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The 33-ton “Alligator Alice� is pushed the last few feet into the mechanic’s shop at the Wright Museum in Wolfeboro by the Pershing Tank. Alice, the Museum’s Sherman Tank will be getting fitted with a new engine this winter.
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Two hundred and seventy teams will be competing in the 8th Annual New England Pond Hockey Classic which will be held on Meredith Bay in Meredith, February 3rd-5th. Our center section tournament guide has all the teams and action. Steve Alfano-PortraitEFX of the Merrimack Valley
The Pershing Tank spit fire from its rear exhaust as it labored slowly backwards to help push the powerless M4 Sherman Tank into cover. No, this wasn’t a scene from a World War II movie, but an ambitious project being carried out on the grounds of the Wright Museum of World War II on a recent chilly Saturday morning. With the hard work and ingenuity of the dozen or so volunteers on hand, the goal was to move the museum’s Sherman Tank “Alligator Alice� from its spot inside the museum, to the mechanics’ shop, a couple of dozen feet to the left so that a new en-
gine could be installed. How exactly does one move a 33-ton tank with no engine? Randy Cook, who is a Wright Museum Board Member as well as chair of the “Wright Mechanics� group, has been the organizer of this ambitious project. “About six years ago the engine we had in the Sherman Tank blew up,� said Cook. “Since then we had been getting price quotes for new engines from $35,000 to See tanks on 15
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February Thru – Feb. 5th Shout! The MOD Musical Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. www. rochesteroperahouse.com or 3351992
Thru – March 17th Wright Museum of WWII Exhibit of 1941-1946 Saturday Evening Post Covers
Pease International Tradeport, Ground level gallery, One New Hampshire Avenue, Portsmouth. This exhibit showcases 35 original WWIIera “Post” covers created by some of the finest illustrators of the period. Many of the covers deal with subjects relating to the Home Front, reflecting how Americans reacted to World War II. The exhibit is free and open to the public during regular business hours. 569-1212
Thursday 2nd Storytelling Dinner
The Corner House Inn, 22 Main Street, Center Sandwich. 6:30pm. Full dinner and entertainment every Thursday nights through the end of May. Cost is $21.95 per person (plus tax and gratuity) and includes salad, entrée, glass of wine, dessert and coffee. 284-6219
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dining and more during the evening’s silent auction. This year’s online auction opens Friday, January 27th at 9pm. Tickets are $50pp and seating is limited. www.jeansplayhouse.com or 745-2141
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
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Roaring Twenties Party and Auction to Benefit Jean’s Playhouse Loon Mountain Mountain Club, Lincoln. The Speakeasy opens for drinks at 5pm, with specials on Mint Julip and bathtub gin. Live music will set the mood, and you’ll dine on cuisine as good as that at the Waldorf-Astoria! Bid on vacations, adventures, gifts, art,
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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
Bucky Lewis – Live Comedy Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. www. pitmansfreightroom.com or 5270043. Pitman’s is BYO venue.
Winter Film Series – “Some Like it Hot” – Original Movie Showing Jean’s Playhouse, 34 Papermill Drive, Lincoln. 7:30pm. All tickets are $8. www.jeansplayhouse.com or 7452141
CASA of NH’s - Snowfest Loon Mountain, 60 Loon Mountain Road, Lincoln. Loon will close the Blue Ox trail to design a custom snowgolf course for anyone who wants to play nine-holes of golf on skis or snowboard. If golf isn’t up your alley take advantage of a day of skiing, riding and more across Loon’s entire resort. As is tradition, participants can start their day with a continental breakfast, enjoy a Common Man Restaurants lunch buffet and cap off the event at out après ski party in Babe’s lounge, complete with raffles and live auctions. Single ticket is $105, foursome for $400, special rate for season pass holders: $50. 626-4600 or www.casanh.org/snowfest
Concord Public Library, 45 Green Street, Concord. 6pm. Dedicated devotees of four strings, NH Ukeladies sing and strum together every Wednesday, accompanied by their fearless leader, John Chouinard, on guitar and by Jackie Bellows on bass. Be prepared to clap and sing along! Tropical print shirts are encouraged! www.concordpubliclibrary.net or 225-8670
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Saturday 4th Michael Vincent Band Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. www. pitmansfreightroom.com or 5270043. Pitman’s is BYO venue.
Pete Peterson’s Tribute to Bob Marley and Bill Withers
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Draw the Line – Aerosmith Tribute Band Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. www. rochesteroperahouse.com or 3351992
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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
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Intro to Digital Photography Class In Tilton Introduction to Digital Photography, a 12-hour course and workshop, will be offered at the Lakes Region Art Association Gallery, located in the Tanger Outlet Mall, Tilton, on Saturday mornings, February18 and 25, and March 4. This program is designed to give you a better understanding of how the selection of F-stops, shutter speeds, ISO settings and white balance affects your final images. Learn about various shooting modes, depth-of-field, motion blur, photo composition and photo editing software programs. Also to be discussed: lenses, camera care, natural and artificial light sources, flash units and studio lighting, light manipulation and the use of tripods. A variety of free resources designed to help you take better pictures and become a more creative photographer will be shared. Students will have an opportunity to photograph a model on the second day of class, as the group learns about portrait lighting. Homework assignments will be given and on the third morning, students’ images will be viewed and discussed. The class will run from 8am to Noon on those dates. The cost is $75 per person, which includes instruction, course materials and model fees. Class size is limited to 15. Payment may be made at the door. Participants will be asked to bring their cameras, lenses, flash units and instruction manuals. To register or for more information, stop by the LRAA Gallery or send an email to jall@tds.net or call (603) 455-6595.
