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A SPECIAL COCHECO VALLEY EDITION OF THE WEIRS TIMES NEWSPAPER. VOLUME 24, NO. 1
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Start Your Year Off With Healthy Living
Outdoors-Woman Is A Great Start To A Healthy New Year by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor
Originally started at the University of Wisconsin, it was determined that women preferred to learn these outdoor skills in a noncompetitive atmosphere along with other women. The fall BOW is a threeday, weekend program with numerous classes to choose from and the winter BOW program is for one
day and has five classes to choose from. “Women from all over participate,” said Tina Davenport, Program coordinator for the New Hampshire Fish and Game. The winter BOW program takes place at the Owl Brook Education Center in Holderness (part of the NH See BOW on 22
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For the past fourteen years, women from New Hampshire and surrounding states have been fighting off the winter doldrums and keeping mind and body sharp with a innovative program called Becoming An Outdoors-Woman
in New Hampshire (BOW). The BOW program itself, sponsored by the New Hampshire Fish and Game and the New Hampshire Wildlife Federation, is twenty years old and began as a series of programs taught in the fall in responses to the question of why more women don’t participate in many outdoor activities.
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Participants in the Becoming An Outdoors-Woman In New Hampshire following along the course of the Basic Snowshoeing and Winter Tracking Course, one of five winter skills classes. The beginner, non-judgemental classes are becoming more popular to women all over New England. courtesy Photo NH Fish and game
As the New Year begins, many of us have made our New Year’s Resolutions. Statistics show that losing weight and staying fit and healthy are always in the top five resolutions. Statistics also show that only about ten percent of those who make resolutions actually keep them. Seems like we can use all the help we can get. That is why this month, the Weirs Times will be expanding its once a month Healthy Living section for the entire month of January. We will be providing you with tips and information on the best ways to keep fit and healthy and also introduce to you some of the folks that are helping in achieving those goals, including our valued advertisers. So, even if you didn’t make any New Year’s resolutions, you can still find out how to enjoy a Happy and Healthy New Year all this month. It all starts this week on page 8. Happy New Year!
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A Contrast in Styles: Abstract vs. Nature Details – Art Exhibit
The Franklin Gallery at RiverStones Custom Framing, 33 Main Street, Rochester. The exhibit will showcase two local artists, Diane St. Jean of Barrington and Amy Kindler of Rochester. Hours are Tuesday through Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 10am-2pm, or by appointment. 812-1488 Thursday 1st
Bill Hinderer – Storytelling Dinner
Corner House Inn, Center Sandwich. 6:30pm. Enjoy New Year’s Day dinner and listen to Scottish stories told by a Mainer with a South Jersey accent. $19.95pp, plus tax and gratuity. 2846219
The Hangover No Tap Bowling Tournament
Funspot, Route 3, Weirs Beach. Tournament starts at 11am. 8 or 9 pin drop counts as a strike, based on your 2014-15 league average. 150 and below, 8 pin. 151 and above, 9 pin. Space is limited. $20pp. 1 in 5 cash! 520-4680 or jibproshop@hotmail.com
Fri. 2nd – Sat. 10th Godspell
Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 335-1992 or www. rochesteroperahouse.com
Saturday 3rd Tilton Winter Farmers’ Market
67 East Main Street, Tilton. 10am2pm. Over 50 local farmers and producers in an indoor venue. Sampling, music, friends and fun! Handicap accessible. 496-1718 www. tiltonwinterfarmersmarket.com
Paula Poundstone
The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com 536-2551
Kate Gridley
Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 South Main Street, Concord. 225-1111
Danbury Winter Market
Danbury Grange Hall, 15 North Road, Danbury. 9am-1pm. Free admission. A variety of locally made, grown or produced products including veggies, jams, jellies, meats, baked goods, honey, crafts, cheese and more! 7685579 Sunday 4th
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Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 South Main Street, Concord. 225-1111
Monday 5th Family History and Genealogy Seminar Series
Laconia Public Library, Laconia. 10am-12pm. The series is led by Richard and Cindi Cote, experienced genealogists. Continuing sessions will occur in February and March. Free and open to the public, however, preregistration is preferred. 524-4775 or 527-1278
Tuesday 6th WorkReadyNH – Skill Building Class
NHTI, 31 College Drive, Concord. Free class where participants earn certifications and improve skills that give job-seekers the edge in finding employment. Class ends Friday, January 23rd. Free. Call 271-6484 ext. 4426 to register.
