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THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, MAY 14, 2020
COMPLIMENTARY
Back On The Trails! Pedaling White Mountain National Forest Roads
by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Columnist
After a few weeks of isolating at home, outdoor columnist Amy Patenaude is back on the trail but keeping her distance. Forest roads are good places to find some easy to moderate mountain biking. Many of them are in excellent shape especially if a logging project has been completed recently. Last fall Charlie and I discovered good riding on the
forest roads off of Tunnel Brook Road in Benton and I suggested to Becca that we should meet up there to ride. Tunnel Brook Road starts on the south side of Route 112 just a little east of the intersection of Route 116 north. Tunnel Brook Road is paved for a short distance and then becomes gravel when it enters the National Forest. This pretty road follows along the bank of its namesake brook and See PATENAUDE on 19
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Lockdown Limbo or Reopen The Economy? by John J. Metzler Syndicated Columnist
Our Weirs Times Ski/Outdoor Columnist is out of the house and back on the trails this week taking a bike adventure in the White Mountains. Pictured here at the dead end of Forest Road 170 is a fabulous waterfall! It was big and very loud.
Can we economically sustain a prolonged lockdown? Well the stunningly high unemployment numbers for April, just over 20 million lost jobs, should answer that question and serve as yet another jolting wake up call that while we are wisely protecting ourselves from wider exposure to the deadly Coronavirus, the consequence has sent
us into an economic free fall. There’s tragic irony here. Just two months ago, U.S. unemployment numbers stood at 3.5 percent, the lowest in fifty years. Merely two months later by May those numbers spiked to 14.7 percent, the highest since 1940! And the result came by our own choice; shutting down a powerful American economy to See METZLER on 7
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Small businesses are the lifeblood of our state; they employ our family, friends, and neighbors. Small businesses in every community across our state contribute to our quality of life and are key and integral stakeholders in the funding of state government. We owe it to them to provide a common sense plan to allow them to reopen their doors as soon as possible and do so in a manner that is both safe and sane. PLAN 603 centers on the personal responsibility of every citizen of New Hampshire. We each have a key role to play and we each are responsible
for the decisions we make. In early March, New Hampshire, like the whole world, was facing a very dire and grim forecast for the future and Governor Sununu acted in an appropriate and expedited manner during the onset of this event. His early actions saved lives, especially of the vulnerable populations at nursing and assisted living facilities across the state. He should be commended for those swift early actions. By late March, the situation on the ground had changed as the dire and grim forecast the experts predicted, never materialized. The current cases for COVID 19 are 3,011 NH residents, which is .22% of the population of our state. Sadly, 133 residents deaths have been attributed to COVID 19 and 107 more are currently hospitalized. The early predictions had deaths near 1,000 and tens of thousands hospitalized by May 1st.
