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High Stakes Bingo Benefits Historical Society

“12 Strong” Reminds Us Of When America Was Truly United by Mike Moffett Contributing Writer

and Taliban fanatics who provided safe haven in Afghanistan for the plotters of the 9/11 attacks. Unlike Thor, the army captain is real—Hemsworth’s Mitch Nelson is based on Green Beret Mark Nutsch—and 12 STRONG will capture the imagination of countless viewers. Nelson/Nutsch was one of a dozen sol-

diers who infiltrated into Taliban-controlled Afghanistan soon after the wanton Sept. 11, 2001 murder of thousands of innocents. I was one of the few aware of this mission during that tumultuous autumn of 2001. Following the 9/11 attacks, I’d returned to active duty as a See strong on 22

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The recent THOR movie featured Chris Hemsworth as the title character, capable of using a magic hammer to bring down destruction upon the forces of darkness. A fun fantasy, the film provided escapism for viewers. At least for a couple

hours. Now, premiering on January 19, the movie 12 STRONG also features Hemsworth wreaking havoc upon the forces of darkness. Portraying a U.S. Army captain, Hemsworth calls down destruction not from Norse Gods, but from the even more potent United States Air Force. His enemies are al Qaeda

Weirs Times columnist Mike Moffett worked at the Ground Operations Desk in the top-secret War Room at Central Command at MacDill AFB in Tampa in the Fall of 2001, tracking the exploits of the Horse Soldiers. (This rare photo was cleared by CENTCOM as one of a few released concurrent with a special visit to the War Room by NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani)

The Lake Winnipesaukee Historical Society will be hosting a special High Stakes Bingo Game Saturday, January 20th at the Funspot Bingo Hall. There will be $10,000 in prizes as well as big prize money on Lucky 7 pulltab tickets. (Bingo prizes based on attendance.) $3,000 is guaranteed on the Carryover Coverall and every regular game pays $320. There will be an early game at 4:30 and the evening game begins at 6:45. Come early for the best seats. Doors open at 2pm. Handheld bingo computers are available while they last for a rental fee of $6. 12 and 18 card packages are available. There is a separate smoking section and food service is available. All proceeds from the game go to benefit the Lake Winnipesaukee Historical Society. Funspot is located at 579 Endicott St. N., Weirs Beach, NH.

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

Birding in Ghana

Loon Center, Lee’s Mill Road, Moultonborough. 7pm. Dana and Bob Fox will share adventures from their tour of Ghana, which is situated in the heart of West Africa. They found Ghana, the first sub-Saharan colonial country to gain it’s independence in 1957, to be a friendly, safe and stable African destination. Refreshments will be served. 476-5666 Thurs. 18th – Feb. 4th

members); $12 at the door. www. prescottfarm.org or 366-5695

Thursday 25th The Stringdusters Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 8pm. Visit www. RochesterOperaHouse.com or call 335-1992 for tickets.

Recognizing the Signs of Addiction - What Can We Do?

Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. Visit www. RochesterOperaHouse.com or call 335-1992 for show times and tickets. Friday 19th

Funspot Bingo Hall, Route 3, Weirs Beach. 6:30pm. Barry Smith, Director of the Orion House in Newport NH will be the keynote speaker at the first meeting of a Lakes Region Out Reach program aimed at fighting the drug epidemic by first educating ourselves , and changing the stigma that comes with addiction. Consequences, manipulation, enabling and approach are essential in equipping ourselves to help a teen or adult overcome addiction. Changing our approach as a parent, relative or friend is crucial. Barry will also be available for questions after the program. Free and open to the public.

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Eric Grant – Live Music

Gilligan’s Island – The Musical

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

Dueling Pianos: Jim Tyrrell 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 20th

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

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 ages 7-10 with an adult. $12/adult-child pair ($10 members) add $4/additional child. www.prescottfarm.org or 366-5695

Take This Job and Shove it! Comedy Tour The Flying Monkey, South Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh.

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Tribute to The Rolling Stones with Paul Hubert 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

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

Friday 26th Dueling Pianos: Jon Lorentz vs Gardner Berry 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

Art Show & EDM Festival feat. Gabe Smith Rochester Performance & Arts Center, 32 North Main Street, Rochester. Art show 7pm, EDM Festival 8pm. Hosted by Pop Culture Icon Gabe Smith. This show incorporates art music with newer experimental styles creating intriguing, compelling tracks, Gabe’s devotion to his art led to this musical hybrid. $5 at the door. www.

