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Farewell! Thomas Sowell’s columns have appeared in this publication every week since 1995. This week he says goodbye! Even the best things come to an end. After Syndicated Columnist enjoying a quarter of a century of writing this column for Creators Syndicate, I have decided to stop. Age 86 is well past the usual retirement age, so the question is not why I Our other longtime am quitting, columnist Michelle but why I Malkin reflects on kept at it so Sowell’s legacy on long. page 6 of this issue. It was very fulfilling to be able to share my thoughts on the events unfolding around us, and to receive feedback from readers across the country -- even if it was impossible to answer them all. Being old-fashioned, I liked to know what the facts were before writing. That required not only a lot of research, it also required keeping up with what was being said in the media. During a stay in Yosemite National Park last May, taking photos with a couple of my buddies, there were four consecutive days without seeing a newspaper or a television news program -- and it felt wonderful. With the political news being so awful this year, it felt especially wonderful. This made me decide to spend less time following politics and more time on my photography, adding more pictures to my website (www.tsowell.com). Looking back over the years, as oldtimers are apt to do, I see huge changes, both for the better and for the worse. In material things, there has been almost unbelievable progress. Most by Thomas Sowell

Seeing that January is our Healthy Living Section month, our editor, Brendan Smith (not pictured) went on assignment at the new Meredith Whole Living Center in Meredith to try their Flotation courtesy Photo Therapy and a few others.

Discovering Healthy Therapies For The New Year by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor

Back in September I reported on these pages about the opening of Meredith Whole Living Center. Located in the historic Grads building in downtown Meredith, it was developed by Seth Joslin and Kelly Chapman in offering a variety of alternative therapies under one roof. This being the first issue of our month-long Happy Healthy New Year features, I

volunteered to go back again, this time as a patron, to try out and report on a few of those therapies. Seth and Kelly were kind enough to set apart a few hours last week for me to experience three: the infrared sauna, the Flotation Therapy and a relaxing massage. One of my more pleasurable assignments in my years of reporting. Not being one who has experienced many alternative therapies, I was unsure of

what to expect. I’d imagine that the trepidation of trying them for the first time is what keeps some from ever finding out about these remarkable healthy therapies. My concerns were quick to vanish as Seth, who was my guide, helped me feel comfortable as he explained each and every step of what I would be doing. Each therapy takes place in its own space and all are expertly thought out and designed. The most See spa on 11

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January Tues. 3rd – Thurs. 5th Explorations in Printmaking – 3 Day Workshop

Lakes Region Community College, 379 Belmont Road, Laconia. Workshop runs from 9:30am-12:30pm all 3 days. This workshop will take a look at a variety of printmaking techniques and the unique possibilities that they provide. This workshop will introduce monotypes, collagraphs, and relief prints, as well as the materials and tools used to create them. Experimenting with these processes, students of all backgrounds will explore 2D design, pattern, and personal expression. The cost is $130 for all 3 days, and includes materials. 366-5235 to register.

Thursday 5th 2 Good 2 Be True

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

Fermentation Celebration

7th Settlement Brewery, 47 Washington Street, Dover. 7pm-9pm. Fermentation Celebration is the next event in the 7th Settlement Brewery Community Dinner Series. This time around, the brewery is teaming up with Flag Hill Distillery & Winery for a taste of the fantastic local beer and spirits the Seacoast has to offer. Ticket price includes 4 courses, beer and spirit pairings, and hospitality. $65pp. 3731001

Storytelling Dinner

The Corner House Inn, 22 Main Street, Center Sandwich. 6:30pm. Full dinner and entertainment every Thursday nights through the end of May. Cost is $21.95 per person (plus tax and gratuity) and includes salad, entrée, glass of wine, dessert and coffee. 284-6219

Friday 6th Recycled Percussion The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 536-2551

Dueling Pianos

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. Prepare your friends for some serious fun as YOU pick the music and join in the show! 293-0841

Saturday 7th The Alexis P. Suter Band Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $25 at the door / $20 in advance. BYOB. International Recording Artists The Alexis P Suter Band is a powerful and unique 5 piece ensemble fronted by a vocalist who transcends styles and genres. www. pitmansfreightroom.com or 603-5270043

Recycled Percussion The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 536-2551

Winter Farmers’ Market Cole Gardens, 430 Loudon Road, Concord. 10am-1:30pm. Cole Gardens hosts an indoor farmers’

market with live music and more than 30 participating vendors every Saturday through April 22nd. Everything from meats and seafood to breads, fruits, and veggies; as well as baked goods, honey and coffee & tea. www.concordwintermarket.com or 229-0655

Winter Film Series – “The Birds” Jean’s Playhouse, 34 Papermill Drive, Lincoln. 7:30pm. This month’s film is Alfred Hitchcock’s famous film, “The Birds”. All tickets are $8pp. A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people. www.jeansplayhouse.com or 7452141