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business, so we can begin the long process of recovery, both economically and who we are as a people. I ask if you support the concept of this blueprint for reopening, call the Governor and your local state legislators and ask them to adopt PLAN 603 asap! Thank you for your consideration, John Gibson Former State Representative
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The New Normal I’ll be glad once this whole virus thing is over. I am curious to find out what this new normal is going to be by Brendan Smith that everyone is talkWeirs Times Editor ing about. T h e y mention it a lot on the news which is very confusing nowadays. They constantly bombard us with stories of doom and gloom amidst this pandemic only to give us a small break on occasion when they run tearjerker commercials that are supposed to make us feel better. They usually have soothing music and pictures of people wearing masks holding signs reading “We are all in this together”. We all get sucked into it and feel good for a moment. Maybe there is hope for whatever this thing really is. But then the news comes back on only to inform us that things aren’t getting better, in fact things just got a lot worse since they cut away for the commercial. “Breaking News. This just in since you were lulled into a false sense of security a few minutes ago, and it’s not good.” I am looking forward to the day when I can turn on the news again to hear how screwed up everything is and then watch a plethora of commercials trying to sell me drugs with very dangerous side effects to take care of different ailments I never new existed but could possibly catch in my lifetime if I happen to live long enough. This way my blood pressure stays on an even upward keel. Too much fluctuation can be dangerous for your health. This new normal thing is very confusing, they tell us it is com-
ing, but they don’t explain exactly what it is, only that we’ll need to adjust to it. So, since we are hearing it on the news, we assume it must be bad. I have some of my own ideas on what this new normal might be and, if I’m right, I really don’t think it will be all as terrible as some might imagine. I would guess the biggest part of this new normal would be the continuation of the social distancing phenomena. I think it’s a blessing in disguise. Let’s face it, for many people this has been a dream of theirs for years and now with this pandemic brouhaha it may just become a new way of life. Just imagine a world where it is now verboten to stand too close to someone you never really wanted to stand too close to in the first place but you didn’t want to be impolite. The new normal will take care of that. I’m not sure how long it will last, but for now restaurants will have to limit seating to six at a table. With this new normal “friends” can plan a dinner outing and find a way to keep obnoxious Jerry and his wife who snorts a lot from the group without creating any bad feelings. “Hi Jerry, yeah, sorry you only found out about this now, I tried to reach you, but we are already at the six-person limit. Hopefully next time.” Of course, if you get such a message yourself, you can find out who your friends really are. I would like to see a new normal where every other parking space is closed off in big parking lots so as to avoid a possible “virus spreading” incident when two shoppers exit their cars at the same time parked next to each other. It would be interesting to see the statistics on the downward trend in parking lot dings and scratches. Now that would be good news. Speaking of supermarkets, the new normal social distancing will
be helpful in keeping impatient folks behind you at the cashier from trying to cram their fifty items onto the six inches of conveyor belt that you left open with your groceries. Perhaps now with social distancing enforcement, those two-inch separator bars that are used will be replaced with slightly larger electrified ones. Of course, some of these new normal will make some things a little more complicated. The folks working the deli counter at the supermarket might now have to send a picture to your phone showing the thickness of the bologna they just cut since you will never be able to get close enough to see if it meets your bologna thickness requirements. But, like all changes, with this new normal you will have to take the good with the bad. We’ll just have to make the best of it till there’s a “new” new normal. Brendan is the author of “The Flatlander Chronicles” and “Best Of A F.O.O.L In New Hampshire”. His newest book “I Really Only Did It For The Socks -Stories & Thoughts On Aging” will be available later this year. Brendan has also entertained audiences around New Hampshire with his storytelling presentations. To find out more visit his website at BrendanTSmith.com
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WRIGHT MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II
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THE WRIGHT MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II WILL DELAY ITS TRADITIONAL MAY 1 OPENING... We will continue to monitor the evolving Coronavirus situation and evaluate operational dates in line with state recommendations. All public and private events to be held at the Museum will not occur during the closure. Some events may be rescheduled to a later date. Please visit our website www.wrightmuseum.org for updates on exhibits and programs. When the Wright Museum does open, the first special 2020 exhibit will be:
VIETNAM: The Real War
