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THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, February 11, 2016

VOLUME 25, NO. 6

THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, february 11, 2016

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Robotics Regional Contest In Wolfeboro

Weirs Times outdoor and ski columnist Amy Patenaude (L) and her friend Silvi Spitzl cross country skiing in Leutasch, Austria. They met seven years ago in the Dolomitenlauf Worldloppet cross-country ski marathon in Lienz, Austria and became email pen-pals and good ski friends. “We’re really are lucky mushrooms that we have our friends to guide us to the best places to ski in Germany and Austria,” says Amy.

Austria - Cross Country Skiing In The Seefeld Olympic Region by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Columnist

The direct flight to Munich takes just under 7 hours and Germany is 6 hours ahead of Eastern Time. I knew I must sleep or I would suffer head-hurting jet lag when we landed. Charlie and I donned the eye masks, pushed in earplugs and cuddled our neck with the donut pillows that I had brought along. Sleeping sitting up while squished in the middle of an econo-

my row is difficult but we both slipped into a deep slumber and we managed to sleep right through the distribution of breakfast boxes. Direct flights are best for guaranteeing your ski bag will arrive at the same time as you do. We gathered our bags and made our way to the S-Bahn train. While Charlie hunted down some coffee and yogurt. I played with the ticket machine, they had changed it since the last time we were here a cou-

ple of years ago. Thankfully, it’s easy to press the English button. On the S-Bahn we traveled right beneath the center of Munich’s main square, Marienplatz. We would have loved to get out and see the sights but our skis and bags made it impossible to give into this temptation. An hour and half later we exited the train at Tutzing and our friends were there to greet us. Seeing Silvi and Dieter was wonderful! They

grabbed our bags and stowed them in their car. We jumped in too and drove off to find skiing! We drove past Garmisch, where the men’s World Cup Kandahar Downhill race would be held in a few days. Soon we were in Mittenwald and turned up a steep extremely narrow road that crosses the boarder from Germany into Austria and in few more miles the road led us into the slim valley of Leutasch, Austria. See patenaude on 18

The Kingswood Regional Middle School Robotics Team is excited to host the New Hampshire First Technical Challenge Regional Championship on Saturday, February 13th, at Kingswood Regional High School from 10 am to 5pm. Fifteen teams from central to southern New Hampshire and Massachusetts will compete for a chance to move on to the regional championships in Massachusetts. This year’s challenge is called RES-Q and involves picking up debris from the playing field, rescuing hanging climbers on guide wires and climbing mountains all using an 18” x 18” robot. All the robot designs are unique and demonstrate weeks of collaborative effort of their teams and mentors. The event is free to the public and concessions are available. Kingswood Regional High School is located at 396 S. Main St, Wolfeboro To learn more about FTC and this year’s challenge visit www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogram/ftc. INSIDE THIS WEEK:

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Feb Thursday 11th ‘Within Our Gates’ – Silent Film Series

Flying Monkey, Plymouth. 6:30pm. The film by Oscar Micheaux will be shown as part of a special program as a centerpiece of a salute to Black History Month. Live music for the silent drama will be provided by Jeff Rapsis. Also featured will be a presentation by Michael Fischler, an author and educator who will reflect on the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the impact of his assassination in 1968. $10pp. www.flyingmonkeynh. com 536-2551

Lakes Region Chamber’s Meet & Greet

Cactus Jack’s, Union Ave, Laconia. 4:30pm-6:30pm. The Chamber’s Meet & Greet provides a casual atmosphere to network and grow your business relationships. Bring along you business cards to share with other local business professionals. Attendees will enjoy a complimentary taco bar and a full cash bar will be available. Free to attend. Register on line at www.lakesregionchamber.org

Friday 12th R-Rated Hypnotist Frank Santos Jr.

Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 8pm. www.rochesteroperahouse.com or 335-1992

Father & Daughter Valentine’s Dance

Tapply-Thompson Community Center, Bristol. 6:30-9pm. Open to all ages. $20 per couple, $5 each additional child. Substitute Dads are welcome. There will be corsages for the girls, contests, prizes and refreshments. Pre-registration is required by 2/9 by calling 744-2713

Mountain Lake Chorale Performs

Sanbornton Congregational Church, UCC, 21 Meetinghouse Hill Road, Sanbornton. 7pm. The program is entitled, “Music to Warm Your Heart”. A freewill offering will be taken.

Adam Ezra Group

Flying Monkey, Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh.com or 5362551

Saturday 13th Snowshoe Saunter

Prescott Farm, White Oaks Road, Laconia. 10am-11:30pm OR 1pm2:30pm. $10pp/non-members, $8pp/ members. Price includes snowshoe rental. 366-5695 or www.prescottfarm. org

The Last Waltz Live – An AllStar Recreation of The Band’s Classic Concert

Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 8pm. www.rochesteroperahouse.com or 335-1992

Alice in Wonderland Tea Party

The Children’s Museum of NH, 6 Washington Street, Dover. 10:30am11:30am and 1pm-2pm. Come celebrate Valentine’s Day in the wonderful world of Lewis Carroll. Meet Alice and the Queen of Hearts, decorate tasty Valentine treats, do

some festive crafts and enjoy some tea or apple juice! Fancy dress and whimsical attire is encouraged. $20 per adult/child pair (members), $25 per adult/child pair (non-members). www.childrens-museum.org

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes

Flying Monkey, Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh.com or 5362551

Homemade Turkey Dinner

St. Charles Church Hall, 577 Central Ave, Dover. 4-6pm. $9/adults, $8/ seniors, $5/children. Take out meals available. Tickets at the door.

