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A SPECIAL COCHECO VALLEY EDITION OF THE WEIRS TIMES NEWSPAPER. VOLUME 25, NO. 11

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Growing ‘O The Greens Will Soon Be Year Round in New Hampshire by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor

A very ambitious and unique project here in New Hampshire will soon be in full swing. If it succeeds as expected it will produce 1.3 million pounds of fresh greens a year, providing New England retailers and restaurants fresh greens in the winter months within a day of them being harvested and packaged. The new business known as Lēf Farms will be run from a new 75,000 square-foot greenhouse growing facility on Rte 106 in Loudon. It will be the first of its kind in the Northeast.

“Right now at this time of year about ninety-five percent of the greens you see in the grocery store come from California,” said Henry Huntington. President of Lēf Farms. The average time from harvesting to arrival at your local grocer

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can be as much as seven days, having a huge impact on the freshness of the produce. The idea for a year round business had been on the mind of Huntington for awhile. He also serves as president of Pleasant View Gardens in Loudon, one of the largest wholesale plant growers in New England. “We always wanted to diversify and we saw this as a huge opportunity,” said Huntington. Huntington’s parents started Pleasant View in 1976 with 20,000 square feet of greenhouses, today the business is over 13 acres of greenhouses in two locations as well as a stock facility in See Lēf on 18

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On Friday through Sunday, March 18-20, The Great Northeast Boat Show, New Hampshire’s largest boat show and the largest show north of Boston will take place at the Hampshire Dome in Milford, NH. providing those with the fever to get out on the lake this summer the best place to buy a boat. With ice out expected early this year this is the perfect time to get your new boat. This year Bass Pro Shops will be joining the show with a large lineup of fishing and pontoon boats and Trexler’s Marina and Paugus Bay Marina will be there for the first time. The Hampshire Dome is an amazing place for a show like this with its unobstructed view of the entire exhibit area. Admission is $10 for adults and children under 12 are admitted free and must be accompanied by an adult. (See the ad on the back page this week for a discount coupon.) Check out our special pull-out section in the center of this newspaper for all the details on dealers and other boat show information. For more information on the Great Northeast Boat Show visit their website at greatnortheastboatshow.com.

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March Thursday 17th Silent Film – “Conductor 1942”

Flying Monkey, Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh.com or 5362551

St. Patrick’s Day Country Dinner

Remick Museum, Cleveland Hill Road, Tamworth. 5:30-7pm. Featuring farm raised meats and accompaniments based on authentic recipes, festive Celtic music, a cozy fire and good company! Dessert includes a round of historic table trivia with delicious prizes. $40pp, ages 18 and above. Pre-registration and full payment are required. 323-7591

Belknap County Sportsmen’s Association’s Corned Beef Dinner

Belknap County Sportsmen’s Association Club House, Lily Pond Road, Gilford. 6pm. During the event, John Viar, Region 2 Fisheries Biologist, NH Fish and Game will give a talk on “The Large Lakes Fisheries Program”. Lakes such as Winnipesaukee, Big Squam and Winnisquam are included in this program which John Viar has worked on since 1999. Admission is open to all in the Lakes Region. $10pp. Water and soda are provided. BYOB.

Friday 18th Enter the Haggis

Flying Monkey, Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh.com or 5362551

Moondance – The Ultimate Van Morrison Tribute

Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 8pm. Tickets range from $20-$22pp. www. rochesteroperahouse.com or 3351992

Lakes Region Art Association’s Drop-in Painting and Drawing Group

Lakes Region Art Association Art Gallery, Tanger Outlets, suite 132, Tilton. 10am-noon. Group is open to the public for those 18 years and older. There are no fees, no instruction, no structure; just bring your own supplies, set up, paint or draw and enjoy the camaraderie of hanging out with fellow artists. 528-0013

Connie Dover Performing with Skip Gorman

Great Waters Music Festival’s Great Hall, upstairs at the Wolfeboro Town Hall, Wolfeboro. 7:30pm. $25pp/ general admission. www.greatwaters. org or 569-7710

Professor Harp Blues feat. TJ Wheeler

Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $15pp. BYOB. 527-0043

Fri. 18th – Sun. 20th 44th Annual NH Camping & RV Show

Sportsplex, Bedford. Special show deals on new 2016 models of RVs, trailers, pop-ups and accessories. Over 50 campground owners from 5 states are available to take reservations, activities for kids and more! $12/

adults, children under 12 are free if accompanied by a paid adult. www. nhlovescampers.com See ad on page 12 for entry into a drawing!

Great Northeast Boat Show

Hampshire Dome, 50 Emerson Road, Milford. Fri. Noon-8pm, Sat. 10am8pm and Sun. 10am-4pm. Over 25 dealers, over 75 brands and over 150 boats! See ad on page 28 and clip coupon to save $2 off admission fee.

Saturday 19th Meeting of the Lakes Region Chapter of the National Federation of the Blind

Good Shepard Lutheran Church, Parade Road, Laconia. 10:30am. Anyone who is blind, visually impaired or interested in learning more about the blind is invited to attend. Meetings are held the third Saturday of each month. 937-0296

Maple Sugar Madness

Prescott Farm, White Oaks Road, Laconia. 10am, 12pm and 2pm. Experience an old-fashioned New England tradition- making maple syrup! From tapping a tree to tasting delicious maple syrup, you will have hands-on participation in every step of the syrup making process. $10pp, $8/members, children 3 and under are free. 366-5695

Visit with The Easter Bunny

Kellerhaus, Route 3, Weirs Beach. 1-3pm. Bring your child to Kellerhaus for cookies, punch and carrots with the Easter Bunny! Cameras are welcome. Lots of samples to taste and free glitter tattoos from the Bunny’s helpers. 3664466

Bob Marley

Flying Monkey, Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh.com or 5362551

Getting Ready and Starting Your Garden - Workshop

Moulton Farm, Quarry Road, Meredith. 10am-noon. This free workshop reviews basic growing concepts, soil health and nutrient recommendations. www.moultonfarm.com or 279-3915

“The Game’s Afoot”

Scenic Theatre, Pittsfield. 7pm. See Ken Ludwig’s award-winning mystery farce. 435-8385

Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra – “Dvorak!”

