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VOLUME 23, NO. 15
THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, april 10, 2014
COMPLIMENTARY
I Will Miss Winter !! (Well, Sort Of) by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor
I can only imagine that you picked up this week’s issue and cringed at the above headline. How could anyone, after this extra-long, drawn out, winter season of unending snow and cold say such a thing? But it’s true, I do miss winter (kind of). Of course, I am as excited as the next person to see the temperatures
moderate, the snow cover begin to disappear and the grass, flowers and leaves slowly come back to life. I love the spring and summer and in reality, I don’t really care much for the winter but now that the days are longer and the sun is hotter, there are things about the winter I am already beginning to miss and I’m sure many of you, once you have gotten over your exultation of the arrival of spring, may start See smith on 5
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This wonderful photograph is of Roaring Falls in Moultonborough, NH. This waterfall is one of seven waterfalls located along the Shannon Brook Trail below Castle in the Clouds. It was taken by photographer Robert Allan Clifford of Gilford. This work and many of his others are available for sale at his website www.cliffordphotographynh.com
At 7:30pm on Saturday, April 19th, The Flying Monkey in Plymouth presents an evening of Foreigner music with former frontman Lou Gramm. Gramm was the lead vocalist on all of Foreigner’s hit songs, including “Feels Like the First Time”, “Cold as Ice”, “Long, Long Way from Home”, “Hot Blooded”, “Double Vision”and others. He co-wrote most of the songs for the band, which achieved two of its biggest hits with the ballads “Waiting for a Girl Like You” and “I Want to Know What Love Is” which was a #1 hit internationally in 1985.
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APRIL Through the month “Bee’s Eye View” – Art Exhibit
The Franklin Gallery at Ben Franklin Crafts, 60 Wakefield Street, Rochester. M-F 9am-6pm, Sat. 9-6 and Sun. 10-5. 332-2227 Thursday 10th
“Sticks and Stones Program Presentation”
Gilmanton School, Gilmanton. 6:30pm. Sticks and Stones: Words Do Matter is a 2 week in residency workshop that works with students of all ages to tackle the complex subject of bullying. Open to students, parents and community members. 364-5681
Anti-Cancer Lifestyle Program
Mile Point Drive, Meredith. 3pm. Many people have felt their lives have been mundane, but after review they realize that they have been filled with interesting and exciting adventures. This workshop will help people to explore their lives and draw out those special times. Presented by Reverand John Eaton. Free. 279-1500
Free Sit n’ Sew
The Quilted Frog, 51 Endicott Street, Weirs Beach. 2-5pm. 366-5600
“Our Hospitality” – Silent Film Showing
The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. 6:30pm. Film will be accompanied by live music featuring Jeff Rapsis. 536-2551
Thurs. 10th – Sun. 27th
Concord City Auditorium, Green and Prince Streets, Concord. 7-8:30pm. “Kicking the Cancer Habit: Reprogramming our Brains for environmental Health” by Ken Cook, co-founder and president of Environmental Working Group – The nations leading environmental health research and advocacy organization. Free program but space is limited. 227-7000 ext. 6937
The Wizard of Oz
George Daughan to Read and Discuss Book
Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight!
RiverRun Book Store, 142 Fleet Street, Portsmouth. 7pm. 431-2100
Aquatics Workshop
Hillside Medical Center, Lot C, Gilford. 5-5:45pm and 6-6:45pm. Try an Aquafit workout which can help decrease pain associated with land-based exercises and enhance an existing training program. Free. 527-2852
Life In Review Workshop
Meredith Bay Colony Club, 21 Upper
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Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. $18-$22pp. www. rochesteroperahouse.com 332-2211
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The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. 536-2551
Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 South Main Street, Concord. 225-1111 or www.ccanh.com
“Death and Taxes”
The Village Players, 50 Glendale Road, Wolfeboro. 8pm. This ensemble cast is chock-full of small town, colorful characters and hilarious dialogue. And, as an added bonus, there will be an element of audience participation. $12 at the door. 569-5696
Dartmouth/Lake Sunapee Model Railroad Show Visit us on the Web at: http://cvrr.railfan.net/cvmrr/ Z, N, HO, O and G-scale Operating Layouts There will be 3 free clinic’s during the show Dealer Sales, Cash Door Prizes Breakfast & Lunch is available
Kearsarge Regional Middle School North Sutton Exit 10 (Sutton) I-89
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GOP Rally with Senator Rand Paul
Cottage By the Bay, 97 Piscataqua Road, Dover. 5:30pm. $50pp towards victory in 2014.
“A Roof Over Our Heads” – Habitat for Humanity Dinner
Common Main Inn, 238 Main Street, Plymouth. 6pm. The evening will feature a silent auction, cash bar, entertainment, free photo booth and three course buffet dinner. $45pp. 536-1333
Saturday 12th Family Literacy Day
Woodland Heights Elementary School, Laconia. 9am-noon. Children attending the event will receive free books, as well as view exciting exhibits like: an interactive LEGO exhibit, geckos, an entomology exhibit, a Laconia Fire Truck, Smokey the Bear, Race Cars, the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, Laconia Police and more!
12th Annual DARE Pancake Breakfast
Horace Chase Lodge, Penacook. To benefit the Boscawen Elementary School Dare Program. $5/adult, $3/ kids. 494-1318
Good Gardening Workshop
Moulton Farm, Quarry Road, Meredith. Farm owner, John Moulton will answer questions and make recommendations about varieties of seeds and plants that perform well in different conditions found in the Lakes Region. Free. 279-3915
4th Annual Spring Migration Gathering
Magic Foods Catering, Rt. 25, Moultonborough. 5-7pm. Supporters of the Loon Preservation Committee will gather to “Welcome Back Our Loons.” LPC Board and staff will be on hand to answer questions and update the crowd on the status of New Hampshire’s most beloved bird. Light hors d’ oeuvres and a cash bar will be available. Please call 476-5666 for further info.
