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THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, december 8, 2016

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A History Of The Christmas Crèche buildings and elaborate ritual overpowered the fact that Jesus was born in the humble surroundings of a stable. Francis thought Christmas might become more meaningful to people if they could re-enact the nativity. He envisioned a living cr èche, with townspeople playing the parts of Mary, Joseph, shepherds and magi, and an

by Rev. John W. Eaton Contributing Writer

It is believed that the person we know today as St. Francis of Assisi created the first crèche at Greccio, Italy, on Christmas Eve in 1223. Tradition holds that Francis DiBernardone was concerned that people did not understand the full significance of Christmas. The splendor of church

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Over 100 Nativity Sets To Be Displayed

Nativity scenes, also called crèches have been a very important part of the celebration of Christmas. Believed to have been first created in 1223, today they are used throughout the world in reenacting the birth of Jesus.

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Rev. John Eaton has been collecting crèches (pronounced kreSHes) from around the world for about twenty-five years. This weekend he will once again be displaying his collection at Meredith Bay Colony Club in Meredith. Crèches are also known as nativity scenes and defined by Webster’s Dictonary as “a set of statues that

represents the scene of Jesus Christ’s birth that is displayed during Christmas.” Though his collection of crèches encompasses his collection since the early 1990s. Rev. Eaton recalls his first crèche being purchased when he was a little boy living in Vermont. “We didn’t have one in our house so I asked See display on 17

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December Through the Month “Diane Bowie Zaitlin: Revelations” – Art Exhibit on Display The Carnegie Gallery in the Rochester Public Library, 65 South Main Street, Rochester. Monday through Thursday 9am-8:30pm, Friday 9am-5pm and Saturday 9am-4pm. Zaitlin’s work involves layering of imagery and marks. The artist typically starts with writing and drawing that sets the tone for the piece. She works intuitively, creating a give and take between layers; a revealing and obscuring of fragments of phrases, marks and patterns that suggest a story of their own. www.dianebowiezaitlin.com to see her work. Thursday 8th

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Silent Film Series – “The Kiss” The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 536-2551

Benefit for Lakes Region Girls’ Softball League Pizzeria Uno’s, Tilton. 11am-12:30am. Ask your server for a ticket before ordering your meals. Up to 20% of your purchase will be donated to the Lakes Region Girls Softball League for Laconia and Belmont. www.

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Thurs. 8th – Thurs. 22nd A Christmas Carol Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. www. rochesteroperahouse.com or 3351992 Friday 9th

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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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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Flying Film Series “ The Polar Express” The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 536-2551

International Nativity Display

Meredith Bay Colony Club, 21 Upper Mile Point Drive, Meredith. Noon5pm. Over 100 crèches from 40 nations on display. New this year are Hungary, Ecuador and Bulgaria. Free admission.

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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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Kingswood Arts Center, 21 McManus Road, Wolfeboro. 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

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Clearlakes Chorale – “Puccini and the Paradise Tree” St. Katherine Drexel Church, Hidden Springs Road, Alton. 7:30pm. Clearlakes Chorale presents Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, with professional soloist and orchestra. The group will also perform a variety of Christmas music. Tickets can be purchased at Black’s Paper Store in Wolfeboro, online at www.clearlakeschorale. org or at the door. $20/adult, $10/ student.

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

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Pitman’s Kicks Off Fifth Year Of Comedy With Lenny Clarke When it comes to New England comedy, they don’t come any bigger, better, or more impressive than Lenny Clarke. And Pitman’s Freight Room in Laconia kicks off its fifth year of stand-up comedy by bringing in the legendary stand-up star for a special performance Friday Dec. 9 at 8pm. “I’m looking forward to working at Pitman’s,” said the legendary Clarke, regarding his first appearance at the Laconia venue. “I’ve heard great things from other comedians who have worked the room who said the crowd and the atmosphere make it a great place to perform.” Tickets are $30 and $25 and Pitman’s is a bring your own food and drinks venue. Tickets are going fast for the Dec. 9 show starring Clarke who sells out rooms across New England and is a favorite among comedy fans with a devoted following which continues to grow.

