02/08/18 Weirs Times by The Weirs Publishing Company

THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, February 8, 2018

VOLUME 27, NO. 6

THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, February 8, 2018

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1923 Silent Film ‘Zaza’ Screening

Team O’Neil Rally School —A Special Gem In NH’s White Mountains—

by Mike Moffett Contributing Writer

negotiated. My destination was the Team O’Neil Rally School. Yes, there’s a school up there in the isolated Dalton back-country. Course offerings include rally driving along with off-road and security courses for individuals, private companies, and government agencies. The government people getting training up there didn’t look like accountants or pencil-pushers.

The Rally School folks didn’t elaborate but I assumed those trainees likely sought James Bondtype skills. Less confidential was the fact that Hollywood stunt drivers come to Dalton for special training, leading me to wonder how many movie chase scenes may reflect good old Granite State schooling. Team O’Neil Market-

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In 1967 Charles Kuralt created a regular feature for “The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite” called “On the Road.” Kuralt toodled around America in a motor home, taking backroads in search of unique stories. It was enormously popular and Kuralt wore out several motor homes

while toodling around. So in the best tradition of “On the Road” I recently headed north on I-93 to God’s Country. After reaching Littleton, I headed up Mann’s Hill Road, a thoroughfare that would have barely accommodated Kuralt’s motor home. Then I crossed over into Dalton and took a right onto Miller Road, an icy dirt lane leading into hills that Kuralt’s vehicle could never have

Tearing up the course in Dalton, NH, home of the largest purpose-built car control training facility in the World. Among the course offerings at Team O’Neil is their winter driving school which has been developed with over 20 years of experience in skid control education. This course teaches drivers the skills and proper instincts necessary to deal with courtesy Photo changing road conditions and harsh winter driving.

CAMPTON - Silent film accompanist Jeff Rapsis is set to perform the live score to the Gloria Swanson classic ‘Zaza’ on Saturday, February 10th in Campton. Taking his seat to play the score for most classic silent films, Rapsis has no sheet music in front of him on his keyboard. It’s because he makes up the music on the spot. But at this performance he’ll have a head start for ‘Zaza’ (1923), a romantic melodrama starring Gloria Swanson. Last year, Rapsis created the recorded soundtrack for the much-anticipated release of ‘Zaza’ on DVD/ Blu-ray by Kino-Lorber, a New York-based Necompany that specializes in re-releasing classic films. The film program, which is free and open to the public, starts at about 6:15 p.m. at the Campton Historical Society, Campton Town Hall, Route 175, Campton, N.H. and will be preceded by a pot luck supper starting at 5 p.m. www.camptonhistorical.org

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The Interlakes Summer Theatre will present a special show for Valentine’s Day. “Rat Pack in Love”. The show will feature Interlakes favorite Solomon Kee singing the love songs of Sammy Davis, Jr, with Interlakes newcomers Tony DiMeglia and Carter Ellis singing Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. There will be three performances this month, Saturday, Feb 10th at 7:30 at Inter-Lakes Auditorium, Sunday, Feb 11th at 2:00, and a special performance at Pitman’s Freight Room in Laconia on Valentine’s Day, February 14th at 7:30. Patrons who attend Pitman’s are invited to BYOB. Tickets can be purchased online at interlakestheatre@ gmail.com or by phone at 603-707-6035.

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Laconia Parks & Recreation would like to remind everyone of the amenities that are available in their backyards. There are 2 ice skating rinks in Laconia that are absolutely free of charge, but are subject to the weather and conditions. One is located at Memorial Park in the parking lot of the baseball field and the other is on the lake in the cove at Opechee Park. The rink that was set up on the beach itself is no longer usable. Please do not use it. When on the lake rink, please use extreme caution. Lights are on at both facilities until 10pm. The sledding hill is also open to the public at the end of South Street, off of Academy Street. Lights are on till 10pm. Please do not park inside the park. Park outside the gate on the right hand side of the road. Have fun and be sure to follow the posted rules. 524-5046

Wednesday’s – April 11th From Troy to Baghdad; Dialogues on War & Homecoming Portsmouth Public Library, Portsmouth. 6:30pm-8pm. Has the road to “homecoming” and adjustment back to civilian life been harder and longer than you expected? As a spouse or family member, have you struggled with changes created by deployment and homecoming? Veterans, current service members, family members, and friends are invited to attend this 10-week reading and discussion group co-led by a veteran, clinician, and literature facilitator. Free copies of the book “The Odyssey” will be provided to participants at this first session. Please RSVP to www.nhhumanities.org/ veterans This program is free and open to all veterans, family members, and friends of veterans.

