10/06/2022 Weirs Times

The Simple FeaST

The Ar T Of MAking Pie DOugh Pinwheels

by Eric N Gibson Simple Feast Columnist

Mine was a stay at home mom who made most everything from scratch when we were kids. I do not remember much of anything coming out of a box or a can, perhaps with exception, some Saturday night baked beans once in a while and Chicken Noodle Soup. The canned soup was only if we were sick.

Being a few years young er than my siblings had its advantages. I say that now but back then having to sit in the kitchen while

mom was cooking was punishing for a five year old who could not sit still. She never told me how she made anything and I wasn’t much help at that age. Mostly I just sat and watched her do things; like a housefly waiting for an opportunity.

Pies were not a staple in our house; perhaps with company, maybe mid to late summer if we had gone berry picking, or during apple season in the fall, and of course holidays. But when she made pies, mom made pie dough from scratch and it See GIBSON on 30

Plymouth Historical Final Walking Tour Of Season

Saturday, October 15th, Plymouth Historical Soci ety has their final walking tour of 2022. Meet at the Boy Scout sculpture in the Common at 10:30am.

Learn about the peo ple, sites, and buildings that contribute to Plym outh’s unique character. Get to know the hardworking residents and famous guests who es tablished important busi nesses in town, stayed at the once majestic Pe migewasset House, aided former slaves as they tra

versed the Underground Railroad, or visited the Draper & Maynard Sport ing Goods Company. You will visit sites on the Na tional Registry of Historic Places. If you have your own stories of Plymouth to share, the Historical Society looks forward to hearing your voice.

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TAMI M. BROUGH, 62

ASTATULA, Florida — Tami M. Brough, 62, of Massachusetts Avenue, Astatula, Florida, passed away on September 18, 2022, with her family by her side.

She was born March 17, 1960, in Laconia, New Hampshire, to Robert and Thelma (Dionne) Brough. She battled emphysema for many years and it finally caught up with her. Tami moved to Florida 30 years ago with her three children and shortly after she met Lynn McCormick and they settled in and had a good life together.

Tami leaves behind three children, Eddie Bruse of Rhode Island, Bobby Bruse of Florida; and her daughter, Candy (Bruse) Langston of Florida; her four brothers, Rick Brough of Colorado, Danny Brough of Florida, Earl Brough and his wife Pat of Laconia, Norman Brough and his wife Donna of Laconia; five beautiful grandchildren, Raymond, Rachael and Baylee Langston of Florida, Hailey Grant of Rhode Island, and Arianna Murphy Bruse of Florida; eight nieces and nephews and many cousins.

She will be missed dearly by all her family and friends.

There will be no service. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Lung Association.

Documentary Distorts Coolidge’s Legacy

To The Editor:

Fellow Granite Stater Ken Burns’ latest PBS documen tary, chronicling America’s at titude towards Jews fleeing the Holocaust, tells a captivatingly tragic story. Sadly, it is remi niscent of the Biden adminis tration’s negligence towards Afghan refugees following our disgraceful withdrawal from Afghanistan.

While undeniable that Burns is a great documentarian, his liberal bias regarding President Calvin Coolidge’s immigration views demand refutation.

While Coolidge signed the immigration restricting John son-Reed Immigration Act, he deplored several provisions. Particularly, an exclusion of Japanese immigrants, say ing, “If the exclusion provi sion stood alone I [would veto] it.” However, it passed with congressional majorities too overwhelming for a veto to overcome. Burns excludes these facts.

Further, Burns’ suggestion that Coolidge was anti-Semitic or xenophobic is meritless. The predominant motivation behind Johnson-Reed was to counteract the proliferation of communist and dictatorial sentiments in America. Debate over that law’s approach is fair, but it was not driven by prejudice.

Coolidge rejected prejudices that sometimes colored our immigration debates. Speak ing in 1925, he said: “Whether

one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower or three years of the steerage, is not half so impor tant as whether his American ism of today is genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.”

Burns is perpetuating a long time campaign by liberal his torians to distort Coolidge’s legacy. While a conservative, I believe progressives can boost their ideology without dishon esty. President Coolidge was not anti-Semitic or xenopho bic. He deserves better from Ken Burns and many others.

D.J. Bettencourt Salem, NH

Roaring Twenties

To The Editor:

Welcome to the world of Woke/Socialism, which may eventually sound similar to“I declare, through the powers invested in me as your presi dent and by way of executive privilege,that all federal elec tion activities are suspended as of today’s date,and that the pending results of such are hereby negated. This motion is necessary as I have been informed of the penetration into our institutions by foreign interests.”

The ironic thing is that this president is overly beholden to such influences now. It is not known when or even if the above imaginary president ex ists, but he/she would need the support of a corrupt sup

Our StOry

This newspaper was first published in 1883 by Mathew H. Calvert as Calvert’s Weirs Times and Tourists’ Gazette and continued until Mr. Calvert’s death in 1902. The new Weirs Times was reestablished in 1992 and strives to maintain the patriotic spirit of its predecessor as well as his devotion to the interests of Lake Winnipesaukee. Our newspaper’s masthead and the map of Lake Winnipesaukee in the center spread are elements in today’s paper which are taken from Calvert’s historic publication.

Locally owned for 30 years, this publication is devoted to printing the stories of the people

porting cast to even think of doing such things.

Our descendants may some day remark that “Our forefa thers could have dealt with the setting of bad precedents and rogue government during the Roaring Twenties (2020s) when it was possible to do so but chose not to.”

We of the Roaring Twen ties must put faith in our system and eject our present rubber-stamp congress by voting republican. We cannot allow ourselves to be swayed by television ads funded by wealthy out of state groups as they represent the real foreign interests.

Leonard Paquette Laconia,NH.

Abortion More Important To Dems

To the Editor: Democrats’ ads show that abortion is their top priority. Abortion is more important to Democrat politicians: - than your ability to feed your family and pay your hous ing, heat, electric, phone, and tax bills, etc. (Democrat in competence created shortages; their votes created inflation.)

- than protecting children and adults from the deadly drugs coming over our Mexi can border that Democrats opened to drug dealers, crimi nals, and others.

- than protecting innocent people from the criminals that

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by Debby Montague Weirs Times Book Reviewer

The Wedding Plot, Paula Munier, Mino taur Books, 2022

“This was one of the things that Mercy loved about New England, the Yankee belief that old was good and new was not always better just because it was new.”

During your lifetime you will probably at tend many weddingsthose of family, friends, strangers - some will be glamorous, some sweet and simple, some you will enjoy, and some you will just endure. For readers, the best weddings might be those in a novel - no gift to buy, no suitable attire to choose, no tol erating annoying rela tives. Mysteries may not be the typical place to portray a wedding, but there are mysteries with excellent wedding scenes. One of my fa vorites is the marriage of Jean-Guy Beauvoir and Annie Gamache in Louise Penny’s How The Light Gets In, and I did not hesitate to add Paula Munier’s wed ding spectacle to my list. The Wedding Plot nuptials are brilliant. The scene is murder, mayhem, and mar riage wrapped up in old feuds, shocking revela tions, and more than one surprise.

Mayhem and murder seem to follow Mercy Carr, former US Army MP, and her Malinois, Elvis, former US Army bomb detection dog, whether they are hiking in the Vermont woods on a 4th of July week end or searching for

a little boy in a bliz zard. In The Wedding Plot Mercy and Elvis, along with her boy friend, Vermont game warden, Troy War ner, and his rescue Newfoundland, Su sie Bear, are spend ing a long weekend at the luxurious Lady’s Slipper Inn for the celebration of her grandmother Patience’s wedding to her long-time boy friend Claude. Mer cy’s mother, Grace, is Patience’s matron of honor and takes her duties seriously. Everything about the wedding will be as el egant and charming as Grace herself. De viation from her care ful plans will not be tolerated. So, when the resort’s yoga teacher goes missing, Grace sends Mercy and Elvis off to locate him and bring him back to the inn before

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Columbus Day Weekend Craft Fair At Gunstock

Come and celebrate at the Columbus Day Weekend Craft Fair at Gunstock on Saturday and Sunday, October 8-9. Hours are Saturday 10am to 5pm & Sunday 10 am to 4 pm. There will be over 70 awesome artists and crafters display ing a variety of media. Don’t miss the amazing chainsaw

demonstrations by Elise who will be showing her awesome talents throughout both days. Some of the arts & crafts will include amazing handcrafted wooden American flags, awe some soy candles, chainsaw wooden bears/eagles/cardinals etc, amazing nuts & bolts cre ations, Prim pain creams, resin art, sublimated items, beautiful wildlife photography, leather jewelry, gourmet honey & specialty foods, ceramics, fiber arts, quilted items, gourmet food items, kettle corn, CBD products, beautiful hair combs, macrame chairs & swings, handpoured soaps, & lots more. Friendly, Leashed Pets Welcome. Rain or Shine Under Canopies Free Admission & Free Parking. GPS Address: 719 Cherry Valley Rd., Rte. 11A, Gilford NH. For more info call Joyce at (603) 387-1510, Preview Online at joycescraftshows.com

Wolfeboro Restaurants Offer Haunted Trolley Tour Coupon

Those looking to make their 2022 Haunted Trolley Tour a complete evening out will be pleased to know that five Wolfeboro res taurants are now offering 10% off dinner as part of the Haunted History Trolley Tour Ticket.

