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Bob Coolbaugh, surrounded by family members stands on the wing of the 1929 Model B-8 Kitty Hawk bi-plane also known as “Paugus Bay Kitty Hawk,” he has been restoring. Coolbaugh, plans to fly it from Virginia to Lake Winnipesaukee this summer. COURTESY PHOTO

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This summer, Bob Coolbaugh will be flying north to New Hampshire, making his first trip from his hangar in New Market, Virginia, to Lake Winnipesaukee. But he’ll be flying a plane that is native to the lake – more specifically, to Paugus Bay. Coolbaugh, a former U.S. Navy pilot who also had a long career flying huge jet air-

liners around the world, will be piloting a Model B-8 Kitty Hawk bi-plane that he calls the “Paugus Bay Kitty Hawk.” In its third restoration, the craft was one of a handful of biplanes operating sea plane rides and larger trips in the early to mid 1900s, flying from Weirs Beach and Paugus Bay when pontooned sea plane rides carried an estimated 50,000 passengers around the lake during the heyday of Winnipesaukee air tour-

ism, according to Jane Rice of Moultonborough, a local historian and the author of the book Bob Fogg and New Hampshire’s Golden Age of Aviation. The biplanes of that era, which sat two passengers in front of the pilot seat, offered patrons an unusual view of the Big Lake, and were hugely popular among visitors. They were also hired by summer residents as far away as New See COOLBAUGH on 18

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JANUARY Wednesday 29th 4-Week Rug Hooking Class The Woolen Pear, Brookside Mall, 563 Route 106, Loudon. There will be a day class (10am-12pm) offered, as well as an evening class (6pm-8pm), every Wednesday until Feb. 19 th . In this 4-week class, you will learn the basics of rug hooking with Pam Bartlett. You will complete the 12”x12” project that can be used as a wall hanging, chair pad or pillow in your choice of available colors. Tuition is $155 per student with NO additional materials fee. Space is limited and pre-registration is required. 279-7920 or www.Meredith.NHCrafts.org

Entertainment at Giuseppe’s Pizzeria & Ristorante Giuseppe’s, Mill Falls Marketplace, Meredith. Paul Hubert will be featured on guitar and vocals from 6pm-9pm. 279-3313 or www.Giuseppesnh.

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Senior Community Service Employment Program Info Session

NH Works Office, 45 South Fruit Street, Concord. 12pm. If you are 55+ and a year round resident of NH living on a fixed income, and looking for a job, this session is for you! SCSEP helps eligible individuals improve their employment skills through paid work assignments in a variety of fields at a non-profit or government agency while actively engaged in job search. Program participants work an average of 20 hours a week earning $7.25/ hour. 225-3295

Thursday 30th Entertainment at Giuseppe’s Pizzeria & Ristorante Giuseppe’s, Mill Falls Marketplace, Meredith. Acoustic Detour will be featured on guitar and vocals from 6pm-9pm, then join in the fun of Karaoke Night in the Grotto at 10pm. 279-3313 or www.Giuseppesnh.

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Broken Arrow Flying Monkey, Main Street, Plymouth. www.FlyingMonkeyNH.com or 5362551

Live Music with Jim Tyrrell and Guest Pa t r i ck ’s P u b a n d E a t e r y, 1 8 Weirs Road, Gilford. 7pm. www. PatricksPub.com or 293-0841

Hypnotist for Hope Beane Conference Center, Blueberry Lane, Laconia. 7pm. Evening begins at 7pm with Kimayo Music, then at 8pm enjoy “Mind Games” with Hypnotist Paul Ramsey. Cash bar and snacks provided. All proceeds benefit Brigid’s House of Hope. Tickets are $30/advance or $35/door. www.

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Understanding Bobcats in New Hampshire

Prescott Farm and Environmental Center, White Oaks Road, Laconia. 6pm-7:30pm. Bobcat prints have been spotted in the snow this winter at Prescott Farm. This program, presented by Brenda Leary of NH Fish & Game Wildlife Stewards, will offer the chance to learn about the natural history of our native wildlife, related research and management activities in NH and the federal Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program that makes the work possible. The program is free for members, $8pp/ non-members. To register call 3665695

FEBRUARY Saturday 1st Live Music with Henry Laliberte Pa t r i ck ’s P u b a n d E a t e r y, 1 8 Weirs Road, Gilford. 8pm. www. PatricksPub.com or 293-0841

Mother of a Comedy Show – feat. 3 of Boston’s Funniest Ladies Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. www.FlyingMonkeyNH. com or 536-2551

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Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. Tickets are $20pp. Pitman’s is a BYO venue. 527-0043

Winter Bald Eagle Watching Squam Lakes Natural Science Center, Holderness. 9am-12pm. Squam Lakes Science Center’s Executive Director Iain MacLeod leads a tour around the Lakes Region to spot Bald Eagles. Iain will share the natural history and adaptations of these majestic

birds, the story of how we almost lost our national symbol of freedom, and what has led to their comeback. Participants will carpool to viewing sites and binoculars will be available or participants can bring their own. Dress to be outside with insulated snow boots and warm layers. $12/ members, $15/non-members. www.

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Mon. 3rd – Sat. 29th LRAA “Artists Road Show” – Art Exhibit at Belknap Subaru

Belknap Subaru, Tilton. Belknap Subaru will host an exhibit of art from members of The Lakes Region Art Association in it’s showroom. The grand opening reception will happen on Feb. 3rd from 2pm-6pm. Public is invited, and light refreshments will be served. The exhibit will remain on display until the 29th. 569-3745

Tuesday 4th Center Harbor Soup Kitchen – Free Community Meal

Center Harbor Congregational Church, 52 Main Street, Center Harbor. 5pm – 6pm. Join ever y Tuesday night for an opportunity to meet new friends and families and enjoy a good meal together at no cost.

Paul Luff Pa t r i ck ’s P u b a n d E a t e r y, 1 8 Weirs Road, Gilford. 7pm. www. PatricksPub.com or 293-0841 Wednesday 5th

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“Learn to Play” Lacrosse Clinic – Laconia Lacrosse Laconia. Boys grades 1-4 are 6pm7pm and boys grades 5-8 are 7pm8pm in the Laconia Community Center and all girls are 7pm-8pm at the Laconia Middle School gym. These free clinics will take place every Sunday through the start of the season in March. For information or to borrow equipment to try the sport out, email laconialacrosseclub@ gmail.com If you register by February 29th, there is no cost to play with the Laconia Lacrosse Club.

Estate Planning for the Informed Consumer

First United Methodist Church, in the Wesley Woods’ Community Room, 18 Wesley Way, Gilford. Attorney Edward Beasley from Beasley & Ferber, Elder and Disability Law Firm invite you to their educational session on Estate Planning. 528-2555 to RSVP.

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Adaskin String Trio In Wolfeboro Wolfeboro Friends of Music’s season continues with the return of a long appreciated artistic ensemble. On Sunday February 16, 2020 the Adaskin String Trio with oboe masterThomas Gallant. The concert is at the First Congregational Church 115, N Main St, Wolfeboro. This dynamic ensemble commands a large string trio repertoire ranging from Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven to Dohnanyi, Rozsa, Villa-Lobos, Schnittke, and composers of today including commissioned works by Murray Adaskin, Robert Carl and David Macbride among others. Tickets are $25 and are available at Avery Insurance and Black’s Paper & Gift Store in Wolfeboro, Innisfree Bookshop in Meredith, Greenlaw’s Music and Audio in Laconia, and Bayswater Books in Center Harbor; online at www.wfriendsofmusic.org or at the door. High school students with ID will be admitted free of charge and children accompanied by an adult ticket purchaser will be admitted free of charge. www.wfriendsofmusic.org or call 603-569-215.

A Mother of A Comedy Show In Plymouth The Flying Monkey presents A Mother of a Comedy Show on February 1st. Three of Boston’s funniest ladies, Christine Hurley, Kelly MacFarland and Kerri, are coming to Plymouth for one Mother of a show. These ladies travel the country as true professional standup comedians, each having their own long list of impressive credits, here in a Mother of a Comedy Show they come together as friends! Christine Hurley, Kelly MacFarland and Kerri Louise have all battled in the comedy clubs and done hundreds of theatre shows. The Mother of a Comedy Show gets all these comedic talents together on one stage. Tickets for a Mother of a Comedy Show range from $20 - $30. For more information on upcoming shows or to purchase tickets call the box office at 603-536-2551 or go online at www.flyingmonkeyNH.com.

Ken Clark Organ Trio At Pitman’s Freight Room Friday, February 7th at 8pm, the Ken Clark Organ Trio comes to Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. Ken is internationally known as one of the world’s greatest jazz organists. He has also been *Winner of New England Blues Society, Keyboardist of the the Year* in “2006”, “2009”, “2011” & “2015”. Ken’s technical ability joined with his natural feel for funk and soul makes a night with the KKOT an authentic, special one indeed. Tickets are $20 and Pitman’s is a BYOB establishment. Call 603-527-0043 for tickets.

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New Medicare Options This year I turn sixty-five which means that I have to start thinking about my Medicare options. As much as this makes me by Brendan Smith feel a bit old, Weirs Times Editor I do feel as though I’ve accomplished something. Small victories. I’ve put in my time, worked hard, tried to stay out of trouble, and now I am being slightly rewarded with this Medicare thing. Certainly not the golden egg, but at least it’s something. Then I turn on the TV and hear these politicians running for president promising folks that if they are elected there will be “Medicare For All.” What? Just hold on a minute. You’re telling me that I’ve climbed up and down this ladder every day for decades and just when I’m about on my final rung you’re going to now just give everyone an escalator? Of course, if government does end up running the whole show a visit to the doctor won’t be any worse than a trip to the DMV, waiting in a traffic jam while four guys drinking coffee watch one guy digging a hole, or being on hold for two hours waiting to talk with someone at the Internal Revenue Service. But, I can’t really spend too much time thinking about all of that. For the next few months I must figure out how in the heck this Medicare thing, as it stands now, actually works. You can’t just sign up and then wait to get sick to use it. It’s not that simple. You also have to make sure you have all of the “extra” coverage you might need. So far there are four different letters you can use. There is Medicare A, B, C & D.

You get A & B just because you are now old and gave the government money every week out of your paycheck though you still have to pay premiums and deductible, so don’t get too excited. Parts C & D will cost you even more money because these plans provide extra stuff that you didn’t know you weren’t going to get with Parts A & B until you started getting piles of letters in the mail the day after you turned 64 telling you that you only have a few months left to figure all of this out or you’ll be screwed. Even with these four plans there are still quite a few important things that aren’t covered. With the remaining twenty-two letters of the alphabet I believe they can still cover a lot more. Here are a few suggestions of my own. Medicare Part E – Allows you to bring up to twenty items to the 14 item or less checkout. Sort of like a handicapped placard you have on your car that you can attach to your shopping basket. (Of course, some will abuse this and give the placard to their able bodied, younger friends to help them jump the line, but inconsiderate humans will always exist.) Part F – Gives you access to the magazines that are less than two months old in the doctor’s waiting room. Part G – This is a supplement to Part F which costs a little extra. Not only do you get the newest magazines, but you also have access to ones that actually interest you. No more embarrassing moments for us men over 65 having to pretend to be browsing through an old copy of Good Housekeeping, while catching glances from over the pages at others waiting, trying to guess what is wrong with them. Now you can do this while holding the newest copy of Sports Illustrated or Car and Driver. (Vice Versa for you older

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women.) Part H – Another waiting room option. This allows you to call a vote among others also waiting to see if everyone really wants to keep watching “Kelly and Ryan” or “The View” while sitting there pretending they are reading their year-old magazines. It won’t always work, but at least you’ll be able to get it out of your system. Part I – This would pay for the extra time it would take the hospital technician to heat up the gel before an ultrasound, echocardiogram or other tests. The technician will also be required to say. “I am going to put some gel on you now and it should feel delightfully warm” which is worth the extra charge in itself. Part J – This is a plan for hospital stays. It gives you access to more food options and late night snacks till midnight. The kitchen might be closed at 10pm with those with the other plans, but with Medicare Part J, you can party like it’s 11:59. Part K - As you share war stories of your surgeries with others, having this plan will allow you to contact your doctor with a conference phone call so he can confirm the details of your procedure to help you win the argument of who had what worse than the other. (It is advised that you are aware if the person you are arguing with has the same plan before you open your mouth.) Part L – Let’s you skip the meeting with the pharmacist when you pick up a new prescription. Let’s face it, who remembers what they say anyway? There are still fourteen letters to go and I’m sure plenty more important medical benefits to consider. For now, I’ll just try to maneuver the ones we have. You can contact Brendan at brendan@weirs.com. Visit his website at BrendanTSmith.com

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The latest, lawless migrant caravan hurtling from Honduras to our southern border is as organic as AstroTurf. The Central American trespassers now number between 2,500 and 4,000. Two weeks ago, slickly designed flyers disseminated on social media beckoned them to sign up for the latest journey and meet at a bus stop in San Pedro Sula. That village is caravan ground zero, where Honduras’s by Michelle Malkin destabilizing Libre Party and its former Syndicated Columnist top legislator-turned-agitator Bartolo Fuentes, have brazenly spearheaded past caravan organizing campaigns since President Donald Trump took office. On Monday, the throngs reached the Mexico-Guatemala border, where mobs of mostly young men threw rocks and sticks at police -- while sympathetic international “journalists” selectively captured and curated tired women and crying children on the trek with state-of-the-art cameras and livestreams. Make no mistake: These are not desperate people suddenly seeking refuge from violence and harm. They are low-wage workers, pew-fillers and future ethnic-bloc voters being exploited by Big Business, the Vatican and the Democrat Party. Pueblo Sin Fronteras may be the most recognizable name behind the caravans, but global Catholic elites play a central role in the coordination of this transnational human smuggling racket. Trump-bashing, American sovereigntytrashing Pope Francis donated $500,000 nine months ago from his Peter’s Pence fund to assist illegal immigrant caravan participants. The subsidies cover “27 projects in 16 dioceses and Mexican religious congregations” for “housing, food and basic necessities,” as well as “migrant” assistance programs “run by seven dioceses and three religious congregations: the Scalabrinians, the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and the Hermanas Josefinas,” according to the Catholic News Service. As I have reported on my investigations in “Open Borders Inc.,” the Catholic “Underground Railroad” of migrant safe houses that extend across Central America, through Mexico, and up to and into the U.S. is a well-oiled machine. The United Nations’ International Organization for Migration in Mexico has guaranteed See MALKIN on 24