Thursday 8th Book Talk with Ty Gagne

Wolfeboro Public Library, Wolfeboro. 6:30pm. Ty Gagne will be discussing his book, “Where You’ll Find Me”, and the broader subject of mountaineering risk analysis and decision-making. Free and open to all. 569-2428

Buti Yoga Class Magical Yoga, 15 North Main Street, Unit C, Wolfeboro. 7pm. Buti Yoga is a soulful blend of power yoga, cardiointensive tribal dance, conditioning, and deep abdominal toning. It is marketed as an all-in-one workout that tones and sculpts the entire body while facilitating complete inner transformation. www.magicalyoga. org or 520-3512

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

Friday 9th Duke Robillard Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. BYOB venue.

Gallery Show of New Original Work by Peter Ferber at The Art Place Saturday, February 17 begins at 9:30 a.m. Artist Reception to Follow. Nine North Main Street, Downtown Wolfeboro, NH 603-569-6159. www.pitmansfreightroom.com or

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The Wailers The Flying Monkey, South Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh.

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Dueling Pianos: Jim Tyrrell vs Gardner Berry

we will discover NH’s resident birds and our winter visitors, and learn how we can help our feathered friends survive the winter. For ages 7-10 with an adult. $12/adult-child pair ($10 members) add $4/additional child. www.prescottfarm.org or 366-5695

“Warm Up To Valentine’s Day” Dinner

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 8:30pm. www.patrickspub. com or 293-0841

First Congregational Church, 400 Main Street, Farmington. 4pm-6pm. Beef stew, bread, salad and a beverage and homemade dessert. $8/adults, $4/children under 10.

Fri. 9th & Sat. 10th

Draw the Line – Aerosmith Tribute Show

Valentine’s Dinner Gilmanton Winery & Vineyard, Gilmanton. Five-course dinner for two with a bottle of wine of your choice included. Cat Faulkner will be entertaining with her beautiful voice. There will also be sleigh rides with a fire pit and hot cocoa. $107/couple for dinner or $147/couple with sleigh ride.

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

Big Backyard Series – Winter Birds Prescott Farm, White Oaks Road, Laconia. 1pm-3pm. In this program,

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

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

Murder at the Masquerade – Dinner Theatre Fundraiser Woodstock Inn & Station, 135 Main Street, Woodstock. 5:30pm-9:30pm. Join Jean’s Playhouse for a dinner & show fundraiser to help benefit the annual fund. Enjoy a buffet dinner provided by the Woodstock Station, basket raffles from local artisan shops and restaurants, and an interactive murder mystery that is sure to delight even the shadiest Sherlock! www. jeansplayhouse.com or 745-2141

Positively Bob – Willie Nile Sings Bob Dylan The Flying Monkey, South Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh.

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Maple Sugaring Experience at Prescott Farm LACONIA – New this year, Prescott

Farm is offering a full-day Maple Sugaring Intensive Program on Saturday, February 10th. In this more intensive program you will learn the basics everything from tree identification to the correct consistency of the finished maple syrup – starting in the classroom and then outside as we prepare our sugarhouse and trees for the upcoming sugaring season. You’ll then put your knowledge into practice during one or more of our public education programs in March. At these events you’ll keep the fire going and monitor sap boiling, carry sap to the sugar house, and assist our educators with other aspects of the public program. Participants must be 18+ and in good physical condition (able to use snowshoes, hike uphill and lift buckets of sap). Cost is only $20 per person. For more information on this program, please contact Sarah Dunham-Miliotis, Education Programs Director at sdunham@prescottfarm.org or call (603) 366-5695, or register online at prescottfarm.org. Prescott Farm is also still hosting its popular Maple Sugar program for people of all ages every Saturday in March. At these family-friendly events, participants have a truly unique hands-on experience with our naturalists and educators. Preregistration is strongly encouraged, $8 for Members, $10 for non-members, $12 at the door as space is available. For more information and registration visit www.prescottfarm.org.

Ash Wednesday Services at First United Methodist Church of Gilford The First United Methodist Church of Gilford will hold an Ash Wednesday service on Wed. February 14 at 7:00 PM. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the season of Lent which ends on Easter. Christians all over the world receive ashes, often in a mark on the forehead or hand, as a sign of repentance of sins and to remember that we come from dust and will return to dust. The ashes are made from the burning of dried palms from last year’s Palm Sunday. This service is open to all in the community; everyone is welcomed to come, worship, and receive ashes. The church is located at 18 Wesley Way (off Rt. 11a near the 3/11 bypass).

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the sky was more blue than cloudy. We headed up Success Pond Road and the first bit was fine because this is the access for the City of Berlin’s snow dump. Ten wheelers were traveling in and out and a bulldozer was pushing the snow away. Here it was flat and the ground was an ice rink. I stopped the car and got out the chains. Danielle and I went to work putting them on the front of the car. But there was a problem: I had never put them on this car before and I did not know that my car’s suspension did not have clearance for the chains. Of course I had managed to jam the chain up and it took some work to dislodge the mess. So here we were with blue sky and an icy road. I have an older Audi Q5 all-wheel drive car with new all-season tires. I decided I would give it a go anyway and attempt to drive the 5.5 miles to the trailhead. I had a shovel and a pair of cross country skis in the back

