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—— n io it d E w o h S e m n o o i H t i n d io E g eg i o n H o m e S h o w Re sR e k a L — s e k a L — A SPECIAL COCHECO VALLEY EDITION OF THE WEIRS TIMES NEWSPAPER.

VOLUME 24, NO. 10

THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, March 5, 2015

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Triathlon Looking To Break Records To Help Animals

With a goal of $35,000, this year’s Indoor Triathlon at the Funspot Family Entertainment Center in Weirs Beach on Saturday, March 14th, is set to be the biggest and best. Over the past ten years, Starr Lawton, Funspot’s D.A. Long Tavern manager, has coordinated this event which she created back in 2004 as a way to raise funds for one of Funspot’s favorite charities, the New Hampshire

Humane Society. Last year’s triathlon, where teams compete at five different games at Funspot, raised a record $28,700 bringing the ten year total to approximately $100,000. (Not bad when you consider the first year, 2005, about $3,000 was raised.) This year they are hoping to raise in the $35,000 range as they have expanded the entries for up to forty See triathlon on 16

New Column Is All For The Love OF Beer

Rachel, a volunteer at Live and Let Live Farm in Chichester, sits astride Apachee, a 23-year old gelding she has formed a unique relationship with over the past few years. Read about Rachel and Apachee and the new Kids C.A.R.E. program at the farm on page 12.

This week we are excited to bring a new weekly feature to these pages. “The Wicked Brew Review” by Jim MacMillan (on page 5) will open up some great possibilities for you to share in some of the finest beers that New Hampshire Craft Beer brewers have to offer. Over the years, the explosion in the craft beer market has seen the discriminating beer lover trying his or her best to keep up with what’s new and what is in season. “The Wicked Brew Review” is here to do just that. Jim doesn’t like to call himself a beer expert but rather he is doing it “For

the love of beer.” “I really respect craft beers and the way they are produced,” said Jim. “I started really exploring craft beers about ten years ago and I’d like to share that love for beer with not just others who love beer but those who may be discovering it all for the first time.” Craft Beers were only about .02 percent of the See beer on 21

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March Thursday 5th Cooperative Co-Parenting -4 Week Course

Whole Village Family Resource Center, 258 Highland Street, Plymouth. Beginning Thursday, March 5th and the following 3 Thursdays. 6-8pm. Free, 4-part series for non-married, separated or divorced parents and caregivers, raising children together who share separate households. Childcare provided, however, reservations are required for it. 5363720

Lakes Region Camera Club Meeting

Trinity Episcopal Church, Route 25, Meredith. 7-9pm. CD Program – Imaginative use of filters. Persons of any experience level are welcomed. www.lrcameraclub.com

Storytelling Dinner – Jackson Gillman

The Corner House Inn, Center Sandwich. Dinner begins at 6:30pm. $19.95 per person plus tax and gratuity. 284-6219 for reservations.

Thurs. 5th – Sun. 8th A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Silver Center for the Arts at PSU, Plymouth. Recommended for mature audiences. $21/adults, $18/seniors and youth. 535-2787

Friday 6th PAX East – Indie Games Live

Guilt Boston, 279 Tremont Street, Boston. 8pm-11pm. Indie Games Live is an event featuring the latest video game titles from upcoming independent developers and is open to the public. 21+ only at the event. 310-694-3127

Saturday 7th Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes

Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 335-1992 or www. rochesteroperahouse.com

Through the Doors – Jim Morrison/Doors Tribute

Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh.com 536-2551

Danbury Winter Market

Danbury Grange Hall, Danbury. Two floors of vendors, hot breakfast and lunch available. 768-5579

Roast Beef Supper

Trinity Episcopal Church, Route 25, Meredith. 5-7pm. $12pp at the door or $30 per family. 279-6689

6th Annual Cribbage Tournament

Colonel Paul Wentworth House, Water Street, Rollinsford. Registration 1:30pm and play begins at 2pm. All skill ranges are welcome. $30/team or $20/per person. 742-1900

Sat.7TH – Sat.28th Maple Sugar Madness

Prescott Farm, 928 White Oaks Road, Laconia. Experience an old-fashioned New England tradition – making maple syrup! 1.5 hr programs at 10am, 12pm

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A season-based class for homeschool students. Monday, March 16. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Pre-register by Mon., March 9. $5/student, ages 6–12. (Students will be outside for part of this class.)

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Preserving the past to educate the future, through year-round activities, events, classes & workshops!

