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VOLUME 26, NO. 15

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Largest NH Boat Show Opens at New Location Next Weekend

The First Giant Slalom Race in America at Tuckerman Ravine.

Photo by Harold Orne

The Giant Slalom Turns 80 Reprinted by permission of the New England Ski Museum. April 4, 2017 marked the 80th anniversary of the first giant slalom race ever held in the United States. The event took place in Tuckerman Ravine on New Hampshire’s Mount Washington, and the Harold Orne

photograph (above) of the race day that has long been available in ski shops throughout the region is perhaps the bestknown image of the ravine in any decade. The Franklin Edson Memorial Race, as the April 4 event was formally named, was born in tragedy. Frank Edson, an en-

It’s Time for the Great Northeast Boat Show!

thusiastic racer from the Amateur Ski Club of New York (ASCNY), fell in a downhill race on the Ghost Trail near Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1936, suffering mortal injuries. At the time, the difficulty of the narrow ski trails just recently constructed by the Civilian Conservation See slalom on 18

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The Great Northeast Boat Show, New Hampshire’s largest boat show and the largest show north of Boston, will take place at the newly renovated 56,000 square foot NH Sportsplex in Bedford, Friday through Sunday, April 21-23rd. Every aspect of the boating industry will be represented from 25 Boat Dealers offering 75 brands and more than 150 boats all under cover in a convenient location. At the Great Northeast Boat Show you can compare a wide variety of boats, talk to experts, dealers and manufacturers and take advantage of special deals and incentives on process and more. It is a one-stop shop featuring everything from power boats, jet skis, cruisers, motor yachts, docks, canoes, kayaks, inflatables, runabouts, fishing boats, jet boats, paddle boards, pontoons and deck boats. Additionally there will be more than 30 other companies supporting the boating lifestyle as well as informative booths to educate the boating enthusiast. This boat show has grown in popularity over the years and they expect to be drawing thousands from New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont since the proximity to all of these areas is very convenient. For more information visit their website at greatnortheastboatshow.com.

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April Thursday 13th 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

“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 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 Family’s Fight For Survival During WWII. 225-8670

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

Lakes Region Community Services Annual Celebration

Beane Conference Center, 35 Blueberry Lane, Laconia. 4:30pm6:30pm. Featuring Keynote Speaker Kurt ‘KC’ Christensen. RSVP by April 10th online at LRCS17.eventbrite.com or contact Judy Maguire at 581-1504. Seating is limited.

Thurs. 13th – Sat. 15th “Books in Bloom” Flower Show 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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Friday 14th Mr. Nick and the Dirty Tricks Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $20pp. BYOB. www.pitmansfreightroom. com or 527-0043

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

Saturday 15th Winter Farmer’s Market

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

Corey Rodrigues and Jody Sloan – Live Comedy Show Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $20pp. BYOB. www.pitmansfreightroom. com or 527-0043

Heifetz Stars Brewster Academy’s Anderson Hall, Wolfeboro. 7pm. Tickets are $20pp. www.wfriendsofmusic.org or 5692151

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Country Jamboree Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. Doors open at 7pm, show starts at 8pm. Tickets start at $20pp. www.rochesteroperahouse. com or 335-1992

A Barn Preservation Workshop Trio Prescott Farm, 928 White Oaks Road, Laconia. 9am-12 noon. The other two workshops will take place on May 13th and July 15th. Registration for one work shop is $20/members of NH Preservation Alliance or Prescott Farm; $25/non-members. Registration for all three workshops is $50/members, $65/non-members. Registration is requested. www. nhpreservation.org or 224-2281

Sunday 16th Flying Film Series – “Hidden Figures” The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh. com or 536-2551.

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Sherrill Hall, the Parish Hall of St. Mark’s Church, 16 Highland Street, Ashland. 1pm. Presented by Calvin Knickerbocker, “Your Hit Parade” played America’s most popular music from 1935 to 1959, at first on radio and then on television. The program will feature songs from that quarter of a century, with performers from Frank Sinatra to Elvis Presley. Free and open to the public. 536-3141

Thursday 20th Flying Film Series – “Hidden Figures” The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh. com or 536-2551.

