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The Red Cross In New Hampshire 100 Years Ago

by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. Contributing Writer

As the year 1918 gave way to the new year of 1919, one hundred years ago, the American Red Cross was very much in the news as the organization tried to assist United States soldiers and others who were adversely affected by the war. The armistice had been agreed upon, but the impact of war is often long lasting. The U.S. Army in Germany was now an army of occupation and restrictions on “German enemy aliens” in the United States were lifted and Germans in the

country would no longer have to get permission for a change of residence. Military men, some of them wounded, were returning to the States and the country was returning to a post-war economy expecting an era of peace and prosperity, and the Red Cross was seeking to help with a mammoth effort to enlist members. There seemed to be some concern that the American Red Cross would be so involved in assisting European countries recover from the war years that assistance at home would take a second place posiSee SMITH on 22

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On Sunday, January 13th, world renowned organist Maestro Hector Olivera is returning to Wolfeboro for the third time, following two wildly popular appearances here in 2014 and 2016. The concert will be held at the First Congregational Church, 115 S. Main Street, Wolfeboro, at 2 p.m. Tickets are available for $25 at the door; at Black’s Paper Store and Avery Insurance in Wolfeboro; or at Innisfree Bookshop in Meredith; by calling (603) 569-

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Yin/Yang Restorative Yoga Class w/ Tekla Frates

Frates Dance Studio,171 Fair Street, Laconia. 10:30am. This class is for persons of all levels of experience. The sequence guides us through the most gentle movement and then settles us into deep stillness or propped asana. Just the right combination to rejuvenate and realign! Classes are $15pp. Join the YOurGA Facebook page to sign in to class ahead of time for a $5 discount!

Public Skating Merrill Fay Ice Arena, 468 Province Road, Laconia. 11:30am-12:30pm. Cost is $5pp. www.MerrillFayArena. com or 528-0789 Friday 4th

Recycled Percussion The Flying Monkey, South Main Street, Plymouth. www.FlyingMonkeyNH. com or 569-2551 Saturday 5th

Snowshoeing for Beginners Prescott Farm, White Oaks Road, Laconia. 10am-12pm. Learn the basics of snowshoeing and take it slow! Discover how much fun it can be to get out and explore the world in winter. Please wear boots and dress appropriately for the weather. Snowshoes will be available if you don’t have your own. $12/members, free for upgraded members, $15/ non-members. www.PrescottFarm. org or 366-5695

Recycled Percussion The Flying Monkey, South Main Street, Plymouth. www.FlyingMonkeyNH. com or 569-2551

Danbury Winter Farmers Market

Danbur y Grange Hall, 15 Nor th Road, Danbury. 9am-1pm. Great food, produce and crafts! There will also be FREE family art activity available. You bring the kids, we bring the supplies! The Danbury Market operates the first Saturday of the month through April. 768-5579

3-Week Beginners Knitting Class

Belmont Public Library, 146 Main Street, Belmont. 9:30am-10:30am. The class will continue January 12 and 19, and costs $20pp to cover supplies, teaching and equipment to create two pieces. To register call BPL at 267-8331.

Local Author and Poet Autumn Siders – Book Signing

The County Bookseller, 23 North Main Street, Wolfeboro. 11am-1pm. Siders will be signing her fist book, “#Nofilter”. Life should be lived with no filter and Siders’ collection of poetry and short stories exemplifies that idea and more. #Nofilter contains work written over the past fifteen years about life, love, nature, cats, and diversity. Siders captures the world through the eyes of youth but with the wisdom of an old soul. 569-6030

The Town of Moultonborough is accepting proposals for the purchase or lease and reuse of the historic FrenchTaylor House at 970 Whittier Highway (Route 25) at the commercial center of Moultonborough Village. This significant house with attached barns (4000 sf) is suitable for office, retail, residential, and mixed uses. The RFP with links to the building condition report, plans, and incentives is on the town website (www.moultonboroughnh.gov); proposals are due on January 10th.

Sunday 6th “A Look Beyond the Curtains” – An Open House and Presentation

Alexandria Town Hall, Alexandria. 2pm-4pm. Join for an open house and rededication of the building. Dedicated on January 1, 1914, this will celebrate 105 years and 5 days of service. In 2008/09 a group of town folks came together with the assistance of a team from Curtains Without Boarders to stabilize the roll drop curtains in the Town Hall. Since that time work progressed slowly to gain approval from the state to list the building on the State registry of Historic Buildings. With the help of the NH Preservation Alliance the application was finally made, and we gained approval this past summer. 491-4225