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Jack Frost & Miss Snowflake Dance for 7th & 8th Grade Students

Tapply-Thompson Community Center, Bristol. 6:30pm-9pm. This event is a longstanding tradition spanning 40+ years and is a great evening for kids! The 7th & 8th grade classes each nominate five girls and 5 boys to compete for the title of Jack Frost & Miss Snowflake. Points are awarded on the basis of volunteerism, extra curricular activities, Community Center participation, grades and citizenship. 744-2713

Fri. 26th – March 2nd WildQuest Winter Camp Prescott Farm, White Oaks Road, Laconia. Discover a camp experience a world apart from Spring and Summer camps. WildQuest Winter Camp will run from 9am-4pm with extended care hours available from 8am-5:30pm. Register for the entire week or just a day or two! $235/week or $47/day.

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Saturday 27th

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

Big Backyard Series – Life Under the Snow Prescott Farm, White Oaks Road, Laconia. 1pm-3pm. Did you know there is a whole world of activity UNDER the snow? That’s right- all kinds of critters are going about their business throughout the cold winter. Bundle up and join as you discover what the world is like! For ages 7-10 with an adult. $12/adult-child pair ($10 members) add $4/additional child. www.prescottfarm.org or 366-5695

Tribute to Bruce Springsteen with Joel Cage Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 8:30pm. www.patrickspub. com or 293-0841

Jumble Sale (Winter Indoor Yard sale) First Church Congregational, 63 North Main Street, Rochester. Fully accessible, use Liberty Street entrance. 332-1121 or www.first-

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Tues. 30th & Wed. 31st Personal Care Service Provider Training & Certification Cornerstone VNA, 178 Farmington Road, Rochester. 2:30-7:30pm. Class instructors include Sandy Powers, RN, Donne Marchetto, Physical Therapist and Janice Howard, Director of Life Care-Private Duty. $40pp. Participants will receive a certificate upon successful completion of this training program and are welcomed to apply to be considered for a position at Cornerstone VNA as a PCSP. Registration is required by calling Janice Howard at 800-691-1133 x108 or email jhoward@cornerstonevna.

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Wednesday 31st Moonlit Walk Prescott Farm, White Oaks Road, Laconia. 6pm-7:30pm. Explore Prescott Farm by the light of the moon. Environmental educators will guide you on a moonlit walk and encourage you to use your senses to explore the Farm in a different and special way. Learn to identify several constellations in the night sky, discuss the habits of indigenous nocturnal animals, and practice your night vision abilities. Please wear boots and dress appropriately for the weather. Snowshoes will be available if you

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Wolfeboro Friends Of Music Present Internationally Acclaimed Tempest Trio On Saturday, February 3rd, the Tempest Trio will storm into Wolfeboro with a concert at 7:30pm at the First Congregational Church, 115 S. Main Street, Wolfeboro. This is the 5th in a series of 8 concerts presented by the Wolfeboro Friends of Music this year. Combining technical mastery expressive depth, and performance experience, pianist Alon Goldstein, violinist Ilya Kaler, and cellist Amit Peled have joined forces to form one of the most exciting trios on the international scene. Tickets for the concert are available for $20 at the door; at Black’s Paper Store and Avery Insurance in Wolfeboro; at Innisfree Bookshop in Meredith, by calling (603) 569-2151; or visiting the website: www.friendsofmusic.org. High school students with ID will be admitted free of charge and any child accompanied by an adult ticket purchaser will be admitted free of charge.

WildQuest Winter Camp Registration is Now Open LACONIA – Looking for something fun for your kids to do during February vacation?! Prescott Farm’s WildQuest Winter Camp is one of our favorite programs, with a “personality” all its own. Discover a camp experience a world apart from Spring and Summer camps. Running from Monday, February 26 through Friday, March 2, 2018, WildQuest Winter camp is open from 9am – 4pm with extended care hours available from 8am until 5:30pm. Camp registration is now open for children ages 5-12 – register for the entire week, or only a day or two. Registration deadline is February 9, 2018. Members of Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center get a special discounted rate of only $185 for the week, or $37 per day; regular price is $235 for the full week, $47 per day. Extended care is an additional flat rate. For more information and registration visit www. prescottfarm.org. Prescott Farm is a nonprofit 501c3 environmental education center committed to helping people discover their own connections to the natural world. Prescott Farm is a designated wildlife viewing area with over 160 acres of idyllic farmland, forest and pastures open daily, year-round to the public including more than three miles of woodland, pond and field trails, heritage gardens, and a Natural PlayScape. For more information about Prescott Farm and all of its programming and ways to help, please visit www.prescottfarm.org.