Inter-Lakes High School, Route 25, Meredith. $15/adults, $8/students. www.lrso.org

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Laconia High School, Union Ave, Laconia. 9am-5pm. Vendors, traders, drumming, storytelling, flute playing, food and more! Admission by donation at the door.

Maple Sugaring Day

Remick Museum, 58 Cleveland Hill Road, Tamworth. 10am-2pm. Multiple activities going on throughout the day including, sampling syrup, greeting fuzzy farm animals and newborn lambs, see historical sugaring methods/demos and more! Please note *the main museum will not be open for this event. Admission is free! 323-7591

Irish Feast

Lions Hall, Old Rt. 109S, Moultonborough. 5:30pm. Corned beef

and cabbage dinner with homemade Irish soda bread and carrot cake for dessert. BYOB. Irish storyteller, Kevin Farley will lead in singing. Dancing is encouraged! $15pp. 253-8509 for reservations.

Maui Oasis Day Spa Guest Appreciation Day!

The Talon Hair and Nail Salon, 43 Gilford East Drive, Gilford. 2-4pm. Meet the team of Pros, experience a treatment and learn about the services offered! Grab a goodie bag and take a chance on a drawing!

Easter Egg Hunt

Weirs Community Park, Laconia, next to the Weirs Fire Station. 10am. Free event for kids ages 2-11. There will be face painting, crafts and more! Event is held rain or shine, so dress appropriately! 524-5046

Annual Pond Skim at Pats Peak

Pats Peak Ski Area, Henniker. Registration is from 8:30am-11:30am, with the event starting at 1pm. Participants ski or snowboard across a man-made pond or take the icy plunge on their skis or snowboard. Entry fee is free with the purchase of at least a Bluster Area Lift Ticket and a costume is required to enter the contest. Prizes will be awarded for Best Costume, Best Splash and Best Skim. 428-3245

Silent Film Showing – ‘Grandma’s Boy’

Blazing Star Grange Hall, 15 North Road, Danbury. 7pm. The screening will feature live musical accompaniment by Jeff Rapsis. $5/ donation per person suggested at the door. www.blazingstargrange.org

Paul Nardizzi and Will Noonan – Live Comedy

Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $15pp. BYOB. 527-0043

Sat. 19th & Sun. 20th Kearsarge Maple Festival

Maple lovers are invited to the town of Warner for a fun filled weekend. Start each day off with a pancake and egg breakfast at the United Church of Warner from 7:30am-11am. On Saturday from 10-4, the NH Telephone Museum will offer sugar on snow, as well as free admission to the museum. On Sunday from 10-4, visitors will learn how Native Americans made maple sugar at the Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum. They will also hear an Abenaki sugar story and see antique tools used in the harvest. Nine sugar houses in Warner and Webster will offer free tours & samples of fresh maple syrup both days from 10-4. www.kearsargechamber.org

Sunday 20th “The Game’s Afoot”

Scenic Theatre, Pittsfield. 2pm. See Ken Ludwig’s award-winning mystery farce. 435-8385

Alton Masons Hold Public Breakfast Buffet

Winnipesaukee Lodge, Route 28, Alton. 7:30am-11am. Full breakfast buffet for only $10 donation. www. winnipesaukeemasons.com or 6723372

Easter Party At Kellerhaus Hop into our Haus! With over 1000 premium chocolate bunnies and 101 deliciously different candies being made onsite daily, can you think of a better place than Kellerhaus to plan your child’s visit with the Easter Bunny? You are invited to join us at Kellerhaus for Cookies, Punch and Carrots with the Easter Bunny on Saturday, March 19th from 1-3 PM! Cameras are welcome to capture the moment. Bring your family and indulge in some wonderful samples. Enter our Free Raffle for a chance to win a great prize! Get a free glitter tattoo from Bunny’s helpers! Stonewall Kitchen will be sharing samples and recipes too. Kellerhaus is celebrating 110 years of sweet confections this year and 50 years in The Weirs Kellerhaus sits high above Lake Winnipesaukee on Route 3 between Meredith and Weirs Beach (259 Endicott Street North). We’re open Wednesday - Monday from 10am to 6pm. Visit their Alpine styled shop or visit them on Facebook or on the web at www.kellerhaus.com. 888-KLR-HAUS; 603366-4466.

“Music For A Purpose” Fundraiser At Flying Monkey On Saturday, April 2 come to the Flying Monkey in Plymouth and participate in New Hampshire’s own, “A Day In This Life”. A locally produced reality show that follows a professional recording studio, The Recording Co-op, with a focus on using “Music for a Purpose”. This is your chance to not only experience talented musicians of different styles, ages, and origins, but to support “Music for a Purpose’s” fundraising efforts while being a part of the filming of “A Day In This Life”. The show starts at 6pm. Enjoy a wonderful dining experience with pianist Jamie Conway who’s unique style can best be described as resembling an alien life form. Conway will be followed by the Recording Co-op members, Audrey Drake, Allan Benoit, Harley Huke and Tess Erskine. Making this whole event even sweeter is grammy nominated Co-op member Ryan Hommel. Hommel is a nationally touring musician with talents lying in many different instruments, vocals, and songwriting. Rounding out this evening are two minds behind “Music for a Purpose” Ryan Ordway and Franz Haase. They will be performing throughout the night offering their own material and assisting with others. With music in many popular television shows such as The Office, Happy Endings, Raising Hope, Eureka, and more, Ryan Ordway knows what people want in music and is sure to have some special things in store for this live event. Franz Haase has had many successful businesses under his belt and now, with Ryan Ordway, runs The Recording Co-Op, Wolfeboro Institute of the Arts 501(c)(3), and this new reality show, “A Day In This Life”. Franz’s music style is ambitious, comfortable, and something everyone will enjoy. Backing all the performances will be the Recording Coop’s house band, featuring Jeff Armstrong, Mike Rossi, Ryan Hommel and guest Singer/Songwriter Eric Erskine. Be sure to dust off your finest top hat and Sunday suit and be ready to be in a Reality show. Tickets for “Music For A Purpose” are $15-$25 and can be purchased online at www,flyingmonkeynh.com or at the The Flying Monkey at 38 Main Street, Plymouth at the night of the show.

