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THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, December 1, 2016

VOLUME 25, NO. 48

THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, december 1, 2016

COMPLIMENTARY

New Hampshire Slopes Are Open!! by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Columnist

Many of us had less than a 24-hour notice that Bretton Woods lifts would be spinning on Sunday, November 13th. I first heard the news from reading a friend’s Facebook post proclaiming that she was going skiing! Later in the day I received an email notification from Bretton Woods inviting me to “Say goodnight to Hunger and Ski Free”. Wouldn’t you know I wasn’t prepared? Charlie and I had made plans to go

hiking. That bag I packed last spring with my ski boots and clothing all set to grab and go was not with me. I had left it home. I thought I was being clever. I was counting on Bretton Woods making their surprise announcement on a weekday and I’d be ready to scoot straight from work. Determined not to miss opening day, I dug out my Telemark boots and skis and decided I’d go right after our hike. I wouldn’t make first run, but I knew my See patenaude on 22

The Jon Butcher Axis At Pitman’s Freight Room

Church Landing Gazebo, Meredith, NH. Photo by Robert Clifford. To see more of Rob’s work visit his website at www.cliffordphotographynh.com

Following a rousing original appearance at Pitman’s Freight Room in Laconia, rock and blues legend band, The Jon Butcher Axis will perform at the 94 New Salem, St venue Saturday, Dec. 3 at 8pm. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. For additional information call Pitman’s Freight Room at (603) 527-0043. The Grammy-nominated Butcher has released 20 CDs and has provided music for a number of network and cable television shows including “Ugly Betty,” “My Name is Earl,” “Deadwood,” “Six Feet Under,” “Shameless,” and many more. Butcher’s first appear-

ance at Pitman’s was a solo show, but the Dec. 3 event includes ‘the Axis’ which is comprised of Butcher, drummer John Muzzy and bassist Chris Martin. “We are expecting a great turnout,” said Pitman’s owner and music-booker Dick Mitchell. Pitman’s is BYOB.

Inside This Issue:

CHRISTMAS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE

Your Guide to Holiday Gifts & Celebration!

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Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. 2 local favorites on stage with $2 drafts and 2-for-1 appetizers after 8pm. 2930841

Friday 2nd A Country Time Christmas Clough Tavern Farm, 23 Clough Tavern Road, Canterbury. 9am-5pm. Enjoy a diversified and eclectic collection of 44 local NH artisans’ confections, antiques and much more! There will be classes to make an ornament, a gift or a holiday arrangement. Come alone or with a group (call or email for times and fees). There is also after hours shopping available by rsvp, groups of 4 or more! The house is beautiful after dark! 783-4287 or twosistersgarlic@

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Christmas Night in Ashland Most events will take place between 5pm and 6:45pm on Main Street and Highland Street in Ashland. The 2016 celebration will include children’s workshops and scavenger hunt, a storybook giveaway, pictures with Santa, food sales, Christmas music performed by Paul Hubert, hay rides, a model railroad display, historic photo exhibit, craft fair, music by Ashland students, Christmas cards and ornament making for the Veterans Home, face painting and the lighting of the town Christmas Tree! Come to downtown Ashland and begin your Christmas celebration! 968-7716 or email davidruell@gmail.com

Hospital & Community Aid Street Fair Fundraiser Sale

65 Pine Hill Road, Wolfeboro. 10am-2pm. Art, antiques, camping, books, furniture, lamps, sports, toys, electronics and more.

The Alternate Routes and Will Evans Band The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 536-2551

Fri. 2nd – Sun. 18th The Best Christmas Pageant Ever – The Musical Jean’s Playhouse, Papermill Drive, Lincoln. Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:30pm and Sunday matinees at 3pm. See the hilarious comedy, musical style! www.jeansplayhouse. com or 745-2141

Saturday 3rd A Country Time Christmas Clough Tavern Farm, 23 Clough Tavern Road, Canterbury. 9am-5pm. Enjoy a diversified and eclectic collection of 44 local NH artisans’ confections, antiques and much more! There will be classes to make an ornament, a gift or a holiday arrangement. Come alone or with a group (call or email for times and fees). There is also after hours shopping available by rsvp, groups of 4 or more! The house is beautiful after dark! 783-4287 or twosistersgarlic@

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Northeastern Ballet “The Nutcracker”

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Oyster River High School, 55 Coe Drive, Durham. 7pm. Tickets are $20/ adult, $17.50/children, students and seniors or $60/family of 4. Group tickets available. Purchase online at www.northeasternballet.org or call 834-8834

Santa Express Trains Hobo Railroad, just off exit 32 in I-93, Lincoln. Train departs at 1pm. Hot

chocolate for everyone on the train, complimentary box of holiday cookies for each family and each child receives a gift from Santa on the Train. $20pp/ Coach class, $25pp/First class, ages 2 and under are free! 745-2135 or

International Nativity Display

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Hospital & Community Aid Street Fair Fundraiser Sale

65 Pine Hill Road, Wolfeboro. 10am-2pm. Art, antiques, camping, books, furniture, lamps, sports, toys, electronics and more.

