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2018 Predictions Predicting what will happen in the future is a skill I have not yet perfected, though I keep trying. Here are my predictions for 2018.

• Former Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas will not retire from politics. Expect to see him run for executive councilor if current Executive Councilor Chris Pappas wins the Democratic primary for Congress (NH District 1). I could also see Gatsas return to the state Senate.

• Just when you thought you had forgotten about former Congressman Frank Guinta, he is appointed to a position in the Donald Trump administration. My guess would be something to do with oversight of the banking industry. Yes, one could see some irony in that appointment, but snark aside, it fits with his experience in Congress.

• Construction will finish up on I-93. Just kidding. That project will be done in, like, 50 years.

• However, parts of the Woodmont Commons development in Londonderry will be almost completed in 2018, creating a serious competitor to downtown Manchester as a place to live, work and play (and no parking meters). Development like Woodmont Commons will challenge traditional downtown in the future, drawing jobs, nightlife and residents out of Manchester, Concord and Nashua.

• Bedford finally gets a Trader Joe’s.

Seriously. It’s going to happen. Really.

• No, Amazon won’t be coming to New Hampshire, though the shot wasn’t as long as some joked. New Hampshire has the physical infrastructure to attract a large employer like that but doesn’t have the people. A more likely choice for Amazon will be larger metropolitan areas like Washington, D.C., Boston, Atlanta and Charlottesville because they have the workforce. Nothing trumps companies’ needs for qualified workforce. That explains Citizens Bank’s recent move to downtown Boston, as well as General Electric’s.

• I think I’ve said this before, and though Adam Sandler wouldn’t move back to New Hampshire to open a Happy Madison studio, he will set more of his films back here. What’s more interesting than a story about a local race for state rep or selectman? I can already see the plot. Doofy guy is inadvertently elected, smart attractive girls helps him make a difference, boy and girl end up together.

• Dean Kamen, who created the Segway and then a few years ago opened a restaurant in Manchester, will now complete the circle by opening a hybrid golf course with former Gov. Craig Benson where players play on hoverboards kept aloft by electromagnets embedded in the sod and boards.

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An urgent care clinic at the Manchester VA Medical Center was closed after bed bugs were found in the clinic. NHPR reported the bedbugs were located in an exam room and a waiting room. The clinic was closed on Dec. 27 and reopened the next day. The facility was treated

by Team GES, the pest control company contracted by the VA. Medical Center Al Montoya said this was not an emergency and patients were able to receive care elsewhere during the closure, according to the story.

Family leave bill

Lawmakers are hopeful that a family leave bill will pass this year, NHPR reported. The bipartisan proposal has been workshopped over the past few months. It would allow employees to pay into a family medical leave fund directly out of their paycheck. The fund would cover up to 12 weeks of paid time off for the birth of a child or a serious medical condition. Proponents argue the bill would make New Hampshire competitive at attracting and retaining a workforce.

FirstNet

As the deadline arrived for states to decide whether to opt out of the FirstNet first responder communications network contract with builder AT&T on Dec. 28, Gov. Chris Sununu reversed course on his earlier decision to opt out. In a press release, he said it was too risky for New Hampshire to be the only state to opt out of the deal. Sununu originally wanted to award the contract to a startup company called Rivada Networks, something both Republican and Democratic officials were concerned about.

“While Rivada’s plan remains the better option for New Hampshire, I have determined that the additional risk associated with being the only state to optout creates too high a barrier for New Hampshire to continue down the opt-out path alone,” Sununu said in a written statement. It was estimated the state could owe as much as $600 million if Rivada failed to create an interoperable network.

Serenity Place

Gov. Chris Sununu called for an emergency meeting of the Executive Council on Dec. 29 to discuss the financial failure of Serenity Place, Manchester’s regional access point addiction treatment center, the AP reported. A judge recently approved a deal to place Serenity Place under receivership after authorities became aware of a $600,000 deficit since July 1. The Executive Council approved a loan agreement to keep the place running without interruption.

Serenity Place sees about 3,000 patients annually.

Mental health

The state Department of Health and Human Services along with the governor’s office released a new report on the state’s mental health system’s capacity. The report points to a shortage in community-based housing services, according to a press release. The evaluation was conducted by Human Services Research Institute to investigate the gaps in the mental health system and respond to the needs of individuals waiting for care in hospital emergency departments. As a result of this study, the department is redirecting funds set aside for designated receiving facility beds for involuntary admissions to housing services.

Agritourism bill

A bill to be taken up in the House this session would make it easier for farms to diversify their business to include things like hosting weddings and other large-scale events. NHPR reported existing regulations for agritourism events vary widely from town to town. The bill would formally define agritourism and allow related activities, which would preempt local regulations. The issue has come up in recent years as local farm owners have fought for the right to expand their businesses.

Older judges

Sen. Sharon Carson, a Republican of Londonderry, is sponsoring a constitutional amendment that would extend

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the age cutoff for New Hampshire judges, NHPR reported.

Right now, judges are required to retire as they reach the age of 70. Carson argues the cutoff was set a couple hundred years ago and times have changed to the point where people are now able to live active lives after 70.

She would change the cutoff to 75. Recently, state Supreme Court Justice Carol Ann Conboy retired due to her age, and Chief Justice Linda Dalianis reluctantly announced her retirement for the same reason.

Transgender bill

The state archives building in Concord is slated to get a 42,000-square-foot addition this year as well as a larger parking lot, the Concord Monitor reported. The road to the lot will move 50 feet to the south and be renamed Ratification Way in honor of the copy of the U.S. Constitution the state has in the archives.

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In December, several police officers in Bedford received awards forHooksett various achievements over the past year. According to a press release, officers Brian Masker,Goffstown Brandon Brown, James McMillen and Patrick Gilligan received the Life Saving Award.

A map of Manchester’s millyard tech companies got attention on social media after a Dyn employee who created it posted it on LinkedIn. NH Business Review reported the map includes about 30 companies. Amy Chhom, the global director of facilities at Dyn, wanted to illustrate the need for more parking in the millyard.

A bill that would add gender MANCHESTER identity to the list of prohibited forms of discrimination in the state’s anti-discrimination Bedford statute is back on the docket, The MicroSociety Academy Charter NHPR reported. Last year, lawSchool in Nashua had average Derry Merrimack Amherst makers tabled the measure after student scores in the latest Smarter the Republican majority in the Balanced Assessment tests (math Londonderry and reading) that were 20 to 40 Milford House narrowly voted down percentage points higher than the the bill, which would provide state average, the Telegraph of protections for the state’s transNashua reported. The school is gender population in areas of NASHUA expanding its real-life application employment, housing and pubprogramming and adding eighthgraders at the start of the new acalic accomodation. Right now, demic year, according to the story. the state protects against discrimination based on age, race, sex, religion and national origin, developers planning construc- sachusetts’ statutory carbon among other things. tion projects. There are at least emissions reductions by 2020.

4,000 historic cemeteries and According to a press release burial grounds across the state. from Eversource, the project is Cemetery database A bill sponsored by Democrat Eventually, Watters hopes to the only large transmission projSen. David Watters of Dover change the volunteer position to ect able to achieve the goal while delivering $900 million in accelwould create a statewide data- a paid state employee. erated benefits. The benefits are base of all its cemeteries and the result of bringing the project burial grounds, the AP reported. Northern Pass online two years earlier than othWatters said the database, which The Northern Pass Transwould be run by a volunteer, mission project announced that er proposed projects. would be useful for property it will be able to achieve Mas-

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Barbershops are enjoying a boom regionally and nationally, and New Hampshire is no exception. The AP reported the growth prospects for the barbering occupation, graded by New Hampshire Employment Security, changed from favorable in 2010 to very favorable in 2016, reversing a trend of decline that began in the 1960s. A recent report on New Hampshire job growth predicts 11 percent growth in the barbering profession by 2024.

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Two Seacoast area hospitals were penalized

by Medicare due to injury and infection rates.

NHPR reported Exeter Hospital and Portsmouth Regional Hospital will receive 1 percent less in Medicare reimbursements this year because they are ranked in the bottom 25 percentile nationally when it comes to its preventable hospital-acquired injuries, such as bed sores or infections. The penalty is a provision of the Affordable Care Act. Catholic Medical Center in Manchester and Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Lebanon were similarly penalized during the previous three years but got higher scores this period.

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NEWS

A better biopsy

New diagnostic equipment targets early breast cancer

By Ryan Lessard news@hippopress.com

The Elliot Breast Health Center is the first facility in the state to offer 3-D-guided breast biopsy procedures, and the first on the Eastern seaboard to have an instant diagnostic system, both of which make the biopsies more accurate and ultimately less invasive.

What’s new

New Hampshire has the highest rate of breast cancer in the country based on 2014 data, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But the best way to fight it is early screening and detection.

Dr. Marina Feldman, the director imaging and co-director of the Breast Health Center, said experts recommend women start to get screened mammograms at the age of 40.

Until fairly recently the equipment used

to scan for masses did so using a sort of 2-D X-ray overlay system.

“And the computer would calculate coordinates, almost like 3-D battleship-style,” Feldman said.

But since about 2013, Elliot has been using 3-D scanning technology, known as tomosynthesis, which is tantamount to the difference between X-rays and CT scans.

The newer system scans multiple one-millimeter layers and puts them together to form a 3-D model, allowing for providers to identify extra-small masses and their locations. But the technology for taking out physical samples for testing had not been as accurate for the better part of the past four years.

“The trouble was the biopsy equipment took a little while to catch up,” Feldman said.

In September, Elliot acquired a couple of new pieces of equipment that have changed the game.

The first is a 3-D-guided prone breast biopsy system. The tomosynthesis screening

meant more accurate diagnostics and patients were 40 to 50 percent less likely to be unnecessarily called back for repeat mammograms.

But acquiring a sample from a small mass wasn’t guaranteed. Older biopsy equipment usually would result in misses and sampling larger zones unnecessarily.

“We are now able to sample something that we see on a 1mm slice using the same high-accuracy, high-resolution technology,” Feldman said.

Now, essentially, the scanning and the biopsy equipment are matched, she said.

The way it works is a patient will lay face down on a table, with her breast compressed and fitted through a hole in the table. Using the 3-D scanning as a targeting guide, it can sample a mass as small as 1 or 2 millimeters in diameter, which is essentially a “speck,” Feldman said.

This reduces procedure time and reduces the amount of X-rays patients are exposed to.

A second piece of equipment that works in

tandem with this is the Brevera breast biopsy technology, made by the same manufacturer, Hologic.

The Brevera sucks a biopsy sample down a tube and directly into a specialized X-ray device that can scan the sample to make sure it has microcalcifications, which are a manifestation of early breast cancer roughly the size of chalk dust, and display the image within a matter of seconds.

Before, samples had to be removed from a capsule and scanned manually in a dedicated device. Those added steps made the process longer and providers would take multiple samples before testing them to be sure they caught what they saw in the scans.

Now, Feldman said, they can stop sampling as soon as the display confirms the biopsy was successful.

Feldman said the device just recently received FDA approval and Elliot Breast Health Center is the first on the East Coast to install one.

them are in solo practices and they don’t want to get into the whole insurance billing piece.

But the underlying theory was that they’re aware that they’re being reimbursed at rates much lower than their medical counterparts, and so they’re just not accepting insurance because they don’t want to get paid less.”

Matthew Davis, a psychiatrist and director of behavioral services at Portsmouth Regional Hospital, said chronically low pay for psychiatrists is frustrating for those doctors.

“If you work in medicine, psychiatry is one of the lowest-paid specialities across the board. It’s probably one of the two or three lowest-paid specialities out of 20 or 25 different medical specialities or subspecialities,” Davis said.

But psychiatrists still have the same heavy student debt load as any other MD. As such, one of the things that exacerbates disparities in New Hampshire, Davis said, is the absence of a public medical school. He estimates public university med schools cost a fifth to a tenth in in-state tuition what it costs to attend a private school.

The other problem Davis sees is the extra time providers in behavioral services have to spend dealing with insurance providers to get authorization for things like medication to help suicidal patients or hospitalization. That time, he said, would be better spent treating patients.

“I think we, in spite of parity laws, still are confronted with those challenges pretty often,” Davis said.

In New Hampshire, mental health centers and hospitals are already losing a national talent war for psychiatrists, as the Hippo previously reported. Some of the general frustrations expressed by employers have included the high cost of recruiting and retaining behavioral physicians.

Norton said it can cost between $250,000 and $500,000 just to recruit a psychiatrist from out of state. Meanwhile, the psychiatrists on staff are bombarded on a weekly or even daily basis with unsolicited recruitment offers from elsewhere.

Plus, the shortage is getting worse as fewer med school students enter the psychiatric field — in part because of the well-known disparity in pay, Norton said.

Norton said fixing reimbursement disparities would be an important first step, but it wouldn’t fix the problem overnight.

“Even if there was parity at the moment, would that immediately solve the access issue? No,” Norton said.

Davis said the state also has a role to play in attracting health care talent in the state, and some initiatives like tuition forgiveness might be a way to do that. Another option would be some sort of reciprocity agreement with a public medical school in a neighboring state to give local med students a cheaper alternative and incentive to stay local.

“Things like that would be relatively costeffective for the state and would really help to recruit and retain high quality people in an area that’s really underserved,” Davis said.

Underpaid psychiatrists

Mental health disparities in N.H. linked to low pay

By Ryan Lessard

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Two recent reports point to continuing disparities in access to mental health care compared to medical care nationwide due to lower reimbursement rates for behavioral health specialists — and in New Hampshire, the issue is more pronounced than anywhere else.

The disparities

Ken Norton, executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness New Hampshire, said psychiatrists in the state experienced the greatest disparities in pay compared to other medical providers than any other state in the country.

According to a report by Milliman, an international actuarial firm, New Hampshire topped the list of disparities between primary care and behavioral care reimbursements by Medicare in 2015, with a difference of about 69 percent. The national average was 21 percent. The report also found that psychiatrists were generally paid less than medical providers across the country for the same types of services, even using the same billing codes.

Norton said lower reimbursement for psychiatric services is feeding into the growing scarcity of mental health workers and psychiatrists specifically in the Granite State.

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with medical providers. More than a third of respondents said they had trouble finding a therapist, compared to 13 percent who had trouble finding a medical specialist.

And more people are going out-of-network to find mental health care. While 28 percent said they found a therapist out of their insurance carrier’s network, only 7 percent had to do the same for medical specialists.

Part of the problem is how few psychiatrists there are. A 2015 report by consulting firm Merritt Hawkins estimated the state has a little more than 140 psychiatrists. That’s a rate of 10.8 per 100,000, compared to a national rate of 12.4. Lisa Mistler of the New Hampshire Psychiatric Society said she thinks that number hasn’t changed much in the state over the past few years.

According to the NAMI report, nearly 91 million Americans live in regions with severe shortages of mental health professionals. It’s estimated that at least 1,846 psychiatrists and 5,931 other practitioners would be needed to meet the demand.

Norton said the difficulty finding therapists and psychiatrists in-network is tied to the low pay and reimbursements. Essentially, it’s driving behavioral health specialists to only accept direct payments as a way to get more money on par with workers in other medical fields.

“That could be because there’s such a shortage and such demand that people are just willing to pay, no matter what,” Norton said.

“It was also cited [in the study] that many of

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Snow science

New equipment tracks snowpack effects

New scales

Traditional methods of measuring snowpack in units of SWE (snow water equivalent) include either taking tube samples and melting them down to measure inches of snow, or using outdoors measuring devices that involve balloons filled with antifreeze.

What the University of New Hampshire is using is a force-sensing scale — a roughly three-foot by three-foot metal triangle connected to a radio antenna and a solar panel. Based on the weight, the amount of snow water equivalent can be calculated.

Elizabeth Burakowski, research assistant professor at UNH, said one scale has been installed so far at the Kingman Research Farm in Madbury, part of the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station.

The scale takes regular readings every hour and beams them to Burakowski’s computer, she said.

“We also take manual samples and we compare them to the snow scale,” she said.

Burakowski said being able to get data collected from such regular intervals and over a long period of time — possibly spanning decades — New Hampshire will begin to have a clear, high-resolution picture of snowpack behavior in the state.

“The snow records in northeastern United States, especially longer-term records, are fairly sparse. Quality is a big issue with our snow records,” Burakowski said.

The scales were developed by 2KR Systems in Rochester. The company president, Chris Dundorf, said the scales are easy to install and are made from their own components.

“Some of the technology we’re using now is a rooftop snow load measurement system,” Dundorf said.

The snow scales for research purposes and the rooftop product known as SnowSentry (meant to warn building managers of too much snow piling up on rooftops and where) are similar in design but meet very different market demands.

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Once researchers have the high-resolution and long-term data they hope to get from this project, it can be used to answer certain questions about how snowpack patterns interact with other ecological or agricultural effects.

“If we can install this technology and have it sit there for decades, that will give us a much better idea of how our snowpacks are responding to warmer temperatures and changes in climate,” Burakowski said.

Some of those changes may have already begun, as temperatures have already risen four degrees since the 1970s. It’s possible climate change could contribute to less snow cover, more rain and more frequent mid-winter thaws.

At this early stage, scientists aren’t sure what the long-term impacts of this on the state’s forests or farms could be.

Broadly, it could mean drier weather.

“If we have winters with little to no snow pack and a commensurate decrease in precipitation, that could spell … the conditions that could lead to prolonged drought in summer,” Burakowski said.

But having denser, wetter snowpack could also cause soil to freeze more often, rather than provide insulation for the soil like dry soft powder offers. This might have an effect on the soil’s microbial life and if it’s affected, it might impact its role in decomposition and recycling nutrients.

And what type of snow cover and how much New Hampshire gets can have some immediate impacts on the local economy as ski areas rely on abundant powder to attract tourists.

“For me, losing snowpack is a big deal.

And it’s something that really upsets me when I think about the possibility of having a winter in the future without any snow,” Burakowski said.

She thinks in just 30 or 40 years we could experience the first snowless winter in the state.

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With the installation of new outdoor snow scale technology developed in New Hampshire, researchers will begin to track snowpack measured by water density in order to shed light on how climate change affects snowpack, and subsequently how snowpack affects ecosystems, agriculture and the state’s tourist economy.

country, such as out west in hundreds of SnoTel network monitoring sites.

He said the old devices can get torn into by animals or tree branches and cause antifreeze to leak, rendering the device useless and contaminating the environment.

In the meantime, he plans to install a second snow scale at UNH, near the first one, which will feature some upgrades that make installation easier and readings more accurate.

The two scales will deliver data that researchers will be able to compare.

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I grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I went to city schools there for most of my school years. I went to Boston University and got both my undergraduate degree and my master’s degree, both in political science. The emphasis of my master’s degree was on public policy. … I knew that I wanted to go to law school. …

I came back east to go to my first-choice law school, which was Northeastern. And after that, I came up to New Hampshire to work for the attorney general’s office. And I remember that my husband and I agonized over whether or not I should take the job because it required a three-year commitment. And now we’ve been here for over 30 years, so it’s kind of funny looking back on it.

What does the city solicitor do?

The city solicitor basically runs the law office for the City of Manchester. In Manchester’s case, we are self-insured, so that means we have a risk management program as part of our office, which takes care of all of the various civil claims that can be made against the city. We have some insurance for city-owned properties, but we are primarily self-insured as far as liability cases go. We, of course, provide legal advice to the board of mayor and aldermen and its members. We provide advice for all of the city departments.

We are also in charge of the misdemeanor prosecutions in the district divisions of the 9th Circuit circuit court here in Manchester.

So we have four full-time prosecutors. … We probably prosecute something in the neighborhood of 5,000 cases every year.

What are some of the reforms you’ve instituted in the office focused on domestic violence cases?

I think the publicity surrounding that situation and the various reports that followed have made it clear that the citizens of Manchester expect a gold standard system for assisting victims of domestic violence and their families and also prosecuting the perpeWHAT ARE YOU REALLY INTERESTED IN RIGHT NOW?

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What I’m really interested in now is how we can work, in the state of New Hampshire, to take the next step in dealing with the opioid crisis. … I’m very, very interested in what can be done to make sure the folks who are in recovery can get a place to live and a job.

trators of domestic violence. And that requires much more than going through a checklist [from the attorney general’s office] and meeting those deadlines. Of course, we are absolutely committed to meeting those deadlines and I think that we’ve met every single one of them, but I Photo by Ryan Lessard. think the real challenge is to exceed those requirements. … That has really involved a lot of people. In other words, everybody in this office has pitched in … in handling domestic violence prosecutions. We have increased our cooperation and communication with the Manchester Police Department. … We’ve also taken advantage of city resources available to us. ... We’ve also repeatedly sought the advice and assistance of our partners who are in the domestic violence service community. So we’ve worked with the Family Justice Center, the advocates at the YWCA, the Manchester Domestic Violence Council … the attorney general’s office.

The county attorney office has been very, very helpful and supportive. … This is sort of a continuing quality improvement effort. …

[I am] trying to implement systems that will create greater efficiencies so that prosecutors can spend more time prosecuting, advocates can spend more time with victims, and we’ve been working with the court to make sure the process goes as smoothly as possible. But there are challenges. We have a very, very high caseload. … Last year, we prosecuted 814 cases of domestic violence or stalking.

The average over the last several years has been 827 a year. … Having one prosecutor with that many cases is just not a model that’s sustainable over the long term.

What goals do you have for 2018?

I think the No. 1 goal is to make sure the victims of crime are provided the support and services that they need. … With the opening of the Family Justice Center, Manchester continues to make great strides toward helping victims of crime and especially victims of violence and domestic assault. … The second objective is to continue to look at systems and procedures which will create greater efficiencies … [to] make the work that we’re doing go faster so we can focus our attention on the difficult and problematic issues that arise, while continuing to provide excellent service on the more routine matters. — Ryan Lessard

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QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX

Holiday weather woes

During the Christmas weekend, snow and freezing rain caused hundreds of car accidents. On Friday, Dec. 22, after several inches of snowfall, the state saw 274 car accidents, the Concord Monitor reported. On Saturday, Dec. 23, from 4 a.m. to 4 p.m., there were 157 more car wrecks. Another issue that evening was the loss of electricity from storm-related outages. The Telegraph of Nashua reported just under 14,000 Eversource customers were without power by 6:30 p.m. on Saturday. Snow plowers were back to work on Christmas Day as several more inches fell, and New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day were marked by extremely frigid temps as highs were in the single digits and lows fell well below 0.

QOL Score: -2 Comment: In fact, much of the holiday vacation week featured weather extremes; record cold temperatures were recorded on Dec. 28, when the high was 5 degrees. That’s the lowest it’s been on that day since 1946, when the previous high temperature recorded was 14 degrees, the AP reported. It was also the coldest temperature ever recorded on that day at the Mount Washington Observatory. NHPR reported that around 5 a.m. it was -34 degrees outside the observatory, along with wind chills at -89 degrees and sustained winds over 100 miles per hour.

Population increase

New U.S. Census estimates released last week revealed that this year New Hampshire achieved its largest annual population gain in more than a decade, NHPR reported. The population grew by 7,800 between July 2016 and July 2017, which is a 60-percent increase from the previous year. Domestic migration accounted for nearly all of the growth.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: The number of people migrating in from other states was 4,700 higher than the number of people migrating out in the most recent year.

