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Festival of Trees In Rochester

Former Navy SEAL Highlights Swim With A Mission Event At Skip’s by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor

halls and VFW events with them,” said Phil. “What affected us most was not the candidates’ speeches, it was the veterans who got up and talked about what it was like to be a veteran in New Hampshire and we were appalled. We had no sense of what it was like

and we decided we were going to do something to help.” The Taubs did some research and decided they were going to come up with exciting and fun events that would raise funds. Their first event “Swim See seals on 32

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On Saturday, November 11th, Skip’s Sport Shop in Bristol was the setting for the latest fundraiser organized by “Swim With A Mission”, a new organization whose focus is to raise awareness and money for

veterans and the organizations that serve them. The organization, started by Phil and Julie Taub, came about after their involvement with the 2016 Presidential election. “We were involved with some of the candidates and we went to a lot of town

James Olsen (center) former Navy Seal recently gave a fascinating presentation on what it takes to become a SEAL at Skip’s Sport Shop in Bristol. With Olsen are Skip Reilly (L) and Sue Williamson. In front is a Nemo Arms Rifle 6.5 brendan smith Photo Creedmoor which was raffled off as a fundraiser for the Swim With A Mission organization.

Rochester Main Street is hosting the second annual Festival of Trees event on Saturday, December 2nd from 4pm to 8pm held at Studley’s Flower Garden’s greenhouse at 82 Wakefield Street. The public is invited to attend and enter to win from dozens of decorated trees, generously donated by area businesses and organizations. Enjoy light refreshments as you enjoy the holiday festivities, and delight in caroling beginning at 5pm. Admission is just $5 and includes 5 raffle tickets. Kids enter free and can visit Santa starting at 6pm. The decorated trees will be raffled at 8pm. Winners can pick up the trees that evening or the following day. Additional raffle tickets will be available. Proceeds from the evening will benefit downtown Rochester promotions and events. Parking is available in the rear parking lot next door at the Governor’s Inn. If your business or organization would like to decorate a tree, contact the Rochester Main Street office at 603-330-3208 or director@rochestermainstreet.org.

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Winterware Drive Drop off location is the Edward Jones office, 14 Main Street, Meredith, between the hours of 9am to 4pm Monday – Friday. Meredith Altrusa is sponsoring the drive to collect gently used boots, coats, hats and gloves for those in the community needing to keep warm this winter. All donations will be distributed to local food pantries and organizations for distribution to our neighbors in need.

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Through Dec. 3rd Olde Country Christmas

Two Sisters Garlic at Clough Tavern Farm, 23 Clough Tavern Road, Canterbury. Weekdays 11am-4pm or by appointment, Weekends 9am-5pm. Enjoy 10 days of holiday shopping with a diversified and eclectic collection of 44 local artisans’ confections and creations, antiques and more! 7834287

Through Dec. 17th Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas – The Musical” The Music Hall, 28 Chestnut Street, Portsmouth. This production features Sally Struthers! www.themusichall. org or 436-2400

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evening will wind down around 8pm back at Memorial Park where the Town Christmas Tree will be lit by Santa to officially kick off the Christmas season. For more information, call David at 968-7716

Midnight Merriment with InTown Concord

Downtown Concord, NH. 5pmmidnight. Shop, Dine and Be Merry with downtown Concord businesses. Get in the Holiday Spirit while supporting local, small businesses.

Scott Spradling Band Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. BYOB venue. www.pitmansfreightroom.com or 527-0043

Annual Holiday Celebration at Folsom Tavern

Folsom Tavern at the American Independence Museum, downtown Exeter. Featuring a silent auction, costumed re-enactors, live music and more! For further information contact Emma at 772-2622

Fri. 1st – Sun. 3rd Plymouth’s 2017 Holiday Celebration

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Festival of Trees begins at 10:30am on Saturday with beautifully decorated trees on display at the Senior Center. Parade will be Saturday at 5pm and much more! For more information and a schedule visit www. plymouthnhrotary.org or 236-6587

Fri. 1st – Fri. 8th

Trivia Night!

Hart’s Restaurant, 233 Daniel Webster Highway, Meredith. 7pm. 279-4433

Altrusa of Meredith Hosts 22 Annual Festival of Trees Preview Party

Waukewan Golf Club, 166 Waukewan Road, Center Harbor. 5:30pm-8pm. A new format for the party will showcase four area restaurants, featuring their most popular hearty hors d’oeuvres. Participating restaurants donating their goodies and their wait staff are; George’s Diner, Giuseppe’s, Lakehouse Boutique Catering and Moulton Farm Kitchen. Preview party guests will have the opportunity to bid on a selection of silent auction prizes, win great raffle prizes, and, as always, view the beautifully decorated trees in a rustic barn setting. $25pp, can be purchased at the Meredith Chamber of Commerce or at Cackleberries, 419 DW Highway, both in Meredith. www.