Homestead Christmas The Remick Country Doctor Museum, Cleveland Hill Road, Tamworth. 11am3pm. This event is a family-friendly way to ease into the Holiday Season and learn about the rich history of New Hampshire homesteading. This festive annual event allows all generations to experience a by-gone time through reminiscent sights, tastes, smells, sounds and hands-on activities. $5pp, no charge for children ages 4 and under. www.remickmuseum.org or 323-7591

OCC Annual Christmas Fair

Ossipee Town Hall, Ossipee. 10am2pm. Christmas crafts, baked goods, white elephant table and a delicious luncheon. Santa arrives at 11am.

Flying Film Series “ Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 536-2551

Sunday 4th A Country Time Christmas Clough Tavern Farm, 23 Clough Tavern Road, Canterbury. 9am5pm. Enjoy a diversified and eclectic collection of 44 local NH artisans’ confections, antiques and much more! There will be classes to make an ornament, a gift or a holiday

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Rev. John Eaton with two of the 100 nativities.

Friday through Sunday, December 9-11th an International Nativity Display will be presented at Meredith Bay Colony Club, 21 Upper Mile Point Drive. Meredith. Over 100 créches from 40 nations will be on display including new créches from Hungary, Ecuador and Bulgaria. Hours for the display are Friday from Noon to 5pm, Saturday from 9am to 5pm and Sunday from Noon to 3pm. Admission is Free!! (See next week’s issue for more information on this wonderful display!)

Rochester Hannaford To Celebrate Grand Reopening The Rochester Lilac Mall Hannaford Supermarket & Pharmacy will host a Grand Reopening event on Saturday, December 3rd to celebrate the completion of its recent remodel. The renovation led to many store improvements, including an increased the variety of produce and meat; wider aisles; and new hot bar with convenient entree options and express bar with wings, soup and salad. The supermarket also offers Hannaford To Go, a service that allows customers to order groceries online and pick them up at the store, and features an in-store dietician. The celebration begins at 7am with the first 200 customers receiving gift cards randomly valued between $5 and $100. The event will include food sampling, give-away items and a raffle. The store is located at 11 Milton Road (26 Lilac Mall #2) in Rochester. In conjunction with the Grand Reopening, the store is donating $1,000 to Gerry’s Food Pantry and an additional $1,000 to the Strafford Meals on Wheels. Hannaford Supermarkets, based in Scarborough, Maine, operates 179 stores in the Northeast. Stores are located in Maine, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Hannaford employs more than 27,000 associates. Additional information can be found at www.hannaford.com.

NUNCRACKERS! At Interlakes Theatre “Nuncrackers: The Nunsense Christmas Musical” will be at Moultonboro Academy, Saturday, December 10th at 7:30pm and Sunday, December 11th at 2pm. “Nuncrackers” is the first “TV Special” taped by the sisters in their convent basement studio for Cable Access. It stars the nuns you love plus Father Virgil and some of Mt. Saint Helen’s most talented students. It features all new songs including: Twelve Days Prior to Christmas, Santa Ain’t Comin’ To Our House, We Three Kings of Orient Are Us, and It’s Better to Give Than To Receive. This show is filled with “Nunsense” humor, some of your favorite carols, a “Secret Santa,” and an uproarious take on Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Ballet. Nuncrackers will make you laugh and maybe tug at your heartstrings. It’s the perfect way to insure your holiday season is merry and bright. Tickets are $25 and can be ordered at www.InterlakesTheatre.com or by calling 603-707-6035. Moultonboro Academy is right off of Route 25 At 25 Blake Road, 10 minutes up from Inter-Lakes HS and will be well marked for easy identification.

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To the Editor I voted early and headed to Spain. I was traveling from Barcelona to Avignon when I heard the outcome of the election. It was interesting to hear the European views of election before and after election day. But what was more interesting was the letter No To Flynn. For someone to write “We have to support Donald Trump so he can HOPEFULLY perform well as President�. To vote for anyone to be President that they feel is unable perform the duties of President sounds bazaar to me. It was also stated that Donald Trump “won the election, and a large segment of the U.S. population has spoken�. What was not stated was Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. I believe by 1.7 million votes. It would be more accurate to point out that Donald Trump won the majority of States. 30 I believe. Whether you like the electoral college or not, that is what decided the election. If the electoral college was eliminated not only would the campaigns have been different, it would have silenced the voices of those with smaller populations. Whether you voted for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, every State needs to be involved and have say in who is the President of the United States of America. Keep the electoral college.

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To the Editor: New Hampshire’s economy needs innovation to remain competitive over the next 10 years. Once our economy was linked to the Boston economy but the trend has shifted, as millennials refuse to do long commutes, and seek a more urban setting to live closer to work. Times have changed and we need to as well. We need to find new ways to kindle the spark of invention here in the Granite State, and Hellenic American University believes that our executive MBA program is one way to help. MBA’s today foster creative thinking with a holistic perspective of the business world and our society – and that is the type of person we need to attract, retain and get to invest to the Granite State. MBA’s are about problemsolving and we need more innovation and creativity to increase out state’s access to venture capital, attract new businesses, and increase the breadth and depth of our workforce. Business and the workplace have changed, so have MBA’s – and we need to think of our workforce, our management assets and our future to get the state’s economy back on track.