The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez School of Economics On Monday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., sat for a discussion with author Ta-Nehisi Coates. She dropped a number of shocking statements -statements that elicited by Ben Shapiro nothing but murmurs of Syndicated Columnist agreement from Coates. AOC claimed: “No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars.” How, pray tell, are American billionaires responsible for such massive theft? According to AOC, the very mechanisms of capitalism mandate such theft. In her view, successful businesspeople simply exploit their workers while maximizing their profits. Hypothetically speaking about billionaires making widgets, she said: “You didn’t make those widgets! You sat on a couch while thousands of people were paid modern-day slave wages and, in some cases, real modern-day slavery ... You made that money off the backs of undocumented people.” This, of course, is nonsense. Voluntary exchange of labor for wages is, as stated, voluntary, and the fact that there are many people willing and able to labor in the manufacture of widgets is presumably responsible for lower wages. Companies that refuse to pay their workers market wages will soon watch those workers migrate to other businesses or other industries. It is a patent violation of free market principles to utilize force in order to compel someone to work for you; blaming the free market for coercion is like blaming free speech for censorship. Exploitation in labor markets is typically accompanied by government subsidies, regulation and interventionism. So, how does AOC magically turn economic freedom into economic tyranny? By suggesting that true freedom lies in

collective control of the means of production: “If you’re a billionaire, that means that you control a massive system. ... It means that you have a massive labor force under your control, and to be ethical if you’re a billionaire today, the thing that you need to do is give up control and power.” But to whom would such power and control be given? AOC suggests that major companies be turned into worker cooperatives -- companies whose workers own and control the business. But, of course, that doesn’t solve her problem: If workers own and control the business, they are properly classified as capitalists. They will have to make decisions to make the business competitive, which means keeping wages competitive, for example. This is precisely what has happened with one of the world’s biggest worker collectives, the Spanish Mondragon Cooperative Corporation, whose worker-owners have “learned to think like the shareholders of any other global business,” according to The Guardian. In fact, most companies begin with a few workers who pool their capital and labor: Facebook, for example, handed out stock options to employees, resulting in a $23 billion valuation for their initial employees when the company went public. Does that make those workers evil capitalists? In the end, what AOC truly wants is government control. Worker collectives won’t do the trick. Only top-down government redefinition of the value of labor will. When AOC claims that capitalists merely leech off the true value of labor, she suggests that labor can be measured without reference to the market. How would AOC measure the value of such labor? Presumably through appeals to “fairness.” There is only one problem with this method: It simply doesn’t work. Consumers determine the value of products; producers do not. The diffuse informational See SHAPIRO on 22

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tion, “my TV broadcast options were PBS, Fox, ABC, NBC and CBS. Depending on the weather, it was hit or miss whether or not they were even watchable.” 1977 brought the first video rental store. “We literally had to rent a VCR along with two or three movies we could get on VHS from Blockbuster,” Malone reminds us, pointing out how much changed. “Now just about anything I’ve ever wanted to watch is available at the click of a button.” Here’s a short version I released this week of the FEE video. It wasn’t government or big movie studios that made the amazing

array of new options available. They dragged their feet. Malone points out that “the astounding wealth of home entertainment options we have today are the result of entrepreneurial start-ups, like Blockbuster.” Blockbuster letting people watch movies whenever we wanted was a big improvement. But people are ingrates about the things capitalism makes possible. In the 1990s, people complained that Blockbuster’s chokehold on video entertainment was so strong that the company would be able to censor anything it didn’t like. Special sanitized versions of

movies were distributed through Blockbuster. How would we ever get to see the movies as they were originally intended? Clearly, Blockbuster was a monopoly. Government should regulate “Big Videotape” and break up the Blockbuster monopoly! Government didn’t. Yet Blockbuster is now bankrupt. Its competitors offered so many better things. That’s something to think about now when people call Facebook and Google monopolies. A few years ago, people claimed Netflix had a monopoly. See STOSSEL on 22

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- Amid deepening political and economic ties between Burma and People’s China, the Southeast Asian state by John J. Metzler is being fully inSyndicated Columnist tegrated into China’s Belt and Road Initiative,emerging as a transportation hub and military asset. Yet at the same time, while Beijing’s leader Xi Jinping made a high profile state visit to Burma aka Myanmar to commemorate diplomatic relations between China and Burma, half a world away in the Hague, the World Court ruled that Myanmar’s government must stop ethnic persecution of its Muslim Rohingya minority.

China’s complex ties with neighboring Burma can be summed up in the folkloric phrase pauk-phaw, a form of fraternal Sino/Burmese kinship which Chairman Xi fondly extols. “We need to bring new impetus to our mutually beneficial cooperation by deepening trade and economic exchanges,” Xi said on the eve of the visit which marked the 70th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries. Burma, independent of British rule in 1948, became the first noncommunist country to recognize the communist People’s Republic of China. Historically close links between Burma and China especially blossomed during the half century of Myanmar’s military rule where the isolated socialist regime looked to its powerful northern neighbor

to help break Burma’s political isolation. Nonetheless in recent years, Beijing has supported Aung San Suu Kyi, the elected dissident who soon morphed into a surprisingly reliable player on China’s geopolitical chessboard. Deepening economic ties with Beijing resumed in the wake of the controversial Belt and Road Initiative. The China Myanmar Economic Corridor has opened a 1,100 mile link between China’s southern city Kunming and Yunnan province allowing direct access to the Indian Ocean. It’s all about geography and resource-rich Myanmar occupies a strategic place as both a crossroads between South and Southeast Asia as well as a backdoor to China’s southern landlocked regions. It can equally pressure India via any

planned Chinese naval facilities on the Bay of Bengal. China’s multibillion dollar investment and loans to Myanmar focus on the Kyaukphyu Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in the restive Rakhine state. Here deep-water port development will allow China to access oil and gas without having to traverse the Straits of Malacca, thus providing a strategically safe direct route. Equally China is underwriting the $9 billion Muse/ Mandalay Railway, a 267 mile corridor linking southern Yunnan with Burma. Chairman Xi pledged $580 million in aid to Myanmar over the next three years. This comes in the wake to Beijing’s traditionally heavy handed dealing with its isolated southern n e i g h b o r ; See METZLER on 24

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Recently, we’ve seen an increased interest in mindfulness, although the concept itself is thousands of years old. Essentially, being mindful means you are living very much in the present, highly conscious of your thoughts and feelings. However, being mindful doesn’t mean acting on those thoughts and feelings – it’s just the opposite. With mindfulness, your decision-making is based on cognitive skills and a rational perspective, rather than emotions. As such, mindfulness can be quite valuable as you make investment decisions. Two of the most common emotions or tendencies associated with investing are fear and greed. Let’s see how they can affect investors’ behavior. • When investors are fearful … Investors’ biggest fear is losing money. So, how did many of them respond during the steep market decline from late 2007 through early 2009? They began selling off their stocks and stock-based mutual funds and fled for “safer” investments, such as Treasury bills and certificates of deposit. But mindful investors witnessed the same situation and saw something else: a great buying opportunity. By looking past the fear of losing money, they recognized the chance to buy quality investments at bargain prices. And they were rewarded for their patience, long-term perspective and refusal to let fear govern their decisions, because 10 years after the market bottomed out in March 2009 (as measured by the Dow Jones Industrial Average), it had risen about 300 percent. • When investors are greedy … We only have to go back a few years before the 2007-09 bear

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THE BENEFITS OF LOVE As February gets under way, Hallmark demands we turn our attention to love. Regardless, of how you feel about Valentine’s Day, it can’t be denied the importance of love in our lives. And really I’m not referring to romantic love, although that can fit the bill.

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this isn’t convincing to you know that having love in your life can also have a dramatic effect on your health. These benefits of love are not just associated with romantic love, but also friendship or familial love. So find someone to care about and improve their lives and your own health at the same time. Per webmd. com, here are ten benefits of love that you may not have expected:

1. Fewer doctor’s visits: The Health and Human Services department reviewed studies on marriage and health and found that those in marriage relationships had fewer doctor’s visits and shorter hospital

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2. Less Depression and Substance Abuse: Isolation typically leads to an increase of both these issues, so having companionship is a great combatant. 3. Lower Blood Pressure: According to the Annals of Behavioral Medicine happily married folks and well networked single people, fared much better than unhappily married individuals. 4. Less Anxiety: As more and more people struggle with anxiety in modern society, maybe love is

the answer. Long term stable relationships were superior to reducing anxiety vs new romances. The long term relationship individuals had less activation in the part of the brain that produces anxiety on functional MRI (fMRI) scans than other people.

5. Natural Pain Control: As we face folks using over the counter pain meds chronically and an epidemic of opioid abuse, it is clear that many people are dealing with lots of pain. The same study that demonstrated the reduction of anxiety on fMRI also found that long term relationships increased activation in

the part of the brain responsible for pain control. 6. Better Stress Management: Get stressed out? Yeah, me too. But the better connected we become to other people and social networks there is evidence of improved stress management. 7. Fewer Colds: So as we are in the midst of cold and flu season, research has demonstrated that people who have positive emotions are less likely to get sick after they’ve been exposed to cold or flu viruses. 8. Faster Healing: See LOVE on 24

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Every year around early February the number of people at the gym starts to thin out. Many have either made resolutions that were not attainable or they simply gave up on themselves. I am here to tell you that it’s not too late. If you find that you are struggling to keep up on your resolution there are a couple things that you can do to stay on track.

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Annette Connor of Somersworth got this shot of an eastern bluebird this winter. Margaret in Meredith was sad when their summer bluebirds disappeared. Her husband discovered them back in the yard a few weeks ago and since then the couple has seen them numerous times each day. They have had as many as six at one time and, like many other people, have had luck attracting bluebirds with dried mealworms. “Bluebirds of happiness. Yes, they are!” she exclaimed. Anne from Sandwich also has mealworm-eating bluebirds this winter. “I have lived in Sandwich for 50 years and have had bluebirds every summer in my three boxes but never (before) in the winter,” she wrote. Bill and Annette of Somersworth had four bluebirds at their feeders this winter. Guess what the birds were doing? If you guessed eating mealworms you are right. The couple sent photographic proof of their visitors too. They also have at least 50 juncos visiting daily eating sunflower seeds and cracked corn. I even heard from southwest-

ern Pennsylvania where Julie wrote to say a small flock of bluebirds is hanging out in her yard. Now for those fun facts I promised you: Homemade birdhouses have led to a remarkable population comeback for bluebirds. Bluebirds often have two (or even three) broods in one year and the young birds from the first brood sometimes help raise the babies of the later broods. Adult bluebirds typically return to the same nesting area each year. Bluebirds are only found in North America. The song of the bluebird, according to AllAboutBirds.org is “a fairly low-pitched, warbling song made up of several phrases, each consisting of 1-3 short notes. Harsher chattering notes may be interspersed with the whistles.” Chris Bosak may be reached at chrisbosak26@gmail.com or throughout his website www. birdsofnewengland.com

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40+ OPEN

House of Correction - Billerica, MA Doggie Style - Gilford NH Brass Bonanza - Hingham, MA WHDH Shamrocks - Foxboro, MA Lakeview Tavern - Burlington, MA The Boot 2 - Barrington, RI Markham Metals Puck Steelers - Winchester, MA MUNNY Shot - East Lansing, MI Boston Creams - Merrimack Valley, USA Stan Jonathans - Bedford, MA Cordon Bleu - Lexington, MA Bill’s Auto - Billerica, MA

Old Pucks - Seekonk, MA Richman Club - Scituate, MA Buzz Bees - Londonderry, NH

50+ OPEN

Richard Cranium Hockey Club - Londonderry, NH Milton Maple Leafs - Milton, MA The Stride - Melrose, MA WHDH Icemen Legends - Randolph, MA Night Owls - Billerica, MA Cheevers Pack - Wicnhester, MA Essex 73’s - Nashua, NH Rusty Blades - Newburyport, MA Boston Whalers - Plaistow, NH Bumbles - Laconia, NH DarkStar - Byfield, MA The Boot 3 - Providence, RI Benson Lumberjacks - Londonderry, NH Andover Convalescents I - Andover, MA Andover Convalescents II - Andover, MA KOFC 109 - Arlington, MA

WOMEN’S OPEN Wrinkly Panthers - Plymouth, NH The Boston Beauties - Boston, MA Fromage - Boston, MA Happy Cows - Windham, NH Ztending - Philadelphia, PA

