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THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, February 23, 2017

A SPECIAL COCHECO VALLEY EDITION OF THE WEIRS TIMES NEWSPAPER. VOLUME 26, NO. 8

THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, February 23, 2017

COMPLIMENTARY

History Of Comic Books In Rochester

Fisherville Is Open For Business Again

by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor

community dates back to 1888.

According to David Bowers’ book “A History of Wolfeboro”: “…In the winter of 1938-39 and again in the winter of 1939-40, frivolity was at an unprecedented pace. Streets were laid out, precincts were established, officials were elected and munici-

pal buildings (town hall, courthouse, jail) were set up.”

“Dusty” Rhodes won the first election for Mayor of Fisherville in 1939 and in 1940. (Both Rhodes and his opponent ran on the same platform: “If elected I will erect a building in which the residents may store, free of charge, their See fisherville on 36

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Fisherville is back on the ice!

After a community-wide effort in Wolfeboro last year, one of the town’s historic winter activities was reborn. Unfortunately, due to lack of ice on Lake Winnipesaukee, it was held in the parking

lot at the town docks.

This year, with a good stretch of cold weather, Fisherville is back on the ice once again.

What is Fisherville?

It is a community of portable ice houses on the lake that will create a small town representing Wolfeboro businesses and alike.

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Harold Perkins, the second Mayor of Fisherville who served in that capacity for several years starting in 1940 in the Wolfeboro Ice House Community. This year Fisherville is back on the ice in Wolfeboro.

On Thursday, March 9, at 7 PM at the Rochester Historical Society Museum on Hanson Street, Jonathan Waugh will present the History of Comic Books.

His illustrated talk will discuss the history of Superheroes, comic book collecting and the comic book industry in general.

Jonathan Waugh is the General Manager of Jetpack Comics and Games, located in downtown Rochester, NH. A lifelong lover of comics and pop culture, Jon says he has spent too much of his free time obsessing over the various fictional worlds he loves.

He lives in Dover and has made many interesting presentations about comic book history.

The program is free and open to the public.

Refreshments will follow the meeting.

For more information please call (603) 330-3099 or e-mail rochesterhistorical@ metrocast.net.

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Jim Tyrrell’s Tribute to Elton John Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. 8pm.

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Wed. 22nd – May 19th “Discover Space: A Cosmic Journey” – Traveling Exhibition Pease Public Library, 1 Russell Street, Plymouth. Mon. -Wed. 10am8pm, Thurs. and Fri. 10am-5pm, Sat. 10am-2pm. See this national traveling exhibition that explores the fascinating world of space and astronomy. Discover Space covers topics such as the formation of planetary systems, asteroids and comets, Mars exploration, and solar storms and their impacts on the Earth.

Discover Space strives to make space and science fun with hands-on, multimedia activities where visitors can build their own solar systems on a 42” touch table, learn how telescopes work, play magneto-golf, learn about near real-time changes on the Sun, try to save Earth from an asteroid impact, and many more! Exhibition is free and open to the public during library hours. www.peasepubliclibrary.org or 5362616

Thursday 23rd Storytelling Dinner

The Corner House Inn, 22 Main Street, Center Sandwich. 6:30pm.

Full dinner and entertainment every Thursday nights through the end of May. Cost is $21.95 per person (plus tax and gratuity) and includes salad, entrée, glass of wine, dessert and coffee. 284-6219

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Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. 2 local favorites on stage with $2 drafts and 2-for-1 appetizers after 8pm. 2930841 Friday 24th

Dueling Pianos

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford.

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Marshall Tucker Band The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 536-2551

R-Rated Comic Hypnotist Frank Santos Jr. Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. www. rochesteroperahouse.com or 3351992

Saturday 25th Winter Farmers’ Market Cole Gardens, 430 Loudon Road, Concord.

10am-1:30pm.

Cole Gardens hosts an indoor farmers’ market with live music and more than 30 participating vendors every Saturday through April 22nd.

Everything from meats and seafood to breads, fruits, and veggies; as well as baked goods, honey and coffee & tea. www.concordwintermarket.com or 229-0655

Classic 70s Retrospective The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 536-2551

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The Victor Wooten Trio feat.

Dennis Chambers A The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 536-2551

Tuesday 28th Fat Tuesday Supper First Church Congregational, 63 South Main Street, Rochester. 5pm-7pm.

Mac & Cheese, pancakes, scrambled eggs, beverage and decadent desserts! $7/adults, $4/ages 5-10, children under 5 are free. www.firstucc.net 332-1121

Open Mic Night

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. Multitalented host Paul Luff and a great variety of talent! To get in the gig, email Paul at pluff1@myfairpoint.net 293-0841

March Wednesday 1st Weekly Cribbage Tournament to Benefit the Children’s Auction

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. 7pm. $10pp with weekly cash prizes. Come have some fun and support a great cause! 998-1418

Game Time Trivia Shooters Tavern, Route 3, DW Highway, Belmont. 8pm-10pm. www.

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Ladies Night with Cody James

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. 7pm.

Half-price drinks for ladies at the bar.

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Books & Brew

True Brew Barista, 4 Bicentennial Square on Oddfellow Ave, Concord.

6pm. Join other book lovers in the new, no pressure book club! 225-2776

Thursday 2nd Storytelling Dinner With The Weirs Times’ Brendan Smith

The Corner House Inn, 22 Main Street, Center Sandwich. 6:30pm.

Brendan will tell his stories of his adventures as a Flatlander from New York adjusting to life in Central New Hampshire. Cost is $21.95 per person (plus tax and gratuity) and includes salad, entrée, glass of wine, dessert and coffee. 284-6219 for reservations.

A Birthday Party for Dr. Seuss!

Concord Public Library, 45 Green Street, Concord. 2pm-3pm. Join the Concord Public Library as they celebrate all things Seuss! Games, crafts, snacks and more! Ages 3 and up! www.onconcord.com/library or

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On the Funny Side of the Street with Christine Lavin & Don White Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. www. rochesteroperahouse.com or 335-1992

Friday 3rd Mandolin Festival Stone Church, Newmarket, 7pm. $10 advance ticket sales, $12 at the door. www.stonechurchrocks.com or call 603-659-7700.

CATCH Comedy Night feat. The Capitol Steps Capitol Center for the Arts, Concord.

8pm. Admission cost is $13-$39pp. www.ccanh.com or 225-1111

March Mandolin Festival Stone Church, Zion’s Hill, Newmarket.

7pm. Admission is $10/advance or $12/day-of. www.stonechurchrocks. com or 659-7700

Saturday 4th 2nd Annual Fisherville Brew And Chew / 4th Annual Wolfeboro Fishing Derby Wolfeboro Town Docks. Noon-3pm.

Beer Sampling, food, shopping. See ad on page 9.

Mandolin Festival Concord Community Music School, 23 Wall St. 7:30pm. $20 adults $15 students and seniors. www. ccmusicschool.org or call 603-2281196.

Entrain Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $25pp.

BYOB. www.pitmansfreightroom. com or 527-0043

March Mandolin Festival Concord Community Music School, 23 Wall Street, Concord. 7:30pm.

Admission is $20/adults, $15/students and seniors. www.ccmusicschool. org or 228-1196

Sunday 5th Red Cross Blood Drive

First City Cars and Trucks, 4 Flagg Road, Gonic. 10am. 332-0540

Annual Free Kid’s Ice Fishing Derby

Lily Pond, Gilford. 9am-12 Noon. Bait, tip-ups, hot chocolate and hot coffee will be available at the pond. Lessons will be provided for first timers. No registration is required, just show up and have fun! At noon, in the Belknap County Sportsmen’s Association Clubhouse, awards and trophies for the largest fish caught will be presented, as well as hot dogs, chips and milk for all the participants.

Tuesday 7th How To Tie Boating Knots

Concord Public Library. 6-7:30pm.

UNH Marine Docents Jeff Savage and Doug MacLennan. Limited to 20 participants. Materials provided.

Register online at Concord Public Library.net. Stop by Main Desk or call 225-8670

Wednesday 8th Weekly Cribbage Tournament to Benefit the Children’s Auction

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. 7pm. $10pp with weekly cash prizes. Come have some fun and support a great cause! 998-1418

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Plant Extra For Hunger Benefit Concert Support efforts to get food to seniors and families through an upcoming Benefit Concert. Tickets are now available for the Plant Extra for Hunger Concert on Saturday, March 11, at 7 p.m. Peter O’Halloran and the Hired Men will perform at the New Hampton School’s Mc Envoy Theater for this cause. The New Hampton School address is 70 Main Street in New Hampton (Theater and parking GPS address: 34 Dr. Childs Rd.).