1941-46 Saturday Evening Post Covers Display in Portsmouth This year, from January 20 to March 17, 2017, the Wrightcreated exhibition, Saturday Evening Post Covers 1941-46: Mead Schaeffer, Norman Rockwell and Friends, will be shown at the ground level gallery at One New Hampshire Avenue, the home of Two International Group, LLC. Wolfeboro’s Wright Museum of World War II and Portsmouth’s Two International Group, LLC have partnered for the past two years to bring WWII-related exhibits to the Pease International Tradeport. This exhibit showcases 35 original WW II-era Post covers created by some of the finest illustrators of the period. Many of the covers deal with subjects relating to the Home Front, reflecting how Americans reacted to World War II. Among those artists was Norman Rockwell, who produced a total of 322 Post covers. However, there were other talented illustrators – such as Mead Schaeffer, John Falter, Margaret Troop and Stevan Dohanos –who helped capture a seminal period in America history with humor, pathos, and insight. This exhibit is free and open to the public during regular business hours. From May 1 to June 24, 2017, a larger version of this exhibit (consisting of 66 Post covers) will be exhibited at the Wright Museum of WWII in Wolfeboro. For further information, go to the Museum’s web site at www.wrightmuseum.org or call 603569-1212. The Wright Museum is located at 77 Center Street in Wolfeboro and is open annually from May 1 - October 31. Museum
“R-rated Comic Hypnotist Frank Santos, Jr.” In Rochester Frank Santos, Jr. has been mesmerizing audiences for over twenty years with his spectacular display of mind bending antics that can turn any skeptic into a fan. No two shows are ever the same as the audience becomes the stars. Under his hypnotic spell, audience members are more than willing to follow every command, from awkward to outrageous in the unpredictable, hilarious, laugh until your sides hurt R-rated comedy show. The show starts at 8pm (doors open at 7pm) on Friday, February 24. Tickets start at $24. Reserve tickets online or call the box office (603) 335-1992, M/W/F from 10-5pm and 2-hours before the show. The Rochester Opera House is located in City Hall, 31 Wakefield Street. www.RochesterOperaHouse.com
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by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor
I don’t know about you, but I’m glad it is finally February. The days are getting a little longer and the worst part of winter is falling behind us. We also got around to the swearing in of our new president after a tumultuous couple of months after the election. (Of course, there are still those who continue to swear at those who were at the swearing in, but that’s all just part of the silliness of human nature. After all, everybody is always right, no matter if they are left or right.) February is also the time when people start to think about doing their taxes. That doesn’t mean you actually have to do them, you just start thinking about them; you still have a few leisurely months before you suddenly have to start to panic since you haven’t done your taxes yet and now you only have a week to get them done. For those of you who already did your taxes, first of all, don’t keep reminding those of us who haven’t done them yet that you have (it’s annoying) and, secondly, you may have missed some important, little known deductions that you may have been able to take since 2016 was an election year. Here are a few. The Political Mailer Deduction – I hope you kept all of those giant cardboard political mailers you
received last year. A new IRS deduction allows you to weigh them and then deduct twenty-five dollars per pound. I have about twenty pounds of these for a cool five hundred dollar deduction. ( An important piece of advice: you need to hold onto these mailers for three years in case of an audit so you need to keep them separate from the new ones for the 2018 elections which should start showing up any day now.) One little known fact is that if you use these mailers to insulate your home, even if they are mailers from the 2012 and 2014 elections, you can get an tax credit for energy efficiency for up to two thousand dollars. It just depends upon when you did the work. The Election Year Get Together Deduction – Many of us are eligible for this one but don’t realize it exists. You plan a gathering for a bunch of “goodâ€? friends. You spend a lot of money on great food, nice bottles of wine, etc;, only to have the whole soiree turn into a verbal political slugfest where friends leave angry before most of the really good stuff can be consumed. You can deduct up to twenty-five percent of the cost for what is left over. You just need to save your receipts and have recorded the entire event on a hidden camera and‌now this is important‌.have not posted it on Facebook yet. Yes, this one is a bit complicated, but with proper planning beforehand you could end up with a healthy deduction for your gathering. Social Media Deduction – Speaking of Facebook and other social media sites. You can now claim a deduction for the valuable time you have spent arguing with others online about politics, knowing that no one will
ever change their mind, instead of doing something more creative and important with your time. There are some who think this deduction is unfair while others agree that it should be allowed. Of course, you can go on Facebook and argue about it with someone and take a deduction. It really is a win-win. The Cable TV Deduction – Many of us are tempted to cut down on our outrageous cable TV bills by switching to basic cable (which is still the gross national product of some small countries) but we are reluctant to do so during an election season since it might mean losing our “safe space� - one of the 24/7 channel that mirrors exactly our political viewpoints and gives us confidence that we are always right. Now you can deduct the difference of the cost of basic cable with that of expanded basic. (Important to remember this can only be deducted in an election year.) There are a few other deductions that can be taken during an election year that many people do not know exist and most of us do not take advantage of. Simply go to the IRS website and find the “Political Year Hardships� icon and click on that. It is a little hard to find, but you have to remember this is a website designed by the government after all. I hope this has helped some of you save at least a little bit of money. And for those of you who have already done your taxes and constantly let all of us know about it – better luck in 2018. Visit Brendan’s website at www.BrendanTSmith. com
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Spoiled Brats To The Editor: I find the childish behavior that was displayed by the house Democrats, not to attend the inauguration of our newly elected 45th president, Donald J Trump, in Hillary Clintons own words, deplorable. What a shameful, unpatriotic and partisan example these democrats set. Should the house republicans follow their guide, when a democrat gets elected to the highest office in our country? He is the choice of the majority of our American voters and they should respect that. Must they act like spoiled brats, as our NH congress woman Carol Shea Porter did?