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You would think with an Irish name like Brendan I’d be pretty excited about St. Patrick’s Day. At the risk of losing a few of my friends who are fanatical about such things, I am here to admit that March 17th is pretty far down on my favorites as far as days to celebrate. I always thought that the whole St. Patrick’s day thing was kind of unfair and I have silently protested for years. I’m sure you didn’t know that there was another Irish saint named Brendan. Of course you didn’t, he never got any credit or press. He was a great Irish explorer who, some think, may have discovered America long before Columbus. A pretty big deal and, if accurate, should make Saint Brendan pretty famous. But no one has really researched to see if this might be true. Instead, everyone just rallied around and instantly accepted the legend of Saint Patrick and how he drove a bunch of snakes out of Ireland. A pretty far-fetched story as far as I am concerned. Sour grapes? Maybe. Legend also has it that the reason that drinking became synonymous with Saint Patrick’s Day is because in the early days of the holiday there were many Irish people who felt guilty about having a special day for Saint Patrick and not for Saint

Brendan, so they had to drown their guilt. Of course I can’t prove this, just like I can’t prove that Saint Brendan discovered America but, hey, I don’t see anyone looking for proof about the whole snake thing. Growing up, it was hard to face March 17th and the obvious injustice to my Saint namesake. I probably could have made a bigger deal of it but I kept quiet. Saint Patrick’s Day was a pretty big deal to my grandmother whose parents were born in Ireland. My older brother is named Patrick as well, so it was best to keep my feelings to myself. Instead I went along with all of the traditions that came with this holiday. (The fact that people still had to go to work and school on Saint Patrick’s Day gave me some solace. If we were celebrating someone who had discovered America you can bet it would have been a day off for all.) I wore the green ties and hats and buttons and had my picture taken with a token smile. I watched the parades on TV and ate the stringy corned beef and smelly cabbage. Pretty much everyone enjoyed themselves but me. Deep in my heart I knew there was an injustice that needed to be corrected. As I grew older and left home I protested against the tradition even though I had Irish blood. I wore any color but green on Saint Patrick’s Day. I consciously avoided forced expressions such as “Top O’ The morning to you� and I kept a clear distance from anything that resembled corned beef and cabbage. I often ordered out Chinese Food just to make a statement. My close friends tell me that I should just let it go, accept things the way

they are and just join in with the celebration since there isn’t much I can do about it anyway, but I disagree. Over the last several years the legacy of Christopher Columbus has come under fire and a lot of folks are trying to get the Columbus Day holiday taken off the calendar. This is the perfect opportunity for Saint Brendan to step in and take over. To kick both Christopher Columbus and Saint Patrick to the curb and claim what is rightfully his. I am making it my mission to have Columbus Day now turned to Saint Brendan’s Day. Of course this will automatically eliminate Saint Patrick’s Day since the political correctness police will never allow two Irish holidays. (And I won’t accept a combination of the two like we did with Washington and Lincoln and call it “Irish Day�.) I realize at first that a lot of people will be angry and my mission will be difficult and I expect a lot of pushback, but once they understand that things won’t really change they will eventually get on board. There will still be green to wear, stringy corned beef cabbage and smelly cabbage to eat and corny Irish slogans to recite after three too many beers and, best of all, it will all be part of a three day holiday weekend. Eventually I know I will win. If you are a Brendan, like me, who has been slogging through each Saint Patrick’s Day with that chip on your shoulder, I am asking for your support. It is time our namesake was finally recognized for what he might have done and be able to wake up one day each year, smile and shout: “Happy Saint Brendan’s Day�

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To the Editor: Leftists like to attack policies or positions that they falsely claim their political opponents have. One frequently repeated example is “deporting 11 million people�. Note, they don’t identify these “people� for what they really are, criminals. Would we try to round up 11 million murderers? Yes! If they stopped paying, would we capture the 11 million top income tax payers? Immediately! Would we pursue 11 million bank robbers, rapists, or embezzlers? Yes! Even if they didn’t know it was happening, most people would want someone embezzling from them to be stopped. Illegal aliens are embezzling, taking benefits to which they aren’t legally entitled, from American citizens. They also commit tens of thousands of rapes, murders, drug and other crimes, and accidents causing property damage, injuries and deaths. They also hurt American workers by increasing competition for jobs and depressing wages. We would be just to, and we could, deport 11 million illegal aliens. With a small effort compared to today’s capabilities, over 1 million illegal aliens were apprehended in the first year of “Operation Wetback� (1954). According to FactCheck.org (http:// goo.gl/g7gLkZ) 3.4 and 2.1 million illegal aliens (significant percentages)

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were deported or voluntarily left under threat of deportation during Truman’s and Eisenhower’s Presidencies. But no leading Republican Presidential candidate intends to round up and deport 11 million illegal aliens. Their priority is on stopping further illegal immigration, ending the incentives (jobs, welfare, free medical care, citizenship, etc.) for people to come and stay here illegally, to ensure that immigration prioritizes Americans over the special interests, and the deportation of illegal aliens convicted of crimes. Without the incentives of jobs and/ or welfare, most illegal aliens may leave voluntarily. People who have traveled outside the USA know we have a special country. Our Constitution, rule of law, and free enterprise system created an environment in which the American people live free and could, did, and do prosper. Our immigration laws are supposed to protect our system so that future generations of Americans can also live free and prosper. Some Americans, including Democrats and Republicans, for their personal benefit put the interests of special interests ahead of the vast majority of the American people and fight enforcing our immigration laws. Fortunately, the leading Republican Presidential candidates are commit-

