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CHEER IN FUN HAMPTON WEDDING P. 13 VENUES P. 14 FEBRUARY 6 - 19, 2020

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INSIDE: LOCAL AUTHORS ALL ABOUT ROMANCE

A WORD FROM LARRY

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Football, love and winter Another great Super Bowl game! Congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs. Also hats off to a great season for the San Francisco 49er’s. I have to admit that it was different Larry Marsolais watching it without the Patriots playing, but it was a great game.

Let’s talk about Valentine’s Day, which is Friday, Feb. 14. Whether you are married, have a girlfriend or boyfriend or whatever kind of relationship you are in, do something on Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t have to be big — go out for dinner, see a movie, go to a show, or just give a card to that special person in your life. It will go a long way.

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I guess we are only supposed to have six weeks left of winter, but the way this weather has been going, don’t count on it. Below freezing one day and then in the 50s, snow than rain — and it was a very mild January! Either way, spring officially starts on March 20.

Enjoy this issue, and look for our next one on Feb. 20.

As always feel free to call me anytime at 603-935-5096 to discuss local issues or to place an ad.

Larry Marsolais is the general manager of the Seacoast Scene and the former president of the Hampton Rotary Club.

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On Tuesday, Feb. 18, the Salisbury Public Library presents Living History: Sheryl Faye Presents Susan B. Anthony from 4 to 5 p.m.

Susan B. Anthony was a women’s rights activist who devoted her life to racial, gender, and educational equality. She played a prominent role in the women’s suffrage movement and the 19th Amendment. In 2020 we celebrate not only 100 years since the ratification of the 19th Amendment, we’re also celebrating Susan B. Anthony’s 200th birthday. This program is 45 minutes long and is recommended for ages 6 to adult.

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The Seacoast Science Center at Odiorne State Park in Rye is hosting a program about ospreys along the Yellowstone River in Montana, presented by a wildlife biologist from Montana.

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At the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire in Dover, Friday, Feb. 7, is the monthly day for $3 per person admission after 3 p.m. as part of a “first Friday” program. The museum is open until 7 p.m. on First Fridays of each month; it corresponds with the monthly Dover Art Walk, which runs from 4 to 8 p.m. Find a list of special deals during the Art Walk at doverartwalk.com. Or check out the Children’s Museum on Sunday, Feb. 9, for the T-Rex Tea Party from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Tickets to this special Valentine’s Day events will cost $15 per person (children 12 months old and younger are admitted for free) and are available through the museum’s website in advance (preregistration is required).

The Crackle & Hops Winter Festival, which was postponed due to weather in January, is now scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 8, from 3 to 8 p.m. at Smuttynose Brewing Co. (105 Towle Farm Road, Hampton), will feature special beer releases, food, music, bonfires and more.

Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door.

Admission is free for attendees under 21. Visit smuttynose.com or call 436-4026.

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Cymbidium x CoolWoka Flower box. Courtesy photo.

The Seacoast area has all kinds of opportunities to make Valentine’s Day sweet, from candy and chocolates to comedy shows, live musical performances, cooking classes and more. Check out these gift ideas, events and activities — some happening on Valentine’s Day, which is Friday, Feb. 14, and others happening in the days leading up to it.

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Indulge in sweets and beer at Smuttynose Brewery in Hampton, on Thursday, Feb. 13, from 6 to 8 p.m. Smuttynose, in collaboration with Renee Terry, owner of Sweet Cheeks in Amesbury, is hosting a Valentine’s Cookies and Brews event in the brewery.

“This class is a cookie decorating class, where I will be teaching everyone different techniques of frosting cookies,” Terry said. “Each person will have four cookies to decorate with royal icing … while sipping on craft beer from Smuttynose.”

Tickets must be purchased ahead; visit smuttynose.com. The restaurant will be open as well for those who want to enjoy a meal before or after the class.

A few towns over on that same night, Tuscan Market in Portsmouth is offering a Valentine-themed three-course cooking class. Inspired by the Sunday dinners in Italy where meals are made

from scratch and shared with loved ones, Tuscan Kitchen and Market both are driven to keep the traditions alive and use food as a way to bring everyone you love together.

“We first tried our three-course Valentine’s-themed cooking class in Salem three years ago and it’s sold out every year since! It’s been perfect for the couple looking to go out and try something new, or for the spouse looking to surprise their valentine with a gourmet three-course dinner the following day,” said Executive VP Lindsay Rotondi. “Being in the heart of downtown, we felt that Tuscan Market in Portsmouth would be a perfect location to carry this tradition.”

And don’t sweat it if every time you go into the kitchen things don’t go well for you — Rotondi said that if you know how to boil water, then “you can make mozzarella from scratch and prepare a decadent pasta dish.”

Tuscans’ Culinary Director Dave Crinieri will be there to teach all attendees the tips and tricks needed to cook these meals, which have been passed on by generations prior.

The class costs $68 and tickets must be purchased by Feb. 12. The price of admission will cover the three courses that you will learn to make.

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and hand-stretch mozzarella for Caprese salads, bruschetta, etc. Crinieri will be there to educate participants on all the ways they can use the mozzarella in their dishes.

The second course is orecchiette pasta made from scratch, with a complimentary package of flour used at Tuscan Kitchen for participants to bring home. After the pasta is completed, participants will learn how to make Bolognese sauce to pair with their pasta.

For dessert, participants will learn how to make ricotta filling for their cannolis.

To top it all off, recipe cards will be provided to guests for them to bring home and use in their culinary adventures or even to pass it on to friends and family, just as so many, including the Tuscan Kitchen family, have done in the past.

“We are excited about bringing the community together, to share the thousand-year-old recipes from Italy using time-honored techniques. Our cooking classes turn our guests into experienced culinary epicureans and the knowledge

and skills shared during these classes will catapult any aspiring chef to the next phase in their culinary adventure,” Rotondi said.

Churchill’s Garden Center in Exeter has other ideas of ways to “wow” your significant other. In their Teen/Adult Valentine Centerpiece class on Sunday, Feb. 9, at 2 p.m. attendees will be given an opportunity to create a special cut flower centerpiece for that special someone.

“It’s a time for families or couples to spend time together. One of our designers will also be giving people the education on how to properly care for their flowers and what combinations and composition of flowers work best,” said Natalie Fream, event coordinator at Churchill’s.

“There will be a variety of cut flowers, whatever is out and fresh. Colors of pinks, purples, whites and reds.”

The class costs $35 and it covers all the supplies, flowers and vase, which may be clear glass or floral design, depending on supplies. While Churchill’s doesn’t

Adventurous date ideas Go beyond dinner and a movie at some of these fun places on the Seacoast.

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• Blitz Air Park 140 West Road, Portsmouth, 501-0853, blitzairpark.com. Open jumping rates of $17 per hour, $22 for a 90 minute session and $27 for a two hour session. Grip socks ($3 per pair) are required.