Wednesday 7th Hopekeepers Support Group
Moultonborough United Methodist Church, Whittier Highway, Moultonborough. 7pm. Hopekeepers is a program of Rest Ministries, Inc, that has been serving the chronically ill across the country since 1996. The program will run for 8 weeks, every other Wednesday for 90 minutes. 4765152
Wed. 7th – Feb. 11th Dog Obedience
Laconia Community Center, 306 Union Ave, Laconia. Beginners will be from 6:15-7:15pm and advanced 7:15-8:15pm. $70 for the 6 week class every Wednesday, must be pre-
registered and pre-paid. 524-5046
Thursday 8th Sierra Boggess
Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 South Main Street, Concord. 225-1111
Supersize your Sales and Grow Your Business - Workshop
Taylor Community, Union Ave, Laconia. 8am-10am. Robert Nadeau, Director of the Professional Sales Program at Plymouth State University, will share his decades of sales experience at a Fortune 100 company offering inside strategies to grow a business. No cost for workshop, however, space is limited. Call 535-3222 to reserve your spot.
Peter Brodeur, aka Bearded Turtle – Storytelling Dinner
Corner House Inn, Center Sandwich. 6:30pm. Peter is best known to Corner House audiences as a teller of American Indian stories. He started telling American Indian legends while working as a tour guide at the Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum. $19.95pp, plus tax and gratuity. 284-6219
Parent-Teen/Tween Communication: Conflict Management without Losing Your Mind or Your Relationship
Whole Village Family Resource Center, 258 Highland Street, Plymouth. This two week seminar on January 8th and 15th can be attended by both adults and youth. There is no charge for the workshop and child care is provided. Please reserve space by calling 5363720 Friday 9th
Emerald Ash Borer - Workshop
Massabesic Audubon Center, 26 Audubon Way, Auburn. 7-8:30pm. Woodstove users be on the lookout! The Emerald Ash Borer has been labeled the most destructive forest pest in North America and has killed ever-widening swaths of ash trees in the Northeast since the late 1990’s. It has now been spotted in NH. As outdoor enthusiasts and/or firewood users, YOU can help by learning how to recognize the signs of this highly destructive insect and what you can do if you spot Emerald Ash. $5pp, free foe Massabesic Volunteers. 668-2045
Saturday 10th Tilton Winter Farmers’ Market
67 East Main Street, Tilton. 10am2pm. Over 50 local farmers and producers in an indoor venue. Sampling, music, friends and fun! Handicap accessible. 496-1718 www. tiltonwinterfarmersmarket.com
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The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com 536-2551
Laurie Berkner
Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 South Main Street, Concord. 225-1111
Murder at the Mardi Gras – Murder Mystery and Dessert
The Franklin Opera House, 316 Central Street, Franklin. 7:30pm. Tables for groups or individual seating are available. Desserts and beverages will be offered. Audience participation is welcomed! www.franklinoperahouse. org
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Gathering Time To Play in Wolfeboro On Saturday, January 10th, Gathering Time will be in concert in Anderson Hall at Brewster Academy at 2pm. Hailing from Long Island, NY, this head-turning harmony Trio of Hillary Foxsong, Stuart Markus and Gerry McKeveny, delivers a seamless vocal blend, inspired guitar work and precise percussion. Gathering Time pays, and plays tribute to, the socially conscious spirit of Peter, Paul & Mary; incorporates the harmonic complexity and rock energy of Crosby, Stills & Nash, and throws in a bit of the Byrds and a jot of Joni Mitchell with exhilarating results! When they cut loose while performing on stage, “some sort of fundamental, cosmic concordance occurs that makes you very happy that you have ears.” Tickets are $20 per person. Brewster Academy is located at 205 S. Main St., Wolfeboro. For mor informartion call 603569-2151 or visit wfriendsofmusic.org/contact-us.html
The Amazing Nano Brothers At The Capitol Center The Amazing Nano Brothers open this season’s Showtime Sundays at the Capitol Center for the Arts on Sunday, January 25, at 1pm. Fun for the whole family, this live dramatic performance explores nanoscale science and technology. Dan and Joel are brothers – Dan a know-it-all and Joel a naif – who must deliver a juggling show about atoms, molecules, nanoscale forces, and scanning probe microscopy when it is discovered that the scheduled performers – the Nano Brothers – are too small to see. The performance delivers extraordinary visualizations created through juggling, lighting, and large-scale metaphors, and entertains family audiences through character acting, jokes with various levels of sophistication, stunts, and kid volunteer opportunities. Who knew physics could be this fun? Audience participation is invited, but not required. Individual tickets are $20 and tickets purchased in groups of four or more are $16.25. Tickets are available now by calling 603-225-1111, online at www.ccanh.com, and at the box office, located at 44 South Main Street, Concord on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 11am to 6pm. and Saturday11am to 2pm.