Wolfeboro Art Walk Saturday, December 10 from 5 to 8 p.m. Wolfeboro will be having a special holiday ART WALK. Several galleries in town will be open and present various activities and provide refreshments for this event. Wolfeboro artist Madelyn Albee has been displaying at The Art Place for many years, will be the featured artist at The Art Place. Besides the events at The Art Place, other galleries include the following happenings: The Kalled Gallery is encouraging ladies to create their “Wish List” for the gallery’s annual Men’s Night, which is December 15th. The Sandy Martin Gallery is open for the festivities with a gallery full of beautiful photography and artwork featuring Sandy’s own line of Christmas cards of local scenes. Doug Blum’s Gallery and studio featuring sculpture, pottery and paintings will also be open for the evening. Refreshments will be served at all venues. Local vocalist and performer Laurie Jones will be making the rounds at The Art Place, The Kalled Gallery and Sandy Martin Gallery with Christmas carols and music to add to all the Holiday merriment! Pick up a FREE informational Rack Card at named downtown Wolfeboro galleries and the Wolfeboro Chamber of Commerce which lists contact infomation and a map of all the participants. You can easily identify the participating arts locations by a small poster hanging in the windows of the galleries. If you have never been to an art walk before, Wolfeboro ART WALK is a great one to visit—all the Galleries are in a central area of Main Street downtown. The event is free and open to the public.

“Diane Bowie Zaitlin: Revelations” at the Rochester Public Library The Rochester Museum of Fine Arts presents “Diane Bowie Zaitlin: Revelations” on view in the Carnegie Gallery at the Rochester Public Library from December 3rd, 2016 to February 3rd, 2017. The exhibition brings together two unique bodies of work in a concert of color and gesture. Selected works previously shown in a solo exhibition at the Maine Jewish Museum in 2015 is a collection of encaustic pieces. Inherent in the encaustic process for Zaitlin is the addition and subtraction of layers of beeswax and resin with drawing, which, Carl Little, in his review of the exhibition in Art New England, observed produces “all-over paintings alive with marks” that “offer evidence of Zaitlin’s mastery of the media and materials, not to mention her skill at presenting richly conceived imagery that follows you out the door.” The Carnegie Gallery in the Rochester Public Library is located at 65 South Main Street. It is open Monday - Thursday, 9:00am to 8:30pm, Friday, 9am to 5pm, and Saturday, 9am to 4pm.

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It was midnight and the town of Somersworth went wild with excitement. A crowd of enthusiastic people poured onto the streets in a drizzling rain and paraded through the town accompanied by a drum corps and the background sounds of church bells and the fire alarm gong. Fireworks were set off to mark the occasion. It was election night in November of 1922 and the assembled people stopped their march at the office of their Mayor, Fred Brown, and asked for a speech from the man who had just been elected to be the next Governor of the State of New Hampshire. Mayor Brown, according to The Boston Sunday Globe of November 22, 1922, thanked the people for their support “…and expressed the hope that their confidence had not been misplaced.” The townspeople began making plans to observe a greater celebration of Mr. Brown’s victory. The popularity of Fred Herbert Brown is perhaps highlighted by the fact that, of the twentyfive governors who served New Hampshire in that office before him, twentyfour were Republicans and only one was a Democrat. Furthermore, after Brown served his one term governorship, the next eleven governors of the state were of the Republican party. Winning the 1922 election by aabin majority of 10,000 Ru s t y C ic in the ofz o votes, he served

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Proposed Legislation To The Editor: I wish to provide an initial report to the citizens of Gilford & Meredith (Belknap County House District 2) whom I represent in the NH House of Representatives. Although I will not be formally sworn until December 7, Pearl Harbor Day, I have endeavored to try to fulfill several of the issues on which I ran. Thus, I have submitted 7 proposed bills to the Office of Legislative Services for the preparation of formal bills to be introduced in the 2017 Session beginning in January covering the following topics: 1- Repeal of the statute that allows persons attending college in NH to register and vote here, regardless of whether this is their permanent home. 2- Complete repeal of the tax on interest & dividends. 3- Revising the Business Enterprise Tax to eliminate any liability for the tax in any year in which the business organization does not have profits subject to the Business Profits Tax. 4- A comprehensive Right to Work law based on the model law promulgated by the National Right To Work Committee. 5- Repeal of the Minimum Wage Law. 6- Comprehensive election law changes, including a definition of domicile versus resi-

