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Former Granite State CAP Cadet Has The “Right Stuff” At The Air Force Academy

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Weirs Times Sportthoughts Columnist

When Warren Quinlan was a captain of the 2016 John Stark Regional High School track team he specialized in the high jump. One of his goals was to clear six feet—though he never quite made it. But he did go on to soar to amazing heights with the Civil Air Patrol and then with the Unit-

ed States Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs. A junior at the USAFA, Quinlan is on track to become a fighter pilot after graduation next year. “I’ve wanted to fly ever since I was a little kid,” Quinlan recalled. “My dad and I were in Concord once and he took me by the Air National Guard facility. I met a pilot who took me up

in a Black Hawk helicopter and I was hooked.” At age 13 Quinlan joined the Concord Composite Squadron of New Hampshire’s Civil Air Patrol Wing. He made the most of the CAP experience and even served as cadet squadron commander. “Civil Air Patrol definitely helped position me for the Air Force Academy opportu-

nity,” said Quinlan. A meteorology major at the USAFA, Quinlan pays attention to prevailing winds, which is especially important as he’s already a glider pilot. And on February 15, the Granite Stater incongruously demonstrated his flying skills to 45,000 NHL fans who filled Falcon Football Stadium for a pro See MOFFETT on 17

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Spring is in the air and it couldn’t have come at a better time with global anxiety sky high and most of us living in relative isolation. The other day, while on a video conference call while working from home, I had to unplug my laptop and go to a different room because a Carolina wren was making such a racket outside the window. “Tea-kettle, tea-kettle, tea-kettle!” It was a pleasant disruption, for sure. Later, it was a northern cardinal distracting my work with one of his beautiful, clear spring songs. I’ve been hearing that more and more. Thankfully. The other day while walking in the woods I heard the much more subtle song of the eastern phoebe, one of the first songbirds to return to New England each spring. Phoebes are named after their song, just like the chickadee, whip-poorwill, bobwhite, pewee and many others. Last year, a phoebe pair built a nest under my raised deck. I hope they come back this spring. Late March is also a good time to look for American woodcock. This strangely awesome bird does a dazzling aerial dance at dusk, coupled with an odd “peent” call. Woodcock are back in New England already.

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We were doing our duty, staying at home, only going out for essential items and keeping informed by scaring ourselves silly by Brendan Smith watching Weirs Times Editor the cable news 24/7 to keep abreast of what was going on around the country with Coronavirus, when we heard the car pull into the driveway. I looked at my wife and she at me. I put down my lemon tea, went to the window and slowly lifted one of the blinds. “#@%$”, I said. “What is it?” “#@%$!:” I said again. She came to the window and looked out herself. “Who is that?” she asked. “Do you think they’ve come for our toilet paper?” “It’s my old friend Jim from Long Island, New York,” I said with a sigh. In the SUV was not only Jim, but what I’m guessing was also his wife and family and seemingly loaded with what looked like enough for a two week-long family vacation. We hadn’t been expecting them. It was a total surprise. I hadn’t seen Jim in decades and I’d never met his wife or kids. We grew up together, went to school together, had a lot of adventures together. I had talked to him on the phone a few times over the years reminiscing about this or that, talking about old friends and what they were doing now. We had a real connection, a true camaraderie. Now, after all these years, here he was in our driveway with his family. Not only that, his car had New York license plates which would certainly draw the atten-

tion of everyone in the neighborhood. We both peeked through the blinds as we watched Jim get out of the car and head towards the door. He knocked on the door. We held our breath. He knocked again. “Maybe you should go talk to him,” Kim said. “No,” I said in a louder whisper. “What if he’s got the bug?” My cell phone went off, playing the theme from “Friends”, the volume on high, my hearing not as good as it used to be. I saw through the blinds Jim on his phone looking towards the window. “He knows we’re here, you’ve got to go talk with him.” She was right. I was busted. I walked to the front door and opened it, keeping the storm door locked. “Jim?” I said, acting surprised. “Hey buddy,” he smiled from the other side. “Long time no see.” “What brings you here?” I said loudly through the glass. It was then that I noticed windows of some neighbor’s houses. The blinds were slightly askew, eyes peeking out. The SUV with the New York license plates shining like a beacon of doom. “Well, you always said if we were ever in the neighborhood to stop in,” Jim said. “Well, here we are.” Someone from down the street came by walking their dog, they saw the car in my driveway and moved to the other side, walked a few yards further down and then took out her phone. “Well, it is great to see you,” I half lied. “Where are you staying?” “Well, we just wanted to get out of New York, it’s crazy there.” Jim said. “There aren’t any rooms available anywhere around and you always said if we were in the area you’d be more than happy to have us stay for a few nights. Umm..are you going to open the door?” What was I thinking? A dear old