National recognition for NH ski resorts

Several Mt. Washington Valley ski areas made Top 10 lists in the 2017-18 Liftopia Best in Snow Awards, according to a press release from the Mt. Washington Valley Chamber of Commerce. Bretton Woods was the highest New Hampshire scorer with No. 1 rankings in the Top Beginner-Friendly in North America, Best Beginner-Friendly in the Northeast, and Best Snow Consistency and Quality in the Northeast categories. Black Mountain, Wildcat, Cranmore and King Pine ski areas were also recognized.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: The awards are based on feedback from thousands of skiers and snowboarders who were asked to consider factors such as snow consistency and quality, snow conditions, family-friendliness, challenging terrain and crowds.

QOL score: 50 Net change: 0 QOL this week: 50 What’s affecting your Quality of Life here in New Hampshire?

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SPORTS DAVE LONG’S LONGSHOTS

On- and off-field sports predictions for 2018 The bright prospects for the year ahead dawned as the clock struck midnight to ring in the new year. That means it’s time to, for better or worse, make predictions for what lies ahead in 2018.

The envelope, please.

The Red Sox: (1) David Price wins 22 games and the Cy Young. (2) Chris Sale has a tremendous first half, up and down second half. (3) The Mookster goes for .310, 110 runs, 53 doubles, 33 homers, 120-RBI season. (4) The Nation begins whining about Alex Cora on May 13 because he doesn’t suicide squeeze while up five in the eighth.

Fickle Fan News: (1) The Garden crowd does the right thing by giving little Isaiah a standing O his first time back. (2) Red Sox Nation miraculously now finds Price’s tweeting hilarious while harmonizing in the bleachers, “The heck with the Eck.” (3) WIth fans still peeved over getting their butts kicked by a 19-point underdog in the Revolutionary War, a “We hate those Patriots” chant breaks out at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding. Thinned-skinned WEEI types, like fill-in Jerry (knee pads) Thornton, think it means Coach B’s guys instead of George Washington’s and rant endlessly about jealous Brit haters.

Media News: (1) 12 years after he first relentlessly said Tom Brady will fall off the table this year, Max the Moron says on ESPN’s First Take, “No, this is the year Brady falls off the cliff.” (2) A deserving Doris Burke is named Sports Media Person of the year and the President tweets, “Just like with Time magazine, I turned it down first.”

(3) The sexual harassment stories at the NFL Network and ESPN are just the tip of the iceberg, which has big-time sports TV guys under their desks in the fetal position. If you want names, read ESPN: The Uncensored History to pick your pole position leader in the race to get bounced.

The Patriots: (1) Still unemployed Vic-

tor Cruz repeats, “The Patriots don’t want any part of us in the Super Bowl.” (2) They win SB 6 28-24 after the Vikings pass on the pass from the one to run with 10 seconds to go and no timeouts left. A run stuff later, Pete Carroll doesn’t seem as dumb as he once did.

(3) After the Patriots are the last NFL team to lose, the undefeated 1972 Dolphins gather to celebrate even though, thanks to CTE issues, sadly most can’t remember why they’re there.

The Celtics: (1) Gordon Hayward is back for the playoffs. (2) They lose the conference final to Cleveland Cavs in five good games, not kid stuff like 2017. (3) The L.A. lottery pick comes up No. 2, but Danny trades down to 4 for a 2019 lottery pick, then takes Euro star Luka Doncic. He trades both, along with three other picks in his stash and Al Horford for Anthony Davis.

Alumni News: (1) Jimmy Garoppolo throws 39 TD passes to Brady’s 29, which starts a “Why can’t we get guys like that” chorus. (2) Theo and Tito go back to the Series.

(3) IT is named Finals MVP right before the Brinks truck backs up.

Major Social Media Gaffe – non-Trump edition: If Jim Harbaugh cracks the code Michigan devised to keep his snarky comments silent I’d go him. Instead, it’s Golden State groin kicker Draymond Green to say what most offends while making absolutely no sense.

Major Social Media Gaffe – Trump edition: The President’s biggest sports tweet first dumps on the UConn “girls” basketball team after they complain they rate a White House invitation. After relenting under pressure, it’s thanks but no thanks. To get them back, he tweets the bird-dog scout who, ah, judges their talent in high schools all over the South was Roy Moore. Runner-up: “Screw the IOC for kicking Russia out of the Olympics, because like the election, they got nothing besides those 112 illegal things they did.”

The Chandler Jones Memorial Best Excuse for Stupid Behavior: Ezekiel Elliott saying he was just following the owner’s

advice to “not do anything Nate Newton, Eric Williams, Michael Irvin, Thomas Hollywood Henderson, Rafael Septien or Lance (no pants) Rentzel wouldn’t do.”

The Daniel Snyder Award for the most doofus sport owner of the year: With Jerry Jones out of it because you can’t win in consecutive years, Jim (the pharmacist) Irsay wins for cutting Andrew Luck over injury/ big contract concerns. Just like he did with club icon Peyton Manning over his neck injury right before he threw 37, 55 and 39 TD passes in Denver.

Total Nitwit Award: (1) LaVar Ball for saying Lonzo is better than LeBron on his reality TV show The Ball Takes Strange Bounces. (2) LaVar Ball when his younger sons are home from Lithuania by Christmas with no college eligibility or pro ball hopes.

(3) LaVar Ball when those $495 Big Baller sneaks show up in the $15 bargain bin at Marshall’s.

The Red Sox-Yankees Rivalry: (1) It warms up as Giancarlo Stanton is the best big-ticket Bronx import since Reggie Jackson by hitting 46 homers. An unimpressed Red Sox Nation says you should add “just” before 46. (2) A brawl breaks out after Sale drills Didi (not so) Gregarious with 5’8” 175-pound Mookie Betts battling 6’11” 412-pound Aaron Judge at home plate. (3) It goes to a full boil when smug Bryce Harper gets a 26-year free agent deal for roughly the GNP of Guatemala from N.Y. He immediately gives him the Nation’s Dean Wormer I Hate That Guy award.

College Sports: The sexual harassment story starts as the biggest off-field story but after there are no males left in sports TV, the NCAA basketball scandal involving agents, coaches and sneaker company executives takes center stage when one-time Larry Bird nemesis Chuck (the Rifleman) Person flips for leniency sending investigators into a bigger hornet’s nest than anticipated.

There’s more, but that’s all the space I have.

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Memorial dominates hoops The Big Story: It was a nice double dip for Memorial in the holiday basketball festivals. The undefeated girls took out rivals Wet and Central to get to the finals of the Central Girls Christmas Tournament. Then they won big in their match-up with Conant of Jaffrey 59-37. The boys got to the final with wins over Central and Trinity. In the final, after blowing all but one point of a 19-point thirdquarter lead, they made timely plays down the stretch to take the Queen City Invitational Basketball Tournament 69-67 over Exeter.

In hockey, Bedford won its third straight Monarchs Christmas Hockey Classic by stretching their MCHC winning streak to 12 with a 4-2 win over Hanover as goalie Connor Laurendeau was MVP. Sports 101: In the granddaddy of all bowl games, just two players have ever been MVP of the Rose Bowl game twice.

Name those players.

Knick of Tyme Award: Tie – Lyric Grumblatt for a final-second three that left Memorial singing happily over its 52-49 win over Central in the Central Girls Basketball Christmas Tournament, which sent them to a finals match-up with Conant, and Pinkerton’s Andrew Lufkin for his game-

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1 – win for the Trinity basketball team under new head coach Jim Migneault after a 77-62 win over West in Round 1 of the QCIBT behind 41 points from the trio of Athiei Bol (17), Wil Spencer (14) and Cam Longa (10).

3 – goals scored by Memorial’s Riky Beauparlant in an 8-4 opening-round Manchester Monarchs Christmas Classic win over Central/West.

winning lay-up in the closing minute to lift the Astros to a 62-61 win over Chelmsford, Mass., in the Lowell Catholic Christmas Tournament.

If You Ain’t Been Paying Attention Award: Richard Seeley and the firstplace Monarchs go into the new year with a healthy six-point lead in ECHL’s North Division over Wheeling. They also own an ECHL-leading 119 goals and goals scoredvs.-goals allowed differential of 37.

Sports 101 Answer: The two dual Rose Bowl winning MVPs are 1999 Heisman Trophy winner Ron Dayne (1999 and 2000) and Texas QB Vince Young (2005 and 2006).

On This Day – Jan. 4: 2000 – Moments before being introduced as the New York Jets’ new head coach, Bill Belichick resigns via a cryptic note saying, “I resign as HC of the NYJ’s.” A flabbergasted Jets President Steve Guttman is left literally speechless to a stunned media gathering. Thus, the course of NFL history is dramatically altered. After a legal battle Belichick joins the Patriots to begin building a five-time Super Bowl-winning dynasty while the NYJ’s haven’t been to the SB since 1969.

10 – goals scored by an overpowering Bedford in a 10-5 win over Central/West when Parker Roberto lit the light four times and Zach Bayer scored two more.

13 – three-point shots made by the Memorial boys to be the decisive statement in the Crusaders’ 78-68 win over Central in the QCIBT when Emmanuel Alsiandroi had a game-high 20 points and Michael Roum-

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raj chipped in with 18 more for Memorial.

20 – game-high points for Emily Frazier in Trinity’s 62-30 rout of West in the CGCT. 23 – points scored by Kyler Bosse to a 82-42 thumping of Manchester West in the consolation round of the QCIBT. 24 – game-high points from Aly Fillion as Bedford smoked Hanover, Mass., 73-34 in the Rockland) Invitational.

Chandler Jones: NFL sack leader now with the Arizona Cardinals, whose Patriots departure was attributed to (1) his being deemed most expendable of Dont’a Hightower, Jamie Collins and him while they were up for contracts at the same time and (2) the fact that his going disoriented to a police station allegedly high on synthetic marijuana (whatever that is) during the 2015 playoffs didn’t sit well with the brass.

Nate Newton: Rocket scientist All-Pro guard for a 1990s Dallas Cowboy team filled with a supremely talented pack of numbskulls, dirtbags and defiants. After that, po-lease in Louisiana and Dallas discovered 217 pounds of real pot in his van one day and 175 more five weeks later, ironically making the haul’s total 392-pound tonnage still under his, ah, high playing weight of 411. Expecting his book “A High Time in the Joint” any day now.

Lance (No Pants) Rentzel: Late 1960s Cowboys receiver married to Joey Heatherton and arrested for indecent exposure to a 10-year-old girl. Got a suspended sentence and counseling while Nate got 30 months in the big house. You tell me who did worse.

Reggie Jackson: In addition to chaos, acrimony and exhaustive tabloid fodder, Reggie delivered two titles in his first two Yankees seasons when he hit three homers to close out L.A. in the 1977 World Series and his eighth-inning two-run homer, not Bucky Dent’s wall-scraper, knocked in the winning runs in the famed playoff game of 1978 that got them to the ’78 series.

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73 tips to help you get a good

night’s sleep, have more relaxing days and look good and feel great in 2018 In this first part of the four-week Look Good, Feel Great series, we talked to nearly a dozen local professionals — including a sleep specialist, a financial expert, a social worker and a hairstylist — about how to make your life better in 2018, whether you’re hoping to save more money, get a fabulous new look or improve a relationship.

Remember, before making any significant change to your health (or financial or hair-care) routine, talk to your doctor (or other pertinent expert) to make sure it’s right for you.

6 questions for a… sleep specialist

Dr. George Neal, MD, of Bedford is a neurologist and the medical director of the New England Sleep Center at Catholic Medical Center.

What are some easy ways to help you fall asleep? ...Going to bed and getting up at the same times every day ... helps to Dr. George Neal. synchronize the brain’s biological clock for sleep.

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close to bedtime that are made to disrupt sleep, such as too much light exposure, too much exercise. The avoidance of alcohol and caffeine close to bedtime is recommended too.

It’s also suggested that avoiding activities that a person would normally partake in when they are awake, such as watching TV or reading in bed, is beneficial.

How do my exercise habits affect my sleep?

It’s best to avoid any sort of strenuous [activity] around four to six hours before bedtime and to exercise earlier in the day, if possible.

Does what/when I eat affect how well I will sleep?

The recommendations are … to avoid heavy eating before bedtime, especially spicy meals or fatty meals, as well as any stimulants like chocolate, coffee or tea.

What are the best ways to eliminate grinding your teeth when you sleep?

Grinding your teeth is also a common symptom in people with sleep apnea, but it can also occur in a number of conditions. There are dental appliances that can be applied by dentists like bite guards.

How do you deal with snoring?

About one-third of the population snores. It can be a common suggestive symptom of sleep apnea as well but does not necessarily mean people who snore have it. Managing snoring can include avoiding sleeping on the back, avoiding alcohol close to bedtime and weight reduction.

How do you prevent oversleeping?

Typically, if a person has trouble [with] sleeping through their alarm, it’s due to chronic sleep deprivation. Developing a sleep rhythm builds several weeks over time. In other words, how you sleep tonight has an impact not only on the following night but … in the subsequent two weeks. — Matt Ingersoll

Dr. Maria Boylan of New Boston is a doctor of osteopathic medicine at Elliot Family Medicine at Bedford Commons, a practice of the Elliot Physician Network, and specializes in family practice and prenatal care.

What’s the best way to get rid of a headache?

The most common type of headache is a tension headache caused from strains and spasms in the neck Dr. Maria Boylan. and shoulders. It ties a lot into stress and the things that we do every single day. So the best thing is to do some neck stretches and to pay attention to your shoulders as well. I think tea is also a great resource for headaches and neck pains, because it promotes blood flow to those areas. When you talk about preventive steps, yoga is really great too.

How can you maintain a healthy blood pressure?

The biggest things are to get enough sleep and to not have too much sodium in your diet, because that will really drive up your blood pressure. Total lack of exercise is also a big [cause of high blood pressure]. … Limit your alcohol intake to no more than two or three drinks a week. ... Making sure you see a doctor regularly can also help prevent your blood pressure from going up in the first place.

What are the best home remedies for a sore throat?

Sore throats are very common especially this time of year and are usually due to a viral infection. Keeping a humidifier in your bedroom at night will help add moisture to the air and keep your airways clear. But believe it or not, honey is the single best thing you can take for a sore throat. Hot water, tea, peppermint, and salt water gargles are also helpful, depending on what your preferences are.

What are the best ways to deal with the common cold?

There’s really no way to shorten a cold — you sort of need to let it run its course.

Over-the-counter medications don’t actually help shorten the cold; they just help with the symptoms. So it’s more important to make sure you’re getting enough rest, eating good, healthy foods and definitely avoiding alcohol and caffeine when you’re sick.

What are the best ways to deal with stress and anxiety?

Getting at least seven to eight hours of sleep a night, exercising regularly and just eating well really limit the things that are going to make the body feel bad, as well as limiting your sugar, caffeine and alcohol intake. As far as more natural things, essential oils like lavender are great to alleviate stress and anxiety. I also like to tell my patients that detaching from things like social media, cell phones or email and not to be consumed with technology are also helpful. — Matt Ingersoll

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meditation expert Debra LeClair of Manchester is a psychologist, life coach and meditation teacher.

Can you tell us what some of the different types of meditation techniques are out there and what makes them different?

Debra LeClair.

Mindfulness, actually it’s a way of being ... but also it’s a way of using just meditation to bring yourself into the present moment ... without judgment. A lot of what we’re looking at there is working through body sensation and later getting into just watching thoughts, as opposed to letting thoughts take us away, and that goes the same for feelings. Transcendental meditation is … you receive a mantra, and that’s a sanskrit phrase that you should be repeating over and over as a way of stabilizing the mind, in order to put yourself into a meditative state. There are other sorts of meditations that are really just basic, and a lot of these more known types have these as a foundation, but just noticing the breath, being connected to the breath.

When is it a good time to meditate?

Everyone’s a little bit different in that. … I would say the general recommendation is [to meditate] in the morning, usually right after you wake up because your mind is usually fresh … and it’s a good way to start the day, a good way to set the tone. … I personally find mid-day a nice time to kind of hit the reset button with a meditation, a short one.

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What are some of those thoughts and feelings that make it harder to meditate?

One is just being tired, being sleepy. … One will be that thought of doubt like ‘Hmm, am I doing this right? Am I really getting any benefit from this? Should I be putting my time into this?’ … Others are just restlessness, where you can’t stop fidgeting, you can’t stop moving around. … One thing we forget to do, in this culture, is yoga. The original intention of yoga is to prepare the body for meditation, meaning that you’d have things stretched out … where the body feels comfortable.

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Is giving your mind a break through meditation kind of a luxury these days?

I guess I would feel uncomfortable calling it a luxury. I think it’s an absolute necessity. I think, when we have so many more demands on our mind, in fact we have things that are absolutely designed to grab our attention here and there and everywhere, which sets us off to have very short attention spans and be kind of on the edge all the time. ‘Did they call? Did they text?’ Or ‘I gotta hurry up and answer that.’ When you’ve got all that going on … there’s probably even more need to have that stillness and that quieting of mind that’s creating stability in the mind, so that these things don’t actually impact you negatively, which we’re finding they do.

What sort of techniques are helpful for cutting through distractions?

What could be helpful there is to really notice your feet on the ground … to really get curious about it, get connected to it. Again, this puts you in the present moment, takes you out of the past and the future where you’re worrying. … If you can do that for a moment, it’s like hitting the reset button. … What’s helpful is a very practical thing, which is just earbuds or headphones and using an app and being able to just focus in on whatever the guided meditation is going to be.

Do you know of any specific apps that can be helpful?

Sure, my favorite, but it’s not cheap … is Headspace. ... I think there’s a 14-day free trial. … There definitely are free ones. … Calm is one in particular.

Is there a type of person who needs meditation the most?

Honestly, I think every human benefits from it, whether they’re already calm or not, because there’s so much more to meditation than just stress management. … You definitely increase your focus and your ability to tap into being able to creatively problem-solve or just be creative in general. — Ryan Lessard

7 questions for a... hair stylist

Amanda Skiff has been working at 5 Diamond Salon in Manchester for three years and is now a master stylist specializing in hair color, extensions and bridal hair.

How do you choose the right haircut?

Know your hair type and be realistic in your choice. If you have curly hair, sometimes it can be heavy, and it’s nice to Amanda Skiff. have a shorter cut. Thinner hair also looks better when it’s short because it looks fuller. If you have a lot of hair, you might want to try layers to debulk. You should only get bangs if you’re someone who wants to style their hair every morning. If you’re a person who wants to throw it in a ponytail and go to work, it’s not a good idea.

And the right color?

If you have grays, having some highlights around the face can brighten your face and help with blending the grays.

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Dear Kelly,

Yes, the umbilical cord usually falls off in the first few Yes, the umbilical cord usually falls off in the first few weeks of life and the belly button should be healed soon weeks of life and the belly button should be healed soon after. A small amount of crusty drainage around the belly after. A small amount of crusty drainage around the belly buttonbutton is most likelylikely something called anan “umbilical is most something called “umbilical granuloma.”

This is a pink, round piece of tissue granuloma.” This is a pink, round piece of tissuethat that you might see at the deepest part of the umbilicus, you might see at the deepest part of the umbilicus,or or belly button.

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usually based on a narrow stalk, and because there is

usually based on a narrow stalk, and because there is no sensation to this tissue, it is simple to snip it off, and no sensation to this tissue, it is simple to snip it off, and then treat the base. No anesthesia is necessary and it then treat the base. No anesthesia is necessary and it takescare careofofthe the problem right away. takes problem right away.

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Thanks for your question!

Thanks for your question!

-Dr. Soukup

-Dr. Soukup

Elizabeth S. Soukup, M.D., M.M.Sc.

Pediatric S. Surgeon Elizabeth Soukup, M.D., M.M.Sc.

Pediatric Surgeon Dr. Soukup is a Pediatric Surgeon at the Elliot Hospital and has an interest in educating families about pediatric health and wellness. Her mission is to provide expert specialty care for children of all ages in New

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Dr. Soukup earned her Bachelor of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her Doctor of Medicine fromher theBachelor Universityof ofScience Chicago from Pritzker Dr. Soukup earned theSchool of Medicine, where she received the Outstanding Achievement Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her Doctor of Award in Medicine, graduating first in her class. She Medicine from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of completed her General Surgery training at the Massachusetts Medicine, where she received the Outstanding Achievement General Hospital and her fellowship in Pediatric Surgery at Award Children’s in Medicine, graduating in her Hospital Boston. first During her class. time inShe Boston, she also completed her General Surgery training at the Massachusetts completed a Masters of Medical Sciences degree in clinical

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Nourish your scalp whenever you can.

Doing a coconut oil mask at home can be a good boost for your hair when you notice a dry scalp. There are also products that help with static and frizziness. If you’re able to put your hair under your hat in a loose bun on top of your head, that can help you not lose so much volume. When you take your hat off, just let it down and shake it out. It’s also good to bring a mini hair spray or dry shampoo with you to help bring your hair back to life.

What’s the best thing you can do to keep your hair healthy?

Vitamins. Taking biotin is really helpful if you throw that in with your everyday routine. You can get it at the drugstore.

Also, don’t overdo it with hot tools. If you flat iron your hair too much, you can make it look lifeless. If you’re picking a drastic change with your color, know that you want to stick with it instead of going back and forth with different colors, because that can damage your hair, too.

Is it true that it’s bad for your hair if you wash it every day?

It’s not the worst thing, and some people need to with their jobs or if they go to the gym, but every time you shampoo, you strip your sebum glands, which makes them produce oil, so the more you shampoo, the more oily it gets. If you can stretch it out between washes, your scalp will get used to it and not produce as much oil, and your hair will feel better. It puts a lot less wear and tear on your hair.

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What are some quick and easy hairstyles for when you’re running low on time?

Dry shampoo is always good.

You could also use a beachy texture spray, dampen your hair a bit and rough dry it to give it some loose waves. If you’re short on time, focus on styling it mostly in the front. Just blow dry the front and the sides and let the rest do what it wants, and you’ll at least have a polished look in the front.

What are the worst misconceptions people have when it comes to hair care?

It’s physically impossible to cut three layers in your hair; a lot of people ask for that. People also think they need to have dirty hair when they come in for an updo, but it’s better to come in with clean hair

and let us mess it up with as much product as we need. If you’re trying to grow your hair, don’t think just growing it without getting a trim will make it long. You have to get a trim, because the ends will get split ends and break off.

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6 questions for a... life coach

Tucker McCarthy started a life coaching business called Progression Forward in Milford this year, where he specializes in issues such as substance abuse, personal finance, relationships, career, mindfulness and spiritual well-being.

What are some of the best ways to reduce stress?

Some of the best things are maintaining regular exercise and keeping Tucker McCarthy. in good physical health.

I’ve also seen great benefits from regular meditation; as little as 10 minutes a day makes a difference and can reduce stress and anxiety. Try to live and focus on the moment instead of thinking about the past or the future and all the things you need to get to. It’s also important to make a conscious effort to regularly check out from social media and the internet and your phone and focus on yourself and your family.

How can you be more confident and outgoing in social situations?