Morrisseys’ Porch & Pub, La Boca, Marker 21, O Bistro, and Wolfe’s Tavern are joining Molly the Trolley on Thursdays, October 6, 13, 20, 27 and Friday, October 28 for a bit of spooky fun by discounting dinner for those taking the 90-minute narrated tour.

Beginning at the Wolfeboro Railroad Station at 7 pm, the mystery ride includes stops along the way where riders get off the trol ley and follow the “spirit” of Maude Taylor, an 1850s Wolfeboro Falls School teacher, into dark and mysterious places where she recounts stories about people and happen ings from Wolfeboro’s past. Spiritual encounters are not uncommon, according to those who’ve already taken the tour. A rider from last week went so far as to comment, “A bit of fortification in the way of a hearty meal is not a bad idea before this trip.” Riders should be prepared to get off the trolley a few times during the tour to enjoy the full experience; this event is only appropriate for those over twelve years old.

A “Haunted Trolley Tour” ticket also includes entry in a drawing to win a signed copy of the 1976 book Remember When…A Collection of Old Photographs of Wolfeboro, NH. A book will be given away at the end of each tour. Tickets are $35 per person and may be purchased online at wolfeborotrolley.com or by call ing 603-569-1080. Reservations are required. The 10% off Dinner Coupon is emailed with the ticket receipt.

The History Of Agriculture As Told By Barns

On Tuesday, October 11th from 7-8pm, The New Hampshire Preservation Al liance presents the program “The His tory Of Agriculture As Told By Barns” at the Town Office Building, 488 Town house Road in Cornish, NH. The evolution of barn architecture tells the story of New Hampshire agriculture. Barns changed from the early English style, to Yankee style, to gambrel and then pole barns to ac commodate the changing agriculture. This presentation will be a chrono logical walk through time, with photo illustrations of barns around the state that are examples of these eras of agricultural history. John Porter was raised on a dairy farm in Lebanon, New Hampshire. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a B.S. Degree in Animal Science, and then went on to get a master’s degree from Cornell University in Animal Nutrition and Farm Management. Later he earned a master’s degree from Bob Jones University in Education Administration. He served as a Dairy Specialist for the UNH Cooperative Extension from 1974 until his retirement in 2006. He still works part-time for UNH and operates his own consulting company, Farm Plan ning Services, LLC. In 2001, he co-authored the book “Preserving Old Barns”; in 2007, was editor and contributing author of “The History and Economics of the New Hampshire Dairy Industry”; and in 2011 wrote the agriculture chapter for the Concord History book, “Crosscur rents of Change”. In 2019 he published a second edition of the Preserving Old Barns book. He co-authored an addendum to the dairy history book, The New Hampshire Dairy Industry in 2020. For more information visit https://www.nhpreservation.org/events-calendar

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pleasant. Wouldn’t it be nice to hear something like this on the weather? (“Tropical Depres sion 2367 might turn into a hurricane along the southeast this week. Otherwise, Pleasant System Brendan will linger over our area for the next few days making for great weather.”)

by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor

It’s not al ways easy to come up with ideas for this column every week. Some weeks the ideas will flow and I can’t wait to get to my laptop to write them down. Other weeks I have nothing; the well is dry, and I need to pump the handle hard to get anything out.

This week is an in-between week – I have some ideas but not really any that might pan out to be a whole column. Just random thoughts for the most part.

So, now that my deadline is here, I have no choice but to share those random thoughts with you.

Hurricane Ian was certainly one for the ages. It not only caused a tremendous amount of destruction and heartache, but also brought great joy to climate change enthusiasts who need these sort of natural tragedies to fulfill their dooms day agenda of the world coming to an end.

The National Weather Ser vice gives names to tropical depressions which can some times turn into hurricanes. The Weather Channel even gives names to winter storms. So I would venture to guess that anyone named Ian might feel bad about having a storm like this attached to their name.

I suggest we give numbers to bad weather systems and people’s names to pleasant weather systems. I think that forcing some folks to always be reminded of having the same name as a devastating storm could be a psychological bur den. Instead, we should be lifting folks up by having their names related to something

I know that would cheer me up.

Speaking of weather, now that winter is right around the corner again, I think it would be a great idea that the weather folks stop predicting snow amounts in estimated amounts like “six to ten inches” since they don’t have a clue themselves leaving us to wait to find out exactly what the amount will be. Instead they should predict it in levels of ag gravation. For instance, a 1-3 inch prediction would be a “No aggravation” storm, 4-6 inches a “Bit Of A Pain” snowfall, 6-10 might be called an “Okay That’s Enough” storm and over 10 inches would be precipitation that will be “A Giant Pain In The Butt.” So, weather forecasts might go something like “La conia will have no aggravation from this storm while it will be a bit of a pain for the seacoast and a giant pain in the butt it for the Mount Washington Valley. I feel this would help us better prepare mentally for what is coming. (Of course, they could just use the metric system and then no one will have any idea how much they are might be getting.)

We should consider a Na tional Day Of Silence…as far as politics go. Yes, there is still a few weeks of noise and mad ness until November 8th, but maybe soon after it is all over, anything to do with politics should be banned for twen ty-four hours. All television news, newspapers, radio talk shows, social media posts, etc., that mention anything politi

cal should be silenced for one day. Even if you are in a public place and you start off on a po litical diatribe (whatever that is) about the election or something else political, you will be asked to leave and, if not, arrested. Sure, this goes against the First Amendment and would never be allowed. But, be honest, would you complain? I think we all would appreciate the break. Who knows, it might be such a big hit we would increase it to forty-eight hours after the 2024 election.

This might just be me, but I think it would be a great idea to dedicate at least one day a year to educating people on the difference between to, too and two as well as its and it’s and your and you’re. Maybe I’m the only one this bothers, but it is my column and I get to make the suggestions.

I think this is a great Idea, maybe my best one. Scanners at the fourteen items or fewer checkouts at the supermar ket should be programmed to set off a siren and strobe lights when the fifteenth item is scanned bringing attention to the guilty party and alerting ev eryone in the store. Of course, after about twenty seconds of this embarrassment, the siren and lights would shut off and the guilty party would be al lowed to continue so as not to make those behind them with fourteen or fewer not have to wait. (It will be fun though to see who leaves the line to go to another one). One last touch would be to have the culprits picture taken and posted on the ”14 Items Or Fewer Scofflaws” poster in the produce section.

Well, that’s about it. Hope to do better next week.

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Not all open-borders subversives hide behind black bandanas and hurl Molotov cocktails. Sometimes, they wear threepiece suits or silk dresses. Most insidiously, the saboteurs of American justice wear black robes, wield gavels and enlist other officers of the court to help them perpetrate crimes instead of punish them. Nothing shocks me anymore after 30 years of covering immigration anarchy, but my disgust with American apathy toward the erosion of this once-sovereign nation deepens every day. Take the case of United States v. Shelley M. Richmond Joseph and Wesley MacGregor. She’s the Mas sachusetts state court judge and he’s the former court deputy who collaborated to hide and free an illegal alien criminal being sought by a federal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforce ment agent in Joseph’s Newton, Massachusetts, courthouse in 2018.

by Michelle Malkin Syndicated Columnist

A year later, federal prosecutors charged these two govern ment human traffickers with obstruction of justice after they conspired to let Dominican national Oscar Manuel Peguero a.k.a. Jose Medina-Perez -- a fugitive who had been wanted on narcotics possession and drunk driving, had been deported twice before and had been barred from reentering under fed eral law -- out a back door when ICE issued a detainer and warrant of removal.

Judge Joseph’s lawyers admitted the truth of prosecutors’ allegations on how she “purposefully” helped Peguero/MedinaPerez “evade” the ICE agent by “concocting a ruse.” While informing the federal agent that the illegal alien would be sent to the courthouse lobby, she cooked up an excuse for him to head “downstairs to lockup” and “then exit the courthouse through a rear sally-port exit.” Joseph directed MacGregor to “go off the record while she devised” the scheme with the illegal alien’s counsel. “After the recorder was turned back on and the alleged plan was set in motion, Deputy MacGregor used his ac cess card to swipe” Peguero/Medina-Perez out the back portal. Although he was captured a few weeks after the catch-andrelease ruse in Newton, Peguero/Medina-Perez was granted bond by an immigration judge in May 2018. The previous double deportee was entrusted to return for a hearing in July 2019. I asked ICE this week about the status of that deporta tion hearing and Peguero/Medina-Perez’s whereabouts. Cue the sound of crickets.