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Big Google Is Watching Your Children Schools remain shuttered across the country, 30 million Americans are out of work, and food banks are running low, but the edutech sector is booming. Silicon Valley companies are feasting on an exploding client base of quarantined students held hostage to “online learning.” Big Google is leading the way -- and that is not OK. Unsuspecting parents cheering all the by Michelle Malkin software and hardware donations during Syndicated Columnist the pandemic shutdown have no idea the privacy price their children are paying. This isn’t charity. It’s big tech recruitment of vulnerable generations of future Google addicts. In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Google inked a deal to provide 4,000 “free” Chromebooks to students, along with “free” Wi-Fi to 100,000 families. In Kentucky, the Jefferson County public schools gave away 25,000 Chromebooks. In Philadelphia, public officials earmarked $11 million to purchase 40,000 Chromebooks for homebound kids. Google CEO Sundar Pichai crowed a few weeks ago that the company now has 100 million students and educators hooked on Google Classroom. Bent on conquering the virtual meeting market, the online giant announced that its premium Google Meet videoconferencing features are now free to all 80 million customers of its G Suite for Education apps through the fall. Google Meet is racking up 2 million new users a day as school districts abandon Zoom, the dominant virtual meeting app that recently admitted “mistakenly” routing non-Chinese calls through its Beijing-based data centers. But if educators think Google will provide more protections for American students than the ChiCom government, they’re blind, dumb or bought off. As I’ve chronicled regularly in this column over the past decade, the Silicon Valley giant has repeatedly breached federal privacy laws to extend its tentacles into children’s emails, browsing habits, search engine activity, voice memos and more without parental consent. Google’s information predators have previously admitted to unauthorized scanning and indexing of student email accounts and targeted online advertising based on search engine activity, as well as autosyncing of passwords, browsing history and other private data across devices and accounts belonging to students and families unaware of default tracking. A new lawsuit seeking class-action status against Google filed in Illinois serves as a warning to all the millions of families enthralled by their pandemic-gifted Chromebooks. Father-of-two Clinton Farwell See MALKIN on 20
Lockdown Limbo or Reopen The Economy? ...CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 shelter in place from a deadly “unseen enemy,” a virus called COVID-19. It’s not the workers fault, it’s not that the companies failed, nor by John J. Metzler did the markets disapSyndicated Columnist pear. Rather a myriad of regulations and emergency decrees by State Governors, to contain the “unseen enemy” have created the unintended consequence of handing the virus another victory. Clearly the initial lockdowns were needed as to assess a developing and dangerous health pandemic which started in Wuhan China, spread into and ravished parts of Western Europe and then reached the USA first on the West coast and later the East coast. Now through the immense sacrifice of first responders and health care professionals, the situation is changing for the better; the USA has largely reached the plateau of infections, still over one million, yet with a stunning death toll of 80,000 so far. But let’s look at the Lockdown Limbo for a moment. Spring has started and the country is turning green rapidly; yet large areas are still in a strange form of limbo. Emotional stress and angst weigh heavy on the population. Small business, an engine of the American economy and employment, is still sidetracked. States like Michigan, Texas and Florida are bristling to get back to work. Yet urban centers like New York and Los Angeles understandably must say, not yet. But, there are huge areas and swaths of America in between where infection rates are low and where reasonably normal business activity can resume. The economy which was in high gear a few months ago, remains in first gear and
hesitatingly debates about shifting up to second. Yes, we must first take the proverbial baby steps. President Donald Trump presses for a careful reopening of the economy; others push back using the mantra of fear and the mantle of “science” in stating somberly the lockdown must continue! Case and point. Vermont is a small rural New England state, blessed by beauty but cursed by high taxes. Just six months ago, Vermont had the lowest unemployment rate in the USA! Now in May, Vermont, highly dependent on tourism and service industries, still ranks number one for having the nation’s highest unemployment claims growth rate rise of 23.8 percent! Neighboring New Hampshire comes in at 15.8 percent. During the past few months of Coronavirus, the Vermont economy lost 81,500 jobs from its base of 342,000 workers. Fortunately, Vermont escaped the worst of Corona with under 1,000 infections and 53 fatalities. Devastating is an understatement. But this COVID-19 unemployment is a global problem; Canada’s jobless reached 13 percent while Ireland’s unemployment rate hit a record 28 percent! High school, College and University commencements, a joyous and bright time for students, have been cancelled or postponed or have gone online. The same students who over the past few years could finally expect to enter the workforce in a robust economy are now in a limbo not of their own choosing. A time for proms, parties, and the sports of Spring, has been switched over to Zoom, Netflix, and Social distancing. The entire lockdown limbo has created paranoia amongst us. Social distancing has morphed into social control where in many urban settings there’s a collective dependence on the State gone drunk with See METZLER on 15 power.
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Why Should You See a Financial Advisor?