To The Editor: My “beef� with Congress hasn’t only been with Democrats. I’m sick of congressional members who have been there for 30 to 40 years and don’t listen to us. Our National Debt is serious -- compare it to a family who’s credit card debt is way out of control, and they are paying their bills from newly acquired credit cards - INSANE and Unsustainable. This Republican majority congress is now poised to use “earmarks� in bills, just as many members of Congress, on both sides, have done in the past to make deals. This behavior will drive up our national debt even more. We need to tell our U.S. Senators and Representatives that we are watching and expect them to listen to us, and our mandate; not the lobbyists. All responsible Republicans need to get involved and let them know that we want what we voted for. Democrats are all welcome to do the same, as this country belongs to us. We all have a “voice.� Let’s use it. This is informative: https://www. y o u t u b e . c o m / watch?v=Qg64jznECeE This is how to contact your representatives in Congress: U.S. Senate: http:// www.senate.gov/senators/ contact/ U.S, House of Representatives: http://www.house. gov/representatives/find/

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by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor

Every holiday season the members of FATSO (Flatlanders Adjusting To Solitary Oblivion) get together to celebrate the holidays, exchange gifts and reminisce. FATSO is a winter support group for new transplants started many years ago by my friend Vinnie and myself. We throw these Christmas parties to not only welcome the new members, but to keep in touch with the old ones as well. I always love to surprise the new transplants, especially those from my birthplace of New York, with traditional gifts like real New York Potato Salad and a dozen fresh Brooklyn bagels which I get from my Black Market connection here in New Hampshire. These gifts seem to soothe their fragile psyches when the temperatures plummet for the first time and they realize there isn’t anything to do after eight o’clock at night on a weekday once summer is over. It’s Flatlander comfort food. Of course, some old FATSO members do show up for these parties and it always brings a small tear to my eye to see how well they are doing as well as how much food they eat at the buffet. The older FATSO members get that misty, faraway look in their eyes when they see the new FATSOs reacting to the expected gifts. It brings

them back to their first winters here. After a few rounds of eggnog and Schlitz beer, the older members will exchange gifts among themselves. These are the more practical items that we Flatlanders have learned that we truly need for our survival. For example, this year I was surprised to receive a “Flatlander Tool Box.” It seems the group got together and bought me the best one that money could buy. Among a few of the items inside were a worn, wing-tip shoe with a hard leather sole that can be used as a hammer, a sterling butter knife screwdriver, a lobster pick for those tight, precise jobs and, of course, two dozen rolls of duct tape with a coupon good for a dozen more. The tool “box” itself was actually a high-quality canvas bag from a local book store which was a big step up from the plastic Wal-Mart bag I had used for my previous tool box and was now stuffed into the broken utility draw in my kitchen. (I have to get around to fixing that one of these days.) I had a few surprise gifts to give out myself. To my friend Tony, a transplant form Queens, New York. I gave a CD collection “Planes, Trains and Automobiles – A Soundtrack of New York.” Now he can sleep comfortably as the unnerving quiet of the New Hampshire countryside is replaced by the familiar, unending beat of the Long Island Expressway as it sifts through his earpiece. My favorite sound in the collection is the rumble of jets taking off from Kennedy Airport as they fly two hundred feet over your house – Ahh! What memories. When I told Paul, a long time Flatlander who is originally from The Bronx, the gift I bought for Tony,

he helped to enhance the experience when he found one of those old “magic fingers” massage machines from a motel that was out of business. Paul jerryrigged the “magic fingers” onto Tony’s bed (using only tools from the Flatlander Toolbox, I might add) so that he could actually “feel” the eighteenwheelers zooming by his bedroom window. Quite a gift! After all the gifts have been exchanged and the buffet table is cleared off with many members using the plastic bags they bought to fill with the remaining potato salad and bagels (their grandmothers would be proud) it was time to gather around the video yule log and sing some of our favorite Christmas Carols. “I’ll Be Home For Christmas…You Got A Problem With That?” is one of my personal favorites and usually starts off the singa-long. Soon we were into rousing renditions of “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Why?” and “Santa Claus is Coming To The Mall.” A dry eye cannot be found after we finish the night with the strongest of voices to end the evening with “Silent Night… In This Neighborhood. Whaddya Kidding Me?” It’s always sad when the party comes to an end. The longtime Flatlanders give each other a hug and a handshake as we know we may never see each other again until the last bobhouse sinks to the botton of Lake Winnipesaukee. The new FATSOs we try to reassure. We give them our phone numbers and email addresses so they can contact us if they are feeling out of sorts. It’s really a great community and we are there to help each other.

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The Return of Assassination Fascination

Alert the CDC: Left-wing America has been overcome by another contagious epidemic of assassination fascination. It’s time to declare a public health by Michelle Malkin crisis. Syndicated Columnist In San Antonio last week, two high school students performed a sicko skit depicting the assassination of President-elect Donald Trump. In Cleveland, unhinged 24-yearold Zachary Benson tweeted his “life goal is to assassinate Trump.” The hashtag #AssassinateTrump surfaced on Twitter, along with a flood of bloodthirsty death wishes. Another #AssassinateTrump threat came from Atlanta public transit employee Aleama Philips, who tweeted, “I wish I had the balls to kill him myself,” illustrated with a photo of Trump dead and riddled with bullets. She was fired by the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority last week. In San Diego, the loony (and now former) CEO of cybersecurity firm PacketSled, Matt Harrigan, took to Facebook on election night to declare: “I’m going to kill the president.” He further threatened that he was “getting a sniper rifle and perching myself where it counts. Find a bedroom in the White House that suits you, [expletive]. I’ll find you.” In the music world, rapper Rick Ross vowed to “assassinate Trump like I’m (George) Zimmerman.” Inevitably, the Kill Trump mania has spread overseas. French radio host Pablo Mira reportedly gloated: “Donald Trump and his victory have given a hope in the American people -- the hope that he would be killed even before his inauguration.”

