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THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, July 24, 2014

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THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, July 24, 2014

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Capt. Jim Morash At Lake Winni Museum

Models of the Chateaugay (left) and the S.S. Mt. Washington II. Both were meticulously crafted by model maker David Warren who also wrote this week’s feature story. Both models are now on display at the Lake Winnipesaukee Museum in the Weirs, which is open to visitors on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10am - 4pm. david lawton Photo

The S.S. Mt. Washington II - Part 1

by David Warren Contributing Writer

At 8pm on Dec. 22, 1939, local hotel owner Fred Moore reported a major fire at the Weirs.

Jim Irwin Sr. was at his daughter Dorothy’s high school pageant when a gentleman rushed in to inform him that his Winnipesaukee Gardens might be in trouble. As he passed through Lake-

port on his way to the scene, he saw a sickening glow in the night sky off to the northeast. Leander Lavallee, owner and former captain of the SS Mt. Washington, spotted the fire from his lodgings in the Weirs. He set out for the wharf, but fainted (due to a weakened heart) and didn’t reach the scene until midnight, after the fire had finally died down.

A southbound milk train

out of Meredith, delayed for a half hour and then diverted onto the innermost track, passed by the conflagration.

The fire had started somewhere either in the railroad station or in the attached Weirs Cafe. As the story goes, a door to one of the coal stoves was left open, and a hot cinder leaped out onto the highly flammable heart pine floor. The blaze was so in-

tense, fire crews were unable to approach it. They did save Jim’s dance hall, but the railroad complex and the adjacent boardwalk were completely destroyed. But that’s not all that was lost. The old SS Mt. Washington was tied to the dock, stuck in the mud and locked in by ice.

Frantic attempts to move her failed, and she burned to the waterline. What See warren on 34

On Wednesday, July 30th at 7pm, The Lake Winnipesaukee Historical Society welcomes Jim Morash, Captain of the Mount Washington, for a special program about the history of the famous cruise ship.

Since 1872, there have been only two vessels named Mount Washington to have cruised the beautiful waters of Lake Winnipesaukee and Captain Morash will tell the story.

This program takes place in the new meeting room at the Lake Winnipesaukee Museum on Rte 3 in the Weirs next door to the Funspot Family Entertainment Center.

Admission is $5 but is free for members of the Historical Society.

Seating is limited so it is requested that you RSVP in advance to 603-3665950.

For more information on the Historical Society and Museum visit www.lwhs.us.

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July Thursday 24th Wolfeboro Area Farmers Market

Cate Park, 233 South Main Street, Wolfeboro. 12:30-4:30pm. More than 25 vendors. 569-6342

Bear Expert Ben Kilham – “What Bears Have Taught me About Being Human”

The Loon Center, Lee’s Mills Road, Moultonborough.

7:30pm.

Join Ben Kilham for an educational and inspirational talk about Black Bear behavior. Free admission. 476-5666

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Hampton Beach Casino, 169 Ocean Blvd., Hampton. www.casinoballroom. com or 929-4100

Project Greenway Design Contest

Little Church Theatre, Holderness.

Inspired by Project Runway, Project Greenway is the battle of the green designers. $2000 in cash prizes awarded in age categories of 11-17 and 17. Each design must incorporate 5 different types of recycled, reused and repurposed materials. This year’s theme is adventure travel. All designers welcome. $25 to register. 968-2250

Floating Classroom – 90 Min Lake Ecology Tour

Tours depart from the Weirs Public Docks at 10am and 1pm. Cruises must be booked two days in advance as seating is limited. Children under 6 need to have their own life jacket (all others will be provided). The Floating Classroom is a fun and informative hands-on program designed to teach adults, children, students and summer campers the issues threatening the lake. The goal of the Floating Classroom is to increase awareness of issues affecting the health of Lake Winnipesaukee in order that people may become better stewards of the lake. $20/adult, $15/child under 16. www.winnipesaukee.org or 581-6632.

Weather permitting.

Poets in the Attic – Open Mic Reading

In front of The Country Bookseller in the Durgin Stables courtyard, Wolfeboro. 7pm. Anyone is welcome to perform, remember to bring a lawn chair and maybe a jacket. 539-4472

Christina Rizkallah – Egyptian Belly Dancer

The Back Room at the Mill Fudge Factory, Bristol.

7:30pm. $8/ advance, $10/door. 744-0405 www. themillfudgefactory.com

Thurs. 24th – Aug. 10th 74th Annual LR Art Association Show & Sale

VynnArt Gallery, 30 Main Street, Meredith. The show is judged and awards will be based on the judges’ decisions. Among the categories the judges will consider fro awards will be oil painting, acrylic painting, printmaking, watercolor, drawing, pastel and sculpture. This year there are two new judging categories: photography and digital art. In addition to the general entries on display, there will be a raffle of an original painting and a selection of small matted pieces for sale at $10 each. 770-3989

Friday 25th Tilton Farmers Market

Tanger Outlet Center, 120 Laconia Road, Tilton. 3-7pm. More than 30 vendors. 496-1718

Quiet Riot & Faster Pussycat

Hampton Beach Casino, 169 Ocean Blvd., Hampton. www.casinoballroom. com or 929-4100

Fiddler on the Roof Jr

Capitol Center for the Arts, South Main Street, Concord. www.ccanh. com 225-1111

Tilton Farmers Market

Tanger Outlet Center, 120 Laconia Road, Tilton. 3-7pm. Over 30 local producers. Live entertainment. www. tiltonfarmersmarket.com

Guided Kayak and Canoe Trip on Lake Wentworth

Participants should arrive at Albee Beach to off-load their boats and gear by 9:15am so that everyone will be prepared to launch by 10am. Event is open to all kayakers and canoeists who are 15 or older. Youth between the ages of 15-17 must be accompanied by an adult. Participants must wear a PFD with attached whistle and bring their own water, sunscreen, hat and towel. Free but reservations are requested. 569-4554

Village Harmony Concert

UU Church, 274 Pleasant Street, Concord. Young singers performing music from the Baltic, Ukraine, Georgia and more. $10/adults, $5/ students and seniors. 224-0291

“Sherlock Holmes and the Case of Hamlet”

Sandwich Town Hall Theatre, Sandwich. 7:30pm. $20/adults, $10/ seniors and $7/under age13. www. advicetotheplayers.org

Annie & the Orphans – 50 Anniversary Celebration!

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Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $12pp. BYOB. A catered dinner buffet will be available before the show for $10pp. 527-0043 to reserve.

Fri. 25th – Sun. 27th 40th Annual Antique Boat Show

Lake Winnipesaukee, Meredith Public Docks, Hesky Park, Meredith. www. necacbs.org 562-619-4016

Saturday 26th Yard Sale – Craft Fair – Bake Sale

Andover Congregational Church, 7 Chase Hill Road, East Andover.

8:30am-2pm.

Get the Led Out

Hampton Beach Casino, 169 Ocean Blvd., Hampton. www.casinoballroom. com or 929-4100

Fiddler on the Roof Jr

Capitol Center for the Arts, South Main Street, Concord. www.ccanh. com 225-1111

Legends of Doo Wop

The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. 536-2551 www. flyingmonkeynh.com

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In the Laconia City Hall Parking Lot, Laconia. 8am-Noon. Local farmers and producers and unique gifts. www. laconiafarmersmarket.com

Lakes Region Rotary Car Show

Weirs Beach Lobster Pound, Rt. 3, Weirs Beach. 10am-2pm. $5 donation for local charities. 556-8969. Rain date, the 27th.