Let’s Go Fishing! Free Winter Ice Fishing Programs The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department’s Let’s Go Fishing Program offers free ice fishing classes at many locations around the state. Classes are designed for families and individuals who are new to ice fishing, or people who would like a refresher to get back into the sport. Instructors are trained volunteers who love to teach others the skills needed to get out on the ice. Students will learn about ice fishing equipment, ice safety, fish identification, knot tying, regulations, and more before heading out to a local pond or lake to put newly learned skills to the test. All fishing gear and materials are provided, but participants are always welcome to bring along gear from home. Registration is required to save your spot. To register, visit www.fishnh.com/fishing/lets-go-fishing.html, select “Register for Ice Fishing Classes,” and then choose the date and location that works for you.

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Easterseals Military & Veterans Services (ESNH MVS) is part of a network of service providers who are on alert and addressing the needs of homeless veterans during the cold winter months, and seeking to end veteran homelessness all year round. In this past fiscal year alone, ESNH MVS provided emergency assistance and care coordination to help prevent homelessness for 144 veteran households. ESNH MVS offers Care Coordination to veterans of all eras – from World War II veterans to those who are currently serving. Services are free, confidential, and provided locally – in the veteran’s home or other convenient location. Care Coordinators are community caseworkers with extensive training in military culture. Their job is to do whatever it takes to help service members, veterans, and their families thrive. Care Coordinators help those in crisis situations, and are also available to help families plan ahead and avoid problems when facing life changes and challenges. As a snapshot of ESNH MVS over the past year, Care Coordination services were provided to nearly 2,000 individuals, including military family members, in FY17. Approximately 60% of the veterans and families ESNH MVS helped were those who served during the Vietnam War, Korean

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War, Persian Gulf War and WWII. The two most prevalent reasons that veterans reached out (or were referred) to ESNH MVS were financial/money management concerns and housing concerns. A large part of the Care Coordination role is to get service members, veterans, and military family members (SMVF) connected to veteran-specific and community resources. In FY17, ESNH MVS Care Coordinators made over 4600 linkages, referring and connecting SMVF to VA, State, and community treatment, benefits, programs and resources. The outcomes speak for themselves: 44 SMVF were connected to mental health care for previously untreated problems. 183 SMVF got jobs while working with an ESNH MVS Care Coordinator. And, in 12 instances, SMVF received suicide intervention services from ESNH MVS Care Coordinators. How can you help? If you are or you know of a veteran out in the cold and in need of emergency shelter, call 2-1-1 for Coordinated Access. They will help identify any open shelter space in the state. Easterseals, along with other NH agencies, is notified immediately of homeless

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.

veterans who call. Liberty House, a veterans-only shelter in Manchester, not only provides housing for homeless veterans, but also provides food and clothing to veterans in need. Donations are always welcomed! Winter coats and boots are desperately needed right now! To find out more, call 603669-0761. Please consider also donating to Veterans Count. Veterans Count emergency financial assistance was used 600 times in FY17! Veterans Count, the philanthropic program of ESNH MVS, provides emergency financial assistance to veterans for critical and unmet needs. Veterans Count raises awareness about the challenges that can result from military service and raises money to help address these needs. To learn more or to make a donation, please visit vetscount.org. Or, mail your donation to Veterans Count, Easterseals NH, 555 Auburn St, Manchester, NH 03103. If you know a service member, veteran, or military family in need, please contact the Intake Coordinator, Easterseals NH Military & Veterans Services, at 603.315.4354.

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by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor

Brendan will be off for the next few weeks so this week we are reprinting his very first column which appeared in the Weirs Times on November 30, 1995. Ten years ago, as fate would have it, I moved to Central New Hampshire. I had the nerve to poke the greyhound bus driver on the shoulder when I realized he was traveling the wrong way down Interstate 84. The other passengers were either asleep or didn’t know the difference. I, on the other hand, being forced to sit in the front seat, directly behind the driver with my legs squished against the pole which was supposed to protect him from the likes of me, was immersed in my own selfpity for arriving late for the bus and being forced into this position. “Excuse me sir,” I said. He turned his head slightly while keeping his eyes n the road. A covert move that must be taught in bus driver training school. “Please keep your hands behind the pole,” he scolded me. “I think you’re going the wrong way,” I defended myself as we passed a sign for Middletown, New York. He said nothing and casually got off at the next exit and returned to

