09/24/2020 Weirs Times by The Weirs Publishing Company

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Saving Animals Doesn’t Pause During These Unusual Times It has been seven months since I’ve last updated you on the goings on at Live and Let Live Farm Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in Chichester, NH. In many ways it seems like just a few weeks, and in equally as many ways it seems like years. In six short months, it has literally become a whole new world. When I last wrote COVID-19 was little more than a far away threat from distant shores. By March, it seemed society was unraveling before our very eyes. Much of our nation it seems, has by Scott Philbrick Live and Let Live Farm

become numb to the recent rioting, looting, burning of city blocks, and brazen attacks on- even murder of- completely innocent civilians as well as law enforcement personnel. We find ourselves reeling; struggling to understand and process all this change. So how have these changes, either directly or indirectly, impacted Live and Let Live Farm? To begin with, our Sunday tours, a long held mainstay of our operations, have been discontinued until further notice in order to comply with CDC guidelines. Our usual methods of procuring grants have had See FARM on 34

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Mikey, a 2000lb, 18+ hand Belgium horse ended up at Live and Let Live Farm in Chichester after having been abandoned and is now thriving. The work at this amazing rescue farm continues despite certain hardships imposed upon it by COVID-19.

Lakes Region Curling offers a better-distancing option for Fall In place of standard four-on-four curling, Lakes Region Curling will run a sturling program this Fall in order to provide a less-congested playing environment. The program will run for eight Sundays from Oct. 10 to Dec. 13 at Pop Whalen Ice Arena in Wolfeboro. Sturling is a variation of curling that involves teams of two instead of four. During a match, one player from each team stands at opposing ends of the curling sheet. Sweeping is limited, and players never cross the middle of the sheet. Sturling reduces the number of

players on the ice by at least half, and the limited sweeping reduces the exertion required during a match. The game provides more opportunity than a standard curling match to develop the skill of delivering a stone. It also gives every player the chance See STURLING on 37 RE ONLINE FOR & SHA F RE D A E RE

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To The Editor: Whether you vote by absentee ballot or in person on November 3, making you vote really count is critically important. By that, it is suggested that many voters choose to vote only at the “top” of the ticket, say, for President, Governor and maybe a few more “major” offices, failing to cast votes for candidates toward the “bottom” of the ballot such as those running for state representatives, state senators, and state executive council. Those at the top of the ticket for whom you vote can only be as effective as their entire “team” exists, so you are encouraged to vote a complete ballot when you vote. Do not abdicate voting in any of the races on the ballot. And please remember, vote like your way of life depends on it—because it does. Norm Silber Candidate for the NH House of Representatives Belknap County District 2Gilford & Meredith

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To The Editor: Turbulence in our economic, social, and environmental fabric is not new, but the current administration and Covid-19 have magnified the great divides of society in a very public and personal way. We must be able

to make binding local governing decisions that protect the health and safety of all the inhabitants – both human and natural. Our survival depends upon it. We have three options when it comes to taking action, 1) we can do nothing – which empowers the status quo to continue to marginalize people and Nature; 2) we can do what we’ve been doing for the past 50 years and fight against the harms we see using the current structure of law and government designed to protect the status quo – thereby condoning the exploitation of laborers, local governments, and natural environments; or 3) we can do something different – create new standards of health and safety protections for real people, their communities, and Nature by actively opposing injustices that surround us. The role of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with as much personal integrity as possible, rather activists should confront and take down oppressive systems. The NH Community Rights Network (NHCRN) is a statewide organization of local activists that advocate for a people’s movement based on the inherent and inalienable right of ALL inhabitants to “reform the old, or establish a new government” because “the doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind” (Art. 10 [Right of Revolution] of the NH State Constitution, Part First, Bill of Rights).

The NHCRN calls for a state constitutional amendment recognizing local lawmaking authority to secure rights for Nature and to govern the health and safety needs of local communities – free from state override and corporate interference. To learn how the NHCRN works to empower communities and elected officials with the authority necessary to promote and maintain levels of resiliency necessary for survival, visit www.nhcommunityrights.org or email us at info@nhcommunityrights.org. The time is now! Michelle Sanborn NHCRN President

Would Think Twice To The Editor: Lately I’ve been thinking more about the demonstrations than I’ve thought about the virus. Americans do not behave this way. We do not destroy other people’s property or start their cars on fire. We just don’t do things like that. For the life of me, I can’t think that most black Americans approve of this destructive behavior. How can riots and violence possibly help anyone? One thing is sure--I would think twice before voting for a political party that promises more of the same if its candidate is not elected in November. Americans don’t care for threats. Mary Weston Dover, NH.

