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Hayley Reardon Performs In Wolfeboro

Historic Association Still Short On Campaign To Repair One Of A Kind Flag location. The unique flag was made by the First Lady in response to a request from the W.W. Brown Camp, Manchester’s chapter of the Sons of Veterans. One of the members of the camp had asked Roosevelt to donate an item that could be used to raise money at a fair. After receiving the flag, one of the Sons of

Veterans wrote to Mrs. Roosevelt and asked for permission to keep the flag and she allowed it. The Sons of Veterans later donated the flag to the Manchester Historic Association in 1936. The flag con sists of rows of white and red ribbons sewn together. An embroidered canton (upper left hand corner) of blue silk was applied along with an appliquéd

shield bearing a lifelike embroidered portrait of George Washington. Around the portrait are the words: “First in war, first in peace and first in the heart of his countrymen.” The canton also has 45 stars. After the leak was detected, the flag was brought to Museum Textile Services in Andover, Massachusetts. Camille See flag on 23

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The Manchester Historic Association is still seeking additional funds to help pay for the repair of a historic American Flag created in 1903 by First Lady Edith Roosevelt. The flag, which was in fragile condition and faded over the years from exposure to light, was further damaged by a water leak from a room above the flag’s storage

Flag embroidered by First Lady Edith Roosevelt in 1903. Since 1936 it has been in the possession of the Manchester Historic Association. Years of exposure and recent water stains due to a leak forced a decision to restore the fragile flag. The Association still has about $2,000 to raise in order to pay for the intricate restoration process. courtesy Photo

On Friday, April 21, the Great Waters Music Festival will present Hayley Reardon at The Great Hall in the Wolfeboro Town Hall at 7:30pm. At 12 years old, Boston’s WUMB was first to publicly recognize her emerging talent as a winner at the 2009 Boston Folk Festival Songwriting Contest. In the ensuing year she had achieved additional recognition in numerous competitions including the YouTube/What’s Your Issue 2010 Music Video Competition, The North Atlantic Arts Alliance 7th Annual Songwriting Contest, and the 2010 Indiegirl International Songwriting Competition. Tickets for Hayley Reardon are General Admission at $25. Information and tickets for all performances are now on sale on the Great Waters website at www.greatwaters.org. Tickets can also be purchased by stopping by their new office at 54 North Main Street in Wolfeboro or calling the box office at (603) 569-7710.

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April Through April 12th 12 Angry Men Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. www. rochesteroperahouse.com or 3351992

Thursday 6th Storytelling Dinner

The Corner House Inn, 22 Main Street, Center Sandwich. 6:30pm. Full dinner and entertainment every Thursday nights through the end of May. Cost is $21.95 per person (plus tax and gratuity) and includes salad, entrée, glass of wine, dessert and coffee. 284-6219

Acoustic Thursday

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 7pm. Enjoy 2 for one appetizers after 7pm and live acoustic music! 293-0841

“A Journey to the End of the Earth”

Concord Public Library, 45 Green Street, Concord. 6pm. Ruth “Sam” Jamke presents this thrilling, illustrated talk about her expedition to Antarctica, Elephant Island and South Georgia Island. Join her for incredible scenes of ice, snow, glaciers, penguins, seals, whales and birds seen nowhere else in the world! Free and open to the public. 225-8670

Friday 7th Dueling Pianos

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 8pm.Prepare your friends for some serious fun as you pick the music and join in the show! 293-0841

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

Illusionist Rick Thomas The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh. com or 536-2551.

Kacie Grenon and ‘Last Reach’ Concert to Benefit Rochester Performance & Arts Center The Governor’s Inn, 78 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 8pm-9pm. Kacie Grenon is 14-year-old singer, songwriter, recording artist from the Seacoast area of NH. Grenon has a soulful voice that combines elements of Pop, Alternative-Rock, and Country. She accompanies her vocals with acoustic guitar and ukulele and plays an eclectic mix of crossgenre cover songs as well as original music. All proceeds will directly support the upcoming Rochester Performance & Arts Center, located at 32 North Main Street, slated to open in the early summer of 2017, with construction already underway. www.rochesteroperahouse.com or www.governorsinn.com for tickets and more info.

“Love, War, & (Black) Magic”: Musicians of Wall Street Present Operatic Journey

Concord Community Music School, 23 Wall Street, Concord. 7:30pm. A king desperate to retain control of his kingdom, a commander on a quest to conquer, a girl caught in the crossfire, a knight confident in love’s power, a witch searching to belong; these are the dynamic characters of Handel’s Rinaldo. The Musicians of Wall Street present an evening of operatic adventure! $15/adults, $12/students and seniors. www.ccmusicschool. org or 228-1196

Saturday 8th Children’s Tea Party

Concord Public Library, 45 Green Street, Concord. 10am-11am. Dress up and bring a favorite doll or stuffed animal! For ages 5 and up. 225-8670

Easter Bunny Visit! Kellerhaus, Route 3, Weirs Beach. 1pm-3pm. Hop in for free cookies, punch and carrots with the Easter Bunny! Be sure to browse the ‘haus’ for sweet Easter Basket stuffers for your loved ones! 366-4466 or www.

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Winter Farmer’s Market

Cole Gardens, 430 Loudon Road, Concord. 10am-1:30pm. More than 30 participating vendors and live music. 229-0655

Spaghetti Supper - Fundraiser for the Boy Scouts Community Church of Alton, 20 Church Street, Alton. 4pm-7pm. Homemade sauce and meatballs followed by desserts and ice cream! Proceeds will benefit Boy Scout Troop 53. $7pp or $25 per family. cmchurch@tds.net

Ryan Ordway CD Release Show Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $15pp. BYOB. www.pitmansfreightroom. com or 527-0043

Ricky Skaggs with Kentucky Thunder The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh. com or 536-2551.

Pancake Breakfast and Children’s Easter Event Community Church of Alton, 20 Church Street, Alton. 8am-12 noon. Pancake breakfast from 8am-9am and then from 9am-noon there will be; Making Easter Eggs, Activity Stations and Story Time! All are welcomed for this FREE event! cmchurch@tds.

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“Sweet Art” – Dessert Competition and Artist Reception, Daniel Anselmi Rochester Public Library, 65 South Main Street, Rochester. 1:30pm3:30pm. The dessert competition is open to local bakers and the public is encouraged to attend. $5 to purchase a ticket to be a judge or a competitor. Tickets are limited and can be purchased at the library during regular business hours. www.rochestermfa.

