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Their Business Is Helping Grow Other Businesses by Dan Seufert

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Gavin and Mary MacDonald have turned their love of family, neighbors, and food into a booming business that specializes in helping local farmers and food producers realize similar dreams. The couple runs Genuine Local and its online home, The Belknap Foodshed. Genuine Local is their four-year-old commercial specialty food manufac-

turing facility that serves as a business incubator for food producers trying to build their businesses. At their 1,900-square-foot kitchen and storage building in Meredith, they offer production and packaging facilities and materials, as well as training and consulting services. They now serve 240 area small food businesses. “And those are mostly one- or two-person businesses, so we support See BELKNAP on 28

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There is a little gem in the small community of Sanbornville/Wakefield in New Hampshire that I recently discovered. While sitting on the deck of a restaurant that is very close to railroad tracks, looking at a menu and visiting with our son and his wife, I noticed red blinking lights and whistles a short distance down the tracks. I grew up in the historic village of Brewster, N.Y. where the railroad reached there in 1849, and a half mile north of the station is a roundhouse. It em-

ployed many men around the clock who repaired and cleaned the trains that were turned around to head back to New York City fifty-two miles south. I knew of many men who were employed as conductor, brakeman, engineer and a friend’s father who worked at the roundhouse, a very dirty job. Several of my classmates had fathers who worked for the See STEPHENS on 35

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To The Editor: For over ten years I have argued and testified for legislation less costly for a citizen to go to court. In civil cases, you can’t get legal assistance help unless a lawyer which, Mr. Feltes admits he is, is giving free service. In the past four years, Senator Giuda and others have sponsored SB 555 and SB 313 which would have given an office of Ombudsman for complaints against public government local or state as well as agencies for a cost of no more than $25. That’s versus going to court to enforce a state law (RSA 91-A) which would cost the citizen approx. $400 if they go themselves or if you hire a lawyer for a minimum of $5,000. So Mr. Feltes, who authored the bill for medical leave which would take $5 from every paycheck, claims it’s okay to take a poor person’s money from their paycheck but won’t support a citizen holding them accountable. Really these candidates who use taxpayers’ money then claim they got help for people make me more aware of the selective information they advertise. Remember the government is only giving what they have taken from someone earning a living. Harriet E. Cady Deerfield, N.H.

Not Safe To Vote Democrat To The Editor: With all the riots and violence that have occurred in the Democrat-run cities in America, it has become quite clear, that Democrats do not represent Americans, they are only interested in their own political power. They abdicated their sworn duty to protect the peace, lives and property in Seattle and Portland, allowing BLM and Antifa to burn and loot. Businesses and lives were lost forever and those who still live there no longer feel safe. The Democrat’s solution? Support the criminals’ right to riot and then blame and defund/abolish the police. Then, attack and prosecute those who would protect themselves like the armed couple in St. Louis, while Democrat district attorneys refuse to prosecute the looters and arsonists. Kamala Harris supports the organizations that bail these “peaceful protestors” out of jail, to start the cycle all over again. Show me where this has brought peace and security to any city. If you think this is only a big city problem and won’t visit rural America, you are deluding yourself. A Democrat stronghold in the White House and Congress would deliver this to your town, your street, your front door, while stripping you of your Constitutional right

to defend your life, family and property, all to cement the Democrats’ grip on government. Ask yourself what kind of country you really want to live in and you can only reach one, obvious conclusion. It’s just not safe to vote Democrat. Save America and vote Republican. David Strang Gilmanton, NH.

Catastrophic Leadership

To The Editor: As a resident of the Town of Plymouth, my family has experienced first hand Chairman Bill Bolton’s catastrophic leadership in the continued skyrocketing of our property taxes. Bill Bolton carried the water of Plymouth State University, most recently by pushing through a “mask mandate,” while ignoring the proper process for bringing such an ordinance to a vote. At the same time ignoring the local police and fire chiefs positions on this government overreach. Bill Bolton is a lifelong loyalist to public sector unions as well as teachers unions and would continue to be as a state senator. Parents should find Bill Bolton’s position on school choice alarming; yet predictable as a modern day democrat. Mr. Bolton can be heard on Pemi Baker TV on “candidates night 2018” found on YouTube; stating his position on school choice; and I quote, “my opponent voted in favor of vouchers, See MAILBOAT on 34

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EVENTS & ACTIVITIES

“Once an Outlaw” At Pitman’s Freight Room

On Friday, October 9th at 8pm, “Once an Outlaw” will perform at Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. “Once an Outlaw” was formed by several former members of the Southern Rock Band, the “Outlaws”. guitarist Chris “Hitman” Hicks (1989 - 1996), guitarist Chris Anderson (1986 - 1989, 2005 -20018) and bassist Jeff Howell (1993 - 1996) brought together by Chuck Farrell, former guitarist of New England tribute band the “Peacheaters” with the idea of taking the hits on the road. Since leaving the Outlaws, Hicks has been a member of another legendary Southern Rock Band, the Marshall Tucker Band” touring and recording with them since 1996. Howell, prior to joining the Outlaws had been a member of the transplanted English blues band, Foghat (1988 - 1991) and after leaving the Outlaws returned to them to continue touring and recording (2010, 2015). Anderson did two stints with the Outlaws (1986 - 1989 and 2005 - 2018) in between touring or writing for performers such as Bad Company, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Hank Williams, Jr. and Stephen Stills. That they were all successful musicians who had great careers is not in doubt, but the desire to keep the excitement going never left them. So with Peacheater drummer, AJ Vallee and Chuck Farrell, they had decided to form a band that will perform songs from the various bands the musicians played in throughout their careers. With that said you can expect to hear hits such as “Green Grass and High Tides”, “Hurry Sundown”, “Can’t You See”, “Heard it in a love Song”, “Take the Highway”,”Slow Ride”, “Fool for the City” and “Tell Mama” among others. Admission $40, doors open at 7pm and Pitman’s is a BYO Venue. For reservations call 603-494-3334.

