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SIGNS OF SPRING

We often get reader requests to reprint one of our longtime columnist Lorrie Baird’s columns. We thought th i s one to be appropriate for Easter Sunday. This column originally appeared in our April 13, 2008 issue. Lorrie and her husband Jim retired to Florida and her last column appeared in 2012. —ed.

Now that I am all grown up and having been raised as a Christian, Easter has a much higher meaning. But while growing up, it’s not the organ

music or the aroma of Eas-ter lilies in church that are among my fondest memories. Back then, it was all about egg hunts and the Easter bunny and dressing up in brand new clothes that were never de-signed to sit in.

At our house the Easter cel-ebration began with a trip to Boston to shop for new outfits. Back then, every boy wore a suit and tie and every little girl an Easter bonnet, white gloves, and patent leather Mary Janes. Shopping with us kids must have been a strain. Before we left for the city I re-member my mother chucking

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by Lorrie BairdContributing Writer

Our monthly “Something Wild - Backyard Photo Contest” sponsored by Wild Bird Depot is in full swing and the first images for our April “Signs Of Spring” theme have been pouring in. Shown here are entries sent in to us from two of our readers from Rochester. The top one sent in from George Murphy and the bottom one from Jim Garlough. We will be accepting entries until Friday, April 25th with the winner announced the next week. See more details on the contest on page 11.

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Prominen t New Hamp-shire authors will read at the Portsmouth Public Library on Wednesday, April 30, at 6:30pm from the first-ever anthology of poems by con-temporary widows.

The Widows’ Handbook: Po-etic Reflections on Grief and Survival (Kent State Universi-ty Press, 2014) celebrates the strategies that widows must learn to deal with the shock of bereavement, the changes in their lives, and the realiza-tion that nothing will ever be the same.

The Portsmouth Library’s evening will include an open-microphone period if time permits, for any audience

members who want to read their own poems about sur-viving grief and loss.

The book is available on the website of Kent State University Press, on Amazon, at Barnes & Noble, and at a growing number of local book stores.

For more information, con-tact event organizer Tammi Truax at [email protected].

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Electronic Waste Collection DayBring your electronic junk over to the Laconia-Gilford Lions

Club during their Electronic Waste Collection Day (EWCD) on Saturday, April 19th from 9am to 1pm at the Lowes Parking Lot in Gilford and, for a small disposal fee, not only will they take it off your hands, they will recycle your old electronic items. The small fee charged is less than the local transfer station’s prices. Cash or checks will be accepted.

Computer monitors, laptops, CPUs, Servers, CD/DVD players, camcorders, AV equipment, VCRs, speakers, mice or keyboards, copiers, faxes, scanners, printers, phones (land and cell), phone systems, UPS systems, humidifiers, dehu-midifiers, cords, cables and computer accessories.

They will also take microwaves, air conditioners, refrigera-tors, freezers, water heaters, washing machines, dryers, gas or electric stoves, dishwashers, dumb terminals, and TVs. Anything with a cord not listed will also be accepted. You cannot drop off: oils, paints, thinners, batteries, tires, items containing mercury or any other hazardous waste.

Woodman Museum Opens For 98th Season

The Woodman Museum in Dover, New Hampshire, one of the Seacoast’s oldest historical attractions, re-opens on April 2nd for its 98th season with many new exhibits and extended hours. A traditional early 20th century style natural science, local history and art museum, the Woodman offers exhibits throughout four historic buildings including an original 1675 garrison house. This season the Keefe House carriage barn will officially open with sleighs, a rare Pontiac carriage, blacksmith shop, ice harvesting tools, walk behind plows and a Merry Mac sail boat built by Dover’s Ned McIntosh. The car-riage barn will now be part of the regular museum tours.

In celebration of the 175th anniversary of photography, the museum’s special exhibit for the season is “Tintypes to Digital”. On display are cameras and photographs from the wet plate era to today’s camera phones. Early studio cam-eras, the first 35mm camera, Brownies, the first Instamatic, Polaroid, the World’s first digital watch camera displayed next to a rare 1905 “Ticka” pocket watch camera made in England, a 1960s KGB spy camera, the View-Master and a stereo plate camera used to make Victorian era stereo views. See examples of daguerreotypes, tintypes and glass plate negatives….early flash powder pans and some of the first light meters…a time when photos were developed in enamel pans under safe-light conditions….when photographs were made using a camera.

