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VOLUME 25, NO. 51

THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, December 22, 2016

COMPLIMENTARY

Merry

Christmas From All Of Us!!

Columnist Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. takes us back to Christmases past that he remembered as a young boy postcard from the publisher’s collection in New Hampshire.

Childhood Memories Of Christmas In New Hampshire by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. Contributing Writer

A year ago this column was about a memorable, unusual Christmas that involved a serious illness my father experienced and the generous support our family received from neighbors and other friends. Because Christmas is a gift that keeps on giving every year, I have additional memories, some of which I decided to share this year.

At the country oneclassroom school I attended for the first six years of public education, we had yearly Christmas programs at a special evening time when relatives and friends were invited to be entertained by the pupils. My memory takes me back to a snowy winter’s night with big fluffy flakes falling but failing to keep the annual Christmas program from happening at the Hanaford School in New Hampton. The tree

would have been decorated with ornaments made by the boys and girls. I recall particularly the scissors, colored construction paper, and glue that were made into paper chains to hang upon the classroom tree. Back in those days we sometimes even made our own glue with flour and water. The program itself included recitations, carols and perhaps a play. The one I remember being a version of Dicken’s Christmas Carol

featuring Tiny Tim and a make-believe goose. The session would end with the arrival of Santa Claus, who would pass out decorated candy boxes filled with hard candies. I have never forgotten an outside event, either before or after the inside festivities when David Caverhill, the big upper classman, decided to pick me up and hold me high from the ground in the falling snow. He was so tall he must have See smith on 20

It has been a n o t h e r great year here at The Weirs Times and Cocheco Times and we would like to thank all of our loyal readers and advertisers for your support. It is hard to believe that we are going into our 26th year and we could not have done it without your continuing support and for that we are grateful. When this paper started in 1992 with just a few thousand copies around the Lakes Region, we never imagined that we would grow to 30,000 copies a week and that our distribution would reach far beyond our own backyard to the seacoast and the North Country. It has been our great pleasure to bring you the Weirs Times and the Cocheco Times each and every week. We wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas and we are looking forward to a fantastic New Year!

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CHRISTMAS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE

Your Guideto Your Guide For Great Last Holiday Gifts Minute Gift Ideas! & Celebration!

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Wednesday 28th Weekly Cribbage Tournaments to Benefit the Children’s Auction

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.

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Mon. 26th – Sat. 31st Discovery Christmas

The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, Concord. Open every day from 10:30am-4pm. Five planetarium shows- including the Discovery Center’s newest shows, Space School and The Little Star That Could- will be offered every day, as well as the special NASA exhibition, The Hubble Space Telescope; New Views of the Universe. Admission to the Discovery Center is $10/adults, $9/students and seniors, $7/children age 12 and under; and free for ages 0-2years old. Free for members.

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Harnessing History: On the Trail of NH’s State Dog, the Chinook

First Baptist Church, 122 Main Street, Plaistow. 7pm. This program looks at how dog sledding developed in New Hampshire and how the Chinook played a major role in this story. Explaining how man and his relationship with dogs won out over machines on several famous polar expeditions, Bob Cottrell covers the history of Arthur Walden and his Chinooks, the State Dog of NH. Cottrell will be accompanied by his appropriately named Chinook, Tug. Free and open to the public. 3825843

(Not So) Elementary, My Dear Watson: The Popularity of Sherlock Holmes

Rodgers Memorial Library, 194 Derry Road, Hudson. 7pm. The recent spate of Sherlock Holmes movies, television shows and literary adaptations indicate the Great Detective is alive and well in the 21st Century. Ann McClellan’s presentation explores the origins of Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective and tracks his incarnations in literature, film, advertising, and modern media in order to crack the case of the most popular detective. Free and open to the public. 6592626

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. 7pm. $10pp with weekly cash prizes. Come have some fun and support a great cause. 998-1418

Thursday 12th Silent Film Series – “Peter Pan” The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 536-2551

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Saturday 14th Tusk – Fleetwood Mac Tribute The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 536-2551