Ted Williams – The Biography of an American Hero

Wolfeboro Town Hall’s Great Hall, downtown Wolfeboro. 7pm-8pm. Leigh Montville will speak about Ted William’s WWII experiences, his superb triumphs, lonely tragedies, and intensely colorful personality – all part of a marvelous biography fitting for an American hero and legend. Presented by The Wright Museum of WWII. 5691212

9-Week FREE Community Emergency Response Class

Laconia Central Fire Station, Laconia. Topics to be covered include Disaster Preparedness, Fire Safety, Disaster Psychology, Safety Strategies Involved in a Terror Attack, Incident Command Systems, Light Search and Rescue and First Aid/CPR. All topics are taught by local first responders and experts in the field who serve as guest instructors. This class is offered free of charge beginning the 20th and continue Thursday nights for the following 8 weeks. Those interested should call Kathleen at 528-2145

Friday 21st Cheryl Arena Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $20pp. BYOB. www.pitmansfreightroom. com or 527-0043

Haley Reardon Wolfeboro Town Hall’s Great Hall, downtown Wolfeboro. www. greatwaters.org or 569-7710

Saturday 22nd Winter Farmer’s Market

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

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

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Castle in the Clouds Carriage House, Moultonborough. Have you always wanted to have a compost pile but don’t know how to get it started? Master Gardner Dean Anson will teach you everything you need to know about composting. $10pp, $8pp Castle members. 476-5410

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

David Bromberg Quintet The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh. com or 536-2551.

Electronic Waste Collection Day

Lowe’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 26” and up). No paints, batteries, tires, items containing mercury, or hazardous waste.

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Laconia/Gilford Lions Club Hosts Electronic Waste Collection Day The Laconia/Gilford Lions Club will host its next Electronic Waste Collection Day fundraiser on Saturday, April 22 in the Lowe’s parking lot at 1407 Lakeshore Rd. in Gilford from 9am to 1pm. Items you may want to consider dropping off are computer monitors, laptops, CPUs, servers, CD/DVD players, camcorders, AV equipment, VCRs, speakers, mice or keyboards, copiers, faxes, scanners, printers, phones (land and cell), phone systems, UPS systems, humidifiers, dehumidifiers, cords, cables and computer accessories. In addition, the Lions will also take microwaves, air conditioners, refrigerators, freezers, water heaters, washing machines, dryers, gas or electric stoves, dishwashers, dumb terminals, and TVs (less than 25 inches: $20; 25 inches and larger, $30; very large TVs to be determined). Anything with a cord not listed will also be accepted. You cannot drop off: oil, paints, thinners, batteries, tires, items containing mercury such as fluorescent and CFL light bulbs or thermometers, capacitors, ballasts, or any other hazardous waste. You’ll not only help the environment by disposing of your unwanted electronics responsibly but also help the Lions, the largest service organization in the world, raise funds to meet pressing needs in our community: eye glass and hearing aid assistance, local food pantries, college scholarships, holiday food baskets for needy families, youth sports programs, are just a few of the local charitable programs that they assist. All that for a disposal fee of $1 to $30 per item depending on size (almost always less than the cost at local transfer stations). The Laconia/Gilford Lions Club is celebrating the centennial year of the Lions as well as the seventieth anniversary of the Laconia/Gilford Lions.

Best-Selling Author Leigh Montville to Give Lecture on Baseball Great Ted Williams New York Times bestselling author Leigh Montville will give a lecture on his book, Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero on Thursday evening, April 20th at Wolfeboro Town Hall’s Great Hall at 86 South Main Street, Wolfeboro The lecture is part of the Wright Museum of World War II’s Ron Goodgame and Donna Canney Education Programs. It will run 7-8 p.m. Doors open at 6p.m. Admission is free for Museum members and $8 for non-members. Leigh Montville worked as a columnist for The Boston Globe and as a senior writer for Sports Illustrated. He also wrote the celebrated obituary of Ted Williams that appeared in Sports Illustrated. He has authored many books, including Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero and The Big Bam, a biography of Babe Ruth. Montville will autograph copies of Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero after the lecture. The Wright Museum of World War II is open to the public for the 2017 season on May 1 and will remain open daily through October 31. Museum hours are Monday-Saturday: 10an4pm and Sunday: Noon-4pm. The Museum is a not-for-profit educational institution focusing on the American home front as well as the war front during World War II. The museum is located at 77 Center Street, Wolfeboro, NH, on Route 28. For more information, contact the museum at 603-5691212, Michael.Culver@WrightMuseum.org, www.WrightMuseum.org, via Facebook, or go to the museum’s website at www.WrightMuseum.org.