the other side of the Interstate and headed back in the direction where we had originally started our journey: The Port Authority in New York City. You see, I was on my way to visit my mom in her new house on Lake Winnisquam in Laconia, New Hampshire. I came for that visit filled with the suspicions and fears that any New Yorker would have. I was leaving the confines of my paranoid homeland where one would pay a big price for not knowing the difference between a parkway and expressway; where a day off from work was mandatory to renew your license (sometime two if you brought the wrong forms); a place where I had accumulated about a dozen unpaid parking tickets. Now I was venturing to a foreign place where there might not be electricity to light my way; where I would have to hold on to the chilly splintered seat of an outdoor commode and where I would try to sleep while hungry black bears waited outside my window. I soon found that most of my fears were unfounded. Electricity flowed, indoor toilets flushed and bears ran free – along with deer and moose – for their lives across busy New Hampshire roadways. I had brought more unfounded stereotypical ideas about New Hampshire than I had brought clothing. I liked it here and decided to give it a go in living here. Within a week I had a job as a bartender at a resort in Sanbornton. The drive was six miles straight up what was called a “hill.” (Where I grew up a hill was usually a mound of dirt that kids fought over to be the

king of.) After the first four miles of the climb for my job interview, I considered turning around. This couldn’t be right. Still, the chilling prospect of making a three-point turn on a narrow twolane roadway, defying gravity at a completely vertical tilt, had me continue out of fear more than necessity. I eventually made it, got the job and even worked there for a few years. I took the term “Flatlander” with me every day when I made that climb and the moniker was fine with me. I carried the title proudly with me as I slowly learned the ways of life here. Most importantly, I learned one from away is always a Flatlander no matter how long they live here. It was, to me, a designation I was to became proud of. (I can’t remember a specific name that New Yorkers gave people from New Hampshire, but I suppose we might call them “Unevenlanders.” There has been a lot of adjusting over the past ten years. My attitude has changed dramatically. My paranoia has certainly diminished and I am getting sometimes too comfortable with my new life. I find myself getting annoyed in the summer because there is a line of cars at a stoplight or the drive-up at the bank teller window. Then I take a deep breath and think about the day I was stuck in traffic on Hempstead Turnpike for two and a half hours because I picked the wrong time to make a quick trip to the store for a gallon of milk. Life is Good. By the way, those parking tickets? They eventually got me on those.

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Time’s Up for ‘Temporary’ Alien Protection Se acabo el tiempo. Seventeen years after granting “temporary protected status” to nearly 200,000 Salvadoran citiby Michelle Malkin zens who had Syndicated Columnist fled earthquakes in 2001 or who were already here illegally and claimed they were unable to return to their homeland because of civil strife, America is setting a deadline: Get right with the law or go home. As if we haven’t shown enough generosity to these provisional guests in our home, the Department of Homeland Security gave the Salvadorans until September 2019 to get their affairs in order. But the usual suspects in the permanent Gang of Amnesty -identity-politics Democrats, Big Business Republicans, anti-rule of law activists and sovereigntysabotaging pundits -- condemned the Trump administration’s announcement this week with a heaping dose of hyperbole. Maria Rodriguez, executive director of the Florida Immigrant Coalition, called the move a “racial cleansing.” Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin called the revocation “monstrous” and called on Democrats to hold government funding hostage until the nearly two-decade-old “temporary” protections were restored indefinitely. NBC analyst Anand Giridharadas likened the decision to “the German occupation of, and use of forced labor from, Belgium in World War I; and the Armenian

genocide.” That’s insanity. Here’s a proposal. How about I force my way into Mr. Giridharadas’ residence uninvited and demand to stay for at least 17 years under the guise of seeking “temporary” shelter. Would he consider a rational and responsible decision to evict me and reclaim his home for himself and his family tantamount to a war crime? Enforcing a limit on humanitarian gestures is the responsible thing for any self-sustaining nation to do. Previous Democrat and Republican presidents, however, have shirked their duty -- opting instead to renew illegal alien protections ad nauseam. So beneficiaries of our supposedly timelimited generosity established families and footholds here. They gained permanent residency, work permits and other taxpayersubsidized benefits, along with ever-expanding lobbying power as a political constituency. The Temporary Protected Status program was supposed to provide short-term relief and shelter to people from foreign countries hit by natural disasters, environmental catastrophes, civil war, epidemic diseases or other “extraordinary and temporary conditions.” But they were always expected to go back home when those conditions improved. The federal statute that created TPS clearly mandates terminating the protections once the conditions that led to TPS designation no longer exist. The law “prohibits judicial review of any determination with respect to the designation, termination, or extension of TPS” and “prohibits the Senate from considering legislation that would adjust the status of TPS aliens to that

