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THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, August 22, 2013

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VOLUME 22, NO. 34

THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 2013

COMPLIMENTARY

Harry Briggs - An American Original by Mike Moffett

Sportthoughts Columnist

Early in 1995, an older gentleman came to see me in my office at NHTI-Concord, where I was then working as Public Information Officer. He explained that even though he was 74-years-old, he wanted to do a 12-mile lake swim, and was looking for someone to help him organize and publicize it. I didn’t really need an extra project, on

top of everything else I was doing, but I listened patiently to his story. After I learned that Harry Briggs was a fellow Marine, a veteran of World War II’s Pacific Campaigns, I knew I’d do what I could to help him pursue his dream. Could a 74-year-old swim 12 miles? Time would tell. But who was this interesting stranger with such an unusual goal? See briggs on 14

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chance or appointment. While visiting, please inquire about information on becoming a member of the Belknap Mill Society. Plan to tour the permanent exhibit that interprets the many years the 1823 Mill served as a textile mill; the Belknap Mill is the oldest unaltered brick textile mill building in the country. Visit www.belknapmill. org for a complete list of Belknap Mill events or call 524-8813. Edition Availabl plete eO om nli C n is

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In August of 1957, Harry Briggs became the first person to swim Lake Erie from Sandusky, Ohio, USA to Point Pelee, Ontario, Canada, in 1957 in 35 hours 55 minutes. This year, at 92, he plans a swim across Squam Lake on Labor Day.

In a unique exhibit on the first-floor gallery of the Belknap Mill, located at 25 Beacon St. East in Laconia, Sue Harris of Gilford will offer Quilt Visions. The exhibit runs from August 13 to September 2 and will showcase about 30 quilts for the public’s enjoyment. During the show, Sue will be in the gallery for quilting demonstrations on August 27 from 1 to 3pm. If you are interested in quilting or would like to meet Sue, please feel free to visit, ask questions and chat. Quilt Visions is free and open to the public Monday – Friday from 9 am to 5 pm; other hours are by

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THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, August 22, 2013

AuGust Through the Month Artist of the Month – Amee Sweet-McNamara

League of NH Craftsmen, 279 DW Highway, Meredith. See Amee’s collection during Gallery hours. 2797920 Through the 24th

“The Unexpected Guest”

The Barnstormers Theatre, 104 Main Street, Tamworth. 323-8500 or www. barnstormerstheatre.org

Thursday 22nd Art Night Out

River Run Deli, Alton. 5:30-7:30pm. Local artist and teacher will walk you through the steps necessary to complete your own masterpiece in 2 hours.$30pp, food included. BYOB. 875-1000

“New Hampshire’s Wild History: 350 Years of NH Wildlife” – Nature Talk Series

The Loon Center, Lee’s Mill Road, Moultonborough. 7:30pm. Free admission, donations appreciated. 476-5666. www.loon.org

Garden to Table Tasting Event

Moulton Farm, 18 Quarry Road, Meredith. 5pm. Drop by the farm stand to taste what farm chef, Jonathan Diola is cooking what is currently being harvested. Free. 279-3915

Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo

Capitol Center for the Arts, Concord. 7:30pm. 225-1111 or www.ccanh.com

Kid’s Art Opening

Mill Brook Gallery & Sculpture Garden, 236 Hopkinton Road, Concord. 10am. Meet sculptor , Andy Moerlin, the Pied Piper of Outdoor Sculpture in NH. He will lead an inspiring and fun tour of the sculpture grounds. Learn how sculpture is made, and what inspires the artists. Free refreshments. 2262046

‘Sunrise’ – Silent Film Series

The Flying Monkey, Plymouth. 5362551. www.flyingmonkeynh.com

Pat Braxton’s Billie Holiday Tribute

Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $12. BYOB. www.pitmansfreightroom.com

Kid Jazz Band– Live Music

Odell Park Gazebo, Memorial Street, Franklin. 6:30pm. Free concert.

“Find Out What You are Made Of:

The Retreat at Golden View, Meredith. 6pm. Cooking class in cooperation with Moulton Farm’s chef, Jonathan Diola. Space is limited. 279-8111

Thurs. 22nd – Sat. 31st My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra

Jean’s Playhouse, Lincoln. $35/adult, $25/seniors and students. www. jeansplayhouse.com or 745-2141

Friday 23rd

Trivia Night

Hart’s Turkey Farm, 233 Daniel Webster Highway, Meredith.7pm. 279-6212

Royal Southern Brotherhood

“A History of Lake Winnipesaukee Race Boat Regattas” - Lecture

The Bel Airs

NH Boat Museum, 399 Center Street, Wolfeboro. 7pm. Presented by Gerry Davidson. Free. 569-4554

Daily from Weirs Beach

Franklin Opera House, 316 Central Street, Franklin. 7:30pm. $19. 9341901 or www.franklinoperahouse.org

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Kingswood Arts Center, Wolfeboro. 569-7710 or www.greatwaters.org

“Traveling Through Life Off the Beaten Track”

Scenic Cruises

The Flying Monkey, Plymouth. 5362551. www.flyingmonkeynh.com

Wolfeboro Public Library, Wolfeboro. 7pm. Meg Peterson will present a program about her hiking experiences hiking solo around the world. Free and open to all. 569-2428

The Fran Dagostino Blues Band

Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $12. BYOB. www.pitmansfreightroom.com

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Sunday Brunch

From Weirs Beach 10 & 12:30 From Alton Bay 11:15

Dinner Dance Cruises Swing to The Tunes of The Good Old Days The last Monday is Aug. 26 $10 OFF FOR ADULTS 60+ From Weirs Beach 6–9 PM

Family Party Night The last Wednesday is Aug. 28 CHILDREN CRUISE FREE (limits apply) From Weirs Beach 6–8 PM

Parrot Head Party Jimmy Buffet Tribute, Aug 30. From Weirs Beach 7 From Meredith 7:30 PM

Rock ’n’ Roll Sat. Night From Weirs Beach - 7 PM

Labor Day Lobsterfest Saturday, August 31

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Location: Gunstock Stockade Lodge Date: Sunday August 25, 2013 Time: 12-4 Admission: Donations are greatly appreciated All Proceeds Will Benefit Make-A-Wish of New Hampshire For more information or with questions please visit www.thejoeshownh.com