WFOM Presents The Boston Brass- Virtually WFOM will present its second 85th season virtual one-hour broadcast on October 18, 2020 at 8:00 p.m. performed by the inimitable Boston Brass. The performance will be broadcast live from the Ramsdell Theatre in Manistee, MI. Boston Brass has specially crafted this special musical broadcast based on performances heard and seen worldwide. Boston Brass has made this performance available to WFOM for presentation to Wolfeboro and Lakes Region residents who wish to join their unlimited at-home audience.Please email info@ wfriendsofmusic.org to request the private You Tube link sent to your preferred email address to view and listen to this very special performance. The link will be released to you fifteen minutes prior to concert. Over the past 84 years, WFOM has provided music to the residents of Wolfeboro and the Lakes Region through ticket sales, advertisers, sponsors, and donors to sustain its musical performances, educational programs, grants, equipment, and lessons to students in the Governor Wentworth School District, as well as providing full tuition grants for middle school and high school music students to attend the University of New Hampshire’s prestigious Summer Youth Music School.

Rochester Artist Exhibit “It’s In The Details”

Pumpkin Patch At League Of NH Craftsmen During October, the League of NH Craftsmen Meredith Fine Craft Gallery will feature the 6th Annual Pumpkin Patch to honor NH’s state fruit. Pumpkins are believed to have originated in Central America over 7,500 years ago, and come in a variety of colors. The best part about our glass pumpkins is that they never rot. Featured will be glass pumpkins from various Leaguejuried artists. If you love autumn, be sure to stop in and treat yourself to a one-of-a-kind glass pumpkin. All pumpkins will be for sale, and they make perfect seasonal gifts or home décor. To inquire about this year’s exhibit, call us at (603) 279-7920 or stop into the Gallery at 279 Daniel Webster Highway, Meredith, NH.

The Franklin Gallery at RiverStones Custom Framing, 33 N. Main Street in Rochester, will host an exhibit during the month of October entitled “It’s in the Details.” It features the work of Rochester artist Amy Kindler. Amy Kindler has been a fine artist, craftsman, and interior designer since 1970. She received her B.F.A from Maryland Institute College of Art, and has taken advanced art courses at UNH and the Arts Students League in New York City. Her artistic career has included working as a set designer and scene painter, a toy sculptor and designer, and a 3-D Animation Artist. RiverStones Custom Framing and the Franklin Gallery are open Wednesday through Friday, 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. For information about this exhibit and other RiverStones events and services, call (603) 812-1488, or send an e-mail to riverstonescustomframing@gmail.com. You may also visit www.amykindler.com to view her work, or contact her at amykindler1@gmail.com.

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Hitting Below The Belt my happiness turned into horror. Like any good giant political postcard, I expected that they would be hurling attacks about my stand on issues like taxes, healthcare and environmental issues, which is to the norm, but no one really pays attention to those things anyway as most of those mailers just find themselves quickly deposited in the recycling bin. This mailer was completely different. It attacked me on a very personal level, mentioning day to day issues that really strike a nerve with voters here in New Hampshire...issues that really matter. Some of these accusations really hit below the belt and are taken out of context. Some go back thirty-five years, when I first moved to New Hampshire as a naïve transplant from New York and some of my inappropriate comments and actions of the time. Since I can’t send out my own mailers in response and retaliation to my opponents due to my limited funds, I can only address them here in the hope of dispelling some of these slanderous statements. I have defended each one in parentheses next to the accusation. The mailer reads: “IS IT TRUE THAT CANDIDATE SMITH…..” ...has been known to publicly ridicule Native New Hampshirites who eat pizza with a knife and a fork. (Never in public any longer, only in private. I’ve learned to accept this food sacrilege as a New England way of life.) …has publicly scoffed at the expression “You Can’t Get There From Here?” (I admit I once thought this was a ridiculous and impossible statement. But after thirty-five years of back roads and one lane, two - hour journeys, I have found it to be

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I’m sure you got one in the mail as well, so what I’m telling you isn’t new, but I am hoping to clear the air before the election. I was surby Brendan Smith prised to see it Weirs Times Editor myself. Thinking it was just another one of the many oversized political postcard mailers that are pretty run of the mill this time of year, I took it out of my mailbox to have a quick glance before throwing it in the trash. When I looked at it, I had to do a double take (actually, I only looked at it once, I just use double take for dramatic effect). The mailer was sponsored by both of the two major parties who had candidates running for governor and they were attacking...me. It was amazing. After a little over twenty years of running for governor, they were starting to pay attention to my candidacy and were finally realizing that I had an effect on the outcome of elections by siphoning votes from a lot of folks who were tired of the two party system. I was, at first, overjoyed. I would imagine most people don’t know who I am, never mind that I’m running for governor under The Flatlander Party ticket. By attacking me in a widely distributed mailer, they were bringing on much needed attention that I have been in a quandary trying to bring upon myself. With a limited campaign budget of now a little under seventy dollars, it has been a challenge. So, this mailer came as a pleasant surprise. By coming after me, they were helping me, which seemed to be against their idea in the first place. It made no sense. But after carefully reading what was actually on the mailer,

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true. There are still some places I haven’t figured out how to get to from here. We all evolve.) …is a New York Jets fan and has rooted against the New England Patriots in every game (including Super Bowls) that they have played in since he moved here in 1985? (Yes, it is true. But I grew up a New York Jets fan and, yes, I still root for them. If nothing else, this should only increase your sympathy for me as I fruitlessly and quietly exclaim in private by November “Maybe Next Year!”) …has never tasted an actual bean hole bean? (Yes, of this I am guilty and have no excuse. But I swear, if elected, I will actually try some. Can you get this kind of commitment on tasting a weird food from one of the other candidates? I strongly doubt it.) …does not know how to correctly spell or pronounce “Kancamagus”? (I admit that was a struggle for the first twenty years I lived in New Hampshire, but I feel this attack is unfair as more than a few natives have some trouble with this one. I know for a fact - it was on social media, so it must be true -that one of the other candidates has spelled it “Kancamangus” on more than one occasion. Being the better candidate, I will not say who.) So, I hope this has cleared these sensitive issues up for those who have received this mailer. As far as my stand on other issues like taxes, health care and the environment, I don’t want to bore you. Maybe next week. Brendan is the author of “The Flatlander Chronicles” and “Best Of A F.O.O.L. In New Hampshire” available at BrendanTSmith.com. His latest book “I Only Did It For The Socks - Stories and Thoughts On Aging” will be published soon.

