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COMPLIMENTARY
Holy Trinity School Auction
The Changing Of The Seasons by Ed Allard
Contributing Writer
away in an enthusiastic burst of energy. As a youngster I loved to hike out into the warming sunlight, cutting across fields dappled by patches of tired snow, cocking an ear to the raucous admonitions of black frocked crows preaching from the pine tops and sitting beside a swollen brook as it
chuckled and gurgled on its happy way to the sea. One spring, in a moment of weakness perhaps mellowed by a visit to his pungent cider barrrel, Uncle Fred promised to show me where some foxes had made their den in Joe Dagget’s cow pasture. Seizing the moment,
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Springtime is here and we thought this column by one of our original writers, Ed Allard, would help put everyone in the spirit. Originally published on April 7, 1994, it brings back the good old days here in New Hampshire.
I have always enjoyed the arrival of spring. After the gray bleak days of winter there is a new vibrancy in the air as Mother Nature stirs and awakens from her long sleep. I notice a renewed activity around the bird feeders and was happy this morning to hear a brightly plumed woodpecker hammering
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Spring is really here and we celebrate with a column from an old favorite, Ed Allard, talking about enjoying the new season as a young boy. This beautiful photograph comes to us courtesy of photographer Robert Clifford. You can see an extensive view of his original photos at robert-clifford.artistwebsites.com
Saturday April 13th at 5pm kicks off the Annual HTS Spring Auction, presented by AutoServ of Tilton and Bank of NH. Each year the event takes place at the Sacred Heart Parish Hall, 291 Union Ave, Laconia. The event proceeds are used toward the schools financial aid scholarship program and the continued curriculum essentials of Art, Music and Physical Education. The evening offers more than 300 local and regional gift certificates and products for silent and live auction bidding. The evening will be catered by Fratello’s Restaurant of Lakeport, Ooh La La Bakery of Meredith and Shaw’s of Gilford. The silent auction will begin at 5pm with the live auction starting promptly at 7pm; dinner will be served in between at a donation of $10 per person. Walk-ins are welcome; or reserve a table today by calling Holy Trinity at 524-3156.
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Franklin Historical Society Meeting
Webster Place Building, 21 Holy Cross Road, Franklin. 7pm. “How to Research Your Old House”. www.franklinhistoricalsociety.org
Poet Laureate Dick Allen
Silver Center for the Arts, Plymouth State University, Plymouth. 7pm. 535-ARTS
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Krista Angelucci and Skyler Live
Registration is from 5:30am-9am. 428-3245
Veterans and students may attend at no charge. 524-0137
“Just Desserts” Event
Willy Porter – Live Music
Mountain View Community, off Rt. 171 in Ossipee. 2-4pm. $10pp, $4 for children under 10. 539-4964
Frolic with Fiber: Felted Flowers for Embellishments
League of NH Craftsmen Meredith Gallery, 279 D.W. Highway, Meredith. 9:30am-1:30pm. Class taught by Nancy Evans. $40 per student. Preregistration required. 279-7920.
Free Class on Ligament and Joint Health
Sunflower Natural Foods, 390 South Main Street, Laconia. 10am-Noon. Registration required. 524-6334
Concord City Auditorium, Concord. 7:30pm. $12.50pp. Tickets available at www.bishopbrady.edu 224-7418
Ballroom Dancing
BYOB Bunco Party
Flea Market
Lions Hall, Old Route 109, Moultonborough. 7pm. $15 admission. 731-1942
Fri. 5th – Sun. 7th Great Northeast Boat Show
Hampshire Dome, Milford. Fri. 12-7pm, Sat. 10-6pm and Sun. 10-3pm. www.greatnortheastboatshow.com
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Fitness Edge, Meredith. 7-10pm. $10pp. 279-1329 Masonic Building, 410 W. Main Street, Tilton. 8am-2pm. 524-0733
Budweiser Clydesdale Photo Session
Anheuser-Busch Merrimack Brewery Tour Center, 221 Daniel Webster Highway, Merrimack. 1-3pm. 5951202
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Portsmouth Music Hall, Portsmouth. 7pm. 436-2400
3pm. $15pp. 569-3471
Cabin Fever Lecture Series
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The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. 536-2551
Wednesday 10th
Dance Northeast
Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 335-1992
Winter Market
Danbury Grange Hall, across from the Fire Station in the center of Danbury. 9am-1pm.
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The Wright Museum, Wolfeboro. 2pm. White Glove presentation of period firearms. RSVP encouraged. 569-1212
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Sherlock Holmes Presentation
Ashland Town Library, 16 Education Drive, Ashland. 7pm. Presented by Prof. Ann McClellan. 968-7716
Build Your Own Online Marketing Machine Workshop
Bank of New Hampshire, Winnipesaukee Room, 10 Mutual Way, Gilford. 5-8pm. $30 at the door.
Giuseppe’s, Mill Falls Market Place, Meredith. $20. 279-3313
Thursday 11th Mysteries of Tamworth and Effingham Ironworks
Sanbornton Public Library in Sanbornton Town Square. 7pm. Open to public. Free. 286-4596
NH’s One-Room Rural Schools: The Romance and Reality
Chichester Grange Hall, 54 Main Street, Chichester. 7pm. Presented by Steve Taylor. 798-5709
Friday 12th
Barbara Bald
Lottery Cocktail Party
Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 5:30pm. $100 donation admits two. 335-1992
Plymouth Blues Summit
The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. 536-2551
Late Night Catechism Las Vegas: Sister Rolls the Dice!