The Woodman Museum, located at 182 Central Ave ( exit 8E Spaulding/Rt16) offers exhibits for all ages Wednesday – Sunday 10:00 am until 5:00 pm. Groups are welcome by reservation. 603-742-1038 or visit www.woodmanmuseum.org

Juston McKinney Returns To Capitol Center

New Hampshire native Juston McKinney brings his stand-up show to Concord NH’s Capitol Center for the Arts on Sat-urday May 17 at 8pm. Tickets start at $20 and are available at the Capitol Center for the Arts box office, located at 44 South Main Street, Concord, NH, via phone at 603-225-1111, and online at www.canh.com.

McKinney has had 2 Comedy Central specials including his half hour Comedy Central Presents and most recently his 1-hour special Juston McKinney-A Middle-Class Hole, which was released by Warner Bros. on DVD/CD. He has appeared numerous times on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and appeared on the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien. He was chosen to be part of the Blue Collar Comedy Next Generation Tour, with Bill Engvall, which aired on TBS.

He currently lives in New Hampshire with his wife, kids and dogs.

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“Bee’s Eye View” – Art ExhibitThe Franklin Gallery at Ben Franklin Crafts, 60 Wakefield Street, Rochester. M-F 9am-6pm, Sat. 9-6 and Sun. 10-5. 332-2227

The Senior B.A. and B.F.A. Exhibition and M.F.A. Thesis ExhibitionMuseum of Fine Art, UNH, 30 Academic Way, Durham. Showcases the artistic talents of students graduating from the studio art program, Department of Art and Art History, University of New Hampshire. It will also include one work from twenty-two B.A candidates. 862-3712

Thursday 17Th Lakes Region Camera Club MeetingTrinity Episcopal Church, Meredith. 7pm. Real estate photography with Bob Manley. Persons of any experience level are welcome. 340-2359

Bob MarleyThe Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. 536-2551

Free Sit n’ SewThe Quilted Frog, 51 Endicott Street, Weirs Beach. 2-5pm. 366-5600

Tree & Shrub Pruning DemonstrationNew London Town Common, 375 Main Street, New London. 5:30pm. Bring your pruners and loppers. $5 donation. 796-2151

Richard Blanco – Eagle Pond Authors SeriesSilver Center for the Arts, Plymouth. 7pm. 535-2787

Employee vs. Contractor - WorkshopEnterprise Center, Plymouth. 7:30-9am. Peg O’Brien of the legal firm Devine Millimet, will provide an overview of the differences between an employee and a contractor. Free but space is limited. 535-3222

Gilmanton Old Home Day Organization MeetingSmith Meeting House, Meeting House Road, Gilmanton. 7pm. All organizations are welcome to send

representatives to discuss their plans for Old Home Day.

Friday 18Th Genealogy Lock-InMeredith Public Library, Main Street, Meredith. 5-8pm. Use the library computers, access our locked collection and exchange ideas with others. Pizza will be served at 6pm. $5pp. Be sure to show up before the library closes at 5pm. 279-4303

Bruce Marshall & the Nor’eastersPitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. BYOB. 527-0043

saTurday 19Th Chris Smither – Live MusicCourt Street Arts at Alumni Hall, 75 Court Street, Haverhill. A profound songwriter, Chris continues to draw deeply from the blues, American folk music, modern poets and philosophers. $20pp. 989-550

Lou Gramm the Voice of ForeignerThe Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. 536-2551


Soap Making WorkshopMassabesic Audubon Center, 26 Audubon Way, Auburn. 1-3pm. $15/member, $25/non-member plus $5 materials fee.

