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A Contrast in Styles: Abstract vs. Nature Details – Art Exhibit

The Franklin Gallery at RiverStones Custom Framing, 33 Main Street, Rochester. The exhibit will showcase two local artists, Diane St. Jean of Barrington and Amy Kindler of Rochester. Hours are Tuesday through Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 10am-2pm, or by appointment. 812-1488

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Pete Seeger: The Storm King

Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 South Main Street, Concord. 225-1111

Friday 30th “It’s a Mystery” – Book Discussion Group

Wolfeboro Public Library, Wolfeboro. 10:30am. Multiple award -winning Maine author, Julia Spencer-Flemming will be the center of attention. New members are always welcome to join. 569-2428 or www.wolfeborolibrary.org

Tyler Road Blue Grass Band

Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $15pp. BYOB. Catered dinner buffet available before the show. 527-0043

Saturday 31st Tilton Winter Farmers’ Market

67 East Main Street, Tilton. 10am2pm. Over 50 local farmers and producers in an indoor venue. Sampling, music, friends and fun! Handicap accessible. 496-1718 www. tiltonwinterfarmersmarket.com

American Crossroads w/ David Bromberg-David Hidalgo

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

Snowshoe Adventure Hike

Prescott Farm, 928 White Oaks Road, Laconia. One hour hike 10am-11am. Two hour hike 1pm-3pm. $7pp or $5/ members, includes snowshoe rental. For all ages, beginners welcome. 3665695

Bucky Lewis – Live Comedy

Blackstones Lounge at the Margate Resort, 76 Lake Street, Laconia. Doors open at 7pm, show starts at 8pm. $20pp, includes, entry for a raffle for a 32-inch flat screen tv. Cash bar. This show will benefit Half Moon Sober Festival. 393-7875

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Olivia the Pig Visits the Children’s Museum!

Children’s Museum of NH, 6 Washington Street, Dover. 10am and 2pm. Museum staff educators will be reading a variety of Olivia books throughout the day. Costumed character Olivia will be popping in and out to greet children, exchange a hug or a high-five and pose for photos. $9/ adults and children over the age of 1. Free for members. 742-2002

The Matt Stubbs Blues Band feat. Dennis Brennan

Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $15pp. BYOB. Catered dinner buffet available before the show. 527-0043

Veterans’ Appreciation Day

Bretton Woods, 310 Mt. Washington Hotel Road, Bretton Woods. Lift tickets and trail passes are complimentary at the ticket windows to all veterans with a valid Military ID. Family members are also eligible for military discounts with proper ID. In addition, NEDS Disabled Veterans’ Appreciation Day is open to all disabled Veterans who would like a chance to take an adaptive lesson through New England Disabled Sports. Veterans will receive a complimentary lift ticket and lesson through NEDS with advance reservation. 279-3398 or infobw@nedisabledsports.org

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Through the Month Winter Hopscotch: Jumping with Joy from Place to Place – Art Exhibit

The Franklin Gallery at RiverStones Custom Framing, 33 Main Street, Rochester. The exhibit will feature the unorthodox and playful art of Ross Bachelder. Hours are Tuesday through Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 10am-2pm, or by appointment. 8121488 Sunday 1st

Lakes Region Girls Softball League Registration & Winter Warm Up

Laconia Middle School, Laconia. Times are; 2-3pm for first year players, 3-4:30pm for players ages 7-10 years old and 4:30-6pm for players 11+ years old. LRGS offers very low registration fees, free warm up clinics and several months of afterschool/weekend activity for the girls to participate in. 455-6572 or www.lakesregiongirlssoftball.com

The Michael Vincent Band Super Bowl Party

Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 3pm. $15pp. BYOB. Free snacks and appetizers available. 527-0043 Tuesday 3rd

Moonlit Snowshoe Walk

Prescott Farm, 928 White Oaks Road, Laconia. 6:30-8:30pm. $7pp or $5/ members. Price includes snowshoe rental. 366-5695

12th Annual Friends of Lincoln Library Celebration

Jean’s Playhouse, 34 Papermill Drive, Lincoln. 7-9:30pm. Entertainment by Yankee Storyteller, Rebecca Rule and NH Singer/Songwriter, Don Watson. Free and all are welcome.

