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Next on New Hampshire Outlook. People went to the polls in many New Hampshire municipalities today.Plus a unique program that is connecting children to their history, their community, and their landscape. And Living in the shadow of terrorism.students from Northern Ireland give insight into what Americans have been experiencing since September 11th |
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Welcome to New Hampshire Outlook. I'm Allison McNair. |
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Voters in cities across New Hampshire headed to the polls to select their leaders and to vote on ballot questions, among them whether Berlin should host a federal prison. Incumbent mayors in Manchester, Portsmouth, Rochester and Claremont are up for reelection. In Keene, Somersworth and Berlin, the incumbents are running unopposed. There will be new mayors in Concord, Dover and Laconia. |
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The state Supreme Court has said New Hampshire's property tax is constitutional - but flawed. So, to make sure flaws are fixed - state revenue Commissioner Stan Arnold is asking for approval of a 751 thousand dollar contract with a Manchester company. Wednesday, Arnold will go before the Executive council to outline details of the contract with Real Data Corporation. The company will provide monthly reports on real estate transactions in addition to providing other services. |
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An effort is underway to cut air pollution in New Hampshire. State officials - along with Public Service of New Hampshire - have proposed an initiative aimed at reducing pollutants emitted by fossil-fuel-burning power plants. If passed, the Clean Power Act would make New Hampshire the first state to mandate the reduction of four major pollutants that come from such plants. The plan would cost about five-million dollars a year. For each individual customer, it would work out to around one percent of their total bill. P-S-N-H did NOT support a similar proposal that failed last spring, but the company says the new legislation takes a more reasonable approach. The power company has three fossil-fuel-burning power plants ---- in Bow, Portsmouth and Newington. |
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The number of Dover students skipping school is on the decline. School officials and police say they've cracked down on truancy and are seeing dramatic results. The number of unexcused school absences is less than half what it was last year. Officials say imposing court summonses and fines, as well as requiring parents to appear in court with their truant child have proved effective. |
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Since September 11th, Americans have been dealing with a new sense of uncertainty when it comes to their safety. That's something the people of Northern Ireland are all too familiar with. Recently, a group of teens from that region spent several weeks on the New Hampshire seacoast. It's part of the Friends Forever Program. |
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-- track These 15 and 16 year olds are from Northern Ireland. They're getting a tour of Portsmouth City Hall from Mayor Evelyn Sirrell. Some are Catholic - some Protestant. They're here with the Friends Forever program, a program started by the Porstmouth Rotary club in the 1980s which brings young people from Israel and Northern Ireland to the area. -- Sot Bill Holt Friends Forever 2:16:20 We create a simulated life raft for these kids. Stay all together in one place.boys one room girls the other out with family nights. 2:16:40 They're living together eating sleeping doing laundry together essentially becoming brothers and sisters. That's been cited by youth leaders in Northern Ireland as one of the most powerful elements in the program much more than they can do at home 2:17:01 -- track The program began in 1986. The concept is this - take these young people out of Northern Ireland- bring them together here in the U-S. The experiences here are very different from those at home. -- 2:09:32 Ben: It feels a lot easier, because back home you would be asked, like, what religion are you? And all these big guys wondering who you are, and checking you out, just to see if you are a threat, I suppose. Ruth: Yeah, it's different. The school I go to is integrated, it's lots of different races and religions, not just Protestant and Catholic. Where I go to school I wouldn't really be asked my religion. But in other, like where I live I could be asked, so yeah, it's, like, different. No one seems to care even. It's a lot better. 2:10:32 -- SOT Bill 2:17:34 They don't get to mix protestants and catholics. They get to do that here and once you've built up the level of trust, so they can talk as friends. The youth leaders that have been with them here can bring take that through issues as home as though they're common victims, whereas at home, if IRA all protestants everyone polarizes when they're afraid. 