Motor Booty Affair Dance Party Get down with disco to shake off those winter doldrums. The four out-of this-world jivetalkin’ funkateers of Motor Booty Affair invite you and your gang to their 70s extravaganza dance party at the Rochester Opera House on Friday, February 6 at 8pm (Doors 7:00). Dance to the hits of The Bee Gees, KC and the Sunshine Band, Earth, Wind and Fire, The Commodores and many, many more of your favorites! Show off your style and attitude…wear your afros, bell bottoms and platform shoes…if you choose! Motor Booty Affair burns up stages across the country with their ultimate 70s groove celebration complete with the flash of disco lights and funkalicious disco sound. Reserve tickets for $12 online at RochesterOperaHouse. com or call/stop by the box office (603) 335-1992, M/W/F from 10-5 and two hours before the show. Cash bar with flat floor. Patrons under the age of eighteen must be accompanied by an adult. Handicap seating is available in the balcony only.
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To the Editor: Do the “Black Lives Matter� protest leaders and supporters actually care about saving or improving black lives or are they just pretending? Do they promote obeying the law and complying with police orders? Do they try to stop the thousands of annual black on black murders? Do they help blacks to escape poverty? No. All lives, including black lives, matter to TEA Partiers because we know
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This newspaper was first published in 1883 by Mathew H. Calvert as Calvert’s Weirs Times and Tourists’ Gazette and continued until Mr. Calvert’s death in 1902. The new Weirs Times was re-established in 1992 and strives to maintain the patriotic spirit of its predecessor as well as his devotion to the interests of Lake Winnipesaukee and the Cocheco Valley area with the new Cocheco Times. Our newspaper’s masthead and the map of Lake Winnipesaukee in the center spread are elements in today’s paper which are taken from Calvert’s historic publication.
escaping poverty. They deceive people to gain power. Minimumwage laws depress black employment, hindering many young blacks searching for a first job to begin their path to success. Wealth distribution buys votes but it doesn’t encourage success. After six years of President Obama’s wealth distribution and blaming the rich, the rich are doing very well while most Americans are poorer. Booker T. Washington said, “There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievance, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well.� This describes the “black lives matter� leaders and supporters. The only group truly working for every American, rather than some special interest(s), is the TEA Party; that is why both political parties and their supporters attack it. Join a TEA Party and help change our nation’s leadership so all Americans are safer, freer, and more successful. Don Ewing Meredith, NH
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Ideas For A New Year
by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor
As 2015 begins I can’t help but feel a little nostalgic. This year will mark twenty years since I first started writing this column. Of course, the original idea for it was based fact that I had been living in New Hampshire for ten years, having moved here from Long Island, New York, in 1985. It had been a tough adjustment for me as a Flatlander and I thought that a series of stories about those transitions would make for a great column. They were all pretty well received; it seems I had touched a nerve with some folks who were a lot like me. I also developed an audience with a few natives (and those who mistakenly thought they were). I have to admit, over the years, it got a little harder to find a good “Flatlander� story every couple of weeks and even harder when this column went to every week. So, I decided that it was now fair to not only poke fun at myself and my misadventures, but also at just life in general in New Hampshire and the country. Of course, I still take advantage of recounting a good misadventure as it happens, which is still more often than I like to admit. At first, I thought that finding other material to write about might be dif-
ficult. But as New Hampshire, and the country have moved along, I find that it just keeps getting easier and easier. The human race truly is the greatest comedy act in the world. Political correctness has been great fodder for more than a few columns. In 1995 it was sort of a new idea but it was gaining steam. Today, it is as prevalent as a strong wind, and just about as annoying to many. New, more sensitive and generic words to describe people and places have popped up and other words that we have been saying for decades have gone away because a handful of noisy, distracting people decided they didn’t like them so no one else should either. (Of course, most of us still say these words in private, though none of us will ever admit it.) We have changed the names of sports teams and taken away gender specific titles. We have also made sure that no one is ever allowed to lose so as to hurt their self esteem. To some, this is a bad direction for the country. I agree but I would hate to see it go away. It has given me ideas for some great columns so I am thankful for the stupidity of it all. If it ever stops, I’ll be at a loss. Technology has also been helpful to me in my pursuit of getting my column done within deadline. In 1995, I don’t think the average person would have imagined that in less than a decade people would be able to communicate with each other, at any time of day, from anywhere in the world instantly while at the same time completely ignoring that part of the world where you physically exist.
