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The Man Who Thought He Was A Tree North Conway, New Hampshire. Thomas Edward Mullikin was born in 1834 in the town of Newburyport, Massachusetts, but at the age of eight he became a resident of New Bedford, Mass. when he was adopted by his mother’s brother and was given the added name of White, thus the T.E.M. White label with a nickname of Ned. Professionally White received accolades for his photography of the scenery of the

by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. Contributing Writer

His name is T.E.M. White and I call him a person of interest, not because law enforcement authorities had any special interest in him, but because reading about his life reveals him to have been an interesting person. Probably few people who read this even know about him because he died in 1909, but for thirty years this photographer attracted attention in

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— OFF THE SHELF — Grace Abounding

by Debby Montague Book Reviewer

Following Atticus by Tom Ryan, William Morrow, 2011

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Will’s Red Coat by Tom Ryan, William Morrow, 2017 “Magic is where you find it; the only thing that matters is that you take the time to look for it.” —Following Atticus

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“They remind me that sometimes you have to be very old to be noticed. We don’t all flower at the same time.” —Will’s Red Coat

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Let’s Talk About it: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH Meeting in the Funspot Bingo Hall Thursday, March 8th • 6pm Rt 3, 579 Endicott St. N, Weirs Beach, NH This group is a community coalition of individuals who have had enough sitting on the sidelines, watching our loved ones die from this drug epidemic. Join us to gather information on putting a plan in action to affect change right here in the state. This month’s speakers will be Barry Smith, who runs The Orion House, a not-for-profit residential treatment facility serving male youth and their families, and a local law enforcement officer to describe the process of what happens in these case investigations, and where their hands become tied. For more information about The Orion House visit www.orionhouse.org For questions regarding the meeting please contact starr@weirs.com

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To The Editor: I would like to thank all the voters of Laconia who made the effort to exercise the right to vote for me as NH State Representative on February 27, 2018. Less than 2,000 voters in a city with approximately 10,500 seems low to me. During my campaign I heard from Laconia residents and brought those issues to the forefront. I hope that the State and Laconia representatives will work to minimize the impact on the citizens caused by these issues. Thank You again! Les Cartier Laconia, NH.

A Preventable Shooting Tragedy To The Editor: The Parkland, FL shooter had a history of violent behavior. Police were called to his house many times, but they did not arrest him because the school board had an agreement with the police not to arrest any students.. The FBI received a viable tip indicating he wanted to shoot up a school, but the lead was not pursued. The following are incredible: A student saw the shooter in a stairway loading his rifle, but did nothing to try to stop him when told “things are going to get messy around here”. The student left the building, did not call 911, but informed a teacher. The teacher drove the stu-

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dent to a baseball field, and then went back to the school to check it out, but the shooting had started. Why did the armed deputy sheriff assigned to protect the school stand around during the shooting? If true, why did three police officers arrive at the school and take cover behind their vehicles, and not enter the school? Arming teachers who are not trained to be police officers could be disastrous. What happens when a police officer enters a school during a shooting and encounters a teacher with a gun? We should increase the age to purchase a firearm to 21. Most school shooters are under 21. We have to improve the background check system. Schools need to lock all entrances, and install shatter proof glass and alarms. A heavily armed security guard should be stationed in every school. Donald Moskowitz Londonderry, NH.

Consequence Of Policies To the Editor: The lies, misinformation, and obfuscation to cover up the failures of school administrators and law enforcement in Parkland are amazing. While Nikolas Cruz is to blame, an insane leftist policy to ignore existing laws and not arrest student criminals allowed Cruz

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.

to get a gun. Neither the NRA, nor President Trump, nor any other lawful gun owner had the ability, responsibility, or authority to prevent Cruz from getting or using a gun. Four Sheriff’s Deputies were on-site and should have stopped the killings, they inexcusably delayed. Unfortunately such delays while people are being killed aren’t abnormal, e.g., Sandy Hook, Orlando, Columbine, etc. This is why armed protection is needed inside schools. Local law enforcement and the FBI should have stopped Cruz long before the shooting. Without advertising his plan on a billboard, Cruz could hardly have provided more evidence of his intentions. School administrators, law enforcement, and other local groups created a policy in support of President Obama’s Promise program to limit the number of students arrested for their crimes. Since they weren’t arrested, prosecuted, and punished or provided mental health treatment, these criminals, like Cruz, weren’t put on the background check database, so they could legally buy guns. These leftists either didn’t care about crime victims or they insanely thought that student criminals would stop their criminal behavior if they weren’t punished for it. Sensible people know that criminals, knowing they wouldn’t be arrested, would prey on their comSee mail boat on 35