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Celebrate the sweet taste of spring! Learn about and see maple syrup production in our Saturday, March 14, 2015 Sugar House. Taste the results for yourself and purchase 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. syrup to take home. $15/person, ages 18+ | Coffee & light refreshments served PLUS… springtime is baby Limited space: Register by Wednesday, March 11, 2015 animal time on the farm— Participants should dress for the weather & time spent in the greenhouse. We’re expecting piglets, calves and lambs. Preserving the past, to educate the future. Come see for yourself! Saturday, March 28 10 a.m.–2 p.m. O FREE 58 Cleveland Hill Road, Tamworth Village, NH 03886

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Sunday 8th Lakes Region Girls Softball League Registration & Winter Warm Up

Laconia Middle School, Laconia. Times are; 2-3pm for first year players, 3-4:30pm for players ages 7-10 years old and 4:30-6pm for players 11+ years old. LRGS offers very low registration fees, free warm up clinics and several months of afterschool/weekend activity for the girls to participate in. 455-6572 or www.lakesregiongirlssoftball.com

Appraisal-Thon

First Church Congregational, UCC, 63 S. Main Street, Rochester. Noon2pm. Appraisals will be done by John Bruno, as seen on PBS Market Warriors. $5 per item, with a max of 3 items per person. Note: NO precious gems, coins or stamps.

Freckleface Strawberry the Musical

Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 335-1992 or www. rochesteroperahouse.com

Tuesday 10th WorkReadyNH – Free Skill Building Class

NHTI, 31 College Drive, Concord. Participants earn certifications and improve skills that help you find employment. 271-6484 ext 4426 to register.

Wednesday 11th Women’s Empowerment Support Group

Whole Village Family Resource Center, 258 Highland Street, Plymouth. 6-8pm. This drop-in group explores the many pressures women face in our society, discusses healthy living, and allows women to connect with other women. Free and child care is provided. 5363720

Cribbage Tournament

Patrick’s Pub, Gilford. Registration 6:30-7pm. Games start at 7:15pm. Weekly cash prizes. Fundraiser to benefit the Café Déjà vu Pub Mania team for the NH1 Children’s Auction. Every Wednesday until June. 9981418

World War II Traveling Trunk Show

Taylor Community’s Woodside Building, 435 Union Ave, Laconia. 6:30pm. Dan Schroeder, a volunteer at Wolfeboro’s Wright Museum, discusses the history behind the contents of the WWII Traveling Trunk Show. 524-5600

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Rascal Flatts Brings the Riot Tour Friday, August 21st at Meadowbrook in Gilford. Tickets on Sale Now Debuting in 2000, Rascal Flatts has sold over 22.6 million albums! Starting their harmonious journey in a club in Nashville’s Printers Alley – Jay, Gary and Joe Don knew right away they shared something special. The tip of an ever-expanding iceberg, Flatts list of hits constitutes one of the great bodies of work in modern country music. On the heels of their new album, the trio views the compilation as a winning combination of all the elements going in to the music they’ve had much success with, and is excited to bring it to their fans. Tickets range from $39.75 to $99.75. To get your tickets, call the Box Office at 603-293-4700 or log on to www. BankNHpavilion.com.

Not In Front of the Children: The Art & Importance of Fairy Tales On Thursday, March 26th at 7pm at the Gordon-Nash Library, 69 Main St., New Hampton “Once upon a time. . .” is a magical phrase that promises the beginning of a memorable story. Where do our fairy tales come from, what do they tell us about ourselves and our history? Why have they been censored and changed and how have they retained their currency and popularity today? Presenter Ingrid Graff discusses these fascinating tales and why we should keep telling them to our children. Participants are encouraged to bring their favorite fairy tale to the presentation. Ingrid Graff has been a long-time speaker for the Humanities Council and is a recipient of the Council’s William L. Dunfey Award. She has lectured for many different organizations, including The Jane Austen Society of North America and Rhode Scholar, and has taught classes for Granite State College. Graff was the school librarian for Gorham, NH for 10 years and won the NHEMA Award for Excellence in Library Services in 2007. Sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council and co-hosted by the Gordon-Nash Library.

Writers’ Talk in Maine Tuesday, March 10th at the Jewett House- 7:00 – 8:30 p.m., Sarah Orne Jewett House and Visitor Center, 5 Portland Street, South Berwick, Maine Douglas Whynott presents The Sugar Season; Admission: $7 Historic New England members, $10 nonmembers. Registration required. Refreshments served. Call 207-384-2454.

“The Odd Couple: In Rollinsford March 6-21 at Garrison Players Art Center, 650 Portland Avenue Corner of Rt 4/Roberts Rd. Unger and Madison are at it again! Florence Unger and Olive Madison, that is, in Neil Simon’s hilarious contemporary comic classic: the female version of The Odd Couple. Instead of the poker party that begins the original version, Ms. Madison has invited the girls over for an evening of Trivial Pursuit. The Pidgeon sisters have been replaced by the two Constanzuela brothers. But the hilarity remains the same! Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at 8pm. Tickets are $15 and $18. Call 603-750-4278 or online at www,garrisonplayers. org.