The concert supports NH Gleans-Belknap County, a progran run by the Belknap County Conservation District (BCCD). NH Gleans-Belknap County is part of a larger network operated by The Sustainability Institute at the University of New Hampshire.

The program coordinates harvest of surplus vegetables and fruit from farms and home gardeners and distributes it to senior centers, food pantries and soup kitchens.

Concert tickets are $15 before March 6th and $20 at the door.

For ticket information contact Lisa Morin at 603-527-5880 or email: lisa.morin@nh.nacdnet.net . You can download a ticket order form from the BCCD website: www.belknapccd.org.

For more information on NH Gleans-Belknap County, contact Russ Bailey at belknapgleans11@gmail.com. To sign-up to be a volunteer gleaner or to list your farm or garden as a donor please visit www.nhgleans.“Our thanks to the farmers, gardeners and volunteers that contributed their produce and time last year to help feed people in need. We are proud of Russ Bailey’s efforts to build our program and are pleased that efforts like this concert will help us sustain and expand gleaning

“Spirit of Johnny Cash” In Rochester Friday, March 10th, “Spirit OF Johnny Cash” will be at the Rochester Opera House. Crowd pleasers Harold Ford as Johnny Cash, Laura Lucy as June Carter Cash, and the Red Hot Cash Band enthrall fans of the legendary Johnny Cash and his music. The spirit of Johnny Cash emanates through tribute artist Harold Ford with his deep baritone and striking resemblance to the country music icon.

In this incredible recreation of Johnny Cash in Concert, you’ll hear many of Cash’s greatest hits, including Folsom Prison Blues, I Walk the Line, Ring of Fire, Jackson, and many more. Audiences are mesmerized by the stage presence and charisma reminiscent of Johnny Cash performing at the Grand Ole Opry.

Tickets start at $20, 22, 25. Show starts at 8pm, doors open at 7pm. Reserve tickets online or call the box office (603) 3351992, M/W/F from 10-5pm and 2-hours before the show.

The Rochester Opera House is sponsored by TD Bank North, Eastern Propane, Shaheen & Gordon P.A., and Norm Vetter Foundations. The Rochester Opera House is located in City Hall, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester NH. Visit www.RochesterOperaHouse.com for more information.

Horizon To Perform At Taylor Community Returning to Taylor Community in Laconia by popular demand, John and Johanna Byerley, bring their melodious sounds to the Woodside Building Wednesday, March 6 at 6:30pm The event is free and open to the public.

The Byerleys – better known as Horizon – have been entertaining together all around New England for the past 27 years.

Their performances offer a wide range of musical selections including Blue Skies, Stormy Weather, What a Wonderful World, Twist and Shout and Unforgettable. With lovely vocals and wonderful guitar work, this talented duo will have everyone smiling and singing along.

Taylor Community is a not-for-profit Continuing Care Retirement Community whose mission is to provide the highest quality of retirement living options to support the independence, health and dignity of community residents. For more information, visit www.taylorcommunity.org.

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A couple of weeks back I confessed that I didn’t have many ideas to write about. This week it’s a different story. It seems that being outside in the fresh air, cleaning up after yet another snow storm, can really clear out the mind and the sinuses.

Here are a few ideas and random thoughts I had that I would like to share with you.

The National Weather Service gives names to every tropical depression and hurricane. The Weather Channel even gives names to winter storms. I suggest we give numbers to bad weather s y s t e m s and people’s names to nice weather systems. I think that forcing some folks to always being reminded of having the same name as devastating storm (I’m talking about all you Sandys out there) is a psychological burden.

Instead we should be lifting people up by having their names related to something nice. ( “Pleasant system Brendan will be over our area for the next several days making for great weather.

We are keeping an eye on system number 5647 which could being heavy rains and winds next weekend.�)

Speaking of weather, I think it would be a good idea that the weather folks should stop pre-

dicting snow in estimated inches like “six to ten inches� leaving us to wait and see where in this range it will fall. Instead they should predict it in levels of aggravation.

For instance, 1-3 inches would be “no aggravation,� 4-6 inches would be “bit of a pain�, 6-10 inches would be “okay, that’s enough� and 10 plus inches would be “A giant pain in the butt.�

So, weather forecasts could go something like: “Laconia will have no aggravation from this storm while it will be a bit of a pain for the seacoast and a giant pain in the butt for the White Mountains.� I think this would help us all mentally prepare a little better and not be so focused on the specifics of inches.

I am very disappointed that the Right To Work Bill was defeated by our legislators in Concord.

Getting to work will now be a bigger problem for me since I will have to take all left hand turns.

Of course, this will benefit some, but for me and others like me it will only make our commute that much more difficult.

We should consider having a national day of silence‌as far as politics go. All political protests, television news, newspapers, radio talk shows, etc.., that mention politics should be banned for twenty-four hours one day a year. If you are in a public place and you begin a diatribe on a political issue, you will be asked to leave. If you post something political on social media that day, your account will be deleted. Of course, this all goes against the First Amendment and would never be allowed, but I wouldn’t really complain, would you? I think we all

need a break once in a while.

I also think it would be a good idea to have one day a year dedicated to educating people on the difference between, to , too and two as well as its and it’s and your and you’re when writing.

Maybe I’m the only one that this bothers, but it is my column and I get to make these suggestions.

I think this is a great idea. Scanners at the 14 items or less checkout at the supermarket should be programmed to set off a siren and strobe light when the 15th item is scanned bringing attention to the guilty party by everyone in the store. After about fifteen seconds of this embarrassment, they would be allowed to continue so as not to disrupt those behind them who are following the rules, but their picture will be taken and posted on the “14 items or less Outlaws� poster over at the produce section for one month.

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Well, that’s about it.

Time to get out the roof rake and continue with the cleanup.

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Senate Bill 170 To The Editor: Isn’t it time that America and its elected political officials live up to the ideals and the principles of our Constitution? I speak in reference to a bill most likely written by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) which is being introduced by Senator Rubio. Senate Bill 170 is called the “Combating BDS Act of 2017.”

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions refers to the Palestinian-led civil society’s nonviolent campaign to pressure Israel to end its cruel occupation and to stop all further illegal settlement construction on Palestinian land.

S. 170 currently has 27 cosponsors, 18 Republicans and 9 Democrats.

This bill is designed to curb any legitimate criticism of Israel, its leaders and its policies by organizations such as “Students for Justice in Palestine,” and by individuals who may denounce Israeli actions that violate the human rights of Palestinians. Naturally, the critics of BDS will call supporters, “modern day anti-Semites,” and even progressive Jews in Israel and the US who focus on the illegal West Bank settlements, will be referred to as “self-hating Jews.”

BDS is not immoral, it does not seek to de-legitimize Israel, but it does attempt to make Israel accountable in its boast of being the only “democratic” state in the ME

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and to force the Israeli government into complying with international law, especially the Fourth Geneva Convention (Article 49).

If Israel’s leaders continue to support efforts to curb free speech rights here and in Israel, it will lose its moral standing and become a pariah state.

Will Thomas Auburn, NH .

What Is Making Them Cry? To The Editor: Remember when the Democrats were in charge and the Justice Department refused to defend a lawful federal order for political reasons? Oh how they showed reckless disregard for our Constitution, acting as an enemy of our Republic. Defending taxpayers and our sacred document was getting in the way of their ideological dreams of an open society. Hello George Soros. Remember how Obama and his Alinskyites turned the EPA and the IRS into political attacks dog against conservatism and capitalism while the DOJ looked the other way? Hello gun running Eric Holder.

Remember the numerous orders issued by President Obama that violated immigration laws?

The DOJ and Eric Holder pretended there was nothing to see here, so move along all you folks who think laws matter in

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a land holding tenuously yet tenaciously onto it’s borders, language and culture. Hello Michael Savage.

Yet now when President Trump comes in and says that we will actually enforce immigration laws, the acting Obama appointed attorney general says, no I’m just not going to enforce lawful orders.