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dence; establishing a minimum of 30 days’ residency requirement; elimination of same day registration; requiring student ID cards from all state supported institutions to indicate clearly whether the student is a NH resident qualified for in-state tuition or not; and “closing” our primary elections so that only those persons registered in a particular party can vote in that party’s primary. 7- A constitutional amendment returning meetings of the legislature to sessions every 2 years rather than each year as was in our original state constitution. I understand that other legislators have already introduced similar legislation and I have no idea how my proposals will ultimately fare, but at least I am trying. Again, please feel free to contact me with any questions, comments or concerns about our state and its laws My email is njs@silbersnh.com and my telephone number is 603-293-0565. Norman Silber Member-Elect of the NH House of Representatives Belknap County District 2 Gilford & Meredith

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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 re-established in 1992 and strives to maintain the patriotic spirit of its predecessor as well as his devotion to the interests of Lake Winnipesaukee and the Cocheco Valley area with the new Cocheco Times. 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.

President Barack Obama received a question from a steel worker about pending job losses as a result of Carrier Corporation’s planned move to Mexico. Obama, in typical fashion, responded by criticizing Donald Trump. He said: “When somebody [Trump] says that he’s going to bring all these jobs back, well how exactly [is he] going to do that? What [is he] going to do? There’s no answer to it.” Obama then exclaims: “[Trump] just says: “I’m going to negotiate a better deal.”.. “[How’s he] gonna do that? What magic wand do you [Mr. Trump] have?” What better way to reveal the incredible mistake America made twice no less by electing an inexperienced, wet behind the ears, clueless academic as president. This is a teaching moment: the Presidency is no place for on the job training! Any businessman with even limited experience knows it doesn’t take a magic wand to negotiate, it takes hard work, experience and honest talk. Playing hard ball if necessary. Hillary never discussed nor revealed her plan for keeping jobs here. My guess? She never had a plan. In Elkhart Indiana Obama exhibited his ignorance in business by essentially claiming that to keep these jobs here he would require a magic wand. Trump? He nailed See mail boat on 23

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Thinking Ahead

by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor

It has taken me this long to finally catch my breath. It was a long hard-fought battle for governor and now it’s finally over. All of the mud-slinging and name calling has slowed down to a less offensive pitch. All the bogus promises and impossible pledges to please each and every person are now put to rest and we can get back to the realities of not much ever getting done. It is also the end of people running for office, myself included, walking around with giant, inhuman smiles while shaking hands with people we don’t know while pretending to listen to their worries and fears. It is now time to put all of that aside, dust ourselves off and spend some quality time with family and friends for Christmas before we get back to work in January planning our attack for the next election. I first would like to thank all of you (and you know who you are) who wrote my name in for governor this last election as I know it may have been difficult for some of you. Of course, I am not talking about the moral dilemma you may have had in the voting booth, agonizing over whether you may have been taking away votes from one of the other candidates by voting for me thus, single-handedly determining the fate

of New Hampshire politics for the next two years. No, I am talking about those obnoxious felt tip marking pens they have in the voting booth (at least where I live). It takes a steady hand to write in a name without the letters all running into each other and making the name indecipherable. For those of you who took the time to carefully write in my name, I thank you again. To those of you who tried, but failed miserably, only to have completed your ballot with nothing but an ugly blob under the governor writein section, thanks for trying. I have not heard back how may write-in votes I received. The last I heard they were still going over some ballots as requested by the Secretary of State. They say it has nothing to do with trying to decipher who some of the write-in votes were cast for, but I have my doubts. I realize that I hadn’t made enough campaign promises I couldn’t keep in this last election, so this one will be a good start. If I do decide to run for governor again, I promise to make it a priority to push through new legislation that will see to it that all writing materials in voting booths are appropriate for clearly writing in a name. There is another crucial issue, brought up to me by a fellow citizen while we waited on line to vote. (Seems there was a delay at my polling place as all the voting booths were filled and people were having a hard time using their markers.) He wanted me to look into having legislation that would give New Hampshire residents a say in whether or not we should permanently be a “Falling Back” or “Springing Ahead” state.

