Car Fire Found to Be an Act of Arson to Local Law Enforcement Agencies When They Find by DONNA RHODES Department Were Able and an Investigation Im- the Toyota
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2016 SERVING TILTON, NORTHFIELD, BELMONT & SANBORNTON, N.H. FREE Legion teams up with Friends Helping Friends to combat addiction BY DONNA RHODES Besides the dinner lice Department has giv- [email protected] and performances by a en 100-percent in back- NORTHFIELD — disc jockey and two live ing what we’re trying to With The Beatles' fa- bands, there were also do and if they or other bled lyrics, “I get by nearly 30 raffles held police departments in with a little help from that night. From seats at the area have someone my friends” ringing in the July NASCAR race addicted to opiates in their hearts and minds, in Loudon and Darius need of something, we’ll more than 100 people Rucker concert tickets be there for them,” she attended a spaghetti in Gilford, to handmade said. “If that’s what we dinner and dance at the crafts, furniture and have to do to begin help- Whiteman-Davidson gift certificates to Steele ing people in our com- American Legion Post Hill, Gabriel’s Salon and munity, then that’s what 49 on Park Street last other local businesses, we’ll do.” Friday night to support there was something for John Guay of North- the locally based group everyone. field has been helping Friends Helping Friends “It’s just amazing how Keyser gain support in in their efforts to quell people and businesses in the local communities the rise in heroin and this community have and said it has been a opiate drug addiction stepped up to lend a very worthwhile en- in the Tilton/Northfield DONNA RHODES hand. We really appreci- deavor. communities. Representatives from American Legion Post 49 of Tilton and Northfield presented a check for ate them all,” said Key- “We kind of started Cathy Keyser of $500 to members of a new local organization, Friends Helping Friends, which is reaching out to ser. all of this on the whim of Northfield has been assist residents battling heroin and opiate addictions. From left to right are Post 49 Auxiliary She said she was also trying to do something President Jacki Newton, John Guay and Cathy Keyser of Friends Helping Friends, Commander busy organizing the grateful for Northfield to help people with ad- Joe Newton and John Chase of Post 49, and the Auxiliary’s Second Vice-President Mary Beaudin. group over the last sev- Police Chief John Raf- dictions and where it’s eral months, and was at raising funds for those “We had 125 seats bought tickets anyway faelly who has joined going now is way over excited about the turn- who need assistance in available and sold them to support what we’re in the Friends Helping the top. So many peo- out for last weekend’s their battle against drug all. While some peo- doing here tonight,” she Friends initiative. ple have been willing to inaugural event, aimed addiction. ple couldn’t come, they said. “The Northfield Po- pitch in,” he said. Money raised by Friends Helping Friends will be made available Car fire found to be an act of arson to local law enforcement agencies when they find BY DONNA RHODES Department were able and an investigation im- the Toyota. scene. a person willing to go to [email protected] to quickly extinguish mediately got underway. The officers then is- “A few minutes after treatment and/or rehab BELMONT — At 9:34 the fire, the vehicle still On duty officers sued a BOLO (Be On the the BOLO went out, an centers who may not a.m. last Tuesday, a res- sustained damage to the from Belmont Police Look Out) alert through alert Tilton officer locat- have the means to do so. ident of 38 Concord St. exterior paint as well as Department inter- the Belknap County ed the suspect vehicle at It could also help with in Belmont alerted the interior smoke damage. viewed witnesses from Sheriff’s dispatch sys- a residence in Tilton,” other needs that will as- fire and police depart- Once the fire was out, the neighborhood and tem and, according to he stated in his press re- sist them in the recovery ments that their 2000 it was determined that learned that the driver Belmont Police Lt. Rich- lease this past Monday. process. Toyota Corolla was on the cause of the fire in- of a passing vehicle was ard Mann, a suspect Officers assisting in In time, the group fire, and while mem- volved a container that seen throwing a lit, gas- was soon found just a the investigation found hopes that the New bers of the Belmont Fire held a flammable liquid oline-filled container at few short miles from the further evidence of any Hampshire Charitable alleged