friend who I grew up with, someone who I went through thick and thin with was standing right in front of me after thirty years and I was afraid to let him in? What was I thinking? I looked over at my wife and then at the TV, the latest numbers of the virus multiplying on the screen. “We could always hide them in the basement for the next fourteen days,” I said. “We could cover their car with leaves and tree limbs until they leave.” “It’s up to you,” she said hesitantly, “Of course, there is always the question of whether we have enough toilet paper.” Jim was still standing at the door, looking at me for an answer. I then saw that there was a crowd gathering on the street, keeping a good thirty feet away. I knew it was already too late. If I let them in now, our house would be marked forever as the possible epicenter if things got that bad. When it was all over, if it ever was, we’d have to move, shamed forever by our the consequences of our act of friendship and kindness. I looked at Jim through the glass. “I’m sorry old friend,” I said softly. “I can’t help you.” He put his hand on the glass in one final plea, I put mine on the glass to match his. There was a tear in his eye. I begged him not to touch it or any part of his face for that matter. He sulked back to the car, his family with a questioned look on their faces. He backed out of the driveway and took off down the street, the crowd jumping onto lawns and into hedges to avoid being within six feet of the car. I wonder if I’ll ever see him again. Brendan is the author of “The Flatlander Chronicles” and “Best Of A F.O.O.L. In New Hampshire” available at BrendanTSmith.com. His latest book “I Only Did It For The Socks and Other Tales of Aging” will be published later this year.

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Chutzpah: ADL Wants A Federal Bailout When I think of “essential” workers in America, the smear merchants of the Anti-Defamation League are at the bottom of the barrel. For decades, they’ve demonized conservatives and Christians as agents of “hate” and treated our very existence as incitements to violence. The ADL’s manufactured outrage machine has broadened its target list to anyone by Michelle Malkin remotely critical of Israel for any reaSyndicated Columnist son, President Donald Trump, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, “America First” college students, innocuous hand gestures, cartoon frogs and anyone who dares to think or write that “It’s OK to be white.” Now, in the wake of the “Chinese flu” pandemic, ADL is lining up with all the other federal bailout vultures clamoring for free money. This week, the group issued a statement calling on Congress to include “relief for charities” in any COVID-19 legislation. “In times of crisis,” ADL self-righteously urged, “nonprofits are on the front lines, ready to respond and serve communities across the nation -- but funds are needed to continue doing so.” The “relief package” pushed by ADL and several hundred other groups demands $60 billion in “emergency stimulus funding to support our work... during this time of crisis and need.” What a crock. The primary “front lines” ADL occupies are on the battlefields against American sovereignty and free speech. By my count, the open borders zealots of ADL have filed 17 amicus briefs in our courts supporting obstruction of Trump’s immigration enforcement and national security measures. The group is particularly proud of its brief in Trump v. Hawaii, in which it “led a coalition of six Jewish organizations using our unique moral voice to passionately argue against the so-called Muslim ban, citing three historical examples when our nation later recognized that we were wrong to turn our back, including denying refuge to Jews fleeing the Nazis.” The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the travel restrictions and affirmed the broad plenary powers of the executive branch over immigration. On top of the $60 billion ADL wants for itself and its ideological fellow travelers (including tax-funded refugee resettlement contractors CathSee MALKIN on 20

America Needs A Formula for Reopening

This week, President Donald Trump began openly considering at what point the American government ought to take steps to reopen the American economy. He explained: “Our country wasn’t built to be shut down. America will again and soon be by Ben Shapiro open for business,” Syndicated Columnist suggesting that the timeline will be weeks instead of months. “If it were up to the doctors,” Trump said, “they’d say, ‘Let’s shut down the entire world.’ This could create a much bigger problem than the problem that you started with.” Later, Trump optimistically proclaimed that he “would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter.” Trump’s projections drew fire -- as do all of his statements. These statements, however, caused inordinate faux heartburn among commentators, who shouted that Trump was weighing dollars against lives and deciding in favor of dollars. The hashtag #NotDyingForWallStreet began trending on Twitter, followed by the hashtag #DieForTheDow. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo tweeted: “My mother is not expendable. Your mother is not expendable. We will not put a dollar figure on human life. ... No one should be talking about social darwinism for the sake of the stock market.” Presumptive 2020 Democratic nominee Joe Biden said, “I don’t agree with the notion that somehow it’s OK ... to let people die.” That, of course, was not Trump’s suggestion. Trump was merely pointing out -- quite correctly -- that since the federal government has now taken the unprecedented and justifiable action of completely shutting down the American economy, to the tune of millions of lost jobs and the greatest quarterly economic