Where is your condemnation of these perverted incitements to violence, President Obama? Where are you, media concern trolls, to bemoan the anti-Trump culture of hatred and climate of intolerance? AWOL, of course. The Blame Righty crowd that has falsely blamed random shootings and suicides on conservative talk radio, the tea party, right-wing blogs and Fox News is nowhere to be found when left-wing violent extremism rears its ugly head. Double-standard-itis is a chronic and recurring condition, accompanied by politically expedient amnesia. Assassination chic was all the rage when George W. Bush took office and extended throughout his two terms in office. I remember -- even if the civility and tolerance police at The New York Times don’t. Protesters displayed signs of a decapitated Bush gushing blood from his neck and slogans proclaiming “Bush -- the only dope worth shooting.” “Kill Bush” T-shirts spattered with fake blood went on sale at CafePress.com. An art exhibit in Chicago featured Al Brandtner’s work titled “Patriot Act,” a sheet of mock 37cent red, white and blue stamps showing a handgun pointed at Bush’s head. Off-Broadway play “I’m Going to Kill the President” led audience members in a group chant screaming, you guessed it, “I’m Going to Kill the President.” “Comedian” Rich Hall performed a public hate anthem, “Let’s get together and kill George Bush.” Former Democratic Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear joked: “When I mention that Democrats are problem solvers, I can think of only one Republican who can be a problem solver -- that is Vice Presi-

America Is Not A Safe Space

Pity the anti-Trump protesters thronging the streets of American cities. Apparently, no one ever by Rich Lowry told them that Contributing Writer they live in a geographically, economically and ideologically varied nation, and that about half of its inhabitants might support a Republican candidate for president. They mistook the country for the campus of Oberlin College. The news that it actually isn’t arrived with the force of a thunderclap on Nov. 8. The shock of Donald Trump’s election has occasioned tears, rending of garments and days of protests showcasing the rank infantilism of the American left. Prior to the election, liberal commentators obsessed over Trump’s rumblings about not accepting the outcome and worSee malkin on 25 ried about his supporters lash-

ing out. But the specter of Republican mayhem was always far-fetched. When was the last time that GOP protesters ran out of control and burned down local business establishments? Tea-party rallies were famous for their orderliness -- participants in a massive rally on the Mall in Washington, D.C., even picked up their own trash. It is left-wing protests that invariably devolve into law breaking, and so it was that the same kids who think Donald Trump is too divisive were soon smashing windows and throwing projectiles at police in behalf of their supposedly more open-minded vision of America. The level of self-awareness of the protesters isn’t high. Some hold signs reading “This is what democracy looks like.” It is true that the right to peaceful assembly is a key aspect of any liberal democracy (even if some protesters need to work on the “peaceful” part), but as an illustrative exercise in democracy, you can’t beat the national election that

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Syria’s Labyrinth into Hell UNITED NATIONS

- It’ s not often a senior UN official leaves a prepared and rigid script to emotionally describe a situation to by John J. Metzler delegates in Syndicated Columnist the Security Council. But when Humanitarian Chief Stephen O’Brien told diplomats, “I am more or less at my wit’s end as a human being” in describing and cataloguing the horrors of Syria’s civl war, he was stating the painful truth. As this column has stressed on many occasions, Syria has descended into Dante’s Inferno. During more than five years of conflict, 500,000 people have been killed and millions rendered homeless or displaced as refugees. The ongoing Syrian conflict has been viewed by many with shameful indifference. Echoes of Bosnia a generation ago. Aleppo, and the ongoing siege by Assad government forces remains the epicenter of the conflict; this proud once thriving city has been reduced to swaths of rubble, a jagged patchwork of control by terrorist factions, regime loyalists, and militias. Starvation stalks the land while regime helicopters indiscriminately drop hideous “barrel bombs” and Russian jets pound presumably rebel positions. UN

humanitarian aid waits in suspended animation as shells fall. “Humanitarian conditions in eastern Aleppo have gone from terrible to terrifying and now barely survivable by human beings,” Stephen O’Brien asserted. There’s limited food and medicine for a beleaguered civilian population caught in the crossfire. He called on countries to use their influence to “put an end to the slaughterhouse that is Aleppo,” and to allow humanitarian access. A pattern of medieval style sieges affect Aleppo and other towns: a brutal but effective way to isolate the opposition. O’Brien stated that, at this time last year, 374,000 civilians were besieged; six months ago the number stood at 487,000, and today a total of 974,000, “Nearly one million Syrians are living tonight under siege.” He adds, “There is nothing subtle or complicated about the practice of besiegement…it is a deliberate tactic of cruelty to compound a people’s suffering for political, military and in some cases economic gain.” Undersecretary General O’Brien added that, “attacks on civilian infrastructure, most notably hospitals and schools have become so commonplace it takes your breath away.” Prewar Syria had one of the most advanced health care systems in the world according to a World Health Organization official. Thus as Syria enters the laby-

rinth deeper into Hell, UN humanitarian efforts continue in aiding nearly six million people across the country. Nonetheless O’Brien begged all concerned countries to respect UN Security Council resolutions to lift sieges

and allow safe and unhindered humanitarian access throughout the embattled land. A fractious Council debate followed with American Ambassador Samantha Power stating that