Once again, the woke joke’s

by Ben Shapiro Syndicated Columnist

This week, Italy pre pared to welcome a new prime minister: 45-yearold Giorgia Meloni, leader of the right-wing Broth ers of Italy party since 2014. Meloni is a populist conservative on issues ranging from marriage to immigration; she is a nationalist by philosophy and combatively passion ate by temperament. A clip of a speech she gave at the World Congress of Families in 2019 has now gone viral with American con servatives; she explained, “Why is the family an enemy? Why is the family so frighten ing? There is a single answer to all these questions. Because it defines us. Because it is our identity. Because everything that defines us is now an enemy for those who would like us to no longer have an identity and to simply be perfect consumer slaves. And so they attack national identity, they attack religious identity, they attack gender identity, they attack family identity... We will defend God, country and family.”

This speech, according to much of the media, represented an indicator of incipi ent fascism in the land of Benito Mussolini. Never mind that former Italian prime min ister Matteo Renzi scoffed at such a notion, calling the “risk of fascism... absolutely fake news.” The Intercept promptly called Meloni the “latest fascist womanhood icon.” Ishaan Tharoor of The Washington Post railed that she’s “set to be her country’s most ultranationalist premier since fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.”

Meloni is merely the latest recipient of such treatment internationally. In Sweden, the new government, supported by the right-wing Sweden Democrats, is already being touted as proto-fascist thanks to the origins of the SD. In Hungary, Prime Min ister Viktor Orban has been treated as a knockoff of Vladimir Putin, despite the fact that he won his last election with a bare

majority of 52.52% of the vote, increas ing his vote share from 47.89% in 2018 and 44.87% in 2014. Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the Law and Justice Party, has been treated similarly; so have Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (currently trailing in the polls to socialistic former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva), and former and probable future Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

What, precisely, is the common thread linking these disparate politicians across a wide variety of countries? After all, none of these politicians are remotely like Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping; none of them preside over authoritarian states. In fact, Left-wing politicians have engaged in far more intru sive antidemocratic measures over the past two years, from lockdowns to unilateral centralization of executive power.

The common thread is precisely the themes embraced by Meloni: national pride and rejection of Left-wing social values. The radical anti-traditionalism of the postmodernist Left, combined with the social apathy of centrists, has led to a serious international backlash. That backlash takes the form of a resurgent recognition that ba sic roles within societies must be protected, and that failure to do so is tantamount to national suicide.

And it is precisely that backlash that many in the media find so disquieting. To them, traditional roles are themselves fas cist institutions; those who promote such roles suggest that human happiness can’t be found in atomistic individualism, supple mented by collective social welfare schemes. And so true freedom requires that those like Meloni be fought.

Unfortunately for the Left, anti-tradition alism is the privilege of the frivolous -- and after the failure of totalitarian COVID-19 policy, the collapse of green utopianism and the decay of societal solidarity, frivolity is no longer the order of the day. Which means that Meloni and those who agree with her are only the beginning.

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Finally! Now more states will let parents use their tax money to educate their kids at a school they choose.

through. But it’s lousy compared to what we have today. That’s because carmakers compete to make better cars.

“We are not a unionized monopo ly!” she replied. “Folks who want to say this ... don’t really care about kids.”

Weingarten won’t talk to me any more, so I’m glad Walrod would.

$16,505 per student! That’s more than $300,000 per classroom. $300,000 would fund several good teachers, but the bureaucracy pre vents that money from going to ac tual teaching.

by John Stossel Syndicated Columnist

In Arizona, fami lies can get $6,500 to spend on pri vate school, tutor ing or even home schooling.

The education establishment is horrified -- especially teachers unions. They don’t want competi tion.

But competition makes us all bet ter. The Ford Model T was a break

But American education has bare ly changed since the days of Henry Ford. Kids still sit in a room, watch ing a teacher at a blackboard.

For my video this week, I debate a union leader.

He’s David Walrod, president of the Fairfax, Virginia, chapter of the American Federation of Teachers.

The AFT has been controlled by union boss Randi Weingarten for 14 years. I once provoking her by saying, “Unionized monopolies like yours fail!”

“What’s wrong with giving parents a choice?” I ask. After all, competi tion makes us try harder.

“If I compete directly against you, I have a vested interest in doing better than you,” he said.

Isn’t that good?

“Not in education,” he replies. Pa rental choice would just “duplicate bureaucracy.”

But his schools are already drown ing in bureaucracy. They spend

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“Any ideas you have for lowering bureaucracy -- you’re not gonna hear any disagreement from the teachers union,” says Walrod.

But his union supports the com plex rules that protect every teach er’s job.

“Teachers that aren’t up to snuff shoulD be let go,” says Walrod.

But the school’s human resources handbook makes that nearly impos

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by John J. Metzler Syndicated Columnist

Massive and spreading pro tests have rocked Iran in the wake of widening so cial discontent following the death of a wom an Mahsa Amini, who died in po lice custody. Her crime? Not wearing the obligatory headscarf properly. Demonstra tions across the country have jolted the Islamic Republic to its core as thousands of women publicly and provocatively remove and then burn their headscarfs, the hijab, in public.

Masha Amini, 22, a Kurdish Ira

nian was arrested by the “moral ity police” in Tehran for not wear ing her hijab in compliance with mandatory dress codes. She died shortly thereafter under murky circumstances.

Collective rage flared across the country as street protests envel oped most of Iran’s cities. Women led and supported the demonstra tions, a change in tactic for regular protests over economic or political conditions. Acts of civil disobedi ence have increased in Iran, where the country’s “hijab and chastity” law requires women and girls over the age of 9 to wear a headscarf in public.

As these protests were building in his country, Iran’s President Ebra

him Raisi was making a hardline speech to the UN General Assembly in New York predictably denounc ing the USA and Israel but saying little about disturbances rocking Iran. Interestingly and contrary to past practice, no member of the U.S. delegation walked out during Raisi’s Assembly speech.

While some delegates assessing the Assembly mentioned the dis turbances in Iran such as Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky, “We follow with horror the atro cious manner in which the Ira nian authorities handle the rightful protests of women,” for the most part there was quiet acquiescence to Tehran’s ongoing crackdown. Israel’s Prime Minister Yair La

pid scolded, “Young Iranians are suffering and struggling from the shackles of Iran’s regime, and the world is silent.”

In Geneva the UN Human Rights Council experts stated, “We are shocked and deeply saddened by the death of Ms Amini. She is another victim of Iran’s sustained repression and systematic dis crimination against women and the imposition of discriminatory dress codes that deprive women of bodily autonomy and the freedoms of opinion, expression and belief.”

“We strongly condemn the use of physical violence against women and the denial of fundamental hu man dignity when enforcing com

The PiAnO

by Dolores Stephens Contributing Writer

When I was five or six years old, my aunt was a student at Marshall College in Morgantown, West Virginia which is now West Virginia University. She and my grandmother had come to live with us, and the baby grand Steinway pi ano was brought to our house. My grandmother purchased this piano with time payments, and my father paid off the balance. So, when my aunt came home on vacation, she played her piano, and I frequently sat on the piano bench beside her. Her major was music, and when she played, I learned to love the piano music of Chopin, Schumann and the other romantic classics. By sitting next to my aunt so many times, I learned to read

the music and turn the pages for her. My parents furnished their early home with second hand furniture, what today would be antiques. There was a pump organ in our basement, and when I was twelve years old and wanting to take pi ano lessons, the pump organ became my in strument. Unfortu nately I found out that if I stopped pumping, there was no sound. After a while I asked my mother if I could use the twenty-five dollars in my savings account for a piano and, she agreed to it. A local lady was my piano teacher. Unfortunately, my piano had a key that didn’t work. A while later we were living in my Grand father’s house, when he was living alone. My grandmother had gone to Oberlin College in

Ohio before marrying and moving to the small village of Brewster, New York. She had played the piano, so there was a good upright piano in the living room. My teacher sat next to me at the piano. One time I glanced at my teacher and her eyes were closed and I figured that she was napping, because the music was uninspir ing.

Skipping ahead to when I was in junior col lege in Virginia, I again wanted to take piano lessons. My mother had enjoyed her half-sister’s playing and she also understood my love of piano music and agreed to the one hundred dol lars fee for lessons. And so I started practicing on one of the old upright pianos in the basement of the main building.

My teacher informed me that there would be a piano recital at the end of the semester, and so I chose the classical piece that I would be playing. There would be no mu sic to read, so I memo rized the piece.

It became my turn to take the stage with the entire student body and staff members in the audience. I do not re member being anxious. When my name was announced, I walked onto the stage and took my seat at the grand piano and I began to play. When I reached about the eighth mea sure, my mind went blank - I could not con tinue. I looked toward the wings and saw my teacher standing there. She raised her index finger and wiggled it up and down. This meant “start over”. I did just that. I started playing

the piece again, and when I reached the eighth measure, I again went blank.. I again looked at my teacher, who again wiggled that finger that told me to begin the piece again. This time the same thing happened. I could not continue when I reached the eighth measure. I stood up, left the piano and walked to the edge of the stage looking out to the audience. I bowed and the audience re sponded with loud ap plause. What else could I do!

My mother had pur chased an upright piano for our home, because she enjoyed playing. I played well enough to enjoy playing simple pieces, but of course I had music in front of me. I can still see my teacher wiggling that finger at me.