SHINNY 21+

Ironside - Charlestown, MA The SQUAD - Dover, NH Sweater Kittens - Pinehurst, MA Slush Pups - Hudson, MA Zipper Rattlers - Westborough, MA Nordiques - Millbury MA Moosenuckles - Lowell, MA Dangle, Snipe, Seltzer - Boston, MA Glory Hounds - Moultonborough, NH Original Stix - Boston, MA Thirsty Turtles - Boston, MA Thirsty Turtles II - Boston, MA Dangle Berries - Boston, MA Dress to Impress - Boston MA Odo’s Amber - Westborough, MA Easton Fection - Peabody, MA Predators - Franklin, MA Mighty Wasted - Somerset, MA Bent Shafts - Boston, MA Shamrock Entertainment - Boston, MA Dutchmen - Boston, MA Hardo City - Malden, MA Mounted Reinbeers 2 - Dover, NH Punch List - Boston, MA Lowell Sinners - Lowell, MA Just The Tip - Everywhere, USA Green Beavers - Boston, MA Wasted Talent - Marlborough MA Prestige Worldwide - NH/MA/CT

Gunrack - Boston, MA BOSTON HARBOR RATS - Westwood, MA The Chiefs - Brockton, MA Plimoth Pilgrims - Plymouth, MA Sunnyvale’s Finest - Boston, MA Blizzard - Westborough, MA The Healthy Scratches - Londonderry, NH Pondzi Scheme - Exeter, NH Hands Like Feet - Newburyport, MA Tea With Ms. McGill - South Boston, MA The Locals - Center Harbor, NH Simple Dishes - Washington, DC Passages Malibu - Revere, MA Mass Cape Bulldogs - Boston, MA STATE - Everett, MA Team MARR - Boston, MA Angry Yeti - Washington, DC Super Smashed Bros. - Woburn, MA Shanks - Boston, MA Sundercutters - Boston, MA Fish Cove Eskimo Brothers - Windham, NH Of Moose and Men - Beverly, MA The Aulet Sisters - Boston, MA Chit Cho - Berlin, NH Lake Lyfe - South Burlington, VT Bank of New Hampshire Loaners - Laconia, NH

SHINNY 35+

Hit the Net Sports - Littleton MA The Flying Eggplants - CT, MA, VT Hatetoquitit - Laconia, NH Sudbury Bulldogs - Sudbury, MA Boston Wolfpack - Wilmington, MA Those Guys - Hooksett, NH Baker Bruisers - North Reading, MA Tri-State Microbrew - Abington MA Swedish Stu - Baltimore, MD Gravy Fries - ID/MA/VT/CON/RI Done By Saturday - Bridgewater, MA Ogies - Lexington, MA Turkeys - Hudson, MA Yesterday’s Heros - Bridgewater, NH Toxic Shotguns - Melrose, MA Boston Harbor Rata - Westwood, MA HIBLITS - Bedford NH Emerald Bandits - Boston, MA Reggie Dunlop - Bellingham, MA Iceholes - Milton, MA Massholes - Fitchburg, MA Green Bees - Manchester NH Shooting Blanks - Rehoboth, MA The Plague - MA/NY/CT/OH/NJ The Boot - Needham, MA The Dirty Lew - Lewiston, ME Mugs - Gloucester, MA Stags - Portsmouth, NH PHL - Norwell, MA Puck Monkeys - Somersworth, NH

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2020 POND HOCKEY CLASSIC Labatt Blue NH - Manchester, NH Sasquatch - Hooksett, NH Shed Kids - HAMPSTEAD, NH Sons of John Wensink - Norwell, MA NOFO Low Tide - Southold, NY Camp Dixie - Boxford, MA Snap On Tool Bags - Derry, NH Sweeney Construction - Holliston, MA Modest Roots Brewing - Billerica Ma.

SHINNY 50+

South Shore Bogmen - Hanson MA Off The Bench Hockey Club - W. Concord MA Icemen - North Reading, MA NOG - Milton, MA Planet Fitness - No Critics - Hampton , NH Moose Island Marauders - Alton NH Johnny Cash - Rumford, MA LAKE RATS - BILLERICA , MA Nagog Construction - Acton, MA Direct Kitchen - Beverly, MA Puck-IT - Farmingdale, MA Ice Sages - Meredith, NH Paugus Bay - Laconia, NH Looney Bin - Laconia, NH Dennis Courtney Hockey Club - Cambridge, MA

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The Bad Guys - Winthrop, MA Wheeler Boys - New Ipswich, NH Fat Pucks - Boston, MA Ivy Lane Gang - Framingham, MA The Mighty Drunks - Dorchester, MA Jersey City Police Enforcers - Jersey City NJ MUTHA PUCKERS - Boston, MA Original Badgers - Andover, MA Pond Hockey Hooligans - Boston, MA Reggie Gremlins - Boston, MA Koopa Troopas - Boston, MA Monday Night Jacks - Washington, DC Safety Third - Shrewsbury, MA No Clowns Allowed - Mason, NH Ice Cats - Worcester, MA Mug Shots HC - Andover, MA GMB JV - Winterfell, VT Dump ‘n Chase - Wakefield, MA Mounted Reinbeers - Manchester, NH Mermen - Shrewsbury, MA Beacon Bears - Reading, MA The Barn Burners - Methuen, MA Iron Hearts - Hudson, NH Beaver Beaters - Cherry Hill NJ

Beers - Lovell, ME Sea Bass - York, ME What About Bob? - Braintree, MA Lint Headz Hockey Club - Windham, NH Beer Thrashers - Worcester, MA Laughing Skulls - Philadelphia, PA NITRO PATCH - Boxford, MA Southie Sharks - South Boston, MA Ugly Pucklings - Tewksbury, MA New Hampshire Brew’ns - Moultonborough, NH The 5th Line - Billerica, MA Puck Nuts - Meredith, NH Bob House Benders - Washington, DC Casella Resource Solutions - Portsmouth, NH Cyclones - Norwell, MA Live Free & Dangle - Londonderry NH Sparx Hockey - Acton, MA South of Berlin - Berlin,NH Rusty Nuts - Chelmsford, MA Hosers - Lexington, MA The Noregretzkies - Brantford, ON High Slot - Burlington, MA Remax Hackers - Meredith NH O’Brien Car Care - Holbrook, MA Strange Brew - Boston, MA ECH Bulldog - Somerville, MA

Junkyard Dogs - Ledyard, CT RVA River Rats - Richmond, VA Frozen Piggies - South Boston, MA Casella Waste - Salem, NH Puck Ewe - Boston, MA Olympic Tech Beer Buzzards - Woburn MA Bruisers - Hull, MA Ice Dogs - Norwood, MA Blue Waffles - Franklin, MA Ztending - Philadelphia, PA Granite State Wild - Salem, NH Pucking Embarrassing - Berlin, NH Beerded Clams - Braintree, MA The Diggers - Gloucester, MA Ballard House Inn Bulldogs - Dudley, MA Chancellors of Dangleslavia - Durham, NH Teracotta Warriors - NTC, NY Hopedale Highlanders - Hopedale, MA Black Ice - Raleigh, NC LA Hustlers - Los Angeles, CA

Irish Car Bombs - Manchester, NH French Revolution - Worcester, MA Cup Crackers - Beverly, MA NOFO Flatliners - Southold, NY Boylston Schul-Verein - Walpole, MA Tuukka Dump - Boston, MA Methuen Goons - Methuen, MA Yo Soy Twig - Boston, MA

WOMEN’S DUSTER 4Play - Hingham, MA Bitchin’ Babes - Center Harbor, NH Wicked - Alton Bay, NH Over The Edge - Hingham, MA Blind Betty’s - Hingham, MA Quincy Fightin’ Squirrels - Quincy, MA Bad Booze Bears - Hingham, MA Saucy Dames - Boston, MA Red Hot Chili Puckers - Boston, MA Goal Diggers - Rehoboth, MA

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2020 POND HOCKEY CLASSIC

Official Pond Hockey Classic Rules

FROM PHC COMMISSIONER SCOTT CROWDER... If we all play by them we all have fun. We appreciate you taking the time to read the rules and we look forward to a weekend filled with everyone playing by them! New England PHC teams play 4v4 1. The winner of a captain’s coin toss will determine which goal to defend. Teams will switch goals after first half. 2. All players must wear helmets and hockey skates. Protective equipment is optional but highly recommended. 3. No goalies, goalie equipment or sticks permitted. 4. All teams must have light and dark jerseys or uniforms. 5. All rinks will start and stop on the master horn. 6. Penalties will be called for rule infractions. Penalties called by Rink Monitors are final. A minor penalty will result in possession of the puck awarded to the opposing team. Rink Monitors will have the discretion to also award a goal to the opposing team when a minor penalty is flagrant and/or a team is consistently playing in a reckless manner. 7. Any major penalty, which includes any action that could

possibly injure another player, will result in that player being ejected from the tournament. The team that received the ejection will play the remainder of the tournament shorthanded (3 vs. 4) or (2 vs. 3). Rink official will determine major penalties.

8. Abuse of Rink Monitors will be considered a major penalty. This includes yelling, swearing, or arguing about calls. 9. No checking is allowed. Such action will result in a minor penalty unless deemed serious enough to be a major (Rink Monitor discretion). 10. No slapshots allowed. Such action will result in a minor penalty. 11. Players cannot fall or lay on the ice in an effort to protect the goal area. Such action will result in a minor penalty. 12. Goaltending is not allowed. A player may not patrol, “camp out” or remain stationary in the crease area and act as a goaltender. A defender may deflect the puck in the crease

area, but the defender must do so while continuing to move through the crease area. The crease area is defined as an imaginary box extending out four feet from the outside corners of the goal.

13. Contacting the puck with a stick above the waist will result in a loss of possession. 14. Saucer passes (i.e. pucks that are lifted low, below the knee) are acceptable. 15. If a puck goes out of bounds, the last team to touch it loses possession. During restart, the defender must give his opponent 2-stick lengths of space. 16. There are no off-sides or icing calls. 17. Setting picks in offensive zone is not allowed. Deference will be given to a defender in front of their own net where their progress is impeded by the pick or interference of an offensive player. Goals must be scored from the attacking side of center ice.

18. Rink Monitors will call out the score after each goal. This includes goals scored by players or awarded from minor penalties. (There is one rink monitor and many players, helping the rink monitor is encouraged) 19. Teams must give their opponents 1/2 ice after a goal is scored or an infraction takes place.

20. Games will be composed of two 15-minute halves with a 2-minute halftime for the New England, Lake Champlain and Montana tourneys 21. Pool Play games can end in a tie. However if playoff games end in a tie, the play will move to sudden death format 22. All games are running-time and substitutions can be made during play (“on-the-fly”) or

while a puck is being retrieved. There is no stoppage of play after a goal is scored, or after a penalty is awarded. It is up to each team to ensure that there are only four players on the ice.

23. Players can only play on one team.

24. Substitutions must be made by 8:00 a.m. on the first day of the tournament. No other substitutions throughout the tournament are allowed. The four to eight players that are on your roster (depending on division) at 8:00 a.m. on the first day of the event must be the same players that play on your team throughout the tournament. 25. Games start and stop on the master horn, for every minute a team is late they will be penalized a goal.

26. In the event of a forfeit during pool play of any division, the team who did not forfeit will receive a win and, for tie breaker purposes, will be assigned a goals for and goals against total for that game equal to the averages of their other pool play games. These will be assigned at the conclusion of the pool play round when advancement is being determined. 27. It is the responsibility of the team captain to ensure the correct game score has been logged on the scorecard. By signing the scorecard at the conclusion of the game, your team captain is acknowledging that they agree with the final score. Teams cannot contest scores/results after they have signed the scorecard.

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2020 POND HOCKEY CLASSIC

2020 NEPHC GAME SCHEDULE

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

THURSDAY JANUARY 30

5:00-10:00 Player Check-In/Labatt Blue Welcome Party at the WINNIPESAUKEE BALLROOM at Church Landing, Lakes Region Youth Hockey VIP Locker Room Fundraiser - Purchase Raffle Tickets to benefit local youth hockey and for a chance to win a VIP Bob House.

FRIDAY JANUARY 31ST

7:00 Player Locker Room Tents Open 7:00 Late Player Check in at the Winnipesaukee Ballroom at Church Landing 8:00-4:35 Games 6:45 - Shuttles start from Laconia Harley Davidson/Hart’s Turkey Farm/Prescott Park & Meredith Town Docks Downtown 10:00 Common Man Concession/Labatt Blue Zone Open in PHC Tournament Village Live Music on the Bank of NH Pavilion Stage - Victims of Circumastance 12:20-2:20 - BAND Inc.3-4:30 5:00 - Shuttles stop to Laconia Harley Davidson/Hart’s Turkey Farm/Prescott Park & Meredith Town Docks Downtown 5:00 Common Man Concession/Labatt Blue Zone Close in PHC Tournament Village

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 1ST

7:00 Player Shuttles start. 7:00 Locker Room Tents Open 8:00-4:35 Games 10:00 Common Man Concession/Labatt Blue Zone Open in PHC Tournament Village 10:30-4:00 - Live Music on the Stage Sons of Levin: 10:30 - 11:30am Martin and Kelly: 12:00 - 1:30pm April Cushman Band: 2:30 - 4:00pm 5:00 Common Man Concession/Labatt Blue Zone/Streaker Sports Merchandise Booth/ Bank of NH Pavilion Stage with Live Music Close in PHC Tournament Village 5:00 Shuttles stop to Laconia Harley Davidson/Hart’s Turkey Farm/Prescott Park & Meredith Town Docks Downtown 8:00 Playoff Brackets Announced - Online

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 2ND

7:30 Shuttles Start from Event Lots at Hart’s Turkey Farm/Laconia Harley Davidson 8:00 Player Locker Room Tents Open 9:00-12:45 Playoff Games 1:15 Championship Games 1:50 Award Ceremony 3:00 PHC Tournament Village Close This schedule of events is subject to change, any changes will be posted at pondhockeyclassic.com/nephcscheduleofevents.

GAME SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE!!