Wednesday 4th Cribbage Tournament

Patrick’s Pub, Gilford. Registration 6:30-7pm. Games start at 7:15pm. Weekly cash prizes. Fundraiser to benefit the Café Déjà vu Pub Mania team for the NH1 Children’s Auction. Every Wednesday until June. 9981418

G.A.L.A.’s Seed Saving Workshop

Kingswood Youth Center, 565 Center Street, Wolfeboro. 6-8pm. Discussion will cover a variety of topics, including why to save seeds, the importance of saving rare seed varieties, the history of seed saving and the techniques of seed saving. $15pp. Pre-registration required. 539-6460

Dog Obedience Class Begins

Laconia Community Center, 306 Union Ave, Laconia. Beginners from 6-7pm. Advanced from 7-8pm. Class runs every Wednesday for 4 weeks (no class on the 11th). $50. Preregistration and pre-payment required. 524-5046

Thursday 5th Andy Davis – Storytelling Dinner

Corner House Inn, Center Sandwich. Dinner begins at 6:30pm, and the stories begin when dessert dishes have been cleared. $19.95pp. 2846219

Friday 6th 15th Annual Snowfest – CASA Benefit

Loon Mountain, 60 Loon Mountain Road, Lincoln. Snowfest is a collision of summer and winter where participants strap on skis or snowboards and hit the slopes for a round of 9-hole, mountainside golf! Apres Ski Party, complete with a live auction, raffles and giveaways. $105/single or $400/ foursome. 626-4600 or www.casanh. org/snowfest

Motor Booty Affair

Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 335-1992 or www. rochesteroperahouse.com

Ham & Bean Supper

Bow Lake Grange Hall. 569 Province Road, Strafford. 5-7pm. $8pp at the door, children 5 and under eat for free.

James Harman with Matt Stubbs and Mr. Nick David

Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $20/advance, $25/door. 527-0043

Ed Kowalczyk- Throwing Copper Unplugged 2

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

Saturday 7th Tilton Winter Farmers’ Market

67 East Main Street, Tilton. 10am2pm. Over 50 local farmers and producers in an indoor venue. Sampling, music, friends and fun! Handicap accessible. 496-1718 www. tiltonwinterfarmersmarket.com

Snowshoe Adventure Hike

Prescott Farm, 928 White Oaks Road, Laconia. One hour hike 10am-11am. Two hour hike 1pm-3pm. $7pp or $5/ members, includes snowshoe rental. For all ages, beginners welcome. 3665695

February at the Franklin Gallery In Rochester The Franklin Gallery at RiverStones Custom Framing in Rochester will host an exhibit called Winter Hopscotch: Jumping with Joy from Place to Place, for the month of February during regular business hours. The exhibit will feature the unorthodox and playful art of Ross Bachelder. The Gallery will host an Opening Reception on Saturday, February 7, from Noon to 3pm.. The public is invited to come and see the exhibit and meet the artist. Light refreshments will be served. Ross Bachelder, who lives in Berwick, Maine, is a writer, artist, musician, public speaker and performing arts advocate. He has been exhibiting his drawings, paintings, found object assemblages and photographs in galleries in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts for nearly twenty years. The Franklin Gallery and RiverStones Custom Framing are open Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., or by appointment. To learn more about Winter Hopscotch: Jumping with Joy from Place to Place and future Franklin Gallery exhibits, contact Kris Ebbeson, owner of RiverStones Custom Framing, at 603-812-1488 or at kebbeson@metrocast.net

Veterans’ Appreciation Day At Bretton Woods Bretton Woods and New England Disabled Sports at Bretton Woods are pleased to announce Veterans’ Appreciation Day on Saturday, January 31. Lift tickets and trail passes are complimentary at the ticket windows to all veterans with a valid Military ID on this special day. Family members are also eligible for military discounts with proper ID. In addition, NEDS Disabled Veterans’ Appreciation Day is open to all disabled Veterans who would like a chance to take an adaptive lesson through New England Disabled Sports. Veterans will receive a complimentary lift ticket and lesson through NEDS with advance reservation. Advanced reservations are required for adaptive lessons. Space is limited so reservations must be made no later than January 30th. Please email your special requests to infobw@nedisabledsports.org. .For lessons and further information please contact New England Disabled Sports at Bretton Woods at info@ nedisabledsports.org or call (603) 278-3398.

The Spirit of Johnny Cash Feel the spirit of Johnny Cash with tribute artist Harold Ford and the Cash Band in concert at the Rochester Opera House on Saturday, February 21 at 8pm (Doors open at 7pm). The Spirit of Johnny Cash enthralls fans of the legendary Man in Black and his music. Ford and his Cash Band recreate the sound of Johnny Cash and The Tennessee Three. Laura Lucy joins Mr. Ford and the band as the captivating June Carter Cash. Ford possesses the stage presence and charisma reminiscent of Johnny Cash, lending the feel of a performance at the Grand Ole Opry. Tickets are $22 and $24 and can be purchased rochesteroperahose.com or call/stop by the box office (603) 3351992, M/W/F from 10-5 and two hours before the show. Cash bar. Patrons under age 18 must be accompanied by an adult.