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vegetable are they going to serve with dinner? I hope not green beans again, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m getting really tired of those. While I was at home recuperating, I did get many calls from Flatlander Party members wishing me the best and then hinting at what is going to happen going forward. Some very sincere in their concern and others just wanting to know what the next move, if any, for the party would be if I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t run. I pretty much assured them that I would be back on my feet in no time and ready to hit the campaign trail with more energy and a renewed vigor. It was the easy answer, so I could get off the phone and get back to sleep. Now that I am getting stronger, I am having second thoughts. Is this what I really want to do, spend months on the campaign trail, giving the same speech over and over, demonizing my opponents, making promises that I could never keep at bean-hole bean suppers (not my favorite food). On the other hand, I made a commitment to the party and I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just walk away from that. Would they be able to find a new candidate who would be ready to sacrifice the time and energy to a vigorous campaign, to be ready to take and give the name-calling and nastiness that voters expect and deserve and, most importantly, be able to handle beanhole beans. I was also reminded by our party chairperson that we had already spent most of our budget on lawn signs and bumper stickers with my name on it and if I dropped out they would

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have no choice then to recruit one of the other three people named Smith in the Flatlander Party to run. (None of who would make great candidates for reasons I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go into here just in case they do decide to run. No reason to give their possible opponents any fodder.) As far as what I really want in life and how Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to use my talents, I guess I could put those on hold for a few months for the good of the party. Chances are good that I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t win anyway and it would all be over by November. Of course, if I did win, that would mean at least a two-year commitment and any of my other hopes and dreams would have to be put on hold. (Of course, I would get to collect that nifty $100,000 a year salary which, in all honesty, might be a little more than some of my hopes and dreams are paying at the moment.) So, as you can see, I have a lot to consider. I suppose I will have to make up my mind soon in fairness to all involved (especially those other three Flatlander Party members named Smith). Will it be a matter of doing what is right for me and pursuing those hopes and dreams or sacrificing myself for the good of the people and run again for governor? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll keep you posted. Brendan is the author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Flatlander Chroniclesâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Best of A F.O.O.L. In New Hampshireâ&#x20AC;? which are available at his website www. BrendanTSmith.com

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Release the Florida School Shooting Surveillance Video Open government isn’t just good government. It’s the public’s right. In Florida, the Broward County Sheriff’s ofby Michelle Malkin fice and BroSyndicated Columnist ward County school district are fighting to keep exterior surveillance video from the day of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School hidden from view. As journalists and citizens who’ve waged uphill battles against secrecy well know, government agencies too often invoke broad disclosure exemptions in the name of protecting public safety when they’re really just trying to protect their own jobs. Feckless Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel and medialuvin’ school Superintendent Robert Runcie are defendants in an open records lawsuit filed Tuesday by the South Florida Sun Sentinel, the Miami Herald and CNN. The local officials claim that surveillance videos from cameras outside the school are completely exempt from sunshine laws because they would expose the district’s security system plan; are part of an active criminal investigation; and involve an active internal affairs investigation of school resource officer/BSO Deputy Scot Peterson, whom Israel notoriously threw under the bus last week. Let’s break down these specious excuses for keeping information vital to the public inter-

est locked in a black box. First, disclosure of the videos would pose no danger to students because Building 12, where the shooting took place, will be demolished. Second, key investigative records, transcripts and logs in the active criminal probe against the Parkland school shooter have already been released to the public. Israel himself coughed up call logs documenting 23 times the shooter’s family or neighbors called deputies to the house. Additional dispatch records obtained by local and national media outlets revealed 22 more calls to law enforcement dating back to 2008 that had not been initially communicated by the selectively disclosing sheriff. Moreover, the open records lawsuit notes that Israel has already publicly described in detail what the video shows about Peterson’s actions: He arrived at the west side of Building 12, took position, got on his radio, had a view of the western entry of Building 12 but never went in for “upwards of four minutes” while the shooter slaughtered 17 innocent students and teachers. In addition, government sources have leaked FBI transcripts of caller tips reporting Nikolas Cruz’s violent threats and tendencies that went unheeded. Unidentified sources leaked school disciplinary records documenting the shooter’s troubles dating back to elementary and middle school. And a Broward Circuit Court judge ordered the release last week of a State Department of Children and Fami-