Tree & Shrub Pruning DemonstrationMerrimack Superior Court, 163 N. Main Street, Concord. 10am. Bring your pruners and loppers. $5 donation. 796-2151

Clean Up DaySquam Lakes Science Center, 23 Science Center Road, Holderness. 9am-1pm. The Science Center invites the public to help prepare the trails, grounds and gardens for opening day May 1st. Extra rakes are greatly appreciated. Picnic lunch at noon. 968-7194

Danbury Grange Benefit – Live MusicDanbury Grange Hall, North Road, Danbury. 6:30pm. Dessert Social

followed by Cardigan Mountain Tradition. $5 suggested donation. 526-2614

Electronic Waste Collection DayLowe’s parking lot, 1407 Lakeshore Road, Gilford. 9am-1pm. Recycle electronic items of all sizes from phones and computers to dryers and refrigerators. 527-0089

Steve Bjork and Corey Rodrigues – Live ComedyPitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. BYOB. $15pp. 527-0043

Antiques Appraisal Day Laconia Antiques Center, 601 Main Street, Downtown Laconia. 2-4pm. Tickets sold at the door. $5 per appraisal (to benefit the Laconia Historical Society). First come first serve. 527-1278

Russian Easter BazaarNew England Language Center’s International Art Gallery, 16 Hillside Drive Rochester. 11am-3pm. It will feature an exhibit of unique contemporary Russian art and traditional Russian icons, storytelling, Russian cartoons and historical information about the crafts. Free and open to the public. 332-2255

monday 21sT “The History of Motorcycle Week” Laconia Public Library, Laconia. 7pm. Presented by Charlie St. Clair and Jennifer Anderson of the Laconia Motorcycle Week Rally Association. Free and open to the public. 527-1278

Tuesday 22nd Leslie Jamison to Read and Discuss BookRiverRun Book Store, 142 Fleet Street, Portsmouth. 7pm. 431-2100

New Owner’s EventIrwin Automotive, 59 Bisson Ave, Laconia. 5-7pm. All Toyota/Scion and Ford/Lincoln owners are invited to attend this evening of fun, prizes and food. (Weather you bought from Irwin or not.) 581-2953

Wednesday 23rd Lakes Region Tea Party MeetingMoultonborough Police/Fire Building, Moultonborough. 7pm. Andrew Hemingway, candidate for governor will be the main speaker. All are welcome to join.

Travel to Tuscany Italy – Information NightTaylor Community’s Woodside Building, 435 Union Avenue, Laconia. 5:30pm. Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce is offering a tour of Tuscany, Italy November 14-22, 2014. Nine days, seven nights including hotels, meals, day trips and airfare from Boston. A representative from Central Holidays will be at the meeting to answer any questions. Meeting is free to attend. 524-5531

Thursday 24Th Lakes Region Camera Club MeetingTrinity Episcopal Church, Meredith. 7pm.Planning Meeting. Persons of any experience level are welcome. 340-2359

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Electronic Waste Collection DayFundraising Event To Benefit

Laconia/Gilford Lions Club

Saturday, April 19thLowe’s Parking Lot

1407 Lakeshore Road, Gilford9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Recycle electronic items of all sizes from phones and comput-ers to dryers and refrigerators for a small disposal fee. No paints, batteries, tires, items containing mercury, or hazardous wastes.

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New Hampshire’s people settled along its rivers and built communities for over 10,000 years. They found shelter, food, water power, paths for travel and com-munication, and places to work and play that con-nected their lives. Eight local organizations explore the fluid relationships be-tween natural and human communities along the Warner, Lane, Contoocook and Merrimack Rivers in collaborative exhibits and programs during the sum-mer of 2014. These rivers connect us to nature, to our history and to each other.

Participating museums include the Bradford His-torical Society, Hopkinton Historical Society, The Little Nature Museum, Mt. Kearsarge Indian Mu-seum, New Hampshire Telephone Museum, Pena-cook Historical Society, Sutton Historical Society, and Warner Historical Society.

Exhibits include The Lit-tle Nature Museum, which will share examples of plants and animals found along the river, and the Mt. Kearsarge Indian Mu-seum, which will explore Native American uses of these food resources in

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Four Rivers, Five Communities, Eight Organizations

a joint exhibit at the Mt. Kearsarge Indian Muse-um. The rich history of the area’s mills will be found at the Bradford, Hopkinton, Penacook and Warner Historical Societ-ies and the New Hamp-shire Telephone Museum. Travel and recreation on the rivers will be high-lighted at the Hopkin-ton Historical Society, Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum and Penacook Historical Society. The New Hamp-shire Telephone Museum will share photos and sto-ries of natural disasters along the rivers and how communication was af-

fected. All exhibits open May 1.

