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A Night Of Comedy At Belknap Mill

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Town To Decide Fate Of Historic Building by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. Contributing Writer

then the town common which was located at the site of the Town House. The building was erected to the left of the Town House (which was built in 1798 and still used by the town) and was used as “The Chapel” of the New Hampton Academical and Theological Institution. The building remained at the original site until 1853 when it was moved to New Hamp-

ton Village. The Academical and Theological Institution was moved to Vermont in 1852 and a new school, the New Hampton Literary and Biblical Institute was begun in 1853 and the former Chapel, in its new location, was used for classrooms and was known as the “Commercial Hall”. Lane Hall now occupies the space See smith on 24

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Robert Frost wrote “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in”. There is a building in New Hampton that has been moved two times and occupied three lots since it was built in 1826. The word around town is that its present owner has no use for it,

and that the old building would like to return to its original home. During the period of its first location the building served as a chapel, at the second location it was a schoolhouse and at its third location it has been a Grange Hall. At a New Hampton town meeting on July 27, 1826 the citizens voted to grant a right to build a building on what was

Built in 1826, this historic New Hampton building, which has had many uses over the years, was planned to be demolished, but a movement to save the building is now on the town warrant and its fate will soon be decided. courtesy Photo

Stand-up comedy comes to The Belknap Mill on Saturday, March 11th at 8pm with nationally known, top rated comics Mike Koutrobis, Carolyn Plummer and Kyle Crawford. Koutrobis has appeared in various motion pictures such as ‘The Equalizer’ with Denzel Washington, ‘Here Comes The Boom’ with Kevin James and ‘Grown-Ups’ with Adam Sandler. Mike’s witty and sarcastic commentary has brought him to clubs, colleges and corporations throughout North America; appearing alongside some of the top headliners in the world. Plummer performs in some of the top New England comedy clubs and Mohegan Sun. She pulls material from the humdrum, day-to-day monotony of everyday life. Doors for the show open at 7pm and a cash bar will be provided by Contigiani’s Catering Service. For more information contact programs@ belknapmill.org.

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March Thru May 19th “Discover Space: A Cosmic Journey” – Traveling Exhibition Pease Public Library, 1 Russell Street, Plymouth. Mon. -Wed. 10am8pm, Thurs. and Fri. 10am-5pm, Sat. 10am-2pm. See this national traveling exhibition that explores the fascinating world of space and astronomy. Discover Space covers topics such as the formation of planetary systems, asteroids and comets, Mars exploration, and solar storms and their impacts on the Earth. Discover Space strives to make space and science fun with hands-on, multimedia activities where visitors can build their own solar systems on a 42” touch table, learn how telescopes work, play magneto-golf, learn about near real-time changes on the Sun, try to save Earth from an asteroid impact, and many more! Exhibition is free and open to the public during library hours. www.peasepubliclibrary.org or 5362616 Thursday 2nd

Storytelling Dinner With The Weirs Times’ Brendan Smith

The Corner House Inn, 22 Main Street, Center Sandwich. 6:30pm. Brendan will tell his stories of his adventures as a Flatlander from New York adjusting to life in Central New Hampshire. Cost is $21.95 per person (plus tax and gratuity) and includes salad, entrée, glass of wine, dessert and coffee. 284-6219 for reservations.

A Birthday Party for Dr. Seuss! Concord Public Library, 45 Green Street, Concord. 2pm-3pm. Join

the Concord Public Library as they celebrate all things Seuss! Games, crafts, snacks and more! Ages 3 and up! www.onconcord.com/library or

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On the Funny Side of the Street with Christine Lavin & Don White Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. www. rochesteroperahouse.com or 3351992

Melvin Seals and JGB The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh. com or 536-2551

Friday 3rd Mandolin Festival Stone Church, Newmarket, 7pm. $10 advance ticket sales, $12 at the door. www.stonechurchrocks.com or call 603-659-7700.

CATCH Comedy Night feat. The Capitol Steps Capitol Center for the Arts, Concord. 8pm. Admission cost is $13-$39pp. www.ccanh.com or 225-1111

March Mandolin Festival Stone Church, Zion’s Hill, Newmarket. 7pm. Admission is $10/advance or $12/day-of. www.stonechurchrocks. com or 659-7700

“Finding Dory” The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. 3:30pm. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 536-2551

Saturday 4th 2nd Annual Fisherville Brew And Chew / 4th Annual Wolfeboro Fishing Derby

Skelley’s Market

Skelley's Market services include: • Bailey's Bubble Ice Cream • Maps • Movie rentals • Famous Lobster Rolls • Fish and Game, OHRV licenses

Mandolin Festival Concord Community Music School, 23 Wall St. 7:30pm. $20 adults $15 students and seniors. www. ccmusicschool.org or call 603-2281196.