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.

ted to enforcing our immigration laws and ensuring that immigration benefits the American people, not the special interests, and protects our Constitution, rule of law, and free enterprise system that have allowed the American people to live free and prosper. Don Ewing Meredith, NH

House Bill 1696 To The Editor: NH House bill 1696, currently being discussed will increase the control of the federal government in our New Hampshire health care. Obama Care was passed without a single Republican vote six years ago and is a disaster. Why would anyone want to expand the role of the federal government in our health care in New Hampshire. Six years ago House speaker Nancy Pelosi told us congress must pass this bill to know what is in it. Since that time we have seen what was in it and the result has been a very large increase in costs and accompanied by a maddening increase of bureaucracy for our health. Because the bill included a clause to exempt members of congress and all of their staff, Democrats that voted for Obamacare must have understood that this bill would be bad for them and their families. So they voted in lock step as their leaders instructSee mail boat on 21

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What were New Hampshire residents thinking about 120 years ago? Like this year of 2016 the year 1896 was an election year. An editorial page observation of The Belknap Republican newspaper of that previous year awakened the curiosity part of my brain into a pursuit of answering that question. The media of 1896, being either a revealer or instigator of what was important to people, provided me with some of my answers. The editor of the above named weekly Lakeport newspaper , L.M. Gould, wrote about an unnamed “gentleman” who had a plan to deal with what he perceived to be a donothing Congress, a plan that involved running the country’s government like a business. His plan began with doing away with the two houses of Congress, that of the Representatives and the Senate which were seen as “… passing whole winters in a complete deadlock sometimes, spending the people’s money without doing a stroke of real legislation.” This was published in January of 1896, and I don’t know what the 54th Congress did that winter, but my research found that they did pass some legislation in the Spring of 1896, including the Oil Pipe Line Act which granted “ right of way over the public domain for pipe lines in the states of Colorado and Wyoming” – pipe lines for the transport of oil. Congress also passed the Married Women’s Rights Act which

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Teddy Roosevelt was once called a “madman” by some in his own political party. provided women in the District of Columbia the right to own property and conduct business independently of their husbands. Then there was The Cheese Act which defined cheese as a milk or cream product without other oil and fat additives and charged manufacturers of “filled cheese” $400 a year and the wholesale dealers of such $250 a year. The man who wanted to get rid of Congress would replace it with a board of 25 men elected by the voters. “ Every citizen should have 25 votes, casting them for whom he pleased…The board of 25 would legislate, not for any one section or state, but for the whole Union, all the people.” Immigration was a topic of interest in New Hampshire papers of 1896. A resolution was introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives by a Connecticut member proposing an inquiry into the matter of immigration as to whether it was time to stop immigration entirely. The Lakeport newspaper editorial page stated “The time has certainly come when we should investigate much

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Hillary’s Federal Education Jackboot Squad Brace yourselves, parents: Hillary Clinton’s Fed Ed jackboot squad is from the government and is here to “help.” Clinton by Michelle Malkin wants a cadre Syndicated Columnist of new government educrats to undo the decades-old damage of old government educrats in America’s worst public schools. She pitched her creepy proposal at the Democratic presidential debate in Michigan on Sunday for an “education SWAT team” to swarm down and rescue students from failing districts in decrepit cities such as Detroit (run by whom? Oh, yeah. Democrats!). “I want to set-up inside the Department of Education, for want of a better term, kind of an education SWAT team, if you will,” Clinton explained in a bizarre, semi-blaccent, “where we’ve got qualified people, teachers, principals, maybe folks who are retired, maybe folks who are active, but all of whom are willing to come and help.” Clinton’s SWAT team solution, you should know, is like all her other authoritarian plans: a moldy, recycled oldie. In fact, the U.S. Department of Education already has a real military-like enforcement division housed in its Office of the Inspector General -- and armed with its own arsenal of Remington pump-action shotguns and Glock pistols. As usual, Big Sis’s brilliant idea to fix the schools boils down to throwing yet more money down the sinkhole. According to the latest data, America spent more than $600 billion to fund K-12 education in 2011, mostly from state and local

taxes. Last year, the feds allocated an estimated $154 billion on education, with a large chunk going to Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I Grants to Local Education Agencies, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act State Grants, and the Pell Grant program for college students. Washington already spends more per student (nearly $13,000 per pupil) in both primary and secondary education than any other of the 34 wealthiest countries in the world except for Austria, Luxembourg, Norway and Switzerland, according to analysis of data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Under the Bush administration, the No Child Left Behind behemoth authorized $23 billion a year on intrusive and ineffective federal testing and accountability mandates. Under the Obama administration, the feds threw $4 billion into the “Race to the Top” racket, $10 billion into an Education Jobs Fund for teachers unions, and $100 billion in pork-stuffed stimulus funding for school programs and initiatives administered by the U.S. Department of Education. Detroit Public Schools, plagued by massive deficits, financial mismanagement and graft, collected a whopping $530 million of that stimulus slush fund -- nearly $50 million of which went to a technology boondoggle that provided 40,000 Asus laptops to students and teachers despite little evidence nationwide that such programs do anything to raise student achievement. States are spending upwards of $10 billion to implement the bipartisan Common Core racket of testing, textbooks and technology. That’s on top of the pre-existing $700 million spent by schools nationwide on other standardized

