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THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, September 14, 2017

A SPECIAL COCHECO VALLEY EDITION OF THE WEIRS TIMES NEWSPAPER. VOLUME 26, NO. 37

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High Stakes Bingo To Benefit Historical Society

This NH Born Race Driver Excels Both On and Off The Track by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor

importantly, she is living her childhood dream. “I started racing in Go Karts at twelve years old in the Junior Champ Karts at a little half-mile track in Londonderry,” said Fifield. Between the ages of five and her official entry into competitive racing, Fifield used to drive around on

4-wheelers on the families five acre property. “I always loved speed,” said Fifield. “I used to bug my parents all the time that I wanted to race. It took my parents a few years until they realized I was serious about it.” During those younger years Melissa also learned See fifield on 30

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It’s natural for a young child to dream of being an astronaut or a fireman or even a race car driver, but it’s rare when that child grows up to live that dream. “I was about five when I started going with my parents to local tracks and

to the Speedway at Loudon,” said Melissa Fifield. “I knew then that I wanted to be a race car driver.” Fifield, of Wakefield, New Hampshire, today is twenty-five years old and is in her fourth year of racing on NASCAR’s Whelen Modified Tour and currently sits in 16th place (out of 58 racers). Most

Melissa Fifield during a pit party at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park in Connecticut. Fifield, of Wakefield, NH., races in NASCAR’s Whelen Modified Tour and will be competing at NH Speedway on Saturday, Sept. 23rd. Racing since she was 12, Fifield is also owner of Pine Knoll Racing and has been voted most popular for three straight years by the fans.

The Lake Winnipesaukee Historical Society will be hosting a special High Stakes Bingo Game Saturday, Sept. 16th at the Funspot Bingo Hall. There will be $10,000 in prizes as well as big prize money on Lucky 7 pull-tab tickets. (Prizes based on attendance.) There will be an early game at 4:30 and the evening game begins at 6:45. Come early for the best seats. Doors open at 2pm. Handheld bingo computers are available while they last for a rental fee of $6. 12 and 18 card packages are available. There is a separate smoking section and food service is available. All proceeds from the game go to benefit the Lake Winnipesaukee Historical Society. Funspot is located at 579 Endicott St. N., Weirs Beach, NH.

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September Through October 2017 “The American Soldier, From the Civil War to the War in Iraq, A Photographic Tribute”

The Wright Museum, Center Street, Wolfeboro. The exhibit contains one hundred and sixteen photographs that focus on the real lives of American soldiers – Army troops and Marines – through the nine major wars America has fought since 1861. Come see this exceptional exhibition honoring the American Soldier. 569-1212

Lakes Region Curling Association – Player Registration Wolfeboro. If you love the Winter Olympics but can’t get to PyeongChang for them, do the next best thing; Play an Olympic sport right here in the Lakes Region! Lakes Region Curling Association Leagues are for men and women of all ages and experience levels. Participants can join individually, as couples, or as entire teams. The upcoming fall season runs for eight Sunday evenings from mid-October to mid-December at Pop Whalen Ice Arena in Wolfeboro. There is no equipment to buy, and new members get an introduction to the basics of the game at a “learn-to-curl” session before the season begins. Registration begins now. For more information about the rules of curling and game play, as well as registration, visit www.lakescurlingnh.org or call 498-4968

Through Sept. 15th NH Poet Laureate at Annual Book-Author Luncheon -Ticket Sales Close

Bald Peak Colony Club, 180 Bald Peak Drive, Melvin Village. The Book and Author Luncheon is the annual event to benefit the Moultonborough Public Library. Tickets are $40 each (cash or check) and are only sold from the Library, located at 4, Holland Street, Moultonborough. Ticket sales close on September 15th. This year’s guest speaker will be NH Poet Laureate Alice B. Fogel.

Thursday 14th Beer for History Folsom Tavern, 164 Water Street, Exeter. 6pm-8pm. As New Hampshire’s Revolutionary War Capital, Exeter is a town that boasts a rich history, which the American Independence Museum will celebrate with the second annual Beer for History Series. This second event in the series features 7th Settlement Brewery. Tickets are $20pp. Ticket price includes; sampling of beers, light fare, themed activity and more! Members of the American Independence Museum can purchase tickets at a discounted rate of $15pp.

