10/13/2022 Weirs Times

Julie makes good time on a fine example of 2 for 1 Trail! That’s a good trail that you can hike 2 miles with just the effort of a normal 1 mile of Maine Trail. Everyone knows Maine miles are the longest.

On The AppAlAchiAn TrAil in MAine

100 Mile Wilderness & Katahdin - Part II

by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Columnist

Cooper Brook’s cascad ing water white noise made for a good night’s sleep for our 4th night sleeping in the 100 Mile Wilder ness. We were now half way through our hike if

everything continued to go our way. The hardest part of the 100 Mile Wilderness was now behind us. No more fording big streams and no more big moun tains until we reached Ka tahdin. 58.5 miles were behind us and less than 42 more to go to reach Abol

Bridge, the end of the 100 Mile Wilderness.

Day 5. Maybe a dozen or more people had pitched their tents nearby. Many of the thru hikers would be sleeping late in order to continue to enjoy more of Chili P.’s trail magic for breakfast. So we weren’t

surprised to see Sunflower at 6:30 am. He had pulled out a chair and was sit ting there and said he was waiting for Chili to open at 7 am.

The 2 for 1 miles of trail continued–two miles of trail for the effort of just

cOMedy nighT AT lAcOniA VFW

Stand-up comedy returns to the Laconia VFW on Church St., Saturday, Oct. 15 at 8 pm with a show starring three Boston area favorites in Kyle Crawford, Mike Prior, and Kennedy Richard. For priority seating and tickets contact the VFW at (603) 524-9725. Tickets are $20 and will also be available at the door.

Crawford is a New England head liner who regularly works Las Ve gas, Laugh Boston, Giggles, and Foxwoods as well as having been seen on Comcast Comedy Spot light. Prior has been seen on Com edy Central, and MTV Comedy, as well having toured nationally. Rich ard is a regular opener for Steve Sweeney, Lenny Clarke and other top names in the comedy industry.

“We are hoping to build our fol lowing at the VFW,” said Michael Smith of Laugh Riot Comedy which booked the comedy shows at Pit man’s, for nine years before Pit man’s ceased to be a function room. “We have succeeded in bringing some of our Pitman’s people over to the VFW and we have added some new followers, but we are hoping to bring more of our regular Pitman’s people to the VFW.

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Include All In Debates

To The Editor:

Debate is the fundamental basis of democratic elections and the political process in this country, and one of the most crucial aspects of any race for public office. Without an honest debate between the candidates seeking election, voters are deprived of the necessary and objective presentation of the competing views, values, ideals, and politics of those seeking to represent them.

The voters of New Hamp shire deserve to be presented with debates that include all candidates qualified to appear on the general election ballot, regardless of their party affilia tion, fundraising totals, or poll numbers. It is not the job of the media to determine what candi dates are viable and qualified, as the Secretary of State has al ready certified those candidates to appear on the November Bal lot in accordance with the laws of the State of New Hampshire.

The ultimate decision of who should represent New Hamp shire belongs to the voters, not to the journalists and media conglomerates who have the privilege of hosting these de bates, and the responsibility to provide the most objective and forthright presentation of those candidates.

I call for WMUR, NHPR, and any other organizations intent on hosting these debates to adopt the only objective criteria for inclusion possible, includ ing every candidate for an office that has been certified by The

Secretary of State to appear on the November 8th General Elec tion Ballot.

And at a public event in Man chester this august, Don Bolduc committed to demanding 3rd Party Candidates be allowed to debate on stage should he win the primary, I call on him to uphold that pledge.

The Voters of New Hampshire have a right to be informed.

The Media has an obligation to inform them.

Justin O’Donnell

Manchester, NH.

Cruelty is Profitable

To The Editor:

The United Kingdom’s Na tional Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) revealed a significant scandal within the story of the reversals of sex re assignment surgery policies in England, Finland, and Sweden.

In order to conduct a system atic analysis of the academic literature, NICE reviewed the literature supporting puberty blocker drugs employed to treat sexual development at ages as young as nine. The lack of ac ceptable research methodology resulted in only 9 “studies” of 525 being sound enough to part of NICE’s review. Of the 1,997 academic papers inform ing policies relative to hormone drugs, 10 “studies” were found non-biased and acceptable. In both instances the few genuine acceptable studies were rated as “very low certainty.” The substi tuting of a large quantity of ad vocate-sponsored faux research

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

for genuine objective research is an old marketing scheme. For example, it was also employed by Perdue Pharma. They prof ited 30 billion while marketing deadly addictive OxyContin as non-addictive.

While “de-transitoners” are ignored, non-qualified teach ers are continuing to initiate puberty blockers and hormone treatments to children absent science attesting to its efficacy as to whether they are beneficial or harmful. The patients are mo mentously disproportionately young girls and the autistic. This strongly suggesting a social contagion effect, not rapid onset sexual dysphoria. It’s time for us to rise above the guise of serv ing transexuals with anti-in tellectual gender investigations initiated by zealots and nonprofessionals. Like OxyContin, its profitable for some but mo mentously cruel to children and their families.

Michael D. Breen Ph.D. Moultonborough, NH,

Supporting Smart

To The Editor:

I have known Lisa Smart for 30 years, since our girls were in Kindergarten. She is a first time candidate running for the NH House of Representatives as a Republican on November 8. Let me begin with what Lisa is not. She isn’t a politician with a radi cal or extreme focus!

She’s a daughter, mother, and grandma, a 9 year cancer survi vor with a strong appreciation of

and places that make New Hampshire the best place in the world to live. No, none of the daily grind news will be found in these pages, just the good stuff.

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New England’s Wild Birds & Their Habitats

FAll MigrATiOn

by Chris Bosak Contributing Writer

People love fall for a variety of reasons.

Cooler temperatures, Halloween decorations, fall foliage, football, and, of course, pump kin spice. Everybody claims to hate pump kin spice, but they wouldn’t make it if peo ple weren’t buying it.

For me, I love fall for the bird migrationobviously. I particu larly like finding fall warblers. It is espe cially rewarding when I stumble across a small flock of fall warblers.

Palm warblers and yellow-rumped war blers are the prime candidates to find in small flocks. Such was the case the other day when I found a group of about a dozen palm warblers eating seeds from the dying weeds and flowers in a mead ow.

Large flocks of yellowrumped warblers are fairly common to come across as well. Just be on the lookout as you never know where you will find them. I have usually found them eating small berries of some sort.

But back to that re cent visit to the mead ow. The beginning of the walk featured an other nice surprise and harbinger of winter. The dominant birds early in the walk were juncos and whitethroated sparrows. They are year-round

birds in much of New England, but the far ther south you go, they are primarily signs of winter - “snowbirds” as they are known.

As I approached the meadow’s edge where it meets the woods, I noticed several small birds jumping off the tops of tall weeds and taking cover in near by trees. I stopped to observe and the birds eventually came back out to enjoy their fall feast of weed and grass seeds and whatever else they were finding among the dying veg etation.

They were all palm warblers. Warblers in the fall are not as bright and vocal as they are in the spring. Most are in a much more dull plum age, and many look dif ferent than they did in the spring. It is one of birding‘s big challenges

to identify fall warblers. Most males have shed their breeding plum age and more closely resemble the females. Then you have the firstyear birds that are also drably colored.

It is a fun challenge, however, and it is al ways nice to see the warblers again, par ticularly the ones that merely passed through during the spring mi gration and haven’t been seen for several months. The sad flip side of that, of course, is that once they leave for the fall, we will not see them for several more months and those in-between months will be cold and gray.

Fall birding has many other treats to enjoy with hawk watches, the continuation of shore bird migration and the beginning of the water fowl migration. But, to

me, there is nothing quite like a good day outdoors struggling to identify some fall war blers.

A palm warbler finds a morsel to eat during fall migration.

EVENTS & ACTIVITIES

Leaf Peeper’s Craft Fair In North Conway Oct. 15 & 16th

Don’t miss the Leaf Peeper’s Craft Fair on Saturday and Sunday, October 15-16 at Schouler Park in downtown North Conway in front of the Scenic Railroad. The times are Saturday 10am to 5pm & Sunday 10am to 4pm. There will be live Music both days. There will be 125+ amazing arts & crafts exhibitors displaying a wide arrange of arts & crafts including handsome cedar wood furniture,

chainsaw wood carvings of bears/eagles/ cardinals & chainsaw demos with female artisan, Elise, beautiful handpainted glassware, handsome wooden American flags, handsome pottery, wrought iron creations, leather jewelry, soy candles, handpainted wine glasses, charcuterie boards, many different signs & home de cor, watercolor and acrylic paintings, face paintings, wooden decor, handpoured soaps, body care products, homemade fudge, kettle corn, books, gourmet foods, cat & dog toys, children’s toys, embroi dery, quilted items, wildlife and landscape photography, tie dyes, handpainted metal & wood & lots more.