Scenic Railroads Partner & Tanger Outlets Help With Back-To-School Shopping The Hobo Railroad in Lincoln, NH and the Winnipesaukee Scenic Railroad in Meredith & Weirs Beach have teamed up with the popular Tanger Outlet Center in Tilton, to extend summer and help reduce the cost of back-to-school shopping. Starting Monday, August 26th and running for five days through Friday, August 30th, tickets at the Hobo Railroad in Lincoln and the Winnipesaukee Scenic Railroad in Meredith & Weirs Beach will be available to everyone ages 3 and up at children’s prices – only $10 in Lincoln for the 1 hour and 20 minute ride, $12 in Meredith for the 2-hour ride and $10 at Weirs Beach for the 1-hour ride – while ages 2 and under ride for free as always. “We wanted to find a creative way for families to make the most out of the final days of summer by extending discounted pricing”, stated Paul Giblin, Director of Marketing & Business Development for the Hobo & Winnipesaukee Scenic Railroads. “With everyone riding as a child, families will have a bit more money to spend on their back-to-school shopping needs while also enjoying a chance to have some family fun along the way”. In addition to enjoying reduced train fares, families riding the train will receive a voucher good for a $10 Tanger gift card and coupon booklet for the 56-store Tanger Outlet Center in Tilton, NH to help reduce the cost of back-to-school shopping. The $10 Tanger Outlet gift cards will be limited to one per family with ticket purchases in Lincoln, Meredith and Weirs Beach while supplies last. Visit the Hobo Railroad on-line to see their schedule at www. HoboRR.com or call (603) 745-2135. The Tanger Outlet Center is located just off exit 20 on I-93 at 120 Laconia Road in Tilton, NH. Visit them on-line at www.tangeroutlets.com/tilton or call (603) 286-7880.

Learn About The Night Sky In Meredith On Tuesday, August 27 at 7:30pm, the Meredith Public Library will be hosting The NH Astronomical Society who will be here to teach us about the Night Sky. Then everyone will be invited outside to try out a telescope. You are advised to bring a light jacket in case it’s cool out. Please no lights, or shoes that light up when children walk. No registration required. (The rain date is Thursday, August 29 at 7:30PM.) The Friends of the Library have donated a telescope from the NH Astronomical Society to the library! The telescope has been redesigned so that it can be checked out of the library. It will be available for circulation after the Sky Watch. Adults aged 18 and over who are patrons of the Meredith Library who can show a driver’s license or other official photo ID may check out the telescope for one week.

The History of Gilmanton Academy Gilmanton Academy, now the site of Town offices, public meetings, elections and various Town events, has played a vital role for more than a century. Following up on Richard Guy Wilson’s program on Gilmanton architecture, Pat Clarke presents The History of Gilmanton Academy on Tuesday evening, August 27, at 7:30pm, at Old Town Hall in Gilmanton Iron Works. Pat Clarke, who serves as vice president of the Gilmanton Historical Society, has conducted extensive research on the Town’s history and is the author of Gilmanton: Evolution of a New Hampshire Hill Town from 1880 to 1940, drawn largely from study of newspaper files from the period. Refreshments and social hour begin at 7pm; the program begins promptly at 7:30. The Society’s Museum is also open at 7pm. The program is free and open to the public; donations to support the work of the Society are gratefully received.

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Working Through The Pain

Weirs Times Editor

Every week, no matter what the conditions might be, this column must get done. Sure, most people take it for granted that when they open to this page every week there will be my smiling face looking back at them with somewhere between seven and eight hundred words filling in the rest of the space. Still, if for some reason, this column suddenly did not appear, would anyone really care? Would I even be missed? Would I be the topics of any conversations or would my name just float off in the wind? Well, this was almost put to the test last week. It was while sitting here typing another one of my amazingly witty and occasionally self-serving columns when my right index finger was caught, just for a moment, between the “L” and “O” keys. I let out a small scream which brought my wife running in from the living room. “What happened?” she asked. “I think I bruised my nail,” I said, trying hard to hold back a small teardrop. I’d suffered much worse over the years and I knew couldn’t let this moment overtake me. I got up and walked from the table and headed towards the bathroom under my own power. The finger didn’t look too bad but I knew that, since I was really a hunt and peck typer, that this injury, if it

video of Brady falling down for the 10,000th time, it made me think. How many people really remember the name of that quarterback he replaced? Even though the guy had a good career, it was pretty much forgotten once this new kid came on the scene. There’s always someone waiting in the wings to take your place. I looked at my index finger. It looked fine, but it throbbed. I didn’t have the luxury of a Tom Brady to have a score of team physicians look it over, maybe rushed to the hospital for an index finger MRI. I did, though, have that same feeling that I’m sure Brady had. What if I show I can’t do this anymore, what if I sit down to that laptop and the pain keeps me from putting together even one coherent sentence? Just like some young gunslinger waiting on the Patriots’ sideline, I know there’s some young, creative writer out there, someone who hasn’t suffered the pain of a bruised index, someone who is more than willing to see their own face on this page; their own seven to eight hundred words. I realized I couldn’t afford to let the injury make me miss a week, sending out signals to those waiting for me to go down. I took a deep breath, got out of the chair and returned to my laptop. I worked through the pain to get this column done. When my wife came in to ask how my finger was, I forced a smile. “Its fine,” I lied. I didn’t want her to worry. Brendan’s new book “The Flatlander Chronicles” is now available. See page 22 to find out how you can get your copy.

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proved to be worse, might put me out of the writing game for awhile, if not forever. While in the bathroom I was also thinking about what I’d tell my wife when I came out. How would I break the news to her that there might not be a column this week, that a small, yet valuable, source of our income might be in danger? I took a deep breath and opened the door to face the music. “You okay?” she asked from the living room where she had returned to her own projects. “I’m fine,” I lied. I had gotten a small reprieve from the inevitable truth. I sat down to contemplate my future and turned on the TV for some distraction. The reporter on the news channel looked very agitated. What had I missed? Was there a terrible plane crash? A bombing in the Middle East? An asteroid heading towards Earth? I turned up the volume to hear better. Once the on-air confusion had calmed down, I finally got the story. Tom Brady fell down and bumped his knee. It was on every channel and even the national news. It was, for the moment bigger than the Beghazi story, the IRS scandal and the NRS spying combined. The story soon turned into speculation and guessing, like most news stories, and soon everyone was wondering what would happen. Would this be the end of Brady’s career? Who would replace him if it was? One reporter even touched on the fact that Brady himself might not ever have gotten the chance to be as successful as he is if he hadn’t gotten an opportunity after another quarterback’s injury so many years ago. As I watched the blurry


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Sticking It To Farmers To The Editor: I attended an informational meeting on August 07, 2013 at the UNH County Extension office in Boscawen on the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). I already knew the regulations were not going to be easy to understand, but I had no idea that it was 1200+ pages. This bill was signed into law in January 2011, cosponsored by Senator Judd Gregg, with a Yes vote from Senator Jeanne Shaheen. As I sat listening, one farmer asked the question “What do any of these people (those from the FDA) know about farming in New England, let alone New Hampshire?� Do they even care about the devastating effects this will have on our beautiful state? Anyways, this bill is under the guise of protecting the consumer from their local farms. One farmer asked, “How many people have gotten sick from a New Hampshire farm?� The question was answered, “They just can’t write laws for New Hampshire, and people have gotten sick in New England.� So our two Senators at the time voted for a bill that is now over 1200+ pages, and does not take into consideration New Hampshire farms, and we still do not know how many people have gotten sick from New Hampshire farms, if any. So many questions are still unanswered, that