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The Vietnam War, A Ken Burns Film Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 7pm. Join for a onehour preview of the long anticipated Ken Burns series, The Vietnam War. The film explores the human

dimensions of the War through an epic narrative shaped by the testimonies of nearly 80 witnesses- including American Soldiers, war protestors, and Vietnamese combatants and civilians. A facilitated discussion will follow the film. Tickets start at $10pp (Military discounts available with proper identification). www. rochesteroperahouse.com or 3351992

Lasagna Supper

Hotchkiss Commons, 71 Main Street, Union. 5:30pm-7pm. Homemade lasagna, tossed salad, rolls, coffee, punch and pies! $8/Adult, $4/ Children.

Eric Grant – Acoustic Thursday’s Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 7pm. Local favorite Eric Grant performs as you enjoy 2 for 1 appetizers at the bar. www. patrickspub.com or 293-0841

HH Holmes - Presentation

races, skiffs, and hydroplanes running in heats around a one-mile course. The public is invited to see and hear these boats run from the Wolfeboro Town Docks, there is no charge to watch the heats from the dock, but those wishing to get a closer look at the action, the Winnipesaukee Belle will be offering rides throughout the day for $12pp. For more information visit www.nhbm.org and click on the Regatta icon. 569-4554

Saturday 16th Country Line Dance

Belknap County Sportsmen Association, Lily Pond Road, Gilford. 7pm-9:30pm. Contact Bonnie 3662030

Los Lobos The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh. com or 536-2551

Gilmanton Year-Round Library, Gilmanton. 6pm. Join historians John Dickey and Pat Clarke as they delve into the gruesome and now worldwide murderous legend known as H.H. Holmes, or as we call him in his hometown of Gilmanton, Herman Webster Mudgett. Free and open to the public. 364-3400

“It Was A Very Good Year”; A Tribute to Frank Sinatra with Tony Sands

Friday 15th

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 9pm. Each week is a different Tribute to some of the great musicians, bands and genres of our time. www.patrickspub.com or 2930841

John Waite The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh. com or 536-2551

Jake Owen Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton Beach. www. casinoballroom.com or 929-4100

“It Was A Very Good Year”; A Tribute to Frank Sinatra with Tony Sands Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 8pm. www.rochesteroperahouse.com or 335-1992

Dueling Pianos – Live Music Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 9pm. Prepare for some serious fun as YOU pick the music and join in the show. www.patrickspub. com or 293-0841

Rosemary’s Baby Blues – Live Music Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. BYOB venue. www.pitmansfreightroom. com or 527-0043

Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 2pm. www.rochesteroperahouse.com or 335-1992

Tribute Night – Live Music

Swing Dance with the Tall Granite Big Band Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. BYOB venue. www.pitmansfreightroom. com or 527-0043

Open Air Farmers Market of New Hampton Corner of Winona & Sanborn Road, Ashland. 9am-2pm. Coffee, baked goods, hot sandwiches, handmade crafts, seasonal veggies and much more. www.openairmarketnh.com

Ashland Town Wide Yard Sale

No yard sale maps will be sold this year, but there will be a group site with many vendors in Memorial Park in the center of downtown Ashland. Next door at 37 Main Street at the American Legion, there will be sausages with peppers and onions served. The Community Church at 55 Main Street will also serve free food on the lawn. 968-7716

Awards

Northeastern Ballet Theatre’s Production of “Dracula”

Baker’s River Grange, Route 25, Rumney. 1pm-3pm. Support your local community and enjoy refreshments as the Citizen and Fireperson of the Year awards are given out! For more info contact lkphelps56@yahoo.com

Oyster River High School, Durham. 7pm. Not your “ordinary” ballet performance! Parental discretion is advised for children under 10. Tickets are $20/adults, $17.50/students, seniors or $60/family of 4. www. northeasternballet.org or 834-8834

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Fri. 15th & Sat. 16th 10th Biennial Wolfeboro Vintage Race Boat Regatta Wolfeboro Bay, Lake Winnipesaukee. 9am-5pm. This two-day event is filled with the thrilling spectacle of vintage triple cockpits, outboards, Gold Cup

