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Gilford Hills G ets In Shape

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Adam Angle has owned Gilford Hills Tennis and Fitness Club going on fifteen years, but the investment and renovations he has put into the Club over the couple of years would have you think he is just taking over. The biggest renovation by far has to be the popular tennis courts which were resurfaced as of Labor Day. The need for renovations was apparent as the tennis player

base has grown considerably over the years at Gilford Hills. “When I bought the club we had about fifty tennis players,” said Angle. “Today we are at around 225.” “It is a Plexipave surface,” said Angle of the new surface on the four courts. “It is comparable to the surface that they play on in the U.S. Open. It has three coats of cushioning underneath the paint. It is a nice rubberized surface as opposed to asphalt surfaces and See gilford on 10

Tyler Road Bluegrass Band At Pitman’s

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It’s A New Year and time to keep those resolutions for a Healthy You in 2018. Our “Happy Healthy New Year” sections throughout the month of January will help you to get started in keeping your focus on your health goals.

On Friday, January 5th, Pitman’s Freight Room in Laconia presents Tyler Road Bluegrass Band at 8pm Tyler Road has acquired the talent of various musicians from central NH to create a blend of music that you will not find anywhere else. With the combination of banjo, acoustic guitar, fiddle, mandolin, bass, accordion, box drum and bluesy vocals, Tyler Road creates the

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5pm-7pm. Free two-hour session, open to the public. www.lakescurlingnh.

Thursday 4th

Laconia Lacrosse Hosts Free Winter Clinic

Eric Grant – Live Music Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 7pm. www.patrickspub.com or 293-0841

Friday 5th Taylor Road Bluegrass Band Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. BYOB venue. www.pitmansfreightroom.com or 527-0043

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Laconia High School Gym, Laconia. Clinics will be Sunday, beginning on the 7th. All girls and boys 1st -4th grade 6pm-7pm, Boys 5th-8th grades are 7pm-8pm. The season starts March 19th. 2018 registration is open on line. There is no cost to play if you register by Feb. 28th. All players must hold valid membership with US Lacrosse to register. rmmarinace@

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Recycled Percussion The Flying Monkey, South Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh.com

Dueling Pianos: Gardner Berry vs Matt Langley Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 8:30pm. Bring your friends and join in the show as you pick the music! www.patrickspub. com or 293-0841

Saturday 6th Cheryl Arena Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. BYOB venue. www.pitmansfreightroom.com or 527-0043

Recycled Percussion The Flying Monkey, South Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh.

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Big Backyard Series – Animal Tracking Prescott Farm, White Oaks Road, Laconia. 1pm-3pm. Tracks always tell a fascinating story! Learn the basics of animal tracking on this interactive walk, and gain the skills to better determine what our animal neighbors are up to in the winter. For ages7-10 with an adult. $12/adult-child pair ($10 members) add $4/additional child. www.prescottfarm.org or 366-5695

Kashmir – Live Led Zeppelin Show Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 8pm. Visit www. RochesterOperaHouse.com or call 335-1992 for tickets.

Tribute to Joe Cocker & Bob Seger with Gardner Berry Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 8:30pm. www.patrickspub. com or 293-0841

Snowshoe Adventures Prescott Farm, White Oaks Road, Laconia. 10am-12pm. Weather you’re an avid snowshoer or just beginning, join us for a refreshing walk and exploration of the winter landscape of Prescott Farm. Please wear boots and dress appropriately for the weather. Snowshoes will be available if you don’t own any. Open to ages 14 and up. Pre-registration is $10pp ($8 members); $12 at the door. www. prescottfarm.org or 366-5695

Sunday 7th Public Learn-to-Curl Pop Whalen Ice Arena, Wolfeboro.

New Heights’ Ski & Snowboard Club Lincoln Street School, Exeter. This program will take place on four Wednesday’s with dates to include Jan. 10th, 24th, 31st and Feb. 7th. The destination will be McIntyre Ski Area in Manchester, and the cost is $190. Students will have access to gear rentals and ski and snowboard lessons, so everyone is welcome! Nat Morgan, adventure programmer, said he is excited to offer the program to 5th graders for the first time! www.