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even our own NH Department of Agriculture and the UNH Cooperative Extension Offices do not understand it completely. One thing is for sure, as was discussed by some of the larger farms, some will choose to sell their farm, some will shut down their pick-your own operations, and some farms will stop selling wholesale, these are facts discussed by farmers if these rules are implemented in their entirety. One farmer estimated his yearly cost to be somewhere between $13,000 and $30,000 just to comply with the paperwork requirements, then there is the water compliance aspect, and then there is the environmental impact, because they will not be able to spread manure within the mandatory time-frame to be compliant and will have to turn to synthetic fertilizers for their fields. So what happens to all that manure? Let’s not forget about the lost jobs. Many farmers enjoy donating extra produce to food pantries and charitable organizations, but they are already saying they will no longer be able to do this, because of the paperwork requirements. The FDA may be implementing this, but the State must enforce this mandate (which they do not have the resources to do). Who will pick up the additional cost to the State and the Farmer? It is the consumer, and I thought food prices were high now. This bill is geared toward

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.

any farm that produces food/feed for human or animal consumption. The FDA will be at Dartmouth College on August 20th from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for a listening session. The NH Department of Agriculture has some information about FSMA on their website http://agriculture. nh.gov/index.htm as does the UNH Cooperative Extension http://extension. unh.edu/Food-SafetyModernization-Act-FSMA. The open comment period has been extended until November 15, 2013. I urge everyone concerned about the cost of food, the local farm, and the rural character of our state to contact their US delegation. Barbara Comtois Center Barnstead, NH

TIF Heard in Dover To The Editor: Dover has no blighted areas and should reject the idea of establishing a TIF for any project. TIF stands for Tax Increment Financing and I am troubled to hear this term being used by some in Dover regarding future development here. The TIF concept made sense originally for a few large cities with crime ridden and blighted areas. It encouraged developers to invest and rebuild those areas. Unfortunately the TIFS became vehicles of corruption that diverted large amounts of tax dolSee mail boat on 28

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 PO Box 5458 be found in these pages, just the good stuff. Weirs, NH 03247 Published year round on Thursdays, we distribute 32,000 copies of the Weirs Times TheWeirsTimes.com and Cocheco Times weekly to the Lakes info@weirs.com Region/Concord/Seacoast area. An independent circulation audit estimates facebook.com/weirstimes that over 66,000 people read our @weirstimes newspaper every week. To find out how your business or service can 603-366-8463 benefit from advertising with us please call Fax 603-366-7301 1-888-308-8463. Š2013 Weirs Publishing Company, Inc.


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is always with teaching safety with all our merchandise.” The movie Hunger Games has increased awareness of archery among young adults and Skip’s has taken that seriously. “John is the archery expert,” said Sue. “He has been teaching the art to the younger ones.” At the Yard Sale and Anniversary event there will be two bow techs available and anyone will be able to try a bow out for free. Archery fans will be treated to ten percent off all shooting accessories and gear as well as a halfprice archery bag or block target with the purchase of a new bow. The store itself, located at 837 Lake Street in Bristol, as big as it is, isn’t large enough to hold all of the sale items, so a tent will be erected on the property as well. There will also be representatives from firearms and other manufacturers telling you more about their products and even giving away some free swag. Represented will be Anderson, Blackhawk, CMMG, Crimson Trace, Diamondback, Federal,

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The Illegal Alien Murderer Of Vanessa Pham Why is gun control the only policy we’re allowed to discuss when horrific murders occur? In the liberal mindset, “root by Michelle Malkin c a u s e s ” o f Syndicated Columnist crime begin and end with the Second Amendment. But who pays the price when our public guardians fail to secure our borders, refuse to deport serial criminal offenders, and enable drug-crazed menaces to prey upon innocent citizens? Meet 27-year-old Julio Miguel Blanco-Garcia. An illegal alien from Guatemala, he has lived and worked in Fairfax County, Va., for at least 11 years. The region is a notorious “sanctuary” for immigration law-breakers where elected officials and big business look the other way for cheap labor and cheap votes.

When he wasn’t working illegally as a construction worker in the government-fueled Boomtown ‘burb or getting himself high on drugs, Blanco-Garcia was building up a lengthy rap sheet. According to Fairfax County court records cited by the Fairfax City Patch.com, Blanco-Garcia has been arrested for: --Public swearing/intoxication in March 2010. --Petit larceny in September 2011. --Concealment/Price alteration of merchandise in April 2012. With the feds granting blanket amnesty waivers by administrative fiat and refusing to fix the deportation abyss, coupled with brazen “don’t ask, don’t tell” sanctuary policies by local officials, Blanco-Garcia managed to escape detention and deportation for more than a decade. In December 2012, the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force (which includes U.S.

Marshals staff, Fairfax County police, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and D.C. fugitive operations officers) finally caught up with BlancoGarcia. They detained him after determining “that he was in violation of U.S. immigration law.” But it was too late for 19-yearold college freshman Vanessa Pham. In July 2010, the bubbly art student’s decision to be a Good Samaritan to open-borders beneficiary Blanco-Garcia cost her life. After getting her nails done at a Fairfax Plaza salon, she encountered the illegal alien and his infant daughter in the parking lot. Blanco-Garcia was strung out on $400 worth of PCP. According to prosecutors, he asked Pham to take him to the hospital. She let the man and his baby into her car. When Pham took a wrong turn, Blanco-Garcia turned on her -stabbing her more than a dozen times with a knife he was carrying. She veered into a ditch; he coldly wiped her blood off of his hands with a baby wipe and clambered out of the sunroof with the child. Cops found the blade of the murder weapon, with the killer’s DNA, under Pham’s seat. But for nearly three years, her friends and family agonized as the DNA remained unidentified and the case unsolved. The investigative break? Illegal alien Blanco-Garcia continued his criminal havoc -- surprise, surprise -- and attempted to steal several bottles of champagne from a local grocery store. He was convicted of larceny in April 2012. By December, law enforcement had tied his fingerprints to Pham’s murder. Blanco-Garcia’s trial begins next week. True to form, the whitewash media have ignored BlancoGarcia’s immigration status and the public policy impli-

cations of our government’s systemic, bipartisan refusal to enforce the laws already on the books. The Washington Post (which employed illegal alien reporter turned amnesty activist Jose Antonio Vargas for years and glorified the amnesty mob marches in 2006 and 2007) conveniently failed to mention Blanco-Garcia’s illegal alien status. Some crimes are more equal than others. According to immigration activists pushing to grant Guatemala “temporary protected status” -- a de facto amnesty program run by the Department of Homeland Security that confers permanent residency, taxpayer subsidies and preferential employment treatment to linejumpers, border-crossers and visa overstayers -- there are approximately 1.7 million Guatemalans in the U.S. A whopping 60 percent of them, like BlancoGarcia, are here illegally. That’s on top of the jaw-dropping backlog of 500,000-plus fugitive deportees who had their day in immigration court, were ordered to leave the country and then were released and absconded into the ether. And that’s on top of 1 millionplus visa holders whom the feds have lost track of because Congress never bothered to fulfill its legislative mandate to create a functioning entry-exit system -- something Washington has promised to do six times over the past 17 years. The horrific murder of Vanessa Pham was 100 percent preventable. Blanco-Garcia never should have been here in the first place. After each encounter with law enforcement, he should have been detained, deported and kept out. For good. I repeat: We spend billions of dollars on homeland security, but our government can’t even See malkin on 34