31st Annual Mix Cash and Cans Mix 94.1fm’s Fred Caruso and morning co-host Amy Bates will broadcast live from over 20 locations in the Lakes Region to accept your cash and/ or cans donations! Last year raised over $39k in cash and over 30,000 non-perishable food items! All monies and food raised stays local, benefiting several area organizations. Donations can also be made by mail. Please make checks payable to Mix Cash and Cans and mail to Mix 94.1fm, PO Box 941, Franklin, NH 03235. www. mix941fm.com or contact Fred at

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TTCC Jingle Mingle 5K

Tapply-Thompson Community Center, 30 North Main Street, Bristol. Registration begins at 9:30am, race starts at 10am. $20pp/pre-registration, $25pp/day of. 744-2713

Demo Day

Art Works Gallery, 132 White Mtn Highway, Chocorua. Starting at 10am, Marty Koons will show you the art of Beading, followed by JP Goodwin from 1:30-5pm leading a demonstration in traditional rug hooking. Free and open to the public. 733-8299

Shopping Extravaganza

The Hopkinton Library and Slusser Center, Houston Drive, Contoocook. 10am-4pm. Something for everyone with a huge variety of vendors!

Thomas Pandolfi - Piano Concert

Anderson Hall, 205 South Main Street, Wolfeboro. 7:30pm. Wfriendsofmusic. org or 569-2151

2nd Annual Festival of Trees Hosted by Rochester Main Street

Studley’s Flower Gardens Greenhouse, 82 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 4pm – 8pm. The public is invited to attend and enter to win from dozens of wonderfully decorated trees, generously donated by area businesses and organizations. Enjoy light refreshments as you enjoy the holiday festivities, and delight in caroling beginning at 5pm. Admission is $5pp and includes 5 raffle tickets. Kids can enter free and can visit with Santa at 6pm. Trees will be raffled at 8pm. 330-3208

Fred Marple New Boston Community Church, 2 Meetinghouse Hill Road, New Boston. 7pm. This event features Fred Marple, the unofficial spokesman for the mythical town of Frost Heaves, NH, and plenty of humorous songs and singalongs for those who feel so inspired! Tickets are $15pp/advance at New Boston Hardware or $20 at the door. www.

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December F 1 Christmas Night in Ashland

St. Nicholas Fair

One Capital Plaza, 81 North Main Street, Concord. 9am-6pm. www.

Downtown Ashland. Most events will take place between 5pm and 7pm on Main Street and Highland Street, Ashland, with the venues all within a short walking distance. There will be pictures with Santa at the library, an opportunity to remember our veterans during the holidays by filling out Christmas cards and making ornaments at the American Legion Hall; as well as a scavenger hunt, and much, much more! There will be a Christmas Concert at the Ashland Community Church at 7pm, and the

Grace Episcopal Church, 30 Eastman Street, Concord. 9am-noon. Affordable one-of-a-kind holiday gifts, hand-knit treasures, second hand jewelry, home baked goods and more! 224-2252

LRGH Auxiliary’s Annual Tree of Life Ceremony

LRGH’s Atrium, 80 Highland Street, Laconia. 4:30pm. The ceremony will include a reading of the names on The Tree of Love, and will be followed with some light refreshments and fellowship. All are welcome. 737-1025

A 1960’s Christmas At Rochester Historical Society

Twin Designs Gift Shop, 8 Central Square, Bristol. 9am-5pm. The public is invited to celebrate Diane’s 49th Birthday with free donuts, cookies, drinks and at 12 noon, Diane’s Birthday Cake! There will also be face painting by Claire Dumond.

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

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The Interlakes Children’s Theatre will be holding a Talent Show as a fundraiser for the organization on Saturday, December 2nd at 3:00 at the Meredith Community Center at One Circle Drive, Meredith. The show will feature children from Meredith, Plymouth, Franklin, Laconia, Holderness, Moultonborough. They will be singing-pop and musical theatre, dancing including Irish Step, as well as a musicians and a comedy sketch. Fran Page of Plymouth will MC the event and Josh Martin will accompany the musical acts. There will also be a table with baked goods for sale, and a special shopping table where children may shop for very affordable small holiday gifts for parents, grandparents and siblings. Tickets for the event are $10 for adults, $8. for seniors, and $5. for children. Tickets are available at the door or can be purchased in advance online at interlakestheatre.com or by calling 603 707-6035.