Public Learn-to-Curl Session

Pop Whalen Ice Arena, 390 Pine Hill Road, Wolfeboro. 5:15pm-7:15pm. Learn the Olympic craze of Curling! This session is free for men and women of all ages and fitness levels. Registration is underway for the 2019 Winter Season. Registration forms are available at LakesRegionCurlingNH. org. 569-8246 Monday 7th

Adult Coloring

Laconia Public Library, 695 Main Street, Laconia. 1pm-2pm. Join for a social hour spent experimenting with gel pens, markers, and colored pencils. Free and open to the public. 524-4775

Cost is $5pp. www.MerrillFayArena. com or 528-0789

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Public Skating Merrill Fay Ice Arena, 468 Province Road, Laconia. 11:30am-12:30pm. Cost is $5pp. www.MerrillFayArena. com or 528-0789

Wednesday 9th Making Tracks and Seeing Tracks – Snowshoe Program

This program is brought to you by The Gilford Public Library. Snowshoers will meet at the Gilford DPW at 10. The walk will last about 2 hours. Sign up is required by calling 524-6042

Thursday 10th Yin/Yang Restorative Yoga Class w/ Tekla Frates

The Streetcar Company, the Lakes Region’s longest running community theater group is excited to announce open auditions for “Shrek: The Musical” on January 27, 2019 at the First United Methodist Church in Gilford from 4-9pm. (4pm: Ages 8-13, 7pm: Ages 14+) The large cast contains roles for individuals ages 8-80. There are however, very limited roles for ages 8-10. In preparation for auditions, the show’s Director, J Alward, stated you will need to sing one verse of a song from a musical (no pop music), bring sheet music for the accompanist to play, be prepared to dance and potentially do a cold read for speaking parts. Show dates are April 26, 27 & 28, 2019 at Inter-Lakes High School Auditorium. Rehearsals are Sundays 3-5pm & 7-9:30pm, Mondays 7-9:30pm & Thursdays 7-9:30pm at the First United Methodists Church. Those cast in the production must be able to commit to all production week rehearsals, April 21-25, 6-10pm. Cast members will be asked to pay a nominal membership/production fee that will cover dues, insurance and several production expenses. Anyone interested in volunteering to work on set construction, costumes, lights, hair & makeup, etc., are asked to contact the Producer, Raelyn Cottrell, angels1@metrocast.net or come to the auditions. For additional information, “like” The Streetcar Company on Facebook, contact the Producer or view the company website at www.streetcarcompany.com

Taylor Community Kicks Off 2019 Concert Season Taylor Community’s 2019 Concert Series, sponsored by Bank of New Hampshire, kicks off Sunday, Jan. 13 at 3 p.m. with Quartet Pastiche. The musical event is in Taylor’s Woodside Building and is free and open to the public. The string group will play a variety of classical tunes. The foursome is comprised of Aniko Geladze and Stephen Poirier, Violin; Valerie Callahan, Viola; and Gary Hodges, Cello. This is the seventh season for the concert series, which provides free first-class musicians in various genres for both Taylor residents and the local community. Taylor Community is the premiere not-for-profit Continuing Care Retirement Community in the Lakes Region. Keep up with all our events on Facebook. For more information about active senior living, visit their website at www.taylorcommunity.org, or call 603-524-5600.

Snowshoeing For Beginners Prescott Farm on White Oaks Road in Laconia will offer a “Snowshoeing For Beginners” Program on Saturday, January 5th from 10-11am. Never been on snowshoes? No problem. Learn the basics of snowshoeing and take it slow and discover how much fun it can be to get out and explore the world in winter. Please wear boots and dress appropriately for the weather. Snowshoes will be available if you don’t have your own. The cost for the program is $15 and $12 for members, free for upgraded members. To find out more visit them at www.PrescottFarm.org or call 603-366-5695.

Public Skating Merrill Fay Ice Arena, 468 Province Road, Laconia. 11:30am-12:30pm. Cost is $5pp. www.MerrillFayArena. com or 528-0789

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NH Community Rights Amendment To The Editor: Representative Ellen Read has reintroduced the NH Community Rights Amendment, a state constitutional amendment that expands and protects the rights of people and natural environments in their communities. The NH Community Rights Amendment was drafted by the NH Community Rights Network, with assistance from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, a non-profit public interest law firm. Representative Read said she is committed to sponsoring this legislation again because, “our quality of life, indeed our very lives and those of our children and future generations, depend on it”. Projects such as pipelines and compressor stations, transmission lines, ridgeline industrial wind ventures, and water extraction projects are authorized by state officials and state agencies, without townspeople’s consent. Efforts to protect people and ecosystems have been denied by state and federal governments in partnership with corporate special interests, leading to this legislation. The NH Community Rights Amendment would add Article 40. Right of Local Community SelfGovernment to the New Hampshire Constitution’s Bill of Rights, and has three key components: Right to Local Self-Government: specifically rec-