The social distancing and stay-at-home orders necessitated by the coronavirus have led many of us to feel isolated. Still, we’ve fought back through social media, “virtual” gatherings and walks in the neighborhood, where we could greet friends and neighbors (from 6 feet away). But when you’re dealing with the financial effects of the virus and you’re investing alone, you could encounter some problems that may prove costly. Of course, with so much investmentrelated information available online, on television and in any number of periodicals, it’s not surprising that some people feel they can invest without any assistance. But the volatility of the financial markets over the past few months has also pointed to the dangers of going solo in the investment world. And you might find that a professional financial advisor can help you in several ways, including the following: Taking emotions out of investing. During this period of market turbulence, many selfguided investors are letting their emotions drive their investment decisions. As a result, they sell investments when their price is down, “locking in” their losses. Furthermore, if they then stay out of the financial markets, they will miss out on the eventual recovery – and some of the biggest gains in market rallies usually occur right at the beginning. But if you work with a financial advisor who has helped you develop a personalized investment strategy based on your goals, risk tolerance and time horizon, you will be far less likely to react to extreme market
conditions by making ill-advised decisions. The road to your financial goals is a long one, with many twists and turns. So Maintaining perspective. When you’re you might like to have some experienced putting away money for the future and you company along the way. suddenly have a lot less of it, you might start to wonder if that future is somehow in jeopardy. But if you’ve been working GILFORD with a financial advisor and following your NICK TRUDEL, AAMS® investment strategy, you’ll know that you FINANCIAL ADVISOR don’t have to immediately cash out those (603) 293-0055 investments that have lost value, and you nicholas.trudel@edwardjones.com 28 Weirs Rd., Suite 1 may not need to liquidate them for decades Gilford, NH if they were designed for a long-term goal, such as retirement. By the time you do LACONIA need to sell them, their value may well have BENJAMIN J WILSON, AAMS® appreciated significantly. And if you’ve got FINANCIAL ADVISOR a well-constructed portfolio, you’ll also own (603) 524-4533 shorter-term, less volatile investments to help benjamin.wilson@edwardjones.com 386 Union Avenue meet your current cash flow needs. Laconia, NH Understanding the history of investing. The recent market instability is unique in the MEREDITH sense that its cause – a worldwide pandemic DEVON SULLIVAN – is so highly unusual, and it hopefully will FINANCIAL ADVISOR be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Typically, (603) 279-3284 devon.sullivan@edwardjones.com prolonged market downturns are triggered 164 NH Route 25, Unit 1A by explainable financial or economic factors, Meredith, NH such as the bursting of the “dot-com” bubble in 2000. However, market drops of MOULTONBOROUGH 20 percent or more – generally referred to KEITH A BRITTON as bear markets – are not at all unusual and FINANCIAL ADVISOR have happened every few years over the past (603) 253-3328 several decades. Financial advisors are well keith.britton@edwardjones.com aware of this history and share it with their 512 Whittier Highway, Suite 1 Moultonborough, NH clients. And for many people, the knowledge that “we’ve been here before” is reassuring WOLFEBORO FALLS and makes it easier for them to continue BRIAN H LAING, AAMS® following their investment strategies. FINANCIAL ADVISOR
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Who else longs to hear the crack of the bat? The roar of the crowd? The voices of vendors at Fenway Park? “Peanuts! Get your peanuts here!” Well, some of those sounds have returned to South Korea where earlier this month the “crack of the bat” was again heard in the Hermit Kingdom as Korea’s pro baseball organization resumed play. Unfortunately there were no crowd roars. The Associated Press reported that after a delay of several weeks because of the coronavirus pandemic, umpires wore protective masks and cheerleaders danced in front of rows of unoccupied seats as professional baseball players got back on the field. But no spectators. Sounds like a Miami Marlins baseball game. Still, it was a hopeful harbinger nonetheless, even sans fans— though at least those South Korean baseball cheerleaders were able to watch live. South Korean professional soccer has also resumed play— also sans fans. All of which brings us to America and questions about whether—or when—
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Wear sunscreen, a hat and gardening gloves with ultraviolet protection to stay safe from ultraviolet rays that can cause skin cancer. sunscreen in your garden tool kit as a reminder to apply throughout the day. If it’s easily accessible, you are more likely to apply it as needed. Avoid gardening and outdoor activities when the sun is most intense. This is usually between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Find those shady spots in the landscape to weed or relax during that time. Avoiding the intense sunlight means cooler temperatures that make working in the garden more enjoyable. Cover up for great-
