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THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2019

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The First Christmas Gift And Some Of The Others by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. Contributing Writer As a child waiting for Christmas and the yearly gift exchange, while realizing that I was going to receive more than I gave, I also realized that I was not going to receive any of the real expensive gifts. That was OK because I realized that my parents were not rich in the sense that it is usually used, and to my knowledge I didn’t have any rich uncles. I would, in this article, though, have us take a look of some of the “gifts” that people in the past have been asked to give by the advertisers. Then at the end

of this column I will emphasize the best gift. In the December 21, 1816 issue of The Portsmouth Oracle I found one mention of Christmas and it was in an advertisement. James F. Shores at No. 1 Market Street advertised “Juvenile Books for Christmas Presents.” It was stated that he had made large and valuable additions to his collection of Juvenile Books. Mrs. Edgeworth’s stories for young people were priced from 12 and ½ cents to 37 and ½ cents per book. The Book of Trade, in three volumes, about the mechanical arts, cost two dollars. I wonder if Christmas was not as big a See GIFTS on 20

Beacon Brass In Wolfeboro

The Wolfeboro Friends of Music is proud to present the Beacon Brass on Sunday, January 12, at 2pm at the First Congregational Church, 115 South Main St., Wolfeboro. The quintet is composed of some of the finest brass players in New England who perform together and separately in orchestras such as the Boston Ballet, Boston Lyric Opera, Modern Orchestra Project, the Boston Philharmonic, and the Pops Esplanade Orchestra. Tickets are available for $25 at the door, at Black’s Paper Store and Avery Insurance in Wolfeboro; at Innisfree Bookshop in Meredith;

Greenlaw’s Music and Audio in Laconia, Bayswater Books in Center Harbor, by calling 569-2151; or, by visiting www.friendsofmusic.org. High School students with ID and children accompanied by an adult ticket holder will be admitted free of charge.

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Barbara (Lawton) Winter, 90 her warm and lovely spirit shone through. ton) Winter passed Her survivors away on Tuesday, include daughter December 10, 2019, Cindi Goodwin and at Hyder House Hoshusband Russell of pice in Dover, NH. Belmont, NH, son She was born the D. Randolph Lawton daughter of Perley and partner Deband Bertha (Stan orah Montague of ley) Knight in West Gilford, NH, daughChelmsford, Master Susan Haddadin sachusetts, on July and husband Sam, 23,1929. of Dover, NH, daughBarbara’s love of ter Judy Lawton and music began as a husband Guillermo child in MassachuFuentes of Los Ansetts, and in high geles, California, school she served as son Thomas Lawton a piano accompaand husband Barry nist for their shows. Tonkin of Portland, Barbara (Lawton) Winter She became a proOregon, son Steven fessional jazz musiLawton and part1929-2019 cian, formed her own ner Alison Endee of band, joined the musicians’ union and was Weirs Beach, NH, and daughter-in-law Dorothy sought out by other bands as well. She earned Cool of Laconia, NH. her Bachelor of Music Education degree in Grandchildren include Nathaniel Goodwin, 1964 and taught in several NH seacoast school Zaid Haddadin, Ingrid Lawton and partner Geoff districts. Ouellette, James Haddadin, Amelya Colby and Family was just as important to her as music husband Jake, Elizabeth Lawton, and Jules though. Her college graduation was celebrated Lawton; two great grandchildren, and niece in Lowell’s paper with a photo of her in cap and Connie Flanagan and nephew David Knight. gown surrounded by five of her children! She Barbara was pre-deceased by her husband was an encouraging and wonderful mother to all John Lawton, and husband Bob Winter, a son of her seven children and then to her grandchil- Michael Lawton and by brothers David Knight dren, travelling far and wide to visit. and Perley Knight. Barbara was very outgoing and always ready to strike up a conversation, and she was a great SERVICES: Visiting hours and Celebration of organizer. This enabled her to be a very effective Barbara’s Life will be 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at vice president of her large high school class, Tasker Funeral Home in Dover, NH on Wednesand 30 years later, chairperson of the reunion day, December 18, followed by a graveside sercommittee. For many years she directed the vice at Pine Hill Cemetery. Miss Winnipesaukee pageant in Laconia. Most impressively, she met the daily challenge of The family wishes to thank the staffs of Hyder wrangling work and a family of nine. Family Hospice and Riverside Rest Home for the Barbara was ill in the last years of her life, amazing care they gave our amazing lady. but those who cared for her always smiled when they talked about her to family, because DOVER, New Hampshire - Barbara (Law-