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Giving Some Thanks

by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor

I want t use this week’s column to thank some people. First, I would like to thank the folks at the New Hampshire Lottery Commission for sending me a couple of complimentary “I Heart Bacon� scratch tickets to recognize my column on the subject a few weeks back. Besides being the only place I’ve seen the symbol for a heart and the word bacon in the same line (except for that scary poster I stared at in the cardiologist’s office) I have to admit that it is a good looking ticket. I did scratch the tickets and found that they really do have that unique smell of bacon that has been embedded onto a piece of cardboard. One of the tickets I scratched was, surprisingly, one of the thousand dollar winners. (Just kidding, I just wanted to give the kind folks at the Commission a little scare). Still, I did win a dollar on one of the tickets which put a smile on my face. Up to that point I was wondering what I would have for lunch with only four dollars in my pockets. The extra dollar gave me enough for a nice turkey sandwich on rye at the store where I cashed in my winnings. The second ticket wasn’t a winner (or a loser, depending if you are a glass half full or empty type) but it smelled so

delicious that I did put it on my sandwich to upgrade it to a club variety. Next I would like to thank a loyal reader. I will call her Patty only because that is her name. Patty sent me a very amusing letter that went into great detail about preparing for a job interview and working hard to look her best despite the annoyance of winter and all it can do to try and beat you (there was ash from a wood stove, blowing snow and a whole series of mishaps involved). Upon successfully arriving for the interview, not completely unscathed but still looking proper for an interview, she was a bit discouraged to see that her interviewer hadn’t even tried to follow the same course and had merely dressed as if it was, well, winter. The reason for Patty’s letter was to ask me if I knew of, or could possibly just make up, rules for dressing for an interview in the winter in New Hampshire. I couldn’t think of any for that specific reason right away but it set me to thinking about rules for dressing in the winter for other scenarios. For instance, not putting a winter coat over a pair of pajamas to go to the supermarket, even if it is only for a gallon of milk, should be not just a rule but a law punishable by a fine and being forced to stand outside the supermarket for an hour with a sign around your neck that reads� “Too lazy too care.� (Hey, this is my world I’m creating.) I haven’t come up with any other ideas yet, but I thank Patty for putting the thought into my head. Might be a future column some day. (If you have any ideas yourself,

be sure to send them my way.) By the way, Patty is still looking for an administrative/management position. If you’re looking for a good employee, drop me a line and I’ll pass it along. I wou ld also like to thank the New Hampshire legislature for being back in session. Much like the cliffhanger in a season finale of a good TV drama keeps me interested for the next season, so does the legislature and even though I have often been disappointed by the next season of that TV drama, the state legislature has never disappointed. I admit some of the recurring characters story lines can get boring and repetitious after more than a few seasons (enough with the casinos already Lou!!) Still, there are always some fresh new faces with interesting ideas that keep me coming back for more. (Will someone finally decide we should have a state sandwich?) I’d also like to thank my mom who, at ninety years old, has embraced technology through her iPad and keeps me on my toes by challenging me to games of Trivia on the Internet. Keep up the good work mom!! Last, but not least, I’d like to thank you for taking the time to read this!! Brendan’s new book “The Best Of A FOOL in New Hampshire� will be available in early spring.

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Order your autographed copy today for $13.99 plus $3 for shipping. (Please include any inscription you would like the author to personalize your copy with.) Make out checks or money orders for $16.99 to Brendan Smith and mail to: The Flatlander Chronicles, c/o The Weirs Times, PO Box 5458, Weirs, NH 03247. Order online at www.tinyurl.com/meu75h9 (Pickup autographed copies at the Weirs Times)

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Rosemary Landry - Best Meredith Selectman Candidate To The Editor: On March 10th you get to exercise your vote and weigh in on the Town of Meredith’s future. I urge you to cast your vote for Rosemary Landry if you want to preserve all that’s made Meredith a jewel here in central New Hampshire. I had the pleasure of meeting Rosemary about four years ago and discovered quickly how much of a patriot she is. Rosemary understands how your private property rights are being quietly taken away from you. Rosemary is keenly aware of how your tax dollars that flow into and out of the Meredith Town Office are being spent, sometimes not in your best interest. What would you say if I told you that Rosemary has probably attended more Meredith Selectmen workshops and meetings in the past four years than any other citizen? She’s often the only Meredith resident in the audience. Can the other candidates who are beating their breasts about how much they love Meredith say this? Have they even attended one meeting in the past? My guess is most have probably no idea what even happens at a Selectmen’s meeting. When you walk out to your car in the Meredith Community Center parking lot after you vote, will you be saying this? “I sure HOPE the candidate I voted