“Death and Taxes”
The Village Players, 50 Glendale Road, Wolfeboro. 8pm. This ensemble cast is chock-full of small town, colorful characters and hilarious dialogue. And, as an added bonus, there will be an element of audience participation. $12 at the door. 569-5696
Eckankar Spiritual Discussion
The Vintage Café, 626 Main Street, Laconia. 10:30am. Join fellow spiritual seekers at a free spiritual discussion. Eckankar teaches ancient spiritual wisdom for people of all faiths, with practical tools for thriving as a spiritual being in today’s world. 800-713-8944 or www.eckankar-nh.org
Free Sit n’ Sew
The Quilted Frog, 51 Endicott Street, Weirs Beach. 2-5pm. 366-5600
LWHS - Super Bingo
North Sutton N.H. Admission is $5/person ~ Children 12 & Under Free Hosted by: “The Connecticut Valley Model Railroad Club”
Funspot Bingo Hall, 579 Endicott Street North, Weirs Beach. Doors open at 2pm. Come play for a chance to win over $10,000 in prizes. To benefit The Lake Winnipesaukee Historical Society. 366-4377
100th Anniversary Earth Day Festival – Tread Lightly
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Flatlander Chronicles At Taylor Community in Laconia Brendan Smith, editor of the Weirs Times and Cochecho Times, as well as columnist of the weekly “F.O.O.L In New Hampshire” will be at The Taylor Community in Laconia on Wednesday, April 16th at 6:30pm. Brendan was born and raised on Long Island, N.Y. and moved to New Hampshire in 1985. Over the next 10 years he worked hard at adjusting to life in New Hampshire as a Flatlander. Since 1995, Mr. Smith has been recounting these humorous adventures weekly on the pages of The Weirs Times. He’ll bring these stories to life in this program Taylor Community’s Woodside Building. Brendan will also be available after the program to autograph copies of his new book “The Flatlander Chronicles.” The event is free and open to the public but RSVPs are requested to ensure seating. Please call 524-5600 between 8am and 4pm. Monday through Friday, or email rsvp@taylorcommunity.org. Taylor Community is a not-for-profit Continuing Care Retirement Community whose mission is to provide the highest quality retirement living options to support the independence, health and dignity of community residents. Visit www. taylorcommunity.org and like them on Facebook to keep up with all their events.
April Art Show at Gilmanton Year-Round Library Four generations of Gilmanton artists will exhibit their art work at the Gilmanton Year-Round Library during the month of April. Dawn Moore, and her daughters Ryan Russell and Amy Russell will be joined by Amy’s daughter Jovie Smith to exhibit their work in widely varied media: oil paintings, pen and ink drawings, pencil drawings, pastel, charcoal, watercolor, mixed media and ceramics. Dawn Moore studied at North Western Ct. Community College. Ryan Russell, studied art at Pine Manor College and Keene State College. Amy Russell, studied art at Pine Manor College. All of the artists are in the field of education - Ryan works at Barnstead School, Amy at Gilmanton School, and Dawn at Kingswood. Jovie Smith is a guest artist and she attends Gilmanton School. All are long-time residents of the Gilmanton/Alton area. An artist reception will be Saturday, April 12th from 1-3pm at the Gilmanton Year Round Library (GYRL) Rte. 140, Gilmanton. The public is welcome to meet the artists and view the exhibit.
Portsmouth Library To Feature NH Poets Reading Prominent New Hampshire authors will read at the Portsmouth Public Library on Wednesday, April 30, at 6:30pm from the first-ever anthology of poems by contemporary widows. The Widows’ Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival (Kent State University Press, 2014) celebrates the strategies that widows must learn to deal with the shock of bereavement, the changes in their lives, and the realization that nothing will ever be the same. The Portsmouth Library’s evening will include an openmicrophone period if time permits, for any audience members who want to read their own poems about surviving grief and loss. The book is available on the website of Kent State University Press, on Amazon, at Barnes & Noble, and at a growing number of local book stores. For more information, contact event organizer Tammi Truax at t4tu@comcast.net.
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Youth Sports Advocate Bowls His First Perfect 300 Game by Brendan Smith
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Jack Batchelder fell in love with the sport of Bowling when he was in the seventh grade. Growing up with epilepsy, most other sports weren’t really an option. “Bowling was just something I could do,” said Batchelder. He’s taken that love for the game with him throughout the years and today finds a lot of pleasure in introducing it to a new generation as well as helping to promote youth athletics as a whole. He also just bowled his first perfect 300 game in February at the Funspot Family Entertainment Center in the Weirs. Batchelder learned a lot about bowling when he worked as manager for the Lakes Region Family Bowling Center in Gilford. After that he actually stepped away from the game for a number of years to raise a family. It was back in 2009 when a friend told him he should come to Funspot and check out the leagues. “I did come down on a few Tuesdays and filled in as a substitute,” said Batchelder. “Pretty soon I was back playing in the leagues full time during the winter months.” It was also about five years ago that Laconia High School began their first bowling team, who also practice at Funspot. Batchelder got involved with the program and for the last two years he has served as the Laconia High School Bowling Team Head Coach after volunteering his services for the first years. “For some of these kids, it’s their first time ever throwing a bowling ball,” said Batchelder. “My job is to teach the game and all the fundamentals.” The High School bowling season is about fifteen weeks and they practice Wednesdays and Thurs-
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Koch Brothers To The Editor: Just when you thought public discourse had reached its most shameful low point, the majority leader of the United States Senate has fracked into new veins of vitriol aimed at the Koch Brothers. Apparently, the Left’s vapid 2014 campaign centers around demonizing successful businessmen David and Charles Koch. Never mind that the Kochs’ enterprises provide gainful employment for many Americans and their largess helps support medical science and the arts ... They are the fabled “fat cats� we are supposed to hate. According to the majority leader, Rep. Paul Ryan’s bill aimed at trying to reestablish fiscal sanity is merely an effort to ensure a “utopia� for the Kochs. I represent a clarion voice of We the People. We are disgusted that productive public-spirited Americans, such as the Kochs, are held up for derision, while looters striving to redistribute others’ earnings, are glorified. Common sense Americans reject this warped viewpoint and the tyranny to which it leads. Aside from the Kochs’ immense success, the Left’s real beef with them is their support of Americans for Prosperity (AFP), an organization which helps average citizens See mail boat on 26
Our Story
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.
What A Difference A Year Makes To The Editor: “Ultimately, it’s up to our community to say yes to a comprehensive regional trail system around here, advocate for a more walkable City, and help usher the project along by investing in its construction.� We wrote these words less than a year ago, encouraging the Lakes Region to look at the regional trail system not only as a nice path for residents to enjoy, but as a means for economic development. Since then, the City of Laconia has voted to make a significant investment of Downtown Tax Increment Financing funds in the walkability of the City, including the expansion of the Riverwalk and Phase 2 of the WOW Trail. As well, the Town of Belmont approved two warrant articles that will make it possible to build Phase 1 of their Winni Trail this summer. Quite simply, enthusiasm for the regional trail effort is being backed by solid investment. Nationwide, rail trails have proven time and again to be economic anchors that stimulate tourism and maintain and improve property values by fostering redevelopment. The more destinations connected by a trail, the greater the economic impact. Expanding the trail sysSee gandini on 24
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I Will Miss Winter (Continued)
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to miss them as well. For instance. I will miss winter since I won’t be able to be sitting in my living room, darkness falling early, snow covering the ground, talking about the work that will need to be done in the yard once the snow is gone. Feet up, cold drink in hand, I won’t actually have to do any of it. I will miss winter because my yard looks just as good as my neighbors’ all winter long. I will miss winter because I won’t have a snowstorm or two to keep me from going somewhere I didn’t really want to go in the first place. (For those of you who are wondering if I am talking about that event you had this winter that I couldn’t make, of course not.) I will miss winter because now I won’t be able to buy a bottle of water, keep it in my car, and having it still be ice cold the next day. Also now I won’t be able to make a few stops after the grocery store and not have to worry about the produce in the back seat spoiling in the heat. I will miss winter because now that the weather is getting warmer I will begin to feel jealous of people who own boats. In the winter, I could care less.
