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THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2019
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James Buswell Ensemble Concert
This New Hampshire Brewery Is Taking A “Fresh” Approach
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Directly behind the Northwoods Brewing Company in Northwood, NH, is approximately forty acres of usable farmland that is targeted to soon be growing pumpkins and hops as well a s h o u si ng bee h ives for honey, among other things to be used in future beer creations of this start up brewery.
The statement on Northwood’s Facebook page sums up their ambitions: “focusing on hoppy ales, farmhouse beers, bakery inspired dark ales, and alternative fermentations.” Though there is no outside sign yet for Northwood Brewing Company, the place is easy to find. It is right next door to the famous Johnson’s Sea-
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Anderson Hall on the Brewster Academy campus in Wolfeboro is the place to be at 2pm the afternoon of March 17th, to see how the “2-3-4” unfolds from the glorious stringed instruments of Carol Ou, cello, Amy Galluzzo, violin/viola, Nathaniel Farny, viola, and James Buswell, violin. The artists are friends of the Wolfeboro Friends of Music from years ago when the summer Heifetz International Music Institute with Daniel Heifetz was resident in Wolfeboro. Tickets are available for $25 each at the door, Black’s Paper Store or Avery Insurance in Wolfeboro; at Innisfree Bookshop in Meredith; by calling 569-2151, or visiting the website, www. wfriendsofmusic.org. High School students with ID will be admitted free of charge; any child accompanied by an adult ticket purchaser will be admitted free of charge.
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MARCH Through March “New Hampshire Landscapes in Motion” – Exhibition of Oil Landscapes by Daryl D. Johnson Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce, 49 South Main Street, Concord. Mon. through Fri. 8:30am5pm. Described by ‘Art New England’ magazine as “…gestural realist landscapes with the overall effect of speeding through layers of lighted space,” Johnson’s oil paintings of landscapes are inspired by her motorcycle travels. The original oil paintings are awash with the energy of movement and nature with shifting patterns of water and rising transient clouds. www.DarylDJohnsonArtist. com or 431-4230
Through March 15th Lakes region Lacrosse Youth League – Open Registration Registration for Lakes Region Lacrosse is now open through March 15th, 2019, for all interested athletes. Registration is open to girls and boys grade 1st – 8th, of all abilities who reside in the Lakes Region of NH. The Club’s home field is the Meadows Complex in Gilford. Registration can be completed at www.LRLacrosse.org If you have questions about registration or are interested in becoming a Lacrosse coach, email lrlcreg@gmail.com Wednesday 6th
Lakes Region Planning Commish. TAC Meeting Meredith Community Center, 1 Circle Drive, Meredith. 2pm-4pm. Phil Goff, consultant to the NHDOT on Statewide Pedestrian and Bicycle Transportation Plan, will give a presentation on the plan’s, visions and goals and seek local input to ensure projects are accurate. After the meeting, there will be a group discussion. 279-5337
American Independence Museum’s Volunteer Information Session Folsom Tavern, 164 Water Street, Exeter. 6pm-7:30pm. Volunteers are often the first point of contact the public has with the Museum and are crucial at any non-profit. Come hear all of the way’s volunteers help with the American Independence Museum.
www.IndependenceMuseum.org “Working with Streams Aquatic Habitat”
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Belmont Corner Meeting House, 16 Sargent Street, Belmont. 6pm. Speaker Donna Hepp is the chairman of Belknap County Conservation District Board and a resident of Belmont. She has strong interest in stream restoration and on the ground projects to promote best management practices for water, soil, and habitat improvement.
Thursday 7th Revolutionary Storytime Folsom Tavern, 164 Water Street, Exeter. 2pm-4pm. Designed for kids, ages 3 to 5, the program features books, stories, crafts and music in the first 30-minutes. Afterwards, parentsupervised playtime includes crafts,
imaginary play, colonial games, and period dress-up. Due to the historical nature of the building, strollers are not encouraged, as the building is not handicapped accessible. Reservations are accepted, but not required. www. IndependenceMuseum.org or 7722622 Friday 8th
a question and answer session of fostering kittens will begin. There is no charge to attend the event, however, attendees are encouraged to make a cash donation, or purchase items from NHHS’ Amazon Wish List. www.
The Spirit of Johnny Cash
Red Hot Chilli Pipers
Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 8pm. Tickets range from $22 to $27. www. RochesterOperaHouse.com or 3351992
The Flying Monkey, Main Street, Plymouth. www.FlyingMonkeyNH. com or 536-2551
American Vinyl All Star Band
CASA-NH Volunteer Training/ Community Reception
The Flying Monkey, Main Street, Plymouth. www.FlyingMonkeyNH. com or 536-2551
Willie J. Laws Blues Band Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $20pp. BYOB.
www.PitmansFreightRoom.com
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Kashmir – Led Zeppelin Tribute Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 8pm. Tickets range from $22 to $26. www. RochesterOperaHouse.com or 3351992
“Tap Into Maple” Sugaring Program
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P r e s c o t t Fa r m E nv i r o n m e n t a l Education Center, 928 White Oaks Road, Laconia. Visitors can attend one of the 90-minute “Tap into Maple” sessions. Programs begin on the hour and run from 10am-2pm. The program begins with a 20-minute guided walk down to the authentic sugarhouse in the woods around Prescott Farm. If necessary, snowshoes and/or ice cleats will be provided. Additional information and registration is available at PrescottFarm.org or 366-5695
Mike Girard’s Big Swinging Thing The Flying Monkey, Main Street, Plymouth. www.FlyingMonkeyNH. com or 536-2551
Frank Santorelli – Live Comedy Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. $20pp. BYOB. www.
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Cheryl Wheeler – Live Concert Franklin Opera House, Franklin. 7:30pm. Cheryl’s concerts are so much more than just music. She’ll tell you stories that have you rolling in the aisles, and then sing a song that leaves you wiping tears from your eyes. She talks about serious current event, and then sings you a hilarious song! www.FranklinOperaHouse. com or 934-1901 for tickets.
“Kitten Shower” at NHHS NH Humane Society, 1305 Meredith Center Road, Laconia. 12pm-3pm. Each year around this time, NHHS becomes inundated with kittens, many of which are too young or sick to be adopted. These kittens are placed in foster program until they are adopted. The Kitten Shower will be an opportunity to meet some of these kittens and learn more about being a feline foster parent. The day’s activities will start with food, beverages and games until 1:30pm, at which time
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Tuesday 12th Trinity Episcopal Church, Meredith. 5:30pm-7pm. Join CASA of NH’s DianeValladares and Pete Woodward fo r a n i n fo r m a t i ve C o m mu n i t y Reception. The opioid epidemic has taken a toll of NH’s children and CASA invites you to learn more about the organization and it’s volunteer advocates, and how you can make a positive impact in your community. Food and refreshments will be served. Please RSVP to Jo Lawrence at jlawrence@casanh.org This is an informational session only and is not a fundraising event. Thursday 14th
Jim Messina Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 8pm. Tickets at
www.RochesterOperaHouse.com or 335-1992
Corned Beef Dinner
Belknap County Sportsmen Club, Lily Pond Road, Gilford. 6pm. Join BCSA for a traditional New England Boiled Dinner and hear the history of the state’s iconic Swenson Granite Works by its sales manager, David Duford. The cost is $15pp. Water and soda provided. BYOB. Friday 15th
Yardbirds The Flying Monkey, Main Street, Plymouth. www.FlyingMonkeyNH. com or 536-2551
Father & Daughter Valentine’s Day Dance Tapply-Thompson Community Center, Bristol. 6:30pm-9pm. Open to all ages! There will be corsages for the girls, contests, prizes and refreshments. Register by calling 744-2713. Cost is $15/couple and $5 for each additional child. Substitute Dads are welcome.