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for works out.� Hope is the emotion of last resort. You HOPE for things you can’t control. Guess what? If you want to help control the future of Meredith making sure it’s bright and filled with promise, then vote like I’m going to for Rosemary Landry. You won’t have to hope things are going to be done right. You’ll KNOW Rosemary will protect and preserve your private property rights and will make sure not a penny of your tax dollars will be wasted. If you want more information about why I feel Rosemary is the best candidate on the ballot for Meredith Selectman, just call me. I’d be happy to talk with you or meet you in person. If you prefer email, just write to: tim@askthebuilder.com Tim Carter Meredith, NH

Trapping Bobcats To The Editor: At the NH Fish and Game Commission’s February 11, 2015 meeting we learned it is considering opening a season on bobcats that will include hunting, hounding, and trapping of this elusive, reclusive, and not bothersome creature. Some of us in the room were surprised to learn hounding is under consideration, as if trapping isn’t cruel enough. Imagine a cat being chased by a pack of dogs and running up a tree to escape, only to be shot by the hunter.

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.

We need your help to stop this brutal treatment that is being proposed. Please write the Fish and Game Commissioner for your county. Their contact information is found on the Fish and Game website under the About Us menu item. There are 11 commissioners, one for each county plus one for the seacoast. Also, please check out the Save the Bobcat in NH Facebook page for more information and to sign our petition. NH Fish and Game Executive Director Glenn Normandeau stated at the meeting that opening a season on bobcat would not
 make the department any money. They are considering this because they are charged with providing the NH public opportunities to use its natural resources, he said. However, they are not charged with providing any and all opportunities just to hunters. They are also charged 
with providing opportunities to wildlife viewers (see RSA 207:58), who happen to outnumber hunters in NH. A most recent survey that is posted on the NH F&G website states that 78,000 adults hunt in NH while 766,000 adults in NH are wildlife watchers. Clearly, a large number of NH residents enjoy seeing these animals on the landscape, rather than hunting and trapping them, and NH Fish and Game should support these NH residents. Linda Dionne Raymond, NH.

Locally owned for over 20 years, this publication is devoted to printing the stories of the people and places that make New Hampshire the best place in the world to live. No, none of the daily grind news will PO Box 5458 be found in these pages, just the good stuff. Weirs, NH 03247 Published year round on Thursdays, we distribute 32,000 copies of the Weirs Times TheWeirsTimes.com and Cocheco Times weekly to the Lakes info@weirs.com Region/Concord/Seacoast area. An independent circulation audit estimates facebook.com/weirstimes that over 66,000 people read our @weirstimes newspaper every week. To find out how your business or service can 603-366-8463 benefit from advertising with us please call Fax 603-366-7301 1-888-308-8463. Š2015 Weirs Publishing Company, Inc.

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Wicked Brew Review

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anniversary celebration brew. Belgian-style beers are in a class by themselves as they portray a specific, almost fruity-sweet taste and heady flavorful mouthfeel. When you pair these characteristics with a high-gravity (higher alcohol by volume), you are in for a treat. Add in also that the Company is aged with toasted cherrywood from rum barrels and gives you a very unique taste. At 10.5% ABV and an IBU (International bittering unit) of 25, this 22 oz bot-

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CNN, DHS and SPLC’s Blame-Righty Hit Job The Department of Homeland Security refuses to release a report on “rightwing” terrorism that somehow by Michelle Malkin found its way Syndicated Columnist into CNN’s hands last week during the farcical White House summit on Don’t Say Islamic Extremism. Your tax dollars are once again hard at work -- defaming conservatives, deflecting from worldwide murderous jihad and denying the public access to information they funded. CNN splashed the big scoop on its website: “DHS intelligence report warns of domestic right-wing terror threat.” The fear-mongering piece featured a huge map of 24 alleged acts of “violence by sovereign citizen extremists since 2010.” CNN’s Evan Perez and Wes Bruer prominently quoted Mark Potok of the widely disgraced propaganda outfit the Southern Poverty Law Center. Potok claimed that “there are as many as 300,000 people involved in some way with sovereign citizen extremism.” This is the same SPLC that was forced to apologize to famed neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson just last week for categorizing him as an “extremist” because he supports the traditional definition of marriage. This is the same hate-instigating SPLC whose target map and list of social conservative groups were used by left-wing domestic terrorist Floyd Lee Corkins to shoot up the Washington, D.C.,

office of the Family Research Council in 2012. This is the same SPLC whose explicit aim, according to Potok, is to “destroy” its political opponents and which admits it is “not really set up to cover the extreme left.” Harper’s Magazine’s Ken Silverstein called the SPLC and its work “essentially a fraud” that “shuts down debate, stifles free speech, and most of all, raises a pile of money, very little of which is used on behalf of poor people.” None of these facts was mentioned in CNN’s report promoting the threat of “right-wing” terrorism. So you can see why I was curious to know more about the “24 violent sovereign citizen-related attacks” the cable network kept citing without specifics. I asked both CNN and DHS for a copy of the assessment. CNN’s Bruer brusquely told me on Twitter: “Not public doc. But not new that gov’t lists sov. citizens as terror threat.” Sure, it’s “not new.” But CNN’s report was new (and conveniently timed to coincide with the White House agenda of talking about every other kind of terrorism besides jihad). I wanted to read the new document, not just what CNN and the SPLC want the public to know and think about it. Liberal media outlets have a bad habit of purposely misclassifying terrorist incidents as “right-wing.” Last April, both CNN and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow joined with the SPLC to foment fear of conservative Americans by claiming that “right-wingers” have killed 34 people since 9/11 for “political reasons,” while jihadists have killed 21.