Capitol Center for the Arts, Main Street, Concord. 225-1111
Saturday 13th The Amazing Kreskin
The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. 536-2551
Loon Magic: Sights and Sounds
Community Room, HopkintonTown Library, Contoocook. 1:30-2:30pm. Presented by Candace Morrison. Free but donations are greatly appreciated. 746-6121
Holy Trinity School Annual Spring Auction
Sacred Heart Parish Hall, 291 Union Ave., Laconia. Silent Auction begins at 5pm with the live auction starting at 7pm. Dinner will be served in between at a $10 donation. 524-3156
Free Class on Growing and Cooking with Culinary Herbs
Sunflower Natural Foods, 390 South Main Street, Laconia. 10am-Noon. Registration required. 524-6334
Planning Your Medicinal Herb Garden
The Remick Museum, 58 Cleveland Hill Road, Tamworth. 1-3pm. www.remickmuseum.org 323-7591
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St. Thomas Aquinas Fashion Show
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insights into life. Her poems have been published in the 2008 and 2010 Poets’ Guide to New Hampshire, PSNH’s Poets’ Touchstone, The Poet’s Place, and a forthcoming anthology called The Widow’s Handbook. A first-place winner in the PSNH Member Contest for Spring 2012, she also has had articles published in Library Journal, Public Libraries, New Hampshire To Do, and Seacoast Living. Barbara Bald will treat listeners to a stirring mix of poems that look deep inside – poems about growing up, growing older, risks, regrets, and second chances – when she reads from her first book, Drive-Through Window. The remainder of the evening will offer open mike time for poets, musicians, and other writers from the audience. Please join us for a very special evening.
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Two poets from the Lakes Region, Barbara Bald from Alton and Charlotte Cox from Laconia, will offer a contrast in poetic experiences when they explore the theme of “Journeys Outward, Journeys Inward” at the Wolfeboro Public Library. This event, which will take place on Monday, April 22 at 6:30pm., is free and open to all. It will also feature some open mike time, so audience members are encouraged to bring something to share. Charlotte Cox will begin the evening with a series of poems written from her travels in Mexico, New Mexico, and Africa, pursuing how such new places can inspire new emotions and
On Sunday, April 7th at 12:30pm, St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Dover will host its annual Fashion Show. The 2013 Show, Runway in Paris will feature trendy, chic and prom-worthy attire from local retailers modeled by St. Thomas Aquinas High School students. A list of participating stores is available online. www.stalux.org/fashionshow. Fashion Show guests will also enjoy a small live auction and a festive raffle with an array of items. All funds raised at the St. Thomas Aquinas Fashion Show benefit the Tuition Assistance program. The Tuition Assistance program helps one in four families afford a St. Thomas Aquinas education. Tickets can also be purchased from the website: www. stalux.org/fashionshow. For more information, visit us atwww.stalux.org or call (603) 742-3206.
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Sunday 14th Erth’s Dinosaur Petting Zoo
Capitol Center for the Arts, Main Street, Concord. 225-1111
NH Fiddle Ensemble
The Epic of Gilgamesh – Storyteller Sebastian Lockwood
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To The Editor: I attended the hearing on the renewable energy moratorium bill, SB 99, on 3/20. The hearing was a sham. Lobbyists Immediate Employment Opportunities for PSNH sat smugly in the first row with their arms folded The Weirs Publishing Companyand never www.weirs.com testified as dozens of citizens poured out their hearts and testimony. The Weirs Publishing Co. (The Weirs Times/Cocheco The lobbyists didn’t need Times newspapers) is a growing media company seeking to testify, they were in to hire sales representatives on a full time or part time basis control. The commitin the Lake Winnipesaukee region. tee closed the hearing, Preferred candidates will have experience in media sales discarded all testimony, or direct selling and customer relationship management. written or otherwise. A Ideal candidates will possess strong interpersonal Senator presented an communication skills, self-motivation, self-conďŹ dence and amendment that excludprofessionalism. ed Northern Pass from The new hires will take over active accounts in their the moratorium and the territory and be paid a weekly base pay plus a draw against bill was passed. It was commissions. obvious that the “fix was Interested applicants should contact in.â€? Bartolo Governanti, Sales Manager. There is a rising chorus 603-707-0437 • Bartolo@weirs.com of citizens up here speculating that the only reason the bill was amended was to obtain campaign contributions. The common perception is the Senate is owned outright by Northeast Utilities and Public Service. Public Service is trampling, with the help of our Legislature, our citizens’ Constitutional right to property, for the promotion of a power line that is classified as “elective,â€? it is not necessary, according to the ISO, who con&BDI XFFL UISPVHI .BZ trol the NE power grid. $IFG Ç°PNBT 'BCB PÄ…FST UISFF DPVSTF EJOOFST IJHIMJHIUJOH This is a project motivatEJTIFT VOJRVF UP POF PG UIF SFHJPOT PG *UBMZ ed by profit only, it destroys the scenic beauty 7JFX UIJT XFFL T SFHJPO BOE NFOV BU UIFDNBO DPN DBMFOEBS and economic viability of our tourist based econo5PVS EJOOFST XJMM CF BWBJMBCMF .POEBZoDzVSTEBZ my in the North Country. QQ FY UBY BOE HSBUVJUZ
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It delivers practically no electricity to the citizens of New Hampshire. For every 200 megawatts of electricity at .3 cents per KWH Northern Pass transmits through our state we will see one tenth of a cent off our KWH charge. That won’t cover the loss of value to local property owners. New Hampshire is a net power producer, yet we have the 6th highest electric rates in the country. Senators, if you want to improve the lives of our citizens; then fix that problem first. Paul H. Simard Bristol, NH.
How You Can Stop the Gas/Diesel Tax To The Editor: It’s simple, sign the Americans for Prosperity New Hampshire (AFPNH) petition. Just go to our website at www.stopnhgastax.com. This will take less than two minutes and as the Honorary Chair of AFPNH, I encourage each and every hard working New Hampshire citizen to sign the Gas/Diesel Tax Petition today and then forward this website to all your family members, neighbors and friends and encourage them to sign and pass it on. In March of 2009 the NH Democrats who held control of the Legislature tried to pass a Gas/Diesel Tax. Now three years later in a continued recession with the Demo-
This newspaper was first published in 1883 by Mathew H. Calvert as Calvert’s Weirs Times and Tourists’ Gazette and continued until Mr. Calvert’s death in 1902. The new Weirs Times was re-established in 1992 and strives to maintain the patriotic spirit of its predecessor as well as his devotion to the interests of Lake Winnipesaukee and the Cocheco Valley area with the new Cocheco Times. Our newspaper’s masthead and the map of Lake Winnipesaukee in the center spread are elements in today’s paper which are taken from Calvert’s historic publication.
