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THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, January 12, 2017

VOLUME 26, NO. 2

THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, January 12 2017

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Aimee Fogg of Gilford was given the rare opportunity to place this wreath upon the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier in a special ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. The wreath, thirty inches across, was made by Aimee’s husband Ryan and their three young children, with pieces from New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine as well as from Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery in Belgium. It honored the men from those three states who were buried at the Belgium site.

Her Work Is In Making Sure That They Are Never Forgotten by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor

In December of 2016, Aimee Fogg of Gilford traveled to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia to place a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in a special ceremony. Aimee had made the trip along with her husband Ryan, three small children, her mother and father and two nieces. The wreath, measuring thirty inches across was created by Ryan

and the children for the occasion. Made from spruce, pine and berries, portions of the wreath came from Aimee’s aunt and uncle’s farm in Vermont, the Fogg’s property in Gilford and also from Maine. The finishing touches of the wreath came from Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery in Belgium where the graves of 8,400 American Soldiers who died in World War II or reported missing in action are located. It was in placing the

wreath to honor these men that had brought Aimee to Virginia. It was seven years earlier, in 2009, when Aimee’s attention was first brought to Henri-Chapelle. Aimee’s passion is in researching the history of the holocaust. She holds a bachelors degree in Psychology and History. She has also completed Yad Vashem’s Holocaust certification program. Recently appointed New Hampshire coordinator for Poland

Jewish Cemetery Restoration Project, Aimee is also involved with various Jewish cemetery restoration projects and mass grave memorializations throughout Eastern Europe. “I was doing work on one of the holocaust projects when I was driving home from work one night,” recalled Aimee. “I was mentally going over my notes when a random thought of ‘Find Paul’ popped into my head. I had no idea who See fogg on 22

The American Red Cross has a severe winter blood shortage and is issuing an emergency call for blood and platelet donors to make a donation appointment now and help save patient lives. Nearly 100 blood drives were forced to cancel in December, resulting in more than 3,100 blood donations going uncollected. Upcoming blood donation opportunities Alton -1/9/2017: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Saint Katharine Drexel Church, 40 Hidden Springs Road Gilford - 1/18/2017: 1 p.m. - 6 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 500 Gilford Avenue Laconia - 1/17/2017: 2 p.m. - 7 p.m., Woodside Building, 227 Ledges Drive 1/21/2017: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m., Penny Pitou Travel, 55 Canal Street Meredith - 1/10/2017: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m., St. Charles Borromeo, 300 NH Rt. 25, PO Box 237 Tilton -1/13/2017: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Tanger Outlet Center, 120 Laconia Road

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January Thursday 12th Silent Film Series – “Peter Pan” The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 536-2551

2 Good 2 Be True

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. 2 local favorites on stage with $2 drafts and 2-for-1 appetizers after 8pm. 2930841

Storytelling Dinner

The Corner House Inn, 22 Main Street, Center Sandwich. 6:30pm. Full dinner and entertainment every Thursday nights through the end of May. Cost is $21.95 per person (plus tax and gratuity) and includes salad, entrée, glass of wine, dessert and coffee. 284-6219

Friday 13th Dueling Pianos

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. Prepare your friends for some serious fun as YOU pick the music and join in the show! 293-0841

Saturday 14th Tusk – Fleetwood Mac Tribute The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 536-2551

Kashmir – The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Show Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. www. rochesteroperahouse.com or 3351992

Winter Farmers’ Market Cole Gardens, 430 Loudon Road, Concord. 10am-1:30pm. Cole Gardens hosts an indoor farmers’ market with live music and more than 30 participating vendors every Saturday through April 22nd. Everything from meats and seafood to breads, fruits, and veggies; as well as baked goods, honey and coffee & tea. www.concordwintermarket.com or 229-0655

New Hampshire’s Own Macaroni and Cheese Bake-Off Holiday Inn, 172 North Main Street, Concord. 1pm-4pm. Cure the winter blues by stuffing your face with New Hampshire’s finest comfort food. A small army of mac and cheese purveyors will be on hand for the seventh iteration of this showdown, and visitors have the pleasure of sampling the whole set. Come hungry and ready to vote for the People’s Choice Champion! $16pp. 271-3696 or www.nhdairypromo.org

Beatles for Sale – Tribute Band Jean’s Playhouse, 34 Papermill Drive, Lincoln. 7:30pm-9:30pm. This band delivers a fun and energetic performance complete with original instrumentation and vocal harmonies that are as accurate as possible to the original Beatles recordings. $18/ adults, $14/children. 745-2141 or

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First Church Congregational, 63 South Main Street, Rochester. 7:30am-10am. 1,2, or 3 blueberry or plain pancakes, scrambled eggs, ham, beverage. $6/ adults, $3/children 5-10 years old, free for kids under 5. 332-1121

Cranapalooza Cranmore Mountain Resort, 1 Skimobile Road, North Conway. 2:306:30pm. Featuring a DJ in Schneider’s Square, s’mores, C-More the Penguin, interactive games and more in Schneider Square from 2:30-4:30. Fireworks are scheduled for 6:30pm at the base of the South Slope. There will be live music both Saturday and Sunday from 3:30pm-6:30pm. Cranapalooza and live music are offered on Saturday afternoons and holiday periods throughout the winter. A full schedule of entertainment can be found at www.Cranmore.com 1-800-SUN-N-SKI