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COVID-19 has not stopped the Belknap Mill Quilters’ Guild! The much-anticipated in-person quilt show that the guild hosts each fall had to be canceled to ensure the safety of all concerned. But quilters are a resourceful lot, and they did not want to miss the opportunity to share the beauty and comfort of their quilts with the local community. Instead of holding the one large indoor show, they devised a plan to show off their quilts in a safe, socially-distanced way – spread-out all over Laconia! The guild’s ‘Mysterious Quilt Journey’ will take place on Saturday, October 3, 2020 from 10am to 2pm. Those interested in the journey can pick up a map on Saturday morning at the Belknap Mill or any participating business. Follow the map to find the quilts on display. The maps will be stamped at each quilt site visited. The Journey ends at Rotary Park/Belknap Mill where all “travelers” will turn in their maps no later than 1:15pm. Participants will receive a ticket for every stamp they earned on their map, with bonus tickets awarded for anyone who visits ALL the quilt locations. Tickets will be drawn for more than 30 prizes, including many gift certificates from local businesses, several quilting-related items, and one (mysterious) grand prize.

“Man With A Movie Camera” At Flying Monkey It has no story, but it tells everyone’s story. It’s a silent film, but it’s the world’s first music video. It has no actors because the star is you, the audience. It’s ‘Man With A Movie Camera’ (1929), Russian director Dziga Vertov’s celebration of city life via a dizzying collage of images and kinetic cinematography that’s left audiences breathless for nearly a century. ‘Man With A Movie Camera’ will be shown on Wednesday, Sept. 30 at 6:30 p.m. at the Flying Monkey Moviehouse and Performance Center, 39 S. Main St., Plymouth, N.H. General admission $10 per person. The screening will feature live accompaniment by Jeff Rapsis, a New Hampshire-based composer who specializes in creating scores for silent films. Even with no story and no actors, ‘Man With A Movie Camera’ was filled with eye-popping visuals that anticipate later music/image films such as ‘Koyaanisqatsi.’ Filmed mostly in the bustling city of Odessa in the late 1920s, the film features a wide range of sliceof-life scenes showing everything from streetcars to sports contests. Vertov took his camera everywhere, from a birth hospital to a divorce court. Most spectacularly, Vertov experimented with filming ordinary scenes at a very slow frame rate. When run at a normal speed, the result was a speeded-up view of reality that few had ever seen or studied before. Although no official score was composed for the silent feature, director Vertov specified the type of music that he wanted played wherever the film was screened. Rapsis will create music that follows those guidelines.

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Column From This Guy Recently, I received an email where the sender of the message identified themselves by name at the end and then, in parentheses below, added by Brendan Smith the three differWeirs Times Editor ent pronouns they would like to be identified with. (In this case: she/ her/hers.) This is a relatively new phenomenon that has arisen over the past few years and, to be honest, can be a bit confusing. I realize this is a touchy situation in today’s convoluted social atmosphere and I am hesitant to even discuss it so as not to draw a lot of ire (whatever that is) upon myself from some readers. But seeing I don’t have any other ideas for a column this week I figured…what the heck. Doing a bit of research, I have found out there are now considered to be fifty-two genders, which is about fifty more than when I was a kid, so it’s hard to keep up. (Some say there are hundreds, but I will keep with the fifty-two now until I can catch up.) I did notice that in researching COVID-19 cases and different reports by the CDC and other official groups, that only two genders seem to be catching the virus, so the other dozens of genders must be doing something right in keeping safe and maybe we can learn from them. Each gender, I also found out through minutes of research, have now, as the previously mentioned letter writer did, have to have up to four different pronouns. Some of these include: they/them/their/themself and he/him/his/himself, which are easy for me to remember. But some get a bit complicated such as: ey/em/eir/eirself and xe/xem/xyr/xemslef, just to name two of many.

Reading all of this scares me a bit, as I don’t want to meet up with someone I know who has recently gone from a her to a ey to a xe, or some other new pronoun without me knowing it and I insult them by greeting them incorrectly. (I am sure I have messed up somewhere in the above sentences and will get more than a few letters from others signed with their appropriate pronouns.) I guess, since I am a male and feel like one most of the time, I should be signing my letters and emails with he/him/his/himself so everyone will know exactly who they are dealing with when reading my correspondence. But on further reflection, I have decided that I don’t necessarily have to follow any specific rules when it comes to how I want to identify my gender when communicating with others. After all, who made up all of these pronouns in the first place? Was there some kind of pronoun conference that I missed reading about? Who was in charge of all this and who put them there? None of this got my vote. After all, they do apply to everyone and not just a select few. To me, this whole gender designation thingamajig is still open for a lot of discussion. So, in protest of these rules that I am supposed to follow, but had no input in to, I am making up my own gender designation and will no longer be recognized as he/ him/his/himself. At first, I considered just I/Me/ Mine/Myself but that seemed too easy. Then I considered Brendan/Bren/B/Brenself, but those aren’t really pronouns and if someone quickly misreads “Brendan” as “Brenda” that opens up a whole new can of worms (which are hermaphrodites by the way…not that there’s anything wrong with that.) I finally decided on That Guy/ This Guy/The Guy (still working on that fourth one). I’m not sure

if these are even pronouns. (Who said they must be pronouns anyway? Too many rules none of us had anything to do with.) I feel comfortable and non threatened with That Guy/This Guy/The Guy and I hope you will respect my wishes by using these when addressing me. Of course, if you let me know in advance how you would like to be addressed that would be much appreciated or I will just have to assume a pronoun and that could lead to hurt feelings and no one wants that…not even This Guy. There is no greater feeling of discomfort than meeting an old friend who you used to be a “sie” but is now a “tey” and no one ever let you know. It can kill a friendship. As I am approaching sixty-five years of life, I have to admit that all these pronoun changes are a little hard to keep up with. Sometimes I can barely remember if I took my morning pills, let alone trying to make sure I am using the correct pronoun for dozens of different gender designations. So, bear with me as I try to do my best with this latest social phenomenon, which I’m sure, just as I’m getting good at it, will change once again. Till next week Brendan Smith (That Guy/This Guy/The Guy)