Held Rain or Shine Under Canopies. Friendly, Leashed Dogs Welcome. For more Info Call Joyce (603) 387.1510 or Preview online at joycescraftshows.com GPS Address: 1 Norcross Circle, North Conway.

Artist Paul Moreau Exhibit

At Meredith Gallery

Artist and gallery owner, Paul Moreau is opening his first show with a collection called, “Life from Life”, at The Galleries at 30 Main, Meredith, NH. It opens on Thursday, October 13th with a reception from 4-6pm and will run through October 30th.

“Life from Life” includes over a dozen new oil paintings that Moreau has painted from life, not from photos. The show will also feature a display of his earlier work showing his devel opment in technique and style. The past year he has been doing numerous studies and drills focusing on light, color, values and speed. Sev eral of these studies will also be for sale along with prints of his finished pieces. Paul has been an artist all his life and in recent years he opened The Moreau Gallery which features his own paintings and the work of several local artists. He recently set up a space in the gallery for on site portraits. Beginning in November he is offering workshops in Color in Still Life and Pet Portaits in Oil. Sign up is available at the reception.

The reception is free to the public. For further information call (603) 279-0557.

Larry Frates Brings Back Zig-Zag Lady For Final Performance At Altrusa Fundraiser

Larry Frates as “Nascimento” performs with the Zig-Zag Lady at Storybook Forest at Funspot in the 1970s. Frates, who has not performed the Zig-Zag act since those days, brings it back for two shows at the Belknap Mill on Sunday, October 16th to benefit Laconia Altrusa.

On Sunday, October 16th, Larry Frates will once again bring magic to the stage to perform two magic shows at the Belknap Mill in Laconia to benefit Altrusa Laconia NH. This will also be the last time that Frates, who is also the Artist In Residence at the Belknap Mill. will perform with the Zig Zag Lady, where using two blades he will cut his helper into thirds and then bring her back. In fact, the last time Frates performed with the Zig-Zag Lady was at Storybook Forest at Funspot in the early 1980s. So it has been about forty years since he has done this incredible trick and it will be officially the last as Frates planes to retire the Zig Zag after this performance.

Also these will be the longest magic programs he has performed since the Storybook Forest days. Frates has since performed smaller fundraising magic shows for great cause like the Putnam Fund.

There will be two great shows at 1pm and 3:30pm. Each child who attends will also receive a free book.

Tickets for the show are 15 for adults and $10 for children under 12 with all proceeds going to Altrusa of Laconia’s Outreach Programs.

Visit Altrusalaconianh.org for tickets and more information.

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It happens every October, the inevitable question.

“Are you go ing to the Sand wich Fair?”

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by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor

I was first asked the ques tion in October of 1985. I had only moved here from New York the month before.

I didn’t know what the Sand wich Fair was back then, but assumed, due to the nature of its name, that there must be a lot of sandwiches.

Still, to this day, thirty-seven years later, I have yet to attend.

When I tell folks they seem shocked as though I have com mitted some sort of Central New Hampshire sacrilege.

“You’ve never been” WHY?”

I have been to other New Eng land Fairs over the years. I get the idea.

Still, I compare all of those to the first fair I ever attended. It was a great memory and one that would be hard to beat.

It was the summer of 1977, and I was working with standardbred (harness) horses on the New York Sire Stakes circuit. We took two racehorses from racetrack to racetrack in New York over the course of about two months. One horse under our care was entered in the stakes races, the other one was along for the ride to be trained and possibly entered into a few lesser contests to find out his racing level.

We were at the Syracuse Fair grounds, which also had a race track. We were there for a week and would leave the next Sunday, the day after the famous Syra cuse State Fair was to start.

I was working along with “Big”

Dan Williams who was 6-foot 6, weighed at least 300 pounds and had no formal education, but he knew a lot about training horses. He also had a big smile and heart of gold to match his frame. Dan

We would sleep in front of our horses’ stalls at night. Outside of the barn was a set of train tracks where at least once a night a freight train would slowly chug past on its way somewhere. The trains were long and took at the very least a half hour to complete their pass. The repetitious sound of their motion would actually lull me to sleep.

One night in the middle of the week a train approached, but then came to a full stop.

It was a carnival train and out of it poured dozens of carnival workers and actors with tents and animals and whatever else it took to put on a carnival.

It was an amazing sight. Here I was this fresh out of college kid, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism, still trying to sort out where my life might go, watching this parade of characters that seemed like they might be out of a Steinbeck novel I had read for class.

It was real life for sure. One that many folks rarely get to see.

The next morning we went about our business while in the across the way the Midway of the carnival was taking shape not far from where we were.

On Saturday morning the Fair opened, but we had work to do. Our non-stake horse was en tered in the first race. We never expected much from him, so we were pretty shocked when he ac tually won at 64-1, and us with no money wagered on him. (Our stakes horse did not fare as well.)

After the races we put our horses to bed, packed up for the truck to come the next morning to take us to Saratoga Racetrack. I decided to catch the fair on its opening night.

There were the rides and the games and, of course, the food.

There were also a few minor at tractions that have stuck with me those forty some odd years later.

One was the “Amazing Spider

“Half woman-half spider, you have to see it to believe it. Only fifty cents!” shilled the man next to this box which was about ten feet above the audience. Many folks didn’t take the bait, but a few of us did.

I was ready to pay for some ho kum and I wasn’t disappointed.

Those who paid climbed the stairs to look into the box to see a giant spider’s body, seemingly made out of Paper Mache, with the head of a live woman poking through a hole in the floor as the spider’s head.

“Move your legs,” someone de manded.

“I can’t,” said the human spider lady in anger.

We all laughed. Fifty cents poorer but well entertained.

Then there was the “Incredible Wax Museum” which seemed worth another fifty cents.

A maze of curtains led to a variety of old store mannequins attempting to impersonate ce lebrities. My favorite was one with a moustache, top hat and tux standing next to one with a blonde wig and old sequined dress. Supposedly the spitting image of Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe.

It was great.

There was also the rubber man who was squished inside a very small box looking extremely un comfortable. Another fifty cents worth of great entertainment.

The sounds and sites of that Fair are fondly stuck in my mem ory.

Now, some forty odd years later, when people seem surprised that I have never attended the Sand wich Fair I ask them; “Have you ever seen the Amazing Spider Woman or the Rubber Man?”

“No,” they say.

“Then we’re even.”

And besides, the Sandwich Fair doesn’t really have that many sandwiches.

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It’s happening. It’s been happening. Par ents, you are being replaced.

Where? Right under your noses, in your neighborhoods, in your public and private schools, and in your local children’s hospi tals.

How? Under the guise of health, safety, compassion, tolerance, diversity, intellectual superiority and, of course, the public good.

shOuld The WesT seek An OFF-rAMp in ukrAine?

How does the war in Ukraine end?

NATO, a collective effort, that would take out every Russian conventional force that we can see and identify on the battlefield in Ukraine and also in Crimea and every ship in the Black Sea,” that could also lead Putin to escalate even further, perhaps even trying to directly threaten a civil ian center in NATO territory with nuclear weapons.

By whom? Woke educators, radical school counselors, gender queer-promoting librar ians, meddling school-based health clinic staffers, Big Pharma drug and jab peddlers, and medical establishment “experts” like the ones at the American Medical Association, who, as in vestigative researcher and City Journal writer Christopher Rufo reported this week, are “asking Big Tech and the Department of Justice to censor, deplatform, investigate, and prosecute jour nalists who question the orthodoxy of radical gender surgeries for minors, arguing that public criticism is ‘disinformation.’”

by Michelle Malkin Syndicated Columnist

It’s not just journalists that the AMA is targeting, but outspo ken parents on social media who dare to question State Science and who fearlessly assert and defend their family sovereignty. As usual, questioning the authority of the elites is tantamount to threatening “violence, intimidation, and physical harm” -- even as these control freaks oversee the mass poisoning of vulnerable children’s minds and bodies across the country.

Why? Newly elected Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni summarized it well in a viral 2019 speech at the World Congress of Families that Big Tech has tried to suppress.

“Why is the family the enemy?” she asked. “Why is the family so frightening?”

Answer: “Because family is our identity. Because everything that defines us is now the enemy for those who would like us to have no identity and simply be perfect consumer slaves. That’s why they attack national identity, that’s why they attack religious identity, attack sexual identity, attack family identity. I cannot define myself as Christian, Italian, wife, mother, no. I have to be citizen X, gender X, parent 1, parent 2. I have to be a number ... That’s why we cause so much fear ... Because we don’t want to be numbers. We will defend the value of the hu man being ... We will defend God, country and family.”