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To the Editors, Like it or not there is a Pro-American President in Washington who is actually getting things done. On this recent round of fireworks concerning the budget being used again to punish the military, it seems. Where were New Hampshire’s Congressional and Senatorial delegations? Were they representing their constituents and the State of New Hampshire or were they grandstanding based on politics? Did they put us, the legal US citizens first or were they posturing according to an antiAmerican Leftist agenda so as to raise campaign funding from Elitists? There are powerful and well funded Globalist forces at work trying to reduce our US standard of living and weaken us as a nation. It is lonely staying vigilant and watching on the wall protecting our freedoms. There should be more voices... AL Goodwin Pittsfield, NH

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fic, the road traffic on the already deadly Route 3, and will reduce property values on the lake. Our lakes are one of New Hampshire’s biggest, most vulnerable and most valuable assets. It appears that Tilton is more concerned with tax dollars than preserving this fragile and important asset. We already have two large ‘campgrounds’ on this small square mile at the south end of the lake. We CANNOT handle another one. I truly hope that our state and local agencies, concerned citizens and local taxpayers will pay attention to every detail that this developer is trying to do to maximize his profits and reduce the quality of life on the lake. We need unbiased wetlands mapping, and every effort to conform to existing subdivision, setback rules, including well radius, drainage, traffic study and potential misuse of an existing boat launch. PLEASE speak out, show up at public hearings, planning board meetings and make your voices heard. Your life on the lake depends on our action. Join NH Lakes Association and the Winnisquam Watershed Network to help show your support for this important endeavor.

This newspaper was first published in 1883 by Mathew H. Calvert as Calvert’s Weirs Times and Tourists’ Gazette and continued until Mr. Calvert’s death in 1902. The new Weirs Times was re-established in 1992 and strives to maintain the patriotic spirit of its predecessor as well as his devotion to the interests of Lake Winnipesaukee and the Cocheco Valley area with the new Cocheco Times. Our newspaper’s masthead and the map of Lake Winnipesaukee in the center spread are elements in today’s paper which are taken from Calvert’s historic publication.

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Rebuild Our Depleted Military The Budget Control Act of 2011 necessitated budget cuts for the Defense Department which had a huge negative effect on the readiness of our military. I quote from Alan Dowd’s article in the February 2018 issue of The American Legion Magazine. “In 2011, the Air Force had 333,370 active duty airmen. By 2017, it had fallen to 310,000. In 2013, 31 squadrons stood down. In 2014 500 planes were to be eliminated. Just 12 percent of America’s aging bomber fleet will be able to penetrate and survive enemy air defenses.” “In 2011, the Army’s active-duty end strength was 566,000; by 2016, it had fallen to 476,000. Only 25 percent of the Army’s combat aviation brigades are ready to deploy. Of the Army’s 58 brigade combat teams, only three could be called upon to fight tonight.” “Before sequestration, the Marine Corps fielded 202,100 active-duty personnel; by the end of 2016 there were only 184,000 Marines. By the end of 2016; only 41 percent of Marine aircraft were able to fly. “ “Today’s Navy has only 277 active deployable ships. According to former CNO Adm. Jonathan Greenert, we need a Navy See mail boat on 31

Locally owned for over 20 years, this publication is devoted to printing the stories of the people and places that make New Hampshire the best place in the world to live. No, none of the daily grind news will PO Box 5458 be found in these pages, just the good stuff. Weirs, NH 03247 Published year round on Thursdays, we distribute 32,000 copies of the Weirs Times TheWeirsTimes.com and Cocheco Times weekly to the Lakes info@weirs.com Region/Concord/Seacoast area. An independent circulation audit estimates facebook.com/weirstimes that over 66,000 people read our @weirstimes newspaper every week. To find out how your business or service can 603-366-8463 benefit from advertising with us please call Fax 603-366-7301 1-888-308-8463. ©2018 Weirs Publishing Company, Inc.

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Originally published on March 22, 2012. I heard something sad on the news the other day that made me think back to my childhood on Long Island, New York. I have three older brothers and two younger sisters. As the family grew, my parents thought it wise to have the attic remodeled into two bedrooms for us four boys. My oldest brothers Greg and Kevin, the older ones, were in one room. I slept in the other with my brother Pat, who is three years older than me. With boys there is always the tormentor and the tormented, mostly in good fun. I was usually the latter. Kevin and Pat, when they were put in charge of watching me when my parents were out, liked to choose the games we would play. Nine out of ten times it would be “prison”. Kevin, being the oldest, was always the warden. Pat was assigned the role of prison guard. That left me with only one option – prisoner. Age discrimination, I guess. But, that’s not the story I was reminded of the other day. We had a long, narrow stairwell that led up to our rooms. The entrance started in my sister Maryann’s room. She never had any privacy as her four older brothers came and went through her