er protection. Wear a broad brimmed hat to protect your ears, scalp, neck and face from the sun. Don clothing of tightly woven fabric that helps block harmful UV rays. And talk to your dermatologist about the benefits of investing in photoprotective clothing. Be sure to include gloves when purchasing sun protective clothing. Look for knit gloves like Foxgloves (foxglovesinc.com) that provide 50+ UPF, Ultraviolet Protection Factor. These gloves are made
of lightweight, breathable fabric and come in a variety of colors, including skin tone, making them easy to wear when working, driving or participating in any outdoor activity. And don’t forget about your eyes. Wear sunglasses and a broad brimmed hat to protect your eyes when gardening, relaxing or recreating outdoors. Check your skin regularly for any suspicious moles, spots, growths and changes. And visit your dermatologist at least once a year. They can help you detect and manage problems early. As you work to improve your landscape or do other outdoor activities this season, add sun protection to your to-do list. Then encourage your family and friends to do the same. A bit of prevention can reduce your risk of becoming that one individual in five that develops skin cancer by the age of 70. Melinda Myers has written numerous books, including Small Space Gardening. She hosts The Great Courses “How to Grow Anything” DVD series and the nationally-syndicated Melinda’s Garden Moment TV & radio program. Myers is a columnist and contributing editor for Birds & Blooms magazine and was commissioned by Foxgloves for her expertise to write this article. Her web site is www. MelindaMyers.com.
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Hummingbirds, warblers and other migratory songbirds face a slew of dangers on their northward and southward journeys: long water crossings, deforestation, lurking cats and other predators, starvation, tall glass buildings, wind turbines and hundreds of other threats. But snow? How often is snow an obstacle for birds in May? Not often, but that’s what happened over the weekend when New England froze again and some parts even saw some snow. Some of the early migrants should expect the threat of snow. Red-winged blackbirds arrive as early as February. Woodcock, eastern phoebes and osprey are among the March
arrivals that may see snow. Even the early warblers, such as pine, yellow-rumped and palm, may see an odd mid-April snow. The late-April and May migrants were likely caught off guard by this past weekend’s weather. I saw my first rose-breasted grosbeaks on May 1 and two ruby-throated hummingbirds showed up two days later. A bunch of new warblers showed up in that span as well. It’s not often that snow and late warblers overlap in New England. According to the Boston Globe, the last time it snowed in Massachusetts in May was 1977. I did an internet search for “monthly snowfall totals in New Hampshire,” and I didn’t find a single website that even bothered to list May. Even April totals
were scant. So what do birds that aren’t used to seeing snow do when the temperature plummets and the white stuff falls? After all, they winter in South America, Central America, the Caribbean and extreme southern U.S. for a reason. The birds will use some of the same techniques to survive the cold that our common winter birds use when the temperature drops. They will find shelter, fluff their feathers to trap warm air close to their bodies, eat as much as possible without expending too much energy and slow their metabolism. Some birds, such as the tiny hummingbirds, may enter a state of torpor in which they drop their body temperature and lower their heart rate. See BOSAK on 15
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BOSAK from 13 Ducks, of course, can handle low temperatures just fine with their waterproof outer feathers and warm downy inner feathers. A brief period of cold will present little problem for these birds. The biggest danger, and thankfully this wasn’t the case in New England this time, would be a heavy snowfall that lasts for an extended length of time. In such a case, availability of food, rather than the cold, would be the main problem. Most of the late migrants are insect eaters and if the bugs aren’t flying around or the
larvae are hidden under the snow, the birds would suffer. In fact, it is food availability, not necessarily cold temperatures, that drives these birds south for the winter. They follow the food. While a May cold snap and snowfall may be an unwelcome inconvenience -- for humans and birds -- it is something we are wellequipped to handle. Chris Bosak may be reached at chrisbosak26@gmail.com or through his website www.birdsofnewengland.com
METZLER from 7 To wear or not to wear a hygienic mask? After getting a few glowers at the supermarket, I too dutifully donned a cotton kerchief! This has created yet another Us and Them divide, as virtuous mainstream media and empowered bureaucrats feed us a fearful narrative. In the meantime the “emergency regulations” in some states flout Constitutional Rights and Civil Liberties. Freedom of Movement, Freedom of Assembly, even Freedom of Worship remain in lockdown limbo as we continue fighting the “unseen enemy.”