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DECEMBER Through Sun. 22nd Advice to the Players 5th Annual Wrap-a-Thon Advice to the Players, 12 Main Street, Sandwich. Drop off your unwrapped holiday gifts Saturdays and Sundays from 12pm-4pm and have them wrapped for you! You can even arrange a weekday drop off/pick up if you email Jessie@ AdvicetothePlayers.org . Beautifully festive and holiday appropriate wrapping are available. Cost is $2 per gift, and all proceeds benefit Advice to the Players, Sandwich’s own Shakespeare Company.

“A Christmas Carol” Garr ison Players Ar ts Center, Rollinsford. This version of the Charles Dickens tale, adapted by local playwright Tom Frey, is beautiful in its simplicity. All your favorite characters are brought to life, along with ghostly hauntings and the a capella madrigal singers who move the story along with narration and song. www.

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Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 7pm. Tickets are $20pp. Pitman’s is a BYO venue. 527-0043

Bethlehem Town Hall lawn, Bethlehem. 5pm. Bethlehem Congregation members invite the community to the annual Candle Lighting. The story and song-filled ceremony ends with light refreshments and dreidel games Tuesday 24th

Thurs. 19th – Mon. 23rd

Center Harbor Soup Kitchen – Free Community Meal

Heather Pierson Quartet – Charlie Brown Christmas

Beauty and the Beast – Live Performance Winnipesaukee Play hous e, 33 Footlight Circle, Meredith. What happens when a French fable gets an American treatment in British comedy style? You get Beauty and the Beast, this season’s Panto at The Playhouse. The annual romp has taken audiences young and old to visit classic tales told with a twist and rousing music, as performed by a professional cast that often return from year to year to put the “merry” in Meredith! Audience participation is encouraged. Hiss the villain, cheer the hero and talk back to the Dame! Tickets are available at

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Friday 20th “Twelfth Night” – Advice to the Players Production

The Arts Center, 12 Main Street, Sandwich. 5:30pm. This is a sixperson production filled with laughter and song, and it promises to be the perfect holiday outing! Admission is $20pp, with $15/senior and $10/ student discounts. 284-7115 Saturday 21st

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Local Author Catherine Dougherty Waldron – Meet & Greet & Book Signing Annie’s Book Stop, 1330 Union Ave, Laconia. 10am-12pm. Stop by and meet local author Catherine Dougherty Waldron, and pick up a signed copy of her book, a Christmas novella, “Music, Memories & Love”. Cathy has also recently opened Give A Salute!, a publishing business, and Read. Write. Care, a monthly subscription box business for readers and writers of all ages. Find out more about Cathy and her services at

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Fri. 27th – Tues. 31st Beauty and the Beast – Live Performance Winn ipesa ukee Play hous e, 33 Footlight Circle, Meredith. What happens when a French fable gets an American treatment in British comedy style? You get Beauty and the Beast, this season’s Panto at The Playhouse. The annual romp has taken audiences young and old to visit classic tales told with a twist and rousing music, as performed by a professional cast that often return from year to year to put the “merry” in Meredith! Audience participation is encouraged. Hiss the villain, cheer the hero and talk back to the Dame! Tickets are available at

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Saturday 28th Grateful Ball Flying Monkey, Main Street, Plymouth. www.FlyingMonkeyNH.com or 5362551

The Heather Pierson Jazz Trio Charlie Brown Christmas The Heather Pierson Jazz Trio will bring their popular Charlie Brown Christmas Show back to Pitman’s Freight Room in Laconia, New Hampshire on Thursday, December 19th at 7pm. The Jazz Trio performs the entirety of the Charlie Brown Christmas album as recorded by the Vince Guaraldi Trio as well as other compositions by Guaraldi. Joining Heather for this very special Christmas concert will be Shawn Nadeau on bass and Craig Bryan on drums. Pitman’s Freight Room is located at 94 New Salem Street, Laconia, NH 03246. Tickets are $20. For additional information go to www.pitmansfreightroom.com. More artist info is available at www.heatherpierson.com.