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Who’s Funding Shady Ballot Harvesting Schemes?

Last week, while on a business trip in Wisconsin, I learned about an insane ballot harvesting scheme that appears to be tied to a deep-pocketed liberal advocacy group subsidized by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Google, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and eBay former chairman Pierre Omidyar’s Democracy Fund. Conservative talk radio host and grassby Michelle Malkin roots activist Vicki McKenna blew the Syndicated Columnist whistle after hearing ads played during her daily show on 1310 WIBA. “Last week on my radio program, we played Biden campaign ads,” she told me. “They were all about something called ‘Democracy in the Park.’ It was an advertisement about how Madison, Wisconsin, would have 200 parks hosting ballot harvesting events.” The ads were punctuated by a disclosure that they were “paid for by Joe Biden for President.” On Saturday, Sept. 26, as advertised by the Biden campaign, Madison poll workers turned out across the city to register voters and collect absentee ballots, even though in-person absentee ballot collection is not supposed to start until two weeks before Election Day, according to Wisconsin state election law. Several of McKenna’s listeners showed up to photograph the city government workers’ activities promoted by the Biden for President campaign. The poll workers stuffed ballots into “red zipper bags with no security whatsoever. The poll workers witnessed people’s (blank) ballots, just like you would if you did an in-person absentee ballot, threw them in the red zipper bags, and we don’t know what’s become of these ballots since,” McKenna told me. Imagine sheaves of ballots carelessly stuffed into cheap, canvas, pizza delivery-style totes. Then imagine them being carted away by unknown drivers to unknown locations for unknown reasons. Observers captured photos of several stuffed red bags being loaded into an unmarked white van parked outside Madison’s municipal government building. “It’s clear from legal analysis: this is not legal and does not comport with Wisconsin election law,” McKenna argues. “There’s some serious questions about (Democratic) campaign coordination with the city of Madison.” Now, enter a shady entity called the “Center for Tech and Civic Life.” It just so happens that this nonprofit “election reform advocacy group,” based See MALKIN on 36

Why I’m Leaving California My family and my company are leaving California. It’s heartbreaking. My parents moved to California four decades ago. I grew up here. For 33 of the 36 years I’ve spent on this planet, by Ben Shapiro I’ve lived here. I was Syndicated Columnist born at St. Joseph’s in Burbank; I attended elementary school at Edison Elementary; I went to college at UCLA. I co-founded a major media company here, with 75 employees in Los Angeles. I met my wife here; all three of my kids are native Californians. This is the most beautiful state in the country. The climate is incredible. The scenery is amazing. The people are generally warm, and there’s an enormous amount to do. And we’re leaving. We’re leaving because all the benefits of California have steadily eroded -- and then suddenly collapsed. Meanwhile, all the costs of California have steadily increased -- and then suddenly skyrocketed. It can be difficult to spot the incremental encroachment of a terrible disease, but once the final ravages set in, it becomes obvious that the illness is fatal. So, too, with California, where bad governance has turned a would-be paradise into a burgeoning dystopia. When my family moved to North Hollywood, I was 11. We lived in a safe, clean suburb. Yes, Los Angeles had serious crime and homelessness problems, but those were problems relegated to pockets of the city -- problems that, with good governance, we thought could eventually be healed. Instead, the government allowed those problems to metastasize. As of 2011, Los Angeles County counted less than 40,000 homeless; as of 2020, that number had skyrocketed to 66,000. Suburban areas have become the sites of homeless encampments. Nearly every city

underpass hosts a tent city; the city, in its kindness, has put out port-a-potties to reduce the possibility of COVID-19 spread. Police are forbidden in most cases from either moving transients or even moving their garbage. Nearly every public space in Los Angeles has become a repository for open waste, needles and trash. The most beautiful areas of Los Angeles, from Santa Monica beach to my suburb, have become wrecks. My children have personally witnessed drug use, public urination and public nudity. Looters were allowed free reign in the middle of the city during the Black Lives Matter riots; Rodeo Drive was closed at 1 p.m., and citizens were curfewed at 6 p.m. To combat these trends, local and state governments have gamed the statistics, reclassifying offenses and letting prisoners go free. Meanwhile, the police have become targets for public ire. In July, the city of Los Angeles slashed police funding, cutting the force to its lowest levels in over a decade. At the same time, taxes have risen. California’s top marginal income tax rate is now 13.3%; legislators want to raise it to 16.8%. California is also home to a 7.25% sales tax, a 50-cent gas tax and a bevy of other taxes that drain the wallet and burden business. California has the worst regulatory climate in America, according to CEO Magazine’s survey of 650 CEOs. The public-sector unions essentially make public policy, running up the debt while providing fewer and fewer actual services. California’s public education system is a massive failure, and even its once-great colleges are now burdened by the stupidities of political correctness, including an unwillingness to use standardized testing. And still, the state legislature is dominated by Democrats. California is not on a trajectory toward recovery; it is on a trajectory toward oblivion. Taxpayers are moving out -- now including my family and my company. In 2019, before the pandemic and the widespread rioting and looting, outmigraSee SHAPIRO on 37

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Biased Media “A pioneer devoted to equality.” That was The Washington Post’s headline about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But when Justice Antonin Scaby John Stossel lia died, the headSyndicated Columnist line was, “Supreme Court conservative dismayed liberals.” When the founder of ISIS was killed, the headline was: “Austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies.” But when President Donald