• Indoor Ascent 47 Broadway, Dover, 742-7848, indoorascent.com. One-hour introductory climbing lesson for $40 per person, which includes all the necessary equipment, plus a one-week membership for you to return and hone your skills.

• Monkey Mind Escape Rooms, 10 Vaughan Mall, Portsmouth, 498-8997, monkeymindescape.com • Portsmouth Escape Room, 95 Brewery Lane, No. 13, Portsmouth, 380-9160, portsmouthescaperoom.com • Seacoast Set Dancers present Irish set dance, Friday, Feb. 14, 7 to 9 p.m., Durham Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall, 20 Madbury Road, Durham, $5 per person, seacoastsetdancers.org

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do cut flowers, they do have a variety of reach out to those who have been selectflowering house plants and potted plants. ed as the show gets closer.

“For anyone else in attendance, we will definitely be asking the audience for sugLove on stage Stranger Than Fiction Improv & Com- gestions during the night and might even edy hosts its third annual Head Over need a few people to join us on stage to Heels: Love Improvised show at the help inspire our scenes, so there truly is Newmarket Millspace starting at 8 p.m. something for everyone,” said Martell.

Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at on Valentine’s Day — Friday, Feb. 14.

“The premise is pretty simple: real-life the door. You can purchase the tickets couples send us their love stories and a by visiting their website, stfimprov.com. handful of anecdotes are chosen for the You can also send your stories to info@ show. The love stories are kept secret stfimprov.com.

“Head Over Heels is heartfelt and from the cast, only being read aloud by the host the evening of the performance. hilarious. It’s the most fun, engaging The improvisers then use the stories as and riotous Valentine’s Day you’ll ever inspiration for scenes,” said Jacque- have,” she said.

You can also find laughs at The Wood line Martell, promotions chair for the Barn in Exeter, hosting its first night organization.

Each year they offer new stories and of Wood Barn comedy with a Valenbecause of the improvisational aspect of tine’s Day special at 8 p.m. featuring it there is no guarantee what will happen Ray Harrington, Chris D, Sara Day, Chris on stage and no two shows are ever alike. Machado and host Josh Harrington. The “We might do a Shakespearean mono- event costs $15 and you can buy the ticklogue based on a Tinder text, we maybe ets online by visiting their website.

And on Valentine’s Day, Garrison we’ll reenact a first date in the style of a Wes Andersen film, or sing a duet about Players’ Showstoppers troupe presents a proposal gone wrong. The possibilities Seasons of Love, a musical revue that are endless! Since everything is made up covers the full range of emotions and on the spot the results are always unex- draws from Broadway shows through the years. The show features selections from pected and uproarious,” she said.

They are only able to take stories from Carousel, Fiddler on the Roof, Rent and six or seven couples, but if you and your much more. The performance is Friday, partner decided to submit a story and it is Feb. 14, at the Garrison Players Arts Censelected, you attend for free; Martell will ter in Rollinsford at 8 p.m. Tickets 10

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If you are a fan of music and dancing, then look no further than the Valentine Bash with WildFire Band on Saturday, Feb. 8, at 8:30 at the Blue Ocean Music Hall in Salisbury. WildFire is regarded as New England’s premier dance party band, according to the venue’s website, so ditch the dinner reservations and throw on your dancing shoes.

Doors for that show open at 7:30 p.m. and you can purchase tickets online at blueoceanhall.com for $15 or $17 on the day of the show. The price of admission covers a complementary Cupid’s chocolate martini sample, red glow necklaces to light up the night, fortune cookies and chocolates, different types of games to win some Valentine’s Day merchandise, a photo booth and $500 grand prize giveaway.

There are also two shows at the Stone Church in Newmarket; one of them is on Thursday, Feb. 13, featuring two local Seacoast area bands, Sneaky Miles with Watson Park. Tickets for that show are $5 for 21+-year-olds and $8 for under 21. The other show is Valentine’s Day with Bearly Dead, at 9 p.m. Tickets for that are $12 online at stonechurchrocks. com and $15 at the door and it is 21+.

This show is great for fans of the Grateful Dead or jam bands; “Bearly Dead is a setlist-nerd’s dream with over 230 songs in rotation,” according to the venue’s website.

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At The Chocolatier in Exeter, owner Jason Martone is no stranger to the rush of Valentine’s Day. “We have fun Valentine’s Day themed stuff down in the showroom that has been around for years. We are always trying to introduce new things just to keep things fresh,” he said.

The items that seem to be fan favorites according to Martone include the chocolate-covered cherries for $6 a pound,

Decorate sweet treats at Cookies and Brews at Smuttynose Brewery. Courtesy photo.

which will get you roughly 25 decadent cherries. They come in both milk and dark chocolate.

“Aside from the cherries, our chocolate-dipped strawberries are a favorite and are only available via special order,” he said. One thing that differentiates them from others: They cover the whole strawberry in chocolate, rather than just dip them in chocolate. You can purchase these for $25.95 a pound, which will give you 10 to 12 strawberries.

Caren MacAskill, the owner of Huckleberry’s Candies in Hampton (formally known as Sanborns Candies), is excited about the upcoming holiday with their new special this year.

“We are creating custom chocolate hearts this year. People can come in and make their own molds, put initials, names, etc. on it and personalize them into this half-pound of chocolate,” she said.

On top of this new special, Huckleberry’s has just about all the candy you could ever imagine for your special someone with a sweet tooth. Handmade custom chocolate heart boxes, plates with Valen-

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Cymbidium Floral in Exeter is trying something new out for Valentine’s Day this year. In collaboration with Sweets

by Coolwoka, a dessert shop in Exeter, they have put together the ultimate flower box. Available only through the Coolwoka website, this $110 box includes nine macarons in shades of pink. The rest of the box is filled with soft, romantic, whimsical flowers and according to Jessica Christoferson, owner of the floral shop, “it’s the ultimate Valentine romantic combination.”

Cymbidium has plenty of other flower options if that one doesn’t interest you, ranging from prices as low as $40 up to $300 — depending on the size and style of what you are looking for. Coolwoka is also offering more options, including a Valentine’s Heart-Shaped Box as one of their other special items for this year for $70 with other options like a box of eight seasonal macarons for $20.

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The meal will include strawberry and pecan salad, plus your choice of an entree (Sriracha crab cakes, steak Diane medallions, or a layered eggplant stack with pesto sauce), all of which are served with grilled asparagus and butternut squash wild rice pilaf. Raspberry cheesecake with white chocolate will be served for dessert.

The cost is $90 per couple (21+ only). Call or email wine-info@flaghill.com to make reservations.

• Surf Restaurant (99 Bow St., Portsmouth, 334-9855; surfseafood.com) is taking reservations now for Valentine’s Day, featuring specials in addition to its regular dinner menu, like raspberry mousse hearts with red velvet crumbs, chocolate mousse, raspberry sauce, French macaron hearts and milk chocolate caramels.