Author Cathy Dougherty Waldron at Annie’s Book Stop Author, Catherine Dougherty Waldron, writer of a Christmas novella “Music, Memories & Love” will be featured at Annie’s Book Stop, Saturday, December 21st from 10am to Noon. While others are busy celebrating Christmas Day with family and friends, Carol, the main character in the novella, will be spending the holiday home alone. Her husband has passed, and her children and grandchildren are busy with other plans. She is in no mood to face the day and wants to sleep it away. However, sometimes when least expected, something wonderful happens –so wonderful that it must be a miracle –or an answered prayer. Dougherty’s debut novel, “In Polyester Pajamas”, won a NH Writer’s Project Readers’ Choice Award for an outstanding work of fiction. Cathy has recently opened Give A Salute!, a publishing business, and Read. Write. Care., a monthly subscription box business for readers and writers of all ages. Situated on the Barton’s Motel property at 1330 Union Avenue in Laconia for over 35 years, Annie’s has been a local book stop landmark.

Tuesday 31st Bob Marley Flying Monkey, Main Street, Plymouth. www.FlyingMonkeyNH.com or 5362551

Racky Thomas Blues Band – New Year’s Eve Gala

Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. Tickets are $50pp. Pitman’s is a BYO venue. 527-0043

JANUARY Wednesday 1st First Day Franklin Town of Franklin. New Year’s Day, kayaks, and the rushing rapids of the Winnipesaukee River all converge in Franklin for what has become a

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Registration Starts For 2020 Curling Season Registration has started for Lakes Region Curling’s Winter 2020 league. The season consists of eight Sunday matches, starting on January 12 and running until March 8. No matches are scheduled for February 2, Super Bowl Sunday. Each match, held at Pop Whalen Ice Arena in Wolfeboro, runs for two hours, starting at 5:15 p.m. Registration is open to men and women aged 14 or over. No previous experience is required, and participants may join as individuals, with a partner, or as part of a complete team. The LRCA will offer new players a learn-to-curl session on Sunday, January 5, during which experienced curlers provide instruction in the rules and game play of curling. Registration fee is $195 per person. Registration forms as well as waiver forms for adults and for minors are available for download from the LRCA web site at lakescurlingnh.org.

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This column originally appeared in our June 18, 2015 issue. I was reading the other day that in Concord, New by Brendan Smith H a m p s h i r e Weirs Times Editor they recently unearthed a time capsule that was buried fifty years ago. Fifty years ago? Really? Leading up to this supposedly momentous day there were a few news stories about the anticipation that was building as (some) people anxiously awaited the cracking open of the time capsule so they could all see what kinds of things possibly existed in 1965. Once again. Really? The news stories also explained that some of the people who were at the momentous opening were the same people who put the stuff into the time capsule in the first place and were now there, fifty years later, to see the stuff again. In fact, one gentleman was dismayed to find out a transistor radio he had given for the time capsule wasn’t in there. Seems someone swiped it fifty years ago. Someone involved with the event stated: “We found some wonderful artifacts that folks from the prior generation left for us to review and examine.” Hello!!! Prior generation right here and waving my arms in the air. In fact, there are tens of millions of us. We didn’t leave anything yet. We are still here and alive and kicking, well, alive anyway. “Hmm….this is a strange artifact.” “Hey, that’s mine, I’ve been wondering what happened to that. Must have fallen out of my pocket when we were burying the darn capsule.”

Time Capsule Having been born in 1955, I don’t find any of this very exciting. I wasn’t there, but I can imagine that the only people who may have been excited about it were the people who were there when they buried the darn thing in the first place. “So, what do you say we make it that they have to open this thing in a hundred years?” “A hundred years? I put a lot of darn work, not to mention some of my personal belongings into this thing. I’d like to be around when they open it.” I would imagine that upon opening the “ancient” box, wide-eyed grammar school kids standing around waiting to see the mysteries of the past revealed to them, and exposing these items of history to them, a few of them may have been a little disappointed. “Big Deal, my grandma has one of them.” “Hey, we have one of those in our basement. My mom tried to give it away at a yard sale, but no one wanted it.” The rest of them may have been too busy looking down at their smartphones to have noticed anything at all. The unearthing of the time capsule had been in the local news for a few weeks leading up to the momentous event. It was almost as if the tomb of King Tut was being unearthed. What could possibly be inside? How did these artifacts stand the test of time? What we will be able to learn about our ancestors from fifty years ago that we can use to make this a better world today? When all was said and done and the time capsule was finally opened, a local newspaper, the same newspaper that had been making a big deal about the opening of the capsule, explained in a rather short article that: “Coins, photos, medals and newspapers are just some of the items that were tucked inside.” A sentence like this can usu-