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Fri. 15th – Sun. 24th Advice to the Players – “The Taming of the Shrew” S a n d w i c h Tow n H a l l T h e a t r e, Sandwich. A play within a play, The Taming of the Shrew tells the story of a Lord’s trick on a local drunkard, in which he convinces the drunk that he is, in fact, a lord and has his servants put on a play to entertain him. The Taming of the Shrew is directed by ATTP founder Caroline Nesbitt, and presented by an all-star cast! Tickets are available at www. AdvicetothePlayers.org or by calling 284-7115
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Tap into Maple Syrup At Prescott Farm Take a drive on White Oaks Road in Laconia on any Saturday in March and you’re bound to see a lot of action. That’s because Prescott Farm is hosting the popular, month-long maple sugaring program, Tap into Maple. From tapping a tree to tasting delicious maple syrup, hundreds of participants throughout the month will engage in every step of the syrup making process. Prescott Farm’s environmental educators go “beyond the sugar shack” in their sharing of information, expertly leading guests in how to identify the appropriate species and size tree, understanding the parts of a tree and their functions, using historical and modern tree tapping tools, learning the history and legends of maple sugaring, and understanding the math and science involved the boiling process. Beginning on Saturday, March 2nd, visitors to Prescott Farm can attend one of the 90-minute Tap into Maple sessions. Programs begin on the hour and run from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Pre-registration is recommended. Participants should be aware that the program begins with a guided 20-minute walk down to the authentic sugarhouse in the woods around Prescott Farm. If necessary, snowshoes and/or ice cleats will be provided for individuals who do not have them. Additional Tap into Maple program and registration information is available at prescottfarm.org, info@prescottfarm. org or 603-366-5695. Prescott Farm offers special thanks to Osborne’s Agway Winnisquam, the Eco-Partner for the March 16th Tap into Maple programs. Additional business partnership opportunities are available. Contact Phoebe VanScoy-Giessler at pgiessler@prescottfarm.org or 603-366-5695 for more information.
Find Out All About SCOTUS Did you ever wonder what a SCOTUS is? Well, you will have a chance to find out on Thursday, March 14, at the Taylor Community’s Woodside Building, in Laconia, starting at 6:30pm Gilford lawyer and former State Representative Norman Silber will present his highly informative lecture on the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). Information will include how cases are heard and decided by the Court; the present and possible future composition of the Court; some recent Court decisions and some controversial decisions that may be revisited in the near future; and why people have said for years “Don’t make a federal case out of it!” Free booklets containing the text of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitutions and handouts of other relevant information will be available. For more information call 524-5600.
Celtic ConFusion Concert to Benefit Cornerstone VNA Cornerstone VNA is pleased to invite community members to a special benefit concert on Saturday, March 16 from 4-6pm at the Bethany United Methodist Church on 24 Main Street in East Rochester, NH. Audience members will be treated to a harmonious blending of voices and instruments, performed by the talented Aoife Clancy and Bill Elliott of Celtic ConFusion. Described as a touch of Celtic with a fusion of delightful multi-genre music, attendees are sure to enjoy this audience involved, music centered performance. This concert is in memory of Bob and Anne Garnett and proceeds will benefit Cornerstone VNA, a local nonprofit home health and hospice organization. Light refreshments will be served and admission is by a cash donation of any amount. Donations for admission will be accepted at the door or online at www.cornerstonevna. org. For more information, visit the Cornerstone VNA website calendar or call 603-332-1133 ext. 109.
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To The Voters Of Gilford My name is Kyle Sanborn and I am publicly declaring my candidacy for a seat on our town’s school board. Many of you have known me for a long time, as I was born and raised here and am a 2001 alumni of Gilford High. I am a husband, and father of three young children, two of which are students in the Gilford school system and the third, almost three year old, is not that far behind. Currently I am a Sr. Technical Quality Specialist at New Hampshire Ball Bearings where I have been employed for over eight years. I remember back in 1988, while in kindergarten, that our community came together and covered the gym floor with loose change to raise money for the imagination station and that loose change turned into the coolest playground any six-yearold could have. That serves as a reminder that when a community comes together great things can be accomplished. The education of my kids is undoubtedly the biggest contributing factor in my decision to run for school board. However, our great Republic depends on all of our students being fully equipped to succeed as good citizens and employees in the competitive and evolving landscape of the modern workplace. It is incumbent upon us to ensure our students are fully equipped for jobs in
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STEM and other highly skilled professions. I understand the necessity to invest in our students and schools to assure that our students get a top-notch education with every advantage we, as a community, can provide. I also understand the fiduciary responsibility I will have to the taxpayers of Gilford. Balancing these two will be a challenging task, but I believe that because I’m a father and a taxpayer I possess the necessary objectivity required to properly balance these two, sometimes opposing, values. I am an active member of the Lakes Region community having volunteered in organizing charity fundraisers such as softball tournaments and hosting the NFL PuntPass-Kick, among other events geared toward our youth. Bringing joy to young hearts and minds is extremely rewarding. I’ve coached multiple sports and am passionate about helping kids build their confidence, character, and respect for others. Being elected to the school board will just be the next step in my journey of being child/student centered. Thank you for the time you took to read this and I hope that you will cast your vote for me on March 12th. If you have any questions please reach out to me directly on my facebook school board page.
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King Herod To The Editor: Feb 28 2019 Has King Herod reared his ugly head among our NH representatives in Congress? Responses from Senators Hassen and Shaheen on their no vote on the Bill by Senator Sasse. From Senator Hassan on Twitter at the bill of Senator Sasse. (@SenatorHassan): “Tonight, I voted NO on yet another partisan attack on reproductive health care. Women, families and their doctors are capable of making these complicated medical decisions without government interference.” From Senator Shaheen (@SenatorShaheen): “The bill forced by Senate Republicans today would significantly interfere with the doctor-patient relationship & pose new obstacles to a woman’s constitutional right to make her own decisions about her reproductive health.” This has nothing to do with an attack reproductive rights or Roe Vs Wade. The law does not interfere with a doctor patient relationship. The law is a rejection of support for the slaughter of a newly born person, abhorrent to most people since the time of King Herod. David Scott Dover, NH.
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Back in the early 1970s on Long Island, New York, where I grew up, the legal age for buying alcohol was eighteen. Still, there were ways for those of us not yet at that age of adulthood to buy cheap beer at the local deli and even frequent a few bars where others like us would gather. These methods, of course, were accomplished with fakeS IDs, a rite of passage for those underage even to this day. Once we found the places where we could successfully pull off our ruse, we stuck to them, not often taking a chance of blowing our covers. Those places were usually outside of the local neighborhood where we’d feel more secure and less conspicuous. One Friday night, when I was seventeen, my friend Pete and I decided to go against all underage protocol and took a risk by going to a local bar that we had heard was fairly easy to get into, all that was needed was a decent draft card and the ability to look at the bouncer straight in the eye and not break stride. What we’d heard was true. We were admitted without a hitch. Experience had paid off. I can clearly remember standing at the bar, drinking a cheap draft beer, taking in the crowded atmosphere with a smug smile - a new experience in my young life - when I felt a light tap on my shoulder.