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The Russian Bot Hysteria If only Joe McCarthy had lived to see this moment, when it is suddenly in vogue to attribute largescale events in by Rich Lowry American poliContributing Writer tics to the hand of Russia and to inveigh against domestic subversion. Robert Mueller released an indictment of 13 Russians for crimes related to their socialmedia campaign to meddle in our internal affairs in the runup to and aftermath of the 2016 election. Mueller obviously isn’t a McCarthyite, and can’t be held responsible for the hysteria -and hopeful expectations of an impeachment-level event -- that has built up around his work. His indictment is, as far as anyone can tell, rigorously factual. That’s probably the point of it -- to create a record of an episode that we should want to know as much about as possible

and prevent from ever happening again. The Russia campaign was a shockingly cynical violation of our sovereignty. President Donald Trump would do himself and the country a favor by frankly denouncing it. But the scale of the operation shouldn’t be exaggerated. In the context of a hugely expensive, obsessively covered, impossibly dramatic presidential election, the Russian contribution on social media was piddling and often laughable. The Russians wanted to boost Trump, but as a Facebook executive noted, most of their spending on Facebook ads came after the election. The larger goal was to sow discord, yet we had already primed ourselves for plenty of that. Does anyone believe, absent Russian trolls on Twitter and Facebook, that we were headed to a placid election season involving an incendiary, mediagenic former reality TV star bent on blowing up the politi-

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Syria; Between the Hammer and the Anvil UNITED NATIONS

- Artillery fire and indiscriminate air strikes pound and batter the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. Civilians, mostly by John J. Metzler children, are Syndicated Columnist being killed and maimed. The Security Council wrings its hands in pleading for a humanitarian respite in a ongoing horror. And the world community politely averts its eyes from the Syrian civil war as the regime pulverizes cities, murders civilians and reasserts its bloody writ in what appears to be the endgame in a conflict which has killed 500,000 people and sent millions fleeing their land. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called the siege of Ghouta “Hell on earth.” Now at long last, the Security Council has unanimously adopted a cease fire resolution which will allow a humanitarian respite for thirty days. After days of deliberate Russian stalling, and hundreds of additional casualties as the appalling violence churned on, the fifteen member Council agreed on a significant but unenforceable humanitarian pause. American Ambassador Nikki Haley cautioned, “We are deeply skeptical that the regime will comply. But we supported this resolution because we must demand nothing less. We owe this to the innocent

people of Syria begging for help.” Since the onset of the Syrian civil war, Ghouta has remained a rebel held enclave just outside the capital Damascus. And it is from the ancient city of Damascus that the Assad regime has now unleashed its wrath hammering the militants, but especially civilians, in an all out assault using heavy artillery, randomly targeted Russian airstrikes, and the infamous barrel bombs, to finally break, bloody and terrorize its own citizens. As the UN Humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock told the Council, “Eastern Ghouta is a living example of an entirely known, predictable, and preventable humanitarian disaster unfolding before our eyes; everyone knows that nearly 400,000 people are besieged.” They have endured a four-year siege in the midst of a conflict which has churned on for seven. Indeed we have seen this sanguinary strategy before; Aleppo, Hama and in other places and conflicts; Sarajevo comes to mind. French Ambassador Francois Delattre scolded earlier that failure to aid Ghouta would cause a “devastating loss of credibility for the Security Council,” and could signal the “death knell of the United Nations.” British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson warned, “I am utterly appalled by the brutal and merciless violence that the Assad regime is inflicting on the people of Eastern Ghouta. They are enduring a hell entirely of the making of Assad and

his enablers.” U.S. President Donald Trump named names as to the perpetrators, “I will say what Russia and what Iran and what Syria have done recently is a humanitarian disgrace.”