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10th Annual Earth Day Festival

NH Audubon’s Massabesic Center, 84 Silk Farm Road, Concord. 10am-

3pm. Connect with nature on the trails or with the awesome festivities! There will be live animals, drawings to win prizes, “build your own birdhouse” kits for sale, games, mural painting, crafts, live music and marshmallow roasting at the campfire. $7pp or $20 families. 224-9909

Sunday 9th Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra – Family Concert Inter-Lakes High School, Route 25, Meredith. 3pm. This performance featuring talented students will inspire and engage children of all ages. One lucky child will be chosen to conduct the Orchestra performing the Stars and Stripes Forever! Concert is free for children and students and only $5 for adults. www.LRSO.org/tickets

Tuesday 11th The Lakes Region Chordsmen First United Methodist Church, 18 Wesley Way, Gilford. 5:30pm Heavy hors d’oeuvres, 6pm performance, followed by dessert. RSVP by April 6th, 2017. www.wesleywoodsnh.org

Wednesday 12th Game Time Trivia Shooters Tavern, Route 3, DW Highway, Belmont. 8pm-10pm. www.

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Flying Film Series – “Lion” The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh. com or 536-2551.

Gardening with the Masters: Starting Plants from Seeds

Castle in the Clouds Carriage House, Moultonborough. Belknap Master Gardner Shirley Splaine will discuss the best ways to start plants from seeds. She will share her hints and tips to make your growing season a successful one! $10pp, $8pp Castle members. 476-5410

Golden Dragon Acrobats Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. Doors open at 6pm, show starts at 7pm. Tickets start at $18pp. www.rochesteroperahouse. com or 335-1992

Thursday 13th Storytelling Dinner

Acoustic Thursday

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 7pm. Enjoy 2 for one appetizers after 7pm and live acoustic music! 293-0841

“Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea” with Author Michael Tougias

Concord Public Library, 45 Green Street, Concord. 6pm. Tougias will chronicle how in November of 1980, two fishing vessels, the Fair Wind

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Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson At Pitman’s Freight Room On Friday, April 7th at 8pm Luther “Guitar Johnson” will be at Pitman’s Freight Room. 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson is one of the premier blues artists to emerge from Chicago’s music scene. Hailing from Itta Bena, Mississippi, Johnson arrived in Chicago in the mid-fifties a young man. At around the same time, the West Side guitar style, a way of playing alternating stinging single-note leads with powerful distorted chords, was being created mostly by Magic Sam and Otis Rush. This style grew into an important contribution to modern blues and rock, influencing such notables as Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler. Johnson served a long sideman apprenticeship with both Magic Sam and Muddy Waters, while developing into a strong performer in his own right. Today, Luther is widely considered the foremost proponent of the West Side guitar style and the heir apparent to the late Magic Sam’s West Side throne. $25.00 Admission at door: $20.00 in Advance. Tickets can be purchased at pitmansfreightroom.com. Tickets purchased in advance will be available at the door prior to the event.

LRCS Annual Celebration features Inspirational Speaker Lakes Region Community Services’ Annual Celebration will be held Thursday, April 13, 4:30pm at the Beane Conference Center in Laconia. The event is held to bring together community, school and business leaders, donors, supporters, partners, volunteers, with families and individuals we serve to honor those who face extraordinary challenges, recognize accomplishments, and to thank everyone who helps strengthen our community by supporting the work we do. The LRCS Annual Celebration features a reception, live music and a program that includes 2017 Community Partner Awards, employee longevity awards and keynote presentation. The event’s speaker, Kurt Christensen, known to his friends as ‘KC’, was on his way to fulfilling his goal of being a PGA golf pro when his life path changed abruptly. On a snowy NH evening, the car he was riding in went off the road into trees. The accident that nearly took KC’s life began a long and arduous journey of recovery. RSVP by April 10. Reserve your seat today online at Eventbrite: LRCS17.eventbrite.com. There is no charge to attend, but seating is limited! You can also respond by contacting Judy Maguire at 603-581-1504 or Judith.maguire@lrcs.org.

“Motor Booty Affair” In Rochester Disco sound! Disco lights! Disco club! The four out-of thisworld jive-talkin’ funkateers of Motor Booty Affair bring their 70’s extravaganza of groove, style and attitude back to the Rochester Opera House stage for a seventh season. The floor is flat, so there’s plenty of space to get funky. Afros, bell bottoms, platform shoes… wear them… if you dare! Dance to the hits of The Bee Gees, KC and the Sunshine Band, Earth, Wind and Fire, The Commodores and many, many more of your favorites! The show starts at 8pm (doors open at 7pm) on Saturday, April 29. Tickets start at $14. Reserve tickets online or call the box office (603) 335-1992, M/W/F from 10-5pm and 2-hours before the show. Handicap access in balcony only. Cash Bar. Patrons under the age of 18 must be accompanied by legal guardian. The Rochester Opera House is located in City Hall, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester NH. Visit www.RochesterOperaHouse.com for more information.

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Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly, Adrian McKinty, Seventh Street Books, 2017 The foolishness of dreams which, in this bellicose corner of this malicious little island, had the ability to change instantly into nightmares. - Sean Duffy Maybe you dream of a visit to Ireland: the forty shades of green, the quaint pubs, the golf, the castles, the music. And if you visit you’ll probably find your dream more or less intact. No nightmares in sight as long as your luggage arrives with you and it doesn’t rain for ten days straight. It’s easier to keep the dream intact in the 21st century. In the 20th century, particularly if you were reckless enough to visit Northern Ireland and found yourself in the wrong place at the wrong time, the dream trip might turn to nightmare in short order. Detective Inspector Sean Duffy of the Carrickfergus Royal Ulster Constabulary can elaborate unreservedly and expressively on dreams and nightmares in Northern Ireland in the last half of the twentieth century, that period of Ireland’s history known as “The Troubles.” Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly is Adrian McKinty’s sixth Sean Duffy novel and it has one of the most gripping beginnings of any book I’ve ever read. Not only does the scene appear profoundly and distinctly in your mind but the poetry of the writing holds you in sway. There is no way you will put this book down after you read the prologue. As Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly opens Sean, his partner Beth, and their daughter, Emma, are on holiday with Sean’s par-

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is the rare Catholic member of the Protestant police force and is thus assumed by the Protestants to be a spy and by the Catholics to be a traitor though his CID co-workers, Detective Sergeant McCrabban, “Crabbie,” and Detective Constable Alex Lawson, genuinely like and respect Sean and have his back despite the risk. The press makes Sean look like an incompetent fool, the brass tells him to lay low, Special Branch is out to get him, and his girlfriend decides to take their daughter and take a break from the relationship. And that’s at the beginning

of the case. It only gets worse, as cases in Sean Duffy’s world are wont to do. Sean is threatened, his family is threatened and the end result of the threats is a breathtaking chase scene. One such intense passage may be requisite in the noir genre, but McKinty has your eyes glued to the pages for the final third of the book. I’ve been on several cases, so to speak, with Sean Duffy as a witness, counselor, and admirer, and I’ve vicariously shared his dreams and nightmares. I’ve watched Sean grow and change, reach the brink and take a step back, and find some relief, here and there, from the desperate struggle to find peace personally and professionally. McKinty’s writing never disappoints. His plotting is exhilarating, atmospheric and precise. If it’s a rare novelist that can mix violence and humor with pathos and poetry, then McKinty is surely rare. I disagree with Sean Duffy’s mother who claims that “You can’t tell if a writer’s any good or not until they’re dead a generation, at least.” I learned how good a writer McKinty was when I read “Dead I May Well Be” (Michael Forsythe series), and the Sean Duffy detective series as a whole and Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly in particular have done nothing to change my mind. I like McKinty alive and well and writing. You will, too.