Not So LoNg Ago

MissiOnAry nurse hOnOreD AT lAcOniA hOsPiTAl reuniOn clAss Of 1950

by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. Contributing Writer

They became teach ers, physicians, law yers, publishers, cler gymen, writers, poli ticians, nurses, and prominent in other oc cupations and they were men and women who received their early education and training in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire. Many were born and raised in this area, and some of them stayed here, but many of them went out from New Hamp shire to make their mark on the country and the world.

One of those “theys” was a native of Ver mont but was trained to be a nurse at the La conia Hospital’s School of Nursing. Her name is Olive Kingsbury and her native town, to which she retired after her missionary service,is Cavendish, Vermont.

Though attending Laconia Hospital’s School, Miss Kings bury also had other connections to New Hampshire because

she was the niece of Clarence and Maurice Sawyer of Gilford.Af ter her nurses train ing Olive went to the country of Vietnam as a missionary nurse with the Christian and Missionary Alliance. She graduated from Nyack College in New York before beginning her nurses training in Laconia.

In Vietnam Olive Kingsbury was in volved in medical work, at one time being the director of medical missionary outreach in the province of Plei Ku and the Ban Me Thout area. Her service in

Vietnam included work at the leprosarium that had been established in Ban Me Thout to treat victims of leprosy.

Before returning to the States in 1973 on furlough Olive had been doing clinical work, visiting outpa tient clinics every four weeks. The Plei Ku province had about 50 to 60 thousand people with only three doc tors to treat the whole province.

In 1973 Miss Kings bury was in the United States on furlough for a year from her mis sionary work, an event that happened once ev

ery five years. While in the states she visited churches to report on her work in Vietnam. Christian and Mission ary Alliance Churches had Missionary Con ferences each year, and in the Fall of 1973 Olive traveled through out New York State as a speaker at these con ventions.

She did spend some time in that summer staying with her aunt, Mrs. Rachel Sawyer in Glendale. It was in Au gust of that year that members of her 1950 graduating class of the Laconia Hospital had a party in her honor.

This was reported in an article in the

Letters From God

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

QUESTION: Why Are Politi cians Telling So Many Lies?

Sadly, you are awash in lies. Not that this hasn’t been true in the past to one degree or another, but you are moving into unprec edented areas in the present.

Your President alone is setting new records. Some of the many in clude, “the borders are secure.” and “we’re sending back the vast majority of the families that are coming,” “Our economy is strong.”

“Our economy roared back faster than al most anyone pre dicted. “ “The right to vote is under assault.”

“Republicans want to steal minorities right to vote.” “The supply train crisis isn’t that bad.“ “The greatest threat to our democ racy is white suprema cists.” “There will be no vaccine mandate.” These are just a few of the many lies being foisted upon your citi zens in your country.

But why, you ask?

There are a number of reasons.

First, it the true heart condition of those who do not have or do not rely on my Spirit. Jeremiah the prophet, wrote on my behalf and said, “the heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure.” (Jeremiah 17:9).

Your words either af firm your integrity if you are led by my Spirit or they reveal your sinful hearts.

My son, Jesus your Messiah, said it best when he stated, “for out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.” (Matthew 12:34). In other words, if lies proceed out of the mouth it is be cause the heart is pol luted.

Another reason poli ticians lie is that lies deceive and allow po litical leaders to gain or remain in power. “Power does corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” as expressed by Sir John Dalberg-Acton. Those in power, wish to stay in power and if lying serves their purpose, they will use it for their advantage. ‘It was interesting to watch David’s son, Absalom, lie to the citizens of my people, Israel, in order to gain their allegiance and support. He needed this because he was attempting a coup even though it would require the death of his father, David. He nev er succeeded but his attempt was marked with deceptions and lies (2 Samuel 15).

The final reason is because of your own sin which predisposes you to deception. If you stand for nothing you will always fall for anything. When you reject me, your God, you rely on your wisdom and insight into human motives and personality. You cannot see the core of the heart of an indi

vidual as I see them. Before me, nothing is hidden. In Psalm 139 I revealed, through David, my supernatu ral insights that you don’t possess. He said, “O Lord you have searched me, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.” (Psalm 139:1-2).

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Listen to my words written to a Church in Thessalonica in which I stated the problem of being susceptible to lies, and what pre disposed you to this problem. “The com ing of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Sa tan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, and in ev ery sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason, God sends them a power ful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.” (2 Thes salonians 2:9–12).

Yes, there is coming a great world leader who will take lying to it most virulent form. You are already expe riencing this environ ment which he will use to advance his cause.

This lawless one will be inspired from hell.

The Devil, Satan, is the father of lies. His lies caused Adam & Eve to sin against me and separated them from me, my power

and my love. It would cause sin and death to pass through all generations. That is why I sent my son, Jesus. To pay your penalty of sin and re store those who return to me in humility and faith. This lawless one will deceive many with counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders. But notice he will de ceive those who are perishing. Those who are perishing are those who refuse to love the truth I have spoken about your need for a Savior. They are also the ones who “delight in wickedness.” In this condition you are at the mercy of the law less liar whose power ful delusions will lead the perishing to be de ceived and ultimately condemned.

Now you know why your leaders lie and why they are so effec tive. To get out of this fatal fate, you’re going to have to elect lead ers who know and fear me. Will you believe me, trust me and rely on my Son, Jesus’ pro vision for your sins. If you do you can avoid their deceptions and be saved? I would love to have you back home with me, “the way, the truth and the life.” (John 14:6).

I love you, God

These letters are written by a New Hampshire pastor.

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sPOr Ts TeAM Owners running

by Mike Moffett Contributing Writer

Phoenix Suns own er Robert Sarver was recently suspended by the NBA and fined $10 million after an investigation found he ‘clearly violated’ work place standards. Ac cording to ESPN, the $10 million fine is the maximum permitted by the NBA, and the funds will be donated to organizations “ad dressing race and gen der-based issues in and outside the work place.”

Folks can read the NBA’s report on-line. The league started the investigation almost a year ago. By March Al Sharpton was call ing for the NBA to end the investigation and remove Sarver. But the investigation con tinued and included interviews with more than 320 current and former employees as well as Sarver, accord ing to the NBA, which examined more than 80,000 documents and other materials, in cluding emails, text messages and videos.

Some Sun employees and NBA players like LeBron James wanted stiffer sanctions. Oth ers felt Sarver was be ing deprived of first amendment protec tions and property for being a boor—as op posed to any ethical or financial malfeasance or lawbreaking.

Not having the

time to go through all 80,000 documents, I’ll simply state that 21st Century team owners have responsibilities to their organizations and communities in ways unfathomable to 20th Century team owners— some of whom were blatant racists.

For example, Wash ington Redskins owner George Preston Mar shall was a segrega tionist who refused to sign black players until forced to by the federal government in 1962.

Marge Schott owned the Cincinnati Reds from 1984 to 1999. She routinely used crude language and charac terizations but was ob viously cut more slack

back before the turn of the century. Still, after an investigation MLB suspended her for the 1993 season and fined her $250K. Later she offered up some sympa thetic comments about Adolf Hitler which were just “beyond the pale.” She was forced to sell the Reds in 1999.

Donald Stirling owned the NBA’s Clip pers from 1981-2014. He got into trouble for insensitive racial re marks among other things. In 2014 he was fined $2.5 million and banned for life from the NBA.

So in this sports day and age there are rea sonable expectations that team owners and

their subordinates be people that their com munities can be proud of. Owners may have legal property rights to their respective fran chises, but in a sense the teams belong to their communities which understandably want to be proud of their sports franchises and their people.

The recent suspen sion of Celtics coach Ime Udoka by the NBA’s Boston organization re flects this current com munity awareness.

John Henry may be the principal owner of the Red Sox, but the team belongs to New England, and its fair for him to take heat of a different sort, such as when he changed the name of Yawkey Way to Jersey Street because the Yawkey family didn’t live up to Henry’s modern moral standards. Unfortu nately, Tom and Jean Yawkey weren’t around to defend themselves.

But getting back to the NBA, some wonder about that $10 million fine going to organiza tions “addressing race and gender-based is sues in and outside the workplace.” A leader of one prominent so cial justice organiza tion was accused by colleagues of diverting more than $10 mil lion in donations for his own personal use. An $8 million mansion was reportedly pur chased in Canada and a $6 million mansion was reportedly pur chased in California

Marge Schott owned the Cincinnati Reds from 1984 to 1999.

For The

BIRDS

New England’s Wild Birds & Their Habitats

by Chris Bosak Contributing Writer

While on my unsuc cessful moose search in northern Maine re cently, I came across a bird found only in points north of middle New England.

I knew what it was and launched the field guide app on my phone to gather a little infor mation on the species.

To my surprise, nothing showed up when I searched for the bird.

“How could that be?“ I asked myself. “I know what bird it is and I know what it’s called. Why would it not show up on a search in a field guide to North American birds?”