Yes. We are more than just automatons and QR codes. Our children are more than just advertising-coveted eyeballs and addicted mouse-clickers, more than data-mining sitting ducks and docile worker cogs in the globalist machine. Our children are more than just

This is precisely the question no one is sup posed to ask these days. The supposition by our thought leaders seems to be that if we keep up the pressure on Vladi mir Putin in Ukraine, he’ll fold and go home; his threats to use tac tical nuclear weapons on the battlefield are nothing more than saber-rattling. He will then retrench on the domestic front, resolidify his power and continue throwing his prospective enemies from third-story windows.

by Ben Shapiro Syndicated Columnist

Perhaps that’s actually the best-case scenario. Because if President Joe Biden gets his wish -- if Putin is indeed ousted from power in Russia -- what would follow could easily be even worse than Putin: the Russian public remains highly supportive of aggressive foreign action to expand the “empire”; other than the military, there are no well-organized or powerful groups in Russia, and Putin does have an inner circle of possible successors who are, if anything, more anti-West even than he is. If none of those successors take the fore, the possibility of internecine warfare akin to Syria isn’t totally out of the realm of possibility either -- and that, in a country armed with a massive and aging nuclear arsenal.

Then there’s the other possibility: that Putin is serious, and that if he sees his mission in Ukraine failing, he actually unleashes nuclear weapons. Most ob servers thought Putin was saber-rattling over his threats to invade Ukraine in the first place; underestimating Putin’s ag gressive radicalism now could be foolish. And there are no real plans to deal with Putin unleashing a nuke: while former CIA director David Petraeus has suggested that America would respond by “leading a

In November 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Finland, attempting to install a puppet communist government; the West united in opposition to Soviet interven tion, shipping weaponry to the Finns, who bravely stood against the forces of Stalin. The USSR lost at least 126,000 soldiers over the course of the three-and-a-halfmonth war but responded in the late going with a massive infusion of troops and a heavy offensive that drove the Finns back on their heels. Faced with the prospect of open war with the Western powers, Stalin signed the Moscow Peace Treaty in March 1940, with the Finns ceding 9% of their territory to Stalin.

Was the mutual stand-down the best so lution? Should the West have pressed Sta lin to the brink in Finland? Perhaps. But the West was facing down Stalin and Hit ler simultaneously. Today, the threat isn’t a second front from a powerful enemy, but the direct threat of nuclear weapons. Henry Kissinger has been publicly excori ated for suggesting that the off-ramp to this conflict will be territorial concessions by Ukraine to Russia -- a repeat of the Moscow Peace Treaty. But he may be cor rect, particularly if the West is unwilling to bear the full economic and military cost of a larger war with Russia -- as historian Niall Ferguson writes, “Thus far, the West have given Zelensky and his brave people enough military and economic support to avoid losing. We are not yet giving them enough to win -- and the window for vic tory is not infinite.” In the end, it may be that the least-bad scenario is about simply preventing the worst-case scenario.

Hurricane Ian is gone, but the me dia’s myths about hurricanes live on.

hurricAne MyThs

spend is taken from the rest of us?

They don’t think about that.

Federal “disaster relief” is doled out after storms because, as a New York Times headline put it, “A Big Storm Requires Big Government.”

But it doesn’t.

My video this week debunks four myths about hurricanes.

Matt Mayer worked at the Depart ment of Homeland Security during Hurricane Katrina. He says the federal government was just too bu reaucratic to be much help.

customers.

Some businesses do raise prices when storms approach. Politicians call that “illegal price gouging.” This is just dumb, if not cruel.

by John Stossel Syndicated Columnist

Reporters say the federal govern ment must direct disaster response, as if only the feds have the knowl edge and money to do it.

“Debate is already growing about how big federal aid must be,” says CNN.

Why?! Don’t they know that gov ernment has no money of its own? That everything federal bureaucrats

Myth No. 1: We need the Federal Emergency Management Agency for disaster relief.

That’s just dumb, given FEMA’s history of incompetence.

FEMA once spent millions on bottled water and expensive trailers for housing. Then they just left them on an airfield.

“States, locals, communities, neighbors” just do a much better job, Mayer told me.

FEMA fails because, like all gov ernment bureaucracies, there’s no incentive to spend efficiently. Chari ties are more flexible, and “they’ve been doing it for 200 years.”

Right now in Florida, while some people wait for FEMA, religious charities help people rebuild.

Myth No. 2: Government must stop greedy businesses from abusing

When storms approach, people rush to buy supplies. If stores don’t raise prices, people buy anything they might possibly need, and prob ably some stuff they won’t need. The first shoppers buy extra bottled wa ter, generators, sandbags, etc.

Stores sell out, so only the quick est customers get what they need.

But if stores raise prices for items in demand, fewer people hoard, and more people get what they need. Yes,

nOr Th kOreA’s “Me TOO” Missile diplOMAcy

In a strange but not unex pected twist to a world in turmoil, North Korea’s bel licose leadership has carried out a series of mis sile tests, not seen since 2017. One particularly pro vocative firing of an intermediate range rocket flew right over Japan. Two short range missiles were shot into the sea on the eve of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’s visit to South Korea and the DMZ.

by John J. Metzler Syndicated Columnist

mats convened in the UN Security Council for yet additional crisis con sultations. Only last month North Korea, largely unnoticed in the flurry of the Ukraine war and global food crisis, declared that it was an “irre versible” nuclear power. The missile firings may be a prelude for the com munist regime to soon carry out its seventh nuclear test.

ballistic (missile) tests since the be ginning of the year is unprecedented. We are witnessing a clear develop ment of ballistic capabilities, with the stated intention of developing a tactical nuclear program.”

long-range ballistic missile. This was a reckless act and a clear violation of relevant Security Council resolu tions.” He added, “This launch risks triggering a significant escalation of tensions in the region and beyond.”

So what’s going on in Kim Jongun’s reclusive and quaintly titled Democratic People’s Republic of Ko rea (DPRK) ?

As in a well practiced drill, diplo

“In just nine days, the DPRK has launched eight ballistic missiles, all clear violations of multiple Se curity Council resolutions,” stated U.S. UN Ambassador Linda ThomasGreenfield. She warned, “Pyongyang clearly feels emboldened. The DPRK has launched 39 ballistic missiles this year alone, which far surpasses its previous record of 25.”

France’s delegate Nicolas de Riviere stated poignantly, “The increase in

He added, “It would be irrespon sible to reward violations of the reso lutions by easing sanctions. Instead, pressure on Pyongyang must be maintained and increased in certain areas.”

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported indications that North Korea’s Pungyee-rii Nucle ar test site remained active and may be preparing for the DPRK’s seventh nuclear test.

UN Assistant Secretary General Khaled Khiari, told assembled dele gates, “the Secretary-General strong ly condemns the DPRK’s launch of a

The recent Hwasong-12 rocket fir ing over Japan’s Northern Hokkaido island travelled 2,800 miles before falling into the Pacific. It was the North’s first launch over the Japa nese home islands since 2017.

In a toughly worded statement, but not a formal Security Council resolu tion, the United States,along with ten other countries including Albania, Brazil, France, India, Ireland, Japan, Norway, the Republic of Korea, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom, “strongly condemn the DPRK’s long-range ballistic missile

Should You Stick With Index-Based Investments?

You may have heard that you can simplify your investment strategy just

owning index-based or passive investments. But is this a good idea?

to consider the different

of this type of investment style.

To begin with, an index-based investment is a vehicle such as a mutual fund or an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that mimics the performance of a market benchmark, or index — the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500, and so on. (An ETF is similar to a mutual fund in that it holds a variety of investments but differs in that it is traded like a common stock.) You can also invest in index funds that track the bond market.

Index investing does offer some benefits. Most notably, it’s a buy-and-hold strategy, which is typically more effective than a markettiming approach, in which individuals try to buy investments when their prices are down and sell them when the prices rise. Attempts to time the market this way are usually futile because nobody can really predict when high and low points will be reached. Plus, the very act of constantly buying and selling investments can generate commissions and fees, which can lower your overall rate of return. Thus, index investing generally involves lower fees and is considered more tax efficient than a more active investing style.

Also, when the financial markets are soaring, which happened for several years until this year’s downturn, index-based investments can certainly look pretty good — after all, when the major indexes go up, index funds will do the same.

Conversely, during a correction, when the market drops at least 10% from recent highs, or during a bear market, when prices fall 20% or more, index-based investments will likely follow the same downward path.

And there are also other issues to consider with index-based investments. For one thing, if you’re investing with the objective of matching an index, you may be overlooking the key factors that should be driving your investment decisions — your goals and your risk tolerance. An index is a completely impersonal benchmark measuring the performance of a specific set of investments — but it can’t be a measuring stick of your own progress.

Furthermore, a single index, by definition, can’t be as diversified as the type of portfolio you might need to achieve your objectives. For example, the S&P 500 may track a lot of companies, but they’re predominantly large ones. And to achieve your objectives, you may need a portfolio consisting of large- and smallcompany stocks, bonds, government securities and other investments. (Keep in mind, though, that while diversification can give you more opportunities for success and can reduce the effects of volatility on your portfolio, it can’t guarantee profits or prevent all losses.)

