is for a collapsed lung, and put anesthetic drugs that Gio- “We were finally able to $1,050,000. lying in his mother’s arms into a medically induced co- vanni had developed during have a consensus with the He added that the state has for the first time in 12 days,” PHOTO BY MICHAEL GUGLIELMO ma so he couldn’t move and the chemotherapy of his state, that the (Y Project) given verbal assurance that said Michael Guglielmo of Baby Giovanni on the one-year interfere with treatment. original treatment. needs more funding to meet it would keep its 2/3 funding Belmont, Giovanni’s father, anniversary of his cord blood Guglielmo noted that, due Guglielmo called the near- transplant. its successful conclusion,” commitment for this mone- on Sunday evening. to precautions taken for his two-week ordeal “horrific.” Kneuer said at last Wednes- tary increase to the Y Project, Twenty-month-old Baby Giovanni fell ill on Tues- illness, Giovanni had not yet “When they sit you down day’s Board of Selectmen kicking in $1.8 million to the Giovanni, who suffers from day, March 25, just one week received the vaccinations and tell you your kid could meeting. town’s $900,000 contribution an extremely rare chromo- past the one-year anniver- that healthy children receive, SEE FIGHT PAGE A12 Kneuer said that the state toward the total. somal disorder, called has approved a $400,000- Voter approval would be NEMO, which affects the im- $500,000 plan, for this year, necessary to add $2.7 million mune system, has become a Look for post card this week that would install drainage to the Y Project. Kneuer said global inspiration in the to the stretch of Upper Bay that the state has said it drive to register bone mar- The Winnisquam Echo per,” explained Rich Piatt, post card has been inserted. Road between the Second would be willing to draft a row donors. has recently launched a cam- publisher. Postal regulations stipu- Baptist Church and Col- “commitment letter” to as- Though doctors never paign for your signatures to “So, we are asking readers late for every signature card lieson Avenue, and recon- sure voters that it will pro- found a bone marrow match prove to the post office that to ask for the paper, by sign- received, the newspaper can struct portions of Hunkins vide 2/3 of the funding. for Giovanni, he was treated people read the paper. So far, ing a requester card or be mailed to two addresses in Pond Road, the main ambu- Kneuer said that a large with an infusion of umbili- 15 percent of the paper’s re- coupon,” he explained. “It’s town. The company plans to lance thoroughfare for oppo- construction company could cal cord blood, which, ac- cipients have responded. still free to anyone who asks, do just that. site sides of town. This proj- complete the rest of the Y cording to Guglielmo, repli- “Cheaper postage became but you have to ask.” “If we get 50 percent of the ect would use the original ap- Project, approximately cated inside his body and bol- available last fall to free The coupon has run in the town to send in a card, then propria- 19,000 linear feet, in a year. stered his own compromised newsweeklies who could paper and on the front page all 100 percent of the ad- SEE ROAD PAGE A10 cellular system. prove readers want their pa- in past weeks. 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Beaudin said that because longer subject to deeding. with an “updated list,” mi- “Most of these people Monday meeting, the select- In Belmont, she said, tax her list was current as of Feb- “They have this down nus those properties that are (who owe back taxes) aren’t men discussed the possibili- deeding on mobile homes has ruary, many mobile home right pat, don’t they?” com- now paid off for one of three going to walk away from ty of actually implementing been threatened before, but owners on it have by now mented Selectman Reggie years of owed taxes.

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