08/04/2022 Weirs Times by The Weirs Publishing Company

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Dig Into Native History In Wolfeboro

Rosalie Lombard, fourth from left in second row, along with family and friends on the steps of the Cavalry Building in the Weirs in 1948. Rosalie, who now lives in Florida, has visited the Weirs periodically for ninety years. To Rosalie’s right in the photo is Dwight Mac Kerron who is the president of the First NH Cavalry Veteran Association today. The Association has been meeting yearly since 1870 with the next annual encampment on August 13th.

Memories Of Our Trips To The Weirs & Cavalry Building In The 1930s by Rosalie Lombard Contributing Writer

The name, “The Weirs” will be used in this article, in deference to the Civil War veterans, their descendants, and local residents, who preferred that title even though there had been many others (and some misspellings). The original name, in the 19th century, was “Weirs Steamboat landing” followed by, “Weirs Landing”, “Weirs

Station”, “Weirs Bridge”, “The Weirs P.O.”, “Wares”, “The Wiers”, and “The Weirs”. (More about Weirs Beach later) The word “weir” came from the name of the basket or enclosure that the Indians used to catch the fish coming through the Weirs channel. My earliest memories date back probably to 1930 when I was three years old. On the Saturday just before the last full week of August, there was

a great hubbub at home in Keene, as the older folks packed up the car for the long trip to The Weirs (about 90 miles away). The vehicle that was to transport all seven of us, was the Paige touring car, spare tire mounted on the rear, big metal tool box on the running board and retractable canvas top. A special feature was the pair of folding “jumper seats” in the back, allowing eachSee LOMBARD on 28

On Wednesday, August 10 at 6:30 pm, the Wolfeboro Public Library will present “Digging into Native History in New Hampshire,” a New Hampshire Humanities program, with Robert Goodby, professor of Anthropology at Franklin Pierce College. The people now known as Abenaki or Wabanaki have lived in this region for more than 12,000 years. Abenaki history has been reduced to near invisibility because of conquest, a conquering culture that placed little value on the indigenous experience, and a strategy of self-preservation that required many Abenaki to go “underground,” concealing their true identities for generations to avoid discrimination and persecution. Professor Goodby reveals archaeological evidence that shows their deep presence in this region, inches below the earth’s surface. This program is free and open to all. For more information, please call the Wolfeboro Library at 603-5692428 or visit their website at www. wolfeborolibrary.org.

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—OBITUARY— CHRISTINE L. SANBORN, 96 Christine L. Sanborn passed away January 13, 2022 at the age of 96. Christine was a lifetime resident of Alton, NH. She was a beloved kindergarten teacher for 25 years and a lifetime member of the Alton Community Church. She was an active member of the Sunshine club and various organizations in the area. Christine is predeceased by her three brothers, Vernon Sanborn and wife, Kathleen; Stanley Sanborn and wife, Patricia; and Harold Sanborn and wife, June. She leaves behind a sister, Mary, eleven nieces and nephews and their families. A memorial will be held Friday, August 12, 2022 at 10 am in the Alton Community Church on Church Street in Alton, NH.

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Signs Stolen & Vandalized To The Editor: I started door-knocking a couple of days ago, campaigning for reelection to be your State Rep for Grafton District 7 (Campton). Everyone I’ve spoken to — Democrat and Republican alike — has been courteous. A number of people have already been willing to let me place a yard sign on their frontage. Unfortunately, the tacky vandalism has also begun. Roughly 20% of my signs were stolen or smashed in the first 24 hours. It is worth noting that every single sign I placed is on private property. What does that tell you about my opponents, that they are that bold and hateful enough to begin the theft and destruction so quickly? My hope is that they represent only a small minority. Here are a few things that the vandals need to understand: First — I will replace every sign that is destroyed or stolen. Eventually, they will come upon one that has a game camera trained on it, and their image (and license plate number) will be captured. Second, our neighbors in Campton generally let me place the new sign even closer to their houses and more visibly in support of my candidacy. In other words, the vandals gain nothing. Third, I tend to let the public know of these acts of vandalism in publications just like this, or in widely boosted Facebook posts. The vandals lose again. And finally, our neighbors become even

more supportive of my campaign when they see this kind of behavior. For example, one sign that was run over is now going to be wired to the back of the homeowner’s truck that drives all around this area. It will now be mobile instead of stationary, and 10x more visible. No one likes destruction of anything on their own private property. Understand that I will only campaign harder for decency and common sense, and vandalism only strengthens my case for how much these traits are needed. On a more conventional note, I would like you to know how I am casting my votes in the State House. Several of these are listed in the brochure I am leaving with residents, and more will soon be posted on my campaign website (AlliegroCampaign.org). I supported the NH Parental Bill of Rights (HB 1431), a bill forbidding NH State law enforcement from implementing federal gun grabs (HB 1178), and a sensible budget bill (HB 1) with a 3% cut in spending, a $170 million overall tax cut, and a $100 million property tax cut. I am unopposed in the primary on September 13, but please come out and vote on that day and in the general election on November 8. I will need, and will appreciate, everyones’ vote to send me back to Concord. Mark Alliegro Representative Grafton-7

Democrats Are Desperate To The Editor: It’s been said that prosecutors can indict a ham sandwich. Soviet Secret Police Chief Beria said, “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” For seven years Democrats, and others enriched by big government, alleged that Donald Trump committed many crimes, including treason. Trump’s opponents spent over 100 million tax dollars trying to prove those allegations. The media endlessly repeated/repeats those allegations providing Trump’s opponents with billions of dollars’ worth of free advertising. Despite all these investigations, not one criminal allegation has been substantiated. Trump’s opponents falsely slandered Trump too many times to just be believed. The one-sided Trump-hating January 6 Committee (Jan6Com) now makes new allegations; rational people demand proof…none has been provided. The Jan6Com presented selectively chosen and edited documents and statements, false claims, endlessly repeated slanders, innuendos, and allegations; it excluded all exculpatory evidence. The Jan6Com refuses to allow the scrutiny required of proof: due process, cross examination of witnesses, presentation of additional evidence and interpretations. Why? Democrats are desperate to prevent Trump’s re-election in 2024. Under President Trump See MAILBOAT on 16

Our Story

This newspaper was first published in 1883 by Mathew H. Calvert as Calvert’s Weirs Times and Tourists’ Gazette and continued until Mr. Calvert’s death in 1902. The new Weirs Times was reestablished in 1992 and strives to maintain the patriotic spirit of its predecessor as well as his devotion to the interests of Lake Winnipesaukee. 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. Locally owned for over 20 years, this publication is devoted to printing the stories

of the people and places that make New Hampshire the best place in the world to live. No, none of the daily grind news will be found in these pages, just the good stuff. Published year round on Thursdays, we distribute 28,000 copies of the Weirs Times every week to the Lakes Region/Concord/ Seacoast area and the mountains and have an estimated 66,000 people reading this newspaper. To find out how your business or service can benefit from advertising with us please call 603-366-5115.