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This divisiveness incites their constituents to riot, burn and destroy public property, as we witnessed in cities across our great country and now in our capital, after all, their leaders don’t accept the results, why should they? It is a fact, that you never see such deplorable, Anti American, destructive behavior, perpetrated by republicans when we lose an election. Linda Dupere Campton, NH.
Bad Candidate To the Editor: The list of excuses for Hillary Clinton’s election loss is long and growing, but completely avoiding the real reasons. Interestingly, among their excuses were charges of voter fraud, voting machine manipulation, and election irregularities; acknowledging what reasonable people believe and Democrats denied. The election irregularities excuse went nowhere, the Michigan recount discovered that most election irregularities were in Democrat controlled areas where Hillary dominated. And, President Obama and Intelligence Director Clapper indicated that no foreign actors (no Russian hacking) changed the votes: http://tinyurl.com/ ztbs7tt FBI Director Comey was blamed despite his announcements that no charges would be made
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.
against Hillary who agreed it was a mistake to use her own private server for government business which appeared to jeopardize national security. Hillary supporters alleged that the Russians released Democrat e-mails to support Trump. Obama’s intelligence departments’ report supports those allegations but fails to provide proof. Computer security expert John McAfee ridicules the idea that the source of the leaked emails was the Russian government, see: http:// tinyurl.com/hdrl9xg (Does it make sense that Russia would prefer Trump, who promises to rebuild our military and influence in the world, to Hillary who promises to follow Obama’s policies which enabled Russia to increase its strength and influence, and achieve other objectives? No.) WikiLeaks head Julian Assange consistently denies that the Russian government was his source for the Democrat e-mails, claiming instead that the information came from a disgruntled insider. Hackers Guccifer and Guccifer 2 also released Democrat e-mails and deny any relationship with the Russian government. The outrage about the source of the e-mail leaks is an attempt by Hillary supporters to deflect people’s attention from the emails’ content which confirmed many suspicions and revealed un-American See mail boat on 26
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(See Weirs Times, 1-3108). As it happened, the Giants upset the Patriots 17-14 on a last-minute Eli Manning to Plaxico Burress touchdown pass. You can look it up. So what’s going to happen on Sunday? Expect the Patriots to prevail, 27-20. And for you readers in Nevada—who can bet on such things—go ahead and bet on the coin toss coming up “heads.” Don’t ask how I know.