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Last year I wrote on how I would no longer spend my valuable time trying to come up with new ideas for New Hampshire lottery tickets. After having some success in the 1990s by giving them the idea for the now legendary â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pot Holes and Frost Heavesâ&#x20AC;? ticket, I continued to wrack my brain for years in developing even new and better scratch ticket themes that they could use to get people to waste their money on them. I was basically ignored when I gave them, free of charge, such great tickets ideas like The Town Meeting and the Presidential Primary tickets. They never used either of these or any of my other great ideas. So, after years of trying to be a good citizen in helping the state, I decided to stop. Leaving them to their own defenses they have come up with nothing but clever duds over the years. This year they are at it again in what just might be the cleverest dud of all. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the scratch ticket that smells like bacon after you scratch it. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m serious. Maybe this sounded like a great idea when it was developed by some kid fresh out of college with a degree in scratch ticket design, but it is an idea that reeks of problems in the long run. I would imagine it might eventually cost the state

more than the revenue it brings in. The first thing that comes to mind it that it sets up for a bunch of scenarios for lawsuits against the state and, if not the state, the convenience store that sells the tickets. Say, for example, someone buys a bunch of these new scratch tickets and brings them home. Maybe after scratching a few, the person finally reveals a significant winner. In their excitement, they ignore the rest of the losing tickets and high tail it down to the store to collect their prize. In their haste, their dog, attracted to the extremely tempting smell of bacon, devours the remaining scratch tickets and becomes ill causing the dogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s owner, just coming down from his short-lived euphoria, to rush the dog to the vets to be saved. The whole thing eventually costing the owner much more than he might ever actually win in scratch tickets over the course of his lifetime. To compensate for his own carelessness, the dog owner now has no choice, according to his lawyer, than to sue the state, the convenience store owner, the store cashier and the scratch ticket manufacturer for tens of millions of dollars. It wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be pretty. There is also the public relations nightmare which will ensue with the introduction of scratch tickets that smell like bacon. PETA, of course, will demand that it stop, holding protests outside of the lottery commission offices. Then there will be the outrage from the vegans who will want their own scratch ticket. (I would suggest one that smells like broccoli which has

been in an airtight container for a few days but they wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t listen to me.) Then there is the religious groups that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t eat pork, they would insist on their own scratch ticket smell. Eventually, so many different groups would have to be appeased that the convenience store would soon become an olfactory nightmare and business would go down as customers stayed away causing scratch ticket sales to decrease and the state finding another budget shortfall. Of course, the taxpayers have to ante up for this new idea. The lottery commission is already aggressively marketing the new bacon smelling scratch ticket with a truck that is going around with people handing out free bacon strips. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got to cost something. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d imagine that right now someone is hard at work (9-4, Monday through Friday with two breaks, a lunch hour and holidays off) coming up with a clever phrase utilizing the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mandated boilerplate of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Live Free and Somethingâ&#x20AC;? to promote the ticket. Odds are that â&#x20AC;&#x153;Live Free and Scratchâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Live Free and Sniffâ&#x20AC;? are in the running. So, there is a lot the state should have considered before putting this new scratch ticket on the market. It seems that just like all of their past work it has been a rush to judgment and they shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be shocked if any of the scenarios I mentioned become realities. Maybe next time theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll use one of my ideas. Brendan Smith welcomes your comments at brendan@weirs.com

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took over a million years to create. Yet we consume it at a rate of over 5000 times the rate of which it takes to create. At what point will we realize we are running out? Future generations will think we are idiots for not reacting sooner. The US consumes about 20% of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s energy with 5% of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population. So Senator Bradley wants to slow down or stop what progress we have made in the last 6 years? Climate change and the effect of fossil fuels is also an important issue. See www.350.org for that discussion. Yes, I am a solar PV contractor but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not writing this because it will affect my business. The industry needs to grow, not stop or slow down! Frase Electric LLC has installed over 1 Megawatt of PV and none of it would have been possible without the state incentive funded by the REF. Please contact Sen Bradley at jeb.bradley@leg.state.nh.us and the other senators on the Senate Energy Committee http://www.gencourt. state.nh.us/Senate/committees/committee. and ask them to leave the REF money for what it was intended for. Do this not for my business but for our children and our childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s children!

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.

President Obama Went AWOL To The Editor: On January 11, 2015 40 leaders from various countries and 1.3 million people participated in anti-terrorism events in Paris. President Obama was AWOL, and he was only represented by our ambassador to France. It is difficult to believe our President overlooked the need to be in Paris for the anti-terrorism rally. Based on his previous comments it is quite possible he decided he did not want to offend Islam by appearing at the antiterrorism unity march. In the past he has refused to label the multitude of attacks conducted by Muslims as Islamic terrorist attacks. He said â&#x20AC;&#x153;we are not at war with Islamâ&#x20AC;?, but it sure appears Islam is at war with us. After all, what is the religion of almost every terrorist who has attacked Western civilization in the past 50 years? President Obama, you just offended every freedom loving person in the world. Donald A. Moskowitz Londonderry, NH