Reveling in the magic of this weird sense of accomplishment, I turned with a smile on my face, only to come face to face with my father. My dad rarely went out on Friday night without my mom. If they did, they certainly wouldn’t frequent this particular place. I found out later, that for the first time in years, my dad was talked into going out with a friend to a basketball game and they had decided to stop in for a quick nightcap. What were the odds? My father was never one for losing his temper. He was a pretty mellow guy. Still, coming face to face with him in this situation had me expecting the worst. “You should probably leave,” he said quietly, looking me in the eye, and walked away. I was out of there in about two seconds. His stoic demeanor and quiet voice were more powerful than the loudest yell could have ever been. The next morning he only brought up the incident in passing. I knew he wasn’t pleased. The embarrassment I felt was punishment enough. We both realized the lesson was learned. I got caught cause I wasn’t where I should have been. I was reminded of this story the other day when I once again ventured from my safe, familiar routine. No longer do I need fake IDs to stealthily buy cheap beer, Now I am totally legal as I buy products that pretty much declare my age to the world. Antacids, earwax removal kits and arthritis strength pain relievers are the new six packs and the age stated on my driver’s license makes me eligible for some discounts as well. These purchases are best made at places where you
hope you won’t be seen by friends or colleagues. In a rush last week, I decided to skip my usual place of business and try the road less taken as I needed some emergency supplies. All seemed safe in this new environment as I grabbed a super jumbosized container of my favorite orange flavored fiber mix. I stood at the checkout. A couple of strangers in front of me. Things would be fine. I felt a light tap on my shoulder. I turned with a slight feeling of dread, only to come face to face with an old friend I hadn’t seen in years. I was a bit embarrassed holding this industrial sized billboard of aging in my right hand. Still, I sensed his own discomfort and quickly glanced down to see he was holding a doit-yourself blood pressure machine and a package of something that claimed to “cover up the grey.” We talked for the few minutes we were in line, making no mention of our obvious purchases. I felt a slight sense of embarrassment, not for my purchases, but maybe I had intruded on his safe place. Still, for whatever it was worth, we were now both out of the closet. We caught each other getting older. I hadn’t thought about that incident with my dad so many years ago until that day, but the memory came flooding back. Funny how that works. Brendan is the author of “The Flatlander Chronicles” and “Best Of A F.O.O.L. In New Hampshire” available on his website BrendanTSmith. com
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I’ve Been Silicon Valley Sharia’d Last week, the little birdies in Twitter’s legal department notified me that one of my tweets from 2015 by Michelle Malkin is “in violaSyndicated Columnist tion of Pakistan law.” It seems like ancient history, but Islamic supremacists never forget -- or forgive. My innocuous tweet featured a compilation image of the 12 Muhammad cartoons published by Danish newspaper JyllandsPosten in 2005. It also linked to my Jan. 8, 2015, syndicated column on the Charlie Hebdo jihad massacre in Paris. There’s no hate, violence, profanity or pornography, just harmless drawings and peacefully expressed opinions about the Western media’s futile attempts to appease the unappeasable enforcers of sharia law, which bans all insults of Islam. The Twitter notice assured me that the company “has not taken any action on the reported content at this time,” yet advised me that I should “consult legal counsel about this matter” in response to complaints from unnamed “authorized entities.” Don’t worry, lawyer up? Gulp. I’m used to getting threats directly from bloodthirsty cartoon jihadists. In 2006, I spearheaded a “Mohammed cartoons blogburst” in support of the Danish cartoonists at JyllandsPosten. After posting all 12 of the drawings to educate the public about the publication’s brave stand against shariaenforced self-censorship in the West, death and rape threats
from radical Muslims around the world poured into my email inbox. Vengeful thugs based in Turkey and Germany called me a “whore” and “prostitute,” vowing “We will kill you” unless I deleted the pictures from my server. My website was targeted by jihadist hackers who launched a week of denial-ofservice attacks. Thirteen years later, however, who knew that using an American company’s microblogging service from my secluded mountaintop in Colorado could get me in hot water with foreign Muslim stone-age goons 8,000 miles away still hung up on the cartoons. Who knew Twitter would act as dutiful messenger pigeons for the oppressive anti-blasphemy police squad that sentences people to death for disparaging Islam. Welcome to Silicon Valley sharia. Over the past few months, several other prominent critics of Islamic extremism have received similar warning letters from Twitter’s legal department, including Saudi-Canadian activist Ensaf Haidar, the wife of imprisoned Saudi blogger Raif Badawi; Imam Mohammad Tawhidi, an Iranian-born Muslim scholar and reform advocate from Australia; Jamie Glazov, a Russian-born Canadian columnist who just released a new book called “Jihadist Psychopath”; and Pamela Geller, an anti-jihad blogger and activist. Jacob Engels, another conservative activist and blogger, was suspended from Twitter this weekend without explanation. His last tweet linked to video of a black Christian
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Venezuela and the Myth Of Kinder, Gentler Socialism Venezuela is a socialist country. Venezuela is also a dictatorship. Currently, Venezuela has fallen into open violence and complete chaos, by Ben Shapiro with the strongSyndicated Columnist man Nicolas Maduro ordering troops to open fire on those attempting to bring humanitarian aid into the country. Yet, strangely, Maduro still has his defenders. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., the leading declared Democratic 2020 presidential candidate and avowed socialist, refuses to label Maduro a “dictator.” Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said in full 9/11 truther mode, “Democrats need to be careful about a potential trap being set by Trump et al in Venezuela. Cheering humanitarian convoys sounds like the right thing to do, but what if it’s not about the aid?” Fresh Face of the Democratic Party Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has remained shockingly silent about Venezuela, except to tell The Daily Caller News Foundation, “I think that, you know, the humanitarian crisis is extremely concerning but, you know, when we use non-Democratic means to determine leadership, that’s also concerning, as well.” Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., another Fresh Face of the Democratic Party, grilled U.S. envoy to Venezuela Elliott Abrams in an obvious attempt to stall on behalf of a gentler approach to Maduro. Why the shocking unwillingness by the socialist hard-liners in the Democratic Party to condemn Maduro and join the rest of the world in calling for his ouster? After all, we’ve been assured by Sanders, AOC, Omar and others that true socialism isn’t at stake in Venezuela --true socialism can be found in nations like Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Yet even so, these socialist Democrats can’t find it in their hearts to cut ties with Venezuela.