I had never thought about it before, but it does seem like something that needs to be addressed. Possibly even more important than deciding what the state carbohydrate should be. This gentleman told me a story of a friend of his; a maintenance man for a large event hall. It seems every time the clocks changed he would have to get out his twenty-foot ladder to reach the old clocks that towered high up on the walls of the facility. Often, it would be a week or more until he got around to changing the darn things, confusing the people coming to the events because they always though they were arriving too early (or late, as the case may be). He also told me of how his friend had nearly fallen off the ladder a few times, but was fortunate not to have. His point being that such accidents could be avoided permanently by simply keeping the time the same all year long. “I always wondered,” he finished, stroking his beard. “If no one had ever changed their clocks back or ahead in the first place, what time would it really be and would anyone really care?” So, it seems, I already have one great issue for my next platform. It might be all I need. Maybe that old Chicago song can be my theme song. But I am getting a little ahead of myself. People don’t want any politics in their lives right now. It’s time for being with loved ones and celebrating the holiday. Politics can wait a week. www.BrendanTSmith. com

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Trudeau: Baby-Faced Commie Apologist Unmasked Wasn’t one vapid pretty boy named Justin from Canada enough? At least Justin Bieber is eye candy without the heartburn. Justin Trudeau, on the other hand, is the by Michelle Malkin twinkly-eyed Syndicated Columnist boy toy who makes informed adults wanna hurl. For more than a year, the liberal Canadian prime minister enjoyed drool-stained global press coverage as the “hot hipster” and “dreamy sex symbol” with great hair and a tribal Haida tattoo. He basked in Ryan Gosling-esque memes about his commitment to feminism and touched off “Trudeau-mania” with a series of shirtless selfies and photobombs. But this weekend, the sane world saw the baby-faced Commie apologist for the naked twit he truly is. Mourning the death of repressive dictator Fidel Castro, Trudeau hailed his longtime family friend as a “larger than life leader” who “served his people for almost half a century.” Actually, El Comandante ruled with an iron fist and firing squads -- serving himself to all of the island’s land, private businesses and media, along with his own private yacht, private island, 20 homes, fleet of Mercedes limos and bevy of mistresses. Trudeau’s ridiculous mash note to the “legendary revolutionary and orator” caused the social media backlash of the year. The hashtag #TrudeauEulogies erupted to mock Trudeau’s softsoaping of tyranny. “As we mourn Emperor Caligu-

la, let us always remember his steadfast devotion to Senate reform,” one Twitter user jibed in Trudeau-speak. “Although flawed Hitler was a vegetarian who loved animals, was a contributor to the arts & proud advocate for Germany,” another joked. “Kim Jong Il will always be remembered fondly for his leadership and contributions on climate change,” another chimed in. Stung, the Canadian tundra hunk’s office announced Monday that he will not attend services for his beloved Uncle Fidel, who had served as a pallbearer at his former Canadian PM father’s funeral. But if Trudeau thinks the damage to his celebrity brand is temporary, he has another think coming. Our neighbors to the north are now discovering what disillusioned Barack Obama worshipers realized too late: Beneath the shiny packaging of supermodel progressivism lies the same old decrepit culture of corruption. Political watchdogs have been buzzing about Trudeau’s shady fundraising ties to Chinese communist moguls. Like Obama, Trudeau promised unprecedented transparency in government -- “sunny ways” that would shed open light on how the Liberal Party was conducting the people’s business. Dudley Do-Right’s party declared there would be “no preferential access, or appearance of preferential access” in exchange for campaign cash and purported to ban favor-seekers with direct business before the government from attending political fundraisers. Behind closed doors, however, Trudeau was selling out to wealthy Chinese-Canadians and Chinese nationals seeking government green lights for their business deals. According to

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Fidel Castro’s Shattered Myth UNITED NATIONS -When

Fidel Castro died at age 90, perhaps the greatest achievement of Cuba’s communist Comby John J. Metzler mandante was Syndicated Columnist to have defied ten American presidents and five decades of American opposition. During his 57 years in undisputed power, Castro excelled in playing the role of a socialist David facing the Gringo Goliath. Now it is up to Fidel’s “younger brother” Raul (aged 85) to run the revolution. Tributes to the fallen dictator ranged from the predictable proletarian sop from such luminaries as Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, Bolivia’s Ivo Morales and Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, all flickering despots of failed states. Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered a slobbering and bizarre paean to Castro’s rule which sullied Canada’s good

name. Interestingly, few world leaders attended Fidel’s funeral, not even Vladimir Putin, (Russia was once Cuba’s patron) Mainland China’s Xi Jinping, and recognizable names from the European Union, except from the failed Greek socialist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon who called Castro “An emblematic figure of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro was prominent in Latin America and influential in world affairs,” did not attend either. Trudeau was too embarrassed to go. As a Canadian opposition parliamentarian Lisa Raitt wrote, “Will Justin Trudeau stand with millions of oppressed Cubans, or stand with their oppressor?” U.S. President Barack Obama offered equivocal and almost selfconscious condolences. PresidentElect Donald Trump described Fidel as a “dictator” and called for a free Cuba. Looking back there was a watershed of U.S. policy between PresiSee Metzler on 29