Kashmir – The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Show Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. www. rochesteroperahouse.com or 3351992

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Led Zeppelin Tribute In Rochester The Rochester Opera House presents Kashmir (Led Zeppelin tribute show) Saturday, January 14th. The nation’s #1 Led Zeppelin tribute show returns! Kashmir is the most authentic representation of Led Zeppelin on the modern national touring scene. Each of the 4 band members assumes their individual role with pinpoint accuracy. Kashmir possesses the live stage show, sound, and likeness to bring audiences and fans back to the days when the mighty Led Zeppelin ruled the musical landscape. With the playlist of every classic rock station and the most identifiable voice in rock history, Kashmir’s show features Page’s iconic double-neck guitar, Bonham’s drum solo, the stage show of the era, and most importantly, the greatest hits that make up the soundtrack to peoples’ lives. Cash bar. Patrons under age 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Tickets $22.00-$24.00. Saturday, January 14th, 2017. Show starts at 8pm, doors open at 7pm. Reserve tickets online or call the box office (603) 335-1992, M/W/F from 10-5pm and 2-hours before the show. The Rochester Opera House is located in City Hall, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester NH. Visit www.RochesterOperaHouse.com for more information.

‘Peter Pan’ Plays In Plymouth It was the original silent film adaptation of ‘Peter Pan,’ a picture personally supervised by author J.M. Barrie. The film was a major hit when released in 1924, with audiences eager to get their first big-screen look at the wonders of Neverland. Movie fans can see for themselves when the first ‘Peter Pan’ (1924) is screened on Thursday, January 12th at 6:30pm at the Flying Monkey Moviehouse and Performance Center, 39 South Main St., Plymouth. The program will feature live music for the movie by silent film accompanist Jeff Rapsis. The film is appropriate for all ages, making for a unique evening of family entertainment. Admission is $10 per person.

Dover Children’s Home Bowl-A-Thon Four teams are still needed to fill the lanes at Dover Bowl on Sunday, February 19, for the Annual Dover Children’s Home Bowl-A-Thon. Reserve a lane for a foursome for 90-minutes of bowling at 10am, noon, 2pm, or 4pm. Friends of all ages and skill levels are invited to participate. Bowling shoes and lane fees will be free for all bowlers. Prizes will be awarded each session to the teams with the best theme wear, highest youth and adult team scores, and most money raised. The individual members of each four-person team that raises a combined total of $800 or more will also be entered into a Grand Prize drawing. All money raised will support exceptional treatment services designed to help at-risk children learn to reclaim their lives, recover their dreams, and achieve their full potential. For more information:Email Renee at rtouhey@doverchildrenshome.org, Donna at dcoraluzzo@doverchildrenshome. org or call/ 603-742-4289.

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Residents Or Not? To The Editor: It’s about time New Hampshire improves our very lenient voter laws. I find it very disturbing for New Hampshire to allow students from out of state, who are here to attend college, the right to vote and choose our local politicians. This is a fact that was just proven in our November election. We all know that the majority of college students, vote for the democratic candidate. As we just witnessed, thousands of students protesting across the country, at many college towns and cities. They were destroying and burning public and private property for weeks. Why? Because, their democratic candidate of choice, Hillary Clinton lost. I did some research on our November local election results in New Hampshire, for the state senate race between Democrat Maggie Hassan and Republican Kelly Ayotte. New Hampshire has ten counties. Maggie Hassan won five counties. She won every county that has a large college population. Grafton County, home to Plymouth State and Dartmouth college. Cheshire County home to Keene State, Strafford County home to the University of New Hampshire and Merrimack county which houses New England College, Colby-Sawyer, Magdalen, New Hamp-

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shire Technical Institute, Notre Dame, Southern NH Institute and several others. Coincidence, I think not. It’s evident that these college students overwhelmingly voted for Maggie Hassan. Kelly Ayotte won the other five counties, that house only one or two small community colleges and Hillsborough county where she lives and has a business. This problem has to be corrected and soon. Every vote cast by a student from out of state, cancels a vote by a true, NH citizen. If these students are to be considered citizens, they should have to obtain a NH Drivers license and register their cars here, as every citizen does. New Hampshire sure could use that lost revenue. Also, since they are considered citizens, they should be eligible for the lower instate tuition rate at our colleges which, they are not. Why are they only considered citizens when it comes to their vote? New Hampshire needs to put a stop to this grave injustice that is forced upon our citizens. Are these students residents or not.

