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Hello. I'm Allison McNair. Welcome to NH Outlook. |
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New Hampshire Public Television's 30th annual Spring Auction begins Friday, we'll visit with one of our regular donors to find out more about his work. But first. |
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A 92 year old woman may soon be without adult daycare. Funds to care for premature babies may be lost. Those were just some of the stories the Senate Finance Committee heard this week at a public hearing on the state budget. Richard Ager says a number of frightened people told Senators that budget cuts will cause them to lose vital services that they've come to depend on. |
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Soundup: Senate budget hearing Tape 2 16:39:30 I don't have much to say except that Peer Support in late Dec. of 2001 pretty much saved my life. Track: It was a public hearing but the stories were of private lives in which individuals struggle to cope, and look for help. Bite: Senate budget hearing Tape 2 16:39:37 I was in a suicidal depression and people in that community just down the street from where I live came and checked on me every day. They also helped me get into treatment. Track: But now Peer support could lose half its funding if the House budget remains as written. There are cuts planned for other social services as well, including adult day care. Brenda Desmairas spoke of caring for her 92 year old mother Bella. Bite: Senate budget hearing tape 1 15:55:27 … It's hard for a caregiver see their loved one decline so much, when they have had such a great quality of life. I would urge you to consider the Bellas - my mother has attended the adult day care program now for a year. She loves it. She loves her bed but she loves the day care more. And she said, yes I'll get up if it's time for school. She goes to school three times a week and it is a godsend. I am very grateful for the adult day programs and I urge you to support and fight for the elderly for these programs. Thank you. Track: So many came to speak… Senate budget hearing tape 1 15:49:52 ** Sen. Green "Susan, would you conclude please?" Track: A time limit of two minutes had to be imposed. While many offered personal testimonies of being helped by services that are threatened, others warned of consequences to important institutions like the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth. Bite: Senate budget hearing tape 1 15:21:05 It's very likely that we've provided care for some of your family's children, since we have taken care of over 12,000 babies and their families. The proposed Medicaid cuts threaten the ability to continue this care. The over $13 million reduction would be experienced - over half of it to the children's hospital and of that, over $2 million to reimbursements for services of children needing intensive newborn care. Soundup: Senate budget hearing tape 1 16;05:12 The ratio between inmates and officers is increasing - and that decreases our ability to supervise them. Track: A corrections officer questioned why his department is facing cuts when it faces an increasing prison population. Bite: Senate budget hearing tape 1 16;06:16 I find it ironic that many in this legislature support getting tough on crime but they do not support the needed funding to carry this mission out. The budget as currently proposed does not support the mission of the Dept. of Corrections or its employees and as such is not accountable to the citizens of NH. Standup: Mental Health Summit tape 12:44:00 Perhaps the most critical testimony came from employees of a separate branch of government - the courts. They described a system that is, in some places, already in crisis. Bite: Senate budget hearing Tape 2 16;37:41 In Manchester district court, the waiting period for small claim cases is now running between 12-14 months. That may not sound like a whole lot to you, but to the father of a family who is trying to recover his security deposit so that he can house his family - to come to the court and be told that he has to wait that period of time before receiving a hearing, is a fairly significant thing. Bite: Senate budget hearing Tape 2 16:55:17 Please, please, when you are underfunding the court, understand you are not hurting the judges. We all know there is tension between the two branches. You're not hurting the judges, you're hurting your constituents and it hurts them very badly. Track: The House budget also eliminates $6 million for alcohol and drug abuse prevention programs like the NH teen institute. Nashua teen Alison Koonz says that's a mistake. Bite: Tape 2 16:26:39 I became involved in my community, I realized that prevention programming is not just about not drinking and drugging. It's about respecting yourself, respecting others, and being a contributing member to society. I'm involved in the Big sister program, I'm someone my real little sister can look up to and I'm proud of who I am today. Track: Many who testified called for an increase in the cigarette tax to pay to restore services. The Senate finance committee will write their version of the budget in the next few weeks. Soundup: tape 2 16:25:00 . Track: For NH Outlook, I'm Richard Ager. |