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Backward-Looking ‘Progressives’ People who call themselves “progressives” claim to be forward-looking, but a remarkable amount of the things they say and do are based on by Thomas Sowell looking backSyndicated Columnist ward. One of the maddening aspects of the thinking, or non-thinking, on the political left is their failure to understand that there is nothing they can do about the past. Whether people on the left are talking about college admissions or criminal justice, or many other decisions, they go on and on about how some people were born with lesser chances in life than other people. Whoever doubted it? But, once someone who has grown up is being judged by a college admissions committee or by a court of criminal justice, there is nothing that can be done about their childhood. Other institutions can deal with today’s children from disadvantaged backgrounds, and should, but the past is irrevocable. Even where there are no economic differences among various families in which children are raised, there are still major differences in the circumstances into which people are born, even within the same family, which affect their chances in later life as adults. For example, among children of the same parents, raised under the same roof, the first born, as a group, have done better than their later siblings, whether measured by IQ tests or by becoming National Merit Scholarship final-

ists or by various other achievements. The only child has also done better, on average, than children who have siblings. The advantage of the first born may well be due to the fact that he or she was an only child for some time, perhaps for several formative years. By the time people have grown up and apply to college, all that is history. Nothing that a college admissions committee can do will change anything about their childhoods. The only things these committees’ decisions can affect are the present and the future. This is not rocket science. Nevertheless, there are people who urge college admissions committees to let disadvantaged students be admitted with lower test scores or other academic indicators. Those who say such things seldom even attempt to see what the actual consequences of such policies have been. The prevailing preconceptions -- sometimes called what “everybody knows” -- are sufficient for them. Factual studies show that admitting students to institutions whose standards they do not meet often leads to needless academic failures, even among students with above average ability, who could have succeeded at other institutions whose standards they do meet. The most comprehensive of these studies of Americans is the book “Mismatch” by Sander and Taylor. Similar results in other countries are cited in my own book, “Affirmative Action Around the World.” When it comes to criminal justice, there is much the same kind of preoccupation on the left with See Sowell on 25

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We Call It Nyjer by Steve White Contributing Writer

If you remember July and August, everything was coming up roses. Except maybe those large purple flowering weeds along the highways and byways of North America. This is the native purple thistle. It bears absolutely no kinship to a tiny black seed called “guizotia abyssinica” or nyjer seed. However, it still is packaged in many retail stores with the incorrect name of thistle. In fact, up until about a decade ago, it was spelled niger, not nyjer. However, a civil rights group launched a court case against a large retailer, claiming the little black seed was being mispronounced as a derogatory name for African Americans. Rather than fight the court battle, the seed industry changed the spelling of the name to its present-day “nyjer.” The fact that the imported seed was grown along the famous Niger River, (hence the name) in Africa did not assuage the political forces at the time. This poor, little maligned weed seed is actually an imported seed from such far away places as India, Ethiopia, and Myanmar. American farmers do want anything to do with the natural thistle seed for growing purposes. Our native thistle plant is extremely invasive and will easily take over any plot of land in a very short period of time.

Although many birds do eat the seeds from the native thistle plants, these are digested. Since they don’t pass through in bird droppings, it is not the birds that are spreading weed seeds. You do not have to worry about the imported nyjer seeds sprouting in your yard, however. Like all grain imports, nyjer seed is sterilized at the port of entry in the United States before it is packaged and shipped to stores. Many customers believe that the birds are wasting most of the nyjer seed in their feeders due to the amount of black seeds on the ground below. Imagine their surprise when we tell them that the seeds on the ground are simply the nyjer shells. Yes, that tiny seed has a black, opaque shell that the birds have to crack and discard to get at the single wisp of meat inside. Now, that’s working overtime to get such a small rewar d . T h e reason that goldfinches, house finches and other birds are attracted to the nyjer seed is the large fat content that it contains. Imported nyjer seeds are used to make dry chutney which is used as an accompaniment with breads. They are also used as a spice in some curries within the Indian Ocean regions. Enjoy your birds!

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Hospital & Community Aid Street Fair Fundraiser Sale 65 Pine Hill Road, Wolfeboro. 10am-2pm. Art, antiques, camping, books, furniture, lamps, sports, toys, electronics and more.

Christmas Cabaret – A Night of Classic Holiday Music Garrison Players Arts Center, Route 4, Rollinsford. 8pm. This show is free and open to the public. Tickets are available at the door only. No reservations are taken for the show, so come early! www.garrisonplayers.

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Meredith Bay Colony Club, 21 Upper Mile Point Drive, Meredith. Noon-5pm. Over 100 crèches from 40 nations on display. New this year are Hungary, Ecuador and Bulgaria. Free admission.