Celebrate Diane-the-Turtle’s 49th Birthday!

Lakes Region Community College, 379 Belmont Road, Laconia. 9amnoon. Faculty and staff representing each academic program will be on hand to answer questions and help students through the process, from start to finish. Students registering at the Open House will have the registration fee waived. For more info, contact Carlene Rose at 366-5225

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Interlakes Children’s Theatre Rising Star Talent Show

Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers

Cobblestone Flowers & Gifts – Holiday Open House

cobblestonedesigncompany.com or 228-5980

The Rochester Historical Society’s annual Christmas Open House, A 1960’s Ch ristma s, will b e held on Thursday, December 14, from 1 to 5 PM at the HistoriChristmas decorations on Central cal Society Museum Square by the Parson Main on Hanson Street in downtown Rochester. monument in Rochester in 1962. The Museum is decorated for the holidays and decorations from the 1960s will be featured. The current museum displays focus on Rochester in the 1960s. Come and reminisce and learn more about this tumultuous decade. All are welcome to attend. Holiday refreshments with a 1960’s party theme will be served. Admission is free. For more information please call 330-3099 or e-mail rochesterhistorical@metrocast.net.

Have Breakfast WIth Santa In Bristol Join Santa for a free breakfast at the Union Masonic Lodge, 61 Pleasant Street in Bristol on Saturday, December 9th from 7-10am Enjoy a holiday breakfast while children present their Christmas wishes to Santa. Every child will receive a gift from Santa. A boy’s and a girl’s bicycle will also be given away to two lucky winners. After breakfast, take home some holiday treats from the Friends of the Minot-Sleeper Library’s annual Cookie Buffet being held at the Lodge on Dec. 8th (3:00 to 6:00 PM) and concurrently with the breakfast on Dec 9th (8:00 AM to Noon). Donations for cookies benefit the Minot-Sleeper Library.

Sunday 3rd Dover Elks Hoop Shoot

The Works Family Health & Fitness Center, 23 Works Way, Somersworth. Registration begins at 8:30am, Event is 9am-11am. Open to all boys and girls ages 8 to 13 (proof of age required). Free admission. 867-0285

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Well, Black Friday has come and gone. Once again millions of people across the country took an early leave of their celebrations with their family and friends to instead mingle with millions of strangers who had also taken leave of their family and friends, to get the best deal on the latest technology that they will be anxious to replace with even newer technology next Black Friday when they leave their celebrations again. It’s a vicious circle. I’ve never shopped on Black Friday which actually starts on Thursday night and continues into Sunday. Sunday night people rest up, have a nice meal and a good night’s sleep in order to be ready to tackle Cyber Monday. There are some seasoned Black Friday to Cyber Monday professionals out there who can utilize these ninety-six hours of round the clock shopping to score some really great deals, all in the spirit of peace on earth and goodwill towards all men (and women). I have yet to participate in any of this frenzy. The thought of leaving the comfort of my warm home on a cold evening on a day off after just having consumed a large meal with important people in my life I haven’t spent nearly enough time with in order to get a new smartphone or a cheap pair of pants, never appealed to me like

it does to others. I actually like to take part in what some of us call Dark Whatever Day, which is whatever day is two days before Christmas. Dark Whatever Day is when we realize that the time for procrastination is over. We now need to use those forty-eight hours to their fullest potential in gathering whatever presents might still be left to be had; a few of them might actually be on our Christmas lists we have been adding to, but otherwise ignoring, since Thanksgiving. The feel of Dark Whatever Day is much different than Black Friday. It is now the final countdown. Once smiling faces of anticipation towards the big day a few weeks away are now faces of panic and chaos. I am not alone. There are many others like me. Those of us who scoffed at the insane crowds of the day after Thanksgiving as well as the insane crowds of every weekend thereafter until our time was finally up. We wend our way past the mall Santa who doesn’t give a “Ho, Ho, Ho” and a hearty smile as we pass but a “Oh Oh Oh,” and a frown as he glances at his watch. I know, as does the other Dark Whatever Day shoppers, that the pickings will be slim. Odds are good that the blue blouse with the tapered shoulders that our better halves saw when shopping a few weeks ago and told us they would like for Christmas when we asked them while watching college football, will no longer be there. Even though you might not get the best deal which is, after all, what Christmas is all about, Dark Whatever Day, breeds creativity. Anyone can get that great Black Friday