Face to face communication now is boring. In fact, it is hard to see anyone’s face anymore as it is most likely looking straight down into their phone reading a message from someone miles away who is silently laughing out loud (sometime while rolling on a figurative floor) about something. If you happen to be with them while they are reading that message, you just need to wait a minute, they will forward it to you so you can read it on your phone as well and then you can both have a good, silent chuckle without looking at each other. Some people think that this is a bad thing, but not all. Chiropractors and physical therapists will benefit down the road as the neck and back injuries come home to roost. To me, it has helped save me from missing a deadline more than once. Of course, the greatest comedy act of all on the human stage is politics. If I am ever in real trouble approaching a deadline, I simply have to pick up a newspaper or turn on the television and any one of the many characters who is responsible for running our country will surely give me some great fodder. They might not always be doing something that is in the best interest of the country, but you can bet it is in the best interest of an interesting column. So, as I start on the next decade of writing these columns, I can’t predict if I will still be here twenty years from now. But if I am fortunate to find myself in such a situation, you can be sure I’ll always have plenty of material. Happy New Year.
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All Life Matters: Jahi McMath’s Journey “Jahi McMath is ALIVE.” The very first column I filed in 2014 exposed the plight of a beautiful young girl, the by Michelle Malkin same age as Syndicated Columnist my daughter, whom medical experts declared “brain dead” after a routine tonsillectomy gone wrong. Are you ready for the rest of the story? Doctors told Jahi’s mom, Nailah Winkfield, that her child’s organs would “shut down” and her brain would “liquefy” if kept on life support. Hostile hospital administrators in Oakland moved to pull the plug on Jahi. Medical officials callously referred to Jahi as “dead, dead, dead” and dismissed the child as a “body.” Smug critics mocked and hounded the family to give up and let go. Jahi’s life, they concluded, was worthless. But the experts and naysayers were wrong. As Winkfield recently described in an open letter to supporters, “Jahi is physically stable. All of her organs are fully functional [and] her skin is flawless.” After inspecting her latest medical records, two respected neurologists testified in sworn declarations that she is not brain dead. Video released by her family shows her moving her arm and foot on command. A recent MRI showed severe brain damage, “but it also shows brain structure and blood flow,” Winkfield noted. “I was told previously that it would be liquefied or have holes in it because it had been without blood flow and oxygen for 9 months,” she recounted. “That is not the case with my daughter. Every person is different and every
person heals differently.” One year after callous and overconfident members of the medical and media establishments wrote Jahi’s life off, the now 14-yearold girl is surrounded by the love and care of her mom, dedicated medical professionals and vigilant advocates for life. Lawyer Christopher Dolan continues to battle the state of California to reverse the “brain death” designation in court. Volunteers maintain a Facebook page to share updates on Jahi’s progress. And with the help of the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network, Life Legal Defense, Angela Clemente & Associates, The Wrongful Death & Injury Institute, New Beginnings and others who helped transfer her away from death-wish docs in California, Jahi will mark Christmas this year at a long-term care facility in New Jersey. Bobby Schindler, head of Terri’s Network, told me this week that Jahi’s family “has been blessed with countless numbers of wellwishers, letting the family know they are constantly praying for Jahi.” The detractors and haters are still out there. But as Schindler observes, “Unfortunately, this is nothing new -- my family experienced the same with [sister] Terri. In fact, it’s been almost 10 years since Terri’s death, and we continue to receive similar types of mean-spirited comments.” Thankfully for society’s most vulnerable members who are medically dependent, disabled, incapacitated or potentially facing life-threatening situations, Bobby Schindler and Nailah Winkfield are keeping the faith. “Jahi’s life is worth the fight,” her mom insists. And that noble fight deserves far more support from those who’ve been sloganeering recently about See malkin on 26
Obama’s Cuban Olive Branch C a n d i date Barack Obama said that, as president, he would talk to anti-American by RIch Lowry d ictators Syndicated Columnist without precondition. He didn’t mention that he would also give them historic policy concessions without precondition. His surprise unilateral change in the U.S. posture toward the Castro dictatorship came without even the pretense of serious promises by the Cubans to reform their kleptocratic, totalitarian rule. The trade of Alan Gross, the American aid worker jailed in Cuba for the offense of trying to help Jewish Cubans get on the Internet, for three Cuban spies is understandable (we also got back one of our spies, and Cuba released several dozen political
prisoners as a sweetener). The rest of Obama’s sweeping revisions -- diplomatic relations and the loosening of every economic sanction he can plausibly change on his own -- are freely granted, no questions asked. It is quid with no pro quo. There is no doubt that economic sanctions are a blunt and dubious instrument, and reasonable people can disagree about their wisdom (I’ve gone back and forth about the Cuban embargo through the years). But dictatorial regimes hate them for a reason. All things considered, they want more economic wherewithal rather than less. Cuba is heavily dependent on the largesse of its ideological partner Venezuela, whose irrational, left-wing policies have helped trash its economy. Just as the Cuban dictatorship faces the dire prospect of the collapse of Venezuela’s support, here comes El Yanqui to cushion the blow. The Castro regime will take a cut of the increased See lowry on 26