Garrison Players Arts Center, Route 4, Rollinsford. 8pm. This show is free and open to the public. Tickets are available at the door only. No reservations are taken for the show, so come early! www.garrisonplayers.org

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Saturday 10th A Country Time Christmas Clough Tavern Farm, 23 Clough Tavern Road, Canterbury. 9am-5pm. Enjoy a diversified and eclectic collection of 44 local NH artisans’ confections, antiques and much more! There will be classes to make an ornament, a gift or a holiday arrangement. Come alone or with a group (call or email for times and fees). There is also after hours shopping available by rsvp, groups of 4 or more! The house is beautiful after dark! 783-4287 or twosistersgarlic@yahoo.

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Santa Express Trains Hobo Railroad, just off exit 32 in I-93, Lincoln. Train departs at 1pm. Hot chocolate for everyone on the train, complimentary box of holiday cookies for each family and each child receives a gift from Santa on the Train. $20pp/ Coach class, $25pp/First class, ages 2 and under are free! 7452135 or www.hoborr.com

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Clough Tavern Farm, 23 Clough Tavern Road, Canterbury. 9am5pm. Enjoy a diversified and eclectic collection of 44 local NH artisans’ confections, antiques and much more! There will be classes to make an ornament, a gift or a holiday arrangement. Come alone or with a group (call or email for times and fees). There is also after hours shopping available by rsvp, groups of 4 or more! The house is beautiful after dark! 783-4287 or twosistersgarlic@yahoo.

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Santa Express Trains Hobo Railroad, just off exit 32 in I-93, Lincoln. Train departs at 1pm. Hot chocolate for everyone on the train, complimentary box of holiday cookies for each family and each child receives a gift from Santa on the Train. $20pp/ Coach class, $25pp/First class, ages 2 and under are free! 7452135 or www.hoborr.com

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Northeastern Ballet Theatre (NBT), New Hampshire’s premier ballet company, will present the holiday classic, The Nutcracker, for 3 shows only: Saturday, December 3 at 7pm and Sunday, December 4 at 2pm at Oyster River High School in Durham, and Saturday, December 10 at 7pm at the Kingswood Arts Center in Wolfeboro. Under the directorship of former Boston Ballet prima ballerina, Edra Toth, NBT’s The Nutcracker takes the audience on a magical journey with Clara and her Nutcracker as they venture through the Land of the Sweets! This year’s Durham shows feature University of New Hampshire’s Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance (Dance)’s Assaf Benchetrit as the Cavalier. Originally from Israel and a former member of the Israel National Ballet Company, Mr. Benchetrit has toured internationally and danced

the lead roles in many wellknown ballets including Swan Lake, Don Quixote, and Sleeping Beauty. He has been a company member of Northeastern Ballet Theatre for two years, dancing in Beauty and the Beast, Dracula, and Sleeping Beauty. Dancing with him as the Sugar Plum Fairy is NBT company member Naomi Sawyer. Ms. Sawyer received her early training in ballet,

jazz and tap under Kay Welch in northern Vermont, with summer intensives at Broadway Dance Center, the Joffrey Ballet in NY and Boston Ballet School. As a student at the Boston Ballet School she performed in Boston Ballet’s Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty. Ms. Sawyer has performed in several NBT productions including Dracula, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast and The Nutcracker. These two dancers have a wonderful chemistry that transcends the dance! The rest of the cast of NBT’s The Nutcracker, are either professional dancers or students of NBT’s training school, located in Dover and Wolfeboro, NH. Don’t miss the magic that is The Nutcracker! One patron who saw Northeastern Ballet Theatre’s The Nutcracker in 2014 said, “Our proximity to the stage contributed to an immersive experience that surpassed even that of the Wang Center in Boston!” Tickets are $20 for adults, $17.50 for students/seniors and $60 for a family pack of 4. For tickets and more info www.northeasternballet. org or call (603) 834-8834. They offers ongoing classical ballet training for ages 3 through adult, all levels from beginners through professional. Call today to try a class for free!

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four-part harmony to Taylor Community’s Woodside Building Monday, Dec. 5 at 6:30 p.m. for a holiday concert. The event is free and open to the public. This Laconia Chapter has been in existence for more than 60 years. In addition to singing locally, their chorus and quartets participate in competitions and enjoy supporting students and music educators throughout the area who wish to further their musical achievements by helping fund participation at schools and seminars each year. Locally, they support and participate in the Lakes Region Youth in Harmony program,

as well as their Northeastern District summer school, known at the Harmony Extension Camp, where high school boys, girls and teachers from throughout the northeast attend three days of intense and funfilled coaching by highly trained clinicians and specialists. Taylor Community is a not-for-profit Continuing Care Retirement Community whose mission is to provide the highest quality retirement living options to support the independence, health and dignity of community residents. For more information, visit www. taylorcommunity.org.