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ognizing the right of people in communities across the state to local community self-government. Rights of People, Communities, and Natural Environments: people, communities and natural environments have rights to health, safety and wellbeing, and the authority to prohibit business activities that violate those rights. Expanding and Protecting Fundamental Rights: people can use their collective local lawmaking power to enact local laws that protect and expand fundamental rights – any efforts to restrict or weaken fundamental rights under this Amendment are prohibited. The NH Community Rights Amendment has bi-partisan support from Representative co-sponsors: Vincent Migliore, Janice Schmidt, Skip Cleaver, Wendy Thomas, Nancy Murphy, William Pearson, Kathryn Stack, David Meuse, and Joshua Adjutant. Jennifer Dube Raymond, NH.

Plant Based New Year To The Editor: With the glow of Christmas barely behind us, we look forward to the new year and the customary New Year’s resolutions: reduce social media, reduce weight, and, this year, reduce animal food consumption. One third of consum-

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.

ers already report reducing their consumption of animal foods. Hundreds of school, college, hospital, and corporate cafeterias have embraced Meatless Monday. Even fast-food chains Chipotle, Denny’s, Panera, Subway, Taco Bell, White Castle are rolling out plant-based options. A dozen start-ups, led by Beond Meat and Impossible Foods, are creating healthy, eco-friendly, compassionate, convenient, delicious plantbased meat and dairy products. Meat industry giants Tyson Foods, Cargill, and Canada’s Maple Leaf Foods have invested heavily in plant-based meat development. So have a number of Microsoft, Google, Twitter, and PayPal pioneers. According to PlantBased Foods Association, plant-based food sales have grown by 20% in the past year, ten times the growth rate of all foods. Sales of plant-based cheeses, creamers, butter, yogurts, and ice creams are exploding at a 50% growth rate. Plant-based milks now account for 15% of the milk market. The plant-based New Year’s resolution requires no sweat or deprivation just some fun exploration of your favorite supermarket and food websites. Clyde Morgan Concord, NH

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Having the latest government shutdown come right as the winter season officially starts is never a good thing for F.A.T.S.O. If you already know what F.A.T.S.O. stands for, I apologize in advance for repeating it here, but I am required to do so each time as required by law in the controversial Acronym Act Bill which was passed in 2007. F.A.T.S.O. stands for Flatlanders Adjusting To Solitary Oblivion and was created to help transplants to New Hampshire adjust to their first few winters here. (Explaining F.A.T.S.O’s purpose is also required by an amendment to the bill which was added after a long a bitter house debate which included a filibuster and various trips to a local Washington deli for liverwurst and cheese sandwiches.) What many folks don’t know (and which I am actually embarrassed to admit) is that, even though F.A.T.S.O. is financed mostly by membership fees and the occasional scratch ticket prize, part of our administration fees are covered by a government subsidy. Tacked onto a larger federal spending bill that had something to do with studying the mating habits of loons (the birds, not the people) which was sponsored by one of New Hampshire’s legislators, I promised to rally the members of F.A.T.S.O

to cast their votes for said legislator in previous and upcoming elections in return for a few dollars my way to help run F.A.T.S.O. As much as I am a believer in limiting government spending, I was desperate and had run out of options. Since F.A.T.S.O is a non-profit, both legally and circumstantially, it was easy for said legislator to get this small piece of pork added. With these extra funds I was able to hire someone to answer the phones full-time at F.A.T.S.O. (as well as make some campaign calls for said politician during downtimes). It was a big relief as it was becoming more and more difficult for me to man the phones (or “person” the phones as to be politically correct) and to run the other avenues of F.A.T.S.O as well. Last year it worked beautifully as I hired a woman to person the phones. (She did want to “woman” the phones, but I had to draw the line so as to keep away from controversy and possibly lose all funding). This led to an increase in not just response time for members who needed help during what was a very rough winter, but to also help increase our membership. A lot of the stress of running every single aspect of F.A.T.S.O was taken off my shoulders and I was looking forward to a smooth and easy winter where I could focus more on making the organization even better as well as getting in a few, welldeserved naps. But, as you probably know, the government shut down and the checks for my administrative assistant stopped coming as well as my administrative assistant.