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The 13th Annual Indoor Triathlon at the Funspot Family Entertainment Center in the Weirs raised over $48,000 for the NH Humane Society. Pictured (Left to Right) are Starr Lawton, manager of the D.A. Long Tavern at Funspot and organizer of the event; Bob Lawton, owner and founder of Funspot and Lissa Mascio, Development Director at the Humane Society.

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The 13th Annual Funspot Indoor Triathlon, which took place on Saturday, March 25, 2017, showcased the sporting prowess of 43 four-person teams in classic events such as bowling, mini-golf and arcade games (skeeball, pinball and darts) as they raised a record-breaking sum of nearly $50,000 for the NH Humane Society. Funspot, Northeast Communications (Mix 94.1FM, 100.1 the Planet, WSCY 106.9, and Oldies 92.9), and the NH Humane Society once again teamed up to put on this famously fun day of games, with the support and sponsorship of: the Union Diner; Miller-Coffman Productions; Franklin Savings Bank, Aavid Thermalloy; Mainstay Technologies; Shady Maple Farm; Chippers, and; the American legion, Post #33 in Meredith, along with donations from Piche’s; 603 Brewery, and; Celebrations Awards and Trophies. The teams each paid a registration fee to play, and raised over $33,000 in pledge money,

both online through a platform hosted by the NH Humane Society, and through individual fundraising, including the sale of “bones” at many local business partners, such as the Looney Bin Bar & Grill, the DA Long Tavern at Funspot, and the Broken Spoke Saloon in Laconia; Lakeview Tavern and Giuseppe’s in Meredith; at the NH Humane Society on Meredith Center Road, and; Heath’s Supermarket in Center Harbor. TBones/Cactus Jacks in Laconia hosted a “Spin the Wheel” promotion that brought in nearly $3,000 – all of it donated to the NH Humane Society at the Funspot Triathlon. “Although this was the 13th year for this amazing event, this was my first year helping to run it as the Development Director,” said Lissa Mascio, of the NH Humane Society. “I was absolutely floored by the outpouring of community support, between the huge number of teams, individual pledge donations, businesses who sold bones,

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Response To Brennick To the Editor: In his March 23rd letter John Brennick presents me with a difficult task, asking, “if you were living in 1770 (when these Son’s of Liberty are a minority) how would you label them?”, but “hopefully without labeling and rhetoric”. Each society, including in Colonial America, provides benefits and imposes costs. Some people prosper, consider the costs acceptable, and consider some objections unwarranted and others, perhaps, treasonous; others believe the costs exceed the benefits and objections appropriate. Some people see that the costs that they consider acceptable/tolerable compared to the benefits are rightfully considered unacceptable/oppressive by others and efforts to remove the objections are justified. The Declaration of Independence listed many long-standing complaints against the British government. There were many efforts to get relief from that oppression; some by colonial government representatives, some by personal pleas to the British government in Britain or its representatives in America. There were various acts of rebellion such as smuggling, other tax avoidance, and protests. Some colonialists considered the Sons of Liberty as traitorous rabble.

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Many felt they were patriots, good British citizens, who identified legitimate complaints that most people wanted resolved. Most people wanted peaceful resolution; but as peaceful efforts failed, a growing number of people were willing to overtly or covertly support less legal or less peaceful efforts against the oppressive government and its agents. There were many unofficial meetings to consider how to deal with British oppression; that one such meeting before the Boston TEA Party was reportedly attended by 5000 people (out of a 1770 Boston population of 16,000) shows widespread dissatisfaction with British oppression. Like probably most modern Americans I would like to think that, if I lived in 1770, I would have supported the attempts to resolve complaints against the British government and, as it became necessary, the revolution, and would have considered its leaders Patriots. But of course what anyone might have done is unknowable. Perhaps it’s time for John Brennick to reveal his answer to his question. Don Ewing Meredith, NH

Cover Up? To The Editor: The Senate is getting serious about investigating the Trump campaign’s numerous and dubious

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.