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.

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Northern Pass - A Rigged Process? To The Editor: Recently, the Public Utility Commission (PUC) as part of the agreement to give Northern Pass utility status, agreed to a $20 million dollar settlement payable to the PUC - only upon approval by the Site Evaluation Committee (SEC) of the Northern Pass application to build a transmission line through NH. Should we be surprised that Northern Pass, in collusion with the PUC has found a way to make its first multi-million down payment, perhaps better construed as a pay-off directly to the state of NH for approval of this transmission line. Worse yet, fellow citizens - This pay for play scheme is legal! Does anyone see a blatant conflict of interest in the fact that the three PUC commissioners that negotiated this settlement also sit on the SEC, both chaired by the same person? Would not anyone interpret this as nothing more than pay for play, to ultimately sway the SEC Committee - who we are told is impartial? It is a deliberate debasement of ethical fair play and makes a farce of the entire SEC process. Can the SEC Walk away from such an enormous sum of money? Would they, or rather, can they be impartial under such circumstances? What do you think? It’s kind of like paying $100.00 for a building See mail boat on 30

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As Christmas Day is upon us and most of us, hopefully, have successfully checked off all of the items on our gift list. Still, there always seems to be that one person on the list who it gets harder and harder to buy for each year. I know I have often gotten down to the wire, trolling the aisles of the local department store at the last minute on the afternoon of Christmas Eve, the voice on the loudspeaker informing me that they will be closing in fifteen minutes. This is when panic sets in. The shelves are bare, articles of clothing tossed about willy nilly by those who are desperately searching for something…anything... to give to that hard to buy for relative. Of course, one can simply buy a gift card which in essence is the same as wrapping up a piece of paper that when opened reads: “Merry Christmas. As you can see I put no effort or thought into this at all.” Giving a check as a present is basically sending the same message except you can add one sentence to the sentiment: “And I didn’t even have to leave the house.” As you search through the barren remains of the department store, time now ticking down to minutes you can count on your hand, you are strictly on your own. Not even one of the festively clad sales clerks with the Santa Hat and red garland necklace will do you any good at this

stage of the game. You are basically the enemy now, still in the store eight minutes from closing, possibly keeping them from leaving on time if they were to offer assistance at this point. Finally you find something. Maybe a kerosene powered metal hand warmer or a CD collection of the greatest Side B hits by one hit wonder groups from the sixties. Or maybe something else. You hear the bell ring signaling the end of good cheer. It is closing time, but the rules of the game allow you to finish, even if it at your own risk. We appreciate your business, but now get out! You head to one of the few cashiers left, who stares up at you with a bowed head. “Did you find everything you needed today?” she asks with the enthusiasm of someone stuck in a traffic jam. “In fact I didn’t, I was hoping you could help me,” you are tempted to answer just to see what chaos that might cause. “Yes,” you say instead. “I was certainly grateful to see that you still had a battery powered combination nose hair clipper and wine opener still available this late in the game.” “Would you like to purchase the three-year extended warranty for only $39.95?” she asks as required by department store law. “Does that cover all moving parts?” you ask? The lights are going off all around. “I’m not sure, I’d have to ask my manager,” she says while looking straight though you. “Never mind,” You say. “I’ll skip the insurance and I’ll take my chances.” She sighs a breath in relief and rings your purchase through. “That’ll be $59.95.” “Well worth it. She doesn’t even ask if you’d like to donate a dol-