Day-Night Double Header Golf Tourney to Benefit End 68 Hours of Hunger

Indian Mound Golf Course, Center Ossipee. Day-time players tee off at 4pm for 9-holes, then, starting at 6pm dinner will start, raffle prizes drawn,

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Day-Night Double Header Golf Tourney A Day/Night golf tournament to benefit the End 68 Hours of Hunger for the Wolfeboro, Tuftonboro, Ossipee, and Middleton will take place on Saturday, Sept 16th. at Indian Mound Golf Course in Ctr. Ossipee, NH This tournament will raise funds to help support the over 120 Pre-K – 6th grade kids that are in need of food from the time they have lunch at school on Friday until they receive breakfast at school on Monday morning. This local organization is run strictly by volunteers and 100% of proceeds stay in the local communities. End 68 Hours of Hunger is a non-profit 501 (C)(3) Organization. Any donation or tournament fees are tax deductible. The Day-Night format is unique in this area. Day time players will tee off at 4pm for nine holes. Then, starting at 6pm dinner will start, raffle prizes drawn (for both day and night players and guests), Silent Auction prizes will be drawn by 7:15. Then the GLO-BALL Tourney starts for another 9 holes. Both rounds are a Scramble format, so…Get a team together! The price for either of the 9-hole rounds is only $55.00 and if you would like to play both, it is only $95.00. To Register a team or as a single, please call Indian Mound Golf Course at 539-7733. We are still looking for donations of raffle prizes and silent auction items. To donate, please call Tom Loonam at 5398132. Don’t play golf? Come watch the excitement and bid on some prizes to help this excellent cause!

Hobo Harvest Time Express Fall Celebration The Hobo Railroad in Lincoln, NH announced today that their popular Fall celebration, the Hobo Harvest Time Express, will once again take place at their Hobo Junction Station in Lincoln, NH from September 16 through October 15th. Referred to by many as “New Hampshire’s Classic Fall Foliage Experience”, the Hobo Railroad takes on an entirely new look for Autumn with the addition of the Hobo Farm Stand that’s stocked with NH MADE products as well as a huge selection of pumpkins from the Moulton Farm in Meredith, NH. Meanwhile, the Hobo Farm Yard is filled with games for all ages. The one hour and twenty-minute round-trip train rides along the Pemigewasset River between Lincoln and Woodstock, NH afford wonderful views of the Fall colors. While on the train, passengers will also be treated to complimentary samples of various New Hampshire made Fall-themed items such as Maple Drops, Pumpkin Granola or Apple Cider – samples will vary daily. Departure times for the Fall train rides are 11am and 1pm daily, with 3pm trains available on the following weekend dates: September 23 & 30 as well as October 1, 7, 8, 14 & 15, 2017. In addition, the Hobo Railroad’s now-famous life-sized scarecrows known as “Cornstalk Critters” will be on display and available to pose with between 10:00am and 3:00pm daily. Created exclusively for the Hobo Railroad by the talented artists at the Annalee Doll Co. in Meredith, NH, this year’s Cornstalk Critter theme is “Scarecrows of Sports”. This year’s mix of eight straw-filled, life-sized characters include Bobby Orr, Larry Bird, David Ortiz, Tom Brady, Richard Petty, Muhammad Ali and NH’s own Bode Miller. The year’s Cornstalk Critters will once again have traditional hand-painted Annalee Doll faces. Tickets for the Hobo Harvest Time Express which is open daily September 16 through October 15 are $20 for adults and $15 for children 3-11, while ages 2 and under are free. Special pricing is also available for groups of twenty or more with a single payment. The Hobo Railroad is conveniently located in Lincoln, NH, just off Exit 32 on I-93, left on Route 112, directly across from McDonalds. For more information regarding the Hobo Railroad’s Hobo Harvest Time Express, visit www.HoboRR.com or call (603) 745-2135.