connections to Russia and its election hacking. The administration and ally Fox News have gone into high gear in their distraction efforts. One bogus claim after another is being rolled out. And Fox News listeners believe them! The latest: Susan Rice,United States National Security Advisor from 2013 to 2017, illegally investigated/unmasked/ leaked names of Trump team members and their dealings with Russia. So far there is zero evidence to back up this claim-but Fox takes it as proven. Fox is the most popular cable news network. Unfortunately, Fox repeats Trump’s lies as if they were proven and defends them. Fox listeners believe without bothering to check with more reliable and in-depth coverage from the regular print media or say Public Radio. Both provide what is lacking on Fox: in-depth analysis and both sides of the story. For a list of Trump’s lies, in his own words and tweets, Google “Running list of Trump’s lies.” This provides an analysis of what he said and where it differs from the facts. I think you will be surprised. It is a broader perspective on what’s going on than is provided by Fox. Michael Frandzel Portsmouth, NH

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Spring Birds

by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor

Brendan was off this week so we are reprintign this column from our May 1, 2007 issue. The harshness of this past winter is now, hopefully, just an unpleasant memory. Having gone through the ordeal of what seemed like a winter that would never end, only makes one appreciate so much more the arrival of spring and the increasing amount of pleasant days. It’s also nice to see that those signs that remind us that summer is only a lobster roll length away. In the past I have described a few of the summer birds that flock to Central New Hampshire: The Long Legged Walker and the Lake House Bird, to name a few. This season I’d like to tell you about a few of the spring birds that come to visit. Some are only here for a couple of months while others stay into the summer and sometimes beyond. The Yamback – This is a very popular type breed of bird. There’s not many people here who haven’t seen at least a few personally and have more than a few stories of their own. The Yamback bird usually flies away around the middle to the end of October and then comes screeching back into the area somewhere around the middle of April when you can hear their call of “Yamback. I heard you had a terrible winter it was

eighty and sunny everyday where I was.” This goes on morning, noon and night until around the first of May when the swarm of black flies arrive forcing them to keep their mouths shut. The Yamback Bird is also the only bird that has the distinction of completely shedding its feathers by October and growing new ones when they can then be identified as the Yamouttahere Bird. The Early Birds – Seen within a few days after IceOut is declared on Lake Winnipesaukee. They arrive in flocks to check on their lake nests. Some are easily spotted as the appear with “Lake Winnipesaukee” or “I Love New Hampshire” emblazoned across the plumage on their breastbones. Those with less obvious plumage can be spotted at local food gathering places storing up with the meager supplies for their initial one or two day visits (still enough food to feed an entire colony or Morning Doves for a month). Just look for the birds with the quick movements and impatient demeanor. It is also an obvious sign that the Early Birds are back when you spot many shopping carts strewn around the parking lots of the food gathering places on a Friday night. Some bird experts say the Early Birds act as scouts to go back and give notice to other soon-to-be flocking summer birds about the status of their nests. Vroom Vroom Birds – These birds are nowhere to be seen in the winter though, on occasion, one or two have been known to show themselves on warm winter days and then quickly disappear. When spring finally does arrive and that first day comes

when you can open a window to let some fresh air in is when you will first hear the Vroom Vroom Birds. It is a welcome sound at first, but as spring lengthens and turns into summer their numbers increase drastically and their constant chirping becomes overpowering at times. Here in Central New Hampshire the migration of the Vroom Vroom Birds is so overwhelming that some towns close for an entire week as the Vroom Vrooms reach their peak and perform their strange mating rituals. Still, the Vroom Vroom Birds linger through the summer and into the fall and then suddenly disappear at the first snowfall. Wide Eyed Worried Birds – These are birds that are actually here year-round but are worth noting. They usually never leave their nests in the winter except for emergencies. I’m sure you have seen them or, more likely, have heard them. They spend the better portion of their days flying around chattering, mostly in flocks with their own, things like “I heard it is supposed to rain next week, what have you heard?” or “Did you see the price of gas today?” or “I think I’m catching a spring cold and my back hurts” and other negative chirps which are mostly harmless individually, but in flocks can be mildly annoying. In fact, listening to Wide Eyes Worried Birds for too long has been linked to hazardous health. The sight of these birds is a harbinger of summer and that is a good thing. After this winter I welcome the summer birds that will soon be arriving, even the “Jewel Covered Long Island Whiner.” BrendanTSmith.com