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Americans Against Unconstitutional Mask Mandates

Good news: The anti-mask mandate movement is gaining steam. Americans yearning to breathe free are waking up from their pandemic stupor. Common sense and constitutional principles, now more than ever, are vital to a sovereign nation’s health. On Monday, a federal judge rescinded Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s by Michelle Malkin shutdown orders restricting gatherings, Syndicated Columnist forcing “nonessential” business closures and directing citizens to stay at home to combat COVID-19. U.S. District Judge William Stickman determined that the sweeping measures violated “the right of assembly enshrined in the First Amendment.” He noted Wolf’s hypocrisy in severely limiting indoor and outdoor fairs, festivals, concerts and other gatherings and condemning a small anti-lockdown protest of small-business owners (whom he called “selfish,” “cowardly” and “unsafe”) -- while marching with thousands of non-socially distancing Black Lives Matter radicals in Harrisburg in June. Moreover, Stickman ruled, Pennsylvania’s stay-at-home order -- a sweeping population unlike any “in the history of our Commonwealth and our Country” -- violated the 14th Amendment’s due process rights to travel, association and privacy. Similarly, Wolf’s extreme and open-ended power grab designating and closing “nonessential” businesses undermined due process protections “against arbitrary government action.” While Wolf’s measures may have been “well-intentioned,” Stickman concluded that “good intentions toward a laudable end are not alone enough to uphold governmental action against a constitutional challenge. Indeed, the greatest threats to our system of constitutional liberties may arise when the ends are laudable, and the intent is good -- especially in a time of emergency.” In Florida, conservative lawyer and state House Rep. Anthony Sabatini cheered the defeat of Wolf’s draconian COVID-19 orders. “Some in the Judiciary are finally waking up to the fact that the government is not always right -- and that the constitution is not suspended during an emergency,” he told me. Sabatini has filed 15 ongoing challenges to the Sunshine State’s lockdown measures. “We’re looking forward to winning.” See MALKIN on 36

Lawn-Sign Virtue Signaling And The Death of Politics

by Ben Shapiro

Syndicated Columnist

This week, America’s West Coast found itself on fire. Millions of acres have burned across California, Oregon and Washington. The smoke clouds have been so immense that they have blotted out the sun in certain areas; air quality has been so poor that hundreds of thousands of people have been

forced indoors. There are several key reasons for the extent of these wildfires. Federal and state policies have been geared around stifling wildfires for decades, rather than allowing controlled burns to prevent accretion of flammable vegetation. As ProPublica reports, California alone saw the burning of 4.4 million to 11 million acres per year prehistorically; between 1999 and 2017, that number dropped to only 13,000 acres per year; in February 2020, Nature Sustainability concluded that California would need to burn some 20 million acres to restabilize in terms of fire. Meanwhile, even those who pursue controlled burns must jump through extraordinarily regulatory hoops to do so: The Clean Air Act treats smoke from controlled burns as a pollutant, for example. Even California Gov. Gavin Newsom admitted to President Donald Trump that the state had botched its fire policy: “We have not done justice for our forest management.” But that admission was the mere precursor to a more important point for Newsom: that climate change is truly to blame for the wildfires. “The science is in ... that climate change is real,” Newsom lectured Trump. In reality, climate change may have had some effect on the California wildfires, but that effect is entirely secondary in scope to the effect of bad policy. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the temperature in Southern California has increased approximately 3 degrees F over

the past century. Since 1980, the temperature in California has increased less than 2 degrees F. Does climate change exacerbate dryness and heat? Of course. But fire policy was the chief failure here. What’s more, no matter what Trump believes on climate change, the science is clear: Nothing Trump could have done would have made a measurable impact on the climate between 2017 and 2020. In fact, if the entire United States were to cease carbon emissions today, the climate would be just 0.17 degrees C less hot by 2100. Yet the media and Democrats suggested that the true story of the wildfires was indeed climate change. This theme was trumpeted by Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden first and foremost: Biden emerged from his basement long enough to stand before a field of waving grass and explain that Trump’s unwillingness to signal proper concern about climate change would kill Americans. “We have four more years of Trump’s climate denial,” Biden gravely intoned. “How many suburbs will be burned in wildfires?” The answer: exactly as many as would be burned with four years of Biden governance. But the point here isn’t shaping public policy; it’s shaping perception. Politics has become about the art of the lawn sign. In California, there’s one lawn sign that has become quite popular. It reads, “IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE: BLACK LIVES MATTER; WOMEN’S RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS; NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL; SCIENCE IS REAL; LOVE IS LOVE; KINDNESS IS EVERYTHING.” The sign is generally plunked in the front yard of a nice suburban home, where it acts as a sort of unearned symbol of virtue. The semantically overloaded tautologies are designed to act as a dissociation tactic from supposedly benighted fellow Americans who apparently don’t believe “SCIENCE IS REAL” or that “KINDNESS IS EVERYTHING.” But, of course, the sign conveys nothing beyond a See SHAPIRO on 36