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Ultrasound: The AntiScience Left’s Bugaboo Abortion extremists are the new Luddites. Remember Ned Ludd from your grade-school history lessons? He was by Michelle Malkin t h e O c c u p y Syndicated Columnist Wall Street agitator of his time -- a phantom leader of early 19th-century British textile workers who vindictively smashed spinning jenny power looms to bits in a desperate bid to halt technological progress. Now, it’s radical feminists hysterically stoking fear and loathing of machines. Revolutionary developments in sonography have endangered their agenda of unrestricted abortion on demand, at all times, no questions asked. The popular diagnostic tools that give parents and doctors around the world an increasingly vivid window to the womb fundamentally undermine Planned Parenthood’s dehumanizing propaganda. With more and more pregnant women over the past three decades changing their minds about abortion after seeing and hearing the life growing inside of them, the peeved pussyhat brigade is on a mission: Ultrasounds. Must. Be. Stopped. 3The latest salvo in the wimmin’s war on sinister sonograms? It’s a doozy of a screed this week published by Moira Weigel, “writer and a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at Yale University,” in the Atlantic Monthly magazine originally titled, “How the Ul-
trasound Pushed the Idea that a Fetus is a Person.” What a patriarchal jerk, that insidious Mr. Ultrasound is, pushing around such sexist lunacy as the idea that unborn babies are alive! The original subheading of the article is even better (er, worse): “The technology has been used to create an imaginary ‘heartbeat’ and sped-up videos that falsely depict a response to stimulus.” Weigel sneered that “there is no heart to speak of” in a sixweek-old fetus and used “heartbeat” in scare quotes to assert her scientific authority. She similarly employed those scare quotes to deride “life,” “baby” and “baby bump.” After actual medical experts and parents exposed Weigel’s Neanderthal ignorance of basic embryology, the ridiculous claim was removed and a sheepish noncorrection correction appeared at the end of the biology denier’s piece for the once-august Atlantic Monthly. “This article originally stated that there is ‘no heart to speak of’ in a six-week-old fetus,” the editors’ note admitted. “By that point in a pregnancy, a heart has already begun to form. We regret the error.” (Read it in smarty-pants “Saturday Night Live” character Emily Litella’s “Neeever mind” voice for full effect.) Next in the anti-science Atlantic’s investigative series: How X-rays pushed the idea that humans have skeletons! How microscopes pushed the idea that microorganisms exist! How electroencephalograms pushed the idea that human brains send electrical
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The best thing that happened to Donald Trump the other week is that BuzzFeed published the raw Russia by Rich Lowry dossier about Contributing Writer him. It can’t be pleasant for anyone to see his name associated with prostitutes and a bizarre sex act in print -- the principle that all publicity is good publicity can be taken too far even for Donald Trump. But in the media’s ongoing fight with Trump, BuzzFeed’s incredible act of journalistic irresponsibility represented the press leading with its chin. Trump thrives off media hostility, and the more hostile -and the less defensible -- the better. It allows him to portray himself as the victim of a stilted establishment. It fires up his supporters. It keeps the debate See malkin on 22 on terrain that is familiar and
favorable to him -- whether or not he is being treated “fairly” -- and allows him to adopt his preferred posture as a “counterpuncher.” There are legitimate questions raised about how determined Trump has been to ignore evidence of Russia’s hacking operations prior to the election. BuzzFeed unintentionally did more to obscure and delegitimize these questions than Trump Tower could ever hope to. By publishing the uncorroborated dossier, BuzzFeed has associated the Russia issue with fantastical rumors and hearsay. Its decision to post the document has to be considered another chapter in the ongoing saga of the media and Democrats losing their collective minds. If the election had gone the other way, it is hard to see BuzzFeed publishing a 35-page document containing unverified, lurid allegations about
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Choice Is What Education Needs Most Last week was National School C h o i c e Week. Our capital city’s paper of record took this as an by Ken Gorrell opportunity Northfield, NH. to print an anti-choice screed by Jane Hunt, a college writing instructor. Her essay came complete with a photo of a black girl sitting by herself in a newly-integrated Tennessee classroom in 1956. In “School choice is dismantling America,” Ms. Hunt tried to connect economist Milton Friedman to anti-desegregation forces reacting to 1954’s Brown v. Board of Education. She must have hoped that her audience hasn’t read Friedman’s work. He consistently advocated greater personal freedom for all people, in all things, over decades of academic writing. Friedman’s support for school choice was part of his belief in the efficacy of the free market, period. It hasn’t been 1954 for a very long time. Segregation in public schools today isn’t a matter of racism; it’s the result of where people choose to live and a public-school system that locks-in students by Zip Code. Today’s school choice movement is entirely child-focused. It’s about breaking the tyranny of the Zip Code, giving parents options for
where and how their children are educated, and helping them afford it. Education is a public good deserving public finance, but the local public school isn’t always going to be the best fit. Even apparel makers have given up on “one-size-fits-all”; the current promise is “one-sizefits-most.” Ms. Hunt described American schooling as a “buffet” with many choices, but that’s true only for families with economic means, or very talented children, or luck. For most children, schooling is more like school lunch: a set menu, and generally unappetizing. The antischool-choice argument would have more force if it proposed requiring all children to attend their local public school. Why let rich kids opt out of a system supporters claim is a bedrock of America? A terrific advocate for school choice is 10-year-old Kariah Butler. Her story is available on YouTube; it’s four minutes and worth your time. Kariah’s mother was looking for a way out of their DC neighborhood’s public school, a school with a less than 50 percent graduation rate. Like many inner-city public schools, the DC system is infamous for violence, low test scores, high drop-out rates, and exorbitant cost. Kariah’s mother found hope in DC’s federal school voucher program, which polls show has the support of low-income minority