Sam Robbins and Abrielle Scharff – Live Performance Portsmouth Book and Bar, 40 Pleasant Street, Portsmouth. 8pm. A portion of the proceeds of this show will be donated to The Chase Home for Children. Tickets are $5pp at the door. To learn more about the Chase Home visit www.chasehome.org

Author Katrina Kenison – Book Signing

Gibson’s Book Store, 45 South Main Street, Concord. 4pm-5:30pm. From the author of “The Gift of an Ordinary Day” comes her long awaited new collection of essays from her popular blog entitled, “Moments of Seeing: Reflections from an Ordinary Life”. Kenison gives voice to the simple joys and private longings of women everywhere. Free and open to the public. 224-0562

Coffeehouse Open Mic Doris L. Benz Community Center, 18 Heard Road, Center Sandwich. 7pm. Hosted by local singer-songwriter Tom Bartlett. You can sign up with Tom in advance for this monthly acoustic folk music coffeehouse open mic by sending an email to

TomBartlettMusicInquiries@ gmail.com Non-participants are encouraged to come to listen, and everyone is encouraged to bring a finger snack food to share during the break. Beverages, including beer and wine may be brought in for your consumption. Free will donation.

Tuesday 10th Open Mic Night

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. Multitalented host Jon Lorentz and a great variety of talent! To get in the gig, email: jlo_saxboy@yahoo.com 2930841

Wednesday 11th Weekly Cribbage Tournaments to Benefit the Children’s Auction

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

Game Time Trivia Shooters Tavern, Route 3, D.W. Highway, Belmont. 8pm-10pm. Join Shooters Tavern every Wednesday for Game Time Trivia. Win gift certificates and prizes! www.shootersnh.com

Thursday 12th Silent Film Series – “Peter Pan” The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 536-2551

2 Good 2 Be True

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

Storytelling Dinner

Friday 13th Dueling Pianos

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. Prepare your friends for some serious fun as YOU pick the music and join in the show! 293-0841

Saturday 14th Tusk – Fleetwood Mac Tribute The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 536-2551

Kashmir – The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Show Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. www. rochesteroperahouse.com or 3351992

Dave Andrews Comedy Experience Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $20 admission. BYOB. Funny Musician Dave Andrews draws on an interesting background to showcase his ample talents. Also featuring with Abhhishek Shaw and Greg Boggls. www.pitmansfreightroom.com or 603527-0043

Winter Farmers’ Market Cole Gardens, 430 Loudon Road, Concord. 10am-1:30pm. Cole Gardens hosts an indoor farmers’ market with live music and more than 30 participating vendors every Saturday through April 22nd. Everything from meats and seafood to breads, fruits, and veggies; as well as baked goods, honey and coffee & tea. www.concordwintermarket.com or 229-0655

New Hampshire’s Own Macaroni and Cheese Bake-Off Holiday Inn, 172 North Main Street, Concord. 1pm-4pm. Cure the winter blues by stuffing your face with New Hampshire’s finest comfort food. A small army of mac and cheese purveyors will be on hand for the seventh iteration of this showdown, and visitors have the pleasure of sampling the whole set. Come hungry and ready to vote for the People’s Choice Champion! $16pp. 271-3696 or www.nhdairypromo.org

Beatles for Sale – Tribute Band Jean’s Playhouse, 34 Papermill Drive, Lincoln. 7:30pm-9:30pm. This band

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From left to right, Nick Toubketis, John Ganong, Tommy Smith and Don Mitchell, all heart recipients that attended last year’s event. As of 12/29/2016 Dr. Dave DeNofrio of Tuft’s Medical Center, informed John that there have been 56 transplants just this year, which is by far higher than any other year.

Heart Transplant Recipient Marks Sixth Year Of New Life With A Celebrity Bartender Benefit Come one; come all to the Celebrity Bartender Benefit being held at The Faro Italian Grille in Weirs Beach/Laconia NH on Saturday January 7th at 7pm. The celebrity bartender will be John Ganong, celebrating his 6th year of this new life and would like you to join him. It all started on March 13, 2003 when congestive heart failure hit John and open heart surgery was performed at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester NH. It consisted of two value replacements and repair of an aneurism on the aorta. A few days later, the hospital installed a pacemaker to adjust the actual heartbeat. The next six and a half years went by pretty smoothly until the left side of John’s heart got so weak it pretty much collapsed. This was December 2009. John went to Catholic Medical Center again where they shipped him by ambulance to Tuft’s Medical Center in Boston, MA. They installed a heart pump to the left side of his heart which was run by batteries and a computer, all on a vest, which he wore 24/7. The same pump, the Heart Mate, used by former Vice-President Dick Cheney. At this point, John was placed on a list for a transplant. On January 3, 2011 John got a phone call about his transplant at 7pm. He got into his car with his wife Brenda to drive down to Tufts, calling his family on the way down to share the news. The transplant was a success and today John says he feels better and better. The donations John collects as the Faro’s Celebrity bartender will go to the Cardiac Transplant Division at Tuft’s Medical Center in Boston. John would like to say Thank You to all his friends, family, doctors and nurses who have supported and helped him over the past 10 years and he invites all to this joyous occasion in helping celebrate the sixth year of his new life. Thank you for your generous support in the past. Last year we raised $3,000 in just 2 ½ hours! Over the past 5 years we’ve raised more than $8,000! It’s so great to see everyone enjoy themselves for such a great cause! There will be live entertainment by Matt Langley of the Axis Band. Come hang out with some of the doctors and nurses that saved John’s life! See you there for a great time. All are invited! For more information or to donate please call John at 603393-5590. All proceeds will benefit the Tuft’s Medical Center Cardiac Transplant Division.