As I write this, there seems no end in sight and I am stuck running the entire show myself once again, just as a round of icy weather and cold temperatures are descending upon New Hampshire. The phones have been ringing off the hook and I have been doing my best to try and answer the calls and take care of all my other duties in running F.A.T.S.O. as well as trying to catch the games on the last weekend of the NFL season and keeping up with what is happening on Survivor. If you have been one of those who have been trying to get through, I apologize and am hoping by the time you read this that those in government will have come to their senses and money for important projects like F.A.T.S.O. (not to mention loon mating habits) will begin flowing again and I can hire back my administrative assistant to once again person the phones and provide me with some much needed nap time. I am hoping by the time this appears in print, the chaos will be over and this will all be just a distant memory. But if it is not, I promise you I will do everything in my power to see that F.A.T.S.O keeps running smoothly through this turbulent time. I will be here eight hours a day, five days a week to do all I can do. (I will be taking off all day on Thursday though). We will survive. Brendan is the author of “The Flatlander Chronicles” and “Best Of A F.O.O.L. In New Hampshire” available on his website BrendanTSmith.com

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Beware Silicon Valley Santas in the Schools When it comes to Silicon Valley Santas bearing gifts for our children, I am a big Scrooge. Every responsible parent should by Michelle Malkin be, too. Syndicated Columnist In 2016, Apple CEO Tim Cook showered a rural Idaho school district with 500 iPads and Apple TVs for every classroom, along with free training as part of a 29-state $100 million personalized digital technology program. He visited the Idaho schools recently with Ivanka Trump, where she praised the “laboratories of innovation” for using Apple products “to transform the learning environment and personalize students’ educational experiences based on their unique needs and strengths!” With all due respect, this is what I call Edutech Shiny Toy Syndrome. And it’s out of control. Kids don’t need screens for individualized educational experiences. They are already on those stultifying, addictive, isolating screens far too much. Bah! Humbug! Why give captive schoolchildren more tech crack inside the classroom? And what is this “personalized learning” mumbo jumbo? That’s what human beings -- you know, parents and teachers -- are for at home and at school. Besides, after three years, what is the actual proof that all of Apple’s and Google’s and Microsoft’s infiltration of the classroom is producing actual academic improvement and results? There is none. The Silicon Valley com-

panies don’t want to talk about academic achievement. Neither do all of the salivating administrators and edutech cheerleaders happily taking shiny toy bribes. That Idaho superintendent so enamored of Apple’s goodies even admitted: “We’re not trying to boost a test score here, we are trying to change a narrative for students.” I’ll control my own kids’ “narratives” and their personal data, thank you very much. Parents from all parts of the political spectrum understand that “personalized learning” is Silicon Valley propaganda to distract from the true aim: Grabbing student and family data under the guise of “innovation” and luring the next generation of addicted consumers. Another unhealthy by-product of the tech toy infiltration: an onslaught of online ads. Education watchdog Cheri Kiesecker reported this month that Missouri school kids required to download educational apps, sign up for online accounts and use tech devices logged into Google products were exposed to advertising for everything from “vaping” to “insurance, medicine, automobiles, toys, clothing, candy, and a wide range of apps and video games.” I’ve reported previously on how the Los Angeles Unified School District dumped $1 billion of scarce resources into a disastrous iPad program. Educrats paid $678 per glorified Apple etextbook, pre-loaded with Common Core-branded apps created by the educational publishing and testing giant Pearson. Pearson’s digital learning products are now used by an estimated 25 million-plus customers in North America. Common Core, far from See MALKIN on 26

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My New Year’s resolution: Make a careful distinction between speech and violence. America’s First Amendment says by John Stossel “yes” to most Syndicated Columnist speech, inc l u d i n g speech that criticizes, insults -even speech that promotes hate. But the law applies only to government. Private organizations can ban hate speech if they choose. I can write columns saying nasty things about you -- if newspapers, websites and my distributor are willing to run them. But the law says I can’t tell people to go beat you up. At the point that speech becomes a direct incitement to violence, the law says “no.” That’s pretty clear. Then there’s Gavin McInnes. McInnes is a political commentator who takes pride in provoking the politically correct. He makes nasty jokes that I wish no one would make, like, “Mexico sucks ‘cause of Mexicans.”

At Stossel TV, we posted this video about him. A few months ago, McInnes was invited to speak at a New York City Republican club. Before he even spoke, protesters vandalized the building. In the speech, he held up a sword and told the audience to respect the example set by a Japanese 17-year-old, Otoya Yamaguchi. Yamaguchi had stabbed a socialist politician while he was giving a speech. After McInnes’s speech, Antifa protesters confronted his followers, who call themselves the Proud Boys. Some Proud Boys looked eager to fight and brutally beat several Antifa protesters. So is McInnes to blame? Did he incite violence by bringing up Yamaguchi? By saying “Western culture is the best”? By praising “violence in self-defense”? Or is he just a proud American urging his followers to defend themselves? Should he be banned from the airwaves and social media? McInnes renounced the Proud Boys after the street fight and says he won’t be their leader. Nevertheless, CRTV dropped McInnes’s show “Get Off My Lawn.”