ally be rewritten in one word; “Boring.” To me, the idea of a time capsule is to bury things that, when dug up so many years later, would be things that were never seen by anyone who is witnessing the unearthing. Even the oldest person in town should be curious and possibly amazed at some of the things in the capsule. How excited can you get if you might have a coin in your pocket that is older than the one they just dug up? There is one thing that the digging up of the time capsule did show us. We as a species have certainly become more impatient over the years. In the realm of time capsules, fifty years is truly a form of instant gratification. But that’s just me being a cranky old man, after all I am turning sixty this year. Now the items in the time capsule will sit on display at the Concord Library. People will be able to come and stare at these wonders of the past without having to drive to a yard sale, take a Sunday afternoon jaunt through an antiques store, or search online on Craigslist or ebay. The most encouraging part of the article though was that the time capsule will be put back into the ground with items suggested by the people of today so that “…the folks in 2065 will open it up to find out what was important to us today.” Of course, most of those school kids who will suggest what to put in the time capsule will probably be there to see it when it is opened up in fifty years. “Hey, where’s the iPhone I put in there? Someone must have stolen the darn thing?” Of course, there will be some things that will never change. BrendanTSmith.com

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Blood on Open Borders Boston’s Hands Here is a chilling case of sanctuary chickens coming home to roost. Upon being convicted of armed robbery, kidnapping, home invasion and the brutal murders of two doctors on Tuesday, African criminal Bampumim Teixeira taunted the Massachusetts prosecutor who won the case and vowed by Michelle Malkin to rape his wife. “You better hope I don’t get out of jail,” Teixeira threatened as he Syndicated Columnist was dragged away in handcuffs by a quartet of court security officers. The killer appeared to greatly enjoy the media spectacle while striking fear into the hearts of innocents. He will be sentenced on Friday. I am outraged on behalf of the victims’ families and pray for the prosecutor’s loved ones. But let’s be clear: This homicidal beast is a beneficiary of liberal Bay State policies that coddle foreign evildoers and give them cover to wreak havoc in our homeland. The architects of open borders Boston have blood on their hands. Teixeira was a repeat offender well-known to law enforcement and government officials before he snuck into the South Boston condo of Richard Field and Lina Bolano in 2017, bound and gagged them, slit their throats and stabbed them to death. A homeless vagrant from GuineaBissau in West Africa, Teixeira had been convicted of two bank robberies and was released from prison just weeks before the massacre at Field and Bolano’s condo. This thieving bum’s lawyer secured a deal with the Suffolk County district attorney’s office to sentence him to 364 days for the second heist and downgraded the second felony crime to larceny. Why one day shy of a year? Why the reclassification of a felony to a misdemeanor? The soft-on-alien-crime agreement allowed him to escape deportation, which any green card holder would normally face for committing crimes of moral turpitude or crimes that result in sentences of 365 days or more. Ultimately, he served only 9 months behind bars. This evilness is part of a nationwide move by far-left Democratic prosecutors, many subsidized and supported by open borders billionaire George Soros, to minimize “collateral immigration consequences of criminal convictions” and help immigrants evade “disproportionate collateral consequences, such as deportation. All in the name of “public safety” and celebrating diversity, of course. See MALKIN on 30

Will Democrats Accept the Results of the 2020 Elections? In the lead-up to the 2016 election, Democrats fretted openly about the possibility that Donald Trump, being a rather poor sport, might refuse to acknowledge an elecby Ben Shapiro tion loss. To be fair, Syndicated Columnist Trump refused to state that he would accept election results, depending on the circumstances: “I’ll keep you in suspense,” he stated in his Oct. 19, 2016, debate with Hillary Clinton. Clinton, for her part, called his statement “horrifying,” adding that he was harming American democracy. Trump, of course, won. And Clinton spent the next couple of years suggesting openly that she had been robbed in the election. Democrats blamed Clinton’s election loss on Russian interference, on voter suppression, on anything but Clinton’s campaign performance. That wasn’t a particular shock: After George W. Bush won the 2000 election, many Democrats continued to maintain that he was an illegitimate president. And not much changed in the nearly two decades since: In 2018, Democrats insisted that Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams had actually defeated Brian Kemp, despite having lost by approximately 55,000 votes. To this day, Democratic presidential candidates repeat the lie that Kemp stole the election from Abrams. Now in the run-up to 2020, Democrats are already suggesting that if President Trump wins, the election will have been illegitimate. This time, they’re pointing to Trump’s supposed attempt to gather information from the Ukrainian government on potential 2020 rival Joe Biden in return for release of much-needed military aid. In fact, Democrats state that if Trump is not impeached, the 2020 results will inevita-