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Hart’s Pond is in the center of the Waukewan Highlands Community Park and the Pond was once the public water supply serving Meredith Village. The Town of Meredith has owned this parcel of land since the late 1800’s and continues to manage the land for forestry and recreation. There are three miles of paths--four trails marked with White, Red, Yellow and Blue blazes. From the Trailhead on Parade Road it is an easy walk of less than half a mile to reach the Pond. A trail map and an Interpretive Trail Guide are available to download from the town’s website, MeredithNH.org and click on the Conservation Commission/Hiking Maps.

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EVENTS & ACTIVITIES

Old House & Barn Detective Workshop

New Hampshire Preservation Alliance will be holding an Old House & Barn Detective Workshop on Saturday, August 6th at Roaring Creek Farm, 1260 Dartmouth College Highway (Route 10).North Haverhill, NH. The workshop goes from 10am- 1:30pm Don’t miss this opportunity to explore this distinctive architectural landmark property of the Upper Valley with historic preservation experts Ian Blackman, Ian Blackman LLC, Restoration & Preservation and Steve Bedard, Bedard Preservation & Restoration. Roaring Creek Farm’s grand porticoed house and Yankee barn sit on a rise above Route 10 in North Haverhill. Bedard will lead attendees on an exploration of the tavern house to find clues of the building’s early 19th century evolution from the original 1767 structure. Physical inspection will include distinctive masonry styles, the unusual timber frame in the attic, and a variety of interior features. Workshop participants will join Blackman as he conducts a barn assessment of the c. 1830 barn with its barn bridge, three-story interior silo, wagon scale and wooden cow ramp to the basement all still intact! There will be ample time for Q&A with our experts as participants tour the buildings and during the lunch break. Whether you’re an old house and barn owner or just appreciate historic properties, sign up today! Space is limited. NHPA members - $35, Non-members - $50, Membership Special (workshop + 1 year membership) - $60. To register visit www.nhpreservation.org Light refreshments will be provided, participants encouraged to bring their own lunch.

How To Preserve Your Property For Future Generations

Do you own a home or lakeside property that serves as a touchtone for family and friends? Would you like to preserve this place you love for future family generations? Passing It On is a forum discussing strategies on how to transfer family property to subsequent generations. Two Squam property owners will address how their families have approached this important issue and offer their perspective on the challenges and solutions of transferring family property to subsequent generations. Their stories will illustrate how they communicated with family members, worked with professional advisors, and set up approaches that are designed to ensure successful transfers of their properties. Hear about the limitations, triumphs and pitfalls they experienced. The panel will consist of Larry Tarica of Center Harbor and Ken Evans of Holderness. Alexandra Breed of McLane-Middleton (retired) will be on hand to offer a legal perspective. Reference materials will be available and books on the topic will be on hand for purchase. Have your questions answered and share your own experiences regarding this timely topic. Due to Covid, Passing It On has not been held since 2019. We are reviving this very important event this year on Thursday, August 11th from 10am to 11:45am at the Holderness Public Library, 866 US Route 3 in Holderness. Refreshment from Squam Lakes Marketplace will be served. This is an in-person, indoors event co-sponsored by the Squam Lakes Conservation Society and the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance.Space is limited, please RSVP’s to denise@foreversquam.org.

Hazardous Waste Collection Day Safely rid your home of hazardous products such as oil-based paint and stain, lawn and garden chemicals, kitchen and bathroom cleaners, old gas, and automotive products. Because these products can have severe impacts on the environment, contaminating our water, soil, air, ecosystems, and bodies, it is important to dispose of these items properly. It does not take much to contaminate these precious resources: one quart of oil can pollute 250,000 gallons of water. Residents and residential taxpayers in the Lakes Region Planning Commission’s 24 participating communities may bring up to 10 gallons or 50 pounds of Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) to any one of the 8 collection sites in the Lakes Region on either one of the next two Saturdays: On Saturday, August 6th HHW will be collected at the Newfound Regional High School in Bristol (enter off River Rd.), the Public Works Garage in Laconia on Bisson Avenue, and the Town Highway Garages in Center Ossipee and Moultonborough. Collections will run from 8:30 AM to 12:00 noon. As a reminder: Latex/Acrylic paint and alkaline batteries are not considered HHW and will not be accepted. These products can go in with the household trash (dry out the paint before disposal). To get maps to the collection sites, learn more information about wastes, or make a donation to the program, visit the Lakes Region HHW website at http://www.lakesrpc.org/serviceshhw. asp, find us on Facebook (under Lakes Region Planning), 279-8171 or 279-5341.

Bluegrass Sunday Service In Meredith The 1st Congo Bluegrass Band is very excited to present the 2nd Annual Bluegrass Sunday Service at the 1st Congregational Church of Meredith, on Sunday, August 7 at 10am. (This is a date change from July 31.) The band has a full compliment of talented musicians, messaging the power of music through life’s winding journey of sorrows, happiness, and hope. With banjos, guitars, fiddle, spoons, mandolin, bass, harmonica, rhythm instruments, and vocals, there will be new songs as well as seasoned favorites. Many songs are familiar and have choruses for the congregation to join in with singing, clapping, and toe tapping to various rhythms. All are welcome to join the energy and fun of this musical family worship. The church is located at 4 Highland Street, Meredith and parking is in the back.

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For The Kids There is a lot of controversy going around today about education in this country. It may be one of the most important issues we face. After by Brendan Smith all what could Weirs Times Editor be more crucial than what we are teaching to our kids and how it will affect their futures? For years I have dedicated myself to the cause of doing what I can for education right here in New Hampshire. It will be one of my most important focuses as governor, right up there with making the bean hole bean the state bean. I don’t have a teaching degree, so there is nothing I can do in the classroom. But I can help education in other ways, specifically coming up with new ideas for lottery scratch tickets. Many lottery players do not realize that the money the state takes in from lottery ticket sales goes towards public education. This is important to remind folks of since some people have issues with some public schools and will immediately stop buying lottery tickets because of this. After all, it’s not the chance to possibly win tens of thousands, or even millions, of dollars that matters, it’s really the principle of the thing. If you have stopped laughing, I will continue. Unintended benefits of lottery tickets is that it they also help keep the convenience store industry afloat as well as the coin department of the U.S mint. There had been talk of eliminating coinage altogether to save money, but this caused an uproar over what people will use to scratch off their lottery tickets. Eventually congress voted to keep funding for coin production in place – in fact it was actually increased. (This is