Sunday 15th – Monday 16th Rochester Opera House Holds Auditions for “Twelve Angry Jurors” The Governor’s Inn, 78 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 6-8pm. The show will run select dates between April 6-23, 2017. All roles are open to adults aged 18 and over. Please bring your resume with current headshot, all known conflicts, and be prepared to read from the script. For more information and to schedule an appointment, please contact CoProducer, Matt Wyatt, at matt@

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Thurs. 19th – Feb. 5th Shout! The MOD Musical Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. www. rochesteroperahouse.com or 3351992

Friday 20th Dueling Pianos

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. Prepare your friends for some serious fun as YOU pick the music and join in the show! 293-0841

Jazz in January – feat. Guest Artist Randy Roos Concord Community Music School, 23 Wall Street, Concord. 7pm and 9pm. Get in a new groove with Jazz in January, Concord’s annual cabaretstyle evening. A stellar line-up of jazz artists from the faculty of the Concord Community Music School will join with special guest, Emmy-nominated composer and guitarist Randy Roos, for an evening of music! $20/adults, $15/students and seniors. 228-1196 or www.ccmusicschool.org

Painted Stories – Stories Told by the Artists Through Their Paintings

Lakes Region Art Association Gallery, Tanger Outlet Mall, 120 Laconia Road, Tilton. 5pm-8pm. Featuring artists; Teresa D’Esopo Spinner and Marlene Witham. For more information contact LRAA Gallery at 603-998-0029 or Teresa D’Esopo Spinner at 941-5041966

Become A Outdoors Woman Winter Workshop Registration is now open for New Hampshire’s 2017 Becoming an Outdoors-Woman (BOW) Winter Workshop, a one-day program where women learn outdoor skills to enjoy during the winter months. The Winter BOW workshop will be held on Saturday, February 25th at the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department’s Owl Brook Hunter Education Center in Holderness, N.H. Participants focus on one outdoor activity during the day-long workshop. Choices include ice-fishing, winter outdoor survival, snowshoeing/wildlife tracking, and “Shoe and Shoot” (woodland target shooting on snowshoes). A fee of $55 covers the workshop, lunch and most equipment use. A discounted registration fee of $25 is available for participants age 18-25. Participants must be at least 18 years of age. To sign up, visit www.nhbow.com for a mail-in registration form. Only registration forms received by postal mail will be accepted; no emails, faxes, or walk-ins, please. This popular workshop fills up quickly, so sign up soon!

Pitman’s Offers Fun Alternative To Football If crowding around a television to watch a football game is not your idea of a thoroughly enjoyable evening, you won’t be alone Saturday (Jan. 14) at 8 pm when the monthly comedy nights at Pitman’s Freight Room. 94 New Salem Street, Laconia returns with “The Dave Andrews Experience” starring Dave Andrews along with Abhishek Shah and Greg Boggis. Tickets are $20 and Pitman’s is a bring your own food and drinks venue. Andrews is a New England favorite who has performed across the country and on cruise ships and according to at least one member of the comedy community Andrews created a unique memory of one past performance. People who love both comedy and the Patriots will have to make a choice, but an initial response from Pitman’s comedy fans has given indication there should be plenty of laugher from people who are choosing comedy not football.

Saturday 21st

Open Mic Night

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. Multitalented host Jon Lorentz and a great variety of talent! To get in the gig, email: jlo_saxboy@yahoo.com 2930841

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Weekly Cribbage Tournaments to Benefit the Children’s Auction Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. 7pm. $10pp with weekly cash prizes. Come have some fun and support a great cause. 998-1418

Game Time Trivia Shooters Tavern, Route 3, D.W. Highway, Belmont. 8pm-10pm. Join Shooters Tavern every Wednesday for Game Time Trivia. Win gift certificates and prizes! www.shootersnh.com

Thursday 19th The Infamous Stringdusters The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 536-2551

2 Good 2 Be True

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. 2 local favorites on stage with $2 drafts and 2-for-1 appetizers after 8pm. 2930841

Storytelling Dinner

is $21.95 per person (plus tax and gratuity) and includes salad, entrée, glass of wine, dessert, and coffee. 284-6219

The Corner House Inn, 22 Main Street, Center Sandwich. 6:30pm. Full dinner and entertainment every Thursday nights through the end of May. Cost

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

Jumble Sale First Church Congregational, 63 South Main Street, Rochester. 7:30am11am. www.first-ucc.net 332-1121

Tuesday 24th Open Mic Night

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. Multitalented host Jon Lorentz and a great variety of talent! To get in the gig, email: jlo_saxboy@yahoo.com 2930841

Wednesday 25th Weekly Cribbage Tournaments to Benefit the Children’s Auction Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. 7pm.