Jane Varney Durgin: Her Life and Times

Lake Winnipesaukee Historical Museum, Route 3, Weirs Beach, next door to Funspot. 11am. Featuring Peter N. Miller. Peter will tell the fascinating story about how Jane was quite involved in the abolition of slavery and the anti-slavery fervor that existed in the Lakes Region and NH from 1835-1860. Peter’s new book will be available for signing. $5/nonmembers, free for members. RSVP

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Summer Fun Craft Fair Saturday and Sunday, July 26th and 27th, come to the Summer Fun Craft Fair at the Tanger Outlets, 120 Laconia Rd., Tilton.

Hours for the Fair are Saturday from 10am to 5pm and Sunday from 10am to 4pm.

Buy American made arts & crafts! Some of the arts & crafts will include functional pottery, glass art, stained glass, face painting, deacon benches, decorative coat racks, soy candles, quilts and quilted table decor, hand-poured soaps, kettle corn, scroll saw wood, fabric crafts, puzzle boxes, handcrafted pens/cribbage boards, bottle stoppers, handcrafted jewelry, acrylic paintings and much more.

Entertainment will be provided by the classical music of Tim Janis, Food will also be available.

Free Admission and Free Parking - Rain or Shine Under Canopies. For more info call Joyce at (603)528-4014 or visit www.joycescraftshows.com Directions: I-93 Exit 20 & Bear Left .

Pemi Valley Bluegrass Festival The 22st Annual Pemi Valley Bluegrass Festival will be held at the Sugar Shack Campground in Thornton, Thursday through Sunday, July 31st to Aug 3rd.

The festival this year will feature International Bluegrass Music Association’s award winning bands including the Gibson Brothers, winners of the IBMA’s 2013 Entertainers of the Year, Vocal Group, and Song of the Year, “They Called It Music”. Long time favorites The Lonesome River Band, Balsam Range, Flatt Lonesome perform for the first time at Pemi while fan favorites Nuthin’ Fancy, Jonathan Edwards, and Zink and Company are back for repeat appearances.

The festival is rounded out with a variety of regional and local favorites including NH’s own Crunchy Western Boys, Newfound Grass, Bob Amos and Catamount Crossing, The Seth Sawyer Band, Washington County Line and The Lonely Heartstring Band.

The host campground, Sugar Shack Campground, is located off Exit 28, Route 93. The festival offers free “Open Field Camping” as well as 100 paid reserved sites , with many along the beautiful Pemigewasset River and some on the hill overlooking the concert area.

Mandala Themed Wine & Design Event The Belknap Mill in Laconia will be hosting a Wine & Design event on Tuesday, July 29 from 5-7:30pm with the instruction beginning promptly at 5:30pm.

The two hours of art instruction, which will take place on the 3rd floor of the historic building, is $35.00 per person and includes the cost of materials. Bring home a 16 x 20 painting canvas to be hung in your home or office or to be given as a gift. All proceeds from this event will be to benefit future art and education events at the Belknap Mill.

Instructor Heidi Little, owner of ArtsEnlight in Meredith and an art educator for the Arts Collaborative Gallery and Showroom, will demonstrate a Mandala themed design.

Mandala means ‘circle’ in the Sanskrit language and refers to symbols that are displayed in a circular frame. Mandala art has been used as a form of self-expression, personal transformation and spiritual growth.

Bring a snack, your favorite wine or beverage to be enjoyed throughout the evening. Registration is limited and available on a first-come, first-serve basis; pre-register at www. wineanddesignevents.com.

For further information on the mill and its events, email programs@belknapmill.org, visit www.belknapmill.org, or call 603-524-8813.

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Skeletons And Issues

by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor

If you have been following this column you know that I have once again thrown my hat into the ring to be a gubernatorial candidate, which means I hope to be New Hampshire’s next governor, not next guber.

Now that the next election is only a few months way, things have been getting very heated. I have been through this before and I know how to take the heat.

Still, as happens every time I do this, no matter how honest I am about my intentions to want the job mostly because I need the money, people insist on demanding that I come clean about all the skeletons in my closet as well as define exactly where I stand on the issues.

So, for the sake of getting all that nonsense out of the way and focus on the real things in an election, like ripping apart my opponents, I am here today to once again come clean, spill the beans, clear the decks, whatever you’d like to call it.

First, here are my two biggest skeletons.

THE RACE CARD – This is probably the biggest issue in politics today and I am here to admit that in my past I have, yes, played the race card. I will also freely admit that, yes, I still play it on occasion today. Trifectas, Exactas, Daily Doubles, Win, Place and Show‌I

have played them all.

When I was younger I used to play the race card every night when I trained standardbred horses for a living. I wasn’t ashamed of playing the race card then, and I’m certainly not ashamed of it now.

It’s my money and I’ll do with it whatever I please.

INHALED – Yes, I admit it, when I was young and in college I did smoke some marijuana. A lot of us did it and there is no denying it or trying to escape from the fact. Those who try to claim that they never did it are liars and should be held accountable. On the other hand, I’ve never had a drink of alcohol in my life though I once did, very long ago, put some whiskey in my mouth, swish it around and then spit it out.

Okay, now that all of that is out of the way, I feel much better. Now for my stand on some of today’s important issues.

SPECIAL INTERESTS - Am I beholden to any of them? Of course I am.

Who isn’t? Have you ever see how much it costs to run a campaign. Lawn signs alone can set you back big bucks. And those big, bulky mailers? Forget about it. Money doesn’t grow on trees. Are you a special interest? Do you have a lot of money? Give me a call, I’d be happy to talk with you.

PAC MONEY – I am not sure what this is but I’m guessing you get this from Pac Man. I’ll have to look into this further and get back to you on it.

GLOBAL WARMING – Is the earth becoming warmer because of man’s activities or is it natural cyclical changes? Are the ice caps really melting or are they actually getting

thicker in some areas?

Will the seas overrun the earth and drown us all or will we return to another ice age and freeze to death? How the heck should I know. I’m not running for scientist, I’m running for governor‌ jeez!

ROE VS. WADE – Always a very sensitive subject. After years of careful consideration on the subject I have decided that it really depends on whether or not you have a boat. I know many would disagree with me.

ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF ENERGY – I like this idea a lot. Like a lot of people my age, I haven’t had the get up and go I used to have when I was younger. Anything out there that is going to help me from being exhausted by the time 9pm rolls around has got my support.

A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO CHOOSE – It is fine with me as long as I don’t have to stand there while they are doing the choosing.

As most men know, women can take hours, sometimes days, just choosing the right color for a new coffee maker. Sure, it is their right to choose, but it is also my right to sit at home with a cold beer while they are out there doing it. (Oops, there goes my alcohol story out the window.)

I hope this has cleared the air on some of the things I’ve done as well as my stance on important issues.

I really can’t wait to hear my opponents answers.