deal. It is when there is nothing of significance left to choose from that the synapses of the brain kick in. If it wasn’t for Black Whatever Day shopping people would never own things like decorative ice cream scoop warmers or gloves that display the time and temperature. Some of the really great gifts get looked over when your focus is only on certain things. Even the store cashiers are a bit off on Dark Whatever Day. You can see it in their eyes. They have had just about enough and are near the end of their ropes. Once in awhile one might even slip and give you a half-hearted “Merry Christmas” forgetting all their training of only saying “Happy Holidays” so as not to offend those people who are just waiting to be offended. I think, if the marketers were smarter, they would promote Dark Whatever Day. Of course, there are ads about last minute deals which appear, well, at the last minute. They just don’t feel personal. The Black Friday crowd feel special when they see those ads that are geared towards them that start weeks before Thanksgiving. Dark Whatever Day shoppers could use a little of that shopping love ourselves. We have an important place in all of this too. After all, if it wasn’t for us would any home actually have a battery-operated toast butterer? Brendan is the author of “The Flatlander Chronicles” and “Best Of A F.O.O.L In New Hampshire” both which are available at his website www.BrendanTSmith. com as well as at the office of The Weirs Times.

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of 75% for those whose earnings were 5 million dollars or more. The income tax on corporations in 1936 was assessed as a “normal tax “ and a “surtax”. The normal tax was assessed at 8% for the lowest bracket and 15% for the highest (over 40,000 dollars). The surtax for corporations was on undistributed profits and ranged from 7 per cent to 27 percent. The 1936 tax law also included excise taxes on See smith on 16

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Dumb Sensors, Deadly Consequences The circumstances of U.S. Border Patrol agent Rogelio Martinez’s death this week remain murkier than the Rio Grande River. Agent Martinez succumbed to critical head injuries early Sunday by Michelle Malkin morning. An Syndicated Columnist unnamed partner, who came to Martinez’s aid after he radioed for help from a remote area of the Big Bend sector in Texas, also suffered serious wounds. Whether by deliberate ambush or accident, one of our border enforcers is dead and the other hospitalized. This much is clear: Dumb sensors + depleted forces = deadly border disorder. Agent Martinez had ventured out alone to check on a ground sensor to determine who or what had set it off. He confirmed to his colleagues that human activity had activated the alarm before he died. Here’s the scandal: Our federal government has been squandering billions of dollars on inferior border technology for years. It’s a monumental waste of taxpayer funds and a dangerous redistribution of wealth to crony contractors, whose ineffective pet projects are putting our men and women on the front lines at risk. Nearly 14,000 ground sensors have been littered along the southern border over the past several decades -- some dating back to the Vietnam War era. Untold numbers have simply been buried and lost by federal workers who failed to record where they put them. Twelve years ago, a Department of Homeland Se-

curity inspector general’s report found that agents couldn’t determine the cause of 62 percent of the sensor alerts because they were “unable to respond to the dispatch, or it took the agent too long to get to the sensor location.” Compounding staff shortages are outdated sensors unable to distinguish between humans, vehicles and animals. They can’t tell cows from criminals or wild boars from dirty bombers. Thirtyfour percent of alerts were confirmed false alarms in the 2005 review. Only 2 percent resulted in apprehensions of immigrants in this country illegally, the feds admitted. The Arizona Republic reported that “a possible false alarm from a ground sensor, and faulty radio communications, may have contributed to the death of Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie in a friendly-fire incident” in 2012. “(A)gents didn’t detect anyone but each other when they arrived. Ivie, responding separately, apparently mistook the other agents for smugglers and opened fire. One of the agents shot and killed him.” A $1 billion integrated fixed tower project, fronted by Boeing, was supposed to remedy the flaws of the ground sensor system. A surveillance program along the southwest border in Arizona, the IFT systems “are fixed surveillance assets that provide long-range persistent surveillance” using radars that send pictures back to a central hub to monitor illegal crossings and criminal activity. But the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general reported this summer that the towers had never been properly tested for suitability and operational effectiveness. Its successors haven’t fared much better. On a trip to the Sierra Vista,

