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Great Northwoods Journal
August 25, 2012
Letters to the Editor
James “Pete”Fay—a contender
worth consideration
The House of Representatives seat for the Essex-Caledonia Legislative District is up
for grabs with longtime Rep.
Janice Peaslee not seeking
another term. For many reasons, voters should seriously
consider candidate James “Pete”
Fay.
LOCAL EXPERIENCE —
James Fay is a Vermonter who
ran a successful farming operation in Maidstone, Vt., for
27years. With the current local
and national economic challenges, business experience is
crucial for any Representative
to truly understand the business landscape of the Northeast
Kingdom. Not only did Mr. Fay
run a successful business, he
also took the time to volunteer
on committees serving as
Maidstone Selectman and
Lister, Cabot Creamery Board
Member, Agri-Mark Board of
Directors, State Technical
Committee NRCS, State Moose
Advisory Committee Member,
and ASCS County Committee
Chair. Mr. Fay’s extensive experience working with groups of
individuals to achieve common
goals aligns well with the
demands required of the EssexCaledonia House Representative.
EXPERIENCE
BEYOND
THE NORTHEAST KINGDOM
— As a Vietnam Veteran who
lived outside of Essex County
for many years in Jericho, Vt.,
James Fay understands that
issues beyond the Northeast
Kingdom impact those of us who
live here today. He appreciates
the past, but realizes that the
unforeseen challenges of tomorrow will be unique and require a
unique and forward perspective.
An example is his support of
school choice, something other
candidates have adamantly
fought against. Voters who value their current school choice
options should seriously consider where all candidates stand on
this important issue that is now
being deliberated at the state
level, or risk losing their ability
to choose the best educational
opportunities for their students
in the future.
COMMON SENSE APPROACH — Debt reduction, no
new taxes, balanced budgets,
property rights, less regulation
and a business-friendly environment are all initiatives Mr. Fay
believes in and plans to pursue
as the Essex-Caledonia Representative. Not all candidates
possess the business knowledge,
extensive committee experience,
and understanding of current
and future issues facing Vermont today. With a common
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sense approach developed from
years of hard work and dedication to the Northeast Kingdom
way of life, Mr. Fay is worthy of
consideration for the House of
Representative seat for the
Essex-Caledonia Legislative
District.
Cynthia Stuart
Representative of Concord
Citizens for an Informed
Community
Concord, Vt.
Vietnam Veteran, a team player
that experienced different cultures and opportunities to think
out of the box when being challenged.
Serving as our representative, “Pete” will listen, analyze,
and share his opinion in an honest, ethical manner with the
future in mind.
James “Pete” Fay has the
ability and insight to speak out
for our benefit. He further
demonstrates dedication by
placing a value on our communities to appropriately represent
us in Montpelier. James “Pete”
Fay presents with solid credentials that position him to be the
candidate of choice to represent
us—the voters.
Together let us select “Pete”
who will speak up for our district in a fair and equitable
manner. Remember a vote for
Pete is a vote for us.
Patricia Holcomb Rogers,
Guildhall, Vt.
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bags once again. It wasn’t long
before I drifted off to sl___, “I
wear t-shirts, she wears short
skirts, la, la, la!”
“Hon, I thought you turned it
off!”
“I thought I did.”
“Well, give me that thing. I’ll
do it!”
“Shhh, don’t talk so loud.”
Her phone lit up when I
pushed a button, but they were
so small I couldn’t tell which one
was the “off” button.
“Which one did you push the
last time?”
“I can’t remember.”
“I pushed the upper left button. That one looked like the
“off” button to me,” I whispered.
“Good Hon, I hope it works,”
she whispered back.
So we snuggled down one
more time. The sound of the
crickets outside of the tent
lulled me back to sle____ “I wear
t-shirts, she wears short skirts,
la, la, la!”
“Oh my good Lord Hon, I
can’t stand it!”
“Where’s that stupid phone?”
“What are you doing?”
“I’m puttin’ my clothes on!
Then I’m takin’ this stupid radio
or cell whatever and puttin’ it in
the car!”
In the middle of the night, I
took Ms. Taylor Swift and
stuffed her in the center console,
closed the cover and locked the
car.
I crawled back into the tent,
took my clothes off, slipped into
my now cold, damp sleeping bag
and tried to get some sleep!
The next morning, “Hey,
where’s my cell phone?”
“Papa locked it in the car
after he tried to find the “off”
button, but couldn’t.”
“Papa, did you push any buttons?!” she asked with a little
scowl on her face.
“I pushed a few, yes,” I confessed.
“Papa, if you cost me my minutes, you’re the one who will
answer to my parents, not me!”
I looked over to my wife, “at
least she’s talking to me.”