I will miss it because I never have to iron my shirts in the winter since I usually wear a sweater. But then again, I don’t usually iron my shirts in the spring or summer either, so you can cross that one off the list. I will miss winter because like rumble strips on some highways, frost heaves and pot holes help me stay awake while I am driving. During the winter, I always find it encouraging to hear people say to me “Spring is right around the corner.” In the summer there are no such words of encouragement. It’s usually expressions like “I can’t believe it is already August” and “It’ll be snowing before you know it” that are bandied about. It can be depressing. I will really miss winter because we haven’t put our clocks ahead yet so we are getting that extra hour of sleep all the time. I will miss winter because no one will try to convince me that the reason it’s below zero is on account of global warming. I also miss winter because I know it is a whole year until the next winter. I will miss winter because I can wear funnylooking warm hats and no one will look at me twice. I will miss winter because I won’t be able to keep up to date with how things are going with my oil delivery man, who I got to know very well this past winter. I will also miss the rumble of the oil burner as it runs all night and lulls me into a deep sleep. I will miss the winter because in the summer I am busy trying to cool down the house to the
temperature my house is in the winter when I think it’s too cold. I will miss winter because I won’t be able to hone my alphabetical memorization of the towns and cities in New Hampshire as I watch them scroll across the bottom of the TV screen during snowstorm cancellation notices. I will miss winter because no one really notices how dirty my car is. I will miss winter because, let’s face it, the best holidays take place in November, December and January. I will miss winter because I can cast away all my cares and woes as I focus on a possible nor’easter brewing on the Weather Channel. I will miss winter because people who shouldn’t be wearing shorts and other skin exposing fashions, don’t in the winter. I will miss winter because in the summer I don’t have as many pockets to put stuff in. I will miss winter because I just like to annoy certain people by saying I will miss winter. I’m sure you might have your own reasons for missing winter and if I have left yours off the list don’t be mad. I was going to spend a little more time on this and list a few more reasons, but I notice that the yard is quite a mess and the sun isn’t going down anytime soon, so I’d better get to it. Happy spring!! Sigh!! Brendan Smith welcomes your comments at brendan@weirs.com.
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From The State House No Right To Know! The numbers of states terminating Common Core aligned testing is growing rapidly. As of April 4, the number of states not by Rep. Jane participatCormier Belknap District 8 ing in either Smarter Balance Assessments or the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers or PARCC (the other testing consortia designing Common Core assessments) has grown to thirteen. South Carolina and Indiana have recently rejected Common Core; Oklahoma is poised to do the same. Texas, Alaska, Virginia and Nebraska never adopted Common Core, while Minnesota only adopted half the standards. In addition,
well over half of the remaining participant states currently have active legislation pending to terminate membership in Common Core! Data mining is especially concerning to families. Below is a response to a “Right to Know Request” from a father in Nevada asking for information on data mining taken from his four children’s school assessments. This response from the Nevada DOE is NOT unusual. In fact, the newest NO RIGHT TO KNOW being practiced by governmental agencies is to charge those requesting the information exorbitant fees. This not only serves to stop the request in its tracks, but it also serves to keep that requested information away from the public. So, in some cases (yes, right here in NH as well), our “Right to Know” is limited to those who can afford to pay for it. Not a very moral scenario.
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Pushing Back Against PARCC/ Achieve Inc. Lobbyists Attention, class: A Common Core mouthpiece wants to rap my knuckles with his Gates Foundation-funded ruler. In by Michelle Malkin response to Syndicated Columnist my column two weeks ago about the marketing overlords pushing the Fed Ed racket, Chad Colby of Achieve Inc. demanded corrections. Let’s go to school. “I wanted to take a moment to highlight two points that were incorrect regarding Achieve,” Colby complained. “Contrary to Ms. Malkin’s assertion, Achieve employs no lobbyists and we never have.” No? Never? Someone didn’t do his homework. Mr. Colby, meet Patricia Sullivan. She’s the founding executive director of Achieve and a career lobbyist who has bounced around D.C. for the past quarter-century in influence-peddling positions for the Gates Foundation-funded National Governors Association, Council for Chief State School Officers and Center on Education Policy. She has “advocated” for trade groups, a teachers union and her own “consulting firm.” That’s Washington-speak for “lobbying.” And let me introduce Mr. Colby to Ronn Robinson, a founding senior vice president of Achieve and veteran Democratic and corporate education lobbyist for former Washington Gov. Booth Gardner and Boeing. According to The Hill newspaper’s column titled, ahem, “Lobbying World,” Not-a-Lobbyist Robinson left Achieve several years ago to lobby for the D.C.-based
National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE). NCEE is the multimilliondollar Gates Foundation-funded advocacy (read: “lobbying”) group founded by Marc Tucker, the godfather of Common Corestyle schemes and top-down control masquerading as “reform.” He has dominated the D.C. education-lobbying scene since before Bill Clinton was in office. Like Achieve, Tucker’s NCEE is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that crusades for ever-increasing federal involvement in every aspect of education while denying its brazen lobbying activities. In the early 1990s, NCEE (established with $5 million in New York taxpayer-funded seed grants) paid Hillary Clinton more than $100,000 to direct the group’s “Workforce Skills Program” while she worked at the Rose Law Firm in Arkansas. After the Clintons moved into the White House, Tucker sent a now-infamous letter to Mrs. Clinton outlining a radical progressive plan “to remold the entire American system” through a centralized national-standards Trojan Horse. Tucker’s proposal represented “a new approach to government” by elitist bureaucrats to “create a seamless web” that “literally extends from cradle to grave.” The Clinton White House soon after delivered federal Goals 2000 and School-to-Work laws. Tucker has explicitly advocated that the United States “largely abandon the beloved emblem of American education: local control.” Today, his acolytes hail the creation of a “P20W” system to groom students from “prenatal” (“P”) through graduate school (“20”) and into the workplace (W”).