involvement in Foundation will be able the vehicle itself, which to partner them with a Veterans' Home displays piece of WTC Mann said had fresh local nonprofit agency burn damage to an inte- so even more might be rior door panel. done to support those in Along with other need. wreckage in tribute to heroes of 9/11 evidence gathered, ad- Assisting them in ditional proof came their cause last week- BY DONNA RHODES sitting in a chair and through surveillance end, however, were the [email protected] hearing about the situ- video from a local gas men and women of the TILTON — The ation. All of a sudden, station where cameras Tilton-Northfield based events of Sept. 11, 2001 the Canadian Broad- recorded the suspect American Legion and still stand out in many SEE TRIBUTE, PAGE A11 SEE CAR FIRE, PAGE A11 SEE LEGION, PAGE A11 people’s minds, and the residents of the New Hampshire Veterans’ Shaker voters to decide the Home in Tilton have been remembering that dark day in the nation’s future of a piece of Belmont's past history through a piece of warped metal from BY DONNA RHODES the World Trade Tow- [email protected] ers that placed on dis- BELMONT — On play there through the March 4, voters of the month of February. Shaker Regional School Courtesy of the Goff- District will be voicing stown Fire Department, their opinions and cast- the metal shows the ing their votes on a num- heat and impact en- ber of matters, including dured by the buildings’ a $21,739,870 operating structure when planes budget, a collective bar- were flown deliberate- gaining agreement for ly into the hub of New the Shaker Regional Ed- COURTESY York City’s financial ucation Support Profes- An old postcard shows the Gale School in its early days. district. The mere sight sional Association, and Next week, voters of Shaker of the piece brings back the addition of $75,000 Regional School District will many memories of that to the Facilities and be asked to decide the fate of INDEX fateful day. DONNA RHODES Grounds Expendable the iconic structure overlook- n “It’s incredible that WWII Navy veteran Joseph (J.B.) Butler pauses beside a tribute Trust Fund, but three ing Belmont Village. Volume 8 • Number 9 metal that thick could to the heroes of 9/11 featuring an actual remnant of the World other articles on the town to build a central 20 Pages in 2 Section be melted like this,” Trade Center. The piece is on display at the New Hampshire warrant will address the school in the village. Editorial Page ..................A4 said Leonard Stuart, the Veterans’ Home this month, courtesy of the Goffstown Fire Gale School building. A Until that time students Program Information Department. committee of dedicated attended one of the sev- North Country Notebook A5 Officer at NHVH who fore it all collapsed.” ries of that September men and women in Bel- eral one-room schools helped bring the display NHVH resident Jo- morning in 2001. mont hope to have sup- scattered throughout the to the Veterans’ Home. seph Butler, a WWII “My wife and I had a port that night to save community. Local News ........ A2-3, A7-9 “It makes you think U.S. Navy veteran, was vacation home in Que- the historical structure. The town grew over about all that happened one of the first residents bec, Canada, just 40 The Gale School was the years and eventu- Obituaries ........................A6 that day and the firemen who made a point to miles above Fort Kent, built in 1894 by Cyrus ally a high school (now ©2014, Salmon Press, LLC. and people who might view the tribute to the Maine, and we were Norris and named for the middle school) was Call us at (603) 279-4516 have been standing on heroes of 9/11, and he up there that day,” he Napoleon B. Gale, who built out in front of the email: [email protected] that piece of metal be- shared his own memo- recalled. “I remember donated $10,000 for the SEE GALE, PAGE A11 A2 February 25, 2016 LOCAL NEWS WINNISQUAM ECHO n PINES LIBRARY n Mac ‘n’ Cheese Zumba, for teens and through March 31. Each summer between now day. The Pines is offer- Saturday, March 26, Cook-Off adults, beginning in class is open to all ages, and March 15. All regis- ing a Vacation Camp for for our Annual Easter Calling all local cooks March. The class will from children aged sev- tration ends June 10, and kids in Kindergarten Breakfast fundraiser. and chefs! The first be on Tuesdays, from en to adults. The Begin- all summer fees must be through Grade 5. This The Tilton-Northfield annual Pines’ Mac ‘n’ 5:30 to 6:15 p.m., with ners’ Class is from 5:30 to paid in advance by this is a Games and Pizza Recreation Council Cheese Cook-Off is com- the Ab-Burst from 6:15 6:30 p.m.