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Three years ago this week I penned “School-toPrison Pipeline?,” for the March 5th, 2015 edition of the Weirs Times. It could have been written

yesterday. I wrote that “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.” I then asked if you’d want your child seated next to such a child. When those words were printed, the future Parkland, FL, high school mass-murderer had already been placed at Cross Creek, a special school for students with emotional and behavioral disorders. A few months later, a school report would say that this young man was “distracted by inappropriate conversations by classmates” about “guns, people being killed, or the armed forces.” Less than a year later, he was reintegrated into regular classes at Stoneman Douglas High. For that 2015 essay, I pulled this quote from neaToday, the mouthpiece for the nation’s largest teachers’ union: ”Fueled by zero tolerance policies and the presence of police officers in schools, and made worse by school funding cuts that overburden counselors and high-stakes tests that stress teachers, these excessive [discipline] practices have resulted in the suspensions, expulsions, and arrests of tens of millions

So now there’s a ceasefire for a month if it lasts. But as the UN’s Lowcock adds, “Humanitarian access is not a ‘nice to have,’ it is a legal requirement. Counterterrorism efforts cannot supersede the obliga-

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Confidence of public school students, especially students of color and those with disabilities or who identify as LGBT.” Talk about a swing and a miss. At the time, I described the article as “displaying the childlike quality of being simultaneously simplistic, self-aggrandizing, and just plain wrong.” Add to that list: Deadly. The NEA complained that “...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.” We now know that officials at Stoneman Douglas shielded students’ criminal behaviors – including drug use and assaults – from the justice system, part of a federally-funded policy to bribe schools across the country into ignoring real criminality and focusing only on reportable crime metrics. The idea of reducing crime by not reporting it is insane. The reality is that the prison pipeline predominately starts with bad families and dangerous communities. Does it surprise anyone that of the young men who turned into mass murderers since 2005, only one was raised by his biological father? (And that one – the Virginia Tech killer – was known to have been mentally unstable since childhood.) Those who have long fought to end or substantially restrict of our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms – the right that “shall not be infringed” – ignore that reality. They use every mass shooting to advance their cause, focusing on the gun rather than the person wielding it. On the other side, the NRA may come across as dogmatic. But it stands fast against “comSee gorrell on 37

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Spend “Quality Winter Time” At The Wright Museum Schools May Schedule A Private Showing Of Permanent & Special Exhibits Through May The Wright Museum in Wolfeboro extends its annual invitation to schools to visit them during the winter season. The museum is closed to the general public in the winter, however schools can make an appointment for a private viewing from February through May to visit the permanent and special exhibits. It is a great time to visit if you love the idea of having the entire Museum to yourself! Schools can request a docent-led tour of the Museum, or you can be your own guide. Through April, in addition to their great permanent collection, the Wright Museum offers school students two special exhibits in our Art Gallery. The first exhibit is, “Memories of World War II: Photographs from the Associated Press Archives”. This exhibit includes 60 of some of the most iconic black and white photographs taken

during World War II. The second exhibit “The WWII Art of Private Charles J. Miller” features 40 works selected from the more than 500 paintings that Miller created while serving in the South Pacific

during WWII. This exhibit was not seen for 70 years, these dramatic watercolor painting are “national treasures”. These exceptional exhibits are a must-see for students; both offer pow-

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Dueling Pianos: Jim Tyrrell vs Gardner Berry Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 8:30pm. www.patrickspub. com or 293-0841

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Laconia Parks & Recreation would like to remind everyone of the amenities that are available in their backyards. There are 2 ice skating rinks in Laconia that are absolutely free of charge, but are subject to the weather and conditions. One is located at Memorial Park in the parking lot of the baseball field and the other is on the lake in the cove at Opechee Park. The rink that was set up on the beach itself is no longer usable. Please do not use it. When on the lake rink, please use extreme caution. Lights are on at both facilities until 10pm. The sledding hill is also open to the public at the end of South Street, off of Academy Street. Lights are on till 10pm. Please do not park inside the park. Park outside the gate on the right hand side of the road. Have fun and be sure to follow the posted rules. 524-5046

Wednesday’s – April 11th From Troy to Baghdad; Dialogues on War & Homecoming Portsmouth Public Library, Portsmouth. 6:30pm-8pm. Has the road to “homecoming” and adjustment back to civilian life been harder and longer than you expected? As a spouse or family member, have you struggled with changes created by deployment and homecoming? Veterans, current service members, family members, and friends are invited to attend this 10-week reading and discussion group co-led by a veteran, clinician, and literature facilitator. Free copies of the book “The Odyssey” will be provided to participants at this first session. Please RSVP to www. nhhumanities.org/veterans This program is free Thursday 8th

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The Softer Side of Celtic – Jeff Snow

Gilmanton Year Round Library, Gilmanton. 6pm. Jeff Snow, a talented multi-instrumentalist and engaging storyteller, combines music, stories and history to bring the rich traditions of classic Celtic music to life. Free and open to the public. Friday 9th

The Spirit of Johnny Cash Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 8pm.