Arizona, region earlier this summer for my CRTV.com show, “Michelle Malkin Investigates,” I talked to ranchers who pointed out fancy new towers with fatal blind spots, out of reach of deep washes and heavy forests where illegal immigrants and drug

smugglers travel. “We have $50 million of infrastructure on this ranch now,” fourth-generation Arizona rancher John Ladd told me during a tour of his property, “and none of it has worked. Camera towers, See malkin on 35

Hey Bungalow Bill One of the lesser works on 1968’s The Beatles (a.k.a. The White Album) was The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, a by Ken Gorrell song mocking Northfield, NH. an American who went on a tiger hunt during a spiritual retreat in India. The Beatles had been part of that retreat, and John Lennon found mixing hunting with spiritualism discordant. One can imagine Lennon’s song-writing reaction to President Trump’s reversal of an Obama-era ruling making it virtually impossible to import some big game trophies from certain African countries. Though Trump reinstated the original ban last week, the caterwauling media – both main stream and social – made two things clear: This is an emotional issue, and few understand the connection between conservation and capitalism. Hunting is a proven conservation technique, here and in Africa. While populations of elephants, lions, and other trophy-worthy African wildlife are dwindling in some countries due to poor land management, bad government, tribal traditions, and illegal poaching, in other countries the business of big-game hunting has helped to

increase such populations. But after the Cecil the Lion incident a few years ago, journalists know they can tap a rich vein of emotion when reporting these stories. In the Trump era, journalists prefer emotion over facts. At Fox News, Army veteran and former military intelligence analyst Brett Velicovich denigrated trophy hunting, employing class-warfare rhetoric and sounding every bit like the antifa morons committing mindless violence on college campuses. America has been poorly served by our intel community in part because of “analysis” like this. Velicovich used Zimbabwe as his springboard to attack those who believe that hunting is a valid part of conservation efforts. Yes, Zimbabwe has been a political mess, bad for man and beast under the rule of its 93-year-old dictator, Mugabe. But other African nations have demonstrated tremendous successes, and last week Mugabe was removed from power. I hope current intel analysts saw that coming. For those who prefer facts over sentiment in their analysis, the reasons to support African trophy hunting are compelling. Even leftof-center media outlets have made the case. In 2010, The Economist reported that “Governments have mostly failed to protect Africa’s wildlife. But other models— involving hunters, rich conservationists See gorrell on 7

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and local farmers—are showing promise.” The article pointed to economic and social problems in Africa – not rich American hunters – as the primary reasons behind declining big game populations in some countries. To protect endangered species, “The first step is plain economics: a recognition that the wild has to pay its way.” The BBC – no part of the vast right-wing conspiracy – published a piece in 2015 pointing out that with big game hunting, “the nuances of this story are too complicated to be understood by a generation raised on films like the Lion King, and the resultant Walt Disney sentimentality towards Af-

rica’s wildlife, and who are all too eager to tweet their disapproval.” In the real world, the “Circle of Life” isn’t a poignant song; it’s bloody and brutal. It’s Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, not a cute cartoon. Are big game hunters the callow cad immortalized by the Beatles? No. In 2006, a researcher in Kenya found that eighty-six percent of hunters interviewed for a study said they preferred hunting in areas where a portion of proceeds went to local communities. Nearly fifty percent indicated they’d be willing “to pay an equivalent price for a poorer trophy if it was a problem animal that would have had to See gorrell on 35