Entrain Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $25pp. BYOB. www.pitmansfreightroom. com or 527-0043

March Mandolin Festival Concord Community Music School, 23 Wall Street, Concord. 7:30pm. Admission is $20/adults, $15/students and seniors. www.ccmusicschool. org or 228-1196

Imagination Movers The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh. com or 536-2551

Maple Sugar Madness Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center, 928 White Oaks Road, Laconia. Join us to experience an old-fashioned New England tradition- Making maple syrup! You will have hands-on participation in every step of the syrup making process. $10pp with pre-registration or $12pp at the door. www.prescottfarm.org or 366-5695

Coffeehouse Open Mic Doris L. Benz Community Center, 18 Heard Road, Center Sandwich. Sign up is from 6pm-6:50pm, music begins at 7pm. The group welcomes listeners and always treats beginners with the same respect given to seasoned performers. Non-participants are encouraged to come and listen, and everyone is encouraged to bring a finger snack food to share during the break. Beverages, including beer and wine may also be brought.

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Sunday 5th Red Cross Blood Drive

First City Cars and Trucks, 4 Flagg Road, Gonic. 10am. 332-0540

Annual Free Kid’s Ice Fishing Derby

Lily Pond, Gilford. 9am-12 Noon. Bait, tip-ups, hot chocolate and hot coffee will be available at the pond. Lessons will be provided for first timers. No registration is required, just show up and have fun! At noon, in the Belknap County Sportsmen’s Association Clubhouse, awards and trophies for the largest fish caught will be presented, as well as hot dogs, chips and milk for all the participants.

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Corned Beef Dinner To Support Sportsmen Club ith all the fixings will be held at the Belknap County Sportsmen’s Association club house on Lily Pond Road on Thursday March 16th at 6pm. A New England Boiled Dinner with corned beef, cabbage, potato’s, turnip, onions, carrots and homemade Irish Soda Bread. During the event, Mary Morris from the New Hampshire Historical Society will give a talk titled “Discovering New Hampshire, an overview of New Hampshire History” Admission is open to all in the lakes region and is $10/ person water and soda provided. BYOB

3rd Annual Radio-Thon To Support Local Veterans, Service Members & Their Families News Radio 96-7, WGIR-AM 610, and iHeart Radio are again teaming up with Veterans Count and taking to the airwaves to show support for NH’s military heroes, and to honor all they and their families have sacrificed! The Make 12 Hours Count Radio-thon will be presented by LTC Partners, on 6. Listeners can tune in to WGIR AM 610, NewsTalk 96-7, stream it online at http://tunein.com/ radio/WGIR-AM-610-s29036/ or listen via the iHeartRadio app on their phone! Hosted again this year by NH radio legend Jack Heath, the Radio-thon will feature 12 hours of new content about the challenges faced by military families and how Veterans Count and other organizations provide support. The Radio-thon will also include compelling testimonials from service members, veterans and their families, sponsor recognition, celebrity endorsements and check presentations. Ninety cents of every dollar raised will support the needs of military families! Rally Your Troops for Our Troops! Veterans Count seeks support from businesses and individuals interested in grassroots fundraising efforts prior to the Radio-thon! Donations of $1,000 or more can be presented on-air during the Radiothon. Help make these 12 Hours Count! To get involved with the Veterans Count Radio-thon, please contact Easterseals Director of Development Joe Emmons at jtemmons@eastersealsnh.org or 603.621.3570. Easterseals NH Military & Veterans Services provided services to over 1000 NH veterans, service members, and their families in 2016 alone! These services included suicide prevention, employment, housing and homelessness, substance abuse treatment, transportation, and treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. Veterans Count, the philanthropic program of Easterseals NH’s Military & Veterans Services, provided over $480,000 in emergency financial assistance in 2016 for fuel assistance, vehicle repairs, medical bills, food, rent and other critical and unmet needs! Veterans Count is fueled by passionate volunteers who are committed to raising awareness about the financial, emotional, and other challenges that can result from military service and to raising money to help address these needs for NH’s service members, veterans, and their families. To learn more about Veterans Count or to make a donation, please visit vetscount.org/nh. Or, mail your donation to Veterans Count, Easterseals NH, 555 Auburn St, Manchester, NH 03103. If you know a service member, veteran, or military family in need, please contact Chrystn Pitt, Easterseals NH Military & Veterans Services, at 603.315.4354.

