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THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, may 9, 2013

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Race For The Cure On Mother’s Day

The Winnipesaukee Speedboat Rides - Part 2

by David Warren Contributing Writer

Portsmouth, NH, a major seacoast shipping hub. The Cocheco chugged into Alton Bay in 1851, and launched the steamboat Dover the following year to extend their reach to other important ports on the lake. They also built the Winnipesaukee House to accommodate railroad personnel and guests. When

the Dover & Winnipesaukee Railroad took over the Cocheco in 1863, they cut the Dover in half, lengthened it 14’ and re-launched it as the Chocorua the following spring (the Chocoma was ultimately replaced by the SS Mt. Washington after the Boston & Maine railroad took over in 1870). See speedboat on 27

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The Downing Family Welcome back! Let’s leave Crams boats, walk across the bridge, steering well clear of the Reptile Zoo and the escaped rattlesnakes, and visit the Downings. The Downing family played

a major role in the development of Alton. Jonathan Downing Sr. (see the family tree) fought in the war of 1812, and his son Samuel was a director of the Cocheco Railroad. The Cocheco and its successors had a huge impact on the lakes region. For the first time, we had a fast and efficient connection to

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The second annual New Hampshire Komen Race for the Cure, a 5K run and walk to benefit the Vermont-New Hampshire Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, kicks off on Mother’s Day Weekend, Saturday, May 11, starting and finishing at Strawbery Banke Museum, in Portsmouth. As fitting a day as any to celebrate your mother’s love, to celebrate the lives of survivors, and to commemorate the lives of the women and men who’ve succumbed to breast cancer The race and walk begins at 8:30 am at Strawbery Banke Museum. Register now online at komenvtnh. org or by calling 888-550CURE. Not running? Volunteer opportunities still exist. Go to www.komenvtnh. org/komen-race-for-thecure/volunteer/ and Click on the Volunteer Application for New Hampshire to sign up.

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Pemigewasset Choral Society Performs

Gilford Community Church, Gilford. 7:30pm. Admission by donation. 7645851

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Franklin Opera House, 7:30pm. $14. 934-1901

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Mother’s Day Plant Sale

Moultonborough Central School, Moultonborough. 8am-4pm. A variety of flowering plants, vegetable plants and herbs will be available for sale at reasonable prices.

Belknap Mill’s Private Collections Event

Lake Opechee Inn and Conference Center, Lakeport. 6-10:30pm. $100pp or $575 for a table of six with proceeds benefiting the historic Belknap Mill. 524-+8813

Moultonborough Central School, Moultonborough. 8am-4pm. A variety of flowering plants, vegetable plants and herbs will be available for sale at reasonable prices.

Huggins Hospital Aid Sale

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“Soup to Nuts” Raffle Night

The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. 536-2551

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Sant Bani School, Sanbornton. 8:3010:30am. 934-4240

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Pitman’s Freight Room, New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $12. 527-0043

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The Margate, Laconia. Please visit www.misti-con.org for more information.

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Collection Center Barn, 109A, Wolfeboro. 10-2pm. Art, collectibles, household, toys, 1800’s sleigh and more. American Legion, 4 Park Street, Tilton. 6:30-8pm. All proceeds will support the work of the Three Rivers Service Exchange. 630-8111

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Garrison Players Arts Center, Route 4, Rollinsford. 8pm. 750-4278

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Pitman’s Freight Room, New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $12. 527-0043 Saturday 11th

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Holderness Community Church, 923 US Route 3, Holderness. 9-2pm. 9687643

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Pemigewasset Choral Society

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Capitol Center for the Arts, Concord. 225-1111

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Clearlakes Chorale Presents “Feel the Spirit”

St. Katherine Drexel Church, Alton. 2pm. $15/adult, $10/student. 5696079

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Franklin Opera House, 7:30pm. $14. 934-1901

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New Hampshire Race for the Cure – 5K Run or Walk

Race starts and finishes at the Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth. To register, join a team or volunteer please call 888-550-CURE

Spring into Healthy Living Fair

Concord Food Co-op, 24 South Main Street, Concord. 10am-2pm. Please bring a non-perishable food item. 2256840

Common Core Informational Update by Rep. Jane Cormier

Gilman Library, Alton. 10am-12pm. Learn about what Common Core goals are and how they will impact our citizenry and our educational system.

“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”

Jean’s Playhouse, Lincoln. 7:30pm. $20/adult, $15/seniors, students. 7452141

Doggie Auditions and Playtime

Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth. 3:30pm. Prescott Park Arts Festival is looking for a canine star to play Annie’s lovable pooch, Sandy in this summer’s production of Annie. 436-2848

Moultonborough Appreciation Day

Castle in the Clouds, 455 Old Mountain Road, Moultonborough. All Moultonborough residents will get free entry and a free tour of the Castle. 476-5900.

13TH Annual Perennial Exchange

Concord City Auditorium, Concord. Dig up your perennials, split them and put them in cans or boxes and bring them down to the Audi to exchange for some new varieties. 228-2737.

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Collection Center Barn, 109A, Wolfeboro. 10-2pm. Art, collectibles, household, toys, 1800’s sleigh and more.

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Boxcar Lilies – Temple B’nai Israel Fundraiser

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Fundraiser for Interlakes Summer Theatre The Interlakes Summer Theatre will run a silent auction during each of two performances of “All I Ask of You, A Celebration of the Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber” on Sat May 11th and Sunday May 12th. Donations include a 4-DAY Fla. Resort Vacation, Inaki Baldassarre and Thom Caska, a $300 Gift Certificate for contracting services by Safe Design, and many gifts donated by local merchants including George’s Diner, Mame’s Restaurant, The Kellerhaus, The Etcetera Shoppe, Country Carriage, Adornments, Lady of the Lake. In addition, prizes including a ringside seat backstage during a main stage summer performance, a walk on role in The Full Monty, a dance lesson with director/choreographer Inaki Baldessare, a headshot/photo session with photographer, Robert Kozlow, a reserved parking spot in front of the Main Entrance for the 2013 Season and more.

The Boxcar Lilies At Temple B’nai Israel Fundraiser The Boxcar Lilies ride up to Pitman’s Freight Room in Laconia on Saturday, May 11, with their spine tingling contemporary vocal harmonies, their banjo, ukulele, bass, banjo and washboard, highlighted by their dynamic stage presence. The concert, a community fundraiser, is produced by Temple B’nai Israel and is the second of what promises to be a series of continual discoveries of new talent. This event also features a cruise ship style dessert buffet at intermission, catered by local restaurateur Jim Goren. Think lavish fruit compote, cheesecakes, fruit and meringue pies, chocolate delicacies, crack pie, red velvet cake, hot fudge sundaes and some surprises. This is an evening of pleasures for the ear and the palate. he cost is $25 per person, only $22.50 with prepaid reservations for 4 or more. As is the customary at Pitman’s, BYOB (cocktail snacks and soft drinks are complimentary). Reservations can be made at www.tbinh.org where you can make online payments through a secure PayPal system at which most credit cards are accepted or call 603-524-7044. Directions are at www.pitmansfreightroom.com.

