09/17/2020 Weirs Times by The Weirs Publishing Company

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In this time of Covid-19, people are spending more time at home and are now, more than ever, investing in home renovation projects. A survey by Consumer Specialists revealed that 57 percent of homeowners had put an emphasis on home improvement projects during the early months of the outbreak. There was a 40 percent increase on kitchen and bath projects as well as a 53 percent jump in home extension projects compared to a year ago. It is also anticipated that many more homeowners will be taking on renovation

projects over the next year. So, if home improvements have been on your mind as you spend more time there, you are certainly not alone. This week The Weirs Times starts its Fall Home Improvement pages to help you with some ideas for that project you have been thinking about, whether right now or down the road. With ideas for renovations as well as advertisements from the people and companies that can help you get there, our Fall Home Improvement pages, starting on page 16, will help you feel good about your upcoming project.

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Since COVID 19 home renovations have increased dramatically. This remodeled home by RCB&D, LLC. shows the roadside work & design which includes completely repainting the entire exterior of the home. Inside work included tearing down the existing connector between the Main and Carriage House and replaced with a mudroom on the bottom floor and a screened in breezeway on the second floor. On the lakeside a deck was replaced and a spiral staircase added as well as screened in porch. COURTESY PHOTO

The New Hampshire Boat Museum in Wolfeboro will offer free admission for residents of NH on Saturday, September 19th and for residents of the town of Wolfeboro on Saturday September 26th. “We want anyone who has yet to come and visit us this year to enjoy the museum,” said Executive Director Martha Cummings. All social distancing guidelines will be in effect. “Wear your mask and

prepare to enjoy yourself,” she added. This year, the museum features “Locally Produced”, an exhibit presented by Eastern Propane, Gas and Oil that highlights local boat manufacturing companies. The 2020 exhibit season is also sponsored by Meredith Village Savings Bank, Goodhue Boat Company, Stark Creative and Bank of New Hampshire.

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Why Won’t She Tell Us? To The Editor: Ms. Pelosi getting her hair fixed unmasked tells us what’s really going on with the virus. She’s 80, the primary age group to die, but she’s also smart and has information we don’t. Only 9,500 people have died only of the virus. The expensive health services we buy for her will tell her that if she has no conditions that help the virus kill, she’s not at risk. That’s why she had her hair fixed without a mask. So why won’t she tell us the truth - that anyone without these conditions can go back to work? She needs the lockdown to destroy the economy, Mr. Trump’s major claim to re-election. It lets Democrat governors ban his rallies, his most effective way to campaign. It lets her demand mail-in voting, which will let Democrats steal every state in the union. By her actions, an 80-year-old politician has told the truth about the virus - it’s a nothingburger compared to our annual flu. She’s probably taking the HCQ preventive treatment, just like President Trump. Bill Taylor New Hampton, NH.

Thanks From Silber To The Editor: My sincerest thanks to the Republican primary voters in Meredith & Gilford for their having selected me as one of the 4 candidates for the NH House of Representatives, Belknap County District 2 to face candidates from

the other party in the November General Election. I am humbled by your support and promise that if I am ultimately elected to represent you, I will do my absolute best to fulfill the promises of the principles on which I campaigned. Norm Silber Candidate For The NH House Of Representatives Belknap County District 2Gilford & Meredith

Don’t Be Fooled Again To The Editor: Let me remind you of the unprecedented smear campaign perpetrated against many of the best candidates to ever appear on any ballot in Grafton County. During the 2018 campaign cycle Republican State Rep. campaigns in Grafton County were typical for New Hampshire politics consisting of: Simple and honest yard signs, speaking engagements, and door knocking. In contrast the Democrats mass-mailed a series of very expensive postcards smearing Republican candidates with unsubstantiated claims (some would say outright lies) claiming these Republicans (by name) “have their priorities backwards” and “… have the wrong priorities for Granite State Schools.” All full color, professionally developed postcards were top-of-the-line quality…very expensive and very mean! The smear continued by falsely claiming Republican candidates were supportive of “threats to health care coverage, skyrock-