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a little known fact that I found out from a guy named Zach on the Internet who runs a site called “Are U.S. Coins Actually Mind Control Devices?”) Lottery tickets have been the cause of some well-known controversies over the years. After all, who among us doesn’t know someone who ignored the warnings on lottery tickets and chose not to play responsibly and ended up serving some jail time? Then there have been the protests by environmental groups concerned about the toxic effects of the silver dust scratched off tickets. They claim that the science is settled, though I’m not convinced even after searching Nick’s other website “Is Lottery Dust Actually A Mind Control Device?” And who can forget the great scratch ticket riot of 2014. It was a summer Saturday afternoon at a popular supermarket in the Lakes Region. There were many tourists as well as locals stocking up on supplies and anxious to get on their way as fast as they could so they could relax. The story goes, one gentleman in line (tourist or local is unclear) at the fourteen items and less checkout also wanted to cash in a couple of winning scratch tickets for some new ones and was torn between “Cash For Life” and “A Lifetime Of Cash” as the crowd behind him grew large and more impatient and finally reached a tipping point. Soon packages of hot dogs, ground beef and marshmallows, to name a few, were being tossed at the indecisive ticket buyer and eventually the whole store exploded into chaos. It took the entire police force of the town two hours to bring the situation under control. There were twelve arrests as well as a citation to the ticket buyer for actually having more than fourteen items in the first place. Despite some of this negative

publicity, the lottery still perseveres and requires new ideas for scratch tickets to keep people coming back for more. So, once again, here are some of my ideas to keep the money flowing for education, whether you like it or not. A simple ticket called “Summer Driving” might be a big hit. Scratch three “Smooth Driving” boxes without getting a “Road Work Ahead” and win twentyfive thousand dollars. Of course there would only be one winner out of ten of thousands of tickets, the same odds of not coming across a “Road Work Ahead” sign on an actual New Hampshire road in the summer. To attract more younger players to the lottery, tickets need to be tied into social media somehow. The “Scratch Your Selfie” ticket be heavily promoted on social media for a few weeks then sold on only one day. There would be forty tickets with five thousand dollar prizes, but only the first twenty winning tickets that have a selfie of the person holding the ticket and uploaded to the Lottery Commission’s Facebook page would win. (There might be an additional cash prize for the winner who gets the most “likes” in twenty-four hours.) To appease the protest groups and attract the casual player how about replacing the silver lottery dust stuff with a salt and pepper combination which could be scratched off onto convenience store food items. Finally, take advantage of the summer tourist season by selling scratch tickets that have no winners on any tickets. Who would know? (Of course, all New Hampshire residents will get a letter in the mail beforehand apprising them of the deception.) Most importantly, when you buy a scratch ticket remember, it’s all for the kids…as well as for the many, many people who work at the lottery commission.

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The Commie Colonization Of America From California to the New York island, from the Redwood Forest to the Gulf stream waters, the land that used to belong to Americans has been milked and bilked by investors and paid government agents of the People’s Republic of China. The National Association of Realtors reported last week that wealthy Chinese spent $6.1 billion on U.S. by Michelle Malkin real estate in the past year. They’ve captured Syndicated Columnist more than 10% of the market and have the highest average purchase price of all foreign real estate investors at over $1 million per home. California is their top pick, with more than a third of all homes located in the Golden State. (Or is it the Maoist Red State now?) In addition, China-tied entities own nearly 192,000 acres of American farmland and forest land -- the bulk controlled by ShuangHui International after it acquired U.S. pork producer Smithfield Foods in 2013. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis made headlines this week blasting the takeover as a “huge problem.” Indeed, the commie colonization of America has been taking place for decades. But it’s not rapacious Beijing enemies abroad who deserve the most blame. It’s traitorous Democrats and globalist Republicans who’ve pimped and profited off of fraud-ridden green card rackets that allowed foreigners to gobble up our country. In my books “Invasion” (2002) and “Sold Out” (2015), my 2017 mini-documentary, “The Dark World of EB-5: U.S. Citizenship for Sale,” my 2016 report on Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner’s China deals, and countless syndicated columns dating back to 2001, I’ve blown the whistle on the national security nightmare posed by China’s favorite vehicle for gobbling up our neighborhoods: the bipartisan-boosted EB-5 investor visa scam. This is the same racket exploited by former Democrat Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, lobbied for by the late Nevada Sen. Harry Reid and Department of Homeland Security official Alejandro Mayorkas, and embraced by South Dakota Republican officials. In “Sold Out,” I plunged into the Atlantic Yards EB-5 boondoogle, 70% owned by the Shanghai government-run Greenland Group. A source in the foreign real estate investment industry alerted me in 2016 to some of the other top Chinese land grabs facilitated by the bipartisan EB-5 racket, including: -- A $620 million luxury condo project in San Francisco by Chinese-owned Vanke; -- A $1.5 billion development deal in Oakland, California, with Chinese company, Zarsion; and -- The $60 million Europa See MALKIN on 35

It’s Time For Us To Understand We’re In A Cold War This week, the Chinese government announced its fierce opposition to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., visiting Taiwan. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said that China was “fully preby Ben Shapiro pared... If the U.S. is bent Syndicated Columnist on going its own way, China will take firm and strong measures to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity.” In response, the Biden administration announced its discomfort with Pelosi’s visit: Biden told journalists that military officials thought the trip was “not a good idea.” Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Chinese government had accelerated its push to reshore the manufacture of semiconductors. According to the Journal, “China is leading the world in building new chip factories, a step toward achieving more self-sufficiency in semiconductors that could eventually make some buyers reliant on China for many of the basic chips now in short supply.” That news ought to be disquieting for those who understand the flow of semiconductors, the single most important commodity on the planet, a component of nearly every major technology used today. Taiwan manufactures approximately 92% of advanced semiconductors; South Korea manufactures nearly all of the rest. China’s dependence on foreign semiconductors is one of the world’s best hedges against Chinese attacks on Taiwan: should China attack Taiwan, Taiwan could destroy its semiconductors and infrastructure. But if China can ramp up its own domestic manufacture while everyone else is behind, China is in a solid position to blackmail the world economy in the same way Russia has using its energy supply. And China isn’t unaware of their growing advantage. Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of

the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Chinese have become far more aggressive in recent years; international relations expert Shi Yinhong, who works at Beijing’s Renmin University, told the Associated Press that China “will take unprecedented tough measures and the U.S. must make military preparations” if Pelosi should visit. So, what ought the West to do? First, the United States must stop acting as though China will change its tack any time soon. Xi Jinping has upped the ante over recent months in advance of his next party congress; he is likely to continue upping the ante as his economic and demographic model turns upside down. The long-term future for China is dismal: China’s economy is a paper tiger rooted in debt, and China simply doesn’t have the population growth necessary to support its massive spending. This means that China sees its window for action closing. Second, the United States must realize it is already in a Cold War II with the Chinese government. This means ramping up our own domestic economic capacity -- unleashing the economy through deregulation, energy production and tax reduction; refunding the military at the levels necessary to sustain a two-front war, and rebuilding the navy, which has shrunk to ship numbers lower than the United States had preceding World War II; diversifying supply chains for goods and services necessary to the United States, reshoring those supply chains away from China; and cutting off China’s access to cutting-edge technologies. This also means that the United States must refocus its energy and ire externally rather than internally. Americans have expended an enormous amount of time, money and energy on attacking one another, on turning inward; the result has been a cancerous politics that results in the continuing dissolution of our social capital. During the Cold War, most Americans understood that the enemy wasn’t at home, it was the communist tyranSee SHAPIRO on PB

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COVID’s Good News At least the pandemic had a silver lining. It taught parents that there are better alternatives to government schools. When COVID by John Stossel hit, bureaucrats in Syndicated Columnist control were eager to close schools. Many closed them if just one child tested positive, even though COVID is little threat to kids. Union teachers seemed eager to be paid not to work. Los Angeles teachers secured a contract that said they will “not be required to teach classes using

live video conferencing,” and won’t be required to “provide instruction more than four hours a day.” Nice work if you can get it. More than a million parents chose to leave the government system. They spent their own money to educate their children in private and religious schools. Others tried home schooling. Many had been skeptical but now discovered that their kids learned more, and their family life was enriched by teaching at home. The education establishment sneers at home schooling, but home-schooled students, even though they are more likely to be poor, score 30% higher on