Mt. Washington Observatory Annual Seek The Peak Hike-A-Thon The nonprofit Mount Washington Observatory is proud to announce its 13th annual Seek the Peak hike-a-thon July 19-20.Presented by Eastern Mountain Sports, Subaru and Vasque with support from Fairpoint Communications and Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield in New Hampshire, Seek the Peak 13 features a host of incredible fundraising incentives and prizes. Hikers are encouraged to register as soon as possible to begin working towards their rewards. All who raise $1,000 or more will receive an EMS soft shell jacket; those who raise $2,500 or more will also receive an EMS tent, and all who raise $5,000 or more will also receive an EMS kayak. Event prizes, also tiered by fundraising level, include a $500 gift certificate to Settlers’ Green Outlet Village, a one-year lease on a 2014 Subaru, and more. Participants are treated to a kick-off party in North Conway Friday evening, and those who summit are invited inside the Observatory’s famous mountaintop weather station for a tour and refreshments. The event culminates with a huge after party featuring an outdoor expo, live music, the famous awards ceremony and a sumptuous, all-you-can-eat feast. For more information and to register, volunteer, or become an event sponsor, visit SeekthePeak.org, or call (800) 7060432, x231.

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The first thing I noticed while travelling down the Tenney Mountain Highway (Rte 25) through Plymouth into Rumney is how the landscape has changed since I last made the journey over a year ago. A new addition of power lines, three deep, crisscross the road, towering over, what appeared to me a smaller set of power lines that I was more familiar with from previous journeys. Unsightly, to say the least. I was soon to find out that these were the transmission wires that took the power generated by the Groton Wind Turbines, a series of twenty-four, 400foot wind turbines that now were scattered across the Tenney Mountain ridge line. Bigger than Boeing 747s, none of the massive turbines seemed to have moved at all in the twenty minutes I sat and waited for a few folks from NH Wind Watch. NH Wind Watch is a nonprofit organization in the Newfound Lake Region which provides education and information about In-

dustrial Wind Turbine projects that are slowly easing their way into the area. As their membership grows, so does the awareness of some of the negative impacts of this form of green energy. They were there to give me a guided tour of the present sites as well as the proposed sites for future giant turbine projects in the Newfound area. The existing sites gave some insight into what those in the cross hairs for the next projects might expect. If the projects being considered are given the green light, nearly 100 turbines, some which will tower over 500 feet, will become a permanent part of the landscape of this beautiful area. So why wind turbines here? If you read the brochure created by Iberdrola Renewables, a Spanish Company in charge of the turbines, it will power over 20,000 New Hampshire homes and, at peak production 58,000 thus offsetting carbon dioxide emissions by almost 200 pounds a year, or 200,000 barrels of oil. It is true that wind power

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Thanks To Sen. Ayotte To the Editor: On Tuesday, Erica Lafferty, daughter of slain Sandy Hook principal Dawn Hochsprung, attacked Senator Ayotte for not supporting a gun control proposal that everyone agreed would not have prevented the Sandy Hook massacre. There is no credible evidence that this proposal would save ANY life, but it would make it more difficult for law abiding people to protect themselves, and it would make criminals out of otherwise law abiding citizens who don’t harm anyone but who intentionally or by accident ignore the law. There are laws against every use of a gun to unjustifiably harm others, yet liberals and other gun control advocates demand more laws which will just make it more difficult for law abiding citizens to protect themselves, their families, and other innocent people. Let’s imagine that the principal of Sandy Hook and her daughter were conservatives rather than liberals, then Senator Ayotte might have heard the following. Senator Ayotte, thank

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.

you for coming today. My Mother was the principal at Sandy Hook and died trying to protect the children in her charge. The children and adults at Sandy Hook did not need to die. My Mother was a trained pistol marksman with a concealed carry permit. She met monthly at the range to practice shooting with the third grade teacher who was also a concealed carry permit holder and who sadly also died. The school janitor is retired military and an avid hunter. Laws and policies made Sandy Hook a “gun free zone�, but Adam Lanza didn’t care. So, my Mother, five of her staff, and 20 innocent children died because they were defenseless targets in a “gun free zone�. Thousands of Americans in “gun free zones� have become defenseless victims of people who obviously don’t care about our laws or “gun free zone� signs. If Sandy Hook had not been a “gun free zone�, I believe that my Mother would have saved all those lives. If she failed, others would have been alerted and perhaps could have saved most lives. My questions to you are: Why isn’t Congress repealing the “gun free zones� law that has made thousands of Americans victims but not saved a single life? Why isn’t Congress discussing laws See mail boat on 22

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This Sunday is Mother’s Day. I often asked my own mom, around this time of the year, how come there isn’t a Kid’s Day. “Every day is Kid’s day,” she would answer. Of course, being a kid, I never did understand. It seemed that my life was a tough one and that being an adult was pretty easy. It seemed to me that my mom either knew everything or she knew nothing at all, depending on my own mood at the time. My mom gave birth to six kids; four boys and two girls. I was the fourth one; born in 1955 when my mom was thirty-one years old. She gave birth to us all by Caesarian Section. This was back in the day when, if you gave one birth this way, then the rest would have to follow. My mom always talked about giving birth that way and I never really thought much about it till, one day, I happened to see a medical program where they showed what was involved with a Caesarian birth. It wasn’t pleasant to look at. It gave me a whole new level or respect for my mom. As a kid, there were always moments where I thought I had the worst mother in the world. How could anyone be so mean as to make me clean up my room at an inoppor-

expectations for me since I always believed I was supposed to live up to my own. Still, those expectations come from what I learned in life through them. My dad died in 1981; he was 60 and my mom was 57, the same age I am today. At the time, I thought she was so old, now I realize how young she was. I sometimes feel like I’m just getting started. A few years after my dad died, my mom moved to Central New Hampshire in a house on Lake Winnisquam. At the time I was living in Queens, New York. I had just had a really bad week and I needed to take a break and reassess things. So, I took a trip to visit my mom. I’ve been in New Hampshire ever since. So, in an indirect way, my mom is responsible for these columns. My mom has since moved back to the New York area, long winters and high lakefront property taxes eventually took their toll. This month she will be 89 years old, though she will be mad at me if I tell you that, but at this point I guess it’s too late. Sorry Mom! I guess that’s about all I have to say. Pretty boring, really. No awful childhood stories to tell and that is fine with me. Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!! Follow Brendan’s detective mystery “The Case Of The Missing Flatlander” at www.foolinnh.com. His new book “The Flatlander Chronicles” will be released later this summer. He welcomes your comments at brendan@weirs. com.