eting drug prescription prices, an age tax for older Americans, and putting Social Security & Medicare at risk”. The Dems were trying to scare voters with these smears. Big city dirty tricks used on small town America! I can pretty much guarantee that few if any Republican candidates would ever want to raise NH property taxes, add taxes on NH’s elderly, or raise prescription drug prices. I don’t know any Republican who would support destroying NH public education, or ever put Social Security and Medicare at risk as the Democrats claimed. All preposterous fear mongering! Today’s Dems have no choice but to conduct another smear campaign. Why? When Grafton County voters see the actual voting records of this current group of Democrat State Reps it’s very likely that NH voters will unanimously reject their appalling Democrat tax and spend plans. Fear is their best option. Do your homework folks. Just as we are recovering from the pandemic downturn we don’t need more or higher taxes or more regulations. Stay tuned; in our next letter we will reveal what the current Democrat State Reps have actually tried to do to New Hampshire by revealing their actual voting records (generally carbon copies). Truly outrageous. WARNING: Be on the lookout for Democrat smears appearing in your mailboxes. Don’t be fooled again! David River Thornton,NH.

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EVENTS & ACTIVITIES

8th Pub Mania Shuffle To Benefit Children’s Auction Now Underway

Free Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra Concert In Meredith

The Pub Mania Shuffle was created in 2014 as a fun walk/run to benefit the Children’s Auction by supporting the fundraising of the teams of Patrick’s Pub Mania. With Pub Mania now transformed to the new, pandemic-proof ‘It’s for the Kids Community Challenge,’ the Shuffle carries on – also in a new way. Sponsored by Patrick’s in Gilford, participants are invited to donate $10 to the Challenge Team of their choice using a popular team-based fundraising app called GiveGab. Then, it’s up to the participant to go for a walk, run, hike or bike at a location and time of their choosing. Shufflers are invited to join the weekly Zoom Raffle to win prizes each Wednesday at 7pm. Every week during the series, shufflers will be entered into the Grand Prize Drawing on October 28th for five $50 Patrick’s Gift Cards. The goal for the Challenge 2020 event is to surpass the $354,453 raised last year by Pub Mania. The Shuffle is open to anyone. You do not need to be on a team to participate. For more information, visit www.ChildrensAuction.com/Challenge or email abeetle@metrocast.net

Let’s make some music! With pent-up demand from performers and audiences alike, the LRSO String Ensemble will be performing a variety of music in a free outdoor concert on Saturday September 19 at 4pm at Mill Falls Marketplace in Meredith. (The rain date is Saturday September 26 at 4pm.) The concert is free, and is part of the Orchestra’s outreach to bring live music back into the Lakes Region. While the LRSO decided to cancel its fall performances, we are actively looking for rehearsal and performance spaces where we can resume orchestral music making in the Spring. LRSO performs with a home-town flair that is comfortable, familiar, and uplifting. Live orchestral music is an amazing experience.

Events At Canterbury Shaker Village On Friday, September 25th at 8 pm, Canterbury Shaker Village is hosting Outdoor Movie Night in partnership with Red River Theatres. The movie this month is Casablanca, the 1942 classic, and will be shown outside on the lawn surrounding the meeting house, with masks and social distancing required. The Village will be holding a Yard Sale on Saturday, September 26th, from 9 am – 4 pm, featuring a wide variety of items, such as books, decorations, furniture, household goods, DVDs, toys, games, and more! All proceeds will benefit Canterbury Shaker Village. In conjunction with the Yard Sale, there will also be a Half-Price sale off selected items in the Museum Store. Come by and shop for yourself, find a gift for a friend, and see the Village!

Jazz & Classical Impresario Returns To Wolfeboro - Virtually When earlier this summer the Wolfeboro Friends of Music announced the cancellation of our 85th live concert season, we also promised an alternative way to get great music to you. One result of our concentrated endeavor is a free one-hour broadcast video concert at 7:30 pm on Saturday, September 26, an “up-close-and-personal” encounter with Fred Moyer. This will be a classical and jazz piano repertoire as he will lead off with Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. The 4-camera video concert, created by Fred on the model he has successfully premiered this year, is available exclusively for the Wolfeboro Friends of Music for presentation to Wolfeboro and Lakes Region residents who wish to join an unlimited at-home audience. Simply email info@wfriendsofmusic.org. to request the link to the special YouTube channel. The link will be released fifteen minutes prior to concert time and sent to your email address. Access to this WFOM virtual concert is free of charge. In addition, immediately after the concert, Fred will be available video conference via ZOOM for all who wish to chat with him for approximately the next half hour.