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Swing Dance with the Tall Granite Big Band Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. BYOB venue. www.pitmansfreightroom.com or 527-0043

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Maple Sugar Madness Prescott Farm, White Oaks Road, Laconia. 10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm or 2pm. Join to experience an oldfashioned New England tradition, making maple syrup! From tapping a tree to tasting delicious maple syrup, you will participate in every step of the syrup making process. Moderate hike to and from the sugarhouse. All ages welcomed. Pre-registration is $10pp, $8 members, or $12 at the door. www.prescottfarm.org or 366-5695

11th Annual Robbie Mills Memorial 8 Ball Tournament Laconia Rod & Gun Club, 358 South Main Street, Laconia. Doors open at 9:30am, Tournament starts promptly at 11am. Pre-pay $25 by March 1st and receive a free t-shirt. After that, pay $30pp. Double elimination, BCAPL Rules apply. Trophies, cash prizes, food raffles and more! Pre-pay at www.robbiemills.org

Glass Suncatcher Class with Lynn Haust League of NH Craftsmen, 279 DW Highway, Meredith. 10:30am12:30pm. Learn how to combine the glass to create rich colors and textures that will reflect and transmit color and light. Tuition is $40pp and includes use of tools and choice of glass materials in various colors. Beginners and advanced students, age 12 and up are welcome to participate. Pre-registration required. 279-7920 or www.meredith.nhcrafts.org/

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in Hollywood” The Community Players Studio, 435 Josiah Bartlett Road, Concord. 6:30pm-8:30pm both days, with callbacks on March 13th at 6:30pm. Those who audition will be reading sides from the script. Please bring your calendar to auditions to inform of any conflicts you have during the rehearsal period. Show dates are May 4th-6th. Email questions to Betty Lent at

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Lakes Region VNA Presents a Program on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Meredith Public Library, Main Street, Meredith. 6:30pm. Join this education forum to learn more about Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementia diseases. How is it diagnosed? Are there effective treatments? Is there a cure in sight? How do I support my loved one with Alzheimer’s disease? All of these questions and more will be answered. Friday 16th

Durham County Poets Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. BYOB venue. www.pitmansfreightroom.com or 527-0043

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Dueling Pianos: Jon Lorentz vs Matt Langley Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 8:30pm. www.patrickspub. com or 293-0841

Fri. 16th – Sun. 18th “Keep NH Green” – Lakes Region Conservation Trust Benefit

Schuster’s Tavern, 580Cherry Valley Road, Gilford. Delicious Irish food, Irish Step dancers, chocolates, Irish whiskey, Irish Beer and locally grown greens! At 7pm on March 17th , Tyler Little will be leading the dance troupe for a classic Irish number on the dance floor! Dinners are offered at $14 to $16 per person or $25/couple. Book dinner for 2 and a hotel room for only $100! 293-2021 Saturday 17th

Driving Golf Balls and Cars at Taylor Community The Taylor Community in Laconia is holding two great programs in the month of March. First, on Monday, March 12 at 2pm will be the start of a Five-Week Golf Conditioning Program. If a golfer performs exercises in a slow, controlled manner, he/she will be prepared to swing a club at maximum speed. To prepare the body for the demands of a max effort swing, golfers should include plyometric exercises in their routine. Find out safely how to do this. The program will be held at the Woodside Building with Lena Clark. Each class lasts 30 minutes and is open to the public costs $5 per class. No registration required. Come and try one or all classes. The AARP Safe Driving Program is a six-hour classroom refresher course designed to ensure drivers 50 and older stay safe behind the wheel. Upon successful completion, participants may be eligible for automobile insurance discounts (check with individual providers). The course is scheduled for Thursday, March 22 from 9am to 4pm in the Woodside Building in Laconia. The fee is $15 for AARP members who show their membership card and $20 for all others. Lunch will be available in the Woodside Café. There is limited space for this program, so don’t delay, register as soon as possible with Brenda Keen at 366-1226.