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The “NAACP Bombing” ... Or The Barbershop Bang? COLORADO SPRINGS --

From the liberal media’s coverage of my beautiful adopted hometown, you’d think we live in a by Michelle Malkin KKK-infested Syndicated Columnist hotbed where every person of color fears for his or her life. Take a look at these ominous headlines: --”Bombing of NAACP headquarters harkens to bad old days” -- MSNBC --”Colorado Springs explosion recalls violence against NAACP” -- The Washington Post --”NAACP Bombing Evokes Memories of Civil Rights Strife” -- Time magazine --”Explosion outside NAACP office could be a hate crime, officials say” -- Los Angeles Times Let me and my brown skin assure you, America: Bull Connor is not running loose on our streets. Water fountains here in the Rocky Mountain West are segregated by height, not race. The only bonfires I know of are being set outside by local residents roasting s’mores. Never one to let reality intrude on a ripe race hustle, Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee claimed last week that the so-called NAACP bombing “undermines years of progress” and now “demands federal review” of the case. Georgia Democratic Rep. John Lewis, who clearly missed the thousands of local, state, national and international newspaper, magazine, web and cable news stories on the incident, lamented: “It reminds me of another period. These stories

cannot be swept under the rug.” Professional agitator and social justice detective Shaun King, based in Ferguson, Mo., accused a phantom “domestic terrorist” of perpetrating the alleged crime. CNN immediately blared an apocalyptic headline about my town that invoked “domestic terrorism” (this from the feckless news channel that pixelates Mohammed cartoons and whitewashes proven jihadi terrorism). And the national president of the NAACP is now headed out here for a visit this weekend. But the so-called “NAACP bombing” ... isn’t. There is simply no evidence yet to label it as such. The FBI reported in a press conference: “We don’t know who was targeted.” One top local law enforcement source told me this week that, in his years of experience, “this in no way looks like anything that can be called ‘targeted.’” The case could just as fairly be called “The Barbershop Bang” as “The NAACP Bombing.” The most incendiary act I’ve witnessed so far came from inflammatory MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes, who “reported” on the “extensive damage” of the “bombing” by fraudulently passing off a photo of a bombed-out kebab shop in France as a photo of the “NAACP bombing.” While racial opportunists rush to invoke Jim Crow and incite panic for political gain, doubts and unanswered questions about the incident are piling up. To recap: On the morning of Jan. 6, a crude device -- reportedly a flare placed inside a pipe, which was enclosed in a gas can -- caused minor damage and charring on the outer wall of Mr. G’s Hair Design Studio. The See malkin on 24

“Our Brains Are On Fire” May Not Be A Good Thing On January 20, the Senate Education Committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 101. This bill would “prohibit the State Board by Jane Cormier f r o m r e q u i r Hooksett, NH. ing implementation of Common Core Standard”. The bill actually states: “(b) The common core state standards developed jointly by the National Governors Association for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers shall not be required by the department of education or the state board of education to be implemented in any school or school district in this state.” We have discussed the canard of Common Core many times these past two years, but perhaps columnist George Will puts it most succinctly. “Common Core supporters say it’s voluntary. It has been driven by the (federal government’s) use of bribes and

coercion – in the form of waivers from No Child Left Behind or Race to the Top money…Watch the verb ‘align’ in this argument. (Common Core supporters) are going to align the SAT and the ACT tests with the curriculum. They’re going to align the textbooks with the tests. And sooner or later, you inevitably have a national curriculum that disregards the creativity of federalism.” So, Common Core is really a shell game to nationalize curriculum without SAYING you are nationalizing curriculum. Very clever. And, there are way more questions than answers available. But, the more you ask the folks of the NH Dept. of Education, the more confused one becomes. 1.Standards were supposedly “tested”. We cannot find out exactly WHERE. Can someone at the NHDOE tell us WHERE these standards were actually tested? 2.Can a school system opt OUT of the Smarter Balance AssessSee cormier on 24

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- Proclaiming an end to the American economic recession and declaring that “the shadow of crisis is past,” by John J. Metzler President BaSyndicated Columnist rack Obama addressed a skeptical Republican-controlled Congress in the annual State of the Union Address. Yet the same speech offered a fuzzy view of key foreign policy challenges and, more importantly, no plan on solving other vital concerns. As is typical in such aspirational speeches, there is a laundry list of proposals, a broad brush view of wider policy initiatives, a pandering to interest groups, but a quiet realization that realistically few of the initiatives will get beyond this prime time pitch. After being trounced in last November’s mid-term Congressional elections, President Obama is also acting with the political handicap of being a lame- duck president, serving his last two years in office. Terrorism - “First we stand united with people around the world who have been targeted by terrorists--from a school in Pakistan to the streets of Paris, “ Obama stated without a necessary mention of Nigeria. While adding, “We continue to hunt down terrorists and dismantle their networks,” he did not pro-