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To the Editor: Our nation’s illegal alien problem exemplifies Washington’s war on the American people. Washington politicians, Republicans and Democrats, have lied repeatedly about immigration and pursued policies that benefits the politicians but hurts most Americans.

Senator Ted Kennedy, who changed our immigration philosophy, told us regarding his 1965 immigration law: “The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs.� But it has.

Regarding the 1986 amnesty law he promised: “We will secure the borders henceforth. We will never bring forth another amnesty bill like this.�

The border wasn’t secured. In 2007, Senator Kennedy worked to give amnesty to about 12 million more illegals.

Politicians told us the 2006 Secure Fence Act would stop illegal border crossings. On May 10, 2011 President Obama told us that the border fence is “now basically complete.�

During his 2012 campaign President Obama repeatedly led us to believe the border was secure. On February 4, 2013 Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano told us that the border is secure.

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But the border isn’t secure, illegal aliens flood into our country. According to the NY Times almost 300,000 illegal aliens have come here just since April!

About 60,000 illegal alien children have come here over the last 6 months creating a humanitarian nightmare and threatening the health and safety of the American people.

President Obama wants $3.7 Billion to deal with the problem (but not to close the border) created by his failure to enforce our laws and by his 2012 announcement of (essentially) amnesty for most illegal alien children. (Yes, he set conditions, but illegals believe he will let them all stay here, and they are probably right.)

Americans have repeatedly told politicians to close the border. But illegal immigration benefits the politicians and they refuse to stop it.

American citizens will increasingly suffer until the current politicians are replaced with people who care about American laws and American citizens.

Don Ewing Meredith, NH

Gas Tax $660M To The Editor: How well-represented are we in Dover? How did our local Dover Reps. vote on the State Gas Tax Increase? All 9 or them voted FOR the Gax Tax Increase.

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.

The sitting Senator also voted FOR this same bill.

The current Governor signed it into law.

This increase will take $33 Million per year out of the pockets of hardworking voters, while our State diverts $ Millions, per year, meant for Roads and Bridges That’s $660 Million extra tax over 20 years.

Please Vote. It’s your civic duty, to make sure you’re represented well in Concord.

David K. Martin NH House Candidate, Strafford District 20 (Wards 3&4), Dover, NH.

Secure Border – Really?

To The Editor: According to Harry Reid our “border is secure.�

And he is the majority leader in the Senate. No wonder we do not have an updated immigration policy. He has no clue what is happening at the border.

Sad thing is that the news and radio will play what he says and people listening will believe him.

Honestly, how can he say that when tens of thousands of children/ teens are crossing without parents. If they can cross, then why can’t extremists that hate our country and our citizens?

A radical Muslim cleric located in Sudan said that there is no difference between military and civilian in their war with infidels.

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President Obama’s Man-Caused Disaster As a defender of the nation’s borders, President Barack Obama is a hell of a pool

by Rich Lowry p layer.

Syndicated Columnist Obama’s r e c e n t game in a Denver bar with Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper was bright and cheery, as one would expect of a president who didn’t have any depressing visits to frightened ranchers, overwhelmed border agents or desperate migrants on his future itinerary.

The first rule in a crisis for any executive is put on his windbreaker and boots and get out on the ground. President George W. Bush didn’t do it soon enough after Hurricane Katrina and, politically, could never make up for it, no matter how many times

he visited New Orleans. Obama’s bizarre resistance to visiting the border on his fundraising swing out West fueled talk of the influx as Obama’s “Katrina moment.”

The Katrina analogy is over the top because the border influx isn’t a deadly catastrophe swallowing an American city.

It also is too generous because Bush didn’t do anything to bring on Hurricane Katrina, whereas Obama’s policies are responsible for the influx of immigrants. It is, in the argot of his administration, a “man-caused disaster.”

According to the Los Angeles Times, the number of immigrants younger than 18 who were deported or turned away from ports of entry declined from 8,143 in 2008 to 1,669 last year. There were 95 minors deported from the entire interior of the country last year. At the same time, the number of unaccompanied alien children arriving from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras exploded from less than 4,000 See lowry on 40

Jose Antonio Vargas: The Face Of The Entitled Illegal Alien They’ve blown it again, big time. They just can’t help themselves.

During the Bush years,

by Michelle Malkin the open-borSyndicated Columnist ders movement won over bleeding hearts in the White House but alienated the American public with radical displays of La Raza (“The Race”) militancy, desecrated American flags and Che Guevara shirtwearing, fist-thrusting marches across the country.

Left-wing public relations consultants taught the amnesty mob to tone it down, turn the flags right-side up and stop threatening Reconquista. But the phony red-white-and-blue dye job didn’t last. The movement’s true extremist, entitled roots can’t be concealed for long.

On Monday, leading illegalalien journalist turned activist Jose Antonio Vargas engaged in a foolish stunt that will backfire on him and his allies in the media and Hollywood and on Capitol Hill. An openly defiant law-breaker who proudly calls himself “the most privileged undocumented immigrant in the country,” Vargas traveled to Texas with a film crew to commune with illegal aliens surging across the border.

But on his way out of the Rio Grande Valley, the former Washington Post reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner was detained at the McAllen, Texas, airport by Customs and Border Patrol. He was attempting to

clear security and board a flight without legally required U.S. identification.

No surprise: Vargas initially made it past the buffoons at the TSA. The media-savvy amnesty agitator telegraphed the stunt beforehand in a piece for Politico.

He hyped sympathetic coverage from the liberal Huffington Post.

He tweeted a photo of his Philippine passport and a pocket Constitution, which he audaciously presented to authorities in lieu of valid ID. And then Vargas’ publicity minions captured and tweeted the exact moment when he was handcuffed, looking shocked and aggrieved that federal law enforcement officers would actually -- gasp! -- enforce the law.

An illegal-alien Icarus, Vargas had been riding high after movie theaters and CNN aired his biographical, pro-illegal immigration documentary. His amnesty activism is backed by the progressive Tides Center, a project of George Soros and former ACORN chief organizer Drummond Pike. To his elite friends in the no-borders industry, he’s a “hero.”

Journalists, celebrities and politicians immediately swallowed the propaganda bait, rallying to their privileged pal’s side. “#DontDeportJose,” they all cried in an orchestrated Twitter campaign.

Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of law-abiding people from around the world are waiting patiently for their backlogged visa and green card applications to be reviewed.

Vargas’ outraged reporter

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Putin’s Latin American Charm Offensive UNITED TIONS - It’s

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by John J. Metzler trip to Brazil Syndicated Columnist to accept the handover for the next FIFA World Cup football tournament in Russia as well as his participation in the Summit of the BRIC economic powers, the real story was the largely overlooked wraparound of his Latin American charm offensive. Here’s the background.

Cuba Before flying to Brazil for the football final match and the FIFA handover for the 2018 World Cup, Putin first stopped in Cuba to renew the spark of the old cold war alliance between Castro’s communists and the Soviet Union.

While Russia’s political system has witnessed significant change since 1991 following the formal collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba remains in a kind of tropical torpor time warp. The Castro brothers still run the island but the revolutionary zeal is long gone replaced by debt, corruption, and poverty.