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An Informed Populace “Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to by Jane Cormier attract their notice, Hooksett, NH. they may be relied on to set them to rights.” Thomas Jefferson I came across this quote recently and it has stayed with me all week long. I hold a special fondness for those who founded this country. It took such mighty resolve, blood and treasure, and above all FAITH. The rebel “America” took on the greatest power in the world to beget a new country founded on Natural Law. This new and terrifically brave “experiment” is still being tested and debated today. And, for me, this debate has been sometimes very enlightening and sometimes, very frightening. Our age of technology is something our forefathers probably never envisioned. Our world accesses information 24 hours a day – seven days a week. We are

so smart and “informed”, we have become a god unto ourselves. We have taken our founding document and morphed it into a “living document” all under the doctrine of RELATIVISM. When you look at the above quote, in this light, for all our technology and invention, are we, as a populace, truly “informed”? Those of us who are even remotely paying attention, know that government can never solve the problems we face. For all our “information” and knowledge, we are more divided now as a country and world than ever before. Our government now controls our healthcare, education, and economy. There are so many laws and regulations on the books, virtually every part of our life is impacted by them. And, none of this takes into account the grotesque government bureaucracies which are not held accountable to the people, but only to the Federal Government which employs them. The list includes the EPA, IRS, HHS, HUD, BLM and on and on it goes. So looking at the behemoth that government brings to us, what See cormier on 23

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Slapped Constructive criticism is a good thing. At least that’s what I tell myself when I receive it. And by Ken Gorrell I received Northfield, NH. some from readers – including a state legislator – about my previous essay, “The Cost of a Snark.” I was told it was long on problem, short on solution, which highlights both the limits of a 750-word essay and the nature of the challenge I addressed: Despite laws and court orders, nobody in this state or any other can answer the question, “What is an adequate public education and how much should it cost to provide it?” We can buy almost any prod-

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uct or service imaginable from the comfort of our La-Z-Boy. Somebody else has figured out how much it costs to produce, how to bring it to market, and how much to charge. The same can’t be said for the services of the public education system we support each year with hundreds of billions of our tax dollars. We certainly know how much we are charged – $12-13,000 per student annually on average, or about $115,000 per student through high school (accounting for the drop-outs). We know where all that money goes, line item by line item, based on our school’s budget committee report. And we know the results of all that spending: Average or below performance in math, reading, and science compared to our economic competitors. What we don’t know is whether what we pay for meets a baseline

Libya Sinks Deeper Into Chaos

UNITED NATIONS—Five years after the Arab Spring revolutions which swept the Middle East, the expansive North by John J. Metzler African counSyndicated Columnist try of Libya has descended into a dangerous downward spiral in which competing governments, militias, and terrorist elements are all part of a chaotic witches’ brew on the doorstep of Europe. Ominously, according to diplomatic and military officials, the Islamic State (ISIL) terrorists have become entrenched in this strategic but fragmented state which borders six other countries. Martin Kobler, the UN’s point man on Libya told the Security Council that five years after the collapse of the former Gadaffi regime, the current political and military vacuum in Libya “is allowing terrorist groups and criminal networks to establish deep roots,” as the country has “no effective

state institutions.” Though Gadaffi was opposed by local uprisings, primarily in Benghazi which then led to the concerted political effort by both France and the United States and a subsequent allied air war which while toppling the dictator, opened the door to unmitigated chaos which endures to this day. Mr. Kobler said that Islamic State or Daesh, as it’s known in the Arab world, is expanding its grip. He added “while Libya’s resources are dwindling, the criminal networks, including human smuggling , are booming.” ISIL militants are carrying out beheadings and other antiquities according to the UN to solidify their reign of intimidation. He implored, “Daesh in Libya constitutes an urgent and growing threat to Libya, the region and beyond.” Don’t assume for a moment that this teetering regime is yet another isolated and forgotten candidate for “failed state” status: Libya is strategically perched along the Mediterranean coast facing Malta and Italy, bordering Egypt and Tunisia, and opening a conduit to See Metzler on 23

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definition of “adequate” or how much it would cost to provide if we were to conduct a zerobaseline review. If we continue to accept business as usual, we never will know. The great thing about seemingly intractable problems is that they often have simple

solutions. Not simple to implement, but simple to state. In this case: Let the market decide. If we were to let Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” do the heavy lifting, we would know the definition of “adequate” (and would discover that there are as many See gorrell on 22

Random Thoughts R a n d o m thoughts on the passing scene: The presidential election prospects for the Democrats are so bad this year that only the Republiby Thomas Sowell cans can save Syndicated Columnist them -- as Republicans have saved them before. Will a Supreme Court without a single Protestant justice rule that an “under-representation” of any group is evidence of discrimination? Here is a trick question: What percentage of American households have incomes in the top 10 percent? Answer: 51 percent of American households are in the top 10 percent in income at some point in the course of a lifetime -- usually in their older years. Those who want us to envy and resent the top 10 percent are urging half of us to envy and resent ourselves. His Super Bowl win gave retiring quarterback Peyton Manning his record 200th victory. But it may also have benefitted losing young quarterback Cam Newton, by giving him a very sobering experience after his exhilarating 17 and 1 season. Over the course of his career, Cam Newton may become an even greater quarterback than he would have been without this setback early in his career. According to the Washington Post, record numbers of college students say that they plan to engage in protests. Our educational system may not teach students much math or science, but students learn from gutless

academic administrators that mob rule is the way to get what you want -- and to silence those who disagree with you. Many Americans were not only saddened but angry that Iran publicized photographs of captured American sailors weeping. But do you think that Reverend Jeremiah Wright was saddened and angry? What about his 20year disciple in the White House? Let us not forget that President Obama voluntarily humbled himself -- and America -- by bowing to foreign leaders. People who are willing to consider virtually any conceivable excuse for criminals’ acts cut no slack at all for decisions that police have to make in a split second, at the risk of their lives. For some people, it is not enough that cops put themselves at risk to protect the rest of us. They want cops to risk their lives for the sake of handling criminals more gently. What are the chances that the world’s greatest violinist would make a good quarterback? Or that the world’s greatest quarterback would make a good violinist? Why then would anyone think that a successful businessman would make a good president -- especially when he is demonstrating almost daily why he would not? Many people, including Senator Bernie Sanders, repeat incessantly that the economic system is “rigged” by the rich -- without providing either specifics or evidence. The latest figures I have seen show that the 400 richest people in the world have recently lost $19 billion on net balance. If they have rigged the system, they have certainly done a very See Sowell on 22