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Politicians on the Take?

by John Stossel

Syndicated Columnist

Politicians shut down businesses because of COVID-19. But the rules don’t apply to everyone. In San Francisco, gyms were forced to close, but government gyms

stayed open. In my new video, we see a Dallas woman being jailed for keeping her salon open and a New Jersey man getting arrested after working out indoors. Ordinary people who break the

rules get punished. But not House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Politicians are special. Now, politicians have allowed more businesses to open. Dallas relaxed its rules for most businesses a few months ago. But not for Dale Davenport’s car wash. Dallas won’t allow Dale to reopen because, shortly before the epidemic, they decreed his car wash a “hub for drug sales and crime.” His car wash is indeed in the middle of a high-crime neighborhood, and many cities have laws that let them close a business if the owners conceal crime.

But Davenport didn’t do that. When he saw crime, he called 911. Dallas politicians then used his 911 calls against him, saying his frantic phone calls were evidence his business was a “public nuisance.” “This is absolutely crazy,” complains Davenport. Still, Davenport “bent over backwards” to do almost everything the politicians asked him to do. “They said (to reduce crime), build a six-foot fence. I built an eight-foot fence,” he tells me. “Then they said, put up signs. I already had signs up, so I put up more signs. Then they told me to put up lights. I already had lights up, so I put up more lights.”

That still wasn’t enough. The city came in and closed his business, anyway. “They murdered my business,” says Davenport. Closing it didn’t reduce crime. Crime in the neighborhood stayed about the same. But the community lost a center. For 20 years, people drove to Dale’s car wash, and then visited other local businesses while their cars were washed. “The businesses next to my car wash, their business is down 4050%,” says Davenport. Why did politicians go after just one business that was well lit and where See STOSSEL on 36

UN General Assembly Opens in New York—But Online Presidents, Prime Ministers and Kings are set to attend the opening debate of the UN General Assembly; but online. The 75th by John J. Metzler anniversary sesSyndicated Columnist sion of the Assembly was planned as a gala gathering of chiefs of state and government but shall now be relegated to a series of virtual sessions. The cavernous General Assembly hall shall resonate not with live speeches, applause, and the stir of anxious delegates, but with prerecorded fifteen minute Webex presentations. During this annual rite of Autumn in New York, the delegates,

the motorcades, the speeches, the hyper security and the traffic jams, has succumbed to the Covid pandemic. How the world has so quickly changed! The UN celebrates its founding in 1945 when the Allied victors of WWII, Britain, China, France, the Soviet Union and the United States founded the multinational world assembly. At its creation the UN had 51 countries; today there are 193 member states. Nonetheless despite the pandemic challenges, the United Nations faces daunting missions ranging from enduring conflicts in Syria and Yemen, humanitarian crises from the Congo to Lebanon and Venezuela, and the widening socioeconomic disaster caused by the global spread of Covid-19.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told correspondents “The COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis unlike any in our lifetimes, and so this year’s General Assembly session will be unlike any other, too.” He added, “the stakes could not be higher. Our world is nearing the grimmest of milestones: 1 million lives lost to the virus. Meanwhile, the outbreak remains out of control.” The general debate session leads off by tradition with Brazil as the first speaker followed by the United States. President Donald Trump was slated to attend, but previous plans for the president to make a live address would have been awkward given the largely empty Assembly hall. Following the USA, the diplo-

matic speakers lineup includes the Presidents of Turkey, China, Russia, South Korea, Islamic Iran and France among others. In other words Erdogan, Xi Jinping, Putin and Moon Jae-in. Over five days the UN will host 180 high level speakers. Yet restricting world leaders to a mere fifteen minutes of video may be the real story! Thus contrary to the norm there will be none of the usual mingling, handshakes and diplomatic bonhomie which characterizes UN sessions. I’ve been covering these events long enough to appreciate that the real diplomacy transpires at receptions, bilateral meetings and impromptu chats. Secretary General Guterres laments, “We’ll do several virtual m e e t i n g s See METZLER on 37