decline in recorded history, we must also have a plan to end this situation. The economy cannot remain shuttered indefinitely; the federal government cannot engage in endless cash expenditures on the basis of treasuries nobody is buying. Nor is the economy merely Wall Street. The vast majority of those who will lose their jobs are not day traders but workers. Small companies are more likely to go under than large ones. The economy isn’t an abstraction. It’s the real lives of hundreds of millions of American citizens, and costs to those Americans must be weighed in the balance. That’s not controversial. That’s a simple fact. Public policy is the craft of weighing risks and rewards, and policymakers do it every day. It’s just that this time, the stakes are the highest they have ever been. So, when do we reopen, and how? The biggest problem is that we lack the data to answer the question. How many lives will be lost if we take heavy social measures after how many weeks? Moderate social measures? What will be the concomitant economic gain or loss? How many additional ICU beds and ventilators will we need to make available in order to clear the flattened curve such that we do not experience excess deaths due to lack of equipment, a la Italy? Our goal should be to move from the Chinese model -- total lockdown -- to the South Korean model -- heavy testing, contact investigations and social distancing. In order to accomplish that, we need to flatten the curve and stop the spread, allowing us to reset. How long will that take? We’re not going to have answers until some time passes -- until we test more, until the outcomes of cases are made certain. But we can certainly construct the formulas that should allow us to calculate possible outcomes as new data comes in, and See SHAPIRO on 21

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The Red Tape Pandemic

by John Stossel

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Coronavirus is frightening. I’m working from home, practicing “social distancing.” Experts say it’ll help “flatten the curve” so fewer people will be infected simultaneously. Then hospitals won’t

be overwhelmed. But the infection rate grows. Doctors and hospitals may yet be overwhelmed. It didn’t have to get to this point. Coronavirus deaths leveled off in South Korea. That’s because people in Korea could

easily find out if they had the disease. There are hundreds of testing locations -- even pop-up drive-thru testing centers. Because Koreans got tested, Korean doctors knew who needed to be isolated and who didn’t. As a result, Korea limited the disease without mass quarantines and shortages. Not in America. In America, a shortage of COVID-19 tests has made it hard for people to get tested. Even those who show all the symptoms have a difficult time. Why weren’t there enough tests? Because our government insists on control of medical innovation. That’s the topic of my new video.

When coronavirus appeared, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made its own tests and insisted that people only use those CDC tests. But the CDC test often gave inaccurate results. Some early versions of the test couldn’t distinguish between coronavirus and water. Private companies might have offered better tests, and more of them, but that wasn’t allowed. The World Health Organization even released information on how to make such tests, but our government still said no. Instead, all tests must go through the government’s cumbersome approval process. That takes months. Or years. Hundreds of labs had the ability to

test for the virus, but they weren’t allowed to test. As a result, doctors can’t be sure exactly where outbreaks are happening. Instead of quarantining just sick people, state governors are forcing entire states to go on lockdown. At the same time, many people who show no symptoms do have COVID-19. Without widespread testing, we don’t know who they are, and so the symptomless sick are infecting others. A few weeks ago, the government finally gave up its monopoly and said it was relaxing the rules. There would be quick “emergency use authorizations” replacing the months- or years-long See STOSSEL on 21

World Uniting on Coronavirus Fight? What would happen if an alien force invaded the world? This was the hypothesis of many sci-fi films over the years in which warby John J. Metzler r i n g c o u n t r i e s Syndicated Columnist and governments would somehow, suddenly, and urgently join together to fight the greater threat. War of the Worlds, (1953) based on the H.G. Wells epic comes to mind, and now there’s time to rewatch the movie. The point is we are globally challenged by a deadly force, in this case the “invisible enemy” as President Donald Trump calls it,

and somehow we seem to be joining together to fight the threat. This past week, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres made a stirring online appeal for a global truce in the conflicts which bleed and destroy their respective regions. This goes well beyond Syria and Yemen and tragically includes the myriad of conflicts most of which we rarely hear of. The Secretary General stated passionately, “Our world faces a common enemy: COVID-19. The virus does not care about nationality or ethnicity, faction or faith. It attacks all, relentlessly.” He added, “Meanwhile armed conflict rages around the world. I’m calling for an immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the world.