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The Northwestern University Rape Outbreak That Wasn’t Campus feminists whipped up a Category-5 frenzy over sexual assault allegations at a Northwestern Universiby Michelle Malkin ty fraternity Syndicated Columnist in February. But last week, the school’s Vice President for Student Affairs Patricia TellesIrvin was forced to muster up her best impression of “Saturday Night Live’s” classic foot-inmouther, Emily Litella. Neeeeever miiiiind. Picture Telles-Irvin squinting and grimacing sheepishly as she wrote an update on her breathless bulletin “that four female students attending an event at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house were possibly given a date-rape drug, and two of these students believed they were sexually assaulted.” Before I reveal the substance of her update, let me note that shrieking protests ensued after that initial alert. Tears flowed. Demands escalated. Northwestern’s student government association called for SAE’s suspension. The Chicago Tribune’s headline on the brouhaha screamed “crisis.” The Chicago Sun-Times’ headline blared that “nerves are raw.” Local TV stations spread panic over “date rape drugs.” On behalf of the university, Telles-Irvin condemned “any such conduct in the strongest possible terms.” The school offered support for “survivors.” But the hysteria was all based on anonymous phone calls. There were no actual victims, no wit-

nesses and no physical evidence or electronic evidence or any other kind of evidence that any such an event involving any such women ingesting any such drugs or suffering any such sexual assaults ever occurred. It was left to Northwestern professor Laura Kipnis, author of the new book, “Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus,” to publicly caution against premature witch hunts. (Kipnis was the target herself of a social justice mob inquisition after penning an irreverent essay assailing oppressive campus sexual behavior codes, Title IX litigation run amok and “infantilized” student snowflakes.) “If we’ve learned anything from the unraveling of Rolling Stone’s now-retracted story about an alleged rape and cover-up at a University of Virginia frat a couple of years ago, it’s that we need to slow down the rush to judgment until we’re in possession of sufficient verifiable information to form solid conclusions,” Kipnis warned eight weeks ago. “If we fail to do that, we’re guilty of what the commission that later investigated the Rolling Stone story excoriated as ‘confirmation bias’ -- that is, forming conclusions in advance of the facts to justify our biases,” she added. “I certainly hope we get updates as the investigation continues,” she concluded, “but leaping to action -- especially in the absence of verified (or perhaps even verifiable) complaints -- is at best a failure of due process, and at worst vigilantism.” Indeed, as K.C. Johnson and Stuart Taylor Jr. document in “The Campus Rape Frenzy,” the federal government and virtually

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The Crisis of Trumpism Trumpism is in crisis. This isn’t a function of poll numbers, or any melodrama of the past by Rich Lowry months, but Contributing Writer something more fundamental: No officeholder in Washington seems to understand President Donald Trump’s populism or have a cogent theory of how to effect it in practice, including the president himself. House Speaker Paul Ryan isn’t a populist and doesn’t want to be a populist. He has spent his adult life committed to a traditional limited-government agenda. He crafted his own platform during the campaign, the so-called Better Way agenda, to differentiate congressional Republicans from Trump. Trump, for his part, has lacked the knowledge, focus or interest to translate his populism into legislative form. He’s deferred to others on legislative priorities and strategies, and his abid-

ing passion in the health-care debate was, by all accounts, simply getting to a signing ceremony. In light of all this, the product of the Ryan-Trump partnership was a health care bill bizarrely at odds with a national election Republicans had just won on the strength of working-class voters. Under the GOP replacement, fewer people would have had coverage, and workers further down the income scale would have been particularly hard hit. Neither of these facts seemed to exercise the White House enough to try to do anything to fix them. Maybe Ryan doesn’t “get” the new political reality created by Trump’s victory, as the president’s boosters like to say. But what excuse does the president himself have for evidently not getting it, either? A President Trump acting more in keeping with his free-floating reflex to take care of people, as expressed in speeches and interviews, would have pushed the health bill to the left. But See lowry on 28

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-The parallel crises of Syria and North Korea has forced policymakers to simultaneously concentrate on two geopolitiby John J. Metzler cal challenges Syndicated Columnist over which big power interests coincide and may collide. China, Russia and the USA, the primary Powers, along with Britain and France in the chorus, are entrenched behind their respective proxies and readying for a renewed game of high stakes political poker. And with a strange irony, these events unfold a century to the date after America’s entry into World War One, the war to end all wars. Diplomacy’s role in the brewing confrontation may be sidelined by both the ongoing deadlock in the UN Security Council and the exasperated wish by the Powers to once and for all “solve” the crises, be it Syria’s gruesome civil war or North Korea’s looming nuclear weapons capacity. Syria’s hideous chemical weapons attack in rebel held Idlib region killing at least 87 and injuring hundreds of other civilians clearly ranks as a war crime. But could the yet fully substantiated attack be part of a larger false narrative to finally and fatefully draw Western powers into attacking the Assad regime in Damascus? Let’s not jump to conclusions!