crats again in power they are back trying to saddle our citizens once again with the largest Gas/ Diesel Tax ever. If HB 617 passes, which Rep. David Campbell (D) of Nashua is the key sponsor of, it will lead to a 15 cent jump per gallon or an increase of 83% in the Gas/Diesel Tax. If the current New Hampshire Gas/Diesel Tax, which already is 18 cents per gallon, was used 100% for our roads and bridges we would not be discussing this issue today. What has happened over the years is simply a diversion of the Gas/Diesel Tax funds for other programs. Since Rep. Campbell first introduced the Gas/ Diesel Tax in early 2009 (which was defeated), gas and diesel prices have doubled, and now in 2013 he would like to add additional pain at the pump by increasing the tax by a whopping 83%. For businesses that depend on diesel to operate their large trucks hauling all kinds of products and produce such as forest, farm, home heating oil and groceries just to name a few, they will see additional cost if HB 617 passes. Some truckers could see up to 15 dollars a day increase per truck which will have to be passed on to you the consumer. Remember everything we consume moves on diesel, sometimes as many as four to five See mail boat on 26
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I’m not sure why everyone is always picking on the government. I’m not one of those people. I have come to realize that without the government, I wouldn’t always be able to really come up with ideas for this column on a weekly basis. This week I am grateful once again. Have you heard of the president’s SAVE award program? It has been going on for four years. Federal employee submit ways to prevent government waste. It is obvious that they know this is a problem if they are spending more money to have a contest to figure out how to save money. The SAVE website claims that some of the best ways to save taxpayers’ dollars come from federal employees. There is a great joke here somewhere, but it’s late and I’m tired, so I’ll leave that up to your imagination. The website says that even though anyone can read these ideas on the website, only federal employees are allowed to submit ideas. As of this writing over 18,000 ideas have been submitted and, in the four years the program has existed, four have been used; another great example of government efficiency. With a record like this, maybe one idea should be: Eliminate the president’s SAVE program as it seems to be a waste of time and
money. But, I’m not a government employee so I can’t suggest that; all I can do is present to you a few of the unused ideas that were suggested. One employee suggested the creation of nuclear powered hovercrafts to eliminate the need for constructing new roads thus creating more jobs. (Not sure how the math works on this one.) More stretch breaks at work. According to the person suggesting, this would lead to more people exercising more at home. (Except during American Idol finals and any thing else that is on TV.) One suggestion was to save the post office by having the government cut down on using Fed Ex and UPS. An employee who works for the Japan-US Friendship Commission (now that sounds like a cushy job) suggested the elimination of the commission because “We have good relations with Japan.” (I’m sure this employee won’t be invited to the yearly Christmas Party.) An employee of the Executive Office of The President suggested a SAVE contest where employees would win prizes for making a design for SAVE. (This one has Joe Biden’s fingerprints all over it.) One frugal employee suggested that an instruction be written to tell all employees to turn off their computer monitors at the end of the day. (It shouldn’t take more than a couple of years till everyone finally gets the memo.) One employee suggested busses be provided that will pick up and drop off employees to and from work to eliminate transportation allowances. (Will we need more busses and drivers?) One motivated employee suggested the creation of
a new invention to generate power like that of a wind turbine but without wind or water current. (I’m thinking that this was written from home in his room adorned with Star Wars and Star Trek posters.) Another suggestion was to ship prisoners out of the country and contract out their services, thus paying less for cost of prisoners. (A better idea might be just to use convicts in certain government agencies. It would cut down on costs without disrupting the moral integrity.) One suggestion that I won’t get into in detail was titled “Cost Reduction Idea For Shipping Pee For Drug Testing.” (Maybe this is where the Fed Ex, UPS problem arises.) This year’s winner of the SAVE award, the one chosen from 18,000 that was considered the best idea to cut waste from the government was the suggestion that all Federal employees who receive public transit benefits go from regular transit fare to reduced senior fare as soon as they are eligible. (Please, if you can tell me how this cuts back on government waste please write me before my head explodes trying to figure this out.) There are way too many suggestions to sift through but I guarantee that if you really want a night away from the same old boring TV sitcoms, just fire up your computer and go to www.whitehouse.gov/ save-award. It will make for many laughs. Thank you Federal Government for helping me again. Brendan Smith welcomes your comments at brendan@weirs.com. His book “The Flatlander Chonicles” will be published later this year. Visit his blog at www. foolinnh.com
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From The State House Belknap County Commission Happenings - Part One Lots of people around town are asking about the happenings at our County Convention. I say “bravo” to these folks as it is a by Rep. Jane good sign when Cormier citizens get inBelknap District 8 volved and ask questions! When running for State Representative, I did not realize our county duties may be even more important than our State House voting. In fact, since Belknap County is our home, we need to be as informed as we can be regarding the process of county budgets and responsibilities. “All the world is a stage” and it is no different in county politics. First of all, let’s meet some of the people in our local “drama”: Our Commissioners: John H. Thomas, Chair; Commissioner
since 2011, Representing District # 2 - Barnstead, Belmont, Gilmanton, Tilton. Current term expires: 12/31/2014. Edward D. Philpot, Jr. Vice Chair; Commissioner since 2009, Representing District # 1 - Laconia, New Hampton and Sanbornton. Current term expires: 12/31/2014. Stepen H. Nedeau, Clerk; Commissioner since 2011, Representing District # 3 Alton, Gilford, Meredith, Center Harbor. Current Term Expires: 12/31/2016. The three-member Board of Commissioners are part-time, elected officials responsible for overall supervision, custody, and care of all county departments, buildings and land, with budgetary oversight of all county expenditures. They are elected into staggered four and two terms by the voters of their districts. The Annual County Budget is prepared by the Commissioners