It is time to put armed conflict on lockdown and focus together on the true fight of our lives.” Fighting stopped in a few places such as in the Philippines, but for the most part the appeal seemed to be drowned out by the deadly staccato of AK-47’s which provide morbid background music for many forgotten parts of the world. Secondly, the United Nations has tasked a major relief effort for developing countries which are already straining under the weight of poverty in addition to this “invisible enemy.” Antonio Guterres warned of “a global recession, perhaps of record dimensions, is a near certainty.” The UN’s Secretary General stated bluntly, “COVID-19 is killing

people, as well as attacking the real economy at its core; trade, supply chains, business, jobs.” He outlined a three phase plan which would directly tackle the widening health crisis, focus on economic response and recovery, and lastly “recover better” to take the lessons learned form the pandemic to plan to avert future health crises. The UN has launched a $2 billion global humanitarian response to fund the fight against Coronavirus in the world’s poorest countries. President Ronald Reagan addressing the UN General Assembly in1987 hypothesized, “I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from See METZLER on 21

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Charlie and I are well and I hope you and yours are too. I don’t have any exciting far or near adventures to report because we have chosen to stay close to home and my parents. Delta gave me a credit for my cancelled ski trip to Utah and so I will dream about skiing there next February. Our skis are leaning in the corner of the breezeway. Time to wipe’em down and put a little storage wax

Loppers? Check! Electric chainsaw? Check! Charlie has started work pruning high bush blueberry bushes. Many of us have more time to do the things we have been putting of for sometime. Pruning the bushes will produce bigger berries come July. on their bases before we put them away. I have done a few loads of laundry washing ski jackets and snow pants---I didn’t realize they were so grubby. Our ski boots are clean and dry. I packed them in our boot-bags along with the essentials (socks, goggles, mittens) so we can grab and go at a moment’s notice next winter. We live on an old

high bush blueberry field with a thousand bushes that need to be pruned. Pruning blueberry bushes takes a lot of time. The last three years we have made an effort to bring back parts of the field and there was never enough time to prune. Instead of going to Tuckerman Ravine we’re going to be pruning blueberry bushes this weekend. It may

not be exciting right now but hopefully the fruits of our labor will be big and blue come July. Stay local, get outside. Have fun. Amy Patenaude is an avid skier/outdoor enthusiast from Henniker, N.H. Readers are welcome to send comments or suggestions to her at: amy@weirs.com.

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John Stark At The Battle Of Bennington own rights ought not to be trusted to stand for the rights of his country.” Events unfolded, however that persuaded Stark to once again in the year 1777 take up arms in defense of the new country that had declared its independence from Great Britain. A regiment of militia men from New Hampshire was raised to help men from Vermont and Massachusetts stop an effort by British led troops to separate New England from the rest of the Continental forces. John Stark was chosen to lead the militia but refused to be commanded by Continental officers who had previously served under him. The legisla-

ture of New Hampshire authorized Stark to have command of New Hampshire’s forces with the agreement that he would be independent of the commanders of the Continental army. New Hampshire’s legislature would later be censured by the Continental Congress for this action. Great Britain’s General Burgoyne had directed a detachment of men made up of Germans (Hessians), Canadians, Loyalists (Tories), and Indians to march from Canada to Albany, New York, where they would meet up with other troops serving Great Britain. Burgoyne’s men were commanded by Hessian officer Col. Friedrich Baum who was later assisted by re-

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No matter where you garden there never seems to be enough time to grow all the fresh vegetables desired. Planting earlier or just providing plants with some added warmth on chilly days and nights can reduce the time from planting to harvest. Southern gardeners will enjoy the additional time for harvesting heat-sensitive plants before the stifling heat moves in and plants begin to decline. Prepare the soil as soon as it can be worked. Cover the prepared soil with clear plastic, row covers or high tunnels for several weeks when planting earlier than normal. This warms the soil for planting and helps germinate many of the weed seeds. Lightly cultivate to remove the young weed seedlings without bringing more weed seeds to the surface. You’ll be pulling fewer weeds throughout the growing season. Once the garden is planted, enlist some of these season-extending helpers (gardeners.com). Homemade and commercial cloches, cold frames and row covers can help you plant earlier and harvest later in the season. Row covers made of spun fabrics let air, light, and water through while keeping the plants warm. Anchor the fabric with landscape pins, stones, boards, or other heavy items. Leave enough slack in the fabrics for the plants to grow. Lighter weight garden fabrics also protect plants from insect pests