When Vladimir Putin met with both the current ruler Raul Castro and the retired “comandante” Fidel, he brought a pragmatism back to the once comradely Cuban/ Russian relationship. Energy rich Russia has forgiven $30 billion in

Cuban debt; an extraordinary 90% sum for the dead broke Caribbean island. Realistically Russia knew the debt would never be repaid, so why not write it off, but for a price?

While in Cuba, Putin scored some significant under the radar gains.

New ground facilities for the Russian GLONASS satellite navigational system, (sounds very James Bond) which will in theory compete with coverage for American GPS satellites. More importantly, the Russians are revamping the Lourdes electronic listening center outside Havana. During Cold War times, the Lourdes facility hosted 3,000 Russians involved in massive electronic eves dropping on the USA. It closed in 2001.

Given its relative proximity, Lourdes can serve as an electronic vacuum for intelligence gathering from the southern USA a mere 155 miles away.

Nicaragua After his Cuban visit, Putin’s party made an unexpected diversion to Managua, Nicaragua. The surprise stop, the first ever by a Russian president, was apparently the idea of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. While former comradely ties between the ruling Sandinistas (they’re back in power too) and the Soviets were close, the relationship has lapsed. This was a good time to catch up. President Daniel Ortega (remember him?) called Putin’s visit “A Ray of Light!

Why Nicaragua? There’s renewed interest in building a new cross Central American canal to

compete with the American built canal in Panama. While Russia is not in on the plans per se, a mysterious Chinese company HKND has announced plans for a $50 billion project starting later this year. Historically while all these

new canal stories need more than a grain of good Caribbean sea salt, there’s little doubt that Moscow looks towards Nicaragua as a reliable regional foothold.

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by Thomas Sowell p u b l i c ’ s a t Syndicated Columnist tention from the Democrats’ problems. Who says Republicans are not compassionate?

With public opinion polls showing President Obama’s sinking approval rate, in the wake of his administration’s multiple fiascoes and scandals -- the disgraceful treatment of veterans who need medical care, the Internal Revenue Service coverups, the tens of thousands of children flooding across our open border -- Republicans have created two new distractions that may yet draw attention away from the Democrats’ troubles.

From the Republican establishment, Speaker of the House John Boehner has announced plans to sue Barack Obama for exceeding his authority. And from the Tea Party wing of the Republicans, former Governor Sarah Palin has called for impeachment of the president.

Does President Obama deserve to be sued or impeached? Yes! Is there a snowball’s chance in hell that either the lawsuit or an impeachment will succeed?

No! Barack Obama’s repeated disregard of the laws that he is supposed to follow, and his blatantly changing these laws passed by Congress, are a threat to the whole Consti-

tutional form of government, on which all our freedoms depend.

Once a president -- any president -- can create his own laws unilaterally, we are on our way to becoming a banana republic, where arbitrary rule from the top replaces representative government by “we the people.”

Why not sue Barack Obama then, or impeach him?

For the simplest of all reasons: Neither of these actions is going to do anything to stop Obama, or even discredit him -and both can create a distraction that draws attention away from the Democrats’ disasters during an election year.

Either the lawsuit or an impeachment -- or both -- can hurt the Republicans, by making it look like they are playing Mickey Mouse politics during an election year. President Obama is already making a joke out of Speaker Boehner’s threatened lawsuit by saying, “So sue me!”

Courts don’t like to get involved in cases where one branch of government is suing another -- and the Supreme Court does not have to take any case that it does not want to take. Even a lower court can throw out Boehner’s lawsuit as a political issue that does not belong in court. Then it will be the Republicans who will have egg on their faces.

As for impeachment, the House of Representatives can impeach any president they want to. But an impeachment is essentially just an indictment that leaves it up to the Senate to decide whether to vote to remove the president See Sowell on 42

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Antique & Classic Boat Show Returns To Meredith Saturday, July 26th from 9am to 3pm

The Town Docks in Meredith will be the place for the 41st Annual In The Water Antique and Classic Boat Show presented by the New England Chapter of The Antique and Classic Boat Society. The shows goes from 9am to 3pm but you are encouraged to come early to watch as the boats arrive.

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The Braves, joined by Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, had asked the court to recognize the so-called “Baseball Rule� as the law in Georgia. The rule, already in force in other states but not in Georgia, says that if a stadium operator provides adequate screening behind home plate, and enough seats for spectators who want to sit there, it cannot be held liable for balls and bats that enter the stands and hurt people.

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Just imagine if a human had to chisel his food out of a block of wood with his nose? Only then can one truly appreciate the marvel of a woodpecker’s physical design. It has a hefty bill used for hacking into tree limbs, its skull is fortified to withstand the shock and its brain is cushioned by an unusual thick membrane.

For tree climbing, most woodpecker species have two toes placed forward and two facing back, giving it the power it needs to climb trees in search of food. This unusual grip also provides strength during the excavation of holes in trees. Another measure of stability is added by the stiff tail that serves as a third leg for bracing.

The woodpecker is thought to have a heightened sense of hearing that allows it to detect bugs burrowed underneath bark. And, it has an enhanced sense of touch in its tongue for feeling out insect borings.

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Some people laugh at the habit of a woodpecker pounding on a metal down spout as proof of the bird’s limited intelligence. Far from mistaking the gutters for a tree, it is using the loud noise produced to signal its territory and as a mating call.

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Reprinted from “Reminisce The Valley” by Bruce Heald and published by the Weirs Times Publishing Company in 1992.

Sunrise from Chocorua Mountain is unforgettable.

John Greenleaf Whitier wrote of “gems of sapphire, granite set. And hills that charmed horizons fret!” as he stood on the shores of Square Lake in Center Harbor mesmerized by its sight.

I know how fair your morns can break On rosy light on isle and lake.

There you can sit on the pinnacle of granite and look off on mountains, lakes and woods. Paugus is westward from Chocorua and over Paugus’ shoulder is Passaconaway, which is flanked by Tripyramid and White Face Mountains. I am sure you have heard about Passaconaway and how he went to heaven in a chariot of fire. As you look across to the mountain that bears his name, here is another story which

the natives of Sandwich enjoy relating They say that when the chief died, his body was carried to a cave on one of the ledges of Passaconaway and a large rock placed in front of the cave to seal it forever.

On the rock the tribesmen carved this epitaph to the chief whom they had feared and loved: Present, useful. Absent, wanted.

Lived, desired. Died, Lamented.

Many early pioneers claim to have seen this rock, but there is no real proof of this, since Mother Nature has long since obliterated all carvings the American native made.

The long ridge below Passaconaway is named for his son, Wonalancet, who did as his father told him and treated the white folk kindly, and died, for his gentle pains, in poverty, though his father before him had owned this territory as far as you could see.

Chocorua is a very old mountain possibly older

than its neighbors. It may have been the first dry land in New Hampshire, according to geologists, emerging from the ocean at the dawn of geological time.

It is said that in the beginning, it had a colossal spire, but the glacial currents swept and ground it away, so that it became nothing but a dwarfed remnant of the peak it once was.

Chocorua was named after a very prophetic and courageous Indian who was killed on the summit of this mountain by an early settler by the name of Campbell. There are many stories of this legend, but the one version, written by a gentleman from Tamworth named Joseph Gilman, is probably the better. When Mr. Gilman was a young man, he knew this very aged settler who knew a pioneer, who knew Chocorua very well; this brings us back to the year 1720.