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Yes, Take Oprah Seriously If Hillary Clinton could deliver a political speech half as effectively as Oprah Winfrey, she might be president by Rich Lowry today. Contributing Writer The actress, media mogul and erstwhile queen of daytime TV gave what, if she ever becomes president, will be known to history as the Golden Globes Address. The first de facto convention speech ever delivered at an awards show, it brought down the house and predictably stoked talk of Oprah 2020. In the era Before Trump, this would have been risible. Once upon a time, military service, political experience, a policy portfolio and national-security chops were mandatory to plausibly run for president. That time feels like a long time ago. What Donald Trump proved is

that a celebrity with charisma, performative ability and gobs of free media can, in the right circumstances, stomp conventional politicians who lack all three. People who were merely governors and senators, who had never really performed on a big stage or truly mastered the media (they were just politicians, after all), stood at a distinct disadvantage. A common cold-water argument against Oprah running is that Democrats will want the opposite of Trump in 2020, an experienced, boring politico who’s well-versed in the issues and a reliably competent executive. This line works on paper. Republicans said the same thing about Barack Obama, who prior to 2008 had come as close to genuine celebrityhood as a working politician can get. Yet Donald Trump succeeded where the worthy, earnest, managerial Mitt Romney failed. See lowry on 30

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ing crowds thronged the streets of Tehran and cities across Iran screaming Death to the by John J. Metzler Shah, Death Syndicated Columnist to America. A revolutionary situation brewing for a few years reached its boiling point with the return of an obscure Ayatollah from exile. The old order collapsed as the mob triumphed, the Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran from Paris, and darkness descended across the land. Those chaotic events between late 1978 and February 1979 jolted the Middle East. Recent demonstrations which rocked Iran offered a curious deja vu for those of us who painfully recall 1979. This time though the Islamic Republic regime as well as the mainstream media pundits were caught totally off guard when cities across Iran exploded in largely peaceful but doggedly passionate demonstrations. Contrary to 1979, where seething political opposition triggered the violent revolt, in 2018 the protestors opposed massive corruption, economic shortages, and trashed symbols of a venal clerical regime out of touch with a frustrated largely young population. Global reaction to the demonstrations was cautious; with few

exceptions. The United States called for a UN Security Council meeting to discuss the percolating political situation inside Iran. American Ambassador Nikki Haley, despite the misgivings of many delegations, led the rhetorical charge in the Council, “Let there be no doubt whatsoever: the United States stands unapologetically with those in Iran who seek freedom for themselves, prosperity for their families, and dignity for their nation. We will not be quiet.” Amb. Haley added poignantly, “Once again, the people of Iran are rising up. They are asking for something that no government can legitimately deny them: their human rights and fundamental freedoms.” Britain’s delegate Matthew Rycroft stated, “The United Kingdom’s concerns about the human rights situation in Iran extend beyond the recent treatment of protesters.” While declaring “The Iranian people represent an ancient and important civilization that has a rightful place in the modern world, with a modern economy. But too often Iran’s security interests are pursued in a way that destabilizes, and at times directly threatens others, supports terrorism and distorts the Iranian economy.” He cited “Iranian assistance to groups in Yemen, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq,” which are stoking the embers of ongoing conflicts. Sadly most other countries on

the Council while expressing “concern” over the disturbances didn’t wish to rock the boat to directly chastise the Tehran regime. Tehran’s delegate went so far as to crudely claim that the U.S. was not only behind the protests but

added “there is a long history of U.S. bullying at the UN” to support such a meeting. Let’s face it, many countries, especially the Europeans don’t want to jeopardize cosy commercial

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Punish Poor People Store owner Kamal Saleh was just hit with thousands of dollars in fines. His crime? He sold three cigars for $8.89. “Too cheap!” say by John Stossel New York Syndicated Columnist City bureaucrats. “The cigars should have cost 11 cents more.” Politicians want you to spend more for tobacco. They decided this after antismoking crusader Dr. Kurt Ribisl told the Centers for Disease Control, “Higher prices will deter children from smoking.” A pit of socialist micromanagers called the New York City Council quickly embraced the idea. “It’s also being considered very seriously in a number of jurisdictions in California,” Ribisl told me. When health totalitarians make suggestions, leftist politicians jump. Ribisl also told the CDC, “Very cheap (tobacco) products should no longer be available.” So for my YouTube video this week, I asked him, “Why do you get to decide?!” “No, I’m not deciding,” he insisted. “I’m a person who studies these policies. I’ll let the policymakers decide.” OK, I sighed, “Why do the politicians get to decide?” “Cigarettes are the most lethal product ever introduced,” he replied. That may be true, although few people realize that half the people who smoke do not die from tobacco-related illness. Fatty foods, swimming pools and cars also kill lots of people.