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The Bloody Company Hollywood Keeps Bleedingheart liberal Robert Redford is already the subject of early Oscar buzz. His muchhyped new film glamorizing the lives of by Michelle Malkin Weather UnSyndicated Columnist derground domestic terrorists, “The Company You Keep,” will be released in the U.S. next week. But peace-loving moviegoers should save their money and take a stand. Hollywood’s romanticizing of murderous radicals is an affront to decency. Redford and Company’s rose-colored hagiography of bloodstained killers defiles the memory of all those victimized by leftwing militants on American soil. Tinseltown cheerleaders can’t stop gushing about Redford’s paean to gun-toting progressives, of course. Variety called the flick an “unabashedly heartfelt but competent tribute to 1960s idealism.” The entertainment daily effused: “There is something undeniably compelling, perhaps even romantic, about America’s ‘60s radicals and the compromises they did or didn’t make.” One of the film executives promoting the Weather Underground movie slavered: “This is an edge-of-yourseat thriller about real Americans who stood for their beliefs, thinking they were patriots and defending their country’s ideals against their government.” Compelling? Romantic? Real Americans? Patriots? The movie plot centers on a 1970s Michigan bank robbery perpetrated by fictional Weather Underground members Sharon Solarz (portrayed by bigwig Democratic ac-
tivist Susan Sarandon) and Jim Grant (played by Redford). The group shoots and kills one offduty police officer working as a bank security guard. Grant goes on the lam and assumes a fake identity; decades later, a reporter launches an investigation into his role in the crime. The movie drums up “unabashedly heartfelt” sympathy for Grant as he works to exonerate himself. Moviegoers would be better served by educating themselves about the real-life bank robbery and murder on which the movie is loosely based. In 1981, richkid Weathermen ideologues and lovers Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert joined forces with Black Liberation Army thugs and other ragtag commie revolutionaries to hold up an armored Brink’s vehicle in Nyack, N.Y. Their booty: $1.6 million to fund their violent activities. Before taking up her assignment as the getaway vehicle driver, Boudin dropped off her toddler son, Chesa Boudin, at a babysitter’s house. Two of the holdup victims gunned down in the botched Brink’s robbery were police officers. One was a private security guard. All three were veterans from working-class backgrounds. Their names: Waverly Brown, Edward O’Grady and Peter Paige. Boudin and Gilbert were convicted and sent to prison. Prior to her arrest in Nyack, she had been an 11-year fugitive from justice after an accidental homemade bomb explosion at her New York City townhouse resulted in the death of three people. At the time of her arrest in Nyack, Boudin gave police one of many false identities she had used to evade the law. Boudin was paroled in 2003 after convincing parole board See malkin on 21
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The Arab Spring At Easter UNITED NATIONS— T h e
winds of change continue to swirl throughout the Middle East as the by John J. Metzler r e g i o n e n Syndicated Columnist ters the third year of the socio/political phenomenon optimistically dubbed as the Arab Spring. While political scientists debate the ebb and flow of freedoms and anarchy in the region ranging from Egypt to Libya and Syria, the ancient Christian communities which have lived in the Holy Land are buffeted by daily events and by the enduring fear of the future. One has only to consider Egypt where a fairly large but successful Coptic Christian community coexisted reasonably well in President Hosni Mubarak’s secular Egyptian state. Mubarak the autocratic but pro-American leader was toppled only to be replaced by deeper societal division, economic decline, and discord of Mohammed Morsi’s mendacious Muslim Brotherhood regime. The Coptic communities, up to 8 million in a land of 86 million, have come under assault as have many Muslim Egyptians who supported the 2011 revolution only to be bypassed by the radicalism of the fundamentalists who assumed control in Cairo. Many Egyptian Christians are nervous according to the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, (CNEWA), “Christians are watching the new government with doubt and fear.” Egypt’s Coptic Catholic Patriarch Ibrahim Isaac said rising social and economic troubles since the revolution are leading to the despair and emigration of the country’s Christians and Muslims alike. In remarks to Catholic News Service (CNS), the Patriarch stressed, “Our children are emigrating out of Egypt, and it is no longer emigration in search of work. It is emigration in search of security, and out of fear.” In Syria, the Assad family dictatorship holds on in a sanguinary struggle which has
taken over 70,000 lives and has churned out over two million refugees from a population of 22 million. Yet while a nebulous gaggle of Islamist, jihadi, and nationalist militias battle on the Road to Damascus, the fate of the country’s ancient Christian community of 2 million hangs in the balance. Interestingly according to British intelligence, hundreds of European Muslims, and at least 100 Brits, are fighting alongside Syrian rebels. Syria’s civil war has reached a boiling point. The United Nations Refugee agency asserts that there are 2 million internally displaced people within Syria; a further 1.1 million have fled the country, mostly to neighboring Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. The UN’s World Food Program (WFP) states that is providing food assistance from 2 million Syrians in March and the number is expected to jump to 2.5 million in April. While humanitarian challenges confront the international donors, the UN warns that while $519 million is needed for assistance inside Syria and a further $1 billion for refugees outside the country, serious funding shortfalls are plaguing the programs which have only 20% of needs. The Chaldean Catholic Bishop of Aleppo, Antoine Audo, SJ stated that up to 30,000 Christians have fled the besieged Syrian city. While Bishop Audo stressed the strife is primarily a “confessional conflict” between minority Allewite Muslims and the Sunni Muslim majority, the Bishop insisted Christians have not been targeted as Christians per se, but remain at risk. “I await a future for Syria with greater democracy and the rediscovery of the art of living together peacefully,” with other ethnic groups and religions, Bishop Audo told the Catholic News Service. Smaller states such as Lebanon the Kingdom of Jordan face a fragile future too, as they are so close geographically to the political precipice. Lebanon once a prosperous former French colony, historically had a near 50/50 Christian/ Muslim population. But the civil
war of the 1970’s and the nearly thirty-year long Syrian military occupation which only ended in 2005 saw massive disruptions. In 1970 55% of the population was Christian; today it is 39%
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Can It Happen Here? The decision of the government in Cyprus to simply take money out of people’s bank accounts there sent shock waves around the world. People far removed by Thomas Sowell f r o m t h a t Syndicated Columnist small island nation had to wonder: “Can this happen here?” The economic repercussions of having people feel that their money is not safe in banks can be catastrophic. Banks are not just warehouses where money can be stored. They are crucial institutions for gathering individually modest amounts of money from millions of people and transferring that money to strangers whom those people would not directly entrust it to. Multi-billion dollar corporations, whose economies of scale can bring down the prices of goods and services -- thereby raising our standard of living -- are seldom financed by a few billionaires.