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Brian, Sharon, Sandra & Barry Woodman. sides a family owned brewing business. Son Brian is one brilliant brewer who makes the beer magic happen. Dedicated father, Barry and mother, Sharon keep beer flowing and customers happy. Brian’s sister, Sandra handles the social media side of things, to make it wholesome as it is friendly. Opening its doors on Labor Day weekend of 2017, Woodman’s creates craft beer excellence within fairly sophisticated equip-
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SMITH from 3 April in New Hampshire which had nothing to do with somehow speeding up a day, but was fasting in the sense of giving up eating for a day and giving time to prayer and church attendance, at least in its beginnings. The day was initiated when New Hampshire’s provincial president, John Cutts was sick in the year 1681 and the province’s inhabitants were asked to set aside a day free from work and play to fast and pray for the president. The name of the position was later changed to governor. The observance of a Fast Day was continued the next year and beyond as a State holiday until it was discontinued in 1991 in favor of Civil Rights Day, which was later changed to Martin Luther King,Jr. Day.
The Bristol paper suggested combining the first day of trout fishing with Fast Day, thus making the fishing day a holiday. The editor insisted that “brook trout day” was better observed than “Fast Day.” The relationship between Fast Day and fishing was addressed in another column of the newspaper titled “The People’s Forum.” The writer of that column identified himself as being from Alexandria and signed his column with the name Habakuk Hasdrubal Winterbottom. Mr. Winterbottom announced that he was considering a run for Governor of the State and that his platform consisted of one three inch, red oak plank which said: “Open the brook trout season on Fast Day.” His objective was to close up
everything on the first day of brook trout season (Fast Day) and get people out in the open. He wrote “I want the fish hatcheries run on double shift and I advocate burning lights in them all night. If that makes hens lay more eggs, it may do the same with trout. I want big signs on the fish planting trucks and State Police to regulate the traffic following behind them. ‘More and better fishing for residents and visitors.”” If that weren’t enough about fishing one might suspect that a mystery having to do with the Calley & Currier crutch factory might also allude to that activity. Under their “Shop Notes” column they note that they had trouble with their shaper one day which left a pile of crutches waiting for their tops. Then the item: “Mys-
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Baker. Hearing about him and watching him I’m sure was one reason that I had dreams and ambitions of one day becoming a Fish and Game warden. That didn’t happen, but the admiration and inspiration I experienced was not mine alone. Another column in the same newspaper about a fishing derby said this: “Slim Baker is at his very best with the youngsters and we always enjoy
any meeting in which he takes part doubly even at, today when he is badly in need of rest from daytime trout fishing and nighttime smelt checking, to say nothing of fish planting. He has a knack of bringing out the best in the boys and girls and they love him and are honored by his attention, which is what we for one so heartily desire in our conservation officers.” The fishSee SMITH on 20
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Becca riding her bicycle on Forest Road 700, aka Tunnel Brook Trail, Benton, NH. Riding mountain bikes in the White Mountain National Forest on gated Forest Roads is fun and it is likely you’ll be all by yourself.