Take a minute before you go into it to take some deep breaths and calm down, and understand that a lot of other people feel the same way that you do. Introduce yourself to people and ask them questions; people like to talk about themselves, and that will get the dialogue going. Then, maybe they’ll introduce you to the people they know. Force yourself to be uncomfortable and embrace it.

Any time you can walk through that fear, you’ll realize it wasn’t so bad, and you’ll feel more confident next time.

How can you fight off loneliness when you live or work alone?

Make it a point to have human interaction. Today, people rely too much on social media and technology to communicate, but it’s important to get out on nights and weekends and spend time with family and friends. If you’re new to the area and don’t have family close, sign up to volunteer for something, or go to a flea market — anything where there are other people.

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6 questions for a... personal trainer

Mary Wiseman is a certified personal trainer and the owner of FitWise Personal Training in Manchester.

What is the best way to get into personal training if you’ve never done it before?

For starters, you want to make sure your trainer has a certification, and it can Mary Wiseman. be just a matter of going in and interviewing the trainer instead of letting them interview you. Make sure your personalities match, that they answer all of your questions, and that there is just an overall sense of comfortability. That the trainer has a basic working knowledge to help you reach your goals is important.

What kinds of things should you look for in knowing a personal trainer is right for your needs?

Anybody can say they are a trainer and not necessarily have that knowledge, so it wouldn’t hurt to go in with a list of questions for them, and maybe ask for a few references.

What are some common misconceptions about working with a personal trainer?

What I still sometimes see is that people feel like training has to be extreme to be able to get anything out of it. But the whole ‘no pain, no gain’ aspect is totally false. You don’t have to hurt after a session for it to be effective.

What should you always do before a workout?

Everyone’s session is tailored toward the individual. The general guidelines are to make sure you are properly hydrated, that you’re wearing comfortable clothes to work out in, and maybe keeping a fitness log to keep track of your progress. Trainers should kind of outline what each session consists of to give you an idea. It could be somebody who’s younger who comes in because they want to put on some lean muscle and compete in a sport, or you could have someone who is 60 years old and is just looking to train to gain ... flexibility. So, it just depends.

Should there be a balance of cardio and weights? More cardio or more weights?

That differs for everybody. ... There is the person that belongs to a gym and just wants that guidance once a week, while they are doing other things on their own.

Then there are other people that want to get it all done while they are there, so it depends on what time and affordability people have.

How quickly can you see results from personal training sessions?

That varies too, so what I try to do is help them set realistic goals. If somebody is looking to lose weight or gain muscle strength for example, then no, it won’t happen right away. So I’ll lay out a timeline for them, what to expect and when to expect it as long as they put the time and effort in. I try to let my clients walk out after their first session with positive thoughts and to feel better after it mentally. — Matt Ingersoll

6 questions for a… dermatologist

Dr. David Posnick works at Nashua Dermatology Associates in Nashua.

What’s the best way to quickly handle a zit?

First of all, you shouldn’t pop it or play with it because it could lead to scarring.

If you have a big inflamed zit, or a 20

18 cyst we call it, you need to use a warm compress for a few minutes to a day because it brings it to a head. If you want to use over the counter prodDr. David Posnick. ucts, I recommend gels with benzoyl peroxide.

You apply that once a day, which should help dry it up.

How do you deal with poison ivy?

It’s an allergic contact dermatitis. Usually you can treat it with just topical steroids like over the counter hydrocortisone it’s mild. If it’s severe, you need to see a doctor and get a prescription strength steroid. For the itching, you can use calamine lotion or anything with menthol should work OK. Does drinking lots of water really help your skin?

Yes, it’s good to stay hydrated. You don’t want to over drink, despite what Tom Brady says. You want to stay hydrated, water is better than carbonated drinks of course. It doesn’t prevent sunburn as far as I know, you need sunscreen for that.

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The best way to prevent wrinkles is to wear sunscreen, SPF 30 or higher. Basically, wrinkles are caused by the UVA spectrum so you want a UVA and preferably a UVB sunblock. There are over the counter retinols found in some moisturizers. You can use prescription retinoids, which help to build collagen and prevent wrinkles. UVB causes skin cancer but UVA goes down deeper into the collagen and it breaks down the collagen and as you get older the ultraviolet light actually disrupts the collagen … Same thing with smoking, it eats away the collagen with the free radicals destroy the collagen in the skin.

How do you know if a mole is suspicious?

You want to look for anything that is asymmetric, has an irregular border, changing in color from darker to lighter, and diameter bigger than a pencil eraser. Size does matter with moles, especially if it growing. Anything that changes. If you have a mole your whole life and it just looks different or you wake up and you have mole that wasn’t there the day before, that’s when you want to approach a doctor about it.

What’s the most effective way to protect yourself from the sun?

Use sunscreen; you want to use an SPF 30 or greater. Make sure it has zinc oxide or titanium oxide because those are mineral sunblocks. There’s chemical sunscreen and there’s mineral sun block. The chemical sunscreen, some people are allergic to

them and there are different reports in the literature of them causing different problems. … The best sunscreen is clothing or a mineral sunblock with either zinc oxide or titanium oxide. — Ethan Hogan

5 questions for a... fashion expert

Lisa Rivera runs a small family-owned boutique in Manchester and Derry called Marilisa’s Fashion Inc., where she sells affordable clothing for women.

What’s one clothing item that can make anyone look good?

There’s peplum shirts that are flattering for anyone of any shape or body type. It’s a nice top that Lisa Rivera. can flatter the waistline along with sometimes hiding some areas that you don’t want showing. It can go with any outfit — it can go with jeans, it can go with pencil skirts.

How about fashionable winter footwear for men and women?

For women definitely boots. Anything that has little booties or little heels. Also, flats are very comfortable. I know in the fashion industry, Uggs have been very popular, especially during the snow time because they’re comfortable for workwear and bringing them out to the street, changing from your heels so you’re not always in heels. For men, boots as well. … Nowadays there are very comfortable boots that you can wear with anything. Timberlands are still in fashion and also North Face has very good fashionable winter boots that keep your feet warm and not wet.

Can fashionable be comfortable?

Yes. Fashionable can definitely be comfortable especially because this new generation has invented comfort — from leggings that are very thick and warm but also can be fashionable depending on the top that you wear to even jeans that are stretchy enough that they’re not so tight on you but feel good and also flatter your shape.

And for tops, there are cotton [options] that are back for the past couple of years that are nice and soft. Surprisingly, polyester has come a long way with different forms of fabric and how they create it, so they go from soft to the old-fashioned styles. But they are very comfortable and flattering for the body.

What’s going to be “in” in 2018?

The few things that we’ve actually seen in style for 2018 have been what they call crop trousers. They are like capri trousers but those are actually coming back with the

mini-checkered design for prints. We have seen that pencil skirts are still trending very high for the new season for women. Trench coats as well are trending pretty high.

How often should people update their wardrobe?

For our area we are kind of forced to update our wardrobe every season between layer up and layer down, having the right jackets, having the right tops to be in to the season. But I normally only update my wardrobe once a year and I try to donate. ... That way you are still staying with the trends but also keeping it fresh and your closet isn’t overly stuffed.

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9 questions for a… social worker

James J. Foster is a licensed independent clinical social worker at James J. Foster & Associates in Manchester.

How can post-college millennials and parent live amicably together?

By understanding each other. Something happened which was pretty dramatic in our social hisJames J. Foster. tory and the dividing line is 1982. Anybody born in 1982 or after was born into the computer era, so computers are their first language. Anybody born before 1982 has had to learn computers as a second language. … If they don’t expect each to be like the other, if they understand that there is a difference between them, they both have a value. For instance, if you have a company set up, you really need both because you need the rapid working style of a millennial but you also need the depth of understanding [of the older generation] to know what direction to move in.

They make a nice marriage.

What’s the best way to reach out to a loved one who you haven’t spoken to in a long time?

Well, part of that has to do with why you haven’t spoken to them in a long time. If it was accidental or just not possible then it shouldn’t be a problem to just make contact. If there has been some ill feeling I think the best approach is to contact them and ask them if they’d like to speak before beginning to talk with them.

What is a healthy and fun way to connect as a family?

Primarily through activities. When people engage in activities it’s important that every member of the family be able to relate to the activity. ... If the activities are a blending of intellectual and physical contact, I think they would be most enjoyable.

How can you stay connected with your siblings as you grow up?

The best way is to maintain contact throughout the year and not just on holidays.

What is one common mistake people make while in a committed relationship?

I think they tend to easily take the other person for granted. And you begin to presume that you know what they think and they feel. It’s much healthier to maintain a continued curiosity.

What are some easy steps to have better communication with your partner?

The key is really to listen. When people talk they frequently focus on wanting to be heard but better communication is achieved through developing listening skills, not talking skills. Men and women talk differently and they have a different language, they have a different way of thinking and approaching problem-solving and the understanding of problems.

The more they can appreciate each other’s differences, the more they will be able to communicate amicably.

What are ways to let your partner know you love them without simply saying it?

Being considerate, respecting their limits and their boundaries. Never asking them to do something that they would be uncomfortable with. Again, men and women have different ways of doing [things]. Men typically focus on tasks and activities. Women are more likely to attend directly to the relationship; they’ll avoid bringing up subjects that are touchy subjects. They’ll do things to please the partner directly. They will focus more on the immediate interaction between themselves and their partner.

It is ever healthy to change something about yourself for your partner?

Only if it’s also good for you. People are always trying to find out what would please the partner but in order to be able to make an authentic change that fits, it has to be for the changer, not for the other person.

If, for instance, your partner wants you to stop smoking cigarettes, that’s not a bad idea, but it should be done only when you are ready to do it for yourself and it’s an additional benefit that pleases your partner.

But it shouldn’t be done for the partner.

What are some healthy ways to handle a breakup?

Work on accepting what the other person is saying. Try to gain an understanding as to why the relationship can’t go on. It’s hard, but it’s to try not thinking of the ex partner in a romantic way. And if you continue to relate to them, relate to them as a co-parent or as a friend or even as an acquaintance.

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Typically, the first place we would have them go is to their 401(k)s or 403(b) s at work ... because the Jeff Parsons. money comes out before it gets to their pocket and it’s kind of a forced way to save. … If they don’t have a job that has it, then it’s just a matter of discipline more than anything. Have a certain amount of money taken out [of each paycheck] … and put it in savings plans until you reach a point when you have an investable amount, let’s say $5,000.

And then you would put into some kind of an investment. Either an IRA, Roth IRA or something like that. … You obviously want to have different savings pots, if you will: a short-term savings goal, an intermediate savings goal and a long-term savings goal.

The long-term is obviously retirement. The intermediate term would be a save-to-spend account, let’s say for a home or something. And then, the shortterm saving would just really be a bank account that’s designed to be very liquid and easy to get to. … The first thing people should do is their own budget and find out what they can afford to save.

If costs seem to be too high and income is too low, what would you say is the first step to achieving a balanced budget?

It starts with what is necessary. What do we really have to pay, there’s no getting out of it? And that would include things like rent, a car payment and things like that. And once you have all of your fixed costs that you know you have to pay, then you have what’s called discretionary costs. People would say that their phone would be under their fixed costs, but phones are actually discretionary. I mean, we could always downsize on a phone. … Discretionary would also include anything that you do on the weekends. ... So when you do your budget and you have too-high fixed costs, you do have an issue — you have to figure out how to live. But it really comes down to budgeting, at the end of the day. … And not a lot of people do that anymore.

Let’s say someone did all the steps you recommend; they create a budget and cut out discretionary spending. What do they do if they’re still not balanced?

Well, something would have to give.

You need to find a different career that makes you more money if you’re choosing to live that lifestyle or, on the other hand, you could curb your lifestyle. Find cheaper rents ... get a roommate, which is a popular thing to do if you’re trying to save money, try to share expenses with someone else until you can get to the point where you can afford to pay your own way. But really, it’s dollars and cents.

The money comes in and it goes out. …

Basically, just taking a really hard look at yourself and your budget and saying, ‘How can we do it from here?’

When should someone start to think about retirement?

[When you start] job No. 1. … Both my daughters, their first job, I said ‘Look, you’re basically gonna earn 90 percent of what they tell you because your first 10 percent is gonna go into a Roth IRA.’ And they both have done that. And I tell that to all my clients. You really have to start saving when you’re young. The longer you wait, the higher the percentage of your income you have to save. But for the young kids, I use 10 percent as a rule of thumb. As you get into your 30s, it’s 15 to 20 percent.

What are the best ways to set aside money for retirement these days?

I prefer a Roth for the younger people, and that’s an after-tax contribution with tax-free money later. And if I had my druthers, I would have them do it through work, because anything that is payroll deducted gets done. You’re not waiting until the end of the month and saving what’s left over. You’re basically paying yourself first. But I would exhaust the Roth option first. And then you have more latitude in a 401(k). In other words, a Roth 401(k) has much higher limits than an ordinary Roth would. So if you have those options at work, the 401(k) would allow you do up to $18,000 a year into a Roth or a traditional 401(k), or a combination of the two.

What’s something people often overlook when it comes to managing their money?

Proper asset allocation, meaning where the money goes. A lot of people put all their eggs in one basket; they’re not properly diversified. In other words, maybe they’re too aggressive when it comes to investments, or they’re not aggressive enough.

— Ryan Lessard

social media expert Chris Halvorson is the owner of Halvorson New Media based in Peterborough.

What are some of the biggest no-no’s for social media posts?

For personal usage, one of the best things I ever heard was don’t put anything on there you wouldn’t Chris Halvorson. want your mother to see. … We’ve all probably heard the examples these days of somebody posting a picture of themselves at a party and they’re drinking … underage or posting something stupid you may have done that you don’t want a future employer to hear about.

We all hear about how social media can cause issues with getting a job. Can social media ever be helpful for getting a job?

I absolutely think so. There’s that whole concept about personal branding. … You can, if you are let’s say a high school student or college student, start posting things about your extracurricular activities, your volunteer activities and ultimately, if that future employer gets permission to look at your feed before hiring you, that stuff can work in your favor, I think. I see plenty of people posting positive things like that; what they’ve done in the community, what they’ve done with their church, gathering food for the local food pantry. That’s all good. I also have been known to stop everybody, strangers on the street, and say, ‘Get yourself a LinkedIn [account].’ Because if you’re on LinkedIn and you have a good background and want to be discovered, that’s a great place to be and a great place to make it easy for future employers to find you.

What are some of the best ways to avoid falling for or reposting fake news that is circulated on social media?

That’s such an interesting conversation to watch happen … about this fake news. I hope that the high schools of America are certainly teaching students how to recognize fake news.

For me, it’s sort of intuitive … because I’ve been with the web since it was invented, literally. … I would say, don’t believe something unless you’ve seen it in a couple of different places and it’s verified. … Is it the New York Times or something of a mystery publication or a mystery media that you’ve never heard of before? That’s your first clue.

It’s a common refrain that we should avoid topics like politics and religion at the dinner table. Are some topics on social media best left untouched as well?

Well, I’m going to answer like a lawyer: It depends. I think there was a time when

using your personal Facebook page wasn’t the place to talk about politics, but at this moment it feels like the place to talk about politics. It’s the way we find those people who share our sentiments, or it’s the way we find those people to stay away from. Whether that’s good for our society or not, I think the jury is still out.

Are there any risks, especially among young people, of too much social media use having negative effects on real-life social interactions?

I think the data shows that there is an effect happening but I wouldn’t limit it to young people. I think we’re all being affected by ... constantly watching social media.

You’ve heard of the phenomenon of the fear of missing out. I feel that myself. And, for the record, I’m 59 years old. But I feel a little weird when I’ve gone a few minutes without looking at Facebook. Now, it is also my job. … I don’t know that [we’re] necessarily going to lose our ability to communicate or interact with people in person. I think the jury is still out on that.

If you own a small business and you use social media to promote or run your business, what are some ways to improve engagement?

These days, it’s all about video. The world expects video and we resonate with video.

We’ve been trained up thanks to YouTube to expect moving pictures on our internet and if you’re not doing that as a small business, I think you’re missing out. Facebook’s algorithm keeps changing and it gets harder and harder for businesses to use it in a way that gets them organic engagement. So they have to think about all the things that they can do to increase that, including paid advertising.

But video is the No.1 way to improve that at this moment. And consistent posting. Don’t put up the Facebook page and let it lie fallow for anything more than two days at a time.

As far as videos are concerned, are there specific things they should do to make videos with the desired effect?

What I often advise my clients, who have no money to start with, basically, [is] you don’t have to be Steven Spielberg. It can be short, on the fly, as long as it’s something that your customers or your potential customers need to know or want to know or will be entertained by, that’s just going to help you. That’s good branding. … Do not put up long videos.

Nobody will sit still for that. … If your target market is the younger age groups, you’ve got to be on Instagram and Snapchat these days.

But what I tell every small business owner that talks to me is you must, must be on Facebook. … Every age group is using it now and it’s a giant amongst social media, and that’s not going away anytime soon.

— Ryan Lessard

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EVENTS TO CHECK OUT JANUARY 4 - 10, 2018, AND BEYOND EAT: Foods with cajun flair Madear’s Manchester (175 Hanover St., Manchester) is hosting a Bourbon Night in Cajun Country on Monday, Jan. 8, at 6 p.m. The five-course meal is paired with five bourbons and guests have the opportunity to learn more about bourbon with a Cajun flair. Cost $65. Visit madears603.com or call 206-5827.

Sunday, Jan. 7

The first race of five for the Freeze Your Buns Off series will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. at 5 Stadium Drive, Nashua.

Points are tracked for each race and awards are given out at the end of the season. The course is 3.1 miles and flat with a double loop through relatively traffic-free, usually plowed conditions. $5. Visit facebook.com/fyb5k or call 557-1366.

Saturday, Jan. 6

Create your own custom ceramic tiles with the League of NH Craftsmen (98 Main St., Nashua) from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Using alcohol ink dyes, the class will manipulate the isopropyl-based inks with other liquid media to produce unpredictable results. Cost $35 plus $10 for materials.

Visit nashua.nhcrafts.org or call 595-8233.

The Manchester Vintage Market will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m at the Falls Event Center (21 Front St., Manchester). The vintage market will feature repurposed items, collectibles, ephemera, books, photography pieces, furnishings, textiles, memorabilia, unusuals and more.

Visit flamingoeventz.com or call 509-2639.

Sunday, Jan. 7

The British Beer Co. (1071 S. Willow St., Manchester) hosts Joel Cage from 1 to 4 p.m. Cage’s acoustic guitar performances are said to surprise audiences with style and finesse. Visit joelcage.com or call 232-0677.

Play glow-in-the-dark dodgeball or volleyball at Saint Marie’s gymnasium (378 Notre Dame Avenue, Manchester) at 6:30 p.m. The social event is intended to be fun. Teams will be put in seperate starting heats and referees will monitor the games. Eight-person teams with one sub will be accepted or assigned. $10 per person. Visit facebook.com/NHSocialSports to sign up.

BE MERRY: with comedy Join Tupelo Music Hall (10 A St., Derry) for its Night of Comedy on Friday, Jan. 5, from 8 to 10 p.m. The evening of jokes features stand-up comedians Steve Bjork, Chris Pennie and Kyle Crawford. Tickets $18. Visit tupelohall.com or call 437-5100.

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ARTS Brushing up

Paint party and art studio opens in Concord

By Angie Sykeny

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For Concord artist Annie Bell, letting go of inhibitions and getting messy is an essential part of the artistic process — which is why her paint party service, Wildflower Studio, gives people a place to create without judgment and without the clean-up.

“They don’t have to be an artist, and they don’t have to put pressure on themselves.

It’s not about being a Monet or becoming a professional,” Bell said. “It’s about having fun and seeing that, with some guidance, you can create something beautiful, and what you create will always be a reminder of the great time you had with your friends.”

Wildflower Studio has operated solely as a mobile business, hosting parties at private residences and at community venues willing to lend their space, but on Jan. 7, it will open its doors at a new permanent studio home located on North State Street in Concord.

The studio has a smaller space that accommodates eight to 10 people and a larger space that accommodates about 20 people.

In addition to private paint parties, WildWildflower Studio grand opening When: Sunday, Jan. 7, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Where: Wildflower Studio, 200 N. State St., Concord Cost: Free More info: mywildflowerstudio.org, facebook.com/mywildflowerstudio, 661-5125

The new Wildflower Studio space in Concord. Courtesy photo.

flower Studio will expand its offerings at the studio to include public paint parties and other painting events, mommy-and-me classes, private and group lessons, various craft workshops and more. There will also be a regular art club for kids under age 10 on Saturday mornings, and for kids and teens age 10 and up on Saturday afternoons. The younger group will participate in activities like painting with unconventional tools like kitchen utensils, toys and their hands; making goop and slime; and making toys from recycled materials; while the older group will learn art techniques and create in a variety of media, such as acrylic paints, watercolor, drawing, clay, papier-mâché,

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duct tape, art journaling and more.

Bell has been doing art all her life, but her true passion, she said, is teaching it. Prior to opening Wildflower Studio, she taught art at a local school and to kids enrolled in her home daycare service. She didn’t try teaching art to adults, however, until three years ago when she hosted her first paint party for a group of friends. Having never attended a paint party herself, Bell figured it couldn’t be much different from leading a kids’ art class.

“I didn’t know how other people did [paint nights] so I just did my own thing and tweaked my lesson plan to present the techniques in a way that [adults] could easily understand and implement,” she said. “It

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was a lot of trial and error.”

The business “grew organically,” Bell said, mostly through word of mouth; friends of friends started requesting private paint parties, then churches and schools started asking her to do paint party fundraisers.

“It was always in the back of my mind to turn it into a business. I just didn’t have the confidence at first to think I could really do this as a career,” she said, “but it got to a point where I was scheduling [paint parties] out months at a time, and the more I did them, the more I fell in love with it and thought, ‘I really want to do this, and I want to do more.’

Paint parties run about two hours for adults and one hour for kids. Bell guides participants through a three-step composition process to paint a scene based on a decided theme, like a beach or a forest.

First, they paint the background, then the main structure or focal point, and lastly, the details. Bell keeps the instructions basic to give participants the freedom to add their own flair.

“Everyone uses different kinds of brush strokes and different colors,” Bell said. “I like there to be a lot of variables like that so people can make their own decisions and find their own creativity and give their painting their own look. At the end of the class, everyone has a different-looking painting.”

At the Wildflower Studio grand opening celebration, people will have a chance to explore the new space and enjoy refreshments and free arts and crafts activities for kids and adults. Sign-ups for classes will be available through the studio’s website.

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Art Events • “AMERICA’S FIRST ART FAMILY: THE WYETHS” First Friday of the Month Art Talk with Beaman Cole. Fri., Jan. 5, 6:30 p.m. Creative Ventures , 411 Nashua St. , Milford.

Call 672-2500.

• MARK DION Artist visits.

Tues., Jan. 9, 7 to 9 p.m. NHIA, 148 Concord St. , Manchester.

Email gradprograms@nhia.edu.

• MFA WINTER THESIS EXHIBITION Features thesis work from students in Photography and Visual Arts. Sat., Jan. 13, 5 to 7 p.m. NHIA, 77 Amherst St. , Manchester. Call 623-0313.