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MOST ATHLETIC PRESIDENT? The recent Presidents Day holiday occasioned the inevitable polls and lists—such as the “Top Ten Presidents Ever.” The worst presidents ever also get listed, and I always take issue with those rankings that list New Hampshire’s Franklin Pierce as the worst president ever. I strongly believe he was only the third-worst ever. A talk-radio discussion focused on who the TOUGHEST president ever was, and the consensus was Andy Jackson. Jackson was beat up and stabbed by the British during the Revolutionary War, but later emerged as a General who routed them in the Battle of New Orleans. He was the first president to suffer assassination attempts and he also survived a duel. He owned slaves and forcibly removed Native American Indians in what some call genocidal relocation. So was Jackson the “Toughest President” ever? Arguably—though I’d rate him below Franklin Pierce in terms of affability. (We have to stick up for Granite Staters where we can.) But it’s time for a list of Presidents who were our GREATEST ATHLETE ever! The problem with such a list is that there weren’t many sports before the 20th Century. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson never golfed, played basketball, or hit a home run—although they rode Rustshot guns. Cabin and yhorses z L e g e n d hica s i t t h a t o

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To The Editor: I am grateful for and respect Senator McCain’s service to our country. I voted for him in the 2000 and 2008 presidential elections. I campaigned for him. I displayed his campaign signs on my vehicles and property. I held signs for him on election day. I completely disagree with Senator McCain’s recent comments regarding President Trump. Senator McCain inferred that Trump’s comments and behavior towards the news media / press are “suppressing the press.” Use of the word dictatorship in comments regarding the Trump administration is inflammatory, incorrect, divisive, provoking, and in fact duplicitous. In NO WAY has President Trump or his administration limited the freedom of, or suppressed, the press. As a “Republican” (which I am beginning to question), Senator McCain should be much more concerned, focused, and vocal regarding the following: Leaking of Classified Intelligence Information is treasonous, not only for the person who leaked the information but also for those in the news media, who are seeking, and possibly paying for, leaked classified information. Freedom Of The Press does not include the right to commit treason / felony. The recent leaks to the

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media of highly classified information from our intelligence community cannot, and should not, be compared to Wiki leaks releasing emails exposing Clinton campaign opinions of U.S. legal voting citizens, and DNC plans to disparage Senator Sanders. Rightfully, President Trump has vowed that people who leak classified intelligence information will be caught (and hopefully prosecuted). The truth is the truth. Many (NOT ALL) in the news media have lost their integrity, and have allowed their political affiliations and views to taint how they report the news. Either by omission or commission, misinforming the public is unacceptable. By far, some in the news media are outright lying. Despicable! I believe that anyone and everyone (including our current President) has the right to (and should) point this out, call them out – every day, if necessary, as some have done: “The media’s behavior risks alienating the public even further — making it harder, actually, for the media to act as watchdogs” Joel Pollack “Those who work in the “news” industry are obsessed with promoting lies and half-truths to destroy political candidates they do not like, instead of just doing their jobs and reporting the news.” Valley Patriot Editorial, July, 2015 Peabody, MA

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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Women’s March To The Editor: The misnamed “Women’s March” on January 21, 2017 was an enormous missed opportunity to help women, families, and our country. It was simply a leftist, anti-Trump, pro-abortion rally, with women fronting for the same old leftist anti-American groups. The rally was led by selfimportant people, who have terrified themselves with their irrational imaginings, trying to inspire terror, feelings of victimization, and anti-Trump activism. Some attendees reported enjoying the rally, and everyone probably expected an uplifting, helpful, constructive event. But I suspect many women were disappointed, experiencing what the people saw from home: another far left, radical, anti-Trump, anti-abortion rally put on by vulgar, partisan, violent, disrespectful, and irrational sounding people without a constructive message. When I was a child, my mouth would have been washed with soap for speaking even a few of Ashley Judd’s words. Vulgarity wasn’t enough for Madonna who considered blowing up the White House. Speaker Donna Hylton, a great role model, went to prison for her part in the kidnapping, sodomizing, and murder of a gay man. Speaker Angela Davis, two-time Communist Party Vice Presidential Candidate, See mail boat on 22