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Wed. 10th – March 14th Cornerstone VNA – FREE Hospice Volunteer Training Dover Public Library, 73 Locust Street, Dover. 1pm-3pm. This comprehensive 8-week Hospice Volunteer Training program focuses on how to provide comfort, support and a reassuring presence to Hospice patients and their families. No medical or volunteer experience is necessary to make a positive difference. To register or for more information, please contact Nancy Nicolazzo at 332-1133 x 239 or email NNicolazzo@cornerstonevna.

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Thursday 11th Eric Grant – Live Music Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 7pm. www.patrickspub.com or 293-0841

Thurs. 11th – March 15th Cornerstone VNA – FREE Hospice Volunteer Training Cornerstone VNA, 178 Farmington Road, Rochester. 1pm-3pm. This comprehensive 8-week Hospice Volunteer Training program focuses on how to provide comfort, support and a reassuring presence to Hospice patients and their families. No medical or volunteer experience is necessary to make a positive difference. To register or for more information, please contact Nancy Nicolazzo at 332-1133 x 239 or email NNicolazzo@cornerstonevna.

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Friday 12th Alexis P. Suter Band Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. BYOB venue. www.pitmansfreightroom.com or 527-0043.

Pink Talking Fish The Flying Monkey, South Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh.

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Dueling Pianos: Jim Tyrrell vs Ed McCarron Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 8:30pm. Bring your friends and join in the show as you pick the music! www.patrickspub. com or 293-0841 Saturday 13th

Dave Andrews & Chris Distefano – Live Comedy Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. BYOB venue. www.pitmansfreightroom.com or 527-0043

Big Backyard Series – Winter Birds Prescott Farm, White Oaks Road, Laconia. 1pm-3pm. In this program, we will discover NH’s resident birds and our winter visitors, and learn how we can help our feathered friends survive the winter. For ages 7-10 with an adult. $12/adult-child pair ($10 members) add $4/additional child. www.prescottfarm.org or 366-5695

Scott Sharrard and the Brickyard Band The Flying Monkey, South Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh.

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Tribute to The Beatles with Morris Manning & Steve McBrian AKA “Crunchy Western Boys” Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 8:30pm. www.patrickspub. com or 293-0841

Sunday 14th Gathering Time Anderson Hall, 205 South Main Street, Wolfeboro. 2pm. info@ wfriendsofmusic.org or 569-2151

Wednesday 17th Central NH VNA & Hospice – Free Blood Pressure Clinic

Gilmanton Town Hall, 503 Province Road, Gilmanton. 9am-10:30am. Come meet your local visiting nurses and make a New Year’s Resolution to care for your health. No need to reserve a spot, just stop by! Any questions can be directed to Heather at GTH 267-6700 x 10 or Angela 5248444

Thursday 18th Eric Grant – Live Music Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road,

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Gathering Time Returns To Wolfeboro Wolfeboro Friends of Music presents the internationally acclaimed folk-rock trio, Gathering Time, on Sunday January 14th at 2pm at the First Congregational Church, 115 S. Main St., Wolfeboro. With a seamless vocal blend, inspired guitar work and precise percussion, Stuart Markus, Hillary Foxsong, and Gerry McKeveny evince deep roots in 1960’s folk-rock, with a dash of traditional folk in the mix. Their stage chemistry makes clear that they take the music (if not themselves) very seriously, yet their infectious energy wins over even fans who never considered themselves “folkies”. Start with the 1960s folk tradition of Peter, Paul & Mary; add the vocal complexity and electric energy of Crosby, Stills & Nash, a bit of the Byrds and a jot of Joni Mitchell, and you have Gathering Time, a folk-rock/Americana harmony trio that has been turning heads for nearly a decade on the northeastern folk circuit and beyond. Tickets for Gathering Time are available for $20 and may be purchased at the door on the evening of the concert. Advance tickets may be purchased at Black’s Paper Store; Avery Insurance in Wolfeboro; Innisfree Bookshop in Meredith; by calling (603) 569-2151; or by visiting the Wolfeboro Friends of Music website: wfriendsofmusic.org. All high school students with ID and all children accompanied by an adult ticket purchaser will be admitted free of charge.