room constantly. There were about a dozen steps that led up this stairwell until you reached a small hallway that separated the bedrooms. The only thing in that space was a wooden bookcase with s full set of the Encyclopedia Britannica. There wasn’t much space for anything else. Pat came up with a game one day that utilized the length and narrowness of the stairwell. We would take turns setting up a barricade at the top using whatever we could find. The other would have to make his way up the staircase and try and knock the barricade over before getting hit five times by ammunition. We decided to use rolled up socks for this purpose. I went first. Setting up a clever barricade using chairs, pillows and dirty clothes and armed with about seven pairs of rolled up socks, it was time for the game to commence. Pat cautiously made his way up the steps, bending and weaving as I unloaded my artillery carefully. He made it about halfway when the game ended as I accomplished the feat of hitting him five times. I was victorious. It seemed too easy. Then it was his turn. Barricading himself in, he claimed he was ready for battle. I turned the corner carefully and deftly entered the field of play. I made it about halfway up the stairs and was only hit twice. This was surprising since Pat was usually a much better shot than that. I was about three steps from victory and a long nine steps from retreat, when Pat’s head disappeared from view for a couple of seconds. When he reappeared he had reloaded on ammunition. This time it wasn’t socks.

It was a few volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica which he commenced to lob at my defenseless body. Volumes Con-Dim and Dim-Edw came flying with reckless abandon, each one weighing about the same as a Toyota Prius. I luckily avoided any major casualties as only my ego was injured. It is one of those stories that have lived for years in our family; one of those stories that we always revisit when we are together and talk about old times. There are, of course, many others, but this one is always one of the grand finales. I was reminded of this the other day when I heard that Encyclopedia Britannica is discontinuing their hardcover editions and going strictly to an online format. To many who heard this news, I’m sure it rekindled feelings of younger days, See F.O.O.L. on 10

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NH #2735 1030 Route 16, Ossipee, NH NO ADDITIONS Gary R. Wallace Auctioneers Inc. announces the sale of personal property from the estate of poet, dancer, and artist Leslie Snow Feron, featuring the contents of the studio of her late husband, Louis Feron (1901-1998), internationally acclaimed master goldsmith, silversmith, jeweler, sculptor and muralist. These will be moved to the Ossipee, NH, auction gallery for a public sale Saturday at noon, February 17, 2018. Preview on Friday, February 16, 10 AM to 2 PM, and Saturday, 10 AM to noon. Born in France, Feron trained as a sculptor in Paris where he was considered a master craftsman and received several awards and prizes before moving to Costa Rica in 1934. There he sharpened his skills even more, gaining the attention of a visitor, Nelson Rockefeller, who encouraged him to move to New York in 1946. After opening a studio in Manhattan, he designed jewelry for some of the world’s greatest names in jewelry, including Tiffany, Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Rubel, Verdura, Schlumberger, Bronzini, and David Webb. He also did design work for Steuben Glass Co., as well as commissions for Clare Boothe Luce, Jacqueline Kennedy, and philanthropist Paul Mellon. In 1967, the Ferons moved to Snowville, NH, a small former mill town founded by Leslie Snow Feron’s ancestors. Working in a studio converted from a barn, they spent their remaining years there painting, sculpting, and jewelry-making. Included in the sale are over 100 lots of gold jewelry, many by Louis Feron; Louis Feron bronze and wood sculptures; Louis Feron silver pieces; Leslie Snow Feron paintings; antiques and personal items, including many books, sketches, and photographs. 15% buyer’s premium. Photos and list on our website: www.wallaceauctions.com. Email: nhauction@roadrunner.com • 603-539-5276 • Severe weather date February 24 at noon - call if in doubt.

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‘Dreamers’ & Demons Xinran Ji, 24, had big dreams. But demons demolished them. The bright hopes of young Xinran Ji, a Univerby Michelle Malkin sity of SouthSyndicated Columnist ern California engineering student from Inner Mongolia, died in 2014 at the hands of a then-19-year-old “Dreamer” and his thug pals. Mexican illegal alien Jonathan DelCarmen, who first jumped the southern border at age 12, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder last summer in the savage robbery and fatal beating of Ji -- who was walking home from a study group after midnight. No, it wasn’t President Trump, ICE agents, Republicans or conservative talk show hosts who racially profiled Xinran Ji. It was “Dreamer” DelCarmen and his partners in crime: Alberto Ochoa, 17, Andrew Garcia, 18, and Alejandra Guerrero, 16. The gangsters targeted Ji because he was Asian and assumed he “must have money.” Guerrero had sent Facebook messages about wanting to “flock” (rob) white and Chinese people. Offcampus neighborhoods around USC are dominated by Mexican Mafia affiliates that target foreign students and shake down local businesses owned by law-abiding immigrants. “Dreamer” DelCarmen and his friends stalked Ji on a street corner in south central L.A. before bashing him in the head with a baseball bat and a wrench. The attack was caught on multiple security cameras. Ji managed to stagger home to his apartment, leaving a quarter-mile trail of blood behind him.