Trump’s brother died, the headline was, “younger brother of President Trump who filed lawsuit against niece, dies.” At news conferences, Vice President Biden gets softball questions. After an article in The Atlantic claimed Trump called fallen military members “losers,” one reporter asked Biden, “What does it tell you about President Trump’s soul?” “It’s not even softball!” complains The Hill’s media reporter, Joe Concha. “It’s T-ball, except when you put a beach ball on the tee!” Trump does get nastier questions. What we used to call “mainstream media” is now “woke” media. Many

don’t even try to be objective. That’s the topic of my new video this week. Watching CNN during this summer’s protests, I noticed that reporters kept calling protests “mostly peaceful,” even when reporting violence. CNN posted the words, “Mostly peaceful protests” on the screen when flaming cars were on the street behind their reporter. CNN defended itself, citing a study that said “93% of protests were... peaceful.” But that’s silly. When planes crash, we don’t put “99% landed safely” on the screen. As Concha puts it, “When people start dying and losing their businesses, that’s

your story!” I push back: “Most people who work there consider themselves journalists. They try to get it right.” “I don’t know if I agree with that, John,” Concha replies. “More and more are playing to a crowd.” CNN once tried to look like a neutral news network. No more. Now it does whatever it can to scare people or make Trump look bad. In March, CNN sneered at the president for misleading people by claiming the U.S. did more COVID-19 tests than any other country. They, correctly, pointed out that per capita, “South Korea and Italy tested See STOSSEL on 37

German Reunification’s Peaceful Lesson Germany’s reunification is now history. It seemed not so long ago that the Berlin Wall had fallen in 1989, Central Europeby John J. Metzler an countries had Syndicated Columnist regained their sovereignty through the freedom tsunami sweeping Europe, and unimaginably on 3 October 1990, West and East Germany, the front line frontier of a very Cold War had reunified in peace and freedom. Almost as in a fairytale the two separate states, the Federal Republic of Germany (West) and the communist German Democratic Republic (East), had almost magi-

cally merged into one nation without violence, with the legal blessing of the WWII Allied powers, and through the political foresight of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Perhaps the most enduring image of divided Germany stood as the Berlin Wall, built in 1961. The Wall separated free West Berlin controlled by the Americans, British and French from Soviet controlled East Berlin. The Wall provided a vivid juxtaposition of a divided land; it was designed to keep people inside the worker’s paradise and stop others from trying to flee. Indeed between 1949 and 1961 over 2.7 million people fled East Germany for the West. In Berlin itself over 171 were killed at the Wall while escaping. I first visited the divided German

capital in the late 1970’s; the once grand cosmopolitan city remained a stunning tableaux in black and white. While the Wall brutally separated families and neighbors, it equally illuminated the vivid contrast between prosperous West Berlin and the grey, dreary and shoddy East Berlin. Though the Eastern side of the city was more historic and culturally significant, there was still bomb damage from the war. Eerie lights along the Wall at night added a creepy context. Though the same people, West and East Germany had fundamentally different state personalities; the Federal Republic was aligned with the West, politically free and with a prosperous turbo-charged market economy. East Germany was the poor cousin steeped in

socialism, and part of the Soviet sphere. Ironically, East Germany nonetheless was the jewel in the crown of the socialist states and had a far better standard of living than did Poland, Hungary or Russia itself! Complicated economic and social comparisons aside, there’s a novel way to understand the contrast between West and East Germany; their celebrated automobiles. West Germany was known for its iconic Mercedes-Benz cars and trucks. East Germany sported the Trabant, a small fiberglass 25 horsepower auto which chugged along belching a blue-grey smoke. Citizens in West Germany’s consumer society had access to the Mercedes line and it was n o t u n - See METZLER on 37

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Browse over 14,000 items in our collection: WWII military vehicles & weapons; a 1939-1945 Time Tunnel; a real Victory Garden, Movie Theater & Army barracks; as well as period toys, books, music, clothing… and MORE.

This new exhibit consists of 50 B&W photos from the Associated Press Archives. Join us for the rare opportunity to view some of the most iconic WW II images taken between 1939 and 1945.

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“All of us at the railroad are excited about expanding our business and bringing something new to the area. We also are looking forward to being able to utilize the train station for a variety of special events next season – including the possibility of “theater trains” for guests looking to take in a show at the Colonial Theater.” Guests at Rail Bike Adventures will experience

the beauty and history of New Hampshire’s Lakes Region as they pedal their two or four-person rail bikes along a rail line that dates back to the mid 1800’s. These guided tours will begin and end at the historic Laconia Railroad Station located at 15 Veteran’s Square in Laconia, NH which opened in 1892. The route will take riders past the site of the

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Unusual happenings and astounding feats are related by those who live and work among the mountains of New Hampshire and some of those tales were told during a gathering of the New Hampshire Weekly Publisher’s Association on September 12th in the year 1949. The notes about the meeting include some political opinion, but also show the importance of the press in promoting the Granite State. The year 1949 would have been the first year that Sherman Adams served as New Hampshire’s Governor. The notes, which were probably used in an issue of The Laconia Evening Citizen were written by E.J. Gallagher, the publisher of the newspaper who, with his wife, attended the Association’s meeting. The meeting of the publisher’s association was held at the Waumbek Resort in Jefferson on a Friday night and included some tall tales. One of the fea-

Joe Dodge, founder of the Appalachian Mountain Club White Mountain Hut System. tured speakers was a man who Gallagher described as a visitor from afar – Joe Cook from Madison, Texas. Madison is three miles from the Mexican border and the newspaper Joe Cook published had won many prizes which led to Joe being elected president of the National Editorial Association. In his speech Joe had to brag about the State of Texas and how big things were down there. He said that they have a thirty pound rock which they hang on

a fencepost in Texas. He claimed, “When the wind blows 50 miles an hour, that 30 pound stone extends horizontally from the post, like a flag in the breeze.” Mayor Clint White of Lancaster introduced the next speaker after the Texan had concluded his bragging. The speaker, Joe Dodge, was presented as the mayor of Porkey Gulch, but in fact was the man who had been in charge of the Appalachian Club huts in the White Mountains since 1922. Porkey Gulch was a

reference to Pinkham Notch where Dodge had been stationed when he first went to work for the Appalachian Mountain Club. It became known as a place with an abundance of porcupines. Joe wanted everyone to understand that New Hampshire had its own greatness and spoke of a man in the audience who had spent five winters on Mount Washington and could “back up any defense of New Hampshire’s grandeur.” That man was Ken Gould of Meredith and Laconia. Joe Dodge went on to say, “Up on Mount Washington we have a stone that weighs a ton. It hangs there at the summit. When the See SMITH on 32