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ing global wave of criticism, concern and consternation continues as both the UN General Asby John J. Metzler s e m b l y a n d Syndicated Columnist now the Security Council have firmly condemned North Korea’s communist regime for human rights abuses to its own population. The moves come amid widening, and overdue, international attention to the reprehensible and widespread human rights situation in the reclusive and quaintly titled Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). First, the full General Assembly voted 116 in favor, 20 against, and 53 abstentions to a tough but non-binding resolution calling on the international community to improve human rights in the DPRK. Then, for the first time ever, the Security Council met specifically to cover North Korea’s human rights abuses. The Security Council move marked a landmark human rights action called for over a decade ago here at the UN by former Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel. “With today’s historic debate the UN finally sends the message that North Korean rulers
who starve and enslave their own people must be held accountable,” opined Hillel Neuer of the Geneva-based UN Watch, a human rights advocate group. Importantly as American Ambassador Samantha Power stated, “Today we have broken the Council’s silence. We have begun to shine a light, and what it has revealed is terrifying. We must continue to shine that light, for as long as these abuses persist.” Given the Security Council’s consideration of crimes against humanity, there’s a growing possibility that members of the Kim Jong-un regime may be referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Though the focus of Human rights attention has little to do with the parallel uproar between the controversial Sony Pictures movie release “The Interview” and a subsequent North Korean cyber attack on the Hollywood studios, the facts remain that the DPRK dictatorship brooks no criticism, especially from a foreign film, whose parent company is based in Japan. Pyongyang’s secretive Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB) which runs clandestine and cyber warfare operations is the likely culprit. But the focused retaliation attacks on Sony, despite DPRK intent, seem to go beyond the North Koreans’ technical capacity to execute such a move and thus may have likely
sub-contracted the dirty work to Chinese hackers. The Sony story seems the grist of a layer cake of espionage and intrigue which probably goes beyond the DPRK. North Korea’s Marxist monarchy, led by Kim Jong-un, remains a bizarre brew of political cult,
Leninist control, with a mix of traditional Korean shamanism. Criticism of the regime, either domestically, even as we see with a satirical movie, invites retribution. Contrary to some Western spoofs of Kim as simply a spoiled
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Who’s Responsible? The coldblooded murder of two New York City policemen as they sat in their car is not only an outrage but also a wake-up call. It shows, by Thomas Sowell in the most Syndicated Columnist painful way, the high cost of having demagogues, politicians, mobs and the media constantly taking cheap shots at the police. Those cheap shots are in fact very expensive shots, not only to the police themselves but to the whole society. Someone once said that civilization is a thin crust over a volcano. The police are part of that thin crust. We have seen before our own eyes, first in Ferguson, Missouri and then in other communities, what happens when there is just a small crack in that crust, and barbarism and arson burst out. That can happen anywhere. So can what happened in New York. “Send not to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.” It is a painful irony that, on the eve of the murders of these two police officers in New York, some of the city’s police were already saying that, in the event of their deaths, they did not want Mayor Bill de Blasio to attend their funerals. We can only hope that Mayor de Blasio has some residual decency, so that he will not defile these two officers’ memorial services with his presence. No politician in the country has done more to play the race card against the police and spread the notion that cops are the big problem in minority communities. It so happens that the police
officers killed were both members of minority groups -- Officer Rafael Ramos, Hispanic, and Officer Wenjian Liu, Asian. It so happens that a substantial part of the New York City police force are members of minority groups. But you might never know that from the story told by demagogues who depict the black community as a “colonial” society being “occupied” by white policemen who target young blacks. Mayor de Blasio joined the chorus of those saying that they have to warn their black sons how to cope with this situation. “What can we say to our sons?” some demagogues ask. They can say, “Don’t go around punching strangers, because it is only a matter of time before you punch the wrong stranger.” Mayor de Blasio has made anti-police comments with Al Sharpton seated at his side. This is the same Al Sharpton with a trail of slime going back more than a quarter of a century, during which he has whipped up mobs and fomented race hatred from the days of the Tawana Brawley “rape” hoax of 1987 to the Duke University “rape” hoax of 2006 and the Ferguson riots of 2014. Make no mistake about it. There is political mileage to be made siding with demagogues like Al Sharpton who, as demagogue-in-chief, has been invited to the White House dozens of times by its commander-inchief. Many in the media and among the intelligentsia cherish the romantic tale of an “us” against “them” struggle of beleaguered ghetto blacks defending themselves against the aggression of white policemen. The gullible See Sowell on 26
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Healthy Tips From Dr. Fink by Dr. Charles Fink