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Looking Ahead to 2019 NEW YORK — It’s that time of the year again to consult the crystal snow globe and look ahead at what global political crises we by John J. Metzler may face in Syndicated Columnist the upcoming year. After a tumultuous 2018, it would be nice to have a respite from the political jolts, lurches and surprises of the past months, but that alas, is unlikely. So let’s tour the world and view some of the key challenges facing the USA.

China - The relationship increasingly concerns Trade tensions and South China Sea/ Taiwan status. The Trump Administration’s commercial Cold war with China is hardly over but Beijing may blink. The USA has played tough in trade negotiations and it looks like China will tactically concede. Yet massive trade deficits of past decades can’t be wished away by a pen stroke nor can long-lost American industrial jobs from the last thirty years be brought back by good wishes. Comprehensive and fair agreements are needed to even the commercial playing field and to tighten the rules regarding China’s high-tech and intellectual property theft. The South China Sea presents a more complex geopolitical puz-

zle. China’s territorial maritime ambitions, freedom of navigation issues, as well as continuing threats to democratic Taiwan pose a clear and present danger to East Asian stability. Korean Peninsula - We need a comprehensive diplomatic peace settlement for the Korean peninsula. Just a year ago, armed conflict was a real possibility with North Korea until both the South Korean government and the Trump Administration (with China’s help) pulled Pyongyang back from the brink. The extraordinary Singapore Summit offered positive political optics but as I said then, style over substance. Now what? We stopped the ticking nuclear clock in the North’s nuclear program but sadly I sense this is a pause in Kim Jong-un’s long-term game strategy. Kim won’t give up nukes but is trying to swoon and cajole South Korea’s president Moon away from the USA and to accept a poisoned chalice unification deal. While the Winter Olympic thaw worked to defuse dangerous tensions, we are still not yet near signing a formal peace treaty ending the Korean war. Europe - The European Union will be challenged by Brexit or rather Brexit will backfire on the British. The United Kingdom stands to lose by leaving Europe especially in the slipshod and shambolic way the process has turned out. Serious political turbulence will affect Europe;

Britain, France and Germany. Farther east, a stormy relationship with Russia continues largely over Moscow’s moves in Ukraine. The festering Ukraine crisis continues to destabilize Russia’s relations with the West.

Syria/Iraq - I have been saying solve Syria now for years. The war has churned on for eight years. More than a half million people have died with almost six million refugees and

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victim even knows he’s been maligned. The modern encyclopedia is an online resource, updated continuously by the seemingly inexhaustible output of mainline journalists and a new breed of “media professionals.” But the miracle of modern communications has diminished rather than enhanced the reputations of those who see it as their job to inform us and help write this chapter in human history. In our gilded Age of Information fewer and fewer journalists bother with the basics of factchecking. Too many of today’s information disseminators seem to consider the truth an inconvenient obstacle on the path toward promoting a narrative. Their narrative doesn’t depend on facts; it depends on faith and the suspension of disbelief. In America we call this “fake news.” In German it translates as Gefälschte Nachrichten, and the once-highly respected German news source Der Spiegel has been outed as its purveyor. In any language it is a blight on a profession once seen as honorable and necessary to a free society. In the Der Spiegel case, one of its award-winning journalists (and CNN’s Journalist of the Year, 2014) was forced to resign after more than a dozen of his features were found to be complete fabrications. It wasn’t that places like Fergus Falls, Minnesota, don’t exist. It’s just that nearly everything Claas Relotius wrote about it – people, places, things – was false. To make matters worse, Der Spiegel’s vaunted “fact checkers” didn’t catch his lies; two amateurs did. Two bumpkins from the town Relotius caricatured for his oh-sosophisticated European readers in “Where They Pray for Trump on Sundays” documented and corrected his fable.

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It’s common for lake trout anglers to set up camp in their favorite spot and sit there all day. In New Hampshire anglers regularly chum and wait for the fish to come to them (chumming and using bait are legal in New Hampshire). Most anglers feel like they are having good success because they see fish on their Vexilar or camera all day, even if they don’t get bites, but are they really having good success? Isn’t the idea to catch more fish rather than to see more fish? Lake trout have a daily range that rarely covers an entire body of water. They will often spend the day in one area. It’s common to not mark any fish on a particular hump, only to catch fish there as little as an hour later. One mistake anglers make is sitting in the same place, fishing in the same hole all day, because they continue to mark fish. The trouble is most of those fish have already decided not to bite. Moving around and fishing other areas gives the fish a break. You’ll often find that when dropping your jig back down a particular hole after leaving it for a while will trigger fish to strike. If you target fish that are actively feeding you are going to catch more fish. Sometimes, in order to target feeding fish all day, you have to give up on the fish you have been working on. Leaving fish to find fish can often be