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Just A Matter Of Time

by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor

A survey I recently came across stated that fortynine percent of people would gladly give up control of their cars to an onboard, driverless navigation system, in exchange for more free time. This to me, seemed rather ironic. After all, hasn’t the purpose of all this great technology over the years, from the washing machine to the touch-tone telephone to the microwave oven to the often confusing self checkout at the local supermarket (unexpected item in bagging area? No, I totally expected it, I put it there), been to free up more time for us to do the things we couldn’t get to before because we were too busy doing the things that technology was supposed to help us get through faster so we would have more free time? It can be confusing. As far as letting a computer take over total control over my car, while I am sitting in it, supposedly concentrating on some important task because before I was too busy concentrating on driving and never had time to get to it, is something I don’t think I will ever be comfortable with. I have to question exactly what time will be freed up to do exactly what task that you couldn’t get to before, but now will feel comfortable tackling while sitting in the passenger seat of a car travelling at 70 miles per hour down a

busy highway, driven by an unseen entity, jockeying for position with other cars with no drivers and passengers with their heads down engrossed in some important task they never could have gotten to if they had to spend the time driving their cars themselves. It seems we always have a lot of things to get done and we can never seem to get around to doing them since we have too many other tasks to complete. In fact, it seems the only ones who have the time to get all of the things done they need to are the folks inventing these great advances in technology that we need so desperately in order to get the things done we can’t otherwise get done since we don’t have the time. Personally, I admit to not getting everything accomplished that I need to when it needs to get done (like this week’s column for example). I have all of the technology I need to get me through a day much faster than my grandparents did and yet it is still often a problem. Of course, they didn’t need to check Facebook, Twitter and Instagram a few dozen times a day and they certainly didn’t have the luxury of uploading their every move, meal and mood to their circle of friends several times a day. Instead, they had to catch up with people whenever they happened to run into them and spend precious seconds and minutes talking about what is has happened in their lives. We are now fortunate enough to not have to do that any longer. The Internet has freed us from personally interacting with others any longer and not only taking our valuable time from us, but their valuable time from them as well. Many of us have been embarrassed to run into an old friend only to realize you are interrupting them

as they are posting their recent visit to the deli counter on Facebook to let all their “other” friends know that the smoked ham is on sale for $1.99 a pound. It can be an uncomfortable situation but, now that everyone has more time, according to the old saying, all these wounds will heal faster. I don’t believe that any new technology will create more time to do things we never seem to have more time to do. Giving people more time only creates more space for them to think of new things to do that they wouldn’t have thought of before because they didn’t have enough time to think of them before. It really is just chasing your own tail in a way. Most of us will never catch up. As far as spending time in a driverless car working on some project while speeding down the highway, I am of the generation that could never be comfortable with that. Having grown up with new technology that always found a way to eventually disappoint, I could never feel at ease. (Just think your old eight track tapes getting eaten alive by the tape deck as one simple example.) Travelling down the road at seventy miles an hour in the passenger seat with no human at the steering wheel I would be spending all that valuable time I was supposedly inheriting, white knuckled and perspiring while staring at the road anticipating my certain demise. Forty-nine percent said they’d be comfortable with this. I’m sure the other fifty-one were over the age of forty. To find out more about Brendan’s books and speaking engagements visit www.BrendanTSmith.com

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Fighting For The Falsely Accused Former Fort Worth, Texas, police officer Brian Franklin is finally free. But he is still fighting to clear his name. “I’ve been by Michelle Malkin vindicated,” Syndicated Columnist he told me in an interview last week, “but not yet exonerated.” Franklin served 21 years in prison -- a harrowing 7,700 days -- of a life sentence after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in 1995. But he steadfastly maintained his innocence, studied law in the prison library and won a reversal of his conviction last spring. In December, a jury acquitted him after a second criminal trial. “It’s been a roller coaster ride up and down,” Franklin reflected. Hellish doesn’t begin to describe the journey. His accuser had lied that she was a virgin before Franklin allegedly raped her. Prosecutors produced physical exam results of damage to her genitals as proof of his crime. In fact, she had been the victim of molestation by her stepfather for years. Moreover, the young accuser’s story of when she was allegedly raped changed to fit a timeline developed by prosecutors. That timeline was debunked when Franklin’s employment time records and time-stamped and dated store receipts showed he was nowhere near the alleged rape location -- the backyard of her biological father, who was a friend of Franklin’s. There were no witnesses. There was no DNA. Yet, the cop with “law enforcement in my blood”