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A Hard Season Now that the primaries are over and I know who my opponents are, I can finally get down to some real work on my campaign. But it won’t by Brendan Smith be easy. Weirs Times Editor As I mentioned a few weeks back, this is my twelfth and possibly last (probably not) gubernatorial election (which means I’m running for governor, not guber) as the candidate for the Flatlander Party. This is one of the most unique election seasons in our history with the Coronavirus and all. No longer can candidates campaign in the traditional New Hampshire ways like bothering people when they are trying to eat a hot breakfast at the local diner or marching in a town’s Independence Day parade right behind the local high school band who have been practicing “America The Beautiful” for months just for this very moment and are now confused to as whether or not the booing is for them. Now, more than in past elections, candidates have to use TV and radio ads as well as those giant postcard mailers that crowd mailboxes and end up straight in the kitchen trash bin. Of course, with my limited budget ($75.86 at last count) I cannot afford any of these nonpersonal ways of campaigning. So, this could prove to be my hardest campaign yet. I never really had the resources to run one properly before and now, with the personal interaction part being eliminated, it will be next to impossible. No longer can I use my campaigning skills in attending Chamber of Commerce breakfasts and Rotary Club dinners (uninvited) talking to people and pretending I am interested in what they are saying and, of

course, on the spot flip-flopping so I am saying exactly what each person wants to hear. My campaign manager has suggested that I need to a different route this time. “I think it would be a good idea to let voters know that if you are elected, once you get in office, you will be having some kind of mandate,” he said. “I do prefer women,” I told him. “Also, I am married, but if that is what it takes, I’ll do what I have to. I’m sure she’ll understand. Will we have to wear masks?” When he explained that a mandate was actually an executive order of some kind I nodded as if I already knew, while in my head I was thinking how I would explain to my wife the strange voice mail I just left her. He also suggested that he would work hard and tirelessly in trying to find every piece of dirt he could on my opponents. Of course, he said, there will be retribution from their campaigns and I need to think hard if there might be something I did in college forty-five years ago that might come back to haunt me. After about five seconds of thought which produced a few dozen immediate memories, I suggested we scrap that idea. He also said he would try hard to get me a spot in the virtual gubernatorial debates, though it would be a long shot. I could have a chance on influencing some voters if I could participate. I am very good at making things up if I don’t know the answer and really good at talking about something completely unrelated to the question if it makes me uncomfortable. But the odds are slim I’ll be able to take part. A lot of my friends ask me why I would want to continue in what will most likely be a losing effort before it even begins due to Covid-19 campaigning restrictions. I explain that this has always been a dream of mine and I was raised never to give up on fol-

lowing my dreams (except that strange one with the talking cow and Clint Eastwood, that was really bizzare). Also, there are some really cool things a governor gets to do that I’d like to try. For instance. You can have the state police drive you wherever you want to go. They’ll even let you play with the siren. (Jeanne Shaheen told me this.) You get to have your picture taken with people who have accomplished great things and have the attention diverted to you even though you barely passed freshman math in high school. You can watch as the New Hampshire House and Senate struggle for weeks to figure out an important bill to pass and then you can veto it in two seconds…just for the fun of it. Sometimes you get to go to Washington D.C. with all the other governors in the country where you sit around and talk about governor things. (I’ll bet not all of them know about the siren thing.) Maybe the coolest thing is that you earn $100,000 a year and it is almost impossible to be fired for two years no matter how lousy a job you are doing. So, there are reasons to still try hard this year. I’ll give this at least one more shot.

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The Democrats Pick The Criminal

Are African Americans Truly Warming Up To Trump? Michelle Malkin is off this week. I get the sense that rightward movement is occurring in the African American community. This is more than anecdotal. It’s not random. It is for good reason. At least since the ‘60s, the Democrats have had a lock on the black vote, which they’ve nurtured and protected like leftists guard their copies of “The Comby David Limbaugh munist Manifesto.” Their conquest was Syndicated Columnist cynical in its inception and has grown more so through the years. You’ve probably read President Lyndon Johnson’s overtly racist remarks concerning his support for the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act — remarks that are in such poor taste I won’t repeat them here. Suffice it to say that Johnson allegedly bragged his support would secure African American allegiance to Democrats for decades to come. Even those who unconvincingly dispute Johnson’s despicable statements don’t deny that he habitually used racist language. Johnson must have known what he was doing, though I doubt that the Democrats’ monopoly on the black vote is based solely on the misperception that Democrats have been the sacred guardians of blacks’ civil liberties. Democrats have also shrewdly cultivated the fiction that only they care about the economic plight of minorities. More recently, they’ve gone further and portrayed Republicans as not just indifferent but affirmatively racist. This slander is a special kind of evil, violating on a grand scale the Mosaic Commandment against bearing false witness — and causing immeasurable damage to race relations. In some cases, Republican policies have been easy for Democrats to mischaracterize. Republicans have historically opposed excessive welfare programs. While supporting some level of safety net, they believe that fostering long-term dependency on government is devastating to the recipients and to society overall because it diminishes the work ethic and human dignity, and sabotages the nuclear family. Democrats have often depicted principled conservative opposition to these programs See LIMBAUGH on 28