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tune time or to have to forego watching a favorite television show. It was when I got a little older, and ventured from my own home to those of friends I met along the roads of my life, that I realized there were some mothers who brought a whole new definition to mean and even a couple who weren’t even around enough to exhibit any level of discipline, good or bad. One childhood friend didn’t have a mother at all, she passed away when he was young. I couldn’t wrap my little brain around that at first; It just didn’t seem fair. Like most things in life, I never really came to understand the influence of the early part of it on the adult part until I was much older. My childhood was pretty calm and stress free. Sure, there were those moments of angst we all go through as we grow up, but that’s all natural, It’s the environment that you are surrounded with when it is all happening that makes the difference in how you come away from it. I give my parents a lot of credit in bringing up six kids in a great environment. I often see the struggles today with a young family with two or three children and it makes me admire my parents even more. I never felt any pressure to be something that I didn’t want to be or wasn’t meant to be. I got a few lousy report cards that I was taken to task on, but when it came to what my own passions were in life, I was never dissuaded from pursuing them in order to fulfill some other dream that they thought was better for me. I’ve never worried if I’ve lived up to my parent’s

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and Spa, Snowy Village Inn, Krista’s Restaurant and more. Cookbook author, Chef Dana Moss will be preparing candied pepper bacon.

Home and garden related seminars will be offering cutting-edge information to attendees on eco-friendly and green products and services. The Garden marketplaces offer a huge assortment of plants, shrubs, flowers and garden supplies and seedlings all zone-hardy and all ready to go! Celebrity guests and lots of surprises are planned for the show including syndicated columnist and home improvement guru Tim Carter. Most notably known as “Ask The Builder,” with his famous website that has been had more than 30 million visitors, Tim will be at the show on Sunday, May 19th from 10:3011:15am to answer all of your home improvement project questions. This year will see the introduction of a new event. The First Annual Lodge Skillet Toss to benefit the Miranda Leavitt Diabetes Fund. There will be children, women and mens divisons. Hours for the show are Friday from 11am to 6pm. Saturday from 10am-6pm and Sunday from 10am to 4pm. General admission is $9 for adults. Youth aged 6 to 16 are $4 and children under 6 are free. See their ad on page 13 of this issue for a special coupon that is good for $2 off of an adult admission. For more information on all of the great events at the Northern New England Home, Garden and Flower Show and to see a list of presenters go their website at homegardenflowershow.com. You can also check out updates on their Facebook page.

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From The State House Senator Ayotte Comes to Town!

Yesterday, some of my friends and I went to the Senator Kelly Ayotte Town Hall in Tilton at the Winnisquam Regional High School. by Rep. Jane Cormier I received news Belknap District 8 that MoveOn. org was going to attend and fearing Sen. Ayotte might be in for a demonstration which would not be very stately, I decided to attend as well. There were a couple of young women who snuck in anti-gun signs (all signs were prohibited upon entry, but that never stopped those who need to make the evening news…). Personally, I felt the crowd was leaning a bit PRO Ayotte, but, clearly, it was pretty evenly divided. Sen. Ayotte, though suffering through what sounded like a painful bout of laryngitis, gave a

short PowerPoint presentation of her recent votes and stances on issues such as the national debt, job creation, entitlement spending, and the “Healthcare Train Wreck”. State Senator Jeb Bradley moderated the event (some say not very well, as many believed he should have had the prohibited signs or protesters removed from the town hall for breaking with the written rules of the Town Hall assembly) and read the questions which participants had offered on cards when entering the auditorium. Questions centered on all the big topic themes – Social Security, health care, gun control, and one question on the current Immigration Bill. Unfortunately, Sen. Ayotte didn’t really tell us where she stood on this bill which could legalize millions of people complete with entitlements. That is not good for our country, folks, but I digress. The true “elephant in the See cormier on 26

The Camp Bastion Cover-Up Do you remember what happened last year on 9/14? Where are the White House phone calls for the families who continue to by Michelle Malkin grieve? What Syndicated Columnist is being done to prevent another fatal attack like the one on 9/14? And why is the full truth being withheld from the American public? Benghazi isn’t the only bloody disaster being covered up by the Obama administration. As I reported in a series of columns and blog posts last fall, three days after the deadly siege on our consulate in Libya, the Taliban waged an intricately coordinated, brutal attack on Camp Bastion in Afghanistan. Two heroic U.S. Marines -- Lt. Col. Christopher Raible and Sgt. Bradley Atwell -- were killed in the battle. Many surviving Marines have been honored for their brave, quick-thinking actions to save their comrades and civilians caught in the crossfire. Family members are angry that military brass are still trying to suppress details of the fateful budget and strategic decisions that led to the attack. But they won’t stay silent. “This is political,” one Camp Bastion relative told me this week. “Just like Benghazi, they don’t want people to know.” In case you were sleeping or had forgotten: The meticulously coordinated siege at Camp Bastion by 15 Taliban infiltrators -- dressed in American combat fatigues and armed with assault

rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and other weapons -- resulted not only in two deaths and nearly a dozen injuries, but also in the most devastating loss of U.S. airpower since Vietnam. Camp Bastion is Britain’s main military base in Afghanistan; it’s adjacent to our Marines’ Camp Leatherneck. Eight irreplaceable U.S. aircraft were destroyed or put out of action during the raid. A trio of refueling stations was decimated; a half-dozen hangars were damaged. The attack came exactly six months after a failed jihadi suicide attack targeting former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. Camp Bastion family members are hearing that U.S. and British military leaders left their loved ones vulnerable to attack by outsourcing watchtower security on the base to soldiers from Tonga, who were known to fall asleep on the job. Deborah Hatheway, aunt of Sgt. Atwell and the family’s spokesperson, is naming names and mincing no words. She says Major General Charles “Mark” Gurganus, who recently returned to the U.S. after commanding coalition forces in Afghanistan, was ultimately responsible for skimping on security patrols. “He might as well have made it easier for the Taliban by cutting the perimeter fence himself and putting out the welcome mat,” Hatheway told me. This is the same Gurganus who ordered Marines to disarm -- immediately after the failed jihadi attack on Panetta last year -- because he wanted them “to look just like our (unarmed) Afghan partners.” Hatheway says her family has

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Syria’s Thin Red Line UNITED NATIONS—Has