School-To-Prison Pipeline?

At least they returned the grenade launchers.

 The Los Angeles School Police Department will keep the M-16 rifles by Ken Gorrell and Mine ReNorthfield, NH. sistant Ambush Protected armored vehicle received under a Federal program putting military hardware in the hands of domestic law enforcement agencies - even school police. They gave back the grenade launchers – likely M203 40mm systems described by the manufacturer as “an essential tool for every modern army.” This battlefield-to-school-district weapons pipeline isn’t limited to the mean streets and classrooms of Los Angeles. School districts in at least 7 states are also equipped with weaponry that would make them the envy of some national See malkin on 23 armies. What is happening in

America’s public schools? As alarming as that story was, an issue with longer-term implications for public education was highlighted in the Winter 2015 edition of neaToday. This journal from the nation’s largest teachers’ union, billed as the source for information about “activism on key issues facing our 3 million members,” continues to promote the made-up construct they’ve been calling the “School-to-Prison Pipeline.” Displaying the childlike quality of being simultaneously simplistic, self-aggrandizing, and just plain wrong, the author adds to the long list of essays claiming that our schools are throwing kids into the maw of the prison system. Here’s a quote from the article, from which one can deduce that the author missed the lesson about cause preceding effect: “Fueled by zero tolerance policies and the presence of police officers in schools, and made worse by school funding cuts that overburSee gorrell on 22

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- The spate of brutal and systematic attacks on Christian communities in Syria, Iraq and Egypt by the Islamic State has by John J. Metzler surged. Yet deSyndicated Columnist spite this targeted violence, there’s a climate of international indifference by many governments and even some Christian communities in the West towards this modern-day religious persecution. Look at the recent roster of IS terror: in Libya, jihadi militants capture and then behead 21 Coptic Christians from Egypt. This barbaric attack prompted the UN Security Council to issue a statement condemning the “heinous and cowardly” murders. The Council added, “ISIL must be defeated and that the intolerance, violence and hatred it espouses must be stamped out.” The UN’s Human Rights Chief Zeid Raaad Al-Hussein called the executions a “vile crime targeting people on basis of their religion.” This action carried out in the increasing lawlessness of Libya, was not the first time Coptic Christians or their churches have been attacked. Speaking from Rome, Pope Francis stated, “It makes no difference whether they be Catholics, Orthodox, Copts or Protestants…the martyrs belong to all Christians.” A week later in Syria’s remote Hassakeh Province, IS terrorists seized hundreds of Assyrian Chris-

tian women and children for a yet undetermined fate while 33 Christian villages were attacked. In Iraq, ISIL’s lightening military advances into the northern cities such as Mosul have targeted minority groups such as Christians, Yezidis and Kurds. A recent UN Report on Iraq conceded, “The safety and security of members of Iraq’s diverse ethnic and religious communities in areas controlled by ISIL remain of grave concern, particularly the thousands of women and children who remain in captivity.” After ISIL seized Mosul city, Christians were targeted for conversion to Islam or death. Christian houses were marked by the sign of “N” for Nazerene. Middle Eastern Christians form an ancient quilt of Assyrian, Coptic, Chaldean Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Maronite Catholic communities from Egypt through Syria, Iraq and Lebanon. Christians have formed a unique fabric in these overwhelmingly Muslim societies and have traditionally excelled in business, education and the arts. These are Arab Christians whose roots in the region stretch back two thousand years predating Islam. During Syria’s secular regime before the civil war, Christians made up about ten percent of the population of 22 million people. In neighboring Lebanon, Christians comprised over a third of this once prosperous and secular land. Conflict and diaspora have dwindled their numbers. The vengeful intolerance and white heat hated ISIL and its affiliates have for Mideast Christians,

seems only matched for an equally hateful mass killings of fellow Muslims. Though the tiny Christian communities pose no real political threat to the IS rise, the very same communities can be held hostage for propaganda and intimidation

value. Vulnerable Mideast Christians have long been targeted by Al-Qaida and Al Nusra terrorists. Just a year ago IS was proclaimed by President Obama as no more that a “junior