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On Aug. 23, 29-yearold Jacob Blake, a black man, was shot seven times in the back by a white police officer. The original video, which only included the last moments of the incident, gave no context for the incident. But further video and police reports made clear what

happened. According to the police association, the police were called to the scene by a black woman who had dialed 911 to report that Blake was attempting to steal the keys to her car. There was an open warrant on Blake for third-degree felony sexual assault; the alleged victim is the woman who dialed 911, and she apparently had a restraining order against Blake. Back in May, she alleged that Blake entered a room where she was sleeping near one of her children, thrust his finger into her vagina, pulled it out, smelled it and said, “Smells like you’ve been with other men.” The alleged victim also said that Blake sexually assaults her approximately twice per year. Upon arriving at the scene, the police attempted to effectuate an arrest. Blake resisted. He apparently got one of the officers in a headlock and resisted two separate uses of a stun gun. He then disobeyed officer commands, walked around to the driver’s side of an SUV and reached inside. A knife was found on the driver’s side floorboards. This is the definition of a justified shoot, by all available evidence. Yet Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris have chosen to side with an alleged rapist and against police officers attempting to do their job. On Sept. 2, Biden said he thought that the officers in Blake’s shootings should be

charged, adding, “Let’s make sure justice is done.” Harris -- whose judgment on these matters ought to be doubted, given her conviction that Michael Brown was murdered and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was a probable rapist -- agreed that the officer “should be charged.” But Biden and Harris didn’t stop there. Biden traveled to Kenosha and met with Blake’s family. Biden got on the phone with Blake -- who was handcuffed to his hospital bed, since he is currently under arrest -- and quoted the book of Psalms, adding that “nothing is going to defeat” Blake. Harris went further, telling Blake she was “proud” of him and saying that the Blake family is “incredible” -- an amazing description of a family wherein the son is an alleged rapist and the father is an open anti-Semite, according to his public social media posts. The New York Times provided cover for this insulting insanity in a long puff piece about Blake, describing him as a hero who “survived and has begun to tell his own story.” That piece left any description of his crimes to paragraph 17 and never mentioned that he resisted arrest and had a knife in the vehicle. On a raw level, none of this makes sense. Blake is, by all available evidence, a villain. The police officer was, by all available evidence, acting within the scope of his duty. But in the context of a broader Democratic narrative that police are systemically racist, and that all criminals of minority ethnicity are victims of that system, it all makes perfect sense. If you think that American racism is responsible for a black man allegedly raping a black woman, this is a story in which there are only victims and there is no perpetrator but the system itself -- in this case, a system represented by the white police officer. If we wish to live together in a society, this perspective cannot win. By lionizing Jacob Blake See SHAPIRO on 29

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China’s Dark Turn “I’m more antiChina than you!” That’s a new theme of this election. Joe Biden says, “We will never again be at the mercy of China!” by John Stossel Donald Trump reSyndicated Columnist plies, “China would own our country if Joe Biden got elected!” It’s strange to hear competition, because just a few administrations ago, presidents were eager to celebrate China. “A future of greater trade and growth and human dignity

is possible!” said George W. Bush. Bill Clinton praised China’s “positive change” and “great progress.” What changed? That’s the subject of my new video. Presidents Clinton and Bush were excited about China because its dictators had finally opened up China’s economy. They got rid of price controls, broke up collective farms, allowed foreign investment and privatized state-run business. China, suddenly, prospered. “People were so happy to finally see China being set on this path,” says Melissa Chen, who reports on China for the Spectator. The reforms “lifted hundreds of millions of people out of

poverty for the very first time.” Then, three years ago, Xi Jinping got himself named president for life. He cracked down on speech, even jokes. After someone noted his resemblance to Winnie the Pooh, all mentions of the character were deleted from China’s internet. I had thought the internet couldn’t be censored. Bill Clinton said it would be like “trying to nail Jell-O to the wall.” “The Chinese figured out how to nail Jell-O to the wall,” says Chen. “They built an almost perfectly walled-in internet.” China does this by employing a million censors. They block Google,