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• Epoch Restaurant & Bar (The Exeter Inn, 90 Front St., Exeter, 778-3762, epochrestaurant.com) will serve a special three-course menu for Valentine’s Day, which will be available on both Friday, Feb. 14, and Saturday, Feb. 15, from 4 to 9 p.m. and will include the option of adding a wine pairing for each course. Reservations are encouraged.

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For folks who do not Tell us about this team. know a lot about cheer, can Little Warrior Cheer is a you describe it a little and rec league cheer program how kids must train to excel based in Hampton, servat it? ing athletes ages 6 to 18 in Competition cheer is very the Seacoast of New Hampdifferent from the idea that shire. Our Division 18 team most people have when they is made up of high schoolthink of cheerleading. Most age athletes who either don’t people think of sidelinehave a team at their school Division 18 Little Warrior Cheer crowd leading and pom pom or are on a team at school Team. Courtesy photo. shaking. There actually are but want to be more competitive. This year, our not any cheers at all in competition cheer. This D18 team won the state championship, regional is an intense 2-minute 30-second routine of championship, and placed third in the country stunting, tumbling and dancing. These athletes at AYC nationals. are lifting and throwing each other, holding other athletes over their heads and flipping into That is amazing. Is this the first time the and out of stunts and pyramids. Their tumbling team won states? skills are extremely difficult and take most peoThis is the first year Little Warrior Cheer ple years to learn. Almost all of our routine has had a D18 team as a part of the Ameri- consists of stunting, which requires an amazing can Youth Football and Cheer League. To amount of strength and stamina from these kids. come in as a new team and be able to win states and regionals as well was pretty amazWhat is next for you and the team? How ing. We are really proud of this team this year does this past year’s success perhaps help lead — they worked so hard. They really pushed to success this year? themselves to get better each week, make their Up next ... is a bit of ‘rest’ in the off searoutine more difficult and improve their scores son. Most of the girls will do winter cheer with their school, or play another sport. They will from competition to competition. go to tumbling or cheer skills clinics and try Do only state champions go to the to improve their skills for next season. As far nationals? as next year goes, I know that AYC is growIn order to make it to AYC Nationals, you ing across the country, which will mean more need to place top three at states and then competitions for us and more teams to commove on to regionals, which for us is all of pete against locally and hopefully nationally. the New England states. At regionals, the top We will start the season with goals set to bring three teams in your division move on to com- home back-to-back state and regional champipete at nationals. onships for Division 18. ... Our main goal for the season will be to get a bid to nationals and How much time did you put into this to help bring home a national championship title. create this success?

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They are really the reason I started coaching. I It really is impossible to run a successful pro- knew nothing about the sport when they startgram or team without a great team of people. ed 10 years ago. I was just helping out as a team Thankfully, Little Warrior Cheer has some real- mom, and now here we are. ly special people involved. The coordinator, the president, the board of directors, the amazing Are you originally from the Seacoast? coaches and assistant coaches — shout out to I have actually lived in Hampton my whole my amazing assistant coach Rachel Kraftlund, life. I love it here — the people, the beach, the who is just so wonderful — the choreographer, proximity to the mountains. It’s beautiful here. parent volunteers and the community support, — Rob Levey

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PEOPLE AND PLACES

Where to say ‘I do’ Cool venues for adventurous couples The coming months are prime for wedding planning, and if you haven’t decided on a venue yet, the Seacoast is home to all kinds of unique places that you may not have thought of. You can say “I do” in an art gallery, a museum, on the beach — or even at summer camp.

Erin Hutchinson of Candia, for example, married her husband Zack in September of 2018 at Granite YMCA’s Camp Lincoln in the thickets of Kingston. Both she and her husband come from large families with passions for hiking, camping and fishing, Hutchinson said, so she and her then-fiance set out to create “a summer camp for adults.”

“We thought we could do a big summer camp wedding,” Hutchinson said. “Have our guests spend the night, do s’mores on the

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campfire, get some pictures with our fishing rods or possibly in a boat, that would be perfect and right up our alley.”

Over the weekend of the wedding, 187 guests descended on the Camp Lincoln, used the bunk houses for lodging and spent the next few days kayaking, fishing, swimming, singing around the campfire and, of course, taking part in the actual wedding ceremony.

“Some people loved that,” said Hutchinson of the bunk house accommodations. “But some of my aunts were like, ‘No way! I’m not a camper, absolutely not.’ But we did a hotel block at a hotel about 15 minutes away down the street just in case. So the reviews were mixed, but when it was all said and done everyone was blown away.”

Unique wedding venues If you want to exchange vows in a cool locale, check out some of these options in the Seacoast area.

Museums and galleries • 3S Artspace (319 Vaughan St., Portsmouth, 766-3330, 3sarts.org) can be rented out for weddings of up to 300 people. Its gallery is available depending on the exhibition schedule, as is the performance space. Amenities include the use of the podium with basic microphone and sound setup, plus a full LED lighting setup in the gallery.

• American Independence Museum (1 Governors Lane, Exeter, 772-2622, independencemuseum.org) recently introduced an event rental program to host onsite events, including small wedding ceremonies and receptions. The maximum capacity its Folsom Tavern is 50 people, while its Assembly Room can hold a maximum of 30 people.

Due to the historic nature of the building, the Tavern is not handicap accessible.

• Children’s Museum of New Hampshire (6 Washington St., Dover, 742-2002, childrens-museum.org) can be rented out for multiple private events, including wedding showers. Rates vary depending on the number of guests.

• Seacoast Science Center (570 Ocean Blvd., Rye, 436-8043, seacoastsciencecenter.org) can be rented out for wedding ceremonies and receptions, starting around 4 or 5 p.m. The Center can accommodate up to 150 guests throughout the indoor gallery spaces, about 70 guests for a formal seated dinner and up to 200 guests outdoors under a 40-by-80 function tent, which is installed on the north lawn from late May through mid-October.

• Strawbery Banke Museum (14 Hancock St., Portsmouth, 433-1100, strawberybanke. org) can host small outdoor wedding ceremonies, as well as indoor receptions for up to 80 people.

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Performance venues • Rochester Opera House (31 Wakefield St., Rochester, 335-1992, rochesteroperahouse. com) is a performance venue that offers the opportunity to rent space; call for details.

• The Stone Church Music Club (5 Granite St., Newmarket, 659-7700, stonechurchrocks. com) is a performance venue that offers the opportunity to rent space; call for details.

The great outdoors • Hampton Beach State Park Pavillion (Route 1A, Hampton, 227-8717) Boasting the Seashell Oceanfront Pavilion, the beachside venue allows ocean-loving couples to exchange their vows surrounded by sandy beaches, seagrass and the sound of rolling waves. The park has a capacity of 250, and the fee is $1,250. For more information on planning a NH State Park wedding, contact the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources 271-3556 or email nhparks@dncr. nh.gov.