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To The Editor: As a community of Belknap county residents and taxpayers the time has arrived like spring to begin the process of moving forward together with the conclusion of the Belknap County Budget deliberations. The March 31 statutory deadline has come and gone. The sun continues to rise in the east and set in the west. Our beautiful sky has not fallen and soon the spring buds on trees and other wonders of nature will shower us all with beauty. Democracy has clearly spoken. As observers from a distance, the difference of opinions expressed between our fine State Representatives and the three Commissionerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s has reached a conclusion. From our understanding on media reporting the spending for the 2017 approved delegation budget will be approximately $ 1.4 million dollars higher than what was necessary and spent last year. The three Commissioners have been given additional flexibility to be responsible stewards by increased management authority to transfer funds within cost centers. In addition, the three Commissioners continue to enjoy the added opportunity to petition the County Executive Committee for additional budget transfers for special cases . Seems like a win, win, for all.

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On the other hand, we are very saddened when we hear the following: â&#x20AC;&#x153;What we have here is a mess on our handsâ&#x20AC;?, said Commissioner Hunter Taylor. In addition we hear, â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a reckless budgetâ&#x20AC;? said Commissioner Glen Waring. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll reach judgment day. One day that month of December, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be in a crisis.â&#x20AC;? Says Commission Chair Devoy. How sad to have such a pessimistic and critical view going forward. You have been elected to show leadership. Please take a deep breath and begin that process ! For the Chairman to suggest that we may go ahead and do what we will do and cause a crisis in December is simply childish. As optimistic people, we do believe, you three commissioners can manage the budget going forward successfully. Further, we would hope, you will begin listening to the taxpayer, and start the long over due process of cooperating with the county delegation. Recently we came across an interesting publication written by Mr. Michael Knowles who holds a B.A. degree from Yale University. This publication is advertised as a comprehensive guide entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Reasons To Vote For Democratsâ&#x20AC;?. Commissioners please consider reading this novel to see how it mirrors your present leadership styles. Finally, thank you, to all

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Stossel Should Reevaluate To The Editor: I was totally with John Stossel in the Weirs Times 3/30/17. UNTIL the last paragraph. Social Security and Medicare are NOT â&#x20AC;&#x153;entitlementâ&#x20AC;? programs!!! I worked almost 40 years, paying Medicare taxes EVERY paycheck. I will NEVER recoup that â&#x20AC;&#x153;investmentâ&#x20AC;?, no matter what ailment I may develop. So please tell me how this is an â&#x20AC;&#x153;entitlementâ&#x20AC;? program? I had NO option for not paying, yet now Liberals say even folks that never contributed should also be included??? Then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Social Security. AGAIN a program that I had NO option but to participate! Perhaps John should reevaluate exactly what an â&#x20AC;&#x153;entitlementâ&#x20AC;? is vers a paid for program? Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s old enough to know better! Peter Brown Alexandria, NH.

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I never knew how much I enjoyed telling stories out loud until a few years after my first column was published here in the Weirs Times. All of those early columns were stories that had to do with my adjustments to life here in Central New Hampshire after having moved here from Long Island, New York in 1985. There was always an underlying theme to these tales of adjustment. It was the fact that a handy person I am not. What were experiences of frustration for me, years later turned into amusing tales. Of course, there was sometimes some slight embellishment to make the stories a bit more entertaining, but often there was no embellishment at all; I took some of my more embarrassing moments, moments that I’m sure others would be afraid to admit, and turned them into stories for others to (hopefully) enjoy and maybe have a good laugh at my expense. I never regretted for a moment using my own shortcomings to give others a good chuckle. In all honesty, it has been cathartic for me. Now when faced with a task I’d rather not attempt, I do anyway since, succeed or fail, it always makes for a great story. A few years after the first stories of my mis-

adventures in raking the roof in winter, buying firewood for the first time and spending a morning at the dump appeared, I was asked by a local group to come and tell my stories in person. This was about seventeen years ago now. That first presentation wasn’t very good (a story in itself), Still, I was intrigued enough to want to do it again. It has been said that next to dying, public speaking is the second biggest fear for most people. For me it is having to fix a leaky faucet. I admit I was a bit nervous that first time speaking in front of a crowd, but as the years went by and I was invited by more groups and organizations in telling my tales, I became more comfortable with it and looked forward to the next presentation. It encouraged me to publish a couple of books with some of these stories as well and people actually bought them. Imagine that! One thing that always intrigued me when giving a presentation was after it was over, many people would come up to tell me their own misadventures in adjusting to life here. Many of these stories were true, yet very funny. Unfortunately, no one else might ever hear them. I always felt that there should be an outlet for some of these stories to be told. And not just stories about being a Flatlander adjusting to life here in New Hampshire, but just the stories about life in general. We all have so many great stories to tell but most of us don’t realize it. I would bet that every week we all have at least one amazing story -maybe funny, maybe sad - about something that

happened in our lives. For several years now, across the country, and even in the southern part of New Hampshire, there have been these great events called “Story Slams” where regular people stand up in front of a crowd and tell a story about a true event in their lives based on a particular theme for the night. There are judges and music and some prizes are awarded, but mostly it is just a lot of fun and It is an amazing experience for both the storyteller and the audience. I have started what I call “Real Stories North Of Concord” to organize some of these events here in the Lakes Region and north. There are a lot of entertaining stories out there that need to be told. I know this because I have heard them myself. The first event is going to take place at Pitman’s Freight Room in Laconia on July 13th. It will be a fundraiser for the New Hampshire Humane Society. The theme for that night will be “It Seemed Like A Good Idea.” Then on September 9th there will be another event at the Franklin Opera House and I’m hoping to add more going forward. There will be more information about these coming soon on these pages as well as from these venues themselves. You can also go to “Real Stories North Of Concord” on Facebook. You can also follow RealStoriesNOC on Twitter. So, a story about getting other people to tell their stories is my story for this week. I’m hoping to hear yours someday. www.BrendanTSmith. com