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Once you have your new saw home, don’t even think about using it until you take the time to read the entire owner’s manual from cover to cover. These manuals now come with all sorts of important information about safety.

It’s critical that you know the dangers a circular saw presents; after all, the sharp blade is spinning fast and has lots of power.

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Mark parallel cut lines that are 1 inch apart so youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re cutting across the 1-foot width. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to cut off tiny strips of wood that are 1 inch wide by 1 foot long.

Place the piece of plywood on an old table or some other stable, flat surface and allow the marked end to hang out over the table by about 6 inches so thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no chance the saw blade will touch the table as it cuts through the plywood. If you have clamps that can secure the plywood to the table, that would be great.

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When this tribe was driven to Canada, he refused to leave his ancient home in the valley, and the grave of his father, but stayed with his son. In time, they became friendly with the white settlers. When it was necessary for him to go to Saint Francis to consult with his people, he left his small son with Cornelius Campbell, who was farming in Tamworth.

While he was gone, the boy got hold of some poison which had been prepared for a fox, and ate it. Upon returning, Chocorua found his boy dead and buried.

This improbable story of the totality aroused his suspicions, and he swore vengeance on the Campbell household, so when Cornelius returned home from the fields the next day, he found the mutilated dead bodies of his wife and children. He knew, without question, that Chocorua was the true murderer He tracked Chocorua with the hatred of a wild animal clear to the very summit of this mountain, and there he shot him. The dying Chocorua cursed the white settlers of this valley: “A curse upon ye, White men! May the Great Spirit curse ye when he speaks in the clouds, and his words are fire! Chocorua had a son, and ye killed him when the sky was bright!

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Winds and fire destroy your dwellings! The evil Spirit breath death upon your cattle! Your graves lie in the war path of the Indians! Panthers howl, and wolves fatten, over your bones! Chocorua goes to the Great Spirit! His curse stays with the White man!”

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This statue of Chocorua stands in Meredith Bay on Lake Winnipesaukee. lands. Indians attacked the people and set their homes aflame. Panthers and wolves came down from the mountains and crushed the bones of Cornelius Campbell. The settlement became abandoned, and for many years the entire settlement was deserted.

Many years later, people began to return to the valley, laughing at the dead man’s curse, but isn’t it strange that they could not keep their cattle. As soon as the creatures had been here a short time, they became ill and died, just as before.

Finally the people decided that it was no use, and sent elsewhere for their milk and butter. This went on for many years, and this strange disease was blamed on the curse of Chocorua.

One day, a professor from the University of New Hampshire decided to examine the waters from the local brooks and streams in the valley. His students brought him samples, and

when the samples were chemically tested, they were discovered to contain muriate of lime, which is good for men but hard on cows. Now the farmers exchange their stock every few years, and the cattle that had begun to weaken are moved at once to new pastures.

Chocorua’s curse, however, was never forgotten and the mountain inevitably took his name.

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Remove all of the people who intentionally work the system for a free ride, and those women who believe the most important issue is to protect their right to dispose of a human life as if it was a wart, and probably it would be President Romney.

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Ask yourself if being in second place and happy to be there is what you want for your country? That is a problem for republicans because the voters see a group of people they believed in, satisfied with being second-stringers! I have come under some criticism for letting it be known that I really do not want to vote for Scott Brown should he make it through the primary. I hear this â&#x20AC;&#x153;if he is with us 57% of the time that is more than Shaheen.

Correct, but Jeanne Shaheen stands with her party 99%, they are terrible, but just which legislation would Brown be voting her way if she were sitting in that seat? There will be time to dissect her record.

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friends don’t have much sympathy for those would-be Americans. Or for the Americans who’ve dedicated their lives to protecting homeland security and upholding our laws. Vargas’ enablers

jumped to condemn the CBP employees in McAllen for doing their jobs and demanded that he be freed from “unfair” and “out of hand” detention, as one hysterical Roll Call reporter put it.

Unfair and out of

hand?

As I’ve noted previously, Vargas came here from the Philippines as a child, but knowingly broke multiple laws as an adult in order to stay in the country. After being supplied with a

fake passport with a fake name, a fake green card and a bogus Social Security number, he committed perjury repeatedly on federal I-9 employment eligibility forms. In 2002, while pursuing his journalism career goals, an

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Michelle Malkin is the author of “Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies” (Regnery 2010). Her e-mail address is malkinblog@ gmail.com.

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immigration lawyer told him he needed to accept the consequences of his law-breaking and return to his native Philippines.

He ignored the counsel and instead used a friend’s address to obtain an Oregon driver’s license under false pretenses. It gave him an eight-year golden ticket to travel by car, board trains and airplanes, work at prestigious newspapers, and even gain access to the White House -- where crack Secret Service agents allowed him to attend a state dinner using his bogus Social Security number.

The Vargas stunt will backfire because it is a smug and emblematic middle finger to everyone outside the D.C.Manhattan bubble who believes in following the rules. As legal immigrant Asoka Samarasinghe wrote to me on Monday, “Michelle, this guy is a slap to the face of all us legal immigrants and citizens.”

As for “due process,” celebrity illegal alien Vargas will undoubtedly get more bites at the immigration court and federal appeals apple than law-abiding citizens will ever enjoy (see Zeituni Onyango).

But the sob-story violins play on. Democratic New York Mayor Bill de Blasio sanctimoniously tweeted Monday afternoon: “I stand in solidarity with journalist and advocate (Vargas). He exemplifies what America is about.”

Only if “America” means protecting leftist elitists from the consequences of their reckless, arrogant actions.

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Try tying a fly for your own fishing line after a lesson from experienced fly-tyer Dick Turgeon.

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ported Moscowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actions in Ukraine and letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not forget in Georgia during the 2008 conflict as well. The leftwing Managua government is one of a few countries who diplomatically recognize two separatist rump-regimes set up by Russia after the Georgia war.

Argentina Then on to Argentina literally on the eve of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s World Cup showdown!

Putin exclaimed, â&#x20AC;&#x153;today, Argentina is one of Russiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s key strategic partners in Latin America, the UN and the G20. Our approaches

to the key issues in global politics are either similar or identical.â&#x20AC;? Indeed President Christina Kirchnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s government has been supportive of Russiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s controversial moves in Crimea earlier this year.

Important nuclear deals were signed with Russiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s atomic energy corporation

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Rosatom to become involved in the construction of Argentinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Atucha 3 nuclear power plant. Significantly on the political front, Putin roiled the South Atlantic waters by offering diplomatic support for the Argentine governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campaign to open direct negotiations with Britain over the future of the disputed Falkland islands/ Malvinas.

According to the Moscow Times, Argentina will allow the state-owned international news channel RT (Russia Today) to broadcast its Spanish language service alongside local TV channels.

Brazil At the high profile BRIC summit (Brazil, Russia, India, China) of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest emerging markets, members pressed ahead

with creation of a $150 billion bank and reserve fund. The BRICSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s have tried to balance their global economic clout with growing political power. Putin stated, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thanks to Russiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Chinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s firm stance in the UN Security Council, supported by other BRICâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s members, we have managed to prevent an international invasion in Syria.â&#x20AC;?

Putin is filling a power vacuum created by Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perceived weakness and yawning political ambivalence towards Latin America.