Fairs • 5TH ANNUAL CUP SHOW & SALE A curated collection of functional and beautiful cups and mugs made by more than 20 artists will be on display and for sale, priced between $25 and $65. Nov. 9 through Jan. 6. Studio 550 Art Center, 550 Elm St., Manchester. Visit 550arts.com or call 232-5597.

In the Galleries • “THE PARIS OF TOULOUSE-LAUTREC: PRINTS AND POSTERS FROM THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART” Exhibit contains more than 100 posters, prints and illustrated books by Henri de

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Toulouse-Lautrec. On view through Jan. 7. Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester.

Museum admission fees plus a $5 special exhibition fee apply.

Visit currier.org or call 6696144.

• “A WELCOME DIVERSION” The exhibit shows how artists find refuge in a chaotic world and allows viewers to immerse themselves in artistic escapism. It features work by more than 70 artists, including tranquil landscapes, urban scapes, sea collages and more.

On view Oct. 30 through Jan. 12. Art 3 Gallery, 44 W. Brook St. , Manchester. Visit art3gallery.com.

• “ART: SALON-STYLE” New Hampshire Antique Co-op presents exhibit that showcases original paintings from the 1800s to the present, hung in the style of traditional 19thcentury French salon exhibitions. There will be more than 50 oil paintings and watercolors in a variety of styles including landscape, impressionist, abstract and realist. Sketches

by Leon Kroll and Lucy Hariot Booth, a large impressionist beach scene by Stefanos Sideris, still life works by Frederick Rhodes Sisson, and works by notable local area artists such as David Dodge, Christopher Myott, Peter Sandback, Steve

Previte and Daryl Johnson will be featured. Art will range from $30 to $995. On view Nov. 24 through Jan. 30. Tower Gallery, 323 Elm St., Milford. Visit nhantiquecoop.com.

• “SMALL KINGDOMS” Exhibition features three accomplished 3D artists who have created unique artwork in their quest for self-expression. Don Williams’ wall pieces and sculptures play with the intersection of architecture and landscape, where clay is often combined with found objects. Jamie Johnston’s wall pieces are inspired by his years of furniture design and construction and focus on the visual relationship between sur-

face and edge and the contrast between strong color and the natural grain of specialty woods.

Boyan Moskov’s ceramic work is simple and elegant with clean lines. On view through Jan. 14.

The Kelley Stelling Contemporary art gallery, 221 Hanover St., Manchester. Visit kelleystellingcontemporary.com or call 345-1779.

• “SAWDUST” Features works by local artist Sam Trioli. On view through Jan. 31. Carnegie Gallery, Rochester Public Library, 65 S. Main St. , Rochester. Visit rochestermfa.org.

• “FROM THE MANY ONE” Exhibit will include a single work from each of

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On view through January. The Franklin Gallery at RiverStones Custom Framing, 33 N. Main St. , Rochester. Call 812-1488.

• “BOTANICAL TRANSMUTATIONS: SELECTIONS FROM THE FORM AND SPACE SERIES” Exhibition featuring the work of Nathan Sullivan. On view Jan. 5 through Feb. 3. 3S Artspace, 319 Vaughan St., Portsmouth. Visit 3sarts.org.

• “FEED THE SOUL” NHAA members submit works in all media about what feeds their souls: peaceful scenery, a spiritual image or something that just makes them feel good, like reading. On view Jan. 10 through Jan. 21. NHAA’s Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, 136 State St., Portsmouth. Visit nhartassociation.org.

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day at 11:30 a.m. Admission costs $15 for adults, $13 for seniors, $10 for students and $5 for youth, plus an additional $5 special exhibition fee. Visit currier.org or call 669-6144.

• Art’s in the family: Creative Ventures Gallery (411 Nashua St., Milford) will continue its monthly First Friday Art Talk series with a lecture, “America’s First Art Family: the Wyeths,” on Friday, Jan. 5, at 6:30 p.m. Master painter Beaman Cole will explore three generations of the Wyeth family: N.C. Wyeth, the illustrator who began the family’s artistic tradition; his son Andrew Wyeth, a painter and the most well-known Wyeth; and Andrew’s son Jamie Wyeth, a contemporary artist who followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. Light refreshments will be served. Visit creativeventuresfineart.com or call 672-2500. — Angie Sykeny

Open calls • “SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED ... I’M YOURS” A show of envelopes embellished by artists, students, hobbyists, scrapbookers and more with paint, collage, drawings, calligraphy, etc. All envelopes can be purchased and mailed and should be priced between $2-12 each. Members of the community and people of all backgrounds and ages are encouraged to apply. Doodles, sketches, as well as fully thought-out artworks are welcome. All submissions will be accepted as long as the work has appropriate subject matter and displays good craftsmanship. Makers may submit as many envelopes as they would like. Deadline is Jan. 26 by 9 p.m. Studio 550 , 550 Elm St., Manchester. Visit 550arts.com.

Openings • “FROM THE MANY ONE” RECEPTION Exhibit will include a single work from each of more than 20 Seacoast artists. Thurs., Jan. 4, 5 to 6:30 p.m. The Franklin Gallery at RiverStones Custom Framing, 33 N. Main St., Rochester. Call 812-1488.

• “BOTANICAL TRANSMUTATIONS: SELECTIONS FROM THE FORM AND SPACE SERIES” RECEPTION Exhibition featuring the work of Nathan Sullivan. Fri., Jan. 5, 5 to 8 p.m. 3S Artspace, 319 Vaughan St., Portsmouth.

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His work has been featured in exhibitions at the Miami Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the British Museum of Natural History, The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and other galleries. The event is free and open to the public. Visit nhia.edu or call 623-0313.

• Last call for Toulouse-Lautrec: See the Currier Museum of Art’s (150 Ash St., Manchester, currier.org) special exhibition “The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec: Prints and Posters from the Museum of Modern Art” before it closes on Sunday, Jan. 7. It contains more than 100 posters, prints and illustrated books by Henri de ToulouseLautrec, celebrating the beauty and intrigue of Paris. The art is drawn from the Toulouse-Lautrec collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Gallery hours are Sunday, Monday and Wednesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. A final guided focus tour of the exhibition will take place on Sun-

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Original musical portrays Georgia O’Keeffe in Hawaii

By Angie Sykeny

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Despite her being one of the most iconic American artists of the 20th century, much of Georgia O’Keeffe’s life remains a mystery.

The Alchemists’ Workshop, a theater company based in Henniker, is offering a glimpse at one of the few documented periods of O’Keeffe’s life with its touring musical, Georgia O’Keeffe Paints Paradise, which makes its next stop at the Manchester City Library on Saturday, Jan. 6. The musical is based on the 2011 book Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hawai’i. The book was co-authored by Patricia Jennings, who, as the 12-year-old daughter of a pineapple planter, served as O’Keeffe’s guide for 10 days during O’Keeffe’s nine-week stay in Hawaii in 1938 to produce paintings for a Dole Pineapple Co. national advertising campaign. The two developed an unlikely friendship and corresponded through letters for many years.

Georgia O’Keeffe Paints Paradise When: Saturday, Jan. 6, 1 p.m.

Where: Manchester City Library, 405 Pine St., Manchester Cost: Donations accepted More info: alchemistsworkshop.org Other performances: Saturday, Jan. 6, 7 p.m., at Keene Public Library, 60 Winter St., Keene Sunday, Jan. 7, 3 p.m., at Holy Cross Episcopal Church Event Center, 118 Center Road, Weare

disorders. Sat., Jan. 13, noon to 3 p.m. NHAA’s Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, 136 State St., Portsmouth. Visit nhartassociation.org.

• “FEED THE SOUL” RECEPTION NHAA members submit works in all media about what feeds their souls – peaceful scenery, a spiritual image or something that just makes them feel good, like reading. Sat., Jan. 13, noon to 3 p.m. NHAA’s Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, 136 State St., Portsmouth. Visit nhartassociation.org.

• “ART & BLOOM” RECEPTION The Concord Garden Club and League of New Hampshire Craftsmen present an exhibition featuring floral arrangements inspired by an imaginative craft piece on display during the Craftsmen Gallery’s winter

“It was the perfect subject for a playwright to work with because there isn’t any other record of this time in Georgia’s life,” said The Alchemists’ Workshop founder and artistic director Tom Dunn, who wrote the musical with composer Will Ogmundson. “The mystery allowed us more freedom. We could take what was in these letters and build our own story around them.”

Georgia O’Keeffe Paints Paradise stars just two actors: 12-year-old Rose Kosciuszek as Patricia Jennings, and Mary Armstrong as O’Keeffe. The story of Jennings’ and O’Keeffe’s time together is told through music, thought-provoking dialogue and scene projections, which include around a dozen photographs of real locations in Hawaii that the two visited, followed by O’Keeffe’s paintings of those locations, which are used with permission from O’Keeffe’s estate.

“The projected scenery is a lovely visual to have happening behind the actors,” Dunn said. “It’s a subtle way of giving the audience a chance to get inside the painter’s head.”

The songs are performed with musical accompaniment played on a sophisticated electric keyboard, featuring the stylings of various instruments.

A musical was the best format in which to tell this story, Dunn said, because of the way music conveys emotion.

“Music makes it easier to get the message across about how Georgia sees things and what’s going on for her emotionally and artistically,” he said. “In this case, music expresses more than just a monologue or a dialogue.”

exhibition. Thurs., Jan. 18, 5:30 p.m. League of New Hampshire Craftsmen, 40 S. Main St., Concord. Visit facebook.com/concordgardenclubnh or nhcrafts. org.

• “FAST FORWARD” RECEPTION Exhibition features works by five female artists: Jessica Brilli, Carol McMahon, Lisa Noonis, Alison Palizzolo and Cindy Rizza. Thurs., Feb. 22, 5:30 to 7 p.m. The Kelley Stelling Contemporary art gallery, 221 Hanover St., Manchester.

Visit kelleystellingcontemporary. com or call 345-1779.

Workshops/classes/ demonstrations • ALCOHOL INK TILES Create your own custom ceramic tiles with alcohol ink dyes, which have an isopropyl (rub-

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bing) alcohol base and can be manipulated in fascinating and unpredictable ways when mixed with other liquid mediums and applied to a non-porous surface.

Take home four tiles. No experience is necessary. For ages 12 and up. Sat., Jan. 6, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. League of New Hampshire Craftsmen Nashua Gallery, 98 Main St., Nashua. $35 tuition, plus a $10 materials fee. Visit nhcrafts.org or call 595-8233.

• OP ART DEMO With Seacoast Artist Association artist Lisa McManus. Sun., Jan. 14, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. SAA Gallery , 130 Water St., Exeter. Visit seacoastartist.org.

• ALL KINDS OF DECORATED PAPER Unleash the creative potential of monoprinting using Gelli plates, stamps and more.

Create unique decorated papers

The Alchemists’ Workshop presents Georgia O’Keeffe Paints Paradise. Courtesy photo.

Armstrong said she did copious amounts of research about O’Keeffe to help her develop O’Keeffe’s character in a historically accurate way.

“Sometimes Georgia is presented to the public as being very serious, but the truth is, she loved to laugh and was enthralled by nature and Hawaii,” she said. “That’s what I try to bring out when I’m playing her character. I try to channel the power of her soul.”

Georgia O’Keeffe Paints Paradise opened in New Hampshire in October of 2016 and has since been performed 22 times

for mixed media projects and explore techniques on a variety of papers using layers of paint, stamps and masks. Fri., Jan. 20, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. League of New Hampshire Craftsmen Nashua Gallery, 98 Main St., Nashua. $35 tuition, plus a $25 materials fee. Visit nhcrafts.org or call 595-8233.

Theater Auditions/open calls • 8 BY EIGHT AUDITIONS Seeking one woman age 25 to 35 and three men age 25 to 55 for roles in a collection of comedy sketches. Sat., Jan. 6, 2 to 4 p.m. Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road, Concord. Call 715-2315.

• SISTER ACT AUDITIONS An Actorsingers production.

Actors must be at least 16 years

at libraries, schools, senior centers and theater spaces in 20 different communities.

Last August, it had a three-show run at the Jewel Box Theatre in New York City and won several Midtown International Theater Festival Off-Off-Broadway awards, including Best Supporting Actress for Kosciuszek and Best Lyricist for Ogmundson.

“That was a big deal for us, a little theater company out of Henniker,” Dunn said. “We thought the New York audience would be more critical, but it was actually the opposite. Everyone who sees it loves it and wants us to keep doing it.”

old by opening night, May 11.

Sun., Jan. 7, 6 to 10 p.m., and Mon., Jan. 8, 7 to 10 p.m. 219 Lake St., Nashua. Visit actorsingers.org or call 889-9691.

• THREE MUSKETEERS AUDITIONS A Nashua Theatre Guild production. Fri., Jan. 12, 7 to 9 p.m.; and Sat., Jan. 13, and Sun., Jan. 14, 1 to 4 p.m. Adult Day Care of Nashua, 460 Amherst St., Nashua. Email amymackay2@gmail.com.

• IN THE HEIGHTS AUDITIONS A Seacoast Repertory Theatre production. Fri., Jan. 12, 6 to 11 p.m. RepNorth Studios, 1 Raynes Ave., Portsmouth. Call 433-4472.

Productions • GRANITE STATE PLAYWRIGHTS WORKSHOP A performance featuring staged

readings of two new plays. Fri., Jan. 5, and Sat., Jan. 6, 7:30 p.m., and Sun., Jan. 7, 2 p.m.

Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road, Concord. $17 for adults and $14 for students and seniors.

Visit hatboxnh.com.

• TRU A one-man play adapted from the words and works of Truman Capote. Thurs., Jan. 11, through Sat., Jan. 13, 9:30 p.m.

Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road, Concord. $17 for adults, $14 for students and seniors.

Call 715-2315.

• CHICAGO STEPs Company presents. Thurs., Jan. 11, through Sat., Jan. 13, 7 p.m.

Derry Opera House , 29 W. Broadway , Derry. $12 to $15.

Visit stepsnh.org.

• THE ODD COUPLE FEMALE VERSION A New Hampshire Theatre Project pro-

ARTS

Notes from the theater scene

• A Broadway classic: The Specialized Theater Enrichment Program (STEPs) young performers company presents Chicago at the Derry Opera House (29 W. Broadway, Derry) Thursday, Jan. 11, through Saturday, Jan. 13, at 7 p.m. each day. The production is based on the 1926 play by Maurine Dallas Watkins and the script adaptation by David Thompson, with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. It’s a satire inspired by two unrelated court cases Watkins covered for the Chicago Tribune in 1924 that involved two women who were tried and acquitted for murder.

Tickets cost $15 for general admission and $12 for students and seniors and are available for purchase online or at the door. Visit stepsnh.org or call 978-482-7733.

• Two original plays: Working Title Productions presents its second Granite State Playwrights Workshop at The Hatbox Theatre (270 Loudon Road, Concord) on Friday, Jan. 5, and Saturday, Jan. 6, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Jan. 7, at 2 p.m. The performance features staged readings of two plays written by local playwrights. Awful People Pray by Leila Teitelman of Keene tells the story of a camp counselor named Jade, who is a trans woman and fearful of the negative reactions she might encounter from parents and campers. The Trophy Wife

by James C. Ferguson of Plainville, Mass.,

duction. Jan. 12 through Jan. 28.

959 Islington St., Portsmouth. $28 for general admission, $24 for seniors, students and veterans. Visit nhtheatreproject.org.

• ROCK OF AGES The Palace Theatre presents. Jan. 12 through Feb. 3. Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St. , Manchester. $25 for children ages 6 through 12, $39 to $46 for adults. Visit palacetheatre.org.

• SPRING AWAKENING One Light Theatre Company presents. Fri., Jan. 12, and Sat., Jan. 13, 7 p.m. Interlakes Theatre, 1 Laker Lane , Meredith. $15 for adults, $12 for students and seniors. Visit onelighttheatre. org.

• THE STINKY CHEESE MAN Presented by Chesterton Stage Productions junior actors. Sat., Jan. 13, 2 p.m. Strand Ballroom , 30 Third St. , Dover. $5. Call 343-1899.

• THE FAIRY TALE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Presented by the Connect Co-op Theater Class. Sat., Jan. 13, 1:30 p.m.

The Granite State Playwright’s Workshop.

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follows a woman, Amanda, and her daughter Talia as they try to decide what to do with Amanda’s deceased husband’s trophy shop. Tickets cost $17 for adults and $14 for students and seniors. Visit hatboxnh. com or call 715-2315 for more information.

• Comedy show auditions: Auditions for 8 by Eight, a collection of comedy sketches written and directed by G. Matthew Gaskell and co-directed by Kelsey Domeny, will be held on Saturday, Jan. 6, from 2 to 4 p.m. at Next Level Church (79 Sheep Davis Road, Pembroke). The cast calls for one woman between age 25 and 35 and three men between 25 and 55 with strong comedic performance skills. Roles include truck drivers, cowboys, gangsters and “real housewives.” No appointment is needed, and no monologues are required. Wear comfortable clothes and bring a headshot, a resume and a list of conflicts. Rehearsals will begin in mid-March and will include Saturdays and select weeknights. The show will open on April 27 at the Hatbox Theatre in Concord. Email Greg at gmatthewg@ hotmail.com with questions.

— Angie Sykeny

Strand Ballroom , 30 Third St. , Dover. $5. Call 343-1899.

• DOWN IN NEW ORLEANS A Fortitude for Dance production.

Sat., Jan. 13, 3 to 6 p.m. Bedford High School , 47 Nashua Road, Bedford. $12 for adults, $10 for children. Visit fortitudefordance. com.

• SIGHT UNSEEN READING Presented by theatre KAPOW as part of the ARTiculate Playreading Series. Sun., Jan. 14, 2 p.m.

Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester. $15 for adults, $13 for seniors, $10 for students.

Visit tkapow.com.

• GILLIGAN’S ISLAND: THE MUSICAL The Rochester Opera House presents. Jan. 18 through Feb. 4. 31 Wakefield St. , Rochester. Tickets start at $16. Visit RochesterOperaHouse.com.

• SEUSSICAL JR. STEPs Company presents. Thurs., Jan. 18, through Sat., Jan. 20, 7 p.m.

Derry Opera House , 29 W. Broadway , Derry. $12 to $15.

Visit stepsnh.org.

Classical Music Events • GUITAR TRIPTYCH II: DAVID WILLIAM ROSS Classical and contemporary acoustic guitar. Thurs., Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m. Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road, Concord. Tickets are $17 dollars for adults, $14 for members, seniors and students, Visit hatboxnh.com.

• “JUST THE CLASSICS” Presented by Nashua North Choirs with Sinfonietta Strings, featuring works by Schubert, Morley, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Elgar, di Lasso, and more. Wed., Jan. 31, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Nashua High School North, 8 Titan Way , Nashua. Visit sinfoniettastringsofgreaternashua.com.

• GUITAR TRIPTYCH III: ADAM LEVIN Classical and Spanish acoustic guitar. Thurs., March 22, 7:30 p.m. Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road, Concord. Tickets are $17 dollars for adults, $14 for members, seniors and students, Visit hatboxnh.com.

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LISTINGS 30 Children & Teens Games, clubs, fun...

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INSIDE/OUTSIDE Drumroll please

Japanese drumming dojo comes to Londonderry

Hobby, service...

27 Continued Education Classes, seminars, lectures...

33 Crafts Fairs, workshops...

33 Health & Wellness Workshops, exercises...

33 Marketing & Business Networking, classes....

33 Miscellaneous Fairs, festivals, yard sales...

33 Nature & Gardening Hikes, animal events...

FEATURES 31 Kiddie pool Family activities this week.

By Ethan Hogan

ehogan@hippopress.com

A Japanese taiko drumming school has found a home in Londonderry. Led by American Jason Seymore, Hokuto Taiko Dojo is starting classes this month at its new home at the House of the Samurai.

The inaugural orientation on Saturday, Jan. 6, will be the official start of the dojo’s first eight-week introductory course. The orientation will be an opportunity for Seymore to outline his expectations for students and teach them the traditional etiquette of the dojo.

Seymore said the course will be primarily technique-driven, teaching students how to stand and how to position their bodies for the proper strike. Taiko drumming requires the entire body in order to perform, so the course will have simple workouts that prepare muscles required for drumming.

“I think the piece that attracts people the most is that use of their energy and being able to be creative and explore new ideas and new perceptions of culture. … This

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Taiko drumming

Advice on your outdoors.

Where: House of the Samurai, 28 Buttrick Road, Londonderry When: Orientation is Saturday, Jan. 6, from 4 to 6 p.m. Classes held Saturday and Sunday Cost: $240 for teen and adults 8-week course with a drop-in rate of $35 per lesson, $160 for children classes and families classes 8-week course with a drop-in rate of $25 per lesson Contact: hokutotaikodojo.com, 443-6557

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Get Listed From yoga to pilates, cooking to languages to activities for the kids, Hippo’s weekly listing offers a rundown of all area events and classes.

Get your program listed by sending information to listings@hippopress.com at least three weeks before the event.

Looking for more events for the kids, nature-lovers and more? Check out Hippo Scout, available via the Apple App Store, Google Play or online at hipposcout.com.

Children & Teens Computer & tech classes • BECOME A MAKER Join Jason Clark to explore 3D Printing, microcontroller programming, basic mechanical design, robotics and more. Depending on interest, potential projects include creating an automatic plant watering unit, a mini robot arm, a line following robot, a ghost detector, or a metal detector. Wadleigh Memorial Library, 49 Nashua St., Milford.

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is developing yourself as a person, it’s developing new skills that you can take outside of the dojo — you have a better appreciation for others, a better appreciation for different cultures,” said Seymore.

Taiko means drum in Japanese and is played using sticks called bachi. The drum is most commonly played while standing, although Seymore said there are more advanced techniques played sitting down or at an angle.

Introducing students to Japanese culture is as important to Seymore as teaching them the music. “Students can have a really good sense of where taiko drumming came from and why it’s so important to remember that taiko drumming is not just about playing big drums, it’s also about tapping into your spirit and connecting with that primal, visceral soul that you have,” said Seymore.

Archaeologists have found 2,000-year-old pots decorated with depictions of taiko drummers, according to Seymore. This means the tradition potentially spans more

Free. Thurs., Jan. 4, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Visit wadleighlibrary.org or call 249-0645.

•MINECRAFT COMMANDS Build minigames with command blocks, build on teamwork skills and play in over 20 minigames at this interactive and educational event. Sat., Jan. 20, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saint Anselm College, 100 Saint Anselm Dr., Manchester. Visit learncreatebuild.com or call 231-5431.

than two millennia. Seymore said taiko drumming was often used exclusively by priests for ceremonies in ancient Japan before becoming modernized by ensemble performances and upbeat, western techniques in the 20th century.

“The drums were said to be the booming voice of the gods,” said Seymore. “We all have taiko in us, within our souls, because it’s the first sound that we hear in our mother’s womb. The beating of her heart is the first sound of taiko that we hear, which is why we are so drawn to the sound of the drum,” said Seymore.

Each village in Japan would have its own taiko drumming song that would be used at ceremonies and festivals, he said. Some stories also tell of taiko being used on the battlefield to give samurai military commands while also intimidating the enemy on the battlefield, according to Seymore.

Seymore fell in love with the instrument and the story of its native culture while growing up in Orlando, Florida.