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Sometimes, the road less traveled leads you to a place you’ve never been but, for sure, you will want to return. Unexpected pleasantries come from a journey such as this... Often, it comes from getting lost while on your way to a different destination and you find yourself enamored by what you have stumbled upon. Such is this feeling as we explore Saison du Cheval Noir. Just two years old this month, Belgian Mare Brewery in Alstead, NH has carved a rugged niche into the craft brew scene. Living on a historical farm in Cheshire county of southwest NH, Tim Roettiger uses a wood fired oven to cook his brews “the old fashion way.� He has been perfecting his recipes for almost a decade in preparation for launching his brewery. The brewery is a 3 barrel system. Selfdistributing in only 22 oz bottles, you will find both year-round and seasonal offerings from this expert brewer. The other beers from Belgian Mare are Pale Ale, Red Bitter, Hemlock Stout, Britton Mine Black Ale, New England Cream Lager, Harvest Lager, Alsteadder Ale and Mill Hollow Saison. There are also some seasonals (not listed) which are usually one-offs. You can learn more about Belgian Mare at http://belgianmare.blogspot.com Saison du Cheval Noir is a complex and inviting beer with a name which needs to be explained. First, Cheval Noir is a black horse as well as a legend from Quebec.

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the caramel and slight chocolate notes. This 5.6% ABV could be my favorite tastes from Belgian Mare. As with any seasonal, you need to search out this great beer. Beer Advocate has not yet rated this brew but a few have agreed with my conclusions. Tim self-distributes all of his wonderful creations throughout the state and can be purchased at Case-n-Keg in Meredith and Laconia. Look for Saison du Cheval Noir and grab it quickly... there will be no disappointment! 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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rests on the poured concrete foundation, and it’s supposed to be connected to the wood frame walls using heavy-duty galvanized corrugated pieces of metal that are securely fastened to the wood wall studs. This is done so the brick doesn’t tip and fall to the ground. The pieces of stone or rock will not weaken the brick. In fact, depending on the type you choose, the rocks may be stronger than the brick. A good example is granite, which may have far greater compressive and tensile strength. Incorporating stone will not cause leaks. Water seeps through the mor-

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of your home, I may have to concede a point to your husband. Not all potential buyers would like the look you’re going for. A seasoned realtor or appraiser would no doubt tell you the same. But there’s a way around this and it’s very easy to do. All you need to do is order a few hundred extra of the bricks that are being used to build your home. These would be easy to store in your garage or in your yard. You’ll also want to save about twenty or more five-gallon buckets of the exact sand the bricklayers use to build your home. Having the brick and sand on hand will allow you to tell a future buyer they can remove the pieces of stone and install the matching brick in their place if they desire. To ensure the patches look perfect, you need to use the exact same sand as was used when the brick was first installed. Be sure to save at least one empty mortar bag so a future mason knows what to buy. I always coach people to save things like this down by the electrical circuit panel. Put the bag in a resealable plastic bag and mark on the outside of the bag what it is -- and also put in big letters: DO NOT

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wife was originally from the area. (LeDue had attended Cornell University where he earned a degree in Agricultural and Environmental Systems Technology.) Meeting up with Henry Huntington seemed like the perfect match as Henry’s idea along with LaDue’s knowledge meshed well. The idea on how to produce year round matured into a real business. “It is really the technology that made this a reality,� said Huntington, “It was developed in Finland and it fully automates the process.� In the summer of 2015, Huntington found property along Rte 106 in Loudon and felt it had good prospects for the concept they were envisioning. “We did a lot of homework and slowly built a business model with a serious amount of careful preparation,� said LaDue. “As it developed and took shape we decided we should be partners on this.� Right now there are four greenhouses built on the Rte 106 site, but the po-

tential is there to go to twelve times that size if the demand for the product is there. The system for growing product from seed to harvest will take anywhere from ten to twenty days depending on the plant and once harvested should be in the stores in twenty-four hours or less. “We are growing a variety of leafy greens so we can present a smorgasbord of variety to the consumer,� said LaDue who goes on to explain how Lēf Farms works. “We are controlling the environment in the greenhouse. We manage the light. The greenhouse is a giant solar collector and we are trying to catch as much sunlight through the course of the year as we can. There are also times when we have to limit the sunlight as it also generates heat and can get very hot. In the summertime there is a shade system that is internal and automatic to help eliminate some of the heat load. We will also be using supplemental lighting to See Lēf on 19

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offset, particularly in the winter time when there isn’t enough natural light to keep the plants growing at the high quality. About eighty percent of yearly total light needs come from the sun and about twenty percent supplemental. “It gives us a steady high quality production of plants. A new crop will be sown every single day of the year and that product moves into the greenhouse and as it grows we have to give the plants space as they need to intercept light. The system will expand as the crops expand and everything moves on a giant conveyor through the greenhouse so when they hit the end they will be market sized and moved into an area where they can be quickly cooled and cut, packaged and then shipped.� LaDue went on to explain that the usual growing season outdoors is normally about twentyeight days but is shorter inside since the plants spend less energy building up leaf tissue to protect it from the elements and more energy on growing. Lēf Farms will also use a hydroponic method of

Henry Huntington of Pleasant View Gardens in Loudon will also serve in that capacity at LÄ“f Gardens. production which relies on recycling water balanced with nutrients rather than dirt to provide essential minerals for growth. They will also use non-GMO seeds, which come from California and

are never touched by human hands. “When you add it all up, the benefits of our greens are tremendous,� says Huntington. “Fresher lettuce that’s grown without chemical pesticides, contains little to no PH2O (packaged water), and hasn’t experienced a weeklong road trip means our customers will get a much greater value for much tastier, safer lettuce.� Huntington and LeDue are planning on Lēf starting production by first of June and having their first product two to three weeks after and then guaranteeing fresh leafy greens to your local grocer year round.