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The Disgrace Of The Yankees New York Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez may be the most hated figure in sports, but he is a by Rich Lowry man for our Syndicated Columnist time. He is a master at the insincere mea culpa, at self-involvement, at pretense and greed. Not just greed for money, but for fame and glory. If he had only disgraced himself playing for the Texas Rangers, that would be one thing, but he has done it playing for the most storied franchise in sports, whose legends are synonymous with baseball greatness. So let’s consider the tale of two prodigiously talented Yankee corner infielders, separated by about 80 years and a vast moral chasm. Like Rodriguez in his prime, first baseman Lou Gehrig posted awesome offensive numbers. But what is most remarkable about him isn’t the statistics, it’s the character. He was modest even at the height of his powers, calling himself “just the Yankee who’s in there every day.” When tragedy struck, he made his debilitating illness an epic of dignity. In 1939, he removed himself from the lineup

after playing 2,130 consecutive games, for “the good of the team.” Soon after, he was diagnosed with the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis that killed him two years later. On “Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day” on July 4, 1939, his sobbing manager Joe McCarthy called him “the finest example of a ballplayer, sportsman and citizen that baseball has ever known.” He recalled how Gehrig told him he was quitting because he had become a drag on the team. “My God, man,” McCarthy said, “you were never that.” They called the movie about Gehrig “Pride of the Yankees.” Then, there’s Alex Rodriguez. He knows the basic rules of 21stcentury damage control: First, lie, and when that becomes unsustainable, confess and become a celebrity spokesperson against your vice. Sports Illustrated reported in 2009 that Rodriguez had tested positive for steroids in his 2003 MVP season with the Rangers. He had previously denied using steroids on national TV, but eventually admitted it, explaining that he had been young, stupid and naive. He pledged never to use steroids again. He did events for the Taylor Hooton Foundation, named in honor of a 17-year-old who had abused steroids and taken his own life. Nonetheless, here he is again,

facing a 211-game suspension for abusing steroids. Unless he’s the victim of a vast conspiracy, he has been caught cheating a second time. Perhaps because he is old, stupid and cynical? Appealing the suspension, Ro-

driguez says that he’s “fighting for his life.” The difference between the two Yankees is the difference between going away with grace when no one wants you to leave, and sticking around, See lowry on 34

Busybody Politics It is hard to read a newspaper, or watch a television newscast, without encountering someone who has come up with a new by Thomas Sowell “ s o l u t i o n ” Syndicated Columnist to society’s “problems.” Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than there are problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today’s problems are a result of yesterday’s solutions. San Francisco and New York are both plagued with large “homeless” populations today, largely as a result of previous housing “reforms” that made housing more expensive, and severely limited how much housing, and of what kind, could be built. The solution? Spend more of the taxpayers’ money making homelessness a viable lifestyle for more people. Education is a field with endless reforms, creating endless problems, requiring endless solutions. One of the invincible fallacies among educators is that all sorts of children can be educated in the same classroom. Not just children of different races, but children of different abilities, languages, and values. Isn’t it nice to think so? I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals’ imagination, rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with. The result is that many very bright children are bored to the point of becoming behavior problems, when the school

work is slowed to a pace within the range of students who are slower learners. By federal law, even children with severe mental or emotional problems must be “mainstreamed” into classes for other students -- often in disregard of how much this disrupts these classes and sacrifices the education of the other children. Parents who complain about the effect of these “solutions” on their own children’s education are made to feel guilty for not being more “understanding” about the problems of handicapped students. Nothing is easier for third party busybodies than being “understanding” and “compassionate” at someone else’s expense -- especially if the busybodies have their own children in private schools, as so many public school educators do. Whether in housing, education or innumerable other aspects of life, the key to busybody politics, and its endlessly imposed “solutions,” is that third parties pay no price for being wrong. This not only presents opportunities for the busybodies to engage in moral preening, but also to flatter themselves that they know better what is good for other people than these other people know for themselves. Right now, there are people inside and outside of government who are proposing new restrictions on how you may or may not visit the national parks that your taxes support. Among their proposals is doing away with trash cans in these parks, so that visitors have to take their trash out with them. Just how they would enforce this, when millions of people are visiting places like Yosemite

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This Week in NH History

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August 24, 1884Weirs Observatory Burned A Weirs Beach observatory, owned and occupied by Alva Foster, caught fire and burned completely to the ground. The structure, known as the Orchard View Observatory, was the tower for which Tower Street in Laconia was named. Warren D. Huse, a Laconia Citizen journalist, wrote that “the burning of the observatory at Weirs Sunday night at about 11 o’clock made a very handsome sight for a short time, as well as a very bright light.� The cause of this fire is still unknown.

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One of the world’s greatest tennis players, Bill Tilden, spent a few days in Wolfeboro for vacation, but he also played a friendly tennis match against Bob Hunter, a “handsome pro champion,� on August 24. About one thousand spectators watched on the sunny yet breezy day as Tilden dominated Hunter in all three sets. The event was a success for the Wolfeboro area, attracting thousands of visitors.

August 25, 1992 - Nemchek Wins By A Hair At The New Hampshire Motor Speedway

In one of the closest finishes in New Hampshire Motor Speedway History, Joe Nemchek finished first to claim the New England Chevy Dealers 250 NASCAR race. Nemchek’s average speed was 94.897 mph as he defeated a very strong, star studded field including Dale Earndheart (2nd place), Jeff Gordon (4th place), and Jeff Burton (8th place)

August 29, 1862 Harriet P. Dame Captured In the Second Battle of Bull Run of the Civil War in Prince William County, Virginia, Harriet P. Dame of Concord was captured by Rebel troops. She was taken while tending to wounded soldiers of the 2nd New Hampshire Infantry. Dame was immediately taken to General Stonewall Jackson’s headquarters, but was released the next day. She was considered to be one of the best battlefield nurses in the entire Union army and was offered a number of high government offices, but repeatedly declined to be able to recruit more nurses for the Union.