• Kingston State Park (124 Main Street, Kingston, 642-5471) For a more rustic and traditional outdoor setting, Kingston State Park offers attendees the chance to recreate the nostalgic joys of summers past with campfires, swimming, canoe rentals, volleyball, softball and more. Alcohol is not permitted on park grounds. The park has a capacity of 100 and the fee is $400. For more information on planning a NH State Park wedding, contact the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources 271-3556 or email nhparks@ dncr.nh.gov.

• YMCA Camp Lincoln (67 Ball Road, Kingston, 642-3361, sdymca.org/ymcacamp-lincoln, weddings@ymcacamplincoln. org). This camp is available any time of year.

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Husband thinks charging phone drains car battery Dear Car Talk: My wife has a 2010 Chevy Suburban that I had to replace the battery in recently. The old battery was only four and a half years old. I suspect the cause of the battery’s

By Ray Magliozzi premature demise was because she leaves her phone charging cable plugged in to the power port continuously. I see that the tiny power light to the cable stays on even with the ignition off and the key removed.

Could that small power demand weaken the battery even though the vehicle is driven daily?

She says that’s bunk. What do you say? — Jerry The average battery lasts about five years.

So yours lasted a little less than average.

You bought this Suburban in 2010, so I’m guessing you’re now replacing your second battery. In other words, you’re right on schedule.

And the phone charger is irrelevant.

First of all, a phone charger that plugs into a power port typically draws about one amp. And it’ll only draw that one amp if there’s a phone that’s actively being charged. Otherwise, all it’s drawing is enough power to light up that tiny green LED that tells you it’s plugged in. That takes a fraction of an amp.

To give you some perspective on how much

power she’s using with her unused charger, it’d be the equivalent of pulling over once a day and leaving the emergency flashers on for 10 seconds. It’s almost nothing. It would be completely replenished once the car is started again, and it would have a negligible effect on the life of the battery. Now Jerry, you haven’t actually accused your wife of shortening the life of her battery with this phone charger, have you? I mean, out loud? Oh, you have? That’s too bad.

Well, you owe her an apology, then. Put your tail between your legs, tell her you were completely wrong, that she did nothing to wear out the battery, and start looking for some gourmet recipes you can cook for her in the next few weeks. And here’s a tip: Don’t tell her she needs to extinguish the pilot light because it’s wearing out the stove prematurely.

Dear Car Talk: I’m a 70-year-old woman with a 2016 BMW 228i xDrive coupe, base model. The current tires are the Continental run flats that came with the car. After 28,000 miles, the front tires are bald. The rears still have some tread, but I need to replace the tires and have a few questions.How do I determine if I have “staggered” tires or not? I assume not, but the guy at the tire store asked. I’ve always liked Michelins, and they have both Y-rated tires and V-rated

tires. Which do I need? Do you still recommend rotating the tires? Some places will do it for free if I go back there regularly. Only front to back, or cross them in an X pattern? Sorry for so many questions! I’m grateful for your reply.

— Caren I’m tempted to do what my kids do to me.

When I text them a series of questions, they answer the last one and pretend they never saw the others.

First of all, you’re right that you need four new tires. You have an all-wheel drive car, and in order to avoid doing harm to your center differential, you need four tires that are all the same diameter. Worn-out tires will have a smaller diameter. So you need four new ones.

How do you know if you have staggered tires? The easiest way is to look at them. On the sidewall, you’ll see the tire’s measurements. The number to look for is the tire’s width. That’s a number given in millimeters like “195” or “225” and you’ll find it inside a string that looks something like “P225/55R18.”

If your rear tires are wider than your front tires, your tires are considered staggered, and you’ll need to buy two wider tires for the rear wheels. But you don’t have staggered tires (we looked it up) on your base model 228i.

The letter (Y, V, etc.) is the tire’s speed rating. And unless you’re a closet Lightning

McQueen, Caren, you don’t need to spring for Y- or V-rated tires. Y-rated tires are good up to speeds of 186 mph. V-rated tires are good up to 149 mph. While there’s no harm in having tires that are rated for a much higher speed than you’ll ever drive, you’ll pay extra for those exotic tires. An H-rated tire (130 mph) will be more than adequate for your purposes. And if you like Michelins, they make very good tires, in our opinion. But you can buy anything that’s the same size as the tires you’re replacing.

Do a little research, though. Check Consumer Reports or Tire Rack and find yourself a highly rated tire in your size rather than just accepting whatever the local tire shop has lying around. Once you get your new tires, we do recommend rotating them. Especially if it’s free!

Your current front tires wore out faster than your rear tires. That’s typically what happens because front tires do most of the braking and all of the steering. But because you have allwheel drive, you now have to buy four new tires even though only two of your tires are completely shot. If you rotate your next set back to front every 5,000 or 7,500 miles, they’ll wear out more evenly, and the whole set will last a little longer. And as long as they’re not staggered, you can move them front to back or crisscross them. Let the spirit move you.

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AT CHRISTOPHER’S THIRD STREET GRILLE Chris Lund’s decades-long career in the restaurant business came full circle when he opened Christopher’s Third Street Grille (16 Third St., Dover, 740-0044, christophersthirdstreetgrille.com) — the space formerly housed Hannon’s, where Lund worked for a few years during the early 1980s. In the years that followed, Lund worked in restaurants in the Lake Placid, New York, area and also down in Boston before returning to Dover. He now serves as the executive chef of Christopher’s Third Street Grille, owning and operating the restaurant with his daughter Lindsey. The eatery is known for its steaks, which are all cut in house and feature a variety of add-on options, as well as its seafood dishes, like baked haddock, grilled salmon and grilled New England sea scallops. Other menu items you’ll find include fresh burgers, sandwiches, soups, appetizers, pastas and house specialties, like pecancrusted chicken breast and Danish-style lamb chops. Prime rib is available on select Fridays and Saturdays. The Scene recently spoke with Lund about some must-try dishes at Christopher’s Third Street Grille and what you can expect when you visit.

How long has Christopher’s Third Street Grille been around?

We opened in 2007, so about 13 years.

I’ve been in the business since 1978. I started cooking, fell in love with it and I haven’t stopped.

What makes Christopher’s Third Street Grille unique?

Consistency, I think, is the key thing for us. We’ve had a great kitchen and front-of-the-house staff that have been here with us for years. We do a season-

al menu here and there, but we don’t change a lot. We’re really all about consistently putting out good food, nailing it and getting it right.

What is your personal favorite dish?

The prime New York strip steak is by far my favorite. You get a choice of a side to go with it, so we do homemade roasted garlic mashed potatoes, fresh hand-cut fries or homemade rice pilaf, and then we do a vegetable du jour. The chicken piccata is also delicious.

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Christopher’s Third Street Grille in Dover. Courtesy photos.

What is a dish that everyone should try?

It depends on what you’re in the mood for. If it’s pasta, then I would say to get the chicken Marsala over pasta. Our macaroni and cheese is also really good; it has six different types of cheeses in it.

The rib-eye is probably the most popular and the most flavorful if you wanted to get a steak. Or, if you want to get a salad, our Cobb salad is delicious.

What is an essential skill to running a restaurant?