New Hampshire First Technical Challenge Regional Championship

Kingswood Regional High School, 396 South Main Street, Wolfeboro. 10am5pm. Fifteen teams from central to southern NH and Massachusetts will compete for a chance to move on to the regional championships in MA. This year’s challenge is called RES-Q and involves picking up debris from the playing field, rescuing hanging climbers on guide wires and climbing mountains, all using an 18”x18” robot. All the robot designs are unique and demonstrate weeks of collaborative effort of their teams and mentors. The event is free and open to the public. Concessions will be available. www. usfirst.org/roboticsprogram/ftc 5692055

Moultonborough Public Library, Moultonborough. 7pm. State Senator Jeannie Forrester will be the speaker for the evening. jthompson@ metrocast.net

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Belknap County Sportsmen’s Association, Lily Pond Road, Gilford. 6pm. Kevin Gardner, author of “The Granite Kiss: Traditions and Techniques of Building New England Stone Walls”, will be the speaker. For more than forty years he has been a stone wall builder in a family business widely known for traditional New England stone work particularly for historic restoration of antique structures. Kevin will arrive with two five gallon pails of rocks and will actually build a stone wall on a table ass he gives his talk. This will be both an educational and entertaining evening. All are welcome. $10pp. BYOB.

Book Sale at The Meredith Public Library

Meredith Public Library, Main Street, Meredith. 2:30-8pm. The proceeds from the book sale are used to support the library’s children and adult programs, provide passes to area museums, and help fund guest speakers and many other activities. 279-3059

Friday 19th Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals

Sunday 14th First Annual 5K Snowshoe Event aka ‘Ravens’ Race’

Massabesic Audubon Center, 26 Audubon Way, Auburn. Race begins at 10am and will benefit the nature education program at the Massabesic Audubon Center. $25pp if registered before 2/10, $30pp day of. $40/ couples and children are free. Goodie bags will be given to the first 100 race registrants. 668-2045

Lakes Region Girls Softball Winter Warm-ups

Belmont Middle School, Belmont. 3-4pm ages 4 to 8 years old, 4pm5pm ages 8 to 12 years old. Clinics are open to ALL girls ages 4 to 12 from the Laconia, Belmont and Canterbury areas. You do not need to be an LRGS player to attend. The purpose of these clinics if to work on fundamental softball skills to prepare the girls for the spring softball season. www.lakesregiongirlssoftball.com

Monday 15th Three Rivers Singers Rehearsal – New Singers Welcome

Inspiration Music, River Street, Franklin. 6:30pm. Three Rivers Singers would welcome new SATB voices. This budding group has performed for local events and is eager to grow it’s membership. Rehearsals take place every Monday. 934-7163

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Lakes Region Lacrosse Youth League Info Night

Gilford Town Hall, Gilford. 6pm7:30pm. League representatives and coaches will be able to answer all questions. Registration can be completed at www.lrlacrosse.org

Lakes Region Tea Party Meeting

Flying Monkey, Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh.com or 5362551

Book Sale at The Meredith Public Library

Meredith Public Library, Main Street, Meredith. 9am-4:30pm. The proceeds from the book sale are used to support the library’s children and adult programs, provide passes to area museums, and help fund guest speakers and many other activities. 279-3059

Saturday 20th Snowshoe Saunter

Prescott Farm, White Oaks Road, Laconia. 10am-11:30pm OR 1pm2:30pm. $10pp/non-members, $8pp/ members. Price includes snowshoe rental. 366-5695 or www.prescottfarm. org

Moonlit Walk

Prescott Farm, White Oaks Road, Laconia. 6-7:30pm. $10pp/nonmembers, $8pp/members. Price includes snowshoe rental. 366-5695 or www.prescottfarm.org

The Spirit of Johnny Cash

Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 8pm. www.rochesteroperahouse.com or 335-1992

Hearthside Dinner

Remick Country Doctor Museum, Cleveland Hill Road, Tamworth. Join with a small group of other guests to help prepare and enjoy a 19thcentury-style meal. Led by costumed interpreters in preparing seasonal foods using historic and modern techniques and cookware. BYOBeer/ wine. Pre-registration closes Feb. 12th. $50pp. Ages 16 (with parents) and above. 323-7591

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Alice in Wonderland Tea Party At Children’s Museum On Saturday, February 13, 10:30-11:30am and 1-2pm the NH Children’s Museum in Dover will host a Alice in Wonderland Tea Party! Meet Alice and the Queen of Hearts, decorate tasty Valentine treats, do some festive crafts and enjoy some tea or apple juice all while being immersed in a magical Wonderland atmosphere. Fancy dress and whimsical attire is encouraged! The cost of the program is $20 per adult/child pair (Members) and $25 per adult/child pair (Non-members). There is an additional charge of $8/$10 per additional child for Members and Non-members. Visit www. childrens-museum.org or call 603-742-2002 to learn more.