Plans also call for mill walks, cider making, wa-ter testing, and a canoe trip on the Contoocook. You can even win prizes by attending programs.

Raffle tickets for a kayak will be available at each program. The raffle draw-ing will be held at our final event, the College of Saint Mary Magdalen Fish Fry on October 17.

For the full schedule with dates, times, locations and raffle information see www.AlongtheRiver.org.

Explore the fluid relationships between natural and human communities along the Warner, Lane, Contoocook and Merrimack Rivers throughout history in an ambitious collaborative effort between several New Hampshire historical societies this summer. Photo above shows telephone communications disrupted by flooding.

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Iberdrola on Pause?To The Editor:Iberdrola announced

they are “PAUSING” on the Wild Meadows Wind Farm. Yet, local resi-dents aren’t listening, mainly because they’re still seeing work being conducted. Land is being cleared, studies are hap-pening and utility trucks are seen frequently in the area.

The rumor behind the scene, on the so called “PAUSE”, is two fold: First: Iberdrola is being told by the state to fix the Groton mess, and Sec-ond: the summer resi-dents are coming. It’s complicated, petty and political - but it’s clearly an active construction site.

There are nine renew-able energy plants and proposals within 7 miles o f New found Lake ’ s shoreline. We’re destined to become the states larg-est renewable energy cor-ridor with eight power plants and part of the Northern Pass project. Four of these will be wind power plants, two bio-mass plants, two hydro plants and part of the Northern Pass power line project.

Residents have con-sistently voted against additional wind power plants in the commu-nity. Their true con-cerns are: 1) watershed concerns, 2) lack of de-commissioning funds, 3) safety concerns, 4) property value concerns, 5) tourism concerns, 6)

jobs concerns 7) wildlife concerns, 8) sound con-cerns, 9) visual concerns and 10) legal issues at the Groton Wind Plant.

True concerns, lots of politics and very little answers are playing out. We’re asking our lead-ers in Concord to protect businesses and residents alike. Why should New Hampshire businesses and residents pay high-er electrical prices for electricity destined for southern states?

New Hampshire has been in the business of exporting excess elec-tricity for decades and much of that money has helped New Hampshire residents. How does a foreign wind company taking profits, not only out-of-state but out-of-our-country, make sense for New Hampshire? And will our current power plants export less elec-tricity because of it? That would be a worse case scenario for New Hamp-shire.

Why are we paying to power southern states? Why are foreign energy companies being allowed to cut into our electric-ity exporting program (a proven program that our state has perfected and prospered from for decades) by entertaining the thought of an “unre-liable” intermittent wind power source.

Remember: We don’t have a “‘need” for new en-ergy facilities - this is all being driven by southern states. New Hampshire

has more than enough “reliable” energy sources at hand. We have more than enough rel iable electricity, we don’t need more, let alone intermit-tent electricity.

Ray CunninghamBridgewater, NH.

Obamacare CameTo The Editor:First, they took $716

Billion from Medicare to fund Obamacare, but they said that money was only the waste they’d eliminate.

Second, Obamacare came and increased pre-miums an average of 90% for individual NH plans, but I was covered under my company plan, so I said nothing. Besides, some wrote our news-papers to say everything was fine.

Third, 6 million peo-ple were forced off their health insurance, but that wasn’t mine, so I held my tongue.

Then they blamed the onerous regulations of Obamacare on insurers, but I don’t work for one, so I kept silent.

Then 856,000 signed up for Obamacare, but “2 anonymous sources” said it was really 7.1 million, even though the website can’t count, yet, so I nodded blindly.

Then Obamacare forced people to change doctors, or pay a lot more, but that wasn’t my doctor.

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Now that winter has completely loosened its grip and spring is finally making a valiant fight to take its proper place, there isn’t a lot to do here in the Lakes Region or New Hampshire as a whole.

Skiing is done with and, even though the ice still covers the lake, ice fish-ing is over as well. There is no snow left for snow-mobilers and hunting season is over.

So, the only thing to really do is make it an activity to wait until the next season of activities can begin.