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New Exhibit At Children’s Museum A new year brings a new exhibit space to the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire in Dover. The popular Thinkering Lab has been redesigned and will open to the public in mid-January thanks to support from Fidelity Investments’ Unique College Investing Plan. A free exhibit opening will celebrate this new creative space on Thursday, January 12. Admission will be free for all during the opening from 4-6pm. The Thinkering Lab will feature Imagination Playground pieces that visitors can use to shape their environment. Bright blue blocks, gears, ramps and more fill the space and invite curious children of all ages to stack, line up, build, shape, and create. Kids and their imaginations are in charge of what they build and how they build it. The opening of this new exhibit space will include a ribboncutting ceremony from 4-4:15pm on Thursday, January 12. Member’s of the Dover Chamber of Commerce, Dover mayor Karen Weston, and representatives from exhibit sponsor, Fidelity Investments will be in attendance and other state officials have been invited. There will be a Press Preview of the space from 3:30-4pm that day. Light refreshments will be served.

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At the Eastman Cross Country Center on Wednesday afternoons area youngsters are learning to cross country ski better! Here’s Charlie with his group of elementary school students from Grantham. Helping others to learn to ski and to ski better is good winter fun for everyone. Last night as we drove by the lit up slopes of Whaleback, I asked Sharon if she wanted to stop and ski some more and we both laughed. We were on our way home from a fantastic day of skiing at Stowe Mountain Resort in Vermont and we were toast. There wasn’t another run left in our legs. Since the New Year began I have been working hard to keep my New Year’s resolution—making it a fun winter. I picked a resolution that is easy for me to want to keep because I love winter. Our day started early, driving in the dark to reach the resort before the lifts started spinning. We picked up our friend, Amy, in West Lebanon and we zoomed up I-89. Mid-week skiing is great because the slopes are uncrowded, but this Thursday was even better because there was 3 to 5 inches of “sneaky snow” waiting for us on

the slopes. Sneaky snow is snow that mountains produce in the middle of the night and was not predicted in the weather forecast. The three of us happily pounced on Spruce Mountain and made first tracks on Upper Sterling. The day was cloudy but it improved during the day. After five runs on Spruce we headed over to the Four Runner quad lift just above the Mansfield Lodge. Nose Dive, Hayride and Lord had good snow and they were making more snow on some of the other trails. People were in and out of the glades but we stayed on the trails. Seriously, we hit the jackpot for snow conditions. We didn’t quite make it until closing; at 3 o’clock we decided we’d had our fill. Especially after Amy and I decided to bounce and be tossed by Chin Clip’s moguls for our last run of the day. But I was tempted to stop

in for a little night skiing at Whaleback. I am lucky my friends have more sense than I do. On Wednesday afternoon Charlie and I volunteered to teach cross country ski lessons at the Eastman Cross Country Center in Grantham, it is just a short ways from I-89 exit 13. After last year’s nearly snowless winter these youngsters were fired up. This was their first lesson of the season for the students from Grantham. Skis, boots and poles were flying out the door in the arms of the kids. The pent-up energy exploded and there was no slowing them down. They were kicking and gliding, double poling and laughing as they lead us to where they wanted to ski. On a groomed track we went up one snow covered fairway and down another making a big loop. See patenaude on 20

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Donald Trump signs â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pledgeâ&#x20AC;? with Tom Thomson (center) in Waterville Valley, NH on Dec.1, 2015. this â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pledgeâ&#x20AC;?. A year later the American people voted on November 8, 2016 and shocked the world and elected Donald Trump as our 45th President with an overwhelming Electoral College outcome of 306 for Donald Trump and 232 for Hillary Clinton. A successful leader will surround him or herself with exceptional, skilled and proven people and that is just what President-elect Donald Trump is doing with his cabinet â&#x20AC;&#x201C; with only two more officials left to be selected. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pledgeâ&#x20AC;? has played an important part in New Hampshireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s politics for the last 48 years when my late father Governor Mel Thomson galvanized the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pledgeâ&#x20AC;? in 1968 against a state sales and or income tax. Since then every individual elected as New Hampshire Governor - Democrat or Republican - has taken the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pledgeâ&#x20AC;? and to this day our state is free of a sales or income tax. I decided to carry on my fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legacy of the

This newspaper was first published in 1883 by Mathew H. Calvert as Calvertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Weirs Times and Touristsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Gazette and continued until Mr. Calvertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 newspaperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s masthead and the map of Lake Winnipesaukee in the center spread are elements in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paper which are taken from Calvertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historic publication.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pledgeâ&#x20AC;? and expanded it to all Presidential candidates running in New Hampshireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;First in the Nation Primaryâ&#x20AC;?, which began in 2011 for 2012 Presidential Election. A total of eight signed the first â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pledgeâ&#x20AC;?, one who went on to run in the 2012 General Election. Four years later, it was signed by President-elect Donald Trump, who will be sworn in as our 45th President of the United States on January 20, 2017. For the voters, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pledgeâ&#x20AC;? is a promise that the candidate will uphold these important principles once he or she is elected to serve the people. I believe President-elect Donald Trump will uphold the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pledgeâ&#x20AC;? he signed. I also believe that as our President he will work hard to heal our nation and will work tirelessly for all Americans with a common goal to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Make America Great Againâ&#x20AC;?. Tom Thomson Tree Farmer Orford, NH