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Weirs Times columnist Mike Moffett with Lithuanian expatriate Lina Upham in Marco Island, Florida a slave laborer in a gold mine while Brone became a camp midwife. They’d have likely perished in the Gulag but for the fortuitous death of Stalin in March of 1953. Soviet policies softened somewhat and Jonas and Brone were allowed to return to Lithuania. They married and Lina’s mother Vida was born in 1954. Vida eventually studied chemical engineering at a college where she met and married Rimas. Lina

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Remnick’s narrative reinforced my sense of the abject horror that marked what Ronald Reagan referred to as the Evil Empire. That Josef Stalin was personally responsible for the deaths of over 40 million people was mindboggling enough. That so many millions more spent countless years in Gulags—Soviet Concentration Camps—seemed beyond comprehension. And those who were not killed or incarcerated remained prisoners of a totalitarian police state where no one could be trusted. The Soviets had occupied Lithuania following a dastardly 1939 deal with the German Nazis, who in turn took over the country in 1941. But by 1945 the Soviets were back. Lina’s English was a bit better than her dad’s and she shared that life was hellish for Lithuanians in those days. Her grandparents met as 17-year-olds during a month-long journey in a railroad boxcar to a prison camp near Irkuts in Siberia. While many did not survive the trip, her grandfather Jonas kept spirits up by playing an accordion every day. That he made music during those dreadful times made Brone fall in love with him. In subsequent years, Jonas survived as

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LITHUANIA AND LIFE Following a recent speech to a Marco Island (Florida) veterans group, I mingled with attendees— using sports to find common ground. “You’re from Dallas? So what’s going to happen to Tony Romo?” I was introduced to a couple people who came from even further away than Texas. Rimas Ragalevicius and his daughter Lina hailed from Vilnius, Lithuania. “Lithuania? A great basketball country, yes?” Lina nodded in agreement. “We won an Olympic Bronze Medal in 1992, right after we became independent from Soviet Union.” That was the year of the first USA Dream Team. Michael Jordan and Company beat Lithuania by over 50 points in the semifinal. Having just read “Lenin’s Tomb,” David Remnick’s Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the fall of the Soviet empire, I was not only intrigued by Rimas’ and Lina’s accents, but by their life journeys. While they’d come to hear me speak, I ended up asking THEM question after question. They recalled being in Lithuania’s Baltic capital of Vilnius in January of 1991 when the Soviets tried to impose a bloody crackdown on the burgeoning Lithuanian independence movement. But before the year ended it in RSoviet ust Union that Cabthe ywas ic z o disintegrated. s

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To The Editor: I am responding to Linda Dupere’s letter in your December 22 issue concerning the issue of tightening NH voting laws to disallow out-of-state college students the right to vote in New Hampshire. Even a casual blonde such as myself can see clearly through your thin veil of pretense. Why not come right out and say that you’d rather not have college students voting in our elections since “we all know that the majority of college students vote for the democratic candidate.” Are you really aiming to disenfranchise these college voters who traditionally are part of a democratic demographic. Why? Just for your personal party’s gain? As you suggest, “outof-state college students should have to obtain a NH Driver’s license and register their cars here.” First, let’s assume the typical college student obtains their original license at age 17. That means their next license is due to expire at age 22, just as they exit college. Are you suggesting they must obtain a replacement license in New Hampshire, long before the original expiration date, for the purpose of voting? Are you also suggesting these college students should be required to register their vehicles here in NH as we “sure could use that lost revenue.” Please don’t

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strip this issue down to gains for sake of state revenue. Refer to our state laws regarding voter registration. Part I, Article II allows for “… every inhabitant of the State of NH, who is a United States citizen and age 18 or older [on Election Day] is qualified to vote in New Hampshire.” Further, you either register in the town or ward “in which you are domiciled,” or obtain an absentee voter ballot. Like any other citizen, college students have only one voting domicile and may only cast one vote in any election. New Hampshire voting law 659.13 I.(c) (1) states, “If the photo identification is an out of state driver’s license or non-driver’s identification card, the ballot clerk shall record the state of issuance…. ….The voter shall then be allowed to enter the space … and cast his or her ballot.” Not to beat a dead horse, but our state further protects voters (college students included) in their many legal interests. Out-of-state students have other peripheral protections based on their ability to vote in the state they currently domicile without disruption of the following: most family health insurance plans, family motor vehicle insurance plans, income taxes, and scholarships and grants are typically not affected by establishing your voting domicile in the municipality where you live

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.

while attending college. Democrat or Republican. Republican or Democrat. Who cares. Let’s not get so tit for tat that this issue starts sounding like the old saying, “Welcome to New Hampshire. Pay your tuition, graduate, now go home!” While I do agree with Ms. Dupere’s disgust of the violence following the general election, I simply fail to see the, as she stated, “grave injustice that is forced upon our citizens” by allowing outof-state students to vote here in New Hampshire. No wonder so many graduates exit our state after graduation with the kind of message we’d be sending by changing our voting laws to unprotect their voting rights. Shame on that idea. For more information, see www.state.nh.us/ sos/statutes.htm, or call NH Secretary of State at (603) 271-3242. Ellen Coulter, Northfield, NH.