Ultimately, diversifying across different types of investments that align with your risk tolerance and goals — regardless of whether they track an index — is the most important consideration for your investment portfolio. Use this idea as your guiding principle as you journey through the investment world.

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NICK TRUDEL, AAMS® , CRPC®

FINANCIAL ADVISOR (603) 293-0055 nicholas.trudel@edwardjones.com

Weirs Rd., Suite 1 Gilford, NH

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FINANCIAL ADVISOR (603) 524-4533

benjamin.wilson@edwardjones.com

386 Union Avenue Laconia, NH

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WOrk, WOrk, WOrk & MOre WOrk

by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. Contributing Writer

I am occasionally asked where I get my ideas for this column. The truth is that this is a history column and everything that is past is history, so there are a lot of choices. However, this is a New Hampshire history column so my articles must involve New Hampshire, and that limits the choices a little, as does the fact that I want the articles to be of interest to the readers. So I look in dif ferent places and I read and I listen and I think, and then I decide what to write on any particu lar week. I am hesitant to write about myself, but sometimes that’s the choice I make.

As a child I sometimes joined others at a 4-H or Grange meeting singing about work. “There is work, work, work, there is work for the children to do,” we vocalized. And we solemnly sang, “Work, for the night is coming when man’s work is o’er,” while in wardly hoping that day was not imminent.

Indeed, according to Scripture, God put

spent a year away from being a student between high school and college and worked at Scott and Williams Company in Lakeport

enough to save money for most of my first year in college.

mankind to work soon after He created him, and made some of that work burdensome after the man fell into sin. Nevertheless, work can and should be pleasant and enjoyable, though I must confess that I have sometimes found work that was not pleasant or enjoyable at all. As a child any reluctance to work was probably not because the work was considered distasteful, but because I would have preferred to be do ing something else. I found there was enjoy ment in feeding the ani mals – be they chickens, pigs, or cows- or the dog or cats; and even could reservedly say the same in removing the manure from behind the cow in the barn, as long as my aim was accurate and the shovel full of manure went through the open

window as it was sup posed to and onto the manure pile outside.

I suppose that I appre ciate now, in my old age, more than ever before the work experiences I had as a country boy that many a city slicker never had. I thoroughly enjoyed working with wood. As I did that I also learned about the trees, becoming able to name one from another by seeing the leaves, the trunk, branches, bark, and sometimes the blossoms and seeds that they produced. My father never owned a chain saw so, except possibly when someone else was hired to help, all the work of cutting down the trees, sawing the trunk and branches into manageable sizes, stacking the wood, and then,after hauling it to the woodshed, sawing

and chopping it into sizes fit for the stoves, was done by manpower.

After all of that it still had to be carried into the house and placed into the wood boxes ready for burning. So the challenge was to the boy, not to the wood chuck, as to how much wood could be cut and split with saw and axe on any particular day.

There were other farm duties to attend to, but I’ll go on to some of my other work experiences.

In a limited sense I feel that I have been a jackof-all-trades but master of none, because of the variety of my work expe riences, though most of them in not so impres sive roles. There have been some agricultural stints outside the an cestral home, including several involving green

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 relate to individuals and the nation of the USA.

of another for reasons I never commanded. It was done from selfish and evil motives and it is always wrong.

Letters From God

QUESTION: How Can Christians Be Pro-Life Yet Call For The Death Pen alty?

It sounds like you have made them mutu ally exclusive. I have never done this. In a previous letter, I spoke of how I commanded Israel, in my 10 com mandments, to never murder another person (Exodus 20:13). I did not say kill.

In fact, after Exodus 20, in the chapters that followed, I gave a number of instances in which a person must be killed, a life must be taken. So, what is the difference? If you mur der a person you do it on your own, apart from my will. You do it often out of malice and anger. You have no right to take the life of another. I created life and if I have not expressly told you that there is a time to take the life of an other you have sinned against me and stolen the life of another, for no good reason.

If, however, I ask you to take the life of anoth er, for reasons I make clear, it isn’t murder, it should never be done out of malice or anger and it will receive my blessing instead of a curse and punishment.

One of the instances that I made it clear you should take the life of person is if they mur dered someone. They, in this case, take the life

I expressly said that, because all mankind was made in my im age, to take the life of that person, through murder, is a transgres sion not only against the person but against me (Genesis 9:6). It was intended to remove the person from society so that they could never do this again. It was also intended to give the perpetrator a chance to confess their sin and become right with me, knowing their life will soon end. It is also de signed, when practiced as I commanded, to cause other to choose to not murder, in view of the capital punishment that would end their life, once convicted.

Now back to your question. I am the au thor of life. I created you and create all liv ing things. No one can bring forth a child un less it is in my will. On many occasions and for various reasons, I closed the womb of women to conceive. I did this for Samuel’s mother Han nah, (1 Samuel 1:5) and even for Sarah, Abra ham’s wife until she was 90 (Genesis 17:17). I closed them for a time to show my power over life and death. Though women were designed to bear the children I chose to be birthed, they never had the right to take the life of those children, while I was in the process of forming them in the womb. “For you created my inmost being; you knit me to gether in my mother’s womb.” (Psalm 139:13).

I will hold all who take the life of a developing child accountable for murder, for you have taken a life when I ex pressly created it, even if it was conceived thor ough sinful acts.

Capital punishment however is part of my will and design to con trol evil and to maintain justice on the earth. It was for this reason that I warned children in the book of Proverbs to never rebel against me or the King, divine and human lawgivers.

“Fear the LORD and the king, my son, and do not join with rebellious, for those two will send sudden destruction upon them, and who knows what calamities they can bring.” (Prov erb 24:21-22).

I also told the Apostle Paul to write that the King and governing au thorities hold the power of the sword (Romans 13:4). The sword is an instrument of killing. Those who violate my laws and those of Kings that are consistent with my laws, like murder, must face the death penalty for their bra zen disregard for laws intended to protect life.

I want to remind you that many of you who are reading this letter have rejected me and my will. However, just because you have re jected me and my will, does not mean you are right and there will be no consequences for your behavior. One day you and all hu manity will stand in my presence. I, who created you and set the standards for life, will be your judge. In my presence and in the court of heaven, only

my standards will be the basis of judgement. If you cling to yours, you will face my judge ment and it will be for all eternity. But please consider that I sent my son Jesus to pay the penalty for all your sins. If you acknowledge your sins, I will apply His sacrifice to them and forgive you.

Make life and the preservation of life as important to you as it is to me. Never take the life of an unborn child and reserve capi tal punishment for the person who has violent ly taken the life of an other, through murder.

I want you to know that I love you enough to speak the truth, God

These letters are writ ten by a New Hampshire pastor.

by Mike Moffett Contributing Writer

Ben Franklin claimed that “A penny earned is a penny saved.” So why are so many multimillionaire athletes like Brett Favre bankrupt?

According to ESPN, NFL Hall-of-Famer Fa vre continued to press Mississippi state offi cials for help in paying for new sports facili ties at his University of Southern Mississippi alma mater months af ter being told by thenGov. Phil Bryant that the related misdirection of state welfare funds could be illegal.

Favre claimed he did not know the origin of the funds he tried to channel to USM.

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On July 28, 2019, Bry ant texted Favre that the founder of a nonprofit who paid him “has some limited control over Fed eral Funds in the form of Grants for Children and adults in the Low Income Community.”

So now Favre is among the defendants in the state’s civil lawsuit over misspent public money. As first revealed in an investigation by Missis sippi Today, state audi tors determined that at least $77 million in welfare funds were mis spent or stolen in the largest case of public fraud in state history.

Favre spent 20 years as an NFL quarterback, mostly with the Packers but also with the Fal cons, Jets, and Vikings.

Ben, Bucks, And BreTT (FAVre)

He beat the Patriots in a Super Bowl and was a three-time MVP. Favre was also the first signalcaller to compile 70,000 yards, 10,000 passes, 6000 completions, 500 touchdowns while win ning 200 games, includ ing victories over all 32 NFL teams.

A native Mississippian, Favre is—or was— be loved in the Magnolia State, which happens to be the poorest state in the country. So the misdirection of $77 mil lion from the needy to college sports facilities really rankles.

It gets worse.

In 2020, the former multi-millionaire Favre allegedly sought a former Mississippi governor’s help to obtain a legis lative appropriation to cover his personal debt.

Favre’s troubles re mind one of similar is sues faced by former Red Sox pitching great Curt Schilling, who defaulted on a $75 million loan from the State of Rhode

Island to support his “38 Studios” company specializing in electronic games. A court settle ment resulted in only $61 million paid back to the state.

Countless examples abound of multi-million aire athletes squander ing wealth. Boston Celt ic great Antoine Walker made around $110 mil lion during his playing career. Like many other former stars, he went bankrupt and had to auction off a champion ship ring. But Walker’s mismanagement was largely due to his gen erosity and being taken advantage of by “friends” and family. He didn’t ex ploit his sports fame to access and waste public money, as did Favre, Schilling, and others.