We have 80 million visitors a year into this country and we’re not supposed to be allowed to vet a tiny portion of that number to secure our safety? By not thinking clearly and rationally about our immigration policy, are we not threatening the safety of our citizenry and risking the same immigration implosion that is happening in Sweden, Germany, France and other countries who thought open borders was a safe bet for it’s citizens?

Chuck Schumer, Bill DeBlasio, Jerry Brown and Rahm Emmanuel shed tears, not for the victims of carnage caused by released illegal aliens in sanctuary cities. No tears did the progressive left shed for the families of those who died in Benghazi or for the families of those killed by terrorists across cities in America.

No tears did they shed for the murdered babies whose leftover body parts were sold for profit by the sick and twisted Planned Parenthood organization.

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At the far end of the Cobble Mountain Loop we turned and followed the Rock Loop where the low and soon to be setting sun reflected brightly on the snow covered marsh

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Oh, the trail was groomed wide for skating and a pair of perfectly cut grooves, nice tracks were made on one side of the trail. This season’s bounty of snow is making for excellent cross country skiing and snowshoeing.

We kicked and glided up the trail. My skis were okay but didn’t kick strong since the snow was still somewhat cold and powdery. Charlie’s skis kicked like a mule and yet his skis glided fast in the tracks too. He was giddy for so easily finding the perfect wax.

The Cobble Mountain Trail is very skiable. The trail doesn’t climb all the way to the summit but climbs and then rolls

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Lots of bright white snow and blue skies tempted us to skip out of work after lunch to go skiing.

After all it was Valentine’s Day. Charlie and I were able to get on our way by 1:30 and the drive to Gunstock Mountain Resort in Gilford was just an hour (about 40 minutes from Concord). We pulled in front of the Nordic Center and I jumped out of the car and ran inside to buy trail passes. To celebrate Valentine’s Day the mountain offered a special deal—trial passes and lift tickets were 2 for 1!

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Bumps in the Road: Trump vs. Obama The resignation of national security advisor Michael Flynn has the anti-Trump media declaring the new administration a “mess,”

by Michelle Malkin in “turmoil” Syndicated Columnist and thrown into “chaos.”

Funny, these same Chicken Littles barely shrugged their shoulders during the turmoil-laden first 100 days of Barack Obama’s first term. Some perspective is in order.

Remember the withdrawal of Obama’s pick for National Intelligence Council chairman, Charles Freeman, in March 2009? Obama had tapped the former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia for the sensitive post despite abundant conflicts of interests. Freeman had served for four years on the board of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, a company owned by the Chinese communist government. The state-owned firm has invested in Sudan and Iran. Freeman also led the Middle East Policy Council, a Washington, D.C.-based group funded by the Saudi government. And he chaired Projects International, a consulting firm that had worked with foreign companies and governments.

Obama knew all that and looked the other way at Freeman’s role as a de facto lobbyist for Saudi royalty. Even worse, he ignored Freeman’s Jew-bashing and tyrant-coddling record with a Blame America axe to grind.

Freeman carped that our country exhibited “an ugly mood of chauvinism” after the 9/11 attacks and condemned his fellow

countrymen for connecting the dots of Islam and Saudi-funded jihad: “Before Americans call on others to examine themselves,” he fumed with Jeremiah Wrightstyle bombast, “we should examine ourselves.”

In fine form, Freeman inveighed against the “Israel Lobby” in his resignation letter.

The screed said less about Freeman than it did about the Obama administration’s AWOL vetting system. Where were the watchdogs to guard against terror-friendly conspiracy-minded kooks slipping into sensitive intelligence positions?

The Freeman withdrawal came after a series of Obama nominee withdrawals that the amnesiasuffering Beltway media has now conveniently forgotten in its haste to declare Trump’s transition the worst disaster ever.

By this time in Obama’s first term, former Democratic New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson had withdrawn as Commerce Secretary nominee after both liberals and conservatives protested his long record of corruption and incompetence. His political horse-trading with private businesses -- campaign donations for infrastructure projects, patronage jobs and board appointments -- was so notorious it had earned him the moniker “Dollar Bill.”

At the time Obama tapped him to lead the Commerce Department, Richardson was the subject of a high-profile probe and ongoing grand jury investigation into whether he traded New Mexico government contracts for campaign contributions. The White House transition team knew about the pay-to-play scandal involving a California company, CDR Financial Products. They

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Gorsuch Is The Anti-Trump If President Donald Trump is a budding authoritarian, as his critics allege, one of the safeguards is Judge Neil Gorby Rich Lowry such.

Contributing Writer For all that Trump has flouted norms and gotten off to an at-times amateurish start in the White House, his pick of Gorsuch was extremely normal and highly professional. The Gorsuch nomination is exactly what everyone should want from a President Trump, especially those who most fear and loathe him. Yet Trump’s fiercest opponents began denouncing Gorsuch immediately.

This is the dilemma for Democrats: Either Trump is a threat to the republic because he doesn’t appreciate the Constitution and is bound to violate it with excessive assertions of executive power, or Gorsuch is a threat to the republic because he has an overly punctili-

ous view of the Constitution that entails, among other things, a dim view of executive overreach. Both can’t be true.

If Democrats really believe that Trump is as dangerous as they say, they should think of Gorsuch as the equivalent of Gen. James Mattis. He is a responsible choice from what they consider an irresponsible president, and they should embrace him on those grounds. Gorsuch is the opposite of Trump in every way that should matter to the president’s enemies.

If they hate Trump because he’s anti-intellectual, Gorsuch is a Harvard-educated lawyer who is widely admired for his acute analysis and writing.

If they worry that Trump has shown little regard for the Bill of Rights, Gorsuch is a stickler for it, including the Fourth Amendment that will be the foremost obstacle if Trump’s law-and-order agenda goes too far.

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Right To Wrong It’s time to name names. It’s time to take off the gloves and fight back against those who hurt our

by Ken Gorrell state. It’s Northfield, NH. time for the NH GOP to draw a line in cement and demand that those who run for office as Republicans either toe it or run under a different banner.

A few weeks after we elected a Republican governor while maintaining Republican majorities in the House and Senate – something nearly as rare as a blue moon – I penned an essay for these pages supporting Right to Work legislation. Last week, thanks to nearly three dozen Representatives whose actions define “RINO,” the Right to Work Senate Bill 11 died in the House.

Passing RTW would have made NH a shining beacon in New England, helping us compete regionally for jobs. As I wrote a few months ago, attracting and retaining job-creating businesses and young people looking to get ahead in life requires being business-friendly. Compared to forced-unionism states, the unemployment rate in RTW states is lower; median incomes (after adjusting for the cost of living)

are higher; and governments spend and tax less per capita.

Right to Work must be considered a foundational issue to the GOP. After the disappointing vote, National Right to Work President Mark Mix reminded supporters of choice in the workplace that “from 2005 to 2015, real private sector employee pay and benefits in Right to Work states grew by nearly 17% — almost a third more growth than forced-unionism states saw as a whole, and more than double what New Hampshire saw individually.” That is what some who call themselves Republicans voted against.

But it’s worse than that. After failing to pass the Senate RTW bill, the “GOP majority” House voted to ensure its own RTW bill could not be brought up for discussion or a vote this session.

So, in the Live Free or Die state, employees will continue to be compelled to pay into union coffers...coffers which provide generously and one-sidedly to Progressive causes and Democrat candidates.

The Democrats voted in lockstep against Right to Work.

That’s no surprise for a party that consistently puts organized union interests ahead of workers and taxpayers. But what more evidence of being on the wrong side of a vote do some Republicans need? When your ideological opponents are “all-

in” on an issue, you better get out, and fast.

It’s time for the new leadership of the state’s GOP to not just come out strong about voting against issues that are foun-

dational for conservatives. It’s time to actively and forcefully work against those who damage the party by failing to uphold its principles.

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North Korea Tests Missile, U.S./Japan Resolve UNITED NATIONS—As a North Korean medium range Pukguksong missile arched across the sky landing menacingly in the

by John J. Metzler Sea of Japan, Syndicated Columnist the intended political target of the nuclear capable rocket was the visit of Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the United States. The rash gambit by the quaintly titled Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) failed in its intended mission; the USA and Japan reaffirmed their friendship and defense solidarity and the Trump Administration reacted with a cool and measured response to Pyongyang’s provocation.