parents in our nation’s capital. Despite that support, and the fact that it boasts higher graduation rates and lower costs than DC public schools, President Obama bowed to union pres-
sure and defunded it. Congressional Republicans saved the program. Instead of focusing on students like Kariah and acknowlSee gorrell on 25
World Economic Report Forecasts Mixed Growth UNITED NATIONS -Modest
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pected to improve modestly to 0.9 percent in 2017; growth was 0.5 percent last year. “Economic activity in Europe will remain subdued, with growth expected to stay at 1.8 percent for the EU from 2016 to 2018,” the survey says and warns that the United Kingdom growth rate of 2 percent in 2016 is expected to fall to 1.1 percent this year. Greece is expected to lift last year’s negative growth of 0.3 percent to a robust gain of 1.7 percent this year, the first sizable uptick in nearly a decade. While East Asian expansion has moderated to 5.5 percent, China still shows impressive numbers at 6.6 percent in 2016 with a slight decrease for 2017. South Korea’s growth improved moderately to 2.8 percent. The survey adds that both Hong Kong and Taiwan “are estimated to have experienced the slowest growth among the largest economies in the region in 2016.” Hong Kong grew by 1.4 percent while Taiwan reached only 0.9 percent. South Asia remains the world’s fasted developing region the report stresses, with India reaching an impressive 7.6 percent growth last year and 7.7 percent slated for this year. Pakistan’s growth is expected to “remain robust, above 5 percent.” Given the fall in petroleum prices and continuing economic sanctions, Russia’s growth remains negative 0.8 percent last year and is expected to reach only 1 percent this year. Ukraine’s 2016 growth reached an anemic 0.8 percent but is expected to reach 1.9 this year. The World Economic Situation Prospects laments that GDP See Metzler on 22
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Harbingers Of Spring
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When you witness your first bluebird, you’ll know why Thoreau claimed that these birds carry the sky on their backs. In the right light, no other bird shows its true American colors than the Eastern bluebird. That marvelous blue forms the backdrop for the rusty, red chest and white belly. Bluebirds are permanent residents in the southern USA, but are typical migrants in the northern regions. They arrive on their breeding grounds early in the spring, around midMarch and usually depart for the winter in September. The Eastern, Western and Mountain bluebirds make up the three distinct species in America. All three species prefer plenty of open habitat surround by trees and shrubs. These birds are called cavity nesters and will utilize dead and living trees for raising their young. Nests are primarily built by the female and they typically lay 4 or 5 light blue eggs. Females do the incubating while the males provide food and sustenance for their mate. The incubation period is about two weeks and the hatchlings will spend another three weeks in the nest before fledging. Bluebirds fell on hard times in the last century when the widespread cutting of trees eliminated potential nest cavities. Being opportunists, the bluebirds
switched to cavities in wooden fence posts. As farmers switched to longer lasting metal fencing, bluebirds began to disappear from natural habitats. When it was discovered that these wonderful birds would happily utilize mad-made nest boxes, the species rebounded. Thousands of bluebird aficionados put up nest boxes throughout the country and in a decade, the number of successful bluebird nestings dramatically increased. Bluebird trails became a regular feature at farms and golf courses. Man had righted a wrong and this American bird shined again. Mealworms are a favorite staple of these wild birds. Freeze dried medium-sized mealworms are available for purchase during the cold March weather. As the temperatures allow, you can serve live mealworms to your colorful visitors in specially designed mealworm feeders or in a simple dish. An average bluebird family can consume approximately 500 mealworms in a single day. Break out of your winter doldrums by trying to attract bluebirds to your backyard. Once you see that red, white and blue, you’ll be singing right alongside them as they spread their joy to all who will listen. Enjoy your birds! Wild Bird Depot is located on Rt 11 in Gilford, NH. Steve is a contributing author in major publications, a guest lecturer at major conventions in Atlanta and St. Louis as well as the host of WEZS 1350AM radio show “Bird Calls� with
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DEAR TIM: The retaining wall at my older home is in sad shape. A contractor told me that if I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tear it down immediately and replace it, my house foundation thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s six feet away will collapse along with the retaining wall. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what to do. The repair cost I was quoted is many thousands of dollars. Can my retaining wall be repaired, and how much do you think the cost might be? How would you repair it if you feel it can be saved? --Lynn C., Lexington, Ky. DEAR LYNN: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m glad you sent me multiple photos of the retaining wall. Based on your photos, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m happy to tell you that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no danger to your home. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my feeling the contractor was trying to take advantage of you. While the wall looks to be in fairly bad shape, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still doing a great job of holding back the soil behind it. The first thing I noticed in your photos is the wall is not leaning at all toward your neighborâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s driveway. This is a good thing, keeping in mind the wall is as old as your home -- close to 100 years old. Before we talk about how
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This retaining wall looks like it should be replaced, but it can be repaired. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not that expensive to repair it. youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to repair the wall, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spend a moment discussing the contractorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unethical conduct. By painting a picture in your mind of how youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to repair your house foundation as well as the retaining wall, he was making you feel your savings account money would soon be scarce. I loathe contractors that try to scare homeowners. To verify if a contractor is telling the truth about retaining walls, foundation walls, bearing walls or other structural things in your home that terrify you, consult with a residential structural engineer. An engineer doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a dog in the fight. This professional will visit your home and render an opinion as to the structural soundness of whatever you ask him to look at. If a repair is needed, most engineers will develop a plan you can use to get competitive bids from contractors. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more, most engineers have a list of honest contractors they recommend. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d go about adding another 30 or 40 years of useful life to your retaining wall for about $100 worth of material. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pretty simple two-day job