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The start to this winter as well as the labor crunch going on here in New Hampshire has made it increasingly difficult to staff the offices of F.A.T.S.O. Many of you know what F.A.T.S.O. stands for, but due to new federal regulations put in place by the Secretary of Acronyms under The Bureau of Linguistics which was formed in 2013, I am required to explain at least once each time I introduce it in a column. F.A.T.S.O stands for Flatlanders Adjusting To Solitary Oblivion and is a winter support group to help new transplants to New Hampshire adjust to their first winters here. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a twelve step program with only eight steps to make it easier. After all, there is enough to worry about. Last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mile winter helped us to get by with a small staff of five. The lack of calls for assistance made it very manageable. Still, we knew that things would be different if the next winter turned out to be cold an snowy. And here we are. We are fortunate that many of our members are adjusting nicely and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need our help as much. It is the influx of new transplants that causes us concern. We would love to be able to help everyone (and collect that nice membership fee) but we know

that we will never be able to accommodate all applicants fairly. So, we are now requiring that all new Flatlanders needing help with their winter adjustments here take a short quiz so as to help us decide who really needs our help and who will most likely be able to manage to figure out for themselves. The quiz will consist of twenty multiple choice questions as well as one essay question. Some of the multiple choice questions are: Frost Heaves are: a) An Intestinal Disease b) The latest Ben & Jerryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Flavor c) SLOW DOWN! Besides Skiing, what is another great Winter Sport in New Hampshire: a) Ice Fishing b) Snowmobiling c) Checkers Black Ice Can Best Be Described as: a) Something bought at a joke shop. b) The newest rap star c) Oops! Too late It is only safe to take a vehicle on a frozen lake: a) When the ice is four inches thick b) When the ice is a foot thick c) ARE YOU OUTTA YOUR MIND? When the temperature recaches below zero one should be concerned about: a) Frozen Pipes b) Car Batteries c) Did you say BELOW Zero? Roof Rakes are used for: a) Raking leaves off of your roof b) Raking snow off of your roof

c) A What?? In case of a power winter power outage you should always have: a) A generator b) Bottled Water c) Tickets to West Palm Beach Cabin Fever is: a) What usually accompanies Frost Heaves b) A sequel To â&#x20AC;&#x153;Saturday Night Feverâ&#x20AC;? c) â&#x20AC;&#x153;You talking to me? You talking to me? Well, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m the only one here. I hope this small sampling of quiz questions will help you decide if you still think you need F.A.T.S.O. before giving us a call. Of course, we will never turn anyone away if they need help (except, of course, during the airing of the final episodes of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Bachelorâ&#x20AC;? as per the contract with some of our employees). When my friend Vinnie and I started this group so many years ago, it was our commitment to helping each and every transplant to help them adjust. Even with our current shortage of employees we will do all we can, we just ask that you first make sure that you really need our help. Good luck and be careful out there! Brendan Smith is the author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Flatlander Chroniclesâ&#x20AC;? as well as Best Of A F.O.O.L.Brendan will be the featured storyteller at the Corner House Inn in Sandwich on March 2nd for their weekly storyteller dinner. Find out more at his website www.BrendanTSmith.com.

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Forensic Nightmare: The Perils of Touch DNA Have you heard of “touch DNA?” This mundane, yet menacing phenomenon exposes the double-edged sword of foby Michelle Malkin r e n s i c s c i Syndicated Columnist ence. With just an innocent handshake, an indirect transfer of epithelial cells, you could find yourself suspected of heinous crimes, charged with rape or convicted of murder. This year, I’ll be using my syndicated column and new investigative show on CRTV.com to shed light on the use and abuse of touch DNA in the criminal justice system. Detection methods involving tinier and tinier DNA samples have advanced rapidly during the last three decades. But the mere presence of DNA does not prove a crime happened. It does not tell you how or when the material got to its discovered location. Contrary to Hollywood crime show oversimplifications, DNA is not a synonym for “guilty.” You may be familiar with a few high-profile cases where touch DNA led investigators astray. Trace amounts of DNA on a knife and bra clasp in 2007 were key to American student Amanda Knox’s prosecution and conviction on charges of murdering her roommate in Italy. But when American forensic expert Dr. Greg Hampikian and others exposed contamination, interpretation and replicability/reliability problems with the DNA evidence, the Italian Supreme Court threw out the convictions eight years after the killing.

At the annual American Academy of Forensic Sciences conference last February, experts spotlighted the case of a homeless man charged with murdering a Silicon Valley mogul at his mansion -- despite the accused being hospitalized, nearly comatose and under 24/7 medical supervision the night the crime occurred in 2012. As Scientific American reported, the defendant’s DNA had been transferred inadvertently by paramedics who had touched and treated him three hours before arriving at the businessman’s home. The EMTs used the same oxygen monitor on both men’s fingers, unknowingly transferring skin cell DNA from the homeless man to the multimillionaire he had never met. The case provided a definitive example of “a DNA transfer implicating an innocent person,” the journal noted, and illustrated “a growing opinion that the criminal justice system’s reliance on DNA evidence, often treated as infallible, actually carries significant risks.” Secondary transfer and contamination problems with touch DNA were most famously revealed by the “Phantom of Heilbronn,” a case involving skin cell DNA from a “mystery” female serial killer and thief in Germany -- which police years later acknowledged most likely belonged to a lab or factory worker who had handled cotton swabs used by investigators across Europe. Touch DNA is also central to the murder case of Colorado toddler JonBenet Ramsey. Thanks to joint reporting by Denver’s 9News and the Boulder Daily Camera, current Boulder County district attorney Stan Garnett announced three weeks ago that he is reopen-