Black and White Encore – A Fine Craft Exhibition Color is often used to evoke meaning and emotion in art. The absence of color has the same effect, communicating a different mood and beauty. The League of NH Craftsmen challenged its juried members to create fine craft in black, white and shades in between, with a pop of color if desired. The result is the League’s latest multi-media exhibition titled Black and White Encore, which explores the diversity and range of work created by League juried members in this specific palette. Visitors will see a wide variety of handcrafted art, including wood folk art; fiber wall hangings, placemats, African ceremonial pieces; scenic photography; wearable art including hats, shawls, scarves, and jewelry; glass and clay vases and sculptures; mixed media art and more. Most items are available for purchase. The opening reception is Friday, January 12th from 5-7pm. The exhibition is open to the public from January 12th to March 28th at the Exhibition Gallery at League Headquarters, 49 South Main Street in Concord, NH

Creatures from The Imaginary Realm Children’s Museum of New Hampshire. Through March 3rd Included in this exhibition will be a section where visitors can discover some of the living animals or fossils that may have inspired artists and legends of the past. The participating artists are: Julie Cyr, Nina Fox Herlihy, Kate Higley, Taylore Kelly, Theresa La Brecque, Fleur Palau, Eric Streed, Paul Timmons, and Gretchen Woodman. Gallery 6 is supported by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, Georgia-Pacific and the Fuller Foundation. The Children’s Museum of New Hampshire is located at 6 Washington Street in Downtown Dover. Visit www.childrens-museum.org to learn more.

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EXPLORING THE LEGEND & LORE OF OUR GRANITE STATE

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Spending The Winter Somewhere Else by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr.

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bara, etc. We have some fine rooms here and make them our headquarters, going to all points of interest. They have one of the most perfect trolley car systems in the world. You can go on the cars to all places within 50 miles of here, and we have taken them all in.” Mr. Ware went on in his letter to the homefolk describing the miles they rode on steam cars through the orange groves with oranges that were ready to pick hanging from the branches of the trees. He wrote, “We visited one of the largest packing houses, and, it is wonderful how quick they sort and pack the oranges into boxes…I saw a carload just ready to start for Worcester, Mass. They have a large crop this year and there ought to be plenty in the East. We have them here for 10 cents a dozen, the best for 20. They have felt the hard times here this winter. A great many are out of employment, but they claim that in the last two weeks business has been picking up, which I think is true, as I do not

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Some of us love it; some of us hate it. Some enjoy it, others endure it. It is called winter and it means a spell of cold, ice, and snow here in New Hampshire, but there are those who, when winter comes, are anxious and able to head for other parts of the country to receive the benefits of different kinds of weather. This was true more than a hundred years ago in the early 1900s and there are letters that were sent back home describing their somewhere else winters. One of those elsewheres was California. Mr. Wallace K. Ware of Chesterfield, New Hampshire, along with his wife travelled across the country to experience Southern California. The Wares managed the Lakeside Resort at Spofford Lake during the warmer months of the year. Mr. Ware wrote: “I am all carried away with Southern California…. I found I had a very small idea of its beauties until I saw it with my own eyes…. The climate here is all that could be asked for. Fruits, flowers, and vegetables grow the twelve months of the year. The vegetables are very pleasing to the eye, but do not have a the binflavor Rustof our good y CNew England old vegic z o etables, which everyone has to admit. We were four weeks reaching Los Angeles. We visited Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Pacific Grove, Santa Bars