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SPORTS MOVIES There’s nothing as good as a good movie. Even a “chick flick.� And good war movies like AMERICAN SNIPER are “must sees� for me. I’ve seen PATTON— or parts of it—at least a couple dozen times since it won the Academy Award for “Best Picture� back in 1970. War movies can be tricky though, for historian-veterans like me. Accuracy is important. I once watched a World War II flick that had helicopters in it and just changed the channel. There were no helicopters in World War II. And then there’s the sports movie genre. I’m also a jock-historian and accuracy matters. A cool web site charts mistakes in sports movies—www. moviemistakes.com/most/ sport. The golf movie HAPPY GILMORE starring New Hampshire’s Adam Sandler topped the list with 70 mistakes. Aye carumba! Or take 1989’s MAJOR LEAGUE, starring Charlie Sheen, Corbin Bernsen, Dennis Haysbert, Rene Russo, Wes Snipes, Bob Uecker and Tom Berenger. It had 30 mistakes. For example, during a playoffgame against the Yankees, the runner that catcher Jake Taylor (Berenger) picked off at first base had the same number as the batter who’d just struck out. Also, the number they both wore was long-retired by the Yankees and thus no player would be wearing it anyway. Those things just diminish sports movies—at least for me.

Adam Sandler takes on Bob Barker in the movie “Happy Gilmore� which has over 70 sports errors. Occasionally, some Internet site will list the best and worst sports movies ever. These lists are subjective, of course, but there is consensus about worst sports movie ever— THE BABE RUTH STORY (1948). The scene where the Babe cures a paraplegic boy just by saying “hello� is just too much. A site called www.IGN. com recently listed the top 25 sports movies ever. I’ve seen most of them, but interestingly, I’ve yet to see IGN’s top pick—RAGING BULL. The list included the usual suspects. MIRACLE. HOOSIERS. SLAP SHOT. LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN. RUDY. And the comedy classic CADDYSHACK. Naturally, the list included FIELD OF DREAMS, with Kevin Costner. Now this may be heresy, but I thought that movie was, well, stupid. Really “out there.� Still, its fantasy struck a chord with romantics. But please! The Chicago Black Sox coming out of a cornfield? CHARIOTS OF FIRE, like many of the movies on the list, was based on real people (British Olympic runners) and it won the 1981 Best Picture Oscar. The soundtrack still plays in my head whenever I think about it. But with regard to Best Picture Oscars, IGN’s list did NOT include ROCKY, which won the Academy Award for the top film of 1976. That omission alone ruins IGN’s credibility, even if you hate Sly Stallone.

These thoughts of sports movies were inspired by the recently released MacFARLAND USA, starring the aforementioned Costner, whose resume also includes BULL DURHAM, TIN CUP, and the underrated FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME, in which Kevin throws a perfect game for the Tigers in Yankee Stadium. Costner obviously has played baseball in real life. I saw MacFARLAND USA at the Gilford 8—one of my favorite cinemas. Inspired by real events, the story takes place in 1987 and involves a coach named Jim White (Costner) who started a cross country team in a poor Mexican American farm town and ‌ well, you’ll have to see it for yourself. It’s a Disney “feel goodâ€? movie which will inspire runners for decades to come. I liked it better than CHARIOTS OF FIRE. And I especially like movies that finish by showing photos or video clips of the real people upon which the movie was based. Check it out when you get a chance. And when I get a chance, I’ll have to rent RAGING BULL. Sports Quiz The Chicago Bulls drafted North Carolina’s Michael Jordan with the third pick of the 1984 NBA draft. Who were the first two players to be drafted that year? (Answer follows) Born Today ...

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I guess I’m a bit “Out of touch� here & the age of technology is sweeping me under the rug. I grew up without cell phones, pagers, Bic pens, bicycle helmets and a whole host of other things that are everyday items today. We rode in the back of pickup trucks and didn’t know what a car seat was. I learned to fish with an old metal telescope rod, bait casting reel, Dacron casting line and WORMS! My Dad taught me the art of trolling for landlocked salmon using leadcore line and smelt (or shiners) that were sowed on the hook. We had NO downriggers, GPS units or electronic fish finders and ,believe it or not, we still caught fish! I remember first getting involved with downriggers and a “Flasher� fish finder and my Dad wanted nothing to do with them. It took quite a while to get him convinced that these items significantly improved success out there on the water. However, he would fish with me, on my boat, using these “Tools�, but would never install them on his boat. The “Old way� was still the best way, in his mind. I’ve managed to keep up, to a point. I’ve got the cell phone, computer, GPS, latest fish finder, VHF radio, downriggers, speed & temperature gauges, etc. However, I now note there are a couple more out there that boggle my mind. These have nothing to do (I don’t think) with fishing, but who knows. Fish & game has pro-