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Benjamin Crump: TV’s Rising Fake News Star He’s the new Al Sharpton on steroids -- and he’s coming to a TV near you. B e n j a min Crump, camera-lovin’ lawyer for the families of Trayvon Marby Michelle Malkin tin and MiSyndicated Columnist chael Brown, rocketed to fame perpetuating the “Hands up, don’t shoot” lie. Never mind that even the leftwing Obama Justice Department concluded that the 22 witnesses who manufactured the Black Lives Matter-promoted narrative were unreliable, inconsistent, self-contradictory, unsupported by a shred of forensic evidence, or outright lying. In Crump World, anti-police ideology trumps facts. Social justice trumps actual justice. And lying about crime pays. Big time. Crump is going Hollywood. Next week, the Florida-based legal celebrity will debut as one of six featured attorneys participating in show trials on the new Fox reality series, “You the Jury.” Crump is also serving as host and executive producer of a sixhour miniseries on the A&E Network titled “Who Killed Tupac?” And busy Benjamin is hosting “Evidence of Innocence,” a documentary series that will profile “the unbelievable true stories of individuals who were convicted of crimes they didn’t commit.” The series will air on TV One. Originally co-owned by Comcast and now controlled by Radio One (a minority-owned company that syndicates racial rabble-rouser, cop-basher and hate crime hoax godfather Al Sharpton), the station claims to reach 57 million

households. This is the same social justice TV network whose liberal anchor Roland Martin fed Democratic debate questions last year to disgraced former CNN contributor Donna Brazile, who finally admitted last week that she leaked the information to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. CNN president Jeff Zucker declared after an internal investigation that the network “would not partner ever again” with TV One. But not to worry. TV One was happy to partner with Sharpton’s National Action Network to cosponsor an awards show last fall that bestowed a special civil rights honor on Crump “for historic and transformative service.” “Transformative service”? Try manipulating reality for political gain. While the network has cast Crump as a champion of the falsely convicted, both are responsible for spreading falsehoods and inciting hatred against a former Oklahoma City police officer whose case is one of the worst miscarriages of justice I’ve ever encountered. Last fall, TV One’s true-crime hit, “Justice By Any Means,” reenacted the story of former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw with blowhard commentary from pundits who had no clue about the actual evidence in the case. “Legal analyst” Tanya Miller, for example, put words in Holtzclaw’s mouth that appear nowhere in the court record, trial transcripts, police reports or interviews. As I’ve been reporting over the past year, Holtzclaw was arrested, charged and convicted on numerous alleged sexual assaults in summer 2014, during the racially inflamed, anti-cop riots in Ferguson and Baltimore. A circus mob

On Obamcare, A Partywide Failure

There’s stumbling out of the gate, and then there’s what Republicans just did on health care. They came up by Rich Lowry with a substanContributing Writer tively indefensible bill, put it on an absurd fast track to passage, didn’t seriously try to sell it to the public, fumbled their internal negotiations over changes -- and suffered a stinging defeat months after establishing unified control of government. There has been a lot of fingerpointing after the collapse of the bill, and almost all of it is right. This was a partywide failure. House Speaker Paul Ryan has -- faint praise -- thought more about health care policy than almost any other elected Republican. He rose to prominence with thoughtful policy proposals buttressed by PowerPoint presentaSee malkin on 26 tions. This was his moment to

shine as a wonk. Instead, with an eye to procedural constraints the legislation would face in the Senate, he wrote a mess of a bill that got failing grades from analysts across the political spectrum. The operating theory wasn’t that the merits of the bill would get it over the top, but speed and sheer partisan muscle. The House wanted to pass it in three weeks, which would be a rush for a bill naming a courthouse. Ryan gambled that he could get his fractious caucus to rally in record time because -- unlike his frustrated predecessor as speaker, John Boehner -- he had a president of his own party at his back. And none other than “the closer,” a President Donald Trump whose calling card is his skill at dealmaking. For their part, Ryan and Trump are united in blaming the House Freedom Caucus, the recalcitrant group of conservatives that destroyed Boehner’s speakership and have made a good start at

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dom·i·cile (noun) Black’s Law Dictionary, the most widely used law dictionary in the US, defines domicile as “That place by Ken Gorrell in which a Northfield, NH. man has voluntarily fixed the habitation of himself and family, not for a mere special or temporary purpose, but with the present intention of making a permanent home.” Key to the legal concept of domicile is intent, which makes it, like so many legal issues, not as cutand-dried as the layman could wish. Just as an idle mind is said to be the devil’s playground, a mind’s intent is a lawyer’s playground. Many billable hours have been spent debating a client’s intent. According to Black’s, domicile is the “established, fixed, permanent, or ordinary dwelling-place or place of residence of a person, as distinguished from his temporary and transient, though actual, place of residence.” Domicile is not a “place to which business or pleasure may temporarily call him.” In law, a person may have many residences, but only one domicile. Why the primer on the legal concept of domicile? Last week our NH senate passed a bill to more clearly define “domicile” as

it pertains to voting. Though SB3 was approved by Republicans on a party-line vote, our Democrat Secretary of State supported it. Democrat senators, however, invoked their usual rhetorical hyperbole, declaring in a Caucus press release that “Instead of threatening would-be voters with the prospect of someone banging down there (sic) door to interrogate them on their voting eligibility...” Blah, blah, blah. In reality, the bill merely defines domicile for voting purposes as “the principal or primary home or place of abode of a person...in which his or her habitation is fixed and to which a person, whenever he or she is temporarily absent, has the intention of returning after a departure or absence therefrom...” It then provides factors to be considered when determining one’s intent. It’s all very reasonable, especially if you value the idea that only those with meaningful ties to a community and state should be able to have a say at the voting booth. The problem with SB3 isn’t that it’s unreasonable, or will lead to “voting police” banging down doors as hyperventilating Dems would want you to believe (even if they can’t possibly believe it themselves). No, the problem with SB3’s definition of domicile is that college residency counts. The domicile bill has been framed by both sides as a voter fraud issue, but I think that’s too limited. For me, domicile is

a matter of self-determination and the right of citizens to decide how their communities and state will be run. With few exceptions, students choose colleges based on educational factors, not with the

intent of settling in the town or state where the college is located. Education is a “mere temporary or special purpose” per Black’s. Students who come to New HampSee gorrell on 26