bly be deemed improper. On Sunday, Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., who suggested way back in 2017 that though Trump was “legally elected,” he was “not legitimate,” doubled down: “The president, based on his past performance, will do everything he can to make it not a fair election. And this is part of what gives us the urgency to proceed with this impeachment.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said last week, “The president leaves us no choice but to act because he is trying to corrupt, once again, the election for his own benefit.” Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, told CNN’s Jake Tapper, “If you have a corrupt executive who is willing to maintain power by corrupting our election, there’s an urgency there.” Former federal prosecutor Anne Milgram wrote in The New York Times, “Who gets to pick the next president of the United States -- President Trump, Ukraine, Russia or us?” Impeachment, then, must be used without proper evidence of a crime in order to prevent Trump from stealing the election. By this logic, any suspicion of illegitimacy in an upcoming election becomes an excuse for ousting a legitimately elected president. This is a vicious cycle: illegitimate impeachments based on perception of illegitimate elections. And with Pelosi promising that our very civilization is at stake -- a contention she made over the weekend -- over the outcome of the next election, we can be sure that the pressure will continue to rise. Things are already ugly in American politics. A republic can only be maintained when the people have faith that even if their side loses an election, that election was legitimate -- and only when people believe that there is a tomorrow. With Democrats openly claiming that they can run an end-around with the electoral process because they don’t trust the results, and stating See SHAPIRO on 26

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“A” is for Algebra How many high school valedictorians does it take to solve for “X”? If you’re in the Detroit area, the answer is “More than one.” As reported by Chalkbeat, a by Ken Gorrell non-profit news Contributing Columnist organization, Detroit’s Cody High School valedictorian, Marqell McClendon, “has struggled in the low-level math class she’s taking during her first semester at Michigan State University.” “Sometimes when I’m in class and

I’m learning, some things start to feel familiar from high school and I’m kind of like, ‘I learned this already, but I don’t really understand it.’ And I don’t know why I don’t understand it because it looks familiar.” That, from a straight-A student, her school’s best and brightest. Imagine what you’d get hiring a Cody High “C” student. What exactly does “average” mean at that public school? While wishing her the best at Michigan State and beyond, one could also wish that she had never been accepted in the first place. If you are struggling with Algebra I

(and figure the odds that that’s her only academic deficit), wouldn’t a community college have been a better and cheaper place to start? But “college for all” is the education establishment’s mantra, and the push is to four-year programs and not-ready-for-the-job-market majors. And why not? Federal loans are easy money (until the non-graduate or mis-educated must repay). The more unprepared freshmen like Marqell get in, the more need for costly but profitable remediation courses that don’t count toward graduation. These students require support from an army of otherwise unnecessary non-teaching staff.

Plus: Diversity! Studies consistently show that remedial courses and non-graduates are disproportionally “students of color” and/or of low socio-economic status. Accepting these students into programs for which they are illequipped does them no favors, but it sure helps the diversity & inclusion mafia take a cut of the action (which is what it exists to do), all the while virtue-signaling to fellow travelers. To hide the malfeasance of teachers willing to pass out “A’s” like candy at a parade, the establishment turns its guns on the evils of “high stakes” tests, the things that might See GORRELL on 26

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- While dictator Kim Jung-un is huffing and puffing about arbitrary deadlines to diplomatic negotiations beby John J. Metzler tween the United Syndicated Columnist States and North Korea concerning Pyongyang’s nuclear and ballistic missile proliferation, the UN Security Council met to deliver a unified call for peace and disarmament on the divided Korean peninsula. The urgent briefing was held amid the dangerous backdrop of renewed missile tests and ominous threats by the quaintly titled, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Pyongyang’s “new policy” states

that it won’t discuss denuclearization until Washington’s “hostile policy” is reversed by the end of the year eg. loosening or phasing out the tough UN economic sanctions. Pyongyang warned ominously of a “Christmas present” for the USA. Assistant Secretary General Khaled Khiari told the Council, “There have been troubling developments related to the nuclear weapon and ballistic missiles programs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, DPRK, in recent months…the launch of two missiles on 28 November marked the thirteenth time the DPRK has launched ballistic missiles or other projectiles this year.” U.S. Ambassador Kelly Craft warned, “The DPRK has threatened