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Those who have lived a long time have done a lot, seen a lot – and can teach us a lot. And that’s certainly true when it comes to investing.

to investing. For example, you should quickly gain a good sense of your ability to withstand risk. How? Just consider how you react when the market declines sharply. If you find yourself losing sleep over your losses – even if they’re just on paper – you might be taking on too much risk for your own comfort level. Conversely, if market downturns don’t bother you as much as lack of growth in your portfolio, you might be investing too conservatively for your own risk tolerance. •Take a longer-term perspective. When we’re young, we sometimes are more inclined to desire instant gratification – we want results now. Translated into the investment world, this could mean we want to see big returns in a short period. However, despite the popular mythology, it’s quite hard to turn enormous profits on investments overnight – or even over weeks or months. But as the years pass, we learn the value of thinking long-term – how investments we made years ago, and have added to steadily, are now yielding results that can help build the resources we need to reach our objectives. •Don’t go it alone. Some of us, when we’re young, have a tendency to think we have all the answers and don’t need much help in our endeavors. But age gives us the wisdom to recognize that, although we may have acquired much knowledge over the years, we can still use some help in specialized areas, such as creating a long-term investment strategy. These suggestions are appropriate for anyone – and they can help you on your journey toward your goals.

Consider some of the lessons you might learn from experienced investors: •Regulate your emotions. In the investment world, there’s always something coming at us that could sound scary: political flashpoints, economic news, and even those once-in-a-generation occurrences, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. But older people may take these events in stride; in fact, baby boomers and members of the Silent Generation (born between 1925 and 1945) are coping better emotionally with the impacts of COVID-19 than younger age cohorts, according to the 2020 Edward Jones/Age Wave Four Pillars of the New Retirement study. And by keeping control of your emotions, you may be less likely to make moves such as selling quality investments with good fundamentals just because their prices have fallen in the midst of an overall market decline. •Learn from experience. By definition, the older we get, the more experiences we will have. And most people do indeed learn from experience. Investors, too, benefit from having seen and done things before. Did you chase a “hot” stock only to have found it cooled off before you bought it? Did you buy too many of the same type of investments, only to see your portfolio take a bigger hit during a downturn than it would have if you had diversified? In the investment arena, as in most walks of life, patterns emerge, and once you learn to recognize them, you can learn from past mistakes. This article was written by Edward Jones •Know yourself. When we reach a certain for use by your local Edward Jones Financial age, most of us know ourselves pretty well. Advisor. © 2020 Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P. But you don’t have to wait decades to gain All rights reserved. Member SIPC. this knowledge – at least not when it comes

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“And now you know… the REST of the story!” And thusly would famed American newscaster and commentator Paul Harvey end a regular radio feature which shared littleknown or forgotten facts about famous subjects—whose names were withheld until the end. Harvey went national with ABC radio in 1951 and eventually became perhaps America’s most trusted and beloved radio personality and newspaper columnist. An independent thinker, he carefully distinguished news from comment. In 2000, at the age of 82, Harvey signed a ten-year $100 million deal with ABC. He died in 2009. In our current era—which features an ultra-adversarial and toxic relationship between our president and much of the media establishment—many folks long for more measured presidential rhetoric as well as for more Harvey-like journalists with integrity and objectivity. But years ago the great Mr. Harvey actually had a run-in with a Granite Stater we’ll call Mike. Mike was working as Sports Information Director

Paul Harvey in the Public Relations Office at Plymouth State College, which was receiving record numbers of applicants. This positive development was due in part to the wonderful successes of PSC’s Panther sports teams. Indeed, a PSC running back—Joe Dudek— earlier received a cover story endorsement from Sports Illustrated for football’s Heisman Trophy. PSC’s PR office pursued its mission of sharing “good news” releases about numerous Plymouth developments with

many newspapers in that pre-Internet age. Paul Harvey—or more likely a staffer—took note and Plymouth was subsequently mentioned in Harvey’s national news and comment broadcast. The news was that PSC received a record number of applicants. But Harvey’s subsequent comment was that PSC was also rated among the nation’s top ten party schools by Playboy Magazine—the clear implication being that PSC’s impressive applicant numbers were

due to its attraction to erstwhile playboys and partiers. The Playboy story was a double-edged sword. College administrators cringed while most students were delighted. But Mike was in high dudgeon. Feeling that Harvey’s comments were cheap shots, Mike channeled his passion into a long letter to Harvey detailing the numerous wondrous developments at PSC which really accounted for the record number of applicants, as opposed to the Playboy ranking. When Mike’s boss heard about Mike’s letter, Mike’s boss was not pleased. “When these things happen it’s best not to make a big deal about it,” the boss chastised. “I really wish you hadn’t mailed it. But Harvey probably gets countless letters every day so don’t worry. See MOFFETT on 34

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October is a month when many people have written off any type of fishing until things become a bit more solid, especially freshwater fishing. Many anglers hang up their rods and turn their attention to hunting season, firewood, or any of the many other fall activities here in New England. Many anglers assume fishing season ends when trout and salmon season closes. It doesn’t have to be that way though. If you can stand the weather, there is some really good freshwater fishing to be had in the fall. Warmwater species such as cra ppie respond predictably to falling water temperatures, triggering crappie to move into deep water and feed aggressively. With a little ambition and a few tricks, it doesn’t take long to catch enough for a meal. What defines deep water is relative since all lakes and ponds are different. In a body of water that isn’t very deep, yet still has crappie, find the deepest part and that will be your deep basin. The ideal situation is a water body that has 30’ to 40’ distinct basins. On a chart the basins will look like a bowl or depression. These types

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The craft beer revolution has certainly put a dent into ‘Big Beer’ sales over the past two decades and increasingly affects how the big beer companies market their product against the craft frontier. It has also forced them to de-

velop new product lines, strategies, and purchases of a growing breweries to compete with craft brewers. Let’s define what craft brewed beer is first of all. To quote a recent publication on craft vs mass produced beer, ‘Craft beer is made with

specific, hand selected ingredients, and it is only produced in smaller batches by master brewers who truly love beer.’ This pretty much sums up what we in this article have come to desire. Mass-produced beer is nothing more than a formulation combined to

produce a large capacity based on a public who have come to accept that product as something they imagine is good beer at a cheaper price than craft. Does this seem simplistic or crass? Having been around the beer world now approaching