Maybe the health police will raise their prices next. But so far, it’s just tobacco. At Ribisl’s urging, New York City adopted price floors and taxes to bring the price of a pack of cigarettes to $13 a pack. “People still have the ability to buy it, if they so choose,” he said. “Just not poor people,” I told him. “You’re screwing poor people.” “We see much higher smoking rates among poor people,” answered Ribisl. “We need policies that are going to reduce tobacco use among poor people.” I think all people should get to decide for themselves, but Ribisl wants to engineer “a transition toward thinking more about healthy food and beverage.” At the CDC, Ribisl suggested that it should also be government policy to “reduce the number of tobacco stores.” That seems cruel to store owners like Kamal Saleh, but Ribisl said, “We’re not interested in putting stores out of business ... They’re going to find new products to sell.” Really? How does he know? New York already has a blizzard of regulations that put little stores out of business. Tobacco sales regulations alone go on for 47 pages — confusing pages filled with fine print like: “the price floor for any package of cigars that contains more than one cigar and that has been delivered to a retail dealer in a package described by subdivision a of section 17-704 shall be computed by multiplying the number of cigars in the package by $1.75 and adding $6.25 to the total.” The 47 pages are just for tobacco sales. “For food, refrigeration, deliveries and everything See stossel on 26

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Lakes Region VNA and The Doris Benz Center are co-sponsoring “Having Conversations That Matter” Join Mary Ellen McCormack, Nurse Liaison and Hospice Director at Lakes Region Visiting Nurse Association and Ron Elliard, Financial Advisor with Merrill Lynch for a free presentation entitled “Having Conversations That Matter” on Saturday, January 27 from 10am to 12 noon at the Doris Benz Center in C. Sandwich. The program is open to the public. “People often ask: How do I talk to my family? How do I talk to my doctor?

What questions should I ask?” said Mary Ellen McCormack, “Supporting people with and through transitions in their lives is really my passion and expertise.” According to Ron Elliard: “Studies have shown that more than 70% of people over the age of 65 will need some type of long term care support in their lifetime. Given that the average annual cost of a moderate home care claim is $50,000 and the average annual nursing facility claim is $90,000, it is clear that long term care can have a major impact on anyone’s retirement plan and therefore long term financial planning is critical.” Sometimes we wait too long to share with our loved ones how we feel about what we want regarding medical decisions, life sustaining treatment and financial planning. The earlier we start having these conversations, the better. Come and learn how. Please RSVP by calling Lakes Region VNA at 279-6611. Lakes Region VNA hosts “Moving Through Grief”; A monthly drop in support session Carol Snow- Asher, Spiritual Care Counselor and Bereavement Coordinator at Lakes Region VNA, will be facilitating a monthly support session for those who are grieving the loss of a loved one. The sessions will be held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 1:30pm, and will meet at the Lakes Region VNA office located at 186 Waukewan St., in Meredith. Please call 279-6611 if you would like to talk to us or have any questions.

Lakes Region VNA and Meredith Parks and Rec are cosponsoring “Wellness Wisdom”; A monthly program focusing on wellness for older adults In a recent gathering at the Meredith Community Center entitled “It’s All About You!”, the attendees asked for “unique wellness programming”. So to that end, Lakes Region VNA and Meredith Parks and Rec are cosponsoring

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UNH ICE HOCKEY A recent e-mail invited this humble sports scribe to attend the University of New Hampshire Wildcat men’s hockey showdown against the rival Catamounts of the University of Vermont in Durham on Feb. 9. I accepted, of course. With the exception of the NASCAR races in Loudon, UNH ice hockey is as close to the “big time” as it gets in New Hampshire. My first UNH hockey game was in 1973, when as a freshman in Durham I watched Coach Charlie Holt’s Wildcats trounce Yale at Snively Arena. The traditional “big fish thrown onto the ice to celebrate the first UNH goal” occurred early in the first period. The Wildcats finished first in the ECAC that year but national championship dreams were dashed when eighth-ranked RPI upset UNH in the 1974 playoffs at Sniveley. The decades since have seen much marvelous hockey in Durham as numerous future NHL players wore the Wildcat blue and white, including Gordie Clark, Ty Conklin, Bruce Crowder, Kevin Dean, and Bob Gould. Many other Wildcats also had successful professional careers, including Jamie Hislop, who—famously—was the last player cut from the 1980 U.S. Olympic Ice Hockey Gold Medalists. In the classic movie “Miracle” (perhaps the best sports movie ever), Hislop’s termination by head coach Herb Brooks was an especially poignant film moment, as