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*A FLATLANDER’S OBSERVATIONS ON LIFE

What Was I Thinking?

by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor

Last week I took the week off from this column. I used the old editor’s trick of putting in a blurb before the column that explained that we were running an old column because I was “on vacation.” I am here to admit right now that you were duped. There was no vacation. I was right here, just like I always am, sitting at my laptop trying to figure out just what in the heck to write about, but nothing was coming. I twisted and turned and agonized and….gee, that’s not the truth either. I didn’t agonize at all. There really wasn’t even much twisting and turning. In fact, there really wasn’t much of anything happening. I had nothing, so I turned to the old “on vacation” trick and figured I’d get it together in a week and get back on track. I apologize. Still, a week has come and gone and life got in the way and I sit here again today with not much to go on. But, I refuse to fall back on the old vacation trick. I’m always reading about how you can be and do anything you want if you really put your mind to it and think hard. In fact, there are people out who thought really hard about becoming rich and they discovered that if

they wrote books telling people that all you have to do to be rich and successful is to think hard about it then they could become rich and successful themselves. Today those people are millionaires. It’s not a bad thing to try and motivate people to go after what they want, but it is a bad idea to make them believe that they can get there while sitting on a couch in their underwear eating a pint of Haagen-Dazs. I don’t think it works that way. Still, without any ideas gestating in my head, I thought I’d give the whole “think hard and it will happen” idea a try. After all, it couldn’t hurt and I really had no other choice. I didn’t have time to read a whole book about the process of turning thoughts into reality, after all, it is football season. I did find a few websites that offered advice. I went to the one that explained how to do it in five easy steps. Perfect. I sat and closed my eyes and tried to eliminate all other thoughts from my mind. Unfortunately, all I could think about was not having any thoughts which led to how hard it was to think like this which led to me thinking about the drip in the kitchen sink which led to me thinking about if I could get away with another day of not having to cut the lawn. Finally, I settled my mind down and really began concentrating on a column. “Give me a column, give me a column, give me a column,” I repeated over and over in my mind. After about twenty minutes of this I started to get hungry, but I didn’t want to leave my keyboard unless the

big idea came. I closed my eyes and switched my thoughts to making a big salad and salmon dinner appear on my kitchen table. It didn’t happened, so I had to get up and make it myself. So now I am sitting here again trying to focus on an idea for this column, but I am striking out. I am really concentrating, but nothing is coming. I know many of you look forward to this column each week and I am trying hard not to disappoint. Okay, I am going to give this one last try. I am going to close my eyes, take a deep breath, try to eliminate all other thoughts from my head and focus. “Give me a column, give me a column, give me a column!” Wait! I think it just came to me. Yes, what a great idea! Why didn’t I think of this before. It actually worked. This may end up being one of the best columns I have ever written. Genius, in fact! Oh no. Looks like I’ve run out of space. It looks like you’ll have to wait until next week. What do you think of that? Join Brendan as “Real Stories North Of Concord” hosts another StorySlam at Pitman’s Freight Room in Laconia on Thursday, September 28th. Up to twelve storytellers will be picked to tell their 6-minute story based on the theme “Acts Of Kindness.” The slam starts at 7:30 and admission is $20 with all net proceeds going to benefit American Red Cross Hurricane Relief. Find out more at www.BrendanTSmith. com

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There Is No Such Thing As a ‘Deserving DREAMer’ Over and over again, from the mouths of politicians in both parties, identity politics purveyors and cheap labor lobbyists, by Michelle Malkin we hear the Syndicated Columnist same refrains about President Obama’s 800,000 amnestied illegal alien youths: “They don’t deserve to be punished.” “They deserve protection.” “They deserve the American dream.” Deserve, deserve, deserve. Over and over again, in countless cookie-cutter op-ed pieces published over the past month, so-called DREAMers have vociferously lamented President Donald Trump’s push to eventually undo their unconstitutional five-year reprieves from deportation plus coveted work permits: “DREAMers like me have flourished under DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). Trump might take it all away.” “If Trump ends DACA, DREAMers like me will return to a life of anxiety and doubt.” “I feel exhausted, I feel frustrated, I feel angry, and in the worst moments, I feel helpless. I feel terrified that at any moment this program is going to be taken away and once again I won’t be able to work -- how will I pay my bills? ... What is going to happen to me if I get stopped on the street and I no longer have DACA? What’s going to happen to me if I get put into deportation proceedings and I don’t have thousands of dollars to hire an attorney to stay in this country?”