Science • SLIME SCIENCE This minimaker class is for kids in grades 4 through 7 and will teach kids the science of slime. Weare Public Library, 10 Paige Memorial Lane, Weare. Free. Mon., Jan. 8, 4 p.m. Visit wearepl.wordpress. com or call 529-2044.

• WATER’S EXTREME JOURNEY The Water’s Extreme Journey exhibit has been extended to Sun., Jan. 20, so kids can learn about the journey a single drop

“Even though I’d always loved music and drumming, taiko was something on a different level. It hit me and it was soul-piercing but in a good way,” said Seymore.

For 10 years, Seymore learned to play from the leader of an all-Japanese troupe at the Walt Disney World Epcot Center. When Seymore moved to New Hampshire he couldn’t find a taiko community and decided to open a dojo himself.

“To my surprise there were none.

So I started thinking, ‘Well, what if I change that? How do I continue my journey with taiko drumming?’

All the signs pointed to bringing it and continuing my legacy in New Hampshire. So that’s what I’ve done,” said Seymore.

After a short-lived stay as a business at the Concord Community Arts Center, Seymore said Hokuto Taiko Dojo had to find a new location because of noise concerns. The dojo became a nonprofit organization and found The House of the Samurai, which had asked Seymore to perform in the past and offered him a space to teach.

“We can really focus and make sure that we are solely doing this for the purpose of promoting a positive image of not only Japanese culture but cultural exchange in general and sharing that with the people of New Hampshire,” said Seymore.

Another eight-week course that will delve deeper into the different drumming techniques will be held in the spring, according to Seymore. The dojo also offers private lessons for students currently in the introductory course and workshops and performances for schools and businesses.

of water takes before it ends up in a lake or in their kitchen sink.

Guests will learn through interactive activities. Thurs., Jan. 11, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., to Sun., Jan. 21, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

SEE Science Center, 200 Bedford St., Manchester. $9 for ages 3 and up. Visit see-sciencecenter.org or call 669-0400.

to get help on your book, memoir or poem. The guild does everything from talking about the writing process to sharing work with each other. Bring your writing problems (and joys) to the January meeting and we get help tackling them.

Weare Public Library, 10 Paige Memorial Lane, Weare. Free.

Fri., Jan. 5, 10:30 a.m. Visit Clubs wearepl.wordpress.com, email • WEARE AREA WRITERS czar5@comcast.net or call 529GUILD Meet with local writers 2044.

IN/OUT

Family fun for the weekend

Get moving

Go snow tubing at McIntyre Ski Area (50 Chalet Court, Manchester) on Saturday, Jan. 6, from 1 to 9 p.m. or Sunday, Jan. 7, from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The ski area offers an eight-lane snow tubing park, a “Wonder Carpet” conveyor lift and a lodge and café. The cost is $21 per person for a two-hour session. Visit mcintyreskiarea. com or call 622-6159.

Public ice skating is open at the Douglas N. Everett Arena (15 Loudon Road, Concord) Saturday, Jan. 6, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 7, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Admission is $5 and ice skate rentals are available for $5. Kids under 3 years old get in free. Visit concordnh.gov or call 228-2784.

All about Lego

Try Creative Building with Lego Bricks at the SEE Science Center (200 Bedford St., Manchester) on Saturday, Jan. 6, from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. or 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Kids are encouraged to leave their Lego instructions at home and use their imaginations for this mini building course featuring water topics. Ages 5 to 9. Cost $70 per child, $60 for members. Visit see-sciencecenter.org or call 669-0400.

The Nashua Public Library (2 Court St., Nashua) is showing the Lego Ninjago movie as part of its Family Films series on Saturday, Jan. 6, from 2 to 3:40 p.m.

• GENEALOGY CLUB Join the Rodgers Memorial Library Genealogy Club meeting to hear guest lecturer Cathy Bence, director of the genealogy program at the Dracut Public Library, speak about getting the most out of FamilySearch.com.

There will also be a roundtable genealogy discussion, where guests can ask and answer questions about their genealogical research. Beginners and experienced genealogical researchers welcome. Fri., Jan. 5, 1:30 p.m.

Rodgers Memorial Library, 194 Derry Road, Hudson. Free. Visit rodgerslibrary.org/events or call 603-886-6030.

• POINTER FISH AND GAME CLUB Meet those who have a common bond of love of wildlife and natural resources of this country, especially the state of New Hampshire. Sign up for the club’s Ice fishing

The film tells the story of the young Master Builder Lloyd and his friends, led by Master Wu, who must defeat evil warlord Garmadon. Free. Visit nashualibrary.org or call 589-4600.

Rascally rabbits

Visit Amoskeag Fishways (4 Fletcher St., Manchester) for a short and sweet mini-program about rabbits available for all ages on Saturday, Jan. 6, from 10 a.m. to noon. The program will feature naturebased activities to help guests discover more about rabbits. Cost $5. Visit nhaudubon.org or call 626-3474.

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Story time

Barnes & Noble Manchester (1741 S. Willow St.) is hosting a children’s story time on Saturday, Jan. 6, at 11 a.m. with the book What Do You Do With A Chance?

The story inspires kids of any age to find the courage to go for the opportunities that come their way. Free. Visit stores.barnesandnoble.com or call 668-5557.

Winter Fun $49

tournament and learn about their Barry camp. Henry J. Sweeney Post, 251 Maple St., Manchester. Mon., Jan. 8, 7:30 p.m. Visit pfgc.org.

• CONCORD TOASTMASTERS Improve your ability to reach and motivate people while improving your speaking, listening and thinking skills. Mon., Jan. 8, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Granite Ledges of Concord, 151 Langley Parkway, Concord. To learn more, stop by a meeting, call 715-1881 or visit facebook.com/ capitaltoastmasters.

• BUDDHIST CAFE Join the Manchester Buddhism Sangha for their meeting to discuss “It’s Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness”

by Sylvia Boorstein. Barnes & Noble, 1741 S. Willow St., Manchester. Wed., Jan. 10, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Visit facebook.com/ ManchesterBuddhismSangha.

• HUDSON WRITING GROUP The Rodgers Memorial Library has a new writing group that will meet to do warmup writing exercises, then spend the rest of the morning working on your own project. During the last 15-minutes, the club will discuss progress and brainstorm ideas. Fri., Jan. 12, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Rodgers Memorial Library, 194 Derry Road, Hudson. Free. Visit rodgerslibrary. org/events ro call 886-6030.

• TEEN BOOK LOVERS CLUB This is an “any book” book club. Come discuss what book you’re loving or even what book you’re hating. There will be a snack and some bookish activities. This book club is for teens in grades 6-12. Wadleigh Memorial Library, 49 Nashua St., Milford. Free. Mon., Jan. 15, 3 p.m. Visit wadleighlibrary.org or call 249-0645.

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IN/OUT THE GARDENING GUY

Good growth

A reflection on gardening in 2017

By Henry Homeyer

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This was a good gardening year for me.

Although we had some rainy times, and some hot, dry times, overall the weather was conducive to good plant growth. As usual, I tried a number of new things. Here are some of the things I tried this year.

In the vegetable garden I grew a new potato variety that I liked a lot called “Magic Molly.”

It is sold by Fedco Seed Coop as a fingerling, but if you let them keep growing, the potatoes get to be quite large. I love the color: a purple so deep it is almost black when picked. It is dark-colored inside and out, and it keeps its color quite well when cooked, so it is goodlooking in a stew. Some purple potatoes turn gray when cooked, which is less appealing.

I tried a new (to me) tomato this year, a hybrid from Burpee Seed Co. called Brandy Boy. I met the CEO of Burpee, George Ball, at the Chelsea Flower Show in London. He told me that Brandy Boy was earlier than Brandywine, my favorite heirloom tomato, and that it had disease resistance that heirlooms don’t have. He said that the flavor was comparable to Brandywine, and I agree. Very tasty.

In order to get Brandy Boy this year I had to buy plants from Burpee — I only learned about it in late May, much too late to start plants from seed. But I’m glad I did; it gave me a chance to try it this year. Next year I will plant seeds indoors in April, which is much more economical. I checked my local nurseries for plants last May, but no one had any.

Over the years my vegetable garden has gotten shadier and shadier. Now I don’t get direct sun until mid-morning, and it gets behind trees in late afternoon. So I get about six hours of prime sun, with sun filtered through trees at other times. I compared notes with other growers who get bigger yields, and know that sun is a major factor. I would cut down the offending trees, but most are on my neighbors’ property. Sigh.

I planted strawberries last summer, the first time in years. Strawberries are short-lived perennial plants — three years is about all one generally gets from a planting. The first year the plants will bloom, but growers advise picking off all the blossoms so that the roots and plants will develop better. I did that, and anticipate a good crop next June.

Most strawberries are sensitive to length of day, and produce heavy crops only in June.

But now there are day-neutral plants, and everbearing plants that will produce some berries all summer and into the fall. This time I chose a June-bearing variety as there is a new insect pest, the spotted-winged drosophila, that is mostly present late in the season.

Hopefully this fruit fly won’t arrive until my

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crop has finished producing.

In the flower garden I tried a new biennial, angelica, and was delighted with it. This is a tall plant that produces deep purple florets in globes about two to three inches across. Not only is it gorgeous, it attracts bees like crazy.

Like all biennials, angelica only blooms at the end of its second year of growth, then dies. I planted some of the seeds this year, but if I want it to flower next year I will have to buy another plant, and this one cost even more than a perennial flower. That leads me to believe it is not an easy flower to grow.

I was delighted to see that I finally have the proper soil for my sea holly. Sea holly has wonderful bluish flowers with spiky appendages around the globe-shaped blossoms that resemble globe thistle.

I have tried numerous times to get the proper soil to accommodate its needs, and finally got it to overwinter and flower in Year 2. It hates good rich soil and will only overwinter in sandy, nutrient-poor soil. So I created a spot for it by digging up some driveway soil and replacing my good soil. Bingo. It worked.

This was a great year for daylilies, which continued to bloom through much of September, even varieties that are normally finished in mid-August. I have no idea why they bloomed for such a long period, but I enjoyed the show. You may not think of daylilies as cut flowers, but a scape (stem) cut with multiple buds will continue to open the buds and bloom, day after day. Just place the vase where it gets some good direct sun each day.

I planted two woody plants this summer: a catalpa tree and a shrub called button bush.

The catalpa will be a large specimen tree on a section of lawn that I always left for badminton. Given how little I play, I gave the lawn over to a magnificent flowering tree. It is 10 feet tall, and will get to be 40 or so, blooming in late June and into July. It’s fragrant, too.

Button bush, a native plant, likes moist soil and sun to part shade. I have plenty of moist soil, so planted one near my brook. It produces neat, round white blossoms in early summer.

I wish you all a great gardening year for 2018. May your veggies produce well, your flowers surprise you, and the Japanese beetles fly past your roses and land next door.

Henry is a UNH master gardener and the author of four gardening books. His website is Gardening-Guy.com.

Starcrafts Art Gallery & Giftshop

IN/OUT TREASURE HUNT

Dear Donna,

Call to Artists and Craftsmen!—

Join our growing community of Artists in Epping!

We have thousands of black and white photos from my family. I don’t even know most of the people in them. Some are dated 1936 and some into the 1940s. I don’t want to throw them away if there could be any interest in them or value. What do I do with them? Is there any value?

• MANCHESTER STAMP CLUB Add to your stamp collection, swap stories and learn about philately from the birth of the postage stamp in 1840 until 2016. Mon., Jan. 20, 7 to 9 p.m.

Immanuel Lutheran Church, 673 Weston Road, Manchester. First meeting is free. Call 486-5750.

Crafts Knitting clubs • KNIT NIGHT The Wear Public Library’s knitting club will meet to knit, talk about knitting and trade techniques. Bring your current project or start a new one at the club. Weare Public Library, 10 Paige Memorial Lane, Weare.

Free. Wed., Jan. 17, 7 p.m. Visit wearepl.wordpress.com or call 529-2044.

Workshops • SEW-A-THON Bring your sewing machine or shears or just your willingness to help as volunteers make fleece hats and scarves to be donated to Cathedral Outreach. Cathedral of Saint Joseph, 145 Lowell St., Manchester. Sat., Jan. 6, 9 to noon. Visit stjosephcathedralnh.org or call 622-6404.

• ALCOHOL INK TILES Learn to make Alcohol Ink Tiles with the League of N.H. Craftsmen instructor Alene Sirott-Cope. The alcohol ink can be mixed other liquids with interesting and unpredictable results. Students will take home four tiles. Tuition is $35 and materials are $10. For ages 12

Beginning January 27th 12:00p —Alcohol Inks!

a hands-on workshop experimenting with and learning different techniques using this vibrant and free flowing medium. $45 (supplies included)

ject, etc., do with them what you want. In order for you to pass on history you would have needed to know it yourself. This is why I always say document your photos so the next generation will know the subjects and why they might want to keep them.

Donna Welch has spent more than 20 years in the antiques and collectibles field and owns From Out Of The Woods Antique Center in Goffstown (fromoutofthewoodsantiques.com).

She is an antiques appraiser and instructor.

To find out about your antique or collectible, send a clear photo of the object and information about it to Donna Welch, From Out Of The Woods Antique Center, 465 Mast Road, Goffstown, N.H., 03045. Or email her at footwdw@ aol.com. Or drop by the shop (call first, 6248668).

and up. 98 Main St., Nashua. Sat., Jan., 6, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Visit nashua.nhcrafts.org/classes or call 595-8233.

• PRISM CLASS Learn to make a unique prism style quilt using scrappy colored split rectangle units. The prism pattern emerges with the combination of left and right leaning units strategically placed. Bring supplies. Nashua Sew and Vac, 228 Daniel Webster Highway, Nashua. Thur., Jan. 11, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visit facebook. com/KathieBeltzQuilter or call 888-2757.

Other craft events • WILDFLOWER STUDIO Join Wildflower Studio for its grand opening with free arts and crafts projects and refreshments.

The studio will host custom art parties for artists of every skill level. Wildflower Studio, 200 N. State St., Concord. Sun, Jan. 7, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free. Visit wildflowerstudio.org or call 661-5125.

Health & Wellness • WINTER WELLNESS Join Sarah Schmidt for a workshop on how to build up you body’s defenses during the cold and flu season. Schmidt will teach participants what preventative steps they can take to stay healthier. Local Baskit, 10 Ferry St., Suite 120A, Concord. Tues., Jan. 9, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Visit localbaskit.com or call 219-0882.

Marketing & Business • BUDGETING BASICS Financial Education Seminars offered

by Citizens Bank where guests learn the importance of creating and using a budget to accomplish financial goals. Wadleigh Memorial Library, 49 Nashua St., Milford. Free. Wed., Jan., 10, noon to 1 p.m. Visit wadleighlibrary.org or call 249-0645.

Miscellaneous • VINTAGE MARKET The Manchester Vintage Market will feature vintage items including antiques, collectibles, books, photography, furnishings, textiles, memorabilia, unusuals, decor, jewelry, housewares, fashion, electronics, music, political, historical, and more. The Falls Event Center, 21 Front St., Manchester.

Sat., Jan. 6, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Visit facebook or call 509-2639.

Nature & Gardening • ICE FISHING TALK N.H. Fishing Guide Tim Moore will explain the tools and techniques he uses to catch white perch and lake trout through the ice.

Guests will get the latest insights on equipment and gear, where to finds these fish, and strategies for angling success. All experience levels welcome. N.H. Fish and Game, 11 Hazen Drive, Concord.

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IN/OUT CAR TALK

Fact or fiction: Priuses don’t function in cold weather?

Dear Car Talk: I am moving from San Francisco to Boston and want to take my beloved 2010 Prius with me. It will have a garage and be drivBy Ray Magliozzi en daily. My daughter, who lives in Boston, says no one in Boston drives a Prius because they don’t work in the cold weather. Is that true? — Margaret You can keep your beloved Prius. We have dozens and dozens of customers who drive Priuses in Boston. And they work fine in the winter. All batteries lose some power in low temperatures. But the Prius is a hybrid, so it’ll just use a little more gasoline when it’s cold. So, you might see a drop from 50 mpg down to 47. I’ll say a novena for you.

The only challenge you’ll have is in the snow. The Prius is a lightweight car with “low rolling resistance” tires: Those help improve fuel economy, but give up a little grip to do so.

Also, the electric motor in the Prius has a lot of torque, which is great for quick acceleration but not so great for driving in the snow.

In snow, you want to do everything (accelerate, brake, turn) very gently, and electric drive makes that a little harder. But there are steps you can take: You can get four good

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snow tires. That’ll help a lot. Just leave them in your garage when you’re not using them.

Or you can take the train or Lyft on the days when it snows and you absolutely have to get around. Or just do what everybody else does when there’s a blizzard: Stay home.

Dear Car Talk: We have a 2015 Ford Edge with 14,000 miles, purchased new in January 2016. We have had the battery go dead four times.

The first time, Ford service sent a technician to jump-start the car. The second time, the car was towed to Ford and the battery was replaced. The third time, the car was towed and the battery replaced again. And the fourth time, Ford kept it for five days and found no problem with the battery. Usually, but not always, the battery goes dead when the car sits for three to four days. We are retired, so the car is not driven daily. Any idea what could be the cause of the battery going dead? The car is under warranty, but this is a frustrating problem to have. — Cheryl It sounds like you have a good, old-fashioned power drain, Cheryl, and the dealer needs to figure out what’s drawing power while you’re sitting on the front porch drinking Cosmopolitans.

The other possibility is that your charging

system is not adequately recharging the battery, but I’m going to assume they tested the charging system when they kept your car.

You’ve got enough miles on the car that we can rule out “very short trips” as the problem. If you drove the car three-quarters of a mile once every four days, the battery might not recharge, but that’s clearly not the case.

So, the problem is not with the battery (which they’ve replaced) or the charging system (which I’m sure they tested). Therefore, something is using the battery while the car is parked.

I don’t know about the 2015, but I know that on previous Edges, Ford had problems with the door-latch switch. Now, why might that kill your battery? Well, the door-latch switch tells the computer that the door is completely closed. That, in turn, turns off the dome light. On lots of modern cars, the dome light stays on for 30 seconds or so and then fades out. So maybe you’re assuming it’s going to fade out after you walk away, and it hasn’t been. Or maybe it’s bright daylight when you park the car, and you don’t notice that the dome light is still on. Or maybe it comes back on by itself. And if your dome light is on for two or three days, that certainly would kill your battery.

I suppose you also can test it yourself.

Sleep in the car some night, Cheryl, and bring a book. If at any point during the night you can actually read the book, you’ve diagnosed the problem.

Most likely, whatever is happening is happening intermittently, which is why the battery doesn’t always die when you park the car for a few days. In the interim, you can buy yourself a “trickle charger,” (sometimes called a “battery tender”). That’s an inexpensive device you can hook up to the battery when you park the car that will keep the battery fully charged.

But for a real solution, your dealer is going to have to do a better job of tracking down the source of the power drain. And it sounds like you’re going to have to insist that he try harder. If the dealer can’t figure out what’s draining your battery, ask the service manager who else you can speak to higher up at Ford. If you were leaving the car for a couple of weeks and the battery went dead, I’d say that’s not abnormal nowadays, given all the electronics that draw power when the car is off. But it’s ridiculous for a car to fail to start after only a few days.

So let them know, nicely, that it’s unacceptable to not be able to rely on a brand-new car to start when you need it. Good luck.

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hole, toilet seat ring toss and atlatl, a prehistoric dart throwing technique. The challenges give participants a taste of the annual outdoor Redneck Warrior Skill Challenge, which is held on a mud course.

“It’s great fun for spectators especially — everyone wears helmets and garbage cans as a shield and the crowd throws mud at the racers,” said Allard.

Anyone can enter the indoor challenge and Allard said the best competitors have a sense of humor.

“A good redneck warrior is somebody that’s not afraid to laugh at themFRED ALLARD selves,” said Allard.

The expo’s first Deer Summit will be held this year and will include a panel of expert deer hunters from across the region. The panel will discuss tactics, share hunting stories and debate some of today’s controversial deer hunting topics.

The expo welcomes beginner hunters and fishermen with activities that aim to teach newcomers how to handle and use hunting equipment. Archery in Motion’s booth will teach guests how to shoot a bow and arrow at a target down range. There will also be a laser shot challenge.

An indoor trout pond will be open all weekend for kids who want to practice their fishing form. Allard said the fish in the pond range in length from 12 to 20 inches.

If a child catches a trout, Allard said, they can decide to either take it home with them or throw it back in.

Seminars will be held throughout the weekend that focus on different types of game, including deer, turkey and coyote hunting. Fishing seminars on striper and fly fishing will also be held.

The Sportsman/Sportswomen’s Movie Theater will be showing adventure and how-to videos throughout the day that are produced by exhibitors.

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The event is being held at the Radisson in Manchester Saturday, Jan. 6, and Sunday, Jan. 7.

Of the 150-plus exhibitors, a majority will be from the fishing and game hunting industries, according to Fred Allard, senior organizer. There will also be educational panels and activities for all ages.

“There’s a lot of stuff for kids to do too. … Sunday is Kids Day, so they get to do a scavenger hunt and find all kinds of stuff,” said Allard.

The Redneck Warrior Challenge obstacle course is a skills challenge that has participants try out the techniques being talked about at the expo. Competitors will run through a timed course and stop at various stations that feature challenges related to the redneck stereotype, according to Allard.

The course will test skills like hatchet throwing, slingshots, cast fishing, corn

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CAREERS

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Wellness coordinator Joe McCue of Portsmouth is the statewide wellness coordinator for the Department of Transportation and the only full-time government employee who works as a wellness coordinator in the state. is.

Explain what your current job

How did you get interested in this kind of work?

I never intended it. My original degree is actually in mechanical engineering and I did that for several years. … [Then I] got a cancer diagnosis. I started looking into things for myself: acupuncture, massage therapy, whole food nutrition … anything and everything that I thought would help me with my own health. … It led me to a massage therapy school in northern California. ... I’ve been a massage therapist for about 16 years now.

tice and then I realized I could help massage school … made the point more people if I became a personal that if you don’t ask for it, you’ll trainer, so I got certified as a pernever get it. sonal trainer. Then I realized I can help even more people if I became What do you wish you’d a wellness coach, so I went known at the beginning of your through that training and became career? a coach. And then, I was living in I wish I had known earlier … all Illinois around 2010 … and I was the options that were open to me. actually teaching in a community Because, when I first started it was college in their wellness program, Courtesy photo. just as a massage therapist and I and a full-time position was becomthought I would just work with cliing open but you needed a master’s degree, so ents one-on-one for the rest of my life.

I looked around at different degree programs.

I didn’t really see anything I liked that fit who What is your typical at-work uniform?

I was. Then I found that DePaul University It depends. If I’m in the office, it’s busihas a master’s program where you can cre- ness casual. But I have to go out in the field ate your own degree. So I created a master’s a lot. So depending on where I’m going, degree in organizational wellness.

I may have to wear regulated protective clothing: steel-toe boots, maybe a hard hat, How did you find your current job? reflective high-visibility jackets or vests, I had, at the time, and still have, a private things like that. practice in Portsmouth, where I work on my own clients. … I just happened to be on …

What was the first job you ever had?