Facebook, Twitter and most Western news media. A few computer-savvy Chinese citizens use forbidden apps to get around the censorship, but most don’t get to see the same internet that we see. People caught accessing banned sites are punished. Police may barge into your home, threaten your family or just restrict your choices. “You can’t make doctor’s appointments,” explains Chen. “You can’t travel... they’ll block you from buying a train ticket or a plane ticket.” Life is far worse for religious minorities such as the Muslim Uighurs. The government is waging cultural See STOSSEL on 29

Pandemic Paranoia Contrasts With September 11 Resolve Viewing the sorrowful September 11 commemorations, I was instantly transported back nineteen years to the terrorist atby John J. Metzler tacks on AmerAs I wrote Syndicated Columnist ica. back then, “On a picture perfect September morning, the Grim Reaper visited New York…it would be our generation’s Pearl Harbor.” A mournful, nervous but resolute time. Then seemingly in a blink, I returned to the present, to see the dangerous divisions eroding American resolve and clashing in our cities. So we have two images here; the

September 11th attacks which killed 3,000 innocent people in New York, Pennsylvania and the Pentagon on that azure blue morning or the “invisible enemy” the Corona virus pandemic which seeped through our borders and soon exploded in our cities which has in a less dramatic daily but more devastating way killed many more Americans and is now nearing a million people globally. September 11, was carried out by Al Qaida, a jihadi terrorist movement which did not have a formal address but had bases in Afghanistan courtesy of the Taliban militants. The Covid 19 virus, originated in Wuhan, China and soon spread to Europe and later the United States.

The September 11 outrage forged near instantaneous American unity and resolve. Like Pearl Harbor there was a sense of responding with righteous retribution to the attackers. Despite the bitter political divisions prior to the 2001 attacks, most Americans were soon on the same page as to assessing the threat and being willing to respond to it. Even in New York City, Patriotism became trendy; flags were prominent, NYPD were rock stars, and the FDNY who lost 343 brothers in the World Trade Center towers deservedly became princes of the city. There was a sense of bravado, reawakened nationalism, and almost swagger. We could take this and now we were coming for Osama Bin

Laden and the terrorist networks! The U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan in Autumn 2001, became the first counterpunch in a series of focused military interventions which later sadly morphed into fuzzy nation building exercises. Only now, nearly twenty years later, the Trump Administration is set to finally withdraw the majority of U.S. forces from Afghanistan. We achieved our principal objectives, it’s time to come home. Pandemics probably pose a more deadly but not as clear threat as did Al Qaida. New York was hit by the terrorists but was seriously injured and traumatized by the COVID virus which caused ten times the causalities See METZLER on 29

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More Memories From Gale School

In our August 27th issue we presented memories from readers who went to Gale School in Belmont. The historic building had been saved after decades of work by the Save The Gale School Committee. Prompting more memories, Alice (Blaisdell) Hurst of Gilford delivered to us more memories as well as two very interesting photographs. Alice’s Memories My father, Ellis Blaisdell, graduated from Gale School in 1910, The class held a 25th reunion in 1935. My brothers Edwin, Melvin, David, Robert and Roger and my sister Mildred and I all graduated from Gale. The picture of recess

Alice (Blaisdell) Hurst provided us with this photo of her father’s class of 1910 at Gale School in Belmont. (Front Row L to R) Jack Gardner, Lelan Wildes, Ruth Hull Smith, Ellswqorh McLellan and Ellis Blaisdell. (Back Row L To R) Frank Judkins, Anna Mae Hammel, Ethel Jewett (teacher), Mildred Dow Waite, Urban Chaplain. The photo on the upper right is from the class’ 25th reunion in 1935 with the former students lined up in the same order.

showing the front of the school and the flag pole was especially poignant for me as I vividly recall all the classes assembling around the flag pole at the news of the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. We all recited the Pledge Of Allegiance as the flag was lowered to half staff. I was in the sec-

ond grade and didn’t fully understand why all the teachers were crying. That same picture reminded me of playing marbles at the top of the driveway during recess – also jumping rope. The play equipment See GALE on 26