“I will lose my job, my ability to finish college, my driver’s license, and will be subject to deportation. I am not alone either. Almost one million young immigrants like myself will be affected in the same way and possibly even worse.” I, I, I. Me, me, me. My bills. My ego. My education. My job. My anxiety. Since when did DACA become the Depression and Anxiety Cure for Amnesty-seekers? It’s this insatiable appetite for collective entitlement that demonstrates the perils of blanket amnesty. Give a privileged political class an inch and they’ll take, take, take until feckless public servants give away their country. The proper response to illegal alien activists demanding that Washington act “NOW!” to preserve their comfort, allay their anxieties and extend their unconstitutional protections indefinitely is this: Why? Americans in uniform who’ve dedicated their lives to defending our nation are struggling to gain access to quality health care they’ve earned by action, not by accident or circumstance. Imagine their stress. Five million American young people between 16-34 were unemployed last year and 50 million more are not even in the labor force. Imagine their anxiety. Hundreds of thousands of lawabiding people from around the world are waiting patiently for their backlogged visa and green card applications to be reviewed. Imagine their frustration. Why don’t their dreams come first? Nancy Pelosi called on House

Trump Gets DACA Right

Even in our divided politics, it should be a matter of consensus that the president of the United States can’t write laws by Rich Lowry on his own. Contributing Writer That’s what President Ba rack Obama did twice when he unilaterally granted amnesties to swaths of the illegal immigrant population. The courts blocked one of these measures, known as DAPA, and President Donald Trump has now begun the process of ending the other, DACA, on a delayed, rolling basis. In a country with a firmer commitment to its Constitution and the rule of law, there’d be robust argument over how to deal with the DACA recipients -- so-called DREAMers who were brought here by their illegal-immigrant parents as children -- but no question that Congress is the appropriate body for considering the matter, not the executive branch. Instead, President Trump is See malkin on 34 getting roundly denounced by all

his usual critics for inviting Congress to work its will. His decision is a relatively modest way to roll back what is clearly an extralegal act. The president goes out of his way to minimize disruption for current DACA recipients. The administration will stop accepting new applications for the program but will continue to consider two-year renewals for recipients whose status is expiring between now and March 5. This gives Congress a six-month window for its own solution before anyone’s status changes. The proximate cause of the Trump decision was a threat by the attorney general of Texas and other states to bring a suit challenging the legality of DACA. Attention had to be paid, because Texas and other states successfully got the other Obama unilateral amnesty, DAPA, enjoined by the courts. In a Facebook post, Obama waves off the legal challenge. He says DACA is based “on the well-established legal principle of prosecutorial discretion.” He maintained the exact same

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Will there be conflict on the Korean peninsula? Shall the long simmering tinderbox finally explode in a by John J. Metzler nuclear flash? Syndicated Columnist Or shall everybody step back from the brink, take a deep breath and allow diplomacy to finally defuse this ticking time bomb in Korea? The answer rests with one man: North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un. So far Comrade Kim’s reckless behavior with the sixth nuclear test and a rash spate of missile firings including a rocket over Japan, hardly argues for the peaceful path. Yet any conflict on the divided Korean peninsula evokes a nightmare military scenario where South Korea’s bustling and prosperous capital remains precipitously close to the demilitarized zone (DMZ) and a likely onslaught of punishing North Korean artillery barrages. North Korea’s million man army poses a lethal conventional force and has for a long time; the addition of the nuclear equation ups the strategic ante to a dangerously new level not only for neighboring South Korea, but for Japan, and the U.S. Pacific island of Guam. UN Secretary General Antonio

Guterres warned, “The latest nuclear and missile tests by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea are profoundly destabilizing for regional and international security. I condemn them unequivocally.” Antonio Guterres added forcefully, “Yet again, the DPRK has needlessly and recklessly put millions of people at risk, including its own citizens already suffering drought, hunger and serious violations of their human rights.” The Secretary General’s comments came in the wake of an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council following Pyongyang’s sixth nuclear test, possibly of a Hydrogen bomb. American Ambassador Nikki Haley warned, “Enough is Enough.” She presented a lengthy list of UN Security Council resolutions being flaunted, adding, despite the efforts of the past 24 years, Pyongyang’s nuclear missile program was more dangerous than ever before. Ambassador Haley stated, that North Korea’s Kim Jong-un was “begging for war.” Yet the Security Council’s recent meeting comes less than a month after the fifteen member Council met and unanimously passed a tough set of economic sanctions on the rogue communist regime. Sanctions include a ban on North Korean exports of coal, iron ore, and seafood.