LinkedIn or Indeed or one of those job sites I was a dishwasher for a restaurant down and I saw the job posted. I literally applied on Hampton Beach in the summer. for it thinking nothing would ever come of — Ryan Lessard it. … Lo and behold, I got a phone call a couple days later to set up an interview.

I am responsible for planning, managing, running, facilitating any and all wellness-related activities throughout the Department of Transportation. ... That includes [things like] setting up a mindfulness class … CPR training [and acting as] liaison with our different vendors.

When one of our employees has a question about Anthem — they went to their doctor and their breast cancer screening wasn’t covered, or something like that — I’ll work on that for them on their behalf to the degree What kind of education or training did What’s the best piece of work-related that I can, given confidentiality rules. you need for this? advice anyone’s ever given you?

It started out with the massage therapy pracI remember one of my teachers in my

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FOOD Games with taste

Boards & Brews to open in Manchester

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A new cafe coming to the Granite State will amp up tabletop board gaming by offering game-themed craft cocktails, coffees, sandwiches and more.

Boards & Brews is on track to open in mid-January in downtown Manchester as New Hampshire’s first board game cafe.

The space housing the former bar Spite will become a destination where you can enjoy coffee, sandwiches, beer and other drinks while choosing from several hundred types of board games to play under one roof.

The rules are simple; for a $5 daily access fee, you can choose to play any of the more than 650 board games that will be available, and order food or drinks from the cafe or bar separately.

High school friends Keating Tufts and David Casinghino began the project a few years ago, recruiting several other friends to help with the food and drink menus. They have also appeared at various local bars and brewpubs over the past several weeks like Great North Aleworks in Manchester and Area 23 in Concord to hold preview game nights.

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• Open for business: It’s Opening Day at the Amherst Farm & Craft Market (305 Route 101, Amherst) on Saturday, Jan. 6, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Formerly known as the Amherst Open Air Market, which operated on Sundays, the market features a variety of items sourced directly from New Hampshire producers. Products include meats, cheeses, raw milk, eggs, baked goods, jams, baking mixes, seasonings, oils and vinegars. The market also offers a variety of body care items like soaps, lotions, lip balms, handmade home décor and more. Visit facebook.com/ amherstfarmandcraftmarket.

• Cajun flair: Join Madear’s (175 Hanover St., Manchester) for Bourbon Night in Cajun Country on Monday, Jan. 8, at 6 p.m., when a five-course meal will be served each alongside a bourbon for tasting. The cost is $65 per person and tickets are first come, first served. Visit madears603.com or call 206-5827.

• Very vanilla: Learn how to brew your own vanilla bean stout at the next Splita-Batch brewing event at Incredibrew (112 Daniel Webster Highway, Nashua) on Thursday, Jan. 11, at 6 p.m. The stout has fresh vanilla bean overtones and is mixed with whiskey that’s been soaked in oak chips to elevate its toasty flavor. No prior brewing experience is necessary. The cost is $30 for returning brewers who bring their own bottles, or $40 for new brewers with the bottles provided. Visit incredibrew.com or call 891-2477.

• Classes and tastings: WineNot Boutique (221 Main St., Nashua) will host “Premium Wines of California,” a fourweek wine class that begins on Thursday, Jan. 11, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Classes will continue every other Thursday through Feb. 22 and are taught by WineNot Boutique owner Svetlana Yanushkevich. Each will provide information on the best areas in California to produce elegant wines from chardonnay, pinot noirs and other lesser-known varieties. Regions such as the Napa Valley and the Sonoma Valley will be covered. The classes will also feature tastings with varieties of fine cheese, salami and gourmet chocolate. All four classes can be purchased for $170, or $153 for two or more people registering together. Visit winenotboutique.com or call 204-5569.

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Boards & Brews An opening date is expected by mid-January. Visit the website or Facebook page for updates.

Where: 941 Elm St., Manchester Anticipated Hours: 3 to 11 p.m. weekdays, and 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on weekends (hours may be subject to change).

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Food & Drink Beer, wine & liquor dinners • BOURBON NIGHT IN CAJUN COUNTRY Five course meal paired with five different bourbons.

Dine and learn more about bourbon with a Cajun flair. Tickets are first come, first serve. Mon., Jan. 8, 6 p.m. Madear’s, 175 Hanover St., Manchester. $65 per person. Visit madears603.com or call 206-5827.

Beer & wine making classes • THE DARK & STORMY SPLITA-BATCH BREWING EVENT Learn to brew some of Incredibrew’s

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sandwiches, snacks and salads,” said Sam Friend, head of kitchen operations at Board & Brews. “We’re definitely also going to have coffee, draft beer, some espresso coffee drinks, as well as probably either like a drip coffee or a pour-over coffee. I’d like to have cold brew too.”

Casinghino said the menu is also going to feature a small selection of craft cocktails.

“We’re going to do … some fun themed drinks to kind of go along with the gaming theme of the cafe,” he said.

These will include “Ticket to Rye,” a rye whiskey-based cocktail based on the board game Ticket to Ride, and “Cosmo Encounter,” a cosmopolitan-style drink based on the science fiction-themed strategy board game Cosmic Encounter.

But Casinghino also said he’s hoping the cafe will draw in board game players of all ages.

“We’re definitely trying to create a community space that isn’t totally centered around drinking … so that it can be a place that’s fun for people who don’t necessarily

darkest, thickest and heaviest beers, like peanut butter black satin, big boy stout, smoked porter, black widow IPA, Irish dry stout, and the robust porter. This is for those who want their beverage opaque and full of malt flavor. In two weeks, these beers will be ready for you to bottle, take home and enjoy as you hunker down for the long winter nights ahead. Thurs., Jan. 25, 6 p.m. Incredibrew, 112 Daniel Webster Highway, Nashua. $30 for returning brewers and $40 for new brewers. Visit incredibrew.com or call 891-2477.

want to drink,” he said.

A graduate of Southern New Hampshire University’s organizational leadership program and a former social worker, Tufts discovered the board game cafe craze online some three years ago when he stumbled across Snakes & Lattes, a board game cafe in downtown Toronto, Canada, that was one of the earliest pioneers of the trend.

“I said to myself, ‘Wait a minute, Manchester totally needs something like this,’” he said. “Through my research, I realized that if you’re in a major city, you’ll have a successful board game cafe. All you need is coffee and enough games and space for people to sit down and play them.”

The cafe and bar seating caps at about 55, Tufts said, and there will be roughly between 650 and 700 board games available to play.

In addition to classics like Clue, Monopoly and Risk, there is a wide variety of more obscure, harder-to-find board games that Tufts has amassed for the incoming cafe over the years.

Chef events/special meals • CHEAT DAY POP-UP DINNER Join chefs Keith Karasin and Chris Viaud, and The Foundry for an evening of culinary excellence. Sun., Jan. 7, 7 to 9 p.m. The Foundry, 50 Commercial St., Manchester. $65 per person. Visit thefarmersdinner.com.

• LAS OLAS TAQUERIA 10TH ANNIVERSARY BASH To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Las Olas Taqueria’s opening in Exeter, there will be a birthday bash with prizes, raffles, food specials and drink specials. Mon., Jan. 8, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Las Olas Taqueria, 30

Portsmouth Ave., Exeter. Free admission; food priced per item. Visit lasolastaqueria.com.

• CHEF’S TABLE DINNER AT FLAG HILL DISTILLERY A four-course dinner with each course paired with a Flag Hill wine, spirit or cocktail. Sat., Jan. 13, 6 p.m. Flag Hill Distillery & Winery, 297 N. River Road, Lee. $60 per person; reservations are required. Visit flaghill. com or call 659-2949.

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By Matt Ingersoll

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It’s OK to have a cheat meal once in a while — at least that’s the premise of the newest installment of the Farmer’s Dinner series, which features re-imagined classic comfort meals.

Chefs Chris Viaud and Keith Sarasin will present Cheat Day on Sunday, Jan. 7, at 7 p.m. at The Foundry in Manchester. It’s their first dinner of 2018 and also the first in a series of themed winter pop-up dinners throughout the Granite State with other local chefs.

Sarasin, who started The Farmer’s Dinner in 2012 as an initiative to reconnect people with local farmers and locally grown foods, said he had been throwing around the idea of a “cheat day” meal for some time.

“The concept was simple, sort of like a proverbial jab on the ‘New Year, New Me’ thing, and how people vow to make lifestyle changes for a day which in reality take some time,” he said. “We wanted to do comfort food that was all kind of elevated using 100-percent real ingredients. It’s a lot of really fun and innovative concepts that people are going to love.”

The menu for Cheat Day includes chicken nugget rillettes with twice fried hasselback potatoes and pickled honey mustard and a pizza bagel prepared on a garlic bagel with nduja (spreadable pork salumi), fontina cheese and mushrooms to start with.

Other menu items will borrow from other cuisines like Italian and Chinese, Sarasin said. The baked macaroni and cheese, for example, will be served with Gouda cheese, garlic brioche crumbs, pecorino cheese and guanciale (pork cheek).

“It’s a beautiful twist of cured Italian meat and will have that gooey flavor of

cheese that everybody loves,” Sarasin said.

That course will be followed by a lobster rangoon with a General Tso chicken and mangalitsa fried rice.

For dessert, there will be a “molten lava” brownie with candied bacon ice cream and a bacon walnut crumble, as well as fried dough with cardamom sugar.

“It’s 100 percent us working together and creating menu concepts out of the kitchen from beginning to end,” Sarasin said of Viaud and himself. “We’ve never repeated a meal in the five years I’ve been doing this.”

Sarasin said this is also the first year he is introducing a new diversity-themed series of meals called Roots. Each dinner will feature recipes from a different local chef.

“I wanted to bring some chefs and feature each one at a specific event,” he said.

The first dinner, on Jan. 28, will focus on Chris Viaud, who is of Haitian descent, according to Sarasin. “[The meal] will feature some Haitian dishes and Chris will also tell the story of his family and who he is during the dinner,” he said.

Other upcoming dinners in the series will feature award-winning chef Evan Hennessey at Stages at One Washington in Dover, Lee Frank at Otis in Exeter and Patrick Soucy at Applecrest Farm Bistro in Hampton Falls.

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A new nanobrewery is paying homage to its historic farm grounds and practices that date back to decades before the American Revolution.

The Blasty Bough Brewing Co. is a farm-to-kettle brewery that is on track to open on the grounds of McClary Hill Farm in Epsom by early to mid-January, according to owner Dave Stewart. The nanobrewery gets its name from a branch of pine known as a “blasty bough” that immigrant settlers in colonial America used to light fires to cook their food and keep them warm during the winter.

“The idea is that you see a pine tree and it’s got a bough, or a branch that’s dead, basically, and it goes off like a rocket if you light it,” he said. “We liked the idea because there’s a fire connection, there’s a farm connection … and we’re going to use ‘blasty’ as kind of an adjective.”

Stewart said the brewery is going to start with eight lines on tap, with the goal to include six standard and two seasonal offerings.

“Our flagship beer will likely be named eponymously, [and] that will be an amber, just kind of a straight down, easy-drinking session kind of beer,” he said.”Beyond that, we’ll have a stout on all the time, a porter on all the time, and probably a pale or an amber as well.”

All eight of the lines will be brewed with natural ingredients sourced directly on site from the farm.

“I’ve been playing with some recipes that will make use of spruce as an adjunct, something to reference the blasty bough … and we’ve been developing a fondness for sours, so we may throw those into the mix,” Stewart said. “Other things we can fiddle with are ginger and lemongrass and we can grow hops. We’re going to try to grow things that will be able to be incorporated as much as possible, so we can say this is hyperlocal.”

Stewart, who has been home brewing since the early 1990s, said he was inspired by other friends of his setting up breweries on their own farms.

The building housing the taproom and brewery was originally built as a retail space for farm products, according to Stewart, with a small community area upstairs for live performances of traditional Scottish, Irish, English and French-Canadian music. For the past month and a half, crews from the Concord-based Blue Line Draft Systems have

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been at working at getting the taproom ready for its opening.

“There’s more than just beer here.

We’re a destination of sorts,” he said.

“We’ve been doing small house concerts once a month for about three years now.

Plus we’ve got trails through the woods … that go into the hills out here, and you can go and walk and there’s lots of stuff to see.”

All of Stewart’s beers will be brewed and bottled right on the farm, but he said he is also open to distributing locally to nearby towns and cities like Pembroke, Deerfield and Concord. The farm and brewery are located on the same hilltop as the original settlement by the McClary family in the early 1700s, when they owned and operated a tavern.

Stewart said that while the Blasty Bough Brewing Co. will start as a nanobrewery, the long-term goal is to sell a limited food menu alongside the beers, also using natural ingredients.

“The idea is … that I will get some food production going in the spring, hopefully, get the greenhouses fired up and then roll the kitchen in,” he said.

Blasty Bough Brewing Co. An opening date is expected in early to mid-January. Visit the Facebook page or call for updates.

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WITH CATHY HYLAND-ROUKAS Cathy Hyland-Roukas of Hollis is the owner and head cook of Hollis Country Kitchen (3 Proctor Hill Road, Hollis, 4657040, holliscountrykitchen.com), which is open for breakfast and lunch seven days a week, and for dinner from Wednesday through Saturday from 4 to 8 p.m.

Roukas is a self-taught cook who enjoys featuring a rotating menu of upscale specials. She describes the restaurant as American with a Mediterranean flair, incorporating a few Greek dishes in addition to the standard menu items.

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We’re known for our breakfast [and] people come here from all over the place to try our corned beef hash. We make it completely from scratch and boil it overnight for 10 hours.

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I just came up with a new recipe that I’ve been fooling around with a little bit.

It’s pan-seared scallops with crystallized ginger and a citrus sauce made of lime juice, orange juice and lemon juice, and it’s over a homemade risotto. I’d have What is the biggest food trend in New that with a nice crisp pinot grigio.

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I love El Tapatio [in Merrimack]. It’s really authentic Mexican food and marWhat is your favorite thing to cook at garitas and the atmosphere is awesome. home?

I also love Surf [in Nashua]. They do a I enjoy baking things from scratch, like great job and have wonderful seafood. pies, quiches, muffins, scones and cookies, on top of everything else that we do.

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In a saucepan, combine carrots, chicken stock and crystallized ginger and simmer for about 10 minutes, until carrots are soft. Mix in a blender to make a puree, adding salt and pepper to taste. Place flour, ginger, salt and pepper in a separate bowl for the scallops. Coat scallops in mixture. Heat olive oil in a saute pan.

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• International eats: The World Affairs Council of New Hampshire recently announced in a press release the launch of a new cookbook in honor of the 15th anniversary of its International Visitors program.

The cookbook, Kitchen Table Diplomacy: From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, was presented for the first time at the council’s cookbook launch party on Dec. 12 at the New Hampshire Food Bank. According to the press release, the book features recipes from dozens of countries around the world, and from volunteers of the International Visitors who host participants for dinner. “From the spicy chilies of Central America to the flavorful Masalas of Southern Asia, food can provide an entryway to experience new countries and

formerly of bluAqua. Each course will be paired with a different Jack Daniels family brand of whiskey -- including honey, rye, single barrel and fire. Tues., Jan. 16, 6 to 10 p.m. Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery, 345 Amherst St., Nashua. $55 per person. Visit tiltedkilt.com/ locations/nashua or call 2045531.

• FEASTING WITH RECIPES THEN & NOW Chef Liz Barbour of The Creative Feast in Hollis will give a slide presentation and cooking demonstration, with tasting opportunities. She will focus on the modern movement of eating locally grown and raised seasonal fare, as well as the history of its roots deeply planted in our historic kitchens. Thurs., Jan. 18, 6:30 p.m. Griffin Free Public Library, 22 Hooksett Road, Auburn. Free; registration is required. Visit griffinfree.org or call 483-5374.

• THE FARMER’S DINNER AT STAGES AT ONE WASHINGTON Chefs Chris Viaud and Keith Sarasin take over Stages at One Washington in Dover for one night only.

Join The Farmer’s Dinner for a six-course menu inspired by New England winters. Optional wine pairing is also available.

The menu will include scallop and seaweed, compressed squash salad, pan seared pollock, chestnut capeletti, duo of duck and pumpkin pie. Sun., Jan. 21, 6 to 8:30 p.m. Stages at One Washington, 1 Washington St., Dover. Starts at $99.99 ($125 with wine pairings). Visit thefarmersdinner.com.

• CHAMPAGNE BRUNCH Enjoy limited mimosas, a brunch buffet, a raw bar, a chocolate fountain and more while listening to the sounds of an upbeat jazz trio band. This is a 21+ only event. Sun., Jan.

cultures,” World Affairs Council Associate Director Tim Horgan said in a statement. The cookbook is available now to order online for $25 at wacnh.org/cookbook.

• Ten years strong: In honor of its 10th anniversary, Las Olas Taqueria (30 Portsmouth Ave., Exeter) is hosting a birthday bash on Monday, Jan. 8, during its business hours from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., during which there will be raffles, prizes, food and drink specials, and limited-edition T-shirts with a 10-year anniversary design. The first Las Olas Taqueria opened its doors in Exeter on Jan. 8, 2008, and the family-owned business has since expanded to two other locations, in Hampton and in Wells, Maine. Visit lasolastaqueria.com or call 967-4880.

21, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Bedford Village Inn, 2 Olde Bedford Way, Bedford. $55 per person; reservations are required. Visit bedfordvillageinn.com or call 472-2001.

• FOUR-COURSE WINE DINNER WITH WENDY LANGE Join local winemaker Wendy Lange for an evening of fine wine paired with a four-course dinner. Wed., Jan. 24, 6:30 p.m. Gale Motor Co. Whiskey & Wine, 148 N. Main St., Concord. $65 per person.

Visit facebook.com/whiskeyandwinenh or call 715-8575.

Church & charity suppers/bake sales • ATKINSON LIONS CLUB ITALIAN DINNER The menu includes chicken Parmesan, meatballs, spaghetti, salad, bread and butter, coffee, juices and dessert. Take out is also available. Sat., Jan. 20, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Atkinson Community Center, 4 Main St., Atkinson. $7 for adults and $4 for children.

Visit atkinson.nhlions.org.

Classes/workshops • FAT: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY Learn how foods high in fat sneak into our diet, and effective ways you can reduce these foods without sacrificing flavor. Snacks, interactive activities and recipes will be provided. Fri., Jan. 5, 10 a.m. Goffstown Public Library, 2 High St., Goffstown.

Free; registration is requested.

Visit goffstownlibrary.com or call 497-2102.

• WINE CLASS: BEYOND NAPA - THE LESSER KNOWN NORTH COAST This is the first class in a fourweek wine class called “Premium Wines of California,” taught by sommelier and wine educator Svetlana Yanushkevich, proprietor of WineNot Boutique.

Participants will learn about California’s wine country, tasting six wines paired with a variety of fine cheese, salami and gourmet chocolate. The classes will continue biweekly through Feb. 22. Thurs., Jan. 11, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. WineNot Boutique, 221 Main St., Nashua. All four classes can be purchased for $170 per person, or $153 per two or more people registering together. Visit winenotboutique. com or call 204-5569.

• CHOP & STOCK WITH CHEF COREY FLETCHER OF REVIVAL A more advanced knife skills class, learning the techniques for chopping a whole chicken and starting the beginning of stock with Chef Corey Fletcher of Revival Kitchen & Bar in Concord. Take home the chicken and stock ingredients, plus a stock recipe. Please bring your own knives; cutting surfaces will be provided. Mon., Jan. 15, 3 to 5 p.m. Local Baskit, 10 Ferry St., Concord. $36. Visit shop.localbaskit.com or call 219-0882.

• THE WINEMAKER’S KITCHEN “AROUND THE WORLD THEMED” COOKING WITH WINE CLASS, FEATURING ITALY Participants will learn how to make four classic Italian sauces: carbonara sauce, bolognese sauce, pesto and antipasto ideas. Wine will be paired and/or prepared with each item. Amy LaBelle of LaBelle Winery will prepare each item for you to try as well as share tips for entertaining.

The class is suited for couples, singles, family and friends as well as corporate colleagues.

Wed., Jan. 17, 6 to 7:30 p.m.

LaBelle Winery, 345 Route 101, Amherst. $25 general admission; registration is required.

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Throughout the holidays — and even now, with all the holiday leftovers still hanging around — it can be hard to eat your vegetables! It’s so easy to reach for what’s sweet or rich even though our bodies are more susceptible to sickness during the cold months and desperately need healthy foods.

Cabbage is one of those amazing foods our bodies crave during this time. It’s often found in slaws smattered with mayonnaise, but I want to share a healthier version.

Cabbage is in the same family as Brussels sprouts and broccoli but tends to show up in our cuisine in different ways. You can boil it or put it in soups and stews but I think raw is best. The crunchiness of cabbage is what I find most appealing. The U.S. Department of Agriculture tells us that cabbage contains 44 percent and 72 percent Healthier slaw Serves 4-6 as a side

Tastings • FIFTH ANNUAL SOUP NIGHT AT THE BROOKLINE PUBLIC LIBRARY Make a crockpot of your favorite soup, or a new recipe you’ve been meaning to try, or some fresh, homemade bread, and join the library for a night of sampling and sharing. Bring a copy of the recipe to share. There will be three “celebrity” judges from the community and the coveted

of vitamins C and K respectively. Cabbage also has B6 and folate, helpful for metabolism and energy. So it’s quite good for you — exactly the antidote needed for too much pie and mashed potatoes.

Cabbage is apparently pretty easy to grow, as long as you live in a mild climate.

It can be planted before the last frost and despises dryness. It needs a lot of space in a garden, requesting 12 to 24 inches between heads, according to the Old Farmers Almanac. I see it at my local market often but I have to admit I neglect it!

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Learn how to ferment like a pro, combining local cabbage, herbs and seasonings into “tangy probiotic goodness.” Sat., Jan. 20, 10 a.m. to noon. Phillips Exeter Academy, 20 Main St., Exeter. $30 per person. Visit remickmuseum.org.

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Play around with the ratios, taste as you go and add shredded chicken to make into a main salad.

Soup Night Champion Bowl with bragging rights for the year will be awarded. Thurs., Jan. 18, 6:30 p.m. Brookline Public Library, 16 Main St., Brookline. Free. Visit bplnh.weebly.com.

Holiday • ROMANZA 2018: A CHOCOLATE EVENING AT CABONNAY Master chocolatier Richard Tango-Lowy and chef Angelina Jacobs will weave chocolate through seven ethereal courses.

Wed., Feb. 21. Cabonnay, 55 Bridge St., Manchester. $150 per person, or $175 per person with wine pairings included (reservations are being accepted for 13 couples). Visit dancinglion.us or call 625-4043.

Winter farmers markets • ROLLING GREEN WINTER FARMER’S MARKET Goods at the farmer’s market include sustainable, locally grown and

harvested vegetables, meat, eggs, cheese, maple, honey, prepared food and other items for sale by local artisans. Sat., Jan. 6; Sat., Jan. 20; Sat., Feb. 3; Sat., Feb. 17; and Sat., March 3, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Rolling Green Nursery, 64 Breakfast Hill Road, Greenland.

Free; food is priced per item. Visit rollinggreennursery.com or call 436-2732.