16+ years, I’ve tasted many mass-produced beers, even imported beers, and still prefer the flavor options of craft. Brewery sizes are rated in capacity of ability to brew annually and are given size names. Nano and micro breweries both brew less than 15,000 barrels of beer per year with much of that product sold offsite, meaning restaurant kegs or cans, etc. Brewpubs are businesses that sell more than 25% of their beer on-site along with food and the ability to either can or growler their beer as well. Then there are regional breweries that produce 15,000 to 6,000,000 million barrels annually. Remember that the barrels of beer you may see being delivered to an establishment are half barrels so obviously every barrel See BREW on 19

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BELKNAP from 1 about 450 jobs,” said Mary MacDonald. They help small and startup companies learn their businesses while following the government rules for food production. They also help local businesses by making their named specialty products, like a local restaurant’s barbecue sauce, in their kitchen “so the restaurant’s staff doesn’t have to worry about it.” They also make labels and bottle products, offering bulk prices on jars and labels. “We help smaller food businesses scale up production, though for some we do all manufacturing so they can be doing sales and marketing and other important things,” Gavin MacDonald said. “We expect everyone to last as our customers for 3-5 years, so they get to the point where they outgrow us if that’s what they want, or they find their own levels of success through us.” A few months ago, partly in response to COVID-19,

Genuine Local employees Clarissa MacDonald, at front, and Tammy Roberge make and DAN SEUFERT PHOTO package products.

they opened a partner company, The Belknap Foodshed, “which has a mission of connecting local food products with their destinations,” he said. The project’s online marketplace is its main component, though the MacDonalds hope to develop it beyond the site, which is at https://belknapfoodshed. localfoodmarketplace.com/ Products. The marketplace serves two dozen or so area food producers on the site, and there are more than 300 products available – everything from fresh produce to specialty cuts of locally raised lamb, beef, and goat to specialty condiments, honey, and maple syrup. They offer a few non-local items, like pasta and chip products that go with the shed’s primary food products. “You can get pretty much anything you can get in a supermarket, with the exception of paper products and a few other things,” Gavin said. The road to the MacDonalds’ See BELKNAP on 29

— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, October 8, 2020 — BELKNAP from 28 business success started, Gavin said, when the couple’s kids bought him an outdoor cooker as a present. It continued when the family started making specialty barbecue sauces and trying to sell them. The big change came when the couple catered a friend’s wedding. They enjoyed the experience so much that they catered more weddings and began exploring business ideas for foodbased careers. Gavin, a former Sanbornton police officer, and Mary, who formerly worked in the field of environmental regulation, quit their “day jobs” in 2013 and began working catering jobs exclusively. They also began using a smaller shared food-preparation kitchen in Keene to manufacture their specialty sauces. But in 2015, the Keene kitchen closed, and the MacDonalds made a bolder move, opening Genuine Local in 2016. “When the place in Keene closed, we had already been talking to our bank about building a smaller kitchen in Meredith for ourselves, so we leased the kitchen building and built it out,” Gavin said. “A lot of others who were also working at the Keene kitchen came with us and became our customers.” Business grew steadily as the couple found more Lakes Region farmers who shared the same goal of getting their products to the public marketplace. Then, in March, the pandemic hit, and for about six weeks, business slowed as restaurants and farmer’s markets were closed, and business was cut in half. That prompted the couple to seek others dealing with the same issues. They con-

Mary and Gavin MacDonald at the loading dock for Genuine Local and the Belknap Foodshed. The couple’s entrepreneurship has led to a successful business that helps local farmers and food producers build their own businesses. DAN SEUFERT PHOTO nected with the Three River Farmers Alliance, a Seacoast-area farmers group that had developed a flourishing local food home-delivery business. The company sold food to customers in 1,000 Seacoast-area homes a week this summer. The MacDonalds also found that food hubs on the Seacoast and elsewhere wanted to sell some of the Mereditharea products they offered, and, in starting the Belknap Food Shed marketplace, the couple agreed to sell some products from the Seacoast area. The couple bought a similar online platform and opened the shed. “We had the same

goals – cost-effective ways to get local food into the marketplace, while creating access to all of the products,” Gavin said. “They worked with us because we have shelves full of food, and now we’re also a producer on their platform, and now we make deliveries to the Seacoast twice a week.” The shed marketplace opens Saturdays at 7 a.m. and orders can be placed until 12 p.m. the following Wednesday. They now offer curbside pickup of orders in Meredith, Laconia, and Loudon, and home

delivery is available in Meredith and Laconia. The couple is busier than ever now in both arms of the business, mostly because of the virus. In the fall, the kitchen books a month out normally. Now, there’s no room on the schedule before January for customers who haven’t booked it, even as the company expanded to seven employees. Part of the recent surge in business has come from employees who have been laid off or had their hours cut because of the pandemSee BELKNAP on 30

Gavin MacDonald attends a customer’s product as it cooks in the Genuine Local kitchen.

— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, October 8, 2020 — BELKNAP from 29 ic. “A lot of them need to try something different to make up for their lost hours,” he said. Mary said many customers of the shed now seem to look forward to picking up their orders at the business, which is at the corner of Route 104 and Winona Road. They like seeing each other at the loading dock. “There’s a socialization aspect to it,” she said. “People have been social distancing and wearing masks, but they’ve been staying home a lot. For many people it’s a fun outing.” The MacDonalds see busier times ahead, so they are planning to expand. They have been working with state officials in planning what they hope will be their business’s new home in a section of the old Laconia State School

property in Laconia. That development process has been slowed by the pandemic, as the property’s new Master Plan requires government approval and lawmakers are still going through the approval process, Gavin said. Genuine Local and the Belknap Food Shed have helped Steve Zyck’s Mont Vernon business, the Wood Stove Kitchen, prosper greatly, said Zyck. The business produces bottles of all-natural cocktail and “mocktail” mixers. Now, the staff of Genuine Local makes the mixes, bottles and labels them in the Meredith kitchen. “They’ve been incredible, we couldn’t have done it without them,” Zyck said. “We had been making it by ourselves and that was a nightmare. We can concentrate on marketing and sales now.”