lost his job, reputation and freedom. “It’s the easiest crime to be falsely accused of,” Franklin told me. Prosecutors “used my position as a police officer against me.” His family and church stood by him. But as soon as he was arrested, he had already been branded a “RAPIST” in the court of public opinion. His original jury “prejudged me,” Franklin recalled. Given the reckless witch hunts in cases like his and the Duke Lacrosse case, he observed, “I’m surprised anybody gets acquitted these days.” After Franklin’s conviction, lead prosecutor Rose Salinas learned that his accuser had signed an affidavit detailing the daily sexual abuse by her stepfather from the ages of 6-16. Those claims, Salinas concluded, “render irrelevant any medical evidence introduced at Brian Franklin’s trial to show guilt,” “clearly show she that she testified falsely” and “cast serious doubts on the integrity of his conviction.” Had she known of the accuser’s withheld evidence, Salinas acknowledged, she “would have immediately dismissed the charges” against Franklin. But he was still years away from winning his release as his various writs and petitions worked through the laborious criminal justice system. “There were times when a court would rule against me and I felt hit it in the stomach and down in the dumps,” Franklin recounted over the phone from Kerrville, Texas, where he now lives with his mother. He leaned on his faith and family to get through the darkest times. “I did not become hardened

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As you might have heard, Donald Trump tweeted at a judge. The commentariat shuddered at by Rich Lowry the effrontery Contributing Writer of it, and some worried that the foundations of the separation of powers had been shaken. Trump’s slam of Judge James Robart was undeniably crude and ill-considered, but it wasn’t a threat to our republic. In fact, it is a symptom of our distorted and overly sanctified view of the judiciary that a criticism of a judge with a lifetime appointment is greeted with such pearl-clutching. It is entirely appropriate that the political branches have their own view of the law and the Constitution, and robustly contest -- and even deny the legitimacy of -- court decisions that they consider erSee malkin on 21 roneous.

President Trump will have to go considerably further to come close to Andrew Jackson supposedly saying of a Supreme Court decision protecting the Cherokee Indians in Georgia, “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it.” Or to match the wars waged on uncongenial Supreme Court decisions by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln’s opposition to the Dred Scott decision redounds to his great credit. To say that Republicans weren’t deferential to the ruling is an understatement for the ages. They alleged a vast conspiracy of Chief Justice Roger Taney and top Democrats to commit offenses “comparable to the worst villainies of recorded history,” in the words of one historian. Everyone would soon enough recognize Dred Scott as a disgrace. At the time, though, supporters of the decision considered it a means to peacefully

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Expanding Famine Stalks 20 Million: UN Warns UNITED NATIONS—“More than 20 million people in South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and northeast Nigeria are going by John J. Metzler hungry, and Syndicated Columnist facing devastating levels of food insecurity,” warned UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. In a stunning and passionate plea for famine relief in the drought and conflict ridden regions, Guterres stressed, “We’re facing a tragedy; we must avoid it becoming a catastrophe.” Over 1.4 million children remain at risk of death from famine. Guterres cautioned, “This is preventable if the international community takes decisive action.” Addressing the media with a high-profile humanitarian panel including the UN’s Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O’Brien, the Secretary General spoke of five million people in South Sudan and a further five million in northeast Nigeria who face serious food shortages. He particularly highlighted Yemen in the Arabian peninsula; “Yemen is facing the largest food insecurity emergency in the world, with an estimated 7.3 million people needing help now.” In all these cases, insurgencies against already fragile govern-

ments are part of the equation. Yemen, for example, has seen civil conflict between government forces supported by a Saudi Arabian coalition and Iranian backed Islamic rebels. The Secretary General called on all parties to the conflicts to “respect humanitarian law.” In Yemen, the food insecurity is “staggering,” with 65 percent of households estimated to be food insecure; more than 460,000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition. Yemen has emerged as a hotbed of Al-Qaida operations. Moreover Yemen also hosts Islamic State terrorists. Since 2014 this mountainous land on the nexus of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden has drifted into protracted civil war. Despite the daunting humanitarian task plaguing these restive regions, a shortfall of emergency relief funding has hit UN relief agencies. While the Secretary General stresses that $5.6 billion is needed for 2017 with a $4 billion budget needed by the end of March “to avert a catastrophe,” the stark truth remains that only $90 million has been received thus far. “That’s around two cents for every dollar needed,” Guterres lamented. He warned that not acting now would create a larger humanitarian danger in the near future. “This is a dramatic emergency situation and it needs a response.” When asked whether donor fatigue among UN member states