claim, as he did in the past, that Al-Qaida terrorists have been “substantially defeated or degraded.” I guess the Libyan, Yemeni, and Syrian crises beg to differ with his earlier optimism. Iraq/Syria - Significantly while stating that the U.S. is using military power against ISIS in Iraq and Syria (they were not even on the Administration’s radar screen last year being described as Junior Varsity), now Obama conceded the battle against this new head of the terror Hydra “will take time, it will require focus, but we will succeed.” Thus he has called upon Congress to pass a resolution to “authorize the use of force against ISIL. We need that authority.” The President is right but late. When American air operations began anew in Iraq and Syria last August, the Administration acted without the consent of Congress. The War Powers Act of 1973 demands that the President seek Congressional approval within 60 days. This legal deadline past last October. Bruce Ackerman, constitutional scholar and Professor of Law at Yale, in an earlier op-ed in the New York Times, “Obama’s Betrayal of the Constitution,” stressed the importance of Congressional authorization for ongoing military actions against ISIS. Ukraine - Regarding Ukraine, Obama stated the U.S. is “opposing Russian aggression, and supporting Ukraine’s democracy, and reassuring our NATO allies.”

He added, “Today it is America that stands strong and united with our allies, while Russia is isolated with its economy in tatters.” True, but Washington’s relations with Moscow have now dangerously

reverted to a Cold War-lite freeze. Was the once trumpeted “Reset with Russia” a policy Potemkin Village? In a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine the day after

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‘Diversity’ In Action Islamic terrorist attacks in Europe, and European governments’ counter-attacks are more than just a passing news story. Europe is curby Thomas Sowell rently in the Syndicated Columnist process of paying the price for years of importing millions of people from a culture hostile to the fundamental values of Western culture. And this is by no means the last of the installments of that price, to be paid in blood and lives, for smug elites’ Utopian self-indulgences in moral preening and gushing with the magic word “diversity.” Generations yet unborn will still be paying the price, whether in large or small installments, depending on how long it takes for the West to jettison Utopianism and come to grips with reality. Meanwhile, in the United States, no one seems to be drawing any lessons about the dangers of importing millions of people from fundamentally different cultures across our open border. In America, “diversity” has still not yet lost its magical ability to stop thought in its tracks and banish facts into the outer darkness. Perhaps here, as in Europe, that verbal magic can only be washed away in the blood of innocent victims, many of them yet unborn. To cross our open border with Mexico, you don’t have to be Mexican or even from Central America. You can be from Iran, Syria or other hotbeds of Middle Eastern terrorism. It is one of the monumental examples of political irresponsibility that the southern border has not been secured during administrations of either party, despite promises and posturing.

Many fine people have come here from Mexico. But, as with any other group, some are just the opposite. With open borders, however, we don’t even know how many people who cross that border are Mexican, much less anything more relevant, like their education, diseases, criminal records or terrorist ties. There are some politicians -both Democrats and Republicans -- who just want to get the issue behind them, and are prepared to leave the consequences for others to deal with in the future, just as they are leaving a staggering national debt for others to deal with in the future. These consequences include irreversible changes in the American population. Ethnic “leaders” and welfare state goodies guarantee the fragmentation of the population, with never-ending strife among the fragments. People who enter the country illegally will get, not only equal benefits with the American people who created those benefits, they will get more than many American citizens, thanks to affirmative action. We cannot simply let in everyone who wants to come to America, or there will be no America to come to. Cultures matter -- and not all cultures are mutually compatible, as Europeans are belatedly learning, the hard way. And “assimilation” is a dirty word to multiculturalists. State and local officials who blithely violate their oath to uphold the law, and indulge themselves in the moral posturing of declaring their domains to be “sanctuaries” for people who entered the country illegally, are unlikely to reconsider until disastrous consequences become far too big to ignore -- which is to say, until it is too late. Meanwhile, harsh punishments are reserved for people in business who fail to carry out the See Sowell on 24

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cooking fusion foods and making fermented beverages such as water kefirs. Water kefirs are much higher in probiotics than other sources and Synergy Cafe will be making its own under the name Synergia. Synergia water kefirs are like craft sodas in taste and effervescence but are very high in probiotic content.â&#x20AC;? We want people to be part of our growing tribe when they come in the door. So we spent a lot of time designing the interior to give it a tribal and eclectic feel. Much of the interior materials have been recycled from pallets, old tin and reused wood. Synergy CafĂŠ is continuing to be outfitted and should be open by mid February 2015. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are actively engaging our customers via Face Book and giving them daily updates,â&#x20AC;? says Latham. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We anticipate and look forward to a great turnout for a series of open houses where existing and new customers can taste test from our awesome menu. We have an awesome story to tell about our passion for healthy and tasty foods.â&#x20AC;?