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Vibrations and the Festival is seeking volunteers from all towns to serve as mentors. Each volunteer will be responsible for purchasing a ticket for themselves and accompanying the group to the Family Concert, which is free to all kids 18 and under and college students with an ID. Students are encouraged to ask questions, learn more about the instruments, music and orchestra and meet with some of the musicians to hear about their experiences as members of the Festival. After the concert, the group will grab an ice cream at local favorite M â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;n M Scoops on Main Street in Plymouth.

Friends of the Arts and the Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire will both be involved with the project and are inviting all of their students to participate.

For further information or to purchase tickets for the New Hampshire Music Festival, please visit www.nhmf.org or call the Silver Center for the Arts box office at 603-5352787

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28th Annual Greek Summer Festival

Taxiarchai Greek Orthodox Church, Corner of North Main and Oak Streets, Laconia. 10am. 11:30am dinner.

Authentic Greek cuisine, homemade Greek pastries, live Greek music and dancing, dance troupe to perform, specialty imports & dry goods and a raffle ticket table. Rain or Shine, free admission. 524-9415

The Sentimental Journey Ball

Antiques Appraisal Day

Laconia Antiques Center, 601 Main Street, Downtown Laconia. 2-4pm.

Expert appraisers Doug McGowan, Linc Fornier and Greg Peverly will be available to offer their expertise and verbal estimations of value. $5 per item. Tickets sold at the door. First come- first serve basis. 527-1278

Public Breakfast and Bake Sale

Masonic Building, 410 West Main Street, Tilton.7-9:30am. $7pp. 5248268

The Wright Museum, 77 Center Street, Wolfeboro. 7-10pm. Enjoy an evening of desserts and dancing to the music of Gerry Grimo & the East Bay Jazz Ensemble. Dress in festive attire or 1940â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s era civilian or military attire. All proceeds benefit the Wright Museum. $75pp. 569-1212 to reserve your spot for the fundraiser.

Hebron Fair

Dusty Gray

Moulton Farm, Quarry Road, Meredith.

Delicious foods in a beautiful farm setting. Buffet includes raspberry inspired dishes from the farmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bakery and kitchen. $14.99pp, $9.99/child 10 and under. 279-3915

The Back Room at the Mill Fudge Factory, Bristol. 744-0405 www. themillfudgefactory.com

Landlubberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lot Dance

Community Park on Main Street, Meredith. 6-9pm. Free popcorn and music provided by Joanne Newman of DJ Music Factory. 279-9015

Summer Fun Craft Fair

Tanger Outlet Center, 120 Laconia Road, Tilton. 10-5pm. Live music, food, free admission. Rain or shine.

528-4014 www.joycescraftshows.com

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Sandwich Town Hall Theatre, Sandwich. 7:30pm. $20/adults, $10/ seniors and $7/under age13. www. advicetotheplayers.org

Hebron Town Common. 9am. Crafts, rummage sale, auction, childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games, dunking booth and much more!

744-5883 or www.hebronchurchfair. org

Sunday 27th Raspberry Breakfast Buffet

Summer Fun Craft Fair

Tanger Outlet Center, 120 Laconia

Road, Tilton. 10-4pm. Live music, food, free admission. Rain or shine.

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East Bay Jazz Ensemble â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Free Concert

Hartwell Memorial Bandstand, Tilton Island Park, Tilton. 6-8pm. Bring a blanket or lawn chair. Food and refreshments available. 286-3000

Sun. 27th â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sept. 7th Normandy Invasion Photograph Exhibit

The Wright Museum, 77 Center Street, Wolfeboro. Photographs of the Normandy Invasion will be on display during regular Museum hours.

Developed by the National World War II Museum, New Orleans. $10/adults, $8/Military and Seniors, $6/students.

569-1212

Monday 28th Old Crow Medicine Show

Hampton Beach Casino, 169 Ocean Blvd., Hampton. www.casinoballroom. com or 929-4100

Meredith Sculpture Walk and Opening Ceremony

Town of Meredith. Brochures and a

walking map will be provided. For all info please call 279-9015 or www. greatermeredithprogram.com

Rochester Republican City Committee Meeting

Pink Cadillac Diner, 17 Farmington Road, Rochester.

6pm.

All Republican, Conservative and like minded Independents are strongly encouraged to attend. 842-0436

Fishing Lake Winnipesaukee Talk

The Taylor Communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Woodside Building, 435 Union Ave, Laconia.

6:30pm. Presented by NH Fishing Guide Glen Leathers. Free and open to the public. 524-5600

Tuesday 29th Art Night

River Run Deli, 32 Suncook Valley Road, at the Alton Circle, Alton. BYOB if you want to sip and paint. 875-1000

Rikki Tikki Tavi

Capitol Center for the Arts, South Main Street, Concord. www.ccanh. com 225-1111

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New Hampshire Veterans Home, 139 Winter Street, Tilton. 2pm. This powerful hour-long presentation by independent filmmaker Marcia Rock highlights a group of disabled female veterans as they struggle with problems from amputations and prosthetics to homelessness, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Military Sexual Trauma as they transition from active duty back to civilian life. Free and open to the public. 527-4425

to have their own life jacket (all others will be provided).

The Floating Classroom is a fun and informative hands-on program designed to teach adults, children, students and summer campers the issues threatening the lake. The goal of the Floating Classroom is to increase awareness of issues affecting the health of Lake Winnipesaukee in order that people may become better stewards of the lake. $20/adult, $15/child under 16. www. winnipesaukee.org or 5816632. Weather permitting.

Tours depart from the Weirs Public Docks at 10am and 1pm.

Cruises must be booked two days in advance as seating is limited. Children under 6 need

The Wright Museum, 77 Center Street, Wolfeboro.

Doors open at 6pm, presentation starts at 7pm. Presented by Tim Gray, Chairman of the WWII Foundation. $7pp.

Free for members. Space is

limited. RSVPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s are strongly encouraged. 569-1212

Guided Paddle to Stonedam Island

The trip will begin at Cattle Landing on Meredith Neck Road at 8am, returning around 3pm. Pre-registration is required as space is limited to 20 paddlers. Participants will enjoy lunch together at a stopping point along the route and there will be opportunities for swimming in a few spots for those interested. 253-3301 to register.

Tues. 29th â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Aug. 2nd Toad of Toad Hall

Barnstormers Theatre, Tamworth. Tickets cost $10$32.www.barnstormerstheatre. org or 323-8500

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Headliners Comedy Club â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dennis Fogg

Hartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Turkey Farm, 233 Daniel Webster Highway, Meredith.

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Yo-Yo People â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Concert

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Lake Winnipesaukee Historical Museum, Route 3, Weirs Beach, next door to Funspot.

7pm. Please join as Captain Jim Morash of the Mount Washington Cruises talks about the history and heritage of the vessel, Mount Washington. $5/non-members, free for members. RSVP required.

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Mill Brook Gallery & Sculpture Garden, 236 Hopkinton Road, Concord. 10am. Meet Andy Moerlin, tour the 17th annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit and learn how he creates stick sculptures. Ice cream for all!

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Cate Park, 233 South Main Street, Wolfeboro. 12:304:30pm. More than 25 vendors.