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To The Editor: Now that we have a President who is not intimidated by the Progressive Ruling Class, this is the time for the American People, regardless of party affiliation, to rise up and restore our government to what it was meant to be: “of the people, by the people, for the people.” This is how President Abraham Lincoln described our government in 1863, after many thousands of brave patriots had sacrificed life and limb for liberty and justice, both in the American Revolution and the American Civil War. Only half a century later President Woodrow Wilson, along with a “progressive” Congress began to lead us in the opposite direction, by assuming powers not authorized in the Constitution. Wilson claimed that the documents that served as the foundation of our government “read like a document from a forgotten time,” and he proceeded to establish federal agencies with the power to pass and enforce laws – calling them regulations. He also instituted the first income tax – in direct violation of the 4th Amendment. Our system of government has been regressing ever since. Precisely 50 years after the American People saw fit to elect the first President to describe himself as “progressive,” President John F. Kennedy, in 1962, handed over the keys to our na-

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tional treasury to unelected union bosses, when he signed Executive Order 10988 creating public employee unions, which today number 7.2 million members. Not surprisingly, five months later the U. S. Supreme Court ruled public schools to be government schools, which completed the overthrow of our system. Progressives are not only responsible for an explosion in crime, corruption and a prison system bursting at the seams, their abandonment of the most basic principles of justice has also resulted in growing terror all across the world, as a direct result of conceding to terrorists who blew up buses and hijacked airplanes in the 1960s. Precisely 50 years after the coup of 1962, President Barack Obama sent the IRS to silence the American People, which gave Progressives another four years to consolidate their power. Fortunately, enough Americans saw the “handwriting on the wall” and elected President Donald Trump in 2016. Yet, Progressives still occupy many positions in government and in Congress - fighting him every step of the way. It is now up to liberty-loving Americans to replace all Progressives in Congress with true patriots who stand for our founding principles. Thanks to David White, who represents Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in New Jersey, we now have a proposed bill that

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.

empowers all Americans to distinguish between Progressives and Constitutionalists – the “Civil Rights Act for Equal Educational Opportunity.” Those in Congress who refuse to sponsor this bill to reestablish our founding principles, improve both the quality and efficiency of education, while slashing taxes by billions of dollars annually –for rich and poor alike- are surely among the Progressives. By replacing them in the 2018 Primary Elections we will be well on our way to making America great again. Our task is to prevail on Congress (202-224-3121) to sponsor and pass this 100-word bill to set us back onto the Constitutional Track: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Accordingly, all parents are to be empowered to provide their children with quality K-12 education that meets their needs, talents and faith, for one-half the cost of their local public school, provided they are taught and trained to comply with the laws of their city, state and country. Half the savings are to be returned to taxpayers and half are to pay down government debt.” Israel Teitelbaum Morristown, NJ.

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An acquaintance of mine reminded me that, during this extreme cold spell that seems to not want to go away, that it is my job, my duty, to see to it that I can provide a few laughs to folks to help them forget about it, even if it’s just for a few minutes. I couldn’t argue with him. After all, this was the path I chose, and I have no one to blame but myself. “A doctor doesn’t ignore his patients due to the weather,” my friend reminded me. “A fireman doesn’t ignore the call because it is below zero…” I could tell he was to go on and on with an entire list of people in chosen professions who he was going to use to further shame me. So, I nodded and soon took my leave. “You are right,” I said. “I am off to write a witty column in the face of this awful weather.” So, I sat down to write, my confidence low, listening to the constant rumble of the boiler and the TV weatherman explaining the dangerous implications of exposing even the slightest bit of skin outside for more than ten seconds while trying to think of a witty way to lighten the situation. I thought starting out with a funny joke might work. “Knock, Knock” “Who’s’ there?” “Jim”

“Jim Who?” “For goodness sake, it’s Jim. Open up the darn door before I freeze to death out here.” Obviously, my basic instincts were winning over my creativity. I’d need to try a different approach. Maybe a few “It’s so cold that” jokes to lighten the mood, but with each idea I came up with I realized that witty sayings like “It’s so cold that I had to open the refrigerator to heat the house” were more a reality than a joke this week. I made myself another cup of coffee and sat back down to give it another go. I thought that maybe a funny list about something to do with all of this might work. I’ve had pretty good success with this method in the past. How about an amusing list of the ways subfreezing temperatures are better than eighty degree days in the summer? That should get them laughing. Three cups of coffee and two hours later I still had nothing and had used up another gallon of heating oil to boot. I was getting nervous. Deadline was approaching, and the page was still blank. There wasn’t much time. The printing press waits for no man. The phone rang. It was a member of F.A.T.S.O., the winter support group I had started with a friend years ago. It stands for Flatlanders Adjusting To Solitary Oblivion, the idea being able to help newly transplanted Flatlanders adjust to their first few winters here in New Hampshire. F.A.T.S.O is supposed to provide support to its members, to be a comfort in times like these - and these were extraordinary times. I let the phone go to