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Award winning snowmaker and Loonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s snowmaker manager, Ken Mack, leads a Loon snowmaking tour. We are inside the valve house located near the Tote Road Quad on Loon Peak; it is one of the sixteen valve houses on their three peaks. Over the last five years Loon has invested 3 million dollars to increase and improve their snowmaking abilities. New ultra-efficient snowmaking hydrants this season produce more snow with less energy. I had the opportunity to meet Loon Mountainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s snowmaking manager Ken Mack. Mack was recognized by the industry by winning the HKDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

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located at the base of the mountain. New snow guns are becoming ultra-

efficient and are easier to start and regulate. New technology has allowed them to make a third more snow for a third less energy, which is environmentally friendly! According to Mack the ultimate snowmaking mix is dry air-low humidity, the temperature at10 degrees and warm water. Of course the temperature must be below freezing but if its warmer a smaller volume of snow can be produced. But here is the kick; colder temps cause the water to freeze where it shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t such as in a pipe or at the end of the snow gun! We all know frozen pipes will break and so will a snow gun if its barrel is frozen shut. Warm water now makes sense because he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want it to freeze until it leaves the end of the See patenaude on 20

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On top of the North Peak Express Quad we could see all the way to Mount Washington and beyond. Loon Mountain Resort boasts 2,100-foot vertical drop and has 61 trails across three peaks. at us this season but Loon Mountain has made snow, lots of deep snow, lots of very good snow covering their trails from edge to edge. They are very good at making snow. Loon has invested 3 million dollars in the last five years to dramatically increase their snowmaking capacity and efficiency.

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terrain parks for novices and Olympians, a public race course and snow tubing park. Their calendar is packed with fun events and parties. There is even the J. E. Henry Train, free to ride between the Octagon Lodge and the Governor Adams Lodge. Snowshoeing and cross country ski outings originate from the Adventure Center. I end my day yo-yoing at South Peak where the lowering sun’s rays last

well worth taking the time to make it over to South Peak. Apres ski there is a lot to choose to do right at the Mountain. A beverage in Babe’s Blue Ox Lounge or at the Paul Bunyan Room is slope side satisfying. Have Fun. Amy Patenaude is an avid skier/outdoor enthusiast from Henniker, N.H. Readers are welcome to send comments or suggestions to her at: amy@weirs.com.

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On a fateful Friday night in October of 1971 I attended the first ever Boston Braves home game. The Braves were hosting the Cleveland Barons. Very early on in the evening, I noticed that Bob Wilson, a broadcaster I already idolized, was high atop the ice surface in the WBZ broadcast booth. It was just Bob and just one other person in the booth. A gentleman that I assumed was there to take care of the technical aspects of the broadcast. I couldn’t wait to get home that night. My plan was to sit down and write a letter to Bob to volunteer my services to “assist” him in any way I could during his Braves broadcasts at the Garden. I had written a number of similar letters to other radio announcers prior to that time but in most cases I didn’t receive any response. Once in a while I would get a form letter of rejection. I wrote the letter on a Friday night and mailed it the following morning. That Monday afternoon I was in my backyard playing Wiffle Ball with some friends when my father came out on our back porch and told me I had a phone call. Before I picked up the phone he told me it was Bob Wilson. My father knew that I had written to Bob and mailed it a couple of days earlier. I thought for sure when he told me Bob Wilson was calling that it had to be a friend of the family’s pretending to be Bob. Well I was ready because I knew there’s no way anybody could pretend to have the amazing voice of Mr. Wilson. So I took the phone, said hello and I immediately knew it was no joke...it really was Bob Wilson. I was bracing myself for another rejection when he informed me that the next Boston Braves broadcast was to be that Friday night and he requested that I meet him at the Press Gate, sit with him in the booth and “see how things go”. I met Bob on Friday and after informing him that I was already planning to attend his alma mater, the Leland Powers School of

Radio, TV and theatre the following fall, he assigned me to keep his statistics for the night. It was a quantum leap in one week from being in the stands to sitting next to Bob Wilson in the ‘BZ broadcast booth. It was the thrill of a lifetime. Apparently, the “audition” went well. Bob credited me at the end of the broadcast as his statistician and then asked me to return for the next Braves game on WBZ. It was a volunteer position but it was the best education in the art of hockey broadcasting than anyone could possibly get. I learned from the best. Eventually, I would wind up keeping statistics for Bob during Braves and Bruins games at the Garden. This was during the days of hockey madness in the region..Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito, Ken Hodge... the list goes on and on. The AHL Braves averaged more than 11,000 fans in their first year in Boston, 1971-72. It was an amazing time to be a hockey fan and a hockey statistician in Boston. A little over a year after meeting Bob, I got a call from him one night. He told me of an opening for a “producer” at WBZ radio. I had only ever been in one small radio station before and he’s talking about being a producer at one of the largest and most powerful stations in the country. He told me to call the program director at WBZ the next morning, which I did trying to use as low a voice