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On the first day of this year of 2020 there was no doubt a lot of anticipation of a year full of activity and excitement. There was the prospect of the celebration of our national holidays with parades and carnivals and big family get-togethers. In an election year we expected a lot of political activity and controversy, particularly with the deep divide among Americans as to which direction we want to go as a country. We expected work and school and play to continue as usual. We didn’t expect to be wearing masks and to have restaurants, schools, businesses and churches to be locking their doors, or to see a crisis caused by a pandemic to result in an election year political issue leading to more division rather than the unifying factor it could have and should have been. And we expected the usual summer and fall

agricultural fairs to once again be places where farmers could show off their achievements and the general public would once again enjoy the exhibits, demonstrations, competitions, and entertainment. All would wish fair weather for the various fairs with their fares offered for sale, including food fare. Many probably feel that it’s not fair that we’ve had to do without fairs, along with other absentees in 2020, but

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An excellent trivia question is “What is Canada’s national sport?” The surprising answer is lacrosse. That team sport is played with a stick, ball, and goal. Its ancient origins were in the lush eastern woodlands of what is now America. Lacrosse then featured fierce tribal competitions among Indians—aka Native Americans, aka indigenous peoples. While we know that James Naismith invented basketball and that Abner Doubleday is credited with inventing baseball, the identity of the inventor of lacrosse is shrouded in the mists of those ancient primeval forests. But it’s a great sport. The fastest game on two feet, it’s now played by males and females interscholastically, intercollegiately, and even professionally around the world. Lacrosse is included in international competitions such as the World Games and there was a movement to include Native Americans at the 2022 Games slated for Birmingham, Alabama. A team of Iroquois Indians hoped to honor their indigenous sports heritage in Birmingham by playing the ancient game invented by their ancestors on an international stage. The Iroquois Nationals would

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(four porta potties in a cargo box). I found Carey and next up was a loop down the Crawford Path, across the Westside Trail and back up to the summit via the Gulfside Trail. As we went down the Crawford Path we began to drop below the clouds. We met and chatted with a couple of Appalachian Trail thru-hikers making their way north to Katahdin. When we turned onto the Westside Trail we enjoyed views down the spine of the Southern Presidential Range and to the Lakes of the Clouds AMC Hut. The trail is a pleasant walk like the Alpine

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the Center Harbor Band doing the same at the Square at the upper end of the village. At 10:30am The Grand Street Parade began at the Sunshine Farm with a variety of entries including the American Legion Posts with flags, saddle horses and horse drawn wagons, including the stagecoach, ponies, oxen, and steers, bands, school floats, automobiles, etc. At 11am. The cattle pulling matches and horse pulling matches began simultaneously in two separate rings, and at 11;30 two more simultaneous events started, a band concert on stage by the Center Harbor Band and a horse show in the show ring. The judging of cattle and horses began at noon, followed at 12:30 with the judging of sheep and swine. =Another band concert, this time by the Meredith High School Band, began on the green opposite the Post Office. A speaking program took place at 3pm with the Laconia High School Band escorting the speakers from the Post Office to the stage near the midway. Speakers included Governor Wesley Powell, a candidate for re-election, Mayor Bernard Boutin of Laconia, also a candidate for Gover-

Picture in the Sandwich Fair Program of “rig” that won a blue ribbon in one of the Fairs. Owned by Ralph Scarborough of Melrose, Mass., a former summer visitor in Sandwich. nor, Chester E. Merrow of Center Ossipee and Romeo Champagne of Manchester, candidates for Congress in the First District, and Dr. Herbert W. Hill of Hanover and Styles Bridges of Concord, candidates for the United States Senate. The stage show acts commenced at 3pm They included “ Five Acts of Vaudeville” beginning with Paula Donlan, “The Dancing Illusionist”, Don Hootoon, “The Broadway Cowboy”, a dancing comedy routine by “The Three Renowns”, Jay Nemeth and “Nicky”, a ventriloquist act, who had appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, and “Eve Walker and Company”, featuring a British Aerialist. One wonders if modern day agricultural fairs would survive if the midway was not part of them. The Sandwich Fair 1960 Midway rides included the Ferris Wheel, Octopus, Chair Plane, and Tilter-Whirl along with some special rides for the children. Sideshows, games, exhibits and demonstrations were all part of the entertainment offered at the Golden Jubilee Fair.