Sometime during the night, Xinran Ji died in his bed. And the aspirations of his family, who sacrificed everything to send him to America to pursue his studies, perished with him. “Dreamer” DelCarmen and his friends drove off to a nearby beach to rob two more innocent people in a city and state that have defiantly declared themselves “sanctuaries” for people in the United States illegally -- not for the best and brightest like Xinran Ji, but for lawless barbarians like Jonathan DelCarmen. “It’s like heaven fell down,” Ji’s father told Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge George Lomeli at Garcia’s sentencing hearing. “His life was taken by these demons,” Ji’s aunt added. “They robbed and killed an innocent youth with very vicious means, and this was inhuman.” Garcia received life in prison without the possibility of parole. Ji’s parents’ sentence was far worse: a brutal, violent and permanent separation from their only child. In Washington, D.C., however, some families matter more than others. And victims of indiscriminate open borders, like Xinran Ji, don’t exist. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, proud promoter of sanctuary policies for illegal immigrants, led more than two dozen Democrats in turning the State of the Union address into “Take an Illegal Alien to Work Day.” Platitudes whitewash bloody reality. “I want to be clear: DREAMers are Americans,” declared Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., who invited an illegal alien from El Salvador who now works at Apple. “They contribute to our economy, our communities and our strength and stability as a nation.” Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.,

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Donald Trump’s Impure Thoughts President Donald Trump has had impure thoughts about special counsel Robert Mueller. That much, by Rich Lowry we know. The Contributing Writer New York Times reported that Trump asked White House counsel Don McGahn to fire the special counsel. When McGahn resisted, Trump backed off and left Mueller in place. Talking their clients out of bad ideas -- especially impulsive clients likely to blunder into gross mistakes -- is what lawyers are supposed to do. The Trump-Mueller episode is like the “Saturday Night Massacre” if Richard Nixon had merely thought about firing Archibald Cox, then got dissuaded by his advisers and, under advice of counsel, began cooperating with

the Watergate special counsel. Is it more meaningful that Trump wanted to fire Mueller, or that the special counsel’s work has continued apace for the past six months, with indictments, guilty pleas and extensive interviews of White House officials? Surely it is the latter, but Trump’s critics argue that his withdrawn directive establishes motive in a prospective obstruction-of-justice case. What it establishes is what we already knew: Trump hates the investigation and everyone associated with it. He considers the FBI officials who have been central to the probe politically compromised hatchet men. He disdains his own attorney general, Jeff Sessions, for recusing himself from the matter, and has no use for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, either. We don’t need an investigation to know any of this, because

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It’s the Economy “Stupid” UNITED NATIONS—Back in

Ronald Reagan’s time, the underlining philosophical mantra of the extraordinary economic exby John J. Metzler pansion was Syndicated Columnist that “a rising tide lifts all boats.” Namely, as entre-preneurialism and enterprise were encouraged, the results would create the rising tide of progress. But later, in the early 1990’s slowdown, President Bill Clinton rose to power on a simple but still memorable quip floated by his communications guru James Carville, “It’s the Economy Stupid.” Such remains a tried and true political dictum. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts wider global growth based on the expanding American economy. Despite the chafe and flying feathers from both Twitter storms and the usual Congressional gridlock, President Donald Trump has created the conditions for the rising tide; high Consumer Confidence, Business Confidence and both business and personal tax cuts. The stock market has soared. The undertow of unemployment which was a bane of the previous Administration has turned and now the U.S. jobless rate stands at a seventeen year low of 4.1 percent. Significantly, 2.5 million

jobs have been created, 200,000 in the crucial manufacturing sector alone. The American economy grew at an impressive 2.3 percent in 2017. As the President touted in his State of the Union Address, “This is our new American moment. There has never been a better time to start living the American Dream.” Nonetheless, the ill-winds of Protectionism can whip up a gale even on seemingly calm waters. I’m not talking about our lopsided China trade in which last year’s deficit with Beijing reached $344 billion, only a bit smaller than the high of $375 billion in 2015. Trade pacts have predictably come under suspicion. President Trump stated, “The era of economic surrender is over… From now on we expect our trading relationships to be fair and to be reciprocal. We will work to fix bad trade deals and we will negotiate news ones.” While specifically not mentioning China, nor the NAFTA deal with Canada and Mexico, the underlying tone echoes protectionism. Take the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), adopted by the Clinton Administration in 1994. There’s huge cross border commerce with both Canada and Mexico. Yet NAFTA is being renegotiated. Just a day after the State of the Union, Canada’s Foreign Minis-ter Chrystia Freeland was here in New York and

fully conceded NAFTA should be “modernized and improved.” She cited the example of cross border auto parts trade in which NAFTA provisions still deal with Cassette Decks in new cars! Speaking at the prestigious

Council on Foreign Relations, Minister Freeland views trade pacts as a “win-win” and not “a Zero-sum game; one guy wins one guy loses.” She stressed, “We really sincerely think a trade re-