Shortly thereafter Kim Jong-un threatened to blast the U.S. Pacific island of Guam off the map. South Korea’s Ambassador Cho Tae-yul called for tough and biting sanctions including an oil embargo. He called on

Pyongyang to “choose a path of denuclearization, which was the only option and right way to ensure its survival.” While the People’s Republic of China has been a longtime

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Seeing Alternatives I just got new glasses — without going to an optometrist. It’s another innovation made possible by the internet. Going to an opby John Stossell tometrist can Syndicated Columnist be a pain. You have to leave work, get to an optometrist’s office, sit in a waiting room and then pay an average of $95 (in my town). But I got a prescription for just $50 — without leaving my computer. This is possible thanks to a company called Opternative (“optometry alternative”). The company claims its online test is just as good as an in-person eye exam. I was skeptical. It’s over the internet! How can a computer replicate what optometrists do in their offices with impressive-looking machines? “This is the beauty of technology,” answered Dick Carpenter, director of strategic research for the libertarian law firm the Institute for Justice. Carpenter researched Opternative’s test and concludes that it is just as good as an in-person exam. “Sometimes better, some research has indicated.” Here’s how it works: First, you answer some medical questions. Then, while holding your cellphone, you follow prompts on the phone while looking at your computer screen, selecting which lines look sharper, or which numbers you see. One day later, they send you a prescription. Mine exactly matched the prescription I got from my ophthalmologist, a medical doctor who charges much more. Fast, cheap, and easy. So naturally, optometrists want this alternative banned. “This is really foolhardy and really dangerous,” said former American Optom-

etric Association president Andrea Thau on “Good Morning America.” She wouldn’t do an interview with me. Nor would anyone else from her Association — despite our sending them emails for a month. I assume they knew I’d mock them for trying to ban the competition. Which they are trying to do. They wrote the FDA that the at-home test “should be taken off the market.” What they’re really saying is that patients should not have the right to make any choices in their own vision care. The optometrists are bottleneckers. “Bottleneckers: Gaming the Government for Power and Private Profit” is the title of Dick Carpenter’s new book. He studies how established professionals use government to limit competition. Cosmetologists get laws passed that force hair-braiders to spend $5,000 on useless courses and tests. Restaurants limit food trucks. Established florists ban newcomers. Optometrists want to ban Opternative’s test. Bottleneckers like them have clout in legislatures because their lobbyists give politicians money. They persuaded 13 states to draft bills that would ban at-home tests. In South Carolina, then-Governor Nikki Haley vetoed the ban, correctly calling it anti-competitive. But the legislators were beholden to the optometrists’ lobby; they overrode her veto. The optometrists say that a home test is too risky because no doctor is there to look for diseases. I confronted Opternative’s spokesman about that. He said the test’s questionnaire filters out sick people by asking questions like: “Any health conditions? ... pregnancy, nursing, diabetes ... Any medication that affects your vision? ... Sertraline, Amitriptyline...?” Obviously, a questionnaire is not See stossell on 34

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the sense of accomplishment of standing at the Master’s station in that downstairs room reserved for the junior version of the farm organization and later advancing to be part of the adult version only to lose contact with the Grange upon leaving New Hampton to pursue ministry opportunities. But as I stood in the cemetery across the road and looked at the empty space where the historic hall had been I noticed a gravestone marking the death of a girl at age nineteen, a young wife – a life ended at much less than the Hall’s 191, and understood that only the spiritual is eternal, and all buildings will have an end. Moreover, the view opened up by the removal of the Grange Hall is a pleasant one; as one sees the green hillside that becomes the primary feature. I was hoping to hear something from what was left of the Grange Hall, to have a feeling that it See smith on 28