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Seed Starting Workshop

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den counselors and highstakes tests that stress teachers, these excessive [discipline] practices have resulted in the suspensions, expulsions, and arrests of tens of millions of public school students, especially students of color and those with disabilities or who identify as LGBT.� There it is: Funding cuts, high-stakes tests, and stressed-out teachers moved little Johnny from middle school to Cell Block

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 And then there’s this: “Meanwhile, more than a quarter-million [students] were ‘referred’ to police officers for misdemeanor tickets, very often for offenses that once would have elicited a stern talking-to.â€? How quaint. A stern talking-to for students in districts known for being infested with youth gang members. In 2011, the government’s National Gang Center reported that in cities like LA, more than 30% of gang members were school-age. You can bring your stern talk to a gang fight if you want to, but‌

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lishment culture. Their professional literature has been filled for decades with justifications for expanding the mandate of public schools into areas well beyond education. The institution has become less able to accomplish its primary mission – teaching – while building up the ranks of social workers to address non-academic related issues better handled elsewhere. It’s not a “school-to-prison� pipeline; it’s a bad familyand dangerous communityto-prison pipeline. By trying to fill roles better occupied by family, civic organizations, and law enforcement, public schools have lost sight of their unique place in our communities. Our education system should be refocused on meeting the educational needs of those children capable of functioning in a classroom. For many reasons, some children simply aren’t capable, and some make up what we call the criminal element. They should be treated as such, not seated next to a child – your child? – who has come to school prepared to learn.
 In addition to private efforts to strengthen families and the civic life that underpins our communities, we need a parallel structure, outside the public school system, to address the challenges posed by so-called “at risk� youth, helping them to meet the expectations of society. Only when they are ready should they be reintegrated into public school classrooms. No matter how well-intentioned, public schools can’t do it all. In the end, everyone is hurt in the attempt.


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varsity� terrorist organization. Six months later its warriors had seized large parts of northern Iraq and were at the gates of Baghdad. American airstrikes on IS started only in August, and while partially effective, have failed to stem the IS surge. The rise of ISIL has initially been helped by the initial American underestimation of the threat and embarrassing indecision over policy. The wider reason rests with a regional power vacuum created in part by the Obama Administration’s indifference to the fate of Iraq’s fragile stability in the wake of the American troop pullout and a dithering disconnect on defense issues. But does ISIL wish to use Christian persecution as a trap to lure Western (and let’s admit post-Christian countries) back into the Middle East cauldron? Possibly. Significantly, despite the use of American and allied airpower against IS targets, changing the regional chessboard will require boots on the ground to counter, confront, and defeat this scourge. But the troops should be Arab, not American as not to fall into the trap of “the Christian West� fighting Islam, of the French to revive the argument of an ex -colonial power, or the Turks to avoid the pitfall of the former Ottoman colonial ruler returning to the region. IS strives to forcibly create a Sunni Moslem Theocratic State. We are not talking about a reasonably pluralistic state nor a typical Arab autocracy, but a medieval Islamic caliphate, where there’s no room for any religious nor social dissent. It’s doubtful most Sunni Moslems favor this path but it is equally certain that IS intimidation and terror are quite convincing given no serious counterforce. John J. Metzler is a United Nations correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues. He is the author of Divided Dynamism The Diplomacy of Separated Nations; Germany, Korea, China (2014).

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about President George W. Bush. Where was the outrage then? If all else fails, critics of Mayor Giuliani can say that a man is entitled to be considered “innocent until proven guilty.” But that principle applies in a court of law. Outside a court of law, there is no reason to presume anyone innocent until proven guilty. It is especially dangerous to presume a President of the United States -- any president -- innocent until proven guilty. Whoever is president has the lives of hundreds of millions of Americans, and the fate of a nation, in his hands. It is those millions of people and that nation who deserve the benefit of the doubt. We need to err on the side of safety for the people and the country. Squeamish politeness to an individual cannot outweigh that. We need to keep that in mind for the next president, and for all future presidents. We might have been better off if the question of Obama’s patriotism had been raised before he was first elected. Never should we ignore so many red flag warnings again. There is little that can be done about President Obama now, no matter what he does. Impeachment, even if it succeeded, would mean Joe Biden as president and riots across the country. It is hard to know which would be worse. Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com. To find out more about Thomas Sowell and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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But a closer look at the rigging of that phony factoid simply confirms the malevolent intention of so-called objective journalists and “hate watch” groups to marginalize conservative political speech and dissent. The CNN/MSNBC/SPLC smear job involved both the dishonest deflating of left-wing and jihadist incidents, and the dishonest inflating of “rightwing” incidents. First, carving out the 3,000-person death toll from the 9/11 jihadist attacks is a rather convenient way to rig the scales, isn’t it? So is omitting the 10-person death toll from the jihadinspired Beltway sniper spree of 2002. The conservatives-areworse-than-jihadists casualty data counted Holocaust Memorial Museum shooter James Von Brunn, who killed a heroic security guard, as a “right-winger.” But Von Brunn was neither “left” nor “right.” He was a rage-filled maniac and 9/11 truther who hated Fox News, the Weekly Standard and Rupert Murdoch. Also counted as “rightwing” in the CNN/MSNBC/SPLC data: Andrew Joseph Stack. He’s the lunatic who flew a small plane into an Austin, Texas, office complex that contained an Internal Revenue Service office in 2010. Stack’s ranting suicide manifesto targeted George W. Bush, health care insurers, the pharmaceutical industry and the “capitalist creed.” Also listed as “rightwing:” Richard Andrew Poplawski. He was the disgruntled, unemployed loser who shot and killed three Pittsburgh police officers in a horrifying bloodbath in 2009. Leftwing publications asserted that the “heated, apocalyptic rhetoric of the anti-Obama forces,” along with Fox News and Glenn Beck, motivated Poplawski to slay the officers. But Poplawski was a dropout from the Marines who threw a food