President Donald Trump proclaimed the U.S./Japan alliance as a “cornerstone of peace in the Pacific” and later spoke of Japan as “an important and steadfast ally.” The President stressed he was committed to closer bilateral ties with one of America’s largest trading partners, during what the Wall Street Journal described as a “strikingly friendly summit.”

Such sentiments smoothed over Trump’s campaign statements regarding Japan which hinted that the close post-war ties between Tokyo and Washington were under review.

Days later, while Abe and Trump were visiting the President’s Florida “southern White House” and playing a round of golf, which in Japan is viewed as a bonding dealmaking gesture, the North Koreans fired off

the missile. President Trump offered a brief but measured statement that “The United States of America stands behind Japan, its great ally, 100 percent.”

Bill Richardson, a former Bill Clinton era UN Ambassador and diplomatic trouble shooter to North Korea, told CNN that he thought President Trump’s statement “was an appropriate message, it was measured and did not overreact.” Richardson added that North Korea was testing the new Administration and that Trump’s comment “keeps options on the table.”

In an emergency closed door meeting, the UN Security Council again took up the challenge of North Korea’s missile proliferation. “The members of the Security Council strongly condemned the most recent ballistic missile launches conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.” The statement added that the recent tests were in direct violation of four separate Council resolutions since 2006.

The fifteen-member Council reiterated that North Korea shall “refrain from further actions, including nuclear tests, in violation of Security Council resolutions.” Pyongyang carried out its fifth nuclear test in September 2016. Communist North Korea is the only country in the world to have tested nuclear weapons this century.

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Are we being exposed to Radiation and what can we do about it? An article from Consumer Reports magazine dated Nov.2015 asks this question and states that in a recent debate there were two schools of thought.

The one side thought we should stop worrying about it while the other thinks there’s enough evidence to warrant some cautionary advice. Cell phone manufacturers are required by the Federal Communication Commission to include information in user manuals about cell phone handling. However, the fine print is long, confusing and who read those anyway? According to the article, more than 2,000 articles have been written on the subject. The studies done were on large adults, so the concern here is for children especially.

A Dr. David Carpenter MD, Director of the Institute for Health and Environment at the University at Albany in New York and one of the authors of a recent letter to the UN and WHO, states “I think the overall evidence that wireless radiation might cause adverse health effects is now strong enough that its almost unjustifiable

for government agencies and scientists not to be alerting the public to the potential hazards.”

Some countries have taken steps to ban the advertising and use of cell phones for children.

What is cell phone radiation you ask? Your phone sends radio frequency waves from its antenna to nearby cell towers and receives these same waves from cell towers to its antenna. An FM radio and your microwave oven are similar yet these don’t raise alarms because they a r e n o t held close to your head when in use. There are concerns that these radio frequency waves may affect DNA. Should I stop using my cell phone? No, but research does raise enough concern and because we care about our children and loved ones we want more information and safety precautions.

Some steps you can take are to #1. Keep the phone away from your head and body when not in use. #2. Text instead, when possible. #3. Use your speaker phone option when possible #4. Don’t stow your

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(This seems to be popular with some young women) I encourage you to look up this article and read for yourself the information regarding radiation and cell phones.

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Your Health is in Your Hands

by Dr. Graham Moneysmith, DC. Contributing Writer

If you have never had experience with a chiropractor, you may be curious about what we do, how we do it, and what our goals are. Simply, most people associate chiropractic care with back pain relief. This is fair because chiropractic has been shown in research, and case studies to be quite successful in caring for back pain.

The truth is that the relief things, such as neck pain, low back pain, headaches, sciatica, and pain radiating to the extremities are just the external victories. It’s obviously great for people who are suffering to feel better and as chiropractors we are excited to get to participate in helping people find pain relief. Yet, that being the case, it sells chiropractic a little bit short of its true goals and purposes.

Our philosophy in a nutshell is this: we view the body as an intelligent system, that has a God given ability to heal, function, and maintain itself. Think of it like this: you don’t have to tell your heart to beat or your lungs to breath (thankfully, that’s done for you!), these automatic functions, like so many others in our body, run smoothly (generally) without a conscious thought. The simple act of just waking up, getting out of bed, and taking a deep breath requires a magnificent symphony of bones, muscles, and neurology (in a gross over simplification)! Never forget how miraculous you are on a daily basis. All of these controls and functions of the body are operated by your nervous system

(your brain, spinal cord, and a complex network of nerves). Your brain is the control center of both the nerve system and the body overall, it sends messages/information down the spinal cord, out the spinal nerves (which are the nerves that bud off the spinal cord), to every cell, tissue, and organ in the body. Conversely, everything that takes directions from the brain sends information back to the brain via the same pathway (a big feedback loop). Chiropractors trust in this idea to help people function better. If there is dysfunction in the spine then this information superhighway that controls everything, could function at a lesser level and ultimately lead to lesser health. When this manifests as pain (and frankly, you can have issues long before pain develops) we don’t view the pain as a problem but as your body’s check engine light.

It is information indicating an issue. Remember pain isn’t the problem, it is a side effect of a problem. Example: if you have headaches, taking a pain reliever may shut down the throbbing, but what caused the headache?

Is it dehydration, do you need an eye exam, is it stress, a sinus infection, or an issue in the spinal bones of your neck? Basically, turning off the check engine light without addressing a cause, is not an answer.

Ultimately, chiropractic follows a really simple idea: the body heals itself.

We do not adjust to relieve pain or treat or diagnose a symptom/problem. We seek misalignments in the spinal vertebrae, gently adjust them back into place and allow the body to heal. Address the misalignment or dysfunction in the spine, allow the body’s information superhighway, the nervous system, to do its job and get out of the way, essentially.

When this happens there is no limit, in my opinion, of how successful an in-

dividual can be. So does chiropractic work to help back pain, headaches, etc? Absolutely. Yet, people go to chiropractors for things like ear infections, asthma, allergies, low immunity, fatigue, and digestion problems.

We see success happen in these cases on a daily basis, too. The thing to remember is that the body in all of these cases does the healing, not the chiropractor or chiropractic.

I do not have a specific adjustment that I employ for any of those aforementioned problems and we are not even attempting to “fix” those types of issues.

We adjust or correct the spinal misalignment and this hopefully allows the nervous system and the innate intelligence housed there to work more effectively. You see, when the body’s inborn healing takes off, via a better functioning nervous system, the body can create health in all kinds scenarios (even unexpected ones). Obviously, everyone’s results will vary, but a healthy spine is always preferable to a spine that is breaking down. If you have questions about your health, find your local chiropractor and see if chiropractic is right for you.

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NH Health & Human Services Release 2015-16 Survey On Physical Education In Public Schools NH Department Of Health And Human Services Releases The 2015–2016 Survey On Physical Activity And Physical Education In Public Schools The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), in partnership with the New Hampshire Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and

Dance (NHAHPERD), has released the 2015–2016 Survey on Physical Activity and Physical Education in Public Schools. This statewide report is the most extensive survey to date on physical activity and physical education in New Hampshire public schools and includes responses from 208 elementary, middle, and high school

physical education teachers, representing 48% of all public schools in New Hampshire.

The survey showed that all K–4 students in the State received at least 30 minutes of physical education each week, and over half of middle school students received at least 90 minutes per week. Physical activity was never withheld

as behavior management in 8% of elementary, 24% of middle, and 39% of high schools.

Opportunities for physical activity in schools include before- and afterschool physical activity programs, daily recess, or teachers providing physical activity breaks in the classroom. All of New Hampshire elementary schools offered daily recess, and in 77% of elementary schools, at least some classroom teachers offered breaks for physical activity.

“My thanks are extended to the physical education teachers who participated in this survey. I applaud everyone’s on-going effort to provide for students’ quality physical education programming as well as the simple joy of being active every day before, during, and after school,” said Virginia M. Barry, Ph.D.,

Commissioner of Education. “This report examines how much and at which grades these types of opportunities are presented.

The New Hampshire School Spotlights section shows a glimpse of the many ways teachers are engaging students and staying active.

Let’s keep New Hampshire students on the move for their own well-being and for all the positive benefits of an active body and active mind.”

To read the DHHS physical activity and physical education report, please visit http://www.dhhs.nh.gov/ dphs/nhp/children.htm.