A nice view of Moody Ledge and Cobble Hill from across an open cut area adjacent to Forest Road 170. PATENAUDE from 1 in about a mile and a half just after crossing a bridge over the brook Forest Road 700 used to be straight ahead. In 2011 Tropical Storm Irene wrecked
havoc and wiped out many roads in Benton and unfortunately much of Forest Road 700 fell victim to the severe flooding. The road’s former entrance is blocked by
boulders and there is a hiking trailhead sign for the Benton and the Tunnel Brook Trails. At 8:30 Saturday morning we were first cars to park here and this is where we started our
bike ride. The first mile is where the flood damage is and no attempt was made to restore the road but only to stabilize the washedout sections. It took a few years for a decent footbed to be worn and now if you never saw what it looked like beforehand you would just think it is just another swell trail. But then it meets up with the Forest Road that has been repaired and connects to a new road that connects to FR 170 and then FR 171 that connects back to Tunnel Brook Road. At this point all culverts have been repaired and the bridges are all in excellent condition and the road stays on the west bank of the brook. The first part we were off and on our bikes and we had to carry them over some old logs and some small streams. But once we
Yours truly being goofy where the Tunnel Brook Trail leaves the forest road and enters the forest! were off the trail section and on the logging road it was smooth sailing. In a couple miles we passed the Benton Trailhead, and yes, before 2011 we were able to drive our cars to here. The road is hilly and climbs to where the Tunnel Brook Trail leaves the road and enters the forest at a sharp bend and I’d call this the beginning of the extension of FR 170. This newer road is on the opposite side of the brook and heads north well out of sight of the brook. This section is hilly and climbs up and down. We crossed over the Benton Trail as we rode along. The
forest was quiet and we saw no people. Logging was done in this area the last couple of winters and the road was in great condition with few muddy spots and just two downed trees across the road that were easy to get under. I didn’t keep track of distances or time when we reached FR 170 but we were excited to continue riding our bikes and we turned right to ride FR170. If we had turned left the short steep downhill would have popped us out at the gate at Tunnel Brook Road less than a quarter mile before our cars. We enjoyed the long See PATENAUDE on 20
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SMITH from 18 ing derby was at Bebee River and sponsored by the Pemigewasset Valley Fish and Game Club and the Draper Corporation. Another Springtime enjoyment at the New Hampton Community School was being able to be part of a baseball team that played against another school. Those type of games were few, maybe only a couple, and I didn’t impress anyone with my ball-playing skills, but it was a satisfying experience. We also had a Father-Son game which my Dad participated in. Unfortunately that game was shortened by rain, but not before I was moved from the shortstop position to the outfield because in the rain my glasses were wet and I couldn’t see a ball that was hit at me (or nearby) and there was no stop at short. Nevertheless, it gave a young fellow the satisfaction of playing even
if he was embarrassed by his infirmities. My thanks go to Mr. Rochfort and the other teachers at New Hampton Community School. Nineteen of us graduated from the eighth grade that June in 1952. That was a large class for New Hampton in that era. And whatever brook trout anyone in our family caught on that first day of fishing was fried up for supper. Among my few Spring night outings thanks to my parents, and once or more with the help of Guy and Evelyn Davis, involved catching smelt in nets. These small fish which came up a stream out of Lake Winnisquam proved to be an exciting experience and another meal of small fried fish. Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr., welcomes your comments at danahillsmiths@yahoo.com.