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to meet market demand. The market works wonders, providing us with choices for everything from the proverbial widget to the most arcane item you didn’t know existed, but now that you know, you want. No single entity controls the market; there is no Great Oz behind a curtain. Powered by human ingenuity, the market is

as close to a perpetual motion machine as physics will allow, constantly working to meet our needs and wants. Why do we exempt public education from the magic of the market? The short answer: Inertia, sacred cows, and human nature. Built up over 100 years, our public education system is complex, cumber-

some, and overburdened with regulation. It resists change even when shown to be failing large numbers of children. Yet for many, public education is a sacred cow. I’ve seen it referred to as “foundational” to American democracy despite the fact that our Republic was conceived, built, and thrived long before compulsory public education gained momentum in the 1920s. Human nature being what it is, some people will accept a dysfunctional status quo if they benefit from it, and many benefit from our heavily unionized and bureaucratized system. The public education system has no Edison, no Da Vinci, no Franklin, no Jobs. Without innovators, there can be no innovation. Innovators need two things: The opportunity to experiment and the potential to profit from success. Neither of these exists in today’s public system. We need to use Adam Smith’s invisible hand to slap us out of our stupor. The shock would hurt some, but help most, and children most of all. The way to bring the magic of the market to public education is the let the money follow the child. When the money followings the child, parents will be empowered to make their own informed choices for education as they do as consumers of food, clothing, shelter, transportation, and technology. Innovators will focus on meeting the demands for education services by creating different products and delivery models. Government can define the boundaries and regulate the education market as it does for most products we buy, but the market itself would be consumerdriven. This single innovation would redefine “public education” in America, putting the focus where it should be: The parents and the children. Ken can be reached at kengorrell@gmail.com

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incompetent job of it. If you listen carefully to what Senator Marco Rubio says, he is not for instant amnesty. He is for amnesty on the installment plan, though of course he would not call it that. Does anyone who knows anything about politics seriously believe that “legalization” of illegal immigrants will end that issue, without turning into citizenship over time? At last we have reached the point where we can say, “Next year this time, Obama will not be president.” But the disasters he leaves behind will plague us for years to come. And some of those disasters may strike even before he is gone. Some countries in Europe have sealed their borders against refugees from the Middle East, as the Soviet Union once sealed its borders against people getting in or getting out. But somehow it is said by some to be impossible to seal our border with Mexico. When the Whigs could not get their act together on the crucial issue of their day -- slavery -that led some Whigs to leave the party and form the Republican party, with Lincoln as its candidate for president. Today’s Republican party has repeatedly failed to get its act together on immigration. That has produced the current divisiveness that may threaten them with the fate of the Whigs. Historians of the future, when they look back on our times, may be completely baffled when trying to understand how Western civilization welcomed vast numbers of people hostile to the fundamental values of Western civilization, people who had been taught that they have a right to kill those who do not share their beliefs. To find out more about Thomas Sowell visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators. com.

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the impoverished Islamic Sahal countries to the such as Chad. Libya serves as a major conduit for illegal migrants flows from Africa into southern Europe. Despite being ruled by the erratic dictator Colonel Mummer Gadaffi for forty years, Libya was a relatively prosperous state largely supported by a slush of petrodollars. As early as the 1970’s Colonel Gadaffi was a patron saint of international terror, predating even the Ayatollahs in Islamic Iran, and served as a terrorist paymaster from Northern Ireland to the south Philippines. Libyan agents masterminded the bombing of Pan Am flight #103 over Scotland killing 243 passengers and 16 crew. But after the United States/British coalition toppled Saddam in Iraq, Gadaffi was basically “back in his box� as a contemporary threat. Thus when France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy and the Obama Administration, with the active encouragement of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, decided to support the uprising against Gadaffi, the dynamic soon changed from a tribal/ethnic rebellion against a long ruling tyrant, to an international military mission which was authorized by the UN Security Council after some serious arm twisting by the Clinton State Department. Significantly, the operation soon morphed from purportedly protecting helpless civilians in Benghazi, to a wide angle policy of regime change which toppled the dictator later in the year. A New York Times investigative article on the “New Libya� basically outlined Hillary’s decisive role in the Libya operation. Hillary would make a victory lap in Tripoli, a kind of “Mission Accomplished Moment� before turning her attention and ire elsewhere. According to the New York Times, in a timeline of events by the Secretary of State’s top policy aide Jake Sullivan, cites Clinton’s “leadership/ ownership/stewardship of this country’s Libya policy from start to finish,� as he wrote.

A year later on September 11, 2012, Islamic jihadi terrorists attacked the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, killing the American Ambassador Chris Stevens, as well as three security staff in a premeditated terrorist attack still not fully explained to this day. In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, U.S. Army General David Rodriguez, called Libya a “failed state� and warned that foreign fighters, weapons and illegal migrants are flowing through the embattled country. The spillover of ISIL terrorism from Libya into neighboring states is a particular danger to Tunisia’s fragile democracy. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon stated starkly, “Libya’s future is at stake. The reverberations echo far. Right now we face the terrifying source of Daesh expanding in Libya and beyond its borders.’’ He added hopefully, “Success in stabilizing Libya will benefit the Sahel and our world.� Failure here could open a new migrant wave on to Europe’s shores.

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is a state to do? How can communities and citizens stand against such overreach? How can we, as “an informed populace�, fight back against the raging governmental beast? ELECTIONS. LOCAL ELECTIONS. We may all feel overwhelmed, defeated, or depressed. But, we are in an election year. Do you know how YOUR elected official voted while in office? Did they vote according to what they campaigned on? Do you even know WHO your elected officials are? Well, in coming months, this column will help you uncover some of these questions. We will look at our state representatives on some very crucial votes and we will let you know how they voted. It may interest you enough to stand up and be heard. Perhaps it will help you to get into the game. I actually do agree with President Jefferson. We can do nothing if we are not truly informed. So, informed you shall be. Let’s hope it can make a difference.