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Floating Classroom â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 90 Min Lake Ecology Tour

Tours depart from the Weirs Public Docks at 10am and 1pm.

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The Floating Classroom is a fun and informative hands-on program designed to teach adults, children, students and summer campers the issues threatening the lake. The goal of the Floating Classroom is to increase awareness of issues affecting the health of Lake Winnipesaukee in order that people may become better stewards of the lake. $20/adult, $15/child under 16. www. winnipesaukee.org or 5816632. Weather permitting.

Thurs. 31st â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sun. 3rd 22nd Annual Pemi Bluegrass Festival

Sugar Shack Campground, Thornton. Pemi Valley is known among Bluegrassers as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;pickers festivalâ&#x20AC;?. The show is not confined to the stage area but overflows to the many different campsites where â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pickinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; or Jamminâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? continues long onto the night and throughout the day. The festival offers free â&#x20AC;&#x153;open field campingâ&#x20AC;? as well as 100 paid reserved sites. 744-0001 www. pemivalleybluegrass.com

August Friday 1st 77th Hospital Aid Street Fair

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Two years earlier, the Mount was severely damaged when she was hauled out at Center Harbor for inspection and re-planking. The marine railway collapsed, and she fell over onto her starboard side, nearly breaking her back.

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Captain Leander Lavallee (top) and Jim Irwin, Sr. (R) pairs, yard workers had to cut away the railway and build a cofferdam around the boat. She was nearly lost right there when a spark from the steam engine, used to pump water out of the lagoon, lodged in the pilot house and set the Mount ablaze. Repairs were completed, but the Mount suffered further damage the following year in the great hurricane.

Leander Lavallee was in declining health by then and decided to make 1939 his last season. The Carroll Brothers of Laconia offered to buy the boat, but only after repairs were made to the previously damaged area on the starboard side. So there she was. The Mount was valued at $100,000 and the total fire damage was $200,000. The boat was only partially insured, so Lavallee took the loss.

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did, the rest of this story could not be told, as there would probably be no Mount today (there almost wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t anyway, as weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll soon see). But the irony goes much deeper. The Weirs Cafe was built in 1884, by the rail line that owned the Lady of the Lake, so that passengers might be protected from the rain as they waited to board her. ( It was never replaced, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll need an umbrella now while you wait for the Mount.)

Had there been no cafe, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unlikely that the fire would have reached the old boat. The Mount ultimately put The Lady Of The Lake out of business, but it appears that she reached out from her watery grave outside of Smith Cove, and had the last word!

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Built in 1888, the Chateaugay was the first steel-hulled steamer on Lake Champlain. In 1925, it was converted into an automobile ferry.

Photo from weirs times archives

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and included 4 deck levels and beautiful staterooms.

Her resulting weight (724 tons) was substantial, and she sat very deep in the water. This would ultimately cause huge problems for the designers of the new Mount.

I decided to model the Chateaugay as she appeared in her early years.

Unlike the vessel she became, she was surpassingly beautiful back then, and must have brought great pleasure to her passengers as they traveled around Lake Champlain to her various ports of call.

Poissonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guide to the lake noted that her exquisite dining room was located on the main deck â&#x20AC;&#x153;so that passengers can enjoy an excellent meal and yet lose none of the fine views

which Lake Champlain affordsâ&#x20AC;?. The Chateaugay became a hero ship when the great flood of November, 1927 cut off all road and rail access to Burlington. Because she could break ice, she was still in service, and ran night and day for 2 weeks delivering food and medicine to the beleaguered citizens of that city.

By 1925, the automobile was starting to impact her business, so she was converted to a ferry to shuttle vehicles between Vermont and New York. The fore and aft promenade decks

were removed, and the paddlewheel boxes were covered by panels with fake windows to try to disguise the fact that she was an obsolete side wheeler. I doubt anybody was fooled, what with that giant walking beam standing proud above the turtle deck. In any event, her appearance was destroyed. Eventually diesel ferries took over, and she was retired in 1937, another victim of the great depression. Her engine was scrapped and she spent her remaining days as the quarSee warren on 36

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He found two. On Dec. 28, less than a week after the fire, he called his son Edward from Burlington, Vermont, to report that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d

found the perfect hull.

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ters for the Burlington Yacht Club. Before we move on, let me leave you with one thought. Imagine that there had been enough money to restore the Chateaugay to her original glory and bring her to Winnipesaukee.

How grand that would have been! And what a maintenance nightmare for Jim Morash.

To finance this project, Lavallee formed the Mount Washington Steamship Co.. He was president, and James R. (Jim) Irwin Sr. was vice president

and general manager. The honorable Robinson W. Smith, the mayor of Laconia, was a director. They immediately engaged the famous Boston based firm John Alden and Co. to design a new boat based on the Chateaugay’s hull.

As we’ll soon see, a serious engineering error would threaten that firm’s reputation and place the new Mount in peril. They then hired General Ship and Engine Co. (GS & E) of East Boston to move the hull and build the new vessel. This was the beginning of a long and

Launching of the Mount Washington II from Lakeport in 1940.

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GS & E was founded in the early 1930’s by two well known Lakes Region personalities. Carl Gustaph Hedblom moved to Boston from Hellebach, Denmark in 1896. He married his childhood sweetheart, the former Sophia Caroline Jensen (Sophie C.) in 1903, and their son Byron Carl Hedblom was born a year later. Carl was the president (everybody called him “the Boss”), and Byron was vice president. Byron frequented a restaurant near the shipyard where he met Doris Eileen Larkin (Doris E.), who was a waitress there. They were married in 1933 and were just short of their 75th anniversary when he died in 2008, aged 103 years. In 1939, GS & E was already busy with war work. They had a contract to build 6, 200’ long oceangoing tugs for the Maritime Commission. These were ultimate-

ly used to tow damaged warships from the battle scene, and to move large floating docks, called Mulberries, to the beaches of Normandy for the invasion. Many Lakes Region personalities associated with the Mount, including Captain Byron Avery, Bob Murphy, and Tod Dearborn went to work for GS & E during the war, which helped swell their workforce from 200 to 2000!

In the fall of 1940, GS & E hired a young MIT graduate engineer, J Douglas (Doug) Brown. He soon fell in love with the boss’s daughter June, and they were married. Doug eventually became president of the company and built a summer home on Governor’s Island (where my wife’s family also lived).

He maintained his connection with the Mount through the years, and did all the engineering work when she was lengthened to become a motor ship.

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He even advised on the recent Caterpillar engine conversion. Doug was as fine a gentleman as you could ever hope to meet, and was the source for the information that follows.

GS & E started stripping the super structure off the Chateaugay on Jan. 1, 1940 (talk about a fast track project!). On April 3, they then dynamited the hull out of the ice and dragged it up onto the marine railway. Everyone watched anxiously as a welder torched a hole in the side of the boat so a marine surveyor could assess the condition of the iron hull plating. It proved as good as new, so they cut the hull into 20, 10’ long sections, loaded them onto flatbed rail cars, and sent them on their way to Lakeport on May 23. It’s almost surreal to watch old film of the new Mt. Washington kit as it passed along the tracks through the Weirs.