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‘A vote for Pete is a vote for us’
To the Editor:
On August 28, the Essex
Caledonia Legislative District
voters have the opportunity to
elect James “Pete” Fay as the
Republican
Representative
Candidate to be our voice in
Montpelier.
“Pete” brings experiences
from several avenues based on
common sense, and involvement
beyond the Northeast Kingdom
to the table. A former farm owner and former employee of IBM,
“Pete” knows and understands
what it takes to operate a business no matter the size. Pete
leads willingly by example
based on his ability to listen, to
identify resources, to set goals,
to promote team participation,
resulting in common sense solutions. Preserving the land and
agriculture operations in the
Northeast Kingdom is demonstrated continually by this candidate.
James “Pete” Fay is a
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August 25, 2012
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August 25, 2012
Greg Biffle, Roush Fenway
Racing and Ford, all celebrated
the end of a drought Sunday
with Biffle’s victory in the Pure
Michigan 400 at Michigan
International Speedway. With
his third victory at the two-mile
track, his second of the season
and the 18th of his career, Biffle
broke a seven-race dry spell for
both Ford and owner Jack
Roush. Biffle also grabbed the
points lead from Jimmie
Johnson, who finished 27th
after his engine failed just six
laps from the finish. Brad
Keselowski tried to catch Biffle
during a two-lap run to the finish but fell .416 seconds short,
taking second in a photo finish
over fast-closing Kasey Kahne.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. came home
fourth in a backup car, followed
by, Watkins Glen winner the
previous
week,
Marcos
Ambrose. Johnson bolted into
the lead ahead of Keselowski on
Lap 191, but four laps later his
engine expired, handing the
lead to Biffle, who had passed
Keselowski for the second spot
on Lap 192. NASCAR called a
caution for oil in the tri-oval, the
result of Johnson’s engine failure, setting up a restart that
sent the race one lap past its
scheduled distance of 200 laps.
Polesitter Mark Martin suffered
a vicious hit on Lap 64, when his
No. 55 Toyota slammed into the
butt end of the pit road wall at
an opening to the garage.
Martin was an innocent victim
of a wreck involving Juan Pablo
Montoya and Bobby Labonte,
who spun off Turn 4 in front of
the race leader. Kahne spun
alongside Martin and slid
through the grass, but suffered
no significant damage and rallied for a top-five finish.
Justin Allgaier might come
from a family whose roots are
deeply planted in oval track
stock-car racing, but Saturday
afternoon, Lil’ Gator proved he
can turn left and right with the
best of the NASCAR Nationwide
Series. Allgaier captured his
first win of the season at the
NAPA Auto Parts 200 presented
by Dodge on Circuit Gilles
Villeneuve in Montreal, emerging in front after a frenzied overtime finish. “Today was just an
awesome day,” said Allgaier.
“Winning in Montreal means so
much because all the people in
the series enjoy coming here.
The atmosphere is great, the
fans never disappoint here, but
the race played out perfectly for
us.” Allgaier was running third
at the second attempt for a
green-white-checkered finish,
when a last-lap bump put him in
front of Penske Racing teammates Sam Hornish Jr. and
Jacques Villeneuve, who ended
up second and third. NASCAR
Nationwide Series points leader
Elliott Sadler finished fourth,
one position in front of 2008
Montreal winner Ron Fellows.
Great Northwoods Journal
With 824 points, Sadler extended his lead at the top of the
NASCAR Nationwide Series
championship race to 22 points
over Ricky Stenhouse Jr., who
wrecked late but still finished
12th. With his second-place finish, Hornish is now tied with
Stenhouse with 802 points while
Austin Dillon (789) and Allgaier
(756) close out the top five in
points.
What looked like a disaster
early on for Nelson Piquet Jr.—
a spin on lap 56—turned fortuitous as green flags clicked by to
close the VFW 200 at Michigan
International Speedway. Piquet
and crew chief Chris Carrier
employed a brilliant—and racewinning—strategy to capture
the Brazilian’s first victory in
the NASCAR Camping World
Truck Series. The duo chose to
stay out on the race track while
the front-runners pitted under
green, and milked a huge lead
that ballooned to over 15 seconds with seven laps remaining.
“Me and Chris have been fighting for this win since the beginning of last year and we finally
made it,” Piquet said. “It came
in a dramatic way, but it came.
It doesn’t matter how, but we
did it and I’m really happy that
the whole team stayed behind
me this whole time. It is a little
weight off my back and for the
whole family. I am just living to
do what our family always did,
win races and win championships.” Piquet is the first
Brazilian to win a NASCAR
Camping World Truck Series
race and only the second driver
born outside the United States
to win a truck race (Canadian
Ron Fellows is the other). Jason
White (second) and Dakoda
Armstrong (third) each posted
career-best finishes. Parker
Kligerman, who ran his first
race with Red Horse Racing,
and James Buescher, rounded
out the top five. The win moved
Piquet up to eighth in points.