Syria crossed the “red line” which the Obama Administration warned about should there by John J. Metzler b e a n y u s e Syndicated Columnist of chemical weapons in the conflict? Yes, No, Maybe so. But even if there was an apparently limited albeit brutal use of the nerve agents, does this automatically justify the “game changer” of wider American involvement in a yet another MidEast conflict? In any civil war, accusations fly. Given the political pedigree of the Assad family dictatorship, and the fact that their security forces possess large quantities of chemical weapons, (stockpiles with Soviet origin), this comes as no surprise. Since Assad’s forces appear locked in a stalemate with entrenched rebel factions going into the third year of conflict, it’s possible the regime used these proscribed chemical agents. Equally, there’s also the possibility that Al Qaida linked rebel factions used relatively small chemical quantities as a provocation precisely to trigger both international revulsion and more importantly a deeper U.S. involvement in the widening conflict. The logic would be that American military power would weigh in, tip the scales and topple Assad, and then the fundamentalists would ultimately gain from the power vacuum. Syria’s UN Ambassador Bashar Jaafari told correspondents that his government had requested the UN more than a month ago to carry out an independent investigation into possible chemical weapons use in March. Nothing has transpired. Despite the carnage where over 70,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict, and millions more displaced, this is not America’s fight nor is it in the national interest of the United States to become militarily entangled in this sectarian civil war. Here’s why. Despite being a dictatorship, Syria remains

a secular country where the Muslim majority (factions of which are fighting each other) have coexisted alongside a sizable Christian minority. The Allewite minority sect, Assad’s clan, forms one of many communal groups in Syria’s ethnic patchwork. The Sunni Muslim majority forms the bedrock of the political opposition. Though the United Nations Security Council has tried to pass a number of resolutions on Syria since the conflict began in 2011 during the fateful Arab Spring, the fact remains that Russia and Mainland China have provided diplomatic cover fire to Damascus regime and have used their rare double veto to shoot down Western resolutions. Moscow’s support of Syria is viewed as a core national interest. Thus, while Russia and Iran have supplied the Syrian rulers with weapons, any widening of the conflict by the USA or NATO would needlessly confront Russia. Given that NATO countries such as Britain and the USA seems to be edging towards a more formal military engagement in the conflict, we ask is it in our national interest to “topple the devil we know” replacing him with a gaggle of Islamic fundamentalist groups who could create a more unstable state on the borders of Israel, Iraq, Turkey and helpless Lebanon? Syria’s civil war has proven a magnet for a militant “International” of foreign fighters from Britain, France, Germany and even Canada. Others have migrated from Iraq and Chechnya. Syria’s conflict emerged as a new cause celebre for global jihadi Islam. So we have to be a bit creative here. Though an ancient land, Syria as defined by its current borders is basically a post WWI creation. Once an Ottoman Turkish province, Syria came under French control following the defeat of Turkey in the First World War. France controlled Syria until the country’s independence in 1946. The Syrians have posed the hard-line face of leftist Arab nationalism, but not religious fundamentalism. France would be a logical player here but the domestic political

malaise in Paris as well as the fact that France led and toppled an Islamic militant regime in the ex-colony Mali earlier in the year has stretched its limits. Would there be a UN intervention force?

Highly unlikely, as Russia would veto the proposal. Even if somehow a UN blue helmet mission passed through the Security Council, the system is overstretched and over-whelmed

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Is Thinking Obsolete? While it is not possible to answer all the e-mails and letters from readers, many are thought-provoking, whether those thoughts are positive or by Thomas Sowell negative. Syndicated Columnist An e-mail from one young man simply asked for the sources of some facts about gun control that were mentioned in a recent column. It is good to check out the facts -- especially if you check out the facts on both sides of an issue. By contrast, another man simply denounced me because of what was said in that column. He did not ask for my sources but simply made contrary assertions, as if his assertions must be correct and therefore mine must be wrong. He identified himself as a physician, and the claims that he made about guns were claims that had been made years ago in a medical journal -- and thor-

oughly discredited since then. He might have learned that, if we had engaged in a back and forth discussion, but it was clear from his letter that his goal was not debate but denunciation. That is often the case these days. It is always amazing how many serious issues are not discussed seriously, but instead simply generate assertions and counterassertions. On television talk shows, people on opposite sides often just try to shout each other down. There is a remarkable range of ways of seeming to argue without actually producing any coherent argument. Decades of dumbed-down education no doubt have something to do with this, but there is more to it than that. Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination. Moreover, it is largely indoctrination based on the same set of underlying and unexamined assumptions among teachers and institutions. If our educational institutions See Sowell on 36

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OK, I ramble on about the spring salmon fishing & speak directly to tying my own fly patterns as well as the equipment we use aboard the Dr. Hook. However, that really doesn’t help you a lot unless you know where to find these items & what to look for. If you are not careful, you can pick up the wrong items & you will not be happy. Furthermore, once you are set up, you have to know “How” to use all of this. If you are just getting interested in all of this OR are not having that much luck with your technique, I suggest that

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Let’s get back to the equipment needed, assuming you have, or fish from, a boat. Again, I’m going to address fishing with leadcore line, which is the easiest and least expensive approach to this fine sport. There are any number of trolling rods out there and they cover the spectrum from something very light all the way to a “Broom” handle. Over the years, I’ve tried them all. Personally, I follow “The lighter the better”. The lighter the rod, the more action you feel with a fish on. Aboard Dr. Hook we use “Steelhead” casting rods that run 8 – 8 ½ feet. These are very sensitive and a pleasure to fish with. The reels are another matter. For years I had always used fly reels, spooled with leadcore line with great results. However, these had one drawback. There is no “Level wind” on them and require that the client, when reeling in a fish, continually us the index finger to move the line back and forth over the reel as the line comes in. Not all clients are experienced and in the “Heat of the moment”, neglect to do this. Often, the end result is that the line on the reel becomes a bit loose and “Folds” over, causing quite a tangle. Some times this can be cleared up, but requires taking everything apart to do so. More often than not, you have to cut the line off and replace it. At $15.00 a spool, this becomes expensive after a while. I found that this can all be eliminated by utiliz-

ing a level wind reel that will hold your leadcore. There are a number of good ones out there. It becomes a matter of personal preference. Your local tackle shop should be able to help you with this. My suggestion would be Alan, up at “AJ’s Tackle” in Meredith. Alan has been doing this a long time and has a number of rod/reel combos all set up an ready to go, which should help you a lot. Line is another issue. Again, I like the lighter the better. We’ve all found that a 27lb leadcore does NOT bring line any deeper or faster than a 14lb leadcore. Again, the lighter the better and better chance to use a smaller reel. With all the emphasis on lead issues, it appears that many of the manufacturers have been using a combination of lead and tin when putting these lines together. The only issue with this is that it does not have the ability to stretch as much as the lead and frequently breaks inside the Dacron covering, poking through. I’ve tried a number of brands and all exhibited similar issues. However, keep in mind that my use FAR exceeds what the recreational fisherman would experience. I made the decision, this year, to step up to a new line on the market. It’s expensive but is being promoted as to be free from these issues. It’s “Sufix 832®” 12lb leadcore. This line is about twice the cost of regular leadcore, but if it does the job, I’ll save in the long run by eliminating frequent line replace-

ments. Once you have settled on a good rod/reel/line combo you are almost ready to begin. Prior to tying on any terminal tackle, whether it be flies or hard baits, you need to put on a good leader, tied directly to the leadcore line. I use a small barrel swivel for this purpose. However, be careful to use one that will clear through the line guides on your reel AND the level wind on your reel. With regard to the leader, I use, and I’m fussy about this, 50 – 60 feet of Cortland’s “CamoFlage®” 4lb monofilament. Why so much, you ask? Over the years I have found a couple of advantages to this. Number one, for whatever reason, a longer leader will increase your catch rate. Number two, and as important as number one, you will have more of a “feeling” for your fish as you bring it to the boat. Sure, you will know you have a fish on, immediately, but once you have all the leadcore on the reel and there is just the 4lb mono between the reel & the fish…….. WATCH OUT! That fish will be all over the place, especially once he/she gets a look at the boat. Talk about FUN! The next article will be devoted to terminal tackle an technique……………………….. Later…… Capt. Pete