Felix Cavaliere Of The Rascals in Plymouth at the Flying Monkey Rock & Roll and Songwriter Hall of Fame inductee Felix Cavaliere brings his Rascals to The Flying Monkey Performance Center in Plymouth on Friday, February 19th at 7:30pm. Known as one of the pioneering rock n roll acts of the 60’s with hits like ‘good Lovin,’ ‘A Girl Like You,’ and ‘People Got to be Free’. Tickets to see Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals are $45, and $55 for premium seats. For tickets and more information on concerts and the Flying Monkey Performance Center, visit www.flyingmonkeynh. com or call 603-536-2551.

Super Bingo Game To Benefit Lake Winnipesaukee Museum Join the Lake Winnipesaukee Historical Society on Saturday, February 20th for Super Bingo, a high stakes bingo game. Doors open at 2:00 pm at the Funspot Bingo Hall, Rte. 3, Weirs Beach, NH. The Super Bingo Game offers a $13 9-card package for the afternoon session (4:30-5:30pm) and your choice of a $25 12-card package, $30 18-card package for the evening session (6:45-9:15pm). You may also rent a Bingo computer for just $6.00 per day, play e-cards, paper cards or both to increase your chances of winning! Players are allowed to buy a maximum of 54 faces on an electronic video bingo device and are limited to one unit per person. Guests may play either the afternoon or the evening session, or may come early and stay late to play both sessions. The one-hour afternoon session will include 10 games paying an estimated $100 each. The evening session will include 12 games paying an estimated $320 each and three “Winner Takes All” games that may award up to $1,600. The “Carryover Coverall” game is guaranteed to pay $2,000. All prizes are based on attendance. Other cash prizes can be won through pull-tab tickets sold at 50 cents each that pay from $10 to $499. Proceeds of these games support the LWHS mission to preserve the history and heritage of Lake Winnipesaukee, specifically its Lake Winnipesaukee Museum, located on Route 3 in the Weirs, next door to the Funspot Bingo Hall. The museum is open seasonally, Monday through Saturday, 10:00am to 4:00pm; admission is free. For further information, Please call 603-366-5950, or visit www.LakeWinnipesaukeeMuseum.org.

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who called a book about a cat without eyes “creepy.” I suppose that publisher would have rejected Helen Keller’s The Story of My Life, too. Homer – The Ninth Life of a Blind Wonder Cat also tells about losing Vashti and Scarlett, Homer’s two older sisters, and the adoption of Clayton and Fanny, the two kittens “made of adorable,” who joined the family. It may be as hard for a cat to lose a cat friend as it is for a human to lose a cat, and, like humans, a cat may be hesitant about welcoming a new cat into the home. Gwen Cooper describes both experiences and her gentle and thoughtful story can help prepare the cat person for either experience. Gwen says that “loss wasn’t scorched earth.” After Homer’s death his Facebook followers increased 60 times. Homer’s fans were encouraged to help out in rescues, in donations, and in telling their own stories on Gwen’s website www.gwencooper. com and Homer’s website www.hihomer.com. Gwen

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gives 10% of her Homer’s Odyssey royalties to organizations that help abandoned, abused and disabled animals. She travels around the country talking about Homer and encouraging people to become “Homer’s Heroes.” That’s certainly not scorched earth but life renewed for those abandoned and disabled animals. That’s Homer’s ninth life, his legacy. Homer – The Ninth Life of a Blind Wonder Cat isn’t a sad book though it covers Homer’s last days with Gwen, Laurence, Fanny and Clayton. It’s a happy book when it talks about Homer and his photo shoots and how the “new kids,” Clayton and Franny, got along when they joined the family. It’s a joyful book reminding cat

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To All Gilmanton Residents

To The Editor: We ALL want to save the farmland. The open land is what makes Gilmanton so wonderful to live in. I want Gilmanton to stay as close to what it looked like in the past. We have a Conservation Commission that has spent time and money to save parcels of land, for the entire town to enjoy. There are bio-solids being spread on some of them. There are very few places left like Gilmanton, without industry, hospitals or large businesses. By using bio-solids, the users have BROUGHT the industrial waste with heavy metals, hospital waste with pharmaceuticals, pathogens, viruses, bacteria and human waste with pharmaceuticals and bacteria, TO Gilmanton, and have breached the trust of residents and exposed them and themselves to toxins known and unknown without understanding the health consequences. EPA and the distributing company CANNOT guarantee that the production process will be enough to protect us. The distributor admitted to not testing every bag. Environmental factors we cannot control and repeated application of the bio-solids will reverse the composition of the bio-solids back to pathogens, viruses and bacteria or another chemical soup mutation. This will threaten our health, the health of our animals, air quality, wells/aquifer (which is our life force), the land and our property

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values. Our bodies will be in toxic over load from the accumulation of chemicals and illness will follow. We will be labeled a toxic town and lose everything we have worked for. WHY take the risk? Once ruined, you will not regain your health, or be able to clean up the land, or reverse the damage to the aquifer (wells) or the air. If the toxins breach the aquifer, it could move as quickly and to places never considered just like MtBE in gasoline did to other drinking water in other states. Vote YES to BAN biosolids, or you may have someone move in next door to your house who will have the right to spread biosolids against your wishes. Bio-solids ARE NOT SAFE. It is about profit and not safety. Do your own research. Google “ban bio-solids in NH� to read why Belmont banned bio-solids. Other sites: www.thewatchers.us/ book/sludge-biosolids.html Sewage Sludge or Biosolids by Jim and Gail Bynum 20 yrs of research www.foodsafetynews.com/2010/10/ sewage-sludge-as-fertilizer-safe/ www.thewatchers.us/Safety.html OSHA Sludge Safety Standards (for workers) After reading this article, ask why the public is not told of the danger. Protect ALL OF US by voting YES on the warrant article to BAN BIOSOLIDS.