Audubon Program On Colorado Birding On Thursday, March 15th at 7pm at the Loon Center in Moultonborough, the Lakes Region Chapter of the New Hampshire Audubon Society will present a program by Charlie Nims called “Chasing Prairie Chickens and Other Colorado Birding Adventures.” Colorado’s diverse habitat includes prairie, mountains, and high plateau. Charlie Nims, an accomplished birder who lives in Glen, NH, will take us on a whirlwind tour around much of the Centennial State looking for specialties including several species of grouse and prairie chickens. Cackling, hooting, moaning, and strutting their stuff like Aspen tourists, these birds display for mates in spectacular fashion on their leks (mating grounds). Colorado also hosts all three North American species of Rosy Finches, lots of raptors, and a wide variety of songbirds. Along the way we will encounter some big game, wildflowers, and spectacular scenery. The Loon Center is located on Lee’s Mill Road; follow the signs on Blake Road from Route 25 near the Moultonborough Central School, or from Rte. 109 turn on to Lee Road and turn left on Lee’s Mill Road. On the web, visit http://www. loon.org. Refreshments will be served.

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Wolfeboro Public Library continues its 2018 program series Tuesday, March 20th, 6:30pm in the library meeting room when speaker Jerry Knirk brings his timely (first day of spring!), informative, and inspiring program, Greenhouse Growing for the Home Gardener, to Wolfeboro. Knirk, a resident of Freedom, will discuss basics of greenhouse design and demonstrate the relatively simple construction of his current double-wall polyethylene greenhouse. Management of temperature, irrigation, pests, and other unique problems of greenhouse growing will be illustrated. With over five years of greenhouse growing experience, he has had plenty of time to make mistakes and solve problems. He is happy to share this accumulated knowledge so that others can enjoy the benefits of having a greenhouse. As always, the library’s programs are free and open to all. For more information call 569-2428 or visit www.wolfeborolibrary.org.

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factors, economic conditions and corporate earnings typically drive performance in the long term. Right now, the U.S. economy is near full employment, consumer and business sentiment has risen strongly, manufacturing and service activity is at multi-year highs, and GDP growth in 2018 appears to be on track for the best performance since 2015. Furthermore, corporate earnings are expected to rise this year. So, given this background, what’s your next move? Here are some suggestions: Review your situation. You may want to work with a financial professional to evaluate your portfolio to determine if it is helping you make the progress you need to eventually achieve your long-term goals. Reassess your risk tolerance. If you were unusually upset over the loss in value of your investments during the market pullback, you may need to review your risk tolerance to determine if it’s still appropriate for your investment mix. If you feel you are taking on too much risk, you may need to rebalance your portfolio. Keep in mind, though, that by “playing it safe” and investing heavily in vehicles that offer greater protection of principal, but little in the way of return, you run the risk of not attaining the growth you need to reach your objectives. Look for opportunities. A market pullback such as the one we’ve experienced, which occurs during a period of economic expansion and rising corporate profits, can give long-term investors a chance to add new shares at attractive prices in an environment that may be conducive to a market rally. A sharp market pullback, such as we’ve seen recently, will always be big news. But if you look beyond the headlines, you can sometimes see a different picture – and one that may be brighter than you had realized.

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D.A. LONG TAVERN for a number of years now, Firestone Walker Brewing Company has created a series of very interesting combinations of rare or exotic hops placed within the exact same base malt beer so that folks looking forward to the new release can compare notes of previous versions and chat about the new hops and their part in making this release new and unusual. So the release of Luponic Distortion Revolution 009 is now upon us. Adam Firestone and David Walker are brotherin-laws who arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t your everyday beer geeks. They look at the ability to brew something so different from what everyone else is doing as if it were an artful war. And they take that very seriously. With more than a dozen year-

tonebeer.com Luponic Distortion isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as odd a name for a beer as you would first think. Humulus lupulus, an essential oil found in hop flowers or cones, is that interesting and valuable ingredient that gives the hoppy aromas craft beer drinkers look for. Luponic Distortion is FWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s way of describing their combinations of hop flavors per version. Each release features a different combination of hops and is produced every 90 days according to their website. #009 is a showcase of â&#x20AC;&#x153;public domainâ&#x20AC;? hops which tend to be the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;unsung heroesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in brewing. Many of us have heard of Cascade, Citra, Summit and Mt Hood west coast hops but public domain hop varieties are the Jones and Smith of hop