SAT tests. They also do better in college, and they are less likely to drink or do drugs. Finally, even within government systems, school choice grew. Kansas and Missouri expanded access to charter schools. Georgia, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Iowa, South Dakota, Utah and Tennessee expanded Education Savings Accounts, which help parents try private schools. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed “the most expansive school choice legislation in the nation.” It gives money to families that families can spend on private school, home schooling, micro schools, tutoring or any other

educational service that meets the needs of kids. Any kid can qualify. The state simply gives the family what they would have spent in the public school (up to $7,000). That’s much more generous and simpler than other states choice plans. In San Francisco, voters recalled three school board members. Apparently voters did not like that they kept public schools closed and, instead of figuring out how to reopen, obsessed over renaming schools called Washington or Lincoln. In Virginia, voters rejected governor Terry McAuliffe after he said, “I don’t think parents should be tellSee STOSSEL on 34

Biden’s Baleful Border Betrayl John Metzler is off and will return next week. Is there anything the left won’t blame on their fanby David Limbaugh tastical scapeSyndicated Columnist goat, climate change? Don’t bet on it. Their latest dodge is blaming the border crisis, which they created, on the climate crisis, which they invented. A Politico article is headlined, “It’s Not a Border Crisis. It’s a Climate Crisis.” That’s a convenient twofer. Never let an opportunity to blame a crisis on climate change go to waste. Well played. But to the left, I guess the bor-

der catastrophe isn’t a crisis. How could you support open borders and think that the invasion by invitation is a crisis? How could America-resenting leftists regard the influx of millions of new Democrat voters a crisis? It would be like the Democrats being apoplectic over federal spending. Nope. Not gonna happen. If only these migrants knew that leftist policies are on the way to turning this country into a socialist state — you know, the kind they’re escaping from. But let’s quit playing games. This is very serious and getting more so every day. U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported that June border apprehension numbers reached a 21-year high, with more than 188,000 arrests and more than 1.1 million this year to date.

Even more troubling: This is not a seasonal spike as Democrats have been saying. The numbers of crossings usually rise in the spring and then recede in the summer, but the numbers are still increasing. At this rate, we’ll break the 2006 record. President Joe Biden and his faithful party continue to deny, obfuscate and deceive, but none of their rationalizations hold water — and they know it. This is a crisis purely of their making; reversing President Donald Trump’s border policies, emasculating Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, and rolling out the red carpet for illegals is hardly going to deter attempted crossings. Indeed, we can trace these endless crossing spikes directly to these and Biden’s other wanton

policies of scrapping the “Remain in Mexico” policy, ending border wall construction and supporting the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Not that you would expect the left to be consistent, but they sure are fair-weather opponents of COVID-19. Just as they never objected to maskless left-wing rioters or fleeing Texas Democrat lawmakers, they seem wholly indifferent to the hazards of COVID-19-infected migrants. No, actually, they are worse than indifferent. Here, they are COVID-19 enablers, given their plan to end Title 42, the law Trump invoked to refuse entry to immigrants with the virus. This, despite knowing and even admitting that this action will cause a new influx See LIMBAUGH on 35

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Letters From God This series of Letters From God is an attempt to put the thoughts of God as revealed in the Scriptures as they relate to individuals and the nation of the USA.

but death of the spirit or person within the body. It is evidenced in your relationship with me the source of life, in the death of relationship with yourself with a host of personal problems and death of relationships with others, which instead of adding life, drains you of life. Death permeates all aspects of your existence. None of these are part of my experience today or what I originally designed you to enjoy as well. The ultimate experience of death however is that you will one day exist forever in a place reserved for all those who have rejected me, disobeyed me and are separated from me, the source of life (Revelation 20:10). When you were in a relationship with me you had the opportunity to live forever with me in a perfect environment, with a heavenly father who created you and loves you dearly and doesn’t even have the capacity to ever hurt you. But now that you are separated from me you must understand that you will still live forever but not with me, a perfect heavenly father. Look around you. There is evil all around you with manifestations which are horrific. Evil is so destructive, so damning and so awful. The source of that evil is from one of my creations, an Angel who like many of my human creations has rebelled against me. His name is Satan (Revelation 20:2).

He too has been separated from the life that I bestowed upon him and as a result has become the author of death for all who reject me. Every malignant evil that you see in your world today will be present in his Kingdom for eternity. So why do you need a Savior? Humanity once enjoyed a relationship with me, the author of life, with the condition that they must not disobey me so that they become less than perfect. I have no evil, no sin, no imperfection and I cannot be in a relationship with anyone who is less than perfect, having committed even one act of evil (Matthew 5:48). Since all of you have not only disobeyed me once but multiple times, you have no way to be restored to me and to the life that only I can give. No amount of self-effort can ever make you perfect again. You are dying and will one day, at your physical death, begin an eternal destiny of death along with Satan, unless you have a Savior. I want you to know that I love you so much I sent my son, Jesus the Messiah, whose name means “the one who saves,” to deliver you from eternal death. Because he was without sin and eternal, I allowed him to pay your eternal penalty for all your sins. “God made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Corinthians

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QUESTION: Why Do We Need A Savior? The defection from faith in me has, as You couldn’t have asked a more important question! You are alive physically today because I created you, initially the first man and woman from dust and subsequently through my design of the human bodies of both men and women. I also created your spirit or person to live within your physical bodies. I am the “God of the spirits of all mankind.” (Numbers 27:16). Originally your spirit was in a relationship with me, your Creator. Because I am life and the source of your life, when we were in relationship, I passed on the fullness of life to you to enjoy. The life that I created you to enjoy was not only a never-ending physical existence but existence in which there was no death for the spirit or person living in the physical body. I am eternal and live in a realm in which there is no death and I created you in my “image” to enjoy the same quality and quantity of life (Genesis 1:26). You are well aware, that death permeates every aspect of your world. It includes not just physical death,

5:21). If you were to recognize your sins and the impossibility of being restored to me and to life that only I can give and ask me to forgive you, I will apply the payment of the death of my son, Jesus, to every sin you’ve ever committed and look at you from that day forward, as though you have never sinned. You will be saved from sin and death by my son’s death on your behalf as your Savior so that you will not be condemned (Romans 8:1). Now you know, but what remains is your willingness to admit you were wrong, confess your sins and accept my Son’s provision for life. Your decision from this day forward will determine your destiny. I’m listening and my Son, who has been raised from the grave is listening as well. Ask and you will receive. I love you, God (Your Savior)

These letters are written by a New Hampshire pastor.