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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Is Washington, D.C. Hopelessly Broken and Corrupt? To The Editor: Because they are afraid of having to go back to the real world and get actual jobs, where they might not be able to determine their own salary and benefits, the politicians in Washington, D.C. spend massive amounts of taxpayer money and burden future generations with unimaginable debt, so they can use our money to buy votes, solicit campaign contributions, and maintain political power. If you haven’t figured this out already, Federal Debt = Delayed Taxes and sooner or later somebody has to ‘pay the piper’. Taxpayers would crucify politicians who raised taxes high enough to pay for Congress’ outrageous spending habits, so they just put it on the tab and let someone else worry about it. How often have you been aware of Congress refusing to spend money because the American people just don’t have it? If Washington worked the way that it should, President Obama and most of our elected officials in Washington, D.C. would be impeached and thrown out of office for violating their oath to ‘protect and defend the Constitution’ and stealing money from the American people. Russell T. Cumbee Franconia, NH

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As I’m sure that you can surmise by the warm and snow deprived winter we have had so far, this has not been a very good year for FATSO. For those of you unfamiliar, FATSO is the acronym for Flatlanders Adjusting To Solitary Oblivion, a support group for new transplants to the area to help them adjust to their first few winters here. Winters like this one are rare, but they are also dangerous. I am not talking about the obvious dangers like driving a truck on thin ice on the lake; even though that’s not really a danger in the true sense of the word since most people with common sense wouldn’t attempt it in the first place. I am not talking about the danger of a warm winter and how it can affect the local economy by keeping away the winter visitors which is always a concern. The danger I am talking about is the overwhelming sense of calm that befalls those same new transplants here for their first winters who have been told about the upcoming season, steeled themselves for its arrival and prolonged stay and are now thinking that it is not as bad as they imagined and things will be just fine. Over the many years that FATSO has been around, we have learned

that our mission is to not only help folks when a harsh winter is upon us, but to make sure that the highly disillusioned new Flatlanders among us in years like this, can still be taught to understand the harsh realities of a real winter here and how to deal with it so as to be prepared. That it why a few years back, during a similar warm winter, we developed a winter survival class that FATSO offers at a reasonable fee. In this class we will present participants with simulated real case scenarios that will give them a true sense of the season. It lasts for a week and includes housing and three meals a day. The first course is where we teach participants to accept the fear factor of winter and try to desensitize them to it. In an idea we picked up from watching “Clockwork Orange” where we tape participants eyes open and for twenty-four hours show them nothing but old news weather forecasts where the doom and gloom of an impending storm is predicted. Then we show them the aftermath of the same predicted storm where they come to realize that it is often never as bad as predicted. Next we gather the entire group together as one for a day and let them do what they would as if they were home and with their own families. Once they are settled in in their warm and cozy environment, we suddenly turn off the lights and heat and Internet and make them stay in the room with each other for twenty-four hours. This may seem like cruel and unusual punishment, depriving them of their television, iPhones, tablets, video games and

other diversions and forcing them to actually talk with each other, but it is one of the harsh realities of a real winter. It is especially hard on the thirty and younger crowd. One day of the program we will bring them to the local supermarket and train them in the “bread and milk” segment of the course. This is where we bring in experts to show them how to best maneuver the aisles and how to come away with the essential foodstuffs they will need to survive the possible twentyfour hours they might be homebound if a real storm arrives. Besides bread and milk, we will show participants how to position themselves to score Cheez-Its, Chocolate Chip Cookies and other essentials which will be in high demand. There will be an exercise portion of the class where participants will spend ten minutes on and ten minutes off with a handgrip attached to a pulley which will simulate the snowblower which suddenly won’t start now that the snow has fallen. By working these muscles now, it will keep them from the day after muscle soreness which is attributed to this procedure. Walking properly on an icy surface and even the correct winter greetings to natives (believe it or not “Cold enough for you” is not always proper) are among a few of the other valuable lessons that we teach in the course. If you are interested, there are still openings for our late February class (weather permitting). If you’d like more information or to sign up for FATSO’s winter survival class go to our website. Brendan Smith welcomes your comments at brendan@weirs.com.