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The school year is starting, and 2020 has presented maybe the weirdest school year we’ve ever experienced! We all love our kids, of course, and want them all to have the best, most successful year possible. The big question is: how can we support our kids to help them reach their best? There are many ways ranging from helping them with organization to learning to go to bed on time. Whether your kids are going back to school full time or doing it remotely, one thing that affects their ability to learn is nutrition. This will not only help them at school but also to have better immune function. It should be obvious, but a kid that is poorly nourished doesn’t perform in school as well as they could have. I stated it should be obvious, yet many kids eat diets filled with junk food, food dyes, artificial sweeteners, tons of sugar, and basically loads of empty calories. If this is what our kids are eating, and this appears to be the case if you look at obesity numbers, we are either ignoring our children’s nutrition needs or we are too lazy to change them. That may sound harsh, but

this is serious business. Teach a kid poor habits and they seem to stick for life. How bad is the situation? According to a 2013 study in Great Britain, 80% of kids are not eating the recommended five servings of fruit/vegetables per day, at age 13 73% of boys and 85% of girls don’t get and hour of physical activity per day, yet 74% of boys and 68% of girls watch at least 2 hours of television per day. Our country is not much different. Recent surveys have shown an increase in fruit consumption. Yet, even with this increase the National Cancers Institutes has noted that 60% of kids were short of their fruit needs daily and 93% of American kids eat less vegetables than recommended. The take away from all this: a 2008 study in the Journal of School Health revealed that

kids with healthy diets performed better than kids with unhealthy diets. Thus we have to improve the quality of what our kids eat. This is simple: increase fruits, veggies, lean

protein, and make sure carb sources are healthy (like the extra healthy ones from veggies, root veggies, and fruit). We need to decrease sugar, processed food, and empty calories. This may be a tricky change if your kids have poor eating habits. It will be worth it though, both in the short term and long term. I think the best way to help kids make this transition is to stop buying junk food completely, so its not even an option for them and to model healthy choices yourself, if we start eating healthy, the tiny humans usually follow suit. Be the role model, your kids deserve. I don’t always do that, either, but I’m working on it! There are many diet plans that may or See KIDS on 11

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Wright Museum To Offer Program For Girl Scouts WOLFEBORO - In 2021, the Wright Museum of World War II will offer a program designed for girls, ages 8 to 11, in Girl Scouts, a development that results from a recent visit by Mainebased Troop #2271. The program, developed by museum Executive Director Mike Culver, focuses on WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots), the subject of an exhibit that opens in May 2021. “Members of WASP became trained pilots who tested aircraft, ferried aircraft and trained other pilots during World War II,” he explained. Noting the program covers the full story behind -- and “often overlooked” importance of

-- WASP, Culver said it also sheds light on the role of Girl Scouts in the war effort. “They helped sell war bonds, tended victory gardens and collected scrap metals and fat to be reused,” he said. “Girl Scouts also formed ‘Defense Institutes’ for teaching women necessary skills and ways to comfort children during possible air raids. Troops even made calendars instead of the Girl Scout cookies we all know and love today so they could help with food rationing.” According to Ginger Kozlowski, communications and public relations manager for Girl Scouts of the Green and White Mountains, the museum’s program will

Girl Scouts at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center. In 2021, the Wright Museum of World War II will offer a program designed for girls, ages 8 to 11, in Girl Scouts, a development that results from a recent visit by MaineALAN MACRAE PHOTO based Troop #2271.

help Girl Scout Juniors earn their Playing the Past badge. “They are asked to explore what it’s like to live in the past, think of a character from that time period, create a costume, and act out what it would be like to live daily life as that character,” she said. She described The Wright as “an ideal partner” to show girls what life was like during World War II. “The program will help them understand what it would be like to be a soldier, homemaker, pilot, child, a Girl Scout, or even the president at this critical point in U.S. history,” she said. For Culver, the opporSee SCOUTS on 37

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I led you astray in a recent column and I’m here to own up to it and make it right. I wrote about and included a photograph of a tomato hornworm caterpillar being covered in the small white cocoons of a wasp parasite. That part was true. It was a tomato hornworm and it was covered in the cocoons of braconid wasps. These wasps start their life cycle as an egg laid inside the giant green caterpillar and eat their way out to build their cocoons. I was mistaken, however, in saying that the caterpillar would have turned into a hummingbird moth – at least the kind we enjoy watching around our flowers in the summer and early fall. That moth is the hummingbird clearwing moth and is not what the tomato hornworm caterpillar turns into. The tomato hornworm caterpillar turns into a much less colorful fivespotted hawk moth, or five-spotted sphynx moth. The caterpillar of the clearwing hummingbird moth is indeed a hornworm, but not the tomato hornworm. It is a large, green caterpillar with a “horn” on the back end, but it is different from the one I spotted in my garden the other day. It also

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when they do. Such was the case last week when the New York Times, BBC and most of the major networks reported on the mass die-off of birds in New Mexico and other parts of the Southwest. Birdwatchers on their walks reported finding hundreds of dead or disoriented birds. Based on these observations and reports, scientists estimate the die-off to be in the hundreds of thousands. Why is this happening? Scientists still do not know for sure. A severe cold snap (remember the snow that fell in that region a few weeks ago?) and smoke from the California wildfires