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Tim Moore with a Lake Winnipesaukee lake trout. difficult, but it’s worth it when the fish you are trying to catch don’t want what you have. Fish an area for about an hour. If there are fish around, give them a chance to bite. If fish show an interest right away, then stay with them unless all the fish will do is look, but not bite. The goal is to fish for the biters, not the lookers. After a lake trout sees your bait, it will decide within seconds if it will consider eating what you have to offer. If the fish sticks around it will be tough to fool. When you see a fish moving on your flx-28, manipulate your jig to coax it to bite, knowing all along that one mistake (anything the fish doesn’t like at

that moment) will cause the fish to swim away. Sure, some fish can be agitated into striking,

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Moonlit Snowshoe Walk Prescott Farm, White Oaks Road, Laconia. 6pm-7:30pm. Our environmental educators will guide you on a moonlit walk and encourage you to use your senses to explore Prescott farm in a different and special way. Please wear boots and dress appropriately for the weather. Snowshoes will be available if you don’t have your own. $12/members, free for upgraded members, $15/non-members. www. PrescottFarm.org or 3665695

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Snowshoe Yoga Prescott Farm, White Oaks Road, Laconia. 10am-12pm. Hike for a bit to warm up, then enjoy a yoga class in your snowshoes outside in the fresh air! Please wear boots and dress appropriately for the weather. Snowshoes will be available if you don’t have your own. $22.50/members, $17 for upgraded members, $25/non-members. www. PrescottFarm.org or 3665695

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Jazz on a Sunday Afternoon – Jazz Vocalist Giacomo Gates Center at Eastman, Grantham. 4pm-7pm. Giacomo has been described as “the Dennis Hopper of vocal jazz”. Tickets range from $18 to $20. A bistro menu and full beverage selection is offered. www. JOSAJazz.com or 863-8000

Monday 28th Public Skating Merrill Fay Ice Arena, 468 Province Road, Laconia. 11:30am-12:30pm. Cost is $5pp. www.MerrillFayArena. com or 528-0789

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From St. Louis Missouri - loading man with influenza into Red cross ambulance by men with masks covering faces. Photo from St. Louis Post Dispatch newspaper. SMITH from 1

tion. A newspaper report stated that a model farm had been established by the Red Cross at Courbet, France because it was found that farm work was one of the best ways to help soldiers suffering from shell shock to recover. A farm of 500 acres had been chosen

as the location to use methods similar to those in the western United States. The newspaper said “Since these farms will be worked almost entirely by the convalescent soldiers and those made unfit for active service, the expense for maintenance will be very little. But the saving of

human life will be enormous. And every farmer in this country who enrolls in the Christmas Red Cross Roll call will be helping indirectly to carry on this reconstruction work among the mutilated soldiers in France.” The goal of the New England division of the

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Red Cross in 1918 was to have almost every citizen enrolled as a member of the organization and the leaders anticipated that there would be questions concerning the intentions of the Red Cross concerning relief efforts in Germany and Austria. It was thus declared that any relief work in those two countries would be limited to our own troops there, and that the U.S. government had ruled that residents could not benefit from the American Red Cross at that time. The organizations “first thought and care” was stated to be our own soldiers, but, then, there was said to be an “almost limitless” amount of help needed by our Allies. It was stated that the nation’s Red Cross would abide by the AmerSee SMITH

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pany ad spoke of “…the ending of an old year, and the dawning of a new year- made more significant because of the turmoil we’re in- because we realize more than ever how fortunate we as Americans are.” The company expressed thanks for its customers being patient when they sometimes had to wait months for what they wanted. Henry’s Dry Cleaning on Pleasant Street urged readers to buy war bonds for victory and Baker’s Remnant Store on Main Street was hoping for a “1944 victory”, saying that 1944 and victory “Look So Well Together.” Cormier Hosiery Mills placed a full page ad proclaiming that the New Year looked bright for America, Laconia and for Cormier , announcing that they were moving to larger quarters on Union Avenue in 1944. After starting with four em-

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ican people’s desire that they follow the Stars and Stripes. Every person enrolling in Red Cross during its membership drive in 1918 was to be given a 1919 membership button. Though my limited research indicates that New Hampshire did not become greatly involved in the Red Cross until the year 1917, it appears that it was very much involved two years later. The membership fee was one dollar for a year’s enrollment, but the December, 1918 drive was reportedly to be the last one for a long time; however, half of each Red Cross membership donation was kept by the local chapter to be used to help people from its location. The flag of the organization was said to have been displayed in homes and businesses across the country. Newspaper accounts from New Hampshire towns, even after the World War I was over, carried accounts of Red