Syrian Bloodshed Enters Seventh Year UNITED NATIONS - Syria’s

bloody conflict has entered its seventh year with unrelenting killings, displacements and bombardments by John J. Metzler being “one of the largest Syndicated Columnist man-made humanitarian and protection crises in the world.” As the UN Humanitarian Chief Stephen O’Brien told the Security Council, “Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and million more injured.” He stressed, “Over five million people have fled and are now living as refugees.” In yet another impassioned address begging for humanitarian access to besieged towns, O’Brien lamented, “Crimes against humanity and war crimes have been committed by all parties time and time again.” He added, “Syrians have watched huge parts of their historic and proud country reduced to rubble.” As American UN Ambassador Nikki Haley advised, “Half of all Syrians are displaced from their homes, some living in the ruins of bombed out buildings and others fleeing as refugees to neighboring countries. At this point, two-thirds of Syria’s remaining population, those who have not crossed international borders, require some form of aid.” Think for a moment of the dire images of shattered lives and battered buildings in historic cities such as Aleppo, Homs and even the ancient capital Damascus. The pulverized towns and the tragic refugee streams. The lost hopes of toppling the Assad regime replaced not by a dream of democracy but a living nightmare of vio-

lent jihadi terrorist organizations such as Al-Nusra or the Islamic State/Daesh. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has been visiting the Mid-East and touring the swelling refugee camps in places like Jordan. As the former UN High Commissioner for Refugees Guterres visited this camp far too many times. Yet the numbers of refugees from neighboring Syria have only grown. Secretary-General Guterres stated firmly that this is not a tragedy “only for the Syrian people but it became a threat to the stability of the region and a global security threat to the world as terrorism is benefiting from the crisis in Syria, and several other crises around the world.” He warned, “This is the moment for all countries that are involved, directly or indirectly in the conflict, to put aside their differences and understand that now there is a common interest and the common interest from the fact that they are all threatened by the new risk of global terrorism.” Peace talks among many parties to the conflict have droned on in Geneva but have failed to reach a serious political breakthrough to stop the fighting. Addressing the Arab League in Amman, Jordan the Secretary General warned, “Divisions in the Arab world have opened the door to foreign intervention and manipulation, breeding instability, sectarian strife and terrorism.” Guterres cautioned, “Too many people have fallen into the trap of presenting the despicable acts of Da’esh or Al-Qaida as driven by Islam, when, in fact, they utterly defy the faith. Indeed Muslims themselves are the primacy victims.” See Metzler on 26

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Working Families Alliance, first CONGRATULATED protesters on showing up in droves to Washington, DC on January 21, the day after President Trump’s inauguration. The Loons were already in protest mode. Read more at The Daily Caller. ******** An excerpt from another great piece by my friend Michael Cutler: On March 31, 2017 FrontPage Magazine published my article, “SANCTUARY CITIES: WHERE HYPOCRISY RULES- NYC’s Mayor Bill DeBlasio blocks the deportation of criminal aliens by ICE.” “My article for FrontPage Magazine today continues to highlight the lunacy of Sanctuary Cities. “My focus today is the hypocrisy exhibited by New York City’s Mayor DeBlasio and other advocates for Sanctuary Cities who obstruct law enforcement efforts of ICE even when the aliens involved have serious criminal histories. “Furthermore, the 9/11 Commission made it clear that the terrorists who attacked our nation on September 11, 2001 and other terrorists were able to enter the United States by exploiting flaws in the immigration system. These terrorists were then able to embed themselves by exploiting still more vulnerabilities in the immigration system. The

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Yes, I went skiing four days in a row. Why not keep skiing until the snow has all melted away. As I sit here and write the weather forecast is warning me of another Nor’easter! Really? I can’t believe it. I don’t even dare express my glee. I know I am in the minority. Nearly everyone is ready for full blown spring—flowers, green grass, warm temperatures, but not me. I’m still have too much fun skiing. Thursday: Night Skiing At Pats Peak Becca, Jeremy and I met up to enjoy the last Thursday night of the season at Pats Peak. The Sun was still shining and the slopes were covered from edge to edge with lots of snow. We rode the Hurricane triple chair together. At the summit we stopped to admire the Peak double chair and we knew we wouldn’t be riding it ever again. This summer the old reliable lift will be removed and replaced with a lift that will carry more people to the summit per hour—a

quad-chair with a loading carpet. We skied all the trails from the top except the Hurricane. We timed it just right arriving at the summit to join a dozen others waiting to watch the sunset. We stood near the top of Twister and the FIS trail. We looked west and watched the sun sink quickly behind the hills just to the south of Lovewell Mountain. The sky was gold and red. Friday: Racing at Sunapee Mount Sunapee’s 20th annual TGIF’s April Fools race is dedicated to remembering our friends Mark Parris and Rick Hall. These young men left us too soon but they both loved skiing and they liked to have fun. We shared fond memories and had fun in their honor. I arrived mid-morning and I joined up with my friend Doug’s alma-mater skiing group—Norwich University! Doug and his dozen or so classmates are really top notch skiers. I am not kidding we did more than ten

runs, raced two runs and then skied another twenty runs. These men came to ski. Of course the weather was not much like spring, it was cloudy and snowing. As the day went on the new snow accumulated and we were turning on skis on several inches of soft wonderful powder. No wonder no one wanted to stop. Apres ski in the Spruce lodge’s Goosefeathers Pub there were awards and beverages. There are a lot of fast skiers a lot younger than me now and I guess that’s what happens in 20 years. Happy to see the traditions of classmates and fellow citizen racers continue and I plan on being here in another 20 years. Saturday: Mittersill Fun At Cannon Cannon had a packed house on Saturday. New snow and Bodefest had the skiers and snowboarders arriving at the mountain early. The main parking lots were full and thanks to cell phones I was able to call Becca and tell her I See patenaude on 29

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His official name seems to have no end, but he is known more commonly and more simply as Lafayette by those who remember him, and he is also sometimes referred to as America’s forgotten hero. Lafayette was a young French aristocrat who was supportive of the American cause to be independent of England and, at great risk to himself came to this country to help as a leader in the Revolutionary War. This “Citizen of Two Worlds” or “Hero of Two Worlds ”, other labels applied to him because of his acts of valor in America and in his native France, visited New Hampshire in June of 1825 during a return trip to the United States which included visits to all 24 of the States which comprised the country at that time. In his June visit Lafayette travelled from Massachusetts to Concord, NH, then to Portland, Maine and back to Concord, before continuing west in New Hampshire and into Vermont. He was in the United States at the invitation of President James Monroe in consultation with Congress 40 years after the Revolutionary War and was greeted with many accolades as he moved from state to state. In his book about Lafayette, published in 1879,