lar to the Fund For People Who Can’t Afford Extended Basic Cable. There are some advantages to shopping this late. You slide your card and forget it has one of those new chips. “You have to insert it with the chip end,” she informs you as though you just tried to start your car using a paper clip in the ignition switch. “Sorry, I have to get used to that.” A “I could care less smile” crosses her lips. She bags the item. “Merry Christmas,” you say. “Merry Christmas,” she responds with actual enthusiasm. You hurry towards the door, setting off the security alarm as she must have forgotten to disarm this valuable and sought after item. Still, no one comes after you, no one cares. Let this one go. After all, it’s Christmas Eve. You get in you car as a wave or relief sweeps over you. Then you start to think about Christmas. A great time to be with family and friends and to come together in peace, friendship and goodwill towards all men. It shouldn’t matter if it is a three week all expenses paid trip to Acapulco or a battery powered combination nose hair clipper and wine opener that you are giving as a present. It’s what’s in your heart when you give it. Then you remember. In the chaos you forgot the wrapping paper. Too late now. The flimsy plastic bag from the store will have to do. It really shouldn’t matter at all. Merry Christmas! Visit Brendan’s website at www.BrendanTSmith. com

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A New Victim In The War On Small-Biz Bakeries It is not enough for family-owned pastry shops to bow to the gay marriage mob. Now, they’re being targeted by the social by Michelle Malkin j u s t i c e m a Syndicated Columnist fia. At my alma mater, radical Oberlin College in Ohio (which boasts hapless Baltimore mayor and rioters’ champion Stephanie Rawlings Blake and bizarro feminist actress and fake rape accuser Lena Dunham as graduates), the operators of a small-business bakery are under siege by vengeful students and administrators trying to crush them under the wheels of the race-baiters’ bandwagon. The true victim in this latest tale of political correctness run amok is Gibson’s Bakery -- a quaint shop founded in 1885 that still bakes all its goods using original recipes. On Nov. 9, according to the city police report I obtained, shop employee Allyn Gibson caught a 19-year-old Oberlin College student allegedly stealing two bottles of wine and hiding them under his shirt. As officers approached the area, Oberlin Police Sgt. (Victor) Ortiz, and Officer (Raymond) Feuerstein both stated they observed Gibson lying on his back with several individuals kneeling over him punching and kicking him with several other individuals in the immediate area. Officers attempted to gain control of the situation and were met several times with resistance from several different individuals.” Allyn Gibson attempted to

stop the alleged thief, Jonathan Aladin, from leaving the store and tried to take a photo him as he bolted. Gibson got whacked in the face with his own phone. Aladin then reportedly ran while throwing the two bottles of wine on the floor, becoming “violent” and “grabbing and hitting Allyn.” Aladin ran out with two females who were with him in the store. Gibson followed and tried to detain the alleged shoplifter again on the street. Gibson’s right as a shop employee to detain a suspected thief with probable cause until police arrive is protected under Ohio statute. As the females punched and kicked him, police officers who had arrived on scene during the beating wrote: “Allyn had several abrasions and minor injuries including what appeared to be a swollen lip, abrasions to his arms and wrists and a small cut on his neck.” Aladin was charged with robbery and inflicting harm and faces a court hearing in the case this week. The two females, Endia Lawrence and Cecelia Whettstone, were charged with assault. You can guess what happened next. Aladin, who is black, became the new poster boy of institutional racism and oppression. Students organized protests and shrieked about “racial profiling,” claiming that the bakery had a history of discriminating against customers “of color.” It gets worse. Leading the charge in the latest War on Small-Biz Bakeries is the Oberlin College dean of students, Meredith Raimondo, who joined

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“Challenges Surpass Our Ability to Respond,” New UN Chief Warns UNITED NATIONS - While Washington awaits the inauguration of a new U.S. president on January 20th , the United Naby John J. Metzler tions has quiSyndicated Columnist etly passed its baton of leadership to a new Secretary-General from Portugal. Addressing the General Assembly in the midst of the current global chaos, Antonio Guterres warned candidly, “Our most serious shortcoming, and here I refer to the entire international community, is our ability to prevent crises.” He added, “The United Nations was born from war. Today, we must be here for peace.” After taking the oath of Office, incoming Secretary-General Guterres stressed, “The challenges are now surpassing our ability to