for two men. Since Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not familiar with labor rates in your city, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quote you what it might cost, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not going to be much at all. If you have moderate DIY skills, you can do this job yourself. All you need to make the repair is a bag or two of Portland cement, a bag of hydrated masonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lime, some medium sand and rounded pea gravel. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll also need a few 6- and 9-inch pieces of 1/2-inch steel rebar, a hammer drill with a 1/2-inch bit and a 4-pound hammer. The first thing to do is clean the wall. Based on your photos, the wall is covered with algae and black mildew. You can pressure wash it or you can use a solution of oxygen bleach. The wall needs to be clean because the last step of the repair will be a thin coat of stucco that will really dress up the wall. Once the wall is clean, remove any loose material in the deep holes. Just scrape away and try to get anything out that will move with hand pressure. The next step is to install the short pieces of steel in the deep holes to help bond the repair concrete to the old. See builder on 20
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The Wright Museum crew awaits the Mack Truck supplied by Jack McDevitt, to move the The 2,000lb Wright R-975 Continental radial aircraft Sherman Tank. engine to be put into the Wright Museum’s Sherman Tank in position to back the into the back and began was positioned so as to be “Alligator Alice.” tank into the shop. shoveling sand while the pushed into the shop ustanks from 1
$55,000.” The engine is a Wright R-975 Continental engine, a radial aircraft engine, Eventually, through a series of contacts, they were put in touch with someone in Elmira, Canada who had a bunch of New Old Stock 1953 Sherman Rebuild kits. “Believe it or not, he had bought them from an auto parts store in Canada that was going out of business so we bought everything he had,” said Cook. “We made a deal with him for $10,000.” Cook and others from the crew drove to Canada after Thanksgiving to pick them up. (They had to pay $1,500 to bring them back into the U.S.) In the spring of 2016 they began to disassemble the core engine. Some parts were taken to a machinist in Rochester and then they began to put the engine together. “We worked from a 1943 Sherman Tank manual we had,” said Cook. The crew got a hand from Paul Zanis who owns Moultonborough Airport. Zanis is a radial engine mechanic and he had the proper timing tools needed for the project. After the engine was completed the crew ran it successfully a few times.
The next step was to move “Alligator Alice” from the museum display floor and into the mechanics’ shop next door. Brendan Murphy, one of the Wright Museum’s volunteers, works as a technician at McDevitt Trucks in Manchester. He asked his boss, Jack McDevitt, Jr. if he might help with the project of moving the tank. “They needed a big truck with a pintle hook for the towbar on the tank,” said McDevitt. “I was happy to help. I wanted to do it for my dad and my uncle who both were in World War II.” McDevitt showed up with a Mack Truck loaded with sand. “I thought I could use if for ballast. I didn’t realize how handy the sand would come in later,” said McDevitt. Before he arrived, the Wright Museum crew had fired up their Pershing tank and driven it out of the shop. It was going to replace the Sherman in the display area. Once the tru c k w a s backed into the museum and the Sherman hooked up, it was time to move it. Still things didn’t go as smoothly as anticipated. The grounds of the museum were icy and the truck got bogged down as it tried to make the tight turn, tank in tow, to get
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One gets an even greater appreciation of what the brave men of World War II dealt with on a daily basis by just being around a running World War II tank. “Those guys were never issued ear plugs to keep out the noise,” one of the volunteers informed me as we tried to have a conversation over the impressive roar of the Pershing. This along with the addition of the explosion of firepower of all calibers helps you understand why some came home hard from the war of hearing. As the Pershing was slowly backed up to come even with the tow bar of the Sherman, noticeable flames shot from its exhaust as well as the powerful hot air which blew directly onto the volunteers holding the tow bar in place. It took a few tries, forward and reverse, till the towbar and hitch were lined up exactly, but the job got done. Slowly the Pershing tank pushed the Sherman tank to its resting place inside the Mechanics’ shop. Then the Pershing, with Jack McDevitt along for the ride, slowly made its own journey till it was securely in place in the Wright Museum exhibit hall in place of “Alligator Alice.” The crew at the Wright
An unexpected glitch as the tanks tow bar snaps. Quick thinking by the crew takes care of the problem in a few minutes.
With not enough clearance for the truck to push “Alice” all the way into the mechanics’s shop, the Wright Museums’ Pershing Tank is fired up to complete the job. Museum anticipates that the new engine, which weighs 2,000 pounds, will be installed in Alligator Alice within the next two or three weeks, weather permitting. “First we have to go through it and fix some wiring issues,” said Cook. “Then we have to flush out the oil sump and the gas to make sure it is good and clean.” Cook also hopes to
have enough parts left to make a good second engine for the Sherman Tank. Once the engine is installed and the tank is once again operational, it can be used for things like special events if the requesting organization pays for the transportation. “We had our Stuart Tank at the Deerfield Fair once and even had it See tanks on 17
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Crew members deal with the intense heat and noise from the Pershing Tankâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exhaust as they line up the tow bar to the hitch.