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Joining us to discuss the status of the budget, Democratic Senator Lou D'Allesandro, a member of the Senate Finance Committee. Senator, thank you for being here. We do want to let you know that we tried, but were unable to get a Republican member of the Senate to join us for this discussion. |
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1: The hearings on Monday certainly underlined the range of needs that state agencies address every day. How do you set priorities? What principles guide you? Do you think the entire committee was moved by the tesitimony? 2: Sen. D'Allesandro - you were on the Executive Council when the state school in Laconia and NH Hospital were closed two decades ago. Those facilities treated the mentally ill - who for the most part were shifted to treatments with new drugs - and promises of community services. The promises made then - are they being kept? 3: The state makes millions on selling liquor and taxing tobacco - yet the House cut all funding for alcohol abuse treatment and anti-smoking campaigns. We heard from some who got help in fighting their addictions. Now what? 4: What about cuts to adult day care, wheelchair transportation, peer support network for mentally ill. Is the Senate Finance committee likely to restore the entire 5% cut to service providers that was part of the Governor's budget. And it sounds like even bigger cuts to hospitals like Children's Hospital at Dartmouth. 5: A new poll shows that 72% of state residents would support a $1 per pack increase in tobacco taxes in order to support medical and social services. Are we going to see that debate revived? What about the governor's threat to veto any increase? 6: The corrections department is cut by $3.4 million - we heard corrections officers say public safety could be compromised. 7: We also heard from court workers at the hearings - saying that justice in many domestic and small claim matters is being seriously delayed - and isn't the old saying "justice delayed is justice denied?" 8: Are there places in the state budget that can be cut further to help balance the books? 9: The budget is debated every two years, but there is a lot of turnover in the legislature - so institutional memory can be short. Is this a problem when it comes to making the budget? 10: The governor's budget - and the House Finance version - would cut funding to the University System of New Hampshire. Will this stand? 11: How far away from a budget solution are we? |
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Starting Friday, May 2nd through Friday, May 9, NH Outlook will not be seen. That's so we can make way for the 30th annual Spring Auction here at NHPTV. We wouldn't have an auction - without the wonderful items donated by friends of New Hampshire Public Television. One of our regular donors is potter Roger Galuska of Rock Garden Pottery. We visited him recently to find out more about his work. |
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Roger Pottery Tape # 1 Water makes the clay very slick so you can work with it and pull it. Feel the edge of that. Ally: wow….That's amazing! Am I messing up the shape? Roger: No not at all, now actually take your thumb and move it up. Ally: Really? Roger: do you see the shape change? Ally: Oh Yeah! That's kind of neat. -- track Roger Galuska makes his pottery in the basement of his home in Rochester. He owns Rock Garden Pottery. For twenty years Roger was a journalist in California. At 40, he moved back home to New England. That's when he discovered his talent for pottery quite by accident. He had gone to the New Hampshire Farm Museum with his mother and that's where he met Potter Kit Cornell. -- I heard a voice say you look like a man who knows pots. So I turned around and it was Kip Cornell and it was like Ta Da!. She is embarrassed by this story but she was definitely in a ray of sun light she had on a blue stripped overalls and a really warm, kind outgoing face. Very gentle, and very attractive. So we started talking and she would you like to try and make a pot? And I said years ago I had a bad experience with that so I could never do that. So I said to her I have no faculty for that what so ever and bought one of her pots and left. I thought my mother might want to go home, but she said no and I said I'm going to try that and I went back up and made a bowl, or Kip made me think I I made the bowl. And I said that's a good teacher. -- vo We put Roger's teaching skills to the ultimate test, We asked him to show me how to make a pot. -- SOT The philosophy is clay is not really just a work or job its really a life style and philosophy. And something like that is reflected in the clay in the interconnectedness of everything. I mean I don't want to go to Zen but but…there is a lot of Zen connected with it. Clay is a living thing, its earth we go to that, we come form that. SO everything that brought me here, to this