Timothy Peters, who finished
13th, remains the standings
leader, but in a points tie with
rookie Ty Dillon. Peters wins
the tie-breaker thanks to his
victory at Iowa in July.
Veteran wheelman Cris
Michaud used the high side to
slip past nemesis Dave
Pembroke at Thunder Road
(TR) on Thursday night for his
second win of the season. TR
second-place
point
man
Pembroke, dominated the first
half of the event jumping out to
mammoth lead early only to
have a mid-race caution bring
Michaud and the field back to
his rear bumper. Pembroke was
able to hold off point leader Nick
Sweet for second, followed by
three-time Thunder Road
Champion Phil Scott took the
fourth position, and Winooski’s
Jerry Lesage rounded out the
top five. Michaud felt the satisfaction of his victory. “This one
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season, Kligerman has collected
two top-five and seven top-10
finishes and has completed all
but one lap of competition.
With the New Hampshire
primary on the horizon, Sprint
Cup Series driver Jeff Burton
made pit stops in New England
on Wednesday, throwing his
helmet into the mix as the primary candidate to become the
winning ticket for the SYLVANIA 300—the second race in the
Chase for the Sprint Cup chamClint Bowyer: Bristol is “a pionship—at New Hampshire
great race in the best atmos - Motor Speedway on Sept. 23. “I
love coming to New Hampshire,”
phere we have.”
(Photo by Steve Poulin) said Burton to a large crowd
assembled in Sam Adams Park
Dad’s 4 By Tool and Supply at Faneuil Hall. “We haven’t
Street Stock race, while Luke had a great season, but New
Shannon added to his point lead Hampshire is definitely a place
by picking up a hard fought win we feel like we can win every
in the North Country Ford Late time we unload.” Burton has
Models.
eight top fives, 13 top 10s and
Garage Garble
783 laps led at NHMS. He also
After starting his season owns the incredible record of
with Brad Keselowski Racing, leading all 300 laps, a feat he
Parker Kligerman began the accomplished in the 2000 Dura
second half of the season this Lube 300.
weekend at Michigan with a
What they’re saying
new team, Red Horse Racing.
On Bristol’s new configuraKligerman joins the stacked tion: “Well, you’ve definitely lost
driver lineup of Timothy Peters the top groove,” said Tony
and Todd Bodine. Already a Stewart, who was the only drivchampionship contender sitting er to try and run the high line at
sixth in points, the 22-year-old the test. “Guys who run up there
will embark on a new venture aren’t going to be able to do that
aiming to capture his first
NCTWS championship and first Rumors----------------------win. In the first 11 races of the (Continued on Page 17)
means a lot. We raced with some
of the best guys in the business
tonight with Dave and Nick,”
said Michaud. “We’ve really
struggled this year, man this
feels good.”
Victory Lane
“Double O” Joe Steffen
surged to his first win of 2012 at
thunder Road on Thursday
night, rectifying a frustrating
season for the veteran Bond
Auto Tiger Sportsman driver.
Steffen dominated the early portion of the 35-lap race, but resorted to a drag-race to the finish line with ace Bobby Therrien
to secure the win.
A bleak weather forecast
forced Devil’s Bowl Speedway to
postpone its NASCAR Whelen
All-American Series stock car
racing program for Friday night.
The Enduro event for four-and
six-cylinder automobiles was
rescheduled to Friday, August
24, on Sugar & Spice Restaurant Night. An announcement
regarding make-up dates for the
rest of the events will be made
soon.
Tyler Rich and Jeremy Beckley highlighted a jam-packed
list of dirt track stock car winners on Swenson Insurance
Night in the 99ROCK Weekly
Racing Series at Bear Ridge
Speedway on Saturday. Rich
became the ninth different winner of the Sprint Cars of New
England season with a decisive
win in the 25-lap WYKR Sprint
Cars of New England (SCoNE)
feature for his first win of 2012.
The victory marked the second
career Sprint Car win for 2011
SCoNE Rookie of the Year and
Beckley’s long-awaited Wells
River Chevrolet Sportsman
Coupe win was the first of his
career.
At Riverside Speedway on
Saturday night, Nick Pilotte
walked away $1,000 richer by
winning the caution-free Jake
McDowell 100 presented by
IMPORTANT
INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS/PARENTS
OF WHITE MOUNTAINS REGIONAL
SCHOOL DISTRICT (SAU #36)
Academic Time Schedule:
North Country Class
7:55 a.m. to 2:35 p.m.
Jefferson Elementary School
7:50 a.m. to 2:50 p.m.
Lancaster Elementary School
7:45 a.m. to 2:55 p.m.
Whitefield Elementary School
7:45 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
White Mountains Regional High School 7:55 a.m. to 2:50 p.m.