William Tamposi is from West Palm Beach, FL and is a rising senior at Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro. William welcomes your suggestions for future “This Week In NH History� columns. He can be reached at william_tamposi@brewsteracademy.org.

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the pigs are now prisoners of their laziness and greed. They gave up their freedom for the free stuff. Sad story, wouldn’t happen in America right? BHO swore to uphold the US Constitution. Has he? ******** Headline: “Roadblocks around Obama’s vacation mansion are choking off business in Martha’s Vineyard towns, claim locals” – FON (friend of Niel) responds: “Now wait one minute ... aren’t these the same people who voted for Mohammed? From this point forward, I will be referring to Obama as Mohammed. If you dare to so much as draw a picture of Mohammed, the Muslim world literally calls for your beheading. If you wear an Obama mask, the media of this country and the loony left (but I repeat myself) figuratively call for your beheading because the communities of the mentally deranged believes Obama is the messiah. There is only one God and he’s a man of peace.” I cannot resist; do you know who I am? This and possibly one obscene gesture is what the tourist season Martha’s Vineyard businesses are getting from the Obama family. August is usually the time of year when businesses on Martha’s Vineyard make enough money to see them through the cold, tourist-free winter. But with the president and his family on the Massachusetts island, road closures are detouring visitors – and their dollars – away from towns near the Obamas’ vacation home. “Writing about the town of West Tisbury, the Vineyard Gazette reported that the traffic

change will keep people away from the village center at the very height of summer. Vineyard Artisans Festivals manager Andrea Rogers: “August is our make it or break it month. So this is the worst possible time of the year to block access. It impacts a lot of people. We’re really in a bad position at a critical time of year ... we’re trying to survive the winter.” ******** Be careful of what you say. I spoke with the bulls at the Missouri event where a clown has lost his job and may not be able to find employment again in his field. The bulls say the clown wearing the Obama mask was so funny they almost fell over laughing. To sum up the reaction of Obama Zombies being all shook up – is a bunch of bull! Oh no – this just in! LAS VEGAS, Nev. (KMOX) – The President of the Missouri Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) says a rodeo clown act depicting President Barack Obama at the Missouri State Fair Saturday night was a hate crime. Mary Ratliff: “I think that a hate crime occurred. I think a hate crime occurs when you use a person’s race to depict who they are and to make degrading comments, gestures, et cetera, against them.” “With all of the hateful and mean things that are happening and happened in Missouri here at the rodeo, we believe that the Justice Department should look into the discriminatory practices against our sitting African-American president. In this country, discrimination is still illegal.” Is Mary confused, See advocatess on 34

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“Islands Around The Lake� At Lake Winnipesaukee Museum Saturday, August 24th, 11am, at the Lake Winnipesaukee Museum Merrill Fay and Tom Lacey will present “Islands Around the Lake� . Merrill Fay, owner of Fay’s Boat Yard, practically grew up on Lake Winnipesaukee, spending his early summers at the camp his family owned on Bear Island. It was there that he learned to swim, fish and pilot a boat and learned the history and lore of the lake from his parents and grandparents, developing an appreciation and understanding of the lake and what it means to the people who have made their living from it and lived close to it for many generations. Tom Lacey, a long time

resident of Lake Winnipeseaukee, began his exploring of the lake in an 8ft. row boat, he spent eight summers working at Channel Marine. He will be speaking about Diamond Island and the research that the Navy conducted there in the early 1950’s. The presentation is free for members-$5 for non-

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34th Annual Lakes Region Fine Arts and Crafts Festival

Arts and crafts enthusiasts will want to be in Meredith New Hampshire on Saturday and Sunday, August 24th and 25th as the Meredith Area Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with Meredith Village Savings Bank presents the 34th Annual Lakes Region Fine Arts and Crafts Festival. This event will transform the Main Street of the quaint lakeside village of Meredith as well as the upper parking lot of the Mill Falls Marketplace into an out door art gallery featuring the works of more than 70 painters, sculptors, jewelers, potters, photographers, and quilters. Spectators will be impressed with the variety and quality of exhibits this Festival has to offer. Booths will include wildlife photography, metal and wood sculptures, stained glass, handmade jewelry, baskets, leather projects, and abstract and traditional oil painting and watercolors. All items are original creations and the artists and craftsmen will

be available throughout the weekend to meet and converse with customers. Over the years, the Festival has gained a solid reputation among New England arts and craftsmen and is the largest quality arts and crafts event in the area. Live music will fill the air for those walking through the Festival. Performing at this year’s event on both Saturday and Sun-

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Bank of New Hampshire Presents WOW Fest ’13 Walk, bike or run – what’s your preference? WOW Fest ’13 is coming on Saturday, September 14th and features 5K and 10K road races, 15mile and 67-mile bicycle challenges and a 3-mile fun walk. Event organizers are encouraging the community to pick an event, have some fun, get some exercise and support the WOW Trail. All events begin and end at the Laconia Athletic & Swim Club followed by a BBQ luncheon, live music and a multitude of family-friendly events. WOW Fest is another important fundraiser for the WOW Trail, which has completed the first 1.3 mile segment of the trail connecting Lakeport to downtown Laconia. Fundraising for Phase II of the trail is in process, which will double the length of the trail from downtown Laconia to the planned Belmont trail. In addition to raising funds for construction of Phase II, the WOW Trail group has established a

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Fri. 23rd – Sat. 24th Old Home Day Summer Fair

Gilford Community Church, 19 Potter Hill Road, Gilford. Fri. 4-7pm, Sat. 7:30am-2pm. 524-6057

Saturday 24th Pony Express – Live Music

Alton Bay Bandstand, Alton Bay. 7-9pm. Bring a chair and enjoy music by the lake. Free.

“Surrealism Techniques” – Art Workshop

VynnArt, 30 Main Street, Meredith. 1-3pm. For students ages 8 and up. Taught by Art Educator, Kimberly J.B. Smith. Create one or more surrealistic works of art. 279-0557

Legends of Rock & Doo Wop

The Flying Monkey, Plymouth. 5362551. www.flyingmonkeynh.com

“Islands Around the Lake” Lecture

The Lake Winnipesaukee Museum, Rt. 3, Weirs Beach, next door to Funspot. 11am. Presented by Merrill Fay and Tom Lacey. Free for members, $5/nonmembers. 366-5960 to RSVP. www. lakewinnipesaukeemuseum.org

Gem, Mineral and Jewelry Festival

Everett Arena, 15 Loudon Road, Concord. 9am-5pm. $5/adult, children under 12 are free with a parent. www. capitalmineralclub.org

Belknap Mountain Road, Gilford. 1-3pm. General public welcome. Select events requires personal tools and safety equipment. 455-1594

Rummage Sale

Dover Mini Maker Faire

Holderness Community Church, US Rt. 3, Holderness. 9am-2pm. 9687643

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Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd., Hampton Beach. 929-4100 or www.casinoballroom. com The Wright Museum, 77 Center Street, Wolfeboro. 10am-2pm. PreWar through the 1960’s cars will be on display. One standard admission for both the car show and a tour of the Museum. Free admission for all active duty. Food truck will be on premises. 569-1212 or www.wrightmuseum.org

Open House – Daylily Gardens

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American Legion, 37 Main Street, Ashland. 5-7pm. $10/adult, $5/children 5-12 years old. Donations of nonperishable goods for the Plymouth Community Closet are appreciated. 536-2224

Flax Retting Demonstration

The flax retting pond on Meeetinghouse Road, Gilmanton. 10am-2pm. Expert Gina Gerhard will demonstrate the process of flax retting-creating linenas it was done in Gilmanton 200 years ago. Free and open to the public. 2676098

Breakfast and Bake Sale

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

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Summer Fun!