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Some insect that has been around for millions of years will go extinct. Some insect that we never heard of before but has probably been around for millions of years, will be discovered. A cure for all cancers will be discovered. I hope. The New England Patriots will not win a single, regular season game in the months of March, April, May, June, July or August. The Chicago Cubs will finally win the World Series. (Oops! Never mind, finally got that one right last year.) There will be outrage in the professional chess community when it is discovered that many of its players have been using steroids for years. 62 will be considered the new 30. There will be a nationwide â&#x20AC;&#x153;Random Act Of Kindness Dayâ&#x20AC;? declared for April 4th. Many people will be relieved as they can get this out of the way early in the year and get on with their own lives. The newest reality show â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Wanna Be A Reality TV Starâ&#x20AC;? will debut. Dozens of physically attractive, average Americans will be put through a series of emotional traumas in the hopes of emerging the winner and then going on to participate in another TV reality show. Ratings will be huge. Some states will consider celebrating Christmas in July so as to assure retailers that winter

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Someone will get paid fifteen million dollars to pitch in forty baseball games. In New Hampshire a new law will be passed where those entering a fourteen item or less checkout with fifteen items or more will be fined. If you enter with more than twentyfive items you have to spend a night in jail and do one hundred hours of community service. The first politician to â&#x20AC;&#x153;test the watersâ&#x20AC;? for 2020 will come to New Hampshire late in the year and pretend that he/she really cares. A casino bill will once again be introduced in the New Hampshire Senate. (Guaranteed for 2018 and 2019 as well.) Political arguments between â&#x20AC;&#x153;friendsâ&#x20AC;? on Facebook will reach a milestone when someone actually gets someone else to change their mind about something. (Nah!! Just kidding about that one.) There you have it. Happy New Year!! Brendan Smith is the author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Flatlander Chroniclesâ&#x20AC;? as well as Best Of A F.O.O.L. In New Hampshire.â&#x20AC;? He also loves to tell his Flatlander Tales and other stories to groups and organizations. Find out more at his website www.BrendanTSmith.com

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Thank You, Professor Sowell I first read Thomas Sowell in college -- no thanks to my college. At the majority of America’s institutions of “higher learnby Michelle Malkin ing,” reading Syndicated Columnist Thomas Sowell was a subversive act in the early 1990s when I was a student. It remains so today. Why? Because the prolific libertarian economist’s vast body of work is a clarion rejection of all the liberal intelligentsia hold dear. Among the left’s most corrosive ideas is the concept of perpetual and permanent racial victimhood, which social engineers pretend to rectify through federally mandated, taxpayer-subsidized preferential policies. Sowell’s groundbreaking academic analyses of these programs in the U.S. and around the world exposed how elites profit mightily at the expense of the alleged beneficiaries of government-coerced affirmative action. The grand rhetoric of diversity masks the true intent and actual impact of current racially discriminatory “solutions” to past racial discrimination: solidifying the power of the few over the many. As Sowell put it succinctly in one of the first pieces of his I came across in the journal “The Public Interest”: “Live people are being sacrificed because of what dead people did.” In that essay and much more deeply in his book, “Preferential Policies: An International Perspective,” published that year, Sowell explored the “mismatch” effect in the ivory tower. While

prestigious schools such as the University of California, Berkeley congratulated themselves for manufacturing “wonderfully diverse” student bodies ostensibly to make up for the legacy of American slavery, (which Sowell pointed out was in no way unique to either the American South or blacks), he reported that more than 70 percent of black students at UC Berkeley failed to graduate. “What they’ve effectively done” in lowering academic standards by race in the name of social justice, Sowell explained in an interview with C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb, “is rented these bodies for window dressing for a few years, and then, when they’re through with them, they’re put aside and a new bunch of bodies are brought in.” Who benefits? Not the students, but the bean-counting administrators and political correctness marketers at Berkeley -- Diversity, Inc. -- who exploit minority students for their glossy admissions brochures. The other vested interest? Tenured radicals in what Sowell called the “black studies establishment” who “need students to be in their classrooms” to justify their paychecks. Sowell, who grew up black and poor in Harlem, worked as a delivery man, served in the U.S. Marines, graduated from Harvard Law School, earned his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Chicago, and fully realized the folly of Marxism during a stint as a federal government intern, spurned identity politics collectivism. “Fortunately, even during my period of Marxism I had respect for evidence and logic,” Sowell told an interviewer in 2004, “so it