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— OFF THE SHELF — Counterfeit For Archie
by Debby Montague Entertainment Correspondent
Archie Meets Nero Wolfe by Robert Goldsborough, Mysterious Press, 2012 I had low expectations of Robert Goldsborough’s Archie Meets Nero Wolfe, and I wasn’t disappointed. In Robert Goldsborough’s latest Nero Wolfe novel Saul Panzer, Orrie, Fred, Fritz and especially Archie and Mr. Wolfe are not the characters I love in Rex Stout’s novels, they’re caricatures. I suppose Goldsborough means well. He’s a fan of Rex Stout’s Wolfe stories, and he wrote his first Nero Wolfe book, Murder In E Minor, for his mother, who had introduced him to Stout’s stories. Goldsborough wanted to keep the stories going for himself, for his mother and for Rex Stout’s fans. But to quote the genuine Archie “It’s not enough to want to do a good deed…” (Rex Stout’s In The Best Families, chap. 18) Though the estate of Rex Stout approved Goldsborough’s work many fans of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin agree with Stout who, when asked about continuation, called it “vampirism or cannibalism” and said “They should roll their own.” (John McAleer’s biography of Rex Stout, page 494) Goldsborough admits that it could be tough to win over hardcore fans. In his blog
entry June 28, 2011 he writes: “As the one who extended the life of Rex’s Stout’s famed private eye Nero Wolfe
with seven novels in the 1980s and ’90s, I got both praise and derision — praise from readers who were glad to have more tales of Wolfe and his loyal right-hand, Archie Goodwin, and derision from those who either lamented that ‘you haven’t got it right’ or who felt fictional characters should be allowed to die with their creators,” Obviously I fall in with readers who think Goldsborough doesn’t get it right. Reading Goldsborough’s Wolfe and Archie is like visiting the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas while longing for the real deal in Paris. I have enjoyed some Nero Wolfe homage, such as Lawrence Block’s
Chip Harrelson novels, but continuations don’t appeal to me any more than abridged works do. Still, I had some hope that the prequel would be diff e r e n t f r o m t h e earlier Goldsborough continuations which I had read and disliked, and that I’d find Archie Meets Nero Wolfe at least tolerable for the account it might give of the earliest days of Wolfe’s and Archie’s partnership. Alas, all hope was dashed thirty pages in when the faux Fritz answered the door wearing his apron and a few pages further on the bogus Wolfe mentions that Fritz has dusted a note for finger prints. I find it a bit difficult to see Fritz going to the door in his apron except in an emergency. He’s too proper for that. And I firmly believe that the only thing Fritz has or ever will dust is the furniture. Orrie is more bumptious in this spinoff than he ever was in the Rex Stout tales. Saul is too pompous and Fred is too garrulous. The rendering of Wolfe and Archie is the worst. Granted that the first time we hear Archie’s voice via Rex Stout is seven years after he started working for Mr. Wolfe, knowing him through Rex Stout’s words it’s hard to believe Archie had ever sounded so naïve or so uncouth as he does in Archie Meets Nero Wolfe. If he See montague on 19
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Moderates Bass and Brown: Unemployed! Friend, loyal listener to The Advocates, activist K A T H Y GETCHELL of Londonderry by Niel Young Advocates Columnist shares s o m e thoughts with our listeners and readers. Spurred by a caller trying to argue that America did something horrifically wrong in Iraq, MARK LEVIN goes on an awesome rant against people attacking this country from within, whether it be from ‘left-wing creeps’ who hate this country or from pathetic Republicans who are too weak and foolish to bother defending it. In fact, Levin says the central question is this: “Is there anybody left in public office who will defend our way of life?� And you can hear that question echoed throughout his rant. “One of the more hot spots of his rant was when he slammed Obama today for trying to shame people into supporting ‘gun control’ legislation: Obama today going on and on about gun control telling us it’s time to move on, we’ve waited long enough. Who the hell does he think he is? Is he more powerful than the Constitution itself? Is that what we’ve become, ladies and gentlemen? That 2nd amendment is there to protect us from him! That 2nd amendment is there to protect us from DIANE FEINSTEIN! That 2nd amendment is there to protect us from the whole damn bunch of these bleeps! That’s why that 2nd amendment is there! And all the rest of them! And they demand that we surrender to
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members that she acted nobly out of â&#x20AC;&#x153;white guiltâ&#x20AC;? to protest racism against blacks. Never mind that one of the officers killed, Waverly Brown, was black. While Redford glorifies his fictional Weather Underground murderers as â&#x20AC;&#x153;patriots,â&#x20AC;? he ignores the patriotic legacy of the victims of Weather Underground violence. And while Redford lionizes the Weather Underground zealots as compassionate parents, where are his passion and compassion for the children of the Weather Underground victims? Brown served in the Air Force after the Korean War and had two grown daughters and a teenage son when he died in the brutal shootout. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Grady, who served in the Marines and did two tours of duty in Vietnam, left behind a wife and three children -- 6, 2 and 6 months old. Paige, a Navy veteran, also left behind a wife and three kids -- 19, 16 and 9. The sons and daughters of those gunned down by
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Weather Underground killers have lived in obscurity. Meanwhile, as I first reported more than a decade ago, Chesa Boudin has lived a pampered life surrounded by tenured academics and celebrity friends. His adoptive parents? The infamous pals of Barack Obama, Weathermen organizers Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Refresher course: Dohrn declared war on â&#x20AC;&#x153;AmeriKKKa,â&#x20AC;? helped stage the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Days of Rageâ&#x20AC;? in Chicago, when Weathermen blew up a memorial statue to police officers and rioted violently, leaving 75 policemen wounded and one permanently injured in a wheelchair, and then spent years as a fugitive from justice before settling into a comfy post as director of the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University. Ayers remains in the limelight after celebrating the Weathermen bombing the Pentagon and flitting from campuses to socialist regimes and back preaching education as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;motor force for revo-
sional approval, to assist refugees. The aid package is well warranted both on humanitarian and strategic grounds. Jordan has historically been a close and reliable American friend in a region of widening chaos and mistrust. Jordanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population may be nearly ten percent Christian. Christians throughout the world have, for the most part, not actively followed the fate of their faith in the Middle East. Now early in his Pontificate, the Easter season provides Pope Francis the opportunity to make an impassioned appeal to
lution.â&#x20AC;? Chesa Boudin attended Yale, won a prestigious Rhodes scholarship, shilled for Hugo Chavez, wrote books and keeps a busy speaking schedule. He still stands by the Weathermenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s revolutionary agenda: â&#x20AC;&#x153;My parents were all dedicated to fighting U.S. imperialism around the world. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m dedicated to the same thing.â&#x20AC;? Cinematically and metaphorically, Redford manufactures the same stance that unrepentant Weather Underground criminals and apologists still hold of themselves today: Not guilty. Note: The Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;GradyBrown Memorial Scholarship Fund honors the memory of the fallen Nyack PD officers by supporting students pursuing careers in law enforcement. More information at http://www.ogradybrown.com/index.html. Michelle Malkin is the author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Croniesâ&#x20AC;? (Regnery 2010). Her e-mail address is malkinblog@gmail.com.