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Lawn of the Ashland Town Library, 41 Main Street, Ashland. 7pm. Bring a lawn chair or a blanket. Free refreshments will be served. 9687928

Sat. 24th – Sun. 25th Lakes Region Fine Arts and Craft Festival

Mill Falls Market Place, Meredith. More than 80 artists and craftspeople will converge at the Meredith Village Shops and Mill Falls Market Place to sell and display their highquality works. 279-6121. www. meredithareachamber.com

Local Award Winning Photographers Exhibit

VynnArt Gallery, 30 Main Street, Meredith. Mike Porter and Susan Brewer of Tamworth will de displaying their work. Meet the artists at a reception on Saturday from 2-5pm. 279-0557

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

The Joe Show – Concert in Celebration & Memory of Joe Droukas

Gunstock Stockade Lodge, Gunstock Mountain Resort, Gilford. 12-4pm. A day of music and memories featuring local musicians, auction and raffle, and introducing a new CD of Joe’s latest songs. Donations will be appreciated for admission. All proceeds will benefit Make-A-Wish of NH. www. thejoeshownh.com

Barnstormers Fundraiser Auction

The Highland House, Tamworth. 5:30pm. $35pp. 323-8500. www. barnstormerstheatre.org Monday 26th

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Gem, Mineral and Jewelry Festival

Everett Arena, 15 Loudon Road, Concord. 10am-4pm. $5/adult, children under 12 are free with a parent. www.capitalmineralclub.org

Annie & the Orphans Season Wrap Up Party – Live Music

Alan & Savina Hartwell Memorial Bandstand, Rt. 3, Tilton. 6-8:30pm. Weather permitting. Bring a lawn chair or a blanket. 286-3000

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Hampton Inn, 195 Laconia Road, Tilton. 800-713-8944 or www.

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The Loon Center, Lee’s Mill Road, Moultonborough. 7:30pm. Free admission, donations appreciated. 476-5666. www.loon.org

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Odell Park Gazebo, Memorial Street, Franklin. 6:30pm. Free concert.

Trivia Night

Hart’s Turkey Farm, 233 Daniel Webster Highway, Meredith. 7pm. 279-6212

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Meredith Public Library, Main Street, Meredith. 7:30-9:30pm. A gathering of amateur astronomers with a focus on outreach and education, and it is “beginner friendly�. Please no flash photography, lights of any kind or “blinking shoes�. Rain Date is August 29th. 279-4303

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Gilmanton Year Round Library, NH Route 140, Gilmanton. 6pm. Presented by Candice Rogers of NH Fish and Game. Free and open to the public. 364-2400

Wednesday 28th Headliner’s Comedy Night

Hart’s Turkey Farm, 233 Daniel Webster Highway, Meredith. 8:30pm. $15pp. 279-6212

Stress Management

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Fire on the Mountain Chili Fest

Pats Peak Ski Area, Henniker. Area restaurants and amateur chili makers compete for top prizes at this Rotary fundraiser. Sample chili while enjoying the classic car show, live entertainment, kids’ activities, locally made products, beer, burgers, hot dogs, barbecue and much more! www.chilinewhampshire.org

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the water to cheers and put on a robe and was warmed by the hugs of his new fans before doing an interview with a reporter from Channel 9. Could a 74-year-old swim 12 miles? The answer was YES! —2013— Fast-forward 18 years to 2013. As occurred in 1995, an older gentleman unexpectedly showed up outside my office door at NHTI-Concord. It was Harry Briggs. I was surprised and delighted to reconnect with the old Marine and he caught me up on his adventures. At age 92 he was still buying and selling antiques and “The Chalet� was still doing business on Route 175 in Campton. He wintered in Louisiana where he swam when he could while serving as an adjunct professor of American Government at Northwestern State University. He’d driven his van all the way from Louisiana to N.H. “Will you help me with another swim?� he finally asked. “Well,� I said. “Let’s talk.� Harry shared that he’d been inducted into the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame and he wanted to try at least one more distance swim. We eventually decided that, as in 1995, we’d start by trying a two mile swim across Little Squam Lake. Later, the good folks at Plymouth State University indicated a desire to help with the project and we met and identified Labor Day, September 2, 2013, as a target day to do a Squam Lake swim. Harry is training once again. After our first organizational meeting, I drove back towards Concord and thought about what an extraordinary man Harry Briggs is. His proposed 2013 lake swim would occur 70 years after he enlisted in the Marine Corps and headed off to witness some of the horrors of World War II’s Pacific Campaign. A 2013 swim would be 50 years after his 1963 Lake

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Call the fire department and notify the EPA! There’s going to be lots of smoke when we blow out the 1,000 candles on top of the Ask the Builder cake. This is the 1,000th column I’ve written for my syndication partners. My editor recommended that I take a trip down memory lane and share a few of the changes I’ve seen in both the building and newspaper industry in the past 20 years. No problem, Dave, let’s get started! Cough, cough! I’ll never forget that Monday morning in August 1993 when I walked into the Cincinnati Enquirer unannounced on the hunt for Ms. Ann Haas. She was the home editor who had interviewed me for a story two months before about a prestigious national award (The Big 50) that had been given to me. In May of that year, I had been selected as one of the top 50 remodelers in the U.S. There was no security at the newspaper building. I simply took the elevator to her floor, got off and walked past the low cubicles to her desk. Try doing that today in any major office building! I was there to show her three columns I had written over the weekend. To make a long story short, she bought my column on the spot and told me to sell it to other papers. Ask the Builder was born. Little did anyone know, but the golden years of the newspaper industry were about to draw to a close. This little thing called the Internet was