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The Democrats have a simple explanation for Hillary Clinton’s loss -- the Russians did it. by Rich Lowry The party Contributing Writer that has had a decades-long soft spot toward Moscow and been reluctant to believe that the Kremlin might have aggressive intentions or, say, cheat on an arms-control agreement is in a frenzy over Russian hacking that supposedly denied Hillary the victory that was rightfully hers. John Podesta, the chairman of a Hillary campaign that considered accepting the results of an election part of American writ as of about two months ago, refused several times on “Meet the Press” last Sunday to say the presidential election was “free and fair.” In a contest this narrow, anything might have been decisive. See malkin on 26 But the monocausal Russian

explanation for Hillary’s defeat ignores her myriad political and ethical vulnerabilities that the Democrats were determined to disregard, despite the obvious evidence of them for years. Vladimir Putin couldn’t have hand-picked a worse champion for them this year. There was no reason to believe that Hillary Clinton was a good politician who could deliver a compelling message, since she had never done it before. The Democratic establishment rushed into the arms of a candidate who, it was clear from the beginning, could well lose to Donald Trump, especially if a few things bounced the wrong way -and is now shocked and outraged that she indeed lost when a few things bounced the wrong way. Yes, the Russian interference was among those things. But some perspective: The hack of the Democratic National Committee disrupted the early going of the Democratic convention,

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The Wheel’s Still In Spin Come senators, congressmen / Please heed the call D o n ’ t stand in the doorway / Don’t block by Ken Gorrell up the hall Northfield, NH. For he that gets hurt / Will be he who has stalled There’s a battle outside raging It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls For the times they are achangin’ When future Nobel laureate Bob Dylan sang those words on The Times They Are a-Changin’, his album released January 13th, 1964, he could not have imagined that 52 years later America would be a week away from inaugurating President Donald J. Trump. But his protest song from half a century ago resonates today, even if the audience has dramatically changed. Ever since the election, the opposition has been crafting ways that it can obstruct the incoming Trump administration. Worse, some Democrat leaders and union officials have been trying to delegitimize Trump’s win by blaming Russians or the suddenly “outdated” Electoral

College for his victory. But I think Dylan properly gauged the mood for change then and now: “He who gets hurt will be he who has stalled.” At least two states, Maine and Arkansas, aren’t stalling. They are anticipating our changing times, readying requests for the new administration to approve additional restrictions on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). More familiarly known as the “food stamp” program, SNAP uses Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards instead of stamps, a move to reduce fraud and the stigma of using the taxpayerfunded benefit. Most states restrict the use of SNAP funds. Items like alcohol, lottery tickets, and tobacco are generally off-limits, though NH has fewer purchase restrictions that MA. But Maine and Arkansas are going further, asking the new administration to allow them to restrict purchases of sugary items like soda and candy with the public money allocated to their EBT. The Obama administration was hostile to such restrictions, but the Trump administration is considered more friendly to such reforms. If approved, NH should follow suit. I generally oppose government interference in consumer affairs. I certainly hold the leaders of NYC in contempt for their

Nanny-state efforts to restrict purchases of “unhealthy” items and “super-sized” soda. But those restrictions were aimed at citizens using their own funds. As the head of Maine’s

Department of Health and Human Services, Mary Mahew, told a reporter for the Daily Signal: “What an individual with their own money that they See gorrell on 30

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- It’s once again time to consult the crystal snow globe and peer ahead into what events 2017 may by John J. Metzler bring. After Syndicated Columnist a surprising, tumultuous and truly roller-coaster year just past, we certainly can hope for a more stable period. But should we? Despite the unprecedented electoral triumph of Donald Trump in the American presidential election, the incoming Trump Administration inherits a combustable mix of global chaos. London’s respected Spectator magazine dubs 2017 as “Europe’s Year of Rage.” The winds of political populism have hardly abated; after Brexit in Britain with the UK’s intent to leave the European Union, unpredictable forces of populism have yet to crest on the continent. Elections: France and Germany will hold crucial national elections. In France the populist hard-right National Front may make serious inroads over the incumbent and incompetent Socialist government. In Germany Angela Merkel’s Christian democratic coalition will probably win despite the fearful backlash to Germany’s accepting over one million MidEast migrants. Afghanistan: Can an invigorated Taliban Islamic insurgency topple the U.S.-backed Kabul government? And importantly, what would be the stand of the new American Administration? An Afghan showdown could be