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Art Place Featuring Donna Estabrooks

The Art Place in Wolfeboro is featuring the brightly colored and creative artwork of Donna Estabrooks. A new artist to the gallery, her vibrant paintings come in all shapes and sizes: her work includes large murals and tiny postcards, and covers everything from animals and playful portraits to spiritual revelations and prayers. Donna art is truly mixed media. She uses acrylics, oils, as well as pastels, and often punctuates her visual imagery with words of reason or thought. Some works have an added dimension of texture or found objects to her expressive art. Donna has a wide range of themes that can be thought provoking or just fun. After graduating from UMass with a degree in art, Estabrooks worked as an artist in residence for eight years before her life drastically changed. She found herself abruptly without a home or job and made the choice to continue working as an artist. This is when she believes she truly found her artistic voice, leaving behind the strict rules of art

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Christmas Night in Ashland, celebrated on the first Friday of December in downtown Ashland, will be held this year on Friday, December 2. The Christmas Night in Ashland Committee, operating under the auspices of the Ashland Area Recreation Association, coordinates the efforts of local organizations, businesses and individuals to put on the holiday family event. The 2016 celebration will include children’s workshops and scavenger hunt, a storybook giveaway, pictures with Santa, food sales, Christmas music performed by Paul Hubert, hay rides, a model railroad display, historic photo exhibit, a crafts fair, card making, music by Ashland students, Christmas cards and ornament making for the Veterans Home, face painting, the lighting of the town Christmas tree, and a gift bag raffle to benefit the local food pantry. Most events will take place between 5 and 6:45 p.m. on Main Street and High-

land Street. The Friends of the Ashland Town Library will sponsor Pictures with Santa in the Library at 41 Main Street overlooking the main intersection in the village. The Friends will take one picture per family for free. Additional pictures are $1 each. A Corn Chowder Supper to benefit the Food Pantry will be served at St. Mark;s Church hall, next to the Community Center. The supper, including chowder, crackers and beverages, costs just $3. Horse drawn hay rides, sponsored by the Community Center, will load up in the Town Hall parking lot, at 20 Highland Street, next to St. Mark’s Church. Donations would be appreciated, but are not required for the hay rides, which will be given from 5 to 8 p.m. In the Ashland School’s Tirone Gymnasium, almost opposite the Town Hall, the 8th grade will host from 4 to 8 p.m. a craft fair, a Bake Sale, a card making table, and

musical performances by Middle Tier students. Hot dogs and beverages will also be on sale. The Ashland Baptist Church dining hall at 57 Main Street will host several events. The Ashland Rebekahs will sell cider and doughnuts. Beginning at 7 p.m., Ashland musician Paul Hubert will perform Christmas music in the Baptist Church sanctuary. The celebration will end at 8 p.m. in Memorial Park, at the corner of Main Street and Riverside Drive. The prize winners of the Gift Bag Raffle and other raffles will be announced. With the help of Santa, the Town Christmas Tree, decked out for the holidays, will be lit to officially start the Christmas season. So, come to downtown Ashland to begin your Christmas celebration. (For more information, contact David Ruell at 968-7716 or davidruell@gmail.com.)

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ment was needed. Indeed so, but how to reach that near impossible consensus goal? Syria’s Ambassador Bashar Jaafari decried the terrorism plaguing his country. “The terrorists were the tafiris that were influenced by Saudi Wahhabi teachings. They came from all over the world.” He emphasized, “It was the same terrorism that was being fought in Mosul with support by the international coalition.” He asked why there was a double standard on fighting them in his country? ISIL, Al-Nusra and other radical Islamic groups are dangerously entrenched. Again we return to Undersecretary General O’Brien who warns, “There is no amount of military operations that will see an end to the conflict. The only solution, as has been said countless times before, is a political solution.” Finding an elusive political solution challenges diplomacy, morality, and indifference. Solve Syria now!

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dent Dick Cheney (who accidentally shot a hunting companion in 2006) if he would just take George on a hunting trip.” Nicholson Baker penned “Checkpoint,” a novella conversation between two people debating assassinating President Bush with “radio-controlled flying saws” or a “remotecontrolled boulder made of depleted uranium.” Sarah Vowell wrote “Assassination Vacation,” a best-selling murder travelogue of assassinated Republican presidents, in which she confessed she was so crippled by hatred of Bush that she couldn’t even write his name and admitted that her “simmering rage against the current president scares me.” Across the pond, Guardian columnist Charlie Brooker lamented Bush’s election with a screed asking, “John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr. -- where are you now that we need you?” British docudrama “Death of a President” imagined the assassination of Bush by a gunman at the Chicago Sheraton hotel after an anti-war rally. And Code Pink poster woman Cindy Sheehan penned an autobiography in which she confessed her presidential murder fantasy -- going back in time and killing the infant Bush in order to prevent the Iraq War. She admitted she had entertained this infanticidal fantasy “often.” From “Kill Bush” to #AssassinateTrump, the naked hypocrisy of the “love and peace” left is on full display. Spare us the lectures about diversity, tolerance and safe spaces. Look in the mirror. Put down the haterade. Seek help.

the past that cannot be changed. Murderers may in some cases have had unhappy childhoods, but there is absolutely nothing that anybody can do to change their childhoods after they are adults. The most that can be done is to keep murderers from committing more murders, and to deter others from committing murder. People on the left who want to give murderers “another chance” are gambling with the lives of innocent people. That is one of many other examples of the cruel consequences of seemingly compassionate decisions and policies. Ironically, people on the left who are preoccupied with the presumably unhappy childhoods of murderers, which they can do nothing about, seldom show similar concern about the present and future unhappy childhoods of the orphans of people who have been murdered. Such inconsistencies are not peculiar to our time, though they seem to be more pervasive today. But the left has been trying, for more than 200 years, to mitigate or eliminate punishments in general, and capital punishment in particular. What is peculiar to our time is the degree to which the views of the left have become laws and policies. A long overdue backlash against those views has begun in some Western nations, of which the recent election results in the United States are just one symptom. How all this will end is by no means clear. Just as the past cannot be changed, so the future cannot be predicted with certainty.