George Washington and Lafayette on horseback at Valley Forge. A.A. Parker mentions a meeting with Rev. Dr. Dana on his way to Concord and a visit with him to a ladies school run by a Miss Grant. I wonder if this was the Rev. Dr. Dana from New Hampton who served as a physician, preacher and teacher and for whom the Dana Meeting House where he preached is named. General Lafayette was greeted as a hero as he made the rounds across the country including in New Hampshire as people came out to meet him as he travelled from place to place, often by stagecoach, at times powered by six white horses. From Concord he went through the towns of Hopkinton, Warner, Bradford, Newport and Claremont. The residents of Claremont made big plans for the arrival of Lafayette to their town, planning to greet him at the half-way house at Chandler’s Mills. A welcoming committee consisting of forty men on horseback led by a

prominent physician, Dr. Josiah Richards and a band of musicians gathered well before sunset, expecting their guest to arrive before darkness set in when Richards would make a speech before they preceded their special guest into the town. However, Lafayette and his party were late and the General was not in a good mood and refused to stop the coach at Chandler’s Mills, rushing by the assembled escort, which instead of leading Lafayette into Claremont, followed behind. A 1910 paper titled “Newport’s Guest Book” acclaimed Lafayette as “…Newport’s most illustrious visitor.” The article, published in The Granite Monthly, read that “…the thought of what he had done for us …made the whole country rise up and call him blessed.” He was commended for his youthful enthusiasm and love of liberty. So, just exactly who was Mr. Lafayette and what did See smith on 30

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land and beyond. “We’re going to start with our popular Lone Wolfe Double IPA, (9.2 ABV, 117 IBU) in 16-oz cans,” said Combes. “Working with Iron Heart’s mobile canning system is a great way to get our beer out in the market.” Combes went on to explain that they will be doing scheduled can releases throughout the year. “We brewed 130 barrels of beer last year. That’s a lot of work on a one-barrel system. With the new system, we’d love to brew 1,300 barrels in our first year and expand from there.”

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Grisette w/ Brett B 5% ABV - 18 IBU Gose 5.2% ABV - 12 IBU Sans Souci w/Lactobacillus & Brett C 5.8% ABV - 12 IBU Farmhouse Ale 6% ABV - 23 IBU Magic Soda Milk Stout 8.2% ABV - 22 IBU Coffee Milk Stout 8.2% ABV - 22 IBU Breakfast Stout 6.7% ABV - 35 IBU Pale Ale 5.8% ABV - 38 IBU Dr. Strangelove 6.5% ABV - 72 IBU Cascading Dark Ale 7.5% ABV - 87 IBU Double IPA 9.2% ABV - 117 IBU Upcoming Beers include a Cinco de Mayo Pale Ale brewed with fresh lime and roasted jalapeño (6% ABV - 42 IBU) as well as more Chocolate Peanut Butter Porter, a variation on the Magic Soda Milk Stout (8.2% ABV - 22 IBU) and of course plenty of Yardsale IPA, a private label beer for Gunstock Mountain Resort (6% ABV - 48 IBU) So how does one person do all of this? “I’ve never been alone,” said Combes, “from the early planning stages my wife Jen has played an integral role and I could’ve never made it this far without her.” Jen Combes has now taken a larger role in Lone Wolfe Brewing as the “Head of All Things Not Hops.” Longtime patron and friend Mike Cote of Wolfeboro has also joined the Lone Wolfe Brewing team as the Assistant Brewer, and can be found slinging pints at the taproom in downtown Wolfeboro. The Lone Wolfe will offer growler fills and can releases at their new farm brewery. For dates and times, check the Lone Wolfe Brewing Facebook page or their website at www.thelonewolfe.com. Thirsty now? Stop by Lone Wolfe Brewing’s tasting room at 39 N. Main Street to try out their current lineup of beers.

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Each day we wake up, get up, make a decision on what to wear, make a decision on what to eat and make a decision on what our day will hold for us. It is much the same with our entire life of decisions. Which way will we go? Our friends at Two Roads Brewing seem to know this concept well and have brewed a beer that exemplifies the decisions we face in our lives, day to day. We can either make a good decision or a naughty one which may get us into some trouble. But there is always that decisionâ&#x20AC;Ś And this is why we share todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brew, Road 2 Ruin. Connecticut is home to Two Roads Brewing Company. Located in Stratford, Connecticut, their story of business growth in this beer-crazed nation is remarkable. Four enterprising individuals who had met through unrelated circumstances grew tired of their business careers and took â&#x20AC;&#x153;the road less traveledâ&#x20AC;? leap into brewing and became Two Roads in 2012. Today, they make awesome beer, contract brew for smaller start-ups and teach others interested in the brew life how to succeed. You can find out a ton more at their website, https:// tworoadsbrewing.com Road 2 Ruin Double IPA is a splendid concoction of hops and malt that marry so well together with the eloquence of mastery. This copper-yellow liquid and generous beaming

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help control our intake. This beer drinks more like a 5-6% ABV which can be deceivingly dangerous. BeerAdvocate.com has officially rated Road 2 Ruin as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Very Goodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and awards it a 88 out of 100. Other followers are rating it as high as 4.78 out of 5.0. You can find both at Case-n-Keg in Meredith and Laconia as well as other fine beer providers. Road 2 Ruin is just a great tasting double IPA, which will have you saying â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cheers!â&#x20AC;? Jim MacMillan is the owner of WonByOne Design of Meredith, NH, and is an avid imbiber of craft brews and a home brewer as well. Send him your recommendations and brew news to wickedbrews@weirs.com

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and the Sea Fever, set out from Cape Cod to catch offshore lobsters at Georges Bank. The National Weather Service had forecast typical fall weather in the area for the next three days- even though the organization knew that its only weather buoy at Georges Bank was malfunctioning. After the program, Tougias will be signing books -The Finest Hours, Ten Hours Until Dawn, So Close To Home: A True Story of an American Familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fight For Survival During WWII. 225-8670

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Gilford Public Library, 31 Potter Hill Road, Gilford. Thursday 9am-8pm, Friday 9am-6pm and Saturday 10am-2pm. This program is free and open to the public.

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Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. Doors open at 7pm, show starts at 8pm. Tickets start at $20pp.