respond.” Crises throughout the Middle East with the seething epicenter in Syria not to mention waves of migrants numbering over 65 million, have jolted the global order. The UN Security Council meets regularly to manage and contain, but tragically not solve, many of the conflicts. Antonio Guterres recalled that when he first became Portugal’s Prime Minister back in the 1990’s “the world was riding a wave of optimism. The Cold War had ended and some had described that as the end of history.” Yet the new Secretary-General advised that the end of the Cold War was not the end of history, “On the contrary history had simply been frozen in some places. When the old order melted away, history came back with a vengeance.” He continued, “Hidden contradictions and tensions resurfaced. New wars multiplied and old ones See Metzler on 29

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Right To Work Is Right For NH My wife and I have decided to cut the cable. Not literally, since we have a satellite dish, but we by Ken Gorrell are joining Northfield, NH. the ranks of “cable cutters” who have decided to stop paying for something they don’t need or want. Sure, we receive 200 TV channels. But we regularly watch about 7 of them, and for those we are paying $130 per month. We can get what we want for less than $50 per month, and we have plenty of other priorities for that grand we’ll save every year. I thought about our decision to get what we pay for and want what we get when I heard that the NH Senate was going to prioritize Right to Work (RTW) legislation this session. RTW is a perfect example of giving people the option of not paying for something they don’t value. Current law prevents unionized workers from “cutting the cable” so to speak. RTW would change that. It’s time for the Live Free or Die state to join with the 26 states that have passed Right to Work legislation. This is not just a matter of principle; there are economic benefits that RTW states enjoy over forced-union states. What is Right to Work? Ac-

cording to the pro-RTW National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, a Right to Work law “guarantees that no person can be compelled, as a condition of employment, to join or not to join, nor to pay dues to a labor union. Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act (1947) affirms the right of states to enact Right to Work laws.” Anti-RTW advocates point out that the “closed shop” is a thing of the past and that employees who chose not to join a union only pay for the collective bargaining they benefit from. However, that accounting can be tricky. Given the fact that union contracts significantly impact state and local labor markets, and that unions give disproportionately to Democrat candidates and liberal causes, RTW is as much an economic issue as it is a worker rights issue. Statisticians love invoking the principle, “Correlation does not imply causation.” The economic advantages observed in RTW states might not be attributable simply to passing RTW legislation. But there’s a scientific principle called “Occam’s Razor.” In layman’s terms, “when you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.” Just because my dog runs to her crate every time I start singing doesn’t necessarily mean the hound hates my singing, but the simplest explanation is that correlation does

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Where Are We? We are now in a kind of political no-man’sland between an administration on its way out and a new administration taking shape. Predictions are by Thomas Sowell always risky Syndicated Columnist -- and nowhere more so than in times like these. What we can do, however, is assess where we are, and what some of the opportunities and dangers are. The opportunities are many, which is to say that many things are in desperate need of changing, beginning with rebuilding our dangerously neglected and undermined military forces. The monstrosity of ObamaCare needs to be gotten rid of, not just cosmetically adjusted. Our fundamental freedoms under the Constitution are at stake in the choice of the next nominee to become a Justice of the closely divided Supreme Court. We need someone with both the depth and the strength to resist the pressures and the temptations that have seduced too many supposedly “conservative” justices, over the years, into betraying Constitutional principles. The current hysteria over “fake news” -- including hysteria by people who have done more than their own fair share of faking news -- shows the continuing efforts of the political left to stifle free speech in the country at large, as they already have on academic campuses. These are just some of the opportunities the incoming administration has, now that the Republicans finally have control of both Houses of Congress and