Then it hit me. I was searching the wrong name. The gray jay is no longer called the gray jay. It is back to being the Canada jay. It had formerly been known as the Canada jay, got switched to gray Jay, and in 2018, got changed back to Canada jay. I had known this before, and even mentioned it in a previous bird column, but had totally forgot ten while I was in the field at that moment.

I adjusted my search to Canada jay, and lo and behold, up came the bird in question.

I reminded myself of some facts and figures about this interesting and often tame north ern bird and continued my fruitless search for

A Canada jay perches in an evergreen tree in northern New England.

moose.

On a somewhat re lated side story, while I traveled hours upon hours to the northern boundaries of Maine to look for a moose and came up empty, about 10 days later a young bull moose was spotted in a busy parking lot in heavily populated southern Connecticut about an hour outside of New York City. Go figure.

Anyway, I had a simi lar experience a few years ago of not be ing able to find a bird on my field guide app because I was enter ing the wrong name. I was in Florida visiting my brother, and we took a walk at a lo cal park. A small pond there had a common moorhen swimming around. I looked up common moorhen to

get some information on the bird and could not find anything. I did a quick internet search and discovered that the common moorhen, in America anyway, is now the common gal linule. The change took place back in 2011 and somehow I missed the memo.

The American Orni thological Society de termines the names of bird species and on occasion will change a few. Sometimes the change goes largely un noticed, and it takes a while to catch on with the general public.

There are likely many more bird name chang es coming in the next few years as the birding community grapples with birds named after people who have ques tionable pasts. Many birds named after

people will soon likely get more descriptive names, such as Mc Cown’s longspur re named to thick-billed longspur - a change that has already taken place. Many more will follow.

Even the venerable Audubon Society itself is now grappling with whether to change its name. That seems to be only a matter of time as well.

Printed field guides will be left with the old names until new edi tions can be made. On line field guides have the advantage of be ing able to update the names in real time.

It will be interesting to see how it all pans out.

6Th AnnuAl reD, whiTe & Brew rAises Over $35k

fOr eAsTerseAls nh’s veTerAns cOunT

On Saturday, Septem ber 24, over 300 attend ees gathered at Funspot in Laconia to participate in the 6th Annual Red, White & Brew event benefitting Easterseals

NH’s Veterans Count. Over 30 vendors were on hand for the beer and wine festival, and 45 cars were on display at the car show, including a variety of show-quality

and custom cars. Top prizes were awarded in four categories: Ameri can Muscle, Classic, Exotic, and Custom Built.

This year’s Red, White & Brew event featured a $5,000 grand prize 200-ticket Mega Raf fle. The much-awaited raffle drawing turned into an emotional mo ment as winning ticket

holder, Alan Young, generously donated the entire $5,000 back to Veterans Count.

“This kind-heart ed gesture from Alan Young capped off a ter rific day,” said Vice chair Cynthia Makris .

“We greatly appreciate the attendees, partici pants, business own ers, sponsors, staff, and volunteers who made

(L to R) Genevieve Wolfe, Karen Miltner, Kurt Muhlfelder, Tim Callahan, Cynthia Makris, Alan Young (Mega Raffle Winner and owner of Young’s Auto Sales), Debbie Rano, and Bob Snyder.

this event possible. The generosity shown by Alan embodies why we do what we do. It was a proud moment for everyone.”

Thanks to our spon sors. This year’s gen erous event sponsors include Amoskeag Bev erages, Funspot, Pine State Beverage Com pany, MS Walker, Mar tignetti, Coca-Cola, The NASWA Resort, Bernini,

Bootleggers, Blue Bis tro, Stafford Oil & Pro pane, Tito’s Handmade Vodka, The Weirs Times, South End Media, Mix 94.1 FM, Heritage Home Service, Bank of New Hampshire, Pemi River Fuels, Irwin Automotive Group, and Lake City Auto Body, LLC.

About Veterans Count Easterseals New Hampshire’s Veterans Count was founded in

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2007 to provide case management and emer gency financial assis tance to meet the unex pected needs of service members, veterans, and their families. Veterans Count provides critical and timely financial as sistance and services when no other resource is available. Emergen cy financial assistance may include rental as sistance, gas, food, or utility payments. Last year alone, the program served more than 1,660 veterans, assisting them in accessing eli gible benefits and ser vices, housing, coun seling services, and other needs, includ ing emergency finan cial assistance to build a sustainable, secure, and viable future. Our commitment is to en sure the dignity, health, and overall well-being of each service mem ber, veteran, and their families.

For more information, visit https://vetscount. org/nh/.

fAll Pike fishing

While fun in a boat, Tim says catching northern pike in a kayak is a rush.

By Tim Moore Contributing Writer

The other day I real ized that I would be driving by a water that I knew held north ern pike and always wanted to fish, but have never had the opportunity. When I realized I would be driving right by this place, with the entire day free, I immediately started gathering my pike fishing gear. Of all the fall fishing op portunities, northern pike has to be one of my favorites. Trig gered by shorter days and dropping water temperatures, pike

will begin to move into shallow water and feed as often as they can to bulk up for the com ing winter. Northern pike are strong. Their long muscular bodies afford them incredible bursts of speed. They also have an aggres sive and downright or nery disposition. these features make them an exciting gamefish species.

Due to cooler fall wa ter temperatures, pike typically don’t move into the shallows until after the sun rises and has a chance to warm the water. The warmer water draws bait fish.

Pike will cruise flats, or hold on structure to ambush their prey. Target the remain ing weeds first, then move on to any logs or boulders that provide cover and radiate heat. Stable weather is best and avoid days im mediately after a cold front moves through. Any drastic changes in water temperatures will shut the bite down and make the pike extremely difficult to catch.

Some favorite pike lures are big spinners and spinner baits. Like, musky sized lures. Wake baits,

6” paddletail shads, and soft plastic Hogie lures also get the job done. Lures with a lot of flash, ones that cre ate a lot of vibration, or those that have an erratic action seem to best get the atten tion of hungry pike. Choose your lures based on water color and light condition. Think bright colors on bright days, and dark colors on dark days. White or silver lures seem to do well in clear water, while browns and yellows work well in stained water. Also, don’t get

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PlAnT AlliuMs This fAll TO ADD vArieTy AnD BeAuTy TO yOur gArDen

by Melinda Myers

Take your garden to new heights with alli ums. This ornamental member of the onion family provides wel come color as spring bulbs fade and before summer perennials fill our gardens with colorful blooms.

Most people have seen pictures of the giant allium but there are many other options of flower sizes and heights suitable for any size and style gar den. Most allium flow ers are globe shaped and all are made of tiny florets. They make great cut flowers, the pollinators love them, and deer tend to leave them be.

Plan for months of color by including a variety of alliums that bloom from late spring through early sum mer. Longfield Gar dens’ Planning Guide

Purple Sensation allium livens up the early season garden with its violetpurple, four-inch diameter flowers.

for Alliums (Longfieldgardens.com) show cases the various al liums, their size and bloom time to help you plan. Add alliums to the zone four to eight garden in fall when planting your other spring flowering bulbs like tulips and daf fodils.

Dress up the front of a flowerbed or rock garden with Allium karataviense. It may be small in stature at

only eight to ten inch es tall, but the broad grey-green leaves and five-inch round, sil very-pink flowers pro vide big impact in the late spring garden.

Add years of spring beauty with Purple Sensation. Its shim mering four-inch di ameter, violet-purple flowers are held above the leaves on 24 to 30” tall stems. It provides nice height and vibrant color to the early sea

son garden. You will enjoy these alliums and their offspring for years to come.

For something uniquely different add Allium bulgaricum, also known as Nec taroscordum bulgari cum, to perennial and informal gardens. The cluster of drooping cream and burgundy bell-shaped flowers are followed by seed pods that lift them

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If you’re shopping for your dream home or looking for ideas to update or decorate your current home, the Lakes Region Pa rade of Homes™ is a can’t miss event!

The 2022 scatteredsite tour will include beautiful homes with builders and trade professionals on-hand to answer your ques tions about the latest in construction, archi tectural trends, design and decor.

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• Seven communi ties scattered around the Lakes Region, in cluding three water front homes located on (Lake Winnipesaukee, Newfound Lake and Lovell Lake)

• Visitors will see some amazing new homes including a modern mountain re treat with picturesque views of wildlife and highly efficient energy saving products.

• A modular home that was finished with in a few months of being delivered to the property and includes a stone fireplace with custom built-ins, farmer’s sink, soaking tub, and granite coun tertops.

• A beautiful cus tom A-frame home. Its triangular shape, integrated local crafts manship and beautiful vintage kitchen are a must see.

• A stunning Adiron dack home featuring

Paul Fleming & Son’s modern A-Frame style home blends a classic A-frame with an intriguing open concept design. The preservation of the natural environment was essential for the positioning of this home overlooking Newfound Lake.

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AnD The ugly wAys PeOPle Are BAnishing Bugs AT hOMe

(StatePoint) If you hate the idea of bugs in your home, you’re in fine company -- 1 in 3 Americans have serious ly considered burning down their own home after experiencing a bug infestation, according to a new survey.