2:18:06 -- SOT 2:04:15 Ben: My best friend is a protestant, and one night we were walking home from the cinema, and these guys came up and asked us, and didn't like the look of us because of our size, because we were big, they didn't like the look of us and started calling us Catholics and we went in, to my mate's house, and we came out again and there were like 7 or 8 of them waiting for us, to beat us upBut, luckily for us, my brother was there. It was ok. -- 2:05:06 Ruth: I went to a high school called Beth Israel academy, and from where it's situated, there are very Loyalist areas and very Republican areas and it's kind of sandwhiched in the middle. The way I get to school is I get on the train, and to get on the train up to our school we had to get a bus, even though it was less than a mile, they wouldn't let us walk. And our buses used to get bricks thrown at it and everything. And our school is completely mixed, Protestant and Catholic, so, I don't knowhow- when they threw a brick, it could have hit their own, uh, religion. It's silly, y'know? 2:05:51 -- track Living with uncertainty is second nature to the young people of Northern Ireland. In light of the events of September 11th, it seemed important to ask them how they deal with knowing something might happen. sometime somewhere. -- Ben: It's just how we've grown yup, how we live. Because over here, it's like different, everyone's getting along together, but back home, it's very weird. Ruth: I do find it an added weight because when I was younger, where I lived, was Protestant. My parents wouldn't take me places where I would run into it. So, um, now that I'm older, I have to experience it. It is an added weight, kind of watching where you go and what you do. -- What would you say 2:06:20 Ruth: I would say, don't think of the future too much, just enjoy life as it comes. Ally: Do you think about it much? 2:06:35 Ruth: I try not to think about it Ben: Mmhmm. Ruth: Um, but, sometimes you have to. like, something happens that's pretty serious. I always try not to think about it too much. Ally: How about you, Ben? Ben: Yeah, because, I have a wee brother. I would try to tell him to stay away from certain estates and things like that, because it would be a bit dangerous for him. I just tell him, take it as it goes, I suppose. Ruth: Yeah. 2:06:56 Ally: So you avoid certain places? Both: Yeah, definately. Ally: Is it just second nature, or what are these things you need to do each day? Ruth: Well, I never knew, when I was younger, kind of certain areas to stay away from and everything. But now I know the towns around where I llive and I would know, certain areas, not to go, to not linger about in them and look for trouble, y'know? Ally: What about you Ben, is it second nature? Ben: Yeah, usually, if I'm out with mateswewould stay out of big groups. We wouldn't fight or say the wrong thing, say the wrong words, I suppose. Ruth: You have to watch what you say, as well. Ally: So, you're careful about what you tell people Both, Definately, yeah. 2:07:46 -- track The hope is that the friendships made here - will flourish back at home. Bill Holt says the feedback he's heard on a trip to Northern Ireland would support that. -- SOT Bill Holt 2:19:23 The parents lined up and had one thing to say the program was not just benefitting the kids because they all live apart and are afraid to come together cause you don't know who's safe. The fact that both sides put kids into this program - now you know that these people are safe - as soon as kids go home for every forever friends kid, as soon as they arrive home the parents of all the other kids know who's safe you're bringing the parents across the divide.very easily.2:19:56 -- 2:12:10 Ally: Anything else you want people to know Ruth: Just that, It's not all bad. Sometimes it is just normal, what normal would be like. Now and again, and kind of in the back of your mind. Ben: People are trying to get on with their lives. Just, doing good work. A lot of people that are just narrow minded are trying to ruin it. 2:13:00 -- Ally: With the alerts and attacks, are you nervous being here? Ben: No. This is probably the strongest nation in the world. Ruth: I didn't even hesitate about coming. It's also an experience I wouldn't want to miss. Too good to give up. |
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Laconia resident George Hankins Hull also knows about life in Northern Ireland. Until 1992 the Irish native lived there in the industrial heartland of Protestant East Belfast. Belfast has been the scene of sectarian violence for many years. We asked him what it was like to live with such uncertaintly. |
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Even in times of terror, life is all about routine, the eating, sleeping, and working - but with a twist for one New Hampshire man. That's a lesson the Reverend George Hankins-Hull, a Laconia chaplain, learned well growing up amid the violence of Northern Ireland. Though Americans still are adjusting to living in the shadow of terrorism, generations of people around the world have grown up trying to make sense of violence. For Hankins-Hull, who moved from Belfast to the United States in 1993, terror's lessons started young. The 44-year-old Protestant minister was eleven when a bombing struck his homeland. The conflict in Northern Ireland stems from years of animosity between Protestants who want to remain within the United Kingdom and Catholics who aspire to a united Ireland. |
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The tenth interest rate cut of the year sent stock prices sharply higher by the close of trading Tuesday. |
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The Dow Jones industrial average ended up 150 points. The Nasdaq grew by 41 points. The S and P 500 rose 16 points. |
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Here's a look at stocks of interest to New Hampshire investors. Autodesk was up a dollar- twenty- three. Lockheed Martin dropped a dollar- fourteen. Oxford Health Plans climbed two dollars- and thirty- three cents. State Street Corporation rose a dollar- and a half. And Texas Instruments ended the day up a dollar- fifty- nine. |