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Fake News “Fake News!” shouts our president, calling out CNN, The New York Times and others. I love it. Although it’s not really true by John Stossell — not the Syndicated Columnist way President Donald Trump means it. The media rarely “fake” anything. Over time, they generally get the facts correct. But the president makes a good point: The smug lamestream media spin left but won’t admit it. At ABC News, my colleagues acted as if I was the only guy in the building with an opinion. Everyone else was “in the middle.” This was nonsense. Almost all were leftists. They constantly pushed big government. Their bias was revealed in questions they asked, the “experts” they chose to interview and their endless calls for political correctness and new regulation. Unfortunately, Trump is now just as ridiculous, claiming that “crime is reaching record levels” when it’s half what it was 25 years ago. He claimed, “We had a very smooth rollout of the travel ban,” and that he had “the biggest electoral college win since Reagan,” and so on. This is absurd. Facts are facts. Trump shouldn’t make things up. But I still love his “Fake!” tweets because much of what media spew is misleading. I did it myself. On “20/20,” my consumer reports covered exploding coffee pots and risks posed by pesticides used on lawns. (“Danger in the Grass!”) These weren’t lies. A few personal injury lawyers did have clients injured by coffee pots. One

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I have long been considered a jig fisherman by most who know me. In fact, when many people see or hear that I used tip ups when ice fishing, they almost immediately want to know if I’m feeling alright. There are few things I love more than detecting a bite and setting the hook, but some days the jig bite is non-existent and the only thing the fish will eat is live bait. As a fishing guide, my primary job is to put my clients on fish, and some days nothing beats a live smelt on Lake Winnipesaukee. Besides loving hook sets, tip ups act as anchors. They keep me in an area longer than I might otherwise stay there. However, some days the fish in Lake Winnipesaukee are so keyed in on smelt that they won’t eat anything else. That was the case on a recent guide trip with a gentleman named Tom. We started his trip off the same way I begin all my trips, with Vexilars and jig rods, but after 30 minutes we hadn’t marked a single fish. So, I decided to set a couple of tip ups with live smelt and before I could set the second one, the flag popped on the first. It was the first of many lake trout and white perch on tip ups that day. I rig my tip ups with a 10’ fluorocarbon leader tied to a high-quality ball bearing swivel. On the business end I prefer a size 6 Gamakatsu octopus hook. I pinch on a size 7 non-lead split shot about a foot above the hook to keep the smelt at the

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Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maththemed Conference for Educators Museum of the White Mountains at Plymouth State University, 34 Highland Street, Plymouth. This will be an exciting, hands-on day, geared for K-12 educators, with interactive experiences and ideas which for you to bring back to your classrooms. The conference will also offer time for dynamic group discussions on strategies for integrating multiple disciplines. For more information or to register call 535-3210 or visit www.

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Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $25pp. BYOB. www. pitmansfreightroom.com or 527-0043

Flying Film Series “The Red Turtle” The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 5362551

Maple Sugar Madness Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center, 928 White Oaks Road, Laconia. Join us to experience an old-fashioned New England tradition- Making maple syrup! You will have hands-on participation in every step of the syrup making process. $10pp with preregistration or $12pp at the door. www.prescottfarm.org or 366-5695

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Flying Film Series “The Secret of Kells” The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 5362551 Wednesday 22nd

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The Bremen Town Musicians – Live Performance Fundraiser St. Paul’s School’s Memorial Hall, Concord. Friday at 7pm and Saturday at 1pm. Kids and adults of all ages will enjoy this delightful journey based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, which follows four aging animals on their journey from the barnyard to becoming town musicians- even though none of them know to play an instrument! Hilarity ensues! Along the way, they thwart bumbling robbers, and learn the value of teamwork and friendship. Children will love audience participation and getting characters’ autographs at the end of the show. Tickets are $7pp or $5pp WITH canned goods which will be donated to local food pantries. 224-0595 or www.jslconcord.org