• OPENING DAY AT AMHERST FARM & CRAFT MARKET The market offers local, handmade items from NH producers. Products include meats, cheeses, raw milk, eggs, baked goods, jams, baking mixes, seasonings, oils and vinegars, as well as microgreens, body care items and more. Sat., Jan. 6, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. 305 Horace Greeley Highway, Amherst.

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There has been an ongoing debate in the wine business for a while now involving corks and screw-top bottles. There are some of us who feel that cork — real cork, not synthetic — is the only way to go.

But now screw-tops, which were once only used on cheaper bottles of wine, are becoming more standard. Even “very good” (which is subjective of course, but in terms of cost) bottles of wine have screw tops now. So why the switch?

According to an NPR article I read, screw caps have been around a lot longer than we probably realize but just weren’t as popular until more winemakers started using them in the 1980s.

Cork, while a renewable resource, is in short supply, so the move to synthetic corks and screw caps was partially for economic reasons.

Winemakers use screw caps on white wines and reds they intend to be drunk young, not those intended to sit on a wine rack and age, according to the article.

And even the varietal plays a role in this, as some winemakers opt for screw caps and corks for their products, selecting which closure makes more sense. So you may see a screw top on a winery’s pinot grigio and sauvignon blanc but not on its bigger reds, like zinfandel, merlot or cabernet sauvignon. This is intentional. Cork lets a little bit of air into the bottle. For the right wines, this is a good thing.

Screw caps have their advantages. You don’t need to fight with a wine opener.

You don’t have to remember to pack one, either, if you are taking the wine somewhere. Plus, for winemakers, the screw caps can be more reliable through shipment and storage on shelves, according to the article. There is less risk of the wine getting “corked” and thus ruined. But this can be a drawback for many too. There’s a certain elegance and satisfaction to

uncorking a bottle of wine. The sound of a screw top just isn’t the same.

The point here is, don’t shy away from screw-top wines, because they are no longer used just on cheaper wines. Things have changed, and some quality wines have screw tops.

New Seven Birches Wines

Seven Birches Winery in Lincoln released two wines right before Christmas: 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon and 2017 Solstice White.

The California-sourced cab is described as having big, bold flavors with a hint of oak and citrus on the nose. It is dry and medium-bodied and has notes of currant, blackberry and spice with a medium finish. They recommend drinking it on its own or pairing it with aged cheeses or a nice big steak.

The Solstice White is a non-traditional chardonnay, different from the more common versions you get from California, meaning it is unoaked. Instead, it is aged in stainless steel tanks. This makes the wine light and crisp. Stock up now before summer. It’s a great spot to visit during the winter months. Visit sevenbirches.com for more information.

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NH Wine Week 2018, presented by the New Hampshire Liquor Commission, will be here Jan. 21 to Jan. 27. This is something I look forward to every year, as it includes wine dinners, tastings, bottle signings and the Winter Wine Spectacular on Thursday night.

This is my favorite wine event of the year, where I always discover new wines I like. It also brings together some of the top winemakers from the United States and the world, many of whom you can meet right at their tables.

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In her teens, Bradbery was the fourthseason winner of The Voice, delivering the same sort of cellophane-wrapped act that wins fans and makes critics drink; like Carrie Underwood, she’s a vocal vehicle, a show pony, not a writer of hits a la Swift (if you believe your Instagram feed, which you shouldn’t). And that’s OK, really. Here, she submits pedestrian but very listenable tuneage, like the angsty but prettily rendered “Messy,” the Sheryl Crow-gone-full-cowgirl opener “Sway,” and the snapdance-tinged “What Are We Doing.” Main problem is that the blingy crossover stuff strays too far from the bubblegum-pop, but that’s not unsalvageable when the songs are this strong. A- — Eric W. Saeger

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“Best of Intentions” wants to be New Order in the worst way, in the beginning at least, but then it slides into the muted Buzzcocks spazz that comprised most of the last record. “Less than Perfect” features one of the girls singing over a nice, messy Versus-on-amphetamines beat. Once again this is nothing new, but damned if I can think of someone else who’s doing it, which is, of course, key.

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• For the new release list of the first Friday of the year, Jan. 5, I have to tell you folks, I’m staring down the barrel of a whole lot of not much, mostly metal records. Yes, just when I thought it was safe to check my Super Secret Professional Writers Feed, it’s a TV dinner of more metal. I look at next week’s schedule with longing — Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Joe Satriani and a bunch of other stuff, but this week — well, let’s just peel back the cellophane on this Hungry Man frozen hell and talk up the first thing, some band called Shining, with some album called Varg Utan Flock. What do those Dracula-sounding words even mean?

I don’t know what they mean in actual English, but I assume it means that my earbuds are about to be pummelled by people in pancake exorcist makeup who live and record their music and hang by their prehensile feet in some frozen Dracula-Land, with their guitars and their devil music for devils. Yes, it has come to this, we must peer into the abyss that is this black metal or noisedoom, and it is the centerpiece of this week’s Playlist because no other band volunteered to make a normal album for me to talk about. Oh, let’s just do this, before I develop hysterical deafness and auction myself off on eBay as a human statue for rich people. Right, so the “single” is called “Gyllene Portarnas Bro,” whatever that means, and the “tune” is like your basic Neurosis-meets-Fields of the Nephilim bummer-fest with a singer who sounds like Axl Rose trying to do a Cookie Monster voice. We all learned something today, keep that in mind.

• Meh, well, that oughta do it for … oh no, no, it’s more metal, why hath my angels forsaken me? This next band is called Summoning, and they have a new LP, With Doom We Come. Psyched or what? I know I am. Yay, it’s Austrian black metal, listen to this singer guy, he sounds like the guy from Korpiklaani, and the music is like marching music for devils and goblins and the tree Ent army. A can’t miss, folks, hop on this.

• Aren’t you glad that’s over, my friends? It really felt like it was just going to go on and on and … aw, come on, no, what the heck kind of band could Sinistro be, and what kind of Dracula pig latin is Sangue Cassia for a title? Sounds like Icon of Coil but with a girl who’s singing in maybe Japanese, I guess? I need to get away from this, I really — wait, I see a cowboy hat over there! It’s a record from a country singer over there, let’s bounce.

• Country musician Jeremy McComb is from Idaho and he was Larry the Cable Guy’s tour manager. Those qualifications alone are enough to classify him as a non-metal artist, so, I dunno, let’s go see what this person is on about, with his new album Troublemaker, due Jan. 5. Never mind, this guy hasn’t even updated his site in 10 months. It’s honky-tonk music, so it probably sounds like Chet Atkins, who knows. — Eric W. Saeger

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The book follows a 130-yearThough his books are labeled old stone gargoyle named Courtesy photo. middle-grade literature and Penhallow, who keeps watch over often feature young protagonists, an apartment building in modern-day Durham said he doesn’t “write down” to Boston and protects it and its inhabit- his readers, and that his books are enjoyed ants from the evil undead creatures that by kids and adults alike. In The Last Garroam the night. As the last of his kind goyle, he doesn’t shy away from more in the city, Penhallow, who sometimes adult themes, such as existential doubt masquerades as a and questioning 13-year-old boy in what happens after a hooded sweatdeath. shirt, feels isolated “I think as and unappreciated, authors we can which has given expect more out of him a somewhat kids than what we cynical outlook. give them cred“I like writing it for,” he said. “I antiheroes,” Durtry to write smart ham said. “The books for smart hero of this book kids.” isn’t a white knight One of the lesin shining armor. sons Durham hopes PAUL DURHAM He’s a statue, to convey through cranky and opinthe book, he said, is ionated and looks intimidating. … Most that things aren’t always what they seem, people would see him as a monster, but and that it’s important to keep an open I like to turn that on its head so that this mind and explore different viewpoints. ‘monster’ is actually like a guardian “It’s a polarized world,” he said. “It’s superhero who is there to protect people good for young readers to realize that and keep them safe.” not everything they’ve always believed Inspired by his time attending college or have been trained to believe is necesin Boston, Durham wanted to write a sarily true, and if they look beyond the book that explored the city’s paradoxes, surface, they might be surprised at what particularly how a person can feel lone- they find.” ly and invisible even in a crowded place, At the launch party, Durham will read and how the city’s long history is continu- from and sign copies of the book and ously juxtaposed with its modernization. host related games, giveaways and other Many of the locations and legends refer- festivities. enced in The Last Gargoyle are based on He’s currently working on another fact and Durham’s personal research. “scary but funny” middle-grade book, he “I actually took an excursion one said, which will be released in 2019 or afternoon with a camera, trying to find 2020. gargoyles in the city,” he said. “They’re difficult to find, but some do exist … and The Last Gargoyle launch party I think that’s one of the things that’s fun.

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Not belonging is painful. It can break our spirits. It can break our hearts. And it can mold our future. According to Brown, when you don’t belong, you live in constant pain and seek relief by numbing it and/or inflicting it on others; you deny your pain and your denial ensures that you pass it on to those around you and down to your children, or you find the courage to own the pain and develop a level of empathy and compassion for yourself and others that allow you to spot hurt in the world in a unique way.

In Braving the Wilderness, Brown writes about that confusing situation of trying to stand alone but wanting to join in, especially after the 2016 election: “We have geographically, politically, and even spiritually sorted ourselves into like-minded groups in which we slice dissent, grow more extreme in our thinking and consume only facts that support our beliefs — making it easier to ignore evidence that our positions are wrong.”

In this world, we need new skills on how to belong to some groups and how to negotiate with other groups (like the family at the holiday table) to get along. With so many people being divisive these days, America has a new landscape and we all need to understand the skills needed to navigate.

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Braving the Wilderness is a smart, easy read that gives clear and thoughtful communication tools. The book tells you how to recognize a like-minded group, how to act within that group, and how to leave when the group no longer fulfills your needs. Brown is like a modern-day Emily Post offering the skills and manners needed to create strength within yourself so that you can join that strength with others.

As a research professor at the University of Houston, Brown has spent the past 16 years studying courage, vulnerability, shame and empathy and is the author of The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly and Rising Strong. She writes with a confident, empathetic voice, which makes it easy to connect with her message.

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• An evening of poetry: The New England College MFA program in Creative Writing presents a poetry reading with two award-winning poets on Friday, Jan. 5, at 7:30 p.m. at New England College Concord (62 N. Main St., Concord). Paige Ackerson-Kiely is from Connecticut and works as Associate Director of the MFA Writing Program at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of three books of poetry including In No One’s Land (2007), My Love is a Dead Arctic Explorer (2012) and Dolefully, A Rampart Stands (forthcoming 2019).

Allison Titus is from Virginia and has penned three chapbooks of poetry including Instructions from the narwhal (2007), Topography of Tears (2017) and Sob Story (forthcoming 2018); two books of poetry including Sum of every lost ship (2010) and The True Book of Animal Homes (2017); and a novel, The Arsonist’s Song Has Nothing to do with Fire (2014). The program is free and open to the public. Visit nec.edu.

• Stories from the border: Francisco Cantu will visit the New Hampshire Institute of Art’s French Hall (148 Concord St., Manchester) on Sunday, Jan. 7, from 7 to 9 p.m. to discuss his forthcoming book, The Line Becomes a River. Cantu recently received an MFA in nonfiction from the University of Arizona and has had his work featured in The Best American Essays 2016, Ploughshares, Orion and other publications. The new book explores his personal experience working as a U.S. Border Patrol Agent. It’s set to be released in February. The event is free and open to the public. Visit nhia.edu or call 623-0313. — Angie Sykeny

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Darkest Hour (PG-13)

The U.K. faces military disaster and possible invasion by the swiftmoving German forces in late May 1940, just as Winston Churchill becomes prime minister, in Darkest Hour.

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month of time, from early May to the “we shall fight on the beaches” speech delivered in early June. The movie essentially ends with this speech — and when you have writing as naturally cinematic as “until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old” why wouldn’t you use it? (The exact wording of that quote I found on WinstonChurchill. org.) Because Dunkirk also ends with this speech, it gives these movies a “two sides of one coin” feel. That movie gave us a look at this moment in history on the battlefield; this movie gives us the moment in the war room. The details of this, Churchill’s

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Churchill, who makes the unpopular decision to essentially sacrifice a garrison of men at Calais to hold the Germans back, believes a long shot evacuation of Dunkirk and preparation for a defensive war with Germany is the only way to go. But as the days pass and the news from France gets worse he starts to wonder if steely resolve, and the potential destruction of the home island that could come with it, is really the best option.

The movie basically only covers about a

particular slice of British history doesn’t need that kind of gilding, I think, even for Americans (or especially for Americans; see the quote above).

Of course, all of these quibbles feel secondary to Oldman’s Churchill, which is as much the movie as every other part of it combined. Before I knew anything about the movie, I read about how this is the performance to beat in this year’s best actor Oscar race. In addition to its checking the traditional Oscar performance boxes (actor becomes the subject, complicated hero, weighty historical drama — check, check, check), Oldman is truly magnetic here. He is able to present a person, not a Hall of Presidents wax figure, and give that person layers and complexity and a public and private side. We see the private side in scenes with his wife, Clementine (Kristin Scott Thomas), who is also doing a lot even in her more limited role. A cleaner, sleeker movie might have sliced out the Layton character and kept the quiet Churchill to these scenes, where he shows doubt and uncertainty.

The strength of Oldman’s performance pulls the movie through its weaker moments and even makes a kind of ridiculous scene near the end of the movie (I won’t spoil it, but you’ll know it when you see it) not just forgivable but fun in spite of itself. ARated PG-13 for some thematic material.

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• Family affair: The Carter Family is celebrated with two Bach’s Lunch midday shows from David Surette, the first a lecture with musical illustrations. The following week, Surette is joined by Susie and Isa Burke for a full “Keep on the Sunny Side” concert, named after one of the first families of American music’s most beloved songs. The event is free. Go Thursday, Jan. 4, 12:10 p.m., Concord Community Music School, 23 Wall St., Concord. See ccmusicschool.org.

• Snow go: Music returns to Pat’s Peak Ski Area as Dusty Gray kicks off Almost Acoustic Fridays with a set of rock, country and blues. Gray, who also hosts the weekly hootenanny at Concord’s True Brew Barista, will curate the event through spring. Many of the region’s best performers, established and emerging, will stop by for the original music event. Go Friday, Jan. 5, 7 p.m., Sled Pub at Pat’s Peak Ski Area, 686 Flanders Road, Henniker. See patspeak.com.

• Solo band: Close your eyes when Suitcase Junket starts to play and it’s hard to believe it’s just Matt Lorenz on stage. The oneman band is making a name for himself with an array of junkyard instruments and the use of marvelous musical techniques like polyphonic overtones. In the words of one critic, he’s “a true force of nature, a feverous ball of positive energy and light.” Go Saturday, Jan. 6, 8 p.m., Bass Hall, 19 Grove St., Peterborough. Tickets are $17 at pfmsconcerts.org.

• Feel it: An early evening triple bill features New York-based Parallel, an emo band that moved past metalcore to make the melodic Contrast, released last fall. Full of story songs about growing pains, love and adjustment, it’s a rocking affair just the same.

Fellow Empire State band For What It’s Worth and Boston indie rockers Good Intentions open the show. Go Saturday, Jan. 6, 7 p.m., Bungalow Bar & Grill, 333 Valley St., Manchester. It’s an all-ages show. See facebook.com/NewHampshireBooking.

• Roots show: Two singer-songwriters share the stage for a free midweek show.

Meaghan Casey rotates between banjo and guitar on whiskey-soaked gems like “Girl Named Sin” and the brooding “Once,” both from her EP Wolf Hour. Joining her is Bostonbased Nat Roy, whose smooth-voiced songs will appeal to fans of Peter Bradley Adams, City and Colour and Jason Isbell. Go Tuesday, Jan. 9, 9 p.m., Shaskeen Pub, 909 Elm St., Manchester. See bit.ly/2liCoIB. Want more ideas for a fun night out?

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Buffett tribute band plays Palace

By Michael Witthaus

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Music fans looking to shake the winter chill will welcome the return of Jimmy Buffett tribute act Changes in Latitudes to Manchester’s Palace Theatre on Friday, Jan. 5. The popular show includes hits like “Margaritaville,” “Come Monday” and “A Pirate Looks at 40,” along with some deep cuts that may surprise some fans.

“That’s what keeps us sane,” bandleader Steve Kareta said recently. “If we played the same old things year in and year out, we’d all go crazy.”

“Ringling, Ringling” and “Woman Gone Crazy” and the newer “Only Time Will Tell” are examples of the nuggets his now 16-yearold band will perform.

“I like to kick out the really oddball tunes, so we can prove to the Parrotheads that we’re more,” Kareta said. “There’s some depth to what we do.”

He found his calling as a Buffett-alike by accident in the early 2000s. A friend got married in Hawaii, and the guitars came out for the afterparty. Once a full-time musician before real life forced him to take a job with US Airways, Kareta played a few Buffett songs. His friend noticed a striking similarity.

“He kind of leered at me and said, in his tequila drunk wisdom state, ‘You know, you kind of look like Buffett, and you kind of sound like him,’” Kareta recalled. “The idea was born.”

Changes in Latitudes When: Friday, Jan. 5, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester Tickets: $25 at palacetheatre.org

Steve Kareta. Courtesy photo.

Kareta was already a fan, often taking advantage of free flights to see Buffett in concert at different venues across the country.

Then 9/11 happened.

“The airlines were a really ugly place to be, so I started doing shows,” Kareta said. “I figured what the heck, let’s see what happens.”

Soon he was making more money from the band than his job, and 16 years later he hasn’t looked back.

Kareta claims a kinship that goes beyond music.

“There are similarities between Buffett’s style of life and mine,” he said. “He’s a boater and a pilot; I boat and fly, so when I get up and talk about that, it’s genuine. I’m not reading from a script or making it up. ... I can do it with some sense of sincerity and realism.”

When Kareta bops on stage barefoot and smiling, the audience responds in kind. The Manchester crowd is a particular favorite. The band shot a promotional video at the Palace a few years back, and is bringing a photographer and film crew for the upcoming show to

capture material for a website upgrade.

Wintertime shows like the Palace have a special energy, Kareta said.

“There’s a more crazy attitude,” he said.

“They’ve got cabin fever going on, and they cut loose a little bit more.”

He echoes Buffett’s boast that his is “the greatest job in the world.” Changes in Latitudes play some sweet gigs for a cover band and encounter few if any of the pitfalls. They never close a bar at 2 a.m. — more likely they’re at a marina, a concert hall or sometimes even a cruise ship. “Disney took us to Aruba, Barbados, Bermuda, bouncing around the Caribbean,” he said. “My job does not suck. We say that to each other on stage almost every night.”

The one potential hitch to playing the music of a performer who’s still alive and touring is actually a benefit, Kareta said.

“If we hit an area a couple of weeks before Buffett is in town, it seems to help because the mania is kind of starting,” he said. “A lot of people can’t get tickets because they still sell out pretty quickly, so we kind of make up for that.”

There’s no resentment from the Buffett camp either. In fact, the group is friends with many members of the Coral Reefer Band, even collaborating on occasion. Saxophone player Amy Lee once joined Changes in Latitudes for a summer tour, and played on their last two CDs, as did Coral Reefer steel guitarist Doyle Grisham.

Members come and go, as life commitments intervene — a good thing, Kareta said.

He and percussionist Brandon Marger are the only original members still in the band.

There’s a new drummer and saxophone player this time around.

“I like having fresh ears and eyes,” Kareta said. “They bring something different to the music.”

Long-distance rockers Raucous Old 97s play Portsmouth

By Michael Witthaus

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Rhett Miller recently wrote eloquently in The Baffler about the difference between today’s music business and the one his band Old 97s sprang from in the early 1990s. The “micro-market calculation” of bots tracking Twitter and Facebook likes has replaced talent scouts, and a “profoundly isolating” world of recording on ProTools and shooting YouTube videos in bedrooms has obliviated the old ecosystem.

When he was a teenager, the urge to make music was a lifesaving force for Miller after a failed suicide attempt.

“If I was a 14-year-old depressive nowadays,” he wrote, “I’m not sure what would even draw me into the world of music to begin with.”

Yet he persists. His alt country band has made 11 studio records — the latest is 2017’s Graveyard Whistling — and Miller has six solo discs of his own.

“The concept of the album to me is so powerful; it’s up there with a novel,” he said

in a recent phone interview. “Even though it will be chopped up and parsed out on different playlists, I still think that the intention of putting together these songs, in this order, recording them in just such a way, is an act of love that musicians do for the world.”

He’s an an unabashed fan as well.

“I love ... knowing how much goes in to the making of an album; the living that turns into the songs and the songs that turn into the grist for the mill that is the band so you can come out the other side and even that moment when you have to sign off on 59

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Deerfield Nine Lions Tavern 4 North Road 463-7374

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Derry Coffee Factory 55 Crystal Ave 432-6006 Francestown Drae Toll Booth Tavern 14 E Broadway 216-2713 740 2nd NH Tpke N 588-1800 Dover Claremont Cara Irish Pub Common Man Gilford 11 Fourth St. 343-4390 Patrick’s 21 Water Street Dover Brick House 542-6171 18 Weirs Road 293-0841 Taverne on the Square 2 Orchard St. 749-3838 Schuster’s Tavern Falls Grill & Tavern 2 Pleasant St. 680 Cherry Valley Road 421 Central Ave. 287-4416 293-2600 749-0995 Fury’s Publick House Goffstown Concord 1 Washington St. Area 23 Village Trestle 617-3633 State Street 881-9060 25 Main St. 497-8230 Sonny’s Tavern Barley House 132 N. Main 228-6363 83 Washington St. Greenfield 742-4226 Cheers Riverhouse Cafe 17 Depot St. 228-0180 Top of the Chop 4 Slip Road 547-8710 1 Orchard St. 740-0006 Common Man 1 Gulf Street 228-3463 Hampton Dublin Granite Ashworth By The Sea 96 Pleasant St. 227-9000 DelRossi’s Trattoria 295 Ocean Blvd.

73 Brush Brook Rd Hermanos 926-6762 11 Hills Ave. 224-5669 563-7195 Bernie’s Beach Bar Makris 73 Ocean Blvd 926-5050 East Hampstead 354 Sheep Davis Rd Boardwalk Inn & Cafe Pasta Loft 225-7665 139 Ocean Blvd.

220 E. Main St. Penuche’s Ale House 929-7400 378-0092 6 Pleasant St. Breakers at Ashworth 228-9833 295 Ocean Blvd. 926-6762 Epping Pit Road Lounge Cloud 9 Holy Grail 388 Loudon Rd 225 Ocean Blvd.