Having a good staff, a hundred percent.

The main thing is for everybody to be happy and enjoy working together.

What is your favorite thing about being on the Seacoast?

I definitely think this area is one of the most beautiful places on the East Coast. I’ve traveled down to places like Myrtle Beach and Florida, and it’s just hot down there.

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TRY THIS AT HOME Peanut butter balls It’s Week 2 of DIY valentines! I’m hoping that last week I convinced you that homemade valentines are the best, especially when they’re of the food persuasion. This week I have another sweet recipe that would make a lovely gift for someone special in your world.

This week’s recipe takes a slightly different direction than last week’s recipe, as we veer into the world of slightly healthy.

While it’s not a 100 percent-healthy treat, Kinda Healthy Peanut butter balls. Photo by Michele Pesula Kuegler. it definitely is healthier than its original version. If these appreciated, larger package for that one peanut butter balls were made with reg- someone special. Or give 15 of them ular creamy peanut butter, they’d have and keep five for yourself. (You’ve twice the calories and five times the fat, worked hard; you deserve a treat.) No so these peanut butter balls are definite- matter what you decide, you have a ly the better-for-your-waistline option. whole bunch of peanut butter balls to Now, I know for many the pairing of share.

You have another week until Valhealthy and delicious is an oxymoron, especially when it comes to desserts. I entine’s Day is here, so get your can assure you that isn’t true for these ingredients and tools assembled –– it’s treats. They have all of the sweet, time to make some of the tastiest DIY slightly salty, creamy elements that a valentines you’ve ever had. regular peanut butter ball has. In fact, many people probably wouldn’t even Michele Pesula Kuegler has been notice any difference if you didn’t tell thinking about food her entire life. Since them.

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Kinda Healthy Peanut Butter Balls Makes 20 1-1/2 cups powdered peanut butter 1/4 cup powdered sugar 1/2 cup water 1 cup chocolate chips, semi-sweet or milk Combine peanut butter powder, powdered sugar, and water in a small bowl.

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Wine made from raisins? Some credit this technique of making wine to the Romans, while some say this technique originated in the medieval period. Matters not, it is an ancient technique of the Verona Province, in the Veneto region of Italy.

In this column we review two wines from this region: Bolla 2013 Amarone Della Valpolicella Classico, (originally priced at the NH Liquor and Wine Outlets at $35.99, and on sale at $32.99) and Bertani 2012 Valpolicella Ripasso (originally priced at $28.99, and on sale at $15.99). While both these wines are derived from the same varietals, it is in their production that they differ.

According to the Wikipedia page on Amarone, the making of these wines goes back hundreds of years, and notable wines have been produced in Valpolicella since ancient times but Amarone was not marketed as such before 1953. These wines were assigned a “designated controlled area” or Denominazione di Controllata (DOC) status in 1990, with the Bolla Amarone being promoted to the status of Denominazione di Origine Controlla e Garantita (DOCG), “a guaranteed designated controlled area.” Impressive credentials!

The grapes for Amarone wine are harvested ripe in the first two weeks of October, by carefully choosing bunches having fruits not too close to each other, to let the air flow. The grapes are traditionally dried on straw mats, in a process known as “appassimento” or “raisinate” (dry and shrivel) in Italian. This concentrates the remaining sugars and flavors.

These grapes are pressed in the production of Amarone wine and the pomace left over from the pressing is later used in the production of Ripasso Valpolicellas, our second wine.

In the production of Amarone, the drying process can last 120 days, varying with the producer and quality of the harvest. There is a substantial loss of weight in the grapes — 30 to 40 percent depending on the varietal. Following this drying procedure, the grapes are crushed and go through a dry low-temperature fermentation for another month or two, then are aged in barrels of either French or Slavonian oak for 36 months before bottling.

According to Bolla’s website, this traditional method of drying grapes for Amarone can lead to variations in the wine. Therefore, the bulk of modern Amarone is produced in special drying chambers under controlled conditions. This approach minimizes the handling of the grapes and helps prevent the onset of fungus due to climatic variations. In Amarone, the quality of the grape skin is a primary concern, as that component brings the tannins, color and intensity of flavor to the wine. This desiccation not only concentrates the juices within the grape but also increases the skin contact of the grapes. The tannins in the skin

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contribute to the overall balance of the finished wine.

The Bolla 2013 Amarone Della Valpolicella Classico traces its history to Abele Bolla and his inauguration of Bolla Soave in 1883.

In time, the family expanded production to include other wines of the Veneto region. This wine has a deep red garnet color and aromas of cherry, spice and cedar. To the taste it has rich, dry black-cherry flavors with a long finish, persistent with cacao and spice. This wine can be paired with roasted and braised red meats and well-aged cheeses.

According to Bertani’s website, the Bertani 2012 Valpolicella Ripasso harvest is done by hand at the end of September. The varietals making up this wine are the same as those used in the production of Amarone. However, there ends the similarity, as this wine’s fermentation takes place in steel tanks, which are ideal for increasing contact between must and skins, at a temperature of 68 to 70 degrees F, lasting about two weeks. A second fermentation, or re-passing (Ripasso), takes place in March on the remaining Amarone skins that still have a good content of active yeasts. This allows the wine to ferment a second time. The wine is then aged in French oak for a minimum of nine months, resulting in notes of blackberry, black currant and cherry. To the tongue the taste is full and round with cherry and licorice, slightly more tannic than the Amarone, with a long and lingering finish.

This wine can be enjoyed with veal, duck and pastas with robust red sauces.

Both wines need decanting well before serving to bring out their full flavors. Both can also be cellared for some time after purchasing, even though the Bolla Amarone Classico is a 2013 vintage and the Bertani Ripasso is a 2012 vintage. So purchase and enjoy these wines now, or if cellared, in the future over a wonderful meal with guests.

Fred Matuszewski is a local architect and a foodie and wine geek, interested in the cultivation of the multiple strains and varieties of grapes and the industry of wine production and sales. Chief among his travels is an annual trip to the wine producing areas of California.

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If you can’t wait until Valentine’s Day for romance, head to the Salisbury Public Library on Thursday, Feb. 13, to hear from a panel of three Massachusetts romance novelists.

The event will be held from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. and will feature authors Satin Russell, Patricia Barletta and J.B. Mullins. The authors will share their journeys as writers and talk about their specific romance sub-genres.

They also want to discuss some of the misconceptions surrounding the genre, according to Russell, a financial advisor turned romance writer. She has published three books in her romantic suspense trilogy called “The Harper Sisters,” which features “clever heroines and the sexy heroes who love them.”

Russell said the genre itself is often misconstrued and doesn’t get the respect it deserves.

“I do think it’s important to consider how the romance genre has been referred to throughout history: Bodice rippers. Trashy novels. Fluff. Guilty pleasure. Formulaic, on a good day, if the person is trying to sound academic and not just biased. Trite, vapid, mommy porn, the list goes on,” Russell said.

The fact that most romance novels are written by women for women contributes to some of these misconceptions, she said.