The Wright Museum crew take a break after a job well done. Next phase will be to put the new engine into â&#x20AC;&#x153;Alligator Alice.â&#x20AC;? (Left to Right) Bob Theve, Raymond Peavey, Joseph Benini, Brendan Murphy, Roch Pouliot, Marc Vallee, Randy Cook, Gordon Wright, George R Gurick Jr. (Top Left to Right) Gary Stearns and Connor Maher
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the slogan of “Join the census bureau staff and see New Hampshire” and was given the title of the “roving ambassador” by the state office in Laconia. Walker worked in three different counties and was said to have had the time of his life interviewing farmers and enjoying the countryside of the state. Perhaps a surprising result of the 1945 census was the fact that during
old daughter, walked from farm to farm on the back roads in Unity. One day they visited 12 farms involving several miles of difficult walking, and it was nearly nine p.m. before they arrived home. A man from Boston, businessman and salesman Frank A. Walker, took a vacation from his city job to work as a farm census taker in New Hampshire. He took up
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the five years since the 1940 census New Hampshire gained 2,689 farms and 233,740 acres of farmland, an increase of 16.2 percent. Cheshire County was the only one to have a decline in the number of farms and farm acreage. The Bureau of the Census reported the total number of New Hampshire farms in 1945 to be 19,243. All of the first census figures released were said to be preliminary and subject to change upon further review. Rockingham County farms were said to have increased from 2,993 to 3,716, though the average acreage for the farms was 64.6, down from 70.6 in 1940 and lower than the state average of 106.2 acres. Newspaper headlines also announced gains in other counties in the state, for example “ List More Farms in Hillsborough” and “ Big Farm Gain in Merrimack” along with “332 More Farms in Grafton Area”. A September 27, 1946 report by the Associated Press stated that the value of poultry and its products in New Hampshire almost
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tripled in the period from 1939 to 1945. Almost 18 million dollars worth of poultry and poultry products were sold in 1944, an amount that made up 45 percent of the value of all the state’s farm produce. The value of dairy products sold in 1944 amounted to around 12 million dollars. This was a turn around from 1939 when the sales of dairy products exceeded those of poultry by 750,000 dollars. The value of all livestock in the state came close to doubling during the five year period between census taking with the number of cattle and calves, hogs and pigs, chickens and egg production, and turkeys all seeing significant increases. In tabulating the reports from the enumerators the Census Bureau found that since the previous census that 4,300 more farms had electricity in their dwellings and that there was almost an 100 percent increase in the number of tractors on New Hampshire farms, showing a decrease in the dependency upon horses. Some readers might recognize names of enumerators, so I will add those of a few more of the people involved in that war-time and severe winter census of 1945. Included in the task were Ada B. Burt of Lyman, Harry E. Poor of Landaff, Ray P. Buxton of North Hampton, Russell D. Brooks of Rochester, Thomas S. Edwards, Jr. of Gilmanton, John S. Wells of Sanbornton, Harry H. Borden of Lochmere, Warren A. Remick of Bristol, Howard S. Sawyer of Woodstock, and Howard W. Lyman of Laconia, J. Walter Lougee of Farmington, and Carl A. Flagg of Barnstead. I remember the postcards sent by the Supervisor, my Dad, from locations in Maine and Vermont during his business trips for the Census Bureau.
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Using the hammer drill, you’ll drill down at an angle into the old concrete. Drill the holes at least 4 inches deep. Hammer in the short pieces of steel rebar so the end of each piece is at least 3/4 inch inside the outer face of the wall. The large holes are filled with a stiff mix of peagravel concrete. I’d mix 3 measures of pea gravel, 2 measures of medium sand, 1.5 measure of Portland cement and 0.5 measure of the hydrated lime. The lime helps to make the mix very sticky and also is a magic material that continues to grow crystals for years after it’s installed. Add just enough water so the mix resembles mashed potatoes. Before you add the concrete mix to the deep holes, you need to mix up a batch of cement paint. Blend three measures of Portland cement to one measure of the lime. Add enough water until it resembles paint. Spritz the holes that need to be repaired with some water and immediately brush on the cement/lime paint mixture. Immediately cover this paint with the pea grave concrete so it’s flush with the existing face of the wall. The last step is to put a thin 3/8-inch coat of stucco over the wall. Mix up a fresh batch of cement/ lime paint. The stucco mix will be 5 measures of sand, 2 measures of Portland cement and 0.5 measure of the lime. Add just enough water so the mixed stucco resembles a moist applesauce. Slightly dampen the wall, paint on the cement/lime paint and cover it with the stucco. Don’t let the cement/lime paint dry. You must cover it with the stucco within minutes of brushing it on. Use a wood float to give the stucco a nice swirl finish and sit back and enjoy the fruit of your labors, or that of the contractor you hire! Need an answer? All of Tim’s past columns are archived for free at www. AsktheBuilder.com. You can also watch hundreds of videos, download Quick Start Guides and more, all for free.
