fatlazyless
09-13-2010, 06:51 PM
IN APPRECIATION
Beth Best Upton loves Waterville Valley. This is her legal residence. She has remodeled and lives in one of the original homes of the Valley. Beth votes and registers her car here. She served for many years as a member of the Planning Board. Beth is happiest when she is in the Valley. Her love for this place has been more than requited in recent days.
The people of the Valley have been altogether magnificent in their support of the search for Beth. The Snow's Mountain parking lot has been full every day. To a person the entire community has turned out to help in some way --- as a search volunteer, or with coffee, food and refreshments, with sighting reports or by providing moral support. WV people are noted for their humanity and empathy. Their compassion has been omnipresent throughout the search for Beth.
The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, under the strong leadership and direction of Major Kevin Jordan and Lt. Todd Bogardus coordinated and managed the search for Beth. Search teams composed mostly of volunteers from this region, were directed and controlled from the Department's field headquarters. As many as ten teams were employed. Each team was composed of six to ten members. Using GPS coordinates, these teams were assigned overlapping areas which they crossed and re-crossed, walking abreast often in extremely rugged, heavily-wooded terrain where bushwhacking was required. The volunteers gave hours and hours of their time throughout this long sustained effort. The search was professional and very thorough. The people of New Hampshire have reason to be proud of our Fish and Game Department for the search capacity it demonstrated.
Waterville Valley officials, Chief of Police David Noyes and Fire Chief Chris Hodges, drawing on their local knowledge, made substantial contributions to the search. The ground search was supplemented by canine searches conducted in the night time by New England K-9 using highly trained border collies and German shepherds. Horse patrols were also used to provide a different viewing perspective. The New Hampshire National Guard conducted daily helicopter over-flights of the wooded area at low altitudes at considerable risk to its pilots.
Beth's family on the scene - her daughter, Diane Best of Joshua Tree, California; Fred Upton, her husband, now of Exeter, NH; Katherine Upton Fulford of Denver; Rob and Lori Upton of Lovell, Maine; and John and Annie Upton of Cape Elizabeth, Maine are, and will be, deeply and forever appreciative of all that has or will be done in the search for their dear Beth.
(signed)
Frederic K. Upton September 13, 2010
(Beth's 91 year old husband)
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85-year old Beth Upton is still missing since going for a walk at about 3-pm, Tuesday, September 7. Here's a quote from today's Union Leader newspaper report: "The case has been entered in the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database, and calls to hospitals across New England turned up no information or sightings."
Beth Best Upton loves Waterville Valley. This is her legal residence. She has remodeled and lives in one of the original homes of the Valley. Beth votes and registers her car here. She served for many years as a member of the Planning Board. Beth is happiest when she is in the Valley. Her love for this place has been more than requited in recent days.
The people of the Valley have been altogether magnificent in their support of the search for Beth. The Snow's Mountain parking lot has been full every day. To a person the entire community has turned out to help in some way --- as a search volunteer, or with coffee, food and refreshments, with sighting reports or by providing moral support. WV people are noted for their humanity and empathy. Their compassion has been omnipresent throughout the search for Beth.
The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, under the strong leadership and direction of Major Kevin Jordan and Lt. Todd Bogardus coordinated and managed the search for Beth. Search teams composed mostly of volunteers from this region, were directed and controlled from the Department's field headquarters. As many as ten teams were employed. Each team was composed of six to ten members. Using GPS coordinates, these teams were assigned overlapping areas which they crossed and re-crossed, walking abreast often in extremely rugged, heavily-wooded terrain where bushwhacking was required. The volunteers gave hours and hours of their time throughout this long sustained effort. The search was professional and very thorough. The people of New Hampshire have reason to be proud of our Fish and Game Department for the search capacity it demonstrated.
Waterville Valley officials, Chief of Police David Noyes and Fire Chief Chris Hodges, drawing on their local knowledge, made substantial contributions to the search. The ground search was supplemented by canine searches conducted in the night time by New England K-9 using highly trained border collies and German shepherds. Horse patrols were also used to provide a different viewing perspective. The New Hampshire National Guard conducted daily helicopter over-flights of the wooded area at low altitudes at considerable risk to its pilots.
Beth's family on the scene - her daughter, Diane Best of Joshua Tree, California; Fred Upton, her husband, now of Exeter, NH; Katherine Upton Fulford of Denver; Rob and Lori Upton of Lovell, Maine; and John and Annie Upton of Cape Elizabeth, Maine are, and will be, deeply and forever appreciative of all that has or will be done in the search for their dear Beth.
(signed)
Frederic K. Upton September 13, 2010
(Beth's 91 year old husband)
.........
85-year old Beth Upton is still missing since going for a walk at about 3-pm, Tuesday, September 7. Here's a quote from today's Union Leader newspaper report: "The case has been entered in the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database, and calls to hospitals across New England turned up no information or sightings."