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Trump/Kim Summit — Second Act in Hanoi U N I T E D N A T I O N S —
“Sometimes you have to walk,” was President Donald Trump’s stunning conclusion to the by John J. Metzler U . S . / N o r t h Syndicated Columnist Korea Summit in Hanoi, where political great expectations seemed to get ahead of the hard reality that Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program created an impasse to an expected diplomatic agreement between the two rival states. The setting was as important as the agenda; the United States President meeting with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the capital city of one of America’s principal cold war antagonists, Hanoi. But more than forty years after the fall of South Vietnam to the North Vietnamese communists, a unified Vietnam has at long last emerged as a booming economic success story which vividly contrasts with Pyongyang’s moribund socialist system. Still the symbolism was striking; Vietnam was a divided country in which the USA fought its most politically divisive war. Korea remains a divided country to this day, but equally was the setting of a bitter conflict ended by a truce and a continuing military standoff. Yet the two day Summit in the Vietnamese capital between the contemporary foes seemed to soften sharp rhetori-
cal edges but failed, at least for now, to solve any substantive issues between the U.S. and the quaintly titled Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Harry Kazianis, Director of Korean Studies at the Centre for the National Interest, said that no agreement was better than a bad one. He added there would be “nothing worse than signing a deal just to get something.” Clearly diplomats should have focused on signing a statement, leading to a formal Peace Treaty, ending the Korean War and thus replacing the 1953 Armistice. Denuclearization will not happen overnight. Early in 2018 there was still a possibility of a military conflict between the U.S. and Pyongyang over nuclear tests, missile proliferation and the statements by Kim Jong-un’s regime of targeting Hawaii, Guam and likely Okinawa. Correspondingly the Trump Administration threatened fire and fury against North Korea. But what a difference a year makes. South Korea’s successful PyeongChang Winter Olympics brought about a political thaw between both Pyongyang and Seoul and moreover created the conditions for a dramatic downshift in tensions on the peninsula. Donald Trump then took a proactive political gamble and pressed for the high stakes Singapore Summit which defused the rhetoric as much as the immediate threat. As surprisingly, a good personal chemistry quickly appeared to emerge between President Trump
and Kim Jong-un, a figure reviewed as “little rocket man,” just months earlier. Realistically speaking there have been no North Korean nuclear tests nor ballistic missile firings since the historic Singa-
pore Summit. Clearly the problem has not been solved but the deadly nuclear countdown has stopped ticking. Nonetheless disarmament is not an event but a slow, deliber-
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Welfare for the Rich When I hear “welfare payments,” I think “poor people.” But America’s biggest welfare recipients are often politically conby John Stossel nected corpoSyndicated Columnist rations -- like America’s sugar producers. The industry gets billions of dollars in special deals while deceitfully running ads that say, “American farmers don’t get subsidy checks.” That ad confused me. If they “don’t get subsidy checks,” then what is America’s multibilliondollar sugar program? “It costs taxpayers nothing,” claim ads from the American Sugar Alliance. “We are a nocost program, no cost to the taxpayer.” “That’s absolutely bogus,” says Ross Marchand of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance in my newest video. Americans “pay as customers and they pay as taxpayers.” He’s right. We pay several billion dollars extra every year, with “all of that money going to that handful of rich politically connected growers.” Several companies -- Amalgamated Sugar, Michigan Sugar and Western Sugar Cooperative -- get three forms of handouts: 1. Subsidies when sugar prices fall below a certain level. 2. Protection from foreign competition (a limit on imports). 3. A guarantee that prices stay high (the sugar program imposes quotas on how much sugar may be produced in America). “These are Stalin-style price controls and supply controls,” says Marchand. “It does not help anyone.”
Well, it helps Big Sugar. The price of its product is roughly doubled by these rules, so Americans pay the politically connected owners about $4 billion dollars extra. Why does such a scam persist? One reason it hasn’t been repealed is, well, Washington rarely repeals any handout. But also, this one costs most of us just $10 or $20 a year. We won’t go to Washington to lobby over that. But companies that get the subsidies sure do. Creighton University economist Diana Thomas says, “Each American sugar farmer made roughly $3 million a year extra” from America’s sugar program. “Each is willing to spend a lot of time and money making sure that the law stays that way.” Finally, Big Sugar is very good at deceiving politicians and the media. The American Sugar Alliance has the nerve to run ads claiming that without its corporate welfare Americans will suffer food shortages. They use images of World War II food rationing while an announcer proclaims, “Depending on other countries for a food staple was a recipe for disaster... Does America really want to give foreign countries control over its food?” Give me a break. Imports obviously increase our supply of food. There are no import restrictions on most other foods. Yet America doesn’t suffer shortages. In fact, if there’s a problem, it’s that Americans eat too much, and much too much sugar. This multibillion-dollar handout is simply Welfare for the Rich. Protecting the handouts provides welfare for politicians, too
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: Bernice Blake, who in 1929 became New Hampshire’s first female licensed pilot, poses later in life. Blake’s career will be highlighted in program honoring Women’s History Month on Saturday, March 9 at 11 a.m. at the Aviation Museum of N.H., 27 Navigator Road, Londonderry, N.H. The program is included with museum admission, and includes complimentary ice cream from Blake’s of Manchester. For more info, call (603) 669-4820 or visit www.aviationmuseumofnh.org.
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More than a century ago, her dad started Blake’s Creamery in Manchester, a company still going strong today. But growing up in the 1920s, daughter Bernice Blake wasn’t interested in the dairy business. An adventurous spirit, she instead took flying lessons at then-new Manchester Airport — and in 1929 became the state’s first licensed female pilot. Blake, along with famed aviator Amelia Earhart, would go on to co-found the Ninety-Nines, a national advocacy group for women in aviation. She also combined aviation with her love of photography, for many years taking aerial photos for Granite State architects, developers, and other clients. On the 90th anniversary of Blake earning her
A vintage image of Bernice Blake, New Hampshire’s first female licensed pilot. pilot’s license, the Aviation Museum of N.H. will present a program on Saturday, March 9 honoring her achievements and legacy. The program starts at 11 a.m. and is included with museum admission. Led by local historian Ed Brouder, co-author
of “Manchester’s Airport: Flying Through Time,” the program will cover Blake’s unique life story and her many contributions to aviation and her home state of New Hampshire. Brouder, a well-known local broadcaster and educator, is currently chairSee BLAKE on 19
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A public hearing was held at the Belknap County Court House in Laconia, New Hampshire on May 15, 1950 at 7:30 p.m. on New Hampshire Senate Bill No. 7 which was presented as “An Act to provide for the Operation of the Belknap Mountains Recreation Area.” The Act proposed changing the management of the Area from the County Commissioners to a Commission of five separate members. Key words used in the hearing were the delegation, the commissioners, the commission, also referred to as the authority, and the manager, sometimes called by name, that being Fritzie Baer. Fritzie was involved in bringing the Gypsy Tour motorcycle races to Gilford in 1938. The word politics was also used a number of times in the hearing, usually by someone claiming that what they had to say had nothing to do with that word. The Recreation Area, now called Gunstock Mountain Resort, was brought into being by a WPA project in the 1930’s. The chairlady of the public hearing was the County Delegation chairperson, Mrs. Marion Atwood. The notes of the meeting seem to indicate that the hearing was
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Fritzie Baer. conducted in a mostly orderly and civil manner with the members of the county delegation attending as a committee. Those in favor of Senate Bill No. 7 were allowed to speak first and then those who were opposed were allowed to express their opinions. Mr. Arthur Nighswander was the first to speak and he explained some of the history leading to the proposed law and the reasons why it was being proposed. He said that he was instrumental in drawing up the bill. Nighswander stated that questions about the management of the area had been under consideration since 1944 with various ways to improve
the area being discussed. A citizens advisory committee had been appointed to work with the county commissioners and in 1945 two bills were presented at a public hearing, one by Nighswander and one by Fred Tilton. Nothing was done in regard to the proposals, both of which would provide for a special commission to oversee the business of the recreational area in Gilford. Nighswander blamed the war for the lack of action and the bill that was now the subject of the hearing also asked for the establishment of a committee which would oversee the area. The commission or authorSee SMITH on 24
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SHOHEI OHTANI I like to buy local newspapers when traveling to see what’s percolating in nonNew England sports cultures. So during a recent Orange County sojourn I purchased a Sunday Los Angeles Times to check out what California sports fans were reading. Dylan Hernandez had a baseball column about Angel baseball phenom Shohei Ohtani, who last year was the first player in a century to have a significant impact both at the plate and on the mound. Despite missing a third of the season with injuries, the Japanese designated hitter batted .285 with 22 home runs. As a pitcher, Ohtani made ten starts and compiled a credible 4-2 record with a decent 3.31 ERA. The last player to start ten games on the mound and hit over 20 homers was Babe Ruth, who accomplished this for the Red Sox in his last Boston season in 1919. That’s pretty heady company for Ohtani, who is being covered by around 20 Japanese reporters at the Angels preseason training camp in Tempe, Arizona. Interestingly, when Ohtani pitched last year he didn’t get to hit due to the unfortunate American League DH rule. Lingering arm problems may keep Ohtani in a DH role this season, which would be a bummer. It would have been interesting to see what Ruthian stats the Angel star could compile during a full injury-free season.