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As I near my fifteenth year as a licensed New Hampshire guide, I often pause to reflect on my experiences with the many clients I have had over the years and the questions they often ask. One of the most common questions I get are, “What’s the worst client you’ve ever had?” My response is usually that I don’t classify my clients as bad or good, but rather easy or hard. There are many factors that dictate the quality of a guided fishing trip. You hear and read story after story about nightmare fishing guides. You hear about guides with bad attitudes, guides that are in over their heads and lack the knowledge or confidence to do what they are doing, sub-par equipment, or guides with little or no personality at all, but you rarely read about how a client with a bad attitude or behavior, unrealistic expectation, or poor communication skills contributed to a less than stellar experience. Here are some tips that may help you if you are considering hiring a guide in the future. Communication Is Key A good fishing guide will know how to do his or her job, but they don’t know you. They

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like he had wasted his money. Communicating your needs and wants to your guide is one of the most important aspects of the trip. If you book a trip for two, but one of them is a child, it is important for your guide to know that. Like many of my guide friends, I develop a style that works for me for a given species. I do what has been working at that time, but some anglers are willing to risk catching a few less fish to fish the way they want. When I know this, I accommodate to the best of my ability. It’s important to communicate your information expectations when booking a

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you on the water sooner. In fact, it may delay your departure. I have certain things to do before any guide trip, and I know how long it takes me to do them. I don’t show up earlier than I need to be ready. I love chatting with my clients, and I try to greet all of them when they arrive at their vehicle, but if they show up 30-minutes early and I still have a bunch of work to do, stopping to chat will only delay departure. So, while it is important to be on time for your trip, don’t be too early. I suggest arriving early enough for you to get your belongings together and maybe hit the rest room before you leave, but no earlier. Tipping I hate this topic, but it is part of the job. Guiding is a service industry, and tipping is customary. Some clients tip heavy, some are more conservative with their tips, and others don’t tip at all, usually because they don’t know. The industry standard is around 20% for a good trip, with that amount fluctuating depending on

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you are out shopping. Visit their website at www.603brewery.com. This year’s Toasted Pumpkin Ale is a deep orangey golden ale. Last year’s edition was attractive and compelling. This year’s offering continues to seduce your senses as well and is improved in flavor. It pours elegantly into a pint glass with a thick frothy antique white head which lasts into your first sips. Dip your nose to the inside of the glass rim and

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setts than it does today, and there were times when we would spend some of the time singing as we cruised back towards home. The one song I remember singing with my siblings was “Cruising Down the River on a Sunday Afternoon.” I’ve been on Route 3 many times going north also, some of them to see New Hampshire’s mountains, which Westerners, I’ve found, like to challenge us to compare to those in that part of the country. Size, however, should not intimidate us into enjoying any less the beauty of this State’s mountains and hills and appreciating the fact that the clearcutting of the forests that adorn them is long past. The scenes of my childhood include Franconia Notch and the Old Man of the Mountains, the Indian Head, the Flume, and the Basin. Route 3 continues all the way north to Pittsburg and the Canadian Border. Some readers may have traveled there many times, but I only recall going all the way

The Huckleberry Road in New Hampton near our home. to Pittsburg only once. It was with my oldest brother, who taught school in that town for a few years, and a friend of his. We were there to go fishing at a small rustic camp my brother had bought deep in the woods on a logging road and near a small stream. The trout were small but hungry. When I ran out of worms they still bit at a bare fish hook. Trying to sleep in the camp (or shack) was interesting, and I lay on the bunk listening to the mice scurrying to and fro and wondering if they would join me on the bed. There are many types of roads, and some are loops whose beginning and ending join with the same road. One is near my New Hampton home; actually there are two different roads, the Hollow Road (or Little Hollow Road )off from Dana Hill Road, which joined with the Huckins Road which ends or begins (depending on which way you are traveling) at Dana Hill Road. The Hollow Road is no longer maintained by the

town and you can no longer drive around the loop, but the memories of childhood when one could do so remain. Memories in winter of high snowbanks from a road plowed by town tractors, sleeping near it in a tent on a summer’s night, berry-picking near it’s borders, walking on the way to hunt or fish, loading a truck with wood to heat our house, etc. I rode the school bus the two years I attended the New Hampton Community School, the town’s consolidated school with three classrooms. The bus went down the still dirt Huckleberry Road on its circuit of gathering students for school, and one morning a beaver was in that road and was not inclined to move. Melvin Huckins, our bus driver, had to leave the bus and with a wooden stick, probably from a fallen tree branch, persuade that beaver to move and let the bus pass by. There were two dirt roads from our house that led to the town of Ashland. We could

go up the hill on Dana Hill Road, though I don’t recall calling it by that name then, and down the steep hill to Winona Road and into Ashland, or we could turn onto Huckleberry Road and down hill to what is now Rt. 132 and into Ashland. I took the latter route with my brother when we rode our bicycles to the freight office at the Ashland Railroad Station to pick up the hamsters I had ordered. I’ve traveled on many roads in New Hampshire and several other states, and it has occurred to me that I probably have enough material stored somewhere in my mind that I could write a book about those roads. Beyond that there are the figurative roads that I’ve traveled, of which I think I can say, in keeping with Robert Frost’s sentiments, I have often taken the road less traveled, and that has made all the difference, though that difference be different for he and I.

— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, September 24, 2020 — MOFFETT from 3 the shadows and into the light to legally wager on football outcomes — now with new protections. And instead of the vigorish going “who knows where?” a percentage of the action now stays in New Hampshire to support education and the like. But Tim’s labors yielded even more fruit — good paying new jobs to help stimulate an economy rebounding from the COVID pandemic. “We employ over 100 people here,” explained Anagnost. “And my establishments employ over 1500 statewide.” Not everyone embraces gambling, to be sure. Almost any product or activity raises the possibility of some folks overdoing things. But the Governor, the Beer Caucus, and most Granite Staters support individual freedom and personal responsibility. “Live Free or Die!” Indeed, lotteries were used to support George Washington’s Continental Army while also paving the way for modern insurance practices. And having a vested interest in the outcomes of sports events creates passion and energy which translate into higher TV ratings and more wherewithal for networks and the NFL — which trickles down not just to the players but to countless other businesses and enterprises. Rep. Lang makes $100 a year as a state representative so his constituents — and all Granite Staters — truly received a great ROI (Return on Investment) after investing their votes in Tim and other like-minded citizenlegislators. The rewards for these

State.”) Mike Moffett was a Professor of Sports Management for Plymouth State University and NHTI-Concord. He co-authored the critically-acclaimed and award-winning “FAHIM SPEAKS: A Warrior-

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Cutting the fur from Mikey’s wounds to clean and care for them. PD, who kindly provided a bag of grain, but that only lasted six days. She reached out for help from various high visibility animal shelter organizations, but could find no one to help poor Mikey as his condition deteriorated exponentially, daily before her eyes. She knew there was something seriously wrong with his legs, as there was significant swelling and even skin ruptures. Her desperation for Mikey deepened, however her tenacity eventually paid off. She finally connected with LLLF, who, after a week of some rather difficult negotiations, was able to convince the owner to release Mikey to LLLF’s care. As of this writing Mikey is still in a series of diagnostic assessments by our veterinarian(s). His biggest problem, potentially deadly problem, is coffin bone founder, or that of possible bone infection in his legs,

due to steel shoes/ plates on his hooves that should have been removed long ago. Over the months mud has worked its way between the steel plates and his hooves, most likely causing the infection, resulting in the swelling in his legs. Mikey is facing a long, extensive, and costly rehabilitation over the next year or two, and we pray that his resolute spirit will play a big role in seeing this gentle giant through the long rehabilitative journey that awaits him. So much is riding on whether that infection has worked its way up into the bones, or the aforementioned founder. If you find yourself moved to help us with what will certainly be an enormously expensive rehab, please see contribution information at the end of this article. LLLF has also been driving full loops to Georgia, Tennessee, and some other states’ See FARM on 35

— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, September 24, 2020 — FARM from 34 rescue organizations that normally meet us part way, because southern rescue organizations’ resources are so depleted. This in turn only further depletes our resources. In many ways we need your help now more than ever. Are you one of the millions restricted to working from home due to the pandemic? Are you saving a lot of money each week in gasoline, and wear & tear items on your vehicle(s)? Maybe even catching a break on your auto insurance due to so many fewer miles being driven? If so, please consider

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farm. The film is now be available for purchase through our website, for $15. If you want a great first hand picture of what it is we do, the relentless complications and coordination efforts that go into one of these rescues, the legal labyrinth that can be involved, and the

overwhelming efforts involved in rehabbing rescued horses, this film is a must have to add to your DVD library. Additionally, our 2021 calendar is printed, looks fantastic as always, and is ready to go, for $12 or two for $20 (plus shipping). As always, see our website (below) for additional

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MALKIN from 6 In Colorado, I joined a similar lawsuit with state House Rep. Pat Neville to challenge Gov. Jared Polis’ whopping 166 COVID-19 executive orders, as well as multiple public health orders issued by state and county health departments. As in Pennsylvania, our state Supreme Court declined to hear the case. So we filed in Denver District Court two weeks ago. Polis and other government officials are on notice: No more kings. Like Americans all across the country, Coloradans have been threatened with civil and criminal penalties for failure to wear a mask in public, and businesses are coerced by the governor into enforcing his mask order with zero input from voters or their elected representatives. Last week, Polis unilater-

ally extended the mask mandate by another 30 days. Our lawyer, Randy Corporon, laid down the law: “The Colorado Constitution expressly prohibits the delegation by the legislature of lawmaking authority to the governor. While courts have made limited exceptions for emergency situations, we are now six months into this ‘emergency’ with a governor who, on his own, extends his superpowers every 30 days. Enough is enough.” Corporon’s law firm has filed a companion lawsuit seeking an injunction against “Power Grab” Polis on behalf of the family owners of the Bandimere Speedway -- where more than 5,500 patriots joined us at a rally to “Stop the COVID Chaos” two weeks ago. Liberals and “Never-Trumpers” have condemned our constitutionally pro-