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The “Molly Stark” cannon was captured from the British at the Battle of Bennington by New Hampshire troops under the command of General John Stark in 1777. SMITH from 9 supplies at Bennington, a large store of flour at a mill in that town, and horses along with other items they could find which would be useful to them. Nevertheless, the Americans were aware that they were coming and John Stark and his New Hampshire troops went to confront the enemy. An intended attack by Stark was set for August 15, 1777, but heavy rain caused him to withdraw. The next morning, on August 16, the Berkshire militia from Pittsfield Massachusetts arrived to aid the New Hampshire militia. They were led by the Reverend Thomas Allen who is quoted as telling General Stark, “We,the people of Berkshire, have been frequently called upon to fight, but we have never been led against the enemy. We have now resolved, if you will not let us fight, never to turn out again.” Stark, after receiving a negative answer when asking Allen if he wanted to march while it was

dark and rainy, said “if the Lord should once more give us sunshine, and I do not give you fighting enough, I will never ask you to come again.” The weather did clear, and at about three o’clock in the afternoon General Stark, after strategically positioning his troops, ordered them to attack the enemy at Cambridge, New York, northwest of Bennington, Vermont. He is said to have approached the opposition, and, pointing at them, exclaimed, “See men! There are the Redcoats! We shall beat them today, or Molly Stark will be a widow!” The battle went on for two hours with fierce fighting with Stark leading a final charge upon the Redcoat forces which ended with hand to hand combat. The British commander Baum was fatally wounded and his forces surrendered soon afterwards. While the American forces were celebrating their victory, however, Lt. Col. Breymann arrived with reinforcements from Burgoyne’s army and the battle resumed. Col.

Seth Warner’s Green Mountain Boys soon arrived to assist Stark’s forces which for the second time that day were victorious. The statistics given for the battle

from one source tell us that the assortment of British soldiers were made up of 1,400 men of whom 207 were killed and 700 were captured. The combined forces of the United States colonies numbered 2,350 (a surprise to the British), with 30 killed, 40 wounded, and none captured. The Battle of Bennington is considered to be a key victory for the Americans in the Revolutionary War and it resulted in John Stark being given the rank of a Brigadier General of the United States by Congress. He later served as commander of the northern department of the U.S. Army before eventually returning to his farm in New Hampshire. There was a reunion of veterans of the Battle of Bennington in 1809 that Gen. Stark was unable to attend, but he did send a written message to those soldiers

who fought under his command. His closing statement was: “ Live free or die-:Death is not the worst of evils.” His words, “ Live Free Or Die,” became New Hampshire’s state motto in the year 1945. Elizabeth (Molly) Stark is also remembered for her bravery and contributions to the cause of freedom. When Stark’s troops were camped near Ticonderoga and some were sickened by smallpox, Molly is said to have sent word to have the sick sent to her home. She used her home for a hospital and cared for them until they all recovered. On another adventure, one morning Molly heard dogs barking in the woods near their house

and, after arming herself with a gun and climbing a hill, discovered that the dogs had treed an immense bear. She is said to have shot the bear, returned home, sent her boys with a horse to fetch the beast, and served bear steak for dinner that day. John and Molly Stark were the parents of eleven children. The General died on May 8, 1822 at the age of 93. Molly died in 1814. The unknown author of the Military History of New Hampshire, From Its Settlement, in 1623, to the Year 1861 described John Stark as “ Brave , passionate and selfwilled,” and said, “Gen. Stark’s fitting place was the battle-field.”

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immigration activists and their supporters... (who) have long promoted the notion of immigrants as bringing disease, crime and environmental problems into the United States.” Instead of refuting the facts, they just point, sputter and smear. In 2009, during the swine flu outbreak traced to Mexico, I wrote on my blog that “the spread of contagious diseases from around the world into the U.S.” was the “result of uncontrolled immigration.” ADL swooped in with a raging condemnation of me and others who “demonize Mexicans and immigrants, blaming them for the spread of the virus.” ADL’s virtue-signalers went on to warn

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in Haiti over the past 20 years. Significantly, there’s $64 million for UNHCR’s portion of the UN’s COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan to aid those people exposed in refugee camps. Much assistance comes through the heralded U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Equally the Trump Administration coordinates a widening health emergency response across America. U.S. Navy hospital ships are now in New York and Los Angeles assisting an already overburdened health care system. This is a small sketch of an impressive array of humanitarian aid for which Americans can be proud. Equally the enormous strides by the private and public health sectors are impressive. But the bigger battle looms both in the USA and abroad. 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.