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The Good and Bad – To Think About Following Saturday’s 4-Hour radio show w h e r e Rep. Marc Abear was my first guest for the day I

by Niel Young Advocates Columnist received from a loyal listener: “Great public service. I want to echo your first caller’s comments, and applaud you and Marc for discussing the legislative actions each week. You cannot find this degree of detail re: bills submitted and acted on anywhere else in NH. It’s really helpful to those of us who listen regularly but do not live in Laconia or the surrounding towns.

Thank you!” ******** Charlie Spiering (Breitbart 9/7/2016): President Barack Obama tells a group of young Asians that when Americans are economically stressed, they turn to racism to cope with their struggles.

After Obama highlighted America’s rich heritage of multiculturalism, he pointed to the country’s racist tendencies as a result.

“That especially becomes a problem when the economy is not doing well, and so people feel stressed,” he said.

“Typically, when people feel stressed, they turn on others who don’t look like them.”

He blamed the faltering economy for causing the problems in America’s society “When suddenly things are harder, people start saying, ‘Ah, you know what, this is the fault of the Chinese,’ or ‘This is the fault of Jews,’ or ‘This is the fault of the

Houthi,’ or whatever,” Obama said. ******** That is one of the many times that guy showed his ability of “community organizer” – instigating using race. One can already feel the “change” in America. This time the man promising change – loves the country and its people! ******** Last Saturday the radio topics were to include “Ethics” in local and state politics. Did not get to it!

We will try again this Saturday. W h e r e i s Rule 16 in the NH House?

Time to dust off the little black book.

Noting the number of representatives who voted to protect THEIR job hence; creating a monetary gain. Does a person, or group, benefit from Right to Work, or does it harm the person applying for a position who has an outstanding resume? I am talking about the private and public sector. Is th is Right to Work mean that MR. JOB CREATOR can

offer a position to a highly qualified applicant who wishes to negotiate for her/his non-union employment? I understand this legislation is done for consideration for this term however, there are far too many NH House republicans who lied about supporting RTW at the convention. The “Platform” provides republican leaning voters with what GOP stands for, and hopes to accomplish in the next two years.

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FIRST PRO SPORTS GAMES Recent Facebook postings remind us that 2017 is a year for Red Sox commemorations—this being the 50th Anniversary of the pennant-winning 1967 Impossible Dream Boston team that created the modern Red Sox Nation. While young Sox fans have no recollection of that magical year they should better appreciate Boston’s baseball heritage through the anniversary dates the team will be highlighting as the season unfolds.

Some of these Facebook postings from old-timers including reminiscences about first trips to Fenway Park.

My first trip to the Boston ball-yard was on August 9, 1972. My bleacher seat cost $2 and Rico Petrocelli hit a home run as the BoSox beat the Cleveland Indians 5-2.

When I played golf with Rico last summer I asked if he remembered that game and he confessed he had no memory of it— in contrast to my vivid recollection.

My first Celtics game was in March of 1978— John Havlicek’s last year. Several fellow Plymouth State students and I drove down to the old Boston Garden to see the Celtics host the San Antonio Spurs. The Celtics were terrible and it was easy to get tickets.

We drifted down to courtside to stand on the historic parquet floor and then took seats at the

Weirs Times columnist Mike Moffett as himself at a 2005 Celtics game with Lucky the Leprechaun scorer’s table adjacent to the Celtics bench. We figured we’d wait there until someone kicked us out, but no ever did. Apparently there weren’t many sports scribes interested in the Celts then.

It was a thrill to be there. Satch Sanders was the Celtic coach and he spied me sitting a few feet away at halftime.

He remembered me from some summer basketball camps.

“Groveton Slim. I didn’t know you were a sportswriter!”

“Well, being a writer is my back-up plan if the NBA doesn’t draft me.”

(The NBA didn’t draft me.)

A couple years later I went as a sportswriter, but under someone else’s name—that being Tom Chard of the Portland Maine Press Herald. My friend John was a sportswriter for the BiddefordSaco Journal Tribune and he’d arranged for press credentials for himself and Chard. When Chard couldn’t go, I assumed Tom’s identity for the evening.

(Presumably the statute of limitations has expired on any possible violations related thereto.)

After the contest John and I went to the Celtic locker room for some post-game interviews.

Guarding the door was the ancient Howie

McHugh, the Celtic publicist. A standout athlete at Dartmouth in the 1930s, McHugh had been with the Celtics since their founding in 1946.

He even helped choose the nickname.

McHugh checked off John’s name against the press list and when I told him I was Tom Chard, he brightened and shook my hand.

“My secretary Mary’s from Portland and she told me all about you,” said Howie. “She said you were the first guy she ever dated.”

I thought I was busted and would be arrested for impersonating a sportswriter. I then smiled and responded.

“Ah, good old Mary. I may have been the first, but certainly not the last.”

Howie gave me a funny look and I realized that my rejoinder may not have sounded quite right.

John rescued me and pulled me into the locker room, where I was ill-at-ease the whole time—waiting for Howie to deploy security cops against me.

Later on, as a bona fide Weirs Times sports columnist, I went to the Garden under my own name—which was much more relaxing. (See photo.)

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New England country roads with dirt (sand and gravel) surfaces became sledding trails for the boys and girls of my era. Actually those I played with called it sliding. We used sleds, with an occasional toboggan or traverse, but we went sliding on the roads and in the fields when the conditions were right. Our sleds were of the flexible flyer variety with metal runners and frame underneath wood slats with a wood handle for steering.

Packed snow on the hills of a dirt road surface as the result of being run over by car tires became a good place to use our sleds. The limited vehicle traffic travelled our Dana Hill Road at slow speeds and if we met one on a ride down the hill we simply turned into the snow bank beside the road for a quick stop. There were times when our school recesses became sliding times as we took our sleds up the hilly road a quarter of a mile or more and slid down to the schoolhouse where the teacher had stopped traffic heading up the hill.

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The eastern side of our field provided a steeper but shorter hill for sliding, but we had to maneuver between the apple trees and there were saplings along the edge of the field. One Christmas I had received some new lumberjack style heavy wool winter trousers with black and red checks and wore them as I slid down the hill among the apple trees,into the clear at the bottom of the hill, continuing into the saplings beyond which stopped me.

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Where Is Everybody?

by Steve White Contributing Writer

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There comes a time in every backyard birder’s experience when the world seems to have forgotten them. All attempts to attract nature into their visual microcosm have floundered.

The world is silent, even the most common critters

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are not to be seen. Your neighbors’ yards are filled with the sights and sounds of life. Your environment, however, is a lifeless vacuum.

There are numerous explanations for this phenomenon. If you have always had success in entertaining wild birds to your feeding stations, the offerings have not altered and no new human dangers have been introduced, the emptiness can be disheartening. Fear not.

Birds have excellent memories and your food sources are literally one of hundreds of choices locked into their memory banks.

When nature provides an abundance of food, birds prefer to stay in the comfort of the woods. If it is nesting season, our feathered friends are fostering the hatchlings. Cold seasons court territorial issues and the safety of flocks, greatly reducing sightings in many backyards. Natural predators such as hawks or owls will temporarily reduce wildlife numbers in a very quick manner.

The most successful birding environment is that which most closely resembles the natural world wild birds are accustomed to.

Wild food is always fresh and available. It is not spoiled or rotten. Feeders must be maintained and fresh seed is a necessity. A field of sunflowers does not change to poppies overnight. Your seed selections should remain the same. While a minority of food sources may disappear overnight due to a natural occurrence such as a fire, for the most part wild foods are a constant.

Backyard feeders that are always available each and every day are more likely to attract regular visitors than the occasional birder who only offers food when birds

seem to be around.

If birds have to travel to locate water, they tend to continue on that path to search for sustenance.

Nearby ponds, rivers or lakes are never a substitute for a properly located birdbath in your own backyard.

For the novice birder, one of the most difficult characteristics of wild birds to understand is that these magnificent creatures do not depend on humans for food. Wild birds have been around for thousands of years and have developed survival techniques that have been passed down from generation to generation, even in the harshest winters. Backyard bird feeding has only been popular in the last few decades.

Birds are our guests and we need to treat them as such. By offering fresh food and water, a safe environment and hospitable actions, our guests will be happy to visit. Think of wild birds like a favorite friend or relative.

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What do you offer them at your home? If they are not a fan of brussel sprouts, would you serve them this food simply because it is on sale? Your backyard birds are no different.

So the next time birds are absent from outside your window, do not fret.