“Those women tended to be aspirational. Protagonists are strong, pursuing their life goals and dreams, and not settling, be it in their careers, relationships, or sexual pleasure and satisfaction,” Russell said.

“The idea that women can inhabit a space in between — for example, a woman who is both a mother and also a sexual being who pursues her own pleasure — is not a narrative our society tends to be comfortable with.”

Cara Marsh, assistant director at the Salisbury Public Library, said it was a nobrainer to get these three authors together to discuss the genre and perhaps readers enjoy romance novels for all that they are.

“It’s more complex than just a single love story. Romance novels all get thrown into erotic romance but not a lot of romance novels are that. There is suspense, thriller, mystery, contemporary, among a list of many others,” said Marsh. “It’s also becoming one of the most popular genres to read.”

This will be the library’s first panel of speakers and they are excited and optimistic to bring in such talented and unique authors all together in one night.

“Other libraries have done this in the past and have been successful. We haven’t done a panel like this before, so that is something new we are trying out. Normally we just have one guest speaker come and talk but never in a panel like this,” said Marsh.

Treats will be available for guests as well as a question-and-answer section toward the end of the evening.

“Our world is full of romance stories.

They walk hand-in-hand down the street.

They sit in restaurants over glasses of wine.

They struggle to figure out who’s going to pick up the kid from school. Every day, people with different histories, baggage and expectations find a way to be better together. I think those are stories worth telling,” — Chad Ripley

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How one Seacoast resident became an artist Nate Bibaud never expected to become a full-time painter. Art was something he was good at but was never completely invested in. His high school art teacher urged him to pursue a career in it, even if it meant becoming an art teacher. But at the time it wasn’t even a consideration. Now, painting is part of who he is.

“When you get a painting from me, I don’t want to say that you are getting a chunk of me, but you are. If I do a painting for someone and it takes me 30 to 40 hours, you have what my brain did for that amount of time,” Bibaud said.

The Amesbury native studied welding and engineering for a while after high school and eventually landed at the Worcester Institute of Technology for Architecture. He started working at a small architecture firm in Newburyport after graduating, then moved to St. Croix to work at a print shop. When a full-time opportunity at the Newburyport firm opened up, he decided to return home. Ten days after making that decision, while still on the island, he went out for a friend’s birthday. At the end of the night, he hopped in a friend’s car.

“I didn’t put a seatbelt on,” he said.

“There were two cars in the middle of the road that had already gotten into an accident and our car drove into it. I don’t remember the night; all I know is that we got into this bad accident.”

The force of the impact caused Bibaud to hit his head on the ceiling of the car, resulting in a broken neck. He was removed from the vehicle with the jaws of life by paramedics.

Due to an ice storm that had grounded Logan Airport at the time, Bibaud was stranded in a St. Croix hospital for three days following the accident with a broken neck and a swollen spinal cord.

When he finally arrived at Mass. General Hospital, the doctors performed the surgery to put his neck back together and fused his C5 and C6 together with the help of bone dust from his hip and metal plates — leaving Bibaud a paraplegic and very little use of his arms and hands.

“I woke up and was surrounded by my family and the doctor. It’s a hazy memory but they told me that I was never going to walk again,” he said.

After a few weeks in the hospital, he was transferred to Spaulding Rehabilitation Center in Boston. He was excited and optimistic about going to Spaulding, explaining that at the time he hadn’t yet dealt with anything in life that he felt he couldn’t deal with.

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doing backflips. I told myself I’d be the one who walks again,” he said.

Although he didn’t leave Spaulding doing backflips like he once thought, he did leave with the ability to draw once again, just as he had as a kid.

“My therapist would ask me what I wanted to do and I didn’t care about playing checkers or writing,” he said. “Instead, I asked her if we could draw.”

So his therapist put a plastic tray to his lap and taped a piece of paper to it. Using the wrist splint that he wears every day to keep his wrist steady, they put the pen in the splint, and with the aid of his therapist Bibaud completed his first drawing.

But six months after leaving the rehab center, Bibaud hadn’t tried to draw on his own.

Bored one day, he decided to try it again.

“I got to the point where I could pick up a piece of food by myself and put it in my mouth, so I decided to try to draw. Immediately, it just worked on its own and I was drawing again,” he said.

He could only draw for so long, 20 minutes at a time, but as time went on, his strength and drawing ability increased and he started to use some of the things he’d learned as a graphic designer down in St. Croix and apply them to his drawings.

Then he started to get gifts of watercolor but was overwhelmed by the idea of painting at first.

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After that, he started to pursue oil painting; since then, oil has been his preferred medium.

Now, nearly a decade following his accident, Bibaud has continued to push himself to try new things and get his work out there more, recently selling his art at a makers expo in Amesbury and starting an online streaming program bringing viewers into his creative process.

“I like that what I do inspires some people, even in an indirect way,” he said. “I’ll get messages from people online about what I do and I think that rules, even if sometimes it feels weird and that weird feeling stems from this almost insecurity or shame about my condition — which is something I still battle to this day and [am] working to get over,” he said.

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In February 1940, the day that the film Pinocchio was released, a Hollywood newspaper published an article about Walt Disney’s latest cinematic marvel and remarked on how a woman artist had “invaded” the predominantly male studio five years earlier.

Despite finding this newsworthy enough to mention, the reporter did not think it necessary to include the woman’s name, causing the invader to write sarcastically on the office newspaper “Who is this girl?”

The “girl” was Bianca Majolie, one of the “queens of animation” that Nathalia Holt honors in her impeccably researched account of how women helped Walt Disney morph from a man with a vision to a worldwide brand. You’d be hard pressed to find a better read for Women’s History Month, whether or not you have any interest in Disney films.

That’s because The Queens of Animation, while thick with anecdotes about Disney classics and their genesis, provides a jarring look at the workplace early in the 20th century, with particular emphasis on women who dared to compete for the positions held by men. Walt Disney employed hundreds of women, even in the early years of his company, but most were poorly paid artists in the “Ink and Paint Department” that colored the images that the male artists drew. It was monumentally harder for a woman to break into the “story department” where highly creative men with large egos worked long, bruising hours and took it out on each other. Holt tells the backstories of the handful who did and what they endured.

In one incident that Holt recounts, Majolie fled a meeting where, after she pitched an idea with sketches on an easel, Disney went to the easel, picked up the sketches and ripped them in half. Although the men in attendance had been subjected to equally brutal feedback, instead of empathizing when Majolie left the room, they chased her to her office and literally broke down the door by beating on it. As Holt recounts, Disney’s later reaction to the incident was to say, “This is why we can’t use women. They can’t take a little criticism.”

Disney was, in fact, openly preferential to men, advertising in 1936 that he offered “exceptional opportunities to trained male artists.” In these pages, he often comes across as a boor.

But even though he was convinced that women employees were a sunk cost — just when you get them trained, they get pregnant and leave — when a supremely talented and persistent woman got through to him, he was willing to get them a chance, albeit with a warning: “The men will resent you. They swear a lot. That is

their relaxation.”