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OPEN DIVISION 30+

RED BULL OPEN ICE DIVISION FRIDAY, JANUARY 31

POOL A

FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL A

G TIME RINK AWAY TEAM HOME TEAM 3 8:40a Rink 08 Labatt Blue Balls Axial Financial 9 8:40a Rink 10 Young Guns Green Ingalls Pictures 5 10:00a Rink 08 Ingalls Pictures DOGS III 6 11:20a Rink 06 Labatt Blue Balls DOGS III 4 11:20a Rink 12 Young Guns Green Axial Financial FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL B 14 8:00a Rink 07 Plimoth Hams Bunch of Nobody’s 15 8:00a Rink 12 IFPT Hockey Club Eskimo Brothers 20 9:20a Rink 06 Plimoth Hams Leftover Leopards 11 9:20a Rink 07 Eskimo Brothers Bunch of Nobody’s 18 11:20a Rink 10 Leftover Leopards IFPT Hockey Club FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL C 25 8:00a Rink 06 ICE HOLES Grassy Pond 23 8:00a Rink 10 Meat and Potatoes Cabaret 29 10:00a Rink 06 Rippers ICE HOLES 26 10:40a Rink 10 Meat and Potatoes Grassy Pond 24 11:20a Rink 08 Rippers Cabaret FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL D 34 8:00a Rink 08 Milton Knights Community Sauce 36 8:40a Rink 07 Green Mountain Boys Paddy’s 33 9:20a Rink 10 Islanders Community Sauce 39 10:00a Rink 07 Young Guns Paddy’s 43 10:40a Rink 12 Milton Knights Islanders 42 11:20a Rink 07 Young Guns Green Mountain Boys

G TIME RINK AWAY TEAM HOME TEAM 6 11:20a Rink 20 Last Call Hoptown Bulldogs 4 12:40p Rink 06 Puck Bearers Polish Embassy 8 12:40p Rink 16 Last Call Eastern 9 2:00p Rink 04 Puck Bearers Eastern 1 2:00p Rink 19 Hoptown Bulldogs Polish Embassy FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL B 16 11:20a Rink 24 Restore Hockey Stonedam Islanders 11 12:40p Rink 03 Stonedam Islanders East Coast Bulldogs 18 2:00p Rink 01 Restore Hockey Shrinkage 14 2:00p Rink 20 Mules East Coast Bulldogs 19 3:20p Rink 21 Mules Shrinkage FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL C 27 12:00p Rink 01 Hatrick Swayze Winnipesaukee Whalers 28 12:40p Rink 15 Crompton Bombers Broots Magoots 21 1:20p Rink 05 Winnipesaukee Whalers THEM 30 2:00p Rink 08 Hatrick Swayze Crompton Bombers 22 3:20p Rink 10 Broots Magoots THEM FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL D 34 11:20a Rink 05 Wrap Solutions Gerry’s Kids 32 12:40p Rink 13 Dirty Dekes Gerry’s Kids 36 12:40p Rink 14 Stovepipe Lumberjacks TJ’s Yoshi 38 3:20p Rink 20 Stovepipe Lumberjacks Dirty Dekes 37 3:20p Rink 23 Wrap Solutions TJ’s Yoshi

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL A

G TIME RINK AWAY TEAM HOME TEAM 2 10:40a Rink 12 Ingalls Pictures Axial Financial 7 12:40p Rink 08 Young Guns Green DOGS III 8 1:20p Rink 08 Labatt Blue Balls Ingalls Pictures 10 3:20p Rink 10 Young Guns Green Labatt Blue Balls 1 3:20p Rink 11 DOGS III Axial Financial SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL B 16 11:20a Rink 07 Leftover Leopards Eskimo Brothers 19 11:20a Rink 12 Plimoth Hams IFPT Hockey Club 17 12:40p Rink 07 Plimoth Hams Eskimo Brothers 13 1:20p Rink 10 Leftover Leopards Bunch of Nobody’s 12 3:20p Rink 08 IFPT Hockey Club Bunch of Nobody’s SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL C 30 10:00a Rink 06 Rippers Meat and Potatoes 22 12:00p Rink 07 ICE HOLES Cabaret 27 12:00p Rink 12 Rippers Grassy Pond 28 1:20p Rink 06 Meat and Potatoes ICE HOLES 21 1:20p Rink 12 Grassy Pond Cabaret SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL D 38 10:00a Rink 08 Milton Knights Paddy’s 35 11:20a Rink 06 Young Guns Community Sauce 40 12:40p Rink 06 Islanders Green Mountain Boys 31 2:00p Rink 07 Paddy’s Community Sauce 41 2:40p Rink 10 Milton Knights Green Mountain Boys 44 3:20p Rink 07 Young Guns Islanders

G TIME RINK AWAY TEAM HOME TEAM 2 8:40a Rink 14 Eastern Polish Embassy 10 9:20a Rink 04 Puck Bearers Last Call 5 10:00a Rink 07 Eastern Hoptown Bulldogs 7 11:20a Rink 16 Puck Bearers Hoptown Bulldogs 3 12:40p Rink 01 Last Call Polish Embassy SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL B 17 8:40a Rink 23 Mules Stonedam Islanders 13 9:20a Rink 02 Restore Hockey East Coast Bulldogs 15 10:40a Rink 09 Shrinkage Stonedam Islanders 20 10:40a Rink 13 Mules Restore Hockey 12 12:40p Rink 16 Shrinkage East Coast Bulldogs SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL C 29 8:40a Rink 10 Hatrick Swayze Broots Magoots 23 10:40a Rink 01 Crompton Bombers THEM 25 10:40a Rink 02 Broots Magoots Winnipesaukee Whalers 26 12:00p Rink 05 Crompton Bombers Winnipesaukee Whalers 24 12:40p Rink 04 Hatrick Swayze THEM SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL D 40 8:40a Rink 11 Wrap Solutions Stovepipe Lumberjacks 35 9:20a Rink 07 Dirty Dekes TJ’s Yoshi 33 10:00a Rink 25 Stovepipe Lumberjacks Gerry’s Kids 39 10:40a Rink 03 Wrap Solutions Dirty Dekes 31 12:00p Rink 03 TJ’s Yoshi Gerry’s Kids

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2 PLAYOFFS

G 3 4 1 2 5 6 7

TIME RINK AWAY TEAM 10:20a Rink 10 Seed #7 10:20a Rink 11 Seed #6 10:20a Rink 12 Seed #8 10:20a Rink 13 Seed #5 12:20p Rink 10 Winner of game 2 12:20p Rink 12 Winner of game 4 1:15p Rink 06 Winner of game 6

HOME TEAM Seed #2 Seed #3 Seed #1 Seed #4 Winner of game 1 Winner of game 3 Winner of game 5

G 2 1 3 4 6 5 7

TIME RINK AWAY TEAM 9:40a Rink 23 Seed #5 9:40a Rink 24 Seed #8 9:40a Rink 25 Seed #7 9:40a Rink 26 Seed #6 11:40a Rink 15 Winner of game 4 11:40a Rink 16 Winner of game 2 1:15p Rink 01 Winner of game 6

HOME TEAM Seed #4 Seed #1 Seed #2 Seed #3 Winner of game 3 Winner of game 1 Winner of game 5

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OPEN DIVISION 40+

FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL A

G TIME RINK AWAY TEAM HOME TEAM 8 8:40a Rink 05 MUNNY Shot Lakeview Tavern 1 9:20a Rink 19 Doggie Style Brass Bonanza 10 10:00a Rink 15 Richman Club MUNNY Shot 4 11:20a Rink 19 Richman Club Brass Bonanza 5 12:00p Rink 03 Lakeview Tavern Doggie Style FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL B 12 8:40a Rink 13 House of Correction Boston Creams 17 8:40a Rink 14 Stan Jonathans Cordon Bleu 18 10:00a Rink 16 Markham Metals House of Correction 11 10:40a Rink 21 Cordon Bleu Boston Creams 20 11:20a Rink 26 Stan Jonathans Markham Metals FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL C 21 8:00a Rink 11 Bill’s Auto The Boot 2 30 8:40a Rink 15 Buzz Bees WHDH Shamrocks 25 9:20a Rink 01 Old Pucks Bill’s Auto 24 10:00a Rink 23 Buzz Bees The Boot 2 28 10:40a Rink 04 WHDH Shamrocks Old Pucks

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL A

G TIME RINK AWAY TEAM HOME TEAM 7 1:20p Rink 19 Richman Club Doggie Style 3 2:00p Rink 18 MUNNY Shot Brass Bonanza 9 2:40p Rink 19 Richman Club Lakeview Tavern 6 3:20p Rink 20 MUNNY Shot Doggie Style 2 4:00p Rink 15 Lakeview Tavern Brass Bonanza SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL B 14 1:20p Rink 20 Stan Jonathans Boston Creams 15 2:00p Rink 17 House of Correction Cordon Bleu 13 2:40p Rink 13 Markham Metals Boston Creams 19 3:20p Rink 09 Stan Jonathans House of Correction 16 4:00p Rink 19 Markham Metals Cordon Bleu SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL C 22 1:20p Rink 18 Old Pucks The Boot 2 27 2:40p Rink 22 Buzz Bees Bill’s Auto 23 2:40p Rink 25 WHDH Shamrocks The Boot 2 29 4:00p Rink 18 Buzz Bees Old Pucks 26 4:00p Rink 20 WHDH Shamrocks Bill’s Auto

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2 PLAYOFFS

G 2 4 6 5 7

TIME RINK AWAY TEAM 10:20a Rink 16 Seed #5 10:20a Rink 17 Seed #6 11:40a Rink 19 Winner of game 4 11:40a Rink 20 Winner of game 2 1:15p Rink 05 Winner of game 6

HOME TEAM Seed #4 Seed #3 Seed #2 Seed #1 Winner of game 5

OPEN DIVISION 50+

FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL A

G TIME RINK AWAY TEAM HOME TEAM 4 8:40a Rink 04 Rusty Blades Andover Convalescents I 9 8:40a Rink 25 WHDH Shamrock Leg. Boston Whalers 10 8:40a Rink 26 Milton Maple Leafs DarkStar 3 10:00a Rink 20 Milton Maple Leafs Andover Convalescents I 12 10:00a Rink 21 WHDH Shamrock Leg. DarkStar 8 10:00a Rink 25 Rusty Blades Boston Whalers FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL B 24 8:40a Rink 06 The Boot 3 Night Owls 18 9:20a Rink 17 KOFC 109 Andover Convalescents II 25 10:40a Rink 02 The Boot 3 KOFC 109 20 10:40a Rink 25 Night Owls Essex 73’s 16 12:00p Rink 18 Essex 73’s Andover Convalescents II

FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 26 8:40a Rink 02 Cheevers Pack 33 8:40a Rink 22 Richard Cranium HC 34 10:00a Rink 19 The Stride 28 10:00a Rink 26 Richard Cranium HC 32 1:20p Rink 11 The Stride

POOL C Benson Lumberjacks Bumbles Bumbles Benson Lumberjacks Cheevers Pack

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL A

G TIME RINK AWAY TEAM HOME TEAM 11 10:40a Rink 15 Rusty Blades DarkStar 5 10:40a Rink 18 WHDH Shamrock Leg. Andover Convalescents I 13 12:00p Rink 15 Rusty Blades Milton Maple Leafs 1 12:00p Rink 19 Boston Whalers Andover Convalescents I 6 2:00p Rink 06 DarkStar Boston Whalers 14 2:00p Rink 08 WHDH Shamrock Leg. Milton Maple Leafs SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL B 17 10:40a Rink 16 Night Owls Andover Convalescents II 22 12:00p Rink 04 The Boot 3 Essex 73’s 23 12:40p Rink 26 KOFC 109 Night Owls 21 2:00p Rink 01 KOFC 109 Essex 73’s 19 2:00p Rink 02 The Boot 3 Andover Convalescents II SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL C 29 11:20a Rink 11 The Stride Benson Lumberjacks 35 1:20p Rink 22 The Stride Richard Cranium HC 30 1:20p Rink 24 Bumbles Cheevers Pack 27 2:40p Rink 04 Bumbles Benson Lumberjacks 31 2:40p Rink 20 Richard Cranium HC Cheevers Pack

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2 PLAYOFFS

G 2 4 6 5 7

TIME RINK AWAY TEAM 10:20a Rink 14 Seed #5 10:20a Rink 15 Seed #6 11:40a Rink 21 Winner of game 4 11:40a Rink 22 Winner of game 2 1:15p Rink 02 Winner of game 6

HOME TEAM Seed #4 Seed #3 Seed #2 Seed #1 Winner of game 5

DUSTER DIVISION

FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL A

G TIME RINK AWAY TEAM HOME TEAM 1 9:20a Rink 23 Fireball Hockey Boylston Schul-Verein 11 10:00a Rink 02 Rain City Bitch Pigeons Irish Car Bombs 10 12:40p Rink 12 NOFO Flatliners Irish Car Bombs 8 1:20p Rink 06 Rain City Bitch Pigeons Fireball Hockey 5 1:20p Rink 26 Tuukka Dump Boylston Schul-Verein 14 2:40p Rink 16 Tuukka Dump NOFO Flatliners FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL B 27 9:20a Rink 26 Yo Soy Twig Methuen Goons 25 11:20a Rink 09 Oskar Blues NC-Old Chub Methuen Goons 23 12:40p Rink 11 StrikeTheBox French Revolution 18 12:40p Rink 23 Oskar Blues NC-Old Chub cup crackers 19 2:00p Rink 03 StrikeTheBox cup crackers 24 2:00p Rink 23 Yo Soy Twig French Revolution