to take a ‘new path’ in the coming weeks and has used its public statements to hint at a resumption of serious provocations…Let me be clear, the United States and the Security Council have a goal, not a dead-line.” She added, “Missile and nuclear testing will not bring the DPRK greater security. It will not bring the DPRK or the region greater stability.” Nonetheless Ambassador Craft didn’t close the door to North Korea; rather she underscored previous negotiations between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un on the issue and added, “The United States is prepared to be flexible on how we approach this matter. We recognize the need for a balanced agreement and parallel actions that

address the concerns of all parties.” Quid pro quo? The UK Ambassador Karen Pierce intoned, “International peace and security is under threat, owing to the unabated development of ballistic missile and nuclear weapons technology by North Korea.” She added, “Despite concerted and good faith efforts by the U.S. to negotiate a solution, this year has seen 13 sets of illegal ballistic missile tests.” The American-chaired briefing addressed North Korea’s triangular dilemma; Pyongyang’s nu-clear and missile testing has triggered batteries of UN economic sanctions, which in turn according to the Pyongyang communists, deepen the DPRK’s hu- See METZLER on 30

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avoid the super cheap ones as they do not do very well for birdwatching. Good scopes start at a couple hundred dollars and go up to several thousand dollars. Don’t forget a good tripod, too, as a scope is pretty much useless without a tripod. That’s another hundred bucks or more. Now let’s get to the gifts that are more practical and do not have as many zeros on the price tag. A good bird feeder is always a thoughtful gift. So are birdhouses. Birdhouses serve the dual purpose of attracting birds (hopefully anyway) and being a nice decoration for the yard.

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MERRIMACK VALLEY INDIAN COMEBACK? An interesting imbroglio has developed in Penacook, home to the Merrimack Valley High School Blue Pride—née Indians. Much to the chagrin of the politically correct, MVHS alumni have continued to embrace the symbol they remember. Indian imagery can still be found on the school campus. That such imagery can still be seen is a sore spot for activists who feel the symbolism is insensitive to Native Americans. So the school board has been pressured to spend thousands of dollars to eradicate Indian likenesses from the gymnasium floor. The argument over Indians symbols and mascots has been going on for decades. Folks with Indian heritage and blood have weighed in on both sides of the Penacook debate. (Penacook, by the way, is the name of a tribe that once inhabited the Merrimack Valley. Presumably the village won’t be changing its name.) How do most Native Americans feel about the issue? An exhaustive Sports Illustrated survey found that al-

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PETS from 18 Chocolate and Nuts This contains a chemical called theobromine which is seriously poisonous if ingested in large quantities by cats or dogs. You probably didn’t know that walnuts and macadamia nuts are actually toxic to pets and can harm their digestive, muscle and nervous systems. Keep bowls of treats out of reach!

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Raisins, sultanas, currants and grapes Even small quantities of these fruits can cause vomiting, diarrhea and in extreme cases, kidney failure. Beware of mince pies, Christmas pudding and fruit cake as these often contain all or one of the above fruits, as well as alcohol, which is also not good for your pet.

Potatoes Everyone’s favorite side dish is also delicious to your pet in small amounts. Again, ensure there is no added oil, but-

Winter vegetables Some vegetables are really good for your pet’s health in small quantities as long as they are plain and contain no added oil or butter. Think things like green beans, carrots, brussels sprouts, broccoli, peas, spinach and parsnips.

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$40,000 (including the matching $10,000) will get the wheels rolling on the mobile unit. The next phase will be in figuring out the logistics of what areas the clinic is needed most and then finding the veterinarians to participate. The $40,000 covers not only the cost of the mobile unit but registration, inspection and insurance costs. All appointments will have to be scheduled beforehand so as to

create better efficiency in use of time and resources as things like vaccines would have to be acquired ahead of time. “The clinic could do as many as 30 cats in a regular day of spaying and neutering or a hundred rabies vaccines,” said Paradis explaining the parameters of a scheduled day. As opposed to a regular veterinarian office, the services in the moSee CLINIC on 25

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With the TNR program, volunteers go into areas where there are large feral cat colonies and they spend a couple of days trapping the feral cats and then the mobile unit will come to that area to spay and neuter the captured ferals and then re-release them back into their colonies.