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Schumer: America’s Disease-Fighting Phony Latin America’s Zika virus is the latest undocumented immigrant to hit our shores, but have no fear. Self-appointed Zika Warrior by Michelle Malkin Prince Charles Syndicated Columnist Schumer has declared that he is here to stop it. The New York Democrat has a “three-point plan” of attack to build a “firewall” that will prevent an outbreak of the mosquito-borne illness from spreading across our mainland. He’s armed with big charts and jabby index fingers, too. Allons! Five cases of the Zika virus have been identified in the Empire State alone. The CDC says a total of 31 Americans in 11 states and Washington, D.C., have been identified as carriers who brought the miserable disease in from abroad. The feds’ don’t worry-be-happy health bureaucrats emphasize that these are “isolated” incidents that can be contained by simply avoiding travel to hotspots like Brazil, where the disease has been linked to an explosion of microcephaly among an estimated 4,000 babies. But on Tuesday, Dallas County, Texas, reported the first case in a resident based here in the continental U.S. who contracted the condition “through sexual contact with someone who had visited a Zika-endemic country,” according to health officials. When people in Washington tell you not to worry, be alarmed. I know I’m not the only one who sniggered at the spectacle of the Senate’s leading Gang of Eight immigration expansionists now

playing Chicken Little about global communicable diseases. Newsflash: The sky has already fallen. The barn door can’t -- or rather, won’t -- be closed by those scrambling in front of the cameras to grab headlines about the latest panic du jour. The fundamental policy dissonance is lost on tineared Schumer: While he makes theatrical grand gestures to stop foreign viruses from entering through the front porch, he and his amnesty-promoting pals in both parties have left the side and back entries swinging wide open for illegal immigration. People from Central and South America, ground zero for Zika and other infectious diseases including tuberculosis, dengue, Chagas, Chikungunya and schistosomiasis, make up nearly 15 percent of the illegal immigrant population in the U.S. They flooded the border in record numbers in 2013 as Schumer and company were pushing mass amnesty on Capitol Hill -- and as President Obama was implementing blanket deportation freezes in advance of his executive illegal immigrant waiver policies. The Democrat-manufactured border surge ushered in a resurgence of tropical diseases across the Southwest. Meanwhile, laborers here illegally and amnestied migrants who have never been screened for disease obtained Obama work permits to hold lowwage jobs in places like Chipotle, which shut down scores of its restaurants over the past three months after two separate E. coli outbreaks. Now comes news from Texas governor Greg Abbott and Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, that the Obama Department of Homeland Security plans to cut back aerial

Working Class Zeros by Rich Lowry Syndicated Columnist.

We live in the age of workingclass discontent, which, if it wasn’t obvious before, has been made plain by the passions roiling 2016 presi-

dential politics. The media’s preferred description of the average Republican voter has often been “the angry white male.” This was crudely simplistic and meant to be pejorative. If the press wants to update the descriptor, it should refer to “the despairing white male.” Or more accurately, the despairing white working class. White working-class life in America has been in a slow-motion disintegration for decades, and it shows. The white working class is an archipelago of hopelessness. It is in a funk about the economy (almost 80 percent think we are still in a recession) See malkin on 14 and, more fundamentally, the

American future. According to the American Values Survey conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute, only about 40 percent of the white working class say the country’s best days are ahead. This is not only lower than college-educated whites (53 percent), but much lower than blacks (60 percent) and Hispanics (56 percent). It is astonishing to think that the white working class has a dimmer view of the nation’s future than blacks, who have been historically discriminated against and still lag badly on almost every socio-economic indicator. As noted by the National Journal’s acute analyst Ronald Brownstein, a survey for The Pew Charitable Trusts picked up the same finding a few years ago. It asked people whether they expected to be better off in 10 years. Whereas two-thirds of blacks and Hispanics said “yes,” only 44 percent of whites without a college degree

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U.S. Economic Freedom Slips Downward in Global Survey UNITED NATIONS

- While recessionary winds continue to buffet the world economy, many countries are still prospering due to innovaby John J. Metzler tive policies Syndicated Columnist which have embraced economic growth and expanded economic opportunities and grown the middle class in places as disparate as East Asia and South America. Yet, the United States, the world’s largest economy, has slipped downward yet again in economic freedom according to a significant new survey. In a review of world economies, the Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based think tank, and the Wall Street Journal asserts that the American economy has declined in relative economic freedom and now ranks eleventh globally, just behind the United Kingdom. The survey used an extensive list of comparators which effect Entrepreneurship such as Regulatory Efficiency, Rule of Law, Limited Government, and Open Markets, According to Anthony Kim, a policy analyst at Heritage, “The U.S. has fallen from the 6th freest economy in the world, when President Barack Obama took office, to 11th place today in 2016. America’s declining score in the index is closely related to rapidly rising government spending, subsidies,

and bailouts.” Regarding the survey Heritage says, “For over two decades, the Index of Economic Freedom has measured the impact of liberty and free markets around the globe, and the 2016 Index confirms the formidable positive relationship between economic freedom and progress.” So let’s look at the numbers. The top five freest economies are Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Switzerland and Australia. Hong Kong, despite being a Special Autonomous Regions of the People’s Republic of China, still excels at entrepreneurship and retains the coveted number one ranking. Singapore, not surprisingly, comes in second and New Zealand third. Canada, Chile, Ireland, Estonia and the United Kingdom fill out the top ten. In all these countries a commitment to open markets and rule of law has reinforced economic freedom. Estonia, the tiny Baltic nation once ruled by the former Soviet union, is a particular success as a market economy given that the country had suffered so long under a static socialist system. The USA ranks in eleventh place. The report adds, “Americans continue to lose economic freedom. Following declines in seven of the past eight years, the United States this year has equaled its worst score ever in the Index of Economic Freedom. Ratings for labor freedom, business freedom, and fiscal freedom have flagged notably, and the regulatory burden is increasingly costly.” The survey

adds however, that on the positive side, the U.S. prospers from open markets. Yet, free market capitalism, the elixir of growth, is under assault on many sides. The report cites massive government spending and the rise of

a regulatory state as hampering American efficiency and growth potential. Following the two top ranked Chinese ethnic “city state” economies of Hong Kong and Singa-