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The air strip in North Hampton is getting ready to reopen on Wednesay. That's when the F-A-A is scheduled to lift a ban on flights near the nation's nuclear power plants. The ban was put into effect because of concerns about terrorist attacks.That meant no flying within eleven miles of the Seabrook plant - which put the Hampton Air Field temporarily out of business. The manager estimates the shutdown has cost the business about one thousand dollars a day. |
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The state Executive Council will be asked to accept a large federal grant to help conserve more than ten thousand acres of North Country forest. The state Department of Resources and Economic Development is asking the council to say yes a two-point-five--million-dollar grant for the Trust for Public Lands to buy conservation easements on the land in Randolph and Jefferson. The issue comes will be up for a council vote Wednesday. |
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Research continues to prove that civic engagement actually increases a community's economic wealth and improves its residents overall well-being. Theresa Kennett takes a look at one program that is engaging citizens in community life while connecting children to their history, their community, and their landscape. |
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What a difference a day makes. It was blue skies and windy for much of the state. We checked in with Katie Koster at the Mt. Washington Observatory to find out whats instore. |
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Katie Koster - Observer - 2 Pictures-- Mount Washington Observatory\Tuesday On The Summit\Blowing snow, freezing fog\High: 23 degrees\Peak gust: NW 94 mph\Visibility: 100 feet Overnight\North\Mostly Clear\Lows: 20s \Winds: NWaround 10 mph\ Overnight\South\Clear\Lows: Upper 20s to mid 30s\Winds: NW 10 to 15 mph\ Wednesday\Statewide\Partly to mostly sunny\Highs: North 45 to 50 \South 50 to 55 \Winds: NW 10 to 15 mph |
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Our Annual Winter Auction will be taking over our time slot for the rest of the week. We hope you'll join us for a special Veteran's Day edition of New Hampshire Outlook on Monday. Also coming up next week: the benefits and challenges of home health care; a look at Giving in the Granite State and the phenomenon of Harry Potter. |
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That's it for this edition of our program. For all of us here at New Hampshire Public Television, I'm Ally McNair. Thanks for joining us. We'll see you next time on New Hampshire Outlook. |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook. The shadow of terrorism - A new experience for Americans but it's a fact of life in other places. Irish students share their perspective on the current situation here in the U.S. Join us tonight at 10:00 only on New Hampshire Outlook. |
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Monday on New Hampshire Outlook Now more than ever it's important to recognize the sacrifices made to preserve our freedoms. A special tribute to our New Hampshire veterans Monday at 10 only on Outlook |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook Now more than ever it's important to recognize the sacrifices made to preserve our freedoms. A special tribute to our New Hampshire veterans Tonight at 10 only on Outlook |
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Air Date/Time:11/06/01 /2200 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 4:32 minutes In addition to a summary of the day's top New Hampshire stories, this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, included a discussion with teens from Ireland. The teens, who are in New Hampshire as part of the Friends Forever program, have grown up with terrorism being a fact of life in their country. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Allison McNair NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Bill Holt\Friends Forever Ben\Participant Ruth\Participant Air Date/Time:11/06/01 /2200 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 7:30 minutes In addition to a summary of the day's top New Hampshire stories, this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, included an interview with Laconia resident George Hankins Hull, who lived in terror-ridden Belfast for much of his life. He spoke about what it is like to live in a place where terrorism is an everyday fact of life. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Allison McNair NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Reverend George Hankins-Hull\Chaplain, Lakes Region General Hospital |
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Air Date/Time:11/06/01 /2200 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 5:40 minutes In addition to a summary of the day's top New Hampshire stories, this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, included a report on a civic engagement program called Valley Quest taking place in the North Country that teaches children about their history and surroundings. Research continues to prove that civic engagement actually increases a community's economic wealth and improves its residents overall well-being. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Theresa Kennett NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Steve Glazer\Valley Quest Coordinator Mallory Gafas\Piermont Village School Student Bill Deal\Piermont Chief of Police Amos Kornfield\Piermont Village School Principal |