And there was the fair food. Chicken Barbecue seemed to be the main attraction in 1960, but the fair program promised many more “eating spots” including another fair favorite, fried clams. If all the above was not enough to pack into a one day fair the American Legion sponsored Beano games. There was a Rest Tent and First Aid Station, and parents were instructed to look for lost children at the Police Center

near the main entrance. The Fair is only one of many missing events of the year 2020, but we expect many will return and history shows that people can adapt to change. What about the sports events? No going out to the old ball park! Remember those days of old when the area had town baseball teams that would compete during the summer months? Social distancing may seem hard to maintain (and often

isn’t), but signs saying Keep Back or Don’t Cross This Line, etc. are not new to us. It may seem unfair not to be able to go to the fair, or ball games, or to have normal weddings, or to celebrate holidays as in previous years, or even enjoy church services as we are accustomed to. We are constantly calling for change even though things are constantly changing, for better or for worse. The year 2020 will be one to be remembered, and perhaps we’ll learn something from it. Could it be that Someone is trying to tell us something? Some things won’t survive after 2020. I expect Sandwich Fair will be back and all will be considered fair when you can attend the fair once again. Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr., welcomes your comments at danahillsmiths@yahoo.com

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LIMBAUGH from 6 as evidence of their lack of compassion and outright racism. A more modern version of this smear is Democrats’ attributing Republican support for a border wall to their racism. If they’re racist toward blacks, they’re surely racist toward Mexicans — and everyone else who “doesn’t look like them.” If anything borders on racist, it’s this constant pandering and condescension toward minorities. The suggestion is that they’re incapable of helping themselves and benevolent politicians must do it for them. Opposition to voter ID laws is a perfect example. Why isn’t it offensive to suggest that minority voters will be disadvantaged if required to present

legal identification at the polling place? This is a modern case of what some call “the soft bigotry of low expectations.” As insulting as that is, what’s worse is many Democrats assume the minority vote is a given. It’s no secret that in national elections, Democrats depend on the overwhelming majority of black votes. The failing — and thus, less circumspect — Joe Biden cavalierly displayed this presumption when he said if blacks don’t vote for him over President Donald Trump, they “ain’t black.” Some seemed shocked at Biden’s remark; others dismissed it as just another instance of weird Joe shooting off his harmless mouth again.

Nonsense. This attitude is not unique to Biden. The left has been treating black conservatives like second-class citizens for years. From Condoleezza Rice to Clarence Thomas to Thomas Sowell to Walter Williams to Larry Elder, conservative blacks have been egregiously mistreated and dehumanized by those, ironically, who claim to be the most egalitarian and least racist. But as I said, it seems a movement is underway in which African Americans are increasingly rejecting the Democrats’ identity politics and exploitation and treatment of them as part of a group rather than as individuals. Rhetoric eventually rings hollow if it doesn’t match reality. President Trump’s eco-

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MOFFETT from 13 ovation. So here’s hoping that lacrosse is part of the sports mix in L.A. in 2028 and that some Native American Indians are able to compete in the fastest game on two feet as a way to honor and remember not only Jim Thorpe, but also the unidentifiable indigenous individual who invented lacrosse long ago in the mists of those lush primeval eastern American forests. Sports Quiz Jim Thorpe played for six NFL teams during the 1920s. What Major League Baseball teams did he play for during the previous decade? (Answer follows) Born Today That is to say sports standouts born on September 17 include Hallof-Fame football quarterback and placekicker George Blanda (1927) and former NBA player and coach Phil Jackson (1945). Sports Quote “I thought lacrosse was what you found in la church.” – Robin Williams Sports Quiz Answer Jim Thorpe saw MLB action for the New York Giants, the Cincinnati Reds, and the Boston Braves. Mike Moffett was a Professor of Sports Management for Plymouth State University and NHTIConcord. He co-authored the critically-acclaimed and award-winning “FAHIM SPEAKS: A WarriorActor’s Odyssey from Afghanistan to Hollywood and Back” which is available through Amazon.com. His e-mail address is mimoffett@ comcast.net.

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conspiracy and churning angst not only about the Trump Administration, but also American institutions. Irrational hatred for the President mixed in a polemic of media misinformation has tolerated a climate of violence, condoned rife historical revisionism and rooted for a race towards mediocracy. Now in the midst of a contentious presidential election campaign America again stands at a crossroads. Looking at the last six months of the pandemic, the last thing we needed was a “chicken little” Administration telling us to panic as the “sky is falling.” It is not. Commemorating the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, Twin blue beams of light shine into to the heavens. America dramatically changed that September day. The country came together in unity and purpose. Liberty was cherished. John J. Metzler is a United Nations correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues. He is the author of Divided Dynamism The Diplomacy of Separated Nations: Germany, Korea, China.