Cross meetings and the projects being undertaken to help soldiers and their families. The Home Service Department of the Red Cross offered advice to returning servicemen on how to maintain benefits available to them by the government. New Hampshire enrolled 115,000 members in 1918 with the town of Lincoln taking the honors for having the highest percentage of its residents becoming Red Cross members with at least 66 per cent of the population participating. Campton enrolled 60 per cent of its population and Tilton 40 percent. Lincoln and Campton were in the district which was chaired by Fletcher Hale of Laconia. There was another war in progress as the year 1943 gave way to 1944 and the advertisements in the Laconia Evening Citizen made reference to the struggles of World War II and the local merchants anticipation of victory and peace. The Lougee-Robinson Com-

ployees five years previously, Cormier Mills was employing more than 75 men and women and had produced, since Pearl Harbor, “hundreds of thousands of hose for our armed forces.” The Red Cross actually began in Europe, but the American Red Cross was organized in 1881 to supply aid to military men and women as well as to provide disaster relief. Founder Clara Barton was a self-taught nurse who had ministered to soldiers in the Civil War. Food parcels were distributed to Prisoners of War in both World Wars, though those running eastern prisons during World War II did not cooperate with the Red Cross as well as those in the West. Though just a youngster in 1944, I remember the Red Cross drives to raise funds to support relief efforts during the war, and, if my memo-

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23 ry serves me correctly, membership cards were given to donors. Going back to the World War I and after drive, it was reported that on February 28, 1919 there were 20 million adult members of the American Red Cross and 11 million junior members. Certainly New Hampshire citizens contributed enthusiastically and also benefited greatly from the work and assistance of the Red Cross, particularly during those war years. Robert Hanford Smith welcomes your comments at danahillsmiths@yahoo.com.

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Dale, a Halflinger Pony, rescued in late August and after rehabilitation.

Bristol at the Live and Let Live Farm with Sharon Morey (center) and other volunteers in the last 12 hours. PHILBRICK from 3

pens, and why it happens so much. In the last 12 hours I gave her comfort. In the last 12 hours I gave her love. In the last 12 hours I gave her dignity. In the last 12 hours I feel broken, and deeper in my resolve. I didn’t create this but here we are, left to clean it up. In the last 12 hours I gave her her

life back. Run free sweet girl.” As dawn of July 28 swept across the soft summer tree lines of LLLF, Bristol slipped away, lying on a bed of fresh shavings, lovingly held by Sharon, surrounded by the volunteers who kept vigil, doing whatever they could to ease her, all

throughout the night. However long she suffered in loneliness, Bristol did not cross that bridge alone; she was surrounded by the faces of loving friends. Shortly after Bristol, a pair of emaciated horses being kept behind a house were reported directly to LLLF. Within 24 hours, Executive Direc-

tor Teresa Paradis had convinced the owners to release them to LLLF. Renamed Chip and Dale, Chip is an Arabian cross gelding, and Dale is a Half-linger draft mare. They arrived near the end of August, both emaciated and close to death. They’ve improved greatly, are gaining weight, and doing well in their rehabilitation. A failed rescue facility in Langdon, NH, led to a late night rescue on Thanksgiving Eve, with a convoy of three trucks/trailers and ten

volunteers, heading north, not knowing what to expect. Three horses ended up being rescued that night, the result of a state seizure warrant. Three geldings — two saddlebred horses and an off track thoroughbred were transported through snow squalls and February-like winds, to their new home. Their suffering over, these three souls awoke to a new life, and their first day at LLLF — fittingly, Thanksgiving Day. What we hope to be our last big rescue of 2018, occurred on December 20th, when yours truly drove a truck/trailer, along with Teresa Paradis, to a residence in Acworth NH to assist the state in removing three horses from a situation of severe neglect, starvation, and dehydration. The warrant was served, and the three horses — a Morgan quarter horse mare, a miniature paint perhaps a couple of years old, and an Aztec colt just a couple of years old, were seized by the state and turned over to LLLF. This rescue operation was accented by several miles of driving the truck and trailer up and down steep and winding, icy washboard roads; so narrow that state police provided an escort for the duration, until we reached a main road and See PHILBRICK on 25