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Thursday 21st John Popper The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 5362551

9th Annual NHARNG Retiree Luncheon Edward Cross Training Complex, 722 Riverwood Drive, Pembroke. All retired NH Army National Guard are invited to take part in the Annual Luncheon. The Planning Committee asks if you know of someone who has retired from NHARNG to pass this information along. RSVP to Command Sergeant Major (Ret) David Follansbee via email dave_follansbee@ comcast.net or 623-7757

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Annual Chicken Barbecue

Belknap County Sportsmen Association, Lily Pond Road, Gilford. BBQ Chicken, Corn on the Cob, homemade potato salad and dessert. Tickets are $15pp and a maximum of 110 tickets will be sold. Tickets can be bought by calling Herbie Ainsworth at 267-6185. SOME tickets MAY be available at the door, but best to get them in advance.

Eastern Coyote in New England

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“The Art of the House Party” Celebrates the Kimball Jenkins’ Legacy of Style Kimball Jenkins Estate, 266 North Main Street, Concord. 6pm. Dine on a lavish, fivecourse meal prepared by Chef Chris Roscoe of O Steaks & Seafood in the Kimball Jenkins Estate and mix and mingle with artists who have created an exhibit of mansion-inspired artwork, including party dress sculptures, oversize charcoal drawings, and teapots that play with history. Hors d’oeuvres at 6pm, dinner at 7pm. Tickets are $75pp, seating is limited, reservations required. www.

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from Meredith visited New Hampton Grange last Friday night for inspection. There were many members and visitors present. The program consisted of singing, music, discussion, paper, farce and news of the week. An excellent salad supper was served by Tayor Heath and wife, Mrs. Edgerly, Miss Maud Tilton, and S.J. Clay. The Grange program for March will include a discussion : ‘Resolved, that the farmer’s wife of today is happier than the farmer’s wife of fifty years ago.’” However, some may have difficulty in forgetting what might have been if “the old house” was re-

Visting Grange officials at an event at the New Hampton Grange Hall years ago. turned to its original home beside the old town house. A lot of time and work had been spent in figuring out how that scenario could be possible. The building had its beginning as the chapel of the New Hampton Academy, had been moved to the Village and used as the Commercial building of the New Hampton Literary Institute, and then given to the Grange and moved down the street to its final location as the Grange Hall. Early in the 20th century, Principal Preston of the Institute had announced that the school would undertake “improvements on a big scale. He said new buildings were to be constructed and “The Center house, Lodge, Commercial hall, Club house, and the old gymnasium are to be removed.” All

this in preparation for the school’s 100th anniversary celebration in 1921. The building that was to become the Grange Hall escaped destruction at that time and was given to the Grange. When the interest in the local Grange declined the property was sold to the New Hampton Community Church which decided it now has no use for the building and, when the town residents decided they also had no use for the building, it was quickly demolished. Consequently, come Old Home Days future, there will be no old school building come home to its former place beside the Town House, and no fulfilled dreams of those who pictured a community building used by various town organizations as a means of bringing its scattered residents together. The Bible says there is “a time to break down and a time to build up” and “a time to keep, and a time to throw away.” Decisions of that kind are made every day. The memories and the stories remain as does some of the impact of the Grange on the town. The past, in one sense, is always with us. Though we look to the future, there is a sense in which tomorrow never comes. It is wise to learn from the past and to plan and prepare for the future while remembering that what we do is always done today. The Grange #123 represented the farmers of New Hampton for many years, and agriculture in many