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Random Thoughts R a n d o m thoughts on the passing scene Will this November’s presidential election come down to a choice between a felon and a pied piper? by Thomas Sowell People who Syndicated Columnist call Barack Obama a lame duck president seem not to have noticed that he is exercising more power than ever, and has turned the Republican Congress into a lame duck branch of government. The best New Year’s Resolution I ever made was to stop trying to reason with unreasonable people. That may be especially valuable during an election year. With 4 of the 9 Supreme Court justices being more than 75 years old, the next president will probably be appointing replacements who can help determine the direction of American law well into the next generation. This is just one of the many very serious things that we can only hope the voters keep in mind, instead of voting on the basis of just one issue or on emotions. Among the common phrases of the past that we seldom hear today is “None of your business.” Apparently everything is other people’s business these days, including the media’s business and the government’s business. In this scientific age, it is amazing how many people act as if magic words can make realities vanish. For example, they talk as if behavioral differences between groups can be made to disappear by saying the magic word, “stereotypes.” This fallacy affects everything from statistical claims of discrimination to admitting refugees with cultures hostile to

our own. After a famous naval victory in the War of 1812, Commodore O.H. Perry reported: “We have met the enemy and they are ours.” After the Republican Congressional majority’s repeated capitulations to the Democrats’ minority, Congressional Republicans could say, “We have met the enemy and we are theirs.” The central non sequitur of the political left is that, because America has never lived up to its ideals, it is to be condemned and repudiated. But what society of human beings has ever lived up to all its ideals? Despite all its achievements, America is condemned by the left because it is not exempt from all the sins and failings found in societies around the world. One of the apparently immortal fallacies is the belief that disarming peaceful people reduces violence. That fallacy underlies both national disarmament and gun control within nations. In trying to come up with alternatives to the welfare state, even some staunch conservatives have created plans that exempt lowincome people from paying taxes, or plans that provide some basic income to all, making it unnecessary to work. But exempting anyone from responsibility and reciprocity as members of society risks disaster for those individuals and for society. Egalitarians never seem to understand that promoting economic equality in theory means promoting resentments and polarization in practice, making everyone worse off. It is corruption if an elected official uses his office to get money for himself or for someone else. But judges can fine someone to pay a donation to some organization that the judge favors. TypiSee Sowell on 26

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New Originals By Peter Ferber To Debut In Wolfeboro On Saturday, February 13th, The Art Place in downtown Wolfeboro will hold its semi-annual Peter Ferber Gallery Show featuring local well-known artist Peter Ferber’s collection of new original paintings. The unveiling and artist’s reception will commence at 9:30 a.m., “I’m eager for people to see this next show,” said Ferber. I think they’ll find a lot of interest and variety, both in subjects and media. Of course there will be watercolors of familiar local scenes and a cut paper piece of the steamboat “Swallow” with its landmark boathouse in Moultonborough. These cut paper creations have become highlights in recent shows. For the first time I’m including an ink line drawing–a traditional rendering of the old sidewheel Mount Washington. This simple approach results in a handsome image that plays up its Victorian era refinements. Another first that I’m really excited about is a series of small oil

“Swing’s Rest” is one of the new works by local well-known artist Peter Ferber which will be part of his Gallery Show at the Art Place in Wolfeboro on Saturday, February 13th beginning at 9:30am. The show will continue through February 27th.

paintings done on marble, which turned out to be a wonderful surface to work on. Subjects in this show will range from antique boats and boathouses, to the White Mountains, from summer to winter, to some

historical images, and to Greece where I took a sailing trip to last fall.Upon returning I came across an article about painting on marble and realized what a perfect medium this would be for these Greek images.

Since so many of the subjects are constructed of stone, it was striking to let the natural marble patterns interplay with the elements in the painting, fading out the brushstrokes toward the edges so the image ap-

pears to emerge out of the stone. I’m also planning to have a few of my sketches from the trip on display for people to see.” The Art Place Gallery owner Barbara Gibbs remarks, “local scenes are typically popular with Peter Ferber followers, and a few will be represented in this show.” Should there be heavy snow on Saturday, February 13th, there is a snow date scheduled for Sunday, February 14 beginning at 11 a.m. Check facebook for updates at www.facebook.com/theartplacewolfeboro. The show will continue through February 27th.. The Art Place is the exclusive gallery for Peter Ferber’s original artwork, and produces many of his limited edition prints. The Art Place is located at 9 North Main Street, downtown Wolfeboro, New Hampshire and is open Tuesday through Saturday 9:30 to 5 this time of year. For more information, call 603 569-6159 or toll free 866 569-6159.