stage here, was connect to that whole earth clay thing. If that makes any sense to you. -- Roger: Would you like to try a little? Roger shows Ally how to make a pot -- Ally: Wow, look at the bottom. You did that, the little creases there… Roger: No, you did that. Ally: That's neat! Roger: Those are really your fingers in there! Ally: Really? Wow Roger: Yeah that little swirl That really is you. Ally: Really? Roger: Yeah. Ally: That's neat, are you sure that you didn't sneek that in there when I wasn't looking? Roger: No, because I don't know exactly how to do that, so I know it was you. Ally: Oh neat! Roger: That's your swirl Ally Ally: Yeah, I like that. Roger: All yours. -- Roger I thought that artist and musicians always mystified me because I never knew where it came from. And how they were able to do these things. And I always envied that ability to make something with your hands and I think that's why I went into this. My mother and my sister said they have never saw anyone take to anything like I did to this, and I did. I think part of it was that therapeutic aspect. -1:07:49 |
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Here's my bowl - or at least the bowl Roger let me think I made.Thanks to him for spending the time with us and thanks to Roger also for donating his work to NHPTV's 30th auction. It begin's Friday night. If you'd like to take a look at some of the items up for bid -like Roger's pottery - you can go to our website at nhptv - dot - org. |
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When Outlook returns on May 12. Homeland Security. How prepared are we? We'll show you some of the hidden hazards that can be found in communities around the state. And we'll take a look at two area schools to see what steps they are taking to prepare for the unexpected. |
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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 Outlook. How prepared are we when it comes to Homeland Security? We'll show you some of the hidden hazards in communities around the state. And we'll take a look at two area schools to see what steps they're taking to prepare for the unexpected. That's tonight at 10. |
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Monday on Outlook. How prepared are we when it comes to Homeland Security? We'll show you some of the hidden hazards in communities around the state. And we'll take a look at two area schools to see what steps they're taking to prepare for the unexpected. That's Monday at 10:00. |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook. Budget priorities and public need. The State Senate considers the budget. Tonight after Crossroads Classics on New Hampshire Public Television. |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 5/01/03 22:00 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 18:27 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, New Hampshire Public Television's 30th annual Spring Auction begins Friday, we'll visit with one of our regular donors to find out more about his work. But first.A 92 year old woman may soon be without adult daycare. Funds to care for premature babies may be lost. Those were just some of the stories the Senate Finance Committee heard this week at a public hearing on the state budget. Richard Ager says a number of frightened people told Senators that budget cuts will cause them to lose vital services that they've come to depend on. And joining us for our weekly legislative wrap-up and to discuss the status of the budget, Democratic Senator Lou D'Allesandro, a member of the Senate Finance Committee. We do want to let you know that we tried, but were unable to get a Republican member of the Senate to join us for this discussion. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Tom Slavin\Lebanon resident, Brenda Desmarais\Caregiver, Dr. William Edwards\Medical Director, CHAD Neonatal Unit, Gary Smith \Sergeant, NH Dept of Corrections, Paula Hurley\Clerk, Manchester District Court, Julie Howard\Clerk, Strafford Country Superior Court, Alison Koonz\Nashua HS Student, Sen. Lou D'Allesandro\D - District 20 |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 5/01/03 22:00 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 7:00 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, New Hampshire Public Television's 30th annual Spring Auction begins Friday, we'll visit with one of our regular donors to find out more about his work. Starting Friday, May 2nd through Friday, May 9, NH Outlook will not be seen. That's so we can make way for the 30th annual Spring Auction here at NHPTV. We wouldn't have an auction - without the wonderful items donated by friends of New Hampshire Public Television. One of our regular donors is potter Roger Galuska of Rock Garden Pottery. We visited him recently to find out more about his work. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Allison McNair, Jennifer Ellis NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Roger Galuska\Rock Garden Pottery |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook. . Tonight at 10pm on New Hampshire Public Television. |