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fill many pots of different sizes and in different groupings at spots on the patio. My favorite annual flowers were ones that were a deep red in color. To ensure all this hard work stands the test of time, you need to make sure the tile is put on a base thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not going to fall apart or crack. This means you, or your contractor, need to install a poured concrete base that contains lots of steel reinforcing rods. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d paint the steel with a special paint that resists rust and salt spray. Recently, I was able to see accelerated salt-spray tests of metal paints, and a paint called X-O Rust outperformed all other paints. The concrete should be no less than 4,000 pounds per square inch in strength and at least 5 inches thick. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d place the steel rods both directions at 2 feet on center, making sure they end up in the middle of the concrete. The steel holds the concrete together in the event it wants to crack and displace. You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford any cracks to form and spread. These cracks would telegraph through the finished tile. Modern techniques and materials might be in order for you too. Crack isolation fabrics and membranes are commonly used to help prevent cracks from telegraphing through to the finished tile. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d look into these and make sure the manufacturer states they can be used in your setting. Try to do all the tile work on overcast days with the temperatures in the 60 F range. Hot, sunny weather is the worst to install patio tile. The cement mortar can dry too rapidly leading to poor bonding. Need an answer? All of Timâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s past columns are archived for free at www. AsktheBuilder.com. You can also watch hundreds of videos, download Quick Start Guides and more, all for free.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;How Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Speech to the CIA Endangered Americaâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Atlantic These claims are a mix of opinion and click-bait. All are possible . Trump could be the infantile, petulant authoritarian some of us fear. Terrible things may happen. But they havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet, and much of whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s written deserves the label â&#x20AC;&#x153;fake news.â&#x20AC;? The press is depressingly shallow. They blow up little things, speculate about conspiracies and constantly obsess about â&#x20AC;&#x153;whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s winning?â&#x20AC;? Offensive remarks are taken out of context and amplified. Days later, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forgotten and the media move on to the next sensational accusation. They rarely explain the policies at stake, what those policies cost, past success or failure or the laws of economics. As a result, we miss the real news: the big, important changes that happen slowly. Remember the coverage of the beginning of the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movement, the invention of the computer chip, Google, Facebook, etc.? No? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because there wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t any. But the growth of Facebook alone changed lives more than the election of any politician. Wages rise â&#x20AC;&#x201D; inflationadjusted household income rose $7,000 over the last 30 years. But the media claim that the middle class and the poor get poorer. We live longer than ever. Crime is down. But Americans are fearful and pessimistic because what they read and see on TV makes them believe lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting worse. When the media do that, they are indeed enemies of the people. John Stossel is the author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;No They Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t! Why Government Fails â&#x20AC;&#x201D; But Individuals Succeed.â&#x20AC;? For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators. com.

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to provide people with “durable resilience”. The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) stated bluntly: “Protracted conflicts also mean continuous, slow and even at times rapid, erosion of people’s food security and nutrition.” As recently as 2011, over 260,000 people died from famine in Somalia. But beyond famine, the country has suffered political turmoil since 1991. The conflict is fueled by and entrenched Al-Qaida linked Al Shabaab Islamic militia which controls large parts of the strategic East African land. In northeastern Nigeria, Boko Haram Islamic militants have until recently been operating in rural regions and have destabilized food production. A FAO report warns that “The Boko Haram conflict has had a huge impact on agriculture as a result of the large-scale population displacement and the restrictions imposed on agricultural activities.”

Addressing the wider challenge in four separate countries the Secretary General stressed, ”These four crises are very different, but they have one thing in common. They are all preventable. They all stem from conflict, which we must do much more to prevent and resolve.” Here the new Secretary General who comes from Portugal returned to his primary mission focus; preventive diplomacy and a respect for humanitarian law. A noble goal in a chaotic world. “The lives of millions of people depend on our collective ability to act,” the Secretary General implored, adding, “In our world of plenty, there is no excuse for inaction or indifference.”