They are simply doing what comes natural.

Enjoy your birds.

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A spectacular show of large artworks is on display at the Gateway Gallery at Great Bay Community College at the Pease International Tradeport in Portsmouth now through March 26. The gallery serves as the entryway to the college complex.

This is a juried show and 16 selections were chosen from 50 entries.

Juror, Dr. Annette Cohen, selected pieces that were cohesive, masterful and educationally interactive for Great Bay students.

Dr. Cohen is also an art professor at the college.

Artists worked in various media that inlude fiber works, paintings, mixed media, encaustic works and more. There is a wide variety for all aesthetics.

Here are a few of the highlights of the show.

Wen Redmond presents a digital fiber collage titled: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Breaking the Surface.â&#x20AC;? Visually challenging in its beauty and detail, this piece contains 9 major sections with detail pieces in the center section. Subtle stitchery holds the 9 panels together. There are many undulating and whirling organic shapes. The colors represent a wide span of values. Some sections appear metallic and others look almost molten. It is truly a masterpiece.

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A unique look at portraiture is presented by Marcia Wood Mertinooke. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Little Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Surround My Toesâ&#x20AC;? demonstrates an expertise in application of paint that is one of a kind. As for portraiture, a moment in time is captured, as opposed to an accounting of an individualâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s visage.

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The brand is Trex Accents. It started developing black spots within two years of the installation. I’m mad as heck about this, as I thought I’d have a maintenancefree deck for life. I’m not able to get any help from the manufacturer or from the big box retailer that I bought it from. It’s going to cost me $20,000 to replace it. Can you help me at all? --Jim C., Eaton, Ohio DEAR JIM: I’ve got great news for you. You’re not going to have to replace that composite decking.

I’ve also got a small dose of tough love too.

Let’s start with a story.

I remember years ago when two products were introduced, both had to do with decks. I can clearly remember seeing a counter placard at a lumber company in Cincinnati that said, “RotProof and MaintenanceFREE Deck Lumber.”

It was advertising the new copper-chromate

This stunning lake boardwalk covered with composite decking gets covered with black spots. They can be prevented. arsenic (CCA) lumber for deck framing and deck boards.

We all know how that turned out. You did have to seal the decks every two years and the lumber did rot.

I also remember similar early claims by the manufacturers of composite decking material. As a member of the working press, I was inundated for years by the public relations companies spreading the word about these miracle products.

My own home in New Hampshire, which I did not build, had this firstgeneration composite decking that did fade and did develop deep black spots. It also allowed al-

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There’s no such thing as maintenance-free when it comes to any outdoor product. The reasons are many. For starters, the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays are so powerful they break apart metal atomic bonds. So simple paint, plastic or wood molecules and fibers are child’s play for the sun.

Mother Nature is also quite adept at showering everything outdoors with mold spores, algae, dirt, diesel soot, dust, etc.

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Hold on to gift cards If you received gift cards for your wedding, you might be tempted to spend them right away.

However, every item you buy before the move is one more thing you’ll have to pack and haul.

Put off using gift cards until after the move, when you can use them to help decorate or furnish your new home.

Line up your moving truck Renting a truck and doing your own packing and driving are great ways to save money on your move. If you’re moving from a small apartment or condo into a larger home, you probably have less stuff, and a smaller vehicle - such as a 12- or 16-foot Penske rental truck should be big enough. Generally, moving experts recommend you plan for 150 cubic feet of space for every furnished room you’ll be moving. Be sure to reserve your truck at least two weeks in advance, and ask about discounts; Penske Truck Rental offers discounts for AAA members and military personnel.

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Modern Wedding Trends That Are Building New Traditions October is the new June.

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loved family or friends - or even your own - know what to expect from the changing tides of weddings. Lizzie Post, co-author of “Emily Post’s Etiquette, 18th edition” and great-greatgranddaughter of Emily Post, helps couples navigate the new traditions of weddings. The Post name has been synonymous with proper etiquette and manners for the past 80 years.

As decades pass, so will traditions, but proper etiquette is timeless. Be prepared for the next wedding you attend and know what to expect from changes in the wedding landscape with these important pieces of advice: Pay It Forward Finding the right gift for the newlyweds can be difficult. While registries help to point guests in the right direction, many couples are getting married later in life and already have all the household items

that are common wedding gifts. To provide the couple with a small nest egg to use however they wish, a check is always a great and safe gift idea. Several financial institutions, like Bank of America, offer mobile check deposit through their banking app, allowing the couple the flexibility to deposit checks on-the-go to help cover outstanding vendor payments or use on their honeymoon.

Another new-age trend is contributing to a couple’s honeymoon fund.

Temper Tech Use Even weddings are going hi-tech. There are numerous websites available that can help the couple to organize the process, communicate with guests and share photos after the ceremony. But a few things - like a handwritten “thank you” note - should steer clear of the hi-tech lure. In a gadget-driven society, everyone is carrying a smartphone. Couples can post a tasteful notice at the entrance of the ceremony location or in the program to remind guests to turn off their cell phone ringers and refrain from use during the ceremony. Some couples may actually encourage guests to take photos and share images via social media, but guests should respect their wishes and use phones only as a camera and upload images after the ceremony.

Respect Personalization Couples want their special day to reflect who they are and what is important to them. While previous generations traditionally wed in places of worship, many modern couples

choose to tie the knot at a sentimental location, like where they had their first date. The decor, music and even the food and drink served at a wedding may have a personal story behind it. No matter how nontraditional the element may be, guests should eagerly partake in the festivities, acknowledging and respecting the couple’s individualization.

Be All-Inclusive In the past, bridal showers were strictly for the bride and bachelor parties were a men-only affair.

Nowadays, these festivities are no longer genderspecific. Showers can be thrown for the couple in unison and include creative themes like “stock the bar” or “time of day.” Bachelor and bachelorette parties can also be conjoined to involve the entire bridal party in a destination event. And while these events are a celebration of joy, expenses can add up quickly. If you use a rewards card, like the BankAmericard Travel Rewards credit card, you can earn points on purchases to pay for all or part of your trip. This is great for both the bride and groom and guests traveling to the wedding.

As trends and expectations shift, so will the way major life milestones are celebrated. It is important to celebrate these moments in life with grace and support for the happy couple after all, it’s their day - and it should be as unique as they are.

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Howie’s probably looking down on us from sports heaven today, and I hope he’ll accept my belated apology for the minor subterfuge.

And although I never actually met Mary, I’m sure she’d understand how nervous I was about MY first time.

(In the Celtics locker room!)

Sports Quiz Howie McHugh’s Celtics played their first-ever game in Boston on Nov. 5, 1946. Who was a Celtic starter that night who later played Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs, before becoming one of Hollywood’s top actors? (Answer follows) Born Today ...

That is to say, sports standouts born on February 23 include star baseball catcher Elston Howard (1929), the first African American to play for the New York Yankees and the 1963 American League MVP. He was also a member of the 1967 Red Sox Impossible Dream team.

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Michael Moffett was a Professor of Sports Management for Plymouth State University and NHTI-Concord. He’s coauthor of the critically-acclaimed and award-winning “FAHIM SPEAKS: A Warrior-Actor’s Odyssey from Afghanistan to Hollywood and Back” (with the Marines)—which is available through Amazon.com. His e-mail address is mimoffett@comcast.net

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attacking Republicans who are trying to get at the truth.

So just what is making the Democrats cry? Jack Hellner says, “having a President who enforces the laws that Schumer and others wrote and seriously vetting refugees is what finally made Schumer cry.” Jack notes that, “the media, Hollywood, Democrats, professors and the paid protesters have selective outrage, selective empathy, and a great disregard for the law of the land.”

The conclusions seem pretty clear to me. The Democrats do not care about you John and Judy Public. You are merely a means to their progressive ideological ends. And the mainstream press reporting is feckless and worthless because they no longer believe searching out and reporting the truth is a worthwhile endeavor. No, they think it is more noble to broadcast the lies of the Left.

That is the result of the educational indoctrination of the progressive left. So John and Judy Public, voting is just not going to be enough to help President Trump bring back law and order and safety and borders into this country. We should all not be afraid to speak out with the courage of our convictions, regardless of the relentless name calling and derision that will be heaped upon us by the corrosive left in this country.

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ingredients and you’ve got perfect conditions for mildew, mold and algae growth on any surface.