Angel baseball phenom Shohei Ohtani. While the Japanese phenom could probably not match the numbers the Babe compiled as a pitcher and a hitter, Ohtani has the Babe beat in terms of salary, which included a $2.3 million signing bonus. The Angels also paid Ohtani’s former team in Japan—the Nippon Ham Fighters—$20 million just for allowing him play in the U.S. Still, Ohtani is relatively underpaid, as he makes the Major League minimum of a half million bucks a year, due to his age and the vagaries of baseball’s collective bargaining agreement. So let’s see what numbers Shoehei compiles in 2019 while hoping his pitching days are not over. JOHNNY IN JAPAN The USA/Japanese baseball pipeline flows both ways, as plenty of Americans have seen rising fastballs in the Land of the Rising Sun—including old friend Johnny Gomes, who was part of that improbable 2013 Boston Red Sox World Championship team. EARLY VACATION FOR LEBRON? That same L.A. Times had a story about a 128115 Laker loss to the Pelicans that dropped L.A. below .500, and 3 ½ games out of the last playoff berth in the NBA’s Western Conference. After eight straight years playing in the NBA
Finals, it looks like LeBron James may be able to play lots of golf this April. So much for that 2019 Boston/L.A. NBA championship series. Sports Quiz What pitcher hit the most career home runs? (Answer follows) Born Today ... That is to say sports standouts born on March 7 include legendary Pittsburgh Steeler fullback Franco Harris (1950) and Czech tennis great Ivan Lendl (1960). Sports Quote “I have just one superstition. Whenever I hit a home run, I make certain I touch all four bases.” -- Babe Ruth Sports Quiz Answer Wes Ferrell hit 37 career home runs while playing the position of pitcher. Mike Moffett was a Professor of Sports Management for Plymouth State University and NHTI-Concord and currently teaches on-line for New England College. He co-authored the critically-acclaimed and awardwinning “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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Coffee! It’s the jolt that gets my motor going. It is the essence of drive after a good night’s sleep. And it is an empty canvas of energy in which to paint the day’s activities. Yes, the little brown bean that has spurred so many to do so much. But you might not naturally associate the brown liquid with beer. In fact, aren’t they opposite of each other? Isn’t one for the getting going and the other for winding down? Well today we will discover two brews from this great state that use this flavor agent to derive quite a unique surprise
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for your taste buds. One is from 603 Brewery and the other from Henniker. 603 Brewery, located in Londonderry, NH, offer year-round beers as well as seasonal beers matched to New Hampshire’s climate change. Starting as brewing friends from college, Geoff and Tamsin Hewes and Dan Leonard got back together at a college reunion and decided to brew a batch of beer like the old days at school. Their efforts and fun times turned out to be the inspiration to jump into the emerging craft brew niche with gusto, creativity and a keen angle on NH beer styles. Visit them at or their website at www.603brewery.com Henniker Brewing Company is located in the oneand-only Henniker, NH. Founded in 2011, HBC has captured the attention of craft beer lovers in the NH beer scene with their 15 barrel capacity. See BREW on 15
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Unitarian Universalist Society of Laconia, 172 Pleasant Street, Laconia. 4pm. Join worldrenown violinist Aniko Geldaze, pianist Noelle Beaudin and flutist Cathy Kaplan for a foot stomping afternoon of lively fiddle, flute and piano music in the Celtic traditionIreland, Cape Brenton, Prince Edward Island, Scotland, and the breathtaking music of Sir James Galway. Enjoy good old Irish favorites that will bring back memories and kindle your spirits! Tickets are $15pp, and prior concerts have sold out, so
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St. Patrick’s Day Celebration feat. Irish Step Dancers
Schuster’s Tavern and the Gunstock Inn, 580 Cherry Valley Road, Gilford. Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and the arts at Schuster’s Tavern! The evening includes a performance by Tara Little’s Dance School of Irish Step Dancers, promotional giveaways, traditional Irish foods, and a room at the Gunstock Inn! The cost is $100 per couple and includes a room at the Inn and a $25 voucher for food at the Tavern. 293-2021 Monday 18th
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The Concerned Citizen’s Group Presentation of Video on Political Islam Gilford Public Library, Gilford. Doors open at 6:30pm, presentation of video by Robert Spencer and Dinesh d’Souza will begin at 7pm. The video of Spenser and d’Souza discussing political Islam and its implications for the world today will be an interesting and informative evening, seeing that the two don’t always agree.
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But they had bigger plans and today are a 30 barrel brew house. Devin Bush, head brewer, is a genius when it comes to making liquid gold. Visit their website at www.hennikerbrewing.com 603’s Bean Coffee Brown Ale celebrates a local coffee source for its rich flavors and aroma. Being on the blacker side of brown ales, Bean sports a modest and quickly disappearing off white head. Being a short-lived release, you may want to try it, so get yours soon. This 5.2% brown ale is the first of a number of versions which will feature specific roasted coffee combinations which will vary the taste profile. Keep watch for the
forthcoming versions. Our other limited release is Henniker’s Double Roast Imperial Coffee Stout. It is the bigger brother to The Roast from the past few years. It features a blend of beans from White Mountain Gourmet Coffee in Concord, NH. By bigger brother, I mean it is 10% ABV and packs the punchy malt and coffee flavors you desire. Loads of aroma and mouthfeel with a mocha head and bittering to boot. BeerAdvocate gives it 4.19 out of 5 with the ‘Exceptional’ badge. You can find both of these gems at Casen-Keg in Meredith and other fine craft beer providers. This is the season for coffee in beer! Comedy by Marie Jones
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Frank Santos Jr. – Live Comedy
Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 7:30pm. $25pp. BYOB. www.
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Steve Dow – Inspirational Songs Concert
Union Congregational Church, 80 Main Street, Union. 6pm. Refreshments will follow concert. 473-2727
Delusive Relics – Debut CD Release Party Hatbox Theatre, Concord. 7:30pm. Delusive Relics, a new electronic music project in the style of Depeche Mode and Nine Inch Nails, will perform music from its debut album. Delusive Relics is the side project of Farhood Ghadiri, member of the Iranian progressive rock band Mavara, and his wife Anis Oveisi. The show will feature Ghadiri and Oveisi on keyboards, and Vanessa Hale on vocals. The show includes customs and visual effects. Tickets available at http://hatboxnh.com
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The 15th annual event, set to take place on Saturday, March 23rd from 10am to 4pm at Funspot in Laconia, is a unique and fun competition that has 4-player teams competing in a trio of events: Candlepin Bowling, Mini-Golf & Games (Pinball, Elec. Darts SkeeBall). TOP TEN TEAM FUNDRAISERS 34 teams have already signed (As of 3/4/19) up and some have already exceeded their fundraising goal online! The listing at right shows the top ten fundraising teams. Players receive one entry into a drawing for a free 5-day cruise for every $500 raised by the team. At press time there were only 6 slots open for new teams to register for this year’s event, and team organizers are encouraged to go to crowdrise.com/FunspotTriathlon to reserve their spot. Besides playing on a team, Saving Animals supporters can make pledge donations to any individual team or make a general donation by visiting crowdrise.com/FunspotTriathlon. Donations are also coming in when patrons buy pledge “bones” at one of these event partners: The Union Diner; The Looney Bin; Jon’s Roast Beef; Hart’s Turkey Farm; Frog Rock Tavern; Lakeview Tavern; Talon Hair Salon; Mello Moose Coffee House; Rozzie May Animal Alliance; Gilford Country Store; Nahamsha Gifts; Faro’s; Faro’s Express; The Soda Shop (Laconia); D.A. Long Tavern @ Funspot; Burrito Me; Circle K (Tilton); Litterhof Kennel; J.P. China Restaurant; Ellacoya Country Store; Laconia Pet Center.