tray at a drill instructor, had beaten his girlfriend, and demonstrated violent, racist tendencies that had nothing to do with politics. Poplawski was outraged that his mother wanted to kick his unemployed ass out of the house. Joshua Cartwright, another serial woman abuser, also murdered two police officers in the aftermath of a domestic violence call. Left-wing operatives focused on a single remark from Cartwright’s victim about his views on President Obama to paint him as a “right-wing radical,” whitewashing his long history of violence against his partner and senseless paranoia. Were any of these falsely classified incidents included in the DHS assessment hyped by CNN and SPLC last week? We’ll never know. When I asked DHS public affairs officer S.Y. Lee for the document, he told me it’s “not for public release” because it’s “an FOUO document (for official use only). Same as many DHS products to law enforcement.” I asked whether CNN now qualifies as “law enforcement.” No response.

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“Real time” image to your computer OR cell phone. Nice….Now you could sit by the fire, with cell phone in hand, and when the deer presents itself, put on your coat, trudge to the tree stand & shoot it. Good grief….what next? I guess that some of this new technology is fine, but the downside is that utilization of all this only serves to diminish the basic personal skills that one develops with “Hands on” learning. For example, there is no question that the GPS units help out navigation, but what do you do when the batteries die out? There you go…..right back to the basic knowledge of how to use a compass and there is NOTHING wrong with that! Do you really need a trail camera to show you where the deer are? Basic skills mean getting out there and looking for tracks, scrapes, droppings or rubs. All of these new “Tools” are good if used in the right context. Perhaps “IF” basic skills were learned and used more, we wouldn’t have to be looking for lost hikers all summer AND, yup, that also means baiting your hook with a worm! Later…………Capt. Pete

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Author Dennis Lehane At Portsmouth Music Hall The Music Hall’s Writers in the Loft series welcomes Dennis Lehane, renowned novelist and screenwriter, to Portsmouth on Friday, March 13th. Widely praised for his gritty and unflinching depictions of life in Boston and New England, Lehane will visit town with his new novel, World Gone By, the third installment in the epic story of Joe Coughlin. Meticulously researched and beautifully rendered, Lehane’s new work takes Coughlin through the criminal underworld of Ybor City, Florida, during World War II, ultimately leading him to discover that another treacherous war lurks close to home. The 7pm event includes an author presentation and moderated Q+A, plus book signing and meet-andgreet. It will be held at the Music Hall Loft at 131 Congress Street, in downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Born and raised in Dorchester, Massachusetts, DENNIS LEHANE is the author of twelve previous novels—most recently, The Drop, and the New York Times bestsellers Live by Night; Moonlight Mile; Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River; Shutter Island; and The Given Day—as well as Coronado, a collection of short stories and a play. A Drink Before

the War won the Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel. Mystic River won the Anthony and Barry Awards for Best Novel, and the Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction from the Massachusetts Center for the Book. It was also a finalist for the PEN/L.L. Winship Award. Live by Night won the Edgar Award for Best Novel and the Florida Book Award Gold Medal for Fiction. Writers in the Loft features wellknown authors but in a smaller, more intimate space. The series brings audiences today’s top authors, the best of fiction and nonfiction. The ticket package for Writers in the Loft: Dennis Lehane on Friday, March 13, at 7pm is $42. In addition to a reserved seat, the package includes a copy of WORLD GONE BY (hardcover, $27.99), a bar beverage, and book signing meet-and-greet. Packages can be purchased through The Music Hall Box Office, located at 28 Chestnut Street, Portsmouth, over the phone at 603.436.2400, or online at www.themusichall.org The evening package includes a reserved seat and bar beverage, author presentation and Q+A, a copy of the book, and a meet-and-greet book signing with the featured writer.

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