The Idlib sarin gas attack may trigger getting the USA to enter the wider war against Syria’s longtime family dictatorship, only then to realize that many of the rebels facing Assad are lethal Islamist jihadists ranging from the Al-Nusra terrorists to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)? Days before the fateful chemical attack, American UN Ambassador Nikki Haley assured correspondents that, “Assad is a war criminal.” Later in the wake of the atrocity, Amb. Haley rhetorically bashed both Assad and Russia in the Security Council. President Trump scathingly stated, “I think what Assad did is terrible. I think what happened in Syria is a disgrace to humanity.” Agreed. Yet with Echoes of the Obama Administration’s notoriously feckless “red line” in Syria four years ago after a somewhat similar attack, Donald Trump warned, “it crossed a lot of red lines for me.” He added, “My attitude towards Syria and Assad has changed very much.” Acting decisively Trump ordered targeted cruise missile attacks on the Syrian airbase from which the chemical attack was allegedly launched. Replacing the dictator Assad would create a dangerous power vacuum favoring a murky network of jihadi fundamentalist rebels. Remember post Gaddafi Libya? UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres stated, “Nobody is win-

ning this war. Everybody is losing. It poses a danger to us all.” He added, “The fight against terrorism is vital, but any success will be ephemeral without a political solution to the crisis in Syria.” Russia backs Syria; such re-

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Enough Protection Already “ T r u m p may have just signed a death warrant for our planet!” warns CNN host Van Jones. “Disaster for Clean Water, Air,” says the Environmenby John Stossell tal Working Syndicated Columnist Group. Give me a break. Regulation zealots and much of the media are furious because President Donald Trump canceled Barack Obama’s attempt to limit carbon dioxide emissions. But Trump did the right thing. CO2 is what we exhale. It’s not a pollutant. It is, however, a greenhouse gas, and such gases increase global warming. It’s possible that this will lead to a spiral of climate change that will destroy much of Earth! But probably not. The science is definitely not settled. Either way, Obama’s expensive regulation wouldn’t make a discernible difference. By 2030 — if it met its goal — it might cut global carbon emissions by 1 percent. The Earth will not notice. However, people who pay for heat and electricity would notice. The Obama rule demanded power plants emit less CO2. Everyone would pay more — for no useful reason. I say “would” because the Supreme Court put a “stay” on the regulation, saying there may be no authority for it. So Trump proposes a sensible cut: He’ll dump an Obama proposal that was already dumped by courts. He’d also reduce Environmental Protection Agency spending by 31 percent. Good! Some of what regulators do

now resembles the work of sadists who like crushing people. In Idaho, Jack and Jill Barron tried to build a house on their own property. Jack got permission from his county. So they started building. They got as far as the foundation when the EPA suddenly declared that the Barrons’ property was a “wetland.” Some of their land was wet. But that was only because state government had not maintained its own land, adjacent to the Barrons’ property, and water backed up from the state’s land to the Barrons’. The EPA suddenly said, “You are building on a wetland!” and filed criminal charges against them. Felonies. When government does that, most of us cringe and give up. It costs too much to fight the state. Government regulators seem to have unlimited time and nearly unlimited money. But Jack was mad enough to fight. He spent $200,000 on his own lawyers. Three years later, a jury cleared Jack of all charges. But even that didn’t stop the EPA. Jill Barron told me, “We won, but after we were home for a month maybe, the Army Corps of Engineers and the EPA sent us another letter saying, ‘how nice for you that you won in the criminal court, but we still feel it’s a wetlands.’ And the decision made by the jury did not matter to them. ‘And if you don’t get off the property, we’re going to fine you (in) civil (court).’” The EPA threatened a fine of $37,500 a day. The Barrons sold their home and moved into a trailer. “We’ll be bankrupt, obviously.” Jill told me, “You have no idea