an early test in 2017. Turkey: A crucial country at the crossroads but facing dangerous domestic trends which include the increasingly authoritarian Islamic government of President Tayep Erdogan. Not your father’s Turkey; the tried and true Turkey which was a stable lynchpin of NATO has fundamentally changed in recent years and especially in the wake of the ill-fated but suspicious military coup in July 2016 which gave Erdogan the excuse to massively crackdown on opposition politicians, the security forces and the media. Terrorism: The recent Christmas-market bombings in Berlin and the attacks in Nice, Istanbul and Brussels earlier in the year underscore the clear and present danger from international terror. Massive refugee flows and threat of Islamic Jihadi violence in USA and Europe persist. The decline of ISIL’s pseudo state will likely be offset by the rebirth of the Al Qaida hate franchise. Syria remains the epicenter of violence and the Islamic internationalist cause. The Islamic Republic of Iran: has truly gotten away with murder. Now with American and European economic sanctions lifted, both countries plan to profit with lucrative trade deals with the Tehran regime. Both Boeing aircraft and Europe’s Airbus couldn’t wait to do business with the Islamic Republic to sell planes and technology to Tehran. United Nations: The UN has elected Portugal’s Antonio Guterres as its new SecretaryGeneral. See Metzler on 24

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would bring the nation together; Barack Hussein Obama. No more hate groups. Transparency beyond all expectations. Black and White Americans would come together. As this man, named as the Nobel Peace Prize winner a few days after becoming President took command had no state department or war experience – what has he accomplished?? Just pay close attention to what BHO does to set himself up to be a war hero, after he leaves office! ******** Mitch McConnell Washington Times: “You’d have to go back to 2008 and sort of see the transfer of power between Bush and Obama, Obama was grabbing headlines left and right…and in a lot of ways, Bush kept quiet and went off into the sunset.” But Obama and his team have been far from quiet in the waning days of his administration. The lame-duck president spent the Christmas holidays boasting that he could have beaten Trump had he run in 2016 and dramatically altering the U.S. position toward Israel by allowing the passage of a damaging United Nations Security Council resolution against the Jewish state. Trump responded Wednesday by decrying Obama’s “inflammatory” comments and blasting the “total disdain and disrespect” the Obama administration had shown Israel. He also disputed the notion that Obama could have won given the challenges facing Obamacare and the economy. McConnell said the incoming and outgoing presidents seem locked in a struggle for control of the media

narrative with their escalating political moves and rhetoric. “I do think that part of it is a battle for attention, which is unprecedented.” * * * * * * * * The Guardian: “Saudi Arabia carried out 153 executions in 2016, according to an AFP tally based on official announcements, slightly down from the year before. The ultra-conservative kingdom is one of the world’s most prolific executioners and has a strict Islamic legal code u n d e r wh ic h m u r d e r , drug trafficking, armed robbery, rape and apostasy are all punishable by death. Rights group Amnesty International said Saudi Arabia carried out at least 158 death sentences in 2015, coming third after Iran and Pakistan. Should keep that in mind!

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for that purpose, and entered her residence as he left his own, by the chamber window. He was the first person the family had seen abroad for more than a week.” One of Mr. Boynton’s ancestors, Stephen Jacques, wrote that the years 1717 and 1718 were years when there was a lot of sickness “…that left 30 widows here.” Though exact dates for the greatest snow accumulations may vary from source to source, as may the total amounts of the snow fall, sources acquainted with the events of that 1717 winter are in agreement about many of the hardships associated with the storms. Search parties were used to locate houses covered by snow, sometimes doing so by seeing the smoke rising from chimneys. No one knows how large an area the big storms covered because much of the northeast was not yet inhabited by the settlers in the new world, but there were reports of houses covered with snow in Dover and Exeter, New Hampshire as See smith on 26

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half hour, though one can certainly stay a bit longer or less. “Listen to your body,” Seth explained. I stayed the thirty minutes (I certainly could have stayed longer) listening to the selection of relaxing music, inhaling the scent of Eucalyptus in the air and keeping hydrated with the water that was provided. Stepping out of the sauna, I toweled off and then put on the robe which was provided for me for the day. Now with my pores wide open, I was ready for some Flotation Therapy. There are two flotation rooms at Meredith Whole Living Center, one contains a small pool (or big tub, depending your perception) where once you close the door you are in total isolation. The other is a pod where, once inside, you close the lid, also putting you in complete isolation. As I write this, these are the only

ter fit for my 6’2” frame, though I would have fit into the pod as well. Each flotation tank is filled with ten inches of water heated to body temperature and filled with 1,200 pounds of Epsom

Salts. This is enough to make you float effortlessly in an environment designed to eliminate external environmental stimuli. Floating has been known to benefit veterans and those with PTSD (who are offered a special rate), chronic pain sufferers, athletes. Pregnant women, children with ADHD, artists and those who work in the creative field and really anyone looking to improve their lives. Still, the proof is in the pudding, or, in this case, the float tank. A shower is provided in the room to rinse yourself first after the sauna and will be used again once the float is over to clean the salt off your body. I will admit that I had a few trepidations about flotation therapy before I tried it. After all, we humans can be skeptical creatures when it comes to trying new things that are out of our ordinary. Seth showed me the controls inside the tank where I could control the music and the lighting. I could float in the warm blue light while the HemiSync music surrounded me or I could put myself into complete darkness