Americans who play by the rules and man age their funds carefully must shudder at such accounts. We cringe at stories of massive fed eral government finan cial mismanagement

and of the countless COVID billions pushed out of Washington being fraudulently expended. People who paid off their college loans are under standably distraught at the illegal college loan forgiveness now being foisted upon us. We’re all now paying for such spending with massive inflation and scary pub lic debt. But Washing ton’s septuagenarians and octogenarians won’t have to live with the consequences of their deeds.

Young Americans will. Washington politi cians and the Favres, Schillings, and Walk ers of the sports world provide cautionary tales about how not to man age money. Let’s find and celebrate role mod els who succeed and prosper without going bankrupt or ripping off taxpayers.

Besides Ben Franklin.

Brett Favre.

THE SIMPLE FEAST OF dAy dreAMs And gingerBreAd MuFFins

by Eric N Gibson Contributing Writer

I don’t know about you but mine is a sea sonal palate. While I find pastries, sweets, and cookies of all de scriptions pleasing; with the arrival of Fall, my tastes often turn to pumpkin, apple, mo lasses, brown sugar, caramel, ginger, cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg. As I began writing to you this morning there was a batch of Gingerbread Muffins finishing in the oven; both to satisfy my sweet tooth as well as to test-batch a recipe that I have had on my mind for a while.

Lately I’ve been play ing in the kitchen with ingredients that are lower in carbohydrates; sugar and flour substi tutes mostly, as these are the two major con tributors to high carb counts in most recipes and therefore are easy targets. Once successful I will then play with por tion sizes to bring the carbs down even more. However, this recipe is so delicious that I had to share it sooner rather than later.

Ever notice how the smell of Gingerbread leads to thoughts of Fall as it fills the house with an aroma created from heating molasses and ginger? Being a spice

laced sweet fragrance, it has a dream-like qual ity; conjuring up images of a safe, comfortable, nearly make believe past. It’s as if it were saying, “This is the way life should be.” It makes you want to think of your simple dwelling as though it were a tri ple floor Victorian, with room after room after room of family heirlooms and forgotten treasures hidden behind ornately adorned oak trimmed doors. A house where covered porches wrap the outside, turrets with bow windows flank each corner. Where edges drip with scrollwork trim. And all of this or nate craftsmanship is capped off under a slate shingle roof.

In your mind’s eye, you hurry up the brick walk. Spying gramps

through the window, he’s bent at the mantle of the parlor fireplace. He’s lighting a fire to chase away the chill from the morning air. You walk in the front door, hang your coat and scarf on the hall stand, as the bouquet, a mix of subtle pun gent notes mixed with bold spice, strikes your very core. The odor, a pleasing combination, hints of an extinguished match, the first wisps of fatwood smoke that es cape the dampers draft, and warm molasses and ginger. You cannot help but feel the urge to run out the door, just so you can shiver in the cool of the morning and run back in to feel the warmth of that intoxi cating fragrance once more.

As if a child again,

from the foyer you sheepishly peek into the parlor. A rosy cheeked granny with silver hair pulled up in a bun, her wire rim glasses on the end of her nose as she sits in her rocker, looks up from her knitting and greets you with a warm smile. She invites you to come and sit, noting that “fresh gingerbread will be ready any mo ment.” As you take your place in the armchair by the fireplace, granny’s cat Plum stretches out before you. Disturbed from her slumber she leaps into your lap. You feel little needles drive into your upper thigh, her claws digging into your leg for traction. Instantly, you are back from your daydream. Back into the present, with Plum on my lap searching my gaze, the timer on the stove sum mons me.

I find that ginger bread, when paired with a delicious crisp fall ap ple such as a Cortland, a superb eating apple known for its snap when you bite into it, as well as its firm white flesh, is one of my Fall favor ites. I especially enjoy its tart beginning and sweet finish with each bite. And a Cortland apple pairs particularly well with a sharp ched dar cheese. Not these cheeses that commercial brands try to pass off as sharp or extra sharp or their “special reserve”. No, I am talking about a true sharp cheddar. A cheese with a salty bite. A cheese that nearly crumbles when cut into. A cheddar so rank that

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GINGERBREAD MUFFINS

INGREDIENTS

Preparation Instructions

oven to 375 degrees F. and grease a 12 count muffin tin (or

tins) of standard size. (This can also be made in a 9x9 pan reducing the heat to 350 degrees. Cooking for 30-40 minutes or internal temp is about 180 degrees F.)

In a mixing bowl combine the stick of butter, Coconut Sugar, and Ste via, blending until it is fully incorporated and forms a paste. Scrape the sides of the bowl if needed.

- Add the two eggs and continue to mix, then add the molasses and boiling water together in two parts, ¼ cup boiling water and ¾ cup molas ses mixed with a fork, then ½ cup of boiling water to free the remaining molasses from the measuring cup. (As if you are rinsing out the measur ing cup.)

- While the butter sugar mixture is mixing with the molasses, combine in a bowl and whisk together the dry ingredients (flours, spices, soda, and salt). Add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix well. Remove mixing bowl and add raisins if desired, incorporating with a spatula.

The batter should look pourable like a muffin batter.

Distribute evenly into muffin tin(s) and bake for 20 minutes at 375 degrees F.

- Remove from the oven, check for doneness, and serve warm with but ter, apple wedges, cheese, and tea or coffee.

you have to fight with your own hand to get that piece of cheese past your nose and into your mouth.

It takes a special cheese to be that sharp and, unfortunately, not since my days of work ing in a small specialty shop have I had cheese that good. If your hands did not blister by the time you were done cut ting it, it didn’t deserve the title “Extra Sharp”. So today we make due with the sharpest avail able in hopes that some day, somewhere, there will be a cheddar so re pugnant, so repelling, so pungent it will be worthy of the moniker Extra Sharp Cheddar.

But as always I di gress from addressing an important point of to day’s recipe. These gin gerbread muffins were created from a delicious combination including ingredients that may be new to some readers. I replaced the white sug ar with a combination of Stevia and Coconut

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Sugar. I have found that using the Coconut Sugar accomplishes two things; first it imparts a subtle caramelized flavor but not a coconut flavor. And second, it helps to quell the af ter taste that some feel Stevia produces. Using these half and half in place of refined white sugar also helps to re duce the carbohydrate count nearly half or more than that of regu lar sugar.

The other ingredient I have been using lately is Almond Flour, a fine grind, usually half and half with All Purpose Flour and the results again show promise. The consistency of cakes, cookies, and muffins is good. There is not an overtly nutty flavor im parted by the Almond Flour. And, again, the carbohydrate count is significantly reduced (by nearly three-quarters) when compared one to one with AP Flour. For example, if my research is correct, 95 grams of carbs in a cup of AP Flour versus 23 grams of carbs in a cup of Al mond Flour.

While these Ginger bread Muffins are not exactly what I would consider diabetic “friendly” these alterna tive ingredients are a great way to start look ing into reducing your carbohydrates for any number of reasons.

I would urge you to consider trying Almond Flour, Stevia, and Co conut Sugar as you too create warm tasty Fall treats to chase away those chilly Autumn Days while dreaming of the Simple Feast.

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No matter how cramped and cluttered your living space may be, you can almost always find a spot or two for extra storage. It’s often just a matter of getting creative and utilizing a few clever solutions.

Consider these simple ideas to create some extra space in oft-used rooms: Kitchen

* Metal rods with hanging hooks can create storage space on your blank walls. Use them to hang coffee cups, cooking utensils, dish towels or pots and pans.

* Magnetic strips mounted on the wall or the inside of a cabi net door can be a sim ple way to hang knives and free up counter space normally taken up by a knife block.

* If your counter top is cluttered with small spice containers and oil bottles, elevate

them with a decorative cake stand. Place small jars below and top with pretty decanters and ad ditional spices.

* If you’re using prime cabinet space for items you only use once a

year, such as holiday cake pans or a big serv ing bowl you pull out for parties, consider storing them in the attic or a closet instead.

Bathroom

* Instead of hanging

just one towel bar on the back of the bathroom door, hang multiple to maximize your drying space.

* Most modern cabine try has adjustable shelv ing. If you haven’t cus tomized the heights of your shelving to accom modate different sized bottles and containers, give it a try.

* A three-tiered fruit basket might seem per fect for the kitchen, but it’s also a handy way to store bathroom es sentials right beside the sink.

* Flour and sugar can isters can also be repur posed in the bathroom to keep makeup, toilet ries, cleaning supplies and soaps contained. Make sure to buy bins that stack easily.

Bedroom

* Nix those night stands and hang small shelves on either side of the bed. This cuts down on the clutter you can keep and makes cleaning underneath a breeze.

* Rolling bins that fit under the bed are per fect for storing linens, out-of-season cloth ing and children’s toys. They’re also the perfect way to slide building block projects out of sight without destroy ing your child’s latest masterpiece.