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25 -$1800. Clinic for low income/ low cost spay/neuter clinic - $1200. These clinics include all needed meds, veterinarian fees, anesthesiologist fees, vet tech fees and vaccines. For those who are interested and would like to see the new mobile veterinary clinic, it will be stationed at Funspot in Weirs Beach through the winter in their rear parking lot before it heads out on its mission in the spring. A GoFundMe Page towards the $40,000 presented by Live and Let Live Farm and FUNsd4Paws can be accessed at charity.gofundme. com/vetmobile If you’d like to learn more about Live and Let Live Rescue and Sanctuary visit liveandletlivefarm.org to learn more about FUNds4Paws you can visit funds4paws.org

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GORRELL from 7 have pegged young Ms. McClendon as a promising but average student when compared to her peers across the country. Test like the SATs and ACTs – which more universities are making optional – and PISA, the Program for International Student Assessment that measures 15-year-old students’ reading, mathematics, and science literacy every three years. Based on the 2018 results, U.S. 15-yearolds earned an average math score of 478 out of 1000, putting us 30th in the world, below the average of our economic competitors. Of course, we spend well-above the average for that poor showing. (More on what we

should learn from PISA in a future essay.) Imagine being an athlete at the NFL Scouting Combine and discovering for the first time that your football skills peaked in Pop Warner. Imagine the confusing distress of realizing that your coaches had been lying to you for years, building you up for something you had no hope of attaining. Imagine the dawning realization that you had spent years going down a dead-end road, when you could have spent that time on a different path, one that could have led you to achieving real success. Now imagine parents and children locked into a system that works hard to prevent competition – tangible,

accessible choices – in education. That’s the public-school system that failed Marqell McClendon and thousands like her, every year. Except that unlike the NFL, universities are willing to lower standards to accommodate those who don’t measure up – as long as they can pay the price. It’s ironic that the people who blather on the most about “diversity” are the ones most against diversity in K-12 education options. “Diversity is our strength” they chant, while fighting to maintain a monolithic system that has created millions of academically weak students like Ms. McClendon. When faced with the

fact that their education assembly line is producing defective widgets, they attack the Quality Assurance process rather than look at how those widgets are made. They attempt to malign standardized tests like PISA that help identify academic deficiencies through setting an external baseline. The teachers who made Ms. McClendon a “valedictorian” are liars. They committed education malpractice. They damaged a child for life. Yet they are protected by a powerful union in a government system and will never be held to account. But they can be circumvented by bringing a diversity of options to K-12 education...if we

fight for it. Sadly but predictably, our Democratmajority legislature in Concord recently rejected $46 million in federal funds that could have supported charter school programs. It’s immaterial whether the state’s Democrats are in the pocket of the teacher’s unions for political gain or really just don’t care about your kid. The result of this epic fail is the same: the system is more important than the students and must be protected at all costs. Ken Gorrell welcomes your comments at kengorrell@gmail.com

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BOSAK from 8 ic age and a subscription would be a gift that gives all year. Speaking of the electronic age, iTunes gift cards are a good idea if your high-tech birder would rather have his or her field guides and other birding information on the phone. I will admit, I’m not a techie by any means, but I do like having a field guide on my phone while I am birding in the field. There are plenty of other ideas that I didn’t get to. A few bags of Birds and Beans coffee, anyone? It’s funny. For a hobby that requires very little in the way of equipment, there certainly a lot of ways to spoil your birder. Chris Bosak may be reached at chrisbosak26@gmail.com or through his website www.birdsofnewengland.com

MALKIN from 6 For those outside of New England, let me tell you about the infamous public enemy, Suffolk County DA Rachael Rollins. In March, she ordered her employees to monitor and snitch on federal ICE officers hanging around any courthouse while trying to do their jobs. She is overseeing a radical “restorative justice” agenda to decrease arrests, detentions and prosecutions for both citizens and noncitizens. Our office, she announced, “will begin to factor into all charging and sentencing decisions the potential of immigration consequences.” Let me translate that for you: If foreign adults commit crimes that would separate them from their families and lead to imprisonment and deportation, DA Rollins will drop charges or

shorten sentences in the name of social justice -- the lawabiding victims of these criminal immigrants be damned. The anarchy-promoting DA grudgingly admitted to Boston talk show legend Howie Carr earlier this year that the Teixeira case was a “horrific situation.” She said she would have “no problem” deporting convicted criminal immigrants, but only after they “shoot or rape or kill somebody.” In other words: Always look the other way at immigration crimes until it’s too late to save the lives of innocent people sacrificed at the altar of open borders. As the people of Boston face a crucial vote by their city council this week on whether to make their sanctuary policies even more radi-