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country! The last time I attended a GOP meeting it was to speak for my candidate in a GOP Primary and whose opponent was/is a RINO. The elites are not nutsy about that approach. Now there are smaller versions of GOP groups stepping up to the plate to challenge the establishment. As I stated, I don’t play well with others, so remaining in The Advocates family is the place for me. My goal as always is to expose our enemies, and support our friends. Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’ra-cy) – “a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.â€? This just says so much about so many of our fellow Americans. Say there – why did the Postmaster General back off from NO Saturday delivery of mail nation wide? Think of the money that would have saved. So, how did that sequestration thing work out, anyway? ******** dailymail.co.uk: President Obama used a speech at Mexico’s Museo Nacional de AntropologĂ­a – the National Anthropology Museum – to claim that ‘most of the guns used to commit violence here in Mexico come from the United States.’ ‘I think many of you know that in America, our Constitution guarantees our individual right to bear arms,’ Obama said. ‘And as president, I swore an oath to uphold that right, and I always will.’ See advocates on 22

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struction equipment and crews for the project and now stays as the entrance to the new maintenance station. Spring had his doubts from the moment the project was introduced and it seems like many of his concerns have come to fruition. “There were a lot of promises made that were never kept,” said Spring. Groton Hollow Road had a right-of way of thirty- four feet with some on private property. The road needed to be widened. “There was a lot of damage to the road as well as runoff into Clark Brook,” said Spring of the pristine body of water that runs parallel to road. “During all the explo-

many were anyway,” said Spring. “They also told us that there would only be vehicles using the road Monday through Friday from 7am to 5pm but it soon became a twenty-four hour a day, seven days a week event.” Included with that were 600-plus ton cranes that were needed to install the giant industrial turbines upon their bases which were housed on bases that used 100 plus yards of concrete for each one. “They said they would use existing logging roads,” said Spring noting that new, wider roads had to be built along the ridge line to install the turbines.” Eventually, ten miles of roads over 140 acres was used. Thinking of the fossil fu-

Nancy Watson of Alexandria, and a member of NH Wind Watch, points towards the Groton Wind Turbines that are already in place on the Tenney Mountain ridge line. The 400+ foot turbines are owned by Iberdrola Renewables, a brendan smith Photo Spanish Company.

sees cars of all sorts traveling up and down it to reach the unsightly maintenance and operations building, surrounded by steel fencing that was originally “promised” to be built a half mile further up the road. Noting the long-standing homes, some which had been there for generations, now had to welcome this new neighbor whether they liked it or not. There has also been, according to Spring, about a half a million dollar decline in property value assessments around the project. New jobs were also promised with the turbines. The number of locals employed by the project you can “count on one hand.” “There’s a lot of out of state plates going back and forth,” said Spring. “People were sold on Green Energy,” said Spring. “I’m sure that if it wasn’t for money from the government this never would have happened.” See wind on 18

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sions on the mountain the brook became muddy and murky,” said Spring. One longtime resident of Groton Hollow Road had his well compromised, according to Spring, and wildlife that had once been prominent on the road was now basically extinct from the area. “They told us no trees would be cut down and

els burnt in the process, it made me think Iberdrola’s claims on the carbon footprint should be rethought. Spring also brought to my attention that wind turbines still work off the grid and have to be powered up and down which, in itself, uses a great deal of energy. The once secluded and hardly traveled road now

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Iberdrola and other wind companies have received billions in funding through President Obama’s Green Initiative. Besides environmental impacts, the giant industrial turbines have also been causing health and psychological issue with people and wildlife alike. When the turbines are spinning the sound can be heard up to a mile. “Think of a giant metal colander with a giant metal ball inside spinning round and round for hours at a time, or a jet engine. That’s a sound we live with now,� said Spring. The noise has also put stress on some farm animals causing them to miscarry offspring. The strobe effect is another issue. Those who live within range of the

turbines have to suffer through a constantly moving shadow of turbine blades reflecting into their homes and yards for hours at a time. Along with the noise it has been known to cause sleep depravation, headaches, dizziness, tinnitus, disorientation, palpitations and agitation. A short video showing the strobe effect can be seen at www.facebook.com/photo. php?v=10151342258491006.

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Iberdrola’s Wild Meadow Wind Plant on Newfound Lake can be imagined from the public beach shores of the Whittemore Improvement Association in Bridegwater. Looking across Newfound, one of the five cleanest lakes in the world, I tried to envision 37 to 40, 500-foot turbines that may someday be scratching the horizon. Something I had not considered was that each turbine was so high that it would need an FAA approval and, with that, each turbine would need a flashing red light at night, competing with the stars and reflecting in the lake

as well. Coupled with the noise, those views that have been enjoyed for generations would be drastically changed. Of course, the transmission lines, like those crisscrossing Ret 25 in Rumney I talked of earlier, also come with the deal. Stephen Bleiler has owned Cardigan Mountain Orchards in Alexandria for 38 years. With 400 acres it has become a destination not just for those who come to pick during apple season but also, recently, for weddings and other receptions to take advantage of the magnificent views See wind on 19

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A cluster of giant wind turbines along the landscape.