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Cole Gardens, 430 Loudon Road, Concord. 10am-1:30pm. More than 30 participating vendors and live music. 2290655

Corey Rodrigues and Jody Sloan â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Live Comedy Show Pitmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $20pp. BYOB. www. pitmansfreightroom.com or 527-0043

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League of NH Craftsmen, 279 Daniel Webster Highway, Meredith. 12:30pm-2:30pm. Zentangle is an easy to learn method of creating beautiful images one stroke at a time for the non-artist and the artist alike. This class is for students who have some experience with the Zentangle Method and want to take their â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tanglingâ&#x20AC;? skills to another dimension. Class will be led by instructor, Maya Hardcastle. $25 per student with a $20 materials fee paid directly to the instructor. If you need to purchase the Basic Kit, add $10 to base materials fee. Students are also encouraged to bring a sketchbook or blank journal and colored pencils. Pre-registration is required. 279-7920

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Ted Williams â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Biography of an American Hero

Wolfeboro Town Hallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Great Hall, downtown Wolfeboro. 7pm-8pm. Leigh Montville will speak about Ted Williamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s WWII experiences, his superb triumphs, lonely tragedies, and intensely colorful personality â&#x20AC;&#x201C; all part of a marvelous biography fitting for an American hero and legend. Presented by The Wright Museum of WWII. 5691212 Friday 21st

Cheryl Arena Pitmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $20pp. BYOB. www. pitmansfreightroom.com or 527-0043

Haley Reardon Wolfeboro Town Hallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Great Hall, downtown Wolfeboro. www.greatwaters.org or 569-7710

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Saturday 22nd

Winter Farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Market

Cole Gardens, 430 Loudon Road, Concord. 10am-1:30pm. More than 30 participating vendors and live music. 2290655

David Bromberg Quintet The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 5362551.

Electronic Waste Collection Day

Loweâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Parking lot, 1407 Lakeshore Road, Gilford. 9am-1pm. Recycle electronic items (phones, computers, air conditioners, etc.) for a disposal fee from $1 to $20 ($30 plus for TVs 26â&#x20AC;? and up). No paints, batteries, tires, items containing mercury, or hazardous waste.

Sunday 23rd Wunderles Big Top Circus The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 5362551.

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Senior Ten Pin Bowling League

Funspot, Rt. 3 Weirs Beach. 10am every Monday morning. 50 years and older welcomed! Call Gail 569-1974 or Al 8552561

Line Dancing

Gilford Public Library, 31 Potter Hill Road, Gilford. 9am-10am Every Wednesday. 524-6042

Oil Painting Classes

Bleu Waves Gallery, Meredith. Tuesday through Saturday. 561-401-1487

Hooks & Needles â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Knitting & Crocheting Group

Meredith Senior Center, 1 Circle Drive, Meredith. Group meets every Tuesday 9:3011:30am. All are welcome. 279-4647

Newfound Knights â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Chess Club Sleeper-Minot Library, Bristol. 5-7pm. Twice a month (Tuesdays). Any and all chess players are welcome, even if you have never played, people

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will be willing to take time and teach you how to play. Learn a new game, meet new people and have fun! Free and open to all. Tron84nh@gmail.com for dates and more details.

Lakes Region Brain Injury Support Group

Lakes Region Community Services, 719 Main Street, Laconia. 6-7:30pm. 1st Thursday of every month. 2258400

Lakes Region Camera Club Meeting Trinity Episcopal Church, Route 25, Meredith. 7-9pm. First and third Thursday of the month.

Peter Wolf The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 5362551.

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These steps are unsafe because of the sloped added concrete at the bottom. They should be torn out stairs. To explain the job adequately, it would turn into a small book. But let’s talk about the rise and run for steps. Steps are very interesting things. As crazy as it sounds, you can build safe steps that don’t come close to satisfying the requirements set forth in modern building codes for residential stairs. I was lucky enough to be a guest for two days aboard the USS George Washington CVN-73 as she carved a crescentshaped course off the North Carolina coast a few years ago. New fighter pilots were in the process of getting qualified by landing on her deck. While touring this grand ship, I went up and down countless sets of steep

steps, the same ones that thousands of sailors use every day. Believe me, these steps help keep the crew in great physical shape. The reason these steps are safe is a combination of the proper dual handrails and the critical relationship of narrow treads and taller risers. You can find the exact opposite of this if you visit the Hearst Castle on the central California coast. I visited it last December with my daughter, and it was fascinating to see how the building’s architect, Julia Morgan, knew about the special relationship of rise and run with outdoor terrace steps. To make those steps safe, all one does is make the treads very See builder on 19

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wide and the risers not so tall. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about creating a safe gait when people lift a foot to get to each tread. When it comes to steps you and I use each day, architects and builders discovered long ago a magical relationship between the rise and run of steps. This used to be in the building code years ago, but for some odd reason it was removed from the modern building code builders now use. Years ago the building code allowed a stair builder to build any set of steps he wanted. The only requirement was the sum of the height of two risers and the width of one tread had to be no less than 24 inches and

no greater than 26 inches. Any total in between those two numbers was acceptable. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re curious, you might wonder how these two numbers were selected. If you could ask long-dead architects and builders about the safest steps they ever built, I feel that most would say the risers should be 7 1/2 inches and the treads 10 inches. Do the math and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll discover this combination adds up to 25 inches, exactly halfway in between the allowed range as prescribed by the past code. Whenever I had a chance to control what the rise and run would be for a set of steps, the risers would always be 7 1/2 inches and the treads 10 inches.

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of militant Black Lives Matter protesters gathered at the courthouse, chanting, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Give him life!â&#x20AC;? during proceedings and drowning out testimony as they demonstrated inside and outside on the streets. Agitators took photos of jurors in defiance of the steamrolled judgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s orders. Riot threats hung over jury deliberations. Crump now represents nine accusers (all black women from the gritty northeast OKC neighborhood Holtzclaw patrolled) who are plaintiffs in highdollar state and federal civil rights lawsuits. Those clients include a convicted felon who preposterously described Holtzclaw as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;short, black manâ&#x20AC;? when heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 6â&#x20AC;&#x2122;1,â&#x20AC;? half-Japanese, and pale and a convicted felon who denied seven times she had been the victim of any inappropriate police conduct -- un-

til a sex-crimes detective informed her about the Holtzclaw investigation and she changed her story to claim that he had forced her to expose her breasts. Crump also represents the troubled young prostitute and drug user with a violent criminal record who called Holtzclaw a â&#x20AC;&#x153;hot copâ&#x20AC;? before accusing him of rape -- months after Jannie Ligonsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; charges were publicized and Holtzclawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name and face widely disseminated. The teenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mom had filed a missing persons report and assault and battery complaint against her daughter on the day Holtzclaw encountered her and searched her purse. The Oklahoma City police departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crime lab identified a minute amount of what it characterized as â&#x20AC;&#x153;epithelial cellâ&#x20AC;? DNA from this accuser on Holtzclawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s uniform pants -- the lone piece of indirect forensic evidence found