Cordless tool technology is, in my opinion, the biggest change to affect the building industry the past 20 years. gaining strength and power by the second. I saw it for the first time in 1995, and immediately I knew it would be the future. AsktheBuilder.com launched eight weeks after I first clicked a blue text hyperlink in September 1995. Can you believe I used to transmit my column directly into the mainframe computers of my newspaper clients? I used a DOS program called ProComm. It took all day to transmit just four columns to 50 newspapers at the blazing speed of 2400 baud. I can now send my column in one second via email. Speaking of email, most of my editors had no clue what that was in 1993! As crazy as this sounds, I used to have to mail color photos to each of my newspaper clients. Labels printed with a dotmatrix printer contained the photo captions. I sat in my basement many a late night putting these stickers on the back of the photos and stuffing and licking envelopes. How about the building and remodeling industry? What’s changed? I could write a book about it. One thing’s for sure. It’s impossible for one person to keep abreast of all the new products that are introduced each year. I’ve never calculated it,

but my guess is there are more than 10 new things introduced each day on average, including products and tools. If you love new products, then just get an exhibition hall pass to the national hardware and builders’ shows each year. Unless you clone yourself, you’ll never see all the new products at either show. I’ve done the math. You have perhaps eight seconds to spend at each booth, and some booths have many new products. The biggest change I’ve seen in the past 20 years in tools is the explosion of cordless power tools and the major improvements in the batteries that power them. Cordless tools will not last all day like a corded tool, but some have the power of corded tools and can be incredibly handy. You can now use a cordless electric tool in places where you’d find it nearly impossible to stretch an extension cord. Designer styles in plumbing faucets have made giant strides. I can clearly remember the plain vanilla days of plumbing fixtures. Now the average person can have elegant china fixtures and faucets in their home at somewhat affordable prices. See builder on 36

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‘Feelin’ Groovy’ – Tribute to Simon and Garfunkel

Kingswood Arts Center, 21 McManus Road, Wolfeboro. 7:30pm. Presented by Jim Witter and his band. $25pp. 569-2151

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Book and Bake Sale

Lincoln Library, Under the tent, Church Street, Lincoln. 9am-2pm. Lots of great books, videos and audios and baked goods. 745-8159

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Author Paul Harding

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Jeff Dearborn & the Contoocook Blues Society

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The Lake Winnipesaukee Museum, Rt. 3, Weirs Beach, next door to Funspot. 11am. Hans Hug returns with his presentation featuring videos of wrecks while diving in the big lake and other interesting artifacts from below the surface of the lake. Hans has been an avid diver for many years and it will be of great interest to anyone who enjoys the history of Lake Winnipesaukee. RSVP is necessary. $5pp, free for members. 366-5950 or www. lakewinnipesaukeemuseum.org

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sowell from 7

or Yellowstone, is something the busybodies need not bother to think through -- much less pay a price, when trash simply accumulates in these parks after trash cans are removed. ObamaCare is perhaps the ultimate in busybody politics. People who have never even run a drugstore, much less a hospital, blithely prescribe what must be done by the entire medical system, from doctors to hospitals to producers of pharmaceutical drugs to health insurance companies. This includes federal laws requiring the turning over of patients’ confidential medical records to the federal government, where these records can be looked at by politicians, bureaucrats and whoever can hack into the government’s computers. Neither you nor your doctor has a right to keep this information confidential. What could lead anyone to believe that they

have either the right or the omniscience to dictate to hundreds of millions of other people? Our educational system may have something to do with that, with their constant promotion of “self-esteem,” and especially their emphasis on developing “leaders.” Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do. The price of their self-indulgence is the sacrifice of our freedom. If we don’t defend ourselves against them, who will? 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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track and deport repeat convicted criminal aliens. These are not the wellmeaning “newcomers” who just want to “pursue economic opportunities” by “doing the jobs no one else will do.” These are foreign-born thugs, druggies, sex offenders, murderers and repeat drunk drivers who are destroying the American Dream. If our immigration and entrance system cannot effectively monitor, detain and kick out known American Destroyers, how can amnesty-peddling politicians in either party be trusted to provide for the common defense of law-abiding citizens pursuing the American Dream?

gracelessly, when most everyone would prefer that you go. It’s the difference between fighting for your life but not mentioning it, and saying you’re fighting for your life when you are not. It’s the difference between calling yourself “the luckiest man on the face of the Earth” when you have been dealt an ugly hand by fate, and pitying yourself when your predicament is the product of your own bad choices. From Gehrig to Rodriguez is a long way down.

discrimination? How many times was Reagan’s mask used? How many times have Liberal Loons hung George W. Bush with a rope? How many folks have stomped on “W” posters with his picture at other events because of the war that soon began after 9-1101? Obama has nearly every country in a civil war and what is he doing to stop the loss of American lives in the Middle East? It’s his economy, and it is his war!

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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Bring in a drawing of what you want in a molding and they’ll grind the carving knife and have the custom trim for you made from your choice of any lumber species! What does the future hold? I guarantee you that you’ll see more Ask the Builder. I continue to produce my free weekly AsktheBuilder. com newsletter that has countless tips I’m unable to fit into this weekly column. You should subscribe at my website. I’m making more and more free videos that you can see on my AsktheBuilder YouTube channel. I shot 400 new videos last year alone and plan to do another 200 before 2013 ends. I’m also starting a new writing project to expand my horizons and challenge me. It’s a children’s fiction adventure series based deeply on my own experiences growing up in a middle class neighborhood in the early 1960s. It was a time with no cell phones, no video games, no computers. You goofed around with your buddies, both girls and boys, and manufactured your own fun, constantly one step ahead of your parents and teach-

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Salome’s Stars Horoscope ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Your honesty might upset some people, but you inevitably win more admirers for having the courage to tell the truth when others are more likely to scramble for cover. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Your efforts to defend your project begin to show favorable results. You should soon be able to win over even the most determined detractors who had lined up against it. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You win praise for your selfless efforts in a very difficult situation. But be careful not to allow your generous nature to be exploited by those who have their own agenda. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) A trusted colleague sheds light on a recent spate of puzzling workplace situations. This should give you the information you need to bring to your superior’s attention. LEO (July 23 to August 22) A shift in workplace management could be helpful

ACROSS 1 Source of healthful fatty acids 8 Cards for soothsayers 14 Stunning weapons 20 Produced by its own staff 21 Latin “and others” 22 Sound setup 23 Really big souvenir given to a trick-ortreater? 26 Throat-infecting bug 27 Nada 28 Lion tail? 29 Great Plains natives 30 Sit in (for) 32 Dawber and Anderson 34 Tapioca-yielding plants 38 Connected group of a World War II general’s combat units? 43 Saintly 44 Actor Sam 45 Sweetie pie 46 Father deer 47 Viper type 48 The Gem State: Abbr. 49 “... hear - drop” 51 Partner of to 54 In a funk 55 Tail ends 57 Mentally ill Martian yaks it up? 62 Theater tickets, informally 64 City in Texas 65 Lauder of perfumery 66 Go uninvited to a nightclub show in an Asian ethnic district?