Transmission lines along Rte 25. The smaller ones were the original power lines while the taller ones, criss-crossing the road were needed to send the wind power on its way to a substation. Power generated by the turbines is now being used in Massachusetts. wind from 18

of the Cardigan Mountain Range. Bleiler constructed all the building on the property himself along with his family over the years. “It had been my life’s work,” he said. But now that may all change as the Spruce Wind Plant, developed by EDP, a Portugal Company, is being considered along the ridge line next to Cardigan Mountain. Twenty-five, 500-foot turbines. Bleiler is already putting out feelers to sell if the Spruce Wind Turbines become a reality. “This area is seventyfive prevent tourism,” said Bleiler. “ I have a family to take care of and I wouldn’t be able to survive. People have already told me they wouldn’t come here anymore.” Blieler also pointed out the effect it would have on Cardigan Mountain where 8,000 a year sleep at the lodge and over 27,000 a year hike its trails. He’s convinced that the turbines would put an end to all that. It seems his future is in the hands of those who make the decisions, not people like him who feel the greatest fallout. “Whatever happened to ‘We The People?’” Bob Piehler of Alexandria, whose land abuts the

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Spruce Wind site, is waiting on doing any renovations to his beautiful tract of land. There has also been a slowdown of building in the area that trickles down right to the local suppliers of lumber, as they all hold their breath, leaving their fates in the hands of some foreign companies and New Hampshire’s Site Evaluation Committee (SEC). There are a lot of levels to this story, too many to cover in this article. Maintenance of the turbines as they get older and what would happen with them if one day they are outdated are questions that sit in my mind. What might the landscape look like in ten years? There is also the Alpine Ridge Wind Project that is being considered on Jewell Hill in Groton, Its developer is Jewi Wind, a German company. Who’s to say that one day giant wind turbines won’t be spreading across the Belknap or Sandwich Mountain ranges or any others? In 2006, Governor John Lynch announced the 25 x 25 Renewable Energy Initiative. The goal is for New Hampshire to obtain twenty-five percent of its energy from clean, renewable sources by the year 2025. We already are at about 14 percent with biomass and hydropower. Considering

that the energy from these wind plants goes to Massachusetts, they do nothing to help reach that goal but still more will be “insisted” upon as part of the initiative. In my opinion, there is way too much left to be analyzed and discussed before any more Industrial Wind Turbines are placed along the ridge line of some of the most scenic spots in this country. It seems the negatives heavily outweigh

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to conduct a fuller review, military officials said. But that examination still fell short of an official investigation.” Neither the Marine Corps nor NATO plans to release the results of their separate investigations -in part, the Post reports, “to avoid embarrassing the British for leaving towers unmanned.” There’s a whole lotta CYA going on. Sgt. Atwell’ s family wants America to know: “This must end.”

and tough military which could prove decisive in the current conflict. Turkey would not want nor allow an Islamic fundamentalist regime on its southern frontier. There’s a wide spectrum of political and military opposition forces. While the Free Syrian Army is probably the most “Western oriented” of the militants, the Al Qaida- linked Al Nusra front and others are doing most of the fighting and influencing. The Obama Administration whose feckless foreign policy team could not find Syria on a map three years ago, now seems politically bent to “solv-

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DEAR TIM: My front door is in bad shape, and my wife wants a new one. We visited a showroom and I see that I can purchase a new front door that’s already prehung in the frame. It seems that all I have to do is just nail it in place and I’m good to go. Do you feel I can install a new front door myself? Surely it’s not as simple as just nailing it in place. What tips can you share to help me get this done and save lots of money? --Gary B., Portland, Ore.

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o u t e r w i d t h door, you need to make installing a new door withand height di- sure you have all the other out a proper flashing under mensions of supplies you need. Don’t the door. Many feel that a your existing start to tear out your exist- bead of caulk will stop wadoor frame as- ing door unless you have ter infiltration. It will not. sembly. These everything on site. You’ll You need a flashing to keep are commonly need wood shims, rust- your house waterproof. I referred to as proof trim screws that are always install a wonderful u n i t d i m e n - at least 2 1/2 inches long, a plastic pre-formed flashsions. It’s criti- plastic sill pan flashing kit, ing pan under my doors. cal that your rubberized waterproofing They come in various sizes new door match membrane, several tubes to accommodate all doors. these dimen- of elastomeric caulk, and It takes just minutes to sions as close- any tools that will help you install this critical compoly as possible. remove the old door. nent. You also want The next step, before you Once the new door is in to determine start to remove your old the opening, you want to the thickness door, is to read all the writ- secure it with the wood or width of the ten instructions that come shims and the rust-proof door jamb. It’s with the new door. Check fasteners. As you do this, usually either to make sure all the dimen- you’re constantly check4 9/16 inch- sions are correct. Check to ing to make sure that the A gorgeous front door like this can be es or 6 9/16 make sure the new door door frame is not twisted, inches. This installed in one day. You just need to know is the actual swings the same way as the that it’s plumb, and that old door. Be sure you have the door threshold is level. secret master carpenter ninja tricks. thickness of all the supplies the written If your door doesn’t have the wall if you instructions call for. You glass sidelights, you want a prehung door that fits measure the width of the don’t want to remove your to make sure you install a very nicely in your existing wall studs plus the thick- old door and find out that very long screw behind the opening. But to make sure ness of the interior drywall you’re missing some criti- top door hinge so the door that you don’t goof up, you and exterior wall sheath- cal materials. frame is securely fastened need to check measure- ing. The biggest mistake most to the rough framing. This Once you have the new rookie installers make is ments before you get out See builderon 26 your credit card. In my opinion, the easiest thing to do is to remove Cabin Rust the interior trim that sury ic rounds the door. You can oz do this with a razor knife, a wide putty knife and a flat pry bar. Always start at the -F sur ni bottom of the door where ture & Mattre sse the trim meets the door jamb at the floor. Be sure to cut a very fine line with the razor knife where the trim touches the wall surface. This ensures any caulk between the trim and the wall surface doesn’t cause the drywall paper to tear off the wall as you pull the TTRESS A M trim away from the wall. Once the trim is removed, n goingwo! you can see the entire door o n frame. Use a flashlight if Like us on — PLYMOUTH — Facebook necessary to see where the Mill Falls Marketplace, Meredith 757 Tenney Mtn. Hwy., Plymouth bottom of the door frame Just west of Wal-Mart, across from Sears Across from the public docks, Rt. 3 & 25 and the threshold assem603-279-1333 bly touch your concrete Call Arthur 996-1555 Call Jason 662-9066 www.cozycabinrustics.com slab or the wood subfloor. OPEN DAILY 9AM-5PM • SUNDAYS 10AM - 4PM Your job is to obtain the

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of the law (as Sen. Ayotte points out, this is clearly not happening at many levels of government), and we need to put a solid and interactive mental health system on the books. On April 10, the NRA posted, “We have a broken mental health system that is not going to be fixed with more background checks at gun shows.� I couldn’t agree more. All in all, the debate at this town hall was robust and healthy. Both sides were heard and that is as it should be. Senator Ayotte met with her constituents and held a dialogue with them. Good for her! Dialogue solves problems. It is SILENCE which is our enemy. So, speak up and speak often! This is what America is all about, after all!