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D o n a l d Trump was supposed to take over the Republican Party, but the question going forward by Rich Lowry will be whether Contributing Writer the Republican Party takes over him. So far the early legislative agenda of Republicans after the Trump revolution is shaping up to be what you would have expected prior to the Trump revolution. It’s a cookie-cutter GOP program that any Republican who ran for president in the past 40 years would feel comfortable signing, with its prospective centerpiece being another round of across-the-board tax cuts. This is why the Democratic approach to Trump so far, besides being insane, is wrongheaded. The Democrats are preparing to fight what they consider a kleptocratic See malkin on 25 handmaiden of Vladimir Putin,

an unprecedented threat to the American republic that justifies cockamamie schemes like calling for the Electoral College to ignore the results of the election. There is no doubt that Trump is unlike any prior president. But Democrats will in all likelihood find their opposition to Trump running in a familiar rut -- Republicans are heartless tools of corporations and the wealthy. They don’t care if people lose their health insurance. They are cutting taxes for the rich. They are deregulating bankers. Etc., etc. The candidate who issued thunderous jeremiads during the campaign against a globalized elite that had literally stolen from small-town America has assembled a Cabinet that by and large could have been put together by Ted Cruz, or for that matter, Mitt Romney. Then there’s the congressional agenda. The early indications are that Republicans will pass a partial repeal of Obamacare out

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The page has been turned. And the new UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres of Portugal by John J. Metzler has assumed Syndicated Columnist office with a stoically realistic vision of both the crises and opportunities facing the international community. In his first remarks to staff Guterres stated, “I think we should have no illusions. We are facing very challenging times.” He’s right. The new chief executive of the 193-member organization knows of what he speaks. Before being elected to the top post replacing South Korea’s Ban Ki-moon, Antonio Guterres (67) was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva. During the past decade massive waves of refugees followed the growing global crisis and disorder. Sources describe him as a man who spent time in the field knowing the day to day travails facing humanitarian aid givers. “On one hand, we see everywhere in the world conflicts that multiply, that are interlinked, that also have triggered this new photon of global terrorism,” he told assembled staff. He then detailed the breadth of a crisis which has 65 million refugees worldwide, the largest number since the Second World War.

Stressing that, “I have worked as High Commissioner with the Turkish people, (Turkey) became the largest country receiving refugees in the world.” He lamented “having witnessed the generosity of the Turkish people, to see how now the Turkish people being the victims of this terrible terrorist attack.” Significantly his first official meeting at headquarters was with Turkey’s Foreign Minister. While the UN is known for its wide-ranging Peacekeeping operations, importantly Guterres underscored the fact, “We still fail in relation to prevention of conflicts and conflict resolution.” Stressing conflict prevention remains a key element in his vision. He chided the contemporary era’s “conflicts in which international humanitarian law is not respected, situations in which we see massive human rights violations .” Indeed his pledge to “put Peace first” in the New Year reflects a sobering challenge to the chaotic international order. Yet the new Secretary General’s lens widened to laud, “We have witnessed enormous economic progress and enormous technological progress; we have seen less extreme poverty in the world; social welfare has improved as an average.” Yet he stressed that as communication and information becomes more global, the fact that you are excluded “makes it even more unbearable” adding “exclusion

easily triggers revolt, anger and becomes a factor of instability.” He conceded that in the more developed world there’s “the growing divide between public opinions and Governments or political establishments.”

The UN ultimately remains the reflection of its disparate 193member states, and especially a mirror of the vital national interests of Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States.

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Trump’s Choice America’s socialists — I mean, progressives, are enraged that President-elect Trump chose Betsy DeVos to be his secretary of education. by John Stossell Syndicated Columnist “Not a good appointment,” yelled Al Sharpton. A “proponent of a for-profit institution! She does not believe in the public school system!” complained CNN’s Bakari Sellers. Wait. Is your for-profit local supermarket less “public” than your kid’s school? No! For-profit institutions serve the public and usually do it better than governments do. Let’s stop calling government schools “public.” Call them what they are: “government-run” schools. Anyway, the charter schools DeVos supports are public. They’re just not controlled by the usual crowd of education bureaucrats. That’s why the education establishment hates them. The establishment has had total control for a century and doesn’t want to lose it. They complain that DeVos: —Doesn’t have a degree in education! —Has no teaching experience! —Didn’t attend government schools! —Didn’t send her kids to “public” school! But that was also true about Arne Duncan, President Obama’s education secretary. We didn’t hear the same complaints about Duncan. Perhaps avoiding government-run education helps people become successful. For 50 years, the education establishment said that government schools struggled because

they didn’t have enough money. So America tripled spending per student. That brought zero improvement. Again, today, they say, “Just give us more time, more money!” No. Time is up. Children have suffered enough. My consumer reporting taught me that things only work well when they are subject to market competition. Services improve when people are free to shop around and when competitive pressure inspires suppliers to invent better ways of doing things. DeVos understands that. That’s why she wants to allow parents to choose the schools their kids attend. Schools that do a better job will attract more students. Better schools will grow, while some inferior ones will close. Inferior schools, like any failing business, should close. It’s a disservice to students to keep them open. Educrats and teachers unions refuse to look at it that way. They don’t want kids escaping their grasp. Unions don’t want to lose dues-paying members. They prefer that kids stay trapped while bureaucrats decide what improvements, if any, need to be made. Progressives are also upset because DeVos gave $200 million of her own money to the “wrong” schools, Christian schools. A smear in the New Yorker suggests that DeVos will have government-run schools teach creationism: “DeVos is a fundamentalist Christian with a long history of opposition to science ... (S)he could shape science education decisively for the worse, by systematically depriving young people, in an era where biotechnology will play a key economic and health role worldwide, of a proper understanding of the very See stossell on 28