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cal and welcoming for the world’s homeless, jobless, drug dealers and gangbangers, I have questions: Why shouldn’t foreign law-breakers face “immigration consequences” for every single civil and criminal law they violate? Why are Soros-bots across the country elevating the rights of criminal immigrants above law-abiding citizens? Why aren’t more Americans rising in revolt against open borders-sponsored politicians and prosecutors turning our neighborhoods into safe spaces for foreign outlaws? Over the past three months, thousands have joined me at rallies to Stand with ICE and defend American First in so-called sanctuary cities from Boston to Aurora to Portland to Montgomery County, Maryland? What about the rest of you? What’s your excuse? Michelle Malkin ‘s email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@protonmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

METZLER from 7 manitarian disaster. Ambassador Pierce stressed, “The sanctions regime imposed by the Council will remain in place until North Korea takes concrete steps towards denuclearization.” Poland and Belgium agreed sanctions must be maintained. German Ambassador Christoph Heusgen stated that “it is a myth” that economic sanctions are at the root of North Korea’s humanitarian crisis. The UN’s Khiari stated plainly, “International humanitarian operations in the DPRK remain critical for over 10 million people, or around 40 percent of the population.” Regarding misinformation on economic sanctions he stated, “measures imposed by the Security Council are not intended to negatively affect or restrict food aid and humanitarian assistance.” While UN food programs remain notably underfunded by international donors, there’s a gloomy lack of transparency as to the actual distribution of supplies and medicine inside North Korea. Though the Council showed a rare unity concerning the DPRK’s expanding nuclear and ballistic missile proliferation, criticism was far more circumspect when it came to the economic sanctions on North Korea or censuring the regime’s Human rights transgressions. Both China and Russia spoke about tempering the tough sanctions. Britain, Belgium, France and Germany particularly chastised the DPRK’s human rights record. South Korea’s en-

voy Cho Hyun stated optimistically, “We must seize this opportunity to break out of the trap of the security dilemma and the lingering fear of war, and make peace lasting on the Korean peninsula. This will not be achieved by the projection of animosity and mistrust… It will be achieved with restraint, courage and faith in the future.” Fair enough. But Pyongyang’s renewed missile provocations have disrupted what the Ambassador calls a “delicate path of dialogue.” The disruptions have not come from Seoul, Washington nor Tokyo. They originate from the DPRK, Kim’s fiefdom. Tensions are rising as North Korea tests new missiles and possibly provokes a dangerous new confrontation with the USA. Kim may be wishfully betting that Trump facing impeachment and an election campaign will politically cave in. North Korea continues to push neutrons for its military over nutrition for its people. Isn’t it long overdue that the DPRK’s planned brinksmanship be defused before it again threatens East Asia and the U.S. ? John J. Metzler is a United Nations correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues. He is the author of Divided Dynamism the Diplomacy of Separated Nations: Germany, Korea, China.

— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, December 19, 2019 — MOFFETT from 9 to let residents decide if Native American images should be ejected from the basketball court. The board voted to add the issue to the warrant at the annual March town meeting for further discussion. Another article was discussed that would seek public donations, not taxpayer money, to repaint the baselines. But one wonders if money is raised to repaint the floor, will the administrators just go ahead and paint over the Indian likenesses, or will they honor the wishes of the people. School meetings are often dominated by those who stand to benefit from increased school spending or who support education establishment orthodoxy. But I have a feeling that the good people of greater Penacook, like the good people of Laconia, will assert their desire to continue to remember and honor Native Americans. The Penacooks who lived here centuries ago won’t be able to vote. But if they could, I think they’d support the Indian symbol. Or at least 80% of them would! Sports Quiz Dartmouth College was founded to support the education of Indians, and its teams were proudly known as the Indians until 1971. What are Dartmouth teams known as today? (Answer follows) Born Today ... That is to say sports standouts born on December 19 include the all-time great NHL defenseman Doug Harvey (1924) and star NFL defensive end Reggie White (1961).

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