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World’s Fair Remembered; Showcasing Emerging Asia NEW YORK —
Fifty years ago, the World’s Fair opened in New York. The Fair, a grand expo of technology, commerce, and by John J. Metzler cultures, was Syndicated Columnist held at a time when America’s fortunes were riding high in the post-war era. Now every time I pass the great Unisphere Globe, build by U.S. Steel and still standing proudly, I ask myself, “will anyone remember to commemorate the 1964 World’s Fair?” Well the Queens Botanical Garden answered by hosting an Orchid exhibit from Taiwan. The Gardens were originally designed for the first World’s Fair in 1939-1940; that event was soon overshadowed by WWII. Though the 1964-1965 World’s Fair was expected to mark a time of celebratory optimism, the expo was also overtaken by the darkening clouds of the Vietnam conflict , and what would be a tumultuous decade. Significantly the Republic of China on Taiwan was the first nation to break ground in Flushing Meadows, Queens for its national Pavilion. Taipei’s delegate in New York, Ambassador Paul Chang stated, “The theme of the ’64 World’s Fair, ‘Peace Through Understanding’ remains as valid and powerful as it was in 1964.” While Ambassador Chang spoke of sub-tropical Taiwan as a “Kingdom of Orchids,” my mind drifted back to visiting the old Taiwan Pavilion, a grand and ornate four story Palace which remained a signature structure among the national pavilions. The Vatican hosted Michelangelo’s venerable Pieta statue, the Belgian Village, medieval as it was, introduced Belgian Waffles, and The Kingdom of Jordan showcased the Dead Sea Scrolls. What kid wouldn’t like this? But I must confess that the East Asian pavilions intrigued me most and played a subliminal if not strong role in my subsequent academic interests in the Far East.
Besides the technology (Bell Telephone’s high tech push button Princess phones!) and a Pepsi pavilion with the UNICEF ‘Small Small World Theme” song, I particularly enjoyed the international pavilions. So let me recall the Fair from a slightly less nostalgic angle, recalling some of the Asian countries exhibiting then, but more importantly how these countries fared on the socio/ economic graph now a half century later. I start with Taiwan. The ornate pavilion encompassed both traditional and contemporary Chinese culture. Back in 1964, Taiwan was emerging from the chaos of WWII, but fast building itself into a prosperous and free market oriented island; what would later emerge as one of the Dragons of the Far East. Taiwan was still agriculturally dependent, but having emerged from a successful land reform process, hosted a growing export oriented economy. Taiwan’s per capita income in 1964 was about $202 today it exceeds $20,000. More importantly the ROC on Taiwan was a repository of Chinese culture, this at a time when the Mainland under Mao was trying to force traditional Chinese culture into a socialist cookie mold. Moreover, the People’s Republic still had frosty ties with Washington and thus was not at the Fair (and likely not welcome either). Indonesia was another favorite of mine. Sadly the Indonesian archipelago was in the throes of Sukarno’s socialist revolution. Sukarno’s high octane nationalism and “non aligned” political stance, had alienated the Jakarta government from much of the world. But the batik and puppets were still a hit. Back then, Indonesia’s per capita was a meager $50 per year; today it exceeds $3,500. South Korea boasted an Asian teahouse, showcasing products from this newly industrializing country. In the 1960’s, South Korea was led by the ironfisted military strongman, Park Chung-hee; a man credited with rebuilding the economy in the post- war era. Today his daughter Park Geun-hye, is president
of one of East Asia’s most vibrant democracies. Socio/economic progress has surged too from an anemic $121 in 1964 to $22,400 today. Japan’s pavilion presented a synthesis of the traditional and
the modern ranging from the tea ceremony to space rockets. Besides showcasing the country’s vibrant industries, the expo exhibited models of the new high speed bullet trains.
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How Foreign Is Our Policy? Japan recently turned over to the United States enough weapons-grade nuclear material to make dozens of nuclear bombs. This was one of by Thomas Sowell President BaSyndicated Columnist rack Obama’s few foreign policy “successes,” as part of his nuclear disarmament initiative. But his foreign policy successes may be more dangerous than his “failures.” Back in 2005, Senator Barack Obama urged the Ukrainians to drastically reduce their conventional weapons, including anti-aircraft missiles and tons of ammunition. Ukraine had already rid itself of nuclear missiles, left over from the days when it had been part of the Soviet Union. Would Vladimir Putin have sent Russian troops so boldly into Ukraine if the Ukrainians still had nuclear missiles? The nuclear disarming of Japan and Ukraine shows how easy it is to
disarm peaceful nations -- making them more vulnerable to those who are not peaceful. Ukraine’s recent appeal to the United States for military supplies, with which to defend itself as more Russian troops mass on its borders, was denied by President Obama. He is sending food supplies instead. He might as well send them white flags, to facilitate surrender. Critics who say that President Obama is naive and inexperienced in foreign policy, and blame that for the many setbacks to American interests during this administration may be right. But it is by no means certain that they are. Another and more disturbing possibility is that Barack Obama, in his citizen-of-the-world conception of himself, thinks that the United States already has too much power and needs to be deflated. Rush Limbaugh, Dinesh D’Souza and some other critics have seen Obama’s repeated sacrifices of American national interests as deliberate. See Sowell on 27
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Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont was the site of a little April Fool obstacle cross country ski race. Costumes required fun! Superwoman and Spiderman were in attendance. A good number of ski areas are hanging in there and some are not planning to close until late April. Cross country ski trails and hiking trails are still blanketed with snow too. There is still time to go skiing or snowshoeing at least one more time. My golfing friends are not happy with the snow and ice that still cover their fairways and greens but they shouldn’t fuss much longer. The sap buckets hang on the Maple trees that line our dirt road, a sure sign that spring is here and warmer days are ahead. I love the longer days and warmer temperatures that make it even more fun to play outside. Charlie and I went to the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont, for an April Fools obstacle cross-country ski race. The event was a fundraiser for the VTXC Team whose members actually put on the race. Only friends and local ski-
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Snow still covers the yard and made getting our bicycles out of the red barn a hassle! You know spring is here when the sap buckets are hung on the Maple trees. ers that had somehow learned about the event all arrived shortly before the start time dressed in costumes. This race is so much fun that they don’t even time it. Costumes are required and the best costumes are rewarded, not fast skiing! The 3-mile course was crazy and zoomed off the maintained trails onto narrow snowshoe paths and on the last downhill
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A Flash Of Orange by Steve White Contributing Writer
For many backyard birders, the arrival of the Baltimore oriole is the final sign that spring has arrived.