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BREW from 17 tinctive, locally sourced maple syrup that is used in the recipe. That sweetness is used to raise the ABV and give it the sweetness against both Cluster and Amarillo hop bittering character. With the International Bittering Units coming in at only 19, the sweetness shines through. I really liked the Maple Cream Ale and can understand why it is so popular. Twybil Double Dry Hopped IPA is the younger brother to Dougie’s Double IPA. The name comes from a timber framing tool used in woodworking which works with the Woodman name. It is an awesome golden treat for IPA lovers. The 90 IBU isn’t as apparent as you might expect because of
MALKIN from 7 alleges that Google illegally collected personally identifying biometric information from his children through their public school-issued Chromebooks (loaded with G Suite for Education apps) dating back to 2015. His suit lays out how Google has “infiltrated” K-12 education with hardware and software primarily targeting students under the age of 13, whose face templates and voiceprints are illicitly collected, along with their: physical locations; websites they visit; every search term they use in Google’s search engine (and the results they click on); the videos they watch on YouTube; personal contact lists; voice recordings; saved passwords; and other behavioral information. Despite signing a “Student Privacy Pledge” promising not to collect, share and retain private personal data, Google Chromebooks scan stu-
the ample malt used in this recipe. Aroma and taste are courtesy of New Zealand Waimea hops and is also used in the double dry hopping. Great mouthfeel and full flavor brings this 6.8% beer to the forefront of your beer tasting experience. Both are packaged in 16 oz cans. Because there are always new recipes emerging, Woodman’s beers are worth making the trip their way. The relaxed atmosphere of folks understanding great craft-made beer makes it fun. Take away cans and growlers are currently for sale. When things turn back to normal life, plan a trip over to Bristol and find your new beer experience!
PATENAUDE from 19 open downhill and grand views over the cut land to Moody Ledge and Cobble Hill and then to more good views of the Kinsmans. Above us to our right we could see pointy Mount Blue. Riding the forest roads was fun but the best thing was discovering an impressive lovely waterfall right at the dead end of FR 170. This stream is a feeder into the Wild Ammonoosuc River and it was roaring as the water cascaded down the steep ledgy face. We hung out by the waterfall and enjoyed a nice break while eating our snacks. Becca tracked it and our total ride for the morning was over 12
miles and we were back at our cars by noon. Forest Roads and town class 6 roads are fun, isolated and not too difficult to ride. Get outside and Have fun.
dents’ faces and unique acoustic details of students’ voices to identify them by name, age, gender and location while using Google platforms. Farwell realized his kids’ biometric data was being stored in a vast database when he discovered they were required to speak and look into the laptops’ microphones and cameras in order to use the school products and apps. A similar lawsuit by the New Mexico Attorney General’s office filed in federal court in February exposed how Chromebooks and G Suite for Education apps mined students’ Gmail accounts for advertising purposes. The New Mexico AG’s brief also bolstered my previous exclusive reports, based on whistleblowing by Missouri teachers Brooke Henderson and Brette Hay, on Google’s access to student profiles and family computer passwords through
the default Chrome Sync function -- which can only be blocked by creating a passphrase buried in settings that school officials never inform students about (let alone their parents left in the dark from the moment schools require kids to create Google logins as early as kindergarten). And now governments are entrusting Google to help develop contacttracing technology on the promise that they won’t collect location data, won’t exploit data for commercial purposes, and won’t grant access to unauthorized parties? Fox, meet henhouse. Regulatory slaps on the wrist by toothless federal agencies have done nothing to deter the deceitful data usurpers. Why hasn’t every other state attorney general filed a similar suit? Where is Congress, which passed the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
of 1974 and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 to prevent exactly the kind of routine marauding of students’ digital lives perpetrated by Google and other EdTech vultures? Instead of pushing back, Congress passed the “Every Student Succeeds Act” and the “Foundations for Evidence-Based Policy Act” -- deceptively titled bills expanding thirdparty access to sensitive personal data. The Invisible Enemy is right under our noses, in our homes and on our kids’ laptops. Instead of removing children en masse from their classrooms in the name of public health, responsible adults should be de-platforming Google’s privacy pillagers from every school in America in the name of public safety.
Amy Patenaude is an avid skier/outdoor enthusiast from Henniker, N.H. Readers are welcome to send comments or suggestions to her at: amy@weirs. com.
Michelle Malkin’s email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@ protonmail.com.
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