Monday, May 12, 2008

5:15 p.m. – Special meeting of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen (budget meetings)

Aldermanic Chambers

One City Hall Plaza

Manchester

7:00 p.m. – Regular meeting of the Board of School Committee

286 Commercial St.

Manchester (Mayor Guinta attendance at this meeting tentative)

12:45 p.m. – Velcro’s 50th Anniversary event

One City Hall Plaza

Manchester

5:15 p.m. – Special meeting of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen (budget meetings)

Aldermanic Chambers

One City Hall Plaza

Manchester

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

5:15 p.m. – Special meeting of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen (budget meetings)

Aldermanic Chambers

One City Hall Plaza

Manchester

Thursday, May 15, 2008

8:15 a.m. – West High School Awards Day ceremony

Manchester West High School

9 Notre Dame Ave.

Manchester

Friday, May 16, 2008

10:00 a.m. – Rails to Trails clean-up project

Derryfield Restaurant

625 Mammoth Road

Manchester

12:00 p.m. – Haitian flag-raising

One City Hall Plaza

Manchester

1:00 p.m. (if necessary) – Special meeting of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen (budget meetings)

 Aldermanic Chambers

One City Hall Plaza

Manchester

Saturday, May 17, 2008

11:30 p.m. – City Year New Hampshire Young Heroes graduation

Manchester Police Athletic League

411 Beech St.

Manchester

Since announcing his candidacy for Congress on March 17^th, to represent the state’s 1^st Congressional District, Dr. Peter Bearse has already completed two tours to meet people in the northern sections of the district and is about to do a 3^rd. Towns previously visited include Laconia, Gilford, Weirs Beach, Alton, Meredith, Center Harbor, Moultonboro, Tuftenboro and Wolfeboro. On Sunday, May 11^th, Bearse will visit the most northern towns in the district, including Sandwich, South Tamworth, Tamworth, Whittier, Silver Lake, Conway, West Ossipee and Freedom.

Though from the Southern end of the district, Bearse’s enthusiasm increases as he talks about the towns and encounters that he has already experienced in the “North Country.”:

“The small towns reinforce why I moved to New Hampshire from Massachusetts. I love them all. They represent the best of New Hampshire values, populated by people who work hard with both their hands and their heads, who are resourceful and self-reliant, upholding the values of family and community life. Yet, every one is distinctive.

There’s Meredith with a little diner where, unlike many down South, the friendly, hospitable owner doesn’t mind if a candidate drops in to talk with her customers.

There’s Moultonboro with a fine garden center. Notwithstanding intensive efforts to prepare for Palm Sunday, Easter and Spring plantings, the owner took time to talk about his concerns and didn’t mind my shaking hands with his equally busy staff. Thanks to them all.”

“I heard many laments reflecting economic problems in the North Country – loss of jobs, lack of work, plants closing, decline in business – but my experience as an economist helping solve such problems enabled me to provide some hope. Such problems can be solved by adding local leadership and community collaboration to the same qualities they bring to their own occupations. Look, for example, to what Littleton has achieved in a community farther north.

Wolfeboro provided another example – of a town that urgently needs to renovate its handsome old Town Hall. Bearse had been involved with local government in Merrimac, MA, which provides a good example of how to renovate a similar, historically significant building to better house town government. In talking with the Town Clerk, Bearse observed that: “A new U.S. Rep. can help by fighting to bring money out of Washington back home, where it can add to the blend of local initiative to help people make a difference in their own communities.

“The norther I go, the better I feel,” concludes Bearse, “so I’m looking forward to my 3^rd tour. It won’t be my last by a long shot.”

Released by Supporters of Peter Bearse for Congress, May 10, 2008

MANCHESTER (May 9, 2008) – Today, Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta formed a study committee to examine the city’s sexual predator ordinances in order to strengthen the laws that protect residents. This is in response to previous efforts by citizens to get such laws passed in Manchester.

“As is obvious by the response to the news that a convicted murderer and registered sex offender has moved into an apartment near schools and parks, it is time that the city seriously review its laws to see if we are doing all that we can,” Guinta said. “While I am convinced that the Manchester Police Department and is doing a great job communicating to the public about this individual, we seriously need to investigate how we can make these laws more stringent.”

The committee will consist of five members, three of which have been named today. Former state representative Leo Pepino, deputy director of the Manchester Health Department Anna Thomas, and Sgt. Scott Fuller of the Manchester Police Department have been selected to serve on this committee. Two more names will be announced early next week. The committee will meet within the next two weeks and hopes to have a recommendation by the end of August.

(Hillsboro) Republican Grant Bosse today blasted Democratic Congressman Paul Hodes for backing a massive bailout of the home mortgage industry, and putting taxpayers on the hook for bad loans. Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank authored the bill to force taxpayers to guarantee up to $300 billion in new home loans.

“Clearly, many people who were betting on rising home prices were hurt when the housing bubble burst, but we can not force taxpayers to insulate everyone from the costs of those bad decisions,” Bosse said. “Hodes’ massive bailout bill will allow these folks to avoid responsibility for their actions and pass along those costs to American taxpayers.”

The Frank Bailout Plan also included a separate bill with $15 billion for the federal government to purchase vacant, foreclosed homes, bailing out the banks who issued loans to unqualified applicants. The Democratically-controlled House of Representatives approved both bills with Hodes support this week. The bailout package now heads to the Senate for further consideration.

“If we use tax dollars to bail out everyone who makes a bad decision, we are setting ourselves up for an even larger housing crisis in the future,” Bosse concluded. “Paul Hodes just voted to put an additional$315 billion on our credit card, which means higher taxes for everyone when we have to pay the bill”