ing branches. Because their locations are hidden among thick summer foliage, oriole nests are best discovered in fall and winter when the leaves drop. Females build the nests and lay four to six white eggs. Young nestlings remain at the bottom of the hanging basket-style nest but as they grow up, crawl
blers, and catbirds. The Baltimore Oriole was named after Lord Baltimore who settled in a colony in Chesapeake Bay. At this New World location, this British Lord found a bird that matched his black and orange crest on his coat of arms. In reality, the oriole is a member of the blackbird family. These regal birds leave our New Hampshire region See white on 28
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Historical Society News
Learn About The Titanic in Moultonborough The new year of free historical programs sponsored by the Moultonborough Historical Society begins on Monday, April 14, with a program on the ever-fascinating history of the famous ocean liner “Titanic,” presented by Ted Zalewski. “All Aboard the Titanic” responds to people’s enduring fascination with this historic, and very human, event. Including and moving beyond the physical facts of the story, Ted Zalewski explores the personal experiences of selected passengers and crew, including those with New Hampshire affiliations, emphasizing examples of individual courage and triumph. The program is co-sponsored by the Moultonborough Public Library and will take place in the library meeting room at 7pm Refreshments will be provided following the program, which is a New Hampshire Humanities Council Program. Zalewski is a member of the Screen Actors Guild as well as a writer, educator and historian. He is a college and secondary school teacher at Lesley College and UMass Boston who lectures on historical, literary and natural history topics. He is nationally recognized as a foremost interpreter of Theodore Roosevelt and has presented his living history program on Roosevelt in 35 states, and at the Smithsonian Institution conferences for educators. In 2012, he marked his fifth annual July 4th performance as Roosevelt at the Mount Washington Resort. He also presents programs on Longfellow, Hemingway, and Van Gogh, and has written chidlren’s books about hockey star Bobby Hull and Vince Lombardi. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum will take a major step forward toward relocating their operations in Gray on Friday, April 11th at 11:30am. On site of the proposed new museum and train station, the Gray Plaza on Portland Road in the Town of Gray, Central Maine Power will present the deed for the right-of-way to the Maine Narrow Gauge. Founded in 1992, the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Company & Museum is a non-profit museum with a mission to educate the public and preserve historic equipment related to Maine’s two-foot gauge railways. Five two-foot gauge railroads operated in the state from the 1870’s through the 1940’s, serving as an important part of the economic development of the interior of Maine. The museum has become an important visitor attraction for the greater Portland area drawing over 32,500 visitors annually to experience this remarkable piece of history unique to the state of Maine. The museum is open from May 10th through October 19th, Saturdays through Thursdays, and seasonally for events. The museum is closed on Fridays. The railroad is located at 58 Fore Street in Portland, on the waterfront, just a short walk from the Old Port. Directions and more information about the museum can be found at www.mainenarrowgauge.org or by calling 207-828-0814.
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We Warned Them - NO To The “New Normal” Here in Belknap County there is a bit of a Tug-oWar regarding improving our by Niel Young Advocates Columnist county jail. Some of us refer to the County Commissioners’ plan as the “Belknap Palace”. Two of the three commissioners are republicans. Rep. Richard Burchell R- Gilmanton is a real watch dog for the county taxpayers. Richard has been my guest during The Advocates radio program. He and his friend Hunter Taylor are my guests this Saturday to discuss plans for an addition to improve the jail, and at what costs. Burchell describes his friend: Hunter is deeply learned but not in a selfconscious or self-promoting way. He was a star student at Tulane Law School and was appointed shortly after graduation to a teaching post at the University of Georgia Ultimately, he retired from the State University of New Jersey’s law school, Rutgers, as a full professor and then entered into the practice of law in a partnership with a senior member of the State bar. ******** LA Times: “Three gay men sickened from meningitis in L.A. County have died, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said Thursday. The department announced earlier this week that there have been eight cases of invasive meningococcal disease in the county so far this year. Four cases occurred in men who
have sex with men. On Thursday, officials said three of them had died, officials said. The victims were 27 or 28.” April 3: “Robert Bolan, the medical director at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center, said there is cause for concern in the gay community because the infection rate is higher in men who have sex with men and especially higher in those who are HIV positive. “Bolan said it is unclear why the disease seems to affect gay men specifically, though the weakened immune systems of people who are HIV positive might make them more susceptible. “Of the four L.A. County cases reported among gay men, three involved men who were HIV positive, county health officials said. Bolan: “I think the important thing to understand is this is not an epidemic, but, there’s a pretty strong signal that men who have sex with men, at least those who are HIV positive, are at increased risk for invasive meningococcal disease. The deaths come less than a year after L.A. gay’s community grappled with another meningitis scare. Brett Shaad, a 33year-old West Hollywood resident and attorney, contracted meningitis in April 2013 after attending a gathering of gay men in Palm Springs. He died days later. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation responded by offering free meningitis vaccines. County health officials eventually offered the vaccine for low-income and uninsured residents. West Hollywood Councilman John Duran said he hopes more specifics
about the three deaths emerge. The men died at least a week ago, and Duran said he’d like to know why the county didn’t announce it sooner. “Three deaths in three months, it’s a lot in one community,” said Duran, who is running for L.A. County supervisor. “It’s disproportionate to the numbers of gay men that are in the general population. It’s a bigger tragedy that they’re all young men in their 20s... It’s like a bad dream, like a bad deja vu.” ******** Favorable views of the Boy Scouts of America continue to decline, but American still strongly believe that scouting is good for young people. The latest national telephone survey finds that 59% of American Adults share at least a somewhat favorable opinion of the Boy Scouts of America. However, this is down six points from 65% last May and a 14-point drop from 73% in February 2012. Twenty-eight percent (28%) now view the Boy Scouts unfavorably. The latest findings include 21% with a Very Favorable opinion, down from 40% two years ago, and 10% with a Very Unfavorable one. Fourteen percent (14%) are undecided. ******** Primary Day in Kentucky is May 20th. Conservative Republican Matt Bevin is challenging Mitch McConnell (30 years and growing). Would you vote for Rand Paul again, after he has endorsed one of the worst in the Senate Mitch McConnell to defeat a conservative? This is unacceptable to this conservative anti-establishment Republican. Mitch McConnell has See advocates on 28
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This winter I snowshoed to the top of Mount Cardigan and Mount Kearsarge. The two outings were weeks apart but the summit conditions were surprisingly very similar. Ice coated everything on their rocky summits. These towers were all buttoned up tight for winter and were heavily wrapped with ice. We didn’t stand too near for fear that large chunks of ice flying off from the tower might land on our heads. The New Hampshire Division of Forest and Lands promotes visiting the State’s fire towers with their Tower Quest Program. Visit just five towers on their list and earn a patch! All the information is at the division’s website: NHDFL.org. Yesterday I met a friend to hike up to the Federal Hill fire tower in Milford.