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL A

G TIME RINK AWAY TEAM HOME TEAM 3 8:40a Rink 26 NOFO Flatliners Boylston Schul-Verein 12 9:20a Rink 25 Tuukka Dump Irish Car Bombs 13 11:20a Rink 14 Rain City Bitch Pigeons NOFO Flatliners 9 11:20a Rink 15 Tuukka Dump Fireball Hockey 6 12:40p Rink 10 Irish Car Bombs Fireball Hockey 4 12:40p Rink 14 Rain City Bitch Pigeons Boylston Schul-Verein SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL B 26 8:40a Rink 16 StrikeTheBox Methuen Goons 29 9:20a Rink 24 Yo Soy Twig Oskar Blues NC- Old Chub 16 9:20a Rink 26 French Revolution cup crackers 20 10:40a Rink 26 Yo Soy Twig cup crackers 28 11:20a Rink 13 StrikeTheBox Oskar Blues NC- Old Chub 21 12:40p Rink 24 Methuen Goons French Revolution

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL A

G TIME RINK AWAY TEAM HOME TEAM 1 1:20p Rink 25 Mass Cape Bulldogs Lake Lyfe 10 2:00p Rink 07 Thirsty Turtles Hardo City 2 2:40p Rink 12 Plimoth Pilgrims Lake Lyfe 7 3:20p Rink 07 Thirsty Turtles Mass Cape Bulldogs 8 4:00p Rink 20 Hardo City Plimoth Pilgrims FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL B 16 1:20p Rink 07 Odo’s Amber Passages Malibu 14 2:40p Rink 03 Original Stix Chit Cho 18 2:40p Rink 09 Odo’s Amber Dutchmen 12 4:00p Rink 14 Dutchmen Chit Cho 17 4:00p Rink 19 Original Stix Passages Malibu FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL C 30 1:20p Rink 09 Glory Hounds Shamrock Entertainment 27 2:40p Rink 18 Glory Hounds Simple Dishes 22 2:40p Rink 19 BOSTON HARBOR RATS The Aulet Sisters 28 4:00p Rink 11 Shamrock Ent. BOSTON HARBOR RATS 21 4:00p Rink 17 Simple Dishes The Aulet Sisters FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL D 37 1:20p Rink 19 Dangle, Snipe, Seltzer The Locals 32 2:40p Rink 04 Gunrack Of Moose and Men 36 2:40p Rink 10 Bent Shafts The Locals 33 4:00p Rink 02 Bent Shafts Of Moose and Men 39 4:00p Rink 13 Dangle, Snipe, Seltzer Gunrack FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL E 50 1:20p Rink 18 Moosenuckles Mighty wasted 45 2:40p Rink 01 Prestige Worldwide Tea With Ms. McGill 44 2:40p Rink 11 Moosenuckles Fish Cove Eskimo Brothers 48 4:00p Rink 03 Mighty wasted Prestige Worldwide 41 4:00p Rink 09 Tea With Ms. McGill Fish Cove Eskimo Brothers FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL F 59 1:20p Rink 12 Nordiques Wasted Talent 53 2:40p Rink 15 Predators Sundercutters 55 2:40p Rink 23 Wasted Talent Hands Like Feet 54 4:00p Rink 04 Nordiques Sundercutters 56 4:00p Rink 21 Predators Hands Like Feet FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL G 66 1:20p Rink 02 Easton Fection Pondzi Scheme 69 2:40p Rink 17 Zipper Rattlers Green Beavers 63 2:40p Rink 21 Easton Fection Shanks 67 4:00p Rink 05 Zipper Rattlers Pondzi Scheme 62 4:00p Rink 07 Green Beavers Shanks FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL H 79 1:20p Rink 08 Slush Pups The Healthy Scratches 72 2:40p Rink 02 The Healthy Scratches Super Smashed Bros. 76 2:40p Rink 26 Just The Tip The Chiefs 73 4:00p Rink 01 Just The Tip Super Smashed Bros. 77 4:00p Rink 15 Slush Pups The Chiefs FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL I 88 1:20p Rink 10 Dress to Impress Lowell Sinners 82 2:40p Rink 13 Lowell Sinners Angry Yeti 87 2:40p Rink 14 Sweater Kittens Blizzard 84 4:00p Rink 06 Sweater Kittens Angry Yeti 86 4:00p Rink 16 Dress to Impress Blizzard FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL J 98 1:20p Rink 20 Dangle Berries Punch List 97 2:40p Rink 20 The SQUAD Sunnyvale’s Finest 93 2:40p Rink 25 Dangle Berries Team MARR 95 4:00p Rink 08 Punch List Sunnyvale’s Finest 94 4:00p Rink 18 The SQUAD Team MARR FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL K 103 1:20p Rink 17 Thirsty Turtles II STATE 106 2:40p Rink 22 Thirsty Turtles II Bank of NH Loaners 109 2:40p Rink 24 Ironside Mounted Reinbeers 2 102 4:00p Rink 10 Mounted Reinbeers 2 STATE 107 4:00p Rink 12 Ironside Bank of NH Loaners

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SHINNY DIVISION 21+ (CONT’D) SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL A

G TIME RINK AWAY TEAM HOME TEAM 6 8:00a Rink 07 Hardo City Mass Cape Bulldogs 9 8:40a Rink 06 Thirsty Turtles Plimoth Pilgrims 4 10:00a Rink 19 Thirsty Turtles Lake Lyfe 5 10:40a Rink 11 Plimoth Pilgrims Mass Cape Bulldogs 3 11:20a Rink 25 Hardo City Lake Lyfe SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL B 19 8:00a Rink 15 Original Stix Dutchmen 13 8:40a Rink 04 Odo’s Amber Chit Cho 20 10:00a Rink 02 Original Stix Odo’s Amber 11 10:40a Rink 10 Passages Malibu Chit Cho 15 12:00p Rink 20 Dutchmen Passages Malibu SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL C 24 8:00a Rink 06 Glory Hounds The Aulet Sisters 25 8:00a Rink 17 BOSTON HARBOR RATS Simple Dishes 29 9:20a Rink 03 Glory Hounds BOSTON HARBOR RATS 23 9:20a Rink 21 Shamrock Entertainment The Aulet Sisters 26 10:40a Rink 23 Shamrock Entertainment Simple Dishes SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL D 40 8:00a Rink 19 Dangle, Snipe, Seltzer Bent Shafts 31 8:40a Rink 12 The Locals Of Moose and Men 38 9:20a Rink 22 Bent Shafts Gunrack 34 10:00a Rink 26 Dangle, Snipe, Seltzer Of Moose and Men 35 10:40a Rink 21 Gunrack The Locals SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL E 46 8:40a Rink 09 Mighty wasted Tea With Ms. McGill 42 9:20a Rink 11 Prestige Worldwide Fish Cove Eskimo Brothers 47 10:00a Rink 24 Moosenuckles Tea With Ms. McGill 43 11:20a Rink 18 Mighty wasted Fish Cove Eskimo Brothers 49 11:20a Rink 23 Moosenuckles Prestige Worldwide SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL F 57 8:00a Rink 05 Nordiques Hands Like Feet 52 8:00a Rink 11 Wasted Talent Sundercutters 60 9:20a Rink 08 Nordiques Predators 51 10:00a Rink 17 Hands Like Feet Sundercutters 58 10:40a Rink 19 Predators Wasted Talent SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL G 68 8:00a Rink 20 Easton Fection Green Beavers 61 8:00a Rink 21 Pondzi Scheme Shanks 70 9:20a Rink 18 Zipper Rattlers Easton Fection 65 9:20a Rink 19 Green Beavers Pondzi Scheme 64 10:40a Rink 20 Zipper Rattlers Shanks SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL H 80 8:00a Rink 18 Slush Pups Just The Tip 75 8:40a Rink 01 The Healthy Scratches The Chiefs 78 10:00a Rink 20 Just The Tip The Healthy Scratches 74 10:00a Rink 21 Slush Pups Super Smashed Bros. 71 12:00p Rink 17 The Chiefs Super Smashed Bros. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL I 90 8:00a Rink 03 Sweater Kittens Dress to Impress 81 8:00a Rink 08 Blizzard Angry Yeti 83 9:20a Rink 06 Dress to Impress Angry Yeti 85 9:20a Rink 17 Lowell Sinners Blizzard 89 10:40a Rink 04 Sweater Kittens Lowell Sinners SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL J 99 8:40a Rink 05 The SQUAD Punch List 91 8:40a Rink 24 Sunnyvale’s Finest Team MARR 96 10:00a Rink 22 Dangle Berries Sunnyvale’s Finest 92 11:20a Rink 17 Punch List Team MARR 100 11:20a Rink 26 The SQUAD Dangle Berries SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL K 101 8:00a Rink 04 Bank of NH Loaners STATE 110 8:40a Rink 15 Ironside Thirsty Turtles II 104 10:00a Rink 14 Ironside STATE 105 10:00a Rink 18 Mounted Reinbeers 2 Bank of NH Loaners 108 11:20a Rink 22 Thirsty Turtles II Mounted Reinbeers 2

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2 PLAYOFFS

G TIME RINK AWAY TEAM 5 9:00a Rink 01 Seed #15 7 9:00a Rink 02 Seed #14 3 9:00a Rink 03 Seed #13 6 9:00a Rink 04 Seed #10 4 9:00a Rink 05 Seed #12 8 9:00a Rink 06 Seed #11 2 9:00a Rink 07 Seed #9 1 9:00a Rink 08 Seed #16 11 11:00a Rink 14 Winner of game 6 9 11:00a Rink 20 Winner of game 2 10 11:00a Rink 21 Winner of game 4 12 11:00a Rink 22 Winner of game 8 13 12:20p Rink 11 Winner of game 10 14 12:20p Rink 13 Winner of game 12 15 1:15p Rink 07 Winner of game 14

HOME TEAM Seed #2 Seed #3 Seed #4 Seed #7 Seed #5 Seed #6 Seed #8 Seed #1 Winner of game 5 Winner of game 1 Winner of game 3 Winner of game 7 Winner of game 9 Winner of game 11 Winner of game 13

SHINNY DIVISION 35+

FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL A

G TIME RINK AWAY TEAM HOME TEAM 10 11:20a Rink 22 Emerald Bandits The Boot 5 12:00p Rink 07 Sudbury Bulldogs Modest Roots Brewing 8 12:00p Rink 08 Done By Saturday Sasquatch 1 1:20p Rink 04 Sasquatch Modest Roots Brewing 13 3:20p Rink 14 Done By Saturday Emerald Bandits 12 3:20p Rink 16 Sudbury Bulldogs The Boot FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL B 20 11:20a Rink 25 Hatetoquitit Sweeney Construction 26 12:00p Rink 13 Gravy Fries The Plague 18 12:40p Rink 07 HIBLITS Sweeney Construction 25 2:00p Rink 17 HIBLITS The Plague 23 2:00p Rink 26 Gravy Fries Labatt Blue NH 24 3:20p Rink 12 Hatetoquitit Labatt Blue NH FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL C 33 11:20a Rink 16 BOSTON HARBOR RATS II Snap On Tool Bags 41 12:00p Rink 10 Swedish Stu Shooting Blanks 39 12:40p Rink 01 The Flying Eggplants Puck Monkeys 40 1:20p Rink 23 BOSTON HARBOR RATS II Shooting Blanks 35 2:00p Rink 13 The Flying Eggplants Snap On Tool Bags 38 3:20p Rink 15 Swedish Stu Puck Monkeys FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL D 54 11:20a Rink 15 Hit the Net Sports PHL 48 12:00p Rink 19 Toxic Shotguns Camp Dixie 56 12:40p Rink 24 Tri-State Microbrew Green Bees 49 2:00p Rink 18 Tri-State Microbrew Camp Dixie 59 3:20p Rink 06 Hit the Net Sports Toxic Shotguns 51 3:20p Rink 11 Green Bees PHL FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL E 69 11:20a Rink 11 Baker Bruisers Massholes 61 12:00p Rink 14 Stags NOFO Low Tide 68 12:40p Rink 05 Yesterday’s Heros Massholes 63 2:00p Rink 14 Yesterday’s Heros NOFO Low Tide 67 2:00p Rink 16 Baker Bruisers Stags FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL F 74 12:00p Rink 12 Those Guys Sons of John Wensink 76 12:00p Rink 16 Turkeys Mugs 78 1:20p Rink 22 Turkeys Iceholes 71 3:20p Rink 08 Mugs Sons of John Wensink 79 3:20p Rink 24 Those Guys Iceholes FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL G 89 11:20a Rink 23 Boston Wolfpack Reggie Dunlop 87 1:20p Rink 21 Boston Wolfpack The Dirty Lew 83 2:00p Rink 02 Ogies Shed Kids 82 3:20p Rink 09 Reggie Dunlop Shed Kids 86 3:20p Rink 19 Ogies The Dirty Lew