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Greg Moffett spent four years at the University of New Hampshire before starting his pro hockey career. Brooks himself was the last player cut from the 1960 USA Gold Medal team. But my favorite UNH player remains goalkeeper Greg Moffett, for obvious reasons. A spectacular net-minder in Durham from 1977-81, Moffett suited up for one game with the Montreal Canadiens in 1983 (a 5-3 loss to the Maple Leafs). He later joined the AHL’s Maine Mariners when they needed a goalie in 1986. He served as a backup and then retired from pro hockey. Moffett earned a law degree in 1989 and became a successful attorney in Concord. As I spend a lot of time in Concord, I occasionally get asked if I was ever a UNH goalkeeper. (And I’m sure Greg is often asked if he was ever a basketball forward at Plymouth State!) Given the cornucopia of hockey talent that played in Durham, one would think that UNH would have copped at least one national title. Not so. The closest UNH came was in 1999, when the Wildcats lost 3-2 in overtime to the University of Maine in the national championship game. The contest was played in Anaheim, California, of all

places—a truly incongruous palm-treed venue for New England’s Wildcats and Black Bears to slug it out that April. The Whittemore Center Arena replaced lively Snively in 1995. And Dick Umile earlier replaced Holt in 1986. That UNH has had only two head ice hockey coaches during the past 50 years must be some sort of record. At around $300K per year, Umile is one of the highest paid “public” employees in the Granite State. This is reportedly his last season. It would be wonderful (though maybe See moffett on 26

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the key city of Mazar-E Sharif, thus setting the stage to topple the Taliban regime. Some feared it to be a suicide mission but all were relieved to learn that the operatives landed safely to link up with anti-Taliban Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum. Soon the Americans were riding with Dostum’s men towards their objective. Like 21st Century Arthurian knights, the Americans rode into battle on horseback, wielding

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The movie trailer/previews of 12 STRONG bring tears to my eyes, as I hearken back to those poignant weeks late in 2001. But my anticipation of this film is also heightened because one of its actors is Fahim Fazli, an Afghan-American Marine Corps interpreter that I met in Afghanistan when I later deployed there. A refugee from the Soviet Union’s Afghan invasion, Fahim waited for years in Pakistan to come to America legally. He learned English and studied American history and became a citizen. After years of perseverance he earned a Hollywood Screen Actors Guild membership and later worked with many of Hollywood’s top stars. Fahim was perhaps the only SAG actor to leave Hollywood and put on a uniform to go into harm’s way during the War on Terror. He asked to serve in the most dangerous part of Afghanistan, with the Marines in Helmand Province. The charismatic actor was so effective at

not Excalibur swords but small arms—and radios capable of calling in that awesome U.S. air power. The area of operations featured the 12 Americans and their new Uzbek allies against 50,000 Taliban fighters. But in one of the truly stunning military operations of all time, Mazar-E Sharif fell to the unlikely coalition. Northern Alliance forces then

Fahim Fazli and his friend and co-author and Weirs Times SportThoughts Columnist Mike Moffett in Afghanistan. moved south towards Kabul and by Christmas the Taliban regime collapsed. The exploits of these horse soldiers were top secret, but eventually Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld couldn’t resist sharing the story at a news conference. The remarkable saga was later chronicled in a book by Doug Stanton, which inspired the coming film.

bringing together Americans and Afghans that the Taliban put a price on his head. But he survived to return to Hollywood. We stayed in touch and co-authored “FAHIM SPEAKS: A Warrior-Actor’s Odyssey from Afghanistan to Hollywood and Back.” Tom Hanks wrote a cover blurb for us. “FAHIM SPEAKS” won See strong on 23

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of a lawful temporary or permanent resident” once the status is removed, according to former House Judiciary Committee immigration counsel Nolan Rappaport. Back in 1999, however, the Federation for American Immigration Reform warned Congress: “Each special program that provides short-term relief has been followed by persistent demands for similar treatment by other groups and nationalities, not necessarily made up of persons in the same circumstances. It has now been politicized beyond recognition, and certainly no longer deserves the support of the general public.” Indeed, TPS turned into TINO: Temporary in Name Only. Illegal aliens from Honduras and Nicaragua were added to the list, followed by citizens of Haiti, Nepal, Syria, Angola, Sudan, Yemen, Montserrat and more. To date, we’ve granted sacrosanct TPS status to more than 400,000 people from a total of 22 countries who have grown increasingly entitled to automatic renewal of their protections every 18 months over the past two decades. There’s no polite way to tell houseguests who’ve overstayed their welcome that it’s time to go, but perpetual amnesty for illegal aliens -- whether it’s called TPS, DACA or DREAM -- will only beget more illegal immigration. Time’s up. Michelle Malkin is host of “Michelle Malkin Investigates” on CRTV.com. Her email address is writemalkin@gmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www. creators.com.