for talented Leos and Leonas who have been waiting to have their accomplishments rewarded by receptive leadership. VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) A misunderstanding between you and someone you care for should be corrected immediately. This relationship is too important to lose over a bruised ego. LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) A welcome piece of good news helps clear the air in a family situation. A job-related incident also eases as more information provides a clearer focus on the problem. SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Quick action to heal bruised feelings pays off in a big way. Now you’ll be able to move forward with your plans without that problem holding you back. SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Your creativity combined with a positive attitude should give you a considerable edge in finding a way to get around the negativity

73 Love, in Dijon 74 Memorial bio 75 Idyllic place 76 Hogtie an old Roman fighter? 82 Allow to enter 83 Hoppy brew 84 Understand 85 Angel player Cheryl 86 Be sickly 88 Agcy. that helps mom-and-pops 89 Paws, e.g. 91 “Well, let me think ...” 92 “Where do -?!” (“It’s a deal!”) 95 Sanders and Klink: Abbr. 96 Vast sand hill in Central Park? 102 Screenplay 103 Moby Dick’s adversary 104 Itty-bitty drink 105 Sand 106 Palme - (film award) 108N Put tears in 110 Clean a spill 114 A heptad of mischievous sprites turned laterally? 120 Charlotte - (capital of the Virgin Islands) 121 Rocker Ric of the Cars 122 Fiji is in it 123 Hot winter drinks 124 Equine, in totspeak 125 Football great Tony DOWN 1 Smyrna fruits 2 Beginning ltr. 3 - -Pei (dog breed) 4 Truthfulness

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CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) That sudden streak of stubbornness could cause some problems. Try to be more open to helpful suggestions and more flexible in making needed changes.

Carefree spirit that he was, Poindexter never considered the consequences of riding without a helmet. -Bob Jaskolka, Brunswick OH.

AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Now that that special relationship appears to be well and truly restored, you can spend more time dealing with those long-needed workplace changes. PISCES (February 19 to March 20) A new opportunity sounds promising. But watch out for any conditions that might be attached. Before making a decision, ask that each one be explained in detail. BORN THIS WEEK: You can be distracted by promises of good times, yet you ultimately reach the goals you set for yourself.

5 Part of I/O 6 Suffix with Brit or Turk 7 Slope 8 Like juicy biographies 9 From - B 10 Most crude 11 Bullring yells 12 1-1 and 7-7 13 - Juan 14 Fly of Kenya 15 As many as 16 Park fixtures 17 South end? 18 Pensioned: Abbr. 19 - Canals 24 Painter Fra Filippo 25 Lament 31 Stock’s kin 33 Asia’s Strait of 34 “John King, USA” airer 35 “Presto!” kin 36 -> or <37 Makes slant 38 Phony type 39 Llama cousin 40 Kind of tide 41 Lima’s home 42 A wife of Chaplin 43 One of two in “crocus” 48 Connecting land strip 50 Driver’s license, e.g. 51 Pert. to finances 52 Levy again 53 Yellow pool rack item 56 Tabulae - (blank slates) 58 Whirlpool 59 MTV chef who “can cook” 60 Relative of largo 61 Astrologer Dixon 63 Listerine rival

67 Immense 68 Bible book after Amos 69 Quipster 70 Exposes by finking 71 Fit for eating 72 Food fishes 76 Flat floaters 77 - acid (fat compound) 78 Golfer Calvin 79 Mrs. Alfred Hitchcock 80 - with faint praise 81 Sitar piece 87 Taverns 90 Citrus fruit 91 MDs’ group 93 “- & Hutch” 94 Hit - (really go places) 95 Small domes 97 C.S. Lewis’ magical land 98 Often-purple flowers 99 - Field (Mets’ stadium) 100 Annoy a lot 101 Light-varying switch 106 Old art style 107 Man- - bird 109 Urge on 111 Long deeply 112The “U” of CPU or BTU 113 H.S. junior’s exam 114 Little pouch 115 Screwball comic Philips 116 Hoover or Dyson, for short 117 Homer Simpson cry 118 “- -haw!” 119 - -friendly (green)

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Peter Ferber Art Show At Art Place in Wolfeboro On Saturday, August 31, Labor Day weekend, The Art Place in downtown Wolfeboro will hold its semi-annual Peter Ferber Gallery Show featuring local well-known artist Peter Ferber’s collection of new original paintings. The unveiling and artist’s reception will commence at 9:30am, and all are welcome to attend and meet the artist. The artist Peter Ferber talks about his upcoming show. “The genesis for this collection of paintings was a surprising gift to me that came on September 17th last fall. On a canoe excursion along the shore by the Bald Peak Club early one morning, after getting the shots I was after, I noticed an interesting looking cottage on the far shore of Moultonborough Neck. Since it was a beautiful, calm day, I set out across Moultonborough Bay to check it out. This was a stretch of shore I was unfamiliar with. In all my years of boating, this was always an area we sped past going somewhere else. As I approached I found a contoured shoreline with a number of small islands off of it, rather than a straight line of trees, as it had appeared from a distance. Before reaching my target, I came across a weathered little boathouse at Garnet Point, a Lakes Region Conservation Trust property. It was built in the late 1800’s as a sort of “fish house�–a place to store boats and gear for a group of university boys who would come up for fishing trips. Passing the cottage I was aiming for–which was cute, but didn’t strike me at first–a haunting two-story hulk of a boathouse began to emerge from the trees as I rounded the next small point. It was sun-bleached, leaning slightly and felt like it had appeared out of a

“Garnet Point Fish House� by Peter Ferber. time warp. It set me to imagining what activities must have swirled around it during its life, scenarios which were later proved true, with others which I couldn’t have imagined. But now

my canoe was drifting on to other interesting subjects. Not having anywhere else I needed to be that day, I continued following the nose of my canoe, exploring rocky, uninhabited islands and discovering the Geneva Point beach. By noontime I realized I had already gathered more than enough material for a whole show’s worth of paintings. So, that’s what I’m presenting this time, a progression of paintings from early morning thru evening, following the meandering route of my paddling that day. By coincidence, the boathouse property was a spot a friend had been trying to get me down to see for possible painting material. So, I was later able to explore that spot further, and get wonderful interior views, as well as some history that I’ve brought into a few of the paintings.� Since 1994 Peter Ferber has painted the official posters for the New England Chapter of the Antique and Classic Boat Society’s annual show, which also come as highly collectable artist proofs. Peter has exhibited in over 50 shows in New England and the Midwest. More than 100 reproductions of his work have been made, including over 70 limited edition prints. The artwork will continue to be displayed through September 13th or as long as available. The Art Place is the exclusive gallery for Peter Ferber’s original artwork, and produces many of his limited edition prints. The Art Place is located at 9 North Main Street, downtown Wolfeboro, New Hampshire and is open year round and daily all summer. For more information, call 603 569-6159 or toll free 866 569-6159.

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