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“The cardinal fact of Christianity, without which all her other facts lose their importance, is the resurrection, from the dead, of a crucified Saviour, as the prelude, the pattern, and the pledge of the resurrection of his followers to eternal life.” The above statement was in a book titled “The Rhetorical Reader” compiled by Dr. Ebenezer Porter, once the president of the Theological Seminary in Andover, Massachusetts. The book belonged to my great-grandfather, Thomas Perkins Smith of New Hampton, New Hampshire, and was an instructional book with 126 passages for students to practice reading which was published in 1839, being the 52nd edition, first published in 1832. The quote,from an article titled “Christianity”, was credited to a “Mason”. Thomas Perkins Smith was probably named after Elder Thomas Perkins, a stone mason, who served as an elder at the Dana Meeting House in New Hampton for many years, as well as being a town selectman for seventeen years and a New Hampshire State legislator for eleven years. I realize that probably not every reader shares the same faith as Porter, Perkins, and Smith did, but many of the early settlers were Christians and believed in the Resurrection of Jesus as a main teaching of Christianity.

The Dana Meeting House in New Hampton with daffodils in bloom. In earlier days of our State, religion, and in particular, Christianity did abound much more so than today. Not all of them, however, including the Puritans that settled in New Hampshire, celebrated Easter as a holiday because of concerns about practices they felt were derived from pagan ways of old or associated with the dominant church in England they sought freedom from. I remember the Sunrise Services I attended in the years of my youth, often held outdoors, sometimes under clouds with cold temperatures, sometimes with snow on the ground, or during a snow or rain storm and at other times actually observing the sun as it rose in the eastern sky, but always with the service focused on Jesus coming alive out of His tomb. Sometimes there was an Easter breakfast at the church building before the Easter Worship Service on that yearly event that some prefer to refer to as Resurrection Sunday. My childhood Easters also included coloring eggs followed by an egg hunt, though not much of an emphasis on an Easter bunny or baskets. Someone

has labeled such things as “supplements” to Easter, though I would suggest that the word “additives” might be more appropriate. I remember the assumption that there would be a considerable increase in church attendance on Easter Sunday and that there would be those clothed in new outfits, including some ladies with orchid corsages and an “Easter bonnet with all the frills upon it.” But after the solemnity of Good Friday and the emphasis placed on the death of Jesus on the Cross, Easter was the time for a joyous celebration regardless of the weather. Going back before my time, in 1925, seven Laconia clergymen submitted “ A Statement For The Easter Season” that was printed in the Laconia Democrat on March 25th. Easter was on April 12th in that year. The statement began with an acknowledgement of the significance of the life and death of Jesus Christ and the focus upon that in the week before Easter. The message conveyed by the clergymen might be divided into three sections. First there was a statement of protest, followed by a plea See smith on 22

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Corps often exceeded the skills of the skiers entering the races so that injuries were not uncommon, but even so, Edson’s death was a shock to the skiing community. Roland Palmedo, the president of the ASCNY and the most influential ski organizer of his generation, promptly convened meetings of the club to discuss how to respond to the tragedy. One outcome was a study of ski injuries captained by Charles Mi-

duced to control speeds, spaced much more widely than in the slalom format. “The course will be neither a true slalom nor a downhill, but will seek to combine the best features of each type,” noted the US Eastern Amateur Ski Association organizers. Dick Durrance, the best American ski racer at the time, was the chief advocate of the experimental race format and would set the course in the ravine and down the Sherburne Trail to Pinkham Notch.

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The widely distributed Harold Orne photograph of the Edson race shows a majestically snow-covered Tuckerman Ravine headwall with the tracks of several loose snow avalanches prominent in the center of the ravine. The image suggests that the winter of 1937 must have been one of the great seasons for snowfall in the region, perhaps the equal of the legendary winters of 1926 or 1969. This was far from the actual reality. The winter of 1936-37 was the year that European ski instruction first came to the White Mountains, introduced by Carroll Reed in the form of the Eastern Slope Ski School in Jackson. Austrian ski instructor Benno Rybizka from the Hannes Schneider Ski School in St. Anton, Austria trained a handful of American assistants and gave thousands of ski lessons in Jackson that year, attracting great interest and publicity. Prominent in the many