different aspects is still a part of life in New Hampshire, and the Grange still exists in the state. Returning to a previous time, like 1902, the Lake and Valley Pomona Grange held their sixth annual field day at Kelley Park in Bristol with about 325 people attending. The Worthy Master George E. Price opened the meeting at 2:30 explaining that “… the object of this gathering was to demonstrate to outsiders the work of the organization and its purposes.” After a selection by the Bristol Cornet band and prayer by the chaplain the State Master of the Grange, H.O. Hadley of Peterboro was introduced. He talked about the flourishing condition of the Grange and said “…that all were interested in one great calling – agriculture; that most anyone would do for a minister, doctor, or lawyer, but that it took a bright man to obtain the best results from mother earth. He considered that there is no better place for the boy or girl than on a New Hampshire farm, and that boys and girls are the best crop of the farm.” The “orator of the day” was Dr. George M. Twitchell of Auburn, Maine. He spoke of the success of the Grange during its 35 years of existence and encouraged farmers to do better work by engaging in larger operations and education. Dr. Twitchell said that “The building of character is the supreme duty of life ”, and emphasized the importance of the church and the school in the communities. He urged his audience to “ Get away from the low, sordid, selfish conception of the Grange as a pleasure organization, and adopt its nobler object of united efforts to make life broader and better. Gain a greater realization of the real purpose of the order - its brotherhood and sisterhood, its qualities which are rich, full, noble, and sublime.”

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els of NASCAR. Right now I am approved to only run on mile tracks, I need permission to run on anything bigger right now. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about making sure that drivers have the proper experience.â&#x20AC;? The Whelen Modifieds are different than the NASCAR Cup Series cars in body type. It is eleven inches shorter in height and about two feet wid-

er than a Cup car. The Whelenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s are also largely fabricated from sheetmetal with the front wheels and much of the front suspension exposed. Being a female driver is not as unique as it was in years past, but Melissa stands out as not only the only female driver on the Whelen Tour, but also the owner of Pine Knoll RacSee fifield on 32

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ing and is responsible for keeping her own racing career alive by keeping the financial side of the business speeding along as well. “There are no other female owner-drivers in NASCAR to speak of,” said Fifield. “Some of the teams run with half million and even million dollar budgets. So far, I have to work with what we have.” We being, Melissa, her dad and three volunteers who show up at their Wakefield home when it is time to leave for the races: Jack Rheaume, Eric Pelletier and Gary Derosier. Funding helps Melissa to keep competitive. A new chassis for a second car was purchased last winter. Having two cars helps in dealing with things like differences in race tracks. Another recent purchase was a trailer to hold the two cars as well a other equipment having all the parts needed for any circumstance. Melissa has picked up corporate sponsors such as Eastern Propane and

Melissa last week at Oswego Speedway in Oswego NY. Oil, Dube Plus Construction, LFR and Airgas. “I also get a lot of smaller, but much appreciated, support from people in the Wakefield area and other parts of New Hampshire,” said Fifield. “Sometimes someone will give us

some money for a tank of gas and things like that. I gratefully take anything from a dollar to a million dollars.” Each year Melissa holds a meet and greet in Wakefield and invites people from the community.

Melissa is also partnered with New Hampshire Dept. of Safety. “I’ve gotten this far in my career and I wanted to give back,” said Fifield. “I am very passionate about safety on the road and I go to high schools and

talk with teenagers about safety in paying attention, wearing seatbelts and even how race cars relate to passenger cars and how a lot of car safety features come from race cars.” Melissa also balances all of this by working a full-time job in the Internet Department of a car dealer. In the four years that Melissa has raced on the Whelen Modified Tour, she has been the fan favorite by being voted three years to win “The Most Popular Driver” Award. “I love to interact with the fans,” said Fifield. “I think it stems back to when I was a child and being a fan myself. It was very special to me. So, whenever I see a fan I do my best to talk with them, say hi, see how they are doing.” Melissa’s dream is to one day be racing on the big Sunday stage, but she knows that takes time and finding the finances, but she is patient as she is enjoying every moment of the ride.

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own amnesty absent congressional action -- before doing just that. Now, Trump is giving Congress another chance. It isn’t hard to see the parameters of a deal: a codification of DACA, putting it on firm legal footing, in exchange for enforcement measures. Whatever Congress arrives at, it will have more legitimacy than the jerry-rigged legislating of a president wielding a pen and a phone. President Trump has exercised his powers foolishly at times, but he’s never exceeded them. What Obama calls, pejoratively, the White House shifting “its responsibility for these young people to Congress” is really just basic civics. Congress writes the laws, even when it’s not to Barack Obama’s liking.

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