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More Healthy tips from Dr. Fink. DIY…This is the age of DIY. Many of us are going to our local supply store for advice and materials for those projects around the house, or watching youtube for how to tips. Better still you know a guy with the skills to help you fix that leaky sink or repair the hole in the wall. I propose it’s time for DIY meals. There are many recipes, how to videos and cooking classes available and yet we aren’t cooking. Supermarkets offer more variety than ever and a healthy diet can make all the difference in the fight against pain and inflammation. In a recent article from Time magazine, Mark Bittman, NY Times writer & author of several cookbooks writes, “Shouldn’t preparing and consuming food be a source of
comfort, pride, health, well being, relaxation, and sociability? Something that connects us to other humans? I’m not talking about creating elaborate dinner parties just simple easy, everyday meals.” He adds, “not cooking is a big mistake and it’s one that’s costing us money, good times, control, serenity and even vastly better health.” Start with the basics and grow from there. In Bittmans book “How to cook everything fast” you can learn some valuable techniques. He recommends “to get comfortable in the kitchen, pare down your ambitions, ease up on your expectations and start with something manageable that you will actually enjoy eating. Like any skill, cooking gets easier as you do it more; every time you cook, you advance your level of expertise.” Planning ahead is key. Get the whole family involved. If you’re single, trade off with a friend or extended family. Make
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As we slide under the blanket of winter’s full grip, we reflect back on the year 2014 with overflowing gratitude for the progress and growth we’ve experienced in the past 12 months. Surely there will be challenges to face and obstacles to overcome in the year 2015, just as there has been in every year since the start of Live and Let Live Farm eighteen years ago. All things considered, 2014 has been a big year for “the farm,” but there are three major areas of development for which Teresa and her army of volunteers are especially grateful. First, there was the completion and grand opening of the Brittany Searing Memorial Quarantine and Rehabilitation Facility, a two story, 5,520 square foot building, conceived, designed, and built with Brittany’s memory and spirit in mind. Brittany was a remarkable 16 year old volunteer at the farm, who died suddenly in a tragic swimming accident in August of 2012. Her love and passion for all animals lives on in this wonderful facility. The only remaining need for the facility is
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Land of the Pilgrim’s Pride! Mr. Nobel Peace Prize? Since my early youth there are three holidays that bring me pain. All related to the loss of my father, by Niel Young Advocates Columnist and thousands of other soldiers. Before I drew my first breathe, m y f a t her had drawn his last. Would that war be the last great war? The love for my Dad whom I never knew and the people of this great country would be more thoughtful of life. Then again one day would take 58,000 of our young in a war that was not a war because our military was hand-cuffed by politicians – both parties! No matter what the kooks tell us, 9-ll-2001 was NOT our fault. At first I was full of anger and vengeance toward anyone, any country, who was linked to the murder of 3,000 innocent people on our soil! So, once again we were at war. Were we in the right place? Did we win “the war”? Are we still fighting a country or army? Did the “Iraq War” ever end? Who won? Was the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to BHO a little premature? How many countries respect or fear the USA? Will Barack Hussein Obama have a short term plan when he returns home from Hawaii? Or, will he have a new crisis to tend to? Wouldn’t want to waste another crisis, right Rahm? ******** Does anyone remember these words? My country tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died! Land of the Pilgrim’s pride!
From every mountain side, Let freedom ring! ******** Fox N ews h ost Gr eta Van Susteren took to her Facebook page to wonder why Rev. Al Sharpton’s TV paycheck isn’t being garnished to pay his tax debts. See more at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/timgraham/2014/12/23/ greta-asks-why-sharpton-getting-pass-taxes-obamas-irs#sthash. jUaAY3pH.dpuf “1. Why hasn’t the IRS garnished Reverend Al Sharpton’s MS/NBC pay for all his back taxes? Reports are that he owes more than 4 million dollars in back state and federal taxes. 2. And why does the Obama Administration continue to invite him to the White House for his advice while he has outstanding this reported (New York Times) tax debt? Why not make him pay up, and then invite him?” How many Americans who were working to pay off a debt to the people of America, and still have those letters and other means of communication continue to drive one to near insanity, while this guy and other well-known politicians/ activists are allowed to live the high life? ******** Chuck Ross a reporter at The Daily Caller: “A suspect in an armed home invasion is dead after he was confronted by an armed homeowner. Two men began knocking on the front door of a North Memphis, Tenn. home on Tuesday. When a woman answered, the men barged in, and one of them — identified as 22-year-old Nico Carlisle — held a gun to the woman’s neck. A male homeowner also
inside the house heard the commotion, retrieved his own handgun, and fired several shots at the two men, hitting and killing Carlisle. Carlisle’s accomplice left the scene and has not been found. Police said Carlisle had an extensive rap sheet that includes charges for burglary and assault. Police also cleared the homeowner of wrong-doing.” ******** Robert Dowlut General Counsel for the National Rifle Association: “Gun control stems from racist roots, and ... it undermines feminism by ‘sending women the message that they should not use force to defend themselves.’ “ Thomas Sowell: “Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes.” Perhaps true, but what if a voter and a taxpayer just doesn’t feel the compassion for the project or reason for “bringing the bacon home” H. L. Mencken: “Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.” I hope Sowell is reading this!