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League of NH Craftsmen Meredith Gallery, 279 D.W. Highway, Meredith. 12:303:30pm. Class taught by Deb Fairchild. $30pp with a $12 additional material fee. Preregistration is required. 2797920
Phoenix Marionette Theatre’s “Aladdin and the Lamp of Dreams”
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18th Annual Model Train Show
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Skate Escape, Court Street, Laconia. Every Thursday from 3pm-6pm Oct. 4th through May 30th.
Thursday 25th Kris Allen
The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. 536-2551
Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo
Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, Hampton Beach. 8pm. 929-4100
Thurs. 25th – May 4th Glengarry Glen Ross
Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 335-1992
Bible Study
Open Door Bible Church, 2324 Rt. 16, next to West Ossipee Post Office. Every Wednesday at 6:30pm. 508380-0471
Singles Dance
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Tilton Senior Center from 7pm-9pm every Wednesday.
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Saturday 27th Free Class on Vegan Intuitive Cooking
Sunflower Natural Foods, 390 South Main Street, Laconia. 10am-Noon. Registration required. 524-6334
Roast Beef Supper
Trinity Episcopal Church, 93 NH Rt. 25, Meredith. 5-7pm. $12pp or $30 per family. 279-6689
Ongoing Senior Ten Pin Bowling League
Funspot, Rt. 3 Weirs Beach. 10am every Monday morning. 50 years and older welcomed! Call Gail 569-1974 or Marie 494-8405
Lakes Region Camera Club Meeting
Trinity Episcopal Church, Rt. 25, Meredith. 7:30pm. First and third Tuesdays of the month. Persons of any experience level are welcome. www.lrcameraclub.com or 340-2359
Free Movie Matinee
Dover Public Library. Every Saturday at 2pm. Free screening of a family movie. Bring your own popcorn!
Reiki Classes
Meredith Senior Center. Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month. Free. 279-5631 for times and to schedule an appointment.
Preschool Storytime
Meredith Public Library, Main St. Wednesdays, 10:30-11:30am and Thursdays, 1-2pm. Ages 3-5. 2794303.
Knotty Knitters
Meredith Public Library, Main St.
10:30am - Noon. Every Thursday. All levels of experience welcome. 2794303.
Woodside Carvers Club
Woodside Building at the Taylor Community, Laconia. Tuesday and Thursday 9:30-11:30am. Beginners welcome. 934-4265
30+ League Basketball
Tapply-Thompson Community Center, Bristol. 6pm. $1 per night. 744-2713.
Adult Pick-Up Basketball
Newfound Memorial Middle School. Sundays, 6-8pm. $1 per night. 7442713.
T.O.P.S. Meeting
Congregational Church, Meredith. 5:30pm every Wednesday. “Take Off Pounds Sensibly.”
Toastmasters
Imagine Gallery, 624 Main Street, Laconia. Open Tues-Sat. 10am-5pm or by appointment. Ongoing classes for all ages, art exhibits and art work of local artists for sale. Call 528-1706 or 235-2777. imaginegallerynh.com.
Room 5c at Concord Hospital. 4th Wednesday of every month at 7pm. Open to all pre- and post-transplant patients, families and friends. Bring your questions and concerns and share your news. 224-4767
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Crohn’s/Colitis Support Group
Center Harbor Congregational Church, Center Harbor. 9am Mondays. 6pm Thursdays and a beginners class at 7pm Thursdays. 968-7986
Complimentary Wine Tasting
Wolfeboro Wine Cellar, 51 North Main Street. Fridays 3-6pm. Saturdays 3-6pm and Sundays 2-5pm. 5693321.
Weirs Community Association Meeting
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Moultonborough Library. 6pm. Second and fourth Tuesdays of the month. Get over your fear of public speaking. Everyone welcome. 476-5760 or email bobgoff@msn.com.
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Rotating Art Exhibits and Unique Shop
Golden View Health Care Center, 19 NH Rt. 104. Meredith. Wednesdays at 2:15pm. Knitters of all abilities are welcome to join this group. Free. 2798111
The Studio, 84 Union Ave, Laconia. Wed.-Fri. 10am-5pm and Sat. 10am3pm. Fun, unusual gift ideas that don’t cost a fortune! 455-8008
Middle Eastern Expressive Dance & Yoga
Stone Gardens, Meredith. Wednesdays at 6:30pm. 744-9761.
Tot Time
Meredith Public Library, Main St. Fridays 9:30-10:20am. Ages 3-5. 2794303.