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and I did not become institutionalized. I would not let myself become one of them.” Though he and his resilient family celebrated what they call a “Merry Acquitmas” in December, Franklin must still win a declaration of actual innocence from the state of Texas before he can be eligible for financial reparations for the falsely accused. He took a job at a grocery story and is trying to raise money on GoFundMe -- https://www. gofundme.com/BrianFranklin -- for his legal bills. Someday, Franklin told me, he would like to work full-time again in law enforcement and help others who have been wrongfully charged, convicted and imprisoned. He has John J. Metzler is a Unit- already weighed in to ed Nations correspondent support former Oklahoma covering diplomatic and City police officer Dandefense issues. He is the iel Holtzclaw, who was author of Divided Dyna- railroaded by the social mism The Diplomacy of justice mob and accused Separated Nations: Ger- of sexual assaults during the racially charged summany, Korea, China. mer of Ferguson, Mis-

souri, in 2014. After reporting on the junk science, prosecutorial misconduct, police incompetence and due process violations run amok in his case over the past year, I’ve heard from several DNA experts, private investigators and former LEOs across the country disturbed by the gross miscarriage of justice against Holtzclaw. He filed his appellate brief with the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Feb. 1. “I’ve studied this case from both sides and have come to the conclusion that he really is innocent,” Franklin wrote on Facebook. “I know about innocence. I was a cop

wrongfully convicted of rape...For those of you who jump to conclusions when you don’t know what you’re talking about, shame on you. Learn the facts first.” Brian Franklin is a beacon not only for law enforcement officers fighting the tyranny of “guilty until proven innocent,” but for every falsely accused citizen. His vow: “I will not give up. I will persevere. I am right. I’m not gonna give up.” Michelle Malkin is host of “Michelle Malkin Investigates” on CRTV.com. Her email address is writemalkin@gmail.com.

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on display and awarded was still good for some* to some fortunate winner thing. I thought I quiof the raffle. Then there etly heard it say “ I just were the suppers and the want Observations to go home On where *Flatlander’s Life I three act plays that were started from. Maybe they With over 40time. of the best ofwelcome me and take popular at one will Brendan’s weekly columns D u r i n g m y p a r e n t s me in.” he covers everything younger years as mem- from politics to health to technology bers of the organization I If the town of New to shopping and more. This believe that some would Hampton votes in March is theafter perfect of authorize the study remain thesampling regu- to unique to humor whichofhas lar his meetings socialize purchasing and movbeen entertaining readers with the playing of card ing of the building and apThe Weirs Times and games. The citizens of Cocheco propriate the necessary Times for twenty years.funds, a special town New Hampton will perhaps Order soon decide the fate meeting be held in your autographed copy todaywill for $13.99 for shipping. (Please include inscription youto ofplus the$3 building known as May orany June of 1917 would like the author to personalize your copy with.) “The Chapel”, “The Com- make a final decision Send checks or money ordersacquiring for $16.99and to movmercial Building”, and about Brendan Smith and mail to: Best of a F.O.O.L., “The Grange Hall”. ing the building. -ed. c/o The Weirs Times, PO Box 5458, Weirs, NH 03247. In a private conversaOrder online at www.BrendanTSmith.com tion I recently asked the (Pickup autographed copies at the Weirs Times) building if it thought it

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Junior Grange) in my younger years, serving in different offices until becoming the Master of the Grange for children. Martha Gallagher was the adult leader (Matron), assisted by my Mother, Dorothea Smith. When I was old enough, following a family tradition, I joined the Subordinate Grange, then went through the higher degrees for the Pomona and State Granges until finally reaching the top level by becoming a member of the National Grange at a gathering of that body in Burlington, Vermont. My personal involvement in the Grange ended when I moved on to other ven-

tures in other States, but the New Hampton Grange carried on well without me until, with the decline of farming in the area, and due to low attendance, the New Hampton Grange # 123 sold the “Grange Hall” to the New Hampton Community Church in 1995. Since then it has been used in various ways for church and community events. The Community Church in 2016 came to the conclusion that they had no further use for the former “Grange Hall” and made plans to demolish the building, but a movement has arisen to try to save this historic building and an article

in the Town Warrant for the upcoming voting portion of the New Hampton Town Meeting is asking the town to fund a study to pursue the possible acquisition and relocation of the building to its original location near the Town House. The third floor walls of the building hold the signatures of people who have been a part of it going back many years and many think the building is worth preserving and using for practical purposes by the town. Some remember the yearly Grange Fairs held in the building in the fall of the year. I remember hoping that I would be the winner of the live turkey that was

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The Winklman Aeffect

by John Whitlock

THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, March 2, 2017