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To-Do, or Not-To-Do The new year brought new state laws across the land, new experiments in the “laboratories of democracy.” by Ken Gorrell That phrase, Northfield, NH. coined by Progressive jurist Louis Brandeis, sounds like a strength of our federal system: Fifty states, implementing laws and regulations that fit each one’s unique circumstances, within the framework of our national Constitution. It would be a strength, if not for the fact that some people – like Brandeis himself – see these experiments as merely a first step. Instead of letting states innovate, their ultimate goal is to impose some experiments on the rest of us, using one state’s “success” as justification. The worst and most recent example of this was ObamaCare. Only one state had experimented with a program similar to the ObamaCare blueprint: Massachusetts. President Obama’s touted his now-discredited law as a national extension of Republican Governor Romney’s state health insurance experiment. When he ran against Obama’s reelection, Romney was in the awkward position of advocating the repeal of a federal law that had been based on his own signature achievement as governor. RomneyCare wasn’t successful, yet the president and congressional Democrats covered their ObamaCare lies in part by invoking Massachusetts as democracy’s laboratory. A valid experiment must be replicable under similar conditions. But our states are not similar

enough to justify the federalization of one state’s attempt at policy innovation. Geography, demographics, and history all play parts in making our states unique. Even in small and relatively homogeneous New England, each state has distinctive characteristics. I like to think that such as Bernie Sanders could never be elected to high office in New Hampshire. We have a very different tax structure than Taxachussetts. Connecticut seems intent on following in the footsteps of near-bankrupt Illinois, rather than applying the lessons of small-government in the Granite State. NH ranked #1 for economic freedom in a 2017 Fraser Institute report, followed by Florida, Texas, and South Dakota. Four very different states, but on Fraser’s measures of government spending, taxes, and labor market freedom, we are similar. At the other end of the spectrum, the least-free state was New York, at the bottom with California, New Mexico, and West Virginia. Again, states that otherwise have little in common share that ignoble distinction. American federalism works best when the federal government allows states wide latitude in addressing problems that seem common only on the surface. Public education is a good example. New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Vermont consistently rank high for education outcomes, while D.C., Mississippi, and New Mexico are consistently at the bottom. Kids are kids, and parents want the best for them. But what keeps NH at the top is unlikely to work in Mississippi, and what might help kids in the Bayou State could be a drag on students in the Granite State. See gorrell on 31

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The eastern side of Profile Mountain in Franconia Notch, New Hampshire, was described as an imposing feature with “… half of it a sheer precipice of bare granite, seamed, ribbed, and riven in every fantastic shape, resting on a sloping mass of broken rock, amid which flourish sturdy rows of evergreens, in spite of the showers of granite from the crumbling crags above – and which foretell the destruction that will inevitably overtake the lineaments of the ‘Old Man’ long before

‘mighty oceans cease to roar’.” That statement was written in 1852 in the June issue of Harper’s Magazine by William McLeod. There was no interstate 93 back then, in fact, as you know, I hope, there were no automobiles or winter travel through the notch; yet there were horse-drawn stagecoaches with tourists who visited the mountains, some who found rooms to stay in at the Lafayette House and others would board at farms near enough for visits by wagon to the Notch. And McLeod, while acknowledging that the “Old Man of the Mountains”, that already famous stone face, would not last forever, was not disappointed with the view he beheld as he looked to the mountain. He accuses “the natives” with promoting the region “…by pointing out all sorts of fancied zoological

likenesses in their rocks and mountains” which didn’t live up to the hype, but this time, he said, “the likeness is admirable”. He found no flaw in the face, but, rather, a true human likeness, though a changeable one, from whichever angle he viewed the Old Man. Our visitor to the mountains “back then”, Mr. McLeod, wrote “New Hampshire…may well be styled the Switzerland of America; and though they are inferior in magnificent sublimity to the regal Alps, few tourists through the Northern States would leave the White Mountains unvisited.” He also portrayed the Franconia area mountains as a rival to what he called “the great Patriot Group”, the mountains we call the Presidential Range today. He noted that Mount Lafayette only lacks 500 See Smith on 20

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ing Director Karl Stone explained that in addition to training Hollywood and government types, the rally school also featured 1-to-5-day programs for civilians. “Passionate automobile enthusiasts and adrenaline junkies find their way here from all over the world,” explained Stone. At $1400 a day, the tuition is a bit steep for locals, but the remote Dalton location is a destination venue for an international clientele that includes thrill seekers from New Zealand to Germany to Italy. Stone added that the O’Neil Rally School, with a 2-1 student/instructor ratio, was the first true loose dirt-training area in North America—established in 1997. Other schools followed, like the DirtFish Rally School—nestled in the foothills of the Cascade

O'Neil Rally School owner Tim O'Neil and Weirs Times columnist Mike Moffett at an undisclosed location in the wilds of Dalton, N.H.