STOSSEL from 7 genocide against them. About a million Uighurs are locked up in “reeducation” camps, “sometimes for years,” says Chen. “Their family never hears back from them. China won’t allow reporters near the camps, but drone footage shows rows of blindfolded people with their heads shaved and their hands tied behind their backs. Radio Free Asia adds that China’s “reeducation” methods even include having Chinese men replace the Uighur men in families. They “come in and live with a family (and) sleep in the same bed as the wife,” says Chen. In short, today’s China is, once again, a vicious communist dictatorship. So, I’m amazed to watch American protesters and hear them say, “America is the world’s biggest problem.” Even a recent New York Times editorial board member wrote that it was difficult to know whether the United States is “better, worse, or the same” as China. That equivalence is “bonkers,” replies Chen. “There should be no doubt about the moral equivalence between the two countries.” For one thing, we Americans are free to criticize our government. “You can hold up a sign at a protest, saying, ‘Screw Donald Trump; the United States sucks!’” explains Chen. “You cannot do anything remotely similar in China.” People in Hong Kong tried. Millions attended protests, often waving American flags. Chen says it shows they “have a hankering for

American values. They crave this freedom that we take for granted.” Now they, too, have been silenced by China’s government. The American protesters who carry “democratic socialism” banners and wave Communist flags (Soviet Communists used to call people like them “useful idiots”) should know what people in Hong Kong know: Socialism leads to real government oppression. “Why would Americans want this?” asks Chen. “Why would they be waving these Communist flags, wanting socialism?” John Stossel is author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com.

SHAPIRO from 6 while decrying the police who tried to arrest him, Democrats justify and incentivize criminality. This must stop. Individuals are responsible for their crimes; police are necessary to stop those crimes. Those who disagree cannot be allowed to gain power. Ben Shapiro, 36, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show” and editor-inchief of DailyWire.com. He is the author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller “The Right Side of History.” He lives with his wife and three children in Los Angeles. To find out more about Ben Shapiro and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators. com.

BREW from 15 alluring flavor. You can find Red Hill Raspberry Sour and Lake Cruiser in 16 oz four pack cans at Twin Barns Brewing Company and Case-nKeg, 5 Mill Street in Meredith. Twin Barns is an amazing place to visit for their food and beer. Just voted Best Brewery in the Lakes Region by NH Magazine, plan to visit them and enjoy the outdoor fun of their beer garden with friends and family.

Now In 4th Printing!

The Flatlander Chronicles Weirs Times F.O.O.L columnist, Brendan Smith’s first book with over 30 of the best of his original Flatlander Columns. From learning to Rake The Roof to Going To The Dump to Buying Firewood for the first time and everything in between, Brendan recounts the humorous tales of his learning to fit into New Hampshire life as a Flatlander from New York.

Order your autographed copy today for $13.99 plus $3 for shipping. (Please include any inscription you would like the author to personalize your copy with.) Make out checks or money orders for $16.99 to Brendan Smith and mail to: The Flatlander Chronicles, c/o The Weirs Times, PO Box 5458, Weirs, NH 03247. Order online at www.BrendanTSmith.com (Pickup autographed copies at the Weirs Times)

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Super Crossword

PUZZLE CLUE: SONG SPAN

B.C.

by Parker & Hart

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Sudoku

Magic Maze THEME THIS WEEK: SEAFARING WORDS

Caption Contest OUR PICK FOR BEST CAPTION

Runners Up : Back in the day when moms found child care an easy “balancing act”. - Nancy Sweeney, Lincoln, NH. At this game, a pocket full of rocks beats a pocket full of miracles every time. - Robert Patrick, Moultonboro, NH.

PHOTO #823

Kids getting in last

Close Encounters of the minute fun before Humankind.. the Green New Deal -Jean Cram, Pittsfield, NH eliminates all oil tanks. -Robert Ferullo,

CAPTION THIS PHOTO!!

PHOTO #825 Send your best caption to us with your name and location within 2 weeks of publication date... Caption Contest, The Weirs Times, P.O. Box 5458, Weirs, NH 03247 email to contest@weirs.com

The Winklman Aeffect

by John Whitlock

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