Also, as it turned out, they would sometimes leave a live pig under a female coworker’s desk. As Holt put it, “Story development at Walt Disney Studios was a competitive sport.”

Despite this challenging work environment, the women who squeezed into the inner circle at Disney and survived ultimately loved their work, and their contributions helped to create the films we now consider classics. Thank God for that. As it turns out, the original stories from which Pinocchio and Cinderella were adapted were quite different from the ones Disney gave America. Without the ministrations of Majoli, for example, Pinocchio might have been hung at the end for “crimes and disobedience,” while Cinderella’s stepsisters would have had their eyes pecked out by birds.

The men who beat down Majoli’s door might have enjoyed the original endings and left them intact. (Also, they refused to draw fairies, which was a problem when the team started work on The Nutcracker Suite.)

The queens of animation no princesses here — include Grace Huntinton, Mary Blair, Retta Scott and Sylvia Holland, whose stories Holt gleaned from personal correspondence and documents and interviews with family members.

For the author, it’s a continuation of a meaningful genre: rescuing accomplished women from obscurity. Her earlier Rise of the Rocket Girls did the same for female rocket scientists at NASA. In her opening, Holt confesses that she has never been a Disney fanatic, like people who go to Disney every year and have mouse-ear stickers on their cars. “Until I began writing this book, I viewed the Disney princesses, with their fluffy dresses and vulnerable demeanors, warily, suspicious that they had been dropped into my life by unknown misogynist forces that were bent on turning my daughters into boy-crazy women,” she writes.

There was indeed misogyny, not only at Walt Disney’s first humble studio, but all over America early in the 20th century. Indeed, some might argue it still persists: “Although 60 percent of all students studying animation in art schools across the United States are women, they make up only 23 percent of all animators in Hollywood,” Holt writes. Women aren’t excluded from the credits, like they were in Disney’s earliest films, but they comprise just 10 percent of all writers and eight percent of all directors in the top 100 highest-grossing films.

From Snow White to Frozen, though, things are decidedly better, and The Queens of Animation is an engrossing look at cinematic history, whether you care for Disney princesses or not.

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Though his name is on the cover, Tom Pirozzoli’s new album, Reckon by the Light, is in every way a collaboration with his close friend of 29 years, Willy Porter. Milwaukee singersongwriter Porter produced, played multiple instruments and sang on the disc. More than that, he provided the spark that got Pirozzoli into the studio for his ninth solo release since he started playing in the ’60s.

“We were sitting around the house and I played a couple of songs for him that I’d written and rewritten,” Pirozzoli said in a recent phone interview, “and he just said, ‘You really, really gotta make another album’ — and he left off the three words, ‘before you die.’ I’m going to be 70 in a few months.”

When he agreed, Porter took charge, a change for Pirozzoli. He’d ignored producers in the past, “and in the long run I took the project in a direction that was not as focused,” he said, invoking a nautical metaphor also on the title track. “I truly let Willy do everything; he was the pilot, he steered the ship.”

The result is a rich and varied collection that celebrates the soul’s bounty and life’s limits.

Its love songs are both playful and plaintive; “Frog on a Pond” is happy and heartfelt, “If You Dream” is gorgeous and prayerful. Pirozzoli reworks 12th-century poet Judah Halewi’s ode to devotion’s fraught nature — what Halewi termed “painful joy” — on the meditative “A Fearful & Beautiful Thing,” another highlight.

“The Last Prophet” opens the disc, a work with history. It was written in 1977, when Pirozzoli was a young folk singer, and completed, with a final verse crafted at Porter’s behest, in the weeks before sessions started.

“It’s better than the first, actually; it covers more ground,” Pirozzoli said of the Biblically inspired lyric.

The song is done spoken word, reminiscent of Leonard Cohen.

To celebrate the release, the two are doing a series of regional shows, including one at the Flying Goose Brewery in New London, near Pirozzoli’s hometown of Goshen, and another at

the newly renovated Rex Theatre in Manchester.

On the Seacoast, the duo will appear Saturday, Feb. 11, at Stone Church in Newmarket.

Porter is billed as the headliner, but shows will be split three ways.

“We’re going to each go up there and do like 20 minutes, then we’ll swap songs and play with each other for the entire second set,” Pirozzoli said, adding that he’ll cede the specifics to Porter, something he started doing in their early days of playing together. “I’d write a song down and Willy would look at it and say, ‘No, don’t do that’ and he’d write me a song list. They were always the best sets I had ever played; he just has a sensibility.”

Along with being a musician, Pirozzoli is a well-regarded painter with work in many fine arts galleries and homes in the state. His paintings will be on display and for sale at the Stone Church show.

“They will probably hang there for about a month,” he said. “This is another thing that Willy was really strong about — ‘The art and the music, the soul intertwined, it’s a very important aspect of your entire presentation.’”

Pirozzoli still enjoys making music the same way he did early on.

“Even more so,” he said. “When you’re younger, you think, ‘Oh, I want to play the Verizon Center or Boston Garden.’ You always think you want to go further, and I am definitely not at that point anymore. I’m just happy to have people listen to the music and enjoy it. It’s pretty short-term anyway; I guess I’ve lived long enough to realize that you can reference a Beatles song and people have no idea what you’re talking about.”

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15 “As much as you want” 17 Type of music video with a world record set in 2012 by 9,300 participants in Lindsay, Ontario 18 Book-based movie series that ended in 2012 with “Breaking Dawn - Part 2”

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8 Crew member 9 What a celebrity might use at a hotel 10 “Who ___?” (“Les Miz” song) 11 Fixed illegally 12 Gas in fuel mixtures 13 Team in a sign-stealing scandal 16 Taking a sick day 21 Floor-cleaning robot 24 Sea ___ (Popeye villain) 26 Peabody Award-winning Issa 27 In bygone times 28 “Prelude to the Afternoon of a ___” (Debussy work) 29 Dessert also known as crème caramel 31 Stooge’s laugh syllable 32 First Family of the 1840s 33 2012 or 2013, e.g.

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Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you / Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye / Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Honesty is the best policy.

Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) She don’t want no wild romance / When she’s with me she only wants to dance … She wants to dance with me / ‘cause I’ll let her be what she wants to be Don’t let anyone stand in your way.

Aries (March 21 – April 19) Keep singing, whoa, keep singing / Clap to the beat till your hands are stinging / And you’ll be saved some sunny day / From throwing your life, throwing your life away What you sing is up to you.

Taurus (April 20 – May 20) I wandered around / The streets of this town / Trying to find sense of it all. / The rain on my face, / It covers the trace / Of all the tears I’d had to waste. / Why must we hide emotions? / Why must we never break down and cry? / All that I need is to cry for help.

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Gemini (May 21 – June 20) Don’t break it up / Don’t shake it up / Just turn it on, got to keep it turned on / Don’t burn it out / Don’t sell it out / Just turn it on, got to keep it turned on / Turn it on… Make sure it’s plugged in.