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“Still, our old white men continue to believe that the left is nothing but a bunch of whiners because Trump won. They are blinded by the fake news and continue to turn a blind eye to all the outrageousness of Trump. These same people would be apoplectic if it were a Democrat doing these things. Instead they continue to apologize for Trump and call us whiners. The nation is in great peril if this continues unchecked. Call me a whiner if you will, but I love my country and will continue to protest and call out, all who try to take it down.” Carol, did you stop by the Tilton Vets Home to visit some vets who may have been at The Bulge, Christmas, 1944? I’ll bet that some are some of our heroes who were in Viet Nam, and some who when called upon; found them selves in Iraq! Open invitation for Carol and one of her colleagues to join me during my radio program. Please email me:Advocates@weirs. com. Geez, Carol, this could be a Franklin guests day. Saturday 1/21 we – Franklin Mayors Ken Merrifield, and Tony Giunta – will be observing the first day of our 21st year doing The Advocates. We are heard

loud and clear in Merrimack County! We will NOT have you – and them, together. I know you will be treated as a lady guest should be. However, I do take a minute to inform you that: My wife and friends wonder – at your age, how come no gray hair above the mustache? I find both political parties to be uninviting. Not on issues, but the attitudes of “Leaders” – Party and Personal Self-Important people! ******** WE, both love this country. I support your right to protest. What are you protesting? What is “unchecked”? When I see Adolph, I see Barack Hussein.. This is what America needs; more discussion between White and Black, Facts, but first, for people like Carol, and I knowing why we differ. Clarity, my good woman.

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By now Christmas and New Years Eve are behind us and maybe your jeans are feeling a bit snug. You may be sore and achy all over and craving lots of carbohydrates. So, what are you going to do about it? As I mentioned last week in part one, “Simply feeding your gut bacteria with prebiotic fibers can improve your gut balance and reduce your appetite”. Did you know that Your Gut plays a big role in your immune health? The body’s largest accumulation of immune cells is in and around the intestinal tract and very dependent on good digestion. If you feed your digestive tract good bacteria, probiotics, and the prebiotics to feed your naturally occurring probiotics, the occasional toxins you ingest are gobbled up and can’t weaken your immune system. If you keep your digestive tract in balance you’re better equipped to fight off the pathogens and toxins that try to attack and make you sick, sore and achy. If you suffer from stiff achy joints, obesity, digestive problems, constipation or the opposite

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By Laurie Terwilliger, RDN Happy New Year! First, some fun facts. Did you know: â&#x20AC;˘January comes from the Latin root Janus which means beginnings and endings â&#x20AC;˘45% of Americans usually make New Year resolu-

tions â&#x20AC;˘8% are successful and of those, 46% maintain their resolution for more than 6 months â&#x20AC;˘The #1 New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resolution is to LOSE WEIGHT! January is a perfect time to take control of your life and begin to make changes that allow you to be stronger, healthier and energized. Put an end to old habits that may be causing weight gain, fatigue and overall poor health. What better way to begin the New Year than with a goal to start each day with nutritious and tasty foods.

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Better known as breakfast, this first meal that begins your day can be as simple as a light snack or more substantial. After â&#x20AC;&#x153;fastingâ&#x20AC;? during sleep, our body needs nutrients upon wakening. Breakfast is like the spark that ignites the engine of a car. Food is the gas. Eating from as many food groups as possible provides the best high octane fuel to keep our body functioning at its best throughout the day. Whether you have time to enjoy a hearty morning meal or need a quick bite while racing out the door, here are a few suggestions to begin the path to better health in 2017! Grab nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Go Breakfast Ideas (can be made the night before or in 5 minutes that morning) 1) Toast 1/2 whole grain English muffin or 1 slice whole wheat bread and top with: â&#x20AC;˘A thin spread of cottage cheese or ricotta + banana/ berries

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Carnival is defined as an organized program for entertainment or exhibition. New Hampshire residents have long used the winter carnival as a means of turning the ice and snow of the season into fun and competitive activities. One of the past carnivals was the one held in Laconia in the year 1923. “On a cold morning in February, to be exact, the 10th, at 5 o’clock in the morning, a few, tired, sleepy, and cold lads and lassies were pulled out of bed, given a warm breakfast by Miss Caswell, and departed, midst fast falling snow flakes on an open four-horse sled, driven by Mr. George Dicey and Mr. Henry Plastridge, for Laconia.” Those lads and Lassies were from the New Hampton Literary Institution and the quotation is from the school’s magazine, The Hamptonia. The article states that though the New Hampton students arrived late for the ski jumping event that was held in Lakeport, the officials allowed them to compete. Howard Gwynne Dyer represented the school in what was described as the “… high and strange jump.” He was allowed three scoring jumps, and he increased his distance in each of the second and third jumps, reaching distances of 39 feet,