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NPR’s America There are places in this state where radio reception is so bad and the station choice so limited that I almost reby Ken Gorrell Northfield, NH. gret not prying open my wallet to pay for a satellite radio subscription. I found myself in one of our radio dead zones last Sunday while driving to Vermont. Given the choice between the sounds of silence or Vermont Public Radio, I chose unwisely. The trouble with public radio programs is that they sound reasonable if you listen to them with just one ear. Listen with both ears – and the brain connecting the two – and you quickly realize just how off the mark the program is. The one exception was “Car Talk” hosted by Tom and Ray Magliozzi as “Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers.” Tom passed away in 2014, but the reruns of their shows are as entertaining as ever. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a Tappet rerun on the air that morning. Instead, I subjected myself to a series of propaganda pieces recorded over the past year as part of Marketplace’s “The Uncertain Hour.” The series was created by “Wealth and Poverty” correspondent Krissy Clark. It’s not that what Ms. Clark report-

ed was untrue. It’s just that it was true enough to not be a lie, while falsely portraying the big picture. That big picture is the success and merit of the state block grant approach to welfare reform. Clark’s focus was on TANF – Temporary Aid to Needy Families – but her underlying message was clear: Block grants are bad and lead to silly state programs and wasted money; better to keep control in DC. She’s wrong about that. Block grants are at the heart of conservative entitlement reform, so I understand why it draws liberal fire. But understanding the big picture is critical to creating good public policy. Naturally, this NPR series focused on the smallest of pictures, using as its hook a few examples of TANF-funded programs that might be considered poor policy. Ronald Reagan famously used the term “welfare queen” during his 1976 campaign, but the term was coined by the Chicago Tribune to describe a real person, Linda Taylor. Her welfare fraud trial started an investigation that led to the indictment of 241 people in Illinois. Candidate Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign promise to “end welfare as we have come to know it” was made in part because voters knew these programs were rife with fraud and disincentives to work. TANF was created by 1996’s bipartisan reform, the Personal Responsibility and Work Oppor-

tunity Reconciliation Act. States were given more authority over their welfare programs, with overall positive results. What I heard that morning on VPR were vignettes from a few states, tales of woe about

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Football And Fallacies This is a football story with both political and legal implications. It was fourth down in a National Football League game, and the puntby Thomas Sowell i n g team Syndicated Columnist came onto the field. The other team went into their formation to defend against the punt. Then somebody noticed that the man set to kick the punt was black. “Fake!” one of the defenders cried out. That cry was immediately echoed by others, and the defending team changed their formation, to guard against the kicker either running with the ball or throwing it. But in fact he punted. Why did anyone think he was not going to punt the ball? Because chances are no one on that field had ever seen a black football player kick a punt. As someone who has watched NFL games for half a century, I have never seen a black player either punt the ball, or kick a field goal or a point after touchdown. I have seen hundreds of black players score touchdowns, but not one kick the point afterwards. I have seen a black President of the United States before I have seen a black kicker in the NFL. Politicians, the intelligentsia and even the Supreme Court of the United States have been saying for decades that statistical disparities between racial groups indicate discrimination. If so, then the racial disparities among kickers in professional football exceed that in virtually any other job anywhere. But is it discrimination? The

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terpretations on wreathes and tree ornaments, and in carrousels, wall hangings, children’s pop-up books, jigsaw puzzles, and even as finger puppets and water globes. The most basic nativity scenes have Mary and sometimes Joseph alone with their newborn son. Elaborate ones have a hundred or more figures. A “complete” manger scene typically has eight to twelve figures, including animals and both magi and shepherds. In such a crèche the birth stories from the gospels of Matthew and Luke are merged. There is See crèche on 18

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and shepherds are often dressed in neutral browns and grays, representing their humble status, while the magi wear the royal colors of red, purple and gold. Typically, a crèche shows the culture, artistry and materials native to the society where it is produced. While people in the Middle East have dark hair and eyes, a western rendering might have figures with blonde hair and blue eyes,