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wasn’t long till I was lying down in the warm water. Floating effortlessly, it took me no more than a few minutes to feel really comfortable and realize that I wasn’t going to turn upside down, or go under the water, I was simply going to float, my body in contact with nothing but the water. I decided to turn off the lights but keep the music on and that was how I kept the float room for the next hour. In com-

plete isolation I figured out some problems, went into my past, had some ideas about writing and even fell asleep. Though I have never been on one to compare the experience, I felt as though I were floating on a cloud. It did not seem like an hour had passed when the lights came on and a pleasant voice informed me that my float had ended. I felt completely at peace and my neck, which had been stiff lately from just the day to day, didn’t have that strain on it that I was used to. I was sold. The flotation therapy seemed to be everything it was cracked up to be. I could easily have done the hour and a half ses-

sion. If my day at Meredith Whole Living Center had ended there, I would have been a happy reporter, but there was still one thing left on the generous list provided me; an incredibly relaxing massage. Seth was my massuer, one of his many skills which include, among others, Cranial Sacral Therapy, which is his passion. I was treated to a “Traditional massage” according to Seth. It was certainly more than traditional, at least in my recollection of massages; my last one was many years ago. The entire massage lasted an hour and a half. Lying under warm blankets, my hands and arms, toes and feet, back and neck

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to think outside the box, sort of. Mobility is a key factor in my success on the ice. I consider every hole a cast, and I often make a lot of casts. It’s not uncommon for me to drill 100 holes or more in a day, especially when I’m guiding clients. I also go back through and fish old holes, because drilling holes often moves fish around. When I locate schools of white perch, and I discover that they are holding at a specific depth, I follow bottom contours. I am effectively ice trolling. I’m not saying there is anything wrong with tip up fishing, but it is often less productive, especially during the middle of the day. When I was a kid my Dad used to say that the fish didn’t bite in the

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Americans did not have refrigerators back in 1930, when I was born. Television was little more than an experiment, and such things as air-conditioning or air travel were only for the very rich. My own family did not have electricity or hot running water, in my early childhood, which was not unusual for blacks in the South in those days. It is hard to convey to today’s generation the fear that the paralyzing disease of polio inspired, until vaccines put an abrupt end to its long reign of terror in the 1950s. Most people living in officially defined poverty in the 21st century have things like cable television, microwave ovens and air-conditioning. Most Americans did not have such things, as late as the 1980s. People whom the intelligentsia continue to call the “have-nots” today have things that the “haves” did not have, just a generation ago. In some other ways, however, there have been some serious retrogressions over the years. Politics, and especially citi-

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Ongoing Senior Ten Pin Bowling League

Funspot, Rt. 3 Weirs Beach. 10am every Monday morning. 50 years and older welcomed! Call Gail 569-1974 or Al 8552561

Line Dancing

Gilford Public Library, 31 Potter Hill Road, Gilford. 9am-10am Every Wednesday. 524-6042

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NAMI-NH Family Support Group

Pease Public Library, downstairs, Plymouth. 7pm. First and third Mondays of each month. Open to anyone who is dealing with a close friend or family member who has a mental illness. 254-5090 or 536-2699

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Meredith Community Center, Rt. 3, Meredith. 6:30pm. Second Thursday of the month. New members always welcome. 455-0636

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Wolfeboro Public Library, Wolfeboro. 10am-Noon. The first Tuesday of every month. Featuring methods of jump starting genealogical research for both the beginner and the advanced genealogist. Free and open to all. 569-2428

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Tilton Senior Center from 7pm9pm every Wednesday.

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Woodside Carvers Club

Woodside Building at the Taylor Community, Laconia. Tuesday and Thursday 9:3011:30am. Beginners welcome. 934-4265

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Tapply-Thompson Community Center, Bristol. 6pm. $1 per night. 744-2713.

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Newfound Memorial Middle School. Sundays, 6-8pm. $1 per night. 744-2713. Gilford Public Library, 31 Potter Hill Road, Gilford. 1:30pm2:30pm every Friday. 5246042

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Meredith Public Library, Main St. Wednesdays, 10:3011:30am and Thursdays, 1-2pm. Ages 3-5. 279-4303.

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was only a matter of time before my Marxism began to unravel as I compared what actually happened in history to what was supposed to happen.” Chromosomes and skin color and partisan loyalty didn’t dictate his thinking. He embraced timetested, transcendent principles grounded in the reality of how things really are -- as opposed to the fantastical imaginings of what he trenchantly called the “Vision of the Anointed.” Sowell’s book on that subject (published in 1995, the same year the Anointed One, Barack Obama, emerged on the national scene with his fabrication-filled memoir, “Dreams of My Father”) thoroughly dismantled the tyranny and tactics of self-described “progressives” whose control-freak narcissism is wrapped in good intentions and false narratives. Sowell’s assessments were rooted not in fear or hatred or fanaticism or moral superiority, but in empirical evidence. He judged outcomes, not oration. He didn’t make excuses. He made sense. “In the anointed we find a whole class of supposedly ‘thinking people’ who do remarkably little