LOOKING FOR A FOREVER HOME Meet Ash! This handsome guy is a friendly, six-year-old cat that came to the shelter seven weeks ago after his owner’s living situation changed. He is looking for a home where he can play and get all the attention he desires! He is an affectionate, lively cat. He loves chasing toys around the room, and even enjoys a game of fetch every once and a while! Ash has lived with dogs before, and seemed to tolerate them better than his fellow felines. Because of this, he will likely need to be the only cat in the home. He can be a bit sassy at times, but Ash could potentially go to a home with cat-savvy children. ... Do you have room for this lovable companion? Come meet Ash at Cocheco Valley Humane Society at 262 County Farm Road in Dover, NH! For more information on adopting a pet, visit cvhsonline.org. Meet Ruby, a special Nigerian dwarf goat. She was surrendered to Live and Let Live Farm (LLLF) with severe cold injuries to ears and back legs. She may never recover the use of her back legs and will need a wheelchair or prosthetics. She is such a sweet baby, but will be needing a number of surgeries, might lose the frostbitten legs. She is a good weight and has a good appetite so stands a great chance of surviving
this horrible injury, but LLLF isn’t really funded for this type and extent of surgery, so donations would be greatly appreciated. You can go to www.liveandletlivefarm.org and find the donation page. Your donations are a blessing to these animals, and to Ruby in Particular. Say Hello to Oliver! He was found in a vacant home and had been on his own for some time. He came in with a flea allergy and some rough looking paws and with alittle TLC he is looking pretty good for being 11 years old. He is a bit shy but affectionate and would be a great companion for an elderly person. Lakes Region Humane Society, Ossipee / www.lrhs.net / 603-5391077 16 Guinea Pigs have been taken in by Live and Let Live Farm after being rescued from a fatal fire at a home in Hampton where the homeowner runs a Guinea Pig Rescue. As crews battled in extreme conditions, neighbors grabbed several guinea pig cages that were piled outside. Live and Let Live Farm is looking donations to help care for them. This terrible tragedy resulted in the death of a child as well as over 30 guinea pigs and the hospitalization of a woman.
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man of the board of the Manchester (N.H.) Historical Society. The program is being presented with assistance from the Milford (N.H.) Historical Society, which is loaning the Aviation Museum a selection of Blake-related memorabilia from its collection for display. Blake, a prolific commercial photographer, willed her archive of more than 43,000 photo negatives to the Milford Historical Society following her death in 1996 at age 91. From this enormous collection, the Aviation Museum has selected an aerial photo Blake took of its current home, the 1937 Manchester Airport terminal building just after it was completed. Using Blake’s negative, a large format positive print was made that is being prepared by Framers Market in Manchester for display in the museum. The event is co-sponsored by Blake’s Ice
Local broadcaster and historian Ed Brouder will give a presentation on aviation pioneer Bernice Blake on Saturday, March 9 at 11 a.m. at the Aviation Museum of N.H.
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Cream and Restaurants, a dairy business founded by Bernice’s father that has since evolved into Blake’s Ice Cream and Restaurants, a local Manchester favorite. Blake’s has arranged for all attendees to enjoy complimentary Blake’s ice cream as part of the tribute to the family’s pioneering pilot. In honor of Blake’s role in launching The Ninety Nines, the presentation will conclude with a live performance of the group’s rousing theme, “The Song of the NinetyNines.” The song will be sung by Martha Levesque-Pepek, a noted local contralto and also a niece of noted WWII fighter pilot Lt. Col. Norman ‘Bud’ Fortier of New Hampshire, known as the ‘Ace of the Eighth’ for his success at shooting down Nazi aircraft in combat. Levesque-Pepek will be accompanied on piano by Jeff Rapsis, the museum’s executive director, and also a nephew of Fortier. The program honoring
Bernice Blake and Women’s History Month will take place on Saturday, March 9 at 11 a.m at the Aviation Museum of N.H. The program is open to the public and included with museum admission. The Aviation Museum of New Hampshire is a 501(c) (3) organization dedicated to preserving aviation history in the Granite State, providing educational outreach programs that encourage student interest in aeronautics and related fields, and organizing programs that bring together the state’s diverse aviation community. The Museum is located at 27 Navigator Road, Londonderry, N.H. 03053. The museum’s regular hours of operation are Friday & Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday 1 to 4 p.m. For more information, call (603) 669-4280 or visit the museum’s Web site at www.aviationmuseumofnh.org.
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and her family and she’d drive me to the airport in the morning. I had a fun Tuesday night helping the kids with their homework and eating pizza. In the morning it was a quick trip to the airport and before I knew it I was in Denver. I sat there by the gate waiting to board my flight to Jackson Hole. Next thing you know we are being told our flight is delayed an hour. The man next to me says it is snowing too hard in Jackson Hole I bet we don’t get out tonight. Eeeek! An hour went by and then another
and then another. Next thing I know they’re cancelling all kinds of flights. Flights to Aspen, flights to Idaho Falls and my flight to Jackson Hole and hundreds of us went rushing to the customer service desk. While waiting in line I called the airline on my cellphone. They couldn’t find another flight to Jackson Hole until Friday night and they suggested another option would be to return to Boston. Eeeek! They changed my flight to a redeye that would fly that night back to Boston. I stayed in the customer service line since it
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and some catching up I was thankful to crawl into bed where sleep came easily. The next morning at Sylvia’s urging, I called the airline and- surprise - they found me a seat on the 7pm flight that evening, Thursday. Whoohoo! I enjoyed an extended morning visit with my college pal and I had a super lunch with another ski friend before taking the Green Ride back to the airport. All the earlier flights from Denver to Jackson Hole went off and I was confident I’d be arriving there too. I recognized a few people from my time in the customer service line. One man had rented a car and tried to drive but got stuck in Laramie, WY, spent the night and drove back to Denver and got on this flight. Another gal paid ad-
Jackson Hole’s iconic Tramway cars pass one another at mid-mountain, high above near the Thunder Quad chairlift. Jackson’s first tramway was built in 1966 and it was replaced in 2008 at a cost of $31 million. The bright red cars carry 100 passengers 4,139 vertical feet to the summit of Rendezvous Mountain, summit elevation 10,450 feet.