voicemail. It would just consume more of my diminishing time. Still, even I didn’t have the answers for this stretch of weather. What could I say to ease their minds? I needed some support myself. I felt a bit guilty and thought that a short nap might help to thaw out the synapses, but I couldn’t get to sleep with all of that caffeine running through my veins. I went back to work. I had put my phone on silence before trying my ill-fated respite and saw now that my voicemail was full with what I could only imagine were desperate pleas from F.A.T.S.O. members who I had let down. It was no use. I’d never finish my column in time now. I was wracked with guilt which only helped to shut down and creative juice that might not have already been frozen. I used the old columnist trick of looking through some older columns for some ideas and rehash them into something that seemed new. Never a proud moment, but the show must go on. But even that age old method did not yield the results I had expected. There wasn’t a column I could find where the theme even came close to the current weather situation. It seemed I was failing on all fronts. The deadline is here, so I’ll just have to submit this and hope that things will only get better. I read that this cold snap might just continue for another week. I’d better get working on next week’s column now. Visit Brendan’s website at BrendanTSmith.com

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Honoring 2017’s Bulldogs There are talkers and doers, sowers of dissatisfaction seeds and agents of lasting change. Much of my column work by Michelle Malkin over the year Syndicated Columnist is dedicated to exposing the worst crapweasels in politics, pop culture, media and the policy arena. But to ring out 2017, I’m raising a toast to some of my favorite bulldogs -- vigilant citizens, independent journalists and bloggers, and dedicated activists who work tirelessly to protect life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Angel Moms and Dads: These brave parents of victims of illegal immigrant crime keep the legacies of their lost loved ones alive by fighting for secure borders and immigration enforcement to prevent more needless suffering. After President Trump spotlighted several members on the campaign trail in 2016, liberal journalists attacked them as a “hate group” -- never mind the fact that many are legal immigrants and naturalized citizens themselves. As open-borders lobbyists fight hard this coming year for amnesty, sanctuary cities, and border wall sabotage, look for the Angel Moms and Dads to step up and speak for the voiceless. Terri LaPoint: An Alabamabased writer and investigative reporter, Terri runs MedicalKidnap.com for Health Impact News. She exposes the dangerous alliance between child welfare bureaucrats and elite medical institutions that undermine parental rights and separate sick kids

from their families in the name of saving them. While the Justina Pelletier and Charlie Gard cases prompted international outrage, most medical kidnappings go unnoticed and unreported on a chillingly routine basis. LaPoint is the go-to resource for families under siege for defending their medical autonomy. Luke Rosiak: This prolific investigative reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation has broken dozens of stories on the Democrats’ information technology scandal involving what Rosiak calls a “massive cyber breach on Congress and cover-up.” For the past year, he has hammered away at House Dems who employed IT aide Imran Awan and his family members to the tune of at least $4 million in taxpayer funds between 2009 and 2017. Thanks to Rosiak’s work, we learned that Awan and his brothers were under investigation for equipment theft and accessing congressional computer networks while working for several Democrats who served on committees that handle highly sensitive national security information. Awan was wiring gobs of cash to Pakistan; his brother Abid ran a used-car lot with no inventory, a fake sales staff and funding from a “Hezbollahlinked fugitive.” While Rosiak collects and connects the shady dots, the rest of the media is still snoozing. Kimberly Corban: This Colorado mom is a passionate Second Amendment defender who directly challenged President Barack Obama’s support of gun control by sharing her experience as a rape survivor in 2006. More than 10 years later, Corban speaks regularly to young women on college campuses and