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL A

G TIME RINK AWAY TEAM HOME TEAM 6 8:00a Rink 10 The Boot Sasquatch 4 8:40a Rink 22 Done By Saturday Modest Roots Brewing 9 9:20a Rink 01 Sudbury Bulldogs Sasquatch 3 10:40a Rink 17 Emerald Bandits Modest Roots Brewing 11 11:20a Rink 08 Done By Saturday The Boot 14 12:00p Rink 13 Sudbury Bulldogs Emerald Bandits SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL B 19 8:00a Rink 12 Gravy Fries Sweeney Construction 27 9:20a Rink 12 Hatetoquitit The Plague 16 10:00a Rink 03 Labatt Blue NH Sweeney Construction 28 10:00a Rink 16 Gravy Fries HIBLITS 21 11:20a Rink 19 The Plague Labatt Blue NH 29 11:20a Rink 20 Hatetoquitit HIBLITS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL C 36 8:00a Rink 16 Shooting Blanks Puck Monkeys 43 8:40a Rink 07 Swedish Stu BOSTON HARBOR RATS II 31 10:00a Rink 13 Puck Monkeys Snap On Tool Bags 44 10:00a Rink 15 The Flying Eggplants BOSTON HARBOR RATS II 34 11:20a Rink 21 Swedish Stu Snap On Tool Bags 42 12:00p Rink 16 The Flying Eggplants Shooting Blanks SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL D 50 8:00a Rink 09 Hit the Net Sports Camp Dixie 53 8:00a Rink 14 Tri-State Microbrew PHL 55 9:20a Rink 05 Toxic Shotguns Green Bees 46 9:20a Rink 10 PHL Camp Dixie 57 10:40a Rink 25 Hit the Net Sports Green Bees 58 11:20a Rink 24 Tri-State Microbrew Toxic Shotguns SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL E 65 8:00a Rink 02 Massholes Stags 70 8:40a Rink 08 Baker Bruisers Yesterday’s Heros 64 10:00a Rink 23 Baker Bruisers NOFO Low Tide 66 10:40a Rink 22 Yesterday’s Heros Stags 62 11:20a Rink 05 Massholes NOFO Low Tide SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL F 77 8:40a Rink 13 Those Guys Mugs 72 8:40a Rink 25 Iceholes Sons of John Wensink 73 10:00a Rink 01 Turkeys Sons of John Wensink 75 10:40a Rink 14 Iceholes Mugs 80 12:00p Rink 18 Those Guys Turkeys SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL G 84 8:00a Rink 01 Boston Wolfpack Shed Kids 85 8:00a Rink 13 Reggie Dunlop The Dirty Lew 88 9:20a Rink 09 Ogies Reggie Dunlop 81 9:20a Rink 23 The Dirty Lew Shed Kids 90 10:40a Rink 24 Boston Wolfpack Ogies

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2 PLAYOFFS

G TIME RINK AWAY TEAM 8 9:40a Rink 15 Seed #11 2 9:40a Rink 16 Seed #9 3 9:40a Rink 17 Seed #13 4 9:40a Rink 18 Seed #12 5 9:40a Rink 19 Seed #15 1 9:40a Rink 20 Seed #16 7 9:40a Rink 21 Seed #14 6 9:40a Rink 22 Seed #10 12 11:00a Rink 10 Winner of game 8 11 11:00a Rink 11 Winner of game 6 10 11:00a Rink 12 Winner of game 4 9 11:00a Rink 13 Winner of game 2 14 12:20p Rink 16 Winner of game 12 13 12:20p Rink 17 Winner of game 10 15 1:15p Rink 08 Winner of game 14

HOME TEAM Seed #6 Seed #8 Seed #4 Seed #5 Seed #2 Seed #1 Seed #3 Seed #7 Winner of game 7 Winner of game 5 Winner of game 3 Winner of game 1 Winner of game 11 Winner of game 9 Winner of game 13

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SHINNY DIVISION 50+

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POOL A

G TIME RINK AWAY TEAM HOME TEAM 3 9:20a Rink 20 Moose Island Marauders Dennis Courtney H.C. 7 9:20a Rink 21 Icemen Ice Sages 1 12:40p Rink 08 Ice Sages Dennis Courtney H.C. 8 12:40p Rink 26 Moose Island Marauders Nagog Construction 9 2:00p Rink 22 Icemen Nagog Construction FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL B 17 9:20a Rink 18 Off The Bench H.C. Puck-IT 11 12:00p Rink 02 Puck-IT Looney Bin 18 12:00p Rink 05 Planet Fitness - No Critics LAKE RATS 13 1:20p Rink 01 Planet Fitness - No Critics Looney Bin 19 1:20p Rink 03 Off The Bench H.C. LAKE RATS FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL C 28 9:20a Rink 25 NOG Johnny Cash 21 10:00a Rink 24 Direct Kitchen Paugus Bay 29 10:40a Rink 26 South Shore Bogmen Johnny Cash 27 12:40p Rink 04 South Shore Bogmen Direct Kitchen 23 12:40p Rink 10 NOG Paugus Bay

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G TIME RINK AWAY TEAM HOME TEAM 2 12:40p Rink 02 Nagog Construction Dennis Courtney H.C. 5 2:00p Rink 16 Nagog Construction Ice Sages 10 2:00p Rink 23 Icemen Moose Island Marauders 6 3:20p Rink 14 Moose Island Marauders Ice Sages 4 3:20p Rink 18 Icemen Dennis Courtney H.C. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL B 15 12:40p Rink 11 LAKE RATS Puck-IT 12 2:00p Rink 19 LAKE RATS Looney Bin 20 2:00p Rink 21 Off The Bench H.C. Planet Fitness - No Critics 14 3:20p Rink 21 Off The Bench H.C. Looney Bin 16 3:20p Rink 23 Planet Fitness - No Critics Puck-IT SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL C 24 12:40p Rink 25 South Shore Bogmen Paugus Bay 25 2:00p Rink 13 Johnny Cash Direct Kitchen 30 2:00p Rink 24 South Shore Bogmen NOG 26 3:20p Rink 13 NOG Direct Kitchen 22 3:20p Rink 24 Johnny Cash Paugus Bay

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TWIG DIVISION

FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL A

G TIME RINK AWAY TEAM HOME TEAM 8 8:00a Rink 02 Lint Headz H.C. South of Berlin 1 8:00a Rink 16 Olympic Tech Beer Buzzards LA Hustlers 6 9:20a Rink 04 Lint Headz H.C. Olympic Tech Beer Buzzards 9 10:00a Rink 05 No Clowns Allowed South of Berlin 4 12:00p Rink 09 No Clowns Allowed LA Hustlers FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL B 11 8:00a Rink 21 Puck Ewe Black Ice 18 9:20a Rink 24 Sparx Hockey Casella Waste 14 10:00a Rink 03 What About Bob? Black Ice 15 11:20a Rink 17 Casella Waste Puck Ewe 20 11:20a Rink 21 What About Bob? Sparx Hockey FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL C 22 8:40a Rink 09 Ice Cats Hopedale Highlanders 27 10:40a Rink 11 Mermen Safety Third 23 10:40a Rink 16 Sea Bass Hopedale Highlanders 29 12:00p Rink 06 Mermen Ice Cats 26 12:00p Rink 17 Sea Bass Safety Third FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL D 37 8:40a Rink 11 Koopa Troopas Frozen Piggies 32 9:20a Rink 09 Cyclones Teracotta Warrios 36 10:00a Rink 01 Beers Frozen Piggies 34 10:40a Rink 13 Koopa Troopas Teracotta Warrios 38 12:00p Rink 15 Beers Cyclones FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL E 47 8:00a Rink 03 Reggie Gremlins RVA River Rats 46 9:20a Rink 12 Beaver Beaters RVA River Rats 44 10:00a Rink 14 Reggie Gremlins Chancellors of Dangleslavia 48 10:40a Rink 19 Beaver Beaters Casella Resource Solutions 42 12:00p Rink 11 Casella Resource Solutions Chancellors of Dangleslavia FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL F 54 8:00a Rink 15 Pond Hockey Hooligans Ballard House Inn Bulldogs 55 8:40a Rink 16 Bob House Benders Junkyard Dogs 53 9:20a Rink 22 Iron Hearts Ballard House Inn Bulldogs 58 10:40a Rink 15 Iron Hearts Bob House Benders 57 11:20a Rink 18 Pond Hockey Hooligans Junkyard Dogs FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL G 68 8:00a Rink 09 The Barn Burners Puck Nuts 61 8:00a Rink 17 ECH Bulldogs The Diggers 69 9:20a Rink 11 Original Badgers Puck Nuts 66 10:00a Rink 04 The Barn Burners ECH Bulldogs 64 10:40a Rink 14 Original Badgers The Diggers FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL H 78 8:00a Rink 13 Beacon Bears The 5th Line 74 8:40a Rink 23 MUTHA PUCKERS Beerded Clams 77 10:00a Rink 18 MUTHA PUCKERS Strange Brew 72 10:00a Rink 22 The 5th Line Beerded Clams 76 12:00p Rink 21 Beacon Bears Strange Brew FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL I 86 8:00a Rink 01 NH Brew’ns O’Brien Car Care 89 8:00a Rink 05 Jersey City Police Enforcers Monday Night Jacks 84 9:20a Rink 02 Jersey City Police Enforcers Pucking Embarrassing 83 10:40a Rink 09 NH Brew’ns Pucking Embarrassing 85 10:40a Rink 24 Monday Night Jacks O’Brien Car Care FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL J 92 8:00a Rink 14 Ugly Pucklings Granite State Wild 97 8:40a Rink 01 The Mighty Drunks Remax Hackers 93 9:20a Rink 05 Mounted Reinbeers Granite State Wild 99 10:40a Rink 03 The Mighty Drunks Ugly Pucklings 96 10:40a Rink 23 Mounted Reinbeers Remax Hackers FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL K 104 8:00a Rink 18 Ivy Lane Gang Ztending

105 8:40a Rink 03 Southie Sharks High Slot 103 9:20a Rink 03 Dump ‘n Chase Ztending 106 10:40a Rink 18 Dump ‘n Chase High Slot 109 10:40a Rink 20 Ivy Lane Gang Southie Sharks FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL L 117 8:00a Rink 04 Fat Pucks The Noregretzkies 112 9:20a Rink 08 NITRO PATCH Blue Waffles 120 10:00a Rink 13 Fat Pucks GMB JV 115 10:40a Rink 01 NITRO PATCH The Noregretzkies 113 11:20a Rink 13 GMB JV Blue Waffles FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL M 125 8:00a Rink 19 Laughing Skulls Hosers 123 8:40a Rink 24 Mug Shots HC Ice Dogs 130 10:40a Rink 22 Wheeler Boys Mug Shots HC 122 11:20a Rink 14 Laughing Skulls Ice Dogs 127 12:00p Rink 20 Wheeler Boys Hosers FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL N 138 8:00a Rink 20 Beer Thrashers Rusty Nuts 134 8:40a Rink 12 The Bad Guys Bruisers 131 10:00a Rink 17 Live Free & Dangle Bruisers 140 10:40a Rink 17 The Bad Guys Beer Thrashers 135 12:00p Rink 04 Rusty Nuts Live Free & Dangle

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL A

G TIME RINK AWAY TEAM HOME TEAM 3 12:00p Rink 08 Lint Headz Hockey Club LA Hustlers 10 2:40p Rink 02 No Clowns Allowed Lint Headz Hockey Club 5 2:40p Rink 14 South of Berlin Olympic Tech Beer Buzzards 2 4:00p Rink 04 South of Berlin LA Hustlers 7 4:00p Rink 11 No Clowns Allowed Olympic Tech Beer Buzzards SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL B 12 12:00p Rink 01 Casella Waste Black Ice 16 1:20p Rink 03 Sparx Hockey Puck Ewe 17 2:40p Rink 03 What About Bob? Puck Ewe 19 4:00p Rink 01 What About Bob? Casella Waste 13 4:00p Rink 06 Sparx Hockey Black Ice SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL C 21 11:20a Rink 10 Safety Third Hopedale Highlanders 28 1:20p Rink 21 Sea Bass Ice Cats 30 2:40p Rink 26 Mermen Sea Bass 25 3:20p Rink 05 Ice Cats Safety Third 24 4:00p Rink 16 Mermen Hopedale Highlanders SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL D 31 12:40p Rink 13 Frozen Piggies Teracotta Warrios 39 12:40p Rink 23 Koopa Troopas Cyclones 33 2:00p Rink 15 Beers Teracotta Warrios 35 3:20p Rink 06 Cyclones Frozen Piggies 40 3:20p Rink 17 Koopa Troopas Beers SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL E 45 12:00p Rink 10 Casella Resource Solutions RVA River Rats 50 12:00p Rink 11 Reggie Gremlins Beaver Beaters 41 1:20p Rink 07 RVA River Rats Chancellors of Dangleslavia 43 2:40p Rink 17 Beaver Beaters Chancellors of Dangleslavia 49 4:00p Rink 05 Reggie Gremlins Casella Resource Solutions SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL F 52 12:40p Rink 09 Bob House Benders Ballard House Inn Bulldogs 60 1:20p Rink 09 Pond Hockey Hooligans Iron Hearts 51 2:40p Rink 01 Junkyard Dogs Ballard House Inn Bulldogs 56 4:00p Rink 08 Iron Hearts Junkyard Dogs 59 4:00p Rink 14 Pond Hockey Hooligans Bob House Benders SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL G 65 12:00p Rink 14 Puck Nuts ECH Bulldogs 62 1:20p Rink 17 Puck Nuts The Diggers 63 2:40p Rink 12 The Barn Burners The Diggers 67 2:40p Rink 24 Original Badgers ECH Bulldogs 70 4:00p Rink 03 Original Badgers The Barn Burners