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Postcard of Pinkham Notch at campgrounds in the 1920s. road and then carried a mile down the mountain to the construction site. One man was mentioned as having set a record for carrying cement bags down the mountain to the location of the hut. He was nicknamed “Batch” because his last name was Batchelder. On October 7, 1940 he began work at 4:30am, carrying 100 pound bags of concrete on his back down the mountain. He made ten trips down the mountain to the Lake of the Clouds and

back again on that day. He was paid two and a half cents a pound for his work, so received $25 with two dollars of that being deducted for his board. Weighing was done at the end of the trip to make sure that the full amount of concrete made it to the hut location. The New Hampshire publishers were addressed by the executive director of the National Editorial Association concerning their annual meeting which was to be held

in Providence, Rhode Island in June of 1950, but would also include trips to Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire. The director, Mr. Eck of Chicago told the group that Rhode Island had committed to giving $8,000 for the convention, Massachusetts $4,000 and Maine $1,000. Governor Adams had been asked to donate $2,000 from his contingency fund from New Hampshire, but his secretary had sent See SMITH on 33

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Madison Hut in the early 1900s , SMITH from 32 a letter to the publishers asking if the money couldn’t be raised by private donations. The sentiment of the publishers seemed to be that it would be to the State’s advantage to provide the $2,000. It was pointed out that in 1926 Governor Winant had appropriated $10,000 from the state publicity department when the National Editorial Association met in New Hampshire. That convention included a trip to Laconia and a ride on the big lake on the Mount Washington when it was a side-wheeler. One of the men at the Waumbek, publisher Arthur Morris of the Littleton Courier, remembered that after the 1926 meeting New Hampshire received a lot of publicity because editors in 48 states wrote articles for their newspapers about the Granite State. The Democrat National Committeeman, Emmet Kelley of Berlin expressed the opinion that if Democrats ran the state government the $2,000 would be forthcoming, and that

it was worth it for the 500 people who would be making a trip to New Hampshire during the convention. Special trains were to take the group to Bretton Woods with a stop at Manchester for lunch, and a possible stop at the Weirs. The editors were scheduled to stay overnight at the Mount Washington Hotel and spend 48 hours in New Hampshire even if they didn’t get an appropriation from the state. The Executive Secretary of the White Mountain Region Association, Ashley Hazeltine, was also a speaker at the 1949 meeting in Jefferson, and with good reason, because he arranged for the publishers to receive free trips at several mountain attractions including the cog railroad, auto coaches on the toll road, the tramway, and the flume. I don’t suppose that there will be many conventions taking place in the White Mountains or anywhere else in New Hampshire this Fall of 2020, but I also expect that enough people will dare defy the virus and come to the state to

view the foliage that keeping one’s distance from others may not always be an easy assignment. I must add that Joe Dodge was in charge of the AMC huts for many years and a lodge in

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MAILBOAT from 2 I oppose that... vouchers are a threat to our public school system.” Where parents and children see opportunity and better education Bill Bolton sees a “threat.” The district 2 parents with children currently enrolled in charter schools, homeschools, should take note. Bill Bolton has worked behind the scenes against gun rights. He will undoubtedly be a vote for any and all assaults on our 2nd Amendment. Bill Bolton will be a vote for the long awaited democrat favored state income tax if a democrat is elected to the corner office. Bill Bolton has lobbied in favor of a 15$ minimum wage. This would be catastrophic for small business and New Hampshire jobs. Bob Giuda, our current state Senator, works across the aisle. Senator Giuda has earned the respect of republicans and democrats. He will field your phone calls, listen to your thoughts and concerns; and represents New Hampshire values. He’s pro life, has an A+ rating from the NRA, and supports school choice. Senator Giuda believes in smaller government, and more liberty! If given the chance; in time, New Hampshire’s democrat party will destroy our state and our state motto; “Live Free or die,” and the New Hampshire advantage. For all these reasons and many more; please join me in voting for Senator Bob Giuda on November 3rd. Patrick Wetmore Plymouth, NH.

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Two rails on the bridge that accommodated the length of the old steam engine to be turned around. CLAUDIA STEPHENS PHOTOS There is a narrow bridge across the dry pit that is about three yards wide with a railing.

The turnaround is Sanbornville/Wakefield is a circle of cut granite placed block to block in a round pit about four feet below ground level. STEPHENS from 1 New York Central railroad, originally called the Harlem Line. As it has always been, this line is a very busy one with daily commuters from the suburbs to the big city with many passengers boarding at the many stops along the fifty-two mile stretch. With the exodus from cities at the present time because of the violence, we shall see how that affects commuter lines. My husband and I watched as the train came closer, and soon the diesel engine came nearer pulling many

cars. As the engine reached only a few yards from us, we focused on the engineer who looked down on us, as we waved, returning our wave. This long retired couple went through a moment of sentimentality, as we waved, for we had done just that many times in our youth. I believe the engineer enjoyed connecting with people, as the many miles he travels through forest land traveling further north and an occasional small village can mean hours of loneliness. When we had finished our lunch, our

daughter-in-law took my arm and headed us across the tracks, then under trees for a short distance. “I want you to see the turn-around”, she said, and soon we came upon something I had never known about nor seen. It was indeed the turnaround, a circle of cut granite placed block to block in a round pit about four feet below ground level. Near the base of the stone blocks there is a single rail making the circle. There is also a narrow bridge across the dry pit that is about three yards wide with a railing.