64 Main St. 679-9559 226-0533 601-6102 Popovers Red Blazer Community Oven 11 Brickyard Square 72 Manchester St. 845 Lafayette Road 734-4724 224-4101 601-6311 Telly’s Tandy’s Top Shelf CR’s Restaurant 235 Calef Hwy 1 Eagle Square 287 Exeter Road 679-8225 856-7614 929-7972

Thursday, Jan. 4 Claremont Exeter Taverne on the Square: Charlie Station 19: Thursday Night Live Ashland Common Man: Jim McHugh & Chronopoulos Steve McBrian (Open) Gilford Concord Patrick’s: Eric Grant Auburn Common Man: Rock House Auburn Pitts: Open Jam w/ Rangers Hampton Gordy and Diane Pettipas Granite: CJ Poole Duo CR’s: Rico Barr Duo Wally’s Pub: Mechanical Shark Bedford Dover & Country Music DJ Copper Door: Dave Gerard 603 Bar & Lounge: DJ Pez Fury’s: Bandband Hanover Boscawen Salt hill Pub: Irish Trad’ Session Alan’s: John Pratte Epping Randy Miller/Roger Kahle Telly’s: Austin Pratt

Logan’s Run 816 Lafayette Road 926-4343 Millie’s Tavern 17 L St. 967-4777 Purple Urchin 167 Ocean Blvd.

929-0800 Ron Jillian’s 44 Lafayette Road 929-9966 Ron’s Landing 379 Ocean Blvd 929-2122 Savory Square Bistro 32 Depot Square 926-2202 Sea Ketch 127 Ocean Blvd.

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Derryfield Country Club 625 Mammoth Road 623-2880 Laconia Foundry 405 Pub 50 Commercial St. 405 Union Ave 524-8405 836-1925 Broken Spoke Saloon Fratello’s 1072 Watson Rd 155 Dow St. 624-2022 866-754-2526 Jewel Margate Resort 61 Canal St. 836-1152 76 Lake St. 524-5210 Karma Hookah & Naswa Resort Cigar Bar 1086 Weirs Blvd.

Elm St. 647-6653 366-4341 KC’s Rib Shack Paradise Beach Club 837 Second St. 627-RIBS 322 Lakeside Ave. Murphy’s Taproom 366-2665 494 Elm St. 644-3535 Patio Garden Penuche’s Music Hall Lakeside Ave. 1087 Elm St. 206-5599 Pitman’s Freight Room Salona Bar & Grill 94 New Salem St. 128 Maple St. 624-4020 527-0043 Shaskeen Tower Hill Tavern 909 Elm St. 625-0246 264 Lakeside Ave. Shorty’s 366-9100 1050 Bicentennial Drive Hanover Whiskey Barrel 625-1730 Canoe Club 546 Main St. 884-9536 Stark Brewing Co. 27 S. Main St. 643-9660 500 Commercial St. Jesse’s Tavern Lebanon 625-4444 224 Lebanon St 643-4111 Salt Hill Pub Strange Brew Tavern Salt Hill Pub 2 West Park St. 448-4532 88 Market St. 666-4292 7 Lebanon St. 676-7855 TGI Fridays Skinny Pancake Londonderry 1516 Willow St. 644-8995 3 Lebanon St. 540-0131 Coach Stop Tavern Whiskey’s 20 176 Mammoth Rd 20 Old Granite St. Henniker 437-2022 641-2583 Country Spirit Pipe Dream Brewing Wild Rover 262 Maple St. 428-7007 40 Harvey Road 21 Kosciuszko St. Pat’s Peak Sled Pub 404-0751 669-7722 24 Flander’s Road Stumble Inn 428-3245 20 Rockingham Road Meredith 432-3210 Giuseppe’s Hillsboro 312 Daniel Webster Hwy Tooky Mills Loudon 279-3313 9 Depot St. 464-6700 Hungry Buffalo 58 New Hampshire 129 Merrimack Hillsborough 798-3737 Homestead Mama McDonough’s 641 Daniel Webster Hwy 5 Depot St. 680-4148 Manchester 429-2022 Turismo British Beer Company Jade Dragon 55 Henniker St. 680-4440 1071 S. Willow St. 515 DW Hwy 424-2280 232-0677 Merrimack Biergarten Hooksett Bungalow Bar & Grille 221 DW Hwy 595-1282 Asian Breeze 333 Valley St. 792-1110 Tortilla Flat 1328 Hooksett Rd Cafe la Reine 594 Daniel Webster Hwy 621-9298 915 Elm St 232-0332 262-1693 DC’s Tavern Central Ale House 1100 Hooksett Road 23 Central St. 660-2241 Milford 782-7819 City Sports Grille J’s Tavern 216 Maple St. 625-9656 63 Union Sq. 554-1433 Hudson Club ManchVegas Pasta Loft AJ’s Sports Bar 50 Old Granite St. 241 Union Sq. 11 Tracy Lane 718-1102 222-1677 672-2270 Central Ale: Jonny Friday Blues City Sports Grille: DJ Dave Foundry: DJ Marco Valentin Fratello’s: Jazz Night Laconia Great North Ale Works: Alli Whiskey Barrel: Djdirectdrive Beaudry Hosts Manchvegas: Open Acoustic Lebanon Jam w/ Jim Devlin Salt hill: Celtic Open Session Penuche’s Music Hall: College Night - DJ Stef Londonderry Shaskeen: Alpha Process, One Coach Stop: Corey Brackett Way Drive, and Project 3 Strange Brew: Seldom Playrights Manchester Bungalow: Young Culture, Wolves Whiskey’s 20: DJs Shawn White/ Ryan Nichols/Mike Mazz Among Sleep, Pillbook & more Hillsborough Turismo: Line Dancing

Shaka’s Bar & Grill 11 Wilton Road 554-1224 Tiebreakers at Hampshire Hills 50 Emerson Road 673-7123 Union Coffee Co. 42 South St. 554-8879 Moultonborough Buckey’s 240 Governor Wentworth Hwy 476-5485 Castle in the Clouds 455 Old Mountain Road 478-5900 Nashua 110 Grill 27 Trafalgar Sq 943-7443 5 Dragons 28 Railroad Sq 578-0702 Agave Azul 94-96 Main St. 943-7240 Boston Billiard Club 55 Northeastern Blvd.

943-5630 Burton’s Grill 310 Daniel Webster Hwy 688-4880 Country Tavern 452 Amherst St. 889-5871 Dolly Shakers 38 E. Hollis St. 577-1718 Fody’s Tavern 9 Clinton St. 577-9015 Fratello’s Italian Grille 194 Main St. 889-2022 Haluwa Lounge Nashua Mall 883-6662 Killarney’s Irish Pub 9 Northeastern Blvd.

888-1551 O’Shea’s 449 Amherst St. 943-7089 Peddler’s Daughter 48 Main St. 821-7535 Pig Tale 449 Amherst St. 864-8740 Portland Pie Company 14 Railroad Sq 882-7437 Shorty’s 48 Gusabel Ave 882-4070 Stella Blu 70 E. Pearl St. 578-5557 Thirsty Turtle 8 Temple St. 402-4136 New Boston Molly’s Tavern 35 Mont Vernon Rd 487-2011

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Peterborough Harlow’s Pub 3 School St. 924-6365 La Mia Casa (Wreck Room) 1 Jaffrey Road 924-6262 Pittsfield Main Street Grill & Bar 32 Main St. 436-0005 Plaistow Crow’s Nest 181 Plaistow Rd 974-1686

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Portsmouth British Beer Co. 103 Hanover St. 501-0515 Cafe Nostimo 72 Mirona Road 436-3100 Demeters Steakhouse 3612 Lafayette Rd. 766-0001 Dolphin Striker 15 Bow St. 432-5222 Fat Belly’s 2 Bow St. 610-4227 Grill 28 200 Grafton Road (Pease Golf Course) 433-1331 Hilton Garden Inn 100 High St. 431-1499 Latchkey 41 Vaughan Mall 766-3333 Martingale Wharf 99 Bow St. 431-0901 Oar House 55 Ceres St. 436-4025 Portsmouth Book & Bar 40 Pleasant St. 427-9197 Portsmouth Gas Light 64 Market St. 430-9122 Press Room 77 Daniel St. 431-5186 Redhook Brewery 1 Redhook Way 430-8600 Ri Ra Irish Pub 22 Market Square 319-1680 Rudi’s 20 High St. 430-7834

Raymond Cork n’ Keg 4 Essex Drive 244-1573

Sunapee Anchorage 77 Main St. 763-3334 Sunapee Coffee House Rte. 11 & Lower Main St. 229-1859

Salem Jocelyn’s Lounge 355 S. Broadway 870-0045 Sayde’s Restaurant 136 Cluff Crossing 890-1032 Seabrook Castaways 209 Ocean Blvd 760-7500

Claremont Taverne: Wild Nytz

Newmarket Stone Church: Irish Music w/ Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki & Jim Prendergast

Concord Area 23: First Fridays with Hank and Chas Pit Road: Nuff Said Band Tandy’s: DJ Iceman Streetz Derry Coffee Factory: Dave LaCroix

Portsmouth 3S Artspace: Jacob Joliff w/ Kenny Brothers Fat Belly’s: DJ Flex Martingale: Rick Watson Thirsty Moose: Thirsty Thursday DJ Night

Dover 603: DJ Music / Frisky Friday Top of the Chop: Funkadelic Fridays

Rochester Lilac City Grille: Tom Boisse

Gilford Patrick’s: Dueling Pianos: Gardner Berry vs Matt Langley Schuster’s: Dan The Muzak Man

Seabrook Chop Shop: Spent Fuel Friday, Jan. 5 Belmont Lakes Region Casino: DJ Mark 118087

Rochester China Palace 101 S. Main St. 332-3665 Gary’s 38 Milton Rd. 335-4279 Governor’s Inn 78 Wakefield St. 332-0107 Lilac City Grille 103 N. Main St 332-3984 Mel Flanagan’s Irish Pub & Café 50 N. Main St. 3326357 Radloff’s 38 North Main St. 948-1073 Revolution Tap Room 61 N Main St. 244-3022 Smokey’s Tavern 11 Farmington Rd 330-3100

O’Shea’s: Mando & The Goat Riverwalk Cafe: Way Up South

Salem Copper Door: Paul Rainone

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Weare Stark House Tavern 487 S. Stark Highway 529-0901

Windham Common Man 88 Range Road 898-0088 Old School Bar & Grill 49 Range Road 458-6051

Wolfeboro Wolfeboro Inn 90 N Main St. 569-3016

Henniker Country Spirit: Reid Trevaskis Sled Pub: Dusty Grey Almost Acoustic Kickoff Hooksett Asian Breeze: DJ Albin DC’s: Among The Living Hudson The Bar: Rocking Ronnie Valentino’s: Kim Riley

Laconia Pitman’s: Tylor Road Bluegrass Whiskey Barrel: Eric Grant Pajama Party Londonderry Coach Stop: RC Thomas

Manchester British Beer: Peter Higgins Derryfield: Never In Vegas Foundry: Chad Verbeck Fratello’s: Steve Tolley Jewel: Gwello, Time Out Timmy, Marianne Toilet & The Runs, The Negans, Devlyn Sydus ManchVegas: Encircle Shaskeen: When Particles Collide/Donaher

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Epping Telly’s: Clint Lapointe & Paul Costley

Milford Tiebreakers: Beth Mangano Nashua Country Tavern: Jeff Mrozek Fody’s: Slack Tide Fratello’s: Paul Luff Riverwalk: B3 Kings, Dave Decinso and Marty Ballou Stella Blu: Chris Cavanaugh Thirsty Turtle: Farenheit Friday - DJ D-Original New Boston Molly’s: Brad Chouinard

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Plaistow Crow’s Nest: Tester

Hooksett DC’s Tavern: Higher Ground

Portsmouth 3S Artspace: Botanical Transmutations British Beer: Amanda McCarthy Duo Grill 28: Joe Hanley Martingale Wharf: Justin Gray & the Meggatones Nibblesworth: John Irish Portsmouth Book & Bar: New England Bluegrass Band Portsmouth Gaslight: Paul Rainone/Austin Pratt Thirsty Moose: Mockingbirds

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Thursday, Jan. 4 Manchester Strange Brew Tavern: Laugh Attic Open Mic Friday, Jan. 5 Derry Tupelo: Artie Januario & Ryan Gartley

Newmarket Stone Church: Sam Ike/Matt Barry

Saturday, Jan. 6 Manchester Headliners: Tom Hayes

Nashua Agave Azul: DJ Roberto Tropical Saturday Boston Billiard Club: DJ Anthem Throwback Country Tavern: Justin Cohn Fody’s: Shelf Life Haluwa: Rock City Riverwalk: The Alchemystics Stella Blu: Triana Wilson

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New Boston Molly’s: Boogie Men/Dan Murphy Newmarket Stone Church: Amorphous Band, Plains and The Everythingness Peterborough Harlow’s: Senie Hunt Plaistow Crow’s Nest: Among The Living Portsmouth 3S Artspace: Old 97’s British Beer: Kevin & Ashley Martingale: Jody & Rob Portsmouth Book & Bar: Nick Phaneuf & Jim Dozet Portsmouth Gaslight: Chad Verbeck/Chris Lester Thirsty Moose: One Step Ahead

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Wednesday, Jan. 10 Manchester Shaskeen: Steve Bjork, Chris Pennie, and Kyle Crawford Murphy’s Taproom: Laugh Free or Die Open Mic

Thursday, Jan. 11 Manchester Strange Brew Tavern: Laugh Attic Open Mic Saturday, Jan. 13 Manchester Headliners: Bill Simas

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Dover Fury’s Publick House: Tim Theriault and Friends Sonny’s: Soggy Po’ Boys Gilford Patrick’s: Paul Luff hosts

Northwood Umami: Bluegrass w/ Cecil Abels Portsmouth Ri Ra: Irish Sessions

Meredith Giuseppe’s: Michael Bourgeois

Salem Copper Door: Chad Lamarsh

Merrimack Homestead: Triana Wilson

Monday, Jan. 8 Concord Hermanos: Paul Bourgelais

Nashua Fratello’s Italian Grille: RC Thomas

Hanover Canoe Club: Marko The Magician Tableside Salt hill Pub: Hootenanny

Newmarket Stone Church: Bluegrass Jam

North Hampton Barley House: Great Bay Sailor

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Portsmouth The Goat: Rob Benton

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Seabrook Chop Shop: Bare Bones

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Manchester Backyard Brewery: Acoustic Tuesday Fratello’s: Justin Cohn Shaskeen: Meaghan Casey/Nat Roy Strange Brew: Jam Whiskey’s 20: Sammy Smoove & DJ Gera

Manchester Central Ale: Jonny Friday Duo Fratello’s: Rob Wolfe or Phil Jacques

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Wednesday, Jan. 10 Concord Hermanos: Dan Walker

Dover 603 Bar & Lounge: Rock the Mic w/ DJ Coach

Dublin DelRossi’s Trattoria: Celtic and Old Timey Jam Session

Gilford Patrick’s: Cody James - Ladies Night Hampton CR’s: John Irish

Hillsborough Turismo: Blues Jam w Jerry Paquette & the Runaway Bluesmen

Londonderry Coach Stop: Chris Lester Harold Square: Houdana the Magician (Tableside Magic)

Manchester Cabonnay: Piano Wednesday Edward Bemish Fratello’s: Kim Riley Penuche’s Music Hall: Tom Ballerini Jam Merrimack Homestead: Mark Huzar Nashua Country Tavern: Brad Bosse Fratello’s: Justin Cohn Portsmouth Ri Ra: Erin’s Guild The Goat POR: Rob Benton

Rochester Lilac City Grille: Tim Theriault - Ladies Night

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The Old 97s’ most recent CD is full of the darkly tuneful songs Miller is revered for.

Recorded at the same studio used for their 1996 major label debut Too Far to Care, the 11-track effort is rugged, reflective and full of twanging fury. It’s a gem, from the blazing opener “I Don’t Want to Die in this Town” to the buoyant Nicole Adkins co-write “Those Were the Days.”

Graveyard Whistling is a collaborationrich record, with contributions also from Butch Walker and Brandi Carlile. The latter sings the voice of the almighty on the rollicking “Good With God,” which she also co-wrote.

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“I didn’t want to be one more guy putting words in the mouth of a female character, much less a female deity,” Miller said of inviting Carlile to help finish the song.

“She is such a cool woman, with such a great voice; I am really honored to have her be part of it.”

He first encountered Carlile at a Johnny Cash tribute.

“I had just met Kris Kristofferson, who is one of my all-time heroes, and he and I were standing on the side of the stage,” Miller said. “I’m sure I was whipping him about how great he is or just some annoying thing, and he was being really patient and sweet about it, when all of a sudden we were both transfixed by this voice that was coming out of this tiny little woman on the stage 20 feet away from us.”

“I Don’t Want to Die in this Town,” which also kicks off most Old 97s concerts, contains a couple of nods to Miller’s musical forebears, a trick dating back to the band’s second album. In the chorus, the line “I’m just a singer in a rock ‘n roll band” echoes the Moody Blues, and “there was a highway/Frank singing ‘My Way’ — or maybe it was Sid” name-checks Sinatra and late punk rocker Vicious.

“I really love being part of the continuum of rock and roll and what came before,” Miller said, “the idea that this is a job and that there are all these people similar to me that have devoted their lives to doing this weird job. ... When I drop a little Easter egg in there that references some old song, it’s always just out of love, because I am honored to be part of the continuum.”

Miller’s own children don’t quite share this reverence.

“It’s pretty funny, because my kids could not care less about what I do, they are so unimpressed,” he said. “But to me, that’s sweet. I’d rather they just see it as a job than buy into the mystique.”

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63 Letterman’s rival, once 64 Earliest stage 65 What turns STEM to STEAM? 66 See 3-Down 67 Cold weather range Down 1 Contacts via Skype, maybe 2 ___ Tomé and Príncipe 3 66-Across’s location 4 Current “Match Game” host Baldwin 5 Making sense 6 Get rid of 7 Spiritual advisor of sorts 8 Makes a lot of dough 9 Fabric measures (abbr.)

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22 Marinade in some Spanish cuisine 23 Make a comeback 24 Health problem on some summer days 27 Random quantity 30 Café au lait container 31 Regimens that may be faddish 32 Out in the country 36 Say 37 John Irving’s “A Prayer for Owen ___” 39 Holy fish?

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Cancer (June 21 – July 22) Making up dance routines is a blast. And my English muffin pineapple pizzas are amazing. But as an after-school activity, you can’t beat going through a magic mirror, can you? Probably not, but it’s not a competition.

Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) I sneak around the side of the house. This time I tiptoe. Not that I’m making a ton of noise in my polar bear booties. At least the moon is bright, and I can see where I’m going. Polar bear booties for the win!

Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) It’s eleven forty-five and I haven’t been able to fall asleep. I am too upset about the Robin situation. Also, my room is very cold. … My parents keep trying to fix the heater but can’t seem to get it right. Tonight I put on two pairs of socks, green flannel pajamas, a fleece sweatshirt, and a blue-and-white striped knit hat to go to bed. Yes. A hat. Maybe some warm coals for your feet.

Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) I don’t like swimming in regular water. Never mind freezing-cold water filled with ice shards poking me and trying to turn me into a human ice cube.

At least there are no sharks in lakes. There are no sharks in lakes, right? Usually not.

Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) The Snow Queen just froze my dog. Don’t just stand there! Thaw her out!

Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) The mountain is packed with evergreen trees. It feels like a maze. A snowy maze on a mountain. At least it stopped snowing. “This would be a lot easier in a chairlift,” I pant. “You can do it!” he says. Jonah takes wall-climbing lessons on the weekends. I do not. You might think that climbing lessons wouldn’t make a difference in this situation, since we are climbing a snowy mountain and not a wall, but it does.

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Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) It’s recess and I’m hanging upside down from the monkey bars. I should be concentrating on not falling. But instead I’m thinking about what I’m going to do with Robin and Frankie, my two best friends, when they come over after school. It’s recess and you can think about whatever you want to think about.

Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) The problem is that Mother is sitting on the back porch in a rocking chair, drinking something from a large chipped mug. Hot chocolate, probably. Of course SHE gets to drink as much hot chocolate as she wants. I bet she even gets marshmallows. Why is she still up? Hot chocolate could serve as a welcome distraction.

Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) And suddenly, I feel kind of silly about the whole Robin thing. Because of course people can have more than one best friend. After all, up until recently, Robin and Frankie were my two best friends. Maybe it wasn’t very fair of me to say that Robin had to choose between us and Penny. It wasn’t.

Aries (March 21 – April 19) My parents will not be happy if they discover that there is a talking mirror in the basement. They don’t have to be, but if there is one, there is one.

Taurus (April 20 – May 20) I drop my branches and run. Slide-run is more like it.

It is harder to run on snow than you’d think.

I wish I was wearing Jonah’s soccer cleats.

Proper equipment is key.

Gemini (May 21 – June 20) I want to respond, but since I was more frozen than he was, it’s taking me longer to defrost. Finally, my arms start to tingle and I can feel them again. Slowly, I wrap them around Jonah. I can’t talk yet, but our hug is saying everything our words can’t. Messages travel on

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British model Chloe Hammond, 27, also known as Chloe Rebelle, succumbed to a fit of road rage on March 19 when Julie Holloway, 56, tapped on her car window to ask her to stop using her phone while driving in traffic in London. Metro News reports that Hammond responded by parking her Audi TT and then “came out of nowhere” toward Holloway, kicking her in the stomach, grabbing Holloway’s hair and biting off a piece of her ear. Holloway, bloodied and disturbed, didn’t realize part of her ear was missing until someone “picked it up off the floor.” In October, Hammond was convicted of causing grievous bodily harm with intent in Southwark Crown Court, and on Dec. 18, a judge sentenced her to five years in jail.

In Birmingham, England, renowned 53-year-old surgeon Simon Bramhall pleaded guilty on Dec. 13 to branding his initials onto human livers using an argon beam during transplant surgeries. A colleague first noticed the initials “S.B.” in 2013 on an organ during a follow-up surgery, which sparked an investigation, the Guardian reported. Bramhall resigned in 2014 and acknowledged that marking his patients’ livers had been a mistake. But former patient Tracy Scriven of Dyrham, Wiltshire, told the Birmingham Mail that Inexplicable he should be reinstated. “Is it really that Don’t you ever just want to get away? bad? I wouldn’t have cared if he did it to An unnamed man in Catherine Way, Bathme. The man saved my life.” easton, England, started digging a “very deep” hole in his yard weeks ago, but caused a neighborhood disruption when Inept Santa moves Jesse Berube, 32, of Rocklin, Califor- he climbed into the hole on Dec. 12 and nia, tried using a favorite trick of Old St. refused to come out. Neighbor Dominic Nick — but he got stuck in the chimney of Denny told the Bath Chronicle that “it starta Citrus Heights business he was trying to ed at about 4 a.m. ... when there was a lot rob on Dec. 13 and had to call police for help. ABC News reported that Sacramento firefighters responded and used special equipment to free Berube, who now faces one count of burglary. Citrus Heights police said Berube “does not have the same skills as the real deal.”

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Lorette Taylor of Burlington, Ontario, Canada, responsible for meting out her family’s inheritance after her father’s death sent a bank draft last February to her brother, Louis Paul Hebert, for $846,648.46 via UPS. Hebert waited at his local UPS store for the check to arrive — but nothing came in. “I came back in the evening. Nothing shows up,” he told the CBC. UPS could trace the package only to its distribution center north of Toronto, so along with an apology for Hebert’s inconvenience, UPS refunded the $32 shipping fee. Taylor’s bank, TD Canada Trust, initially assured her the check would be canceled, but two days later refused to issue a new draft until Taylor signed an indemnity agreement making her and her heirs liable for life should the

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