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her if I could spend a night or two with her. They rebooked my flight for Friday night and at least I could have one day in Jackson Hole and a couple days in Colorado. The line to try to retrieve luggage was hours long. I figured I’d let my gear get to Jackson Hole as soon as possible. Maybe I could pull off a miracle in Colorado, all my carry-on contained was my ski boots and a tooth brush. I took the Green Ride shuttle to Fort Collins, I think I got there around 9pm. After a quick beer
ditional money to upgrade to first class to get on this flight. When it came time for boarding we watched the gate agent walk up to the desk and speak into the microphone. “This flight has been cancelled and rescheduled for 7 am tomorrow morning, please use the same boarding pass.” Eeeek! I spent the night at the Holiday Inn Express. I’d been wearing the same clothes since Tuesday afternoon so I washed my underwear and socks in the sink of the hotel room. See PATENAUDE on 21
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Happy Yours Truly! It took me forever to travel to Jackson Hole but boy the big mountain skiing was worth the wait.
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I set my alarm for 5am and I went to sleep wishing for some luck. The flight went without a hitch. Laura was there waiting for me and so were my bags at the luggage desk. We swung by our hotel room and I changed into my ski clothes and we grabbed a breakfast burrito in town on our way to the ski resort. Since it was about 11am there was no line for me to get my Mountain Collective Pass and the lift line at the Tram was short. The sun was coming through the clouds and more snow would arrive in the afternoon. I did my best to find my powder legs and hang on. Bernie’s Bowl, Tower 3, Expert Chutes, Headwall and Alta something - we skied powder and bumps. It was an amazing! When the lifts closed we had a beer at the Mangy Moose located near the Tram base. That evening we walked to dinner at a funky little Sushi Place and we had a fun evening swing dancing at the Wort—a classic western hotel. Saturday morning arrived fast. Snow fell again all night. I-80 was closed
and so were the passes. We were snowed in at Jackson! We decided to skip the Moose Chase (the cross country ski race) and head back to the mountain to ski more powder. Laura and her other friend Amy float and glide like they have wings. They are lovely super strong skiers. Again, they took me
all over the mountain and we did some hiking. We made many fresh tracks. I confess by early afternoon my legs were toast, burnt toast. I confessed to my fatigue and urged them to hike again without me and I’d meet them in the lodge at the top of the gondola. Whew. Soon they met up
with me and we all enjoyed a snack and a hot chocolate. Then they took me to the other side of the mountain where there are groomers. Who knew there were groomers, there are lots of groomers. But I guess I never would have seen them if my legs hadn’t turned to rubber. That night we went to Thai Me Up, a Thai restaurant that is also the Melvin Brewery. We met a couple of Laura’s paddling friends and I enjoyed an evening of laughter over tales of their adventures. Sunday morning arrived even more quickly and
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food and Steak on Route 4 in Northwood. In fact, the two businesses have the same owners but are very different establishments. Nick Evans, the Director of Operations of Northwoods Brewing Company, has been part of the Johnson’s Seafood and Steak family for years. “I actually started with the company when we opened the York River landing in York Maine. I was the original beer buyer and bar manager,” said Evans. “We’ve always had a strong craft beer focus here, We have been working on what styles of beers we would like to offer long before construction of the Brewery even began in 2017.” Northwoods Brewing Company brewed their first official beer just a few months back around
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to give them more of a center stage,” said Evans “They really do some amazing creations. Their crullers have been very successful.” Northwoods Brewing Company has been expanding their horizons to the beer tasting public. This past weekend they took part in Portsmouth Beer Week when they were featured at the WHYM Beer Café in Portsmouth as the featured tap takeover.
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versa without ever going outside.) The brewing facility is also visible from behind the back wall of the bar in Northwood Brewery’s tasting room. If you are there on the right day you might get to witness their canning machine in action where about three dozen, 16-oz cans of brew can be carbonated, filled and lidded in about a minute. Right now the brews at Northwoods Brewing Company are only available in their tasting room as well as in 16-oz, 4-pack cans sold on the premises. All eleven of their brews are also on tap next door at Johnson’s as part of their ex-
small yard for hops. We also do some wild yeast captures with the idea of having our own house flavor.” Along with what might arguably be the freshest beer in New Hampshire, the tasting room at Northwoods also features The Rise and Shine Bakery Café which is a popular stop. “When we were building the brewery we knew we had to move the bakery here from next door
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ity would consist of five members appointed by the county delegation for terms of five years, staggered so one member’s term would expire each year. Three alternatives were mentioned, but not recommended. They were to lease or sell the property or give it to the state. The suspicion was vocalized by an attendee of the hearing that the bill to form a separate authority to oversee the recreation area was a disguised attempt to get rid of the newly appointed manager who had been on the job for only two weeks at the time of the hearing. That manager introduced himself as Fritzie Baer and stated that he was taking no position on Senate Bill No. 7. Some in favor of the bill declared that they thought Mr. Baer was doing a good job and there was no plan to fire him. Speaking in favor of the bill which he said he had previously opposed, Mr. John McIntyre said that he considered the Area to be a liability, not an asset, adding, “On January 1, 1950, it was in worse shape than the
Postcard showing Lake Winnipesaukee from top of Rowe Mountain Belknap Recreation FROM THE PUBLISHERS COLLECTION Area. day it opened. It shows a deficit, not a profit.” Mr. Charles Stafford offered his opinion in favor of the bill questioning whether the County Commissioners would take any great interest in the Recreation Area “… because they are elected to run the affairs of the county, to take care of the county farm, court house, and take care of the poor.” Some who spoke dur-
ing the hearing were asked if they were speaking only for themselves or for a particular group. Mr. Cooper Johnson said that he represented the Paugus Bay Resort Association and supported the bill. Mr. Stanley Skeats said the Winnepesaukee Scenic Association was in favor of the bill and that thirty-one businessmen had signed a petition in favor of the Area Authority. Mr. Hen-
ry D. Witt later noted that the Belknap Resort Owners Association supported the bill. Mr. Peter Karigianis added his support on behalf of the merchants. Judge Frank Tilton was reported to be the leader of those opposing the bill though he emphasized that he was speaking only for himself, saying that he was a little confused: “…during the past year or so I have heard that the city of Laconia was wrongly managed by a Mayor and six councilmen and would be better if we had a city manager. One man to run the affairs of the city, and
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that three men are not enough to run the Area, and we should have a five-man authority to run the Area. It does not sound quite reasonable.” County Commissioner Norman Hubbard also spoke in opposition to the bill, explaining that he felt responsible for Mr. Baer coming to manage the Belknap Recreational Area, and that the delegation, though not fully supporting his hiring previously, had now expressed their backing of the commissioner’s choice of a manager. Mr. Hubbard said that he did not know if Mr. Baer would resign or stay if the Senate bill passed and a commission for the Area was appointed. Those who spoke against the bill and the five-man oversight commission for the Area seemed to feel that the County Commissioners were capable of continuing to oversee the operation of the Area and the new manager should be given a chance to make improvements that would make the Area a more profitable venture. Dr. Robinson Smith, saying that he was there on his own, pointed out that the state legislature had just voted to reduce the number of commissions and boards and that the proposed Senate Bill No. 7 would do just the opposite. He added, “I never heard a single person speak disparagingly about the Area.” Mr. Walter Staples offered his viewpoint that those who favored the bill wanted to change things so that instead of three commissioners being elected to hire a manager the new plan would be to elect twelve men to appoint five men to do the same thing, so ‘…it looks like we are sending ‘three boys to get a barrel of water’”. Other discussion included concern about the yearly financial deficits experienced in the operation of the Area, the improvement of the skiing facilities, and the desire of some to see an See SMITH on 25
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motion that the bill not be presented to the Legislature and eight members voted against the motion. Fast forward to to the Laws of New Hampshire 1959, chapter 399, that were enacted by the State Senate and House of Representatives, a law “to provide for a commission to operate, maintain, develop, and promote the Gunstock Area
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by Mr. Simoneau, the bill be referred to the 1951 Legislature. Discussion ensued. The motion was withdrawn. ” Another motion was made by Mr. Tilton and seconded by Mr. Thompson, “that this delegation do not report Senate Bill No.7 at this session of the Legislature.” On a roll call vote ten members voted for the
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How strange. Perhaps it’s because Sanders and his crowd understand full well that Venezuela is an excellent case study in socialism -- nationalization of major industries by a centralized government, abolition of the profit motive and redistribution of resources via tyranny. After all, it wasn’t that long ago that Sanders was praising the Soviet Union (he said it had “a whole variety of programs for young people and cultural programs
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which go far beyond what we do in this country”), Nicaraguan Sandanista Daniel Ortega and Cuba’s Fidel Castro (“... he educated their kids, gave their kids health care, totally transformed the society.”). And then there’s the inconvenient fact that the countries that Sanders himself calls socialist totally reject the label. Former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt launched into Sanders this week, stating, “Bernie Sanders was lucky to be able to get to the Soviet Union in 1988
and praise all its stunning socialist achievements before the entire system and empire collapsed under the weight of its own spectacular failures.” In 2015, Danish Prime Minister Lars Rasmussen scoffed at Sanders’ dreams of a socialist utopia, noting, “The Nordic model is an expanded welfare state which provides a high level of security to its citizens, but it is also a successful market economy with much freedom to pursue your dreams and live your life as you wish.”