Ready for Thanksgiving? Before you eat that turkey, I hope you think about why America has turkeys for you to eat. Most people don’t know. Everyone’s heard about that first Thanksgiving feast — Pilgrims and Indians sharing the harvest. We like the drawings of it we saw in schoolbooks — shared bounty. Fewer people know that before that first feast, the Pilgrims nearly starved. They almost starved because they acted by John Stossel the way some Bernie Sanders fans want Syndicated Columnist people to act. They farmed collectively. But communal farming creates what economists call “the tragedy of the commons.” Think about what happens if a bunch of ranchers hold land in common. Everyone brings cattle to graze. While that sounds nice, it also means every rancher has an incentive to bring lots of cattle to the pasture. They bring cow after cow until the pasture is overgrazed — destroyed. For this week’s YouTube video, I repeated an experiment economics teachers sometimes do to demonstrate the tragedy of the commons. I assembled a group of people, put coins on the floor in front of them and said, “I’ll give you a dollar for each coin you pick up. But if you leave them down there for a minute, I’ll give you two bucks per coin, and then three bucks. Each minute the coins increase in value by a dollar.” If the group waited, they’d make more money. Did they wait? No As soon as I said “Go!” everyone frantically grabbed for coins. No one wanted to wait because someone else would have gotten the money. Collective action makes people more greedy and shortsighted, not less. Then I changed the rules of the game. I divided the floor into segments, so each person had his or her own property. Then we played the game again. This time there was no coin-grabbing frenzy. Now patient people anticipated the future. “I want to reap the most benefit,” said one. “(On the previous test) I wanted it now, whereas this is going up, and it’s mine.” Exactly. When you own property, you want to preserve it, to allow it to keep producing good things. That beneficial pattern disappears under collectivism, even if the collectivists are nice people. The Pilgrims started out sharing their land. When crops were ready to harvest, they behaved like the people in my experiment. Some Pilgrims sneaked out at night and grabbed extra food. Some picked corn before it was fully ready. The result? “By the spring,” Pilgrim leader William Bradford wrote in his diary, “our food stores were used up and people grew weak and thin. Some swelled with hunger.” Adding to the problem, when people share the results of your work, some don’t work hard. The chance to take advantage of others’ joint labor is too tempting. Teenage Pilgrims were especially likely to steal the commune’s crops. Had the Pilgrims continued communal farming, this Thursday might be known as “Starvation Day” instead of Thanksgiving. See stossel on 35

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November is National Hospice Month – Let’s Define Hospice In a recent Dear Annie piece, “Death With Dignity My Way” wondered about choices in endof-life care and hospice care in particular. She asked “When the obituaries say the person died surrounded by family, did that person have a choice?” As November is National Hospice Month, and in light of the question posed above, this seems like a good opportunity to talk about

Hospice Care – what it is and certainly what it is not. Let’s start with what it is. Considered to be the model for quality, compassionate care for people facing a life-limiting illness or injury, hospice care involves a teamoriented approach to expert medical care, pain management and emotional or spiritual support expressly tailored to the patient’s needs and wishes. Support is

provided to the patient’s loved ones as well. At the center of hospice and palliative care is the belief that each of us has the right to die pain-free and with dignity and that our families will receive the necessary support to allow us to do so. Though care is primarily based in the home, enabling family members to remain together in peace, comfort, privacy and dignity, care may also be provided in

a group home, nursing home or, yes, even in a hospital. Hospice focuses on caring, not curing. A hospice team includes a Medical Director, skilled nurses, nursing assistants, social workers, spiritual counsel, a bereavement coordinator and volunteers. In many cases, additional disciplines may be added to the patient’s team. The hospice team develops a care plan that meets

each patient’s individual needs for pain management and symptom control. Care also includes assisting the patient with the emotional, psychosocial and spiritual aspects of dying, provides hospice care related drugs, medical supplies and equipment, coaches the family on how to care for the patient and provides bereavement care and counseling to surviving family and friends for up See hospice on 12

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It’s a word we are all familiar with, but what does it mean and how do we get it? “Inflammation is the body’s emergency response to an injury caused by an infection, environmental toxin, trauma or biomechanical dysfunction. There are numerous products available both on the market and by prescription to fight pain and inflammation. While anti-inflammatory drugs aren’t inherently evil, they are vastly overused and can be dangerous if abused. It’s one thing to pop a few Advil once in a while to relieve soreness, but constant use can lead to trouble. NSAIDs (such as Motrin, Naproxen and Advil) inhibit muscle protein synthesis, and chronic overuse can lead to breakdown of joint cartilage. It can also cause stomach upset and interfere with digestion. Aching knees, degenerative joints, cancer and heart disease, some prostate issues, autoimmune disease, and asthma in children to name a few are all linked to inflammation. Don’t be fooled into thinking that it just happens to the elderly. Many people are confused as to what causes their aches and pains and what to do about it. Often they will just take ibuprofen or a similar product to mask the pain. This does not really make it better; it just stops the hurt temporarily.