Bryan Cuddihee of Rochester, NH, on Cardigan Mountain descending via the West Ridge Trail. This tower is the most southern located tower in New Hampshire. I think it is the simplest hike to a tower, an easy
stroll of less than half a mile, not steep and with good footing. There were still patches of snow on the ground but we were
Federal Hill Fire Tower in Milford, NH, according to Firelookout.org, the tower is 75 tall and was first opened in 1911 and replaced after the hurricane of 1938. The tower is included on the New Hampshire Division of Forest and Lands Tower Quest list. able to walk right over them or around. The tower’s stairway was not blocked and we climbed right up to the platform right underneath the locked cabin. We had fabulous views of the Uncanoonucs and through treetops we could also see Mount Monadnock. Hazy views to the south kept us from being able to see big city buildings. This summer I hope to visit the tower located furthest north—Magalloway Mountain in Pittsburgh. This peak is also on the “52 with a view” list. Saying goodbye to the ski season—my niece Rachel finished the season by
taking part in Pats Peak’s annual pond skim contest. She tried riding a snowboard for the first time and she went swimming in the cold snowy water! Charlie, Rachel and I dug out our bicycles from the old red barn this week. The pile of snow in front of the door was several feet high. In the next couple weeks I hope to ski Tuckerman’s Ravine, Wildcat and go on a fun cross country ski trail I know will hold snow until the end of April. Have fun!
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Super Bingo Game On Saturday, April 12th To Benefit Lake Winni Historical Society The Lake Winnipesaukee Historical Society will be holding a Bingo Special Fundraiser on Saturday, April 12th at the Funspot Bingo Hall on Rte 3 in the Weirs. Over $10,000 in prize money will be awarded including 3 big Winner Take All games and a guarantee of $2,000 on the Carryover Coverall. Bingo packages range in price from $13 to $40 and Bingo computers will also be available for a $6 rental fee and will be available on a limited basis so it is suggested that players arrive early if the would like to play a computer. There will be an early session at 4:30 and an evening session at 6:45. You can play one or both. Doors will be open at 2pm. A wide variety of Pull-Tab tickets will also be sold throughout the sessions and will go on
Elaine Melanson holds a check for $9,000 that she won at a recent bingo game, hosted by the Lake Winnipesaukee Historical Society, at the Funspot Bingo Hall in Weirs Beach on Saturday, March 22. Elaine held the winning pull-tab ticket for the Big Dog race game. Presenting the check is Brendan Smith, president of the historical society. The Historical Society is hosting a Special Bingo Game at the Funspot Hall on Saturday, April 12th.
sale starting at 3pm. On a recent Saturday game, a fifty -cent Pull Tab ticket was worth $39,500 to one lucky player. There are separate smoking and non-smoking rooms available. Patrick’s Pub will have full meals, sandwiches and snacks available throughout the evening. All monies raised that evening will be used by the Lake Winnipesaukee Historical Society in their ongoing efforts to preserve the history of the big lake. To find out more about the Lake Winnipesaukee Historical Society call 603-366-5776 or visit www.lwhs.us. To find out more about Funspor Bingo visit www.funspotnh.com or call 603-366-4377.
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Ways To Make Your Outdoor Living Spaces M ore Useful All Year Round No matter if you live on a coast or in the Upper Midwest, you can use your outdoor spaces to the fullest in any season by adding a few enhancements. Whether you do it yourself or hire a professional, it’s easy to add features like a seat wall and a fire ring for an outdoor gather-
ing spot, or an outdoor kitchen to create the taste of summer all year. A few simple improvements can help you create a space that keeps you outside longer into the night, earlier in the spring and later into the cooler seasons.
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traditional wood and wrought iron outdoor furniture, which needs to be stored in the winter,� says Dave Johnson of Shop-Patiotown.com with stores in Minneapolis/St. Paul. “People like to set it out and forget about it. When you use it in fall or winter you can add removable cushions for warmth.� 7.  Shelter’s not just for shade. Take shelter from the elements with a variety of pergolas, awnings and other coverings for patios and decks that not only provide shade but also help protect from wind and inclement weather.  8. Turn on the heat. A variety of portable outdoor gas or electric patio heaters and lamps adds warmth and light to outdoor spaces. “Freestanding heaters, lamps and tabletop fire bowls and pots are very popular,� says Johnson.
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tem in the Lakes Region will bring an additional type of tourist, increase overnight stays, and require existing and new businesses to meet their needs. The regional trail will be a significant enhancement to our economy and it’s not just us trail advocates who are saying so. According to Downtown Laconia business owner Myles Chase of MC Cycle and Sport, “We have a customer base of recreational riders who seek out and travel to these types of trails as a destination. With the new addition to Belmont and eventually beyond, there is no doubt that riders from afar would do the same for the WOW Trail.” So what’s next? Well, thanks to the City of Laconia’s significant investment, we are close to funding Phase 2 of the WOW Trail, which will meet Belmont’s Winni Trail at the Belmont/ Laconia line. But, we need your help with a final fundraising push to make this happen. Please share your enthusiasm for the Trail with your friends and neighbors. Better yet, consider making a donation to the Phase 2 expansion efforts online at www.wowtrail.org or by
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mail to PO Box 6832, Laconia, NH 03247. Every dollar counts and no gift is too small. Come join us for the 11th Annual WOW Sweepstakes Ball on May 17th. Or, if you can’t attend, just buy a ticket and I’ll call you that night to let you know if you won the $10,000 grand prize! Tickets are available online at www. meadowbrook.net or can be purchased in person at Laconia Athletic & Swim Club and Patrick’s Pub. If you are a business owner, consider writing us a letter of commitment for our upcoming CDFA Tax Credit application. It’s a great way to highly leverage your contribution and impact to a significant regional project. E-mail us at info@ wowtrail.org for more information on this program. In the Lakes Region we’ve got something that many rail trail communities nationwide can’t offer: access to a wide range of year-round recreation opportunities and a regional trail that will showcase three beautiful lakes. Coupled with the opportunity to link neighboring communities together in a unique way, it’s a wonder that trail enthusiasm hasn’t hit the region sooner. Thank you for your belief
in our efforts to make the Lakes Region a more desirable place to live, work and play. We hope you will join us as we make the final push for expanding the regional trail this summer/fall. I’m ready for 4.5 miles of continuous trail for walking, biking and running in 2014. Are you? Gretchen Gandini Executive Director WOW Trail Gretchen can be reached at info@wowtrail.org. The WOW Trail is a notfor-profit 501 (c) 3 organization committed to building a 9 mile recreation path through the City of Laconia as a part of the regional rail trail network that will connect Meredith to Franklin. For more information, please visit www.wowtrail.org.