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homa school district said they wanted to send a clear warning to protect against potential attacks, so they put up signs on Monday alerting that staff members could be carrying guns. The signs were erected at public schools in Okay, according to the Muskogee Phoenix. The town’s police department was reportedly disbanded in 2014, and even though sheriff’s deputies are available, Superintendent Charles McMahan says that may not be enough. “We don’t want to be a soft target,� Fox News: One sign reads, “ATTENTION: Please be aware that certain staff members at Okay Public Schools can be legally armed and may use whatever force is necessary to protect our students.� Under the policy approved in August for Okay, employees who wish to carry firearms must receive training and Board of Education approval. The principal of Okay High School, Mark Hayes, reportedly pushed for the new gun policy. “There have been numerous shootings in the country, and we want to keep our students safe,� he told the Phoenix. “These are our kids.� I thank those involved for putting the children first. And they should have the admiration of all Americans! The 2016 Presidential Primary for NH is now history. Perhaps it was the number of contestants for the republicans. On Tuesday I hope you voted for Ted Cruz. My history of these primaries state and national is some lightly bonded friendships will be beyond repair, especially this, the most important in my lifetime. This was for the future of my country, and my grandchildren!

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ning of March. Mourning doves are earning their name as they commence their “mournful� cooing to each other. Male and female mourning doves look the same, but with the advent of spring, it is very easy to distinguish the sexes. The bird doing the chasing is the male, pure and simple. The other dove acting shy or “hard to get� is the female. She picks only the best mate available to ensure that

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her offspring possess the strongest traits she can find. Bluebirds arrive toward the beginning of March around the New England region in search of last year’s successful nesting area. Nest boxes for these migrants should be thoroughly cleaned out and already on their free standing poles. Be sure to face the hole east or south, any direction but north. Yes, birds know directions. After all, birds fly south for the winter, not north. Backyard birders can offer nesting birds assistance in many ways. Save all hair from haircuts and pet grooming. Place handfuls of this soft material in an old suet basket or fine mesh bag. Hang this offering in the shelter of the

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crea t ing real scheduling problems for Monahan’s Green Giants. Included among Monahan’s critics were plenty of people from the Pembroke Academy community. Fact forward from 1996 to 2014, when Pembroke had a powerhouse and had suddenly had trouble creating a schedule. What goes around, does indeed come around. In 1990, Plymouth State College’s football team was a powerhouse, going undefeated while dominating the New England Football Conference. But not a single Panther made the All-Conference team selected by NEFC head coaches, who obviously colluded to punish Plymouth for its success. It was shameful. Sports does indeed mirror society, the good, the bad, and the ugly. When lesser lights seek to penalize success, as apparently happened in Minnesota, it diminishes all concerned. Legendary Green Bay

Packer coach Vince Lombardi said that “The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” It may not be fashionable to quote Lombardi in 2016. But I’ll take Vince’s viewpoint every day, and twice on Sundays. His words speak to our better angels. The Bernie Sanders of the world speak to our lesser angels. Sports Quiz Who served as boys varsity basketball coach at both Laconia High School and Inter-Lakes High School. (Answer follows) Born Today ... That is to say, sports standouts born on February 11 include former Red Sox infielder Todd Benzinger (1963) and former Celtic forward Tony Battie (1976).

Sportsquote “Sometimes people ask, ‘Are hockey fights real?’ I say, ‘If they weren’t, I’d get in more of them.’”Wayne Gretzky on fighting in hockey. Sportsquiz Answer Rick Knowles, who starred at Plymouth State College during the late sixties and early seventies, coached both the Sachems and the Lakers. Michael Moffett is a Professor of Sports Management at Plymouth State University and at NHTIConcord. He recently coauthored the critically-acclaimed and award-winning “FAHIM SPEAKS: A Warrior-Actor’s Odyssey from Afghanistan to Hollywood and Back” (with the Marines)—which is available through Amazon.com. His e-mail address is mimoffett@comcast.net.

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monitoring of the southern border by 50 percent. The Texas Tribune reports that the cutback coincides with a new surge in illegal crossings of the Rio Grande. “From October to December of 2015,” the paper reported, “about 10,560 unaccompanied minors entered Texas illegally through the Rio Grande Valley sector of the U.S. Border Patrol. That marks a 115 percent increase over the same time frame in 2014.” With spring just around the corner, those numbers will swell again. And the illegal immigrant border surge will only be strengthened (and public health risks increased) if Obama gives in to left-wing immigrant groups lobbying the White House to extend “Temporary Protected Status” en masse to upwards of 750,000 Central Americans purportedly fleeing violence in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. TPS is a special amnesty program originally intended as a short-term humanitarian program. As

usual, “temporary” means permanent. Example? In 2014, the White House extended TPS status and employment permits for an estimated 90,000 Hondurans and Nicaraguans here illegally “for an additional 18 months, effective Jan. 6, 2015, through July 5, 2016.” Who are these TPS winners? They’ve been here since 1998 -- when Hurricane Mitch hit their homeland. That was 18 years ago. Their “temporary” status has been renewed more than a dozen times since the Clinton administration first bestowed it. One of the biggest champions of the fraud-riddled, illegal immigration-incentivizing TPS program? Chicken Little Chuckie Schumer. The Beltway posturing of open-borders engineers is enough to make you sick. Michelle Malkin is author of the new book “Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs.” Her email address is malkinblog@gmail.com.