Some wag placed a sign on the first car that read “Steamer Chateaugay overland cruise to Lake Winnipesaukee”. The train arrived on May 29, and three crews immediately went to work around the clock to re-assemble the hull (which grew 2 feet as a result of the new welds) and to add the new superstructure. Some of the old film footage shows an accident that occurred

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when a cable broke and the crane dropped one of the hull sections cockeyed onto the building ways. The whole operation was a gigantic undertaking, accomplished in true Yankee fashion.

In the meantime, new engines had to be found.

Lavallee insisted that the new Mount be steam powered, a decision that almost everybody would live to regret. So he located and purchased the 140’ steam yacht Crescent III, which was laid up at Glen Cove, Long Island, NY. This ocean going yacht had two Herreshoff 750 Hp triple expansion engines that were ideally suited to the Mount’s needs. Lavallee scrapped the boat, and Bethlehem steel reconditioned the engines and boilers. They were installed through a giant opening in the main deck; not the last time that hole would be used.

The big day arrived and a crowd of 20,000 people (more than the state police had seen in many years) packed the shore of Paugus Bay. Girls selected from all the communities around the lake, including Miss Katherine “Kakie” Coe of Wolfeboro, paraded in. They were all dressed in white, carrying bouquets, and led

by Jim Irwin’s daughter Dorothy (now a freshman at UNH). Congressman A.B. Jenks of Manchester

promised to introduce a bill to build a navy yard on the lake, Mayor Smith gave a speech, and Dorothy cracked the bottle on the bow. The new Mount slipped into the water on Aug 12, 1940 at 1:03pm, and that’s when the serious trouble began. So I hope you’ll join me next week when we’ll learn what went wrong and find out how the new Mount narrowly escaped a trip to the scrap yard following the war.

This articles first appeared in The Boathouse News published by the New Hampshire Boat Museum. My thanks to librarian Marianne Marcussen for research assistance.

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If you do not follow Islam, you are an infidel. No freedom of religion which is our first amendment right. With no difference between military and civilians then killing citizens is OK. How do you compromise with people like this?

There is no compromise.

You are either Muslim or dead.

And our border is so po-

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Illegals are now being allowed to travel on planes with a “Notice to Appear” document, a document which they get and are supposed to appear at their court hearing to decide if they will be deported. Eighty to ninety percent do not appear.

They can board a plane

without identification that we citizens are required to have to board a plane.

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Why? Why do we go several years ago to 40,000 through all this, when ille- since last October. gals need no identification The White House brushand just a document they es off criticism that Obama ignore a majority of time? is avoiding the border as The illegal children/ mere “optics,” in contrast teens are being transport- to its highly substantive ed to many states without focus. But it is still not takthe knowledge of the gov- ing the crisis seriously. The ernment of the state. nearly $4 billion the presiI feel for the southern dent is requesting is not Border States but they are fundamentally about enbeing sent all over the US. forcement that will reverse Maryland residents just and end the tide, but about fought the feds to dump managing the influx. the illegals there. That is A devastating critique by not far from us. the Center for Immigration Are they coming to NH? Studies notes that about Do you want them here? half of the money goes to I do not. I do not want the Department of Health diseases that have been and Human Services “for eradicated in the US now acquisition, construction, around where I go? improvement, repair, opFederal congressman eration and maintenance have been forbidden en- of real property and fatrance to the locations cilities.” The enforcement where the illegal children/ portion of the request, acteens are. Pictures can- cording to CIS, “is not truly not be taken at these loca- geared toward removal,” tions. Personnel cannot but instead to “recouping talk to the public about costs for temporary detenthe illnesses these chil- tion and subsequent transdren/teens are bringing porting of aliens.” into the country.

The administration’s reLegal immigrants need action to the crisis is just to undergo an examina- another in a long series of tion and be free of dis- acts of bad faith on immieases that are according gration. It is asking Conto the law. The list of vac- gress for more money for cination requirements is: its priorities at the same mumps, measles, rubella, time the president is promtetanus and diphtheria, ising, in effect, to suspend meningococcal disease, yet more immigration laws pneumococcal disease, in response to the failure of rotavirus, varicella, influ- “comprehensive immigraenza, hepatitis A, hepati- tion reform.” tis B, pertussis, polio and Republicans in Congress Haemophilus influenza should crumple up the type B. So tell me, do you president’s border request think any of the illegals, in a ball and start over, children, teens or adults with an emphasis on holdhave these vaccinations? ing migrants near the borThe law requires this of der and working through legal immigrants to pro- their cases quickly to adtect citizens. Why does dress the short-term crisis, the federal government and provisions for interior no longer want to protect enforcement to address us? illegal immigration more It seems to me that the broadly. illegal aliens have the Of course, even if such rights we the citizens used a bill were to pass and to to have? be signed into law, that’d be no guarantee that the Linda Riley president of the United Meredith Nh States would enforce it.

That speaks to an entirely different man-caused disaster.

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

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from office.

So long as the Democrats control the Senate, impeachment of Barack Obama is guaranteed to lose. And this too would leave the Republicans with egg on their faces during an election year.

The political fate of the Republican Party is not something that those of us who are not Republicans need to worry about. If they want to shoot themselves in the foot again, so be it.

But all Americans have to worry -- and worry big time -- about the fate of this country if Republicans blow their chances of taking control of the Senate.

If Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid continues his iron control, President

Obama can n o m i n a t e whatever kinds of federal judges he wants to, knowing that they will be confirmed by the Senate.

Since federal judges have lifetime tenure, this would in effect extend the Obama administration long past the point when Barack Obama leaves the White House.

All he needs to do is pack the federal courts with judges who share his contempt for the Constitution and his zeal to impose a far-left agenda at all costs.

This year’s elections -- especially the Senate elections -- can decide the fate of this country for a long time to come. That is why Republicans’ launching of foredoomed symbolic actions like lawsuits and

impeachment is such an irresponsible selfindulgence.

When the country is at a historic crossroads is not the time for futile gestures like this, which can create bigger disasters than we already have.

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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— 2014 CALENDAR OF EVENTS — Sun., July 27th through September 7th –Snapshots of D-Day: Photographs of the Normandy Invasion. Come see this special exhibit honoring the 70th anniversary of that seminal battle. Visit www.nationalww2museum.org.

Tues., July 29th at 7:00 p.m. – D-Day: The Price of Freedom. Watch Tim Gray’s film that follows five veterans as they revisit locations where they landed on D-Day. Visit www.wwiifoundation.org.

Tues., August 5th from 10:30 a.m. to 4:05 Sat., August 16th from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. – Wright Museum Film Festival. p.m. – Third annual “Cruise in to the Watch five of Time Gray’s documentary Wright” Antique Auto and Motorcycle films back-to-back about the June 6th Show. Come see some great antique cars invasion of Normandy. (Fifteen-minute and motorcycles. A fun day for antique car intermission between each.) Visit www. buffs and people who just enjoy looking at wwiifoundation.org. magnificent automobiles.

Tues., August 19th at 7:00 p.m. – Honor Tues., August 12, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. – Flight New England. Joe Byrne talks about Native American Contributions during World War II. Professor Dana Benner talks the Honor Flight program and how you can arrange for someone special in your about Native Americans’ often-overlooked own life to take an honor flight. Visit www. contributions to World War II. honorflightnewengland.org.

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