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Celebrating The Mount’s 150th Anniversary At The Lake Winnipesaukee Museum

The Lake Winnipesaukee Museum is now welcoming visitors to this season’s recently opened special exhibition focusing on the 150th anniversary of the Mount Washington. Located at 503 Endicott Street North, next to Funspot in the Weirs, the Museum is open Wednesdays through Saturdays from 10 AM to 4 PM, through midOctober. The Mount has been cruising the Big Lake since 1872, and the Lake Winnipesaukee Historical Society’s permanent collection features numerous images and objects representing this icon of Lake Winnipesaukee. The sum-

mer show celebrating The Mount’s 150th anniversary includes two paintings by renowned Lakes Region artist Peter Ferber, as well as photographs and ephemera loaned by Captain Jim Morash of Mount Washington Cruises, who spoke about his 40plus years on The Mount at the Museum on July 20th. From the original steam-powered sidewheeler to the 230foot motorship cruising the lake today, the Mount Washington has been a fundamental part of life on Lake Winnipesaukee for 150 years. In 2022, Mount Washington Cruises celebrates not only the legacy of the

Artist Peter Ferber notes that “Arriving at Wolfeborough” (2018) depicts the Wolfeboro waterfront in the early 1930s, showing a number of buildings (such as the Town Hall) still visible today. Ferber included the biplane “New Hampshire” which did sightseeing tours of the Lake out of the seaplane base at the Weirs, as well as an early gas balloon, to activate his composition (Private Collection).

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Summertime in New Hampshire for a young boy in the 1940’s and 1950’s was not always fun. We had our pandemic then, though I don’t remember it being called such. It was polio, and I do remember seeing someone in an iron lung and finding out about cases close to home. Yes, I said “ in ” iron lungs because the machine to help people afflicted by polio to breathe was actually something they were placed into rather than something that was placed into them or on them. Back then in those olden days we contracted most of the diseases that most children are vaccinated against these days. They were measles, German measles, mumps, chicken pox, and whooping cough, along with what seemed to be frequent colds in the winter time. We got through those bouts of sickness alright, and survived another dreaded experience – the haircut. As I remember it, the summer haircut often took place on the back

Hair Clippers that cut my hair when I was a child. porch that was on the north side of the house. The haircut was done on the back porch by my Father or Mother. It was done with scissors and a hand-held and operated trimmer that was not electric. I am including a picture that is the actual machine that cut and sometimes pulled on our hair. Those times that the hair got caught and pulled so that we yelled in complaint were not a good time for either barber or client. The back porch was also where we prepared fresh vegetables for supper or for canning. The stove used for heat and for canning was a woodburning stove, so when there was canning going on there was extra heat in the middle of summer from the stove. The canning was done in a

metal enameled “canner” which was heated to boiling on the wood stove and which I think held about eight quart jars. The time came when a pressure cooker was used, still heated by the hot wood stove, but I remember mostly the hot enameled pot and the fact that the jars had to be carefully examined to make sure the lids on the tops were sealed. Canned goods were important for our winter supply of food, and the fresh vegetables in summer were especially welcome. As children, my five siblings and I would shell peas, break up string beans, shell beans, and husk corn on the back porch. The corn also, once husked, had to be cut off the cob.

When it came time for the agricultural fairs it was on the back porch that we would, under the guidance of our Mother and Father, if he wasn’t working, choose the vegetables that we would display as Grange or 4-H exhibits at the Fair. I recently came across a letter my Dad wrote to my Mother just a short time before their wedding in which he told her of going to Plymouth, Vermont and seeing the former President sitting on his porch while smoking a pipe. Some years later during my childhood we traveled as a family to Plymouth to view the home and grave site of that same former President, Calvin Coolidge. My Dad didn’t get much vacation time from his work, and much of that was spent working around home, but there were some day trips that we took to special locations and an occasional overnight stay somewhere in a tent. Actually the somewheres I remember were a field near the seacoast a couple of times, White Lake camping grounds, and in the woods and another location very near our house. There were also day trips to the white mountains, including through the notches, stopping to view the Indian Head, the Old Man of the Mountains, and learning about the big slide See SMITH on 32

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Sometimes it’s hard to say “No.” Like when Mark— an old college teammate and fraternity brother—contacted me and asked me if I’d play on his Plymouth State Celtics basketball team at the New Hampshire Senior Games at ColbySawyer College in New London on July 23. I said “maybe.” I then sought advice from a couple old hoop cronies. One (we’ll call him “Tom”) advised against it. Tom played hoop into his fifties and now has trouble walking. That’s largely due to his former employer having a terrible health plan ($6000 deductible) which precluded Tom from getting a hoop-damaged knee repaired. “Don’t do it,” said Tom. “You’ll probably reinjure a knee or ankle. You may even have a heart attack!” I hadn’t played basketball since retiring from the NBA seven years ago at the age of 60. (Noontime Basketball Association at NHTI-Concord). But basketball is in my blood. I sought a second opinion. “Carpe diem,” said the second opiner. “Go for it!” I went for it. I replied to Mark and said I’d participate but cautioned that I hadn’t

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nationals. We only had six players as opposed to ten. Some of Mark’s invitees couldn’t make it. Except for Mark— who was in excellent shape and still plays competitively—we were all well past our primes, if not our expiration dates. Several of us minimized our warmup activity to save energy. We did go out to an early lead in Game 1, no thanks to me. The seven-year hiatus had taken a toll and I was understandably out of synch. And out of See MOFFETT on 34

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A Scarlet Tanger photographed at Thomson Tree Farm in Orford, NH. yard frequently. During those years, I would see dozens of tanagers. Well, probably not dozens of different scarlet tanagers, but dozens of sightings of the same few tanagers. Female scarlet tanagers are even more difficult to find. The species is about as sexually dimorphic as they come and the drab females can hide even better in the tops of the trees. Now that it is August, soon the males will shed their breeding plumage and trade it in for drab olive green feathers, similar to the females and youngsters. That is why you rarely, if ever, see bright red tanagers during the southward migration. As difficult as it can be to find tanagers sometimes, it can also be tricky to hear them, or

at least to identify their song. Scarlet tanagers have been described as sounding like robins with sore throats. I think it is an apt description so when you cannot see the birds, it is hard to tell whether it is a robin or a scarlet tanager up in the canopy. Throw in the somewhat similar song of the rose-breasted grosbeak and you’ve got another point of confusion when it comes to hearing a scarlet tanager’s song. What is extremely helpful, however, is to learn the call of the scarlet tanager. It sounds like no other bird and is heard often in the woods of New England. Phonetically, it has been described as “chick bree“ and that sounds about right. Find the call of the scarlet tanager on an

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app or online field guide such as www.allaboutbirds.org, and listen to the “chick bree“ call of the tanager. Next time you hear it in the woods, you will recognize it as a tanager and know where to look. Even if you don’t find the bird, you can take heart in knowing that it is up in the canopy somewhere. Speaking of identifying birds by their songs and calls, I received an email the other day inquiring about how to learn bird calls and songs. I responded by saying there are apps and websites where you can listen to bird sounds, and there is also an app called Merlin that will identify a bird song or call in real time for you based on See BOSAK on 27

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It was hot. Too hot to cook. I had visions of chicken salad for dinner. Nothing fancy, some pulled chicken, mayo, a few spices, maybe some celery. Tossed all together and paired with some lettuce and a couple pieces of bread, a quick and easy dinner was beginning to take shape in my mind’s eye. Knowing there were some leftover baked chicken “drums” from the weekend I was on my way to making dinner after a quick stop at the bank and into the store for some bread. While there I found some Finger Rolls, a nice addition to ¨up scale¨ dinner. Along with a bag of Garlic Parmesan Pita Chips, dinner was just a few miles away. Arriving home, I opened the fridge and, much to my chagrin, there were only two drumsticks left. There were four this morning. I guess someone didn’t want a sandwich for lunch. Now what to do? Thinking for a moment as I looked in the fridge, I remembered my son saying something about a bag of chicken thighs in the freezer while he was making room for a pig due back from the butcher. (Another story for another time.)