Michelle Malkin is a senior editor at Conservative Review. For more articles and videos from Michelle, visit ConservativeReview. com. Her email address is malkinblog@gmail.com.

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has so outraged antiTrump protesters. They have now adopted the slogan “Not my president,” a phrase that the day before yesterday the left considered a racist slur when hurled at President Barack Obama. The post-election mayhem could be written off as the work of an unruly fringe, if it weren’t that the Democratic Party is so beholden to the sensibilities of its cosseted youth, whom it mistakes for the shock troops of the future. A party that considers it forbidden to say “all lives matter” because it will offend the enforcers of political correctness is a party that is going to have trouble appealing to Middle America. One anti-Trump protester was seen the other day holding a sign reading “Your vote was a hate crime.” It’s hard to imagine a better distillation of the coercive small-mindedness that prevails on college campuses. This attitude ensures a state of perpetual shock and outrage at the lived reality of a continental nation of more than 300 million free men and women. The anti-Trump protests aim to associate the president-elect with chaos and delegitimize him from the outset. But it is fully in Trump’s power, so long as he doesn’t show irritation or anger, to see that they backfire. One petulant tweet aside, he has struck a unifying tone, while it is his adversaries who are unhinged. Trump’s critics are certain that he is the champion of a blinkered worldview. But the election and its aftermath show that it is the self-styled citizens of the world who need to get out more. Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

the Syrian government was following a “starve, get bombed or surrender” strategy. Amb. Power conceded that while “atrocities committed by terrorist organizations must be acknowledged,” she stressed the deadly role of the “government and Russian terror” in the civil war. British Ambassador Matthew Rycroft stated forcefully, “Russia has the power to allow the aid so desperately needed into the city, if it does not, the world will hold it to account for the barbarous result…I urge the Russian Federation to persuade the Syrian regime to let the UN do its job and get aid into Aleppo.” Regarding Russian air strikes on hospitals in rebel areas Amb. Rycroft added, “We all want to counter terrorism in Syria, but attacks on schools and hospitals are not counter terrorist operations.” Russia’s delegate Vladimir Safronkov denied the charges and went so far as to claim his government was assisting UN humanitarian aid in Syria and facilitating political efforts towards solving the expanding conflict. Focusing on both the humanitarian and political side, Egypt’s Ambassador Amr Abdellatif Aboulatta emphasized there “was no military solution” and that a comprehensive political settle-

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the organization’s interest in having a positive influence on every area of a young person’s life. In 1914 the Cooperative Extension System at the United States Department of Agriculture was established and since 1924 4-H Clubs were officially formed with the clover emblem and have been under the oversight of universities and county offices around the nation. Our local club met on a monthly basis to conduct business, enjoy refreshments, and socialize (meaning talk and play games). Ours was a boys club and the organization allowed the establishment of either a boys or girls club or the combination of both. Members were to be between the ages of 10 and 21 and were required to choose one or more farm or home related projects under the jurisdiction of the State and County extension Service. Unlike many other organizations, no dues or other fees were required to belong to a 4-H Club. The officers who were elected each year consisted of a President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and any other officer that the local club decided to add. There was one required committee, the Program Committee, to be chaired by the vice-president, but additional committees could be appointed. One year our Hustler’s Club had a “Ways and Means Committee�, and in 1954 a “Skating Committee� was appointed at the January meeting and then reported at the February meeting that “We had no ice to skate on�. In reading old reports from 1950 -51 I found that the earliest that the club’s business meetings began was 8pm; however, the starting time was more often at 8:45 or 9pm with one meeting not starting until 10pm, although it should be noted that the late meeting was a July 1st gathering with “two girls’ clubs as guests� and was preceded by a hot dog roast. The meetings were held on a Saturday night and the late start was probably attributable to some members’ responsi-

bilities in completing their farm chores. Club members came from families involved in commercial farming as well as from homes where the agricultural involvement was mainly to provide food for their own use, but every member was expected to sign up for a particular project(s) that they would engage in during the current calendar year. A publication from Purdue University on Planning the 4-H program had suggestions for each month of the year. December ideas for demonstrations and talks included A First Aid Kit In The Home, Wrapping Christmas Packages, Caring For Chapped Hands, Keeping A Scrapbook of 4-H Work, and Trapping Fur Bearing Animals. Ruth Weston was the Belknap County 4-H leader when I first attended the club and after she retired Charles Proctor took over the position. The County agent worked with the clubs and met with them on occasion to assist and inform the members of opportunities available to them for education and participation in activities beyond those provided on the local club level. In 1955 there was a County Tractor Club, a County Advisory Council, a Senior Leader’s Association, and opportunities to apply for or work towards receiving a college scholarship. The County Club agent led a radio program twice a week on station WLNH, and encouraged club members to assist him in the presentation. One club project that all members were asked to

participate in was titled “How I Act and Think� where the individual was to try to improve their actions and thoughts and to rate themselves on a monthly basis by answering yes or no as to their success in following a list of thirteen habits. Those included having a perfect attendance at school and 4-H Club, attending church regularly, having a good scholastic record, showing thoughtfulness for others, earning money and saving some, thinking of the danger from alcohol and narcotics and avoiding both, and being courteous in manner at home and in public. A 1956 4-H circular on gardening would not be considered appropriate for

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