tected peaceful protest, while downplaying violent BLM and antifa riots that have turned downtown Denver into a Third World hellhole. We are not alone. Parents in Tennessee are suing to free their children from unlawful and unhealthy mask mandates unsupported by science. Minnesotans have filed multiple lawsuits against Gov. Tim Walz. “It’s not the place of government to impose those requirements on us when there is no lawful authority to do so,” Doug Seaton, Upper Midwest Law Center President and attorney, argues. “That’s something that is against our self-governing principles that we’ve had in the state of Minnesota since we were a part of the northwest territory. We can’t have our governor override the separation of powers and the limit-

ed government we have and trample on rights, whatever good the intentions might be.” In Boise, Idaho, this weekend, citizens held an anti-mask rally at the local Veterans Memorial park. Organizer Jeff Buck spoke for all of us: “We feel like we are being held hostage and we need to stand up for our rights or the government will take them away.” Masks off. Fight on. This is the American way. Michelle Malkin’s email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@ protonmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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the owner did most of what the politicians requested? Davenport suspects the politicians shut him down because he won’t give money to their friends. The city told him to hire armed guards, but when he hired them, he says he was told, “You’ve hired the wrong guard company.” He hadn’t hired a guard company owned by a city councilman. Could it be that corrupt Dallas politicians want the money for themselves? “This is extortion,” says Davenport. We contacted all 14 city council members. Not one agreed to an interview. Dallas has a rich history of political corruption. The guard company Davenport says the city wanted him to hire was owned by former councilman James Fantroy. In 2008, Fantroy went to prison for stealing $20,000 from a college. Former Dallas city council members Dwaine Caraway, Paul Fielding and Don Hill were all jailed after being convicted of bribery or extortion. Instead of paying car wash employees, Davenport now spends his money on lawyers, hoping to fight city hall. “This is wrong,” says Davenport. “This is tyranny.” It’s bad enough when politicians kill businesses with COVID-19 shutdowns. It’s worse if they kill a business because the owner won’t give money to their friends.

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— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, September 24, 2020 — METZLER from 7 with Heads of States… but we will miss that contact, that personal contact, that I believe is very important for diplomacy to be effective.” Veteran Turkish diplomat Volkan Bozkir has been elected president of the 75th Assembly. In earlier comments he stated, “In less than a year we have seen social and economic damage on a scale not seen since the Second World War.” Speaking bluntly about a Covid vaccine Secretary General Guterres warned, “Many pin their hopes on a vaccine—but let’s be clear: there is no panacea in a pandemic.” “But, starting now, a vaccine must be seen as a global public good, because COVID-19 respects no borders. We need a vaccine to be affordable and available to all,” Guterres stressed adding, “For any vaccine to work, people across the globe need to be willing to take it. But, with the spread of the virus, we are also seeing a proliferation of misinformation about a future vaccine. This is fueling vaccine hesitancy and igniting wild conspiracy theories.” Over the next few months the General Assembly will consider 183 agenda items; one new proposed item is, “The responsibility to protect and the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.” In a victory for human rights, this agenda item was strongly supported by 101 states but was opposed by 13 including Belarus, China, Cuba and Russia among others. During past sessions

the UN was consumed by the ever elusive Middle East peace process, the spread of so-called Islamic State terrorism and refugee issues. But the U.S. has soundly defeated the Islamic State Caliphate. Recently the Trump Administration sponsored a landmark diplomatic peace deal between Israel and two key Arab Kingdoms, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, the first substantive rapprochement between Israel and the Arabs in a quarter century. One question that likely won’t arise during the debate concerns the debacle over the UN’s World Health Organization in not sounding the Covid virus alarm sooner. Maybe that’s why this is a virtual session after all. 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.

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tunity to bring young people into the museum is important. “It’s essential we help kids understand that history is not just in the past,” he said. “It has relevance today, and I think The Wright can play an important role as educator of tomorrow’s leaders, which the Girls Scouts are actively working to develop through their innovative programs.” The region’s leading resource for educators and learners of all ages on World War II, The Wright features more than 14,000 items in its collection that are representative of both the home front and battle field. To learn more about the museum, visit wrightmuseum.org. To learn more about the Girl Scouts of the Green and White Mountains, whose mission is Chris Bosak may be “to develop girls of courreached at chrisbosak26@ age, confidence, and gmail.com or through his character who make the website www.birdsof- world a better place,” newengland.com visit girlscoutsgwm.org. still doubt. Scientists say autopsy reports are needed before they can make a clearer determination. I hope they do figure out the root cause of this concerning die-off so we can take actions to prevent it from happening again. Let’s also hope it doesn’t continue or spread to our region. ### To end on a brighter note, the fall migration is in full swing in New England. I’ve seen many warblers in my backyard recently and the hawk-watch sites are reporting impressive numbers of birds of prey. Get out there and enjoy the New England fall and the birds that pass through our region. As always, let me know what you are seeing out there.

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