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL H 75 12:40p Rink 12 The 5th Line Strange Brew 79 2:00p Rink 05 MUTHA PUCKERS The 5th Line 73 2:40p Rink 18 Beacon Bears Beerded Clams 80 4:00p Rink 02 MUTHA PUCKERS Beacon Bears 71 4:00p Rink 07 Strange Brew Beerded Clams SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL I 82 12:00p Rink 06 Monday Night Jacks Pucking Embarrassing 81 1:20p Rink 01 O’Brien Car Care Pucking Embarrassing 88 1:20p Rink 05 NH Brew’ns Monday Night Jacks 90 2:40p Rink 09 Jersey City Police Enforcers NH Brew’ns 87 4:00p Rink 17 Jersey City Police Enforcers O’Brien Car Care SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL J 94 1:20p Rink 11 The Mighty Drunks Granite State Wild 95 2:00p Rink 14 Ugly Pucklings Remax Hackers 100 2:40p Rink 21 The Mighty Drunks Mounted Reinbeers 91 3:20p Rink 19 Remax Hackers Granite State Wild 98 4:00p Rink 13 Mounted Reinbeers Ugly Pucklings SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL K 107 1:20p Rink 25 Ivy Lane Gang High Slot 102 2:00p Rink 04 Southie Sharks Ztending 110 2:40p Rink 11 Ivy Lane Gang Dump ‘n Chase 101 3:20p Rink 12 High Slot Ztending 108 4:00p Rink 12 Dump ‘n Chase Southie Sharks SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL L 114 12:00p Rink 02 Fat Pucks Blue Waffles 118 12:40p Rink 03 GMB JV NITRO PATCH 111 1:20p Rink 02 The Noregretzkies Blue Waffles 119 2:00p Rink 25 Fat Pucks NITRO PATCH 116 3:20p Rink 22 GMB JV The Noregretzkies SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL M 124 12:40p Rink 05 Wheeler Boys Ice Dogs 126 2:00p Rink 20 Mug Shots HC Hosers 129 2:00p Rink 22 Wheeler Boys Laughing Skulls 121 3:20p Rink 15 Hosers Ice Dogs 128 4:00p Rink 09 Mug Shots HC Laughing Skulls SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL N 133 12:40p Rink 15 Beer Thrashers Bruisers 139 2:00p Rink 03 The Bad Guys Rusty Nuts 136 2:00p Rink 26 Beer Thrashers Live Free & Dangle 132 4:00p Rink 10 Rusty Nuts Bruisers 137 4:00p Rink 21 The Bad Guys Live Free & Dangle

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G TIME RINK AWAY TEAM 6 9:00a Rink 09 Seed #10 5 9:00a Rink 10 Seed #15 1 9:00a Rink 11 Seed #16 7 9:00a Rink 12 Seed #14 2 9:00a Rink 13 Seed #9 8 9:00a Rink 14 Seed #11 4 9:00a Rink 15 Seed #12 3 9:00a Rink 16 Seed #13 11 11:00a Rink 23 Winner of game 6 12 11:00a Rink 24 Winner of game 8 10 11:00a Rink 25 Winner of game 4 9 11:00a Rink 26 Winner of game 2 13 12:20p Rink 14 Winner of game 10 14 12:20p Rink 15 Winner of game 12 15 1:15p Rink 03 Winner of game 14

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WOMEN’S OPEN DIVISION FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL A

G TIME RINK AWAY TEAM 2 12:40p Rink 22 Ztending 10 12:40p Rink 25 The Boston Beauties 8 2:00p Rink 21 Fromage 1 2:00p Rink 25 Wrinkly Panthers 7 3:20p Rink 22 The Boston Beauties G 5 3 6 9 4 G 1 2 3

HOME TEAM Happy Cows Fromage Ztending Happy Cows Wrinkly Panthers

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL A TIME RINK AWAY TEAM 8:40a Rink 02 Ztending 8:40a Rink 03 Fromage 10:00a Rink 04 Fromage 10:00a Rink 05 The Boston Beauties 11:20a Rink 09 The Boston Beauties

HOME TEAM Wrinkly Panthers Happy Cows Wrinkly Panthers Ztending Happy Cows

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2 PLAYOFFS TIME RINK AWAY TEAM 11:40a Rink 23 Seed #4 11:40a Rink 24 Seed #3 1:15p Rink 09 Winner of game 2

HOME TEAM Seed #1 Seed #2 Winner of game 1

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G TIME RINK AWAY TEAM HOME TEAM 6 12:40p Rink 09 Over The Edge Saucy Dames 2 2:00p Rink 06 Quincy Fightin’ Squirrels Goal Diggers 10 2:00p Rink 24 Bitchin’ Babes Over The Edge 9 3:20p Rink 13 Bitchin’ Babes Quincy Fightin’ Squirrels 1 3:20p Rink 17 Saucy Dames Goal Diggers FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 POOL B 19 12:40p Rink 02 4Play Blind Betty’s 17 2:00p Rink 05 4Play Bad Booze Bears 13 2:00p Rink 15 Wicked Red Hot Chili Puckers 11 3:20p Rink 05 Bad Booze Bears Red Hot Chili Puckers 18 3:20p Rink 18 Wicked Blind Betty’s

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G TIME RINK AWAY TEAM HOME TEAM 8 12:00p Rink 21 Over The Edge Quincy Fightin’ Squirrels 4 12:40p Rink 22 Bitchin’ Babes Goal Diggers 5 1:20p Rink 04 Quincy Fightin’ Squirrels Saucy Dames 7 2:40p Rink 16 Bitchin’ Babes Saucy Dames 3 3:20p Rink 16 Over The Edge Goal Diggers SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 POOL B 16 12:00p Rink 09 Wicked Bad Booze Bears 12 1:20p Rink 23 Blind Betty’s Red Hot Chili Puckers 20 1:20p Rink 26 4Play Wicked 14 2:40p Rink 15 4Play Red Hot Chili Puckers 15 2:40p Rink 23 Blind Betty’s Bad Booze Bears

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There was once a time when a spoon would rot in my tackle box until there was nothing left except a rust stain. I found them in the bushes alongside rivers and ponds, bought them because of the packaging, or received them as gifts. I never caught anything on spoons, or so I thought, except maybe a resentment. I had zero confidence in them. I viewed them as a cheaply made, inexpensive option for kids, who were likely to lose them in the trees anyway. I believed they were a marketing scheme to make money and that no one ever really caught fish with them. The truth is, I never caught anything using spoons because I didn’t know when to fish them. When most anglers think of spoons, they think of thin piece of stamped metal with an independent hook attached. I was once one of those anglers. A spoon is any flat-ish lure with an independent hook attached to one end, designed to flutter when it swims or falls. The Blade Spoon from Clam Pro Tackle is one such lure. I began using it the year it was introduced with great results on Lake Winnipesaukee. The irony is that, despite its name, I never considered the Blade Spoon a spoon. Probably because they catch fish, and I didn’t believe spoons

Spoons are effective for almost every species that swims. caught many fish. I had been using it for years, all the while thinking spoons were useless. Today it is one of my favorite spoons for white perch, because its profile resembles that of the rainbow smelt the perch feed on, and it sinks fast, allowing me to get it back down to schools of fish before they move on. I became (consciously) sold on spoons the year Clam Pro Tackle came out with the Leech Flutter Spoon. This spoon was designed to mimic a live leech, which most fish gobble up like candy. When the Leech Flutter Spoon was introduced to me, my first thought was, “Hmm, if Clam is making spoons there must be more to them than I realized.” So, I decided to give them a

shot. To make a long story short, the Leech Flutter Spoon so impressed me that it has earned a permanent place in my [new] ice fishing spoon box. If you know the primary forage base in the water you’re fishing, try a spoon that closely resembles the forage. In stained water, a larger spoon creates vibration that mimics a wounded baitfish and will often call in fish from a distance greater than they can see. Spoons that slowly flutter as they sink will appeal to predatory fish in lakes with high fishing pressure, such as lake trout which can become lure shy. Color comes into play the same way it does with any other lure. On sunny days, spoons that

flash will often attract fish as they reflect the sun’s rays, getting the attention of your target species. Spoons painted with UV-paint will (literally) shine on cloudy days. Even though it doesn’t look like the sun is out on a cloudy day, UV rays penetrate cloud cover and cause UV-painted (fluorescent) spoons to glow, making them more visible to fish. Spoons are versatile. They’re made to fit a variety of fishing scenarios for almost any species that swims. If you doubt the efficacy of spoons, it’s most likely the result of low confidence from not spending enough time fishing them. Give them a fair shot. Fish with a friend who does well with them to see how they fish them, and copy what they do until you develop your own confidence with them. Spend more time fishing spoons and you will improve your skill set, expanding the amount and type of fish you catch, and broadening your fishing experience. Tim Moore is a full-time professional fishing guide in New Hampshire. He owns and operates Tim Moore Outdoors Guide Service. He is a member of the New England Outdoors Writers Association and the producer of Tim Moore Outdoors TV. Visit www.TimMooreOutdoors.com for more information.

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Beer for History feat. UNH BrewLab American Independence Museum’s Folsom Tavern, E x e t e r. 6 p m - 8 p m . U N H BrewLab students will be releasing Alewife Run that has brewed for the American Independence Museum. UNH BrewLab students will be on hand and there will be beer talk with UNH Brewmaster Cheryl Parker. Tickets are $15/members, $20/nonmembers, $5 youth. www.

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Pot Luck, Popcorn & a Free Flick Campton Historical Society, Old Town Hall, 529 NH Rt. 175. Pot Luck dinner will be 5pm-6pm, movie will begin

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At Johnson’s Seafood & Steak 69 Rt 11, New Durham 603.859.7500 eatatjohnsons.com/ newdurham Orono- Tubular IPA Foundation Brewing- Spiffy Lagunitas- Born Yesterday Ale Southern Tier- Crème Brûlée COPPER KETTLE Stout Woodland Farms- Blinky TAVERN Moat Mountain- Hell Yes! At Hart’s Turkey Farm Helles Lager Restaurant 233 D.W. Hwy, Meredith ...+30 More On Tap 603.279.6212 hartsturkeyfarm.com PATRICK’S PUB 18 Weirs Rd., Gilford Allagash White Tuckerman - Pale Ale 603.293.0841 Patrickspub.com 603 Winni Amber Stoneface IPA 603 - Winni Amber Ale Moat - Miss Vs Blueberry Woodstock - Frosty Goggles Henniker - Working/Porter Tuckerman - Pale Ale ...+6 More On Tap Sam Adams - NE IPA Patrick’s Slainte’ Ale D.A. LONG Switchback Ale ...+8 More On Tap TAVERN At Funspot Family Entertainment Ctr. THE UNION 579 Endicott St N., DINER Weirs 1331 Union Ave., 603.366.4377 Laconia funspotnh.com 603.524.6744 theuniondiner.com Southern Tier - Hot Cocoa Lawson’s - Maple Nipple Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale Hobbs - Rt. 16 Pale Ale Wormtown - Blizzard of ‘78 Shipyard - Smashed Pumpkin Hobbs - Rt. 16 Pale Ale Springdale - Kriek Mythology Litherman’s - Misguided Single Cut - Freeform Jazz Angel Odyssey Moat Mountain - Helles ...+6 More On Tap Henniker - Hugs From Pat ** Tap listings subject to change! RESTAURANT OR BAR OWNER?

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Two Roads Brewing’s Two Juicy DIPA Many folks out there find that whatever is given or served to them is just enough. They are satisfied with the by Jim MacMillan norm. ‘I don’t deserve more Contributing Writer than I am given…’ In contrast, when presented with something that is extraordinary, their eyes are opened and move to that sacred space of ‘more sometimes is better.’ Well, double IPA’s are that breed of beer that fit into this category. They often are more tasty, more delicious and a bit stronger than grandpa’s PBR (no offense Pabst people). In this last encounter of January being DIPA month, we come to discover yet another great tasting beer from our friends at Two Roads. Connecticut is home to Two Roads Brewing Company. Located in Stratford, Connecticut, their story of business growth in this beer-crazed nation is remarkable. Four enterprising individuals who had met through unrelated circumstances grew tired of their business careers and took “the road less traveled” leap into brewing and became Two Roads in 2012. Master brewer Phil Markowski has developed an amazing array of incredible beers for the Two Roads branding. Since 2012, they have over and over again doubled their brewing capacity to keep up with a thirty public. Today, they are still making so many awesome beers. There are 8 year-round offerings, 4 seasonals, 6 sours, 13 different beers in the Road Less Travelled Series as well as collaborations with a bunch of New England brewers. They offer a hard seltzer line and also contract brew

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The Paugus Bay Kitty Hawk - 20 years of continuous floatplane biplane ride-hopping from Paugus Bay. COURTESY PHOTOS Jane Steady, a Winnipesaukee-area resident who later became a private pilot and math teacher in the area, stands next to the plane before a ride in the 1950s. COOLBAUGH from 1 York City as transportation to and from their Winnipesaukee vacation homes. Coolbaugh, who bought the plane in 2012 and has been in the process of a $100,000 restoration operation since, is the only living pilot, he believes, with experience

piloting a Kitty Hawk. Flying the plane, as he has done in tests, is unlike flying any other aircraft, he said. “There are no more exhilarating thrills than the blast of air rushing past an open cockpit, the sound and smell of a powerful round engine banging away a few feet in front of you,

tarps and bedded down for the winter. “As you might imagine, this took a pretty hard toll on the wooden wings and steel tubing in the fuselage, as well as to the dope covered cotton linen covering everything,” he said. Harmon, who became an American Airlines pilot based out of Boston, purchased the plane and spent three years restoring it for a second time. But on the third flight after that restoration in July of 1974, the engine quit on Harmon over an open field in Laconia. It was too far from the lake for a water landing, so Harmon had to crash land it in a field near Parade Road. Harmon and his

the pull of eight feet of wooden propeller slicing the air,” Coolbaugh said. “There are few rewards greater than the sense of moving grandly, if a bit slowly, for folks who can only vaguely understand the challenge and the joy of spending time aloft with this magnificent old gal.” Coolbaugh said the Paugus Bay Kitty Hawk is the last flying craft of 34 originally built from

Former owner of the plane, Bill Muzzey. 1929-34 by Bourdon Aircraft. It is a revised Kitty Hawk, the Viking Model B-8, with a 125 horsepower Kinner B-5 radial engine. This plane was built in 1929 and was first used as a training plane by the College of William and Mary, of Williamsburg, Virginia, which had one of the first full ground and flight training programs in the United States. The plane was later

sold, and at the end of World War II, William Champlin and his mechanic, Bill Harmon, bought it and rebuilt the plane’s wings at Champlin’s Laconia Airport hangars, Coolbaugh said. They acquired a set of airplane floats and upgraded the engine to 160 horsepower for use over the lake. After each summer season on the lake, the plane was hauled ashore, covered in

two passengers escaped uninjured. Rice remembers when it crashed, as the field where it went down was next to her childhood home. “He told my father he ran out of altitude, air speed and ideas all at the same time,” she said. The plane was a ball of broken wings and bent metal after the crash, Coolbaugh said. Harmon took the plane See COOLBAUGH on 19

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The plane’s new body and wings have been assembled and the Paugus Bay Kitty Hawk is being prepared for its return to Lake Winnipesaukee this summer.