Breakfast/Hot Lunch Prices (District Wide):
Elementary School - Hot Lunch
High School - Hot Lunch
Adults - Hot Lunch
District Wide - Breakfast
District Wide - Reduced Hot Lunch
District Wide - Reduced Breakfast
$2.50/day
$2.75/day
$3.50/day
$1.50/day
$ .40/day
$ .30/day
Free and Reduced Meal applications will be given to students
the first day of school. The application will also be available
online at www.sau36.org. By applying for this program you are
not only reducing your cost of meals, but also helping our
school district receive more grants and helping the Lunch
Program by raising participation and reimbursements from the
state and federal programs. You may apply for Free and
Reduced Meals at anytime throughout the year.
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August 25, 2012
Batchelder running Selectman Leon H. Rideout
for Register of Deeds announces run for State House
Tanya Batchelder has been a
county clerk at the Coös County
Registry of Deeds for the past 12
years. She is seeking the position of Register of Deeds, which
is being vacated by Carole
Lamirande who has held the
position for the past 14 years.
With the primary election
only weeks away, she is hoping
to persuade voters that her 12
years of experience makes her
the right choice. It is a position
of responsibility, efficiency and
accuracy, which she feels she is
uniquely qualified for. The official public record is critical to all
of us. The management of this
office requires an individual
who is experienced and focused
on strengthening the purpose
and protection of our records.
There have been many
changes at the Registry in the
last 12 years, which include
expanding public access to
Registry documents while still
protecting the citizens of Coös
County against potential loss
and exposure. A notification
service called “Property Fraud
Alert” was introduced two years
ago and offered FREE to Coös
County property owners.
The Register of Deeds is a
Tanya Batchelder
full-time position, working with
the staff to record, scan and
index documents submitted for
recording with a 24-hour turnaround time. This is an accurate
and efficient system created to
better serve the residents of
Coös County.
Born
and
raised
in
Lancaster, Mrs. Batchelder has
always been inspired by public
service. Prior to her present
position, she served as Deputy
Town Clerk/Tax Collector for
the Town of Lancaster for ten
years, and still holds the position of Deputy Treasurer. She
was also a licensed EMT for the
town.
She hopes to continue serving the citizens of Coös County
as Register of Deeds.
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LANCASTER — Leon H.
Rideout is a lifetime resident of
Lancaster, where he currently
serves as selectman. Upon graduating from White Mountains
Regional High School, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps
where he served from 1981 to
1985 attaining the rank of sergeant. He left the Marine Corps,
and returned to Lancaster to
raise his family and takeover
the family business—Rideout’s
Repair & Motor Sales. In 1987
he joined the Marine Corps
Reserves. He was activated in
November 1990 for Operation
Desert Shield/Desert Storm,
returning in April 1991, and
again in 2002 to support operation Enduring Freedom. He was
activated a final time in 2005 for
operation
Iraqi
Freedom;
returning in October, 2006 and
retiring in August 2007 at the
rank of 1st Sergeant. Leon has
also served on Lancaster’s Fire
Department for 24 years.
During his first term as
Selectman of Lancaster (19921995) Leon worked to eliminate
the resident tax, while maintaining a very tight budget.
During his second term (2010present) he has minimized the
budget increase to less than 1%
over the last two years. Leon
has also served on the Budget
Committee Planning Board and
Zoning Board of Adjustment.
Following are some things
that motivated his decision to
Selectman Leon H. Rideout
run: “The most pressing issue
facing our district is unemployment and a depressed economy.
Over-regulation and over taxation has diminished the muchneeded economic growth of
small businesses that are the
backbone of our district.
Repealing the business enterprise tax and the business profits tax, as well as developing the
infrastructure needed to support small businesses will spur
a healthy economy in the North
Country,” he said. Leon knows
how difficult it is to have a small
business in this economic climate and will work tirelessly to
bring tax relief and economic
development to the North
Country.
He also opposes the Northern
Pass, saying: “Apart from
improper use of eminent
domain, the Northern Pass
offers no significant advantage
to New Hampshire, and would
be a detriment to the beautiful
skylines that are a vital part of
our tourism industry, and North
Country culture.”
An avid hunter, Leon
believes that the right to keep
and bear arms is embodied in
both the U.S. and State constitutions. He will not support any
legislation that attempts to
erode the rights of law abiding
gun owners.
Leon Rideout is running in
the upcoming Republican primary that will take place on
September 11. He has shown his
dedication and commitment to
his community and has the leadership experience to represent
and serve the 7th District of
Coös.
District 7, a new floterial district created by the recent
statewide redistricting, includes
Carroll, Dalton, Dummer,
Jefferson, Kilkenny, Lancaster,
Milan, Northumberland (Groveton), Randolph, Stark and
Whitefield.
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