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The Galleria of Beauty! Gabi, Linda, yours truly and Silvi point the best way to go next. The Seefeld Olympic Region hosted the Nordic Events for the Innsbruck 1976 Winter Olympics. patenaude from 1

After we speed checked into our hotel rooms, we walked a minute from the hotel’s door and we hit the ski trails. We followed Silvi and Dieter as we glided down the track in our weary jet-lag-state of mind. We watched the full moon rise high above

the valley wall and higher above the mountaintops. It was dark by the time we stopped skiing. We stayed at the Trofana Hotel for a full week. Breakfast and dinner were included in the price of our rooms. The Euro equaled 1.08 US Dollars, the best exchange rate in many years. This true Austrian hotel had beautiful wood trim, big rooms, a wonderful bath and its own spa--included and of course those wonderful firm twin beds. I brought along my own fleece blanket because I just get too hot under the down-blankets that everyone else seems to enjoy. Charlie is more adaptable than me. Joining us at our assigned tables for the week were our friends Gabi and Martin! They drove up from their home in Weilheim and they arrived shortly after we began skiing. And our friends from Massachusetts, Linda and Wes, arrived as we were finishing dinner. They didn’t take a direct flight but traveled via Iceland before landing in Munich and renting a car. The eight of us were all together again for a See patenaude on 19

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week of skiing, eating and sleeping! A terrific holiday plan indeed, nothing could make us happier except for more snow. Our German friends had chosen the Seefeld Olympic Region because it had snow and at a high elevation the snow here had the best chance of being good all week. Much of Europe has been suffering the same snow-woes we have been experiencing. Breakfast at 8 am. Every morning the buffet offered a wonderful assortment of eggs, meats, cheeses and breads which made for difficult decision making because it wasn’t possible to eat everything. We started skiing together about 10am. Sivli and Dieter were skiing

with the three of them. Linda classic skis only and she would go off and do her own thing. Gabi and Martin would often go the same route as us but were happy at their own happy pace. A couple times I abandoned the speeders and went off on my own. When we went in different directions miraculously we would all end up at the same spot. Even with more than a hundred kilometers of ski trails and dozens of huts and coffee shops along the way I’d come around a corner and see Silvi, Dieter and Charlie standing at a trail intersection and then coming from the other direction Gabi and Martin would show up too. Must have been our

Charlie on the trail in Scharnitz, Austria. The trail signs offer a lot of information beyond the name of the trail. There is a “you are here� mark on the trail profile graph showing where you are and how much further you have to ski to reach the end of the trail. There are trails for skating and classic cross country ski techniques. We skied a half or full marathon distance every day and didn’t come close to skiing all the trails. moos, that started right behind our hotel. We ate a late lunch of cake and coffee at the hut. I think now cake and coffee was the lunch of choice of our friends every day.

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Sledding down snow packed mountain roads from mountain huts is a favorite winter activity in the Alps. In Leutasch, from Klamm we hiked along the Leutasch River and then up a mountain trail to reach the Hammermoos hut. For 5 Euros each we rented from the hut a Rode (a wooden sled) and we enjoyed a fast 2 mile ride back down to the valley. patenaude from 19

is the German word for Lucky Guy but the direct translation means Lucky Mushroom. The Lucky Mushrooms reserved Rodels, wooden sleds that you ride like a luge but sitting up instead of lying back. All the way down we steered our rodels down the snow packed road. Wes and I each got bum sleds. Wes’ kept wanting to turn left and mine had a problem with the runners dragging instead of gliding. We were the last ones down but we giggled all the way

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to ski soon. I am trying to convince them to come ski our marathon at Bretton Woods on March 5, 2016, Wes, Linda and Charlie are already signed up register at skireg.com. Silvi, Dieter, Gabi, Martin, come visit us next winter! Have fun. Amy Patenaude is an avid skier/outdoor enthusiast from Henniker, N.H. Readers are welcome to send comments or suggestions to her at: amy@weirs.com.

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ingly lifted from the morass of socialism into years of impressive if unequal growth. Ranked highest among the BRICS, South Africa ranks as Moderately Free and to its credit comes in at 80 out of the 178 comparators. Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea stand at the bottom of the list. That’s hardly surprising.

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tunities and enriched our lives, just because it also enriched theirs? Some people are surprised at how many young people look favorably on socialism. But socialism is a wonderful-sounding idea. Those who have lived through the era of its disasters in the 20th century, or learned about them from history, are likely to see through the appearances to the reality. A young age prevents the former and our dumbeddown education prevents the latter. A biographer of Herbert Hoover said that he was a great man but not a great president. Had he never become president, Hoover’s greatness in other areas would still be remembered today. But his wrong economic moves as president were amplified by his successor, and mired the country in a decade of tragedy. Great achievements in other areas are no reason to make someone president.

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said the same. We are conditioned by the media to be obsessed with race, when class is an increasingly important divider. (No one ever earnestly says on a cable-TV show that we need to have “a conversation about class in America.”) The class divide among whites shows up again and again on questions about the fairness of the country. The American Values Survey finds that white working-class Americans distrust institutions like the government and business more than collegeeducated whites do; they are more likely to think that their vote doesn’t matter because of the influence of wealthy interests; they are more likely to think that hard work doesn’t necessarily lead to success. There is a sense among working-class whites that America has gone off the rails, and has been that way for a long time. Sixty-two percent of them say American culture has

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