The study, commis sioned by Zevo and conducted by OnePoll,

found that 66% of re spondents are willing to do “nearly anything” to get rid of bugs at home -- including fumigating their entire home (51%), throwing the nearest thing at it, no matter what that nearest thing is (43%) and even DIYing a flamethrower (35%). Others have changed their diet and lifestyle to

avoid sightings at home, with 59% saying they will even refrain from keeping fresh fruit in

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wood beams and stone veneer, luxurious Thermador applianc es, inspirational out door living area, movie lounge and Kegerator, bunk rooms, elevator and custom bed with an electric lift to raise up the built-in TV!

• Visitors love Tim ber Frame homes and won’t be disappointed this year. The com bination of natural cedar shingles, cus tom timber frame el ements, a stunning barrel-vaulted wood ceiling, and everything in between make this waterfront home feel luxurious and warm.

• The New Develop ment Series features custom homes and townhouses that are currently being sold and this tour will al low a sneak peek at three new residential developments before they’re completed, to get a better sense of what the projects will look and feel like once they’re done. Each de velopment will wel come visitors, have professionals on-site to answer questions, provide drive by, walk through or hard hat tours. They represent 74 homes and mul tiple styles to choose from. Be sure to save time for apple picking as one abuts an apple orchard.

• The “Student Built Home” - is a unique 430 SF home with a New England cabin flair and built by area high school students. This hands-on proj ect brings students through the process of building a home from the design and strategic planning to

framing, roofing, finish work and completion— an affordable home ready to be purchased. This project can only be seen virtually on line and through the Parade App.

The Lakes Region Parade of Homes is set for Columbus Day weekend, October 8-10th and open for tours 10-4pm, Sat urday, Sunday and Monday, rain or shine.

Tickets can be pur chased either at the first home you visit or online and costs $20/ pp (18 & under free). One ticket is good at all homes, all week end! Visitors are en couraged to go their app store and search for - “Lakes Region Parade of Homes” to download the Parade App. The interactive App includes, builder information, home de scriptions and turnby-turn directions. It also customizes the tour experience by al lowing attendees to work within the app and make comments

and rate favorite parts about each home.

The Lakes Region Builders & Remodelers Association (LRBRA) is a not-for-profit, pro fessional trade asso ciation. Our members are dedicated to pro moting, protecting and improving the build ing industry through out the Lakes Region. lakesregionparadeof homes.com

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In fact, some people would rather just leave it all behind and start over somewhere new. More than half of re spondents (52%) have considered moving be cause of bug infesta tions, and of those who considered that option, 69% actually followed through and packed up their things.

When it comes to put ting up with bugs, there are a number of home woes people would pre fer to live with, includ ing broken appliances (29%), creaky floors (26%), broken windows (26%), not having televi sion connections (25%) and even rodents (24%).

Giving how bugged by insects people are, it’s no wonder that they have come up with some pret ty creative and expen sive ways to try to deal with the problem, with 48% of survey respon dents having turned to DIY “hacks” and the average person spend ing $177 on creating homemade methods to deal with bugs. Some of the methods mentioned by respondents include using cinnamon, coffee

grounds and even maple syrup to get rid of bugs.

One person even re called pouring gasoline on bugs to drown them.

Of course, many of these homemade solu tions produce iffy results at best or are downright dangerous. The bug bi ology and behavior ex perts at Zevo say that if you want to rid your home of pests, there are much easier and more effective ways to go about it that don’t involve putting your home on the market and relocating. Here’s an effective two-pronged approach you can try for killing bugs and pre venting future infesta tions:

1. Go worry-free. Most traditional insect sprays on the market today use synthetic py rethroids as their active ingredients, which can have a noxious smell and make a room unin habitable after spraying.

For a solution that’s safe for people and pets when used as directed, check out Zevo Instant Action Sprays, which rely on essential oil to target and shut down bi ological pathways found

in insects. The brand carries four different sprays to target every thing from cockroaches and ants to yellowjack ets and crickets.

2. Safeguard entry points. Pests enter the home most typi cally through windows, doors and the garage. Check screen doors and windows for tears, and patch or replace them. You can also plug Zevo Flying Insect Traps into outlets in areas where bugs typically gather in your home, like kitch ens, bathrooms, garag es and entryways. The traps use a combination of UVC and blue light to attract and trap flying insects, offering con tinuous defense for up to 45 days or until the trap is full.

To learn more about defending your home against insects, visit ze voinsect.com.

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selves skyward. This provides an interest ing vertical accent in the garden.

Gladiator and Globemaster are sure to have passersby and visitors stopping to take a second look at your garden. Mix them in amongst perenni als and add to mixed borders. Gladiator has blue-violet, sixinch diameter flow ers that are smaller than Globemaster but Gladiator blooms ear lier and stands a foot taller and the leaves are long lasting. Both are sure to grab your attention and that of pollinators.

Stretch your enjoy ment into early sum mer with Ambassador. Its dense five- to sixinch, violet-blue flow ers are a deeper color than most alliums. What’s even more im pressive is these large flowers are atop fourto five-foot stems. Like the other alliums, bees and butterflies love it.

It’s no surprise that Allium christophii is a favorite among gar deners. The eight- to ten-inch diameter, vi

olet-pink flowers have spikey florets and a silvery sheen that makes them look like globes in the garden.

Though this allium is only 12-18” tall, it has a big presence in the garden and is very long-lasting.

Allium schubertii produces even larger, 12” diameter flowers on stems of a similar height. Some of the star-like florets are closer to the center of the flower than oth ers and this makes the blossom appear to be expanding, like fireworks in the gar den. Save some of the seedheads and use them in dried flower arrangements.

The flowers of heir loom Allium atropur pureum are domeshaped rather than round. Their dramatic, dark burgundy color and upright stature add structure to the garden. They are also long-lasting cut flow ers.

End the season with Drumstick allium. The egg-shaped flow ers are raspberry on top and green on the bottom with long slen

der stems. They are perfect grow-through plants and good com panions for ornamen tal grasses.

Add a variety of al liums to your garden this fall and enjoy the added color, texture, and height this group of plants provide. You and the pollinators will be glad you did.

Melinda Myers has written more than 20 gardening books, in cluding the recently released Midwest Gar dener’s Handbook, 2nd Edition and Small Space Gardening. She hosts The Great Courses “How to Grow Anything” DVD instant video series and the nationally syndicat ed Melinda’s Garden Moment TV & radio program. Myers is a columnist and contrib uting editor for Birds & Blooms magazine and was commissioned by Longfield Gardens for her expertise to write this article. Her web site is www.Me lindaMyers.com.

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was good. A flavorful, light, flaky, crust with just the right amount of bubbles. And watch ing mom make pie dough, well, it was like watching a magic show; shortening, flour, a pinch of salt, a dash of sugar, and a sprinkle of water. Then some

hand movements in a bowl; hocus pocus, alakazam, tah-dah! And, sitting before you, was a pale, nearly opaque, round ball of pie dough.

It wasn’t until later, in my early twenties and trying to impress a girl friend, that I can re call asking mom how to cook something as sim

ple as rice. Then, as a freshman in college taking some cooking classes for my major, our relationship in the kitchen changed. I no longer asked mom how to make things so much as I was seeking a bit of “old world” guidance. But, I still couldn’t make pie dough to save my life. Fortunately my lab partner was a charmer with the ladies and the gal across the table from us worked in a bakery. We managed to pass the unit on pie baking.

How mom made pie dough look so simple, I’ll never know. As she worked at making a pie she always had a bit of dough left over. She would divide her dough in two, setting aside one of the dough balls. With a palmful of flour she’d dust the yellow Formica countertop. She’d dip her hand into

PIE DOUGH PINWHEELS

: 12

2/3 Cup Almond Flour

:

INGREDIENTS

1 Cup All Purpose Flour (Di vided 2/3 and 1/3)

tsp. Baking Soda

Stick Cold Butter (cut into 8 or 10 pieces)

Tbsp. soft spreadable butter

Tbsp. Water

Tbsp. Sugar (Divided 1 Tbsp. and 4 Tbsp.)

Preparation Instructions

Pinch or so of Salt

⅛ tsp. Oriental Five Spice (optional)

¼ tsp. Ground Ginger

¼ tsp. or so Ground Cloves

Dash or two Ground Nutmeg

1 Tbsp. Ground Cinnamon

- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. and line a cookie sheet with parchment.

- In a small bowl combine the spices and 3-4 Tablespoons of sugar. (Sweet tooth? Add more.)

- In a mixer bowl combine flours, baking soda, salt, and 1 Tbsp. of sugar and whisk together.

- Into the dry ingredients add the cut stick of butter and mix using whisk attachment on medium low until a “dry” dough forms, then slowly add 2 Tbsp. of water while continuing to mix on low.

- If the dough becomes pasty add a little more flour from the 1/3 cup in reserve. If the dough is still not sticking together into a ball add the other Tablespoon of water, a little at a time. The dough should form a ball and not stick to the sides of the bowl, but not be gummy.

- Place the dough ball on a clean, floured, surface.