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If you remember July and August, everything was coming up roses. Except maybe those large purple flowering weeds along the highways and byways of North America. This is the native purple thistle. It bears absolutely no kinship to a tiny black seed called “guizotia abyssinica” or nyjer seed. However, it still is packaged in many retail stores with the incorrect name of thistle. In fact, up until about a decade ago, it was spelled niger, not nyjer. However, a civil rights group launched a court case against a large retailer, claiming the little black seed was being mispronounced as a derogatory name for African Americans. Rather than fight the court battle, the seed industry changed the spelling of the name to its present-day “nyjer.” The fact that the imported seed was grown along the famous Niger River, (hence the name) in Africa did not assuage the political forces at the time. This poor, little maligned weed seed is actually an imported seed from such far away places as India, Ethiopia, and Myanmar. American farmers don’t want anything to do with the natural thistle seed for growing purposes. Our native thistle plant is extremely invasive and will easily take over any plot of land in a very short period
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Chamber Annual Meeting Breakfast Attend the Chamber Annual Meeting breakfast which will feature an update from 2014-2015 Chairman of the Board, Mark Farrell, Laars Heating Systems on the results of 2014 and plans for the coming year. Also meet new and existing members of the Chamberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Board of Directors and staff. This event, sponsored by Frisbie Memorial Hospital, is free to Chamber members and will take place from 7:30-9:00 am at the Frisbie Community Education & Conference Center. Advance registration is required to attend as space is limited.
City Hall Lights Show The Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce City Lights Committee has taken their holiday decorating of downtown Dover to the next level. This year they have decorated the front of Dover City Hall with lights that dance to music which plays on your car radio. Motorists are encouraged to park in the designated ten minute parking spots in front of City Hall, Monday through Friday from 4pm-6pm and Saturday and Sunday from 4pm-10pm, tune the car radio to 90.5 FM and enjoy the show. The display will last until January 4, 2015. Viewers are encouraged to move along every ten minutes to give everyone the opportunity to take in the show.
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The Chamber will be offering a 12-day tour of Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Parks, departing from Boston on September 24, 2015. Tours include Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Zion National, Old Faithful, Grand Tetons, Lake Powell, Mt. Rushmore, Jackson Hole, Sedona, and Salt Lake City. Price $4299 (double occupancy) with discount $100 off for early reservation deposit. Price includes airfare, tours, hotels and Park Lodges. Learn more at no-obligation information session on Thursday, February 26th at Somersworth City Hall. Contact the Chamber to register: 603-692-7175 or info@somersworthchamber.com
Ida LeClair: The Moose in Me, the Moose in You At Garrison Players Art Center
Friday, February 6 - Sunday, February 8, 2015 Fri/Sat at 8 PM; Sun at 3 PM An evening of New England comedy, Ida puts you in touch with your â&#x20AC;&#x153;innah Mainahâ&#x20AC;?. IdaI lives in Mahoosuc Mills, a small town in western Maine, with her husband Charlie and their little dog, Scamp. 1When sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not helping you get in touch with your â&#x20AC;&#x153;innah Mainah,â&#x20AC;? Ida works as a cashier down to the Super Food World (formally the A & P) and moonlights doing books for the Smittyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hardware and the Mahoosuc Mills Mainely Maine store. Her hobbies are country line dancing, crafts and having adventures with Celeste, Rita, Betty, Dot and Shirley (a.k.a. the Women Who Run With the Moose). Come see this hilarious show at The Garrison Players Art Center, 650 Portland Avenue Corner of Rt 4/Roberts Rd Rollinsford. Tickets are $15-$18. 603-7504278. Info@GarrisonPlayers.org
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Sunapee’s new Sunbowl high-speed quad chairlift is a game changer. We have always enjoyed the Sunbowl but the attraction of riding the Sunapee Express keep us on the other side of the mountain. This time we didn’t leave the Sunbowl, the new lift cuts the ride time by less than half of than the old lift. We skied Ledges to Skyway at
least a half a dozen times! The day was clear so we were able to enjoy the view over Lake Su napee to the White Mountains and looking towards Vermont we could see Okemo’s and Stratton’s snow covered trails. By mid-day the lower parking area adjacent to the lodges was nearly full, it was a small crowd so there was plenty of room
on the trails and no lift lines. I spied a lot of new ski equipment and clothing, especially on the smaller children. We even shared the slopes with Santa Claus, actually two Santa Clauses! We had a wonderful day of skiing. Cross country skiers are still happy on the trials. The snow may have disappeared in the fields but in See patenaude on 21
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Charlie wears his yellow raincoat and Skip likes his new Pats Peak ski instructor jacket to keep warm and dry. Wearing the right clothing is key to having fun when outside in not so nice weather.