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make over the immigrants and their families that we have already with us. Let us keep future hordes out. Let us give the natives a chance.” In the year 1892 New Hampshire Senator Chandler had proposed a ban on immigration for a year with the purpose of keeping out undesirable people. A record amount of money was spent on the Presidential election of 1896 which was won by Ohio governor William McKinley. His campaign was managed by businessman Mark Hanna who was very successful in raising money and obtaining votes. So successful were the Republican’s efforts that the Democrat leaders determined that they would use their opponent’s methods to defeat them in the next election. McKinley would win again in 1900 with Hanna as his campaign chairman. Hanna, however, was not fond of the man who became the vice-president, one Theodore Roosevelt. Hanna called Roosevelt a “madman”, but McKinley was assassinated and the “madman” became the President.

Another issue that New Hampshire citizens may have been thinking about in 1896 was the decision of the attorney general of the State of Minnesota that “…the reciting of the Lord’s Prayer in the public schools is a violation of the constitution.” New Hampshire’s members in Congress in 1896 (before the election) were Cyrus A. Sulloway and Henry M. Baker in the House of Representatives and William E. Chandler and Jacob H. Gallinger in the Senate. The Senate President in 1896 was Adlai Stevenson I of Illinois and the Speaker of the House was Thomas Reed of Maine, who proved to be a strong and persuasive leader. So there you have it. Congress being criticized for doing little, concern about immigration policy, the issue of big money in political campaigns, separation of church and state, women’s rights, pipe lines, food additives, and a future United States President being described as a madman by an establishment leader in the same political party. So what else is new since 1896?

fish with the same baits. Too many choices. Well, the “Hot” flasher this year was the E-Chip “Goldfinger”. One side gold and the other, ½ & ½ bright green & bright gold. Now that you have the flasher, what to put behind it? We ran the original “Hammer” fly & did quite well. For some reason or another, we had our best luck during the first hour of each day. After that, it was a long time between fish. We were joking about going out for an hour and then heading for camp to take a nap. I had stated earlier that we had invested in one of the new “Fish Hawk” speed & temperature units and that was a valuable asset this year out there. What wind we did have certainly blew the water around & changed the fishing tremendously. The first few days we were there we had to go way out to water that was 300 feet d e e p t o g et a ny good temperature. All the water in closer was too

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Dave with 1st King Salmon of our 2013 trip and a personal best at 28 lbs. warm. The only problem with that was that I only had 180 feet of cable on my downriggers & really couldn’t get down into the cold waters. A couple of times we were out so far that we could see the bottom of the cable spool. However, that did change over the next few days and we were able to fish the shallower waters. As a rule, we travel on Saturdays, going out & coming home, but try to get in a couple of hours on the Friday morning prior to departure. After that short jaunt, we pull the boats out & pack them up for traveling home the next day. This year, I had decided to fish until 10:00 AM or 2 fish, whichever came first. It was a ½ hour ride OUT to where we wanted to fish and a ½ hour ride back in.

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— OUR PICK FOR BEST CAPTION ENTRY #583 — Runners Up Captions: Sigmund Freud gets his first basket case. - John Brennick, Rochester, NH. Miss Lewis’s basket weaving class was full. - Alan Dore, Rochester, NH.

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Puzzle Clue: ADOZEN TO CHOOSE FROM ACROSS 1 Stinging box jellyfish 8 Salvador of surrealism 12 NFL three-pointers: Abbr. 15 Seal off 19 Satellite, to its planet 20 Envoy 22 Course 23 Jack-o’-lantern 25 One gazing 26 Ending of sugars 27 A deadly sin 28 Wiggly fish 29 Mother, in Madrid 30 Snow house 32 1986 #1 hit for Whitney Houston 36 Colonel on “Hogan’s Heroes” 40 See 52-Across 41 Tibetan or Thai 42 Weighted fishing nets 43 How butter is often eaten 47 Gave gas to in a garage 49 Start to fall 50 ER lifesaver 52 With 40-Across, 1960s fad dance 53 Christmas star’s place 55 7/21/69 New York Times headline 61 Strong desire 62 Say “I do” to 64 Having a sleek design 65 Snatched 66 1978 Maya Angelou poem 71 Shot - (ice hockey statistic)

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The Miracle Worker At The Rochester Opera House The Tony Award winning play “The Miracle Worker” is set to open on March 31 at Rochester Opera House. The Miracle Worker is a threeact play by William Gibson and is based on Helen Keller’s autobiography “The Story of My Life”. Directed by Michael Walsh, this profoundly moving and unforgettable classic tells the story of Annie Sullivan (Samantha Pannier) and her student, blind and mute Helen Keller (Julianne Trovato/ Sofia Rose Testa). The Miracle Worker dramatizes the volatile relationship between the lonely teacher and her charge. Trapped in a secret, silent world, unable to communicate, Helen is violent, spoiled, almost sub-human and treated by her family as such. Only Annie realizes that there is a mind and spirit waiting to be rescued from the dark, tortured silence.

With scenes of intense physical and emotional dynamism, Annie’s success with Helen finally comes with the utterance of a single, glorious word: “Water”. Evening and matinee performances run on select days from March 31 to April 10 with morning school-age performances on April 7 & 8 at 10am. Tickets are $16 ($14 for students and seniors) and can be reserved online at RochesterOperaHouse. com or call/stop by the box office (603) 335-1992, M/W/F from 10am to 5pm and two hours before the show. Doors generally open one hour prior to the show start. Cash bar, under age 18 must be accompanied by legal guardian. Rochester Opera House is located in City Hall, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH.

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