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Hampton was said to be much like the trip into Laconia with many of the passengers walking every other mile to keep warm. The reporter wrote “…we reached home cold but happy, and glad to get into the nice warm bed at 3 o’clock in the morning…”. The 1927 Laconia Winter Carnival was the ninth annual one and began on a Saturday, February 19, with the wood chopping contest which was won by Raymond Wescott of Winnisquam. An egg boiling contest held between Boy Scout troops was won by Dan Wooldridge and Morris Kidder was victorious in the pie-eating event. The 1927 carnival ended with a costume parade which was followed by a huge

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February Saturday 4th Coffeehouse Open Mic Doris L. Benz Community Center, 18 Heard Road, Center Sandwich. 7pm. Hosted by local singer-songwriter Tom Bartlett. You can sign up with Tom in advance for this monthly acoustic folk music coffeehouse open mic by sending an email to TomBartlett

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As we neared the top of the chairlift we could hear the whop, whop, whop sounds made by the wind turbines on the ridge. On the top we had a good view of the spinning blades. We ripped off our skins See patenaude on 21

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Sharon and Amy at Stowe Mountain Resort in Vermont just below Mount Mansfield’s Nose and at the top of the Nose Dive Trail. Part of keeping my New Year’s Resolution requires me to go places that I don’t normally get a chance to ski. Skiing with good friends is twice the fun. From Mount Osceola we had a good view of the Waterville Valley Ski Resort’s slopes and on the left side is their new Green Peak. Waterville is celebrating its 50th Anniversary this season! Work continues on the Green Peak chairlift; the lift cable is up and spliced and they are moving closer to an opening date. This is exciting and skiing ten new trails is going to be fun. patenaude from 20

and readied ourselves for a fun glide back down to our cars. I attempted to take my skins off while my skis were still attached to my feet but I didn’t succeed—I’ll keep trying, I’ve done it before. Oh what fun it is to glide through soft fresh snow. We didn’t make first tracks that afternoon,

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Paul was.” Trying to connect the name Paul with her current research, Aimee had no luck, Yet, the thought to “Find Paul” kept appearing. “I tried to ignore it but it persisted,” said Aimee. Then the thought of her maternal grandmother’s brother Paul came into her head. He had died in World War II in 1945, but no one had ever spoken of him.

“I had no clue where to begin to search. I went to Arlington cemetery’s website and saw a link to the American Battle Monuments Commission website to find American service members who were killed in World War II,” said Aimee. “I typed in my great uncle’s name, Paul Lavoie, and it came up he was at Henri-Chapelle.” It was the start of a journey that continues today. “I had never heard of

Henri-Chapelle. World War II wasn’t my thing, the Holocaust was,” said Aimee. She spent the next year researching her great-uncle. She ordered files pertaining to his service. She learned he was in the 78th division of 309th Company C. She ordered many available reports and mapped out his route and found a German World War II veteran who was to be her guide. “There were a lot of family rumors about Paul,” said Aimee. “Some said he was drowned, others shot, others that he was buried in France.” Aimee, who was pregnant at the time, decided to take the trip with her husband to go and walk her great uncle’s route. They stood in the spot where he was killed just outside of Schmidt, Germany. They

Memorial Day 2010. “On the way home my husband thought I should research the other New Hampshire men at HenriChapelle,” said Aimee. “I said no at first.” Back home in New Hampshire Aimee gave birth to their first child. Two months later she decided to do the research on Henri-Chapelle. “I contacted the Assistant Superintendent at HenriChapelle and she emailed me a spreadsheet with all the names of New Hampshire men there. I got their names, date of death and units they were assigned to,” said Aimee. Aimee’s research wasn’t easy, going back to some Census records as early as 1910 and trying to track down family members who were alive. “Once I would located a family member I would send out a letter,” said Aimee. Finding a family member didn’t guarantee that much information about the soldier would be revealed. Some were surprised that Aimee was doing this on her own. “My goal was to make sure that each man got one page,” said Aimee. “It was to tell the story of the man, not the military details unless it was pertinent to the story. I told the families that this was their last chance to tell the story of their relative, focusing on the person, not the soldier or the rank he held.” Aimee’s incredibly hard work resulted in the book

Chapelle: Stories of New Hampshire’s WWII Soldiers” published in 2013. Still, that wasn’t the end. Aimee took on the same daunting task in compiling the same information for all the men from Vermont who are at Henri-Chapelle and in 2015 published “The Green Mountain Boys of Henri-Chapelle: Stories of New Hampshire’s WWII Soldiers.” Presently, Aimee is at work compiling information for another book that will represent the Maine men at Henri-Chapelle. One hundred percent of the proceeds from the first two books go towards the project. “I’m also working on ten other states where families from across the country have contacted me for help,” said Aimee. “I am doing some in New York and Pennsylvania which each have over nine hundred men at Henri-Chapelle.” Aimee plans on regrouping a bit after the Maine book and not focus as much on individual states but on the stories that come to her. Besides writing these stories, Aimee has also built a relationship with some of the families exchanging phone calls, Christmas cards and more. While writing the Maine book, Aimee realized that there were no other American organizations she could team up with in her research. (There is one group that exists in OrSee fogg on 23