On a sad note it has been reported that Lancaster, NH’s Mount Prospect Ski club has lost its liability insurance and has not been able to open. The club installed a new rope this summer and they’re ready to operate but can’t find insurance. This is another terrible blow to the north country, combined with the loss of the Balsams Wilderness Ski Area that closed in 2011, there is no lift served skiing north of Wildcat and Bretton Woods. If you’re a fan of small ski areas, check out SmallSkiAreas.com and you’ll find a
complete list and information about small ski areas in New England. If you have never experienced the thrill of riding a rope tow or a poma lift you should make it a point to try it. I hade a blast at the Kanc Recreational Area riding their long fast rope tow and skiing under the lights in Lincoln last winter. Franklin’s Veterans Memorial, Moultonborough’s Red Hill Ski Club and Campton Mountain in Campton are all nearby and affordable. Hopefully Mother Nature will make it possible for them to open soon. Have Fun.
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Wednesday 14th Women’s Empowerment Support Group
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on the remittances water (including trade, and travel time) morntourism that that will spring ing was just overconcesan hour from Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and a half. We no sooner sions. set lines than we had Consider tourism. Thea ďŹ sh on. Got that one in Cuban military has an & settled back down and enormous holding comthe second wentOne off. pany called rod GAESA. We were back to the dock of its companies, Gaviwith operates our 2 ďŹ sh, beota, anwell extenfore 10:00 AM and they sive network of hotels weighed in ataccording 24 & 25 and resorts, lbs. What a GREAT way to the strategic consulto end the trip. tancy Stratfor. Imagine if Laterâ&#x20AC;Ś the Pentagon owned Capt. Pete and Hilton the Marriott hotel chains. That is the Cuban tourism industry in a nutshell. About a million Canadian tourists go to Cuba every year. In total, more than 2 million tourists visit annually, and yet the Castro regime is still standing. It is true, of course, that the embargo -- which Obama canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lift on his own -- hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ended the
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brat, recall that his regime is empowered with a massive conventional military facing South Korea as well as nuclear weapons. Neither Kim nor the neoStalinist regime he leads, are remotely amusing unless seen perhaps from half a world away. Australian Ambassador Gary Quinlan told the Council, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The DPRK is in effect a totalitarian state which uses violence and repression against its own citizens to maintain itself and its threatening military apparatus in powerâ&#x20AC;Ś the massive humanitarian catastrophe that has resulted from the scale of the DPRKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reign of terror has affected all of the DPRKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s neighbors and threatened regional stability.â&#x20AC;? Mark Lyall Grant, the British Ambassador, spoke of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;appalling situationâ&#x20AC;? inside North Korea and recalled the earlier 400 page report of the UN Commission which presented a picture of the DPRK where the â&#x20AC;&#x153;components of a totalitarian state without parallel in the contemporary world.â&#x20AC;? Ambassador Grant warned the Kim leadership that, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the world is watching and that they should consider themselves put on notice.â&#x20AC;? Human rights abuses abound with suffocating restrictions on free speech, assembly, the press and religion; at least 80,000 to 120,000 people are being held in prison camps evoking the worst of the former Soviet Gulag. And this, in a country with a relatively small population of 25 million. The tragic truth remains that while documented human rights abuses are nothing new in North Korea, finally the world community is at long last taking notice of these glaring crimes against humanity.
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com. To find out more about Thomas Sowell and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.
John J. Metzler is a United Nations correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues. He is the author of Divided Dynamism The Diplomacy of Separated Nations: Germany, Korea, China (2014)
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The Spirit of Johnny Cash Comes Back To Rochester Saturday, February 21st at 8pm
Johnny Cash tribute artist Harold Ford will be at the Rochester Opera House on Saturday, February 21st at 8pm (Doors 7pm). Ford, with a deep baritone voice and striking resemblance to the beloved Man in Black, is inspired to keep the torch burning for the beloved country music icon. With great reverence, Ford says: “The human struggles and challenges which Johnny sang about are as prevalent today as they were throughout his career. He moved us all to look deep with greater passion and understanding at ourselves and others. “The members of The Cash Band and I strive to remain true to the humanity that was such an important part of Johnny Cash’s music.” The mission of Harold Ford & The Cash Band is to carry on the spirit message and music of Johnny Cash. In The Spirit of Johnny Cash, Ford and his Cash Band recreate the sound of Johnny Cash and The Tennessee Three. Laura Lucy joins Mr. Ford and the band as the captivating June Carter Cash. Ford possesses the stage presence and charisma
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