STOSSEL from 7 wait for approval. But even that took so long that few independent tests were approved. So President Donald Trump waived those rules, too. Now tests are finally being made. But that delay killed people. It’s still killing people. Other needlessly repressive rules prevented doctors and hospitals from trying more efficient ways to treat patients. For example, telemedicine allows doctors and patients to communicate through the internet. When sick people consult doctors from home, they don’t pass on the virus in crowded waiting rooms. But lawyers and bureaucrats claimed such communications wouldn’t be “secure,” and would violate patients’ privacy. Only last week did officials announce they would allow doctors to “serve patients through everyday communications technologies.” Americans shouldn’t have to ask permission to use “everyday” technologies. Now doctors fear that as more people get sick, hospitals won’t have enough beds for the critically ill. But the bed shortage is another consequence of bad law. Critical access hospitals in rural areas are not allowed to have more than 25 beds. Trump has now announced that he’s waiving those rules. In some states, there’s a shortage of doctors or nurses. That, too, is often a product of bad law -- state licensing laws that make it illegal for professionals licensed in one state to work in another. Trump said he would waive “license requirements so that the doctors from other states can provide services to states with the greatest

need.” Then it turned out that he could only allow that for Medicare; he didn’t have the power to override stupid state licensing rules. Fortunately, many states finally waived harmful licensing laws on their own. It’s good that governments finally removed some rules. But the time that took killed people. Once coronavirus passes, America should leave those regulations waived. And we should repeal many others. John Stossel is author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.”

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Make Your Own Face Mask For Yourself Or To Donate To Your Local Hospital

by Joyce Endee Contributing Writer

The Center for Disease Control says that fabric masks are a crisis response option for hospitals when other supplies have been exhausted. You can see an instruction video which is available from Deaconess Hospital Health System in Indiana. There are also written instructions available on the site at www. deaconess.com/How-tomake-a-Face-Mask Dartmouth Hitchock also has information on making face masks at www. dartmouth-hitchcock.org/ patient-education/sewingmasks.html (They ask if you have been in contact with anyone with Covid 19 or you are feeling any possible symptoms, not to make any masks planned for use at your hospital. We must keep our healthcare workers on the front lines as safe as possible.) The photos show my hand-made mask made of 100% cotton with 2 pieces of rectangular fabric and 1/4 inch flat elastic. It’s washable & reusable for the same individual and it only takes about 20 minutes to sew. Here is a summary of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock written instructions: Supplies: cotton fabric, flat elastic 1/8” or 1/4” or rope elastic (2, 7” lengths) 1. Cut out 2 pieces of fabric (100% cotton recommended) Adult: Cut 9X6; Child: Cut 7.5X5 2. Pin 2 pieces of fabric right sides together leaving a 2” opening on the bottom for turning to the right side of the fabric. 3. Starting at the center of the bottom edge, sew to the first corner, then stop. Insert one end of the elastic

Joyce Endee wears one of her handmade fabric masks.

angled into the corner with the long part of the elastic inside the 2 pieces of material. 4. Sew to the next corner, stop, and bring the other end of the same elastic to the corner and sew it in place. 5. Sew across the top of the mask to the next corner & repeat same as other side with the elastic in the 2 corners. 6. Sew across the bottom leaving a 2 inch opening to turn right side out. Then, turn the mask to the right side of the fabric. 7. Pin 3 tucks on the left and right sides. Make sure the tucks are the same direction on both sides. These tucks add to the mask’s protection. 8. Sew around the edge of the mask twice for durability. This is an easy-to-sew mask. Be creative. If you are making them for your family & friends & run out of elastic, my daughter, Kristin, suggested using ponytail and/or hair elastics. If you have Velcro, you can probably figure out an attachment using fabric strips instead of elastic. Let me know if I can help you. I organize many of the craft fairs in the Lakes Region, North Conway, and Nashua. Also, let me know how you are doing at joyceendee@ gmail.com or www.joycescraftshows.com (603)5284014 God Bless You and God Bless America! We will emerge stronger and wiser!!!

Here are the materials needed to make your own fabric mask.