Art Classes and Workshops
First United Methodist Church, 18 Wesley Way, Gilford. Second Monday of each month at 7pm. 524-2411
Amputee Peer Group
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Forestview Manor, 153 Parade Rd, Meredith. Held the 4th Monday of each month. 5:30pm-7pm. 279-3121
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right. I saw the Oakland Coliseum and pondered “Moneyball.” I thought of the great baseball and football players who’d performed there in World Series and AFC title games. Somewhere in Oakland was McClymonds High School, where Bill Russell played basketball before enrolling at the University of San Francisco, whom he led to two NCAA titles before beginning his legendary NBA career with the Boston Celtics. I looked across the water at San Francisco and thought of the earthquake which cancelled Game 1 of the 1989 World Series. It occurred to me that the Giants are defending World Champions, general managed by Concord’s Brian Sabean, and I strained to make out Pacific Bell Park, which I knew bordered the water. Pondering an invitation to attend meeting of Cal Berkeley I thought of Willie Mays. Democrats. Somewhere over there I jogged back down the tions for which Berkeley was Candlestick Park. I thought of Joe Montana. hill and later sat in on a is famous. I wasn’t disRestaurants NHand for 2009” history in class listened appointed. I saw peoMemories of “Top Bay 3 Area -Manchester Union Leader elo- ple with pink, purple, teams and games flooded to a professor wax my thoughts, and I real- quent about FDR. While and orange hair carrying am a Yankee conser- signs. There was a group ized that sports had20 en“Top BestI Seacoast Restaurants abled me to have a great vative, I try to be open- singing and chanting. for 2010” - Tasteon Magazine to ex- There were simultaneous deal of context and ap- minded. I went preciation for what would plore a bit of the campus pro-Israel and anti-Israel “Hottest in NH”wondering if I see demonstrations. I posed have otherwise been Dish a proper, - 2007of&the 2008demonstraNH Magazine for a photo with Gumby. any more alien landscape.
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I was invited to a meeting of campus Democrats, which I had to turn down. But even if I was a bit out of my element around the demonstrators, I could still talk sports. As part of my broad-minded outreach, I made peace with a Lakers fan, who said she had other worries besides the Celtics this year. So my Berkeley adventure turned out to be enlightening and educational. I learned that FDR saved the country from the Great Depression. I also learned that sports are ubiquitous, and that a N.H. Republican can find common ground with a Berkeley Democrat while watching ESPN in that great bar at the Durant. Go Bears! Born Today ... That is to say, sports standouts born on April 4 include baseball great Tris Speaker (1888), former baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti (1938), and legendary racehorse Kelso (1957), who passed away in 1983. Sportsquiz What year was the first Masters Golf Tournament See MOFFETT on 25
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and Department Heads (we will meet them later…) and submitted to the County Convention (your elected State House Representatives) for FINAL APPROVAL of the county budget. This budget is submitted on an accounting form MS-42 and given to the NH Department of Revenue Administration where the tax liability of each municipality is calculated. So, to sum this up – the Commissioners put together the budget, present the budget to the county delegation who approves (or not) the County Budget. When working together, this relationship provides a check and balance for our county citizens. It is important to note, it is the Convention’s job to approve a realistic and fair budget for all taxpayers. A Delegation is not elected to rubber stamp the Commissioners bud-
get. Rather, it is through this process that taxpayers can receive fair treatment by electing representatives to oversee their interests with regard to taxation. It is the Commissioner’s job to supervise the approved budget through all county responsibilities once the line items in the budget have been approved under the guideline of RSA 24:15 by the County Delegation. The controversy has been centered on the Commissioner’s desire to set the budget and have the delegation just nod its head in approval. This would negate the check and balance inherent in our county system. Indeed, many meetings have been rife with bitterness as the Commissioners have had to deal with a conservative majority in the County Delegation which was dedicated to a LEVEL FUNDED BUDGET in 2013. There were no suggested
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salary cuts in the delegation’s budget, but the budget was streamlined by about 1.2 million, saving Belknap County taxpayers from the proposed 9% property tax hike in the Commissioner’s budget. (This increase would have been found in the County portion of our property taxes.) The County Delegation essentially level funded the 2013 budget and no real tax increase was passed on to our citizens. It was not a pretty process, but not having a tax increase was a welcome respite, to be sure. I am sure there will be much more to this drama as we move ahead. Sometimes, it is good to get some background education. We will be sure to keep you apprised and educated as things go along. But, to be sure, the conservative majority of our delegation will not “go along to get along”. Stay tuned for Part Two! “The politicians say “we” can’t afford a tax cut. Maybe “we” can’t afford the politicians.” - Steve Forbes
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families, in general, assure better outcomes for the children. When we have a social conservative get up and talk about these issues, it provides an opportunity to teach the people. “Conclusion: Fiscal and moral issues are inextricably linked. We cannot fight our country’s problems if we refuse to accept this link and muzzle ourselves because REPUBLICANS are afraid of offending liberals. “I wish Republicans would worry more about social conservatives being offended and not bend over backwards for our opponents who ARE destroying this country!”
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times during processing before we the consumer purchase the item. In my recent testimony opposing HB 617 I said, “The prospect facing New Hampshire families is not only will it cost them more to fill up their tank to drive to the store, but when they get there, everything they need to purchase will be more expensive as well.” This is not the time to be raising any tax on our citizens. You can help stop the Gas/Diesel Tax by signing the petition on our website, www.stopnhgastax.com. Please do it today and ask others to do the same; you’ll be glad you did. Tom Thomson Orford, NH
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I asked if I could invite Pete to go along with us. Uncle Fred wrinkled his brow, scratched at the top of his head with a stubby finger, rubbed his chin with his hand and when I was just about ready to give up, pa tooeyed an amber stream of tobacco juice at a passing hen and grumbled, “I reckon so.” He disappeared into the house while I went after Pete and when we returned and knocked he emerged from the house giving his mouth a quick swipe with the hack of his hand and burping gently. The three of us went down. the back road a ways and in through the cattle gate to the pasture, trailing along at Uncle Fred’s heels as he led us along with a warning, “You boys watch where you step.” He didn’t offer any explanation and we didn’t need any. Up on the east slope, where there were more rocks than pasture, Uncle Fred placed a finger on his lips and shushed us. It sounded like the air escaping from one of the tires on his Model-T. Pointing to an opening under some boulders, he said, “Thar she be, boys.”