- Sprinkle the dough ball with a bit of flour and, using a floured rolling pin, roll out the dough in a long 8-10 inch wide flat “Crust” about ⅛ inch thick.

- Gently spread 2 - 3 Tablespoons of soft butter over the dough, it need not be perfect.

- Spread the Sugar and Spice combination evenly over the entire surface of the dough.

- Using a long narrow spatula, flip a narrow edge onto itself and, with floured fingers, gently roll the dough up like a carpet as tight as possible.

- Cut the ragged ends to even each side and then cut rounds of the same thickness (about ½ to ¾ of an inch, laying each round on its side on the parchment lined cookie sheet. The two ragged ends can be combined into a cookie blob too. (One for the cook!)

- Bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 14 minutes. (Depending on thick ness.)

- Remove from the oven and let rest for about 10 minutes before removing to a cooling rack.

the flour tin again and run it along the rolling pin and lightly dust the dough ball. With the dough ball in the center of the floured surface, she´d roll out the dough into a circle. She never rolled back and forth, only one direction; away from her or to one side or the other. She made it look so easy. The wooden rolling pin had

a little bit of play on its axle. I can still hear the gentle “Kathunk, Ka-thunk” it made as it lightly hit the counter and then raised again with each pass over the dough. Mom never beat the dough into submis sion. Always gentle in her work, she knew by eye when to stop; the thickness, the cir cumference, and a bit

to spare. Deftly picking up the crust, she laid it into a pie plate. With just a few little flicks of her wrists the crust was evenly centered and settled. Taking up a paring knife, she would trim the excess, place it to the side and begin the process again for the top crust.

What I do remember is these little pinwheels

mom made with the trimmings. With the pie filled, covered, vented, and into the oven she returned to the coun ter, gathered the scraps of dough into a ball and rolled them out once more. This time she would take a bit of margarine and dab it across the dough and to that she would sprinkle some sugar and cinnamon on top. Lifting the edge clos est to her, she would fold it over on itself and then roll the crust up like a carpet. Care fully, she paused for only a moment to pick up the paring knife, trim the ragged ends, and, in her mind’s eye, measure the remain ing pastry log and be gin cutting even slices about three-quarters of an inch wide until the “log” was fully divided into small pinwheels.

Taking a well used cake round from under the counter, one she used for her Parker House Rolls, she ar ranged these pinwheels on edge in the pan. Baked for about 1012 minutes the aroma alone was delicious. Perhaps, some would argue, the smell was the best thing about these little tidbits of spiced dough. I al ways looked forward to these treats hot from the oven, but never found them to be what I savored most about mom’s cooking. The memory of these silly little pastry render ings made of sugar and spice, I have come to appreciate more, now that mom is no longer here to make them.

I don’t know what it is about pie dough but I can screw it up faster than not. My first solo foray into the world of pie dough was a fiasco! I cleaned off the coun ter, combined my in gredients in a bowl, and

with water off to the side, began cutting the butter into the flour. I can remember wonder ing when this butter flour mixture was going to become the “crumb like” consistency I needed. My impatience got the best of me, I added the water to the gobs of floured butter to speed the process. That was a mistake. Then I tried to mix it all rather than continue to ¨cut¨ the ingredi ents together; mistake number two. Finally, I just tossed the sticky gob of ¨dough¨ onto the counter, which I had forgotten to flour; mistake number three. Not quite sure at what point I decided things were ever steadily gain ing momentum down hill I kept going, trying desperately to defy the gravity of the situation.

Taking out the roll ing pin I hit the gob dead center, my frus tration blinding me to the fact that I had for gotten to flour the roll ing pin and the gob of “dough.” This was just getting worse by the moment. After a few mindless attempts at smearing “paste” into a feeble ovoid shape with my goo caked roll ing pin, I decided to scrap the entire proj ect. Using a putty knife from the utility drawer I managed to get most of the sticky mess off the countertop before any potential witness es stumbled onto this crime scene.

Under a cloud, I turned to the fridge and grudgingly pulled out a box of ready made pie crust.

There is a reason they make this stuff. It is a welcome convenience for pie dough chal lenged people like me who enjoy the Simple Feast.

Surrendering

Laconia Evening Citi zen written by Betty Trask. There were nine members in that class and six of them were at this reunion where Miss Kingsbury was honored. Betty Trask wrote of Olive that “... no one could possess a more cheerful spirit than Olive, who has never changed in the years we’ve known her,

even in appearance. Still slim and youthful, she actually bubbles and it’s no doubt her personality does nearly as much for her pa tients as any medical treatment.”

The nurses’ reunion was held at the home of Mrs. Ben Willis and a cake which was a rep lica of their commence ment invitation, was made by Mrs. Sherman

Thompson. With their married names added by Trask, the gradu ating nurses in 1950 were Olive Bickford Cote, Rena Blodgett Willis, Lillian Brooks Gattermann, Isabel Burrows Sinclair, Dai sy Dowse Thompson, Leona Hill Belanger, Virginia Liberty Lewis, Esther Simonds Guas nieri, and Olive Kings bury. Six of these were

at the reunion party.

Miss Kingsbury served in South Viet nam at a time when some areas of the country were already under communist con trol. She reported hav ing two close encoun ters with death by the hands of the Viet Cong. In 1968 she was expe riencing some health issues and was advised by a United States mil itary doctor to visit a military hospital for tests. The military hospital sent her to a private clinic for treat ment because she was a civilian. While she was there the village she came from was raided and five mis sionaries were killed. Two of those had just sent their children off to Saigon the previous night. Olive returned to the leprosarium three weeks later.

In 1962 Olive had escaped harm when a doctor and two mis sionaries were kid napped from the lep rosarium and were believed to be used to treat Viet Cong sol diers. Olive reported that many of the Viet namese people were becoming Christians to the delight of the Viet namese army, which

found the converts to be more cooperative with them.

As you can see Mis sionary Kingsbury was in Vietnam during the duration of the war years, serving from 1952 to 1975. She then continued her mission ary work by teaching at a Bible School in Davao City in the Philippines until her retirement in 1990. Olive contin ued to correspond with

contacts from Vietnam and would report to her New Hampshire friends and relatives about the Christians in that country. She lived on the family farm in her retirement years and passed away on December 11, 2018 at the age of 92.

On a personal note, one of the missionaries that was taken captive in Vietnam was a class

Postcard showing Laconia Hospital and Nursing Home from many years ago.

Map of wartime Vietnam showing Ban Me Thout.

mate of mine at Nyack College. Betty Olsen, along with two men, was taken by the Viet Cong and for months nothing was known about their location. It was eventually learned that they were kept caged for a month be fore being chained to gether and moved from place to place through the jungle. They were fed but little food and often beaten. One of the other missionar ies passed away from pneumonia and after months of traveling through the jungle Bet ty also passed away from the inhumane treatment. The third, a thirty-three year-old humanitarian worker, lived to tell the story.

For many years in the past I looked for ward to the yearly mis sionary conferences that were held in the Christian and Mission

Nurse Betty Olsen one of the missionaries that was taken captive in Vietnam she was kept caged with others moved from place to place through the jungle.

ary Alliance churches

I was a part of, begin ning with the one in Laconia, NH. These usually occurred in the Fall of the year and presented the opportunity not only to learn about the missionary work to promote Christian ity to people in other countries, but also to learn about the peo ple and customs, etc. of those countries.

When I was pas toring churches in which we hosted the missionary confer ences, I used to take the missionaries to schools and have the missionaries teach the children about the countries in which they were serv ing. This proved to be a very popular time for both teachers and students.

I expect that if we could trace the work of all the nurses who

My sister (Virginia Smith Haas) from her younger years. She wasn’t a missionary nurse but she was a graduate of the Laconia Hospital School of Nursing.

were trained at the La conia Hospital in those past days when the school was operating we would find many other interesting sto ries.

My favorite and only sister Virginia Smith Haas also graduated from the Laconia Hos pital School of Nursing after graduating from Laconia High School.

MOORE from 17

stuck using one lure.

If your favorite lure suddenly stops work ing after several good trips, change lures un til you find another that triggers strikes.

When fishing emer gent weeds, retrieve your lure parallel to weed edges in an at tempt to draw pike out. For submerged weeds, retrieve your lure just over the top of the weeds, and hang on. When pike rise from the weeds after a lure, they smash them with a vengeance. When fishing struc ture it’s usually best to fish inside out as if you were bass fish ing. Cast as close to shore as possible and retrieve back to your boat. As water tem peratures continue to drop it will be neces sary to slow down your presentation, because the pike will become more sluggish.

Fall is one of the best times of the year to target big pike. They need to feed, but don’t expect to catch a lot of fish every time you go. Targeting big pike isn’t

a numbers game. You may have days when you make a thousand casts and never even move a fish. Don’t give up, the next cast could be the one that lands you a 40” trophy. The best part about fall pike fishing? It’s point less getting to the wa ter before 9am, which means getting a little extra sleep between trips.