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PATENAUDE from 3 written. We learned that this now forested land was once an apple orchard. In just 0.4 miles the White Trail ends at Hart’s Pond and post “4”. It was an easy, fun walk. From the guide we learned about the Pond. The Pond is small, just three acres and I wondered if it had a natural spring to keep it full? No swimming is permitted but according to the map you can fish. Hart’s Pond was once the water supply for Meredith Village and it remained in service until 1985 when it was replaced by a modern water tower. See PATENAUDE on 25

Yours truly standing on the “Check Dam” that is on the Red Trail above Hart’s Pond. From the Interpretive guide at post “11” we learned that these were built in 1894 to filter debris from entering the Pond, the public water supply.

On the White Trail, post number 3 is found in the middle of the bridge that crosses a wetland that drains into Hart’s Pond. The nearly 200 acres that make up the Waukewan Highlands Community Park are home to wetlands, forest, fields, Hart’s Pond and wildlife. The Park is open from sun-up to dusk all year around for recreation.

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acts as a filter to prevent debris from entering the pond. Interesting! I had to laugh at post “13” as I read it out loud to Charlie, “Wow are you out of breath from walking up that steep hill?” The trail climbed 135 vertical feet and after our nearly flat walk to the Pond we noticed the extra effort. The forest, the stone walls and Hart’s Pond make this loop a pretty walk and the guide provided interesting and fun facts. Sometime I’d like to hike the Yellow Trail and follow the rest of the Interpretive Trail. The guide states there is a view of the mountains and of Lake Waukewan along the

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— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, August 4, 2022 — BOSAK from 15 a recording taken with your smartphone. I could not vouch for the accuracy. In fact I expressed doubt about its accuracy because there are so many factors when it comes to identifying birds by sounds. Curious, I downloaded the app and give it a shot. Of course, in the summer there aren’t many birds singing, so my sample size was pretty small. I was impressed with the results, although not blown away. It recognized the call of a black-capped chickadee and the song and harsh notes of a Carolina wren, but it missed a few other sounds and told me a pileated woodpecker was nearby when I am quite sure

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LOMBARD from 1 of us five children a spot. Finally, the car was all loaded and we were on our way up Washington Street. After climbing the long steep hill on Route 9, Dad suddenly stopped the car at a gas station. Mother wasn’t sure if they had locked all the doors at “412”. Dad went to the pay telephone booth, put in the necessary coins, and called his friend, “Bud” Amidon in Keene

on the right. Occasionally, several men would sleep in the fourthfloor cupola (which we always called, the “cupolo”). All of the families from our Association stayed only in the Cavalry Building. The other groups were still very active and their members stayed in their own buildings. The rest of the space in the large first floor, had plenty of chairs to allow the families to mingle and catch

who would be able to check out and solve the problem. (No cellphones then.) The trip seemed endless to this three-year old, especially after enduring the long stops to change two flat tires for which Dad was fully prepared. It was late in the day when, at last, we arrived in the front of the Cavalry Building and everything was carried up those long stairs, (which were at least twelve feet wide

at that time). The food stuffs were taken to the one small kitchen, on the right side of the first floor. The cold items were squeezed into the ice box. All families shared that busy kitchen but ate at their own individual tables, also on the right side. Our remaining luggage was taken up to the second and third floors. The men in the rooms on the left (and on the third floor) and the women and children

up on the news since their last visit the year before. On cool evenings the three fireplaces were ablaze with their welcoming warmth. Absent were any distractions from cellphones, radios or TV sets. (The latter were not even available to most people until the 1940s, and only in black and white on small screens.) Each and every morning during Reunion Week, the blast from the cannon outside Headquarters, shook the buildings and maybe even the beds, allowing few people to resume their slumber. There were fewer than 10 children who attended during those early years, and that was including my 4 siblings, who were, in 1930, ages 10, 12, 15, and 17. It wasn’t until the mid1940s that the numbers of families and children started to grow, and continued to multiply, thanks in large part to the descendants of Leavitt W. Safford, and then his daughter, Byrdis M. Lombard, and her children, Valerie MacKerron, Leavitt Lombard and Arlene Sorrells. Following breakfast, it was time for the youngsters to explore

the many unique experiences found only at The Weirs. The porch, of course, was a great place to start. From its extraordinary and elevated location, we could always observe any of the activities on the lake. The original steam-powered, sidewheeler, Mount Washington, with its rocking-arm and tall stack, belching black smoke, was always of interest. Many knew the exact time of its departure from its berth, to make the trip around the lake and when it could be spotted rounding the bend in the distance to return. The Mount was a constant presence until December 1939 when it was destroyed by fire at the Weirs dock. Another regularly scheduled vessel that was fun to watch was the mail boat, Uncle Sam that travelled to some of the 365 islands. (Approximately 274 are habitable.) The delivery service was begun in 1892 and was officially, RFD #7, Laconia, N.H. and has been famous as “The only floating post office in the USA.” Uncle Sam I had that assignment from 19061969 followed by several other vessels, such as See LOMBARD on 29

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(Above) The grove where most of the beautiful pine trees were either uprooted or snapped off during the Hurricane of 1938. (Left) a large pine toppled near the Cavalry Building.

An early gathering of the NH Veteran’s Association. LOMBARD from 28 the Sophie C (starting in 1969) and sometimes the Doris E. The mail service continues to this day. The Chris-Craft wooden speedboat, Miss Winnipesaukee, was a favorite to watch and special to ride. Unknown to me was the fact that she was not the only one, but rather one of a fleet of five with the same name. From the 1930s to the 1970s, you could hear the hawkers on the boardwalk yelling, “Ten miles in twenty minutes.” A similar ChrisCraft, Miss Meredith, was purchased in 1931 in Wolfeboro by a resident, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, for $4,750, and since her death in 2003, it has been meticulously maintained. In the last few years, she has carried passengers for a 45- minute tour around the lake from Meredith. It was in the early 1920’s that Bob Fogg established the seaplane base right in front of the Cavalry Building. The daily flights provided another form of entertainment for those on the porch until 1939 when the service was ended. The seed for my early and keen inter-

est in flying, may have been planted during that period when a total of 52,500 passengers were safely carried aloft by Fogg and his pilots. There was still more, much more to be seen from the porch. The Boston & Maine Railroad had an interesting but convoluted history. Suffice it to say that by 1900 there were four express trains a day arriving at the Weirs from Boston. The beautiful area on Lake Winnipesaukee had been found by the “city folk,” and the railroad became the best means to reach this increasingly popular resort. As auto travel increased, there was a gradual decline in the use of the rails, and in 1959 the regular service from Boston ceased (with a few exceptions). To the younger generation, the best thing about the daily train arrivals was to see the friendly engineer always look up to the porch and wave to us. There were multiple things of interest at the Weirs in the 1930s, other than the observations from the porch. However, before getting too far away, a favorite activity for a couple of us kids, was to open the trap

door and scoot down the ladder under the porch. We searched for coins which, hopefully, had dropped out of the pockets and through the cracks, from the rocking chair occupants above. Sometimes you could find as much as 75 cents. Then it was about time to go out back to play or to get into mischief. We were attracted to the huge grove of pine trees with the many tiers of roughly hewn boards placed to provide seating for hundreds of people. (There was no parking out there then.) Our fun