Racer in the April 4, 1937 Edson Memorial Race at Tuckerman Ravine. Franklin Edson III (inset photo) suffered mortal injuries when he fell in a downhill race on the Ghost Trail near Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1936. written accounts of the ski school’s first year is the shock and dismay at the lack of snowfall and abundance of rain in January and February, when ski lessons were limited for many weeks to golf courses at the Crawford House and Eagle Mountain House. It was only at the end of February 1937 that the snowpack at Pinkham Notch exceeded the 4 to 12 inch totals that were reported in The Ski Bulletin before that. By the time

publication ceased for the season on March 26, the report from Pinkham listed 29 inches and “snowing hard”, with 37 inches on the ground on the summit. By the time the course for the Edson Race was under preparation on April 2, the snow conditions were such that Swiss-born Walter Prager, head coach of the Dartmouth ski team, recognizing that the danger of avalanche precluded using the headwall for the

course as planned, dispatched race organizers to set dynamite charges on the headwall in an attempt to stabilize the slopes. This was ineffective, and the race course began partway up Right Gully and ran down the Sherburne Trail to Pinkham. The field of racers was a Who’s Who of eastern skiers, with Olympians Alec Bright and Bob Livermore, and Dartmouth stars Ted Hunter, Warren See slalom on 19

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I’m departing from my usual question-and-answer format this week because I was blessed to have an interesting email exchange with one of my newsletter subscribers. I want to share it with you as an inspiration to tackle a job at your own home. I’ve been publishing a weekly newsletter for over 20 years, and along the way I’ve made quite a few virtual friends. One happens to be Maggie S., who lives in Raleigh, N.C. I looked back through my email files and I see emails from Maggie that stretch back 10 years. When I travel on business, I always try to set aside time to do face-toface meet-ups with my readers, but I’ve not yet had the pleasure to meet Maggie. After you read this story, I think you’d like to meet her and her daughter too! Maggie reached out to me recently with a simple email. Just a few months before, I had shared with my newsletter list that I was in the process of revising all my past columns on my AsktheBuilder.com website. Three of the columns I had recently revised were

A mom and daughter team whitewashed this dated interior red-brick fireplace. about whitewashing. Maggie must have read them and decided it was time to transform her dated living room fireplace. My past columns describe how I used the age-old process of whitewashing on one of my jobs. Not only did I share the process of applying it in the columns on my website, but I also have the exact recipe I used. It’s caveman simple to mix and apply true whitewash. Evidently there’s been a trend of cable TV hosts and photo-sharing websites that have been abusing the

whitewash process. These people are using paint they thin down with water to create the look one might achieve by applying real whitewash. Maggie knew it was far better than applying thinned paint. True whitewash is just a mixture of hydrated lime, salt and water. When done right, it produces a brilliant white finish that bonds tenaciously to any masonry or coarse wood surface. You can add dry pigments to the whitewash to create See builder on 21

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they would be dabbing and patting the fresh whitewash, and they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to drip any water or whitewash on completed sections of brick. You can make the patting process easier by controlling the thickness of the whitewash you apply. The thicker you make it, the more you need to pat and dab! When it dries, whitewash tends look more opaque than when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wet. I had shared in my columns that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always best to whitewash a few scrap bricks and let them dry to see what the coating will look like a day or two later. Maggie reported that the job took two days. She spent the first day cleaning the brick fireplace; it took several rinse attempts to get it squeaky clean. The actual process of whitewashing only took Maggie and her daughter about seven hours to complete. Maggie had received a bid from a professional to do the job for $800. She doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t regret her decision to take on the job herself. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As my daughter and I were working on the job yesterday, we came to the conclusion, aside from that ridiculous expense, that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s much better that we did it ourselves,â&#x20AC;? she wrote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not likely that someone else can achieve the exact look youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re aiming for without your being there to totally supervise the job. And I suspect they would have used paint anyway!â&#x20AC;? If you want my whitewash recipe and other detailed instructions on how to get great results with traditional hydrated lime and salt, just go to AsktheBuilder. com and type â&#x20AC;&#x153;whitewashâ&#x20AC;? into my search engine! Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have great success, as Maggie did. Need an answer? All of Timâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s past columns are archived for free at www.AsktheBuilder.com. You can also watch hundreds of videos, download Quick Start Guides and more, all for free.

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Trump so far hasn’t followed the logic of his own politics. His path not taken would have been to give an inaugural address with less carnage and more kumbayah. Immediately invite Chuck Schumer to the White House and tell him, “Chuck, you’re not leaving this building until we agree on an infrastructure package.” Take the resulting big-spending proposal and dare the GOP leadership to defy him. Pass it with a bipartisan coalition. Now that the initial health-care bill has gone down, there’s loose talk from the White House of wooing Democrats, but a lot has transpired the past few months that makes this much harder. Most importantly, the left-wing “resistance” to Trump is fully activated and prepared to exact punishment on any quislings. If things continue to go

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