Tim Moore is a fulltime licensed profes sional fishing guide in New Hampshire. He owns and operates Tim Moore Outdoors, LLC. He is a member of the New England Outdoors Writers Association, and the producer of TMO Fishing on You Tube and the Hooked with TMO Fishing Pod cast. Visit www.Tim MooreOutdoors.com for more information.

the start of the guests’ yoga class. At the goat farm, where Bohdi, the instructor lives, El vis and Mercy find a dead body instead of the yogi. And that is just on the first day of the wedding festivities. More dead bodies, rain, mud, thunder, lies, and secrets mar the four days of festivities and Mercy, Troy, Elvis, and Susie Bear are feeling the strain as they try to solve the murders, find the missing, and un cover the secrets before Patience’s wedding cer emony. You will have no trouble picturing the book’s setting, in cluding the orchids of Eshqua Bog in the rain and the steep muddy roads, whether you have visited Vermont or not. Munier’s skill as a writer will take care of that. Munier is just as good at capturing the characters, both human and dog, as she is the scenery. And she is no slouch with the action scenes. The build up to the climax is terrific. Just when you think you have it all figured out up pops another shocker. This wedding is not all rosebuds and babies’ breath, but it sure is a lot of fun for the reader. And do not skip the acknowledgment at the end. It is both intimate and touching.

Paula Munier’s The Wedding Plot is an ex ceptional read whether you are gearing up for a wedding, a lover of dogs, or looking for a good mystery. Be sure to plan your reading time. You will have a tough time putting this book down.

pulsory hijab policies ordained by State au thorities,” the experts said.

Protests have erupt ed in more than 80 cit ies denouncing state violence against wom en and demanding greater rights, free dom, and justice for women. Many of the pro-democracy dem onstrators have also called for an end to the Islamic Repub lic, according to Radio Free Europe (RFE/RL). Security forces often used live ammunition to suppress the pro tests.

More than eighty civilians have been killed thus far by heavy handed police and security force tac tics. Iran’s large dias pora and human rights supporters turned out for massive demon strations supporting the women of Iran and the memory of Mahsa Amini. Solidarity Pro tests have taken place globally in more than 150 cities from New York to London and Sydney to Seoul.

Iran’s president has warned that he will not accept “chaos,” as authorities con tinue crack downs on protests and added the government could, “not allow people to disturb the peace of society.”

UN Secretary-Gen eral Antonio Guterres appealed for Ira nian security forces to refrain from using “unnecessary or dis proportionate force” against anti-govern ment protesters.

While Iranians are demonstrating for freedom and liberty, the Biden Administra tion seems fixated on reviving the deeply flawed Iran nuclear deal reached during the Obama years.

That agreement, the

so called JCPOA pre sumably monitors and controls the Tehran re gime’s quest for nucle ar weapons. Though, never endorsed by the U.S. Senate, the deal remains highly con troversial among both Republicans and Dem ocrats. It’s often over looked that Iran is still designated by the U.S. as a supporter of State Sponsored Terrorism.

But Iran’s troubles go deeper than reli gious divides; a weak economy, shortages, and widespread cor ruption are signatures of this regime. Yet the long term effects of the moribund economy, international sanc tions, and the free fall in value of the nation al currency could see these demonstrations light the fuse for a wider rebellion in the Islamic Republic.

Given their paralyz ing fear of the morality police, and the regular and routine humili ations women suffer and endure from these enforcers of the Is lamic religious code, there’s more than enough pent up anger to protest among the country’s 40 million women. Since the Is lamic regime came to power in 1979, Ira nian women once the best educated seg ment of the popula tion, have suffered dis proportionally under enforced politicized Islam.

Iran’s theocracy may be at a crossroads; ei ther the Mullahs blink or a bloody crackdown awaits.

John J. Metzler is a United Nations corre spondent covering dip lomatic and defense is sues. He is the author of Divided Dynamism

The Diplomacy of Sep arated Nations: Ger many, Korea, China.

with funds from the same “social justice” organization. These ac tions raise questions about the accountabil ity of the social justice organizations to which the NBA will be fun neling Sarver’s mon ey. As it’s fair to hold owners accountable for their actions it’s also reasonable to hold the NBA accountable for what it does with the many millions it takes in fines.

And speaking of ac countability, the likes of George Preston Mar shall and Marge Schott will never know how much worse they’d have fared had they lived in the 21st Cen tury as opposed to the 20th Century.

Or the 19th!

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Sports Quiz Answer

George Steinbrenner was the Yankee owner banned from baseball. His lifetime ban was later reduced to three years, and he was run ning the club again by 1993.

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Another reason some parents want to es cape government-run schools is because during the pandemic, many stayed closed while private schools reopened.

“There are definite ly valid arguments to say that some districts played it too cautious,” Walrod admits, “but we were dealing with an ongoing health crisis ... CDC guidelines.”

I push back. “Seems like you were eager to embrace the CDC’s message ... so you didn’t have to go to work!”

“Online teaching was harder than in-person teaching,” Walrod re sponds. Really.

Attitudes like that are a reason 5,000 stu dents left Fairfax public schools during the pan demic.

Another reason was: hard-left indoctrina tion.

Fairfax paid Ibram Kendi $20,000 for a one-hour Zoom presen tation on racism.

Maybe Fairfax par ents want their tax money spent this way. But I bet not all do.

If parents want their kids to study criti cal race theory, wear masks or learn that America constant ly oppresses people, they should be able to choose a school that offers that.

But they should have a choice.

Choice would allow families to “take their children to institutions that best align with their values,” says edu cation researcher Corey DeAngelis.

Walrod had told me, “Public schools have consistently out

performed charter schools.”

When I asked for evi dence, he said, “Look in educational policy journals.”

Some studies have found that school choice hasn’t raised test scores.

That’s “cherry-pick ing the evidence,” says DeAngelis. Most stud ies found test score gains.

Additionally, “Public schools actually upped their game in response to competition.”

That was an unex pected benefit.

After school choice was allowed in Wash ington, D.C., both char ter and public schools improved. That’s a win for kids and taxpayers.

“Government-run schools spend over $30,000 per year (per student) in D.C. The voucher’s only about a third of that,” says DeAngelis.

There aren’t many re forms that bring results like that

“For a long time ... the only special interest group was the teachers unions,” says DeAnge lis. “Now there’s a new special interest group in town: parents.”

John Stossel posts a new video about the battle between govern ment and freedom every Tuesday on JohnStos sel.com.

on us. Last week, three years after their ille gal alien jailbreak con spiracy, Joseph and MacGregor learned they are getting off scot-free.

U.S. Attorney Zachary Cunha announced that the U.S. Department of Injustice is dropping its charges against the scheming judge and deferring prosecution on the single perjury charge against her coconspirator deputy. Jo seph’s transgressions will now undergo “re view” by a state judicial conduct commission. As a Reuters investi gation reported, such toothless panels na tionwide tend to “err on the side of protecting the rights and reputa tions of judges while overlooking the impact courtroom wrongdoing has on those most af fected by it.”

Translation: If you’re an American citizen whose loved one gets mowed down by a drunken Peguero/Medi na-Perez or whose child overdoses on drugs sold by him, good luck. The law is on the side of the illegal alien crim inal and his judicial coddlers, not you and yours. Oh, and don’t bother protesting to the Newton City Council. Its members declared the city an open-bor ders sanctuary city on a 16-1 vote in 2017. In fact, the following cit ies in Massachusetts are all official sanctu aries that hinder and obstruct ICE from en forcing federal immi gration laws inside our borders: Amherst, Bos ton, Cambridge, Chel sea, Concord, Newton, Northampton, Somer ville and Lawrence.

So, citizens, who can you turn to in the Bay State for equal justice under the law? Ha. I remind you that in May 2018, Obama-appoint ed federal judge Indira

Talwani attacked ICE agents in Massachu setts when they took an alien into custody who had received probation for visa fraud. “I see no reason for places of redress and justice to become places that peo ple are afraid to show up,” Talwani argued on behalf of a Chinese na tional sentenced to pro bation for using a fake passport and visa to take a graduate school entrance exam for an other person.

Have no fear, drunken Dominicans and Chi nese cheats. American judges are here to help!

And so are other taxsubsidized DAs.

In March 2019, no torious Suffolk County District Attorney Ra chael Rollins ordered her employees to moni

tor and snitch on ICE officers around any courthouse while try ing to do their jobs. Rollins’ election was part of a wave of suc cessful campaign bids to install “progressive prosecutors” to carry out left-wing billion aire George Soros’ plan of undermining the criminal justice system from within. A week after Joseph and Mac Gregor conspired to free their illegal alien poster child from ICE, Rol lins and fellow subver sive Middlesex County DA Marian Ryan sued ICE for doing its job. It was rendered moot and dropped after the antiAmerican Biden DOJ cut ICE off at the knees on its own.

I’d like to blame only leftists, Soros and Biden

for the mess we’re in. But, as usual, I can’t. Judge Shelley “Jail break” Joseph is on the bench today thanks to the nomination of a Republican governor, retiring RINO Charlie Baker. Immigration an archy is what you get when “bipartisanship,” “centrism,” “pragma tism” and “diversity” matter more than pro tecting an American ju dicial system that puts Americans first.

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