thinking about substance and a great deal of verbal expression,” Sowell observed. “In order that this relatively small group of people can believe themselves wiser and nobler than the common herd, we have adopted policies which impose heavy costs on millions of other human beings, not only in taxes, but also in lost jobs, social disintegration, and a loss of personal safety. Seldom have so few cost so much to so many.” In another giant contribution to contemporary political and policy analysis, Sowell’s 1999 tome, “The Quest for Cosmic Justice,” addressed the abject failures of those who seek to cure all inequities, inequalities, disparities and ills through government intervention. He summed up his findings thusly: 1. The impossible is not going to be achieved. 2. It is a waste of precious resources to try to achieve it. 3. The devastating costs and social dangers that go with these attempts to achieve the impossible should be taken into account. The former leftist playwright David Mamet, in his 2008 manifesto, “Why I Am No Longer a Brain-

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well as Hampton in western Massachusetts. So heavy and high was the snow in front of barn doors that the barns also had to be entered through windows or other openings. Travel was difficult and slow, and some who were caught away from home had to wait days to find traveling suitable to return. Mail service was delayed with mail sent from Boston to Portsmouth taking ten days to reach its destination. Because it was so difficult to travel to markets for food people had to rely on that they had stored from the previous year’s harvest and other supplies on hand. Farm and domestic animals were hard hit by the bad weather, particularly those that were allowed to wander away from the safety of barns. Sheep, pigs, and cattle were buried in the snow and many perished, though some were found alive many days after the storm. Wild animals such as wolves, bears, foxes, wildcats and deer were said to have come out of the forests and into the settlements in search of food, and farmers were said to have tried to protect the deer as well as their farm animals from the predatory animals. Nevertheless, the deer population was said to have dropped by 90 to 95 percent because of the deep snows and accompanying woes for the deer. Families who were unable to reach their wood piles burned some of their furniture to keep warm. Native Americans asserted that they had never heard in the tales passed on to them of events long gone by of a winter when so much snow fell in so short a period of

time. We might speculate as to whether those who have told the stories of the winter of 1717 might have exaggerated a little bit, but for those of us who have experienced the fury of lake effect snowstorms when the snow falls at a fast pace and for long periods of time, and the winds blow that abundant snow into huge drifts, the possibility of such a winter event is not questioned. On the other hand, it is reasonable to question why any New England bear, who would usually be calmly slumbering in a comfortable den beneath the snow cover in February and early March, would dare to venture out into snow deeper than the region had ever known. That 1717 winter has been associated with John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem, Snowbound, in which he writes of one family’s experience in coping with a similar storm. “So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; …. And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own, Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below, A universe of sky and snow!” - Whittier

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Y INSPECTE W/ 20-DAY PLAT D E!

#3980

#3955A

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Crew cab, 4×4, alloys, powers windows and locks, cruise/�lt. * Nowhere Else Vehicle AT NOWHERE ELSE PRICE...

Short bed 4×4, automa�c, alloy wheels only 80k. * Nowhere Else Vehicle AT NOWHERE ELSE PRICE...

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4×4 automa�c, cloth interior -fresh trade. * Nowhere Else Vehicle AT NOWHERE ELSE PRICE...

2004 Ford F150

2006 Ford F150

2005 Ford Explorer Sport Trac

2006 Ford F150

2008 Ford F150

2005 Ford F150

Extra cab.

Only $5,995

EXTRA CAB

4X4

#3984AU

4×4, alloy wheels, extracab, cd player. * Nowhere Else Vehicle AT NOWHERE ELSE PRICE...

Only $5,995

Only $9,995

EXTRA CAB

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XLT___

Extra cab 4×4 automa�c, XLT, power windows, power locks, cd player. * Nowhere Else Vehicle AT NOWHERE ELSE PRICE...

Only $5,995

Only $3,495

EXTRA CAB

#3980

4×4, automa�c, cd player, new car trade. * Nowhere Else Vehicle AT NOWHERE ELSE PRICE...

Only $5,995

4X4

#3964

Extra cab, 4×4, power widows, power locks, power seats, tonneau cover. * Nowhere Else Vehicle AT NOWHERE ELSE PRICE...

Only $4,995

Only $4,995 8’ BED

Only $4,995 4X4

4X4 ___

4×4, automa�c , power windows, power locks, alloy wheels, rare 8’ bed, clean. * Nowhere Else Vehicle AT NOWHERE ELSE PRICE...

Only $6,995

#3983AU

4×4 automa�c, alloy wheels, running boards, cd player. * Nowhere Else Vehicle AT NOWHERE ELSE PRICE...

Only $7,995

Winner’s Circle Auto Sales • 315 Laconia Rd. • Route 3 • Tilton, NH

603-286-AUTO (2886)

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK • MON THRU THURS 9-7 • FRI & SAT 9-6 • SUN 10-4 * PRICES REFLECT UP TO $2,000 CASH OR TRADE DOWN PAYMENT, PLUS $187 TITLE AND DOC FEE DUE ON DELIVERY