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Fred Marple and the Frost Heaves
Jean’s Playhouse, 34 Papermill Drive, Lincoln. 7:30pm. Frost Heaves is family-friendly and appropriate for all ages. $20pp. 745-2141 ow www. jeansplayhouse.com
Portsmouth. 7pm. D. Foy will read and discuss from his new book, “Made to Break”. 431-2100
Wednesday 16th Fruit Trees & Berries for Beginning Farms & Home Gardens
Maxfield Public Library, 8 Route 129, Loudon. 7pm. Presented by Amy Papineau. Free and open to the public. 798-5153
“Flatlander Chronicles” – Brendan Smith
Taylor Community’s Woodside Building, Laconia. 2pm. A free will donation will be collected. 524-5600
Taylor Community’s Woodside Building, Laconia. 6:30pm. Listen to The Weirs Times’ own, Brendan Smith recount his humorous adventures from learning to rake his roof, to buying firewood for the first time, to trying to fit into the social setting of the Town Dump! Event is free but RSVP’s are requested to ensure seating. Brendan will have copies of his new book available for sale and signing. 524-5600
Turkey Dinner
Winni Players Auditions
The Community School Spring Auction
Small Business Tax Planning Workshop
Free Cookies, Punch and Carrots With the Easter Bunny!
Kellerhaus, Route 3, Weirs Beach. 1-3:30pm. Bring your camera and your family. All children receive a free gift with their visit. 366-4466
New Horizons Band Concert
St. Charles Church Hall, 577 Central Ave, Dover. 4-6pm. $9/adults, $8/ seniors, $5/children. Take out meals available. Tickets at the door.
The Community School, Bunker Hill Road, Tamworth. 7-9:30pm. Free admission. 323-7000
Portsmouth Walk MS
Little Harbour School, 50 Clough Drive, Portsmouth. 10am. Hundreds of people with MS, their friends, family and volunteers will be walking. Sign up at WalkMSgne.org
Sunday 13th NH Fiddle Ensemble Benefit Concert
Franklin Opera House, Franklin. 2pm. The group consists of over 50 adults and youth from ages 8 to 80. $12/ adult, $6/children. 934-1901
Bill Engvall
Winnipesaukee Playhouse, Meredith. 7pm. To read plays and see cast breakdowns, visit www. winniplayhouse.org/auditions.html
Beane Conference Center, 35 Blueberry Lane, Laconia. 5:30pm. Registration required. $25/advance, $30/door. www.lakesregion.score.org/ localworkshops
Leah Hager Cohen - Author
RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet Street, Portsmouth. 7pm. Cohen will read and discuss from her new book, “No Book but the World”. 431-2100
Thursday 17th Lakes Region Camera Club Meeting
Trinity Episcopal Church, Meredith. 7pm. Real estate photography with Bob Manley. Persons of any experience level are welcome. 3402359
Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 South Main Street, Concord. 225-1111 or www.ccanh.com
Bob Marley
The Circle Trot – 10K, 5K and 2K Run/Walk
Free Sit n’ Sew
The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. 536-2551
PSU Ice Arena and Welcome Center, Route 175A, Plymouth. Race starts at 9:30am. Get a free t-shirt when you register online at Active.com
The Quilted Frog, 51 Endicott Street, Weirs Beach. 2-5pm. 366-5600
The Gizmo Guys
New London Town Common, 375 Main Street, New London. 5:30pm. Bring your pruners and loppers. $5 donation. 796-2151
Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 South Main Street, Concord. 225-1111 or www.ccanh.com
“Death and Taxes”
The Village Players, 50 Glendale Road, Wolfeboro. 2pm. This ensemble cast is chock-full of small town, colorful characters and hilarious dialogue. And, as an added bonus, there will be an element of audience participation. $12 at the door. 569-5696
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Garrison Players Arts, 650 Portland Ave., Rollinsford. 7pm. $18/adult, $15/ child. 438-4537
Winni Players Auditions
Winnipesaukee Playhouse, Meredith. 7pm. To read plays and see cast breakdowns, visit www. winniplayhouse.org/auditions.html
Tuesday 15th D. Foy - Author
RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet Street,
Tree & Shrub Pruning Demonstration
Richard Blanco – Eagle Pond Authors Series
Silver Center for the Arts, Plymouth. 7pm. 535-2787
Saturday 19th Chris Smither – Live Music
Court Street Arts at Alumni Hall, 75 Court Street, Haverhill. A profound songwriter, Chris continues to draw deeply from the blues, American folk music, modern poets and philosophers. $20pp. 989-550
Lou Gramm the Voice of Foreigner
The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. 536-2551
Free Sit n’ Sew
The Quilted Frog, 51 Endicott Street,
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Weirs Beach. 2-5pm. 3665600
Soap Making Workshop
Massabesic Audubon Center, 26 Audubon Way, Auburn. 1-3pm. $15/member, $25/nonmember plus $5 materials fee.
Tree & Shrub Pruning Demonstration
Merrimack Superior Court, 163 N. Main Street, Concord. 10am. Bring your pruners and loppers. $5 donation. 796-2151
Clean Up Day
Squam Lakes Science Center, 23 Science Center Road, Holderness. 9am-1pm. The Science Center invites the public to help prepare the trails, grounds and gardens for opening day May 1st. Extra rakes are greatly appreciated. Picnic lunch at noon. 9687194
Wednesday 23rd Lakes Region Tea Party Meeting
Moultonborough Police/Fire Building, Moultonborough. 7pm. Andrew Hemingway, candidate for governor will be the main speaker. All are welcome to join.
Travel to Tuscany Italy – Information Night
Taylor Community’s Woodside Building, 435 Union Avenue, Laconia. 5:30pm. Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce is offering a tour of Tuscany, Italy November 14-22, 2014. Nine days, seven nights including hotels, meals, day trips and airfare from Boston. A representative from Central Holidays will be at the meeting to answer any questions. Meeting is free to attend. 524-5531
Friday 25th NH Boat Museum’s Spring Fling
Inn on Main, Wolfeboro. 6pm. Cash bar, silent auction, dinner buffet and a live auction. $42/ members, $45/non-members. 569-4554
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Doris L. Benz Center, 18 Heard Road, Sandwich. 10am4pm. Three dozen antique to contemporary dollhouses will be on display. $10pp. Children under 12 are free when accompanied by an adult. 2847008
“Les Miserables”
Inter-Lakes High School Auditorium, Meredith. Presented by the Streetcar Company. $15/adults, $12/ seniors. 279-7408
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which represents at least three solid weeks (120 hours) of dedicated staff time (billed at $84.95/ hour) to build, test and validate a new application that will be able to display individual student data in a readable format. Payment of this fee must be made in full before work can begin.