At the very least, maintenance involves periodic cleaning. You can clean some things with regular liquid dish soap and water. Tougher stains from barbecue grills, tree sap, mold, mildew and algae may need more powerful powdered oxygen bleach you mix with water.

The issue in your case is that your composite decking, and several other brands, contain untreated lumber fibers that are encapsulated in recycled plastic. However, not all the wood gets coated with the plastic and, as I mentioned earlier, the sun breaks apart the plastic, exposing the wood.

Mix wood, spores and water and you get black spots. You can clean them off, but the spots come back because the mold and mildew spores are constantly floating down onto the deck and you have a nearly constant supply of water.

Overnight dew, which covers everything outdoors many days of the year, is perhaps the biggest source of the prob-

lem.

I think you can get some peace of mind, but it’s going to take a little periodic work on your part.

Fortunately it’s easy to do.

Years ago I became fascinated with clipper ships. I have two boxes filled with small parts of two ships I intend to build when I’m retired -- the Cutty Sark and the Thermopylae. Both of these tea clippers had copper plating on their hulls.

Copper is a natural biocide. It prevented barnacles and other organisms from growing on the wood hulls of these fast ships. These nasty growths would slow other ships and reduce the owners’ profits.

You can introduce this copper to your boardwalk in a way that should not harm anything that’s next to the boardwalk.

I’d clean the decking first and then apply a mist of copper sulfate solution to the decking.

Copper sulfate is readily available, and farmers have used it for decades.

It controls fungus diseases, makes up for copper deficiencies in animals and other things.

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I’d mix up a solution and put it in a garden hand-pump sprayer. Set the nozzle tip to a fine mist. On a sunny warm day, spray the surface of the decking. Minimize overspray. The solution will soak into the wood fibers and possibly the tiny voids of the decking.

The only unknown is how often you need to respray. It could be once every six weeks, but it’s far easier to do than scrubbing that decking.

Good luck!

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der Trump overawing the prerogatives of states and localities, Gorsuch is a devoted friend of federalism.

If they are anxious about the Trump executive branch trampling on the other branches of government, Gorsuch calls the separation of powers “among the most important liberty-protecting devices of the constitutional design.”

Why won’t Democrats follow the logic of their anti-Trump reasoning and support Gorsuch?

First, there is sheer partisanship. They believe the Antonin Scalia seat has been “stolen” from them because Senate Republicans refused to act on the nomination of Merrick Garland.

Second, Democrats don’t truly oppose Trump on procedural or constitutional grounds, and so have no use for the likes of Gorsuch. Liberals didn’t object to President Barack Obama’s executive orders unilaterally rewriting immigration law, or recoil

when he was repeatedly shot down 9-0 by the Supreme Court.

Third, the left cares about social issues more than anything else, particularly the judicial imposition of the current abortion regime. If Gorsuch isn’t on board, it doesn’t make a difference whether he will be a presumptive check on the president or not.

Finally, Democrats are getting sucked into the politics of the primal scream.

They are heading toward all-out war against Trump, in which case all that matters about Gorsuch -- or anyone else -- is that he is associated with the president. The best way for Trump to overcome this unhinged opposition is to make choices as sound as he did with Judge Gorsuch -- an unassailable pick being assailed by people who profess to yearn for sobriety and traditional norms, even as they reject both themselves.

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review

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knew that the FBI and federal prosecutors had launched a probe of CDR’s activities in New Mexico in the summer of 2008.

They knew CDR was tied to a doomed bond deal in Alabama, which threatened to cause the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. They knew CDR had raked in nearly $1.5 million in fees from a New Mexico state financial agency after donating more than $100,000 to Richardson’s efforts to register Hispanic and American Indian voters and to pay for expenses at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.

It took 33 days before Team Obama threw Richardson and his ethical baggage off the bus.

Richardson’s replacement, former GOP Sen. Judd Gregg, accepted and then quickly withdrew after disagreements over Obama’s massive federal stimulus proposal and Democrats’ politicization of the Census.

Another Beltway barnacle, former Democratic

South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle, was also forced to withdraw from his nomination as Obama’s Health and Human Services secretary amid a storm of ethical scandal, conflicts of interest, and tax avoidance. That was compounded by Treasury Secretary Geithner’s admission of “tax goofs” involving his failure to pay $43,000 in federal self-employment taxes for four separate years (until, that is, he was tapped for his Obama post). At least five other Treasury staff picks withdrew before the Obama administration had reached the 100-day mark over tax problems, conflicts of interest, bad judgment and records of lax oversight of industry.

By the end of his first 100 days, Obama had set a turnover record for an incoming cabinet with four major withdrawals.

And by the hallowed 100day mark, Obama had announced less than half of the total Senate-confirmed Cabinet department positions he needed to fill,

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with only 10 approved -- even though the Democrats had an overwhelming majority in the Senate at the time.

Yes, there will be significant bumps in the road and some tough lumps to take as President Trump builds his team. But a dishonest media and preening political establishment pretending there’s something “unprecedented” about such stumbles only discredit themselves.

Michelle Malkin is host of “Michelle Malkin Investigates” on CRTV.com. Her email address is writemalkin@gmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www. creators.com.

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The state GOP should work now to identify viable candidates to challenge wayward Republicans in the 2018 primary. Those candidates should be assured they will receive state party financial and ground campaign support – money and people to pound the pavement and knock on doors to help them get elected. There aren’t many issues that require ideological purity, but Right to Work is such an issue.

To say this anti-worker and anti-business vote demonstrates a lack of leadership in the House would be an understatement. We are poorly s e r v e d yet again this term. Governor Sununu made it clear that this was a key vote on an issue of great importance to the state. Speaker Jasper and his House leadership failed to deliver; whether by incompetence or intent is anyone’s guess.

We deserve what we tolerate, and the time for tolerance is over.

Here are the names of so-called Republicans who voted against Right to Work, who voted to hurt our state’s economic competitiveness: Crawford, Karel (R, Ctr Harbor), Merner, Troy (R, Lancaster), Pierce, David (R, Goffstown), Proulx, Mark (R, Manchester), McCarthy, Michael (R,

Nashua), Hopper, Gary (R, Weare), Klose, John (R, Epsom), Woitkun, Steven (R, Danville), Chirichiello, Brian (R, Derry), Dowling, Patricia (R, Derry), Katsakiores, Phyllis (R, Derry), Milz, David (R, Derry), Tripp, Richard (R, Derry), Webb, James (R, Derry), Willis, Brenda (R, Derry), Morrison, Sean (R, Epping), Guthrie, Joseph (R, Hampstead), Pearson, Mark (R, Hampstead), Bean, Philip (R, Hampton), Welch, David (R, Kingston), Bove, Martin (R, Londonderry), McKinney, Betsy (R, Londonderry), Doucette, Fred (R, Salem), Chase, Francis (R, Seabrook), Janvrin, Jason (R, Seabrook), Khan, Aboul (R, Seabrook), Tilton, Rio (R, Seabrook), Scruton, Matthew (R, Rochester), Laware, Thomas (R, Charlestown), Gauthier, Francis (R, Claremont), O’Connor, John (R, Claremont), Grenier, James (R, Lempster) Along with Speaker of the House Shawn Jasper, these names should be engraved on a GOP wall of shame.

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on 15 April and his son Kim Jong-il on 16 February.

Numerology plays a key role in the reclusive Red Oz of North Korea and surprising events often occur.

During this period the DPRK may try yet another missile launch or nuclear test. On the eve of the festival, Kim Jong-nam the estranged half brother of current leader Kim Jong-un was mysteriously murdered in Malaysia. Though the eldest first born son of Kim Jong-il lived in exile in Chinese controlled Macau, he was often viewed to be a potential successor to the current Pyongyang leadership.

The real issue becomes whether Beijing is merely enduring the erratic rule of Kim Jong-un or wishes to reestablish China’s historic big brother protection/control over the Korean peninsula.

Equally the drama is being played out to the backdrop of a complex political crisis in South

Korea whose democracy was rattled by the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye and a pending presidential election later this year.

Kim Jong-un has carried out bloody purges killing at least 340 senior officials in both the Party and Military. Analysts feel that Kim Jong nam’s untimely demise in Malaysia was no coincidence and likely linked to his young brother.

Purges focus on power consolidation and thwarting further embarrassing defections.