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shire from out-of-state for education should not be allowed to influence with their vote how Granite State governments function. This is especially true for students who maintain close connections with their out-of-state parents for financial support. Missing from the senate billâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s factors for determining domicile, but included in other statesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; laws, is â&#x20AC;&#x153;sources of financial support.â&#x20AC;? Most students â&#x20AC;&#x201C; undergraduates, especially â&#x20AC;&#x201C; depend upon their parents for financial support. If a student at UNH were to drop out, is he more likely to stay in Durham to go it alone, or go home to his parents? I support raising the bar for proving intent when it comes to domicile, to a point where most out-ofstate students would not qualify. People who come to New Hampshire merely for an education should participate in the electoral process in the communities where they came from, where their parents live, where their true connections lie. Allowing them to vote here distorts our political process. It disenfranchises citizens who truly have made NH their permanent place of residence, their home, their domicile. If we are going to allow out-of-state students to vote here, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to revive the text of a bill that was deemed â&#x20AC;&#x153;inexpedient to legislateâ&#x20AC;? back in 2014. HB1255 would have allowed â&#x20AC;&#x153;students whose name appears on the voter checklist eligible for in-state tuition rates at schools in the university system of New Hampshire.â&#x20AC;? Fair is fair. If students have the right to vote here because it is their â&#x20AC;&#x153;intentâ&#x20AC;? to make New Hampshire their principle or primary home, we should consider them Granite Staters for tuition purposes. Of course, acting in the best interests of NH citizens, our legislators should ensure that those students paying outof-state tuition vote out-ofstate as well.

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As this column has often opined, the Syrian civil war mirrors the Spanish Civil war of 1936-1939. The conflict has become a â&#x20AC;&#x153;cause celebreâ&#x20AC;? for radical Islamists the world over who view Syria as a rallying point. Indeed much like the International Brigades of Spain almost 80 years ago, today radicals from Europe, North Africa, Afghanistan and even the USA have flocked to Syria to join thousands of foreign fighters keeping the conflictâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cauldron boiling. Equally as with the Spanish civil war which attracted the intervention and political interference of Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, and Fascist Italy, here too in Syria we see the powers and their proxies such as Russia, Islamic Iran and the U.S. and Britain. And tragically the UN Security Council is dangerously deadlocked with both Moscow and Beijing blocking significant resolutions. So what is to be done? First; Offer extra humanitarian support both to UN operations inside Syria and to the countries hosting huge numbers of refugees such as Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey. Second, Saudi Arabia and the rich Gulf states can and should do more to help their brother Arabs from Syria by resettlement plans. These are people of the same language, culture and religion. Third; U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has stressed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stabilization zones,â&#x20AC;? or Safe Zones so Syrians do not have to flee far from their country but will be safe. Implement these soon. The scourge of Syriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s civil war has continued for far too long. We must solve Syria now. 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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The good snow more than made up for the cloudy skies hovering over Cannon Mountain. Becca is riding the On top of a very snowy Mount Sunapee, the group of Norwich University alumni stopped Mittersill T-bar for the first time. The lift is new this season. just long enough for me to snap a photo. Doug Web, captain of Team Lumber Barn and Cannon plans to be open at least through April 16th. Norwich alumnus helps organize the ski day and sponsors our team for the annual Mark skied together. often than not, loudly Parris & Rick Hall memorial ski race at Mount Sunapee.

Hanging with the kids at Loon Mountain. Last day of the season to ski Loon’s South Peak was last week but Loon’s last day of the season is projected to be April 16th. patenaude from 9

was parked at Mittersill. Becca arrived early and following the uphill policy of Cannon she skinned up the ski trail route to the 4,000 foot summit of the mountain. Then she enjoyed a nice ride down the mountain that she had earned with her own feet. We met at the Mittersill chairlift and we did eight runs but we mostly skied in the glades. There is a lot of snow on the groomed trails but there is a lot of snow in the trees too. We found lots of fresh snow too. Idiot’s Delight (I have no idea why this glade is named that) was super soft and it was fun winding down the mountain between the trees. Then we went to the summit for a couple runs. The clouds were thick above three thousand feet

and this made the visibility difficult. So back to Mittersill we went for the best light and snow. Sunday: Family Skiing At Loon Mountain On Saturday night our niece’s husband, Mike and their three daughters arrived to spend the night. Mike also brought along his friend Kevin with his two daughters. They drove up I-93 all the way from Boston. Loon and Cannon are their favorite choices for a day outing because it is an easy drive. They made a big supper on the barbeque, beer can chicken. The chicken was moist and yummy and a big salad and other fixings. Then everyone was off to bed early in preparation for getting up early to ski Loon. Skiing with these kids is fun, they love skiing

and their skills improve each time they get out on the snow. There is a lot of laughter and hustling in the lift line to ride with their favorite pal. Kevin skied with his four year old on the 7 brothers lift, green circle trails near the base of the Octagon Lodge. Mike and I took turns being the sweep behind the gang of children that increased during the day. Mike kept meeting friends from Boston on the slopes and we all

We rode the gondola up and then skied down to the horizontal chair lift, the Tote Road Quad, which connects South Peak to the rest of the ski area. This lift is a favorite of children. People ride the lift in both directions and riders are facing one another as the chairs pass by as the cable moves along. The kids yell in unison, “Mustard or Ketchup?” “Cake or Ice Cream?” The approaching riders on the other side of the lift answer back, more

with their favorite choice. This was the last weekend that South Peak would be open, not for lack of snow it would be closed. Loon was pleasantly full of skiers and riders but it was more like a nice weekday than a busy weekend. There were little to no lift lines and just a short wait for the gondola. We enjoyed it all. From North Peak’s Walking Boss glades to Cruiser on South Peak and evSee patenaude on 30

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erything in between. The sun warmed us and the blue sky and the views of grand mountain peaks were endless. Truly a perfect day to take the children skiing. We even had our choice of tables when we went in for lunch. The luxury of Spring skiing shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be missed. But, but, but April is AWESOME. April has longer and warmer sunny days and the slopes and mountains are still heavily blanketed with nice snow. This is the last weekend for Waterville Valley. Cannon and Loonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pro-

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ruining Ryanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. The Freedom Caucus is certainly prone to self-defeating purity, but in this case when they said the bill wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fully repeal Obamacare or do enough to reduce premiums, they were correct. The bill shed support on both the right and the left because of its underlying weakness (itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to get anyone to back a bill with a 17 percent approval rating, per a Quinnipiac poll). Perhaps most unforgivably, the White House and congressional Republicans now have decided to move on. Tax reform beckons. Republicans tell themselves they will get better results on taxes because it is more natural terrain for the party, an implicit concession that the GOP -- even after electing a populist president -- still canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bring itself to engage

on kitchen-table issues that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t involve tax cuts. Perhaps the initial tax legislation will start in a better place, the process will be more deliberate, and President Trump will get immersed more readily in something (the tax code) central to his business dealings. But tax reform is more popular in theory than it is in practice. It requires painful trade-offs and is vulnerable to the political critique that it favors the wealthy and corporations over working people. If tax reform is going to pass and get signed into law, Republicans will have to perform much better than in the foreshortened health care debate. On the bright side, they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t perform much worse. Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

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