Nancy Pelosi’s Tax Apocalypse

To listen to the Democrats, the American middle class will be lucky to survive the Republican tax by Rich Lowry bill. Contributing Writer House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi calls the bill “monumental, brazen theft from the American middle class,” and that’s one of her more restrained comments. Per Pelosi, the bill is an affront to the Founding Fathers, veterans, children and all that’s good and true in America. She constantly charges that the bill “raises taxes on 86 million middle-class households,” and “hands a breathtaking 83 percent of its benefits to the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans.” This is a rhetorically potent line of attack that the polling suggests has made considerable See malkin on 23 headway. It just isn’t remotely

honest. The Republican bill is, every factual analysis agrees, an across-the-board tax cut. Pelosi’s seemingly damning factoids come from the year 2027, an odd date to focus on, since it’s not when the bill goes into effect, but when part of it lapses. In about 10 years, many of the tax cuts on the individual side expire, which Pelosi portrays as a Republican plot to loot the middle class. It’s a very strange argument against passing a bill to say horrible things will happen once the legislation no longer fully applies. This is more logically a case for extending the bill than for blocking it. Indeed, it’s almost certain the middle-class provisions would eventually be preserved. What is, by the way, this looming middle-class wasteland in 2027? Pelosi relies on the liberal Tax Policy Center for her figures. As that outfit puts it, “on

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- The USA and Israel suffered a nasty diplomatic slap when the 193 member UN General Assembly voted by John J. Metzler overwhelmingSyndicated Columnist ly to condemn the Trump Administration’s plan to move the American Embassy to Jerusalem. But while the mainstream media and the usual chorus of critics presented this lopsided vote (1289-35) as a damning verdict on the Donald’s latest diplomatic foray, let’s look beyond the simple numbers and white heat rhetoric. New York’s tabloid paper the Daily News front page blared the standard opinion: Rejected (in bold red) with a picture of president Trump peering over a globe. And while it’s an old ritual for the UN General Assembly to slam and shame Israel on a regular basis, the delegations went a step further by venting their ire on the USA, still the world organization’s major financial donor. But let’s look at the facts. The 193 member Assembly offered a thumping rebuke to Washington over the Administration’s plan to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. Admittedly while previous Administrations (including Obama), and the U.S. Congress had pledged the move the Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Israel’s legal capital, that was all rhetoric. Until now. Besides being the spiritual nexus of three of the world’s religions,

Christian, Jewish, Moslem, Jerusalem (East) is viewed as the capital of a future Palestinian state. The Assembly’s tenth Emergency Special Session set the stage for the diplomatic showdown. The draft resolution was sponsored by Turkey and Yemen; need we say more? Turkey an increasingly authoritarian country who once lorded over the region in Ottoman days and Yemen, A failed state wracked by civil war and famine. The resolution did NOT mention the USA nor refer to the Trump Administration by name but “calls upon all States to refrain from the establishment of diplomatic missions in the Holy City of Jerusalem,” based on a Security Council resolution (478) back in 1980. Now to the numbers; of the 128 votes supporting the resolution we see the usual gaggle of dictatorships and one party states. Cuba, China, Islamic Iran, North Korea, Sudan and of course Venezuela and Zimbabwe. Significantly though, most European Union members, including Britain, Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden also backed the resolution. Let’s be frank; the vote while non-binding signals a clear and present danger that mainstream EU countries would support such a move. Those 9 countries opposing the draft resolution included Israel, Honduras, Guatemala, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Micronesia, Togo and the USA. Guatemala plans to move its embassy to Jerusalem. Now it gets interesting. Among the 35 abstentions, Canada as

well as EU states such as Croatia, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Hungary, Poland and Romania abstained. Bosnia did so too. Abstentions were strong among Latin American and Caribbean states reflecting both strong U.S.

influence and often surprisingly good relations with Israel too. Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay joined Caribbean states Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Trinidad