Here is the sad truth about socialism: Socialism drives economies into the ground in exact proportion to its prominence in the economy. Capitalism creates prosperity. It’s convenient for Sanders and company to point to the Nordic countries as models of socialism when they are obviously founded on free markets, with socialistic redistribution schemes stacked atop that free market foundation. But deep down, Sanders knows that the truer reflection of socialism lies in
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Venezuela, Cuba and the Soviet Union. And that’s why Sanders simply can’t bring himself to disown Venezuelan socialism, even to prop up the lie that socialism wasn’t truly tried in Venezuela. Ben Shapiro, 35, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show” and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com. He is The New York Times best-selling author of “Bullies.” He lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles.
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-- pols from both parties. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Reps. Mike Conaway, R-Texas, and Collin Peterson, D-Minn., get the most money from Big Sugar. No. 9 on the list is Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who has criticized welfare payments to poor people, saying (correctly) that handouts discourage honest work. “I’m prepared to get rid of the sugar program tomorrow,” says Rubio, “if the countries we compete against get rid of theirs.” In other words: “Since other countries subsidize sugar, America must retaliate!” Marchand had a good answer to that: “Is it fair for customers to pay double the world rate for sugar? Is it fair for taxpayers to have to bail out a handful of super-rich, super-connected sugar processors? No!” It’s also not fair that all businesses that buy sugar must pay the sugarmakers’ artificially inflated prices. Candy-makers are hurt most. “There is only one candy cane producer left in Ohio. That’s absolutely ridiculous,” says Marchand. “Look at all those jobs!” About 20,000 American jobs are lost every year because politicians keep sugar prices artificially high, says a University of Iowa study. It’s not just candy-makers who suffer. There’s added sugar in bread, beer, yogurt, ketchup, cereal and lots of other foods. Consumers pay more and almost every food business suffers because a few big sugar companies have the political clout to get themselves a sweet deal.
street preacher being arrested for “breaching the peace.” Engels opined that the scene depicted “America’s future thanks to (Rep. Ilhan Omar). Roaming rape gangs ... cops do nothing. Massive terrorist attacks.” There’s no violence, hate, profanity or pornography, just an informed opinion about the consequences of open borders and capitulation to Islamic extremism. So why was Engels censored for condemning violent Muslims? Jack Morrissey, the Disney film producer who publicly called for the falsely accused Covington Catholic high school students to be fed into a woodchipper “screaming, hats first,” was allowed to retain his verified Twitter status without any punishment for his bloody death wishes. This is all of a piece. As I reported in December, citizen journalist Laura Loomer was banned from Twitter for stating true facts about radical Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar’s embrace of sharia laws that threaten gays, Jews and women. Loomer has since been deplatformed from PayPal and just learned she can no longer sell T-shirts protesting Twitter’s ban with the hashtag #StopTheBias on Teespring. Paypal’s CEO admitted this week that he relied on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s powerful smear machine for input on which conservatives to blacklist in order to uphold the company’s alleged values of “diversity and inclusion.” SPLC’s de-Paypal’d victims include Tommy Robinson, an English anti-jihad activist; VDARE, a nationalist immigration news and commentary site that publishes my syndicated column; and Gavin McInnes, a humorist, social critic and media entrepreneur whose fans have raised nearly $140,000 at DefendGavin.com for his powerful defamation lawsuit against the SPLC. McInnes was also de-Twittered and tempo-
John Stossel is author of “No They Can’t! Why Government Fails -- But Individuals Succeed.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com.
rarily de-YouTube’d. Among others targeted by SPLC, which collaborates with credit card companies and banks to silence influential thinkers and activists on the right: David Horowitz, a venerable scholar and investigative author who successfully beat back Mastercard’s attempt to drop him over his organization’s opposition to Islamic radicalism and illegal immigration, and the Center for Immigration Studies, which is suing the SPLC for labeling its mainstream think tank a “hate group.” Deplatforming dissenting voices is a ruthless, bizarre and unprogressive way to achieve “diversity and inclusion.” So is conspiring with repressive regimes that are hell-bent on destroying the West. Twitter has become America’s version of Islam’s morality police -- the dreaded “mutaween” (Arabic for “the one who makes others obey”). I will not. As an American citizen who is subject to America’s laws -- not Pakistan’s or Mohammed’s -- I’ll retweet my harmless little Mo cartoons to my 2.1 million followers every day from now on and stand with other targets on the side of free speech and free thought. How about you, Twitter? Michelle Malkin’s email address is writemalkin@ gmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www. creators.com.
METZLER from 7
ate and monitored process. The real issue now is to build on the disappointment at Hanoi with a clear political road map to achieve North Korea’s step by step denuclearization. Although an agreement may have been within reach at the Hanoi meeting, when Kim Jong-un pushed to scrap the stifling UN economic sanctions on North Korea resulting from DPRK’s nuclear and missile testing, Donald Trump refused to budge. Trump later told the Sean Hannity program on Fox News TV Network that such a deal “would not have been good for our country,” but did not discount the possibility of a future agreement. Sue Mi Terry, Senior Fellow and Korean Chair of Washington’s CSIS wrote, “deciding against a deal at this time is better than accepting a bad deal. A bad deal is one that would have substantially weakened U.S. national security interests and our alliance relationships in the region.” Importantly Japan must be “kept in the loop” by the USA in each step of
the discussion as Tokyo remains both a U.S. partner as well as undisputed military target of the North Koreans. Dr. David Kang Chair of Korean Studies at University of Southern California wrote, “North Korea is not a problem to be solved, but managed. There is no combination of carrots and sticks that will make North Korea denuclearize, democratize, and also stop its human rights abuses.” South Korea and the USA must keep tight, close and transparent political and security ties. The mutual defense treaty is key to maintaining the peace on the peninsula until such time when there is a bilateral Korean stakeholder solution to seventy-four year dilemma of disunity. In the meantime, deterrence, the product of strong defense ties between Seoul and Washington, remains paramount. John J. Metzler is a United Nations correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues. He is the author of Divided Dynamism The Diplomacy of Separated Nations; Germany, Korea, China.
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