as possible when I spoke with Bob Oakes...trying to sound older than 18. Mr. Oakes and I set up an interview and ultimately, I got the job. Thanks to Bob Wilson! He was always in my corner and was my true mentor. It’s ironic that almost 30 years to the day when I started working with Bob in the American Hockey League, I would start my 14-year run as the “voice” of the AHL’s Manchester Monarchs. I vividly recall one Sunday afternoon during the Monarchs’s first season,

2001-02. It was the second period of a game in which the Monarchs were getting blown out by the Worcester Ice Cats. I could feel a presence behind me but I couldn’t turn around since I was in the middle of my play by play. That presence was my mentor and the greatest hockey broadcaster ever, Bob Wilson. It was totally unexpected. Bob was attending with a church group from Gilford and stopped by the booth to say hello. I remember taking the headphones and microphone from my broadcast partner that day

and giving them to Bob so I could chat with him during that lopsided game. Never before or since have I been that nervous in my broadcasting career. My mentor, my idol, my inspiration for getting into hockey broadcasting was there beside me. I have no idea what my play by play was like during that 5-10 minute segment of that broadcast. As I recall, it wasn’t very good. Bob was wonderful! Reminiscing about the Braves, Bruins and some of the great times we had together. Meanwhile, I was a nervous wreck. Before leaving the booth and re-joining his group he told me in his trademark booming and rich voice that I was sounding great as I extended my sweaty right hand. Bob Wilson made a tremendous difference in my life and I know without his help and guidance I wouldn’t be doing what I love until this day and hopefully many more. I think of him every time when I open my Monarchs broadcasts with his signature, “Hi everybody and good evening to you...” OK, I know I’m stealing but at least I’m doing it from the best there ever was!

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commentator for the Bruins’ radio broadcast and in 1967 he succeeded Jim Laing as the voice of the Bruins. Wilson was the voice of the Bruins for the next twenty-eight years (except for two years in St. Louis as the television sports director for KMOX). Wilson covered about 3,000 games with the Bruins, never missing one, including exhibitions, preseason and playoff games. He was the founder of the NHL Broadscasters’ Association and was voted “Best Radio Sports Play By Play” twice by Boston Magazine. Wilson was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto with the Foster

Hewitt Award, the Massachusetts Broadcaster’s Hall of Fame and the Massachusetts Hockey Hall of Fame. The radio broadcast booth at TD Garden in Boston was named “The Bob Wilson Radio Booth” in his honor in 2011. Bruce Crowder, who played at forward for the Boston Bruins from 1981-82, who also owns a home in Gilford, recalled his memories of Wilson as he travelled with the team. “He was really a great guy,” said Crowder. “I knew him well. He was very easy to talk to and very knowledgeable. He took great pride in what he did. He was the one who called my first NHL

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goal and I’m sure called my first penalty as well. I never realized that I lived right near him here in the area. I believe the last time I saw him was at the Bruins alumni game that took place at the Laconia Ice Arena a few years back. It really is a shame that he is gone. It’s a great loss.” Crowder’s son, Scott, is the organizer of the New England Pond Hockey Classic that is in its sixth year on Meredith Bay. Locally, Wilson was a well known and welcome figure in the area. His 26-foot Chris-Craft boat named “Big Mouth” was a familiar sight in the Lakes Region. Wilson and his wife Nancy were regulars at the Senior Bowling league at the Funspot Family Entertainment Center in the Weirs for the past fifteen years. Bob Lawton, founder and general manager of Funpsot, fondly recalled Bob Wilson. “He was really a great guy. He always had a smile for everyone. Even when his sight deterioraated later in life he still came in with Nancy to bowl.”

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the correct proportions of Portland cement and lime to get the right color, make up a test batch of stucco. I’d generally mix two parts sand to one part Portland cement/lime blend. You may find that a mix of three parts sand to one part Portland cement is what best matches your stucco. Once mixed, trowel this onto a small piece of cement board that’s about one foot by one foot. Put the mixture on about 1/4inch thick. Try to match the texture of your stucco using brushes, trowel strokes, etc. Once it sets up, keep it damp for a week. Keep the sample in your garage out of the sun for a month. At the end of the month, mix up a solution of muriatic acid and water, one part acid to 10 parts water. Put on old clothes, rubber gloves, goggles, etc. as this acid mixture is dangerous. Slightly dampen your sample stucco with water then brush on some of the acid solution. Start to scrub it with an old scrub brush. You’re trying to wash off the cement paste from the stucco to reveal the colored sand. Rinse and allow to dry. Take the small panel out to your stucco and see how well you did to match what you have. If you’re not close, keep experimenting until you get the right proportions of ingredients. When you do, just clean out the cracks, mist them with water right before filling them and do all the work on cooler overcast days. After 60 days then carefully scrub off the cement paste from the stucco mix in the cracks with a toothbrush using the acid solution. Do not allow the acid solution to touch the existing stucco. Good luck with this! Need an answer? All of Tim’s past columns are archived for free at www. AsktheBuilder.com. You can also watch hundreds of videos, download Quick Start Guides and more, all for free. (c)2015 TIM CARTER DISTRIBUTED BY TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY, LLC.