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Christian meaning only after Jesus’ death. Italian and French crèches sometimes include a whole village, while those from Austria and Germany may be set in a rural landscape. Native American nativities often have an adobe hut or tepee in place of the traditional wood stable. Yet the stable itself is a western interpretation since caves or stone enclosures were usually used to harbor animals in the ancient Middle East. Indeed,

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Echoing the operations of the Clinton Foundation pay-for-play money machine, the nonprofit Trudeau Foundation and the University of Montreal raked in $1 million from a wealthy Chinese businessman a few weeks after the fundraiser. The donation includes funding for a statue of Pierre Trudeau, who once wrote a book hailing Chairman Mao. The self-aggrandizing Commie fanboy apple doesn’t fall far from his cultural Marxist tree.

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women’s care center that received TANF money wasn’t the place to get it, and seemed to think she needed a referral of some sort to walk into the local Planned Parenthood abortion mill. In Michigan, TANF funds some college scholarships. The amount – $100 million – seems like a lot, but it’s just 1.6% of the nearly $6 billion MI spends on welfare programs. Oklahoma provided a story tailor-made for the ironic, hipster-style NPR report. The Sooner State used TANF money for marriage classes for people who were not especially needy. This was contrasted with the tale of a needy single mother with two kids. But Clark focused on “cash welfare” instead of the totality of benefits, which includes non-cash assistance like food stamps and medical care. She quickly moved past the fact that the single mother wasn’t denied cash assistance; she just chose not to go through the “embarrassing” process of applying for it. And it’s cruel of me to say, but perhaps if this woman and her husband had gone through

TANF-funded marriage classes, she wouldn’t have become a single mother of two needing public money to pay her bills. But the punchline is that Oklahoma canceled this program after determining it wasn’t meeting its mandate. And that’s exactly why block-grants are good policy. Let states experiment. Let lower levels of government figure out what works and what doesn’t. It’s much easier to re-direct state programs than it is to reform a federal one. Block grants shift power closer to the people, which is why liberals oppose this effective reform. They like centralization and consolidation. But we were founded in federalism. States should lead reform efforts. Without block grants, welfare programs like Medicaid will soon bust budgets across the country. That won’t be good for taxpayers or the needy.

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a sixth Super Bowl. Jones could still take comfort from finally seeing his team enjoy real success again. And a recent poll provides more good news for Jones. He’s now only the second-most hated sports figure in Texas—trailing 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Progress at last! Sports Quiz Who are the only two NBA players to grab 50 rebounds in a game? (Answer follows) Born Today ... That is to say, sports standouts born on Dec. 8 include former NFL quarterback Jeff George (1967) and current San Diego Charger quarterback Philip Rivers (1981). Sportsquote “Last night I failed to mention something that bears repeating.”—Seattle Mariner announcer Ron Fairly Sportsquiz Answer Bill Russell of the Boston Celtics was the first to grab 50 rebounds in a game when he got 51 during a win over Syracuse on Feb. 5, 1960. That record was broken by Wilt Chamberlain in a losing effort against Boston and Russell on Nov. 24, 1960 when Wilt the Stilt got 55 rebounds, including 31 in one half. On only 17 other occasions has an NBA player gotten over 40 rebounds in a game. Sixteen were by Russell or Chamberlain while Nate Thurmond once grabbed 42 rebounds. Michael Moffett is a Professor of Sports Management for Plymouth State University and NHTI-Concord, while also teaching on-line for New England College. He co-authored the critically-acclaimed and award-winning “FAHIM SPEAKS: A WarriorActor’s Odyssey from Afghanistan to Hollywood and Back” (with the Marines)—which is available through Amazon.com. His e-mail address is mimoffett@comcast.net.