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They also sold the Winnipesaukee House to Samuel Downing, and his grandson Fred was born there three years later. The original Winnipesaukee house was destroyed by fire on May 10,1905 (some say Aug. 1903) and was replaced by the new Winnipesaukee house. It is now the site of J.P. China. Samuel also owned property across the street (purchased in 1865) which he conveyed to his son Jonathan Jr. in 1868. Jonathan built the J. H. Downing store there in 1870 and installed Alton Bays’ first gas pump out front in 1910. The Bowser pump featured 2 large storage tanks mounted on a pedestal. The tanks were labeled “Red Sentry filtered gasoline�. The store was sold to Martin & Stephen Lynch in 1929 and renamed the Busy Corner (it has traded hands many times since and is now called Amilyne’s Corner Market). Jonathan Jr. also owned a lumber yard across the river, and erected the first yard building there in 1893. His son Fred took it over in 1912 and opened a small automotive garage in that old building. Fred also took over the corner store that same year, and his sons Ed and Lester worked there and ran a grocery boat up the lake, taking and delivering orders. They also prepared box lunches for the people arriving by train for religious services at the campground (now the Alton Bay Christian Conference center). Lester graduated from the Wentworth Institute in 1916 with a degree in machine construction and tool design, and started a boat service and repair operation at the garage the following year, assisted by his brother Ed, who was an excellent mechanic. And so the seeds of Downings garage and landing were sewn. Downing’s Garage The garage prospered

Downing’s garage with new showroom. An article in the Farmington News that same year stated that “the new showrooms, light and nicely furnished in hardwood, add much to the commercial attraction of the Alton Bay lake region. The new and expansive showrooms will house displays of the new and exceptionally fine 1930 Dart speed courtesy of Jonathan downing and cruising craft.�

Judson Downing in the late 1940s/early 50s. Notice the triangle of Rte 11 and Rte 28A in background. courtesy of Jonathan downing

and became integrally linked with the boat landing. They started selling Socony (Mobil) gas and oil products in 1919, and even sold automobiles for a time. They became one of the first dealers in New England for Evinrude outboard motors in 1922, and later sold water skis and boating accessories. In 1930, Lester and Ed added a new showroom and machine shop, and became a dealer for the new Dart speedboat. An article in the Farmington

News that same year stated that “the new showrooms, light and nicely furnished in hardwood, add much to the commercial attraction of the Alton Bay lake region. The new and expansive showrooms will house displays of the new and exceptionally fine 1930 Dart speed and cruising craft�. The article goes on to say that “Downing’s garage will be a Mecca for New England boatmen and fanciers of water craft, and that the Downing brothers will be one of the outstand-

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and Ed built a new garage to the left of the existing building. In the 1950’s, the Downings became one of the largest dealers in the northeast of Lyman boats. I remember that Lymans were originally eyed with suspicion because they were clinker built using plywood strakes. All those exposed edges bound to delaminate (they

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never did). Classic Lymans are very popular today, and Wolfeboro hosts an all Lyman show every summer. Downing’s Garage was sold to Robert and Downing Jones in 1960. They discontinued auto repairs to focus solely on boating, and subsequently sold the garage to Joe Margraff in 1972, who in turn sold to the current owners, the Parker family, in 1975. Downing’s Landing Downing’s landing started out in 1920 as a 100’ dock built parallel to the shore at it’s present site. It had old pump up type gas pumps (with the glass globes on top so you could see what you were buying), which were replaced by modern Mobilgas pumps in the mid 30’s. It was around that same time that a large canopy, with a Legionnaire sign on top, was erected to protect patrons from the weather. A slip with an enclosed boathouse at the north end of the

dock was added in 1942 to house the Legionnaire 70, and the original Land Ho! building went up in 1947. That same year, the sides were removed from the boathouse , but the roof remained to form a canopy over the slip (the canopy was removed all together in the 50’s). Land Ho! was expanded a year later, and the snack shop was added on the north side in 1949. 1 recently spoke with an old friend who used to work in the snack shop. She said Lester was a stickler for sanitation, and all of the food handlers wore gloves (pretty unusual for the time). A miniature train, which I enjoyed riding, ran on the lawn behind Land Ho! in the 50’s. When his father Lester wasn’t around, Philip often derailed the train by running it wide open! Philip later ran the real estate operation out of the landing. The Downings started See speedboat on 29

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running speedboat rides out of the landing in 1934 on the “Legionnaire”, a 28’ Garwood with a 125 hp Chrysler motor. In 1936 they added the “Legionnaire Special”, a 26’ ChrisCraft with a 225 hp ChrisCraft motor, that could do 45 mph. The Aug. 7, 1936 edition of the Farmington News stated that “Alton Bay enjoyed the brief excitement of the launching event when this beautiful 10 passenger water queen took to the waves amid cheers of the assembled crowd. Judson Downing (Lester’s son) will be the pilot. Downing’s garage now has 2 fast and seaworthy boats to give their patrons thrills, insured by safety and experienced pilots”. The Downings also owned a third boat at this time; the “Legionnaire 2”. Little is known about this boat and it may not have been available for hire. In July, 1937, the Downings organized the Bay Boat Co. Inc. to consolidate their operation. Fred was president and director, Lester was treasurer and director, Lester’s wife Aida was assistant treasurer and Fred’s wife Minnie Barr was a director. (It’s interesting to note that Ed wasn’t included, even though he was older than Lester.) Each of the four paid $1 per share for 50 shares of stock with no nominal or par value. The corporation’s assets included three

wholly owned boats (note that the “Legionnaire 2” is not included): * One 20 ft. fishing boat with 25 Hp Whippet motor * One 28 ft. Gar Wood boat with 125 Hp Chrysler motor (“Legionnaire”) * One 26 ft Chris Craft boat with 225 Hp Chris Craft motor (the “Special”) The company was chartered to manufacture, buy, sell, exchange, distribute, rent, lease, hire, charter or otherwise deal, handle or trade ... boats and water craft ... for furnishing amusement for profit and gain. Their largest and most controversial purchase soon followed. The “Jayee 111” was a 1929 36’ Gar Wood hydroplane pleasure runabout built for W.S and Elinore Corby of Bald Peak in Moultonboro. It set them back $ 35,000 (close to a million dollars in today’s money). It’s custom built Packard V-12 engine alone cost Gar Wood industries $17,500! Mr. Corby had engine upgraded from 950 to 1000 hp. in time for the boat races at the Weirs in September 1929. There the greatest crowd of the season gathered to watch Elinore drive the “Jayee 111” to a world speed record for passenger boats 71.53 mph. She must have run up a bit of a fuel bill, as the boat burned 100 gallons per hour (75% aviation gas and 25% benzol) at wide open throttle! Mr. Corby died in the mid 30’s

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and Elinore put the boat up for sale in 1938 through her agent, a Mr. Kimball. The Downings apparently had reservations about the suitability of this boat for their operation right from the get-go. They would ultimately prove well founded. A letter to them from Gar Wood industries dated May 9, 1939 responded to their questions about the value of the boat, and whether a smaller motor could be fitted (that 100 Gal/hr fuel consumption obviously scared them!) Gar Wood offered no opinion as to the value, but stated that “there is no question in our minds but that both the hull and motor are in first class condition, as when Mr. Corby was alive

he spent a good deal of money keeping the boat in the “pink” at all times.” They also stated that “we are afraid that if you used a smaller motor than what is now installed in the boat, sufficient power could not be obtained to give the boat a proper plane angle. Replacement parts no doubt would be expensive in as much as this is a custom built job and hever (sic) has been a standard production motor.” There is some confusion over the eventual purchase price. A letter to Mrs. Corbey from Downing’s garage offered “$3000.00 cash for the Jayee 111, including lifting apparatus and any other equipment that is See speedboat on 30

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My sincere thanks to Jonathan Downing III and Nancy Downing Merrill for making this story possible. Jonathan and Nancy still live in Alton.) Note:On Nov 21,2012, The N.H. Fish and Game Dept. purchased Downing’s Landing. When improvements are completed, they will open the first state-owned public boat ramp on Winnipesaukee. The docks will also be available for shorebank fishing and the parking lot will accommodate vehicles and trailers. There will be no fees.