Short-term inflammation is normal; it only becomes a big deal when inflammation is long-term and systemic. Chronic inflammation can cause generalized joint and muscle pain, and the longer it goes on, the more likely it will lead to more serious health problem. What can you do to stop the insanity and get on the road to better to health and reduce the inflammation? Read over the list below for a guide to better health ▪ Get a proper balance of omega-6 to omega-3 fats: Prostaglandins, the lipid compounds derived from fats, can be either pro-inflammatory or antiinflammatory. The prostaglandins produced by the breakdown of omega-6 fats are mostly pro-inflammatory, and the prostaglandins produced by omega-3 fats are mostly anti-inflammatory. Dump cooking oils made with corn, safflower and other omega-6 oils; choose instead coconut oil, olive oil, or avocado or nut oils. When available choose grass-fed meat over grainfed meat, and eat more wild caught cold-water fish. ▪ Avoid Trans fats: Trans fats inhibit the enzymes responsible for breaking down omega-3 and omega-6 fats, crippling your body’s ability to process healthy fats normally. ▪ Limit refined carbohydrates: Consuming excess refined sugars contributes to inflammation both by increasing the production of pro-inflammatory prostaglandins and raising insulin levels, which isn’t catastrophic by itself, but will eventually lead to increased inflammation. ▪ Maintain a healthy weight: The more excess weight you carry as fat, the more active those fat cells are and the more inflamed you’ll be. Opt for a Mediterranean Diet and try to get lots of fresh veggies into

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The holidays arrive for most of us with a feeling that is not unlike falling into a cold lake: shock. Then, upon being shocked we hastily attempt to get everything done in a manic fury that resembles one part tornado and one part tasmanian devil. What’s left is a tired, stressed, overstretched zombie, who finds themselves just wanting the holidays to be over. Does this sound like a familiar tale? What if this year could be different? Here’s the thing: it can be different and it isn’t hard to do. It won’t cost you any money and really not all that much effort. Here is the plan: we’re going to change our focus. The change will be a transition from focusing on tasks and stress to gratitude. Dr. Robert Emmons, of UC-Davis, is one of the world’s foremost researchers on the topic and defines gratitude as: “...an affirmation of goodness. We affirm that there are good things in the world, gifts and benefits we’ve received.” So that’s it. We want to change our focus from the “have-to’s”, stress, and negatives to the good things around us. It’s a small but profound shift. Focusing on what is good in our lives and being thankful for these things can have dramatic effects. Here is a sampling of benefits that researchers have discovered to have connections to an individual’s level of gratitude: increased patience, improved sleep, decreased depression, stops overeating, increases self care (exercise, healthy eating, etc), improves/creates

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an additional 40 cents per 100lbs. An original driver’s license with the examination cost $3 in 1936 with renewals being $2. And you might be interested in knowing that the maximum speed allowed was 35 miles per hour. The New Hampshire educated Governor of Massachusetts, during World War I, in the speech he prepared to give in Concord, New Hampshire (but died before he could deliver it) expressed concern with taxes being introduced by the federal government. Governor Samuel McCall argued that taxes and services controlled by local citizens were more wisely proposed and enacted than those

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Massachusetts Governor Samuel McCall. McCall also intended to tell his Chamber of Commerce audience in Concord his opinion on government borrowing. It was basically that a rich country like ours should borrow only in the case of an emergency. Again, he expressed concern that the governing people in Washington would not respect the rights of the state and local governments. Speaking of the local government, I consulted my home town’s (New Hampton) annual report for the year 1936 to see what the town was raising from taxes and what they spent the taxpayer’s money on in the previous year. Raymond C. Smith, George Beal and Adelbert Gordon were selectmen. The town property tax rate was $2.43 and the total amount of taxes raised for all purposes was $39,404.85. Town officers received $828 for salaries and another $345.51 for expenses. Under the heading of protection of persons and property the cost of Police including the care

of tramps was $71.15, Fires cost $353.27, damage by dogs amounted to $55, and the Health Department expenses were $74.30. The maintenance of highways and bridges in the town took $7,665.45 of the taxpayers money, with the State contributing $2,000.06 for construction purposes plus over $700 of additional aid. The citizens of New Hampton, through their tax money, shared $3,110.25 with their poor with another $312.25 paid out in old age pensions. Laconia Hospital received $300 and $170 was used for patriotic purposes, while water tubs drank another $9.60. Tax payments for the school district were $14,299.80, State taxes were $3,735, and the County tax from our town was $7,807.40. So if you want to compare figures and opinions about taxes, I offer you this information from the past as food for thought and maybe something more.