There are two rails on this bridge that accommodated the length of the old steam engine to be turned around. This feat was accomplished no doubt by a horse or two that walked the circle on the ground, pulling and rotating the bridge. Beyond is the short track leading back to the train tracks on which we saw the train that day. This is a great piece of creative work, probably not unique to New Hampshire, back when trains with steam engines covered the country. There is a granite plaque with the names of the people who voluntarily refurbished the site in 1992. Perhaps it is time for a few more generous citizens to volunteer some hours on this seldom seen bit of history. I do recommend visiting this site by anyone who is interested in the railroads of the past - but keeping hold of the hands of small children. A bit of railroad history: Before the train reached this area, it was only a crossroad with fewer than ten houses. John W. Sanborn is credited with bringing the railroad as far as this hamlet in 1871, and the industry that followed. The line

from Wolfeboro worked its way to Sanbornville. There was a large depot and a hotel built by Mr. Sanborn, for the population was increasing, and travelers had to be accommodated. So, it isn’t surprising that this small village has several buildings of historic interest.

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MOFFETT from 6 in Chicago and founded in 2012, has showered more than $6 million in the five largest cities in the crucial swing state of Wisconsin. In July, using COVID-19 as a pretext to boost mail-in and absentee voting, the center released the following amounts to governmental grantees: --City of Milwaukee: $2,154,500. --City of Madison: $1,271,788. --City of Green Bay: $1,093,400. --City of Kenosha: $862,779. --City of Racine: $942,100. According to the Center for Tech and Civic Life’s website, they fielded over 1,100 applications from across the country for their purported “COVID-19 Response Grant Pro-

gram” to “provide funding to U.S. local election offices to help ensure they have the critical resources they need to safely serve every voter in 2020.” Grants are to be used to encourage alternatives to in-person voting, “voter education and outreach efforts,” “early in-person voting” and vote by mail -- all tactics being deployed by anti-Trump, “color revolutionary” forces to drag out the election long past Election Day. There is nothing “nonpartisan” about this enterprise. The Center’s top staff (many of them Barack Obama campaign tech gurus) come from a now-defunct liberal nonprofit called the New Organizing Institute, whose far-left donors include George Soros’s Open

Society Foundation, the Ford Foundation and Atlantic Philanthropies. CTCL director Tiana Epps-Johnson is a former Obama Foundation fellow. The center received $250 million from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan. Trumpbashing Google is a top corporate partner. Other donors include the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Democracy Fund (founded by “Never Trumper” billionaire and eBay former chairman Pierre Omidyar). Chicago political activist Jay Stone has filed a legal complaint against CTCL, alleging that its grant scheme “artificially inflates Democrat Joe Biden’s statewide Wisconsin vote total and enhances

Joe Biden’s chances of winning Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes” by targeting private funds to Democratic-run cities under the guise of enhancing pandemic safety and election integrity. In addition to Wisconsin, Democratic-run jurisdictions in battleground state Pennsylvania that have received CTCL infusions include Delaware County ($2.2 million) and Philadelphia (a whopping $10 million). McKenna warns that the alarm-raising “Democracy in the Park” scheme in CTCL-subsidized Madison, Wisconsin, will be back in action on Oct. 3. I reached out Monday to CTCL to confirm whether its grants are being used for the tote bag ballot-harvesting program touted by the

Biden campaign. No reply. Maybe I’ll get a reply to these questions: If, as it plainly appears, private big tech and left-wing philanthropic funding are being used to rig the election process in the most important battlegrounds of our country, where the heck are the Justice Department and Attorney General Bill Barr? Why haven’t these dubiously collected ballots already been tracked down, segregated and secured And finally: Is this what the “peaceful transfer of power” is supposed to look like in America? Michelle Malkin’s email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@ protonmail.com.

BOSAK from 3 been seen before? To see the full forecast, enter “2020-21 Winter Finch Forecast” into a web search and have at it. Are we likely to see common redpolls this winter? I’ll leave that research up to you. I’m always looking forward with excitement regardless of the season, but the Winter Finch Forecast offers that much more incentive to cheer on winter and the colder months. Winter is not so bad after all. Chris Bosak may be reached at chrisbosak26@ gmail.com or through his website www.birdsofnewengland.com

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at ABC, everyone pretended to be apolitical (but nearly all were on the left). Concha replies, “CNN’s prime-time lineup, Anderson Cooper, Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon, have the title of anchor, not opinion maker.” Fox at least calls its prime-time anchors “opinion” hosts. News hosts like Chris Wallace and Bret Baier play it pretty straight. It’s clear that most reporters don’t like Trump -- or even Republicans. Last election, 96% of journalists’ political donations went to Hillary Clinton. Why? Our national media are in two cities, New York and Washington,” says Concha. “When you’re surrounded by everybody else in a city and newsroom that goes the other way, it’s almost impossible not to start to conform.” John Stossel is author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com.

METZLER from 7 common to own one. In the East there was a multi-year waiting list to buy a treasured Trabi—which came in the dazzling colors of white, penicillin green and black. Enough said! In June 1987, President Ronald Reagan, while visiting Berlin and speaking at the Brandenburg Gate demanded, “Mr. Gorbachev Tear down this Wall.” Reagan’s comments touched off a cascade of shock, criticism, and condescension and from a political class who viewed the president’s call as an incendiary challenge to an accepted status quo; the Wall. Elites cringed. But then came the unexpected Freedom Tsunami of Autumn 1989 when Central Europe changed. By 1990, the geopolitical stars were aligned perfectly as the four Allied powers, the victors over Naziism in WWII, acted as cautious midwives to the creation of a reunited Germany. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Germany

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clear proof that freedom does work.” Emily Haber, Germany’s Ambassador to the United States stresses, “The trust and friendship of our neighbors and allies, first and foremost the U.S., helped bring about this unique success story. We will never forget America’s support. Thirty years later, we celebrate that historic day and say, ‘Danke!’ to the American people.” Reunification’s success was anchored in close and enduring Transatlantic ties; let’s refocus on renewing those vital links of friendship. 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.

SHAPIRO from 6 tion jumped 38%, rising for the seventh straight year. That number will increase again this year. I want my kids to grow up safe. I want them to grow up in a community with a future, with more freedom and safety than I grew up with. California makes that impossible. So, goodbye, Golden State. Thanks for the memories. Ben Shapiro, 36, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show” and editorin-chief of DailyWire. com. He is the author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller “The Right Side of History.” He lives with his wife and three children in Los Angeles. To find out more about Ben Shapiro and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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