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White Mountain Toastmasters -15 Years Of Shaping Lives White Mountain Toastmasters (http://wmtm. toastmastersclubs.org) marks its 15th anniversary in 2018. In honor of the milestone and club members past and present, an event will be held on April 4, 2018 at the Common Man Inn and Spa in Plymouth. Members of the public are invited to learn more about Toastmasters or may attend the event by emailing White Mountain Toastmasters email. info@wmtm.com. Since 2003, the club has been dedicated to helping people become better speakers and leaders. “It is my distinct pleasure to serve as the President of the White Mountain Toastmasters during this our 15th year of being a Toastmaster Club,” notes Sue Francesco. “Fifteen years ago, I joined a fledgling, eclec-

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tracks. The people9we had UAL A N Ntrail met earlier on the had put their snowshoes on their feet shortly after we passed by them. We again did the short bushwhacked down to the snowmobile trail, a couple of snowmobilers drove by us slowly and waved at us. We waved back. At our cars we dumped our packs and changed into some dryer clothes. Did we have time? It would be close and since we had season passes we hustled up to the Tramway and caught a ride. On the ride up in the Tram we had a good view of Franconia Notch and of where we just were on top of Eagle Cliff. We entered the warm summit building and headed right to the bar. We ordered our beers and then the bar tender yelled, “Last Call”. It was 3 o’clock. We sat on bar stools right next to the window and looked out at the mountains and above the bar there is a sign that reads “Welcome to the Highest Taps in NH”! This was a fun way to end our adventure. We noticed that the skiers and snowboarders had all left by around 3:30 and the building was now nearly empty. The last Tram descends at 3:45 and we made sure we were on it. —Have Fun. TH

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lies investigation into allegations of abuse and neglect in the shooter’s home. “If there were shortcomings,” Broward Circuit Court Judge Charles Greene concluded, “the public has the right to know.” Any right to privacy that the shooter may have claimed was effectively waived by his own bloody actions and outweighed by the public interest. The Broward County school district is hiding behind the sheriff’s skirt, claiming that since law enforcement took possession of the videos, its hands are tied. But that school property is the public’s property, subject to the state’s public records act. As Fort Lauderdale lawyers Dana McElroy and James McGuire, who filed the petition on behalf of the media outlets, point out in the “good cause” petition for disclosure that I obtained this week: “The District should be required to demand, and the Sheriff’s Office should be required to deliver, a copy of the video back to the District” in order to comply with the “legal requirement that it maintain and disclose its own public records.” Third, Deputy Scot Peterson has already resigned, so the sheriff’s office should not be able to hide behind the confidential personnel records shield. Peterson publicly disputes Israel’s version of events and released his own detailed account of his actions after his former boss blabbed about the surveillance tape at a backside-saving press conference last week. This is “information the public needed to know,” Israel pontificated last week, yet he is denying the public’s right to see and judge the surveillance videos for themselves. Israel is a grandstanding publicity hound, enabled by gun control extremists in the media, whose “just trust us” arrogance is an obstacle to the truth. He’s a dime a

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dozen. Across the country, government control freaks in local, state and federal agencies -- both civilian and law enforcement -- routinely block public disclosure of information that destroys their carefully spun, jobpreserving narratives. Release the videos. Let the public, especially competent security experts, see them. Without transparency, there can be no accountability. Without accountability, “Never Again” is yet another empty, expedient cable TV sound bite in an ocean of self-serving rhetoric. 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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which had to cover up student crimes and couldn’t return recovered stolen items. Police on-site couldn’t tell what was happening inside the school during the shootings because the video system had been put on a 20 minute delay so evidence of crimes in school could be covered up/erased. The horrible Parkland shooting is an unintended, but not unpredictable, consequence of leftist policies. The Parkland school administrators’ and local law enforcement, for their own benefit, conspired to defraud the taxpayers and to deny help for troubled, and punishment for criminal, students; they should be held criminally and civilly liable. Don Ewing Meredith, NH