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to realize when looking at alcohol percent or ABV. Nitro is rated at 45 IBUs (International Bittering Units used to calculate bittering in beer) while the bigger 17% ABV of World Wide is 75 IBUs. Given that they have different ABVs, the IBUs follow to balance making them more similar in taste. Both have a tan or mocha head which departs rather quickly. Wake Up Dead Nitro is a Russian Imperial Stout (10.2%) while World Wide is just plain monstrous coming in at 17% ABV. They both have that boozy bourbon nose a follower looks for but the smoothness is what we are looking for here in this head-to-head matchup. Having a higher alcohol volume always runs the risk of being too boozy. Like we saw last week, Dragon Milk Stout drank like a 5% beer but in fact was 11%. The same is true with Wake Up Dead

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“Best Christmas Concert Ever” - Carter Mountain Brass Band

Carter Mountain Brass Band will present their annual Christmas concert on Sunday, December 3rd at 3pm in the sanctuary of First United Methodist Church on Rt. 11A in Gilford (18 Wesley Way). Entitled “The Best Christmas Concert Ever, the music will include arrangements of traditional carols, a medley from the “Polar Express”, the ever popular “Sleigh Ride”, and a Christmas carol singa-long. In addition to the band selections, there will be a bass trombone solo by Steve Gasiorowski, a

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radar, fence, roads, street lights.” All the technology in the world is useless, he has long pointed out to politicians and bureaucrats, without boots on the ground. And Border Patrol agents parked in air-conditioned cubicles hours from the border don’t count. “You got 600 (agents) in Tucson” who “take 6 hours to get to the border. Move them down! You got Nogales ... and Naco and Douglas that are within a mile of the border,” Ladd points out. “All the rest of them are more than 50 miles north. Why do we have that? What good is that?” Longtime illegal immigration activist and systems engineer Glenn Spencer, who I first met in California in the 1990s, has lived and worked on the Arizona border for more than decade. He patented and tested a pilot system of seismic detection and ranging on 1.5 miles of his friend John Ladd’s property called Seidarm and paired it with a drone, dubbed Hermes, which automatically launches when border activity is detected within 500 feet of the smart sensors. It can be manufactured and built at a fraction of the cost of the big defense contractors’ sys-

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be killed anyway.” Even CBS’s 60 Minutes managed to air a balanced segment in 2012 focused on the rise of African game hunting in Texas. “How did thousands of Texas ranches become home to the largest population of exotic animals on earth? It’s thanks to trophy hunters like Paul.” The opposing view was presented by the delightfully-named Priscilla Feral, president of an international animal rights group. Despite carefullymanaged and growing populations, she doesn’t “want to see [exotic animals] on hunting ranches. I don’t want to see them dismembered. I don’t want to see their value in body parts.” One can only wonder what

tems. Unlike much of the government’s gold-plated technology, Ladd said: “It worked.” “If they had SEIDARM/ HERMES installed, they could have checked out the ground sensor without putting the agent in jeopardy,” Spencer told me after Agent Martinez’s death hit the news this week. But politicians in both parties have spurned Ladd’s pleas and Spencer’s proposals. Special interests have raided public coffers to fund border security Kabuki theater and stave off meaningful assessments. Spencer doesn’t mince words: “They don’t want to measure it; they don’t want to secure the border; they want to make it LOOK like they are.” Beltway business as usual. Another agent’s life sacrificed. President Trump, the clock is ticking.

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Fortunately, the Pilgrims were led not by Bernie Sanders fans or other commons-loving socialists, but by Governor Bradford, who wrote that he “began to think how they might raise as much corn as they could ... that they might not still thus languish in misery ... After much debate (I) assigned each family a parcel of land ... (T)his had very good success, because it made every hand industrious.” There’s nothing like private ownership to make “every hand industri-

ous.” The Pilgrims never returned to shared planting. Owning plots of land allowed them to prosper and have feasts like the ones we’ll have Thursday. Private property became the foundation for building the most prosperous nation in the history of the world, a place where people have individual rights instead of group plans forced on everyone. When an entire economy is based on collectivism, like the Soviet Union was, it eventu-

Michelle Malkin is host of “Michelle Malkin Investigates” on CRTV.com. Her email address iswritemalkin@gmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www. creators.com.

she thinks about the legal practice of killing a viable human fetus in the womb by dismembering it. National Geographic reported in 2007 that “southern white rhinoceros grew from just 50 animals a century ago to over 11,000 wild individuals today, because hunts gave game ranchers a financial incentive to reintroduce the animal.” The World Wildlife Fund pegs the current population at more than 20,000. That’s conservation capitalism in action. It’s a shame this complex issue became just another excuse to bash President Trump. The animals deserve better. Ken’s email is kengorrell@ gmail.com

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35 ally collapses from inefficiency and misuse of resources. So this Thanksgiving, thank private property. Every day, it protects us from the tragedy of the commons. John Stossel is author of “No They Can’t! Why Government Fails — But Individuals Succeed.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com.

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