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growth in the least developed countries is projected “to remain well below the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) target of at least 7 percent.” As UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told global grandees assembled in Davos, “Without the private sector, we will not create enough jobs, we will not bring enough dynamism and stability to the societies that need to be enhanced with the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.” Equally poor growth in the Caribbean and Latin America over the past few years has turned around slowly. Oil rich but stubbornly socialist run Venezuela has hit negative 8 percent growth last year and this year is expected to moderate to minus 3.7 percent. The Report underscores weak investment as a major cause of the slowdown in global growth. Secretary General Guterres stressed, “Without the private sector we will not have the necessary innovation, we will not have the necessary capacity to discover new markets, new products, new services and
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to be able to develop new areas in the economy. ” Countering conventional wisdom, the new Trump Administration in the U.S. has been able to cajole manufacturers to keep industrial jobs in the USA and moreover been able to attract major high tech investments. Foxconn a major Taiwanese electronics firm, is weighing whether to build a $7 billion display screens plant in the U.S. Given that the U.S. is the second largest market for televisions, the Foxconn investment could create between 30,000 and 50,000 American jobs. Earlier Japan’s SoftBank, a major technology and information company, pledged to invest $50 billion in the USA. Though the private sector plays a powerful if not the dominant role in job creation, nurturing the conditions and policy to encourage entrepreneurial investment and growth remains paramount. John J. Metzler is a United Nations correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues. He is the author of Divided Dynamism The Diplomacy of Separated Nations: Germany, Korea, China.
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impulses! A deep dive by the intrepid Weigel into the world of “imaginary” bones, bacteria and beta waves will no doubt yield a Pulitzer nomination if not a Nobel Prize. Curiously, Weigel raised no objection to the appalling use of ultrasound by Planned Parenthood operatives to harvest unborn baby parts. In 2015, the Center for Medical Progress exposed how Dr. Deborah Nucatola, the abortion giant’s senior director, boasted of using “ultrasound guidance” to improve the quality of coveted organs (“a lot of people want liver”). Ultrasound machines helped their harvesters “know where they’re putting their forceps” to score better prices. “We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver,” Dr. Nucatola chirped, “because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.” Ironically enough, we don’t need ultrasound to see quite clearly, through the ghoulish words and barbaric deeds of abortion zealots like Quack Doctor Wanna-be Weigel and Dr. Nucatola, that having a heart doesn’t always guarantee humanity. Michelle Malkin is host of “Michelle Malkin Investigates” on CRTV. com. Her email address is writemalkin@gmail. com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www. creators.com.
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President-elect Hillary Clinton that it didn’t consider credible. This was an anti-Trump decision, pure and simple. The paradox of the Trump phenomenon is that he may be ripping up sundry political norms, yet he benefits when his opponents and adversaries do the same. When Marco Rubio descended to Trump’s level in the primaries and mocked the size of his hands, it hurt Rubio most. The Democrats have done themselves no favors by implicitly refusing to accept the election results after browbeating Trump for months to accept the results in advance. And if the press is going to lower its standards in response to Trump, it will diminish and discredit itself more than the president-elect. If journalists genuinely want to be public-spirited checks on Trump, they shouldn’t be more bitterly adversarial, but more responsible and fair. This means taking a deep breath and not treating every Trump tweet as a major news story. It means covering Trump more as a “normal” president rather than as a constant clear and present danger to the republic. It means going out of the way to focus on substance rather than the controversy of the hour. It means a dose of modesty about how the media has lost the public’s trust, in part because of its bias and self-importance. None of this is a particularly tall order. Yet it’s unlikely to happen, even if it was encouraging that so many reporters opposed BuzzFeed’s decision. The press and Trump will continue to be at war, although only one party to the hostilities truly knows what he is doing, and it shows. Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.
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saved from making decisions “our betters” deem inappropriate. Anti-choicers cling to the idea that a littlechanged 19th century school model is the way forward for all students in the 21st century. Ignoring advances in telecommunications that, for instance, give homeschoolers the ability to interact with students around the globe, they are willing to sacrifice another cohort of other people’s children to defend one particular system against the competition that choice would provide. Could you look Kariah Butler in the eye and tell her she had to go back to her “assigned” public school? wicked brew from 11
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Sixpoint Resin’s name most likely comes from the production of intense hopping, relying on the oils that exude from the hop flower (or cone). This is the heart of bittering when used early in the brewing process. As stated on the slim 12 oz can, Resin is 9.1% ABV and a whopping 103 IBUs. It drinks like a 5% beer though, yet the balance is just amazing; not sweet or tart, just heavenly. Both Woodstock and Sixpoint beers can be found at Case-n-Keg in Meredith and Laconia and other fine craft beer emporiums. And both of these DIPA’s are worth investigating ASAP! Jim MacMillan is the owner of WonByOne Design of Meredith, NH, and is an avid imbiber of craft brews and a home brewer as well. Send him your recommendations and brew news to wickedbrews@weirs.com
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