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of the rock upstream from your town, I believe you’ll have a great chance of finding the same sand. It’s mission critical that you do. If you can locate any older masons in town, talk to them. Ask them if when they were just starting in the trade if the old master masons used hydrated lime to make the mortar. Hydrated lime is a superior material to use -- modern mortar mixes contain mostly Portland cement. Lime has some give to it, it’s sticky and it has a selfhealing property whereby it can grow new micro-crystals in case very tiny cracks develop over time. I’d make up a sample batch of hydrated lime and the sand you find. Blend three parts sand to one part hydrated lime. Mix these ingredients dry before adding water. Add just enough water to make the mix like stiff applesauce. I want you to repair just one small area where the mortar is missing. Don’t do widespread repairs yet. The hydrated lime will coat all the sand and give the fresh mortar a monolithic color of gray. Right now the mortar is multicolored because you see the sand. After one month, I want you to lightly acid wash the small area you repaired. Use muriatic acid diluted one part acid to 10 parts water. Read all the safety warnings on the acid container. Apply the acid with a cheap paint brush and try to expose some of the sand by washing off the thin layer of lime that’s coating all the sand. Rinse with plenty of clear water. Allow to dry for a few days, and then stand back to look at the repair joint. See if the color is very close to the rest of the mortar. If so, get to work! If the color is not right, then consider blending different brick mortars until you get a grey color that matches the existing mortar. Need an answer? All of Tim’s past columns are archived for free at www. AsktheBuilder.com. You can also watch hundreds of videos, download Quick Start Guides and more, all for free

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dent John F. Kennedy’s dangerous showdown with Castro and the subsequent Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the long decades of bi-partisan pressures on Castro’s regime, until the Obama Administration’s final melting of Cold War tensions between the neighboring countries. But as the Wall Street Journal advised editorially, “ Mr. Obama’s 2014 decision to normalize U.S.Cuba relations has provided new business opportunities for the regime but has yielded nothing in additional freedom.” For a long time Cuba was taboo to Americans, Obama made it trendy for Americans. But because of Castro, it has long been trendy for Cubans to flee to the USA, and more than a million have done so making the Cuban exiles one of America’s more successful immigrant communities. Fifteen thousand Cubans executed by Castro’s thugs could not make it. Despite the years of despotism and dictatorship, Castro’s Cuba has always been a kind of a talisman to the Latin American Left and more improbably an iconic beacon to some Western intellectuals in academia and the arts. Throwing aside the inconvenient truth of Cuba’s harsh human and religious rights abuses, progressives would, in

the words of Prof. Paul Hollander, be “political pilgrims” visiting Castro’s tropical isle in search of an elusive socialist Utopia. Still Americans should not underestimate the serious political attraction Castro’s charismatic personality and confrontational aura the Havana regime held in the psyche of Latin America and much of the Third World. But let’s recall a bit of long forgotten history. First off, Fidel really “retired” a decade ago, allowing the day to day rule to his “kid brother” Raul, so it stayed the Family business. But in the BC Era (Before Castro) Cuba was not some wretched and rundown tropical island, but a developing country which on the socio/economic scale boasted among Latin America’s highest literacy rates, the third highest doctor to patient ratio, and the region’s lowest infant mortality rate. Yes, there was corruption and the resident dictator Fulgencio Batista was more the norm in the region than the exemption. Nearly sixty years later, Cuba boasts one of the few dictatorships in Latin America. Yet it was Revolutionary Cuba in the 1960’s and 1970’s which charmed the Left and challenged and threatened stability in Central America. Remember Cuban-backed militants in places like

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American assets. JFK’s economic embargo on Castro’s regime, still in force, is based on the nationalizations of U.S. property. So now that Fidel is past, will liberty and democracy come to Cuba? Not likely soon. After all, Raul and an effective security apparatus remain firmly in place. But without the myth of Fidel and the shadow of his rule, Cuba

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positions, his stint with the major league Boston Beaneaters (later, the Braves) saw him used as an outfielder and pinch-hitter. In parts of two seasons Brown played in a total of nine games with four hits in twenty plate appearances for a batting average of .200. He made no errors in his fielding, and had two RBI’s. After attending the Boston University Law School in 1904-5 Brown moved to Somersworth in 1906 and joined the law office of James A. Edgerly, a prominent criminal lawyer. He was admitted to the Bar in 1907, and, after Mr.

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Inter-Lakes High School Donates $400 To Annie Forts UP Fund Inter-Lakes High School, Meredith, NH recently donated a sum of $400 to the Annie Forts UP Fund given by their Student Council. The donation itself was amazing, but the story behind it is much more amazing to say the least. A little background… Annie Forts lived a life that few others can claim they have accomplished. She was devoted to many things in life but she surely loved volunteering at the school in our town, Inter-Lakes. She was active during sporting events, usually leading cheers in the middle of the gym or on the field. She helped in the school library sorting books, helped in the pre-school program at the elementary level and even help the school principal make sure he finished his lunch in the teacher’s lunch room. Her spirit of life touched all who she met… and

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