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egon that only focusses on Oregon soldiers.) It was with this realization that she created her own organization “They Speak: Voices of Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery” (www. theyspeak.org) It was under the organization’s name that Aimee applied to Arlington to be allowed to place a wreath at the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier last October. (Private citizens are not be considered for wreath placements.) “I applied online in October of 2016 with the understanding that there was usually a six-month lead time until one would be given the opportunity, if chosen at all,” said Aimee. To her surprise, she was chosen to place a wreath on Sunday, December 18th. “I hadn’t even told my husband I had applied,” laughed Aimee. “We didn’t have much time to prepare.” Aimee was provided with a list of do’s and don’t’s for the ceremony and with family and wreath in tow, they made the trip to Virginia in December. Aimee

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bonfire at the Pearl Street grounds. Miss Ruth Gilman of Academy Street won the costume contest, being Miss Winter in a snow-white costume. Second place was won by Albert Snow of Gilford Avenue who entered as a comic clown, and Uncle Sam, portrayed by Hazel Fortin of Garfield Street took the third prize. The carnival’s sled dog races attracted an audience of about 15,000 people and the winning musher was Hi Mason of Tamworth. The ski jumping contest was won by Raymond Jacques with Alphy Morin being a close second. Skaters competed for the Northern N.E. Championships at the municipal rink on Pearl Street with over 8,000 spectators. Miss Ruth Eleanor Morrison of Court Street was elected to be the Carnival Queen. The 1928 winter carnival was run by the Winnipesaukee Ski Club towards the end of the month of February with

good weather for the event. The ski jumping contest took place at the Mechanic Street jump with Holman Finlay of the Colebrook Country Club taking the first prize in that event. A ski jumping exhibition was presented by a former Dartmouth College star, and Laconia resident, Dick Bowler. Bowler was successful in doing a somersault on skis, the dangerous stunt

that was unsuccessfully tried by Dyer at the 1927 carnival. Winners at the 1928 carnival included Miss Melba Keasor in the women’s ski race, Henry Levasseur in the men’s ski sprint race, and Paul Bannon in the juvenile sled dog race. Bannon drove a German police dog named “Pola”. The contest for the Belknap County champion wood chopper took place at

the Pearl Street grounds and Bradley Wallace of Sanborn Street won the title. Looking back to the year 1900, a late February event took place indoors and was labeled a Winter Fair. It was sponsored by the Rebekahs and was held at the opera house in Lakeport on the evenings of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. In preparation for the event, the ladies of the Rebekahs had thimble parties at the homes of the members at which they made articles to sell at the fair. A different type of entertainment was presented each evening of the fair with the first evening being a mixed literary and musical program. The News and Critic newspaper of Laconia described the second evenings’ program as “…a recital by the pupils of Mrs. J.E. Wilson, which promises to be very interesting.” Friday evening the program consisted of “…an amateur minstrel company, composed of some

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of our leading ladies and gentlemen.” Committees involved in planning the winter fair included those in charge of decorations and fancy articles, the apron table, ice cream, and the candy table. Other Winter Carnivals and similar events have long been held in New Hampshire, including the Dartmouth College Winter Carnival and the ones held in Alton. The News and Critic in that month of February in 1900 wrote that “ The entertainment given by the Glass Blowers during the past week at the opera house, under the auspices of Cocheco Lodge, No, 28, K. of P., cannot be spoken of too highly. They were of a high character, sometimes amusing, always instructive, and it would be a pleasure for everyone to meet them again in Alton some time in the near future.” Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. lives in New Hampton.

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8’ BED LEATHER __

#3976

04 Chevy Silverado TOW PACKAGE

#3960

Crew cab, 4×4 ,leather.

Low miles, 8’bed.

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Only $2,995

#3931

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2004 Chevy 2500

8’PLOW

EXTRA CAB

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EXTRA CAB

4X4

#3984AU

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#3969AU

2004 Ford Explorer Sport Trac 2003 Ford Explorer Sport Trac

WOW!

4X4

CREW CAB #3984

2002 Dodge Ram SHORT BED

2005 Dodge Ram CREW CAB

4X4 4X4

#3962C

#3961AU

Y INSPECTED W/ 20-DAY PLAT E!

#3980

#3955A

Crew cab, 4×4, minute mount 8’ plow, power, cruise, �lt. * Nowhere Else Vehicle AT NOWHERE ELSE PRICE...

Crew cab, 4×4, alloys, powers windows and locks, cruise/�lt. * Nowhere Else Vehicle AT NOWHERE ELSE PRICE...

Short bed 4×4, automa�c, alloy wheels only 80k. * Nowhere Else Vehicle AT NOWHERE ELSE PRICE...

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2006 Ford F150

2005 Ford Explorer Sport Trac

2006 Ford F150

2008 Ford F150

2005 Ford F150

Only $9,995

EXTRA CAB

Only $6,995 4X4

XLT___

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EXTRA CAB

#3980

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4X4

#3964

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Only $4,995 8’ BED

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4X4 ___

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#3983AU

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Only $7,995

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603-286-AUTO (2886)

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK • MON THRU THURS 9-7 • FRI & SAT 9-6 • SUN 10-4 * PRICES REFLECT UP TO $2,000 CASH OR TRADE DOWN PAYMENT, PLUS $187 TITLE AND DOC FEE DUE ON DELIVERY