* Closets with a sin gle hanging rod are one of the biggest spacewasters in the bedroom. Double their storage capacity by hanging a second rod or shelf be low shorter jackets and shirts.

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by Melinda Myers

Whether your indoor garden has outgrown its location or you are looking to expand your garden, a bit of pinching, pruning or propagating may be the answer. Groom ing houseplants keeps your indoor garden looking its best and plants contained to the available space. You can use some of the trimmings to start new plants.

Give plants with long, leggy stems a pinch. Removing a small or large portion of the growing tip en courages the plant to form more branches and compact growth. Pinching removes a growth hormone pro duced in the stem tip called auxin. This hormone encourages upward growth of the stem. Removing the stem tip reduces the auxin and allows more branches to develop along the stem.

A soft pinch removes just the uppermost portion of the stem with developing leaves and the stem tip. A hard pinch, more like pruning, removes the tip and several inch es of the leafy stem. These stem pieces can be used to start new plants.

Some gardeners pinch with their fin gers, but I prefer us ing sharp snips like Corona Tools Comfort GEL® micro snips with stainless steel blades that resist the buildup

of plant residue or Co rona bypass pruners that make a clean cut that closes quickly and looks better.

When pinching and

pruning your house plants make the cuts just above a set of leaves. The plant re mains relatively at tractive while you wait

for new leaves and stems to grow. Avoid leaving stubs by mak ing cuts elsewhere as these detract from the See MYERS on 19

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plant’s appearance and can create entryways for insects and disease.

Houseplants can be propagated in several different ways. Avoid propagating patent ed plants protected by patent laws. These laws are designed to protect the investment of the plant breeder. Respecting patent laws allows companies to continue breeding im provements into plants for all of us to enjoy in the future.

Use leaf stem cut tings to start a vari ety of houseplants like inch plants, philoden dron, pothos, dieffen bachias, dracaenas, jade plants and many more. Use a sharp knife, snips or bypass pruner to cut threeto six-inch-long piec es from firm, mature, non-woody stems.

Remove the lowest leaf or two that will be buried in the pot ting mix. This is where new roots will form. If you have had trouble rooting cuttings in the past, try using rooting hormone labeled for use on houseplants. It contains fungicides to fight disease and hor mones to encourage root development.

Root cuttings in a small container filled with vermiculate or a well-drained potting mix. Make a hole in the mix, insert the cut end, and gently push the potting mix around the stem. Loosely cover the potted cutting with a plastic bag left open at the top. This increases the humidity around the cutting to com pensate for the lack of roots. Set the con tainer in a bright loca tion out of direct sun

for several weeks as roots develop. Give the stem a gentle tug to see if roots have formed. Move the rooted cut ting into a container filled with well-drained potting mix, place it in a location with the proper amount of sunlight and water as needed.

You’ll be amazed at how a bit of groom ing and propagating can perk up a tired in door garden. Share or trade extra rooted cut tings with family and friends so each of you can grow your indoor garden and memories.

For more ways to start new plants and answers to your indoor gardening questions, join Melinda for her webinar on November 2 at 6:30 p.m. CT. The webinar is free, but reg istration is required. Register at https://bit.

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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 Cours es “How to Grow Any thing” instant video se ries and the nationallysyndicated Melinda’s Garden Moment TV & radio program. Myers is a columnist and contrib uting editor for Birds & Blooms magazine and was commissioned by Corona Tools for her expertise to write this article. Myers’ web site is www.MelindaMyers. com.

prepAring FOr WinTer sTOrMs

Before, during and after a storm, consid er these key factors to help keep your family and home as safe as possible.

Have an Adequate Propane Supply

Discuss the possi bility of scheduling regular winter visits with your propane supplier so you al ways have an ade quate supply of pro pane in your tank. This can reduce your chances of running empty in times of heavy snowfall when roads may be inacces sible for delivery.

Create an Emer gency Plan

Work with your family to create a plan in the event of a winter storm. Gath er contact informa tion for emergency services and utility companies, including your local propane supplier, along with instructions for turn ing off your propane, electricity and water. If you turn off your propane, contact a service technician to inspect your system before turning it back on.

Install Carbon Monoxide Detectors

Because carbon monoxide is an odor less, colorless gas that is highly poison ous, the International Association of Fire Chiefs recommends installing a carbon monoxide detector listed by Underwrit ers Laboratories (UL)

on every level of your home, including the basement. Make sure to follow the manu facturer’s instructions regarding installation, location and mainte nance.

Plan for Communications

Keep a battery-pow ered radio handy, so you always have a way to receive updates on weather conditions. As storms approach, it’s also smart to charge your smartphone to use as an additional tool for communica tion through a power outage. Purchasing a propane generator is another option to en sure you always have reliable power, even during blackouts.

Inspect Damage Cautiously

If a storm causes harm to your property, be careful when assess

ing damage. Downed power lines, damaged gas lines and dislodged propane tanks can lead to dangerous situa tions. In the dark, use a flashlight instead of candles to avoid com bustion if there is a leak.

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The trail sign at the Jo-Mary Road and Appalachian Trail crossing. We’d covered 58.5 miles and after a big belly full of Trail Magic the night before we slept very well.

one Maine mile we of ten joked. Good thing because now our back packs were heavier that we had our resupply adding at least a good five pounds of food from our that would have to last until the end of the trip.

The trail felt almost flat. Are we really still going downhill? We hiked effortlessly past brooks and ponds and large White Pines and the Cedar trees. It was another nice day weather wise,sunny and not too hot.

We walked down the short spur to the Ant lers Campsite. This is often mentioned by hikers to be a favorite campsite because it is right on the end of Lower Jo-Mary Lake. The morning was still a little hazy and foggy so we didn’t have a big view across the Lake.

Just one couple had the site to themselves

and they had made themselves right at home and planned to spend a second night here. They were doing a shorter section hike. They told us to watch out that there was a lot of bear poop on the trail ahead of us.

Julie and I had seen a lot of moose poop but no bear scat so far. As we hiked up the trail I noticed a lot of black rotting mushrooms. Aha, those people were convinced that the rot ting mushrooms were bear poop! We laughed that the rotting mush rooms had them scared about bears.

We walked, we ate, we walked, we drank water, repeat. That’s hiking. We were loving every minute.

When we reached State Campsite, we reached another mile stone, we walked onto the last map of the Maine AT. The guide book breaks down the

Maine AT into 7 maps. We used paper maps all the way. Many hikers use apps on their cell phones but we enjoy the old school paper maps.

As we walked along Nahmakanta Lake, walking past perfectly good campsites that Julie thought looked good but I wanted to make it to Sand Beach. We had such a great time swimming at the last place marked Sand Beach I couldn’t get it out of my head. Of course the flat trail now pulled away from the shore and we had to hike up and down some short but steep hills to reach the north end of the Lake. I felt like a walking Zombie by the time we pitched our tents under some Cedar Trees near the trail and the beach. The swimming was great! 17.4 miles hiked, our longest hiking day of our adventure.

Two Canadians from Nova Scotia were camped on the far end of the beach, they had a picnic table (I was jeal ous) and a campfire. We chatted while we enjoyed the dry heat of the fire. We learned they planned to sum mit Katahdin the same day as us.

Again at dusk the thru hikers started fil ing past us, one told us they all stayed at the trail magic until 10 am. The Loons sang to us all night.

Day 6. Tuesday morning we ate break fast in orange sunlight as the sun rose across the lake. Soon after leaving Sand Beach we passed by the Wadleigh Stream Lean-to and we were surprised to see so many people there.

Many more than the group of thru hikers we had been leap-frogging with on the trail so far.

Two miles into our

morning hike we had what felt like a big climb, but it was only 500 vertical feet, Nesutabunt Mountain. Sitting on the summit ledge was a gal with her dog. She was wait ing for her friends at the shelter. The morn ing was clear and we enjoyed a big view of Mount Katahdin. Why did it still look so far away?

After a beautiful morning the clouds be gan to move in. The sky darkened and we de cided we were going to quit at Rainbow Spring Campsite and set up our tents before the rain started. We were the first to stop here because it was only 2 pm. We made great time. 12.3 miles hiked. We picked out good flat spots to pitch our tents. We went swimming. We got water from the spring. We rested and it began to rain at 4 pm. The Canadians setup their tents higher on the hill and more than another dozen hikers stopped here too. The good tent sites were gone fast. A big family of 7 with a dog showed

up and they spread out. The three daugh ters sat near the trail in the misty rain and ate. Julie asked me if she could move her tent tightly next to mine and give up her spot to the girls. The girls thanked Julie and were happy to accept the offer. In the morning the girl’s mother thanked Julie for her kindness for making room for her girls. (Later we found out this was the Bennet family, KidsOutWild, and they were on their way to completing the Triple Crown-the AT, PCT and CDT).