Jonathan Downing and sister Judy on the Legionnaire special. courtesy of jonathan downing

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Delta Dental, 1 Dental Drive, Concord. 10am. Walkathon to benefit Meals on Wheels. Advance registration preferred. 225-3295

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Jean’s Playhouse, Lincoln. 7:30pm. $20/adult, $15/seniors, students. 745-2141

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Collection Center Barn, 109A, Wolfeboro. 10-2pm. Art, collectibles, household, toys, 1800’s sleigh and more.

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Brewster Academy, Anderson Hall, 205 South Main Street, Wolfeboro. 7:30pm. $20pp. 569-2151

Animal Tracking (Becoming a Wildlife Detective)

Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum, Warner. 10am-Noon. Minimum age:8 yrs. Enrollment limited to 10pp. 746-6121

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The Hampton Inn, 195 Laconia Road, Tilton. 10:30am. Anyone who has had a spiritual experience is welcome to come talk about it. 800-7138944. www.eckankar-nh.org

Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra

Inter-Lakes High School, Meredith. 7:30pm. $15/adults, $8/children and college students. www.LRSO.org/ tickets

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Garrison Players Arts Center, Route 4, Rollinsford. 8pm. 7504278

Rummage/Bake Sale

Bristol Baptist Church, 30 Summer Street, Bristol. 8am3pm. 744-3885

Sunday 19th Gary Allen Hampton Ballroom, 929-4100

Beach Hampton

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Jean’s Playhouse, Lincoln. 2pm. $20/adult, $15/seniors, students. 745-2141

3RD Annual Autism Center Walk-A-Thon

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Habitat for Humanity Spring Concert

St. James Episcopal Church,

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Monday 20th “The History of Jazz”

Wentworth-Coolidge Lilac Festival

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Senior Ten Pin Bowling League

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Interlakes Community Caregivers Annual Meeting and 15th Anniversary

Salute to Service Dinner Cruise

Center Harbor Congregational Church, Gilpatric Hall, Center Harbor. RSVP 253-9275 or director.caregivers@gmail. com

Wednesday 22nd Child Safety Fair

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Collection Center Barn, 109A, Wolfeboro. 10-2pm. Art, collectibles, household, toys, 1800’s sleigh and more.

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campuses, and listening to this advocacy is often obligatory during freshman orientation, criticism of homosexuality is called “hate speech� that is subject to punishment. While spokesmen for various racial or ethnic groups are free to vehemently denounce whites as a group for their past or present sins, real or otherwise, any white student who similarly denounces the sins or shortcomings of non-white groups can be virtually guaranteed to be punished, if not expelled. Even students who do not advocate anything can have to pay a price if they do not go along with classroom brainwashing. The student at Florida Atlantic University who recently declined to stomp on a paper with the word “Jesus� on it, as ordered by the professor, was scheduled for punishment by the university until the story became public and provoked an outcry from outside academia. This professor’s action might be dismissed as an isolated extreme, but the university establishment’s initial solid backing for him, and its coming down hard on the student, shows that the moral dry rot goes far deeper than one brainwashing professor. The failure of our educational system goes beyond what they fail to teach. It includes what they do teach, or rather indoctrinate, and the graduates they send out into the world, incapable of seriously weighing alternatives for themselves or for American society. Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com. To find out more about Thomas Sowell and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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Salome’s Stars Horoscope ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Taking advice isn’t always easy for self-assured Rams and Ewes who think they know what’s best. But it wouldn’t hurt to listen to what close colleagues have to say. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) You know how to balance life’s practical aspects with the poetic. This gives you a special edge this week in both your professional endeavors and your personal life. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Focus on keeping a balance between your homerelated activities and your workplace responsibilities. Be mindful of both without obsessing over one or the other. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) A change in plans is likely as you discover more facts about a possible commitment. Continue to ask questions and, if you’re not sure about the answers, demand proof. LEO (July 23 to August 22) Be careful not to let that Leonine pride keep you from seeking wise, experienced

ACROSS 1 -Count every penny 7 Thrashes 12 Errors 20 Less than threedimensional 21 Blue Grotto’s island 22 Earnings on the principal 23 Certain custard pie 25 Uncommon instance 26 Base in DNA and RNA 27 Adams of photography fame 29 Hardly ruddy 30 Gallery-funding org. 31 Rachel’s biblical sister 33 Stinky sprayer with a luxuriant coat 36 Bit of rock improvising 41 Gun rights gp. 42 Make blond, maybe 43 Windows or Unix, briefly 44 1949 Peace Nobelist John - Orr 46 Person in a fam. tree 48 French for “kings” 52 Arab VIP 53 -Bator (capital of Mongolia) 55 Citrus-flavored pop 59 Of neural firing points 61 Rival of Hertz 62 Miracle- 63 - degree 64 O’er’s opposite 65 Fracas 67 Drug from poppies 69 Group with eight

counsel before making an important decision. A family member once again seeks your help. VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) That surge of Virgo energy drives you to take on more work assignments. Be careful you don’t overdo it, or you might find yourself overdone: i.e., burned out. LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Your decision to be upfront with colleagues on a touchy matter causes some consternation at first. But in the end, your honesty wins their trust and admiration. SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) As in the past, someone again wants to share a secret with you, knowing it will be safe. But do you really want to be this person’s confidante? Think about it. SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) As one of nature’s straight shooters, you seek to correct misconceptions about a project. Do so, of course, but without giving away too much too soon.

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CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Creative pursuits continue to be strong in the gifted Goat’s aspect. New friendships can come from sharing these experiences with like-minded art aficionados.

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What a perfect hat. It matches her personality. -Sharon Fleischman, Laconia, NH.

PISCES (February 19 to March 20) The perceptive Piscean might find that changing course in midstream isn’t as workable as it would seem. Explore this option carefully before making a decision. BORN THIS WEEK: Your willingness to share your love of life’s good things brings joy to many, including, of course, yourself.

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