COOLBAUGH from 18 apart and kept it in storage, always intending to restore it to flying condition some day. But 40 years later, he decided to sell the remains. Coolbaugh, who had become an aircraft restoration hobbyist, was looking for a biplane restoration project. In 2012, he spent $25,000 on the plane and began the restoration. Since then he has replaced most of the plane’s parts, and he conducted the first successful test flights in 2018. “Nearly every part and piece of the airplane had to be replaced or repaired. New wings, new tail, new landing gear, new instruments and radios, new upholstery, new fabric and dope covering, a newly overhauled Kinner R-56 engine and its accessories,” he said. The plane was rolled out of the shop in sparkling newly painted colors and once again alive to fly in test runs in 2018. “Thus far, the flight

test program has been unusual and lengthy, in part because that kind of plane has become obscure with the

Coolbaugh hasn’t set the day yet for the flight. But he plans to let local residents know when they can again spot the plane in the

The restored Model B-8 Kitty Hawk bi-plane on the airstrip in New Market, COURTESY PHOTOS VA.

g New ceilindels mo recessed isit our v are here, room live show fo! in for more The plane after its 1970 restoration. passage of time,” he said. “It seems, after over 40 years forgotten in a storage shed, she is taking a bit of extra coaxing to get her back into the air. We fly a little, work a lot, fly some more.” “Gradually she’ll take the bit again and we’ll be up and away as in her youthful days,” he said. “I plan to take it right into Paugus Bay, which will be my first trip there, this summer.”

Lakes Region skies. Rice said Coolbaugh and his plane will be welcome. “I can’t wait to see it,” she said. Copies of Rice’s book can be obtained by writing to foggbook@gmail. com.

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We support the six legislators, including Rep. Charlie St. Clair of Laconia, who have sponsored a bill to ban declawing cats in New Hampshire. HB 1387 does include an exception to allow the operation in those cases where the well-being of the cat makes it necessary to do so such as, according to the bill, “an existing or recurring illness, infection, disease, injury, or abnormal condition in the claw that compromises the cat’s health.” It would make New Hampshire one of the few states in the country to enact this law and stop this practice when unnecessary. Surprisingly, there is opposition to this bill. Leaders of The NH Veterinary Medicine Association say that the legislature should be careful not to overregulate animal care with laws like this. As much as we are against oppressive regulations, we question whether declawing simply for the sake of declawing - when the cat’s wellbeing is not in danger can be truly considered “animal care” as there is no obvious benefit to a healthy cat, that we are aware of, for being declawed. A recent article in the

The bill to ban the declawing of cats (HB 1387) is being considered in the NH House Environment and Agriculture Committee. Below are the members of that committee. Very soon they will be deciding whether or not to recommend this bill for passage, and then the bill will be voted on by the entire House of Representatives. Rep. Amanda Gourque. (Chair) 603-397-0505 Rep. Peter Bixby. (Vice Chair) 603-749-5659 Rep. Barbara Comtois. (Clerk) 603-776-8989 Rep. Judy Aron. 603-843-5908 Rep. Harry Bean. 603-524-2640 Rep. Jane Beaulieu. 603-626-1260 Rep. Andrew Bouldin. 603-397-7526 Rep. Jacqueline Chretien. 603-289-6808 Rep. Sherry Dutzy. 603-882-1274 Rep. Michael Furbush. 603-237-4685 Rep. Liz McConnell. 603-772-7484 Rep. Charles Melvin. 603-819-6280 Rep. Megan Murray. 603-320-3351 Rep. John O’Connor. 603-434-8393 Rep. Howard Pearl. 603-231-1482 Rep. Beth Richards. 603-219-0038 Rep.Catherine Sofikitis. 603-459-8163 Rep. Kevin Verville. 603-731-0654 Rep. Harry Viens. 603-253-6240

NH Union Leader quoted a member of the Dog Owners of the Granite State, who oppose the bill, saying “I haven’t met anybody in my experience who decides to get a cat declawed just for the sake of it.” We agree that the number of unnecessary declawings are going down and that is a good thing. Still, as long as the practice remains le-

gal some cat owners will continue to put their healthy pets through this unnecessary and devastating procedure if nothing is done to stop it completely. One voice that doesn’t have a say in this is the cat. So, we take it upon ourselves to speak out in their defense. None of us can feel the discomfort or pain that a declawed cat feels. We’d have to think they’d be for this bill. Some who oppose this bill may not like what is written here, but we are fortunate as humans that they can’t simply have our fingers removed since they feel inconvenienced by our words. We ask you to contact your local state representative and urge them to support this bill. You can find their contact information at gencourt.state.nh.us/ house/members.

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SHAPIRO from 6 system of the free market, which rewards the power of entrepreneurship, rather than punishing it, creates prosperity; top-down control creates poverty. In fact, the greatest guarantee of the sort of poverty AOC decries is the destruction of the same system she decries. But according to AOC, we have nothing to fear from government, and “the government is us.” The fact that Coates, one of the most prominent writers on the evils of Jim Crow, nodded along should demonstrate that those on the left do not understand the consequences of their own philosophy. The government is not “us,” because we are not a collective. We are individuals with

rights. But in AOC’s world, we have no rights -- we have only our role as members of a collective controlled by those who agree with her. And that is exploitation and tyranny. Ben Shapiro, 36, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show” and editorin-chief of DailyWire. com. He is the author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller “The Right Side of History.” He lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles. To find out more about Ben Shapiro and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

STOSSEL from 7 But without government suppressing competition, Netflix had no way to maintain its temporary hold on the streaming market. Other companies caught up fast. Customers decide which businesses succeed and which ones fail. This is why centrally planning an economy doesn’t work. “Politicians and bureaucrats don’t know what people are going to value,” explains Malone. “They pick winners and losers based on what they want or what they think is going to earn them the most important allies.” Blockbuster’s demise began when it charged a man named Reed Hastings $40 in late fees. That an-

noyed him so much, he started a subscription-based, mail-order movie rental company he called Netflix. Then, Netflix made movies available online. Now we have instant access to more entertainment than ever through Disney+, Hulu, Amazon Prime, etc., all for a fraction of the cost of the original Netflix. Still, we complain. That’s how it is with capitalism, and it’s a wonderful thing. While we complain, entrepreneurs like Hastings invent faster, easier ways to get us what we want. Many offer us options we never knew we wanted, putting old giants out of business. There is an economics lesson in that. When entrepreneurs

face competition, they often lose, but the fights make life better for us consumers. This process of old things being replaced by new and better ones was dubbed “creative destruction” by economist Joseph Schumpeter. We see creative destruction in every industry. The first flip phone cost $1,000 and couldn’t do the things we expect phones to do today. Competition drove further innovation. We got the Blackberry, and then the iPhone. What amazing things will businesses come up with next? Malone’s video points out that the best way to find out is to keep government and central planning out of the mix. Once government

wades in with regulations, it tends to freeze the current model in place, assuming it’s the best way to do things. But the best way to do things is one that we haven’t even thought of yet, produced by the endless creative process called competition. John Stossel is the author of “No They Can’t! Why Government Fails -- But Individuals Succeed.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www. creators.com.

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— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, January 30, 2020 — SMITH from 3 one died, but, as he sought to supply the state with Bibles, he usually used what was called “shanks mare”, meaning that walking was his usual means of transportation. Elizabeth tells us that “He used to tell a story of one frosty morning, when in the neighborhood of the new cemetery, he met a peddler who accosted him thus:“Well, old man what are you selling?” The Deacon replied “Lamps.” “Lamps?” said the peddler; “Lamps! How can you have lamps in that bag?” The Deacon opened his bag and took out a book, opening it to Psalms 119:105; repeating the words as he handed the Testament to the man:“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.” Brown was said to have been a delightful man to be around, being an inspiration to others and “He was blessed with humor and always saw the sunny side of life.” This “Bible Man” was engaged in Christian work beyond the selling of Bibles and raising money for the Bible Society. He at times supplied pulpits and was involved in Bible meetings and revival services and helped in the ministries of The Young Men’s Christian Association. His stories included one about going into a saloon while visiting his sister and her husband in Manchester. Though his brother-inlaw advised him not to go into the saloon, the Deacon did so with his Bibles. He approached four young men playing cards and was recognized by one of them as the Bible man who had called on his mother. It didn’t take him long to persuade the young

men to purchase ten cent New Testaments. Another young man came into the saloon and ordered a beer. The Deacon put a Testament down beside it, and asked the man to choose whether he should spend his ten cents on the beer or the Testament, explaining that they were the same price. The man left the saloon with the Testament, as did others in the establishment. At another time the Deacon started talking with a man who told him that he didn’t believe there was a God. Deacon Brown excitingly responded, “Oh I have heard of you! You are mentioned in a book I have here!” The man was anxious to see the book that mentioned him. Opening his satchel, the Deacon took out one of his Bibles and turned the pages to Psalm 14:1 and asked the man to read “The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God.” Dr. Elizabeth Hoyt Stevens wrote about a weekend visit with the Deacon Brown family with her Mother and her husband in Campton. They attended a quilting party at the church and stayed in the Deacon’s house on Saturday night. His house was old and in need of repairs, and the night was stormy with a howling wind and blowing snow which came inside through cracks in the house. Deacon William Brown became a friend of many New Hampshire residents during his many years as a Bible representative for the Bible Society. He called it “wandering forty years in the wilderness” and was credited as having walked more miles than any other man in the state. More than one hun-

said “Yes, the good Bible man has gone to his rest. The cheering familiar face of our dear loving friend and brother will be seen no more. The pilgrim has ceased his wanderings;the well-worn and timehonored satchel with its precious Bible burden has ceased its visitations, and the whole State is in tears.” It had been fortythree years since the Deacon’s Bible-distributing ministry began. And the poet has written: “In summer’s heat

and winter’s cold, O’er hill and dale and plain, He’s borne his satchel till grown old, Through sunshine and through rain.” “He rests, and blessed is his rest, For in long years to come, His name shall yield a sweet perfume Within our every home.” Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr., welcomes your comments at danahillsmiths@yahoo.com

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LOVE from 9 From the Archives of General Psychiatry, couples who acted warmly towards each other (vs hostile) healed twice as fast from the blister wounds used in the study. 9. Longer Life: research has shown that generally married folks live longer than none married folks. The idea appears to be that having consistent support and less isolation leads to longer life span. 10. Happier Life: From the Journal of Family Psychology, a study linked the quality of family relationships as a stronger indicator of happiness than income! The bottomline is this, it doesn’t have to be romantic, it just has to be love. We spend billions combating some the aforementioned health issues. But the fix, may be right in front of us. Love. Get involved in your relationships, families, and communities and improve the world around you and your own health as well.

MALKIN from 6 supplies of medicine, hygiene products, construction materials, as well as therapy services and legal training, for caravan marchers who are housed at the Hermanos en el Camino shelter, along with the Catholic-run Hogar de la Misericordia shelter and Jesus el Buen Pastor del Pobre y el Migrante shelter. Funding comes not just from Catholic parishioners, but also U.S. tax dollars. The La 72 shelter in Tenosique is run by Franciscans. The El Caminante shelter in Palenque is overseen by Catholic nuns. The Scalabrinians operate Casa del Migrante in Tijuana and have managed an entire shelter ministry network since 1999. On the southern border of Mexico in Chiapas, the city of Tapachula is the first entry point for Central Americans headed to the U.S. There, the Fray Matias de Cordova Human Rights Center provides “comprehensive support” to illegal immigrant travelers including legal consultations, monitoring of detention centers and “online resources, art and social

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METZLER from 7 even with the onset of Aung Sang Suu Kyi’s more politically acceptable rule. Given the predominately Buddhist Burmese military’s ethnic cleansing operations against the Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, it appears the Myanmar regime still needs China’s political protection such as it traditionally offers in the UN Security Council. Beijing backs the civilian Suu Kyi government as a viable political alternative to the corrupt parallel military power known as Tatmandaw. Just weeks ago, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution strongly condemning ongoing human rights abuses against Burma’s Rohingya Muslims and other Christian minorities in Kachin and Shan states. Now the World Court in the Hague offered a legal rebuke to the Burmese government. Since 2017 nearly a million Rohingya Muslims have been forced from their homes and expelled into Bangladesh. The unanimous International Court of Justice ruling demands that Myanmar undertake a set of provisional measures to prevent further attempts at genocide against the roughly 600,000 members of the Rohingya minority still remaining inside the country. The case which was brought by the West African state of Gambia was surprisingly opposed by Aung San Suu Kyi, the former heralded angel of Burmese democracy who went to the Hague to defend

the standing of her country but indirectly also the actions of her former military persecutors. How times change! The weight of evidence before the ICJ points to the remaining Rohingya “currently facing a credible threat of genocide.” Myanmar must “take all measures within its power to prevent all acts” prohibited under the 1948 Genocide Convention, the presiding Judge stated. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has repeatedly decried Myanmar’s military actions and called for accountability in “one of the world’s worst humanitarian and human rights crises.” The Secretary General welcomed the ruling and stated, “decisions of the Court are binding and trusts that Myanmar will duly comply.” Don’t hold your breath. John J. Metzler is a United Nations correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues. He is the author of Divided Dynamism The Diplomacy of Separated Nations; Germany, Korea, China.

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