We then saw just two of the Maine Men and chatted with them. Sadly the third had slipped and torn his calf muscle and had left the trail; his wife picked him up at a log ging road crossing. Our hearts sank. They told us they were calling it quits at Abol bridge and would resume their section hike together next year. They pushed on up the trail and we never saw them again. We had met so many nice people. Short con versations with people attempting the same

All night long the Loons sang to us and we woke up to this lovely sunrise at Nahmakanta Lake.

thing create a trail bond. Everyone doesn’t get to finish.

Day 7. After heavy rain during the night we packed up our wet and muddy tents and hit the trail again in the misty rain. By the time we reached the open Rainbow Ledges the sun was shining bright again. We took our tents out of our packs to allow them to

dry. We had an extra long second breakfast.

The miles flew by and we popped out onto the Golden Road and neared Abol Bridge. Wow we made it and it was only 12:30. 11.3 miles hiked.

We went straight to the Abol Bridge Fam ily Campground & res taurant. The Canadi ans were at the coun ter enquiring about a campsite. I asked about the cabins and did the

math quickly that it was only ten dollars more per person to have a cabin and it included breakfast at 7:30. The Canadians, Shane and Andrew rented a cabin too.

In a flash Julie and I hiker-trashed the cab in. Every item we car ried now was spread out on the bunk beds and floor. We hung our tents on the nearby trees to dry and aired

out our sleeping bags.

During the night the wind blew hard and the temperature dropped into the 40s. Being in side a cabin was a good thing.

Day 8. Our march to the Katahdin Stream Campground was just under ten miles. We recognized many of the dozen or so hikers standing outside the store waiting like us

for the doors to open for breakfast. We lis tened as people talked about signing up for the hiker’s campsite at the Birches at 6 am at the Baxter State Park boundary kiosk.

They had already raced a mile before breakfast.

The breakfast at the campground had de cent coffee, okay eggs and tasty biscuits and gravy. This was the first

day we didn’t hike in shorts, it was chilly.

The hike along the Nesowadnehunk Stream was beautiful. At first it was wide and smooth, a favorite place for people to float in the river. As we walked up stream it got narrower and more cascades and rocks appeared. We checked out the lovely waterfalls of Big and Little Niagara Falls–a favorite day hike desti nation for Baxter State Park Campers staying at Daicey Pond.

We were excited to get to the trailhead to Mount Katahdin. We registered at the Rang er Station and received our AT hiker permit. We learned the camp site I had reserved was as far away from the Rangers Station and the bag hang (a flag pole with cables rigged to keep our food away from the animals by hanging it high).

We mingled with oth er AT hikers around a small campfire near the Ranger’s Station. The topic of conversa tion was the weather. Today many people had turned back on their attempt because the winds were high and rime ice covered the trail above the treeline. Everyone hoped for a better day tomorrow.

Day 9. We were head ed up the trail at 6:30 am, a little earlier than we had planned but we were ready to go. Our packs were nearly emp ty, only food, essentials and our warm cloth ing. We left everything else at the AT hiker lean-to at the Ranger Station–no need to lug our tents and sleeping bags back up and down the mountain. It was almost 3 miles to the treeline and then more than 2 above it to reach the summit.

Julie and I have sum

Julie and yours truly on the summit ledges of Mount Nesuntabunt with a fine view of Katahdin over Nahmakanta Lake.

Yours truly at Big Niagara Falls in the Nesowadnehunk Stream in Baxter State Park.

Julie making her way up the rime ice covered Hunt Trail above treeline on Katahdin.

mited Katahdin before but we’d never gone up the Hunt Trail. Walk ing the last miles to the northern terminus and leapfrogging with thru-hikers that were on their way to finish ing their 2,000 mile journey was an emo tional and inspirational experience. The rock scrambling wasn’t easy with the ice and wind. It wasn’t bad but chal lenging and cold.

We could only see a couple hundred feet ahead of us while in the clouds. The wind was strong, we wore every piece of clothing we brought along. Hats, gloves, down puffy jackets covered by our rain jackets to block the wind. Many others had no hats or gloves or even a warm jacket as they pushed through the cold. Heck it was September 16th and wasn’t global warming supposed to be keeping us warm up here? On the summit we snapped photos of hikers posing and climbing on the iconic wood summit sign and then we watch them run back down the trail.

Julie noticed first that the clouds broke

and we all could see down the Knife Edge to South Peak and down to the lakes below. The view lasted only a few seconds but we all were in awe.

We spent 20 min utes on the summit, much longer than any one else. We watched our Canadian friends summit. The previous night we learned we’d be sharing the shuttle back to 100 Mile Wil derness Adventures with them.

On our return we ex perienced a few more moments when the clouds parted and we could see across the tablelands to the sur rounding peaks in the Park.

At Thoreau’s Spring, truly just a mud hole, we took a left and head ed down the Abol Trail. We decided we wanted to see more of Baxter State Park and this was a new-to-us-trail. It follows the Abol Slide and then where the slide gets unstable the trail is routed to the side with wonderful switchbacks and stone step stairways. We had this trail all to our selves and it felt wild.

We watched the clouds dance over the ridge the

Hunt Trail follows.

It didn’t take long for us to get below the clouds and into the sunshine. We enjoyed our last hours on the mountain very much. We took our time and a few snack breaks and enjoyed the now wide open vista. The Abol Trail was very steep but had much less boulder and rock climbing than the Hunt Trail.

Before 2pm, on the Tote Road in front of the Abol Campground, the very first car that came by gave us a ride. It was nice not to have to road-walk 2 miles back to the Katahdin Stream Campground.

We gathered our things at the AT hiker

lean-to and we sat on the lawn in the sun. Shane and Andrew joined us as we waited. Phil was early and we quickly tossed every thing in the back of his SUV. During our ride out of the park we told our stories of our day’s adventure.

Phil pulled into the Millinocket General Store and we rushed the place to buy food and drinks we had missed on the trail.

The hot shower and putting on the clean clothing we had wait

ing in my car never felt so good. It was the first hot shower and clean clothes that we had had in 9 days! We were happy to be back in our Cabin at 100 Mile Wilderness.

Of course we all went out to supper at the Lakeshore House & Pub in Monson. It was the first time we had gone to bed after 7pm in nine days.

Completing the 100 Mile Wilderness and the Maine section of the Appalachian Trail was a goal I have been

working on for a long time. How things went together the last couple years made my sweet dreams come true.

I’d like to thank my hiking pal Julie for sharing this journey with me, it was a lot of fun. Maybe we should go to Georgia next Spring?

Have fun.

Visit weirs.com/cat egory/trails-summits/ To read Amy’s previous columns.

The end. Yours truly and Julie saying goodbye to Phil at 100 Mile Wilderness Adventures and Outfitters in Monson, Maine. You don’t have to be a long distance hiker to stay in these wonderful cabins, just someone that appreciates being in the Maine woods.

house work. I spent a year away from being a student between high school and college and worked at Scott and Williams Company in Lakeport long enough to save money for most of my first year in col lege, thanks to my par ents not charging me for room and board.

I have never forgot ten my first two days of work. I was hired in the time-keeping depart ment to count and wash small parts in a solution made to remove the oil used in the machines used to make the parts for knitting machinery. I was on the second shift but was told at the end of that first day’s or night’s work (mid-night) that they wanted me to train on the first shift the coming morning. The sound of the factory full of machines running went through my head the rest of that night as I tried to get some sleep. One day when I went to

work all the machine workers started to leave the building for a union meeting I was told.

Not having heard about any meeting I asked where we were suppose to go. I was told that I wasn’t to go be cause I didn’t belong to the union and couldn’t because as a member of the time-keeper’s de partment I was part of

management. From that day on my job seemed more important to me. There were those summer days while in college working for Harold Tefft , a Laconia City Councilman,in con struction, mainly small paving jobs. I still think of that when I smell hot asphalt like I sometimes hauled in a wheelbarrow or smoothed over with

the hand-operated roller we used on the jobs. I re member standing on the back of a dump truck with a shovel helping to unload gravel and that good size house we once moved on a truck-bed through the streets of Laconia.

I also remember those few months I worked for the maintenance de partment at college and the time I, not fond of being on the edge of something very high up, was taken by a fellow worker to the slanted roof of what I think was at least a 3 and ½ story building. There, my partner tied one end of a rope around me and the other around himself. I was to stand on one side of the roof while he went down the other side to fix a gutter attached to the edge. One concern was that he was a heavi er person than I was at that time, so how was I expected to pull him back if he went over? I had also been told that

I handled a lot of wood during my younger years.

his philosophy was that if you didn’t shed blood on a job it wasn’t worth it. This time however, no blood and yet the mis sion was accomplished.

Not being a mainte nance type guy I went to washing pots and pans in the sinks off the col lege kitchen. Hours and hours of washing pots and pans and some times when I thought I was finished for the day someone would bring more in to be cleaned. I eventually was invited to join the cooks in the kitchen to help prepare the meals, and the day came when I was given a supervisory position during weekends, and then over the breakfast crew.