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Donald Trump’s Very Good Year NAPLES Here I am in Naples, Florida, ending the year in the sun coterminous with a golf course. I, of course, will not indulge in the sport, for I by R. Emmett find it too leiTyrell, JR surely. ActuSyndicated Columnist ally, I do not even consider it a sport. I am in agreement with my old friend, the great basketball coach Bob Knight. A true sport demands conditioning, applied strength, speed and, of course, art. Golf involves only art. In fact, when strength and conditioning are demanded, most golfers take to their golf carts. Golf is as much a sport as bowling or billiards or canasta. So I shall continue to desist from golf here in sunny Florida and leave the pastime to my friends Rush Limbaugh, Donald Trump and Bill Clinton. Does Hillary Clinton golf? She looks more like a bowler to me. I have brought along a book — a 1,074-page elephant of a book. It is the biography of Ulysses S. Grant by Ron Chernow. I have waded through 650 pages of it and not encountered one page that was tedious. Much to the contrary, “Grant” is utterly absorbing. This is not the first Grant biography I have read, but it is, I believe, the best. Grant was the man who won the Civil War for President Abraham Lincoln and, I guess, for us, too. How would we have matched up to the Nazis in World War II

and the Soviets in the Cold War without the South and the North united under one flag? We can thank Grant for that, and I think President Lincoln would agree. As I recall, during our contemporary ignoramuses’ recent outburst of monument bashing, they actually attacked a Lincoln memorial in Chicago. Frederick Douglass, another great man from our past, said that no man aside from Lincoln did more for his fellow African-Americans than General, and later President, Grant. Whose side were the ignoramuses on? Were they white bigots? Even better, were they stalwarts of the Ku Klux Klan? When not thrilling to the life of Grant down here in South Florida, I am giving some thought to the achievements of President Trump. Until a week or so ago, it looked like he was going to end the year with no tax reform and certainly no revision in the Affordable Care Act. But the excellent Rep. Mark Meadows of the House Freedom Caucus and the equally excellent Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform both were telling me as early as September that we would get tax relief before the year was out. I put my money on Meadows and Norquist, but still, it did not look all that good. Remember what happened to the Republicans’ illfated plans for Obamcare months ago? Well, Mr. President, you did it. You got a comprehensive tax reform and the repeal of the noxious individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act, and you opened up Arctic drilling. Along with that, in your first year you got a man appointed to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, who See tyrrell on 27

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“We supplied the materials and some of the members chipped in to do the work,” said Angle. Next up on the renovations is the basketball court which was completely redone in 2017. The floors were painted and it was also newly walled in and painted white. “We also added in lines for three pickleball courts,” said Angle about the game which has grown in popularity and participation over the years. The weight room and Nautilus Room have all new rubber flooring which was done this past

fall and the Cardio Room, located on the upper level and which was redone a couple of years ago, was recently filled with the latest in new cardio equipment including treadmills, Smart Striders, Arc Trainers and stationary bikes. “The previous equipment was a bit outdated,” said Angle. “Now we have new state of the art machines.” Also on the second level, the Group Fitness Studio has been recently repainted along with the addition of a variety of new equipment. The lounge (yes, they have a lounge) has had the addition of a new bartop over the years and continues to be a favorite gathering place for club members. The lounge, which overlooks the tennis courts, offers a small menu as well with items such as pizzas, nachos and the like. Also recently redone is the children’s area where members, while at the club, can have a safe place for their kids to play. “We aren’t a licensed Day Care, but you are welcome to bring your children if you are staying on the property,” said Angle. Another important improvement that can’t be

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Abba Eban, the legendary Israeli Foreign Minister in the 1960’s once quipped and I paraphrase, “If Algeria introduced a resolution stating the world was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 in favor, to 13 with 26 abstentions.” Haley ascended the marble rostrum, “The United States will remember this day in which it was singled out for attack in the General Assembly for the very act of exercising our right as a sovereign nation.” Less than a week later Washington announced a previously agreed cut of $285 million from the UN budget. The good news is that General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding. The bad news remains that Palestine’s role in the rhetorical echo chamber has been emboldened and set for further confrontations in the 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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