the White House -- which is to say, now that they no longer have any excuses for not doing what they said they were going to do, when they were running for election. Opportunities are of course also challenges, and few of these challenges can be met without paying a price. Will the slim Republican majority in the Senate put bipartisan cooperation ahead of the Constitution, when it comes to choosing a Supreme Court Justice based on principles, rather than on avoiding a nasty fight with the Democrats? The same question arises when it comes to repealing ObamaCare. Democrats threw bipartisanship to the winds when it came to passing ObamaCare. Republicans who wanted to have an input on this sweeping legislation were bluntly reminded of the outcome of the elections. “I won,” President Obama told them. Now that the Republicans have won -- not only the presidency but also the Congress, as well as most governorships and state legislatures across the country -- do they have the guts to do what they were elected to do? Surely no one can be unaware that one of the reasons why such an unorthodox outsider as Donald Trump won the Republican nomination, and then the election, is that Republican voters were fed up with the repeated betrayals by the Republican establishment, going all the way back to President Bush 41 and his betrayal of his bold assertion: “Read my lips, no new taxes!” What do we know, at this point, about the people being tapped as nominees for key positions in the incoming Trump See Sowell on 26

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Floating safety pics and a buoyant ice fishing suit will keep you safe and fishing another day. can bring on the ice. Good traction such as Kahtoola Microspikes are a must for me and my clients. Traction not only helps protect you from falling and injuring yourself, but it is essential should you need to help rescue another person. Companies such as Clam Outdoors offer safety throw ropes, floating safety picks, ice fishing suits that offer added buoyancy, and other valuable safety products specifically designed with the ice angler in mind. In today’s hi-tech world there is no need to take risks. There is a tool for every job and safety is the most important aspect of ice fishing. Don’t get complacent this season when your lakes and ponds begin to

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Ask The Builder Diagonal Bracing Keeps Walls From Falling Down by Tim Carter

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DEAR TIM: Yesterday I stopped by my new house thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s under construction. I go there at the end of each day to take photos. I saw a strange board nailed across the wall studs that surely is a mistake. It ran diagonally from the bottom wall plate up the wall to one corner of the wall. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see how the builder is going to install drywall over this. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s it for, and is it important? I was tempted to remove it thinking that the carpenters made a mistake. Would you install this board as you build a new home? --Dan V., Austin, Texas DEAR DAN: I want to congratulate you on checking on the progress of your new home each day. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a smart idea. By doing this you can catch errors and omissions in the construction process. Taking photos, thousands of them, is also very smart. Even if you have no idea what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re taking a photo of, do it nonetheless. These photos can be very handy down the road if someone

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ď ?ď ď &#x2030;ď &#x17D;ď &#x201D;ď &#x2030;ď &#x17D;ď &#x2021; See that angled board nailed to the vertical wall studs? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a temporary diagonal wall brace used to stabilize the framing while the house is built. needs to look at how your home was put together. Years ago, it was expensive to take lots of photos. Now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s simple and nearly free, thanks to the ability to store data in â&#x20AC;&#x153;the cloudâ&#x20AC;? or on other memory media. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d also recommend that you start taking video and talk about what you see as you have the camera aimed at something. Take closeup shots of critical elements such as plumbing connections, structural supports and beams. Holy potato! Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure glad you didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t remove that temporary diagonal wall brace. You could have

caused a wall to collapse hurting or killing someone, including yourself. I strongly suggest that you never touch a single thing on the job site when you visit. Things are done by carpenters and other workers for a reason. Believe me, no one wants to do extra work, so if you see something that looks unusual, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best to talk to the builder or job superintendent. When a carpenter builds a wood-framed wall using regular lumber and nails, the wall may be able to support lots of weight on its own, but the wall is not stable unless it has See builder on 14

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some form of bracing. What would you say if I told you that a house could collapse if a gust of wind hit it? My guess is you’d say that’s hogwash because you don’t regularly see houses flattened after each windstorm in your town. But a house could easily collapse without some form of diagonal bracing in walls. Here’s an easy way to prove it. If you are so inclined, take a few 2-by-4s and build a simple wall that’s 4 feet tall. Nail the

studs every 16 inches on center like a real wall. Stand the wall up, nail the bottom plate to the floor and then go to one end or the other of the wall, and start pushing on the top plate of the wall. You’ll discover it doesn’t take much effort at all to make the wall start to fold down on itself. The top wall plate will remain parallel with the bottom plate, but the wall studs will start to all tilt at once as the top plate travels to the ground with you