It looked like just another jumble of rocks to us but we stared at it without saying anything until Uncle Fred squirmed and said, “Wall, I guess we better be gittin’ on home.” Instead of going back the way we had come, Uncle led us off across the pasture in a beeline for the house. It was a shorter route and as we approached the low wire of the electric fence Pete, in a burst of enthusiasm, raced ahead and leaped over the barrier. I wasted no time in running after him and copying his jump. Uncle Fred twitched his shoulders, and for a moment we thought that he was going to follow us, but I guess that an arthritic twinge reminded him that he was getting a little old for that sort of thing. Unaware that before turning his cows into the pasture, Joe Dagget was at that moment testing the circuit which had been turned off all winter, Uncle Fred lifted a long leg over the thin strand and straddled it. Pete claimed later that he saw sparks shoot from Uncle Fred’s eyes. With a screech that had the crew at the saw-
mill reaching for their lunch pails an hour early, Unk sprang straight into the air, his hair sticking out like porcupine quills, and sprawled to a four point landing outside the fence. Scrambling to his feet, he skootched over, grabbed his crotch and began to run in short circles, yipping like a wounded coyote. When he got winded, he sat carefully on a rock, glaring at Pete and me. We wanted to laugh but we knew better. There are times when silence is golden; this time it was platinum. He finally got his breath back and trailed along behind us as we headed home. Pete looked back and noticed that he was limping along pigeon-toed and on his tiptoes, picking his way carefully around the rocks. “Whatcha walkin’ thet way fur?” asked Pete. Uncle Fred’s answer is best left to magazines that are hidden under the couch cushions. Pete wisely decided to ask no more questions even though the answers were educational. It was the last time Uncle Fred offered to be our guide.
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One spring, during the mud season, Twitchell Puckerberry decided to drive up from Boston to check out his summer lodge. His wife, Sophrenia, a hefty woman, occupied two thirds of the front seat as Twitchel guided the Model-T along the rutty roads. Twitchel Puckerberry V squirmed fron side to side in the back seat. Every few minutes he leaned forward and whined, “When are we going to arrive, father?” As they approached Cooper’s Hill, Puckerberry IV gave her the gas, not knowing that there was a mudhole at the foot of the slope. The Model-T thumped to a halt and settled down up to its hub caps in the mire. The motor backfired and was silent. “Well, Twitchell?” demanded Sophrenia. “I’ll go get someone to assist,” said Twitchell,
27 pointing up the hill to Clem Hoad’s farm. It took about fifteen minute for Clem to yoke up his oxen, hook a chain to the Model-T and drag it up to dry ground. “You be the fifth one I drug out of that hole today,” commented Clem as he folded a two dollar bill and tucked it into his pocket. “These interruptions to your daily toil must be an aggravation to you,” commented Twitchel Puckerberry IV. “Not half the aggravation it be to lug water down every night to keep thet mudhole goin”’ saidClem ‘ W H Y Y O U OLD....!”screeched Sophrenia. “Mother!” howled Twitches Puckerberry V. “What you uttered.” “Geeyup,” said Clem, prodding his oxen toward home.
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in the bank would be a classic example of such short-sighted policies. After thousands of American banks failed during the Great Depression of the 1930s, there were people who would never put their money in a bank again, even after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was created, to have the federal government guarantee individual bank accounts when the bank itself failed. For years after the Great Depression, stories appeared in the press from time to time about some older person who died and was found to have substantial sums of money stored under a mattress
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you protect the rights of others.
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troubling professional relationship. Good luck.
Photo #429 Winning Captions:
5 Mitch Miller’s instrument 6 Legendary birds 7 Diving shorebird 8 Yummy tidbit 9 Catches in a web 10 Yearn for 11 Letters on a battleship 12 Person on a pension 13 Fashion designer Bill 14 Ski chalet style, often 15 Rebelling Turner 16 Puncturing tool 17 “The Gift” director Sam 18 Golf’s Els 19 Patronage 24 Snoop 28 Stopped sleeping 31 Dept. of Justice org. 32 Sown thing 33 Metal mixture 34 Ryan or Tatum 35 Irritate 37 Mushroom parts 38 Tony winner Kazan 42 Singes 43 Jeered 45 Spirit of a culture 47 Protective wall 48 Make trite 49 Having feeling 51 Rife 53 Cleave 55 Hands out 56 Court case 57 Competence 58 Attack from all sides 60 Stephen of “Bad Behaviour” 61 Popular pop
62 Loved ones 64 Talk up 68 Olympic figure skater Cohen 69 Math class: Abbr. 70 Kramer of “Seinfeld” 71 - New Guinea 73 Important time 75 Trademark 77 “No man is to his valet” 78 Come from behind to win 79 Arctic people 80 Quartet minus one 85 Strike callers 87- -di-dah 89 Las Vegas’ - Palace 90 Explanatory drawing 91 Cook, as onion rings 92 Slow absorptions 93 Red Bull ingredient 94 Title for a knight 96 Actor Chuck or singer Lila 98 Hound breed 101 Small intestine division 102 “- diem!” 103 Heroic poems 104 Kunta - (“Roots” role) 105 Demi of film 106 Quartet minus two 110 K.P. veggie 111 Baking qtys. 113 Canon camera option 114 “- bono” (“To what purpose?”) 115 Fleur-de- 117 Capacious vase 118 Gen - (post-’65 arrival)
Runners Up Captions: “Did you say you thought you were pregnant again!?” -Linda Couture, Laconia, NH. They are off to another Laconia Bike Week
-Sharon Fleischman, Laconia, NH.
“I promise you darling, we will lose them on the next corner.” -Lana Owens, Madison, NH.
Downsizing the family car. -Jean Schoenweiss, Thornton, NH.
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Blues Pioneer James Montgomery Returns To The Flying Monkey At 7:30pm on Saturday, April 6th, The Flying Monkey in Plymouth is excited to present an another exciting blues rock package show with James Montgomery and guests. Harmonica master James Montgomery shares the stage with the famed Uptown Horns and Charlie Farren. Always the consummate showman, Montgomery is known as one of the most dynamic performers on the blues scene today. Tickets for this concert start at $29. When bluesman James Montgomery plays the harmonica, he performs with an intensity and depth that gets crowds onto their feet and clamoring for more. Peter Wolf of the J. Geils Band named him the â&#x20AC;&#x153;John Mayall of New England.â&#x20AC;? While growing up in Detroit, Montgomery learned first-hand from masters James Cotton, John Lee Hooker and Junior Wells at the legend-
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