Seoul’s respected Korea Times stated editorially, “This leaves open the possibility that Pyongyang might unleash provocations at any time, and the North’s nuclear and missile threats are never a bluff.”

Naturally the bigger picture emerges how will Washington react to the brewing crisis? The Trump Administration has initiated a North Korea policy review. The Wall Street Journal added editorially, “Regard-

29 less of how or why Kim Jong-nam was killed, the U.S. and its allies need plans to handle a Pyongyang palace coup as well as a nuclear assault.”

The Trump administration’s strategic ambiguity is wise not to announce plans. As the president said, “I’m not going to tell you what we’ll do with North Korea. They shouldn’t know.”

John J. Metzler is a United Nations correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues. He is the author of Divided Dynamism The Diplomacy of Separated Nations Germany, Korea, China.

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Charlie on the trail above the Gunstock Nordic Center. The Gunstock Nordic center boasts 50 kilometers, over 30 miles, of cross country and snowshoe trails The Nordic Center is on the right side of the road as you drive towards the ski resort.

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at the forest’s edge. The short loop’s scenery was nice and once again we were back into the forest skiing our way around the mountain and working our way back to where we began. The loop we made around the mountain is about 5k (3

miles).

Back at the road crossing at the sheds I clicked out of my skis and wished Charlie a happy ski. He continued up the trail and I ran back to the car.

I admit I was in a hurry to get on the Gunstock’s slopes. The Panorama

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I don’t think I have ever so quickly changed my clothes and equipment.

People trying to walk fast in ski boots while carrying their skis look silly.

No doubt I looked silly, there is nothing graceful about it. I awkwardly clomped along to the far side of the parking lot trying to get to the ticket booth at the lodge.

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ister at the ticket counter. I was greeted with a smile. I am certain I am not the first Ski Nut to run in and try to get a ticket with no time to spare. As the ticket was printing I said I hope to make the last chair to the summit and she replied, “I know.” My face was red and I felt foolish but I was still hopeful I’d make it. She handed me my ticket and as fast as I could say “thank you” I was out the door.

I placed my lift ticket be-

tween my teeth so I could grab my skis and I continued my hustle up the hill to the lift. I began to lecture myself for not allowing enough time. I could see a ski patrolman standing near the lift. A lift attendant was taking down some ropes.

Skiers and snowboarders were still sliding up and loading the lift. Yikes!

My heart was beating fast as I clicked into my skis and I fumbled to attach my lift ticket. Whew, See patenaude on 31

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I made it. At the last moment another skier glided up and joined me on the chair. He was happy to get one more ride.

On Gunstock’s summit there was little wind and the view north over Lake Winnipesaukee to the mountains was grand.

This was the reason I didn’t want to miss the lift to the summit. There were at least a dozen other people just hanging out on top enjoying the view too. Mount Washington’s white cone was visible far away and the Ossipee Mountains looked like they were hugging the other side of the Lake.

I chose to take the natural snow covered ungroomed Recoil Trail. I picked my way down over the moguls. Nice. Thank you Mother Nature for the cool snow.

I went over to the Ramrod Quad and did a couple of runs: one down the race trail and another the trail next to it. The snow was soft and easy to turn.

I skated over to the Tiger triple chair and took a few more runs over there.

A high school race was finishing up on Tiger and race training was happening on Cannonball.

So I decided to traverse over to the Pistol lift and the terrain park.

As I neared the last turn to the lift I caught a glimpse of Charlie cross country skiing towards the main lodge. The lights were on and it was

starting to get dark. I skied right up to him and surprised him. That was good Valentine’s Day luck that he didn’t’ have wait and look for me.

We had hot chocolate in the main lodge together and then I went back out for a little more.

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of my memories is that of mixing grain and warm water in a pail in our kitchen and feeding the pigs twice a day. By the way the tieup was that section of the barn where the cattle were tied up and spent a good part of the winter. Cleaning it meant shoveling the manure out of an open window onto the manure pile in back of the barn. In the barn yard there was a concrete water receptacle for the cows which was in a wood enclosure. We used an axe to cut through the ice which sometimes built up considerably during the winter months. Milking the cow was another of the jobs that we boys had to learn to do, along with separating the cream from the milk and operating the churn to make butter.

A lot of activity took place in and around the barn.

One winter’s day I discovered a red fox curled up in the snow behind the barn sleeping and decided I would find a way to kill it, so I found a brother (maybe two) to help me dispatch it.

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We found a long wooden pole and plotted to sneak up to the fox and whack it on the head with the pole, hoping that would kill it.

(I remembered visiting our neighbors in past years, the Leslie Smith family, and walking through a shed with multiple fox and probably other animal pelts.)

On approaching we realized that the animal was not sleeping, but already dead. The dead fox was taken to Leonard Huckins who skinned it for us, so we had our own fur pelt, which the last I remember was stored in a bureau drawer.

We slept upstairs in unheated bedrooms on rope beds with cotton filled mattresses and on the really cold nights soapstones were heated on the wood stove, wrapped in newspapers, and used as foot-warmers.

After school I sometimes visited the cellar to grab an apple to eat while I read about a famous person in one of the orange covered book series by a publisher I don’t remember and/or listened to a radio adven-

ture program such as “Sky King” or “Sergeant Preston of the Yukon”. Saturday nights we ate beans for supper and sometimes had leftover beans for breakfast on Sunday morning, and maybe bean sandwiches for lunch on Monday. Of course, Saturday night was bath night when the galvanized metal tub was brought out and placed on the kitchen floor beside the stove with its’ water reservoir where enough hot water was available. On Sunday evenings, after the Sunday afternoon church services at the schoolhouse,

we popped popcorn on the stove which was eaten with milk with perhaps a sour pickle on the side. If the static on the radio wasn’t too bad we listened to “Amos and Andy”, “George Burns and Gracie Allen”, “Jack Benny” and “Our Miss Brooks”. And I must not forget school, since that dominated weekdays from nine a.m.to three p.m. The black chalkboards and the squeal of the chalk writing upon them, the desks with the built in inkwells to supply ink for our pens before the ball-point ones arrived, the long settees used for

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So there is a quick sketch of my childhood in winter though much more could be added. I have some closing advice to the sledders, though. Be careful and don’t take foolish chances. Know where your sled will stop before you start and never try to slide under a barb-wire fence, it’s not worth the risk, even though some have successfully kept their heads low enough to survive that stunt.

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fishholes through the summer months. This will save a great deal of confusion when winter comes, as the holes will be ready to use and no ice cutting will be necessary.”)

Harold Perkins won over Ike Allbee and held the post for several years.

One of Allbee’s campaign slogans was “Vote Early and Vote Often” which must have had some sway over Fishervilles’ 135 registered voters as 2,135 votes were cast between both candidates.

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Van Cleve pointed out that even though Wolfeboro is known as “The Oldest Summer Resort In America” there really hasn’t been that much in the way of winter activities to bring people to the area lately.

That’s exactly what the Wolfeboro Selectmen were thinking when they established the Fisherville Committee last spring.

“I give a lot of credit to Lisa Beveridge of Beveridge Soap Company here in town,” said Van Cleve. “A few years back she was planning on having an ice festival and it didn’t happen for different reasons, but it was that idea that kind of got

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Lucy Van Cleve, Sales Director at the Wolfeboro Inn, is on the new Fisherville Committee which was established last year to bring back the once popular community.

“We are really gearing up for what we hope will be a solid comeback for Fisherville,” said Van Cleve. “Fisherville was really the place to go in Wolfeboro in the winter in the 30s and 40s.

There was a church there where people could get married. There was even a day when you could send mail from the Fish-

people thinking about Fisherville again.”

Besides ice houses designed by Wolfeboro businesses, anyone is welcome to build one as long as they are kept in good taste since this is a family oriented attraction.

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Thin ice kept the bob houses off the lake at the 2106 revival of Fisherville. This year a few houses will still be in the parking lot of the Wolfeboro docks but many will be on the ice.

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Bringing back the community of Fisherville will hopefully be a tradition once again for the years to come. Who knows, there may even be another mayor someday.

Make sure to get over there and check out this piece of Wolfeboro history come back to life.

For more information on Fisherville and the 2nd Annual Brew and Chew visit their Facebook page at FishervilleOn-Wolfeboro-Bay.

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“We are planning on a very successful event this year.”

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