I recently found a note from those days among some old papers which was from the college treasurer informing me that I was to receive a raise of pay to one dol lar an hour. In that note from many years ago I was instructed to keep my raise strictly confi dential.

Upon my gradu ation I was offered a full-time cooking job at the college, but instead launched out to begin a few decades of Christian ministry as a pastor in small town and country

churches, a position I wasn’t fully prepared for. The second funeral I ever attended I was the officiating minister.

With a need of supple menting my income at times during those days and before and after, I have worked as a ma chine operator in two additional factories, a veterinarian’s assistant, a mason’s mud-mixer, on a town’s road crew, on a pre-cut homebuilder’s crew, nightwatchman, salesman for end of physical life arrangements, and fur niture store employee.

Looks as if I couldn’t keep a job, but most of these were not intended to be permanent, and you know the saying, “variety is the spice of life.” Also, “ A little work won’t hurt you.” Actu ally it might hurt you, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth while. In fact, the ones that may cause the greatest risk of hurt may still offer the greatest satisfaction and be the most worthwhile.

Don’t underestimate the guy that washes the pots and pans, however. What would we do with out him?

Work isn’t a bad thing. As long as it isn’t bad work.

Mr. Eberhart and Mr. Jackson - My bosses at Nyack College.

Lisa is not afraid of hard work. She cleaned houses, worked in the medical field with hu mans and animals, put herself through NHTI in the Radiologic Program, and worked clinical ro tations, always while being a full time mom. Although retired, she still holds her license in X-Ray, MRI, Mam mography, and is a NH realtor. She would like to use her medical ex perience to work on the Health & Human Services committee in Concord, because NH mental health issues are an important con cern.

She and her hus band, Steve, run a small farm, raising all of their own food. They have cattle and chick ens with a large gar den for canning and freezing food for the year. Her appreciation for the environment also makes her perfect for the NH Agriculture committee.

Lisa is easy to talk to, a great listener, asks thoughtful questions, thinks before acting, has a plethora of com mon sense, and is just the person Meredith needs in Concord to fix the many problems that have arisen from both sides this year. She is a voice for true transparency, reason, and responsibility.

Lisa won a spot to the general election with 531 votes in the prima ry. She enjoys meet ing people and can be reached at sayyes 2smart@yahoo.com.

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“These launches vio late multiple Security Council resolutions and pose a threat to not only the region, but to the entire international community,” the state ment underscored.

As Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield said earlier, “But as we all know, the DPRK has enjoyed blanket protec tion from two members of this Council. These two members have gone out of their way to jus tify the DPRK’s repeated provocations.” That’s naturally Russia and China.

The Statement added, “Following the DPRK’s provocations and esca latory behavior in 2017, the Council came to gether and unanimous ly took action to hold the DPRK accountable for its unlawful actions. ”

That confrontation with the then-new Trump Administration came to the brink of “Fire and Fury” Warnings when the new American president called Kim’s bluff. Thought many observers thought us ing the refrain of “little rocket man” signaled a certain conflict, Trump soon turned the tables and made it a prelude to the historic face to face Singapore Summit. More Diplomacy fol lowed as other personal meetings ensued. Sig nificantly North Korea’s Kim refrained from his provocative missile di plomacy for over three years!

That’s now been changing since early 2021. French Am bassador de Riviere stressed, “At the same time, dialogue must be resumed…North Korea must return to the ne

gotiating table in good faith.”

But somehow I feel that beyond lofty geopo litical calculations, Kim Jong-un misses an au dience, where he prob ably relishes the role of a Bond Bad Guy. Vladi mir Putin’s Ukraine war has totally shifted much of the spotlight to Eu rope. As for East Asia, it’s his longtime mentor in China Xi Jinping who threatens Taiwan. Kim is odd man out.

Kim Jong-un may carry out his seventh nuclear test at some point between China’s upcoming 20th Com munist Party Congress

(from October 16th) and the American mid-term Congressional Elections on November 8th.

So in a bizarre sense, it’s maybe “Don’t forget Me, I’m right here.”

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 Separated Nations; Germany, Ko rea, China.

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Banning price in creases harms more people.

After Hurricane Ka trina, when John Shep person learned that parts of Mississippi lost power, he bought 19 generators, left the safety of his home and drove 600 miles to the disaster area. He of fered to sell his genera tors for twice what he paid for them. People were eager to buy.

But Mississippi police called that “gouging.” They jailed Shepper son and confiscated his generators.

I bet the cops used the generators them selves.

What the law calls “gouging” is just supply and demand. It saves lives.

Myth No. 3: Hurri canes are getting worse.

The media say, “Storms are getting worse because of hu man caused climate change!” Are these “cli mate experts” sure it’s “human-caused”? All of it? Never mind.

When I showed vid eo of reporters talk ing about hurricanes getting stronger to the late climatologist Pat Michaels, he shouted, “No, they aren’t! Look at all the hurricanes around the planet. We can see them since 1970 because we’ve got global satellite cover age. We can measure their power ... There is no significant in crease.” There isn’t.

Even our govern ment’s National Oce anic and Atmospheric Administration admits, “There is no strong evi dence of century-scale increasing trends in U.S. ... major hurri canes.”

There may be evi dence in the future.

But there isn’t now.

That doesn’t stop me dia fools from saying there is.

Myth No. 4: America must have government flood insurance. After all, private flood insur ance costs “too much.”

But private insurers charge more for good reason: Homes in flood zones are more likely to flood.

That’s why federal flood insurance is a scam and a handout that rips off taxpayers.

I should know. I once built a house near the ocean.

It was a stupid idea. The ocean was a stone’s throw away.

Private insurers wanted fat premiums.

I couldn’t afford that. I wouldn’t have built had I not discovered cheap government insurance. Thanks, Uncle Sam!

Ten years later, my house washed away. It was upsetting, but I didn’t lose money. You covered my loss.

I won’t do it again, but others will.

Until we learn the myths about govern ment “help,” we’ll keep making the same costly mistakes.

Every Tuesday, John Stossel posts a new video about the battle between government and freedom at John Stossel.com.

MALKIN from 6

bottomless receptacles for the next governmentsubsidized, billion-dollar experimental drugs from cradle to grave -- be they puberty-blocking hor mones, lifestyle vaccines (Gardasil, PrEP), inef fective and natural im munity-undermining flu shots, anti-anxiety and anti-depressant pills, or experimental bivalent COVID booster jabs that have only been tested on a handful of mice.

Moms and dads, you are more than a pesky nuisance to the archi tects and engineers of the Great Parental Re placement.

You are a hindrance.

At Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the Dai ly Caller’s Chrissy Clark reported, a “Gender and Sexuality Develop ment Clinic” has held 33 trainings in 15 schools over the past five years on “trans-inclusive poli cies” in which attend ees are advised to “keep gender identity secret from parents.”

You are abusers.

At Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, an academic “expert” claimed that

parents “refusing puber ty-blocking treatment” amounted to “psycho logical harm,” which she equated with physical abuse that should be subject to criminal pros ecution.

You are nosybodies.

In the U.S., 17 chil dren’s hospitals have now hidden informa tion about their gen der transmogrification programs after parents exposed their prac tices. Most prominent among them: Boston Children’s Hospital and its demented program, HOTT (Health Outreach to Teens), which advises boys on how to “tuck” and tape up their pe nises to make them look like vaginas.

To distract from this perversity, Boston Chil dren’s is playing the victim, decrying alleged threats of “violence” (cue the Southern Poverty Law Center smear ma chine). We’ve seen this playbook before. Re member: In 2013, young Justina Pelletier was ripped from her par ents’ custody by Bos ton Children’s Hospital. The teen, who lives with mitochondrial disease

and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, had gone to BCH after coming down with a severe case of the flu. Instead of receiving topnotch care and atten tion at BCH, however, Justina was medically kidnapped and reckless ly re-diagnosed with a psychological condition, “somatoform disorder.”

Justina was dragged from BCH’s neurolo gy department to its infamous psych ward, where she was repri manded for being un able to move her bowels or walk unassisted in her weakened state. At the Wayside Youth and Family Support Network residential treatment center, where she was confined, she and her family recounted to me in my 2018 documenta ry on the case, she was harassed by a staffer while taking a shower. The physical and men tal torture lasted 16 months.

Doctors at BCH dubbed their evil prac tice a “parentectomy” -and this savage removal of parental rights has been repeated nation wide. The Pelletier fam

ily sued BCH and lost in early 2020, at exactly the time the World Eco nomic Forum was ush ering in the Great Reset and its replacement of sovereign nations and sovereign parents with drug-pushing, genderdestroying, child-kid napping, surveillancestate managers of the “global commons.”

It’s time for nuclear families to go nuclear on their enemies. That’s not a call to violence, but a call to protect your chil dren’s minds, hearts, bodies and souls from those who seek to oblit erate our identity, bonds and God-given rights.

Michelle Malkin’s email address is Michel leMalkinInvestigates@ protonmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read fea tures by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Cre ators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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