Mountain Range in Snoqualmie, Washington. DirtFish was established in 2010 by a multimillionaire who wanted the exciting sport of rally racing to be more accessible to enthusiasts. But Dalton Rally School owner Tim O’Neil is no multi-millionaire. He’s a local boy—a former mechanic and race driver— who followed and realized a dream of succeeding in motorsports. A 1977 graduate of White Mountains Regional High School, O’Neil became a foreign car mechanic for an outfit in Franconia. He also stayed behind the wheel at Riverside Speedway in Groveton, where he was “Rookie-of-the-Year Driver” in 1982. He later worked as a factory driver for Volkswagen and Mitsubishi. O’Neil stepped away from his mechanic work in 1993 to promote rally See Moffett on 17

Team O’Neil currently offers a wide variety of other specialty training including winter driving (top photo), off-road (bottom photo), OHRV, firearms, snowmobile and more. courtesy Photos

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On Saturday, February 17, from 10am-2pm guests can visit the Team O’Neil Rally School facility in Dalton, NH to sit in the co-driver seat and get sideways and airborne on some of the school’s 6 miles of private, purpose-built rally roads. It’s an opportunity for many people to live their dream of riding in a purpose-built stage rally car that is being pushed to its full potential. The inaugural rally ride offering is one of the more unique and exhilarating opportunities for automotive enthusiasts and adrenaline junkies alike. Rides will be offered in the Team O’Neil Motorsports Ford Focus RS* with Tim O’Neil himself behind the wheel. Rides will cover approximately 5 miles of stage roads at high speed, guests can plan to spend approximately 15 minutes in the car between actual high-speed travel and a cool-down ride. (ride length and distances dependent on road/weather conditions) “Rally fans have been asking for this opportunity for years, so we decided it was time to make it available to anyone brave enough to grab a helmet and put the belts on”, stated owner Tim O’Neil. “The plan is to offer these rides several more weekends throughout 2018, adding another incredible experience for NH’s visitors and residents.” The Ford Focus RS rally car was built for the 2017 competition season and brought home a production class win in its only stage rally of the year at the New England Forest Rally. The car boasts the latest technology from Ford, engine tuning from Mountune, an upgraded Reiger Suspension along with many other competition modifications. Tim O’Neil is a 5-time North American rally champion and the founder of the Team O’Neil Rally School. During the ride, Tim will talk to passengers through the intercom system about the car, rally driving, roads and the school itself. Minimum age for rides is 14 years old, all passengers under the age of 18 must have a parent or guardian present to sign a waiver. Cost for a ride is $99 and will be on a first come, first serve basis. The $99 fee will also be valid as a credit towards any future rally school courses at Team O’Neil Rally School. The school is located about 10 minutes from Littleton, NH at 178 Miller Rd, Dalton, NH 03598. Guests should come to the school’s main entrance on Miller Rd, do not trust a GPS. To learn more visit TeamOneil.com or call 603-444-4488.

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driving. He bought almost 600 remote acres in Dalton and developed a sixmile network of winding roads to zoom around in vehicles adapted for such adventures. Before the information age O’Neil hustled to

raise awareness about his dream, scrambling to various regional car shows to hand out flyers about rally driving. It was at such a show—at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City—that he met some Russians who helped him move things to

a new level. ‘Yes, Russians!” laughed O’Neil. “One was a mathematician and one was a web designer. This was when the world-wide-web was taking off and they helped us get on it and we were soon receiving See Moffett on 18

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internet inquiries from all over.” Jalopnik.com later referred to the O’Neil Rally operation as “The best damn driving-school on the planet. Also fun as hell.” The Rally School was officially established in 1997 and its roads include significant elevation changes, gravel skid paths, blind crests, and junctions. The Team O’Neil Motorsports division offers competition rally car preparation and support and is the U.S. distributor of M-Sport parts and car kits. It’s also a key supporter of the newly-formed American Rally Association. The Ford logo is omnipresent at the school, O’Neil having once worked for Ford of Europe. Numerous Ford Fiestas dot the Dalton landscape, along with Subarus, BMWs and other vehicles modified for adventure training. O’Neil’s operation partnered with Sig Sauer Academy to install a

These roads and courses have been designed and constructed from the ground up by racing champions to provide the most entertainment, diversity, and best training possible. With trails and roads now encompassing much of the mountainous 585 acre property, drivers can find everything from beginner terrain to some of the most extreme and challenging roads anywhere. shooting range while providing access to some of the most professional firearms and tactical train-

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reporters from the likes of the New York Times. And now the Weirs Times. O’Neil has around twenty full-time employees, including four mechanics and ten instructors. And visitors to the Rally School spend plenty of money at local inns and restaurants. That all provides a nice economic boost for a part of the state that could use a bump up. New Hampshire poet Robert Frost once lauded

the value of considering “the road less taken.” Dalton’s Miller Road is certainly a road less taken, but it’s one that has enormous value indeed. Charles Kuralt passed away in 1997, the year the O’Neil Rally School began and never got to visit this remarkable place. But I’m sure glad that I got to!