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able report. Furthermore, data requests outside the scope of the SLDSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; current capability must be prioritized and can only be accommodated when staff resources are available. This prioritization will most likely result in your data request not being fulfilled for several months.â&#x20AC;? http://truthinamericaneducation.com/privacy-issues-state-longitudinal-data-systems/ want-to-see-what-datanevada-collects-on-yourkids-just-pay-10k/ If you have concerns about the Smarter Balance Assessments, (this is a growing movement here in the Granite State) check out NH Families for Education on Facebook. It gives some very solid information regarding your RIGHT to opt your children out of testing in your school district. Despite what the administrators may say, parents DO have rights, which extend to your child NOT participating in the UNTESTED Smarter Balance assessments. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be bullied into compliance. If you have questions or concerns have them addressed. If you are not satisfied with the response, then OPT YOUR CHILDREN OUT. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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2008,â&#x20AC;? said Batchelder. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She wanted to make sure it was done in his name.â&#x20AC;? Valasquez was one of the Lakes Regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more avid youth sports supporters. He was active in many of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s youth sports programs. He was an umpire in both Laconia Little Leagues and upper levels of play. Batchelder also volunteers his time to help out with the Easter Seals bowling visits to Funspot as well as serving as president of the Laconia Kiwanis. Batchelder also runs a home business where he custom fits bowling balls for a perfect hand fit and is a staff member of Bowlerx.com, a bowling distributor. Still, with plenty to keep him busy, Batchelder still shows up for his weekly bowling league at Funspot where he was awarded with that perfect 300 game in February. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had a 280 game before and a 268,â&#x20AC;? said Batchelder of that day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The funny thing was I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t nervous at all. I was very calm. The bowlers on each side of me were going for 300 games as well.â&#x20AC;? Batchelder joins a very small list of 300 bowlers at Funspot.
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Monstrous as that possibility might seem, it is consistent not only with many otherwise hard to explain foreign policy setbacks, but also consistent with Obama’s having been raised, literally from childhood, with anti-American mentors, beginning with his mother. He continued to seek out such people as an adult. The ranting Reverend Jeremiah Wright was just one of these anti-American mentors. President Obama’s undermining of stable and unthreatening governments in Egypt and Libya, opening both to Islamic extremists, while doing nothing that was likely to keep Iran from going nuclear, seems more consistent with the views of Rush Limbaugh, Dinesh D’Souza, et al., than with the views of most other
critics. What is also more consistent with the Limbaugh and D’Souza thesis are such personal quirks as Obama’s gross rudeness to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House and his otherwise inexplicable public debasement of himself and the United States by bowing low to other foreign leaders. There was nothing to be gained politically by such actions. Nor by such things as his whispered statement to Russian president Dmitry Medvedev that he should tell “Vladimir” that he -- Obama -- could follow a more “flexible” foreign policy after his last election was behind him. What could be more “flexible” than denying Ukraine the military supplies needed to deter further Russian aggression?
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Or leaving Japan without material needed to create a nuclear deterrent quickly, while an aggressive China is expanding its military forces and its territorial demands in the region? Domestically, the unbroken string of Barack Obama’s grievance-mongering mentors included Professor Derrick Bell at the Harvard Law School, author of rantings on paper similar to Jeremiah Wright’s rantings in his church. Professor Bell was a man cast in the role of a scholar at top tier universities, who chose instead to take on the pathetic role of someone whose goal was -- in his own words -- to “annoy white people.” Derrick Bell was not a stupid man. He was a man placed where he should never have been placed, where there was
no self-respecting role for him to play, without going off on some strange tangent. That Barack Obama literally embraced Professor Bell publicly in law school, and urged others to listen to him, says much about Obama. It says much about those who voted for Obama that they paid so little attention to his life and so much attention to his rhetoric. Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com. To find out more about Thomas Sowell and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.
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Tuckerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s close ally, Mike Cohen, was one of the cadre of education radicals called on to shape his plan and was name-checked in his letter to Hillary. Cohen served as a top education adviser to Bill Clinton and his Education Secretary Richard Riley, and as a Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t-Call-MeA-Lobbyist lobbyist for the NGA before becoming president of Achieve Inc. in 2003. And that brings us back to Mr. Chad Colby and Achieve Inc.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second complaint. As I reported in my column, the incestuous relationships among these lobbying groups and their Common Core boondoggle partners are deep and wide. I noted that in addition to staffing the Common Core standards writing committee and leading the public relations campaign, Achieve Inc. â&#x20AC;&#x153;is the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;project management partnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; of the Common Core-aligned, tax-subsidized PARCC testing conglomerate.â&#x20AC;? Colby protested that â&#x20AC;&#x153;Achieve is no longer affiliated with the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)â&#x20AC;? and that its â&#x20AC;&#x153;contract ended with them in December of last year.â&#x20AC;? Clean break? Hah. Achieve and PARCC are inextricably intertwined. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take my word for it. Take PARCCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Though the contract with Achieve â&#x20AC;&#x153;endedâ&#x20AC;? last year, a PARCC letter to Arizona education officials ex-
plains that no oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really going anywhere: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Achieve staff members that have conducted the work of PARCC over the last several years are transitioning to PARCC, Inc. so that they can continue to maintain the leadership and programmatic expertise that will see the project through the end of the development period, as well as the sustainment of the assessment moving beyond the grant. Many of them have been involved in work surrounding student assessment and academic standards for 15 or more years...â&#x20AC;? Moreover, PARCC makes crystal clear that â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Achieve staff members that will make up PARCC, Inc. ... have been intimately involved in the development of each of PARCCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s procurements, subsequent contracts and contract management.â&#x20AC;? Despite spending tens of millions of dollars on advocacy along with millions more in federal and state taxpayer grants and subsidies, the Beltway educratsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; propaganda machine is crumbling. Tens of thousands of parents and students are now boycotting the racketâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s PARCC/Achieve field tests. States are withdrawing from standards, technology and data-collection plans in droves. Looks like itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to ask the Gates Foundation to pour more money down the Common Core/ Fed Ed Not Lobbying vortex, Mr. Colby. Class dismissed
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