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was derived from running and jumping on the boards from one tier to another until eventually you were sure to fall. Needless to say, our mothers frowned upon this activity which caused many bumps

and bruises (some caused by the mothers). However, there was a much greater significance and purpose for that grove. Veterans, members from all the associations and their families, residents from

nearby towns, and dignitaries from Concord, would attend the many band concerts and programs held in the band shell. “Governor’s Day” was very special. First, there was the big parade with bands playing, flags flying, and veterans marching down New Hampshire Avenue, and up and down Lakeside Avenue, See LOMBARD on 30

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The Society celebrated its 125th Anniversary in 1995 along with horsemenre-enactors of the 1st NH Cavalry, who paraded down Weirs Blvd. as part of the celebration. high diving board, or down at Endicott Rock, where a small ropedoff area in the water contained a float with diving board. It was not until the 1950s and early 60s that an actual beach was gradually created. Tons of sand were brought in, most of which was dredged from the Weirs Channel. It was then delivered by truck, to that tree-lined, rock-filled shoreline to the north of Endicott Rock. Over the many years since then, the sand has continually shifted toward the channel, enlarging the beautiful beach in that area. Without any beach early on, it is understandable why the name for the Weirs did not officially become “Weirs Beach” until November of 1955. This change made it become one of the few places, (and perhaps only), in the U.S. to have the word “beach” attached when it is on a lake and not on an ocean. There were numerous things to enjoy along Lakeside Avenue and the Boardwalk. I remember well the one

small arcade, on the left, up near Tarlson’s grocery store. It had the life-sized gypsy in the glass cage, waiting to tell your fortune for ten cents. Also, the pair of boxers, enclosed in glass, poised and waiting for you to hit one of them squarely on the jaw for the knockout blow. The ten-cent bout usually was over in less than ten seconds. Then there was the game with teams of kickers trying to put the metal ball into a net. (Sort of a combination of football, soccer, and hockey.) I remember a booth where you could get your picture taken, and in a few minutes, out would pop a fully developed, tin-framed photo of yourself! Also, along the avenue and the Boardwalk, were several souvenir shops where a couple of the popular items for kids were Robin Hood felt hats and wall pennants, both of which had to say, “The Weirs.” There were the tempting places for sweets such as caramel corn, cotton candy, and ice cream. Finally, it was great fun

at the bowling alley, learning how to bowl with candle pins. At the end of the Boardwalk and out over the water was the new Irwin’s Winnipesaukee Gardens, where you could observe the boats coming and going from their slips underneath, or jump off the end for a swim. In the evenings, dances were held on that huge floor. The pleasant music drifted all the way to the Cavalry Building to produce additional free entertainment for the folks rocking on the porch. In looking back over these 91 years since my first memory in that Paige Touring Car ride, I marvel that our attachment to the Weirs, still remains constant, and that each generation has enjoyed many of the same memories, that I had, plus creating their own. It is rewarding to see that the original Civil War history and its significance has not been forgotten. I also find it really amazing that the Cavalry Building, built in 1887, still stands, and See LOMBARD on 31

— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, August 4, 2022 — LOMBARD from 30 was not destroyed by fire or hurricanes, nor fallen into the hands of entities that would love to use this priceless spot for other enterprises. Not only is the building intact, but the Association as well, having overcome many adversities, especially through the 1930s and 1940s following the Great Depression and the Second World War years. Our Association is the only one of the Weirs Civil War groups, to have survived those hardships. This achievement can be largely credited to the wisdom, guidance and hard work of the individuals in this photo below, taken probably in 1928. Their contributions were numerous and immeasurable. Their children, grand-children, and great-grandchildren, have followed in their footsteps, using their unique talents to make the Association even more vibrant. The Weirs has had a vital role in maintaining close relationships within our families by giving us

a focus and a place to reconnect each year. I am confident that The Weirs experience will continue to grow stronger in the generations to come, producing the same kind of leadership that came from their ancestors sitting on the steps of the Cavalry Building in the photo. I am truly grateful that I could be a participant of The Weirs connection throughout my lifetime. Rosalie Lombard was born in Keene, NH. Her maternal grandfather, Leavitt Safford was a member of the First NH Cavalry duriang the Civil War. Veterans from this Regiment began meeting as early as 1870 and built their building at the Weirs in Rosalie has visited the Weirs in the summer-time, periodically for NINETY years. She currently lives in the Villages in Florida. Next week: More on the New Hampshire Calvary Veteran Association 150th Anniversary.

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ents would have tried to somehow get me one for that special day.I think it was probably in May or June, however, that I learned that a classmate had a new bicycle. His old bike had a broken frame, but was still able to be ridden, so when he offered it to me for five dollars, which I somehow happened to have in my pocket, and, not wanting to wait until my July birthday to see if I would get a bicycle I didn’t hesitate to accept the offer. My parents said little about my purchase and the bike served me well, even with a break in the frame. My childhood days are

far enough behind me that I can say that we didn’t have the abundance of entertaining “toys” that the children of today enjoy. We manufactured some of our own toys, such as making toy cars out of cereal boxes. I do believe those Cream of Wheat and Ralston cereal boxes were more sturdy than most cereal boxes today. When President Eisenhower was promoting “super highways” we made our own super highways out of wood planks. One of my favorite pastimes as I grew older was roaming through the fields and woods and looking for bird nests and the birds that made them, occasionally climbing a tree to access them. On one of my fishing trips to the brook I was able to capture a young red-tailed hawk that was sitting on a limb of a tree. I kept it as a pet for several months and it stayed around our home even after it was cage free. The hawk would perch on my bare arm without inserting its talons into the flesh and causing injury, though my parents seemed concerned that harm would occur. The hamburg treats I gave it certainly were encouragement to stay around. I don’t believe that hawks were a protected bird in those days of the past. A walk in the woods at any age can be calm and relaxing, therapeutic,or it might turn out to be a time of discovery and excitement or even spiritual awakening. My childhood days were often fun and simpler, less complicated and confusing than those of today, but I realize that I have lived in an era when change takes place at an alarming speed.

— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, August 4, 2022 — FEAST from 17 later application. Running the thighs under cold water for a while brought the temperature down cool enough to handle. Removing the meat from the bones of the legs and thighs I chopped and diced the meat and placed it in the fridge while I prepared the rest of the ingredients. Washing the cutting board I pulled a couple of stalks of celery and some red grapes out of the fridge. I washed and cut these items on a clean cutting board, dicing the celery and cutting the grapes into halves. I then gathered my seasonings and a few other items for the chicken salad. All the while I was anticipating the delicious meal ahead. I really wanted to toss some Walnuts, Pecans, or toasted Almonds into the mix but I knew I would have a rebellion on my hands if I did, so the nuts were but a fleeting thought. Combining all ingredients I mixed thoroughly and placed the chicken salad into the fridge to chill until dinner. Diced celery and relish give this salad a bit of crunch while the grapes offer a touch of appealing sweetness. The equivalent of two large whole chicken legs offer enough dark meat for at least four servings (12 hearty filled finger rolls). The mayo is the classic “binding” for the ensemble while the seasonings tie all of the flavors together. So, you are probably wondering; why would I describe the process of making something so mundane as chicken salad? It is because I wanted to address a few points regarding food safety, points that

often go overlooked as one works with raw chicken and raw vegetables in close proximity to one another. Chicken and raw vegetables can both harbor harmful bacteria that can cause illness if not handled properly. If handled improperly, these items can contaminate or cross contaminate surfaces when they or you (after handling these items) touch surfaces, so it is important that you wash your hands often, wash contact surfaces properly, handle foods properly, cook and cool foods properly, and keep foods cold or hot, depending upon what they are, and how they are to be served. That seems like a lot to remember, but if you cannot remember it all then remember to wash your hands completely; fronts, backs, and in-betweens, with soap and water before beginning work in the kitchen (including washing dishes), after touching raw meat, like chicken, and before you touch foods that are ready to eat, like veggies that will not be cooked. It is a good idea to even wash your hands before touching veggies that will be cooked. And always completely wash your cutting boards between cutting different items on them. The other thing to remember is to keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold. This is why I cooked the thighs in a rolling boil for plenty of time, and I always have a thermometer handy to check temperatures when cooking proteins like meat and eggs to ensure they meet proper cooking temperatures and cooling temperatures. This is especially important in

the summer kitchen, kitchens are already a hot place to be, but summer time temperatures just crank up the heat, and heat plays a critical role in affecting food safety. Always get items such as meats and other proteins into the cooking heat or into the fridge to chill as soon as possible. Don’t let proteins sit out in the heat needlessly. Temperatures that are warm but not hot enough to cook proteins will shorten their “food life” by affecting their food quality, taste, and may eventually become potentially harmful if left out for too long. Times and temperatures can vary depending upon the item and the list is too long for this article but check out these websites for more information about food safety: https://www.foodsafety.gov/keep-foodsafe https://extension. unh.edu/health-wellbeing/food-safety And, as a side note to Chicken Salad, here I am thinking I’m a genius for combining all these delicious ingredients into a ¨new¨ twist on a classic dish, but oh how wrong I can be! According to inter-

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— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, August 4, 2022 — sure they never feel powerless when it comes to their children’s education again.” Of course, union leaders hate the choice movement. American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten calls it racist. “The real ‘pioneers’ of private school choice were the white politicians who resisted school integration,” she wrote. Today’s choice programs are “polite cousins of segregation.” But that’s nonsense. “Don’t tell me school choice is racist!” says Denisha Merriweath-

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— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, August 4, 2022 — LIMBAUGH from 7 of migrants and possibly result in Homeland Security having to process up to 1,200 family units a day. COVID-19 infection rates in emergency shelters for migrant youth are reportedly between 15% and 20%. You don’t have to be a cynic to know that Democrats are pushing amnesty for reasons other than human compassion. And their methods are brazen and obscene. They are trying to sneak a “pathway to citizenship” into their reckless $3.5 trillion budget plan ostensibly to support families and generate job growth. Never mind their audacity in pretending to be pro-jobs when their endless government handouts are keeping people from seeking employment and exacerbating the plight of businesses starved for workers. Never mind that amnesty will encourage even more migrants to stampede toward our border. But to include amnesty provisions in an infrastructure bill is insultingly deceitful. Could an unintended consequence of Biden’s border disaster be a reconciliation between the Bushes and Trumps? Don’t be silly. Let’s not get carried away. But it is noteworthy that George P. Bush, Texas land commissioner and nephew of former President George W. Bush (no immigration hawk by anyone’s estimation), has sued the Biden administration for ending border wall construction in his state. “Farmers and ranchers are long accustomed to illegal activity, but it’s reached a point where it’s not sustainable, and we need help from the

federal government,” said Bush. Well, what do you know! Isn’t it interesting, by the way, that in opposing the wall, Democrats claimed it was cruel and ineffective. How can it be cruel if it is ineffective? Why go to the trouble of tearing it down if it wasn’t working? Oh, that’s right. It was working. Kudos to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for his initiative to build a wall, and bravo to all those cruel people who donated $400,000 to the project in the first week. I wonder if they think it will be ineffective. As the left and Democratic elected officials continue their scorched-earth assault on reasonable and sane public policies, hopefully more states and private individuals and entities will exercise self-help to combat this lunacy. David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney. His latest book is “Guilty by Reason of Insanity: Why the Democrats Must Not Win.” Follow him on Twitter @davidlimbaugh and his website at www. davidlimbaugh.com. To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

MALKIN from 6 Village residential development in Temecula, California, wine country involving over 100 Chinese EB-5 investors. The Chinese are buying up north Texas, charter schools and adjacent properties in Arizona, North Carolina and Florida, and 40% of the iconic General Motors building in New York. Just last week, a pair of Chinese investors were finally arrested for their alleged role in an EB-5 scheme to create a “China City” in the Catskills. The liberal media only pounced on the story because the investors illegally gave money to the Trump campaign; but the scam had been exposed back in 2013 by the Center for Immigration Studies’ EB-5 watchdog, David North. As my insider source summed it up to me, “The Chinese government via its agents and developers probably have real ownership in more than half the EB-5 deals on the market and probably over 90% of the largest deals ($100 mil+) ... I know this sounds radical, but China is essentially using our own playbook against us when we attempted to commercialize China with Western consumer goods, manufacturers and other American companies. They have now pushed back against our own presence in China and are pushing the other way to make sure they get their land grab in the U.S.” Never forget: Key supporters of the original immigrant investor visa program, signed into law by GOP president George H.W. Bush, included Democrat Sens. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., and Paul Simon, D-Ill. Prescott Bush, George W. Bush’s uncle, was on the board of American

Immigration Services, one of the leading EB-5 visa vendors. So was former President Bush’s Immigration and Naturalization Service commissioner, Gene McNary. GOP Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell worked closely with the woman who was instrumental in drafting the EB-5 law: Maria Hsia. Jog anyone’s memories? Hsia was a Simon and McConnell donor identified by the House Governmental Affairs Committee as “an agent of the Chinese government.” In 2000, she was found guilty by a federal jury of laundering more than $100,000 in illegal donations to the Democratic National Committee through the infamous Hsi Lai Buddhist temple in California. At the time Funny Money Honey Hsia was working for McConnell and others on the 1990 immigration bill, she also worked for a campaign fundraising group called the Pacific Leadership Council. Hsia co-founded the PLC with Lippo Bank officials John Huang and James Riady, the chief figures in the ClintonGore Donorgate scandal convicted of campaignfinance crimes. At least

six Lippo Bank officials reportedly benefited from the EB-5 law. The ultimate fault lies not with Chinese buyers, but with the treacherous Swamp creatures in both parties selling out end-stage America acre by acre, business deal by business deal, from sea to shining sea.

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