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in that season, but also blames the area’s reputation for having some of the coldest weather in the nation for keeping the tourists away even though the real cold weather does not take hold until later in the year. He even pictures the Old Man dressed in colorful leaves below his neck as one who “with a grim visage, unmoved by so rare ‘a coat of many colors,’ seems as indisposed

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from the notch the Pemi brook “suddenly rushes out to the very edge of our road, and after foaming over several rocky ledges, collects its torn waters, and in a solid jet piercing a narrow fissure of granite, flings itself over into a See Smith on 21

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were around to witness the show. It is suggested that the view from the top of Mount Lafayette is more interesting than that from Mount Washington and the two hotels in the area, the Lafayette House and the Flume house are reported to be well kept establishments with “every convenience in horses and vehicles” for visiting the various “curiosities” in the area. Another hotel,

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tree as a reminder that long ago this place was a logging camp. We turned south on the Mahoosuc Trail and we realized there was more snow here because our heads were hitting the tree branches above the trail. Route finding was challenging since the white blazes of the AT are few and far between and were difficult to see in the snowy conditions. We quickly got up and down the steep ledge near the bottom of the col between Carlo and Success because our snowshoe’s crampons stuck fast to the ice and snow. We put on our puffy jackets before we let Mount Success wow us with its open windswept summit. Rocks and ice covered the summit ledge. Below, the ice covered bog bridges across the frozen meadow poked through little snow. The wind was cold here. Danielle stopped to take some photos and I felt too cold to stop yet and so See patenaude on 24

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I hurried off past her to reach the other side of the mountain where I recalled the views were more open to the Presidentials. We enjoyed the grand vista far and wide. On our return we walked out on the frozen ground to an area that would not be easily reached in the summer to a rocky knob with a fine view down to The Outlook. The trip back down the mountain went by quickly. This was Danielle’s first visit to Mount Success and we could not have asked for a more splendid winter day. I wasn’t looking forward to the drive back and in fact I forced myself dur-

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Trump advertises it all the time. What else is his Twitter feed for? What we don’t know, at least with certainty, is what’s behind Trump’s animus? It’s one thing if he hatched a high-level conspiracy with the Russians during the election that he’s ham-handedly trying to cover up; it is another if he knows there was no such conspiracy and believes the investigation is, as he repeatedly says, “a witch hunt.” This is why it makes no sense for Democrats and the press to blow right by collusion -- compelling evidence of which has not yet emerged -- to obsess with alleged obstruction instead. If there was no collusion, it is doubtful that Trump has the corrupt motive necessary to make an impeachable obstruction-of-justice case against him. Absent collusion (or some other sinister secret), Trump is guilty of raging against an investigation that, at the end of the day, really is built

on sand. In which case, it’d be better if Trump, secure in his ultimate vindication, lowered the temperature around the investigation. But the scorpion is going to sting the frog -- especially if the frog is getting round-theclock cable coverage. It is certainly true that Trump has not, if he ever will, made the transition from thinking like the owner of a family business to thinking like a president entrusted with the care of our institutions. If Trump had his druthers, he’d probably appoint his personal fixer Michael Cohen his attorney general and run the Department of Justice like an arm of The Trump Organization. But there are all sorts of political and institutional constraints to acting on these impulses, including a White House counsel willing to say “No.” Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

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The decades-long trend in consolidating education-policy making within the federal Department of Education goes a long way to explaining why, as a nation, the US ranks middle-of-the-pack in international assessments. Education reform must recognize that one size does not fit all. The same holds true for the hot-button topic of Medicaid reform. Kentucky’s early-out-the-gate waiver request, approved by the Trump Administration, includes a firstever work requirement, a six-month ban from the program for those who commit welfare fraud, and an end to retroactive eligibility. Some or all of those program changes may work in New Hampshire. Medicaid reform should

be high on the To-Do list for our state legislature and governor, but they should be free to request federal waivers tailored to our Medicaid population. Other contenders for our To-Do list: Michigan’s teacher pension reform plan that shifts toward the defined-contribution plans familiar to privatesector employees to address funding shortfalls in the current plan; and Tennessee’s recently enacted free speech protections for student and faculty on public college campuses. As important as a legislative To-Do list is the Not-To-Do list. To address declining college enrollment, New Mexico is toying with the idea of forcing high school students to apply for college as a condition of graduation. In

this, they are following the “lead” of Chicago mayor Rahm Emmanuel, who last year made post-high school plans a graduation requirement. They may increase enrollment, but the drop-out rate as well. The usual suspects supply a potpourri of labor laws to avoid: Washington joins a handful of states requiring employers offer paid sick leave; New York imposes 12-week paid family leave benefits; and Nevada mandates employers offer leave to workers who have been, or have family members who have been, victims of domestic violence. Eighteen states are raising their minimum wage. New Hampshire, #1 in economic freedom, should avoid those experiments.

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of 450 ships. Fifty-three percent of Navy aircraft cannot fly. “ We need to fund the Defense Department with adequate budgets, probably on the order of $700 billion to $750 billion per year to rebuild

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