pushing it forward. Straighten the wall back up, making all the studs plumb, and then nail another stud on the face of the vertical wall studs that’s at a diagonal from one bottom corner of the wall to the upper corner of the wall at the opposite end. Now try to push the top plate and see what happens. No matter how hard you push, the top plate will not budge. The diagonal brace you saw at your job site was a temporary brace to keep a

wall from moving. When I built houses, I’d do this on interior walls that connected with an exterior wall. This braced wall would help prevent the exterior wall from blowing over as the house is being built. You probably noticed the exterior walls of your new home have wood sheathing on them. It’s probably oriented strand board (OSB), or in rare instances it may be plywood. Just one sheet of this material at each corner

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of a wall will provide the same bracing as the single piece of wood you saw on the other wall so long as the OSB or plywood is fastened to the wall studs with the correct nails in a distinct nailing pattern. The nails must not be over driven into the OSB or plywood. It’s best if the head of the nail is flush with the wood. Years ago carpenters would put in the diagonal brace you saw by mortising it into the wall studs. This is very time consuming, but it gave the walls enormous strength. Metal T-shaped diagonal bracing can be put in walls, accomplishing the same goal. The carpenters set their saw depth so it cuts a kerf in each wall stud to accommodate the metal brace. If you ever see one of these braces in a wall, never ever cut into it. Pay attention to the way the exterior OSB sheathing is applied to your home. If you want to download a helpful guide showing you how it should be done, just go to APA -- The Engineered Wood Association online library for lots of great information. Here’s the URL: http://www. apawood.org/resourcelibrary. 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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Winter is a good time to start thinking about nest boxes. Many species of wild birds begin looking for nesting sites in late winter or early spring, including bluebirds, chickadees, titmice and nuthatches. Just as supplying food and open water attracts many different species of birds to your backyard, the addition of a single nest box will attract other species as well. To those of us in the bird feeding hobby, a nesting bird is a feeding bird. With the loss of many natural cavities, such as wooden fence posts and old trees, it is important to supply artificial nest sites. The first thing to consider when constructing a nest box is what species you wish to attract. Next, find the ideal dimensions and hole size for that species to optimize your chances of getting a tenant. Choose a suitable material from which to construct the box. Finally, be sure to design the box with adequate drainage, ventilation and protection from the elements and predators. The dimension of the entrance hole is probably the most critical element.

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Looking back at my childhood, I’ve thought that I was a good boy most of the time, but then I read some things one of my siblings had written and I realized that maybe I wasn’t always that good, which explains why my memories include what probably seemed like hours assigned to sit in a chair (called “time out” today), and being placed across my Father’s knees while he applied the hand of discipline to the seat of learning, occasionally that being , not a hand, but a wooden paddle, (it didn’t hurt much, but I cried anyway – laughter would not have been an acceptable response). What my brother wrote more than once in the brief notes in a diary that covered a few months when I was six or seven years old was “Bobby was a bad boy.” I don’t remember what it was that I did that subjected me to those charges and punishments. I guess if one feels they have been adequately taken to account for the wrongs they have done then there is no need to remember them. I do remember a few childish misdeeds for which I was not punished, at least not by any human authority, either because they didn’t know or for some reason withheld disciplinary action. I guess it is those unpunished deeds or words or thoughts that are more apt to linger in ones memory and perhaps leave a sense of guilt and feeling that one has left in the past bad deeds that cannot be changed and debts that cannot be paid. There is also the re-

alization that being good in one’s own eyes doesn’t mean that everyone else sees things the same. However, my childhood was also blessed by the teaching of a message of love and forgiveness. First, I learned that not only was I perhaps not as good as I sometimes supposed, but that everyone else has sinned as I have. I wasn’t the only one who had been bad. I learned that sinning has consequences, but that the worst of those consequences could be eliminated because God through Jesus Christ was offering me a gift of forgiveness which included eternal life. Christmas is meant to be a celebration of the birth of Jesus because the purpose of that coming, with the mysterious union of God and man in one Person, was to save people from their sins.The baby in that manger in Bethlehem was called a Savior. He grew to manhood, and, according to Scripture died in our place, for our sins, on the Cross. But death had no power over the sinless Savior; He rose from the dead, with a new immortal body.