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ment testing? We have heard yes – we have heard no. Perhaps someone can enlighten us at the NHDOE? 3.Whatever happened to LOCAL CONTROL in education in NH? Does the NHDOE know how to teach our children better or understand their individual needs more than the teachers in our local community schools? Now, these are just a few of the many questions. But, Thomas Raffio, Chair of the NH State Board of Education (also, CEO of Northeast Delta Dental) testified at the SB 101 hearing. Here is some of what he shared with the Senate committee: “…I have to say, I really don’t understand this bill. In 2010, when the SBOE endorsed the Common Core State Standards, we were essentially recommending them… (Really? I remember this quite differently. Things like “… schools would lose funding” if they did not implement and such. Hmmm…). “We knew they were good.” (How did you know? WHERE were these standards tested?) “The department had worked on them for years with other states.” (First I have heard of this. Very interesting

information. More details, please?) “Hundreds of our own teachers helped write them.” (Weren’t these standards handed to us from a governmental agency known as the National Governors Association?) In his comments, Chair Raffio goes on to say “the Union Leader quoted a little girl in one of our districts jumping up to say, ‘Our brains are on fire’.” Now this is a statement I can agree with, as this what happens when you teach to a “test”. My brain sometimes feels this way, too. Parents need to stand up and say NO to Common Core. We need to say NO the Smarter Balance Assessments. As NH taxpayers, we should all demand Common Core go back to the pit from whence it came. We should leave the teaching of our youth to the teachers who know our children the best. Individualized instruction can lead to a life-long love of learning. Cramming facts onto a test sheet – well, not so much. You can locate your senators/representatives at www.gencourt. state.nh.us. All contact info is listed on this site. Give your public servants a call and let them know you DO NOT want Common Core in NH! I dare you…

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NAACP office is located on the opposite side of the building. Internet sleuth Jonathan Langdale, a former U.S. Air Force image analyst, and former NYPD officer and online security expert John Cardillo noted that Google Earth images of the building taken last fall showed dark marks in the exact same spot. “A preliminary analysis of the Google Earth image side by side with the alleged damage seems to reveal similar scorching on the same area of the building months before the alleged hate crime,” Cardillo reported. “There was as much opportunity to hit the NAACP side of the building, but only (the) barber shop side was affected,” he pointed out. Cardillo’s Colorado law enforcement sources told him that “the Feds are in a bind because there isn’t much pointing to a verifiable hate crime,” but “politics” is the “driving force.” President Obama’s FBI has disseminated a sketch of a “person of interest” described as “white,” “balding” and “in his 40s.” But sunglasses obscure his eyes. Even more unfortunate: His facial features appear as though he could

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just as easily be a lightskinned Asian, Hispanic or Pacific Islander -- or, as many acerbic critics of the poorly drawn sketch observed, a chubby gray alien from outer space. I asked local law enforcement sources to tell me more about the witness or witnesses who identified the Bald Specter. But all questions are being referred to the FBI, which did not return my call by deadline. There is also a futileseeming hunt for a white pickup truck allegedly driven by the Bald Specter. But I’ve driven through the neighborhood where the barbershop and NAACP office are located. Every other vehicle in the area is a pickup. And as blogger and citizen journalist Bill O’Keefe observed, another Google street view image of the premises taken last fall shows a white pickup matching the FBI description sitting in the parking lot on the NAACP side of the building. One key witness who spoke to a local news station described the white pickup as a “new truck.” The FBI description says it was a “dirty” “older model.” Which is it? I’m reminded of the Keystone Kops witch-hunt for the nonexistent crazed white militants in a nonexistent white box truck during the Beltway sniper attacks in 2002. These are all things that make you go “hmmm,” not things that justify kneejerk and unsubstantiated cries of “RAAAACISM!” Something certainly happened at 603 South El Paso Street in Colorado Springs on the first Monday after New Year’s. But what exactly occurred and why are as wide open as the Colorado sky. Michelle Malkin is the author of “Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies” (Regnery 2010). Her e-mail address is malkinblog@gmail.com.

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