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termined man decided in 1972 that he was going to make maple syrup for himself and his grandchildren who admired him, so he, with the help of his walker and a homemade sled, collected sap from 25 buckets he had attached to a line of maple trees, and produced 23 quarts of high quality syrup by boiling the sap in a deep pan on an old wood stove. Smith Merrill knew how to use a gun, whether his Stevens 22 caliber rifle or a shot gun, to get rid of the unwanted critters that gathered around the farm. After

Smith Merrill with his horses used for logging. mobile travel up Route 3, noting that it was a Buick. Both Isabel and Smith had frightening , lifethreatening experiences on the river. On one occasion Isabel, who could not swim, was fishing with her granddaughter, Julie Merrill, and somehow fell into the river, but Julie, who was only seven or eight years old at the time, jumped into the waters and managed to get her grandmother safely to shore. Smith’s close call happened when he was crossing the icecovered river and broke through the ice; however, he was able to save himself by straddling over the surface and crawling to solid ground. During the 1938 hurricane he was almost blown off a ladder when he was trying to secure metal roofing on the house. Before tractors and trucks and other modern machinery horses were essential to the farming profession, providing the necessary power for many activities, including logging, and Smith Merrill took pride in his horses and horsemanship. The Merrills grew hogs for market doing the slaughtering and butchering to produce ham, pork, bacon, and salt pork which was cured in

brine stored in stoneware crocks. As he aged physical problems severely restricted Smith Merrill’s farming activities and he was diagnosed as being 100% disabled in the Spring of 1970 with severe arthritis and the unfavorable results of surgery. He had also been injured by the fall of a log falling on his leg, and the multiple misfortunes left him with a right leg that he could not bend and with frequent pain in his left knee. The 1972 newspaper article about Mr. Merrill referred to him as a “cripple” with the comment that for him the “100% disability” was “partial annoyance” that did not keep him from an active lifestyle, though it did change his way of doing things. The business aspects of the farm were mostly gone, with the children now grown no longer with Smith and Isabel, but he found a way to grow the vegetables they needed and to cut the wood supply using a chain saw and a walker to steady himself. In the winter when snow needed to be removed from the “valley” between the house and shed roofs he used the legs of his walker to straddle the ridgepole of the shed roof. This de-

he became disabled he would have someone load his shotgun for him and then steadying himself by leaning against the house he was able to shoot the woodchucks who wanted to eat his garden. The old farmhouse was an attractant to squirrels who would find an entrance to the upstairs bedrooms and Smith was seen shooting squirrels who were sitting on a curtain rod from a prone position on the bed. The farmhouse on Route 3 of Thornton Flats was a welcoming spot for friends and neighbors

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On the current trajectory, what Democrats will most need in 2020 is someone with a big enough personality that Trump can’t diminish and negatively brand him or her. This is what he did with the rest of the Republican field and Hillary Clinton in 2016, and he easily could do the same against “Pocahon-

tas,” aka Elizabeth Warren, and “Crazy Bernie” Sanders. Oprah, used to commanding a massive microphone and managing a matchless brand, might be relatively immune to this treatment. She’d be the empathetic healer, the advocate of abused women, running to make history in the shadow of the civil-rights movement. If, that is, she’s truly interested. Even the best campaigns have down cycles and bring humiliations of the sort celebrities usually avoid. Why would Oprah, who at the moment never has to encounter anyone who isn’t in awe of her, want to sign up for that? Half the country would, by definition, begin to dislike her. She would have to fight with that part of the Democratic base committed to Bernie Sanders and suspicious of her as a Hollywood billionaire. She’d experience something that she’s never truly had to encounter: negative press. For the first time, she wouldn’t be completely in control of her own image. She’d have to answer for her promotion of kooky products and theories over the years, and open up more about a private life that has been almost entirely shielded from public view. If Oprah ran and lost, she’d become a failed presidential candidate and could presumably never quite return to being Oprah Winfrey again. In short, there are compelling reasons for her not to make the plunge. The inherent absurdity of the idea is not one of them. Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

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