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Dune, a colt rescued in Acworth,NH. Ginger Snaps, a Bloodhound that was rescued when pregnant, shown here with her newborn pups that were born at Live and Let Live Farm on 12/4/18. PHILBRICK from 24

got back on pavement. Seven hours after departing LLLF, we returned and unloaded LLLF’s newest residents, renaming them as they were assessed. The Morgan was named Morgan, the miniature was named Pinto Bean, and the colt named Dune, for his gorgeous beach sand coloring. They’re settling in nicely, enjoying hay and grain and all the water they can drink. Watch for more on these three as we proceed headlong into 2019. 2018 saw nearly 100 guinea pigs rescued, to complement our annual numbers of dogs and cats — many of them pregnant — along with exotic birds, goats, and other creatures. One of the more recent pregnant dog rescues resulted in momma giving birth to ten healthy puppies… all boys. Two more pregnant dogs arrived recently, as well as three soaked and shivering Lhasa Apsos when someone rang the

doorbell late at night, clearly unable to properly care for them. They’re now doing well, having had required surgeries, and as of this writing, all have been adopted. In spite of all the turmoil and heartbreak we’ve endured in 2018, I’d like to end on a positive note. LLLF was nominated this year for, and won, NH’s Spirit of Volunteerism award. So November found Teresa Paradis and a handful of volunteers gathered at Capitol Center for the Arts in downtown Concord, for a pleasant night of recognition and acknowledgement. While it was nice to be recognized for the tireless efforts our 500+ volunteers put in throughout the year, it can’t hold a candle to the joy of hearing the whispered sounds of a newly rescued horse quietly munching on clean, dry hay. Happy new year, everyone. Peace and blessings to all in 2019.

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The real piece of journalism (“Der Spiegel journalist messed with the wrong small town”) was published at Medium.com and is worth reading in full. To give you a taste, here’s one of Der Spiegel’s whoppers: The young town administrator was described as a man “would like to marry soon, he says, but he was never together with a woman. He has also never seen the ocean.” Intrepid locals Michele Anderson and Jake Krohn debunked that lie with a photo of city leader Andrew Bremseth hugging his live-in girlfriend while standing in front of – you guess it – the ocean. Gefälschte Nachrichten! The story behind the story of Claas Relotius’s fall and Der Spiegel’s international embarrassment is more insidious and less funny than the tales spun to make Trump’s America look bad. The real story is about how modern journalism has substituted bias-confirmation for factchecking. “Too good to check” is becoming the norm in a profession almost entirely driven by left-wing, Progressive narratives. Der

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Spiegel had what was once considered the biggest and best fact-checking department in the business. Yet when pressed it admitted that its fact-checking process “does not include contacting any subjects of articles,” and statements of fact are reviewed for “accuracy and plausibility.” That phrase rings as hollow as Dan Rather’s “fake but accurate” description of the lie that ended his career. No one with a shred of common sense or a willingness to see their opposites as real people could have believed the story spun by Relotius. But German editors, a CNN awards committee, and (one assumes) millions of European readers did just that. The lies were plausible to them because they see “the other” only in caricature. Their world view is founded and supported by a cartoon version of those who don’t live and believe as they do. That’s the real story – and real danger – behind the “fake news” meme. Ken Gorrell can be reaches at kengorrell@gmail.com

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millions more displaced inside their own country. Amid the disparate players, it’s probably safer that American troops will be drawn down given competing powers (Turkey, Russia, Iran), rival factions (Assad regime, Kurds), and a lethal gaggle of terrorist groups (ISIL, Al Qaida, Al Nusra). The USA is better removed from that quagmire. Keeping the commitment to Iraq won by so much blood and treasure remains vital for the U.S. There’s a glimmer of hope reinforced by President Trump’s Christmas visit to the frontline troops in Baghdad. Don’t squander hard won past gains in Iraq. Iran - Last year’s massive popular demonstrations rocked Iranian cities protesting the Islamic Republic. Will the smoldering embers of social and political resentment to the Mullah regime resurface given Iran’s dire economic situation? Iran could easily spark a Mid-East crisis. Yemen And The Hu-

manitarian Basket - The UN does humanitarian aid well. But we still must solve root problems, not just treat symptoms. As UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said at the start of his tenure two years ago, Preventive diplomacy is key. The problem is stopping ongoing crises such as Syria, Yemen, and Congo. Yemen faces a massive humanitarian crisis with a fleeting hope of a UN brokered political settlement. Venezuela - While the socialist system has collapsed this once reasonably prosperous and middle class country, the Maduro regime nonetheless endures, backed by Cuban secret police. More than 3 million refugees have fled Venezuela, mostly to neighboring Colombia and Brazil. Wild Card Wishes Managing or enduring a tricky relationship with Turkey’s increasingly authoritarian President Erdogan. Returning normality to Libya, a country serving as a conduit for massive illegal migrant flows into Italy and a nexus of human trafficking. And for the U.S. to refocus on foreign policy certainty, clarity and dependability. Happy New Year!! John J. Metzler is a United Nations correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues. He is the author of Divided Dynamism The Diplomacy of Separated Nations: Germany, Korea, China.

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