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cal establishment and a longtime pol who had stoked the enmity of Republicans for 30 years and was under FBI investigation? If you read the Mueller indictment, you might think the Russians were everywhere, not only advertising on Facebook (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trump is our only hope for a better futureâ&#x20AC;?; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ohio Wants Hillary 4 Prisonâ&#x20AC;?), but organizing rallies around the country. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not clear these rallies even came off. The Russians didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do anything to us that we werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t doing to ourselves, although we were doing it on a much larger, more potent scale. The Russians are just aping the arguments we are already having with one other, and the sewerish level of much of the discussion on social media. The New York Times ran a report the other day on Russian bots, in the immediate aftermath of the Parkland school shooting, posting on Twitter about gun control. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to believe that this is going to rip apart the American body politic when many perfectly respectable, red-blooded Americans themselves advocate for gun control, and often in the immediate aftermath of shootings. In a better world, Trump would be less defensive about the Russian investigation, and his opposition would be less obsessively invested in it (at least until such time that it produces a genuine bombshell). We should seek to shut down Russian influence as much as possible, without losing perspective. We arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t divided because of Russia; weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re divided because we have genuine, deeply held differences. The fault, to the extent there is one, isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t with the bots, but with ourselves. Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

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Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra’s “An Evening at the Ballet” Inter-Lakes Community Auditorium, Meredith. 7:30pm. This concert features a beautiful blend of wellknown and well-loved themes from renowned ballets. Tickets are $20/ adults, $10/students college-age and under. www.LRSO.org/tickets any unsold tickets will be available at the door starting at 6:30pm. Tuesday 27th

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through his childhood ” White suffered from an ailment that resulted in the amputation of one of his legs when he was about twenty-one years of age, so he responded by putting his inventive and mechanical skills to work by making himself an artificial leg. In 1876 Mr. White married a landscape artist, Gabriella F. Eddy, and it was two years later that they moved to North Conway where they built a house at a place called Tanglewild , though they continued to spend some winters in Massachusetts. That Mr. White thought that he was a tree is not a joke, though it doesn’t mean that he thought he was a tree at the same time that he was a man. He was unconventional in his religious beliefs and behavior and the trees were said to have been to him as “human friends”. He believed in reincarnation and, with his admiration for and delight in trees, would say, according to his friend, Ellen Mason, “I am sure that I was a tree once!.” He was labeled as a “nature worshipper” but was a member of the First Congregational Church of New Bedford, which was Unitarian in its beliefs even though the original “Congregationalists” in America were the Puritans, followed by other groups ,emphasizing the local control of See smith on 43

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individual churches, but doctrinally believing in salvation by grace through faith in Christ. Congregational churches that adopted Unitarian beliefs, while also emphasizing local governing, differed in doctrine and were described by one person as believing in salvation by character. Mason, in an attempt to clarify Whiteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beliefs, wrote â&#x20AC;&#x153;he gathered spiritual strength and refreshment from Natureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beauties, and in enjoyment of them his heart was uplifted in worship of their Creator.â&#x20AC;? Though apparently frail as a child, Ned Whiteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s physical appearance as a man, despite the artificial leg was of a tall, slender, and muscular man with long, reddish-golden, curly hair (which turned white), with blue eyes. This photographer was active in his physical pursuits, engaging in mountain climbing and being known especially for his swimming and skating skills. In his childhood during the summer he would meet with his friends every day at a certain, private pool in the Saco River to swim, and, in his adult years, would be seen swimming in the Saco River with his long white hair floating on the water. The little that I have learned about this outdoor loving man who died in 1909 makes me inclined to believe that the popularity he enjoyed was as much a result of his kind and generous personality as his excellent skills as a photographer. Mason wrote â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the

summer time the Whiteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house was filled with their friends, charming, cultured persons who formed a delightful company.â&#x20AC;? His interest in country living and appreciation of those who grow the things we eat, the farmers, led Ned to the Patrons of Husbandry, also known as the Grange, and he became a member of the local Pequawket Grange. He was chosen to be the chaplain of the group and the walls of the Grange Hall were adorned with his landscape pictures. Ellen McRoberts Masonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tribute to the man who thought he must sometime have been a tree characterized Thomas Edward Mullikin White as a â&#x20AC;&#x153; beautiful

characterâ&#x20AC;? who lived on a higher plane than most people â&#x20AC;?, and whose â&#x20AC;&#x153;presence radiated good cheer and often jollity.â&#x20AC;? Ned and Gabriella White were known for their generosity, following the principle â&#x20AC;&#x153;What you give away must be of your best. The quality of what you sell matters less.â&#x20AC;? T.E.M. White died on December 16, 1909. These many years later I wonder if any of you who read this have a photograph produced by Mr. White, or a landscape painting by Gabriella White.

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