Cancer (June 21 – July 22) You gotta understand / Life is what you make it baby / No time to sit around and / think of the mistakes you made / Well it’s not what you had / It’s what you’re having right here baby / And

it’s not who you know / It’s what you know deep down inside. It’s both.

Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) Think it over what I say / I know it could be just like it used to be / Do you believe it, baby, do you share my point of view / You know that I mean it, baby, and all you have to do is / Remember the days when we walked / The times that we talked for hours and hours / Remember the way it used to be, just you and me / Remember the days Neither you nor Cher can turn back time.

Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) I was born in a prison, there was no way out / If you want to be heard you got to scream and shout / You don’t know the kind of mess I’m in / Nobody else is going to save my skin but / You have got the key to set me free / If you want my love then rescue me Run. Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) Times are hard, that’s for sure / Lovers need to love a little more / Everybody’s got to do their best / You can’t complain / If you settle for less You can complain a little.

Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) Behind the smile that I portray / I am saddened every day / My eyes are sore with endless nights of crying / I hope that you don’t feel this way Bring tissues.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) You never want to sit and talk it over / You always want to run right out the door / Come and sit right down here on the sofa / Tell me, baby, right now what’s the score? If they ask….

Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) And I know it’s hard for you / To do the things that you want to do / But every day can get a little better / If you rise up, stand up / And stick together Rise up, stand up, try some sun salutations.

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Least competent criminal

Matthew Davies, 47, of Dunfermline, Scotland, pleaded guilty on Jan. 17 to assault and robbery in the case of a bumbling Bank of Scotland holdup in September, the Daily Record reported.

On that day, Davies charged into the bank with a meat cleaver in hand and a pillowcase over his head. Unfortunately, he had neglected to cut eyeholes in the pillowcase and therefore couldn’t see — so he had to take it off. Undeterred, Davies used the cleaver to batter a glass partition on the counter and eventually took off with almost 2,000 pounds, casually wandering toward home, even stopping to pet a dog along the way. One brave customer of the bank followed Davies to his home and alerted police; there they found cash and the pillowcase, along with a stun gun. He’ll be sentenced in February.

Police report

installed 187 solar panels to generate electricity for the city’s library, and paid a local company about $113,000 for the “green” equipment. But during the installation of a wind turbine to supplement the clean energy effort in December, workers noticed the solar panels had never been connected to the library’s electrical network. Oddity Central reported the panels were intended to supply about a quarter of the library’s needed power, but “we realized this was not the case,” admitted Alexandre Garcin, the city’s deputy mayor, who did not elaborate on why it took six months to figure out the oversight.

Creepy

Houston mother Emily Madonia’s nightmare began in 2015, when the Elsa (from “Frozen”) doll her daughter received for Christmas 2013 began reciting lines from the movie in both English and Spanish; originally it had only spoken English. Next, the doll began speaking and singing randomly, even when her on/off switch was in the OFF position. In December 2019, Madonia threw the doll out, Click2Houston reported, but she and her husband later found the doll in a bench inside their home. So they double wrapped the doll in plastic bags and “put it in the bottom of our garbage can,” Madonia wrote on Facebook.

Days later, her daughter found the doll again in the backyard. Finally, Madonia sent the doll to a friend who lives in Minnesota, where it remained at press time. In the meantime, Madonia has been contacted by paranormal investigators and the Travel Channel.

Antoine McDonald, 21, of Altamonte Springs, Florida, became famous last year for dressing up as the Easter Bunny in Orlando, but he found his costume unhelpful on Jan. 16 after ramming his motorcycle into a carport, which collapsed on a car parked there, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The motorcycle then hit a fence and flipped over, and a neighbor observed the Easter Bunny limping away from the scene.

When officers caught up with McDonald, lying in the back ssseat of a car, he denied involvement in the crash: “I wasn’t in any crash. I’m the Orlando Easter Bunny. Google it,” he claimed.

“The bunny appeared to be alive,” officers reported, according to the Orlando Sentinel, and they asked him to remove the costume before arresting him and transporting him to the hospital for rib Suspicions not confirmed and leg injuries sustained in the crash.

Ben Lilly, 40, on his way to Halifax in West Yorkshire, England, on Jan. 25 passed an object in the road that Unclear on the concept United Press International reported looked like a dead animal — a leopthat an unnamed man in Orlando, Flor- ard, to be specific. Lilly stopped and ida, got a little mixed up as he tried to turned around, carefully approaching fill his boat’s gas tank before a fishing the large cat. He told Metro News his trip on Jan. 27. Rather than putting the heart was racing and he was afraid his gas nozzle into the fuel tank, the man face might be “ripped off” by the beast. inserted it into a fishing pole holder “I saw the markings on it. It had the tail and pumped 30 gallons of gas direct- bit on it, too,” Lilly said. “But as soon ly into the cockpit. Orange County as I looked at it from the other angle, Fire Rescue was called to the 7-Elev- I started laughing.” It turned out to en, and a hazmat team siphoned most of be a leopard-print jumpsuit, complete the errant gas from the boat before the with tail. Lilly speculated on Facebook fisherman filled up the actual tank and it might be “some tart’s coat from last night. ... It was Saturday morning and went on his way.

Halifax is a bit of a drinking town.”

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In June 2019, the city of Roubaix, People with issues Now-retired high school English France, proudly announced it had

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teacher Jeffrey S. Churchwell, 60, of Elkhorn, Wisconsin, apologized to Walworth County Sheriff’s deputies in October and admitted that he had been defecating, sometimes several times a day, since 2017 outside and on a building in the rural Natureland Park in Whitewater. The Milton Courier reported Brent Brooks of the Walworth County Highway Shop met with deputies in October about the repeated offenses, which required parks department workers to power-wash and sometimes repaint facilities, on top of picking up used toilet paper. Trail cameras recorded the man relieving himself, and deputies caught up with Churchwell on Oct. 8. When asked why, he replied, “Stupidity,” according to sheriff’s office reports. Churchwell was charged with disorderly conduct and was ordered to pay more than $6,000 in fines and restitution. He was put on leave from the Milton School District on Nov. 25; his retirement took effect Jan. 16.

A mystery was solved on Jan. 22 in Natick, Massachusetts, when police arrested Andrea F. Grocer, 51, of Ashland, on suspicion of defecating in front of the Natick Outdoor Store eight times over the last four months. Henry Kanner, the store’s owner, had reported the incidents to police in December, and officers first thought an animal might be the culprit — until they found “toilet paper and other wipes,” Natick police spokesperson Lt. Cara Rossi told The MetroWest Daily News. Some of the incidents had been recorded by surveillance video, but police hadn’t been able to identify a license plate. During extra patrols of the parking lot, they spotted Grocer at 6:51 a.m. as she prepared to leave her mark again, police said.

“I have no idea who she is,” Kanner said, adding that he knows of no connection she has with the store. Grocer’s lawyer described her as a “pillar of the community.”

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