Jesus is God’s gift to me and to you. He is a gift to be received by faith and an act of the will. A gift of God’s love. There is hope and peace for boys and girls and men and women because the gift of Christmas is the gift of a Savior waiting to be received. The Bible speaks of the blessedness of forgiveness: “Blessed are those whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the one whose sin the Lord will never count against them. “ -Romans 4:7,8

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administration? By and large, they are of a higher caliber than usual, especially General James N. Mattis who has been selected to become Secretary of Defense. The love of rhetoric by both the media and Donald Trump has caused General Mattis’ nickname of “Mad Dog Mattis” to become a distraction from the facts about a man of both high intellect and a great concern for the troops he commanded. He has, for example, taken it upon himself to personally visit many families of those who died fighting in the battles he led. As a personal note, I have had the privilege of having discussions with many military people who have visited the Hoover Institution over the years, and have been impressed with officers of many ranks, including General Mattis. The young officers I have encountered are head and shoulders above so many young people of similar ages who are graduates of even our most prestigious colleges and universities. The liberal media are already expressing worry about the number of military people being considered for key positions in the new administration. They would be worried about anyone who has not been brainwashed in the political correctness that reigns among the intelligentsia. The key individual in any administration, however, is the President -- and that remains the key mystery in the new administration. Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com. To find out more about Thomas Sowell and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

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job growth during this period were RTW; seven of the nine states with the worst job losses were forced-unionism. The irony is that RTW might have helped to re-elect RTW-foe Barack Obama. Exit polls in 2012 showed that 4 in 10 Americans believed the economy was getting better, while 3 in 10 believed it was getting worse. Those optimistic Americans were likely in the RTW states that were adding jobs, while forced-unionism states floundered. But wait, there’s more. In an article posted on the Heritage Foundation website, authors Stephen Moore, Arthur Laffer, and Joel Griffith show that the nine states that, like NH, have no income taxes had higher population and job growth than the nine states with the highest state income taxes. Those states are enjoying job growth rates more than three times that of the forced-union states. Significantly, the authors show the trends favoring no-income-tax and RTW states date back four decades. That’s a lot of correlation. New Hampshire needs to be a Right to Work state if we want to attract and retain job-creating businesses and young people looking to get ahead in life. The data is out there and the case is clear. Compared to forced-unionism states, the unemployment rate in RTW states is lower; median incomes (after adjusting for the cost of living) are higher; and governments spend and tax less per capita. But the real indicator favoring RTW is that people are voting with their feet. People are moving to RTW states from forcedunion states in droves. With lower unemployment, higher incomes, lower taxes, and better business climates, does that come as a surprise? Ken can be reached at kengorrell@gmail.com

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permit and then slipping the inspector $10K to look the other way. Whether this will happen in this situation or not, is not the point. But, the appearance of impropriety in this process and its potential to be a corrupting influence cannot be ignored. NH citizens have been kicked to the curb and the process subverted in this PUC settlement, which on the face of it, appears as a path to state sponsored corruption. What if the roles were reversed and a group opposed to the line gave the PUC $20 million dollars to reject Northern Pass. Do you think that Northern Pass wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be running to court and have every lobbyist on Capitol Hill calling this an outrage? How many elected officials would be calling for a fraud investigation? Double standard folks, pure and simple. The PUC, in accepting this settlement has handed Northern Pass a get out of jail free card, in what would have been an illegal transaction under many other circumstances, while tainting the process and unduly influencing the SEC. Just because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legal, does it make it right? Is this the process and are these the officials we want in place to make such a potentially devastating decision that will affect NH for generations? I say - NO! The process has been entirely compromised and should be grounds for dissolution of the SEC and rejection of the Northern Pass application. The people of NH demand that safeguards be put in place that remove blatant conflicts of interest that can unduly influence the decision making process, and insure fair adjudication from neutral parties where the people of NH always come first! Carl Lakes, Easton NH.

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