It’s about this time ev-ery year that it moves into full gear. It’s about this time every year that the call goes out far and wide to try and guess what ex-act day and time the ice will clear off Lake Win-nipesaukee so that the ship M/S Mount Wash-ington can make its first unimpeded trip to all its ports and the next season can officially begin.

This event, for the un-initiated, is called Ice Out. It’s a subject I have written about before at this time of year because, well, like I said, there’s not a lot else to do around here.

As we get closer and more bored with the re-mains of the winter sea-son, every radio and tele-vision station and news-paper (including this one) will go to great lengths to build up anticipation of when the big day will

be. Airplanes circle the sky and reporters poise with hand over pad to get ready to herald the news about the disappearance of frozen water.

I say: “Relax, don’t rush it.”

I can imagine now the throngs of native New Hampshirites (as well as those poor Flatlanders who believe they are na-tives) holding their hands to their mouths as they read such blasphemy. I can imagine the angry crowds now forming and signs being nailed on two-by-fours as they are ready to descend upon my home and ask me to leave.

After all, Ice Out is a big deal, according to many. We need the ice to go out so that the lake can clear and business can come back to the area. Let’s face it, all those thousands of out-of-staters who come here to enjoy the beauty of the area want nothing to do with us this time of year. And this year it looks like Ice Out will be a little late and some are a bit concerned.

Still, this is what you asked for.

I don’t know how many times over the past sever-al years I heard someone say: “It would be great for business if we had one of those old-fashioned win-ters we used to have.”

So, we finally got one. The snow fell and skiing and other winter sports were great and the people came. The ice froze up, hard and deep and the people came.

It was a good winter in that respect.

Now that the winter has finally ended and everyone who had their prayers answered this past season have now been whining for the past couple of weeks about how long it is going to take for the ice to go out this year.

So, I say, you can’t have your ice and melt it too. I, for one, am just going to sit back and let the ice take its own sweet time in leaving; I am going to enjoy this season of in-between. Not like many of you who are now wish-ing for that hot weather to take care of business and get us quickly into summer.

This is just a friendly reminder that when you are sitting slack-jawed and slumped, totally im-mobile in your kitchen chair this July, drinking yet another cold ice tea in front of that circular fan because it is yet another heat wave and even the slightest movement of your body causes floods of sweat to seep into every pore of your body, just think about those cool April nights that you were so quick to want to wish away.

The summer will even-tually arrive, it always does and soon you will be sitting in another one of those ten car, what natives think are, traffic jams wishing for Labor Day weekend so you can finally reclaim your terri-tory. Then Labor Day will arrive and then Colum-bus Day and then it will be quiet again.

Then everyone will won-der if we will have anoth-er cold and snowy winter like last year because, goodness, we really could use the business.

So relax, enjoy, don’t fret about when the ice will go out because you know it will and you also know that another winter will be close behind.

By the way, for what it’s worth, I’m guessing May 6th at 11:34am.

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I have cre-ated a new species des-ignation for the f ema l e D e m o c r a t s w h o p l a y hypocritical gender poli-t ics on be-hal f o f Ba-rack Obama. They’re gen-

derhawks.You remember the term “chick-

enhawk,” don’t you? During the Bush years, anti-war activists and journalists hurled the ad hominem epithet at anyone who supported military action against our enemies but hadn’t personally served.

I say let’s give ‘em a dose of their own tactical medicine.

Genderhawks are feminist chickenhawks. They demand “equal pay” for women, practice militant identity politics based on chromosomes and purport to wage an all-out government war on gender inequity. Yet, they personally refuse to hold themselves and their lousy male bosses accountable for their own gender-based failures and delinquencies.

Meet genderhawk Jennifer Palmieri. The Clinton admin-istration veteran faithfully de-fended a lecherous philander-er-in-chief against what his sexist operatives called “bimbo eruptions.” Then she served as spokeswoman for adulterous crapweasel John Edwards. Now, she is Obama’s communications flack and chief social media gender warrior. On Tuesday, which Team Obama and its feminist pals dubbed “Equal Pay Day,” Palmieri took to Twit-ter to call out the sexist White

House press corps:“Love all these guys, but note

that 6 of 7 news orgs in front row sent men to ask @presssec abt the problem of gender pay inequity,” Palmieri tweeted.

Oooh. Get it? Palmieri was womansp la in ing , g ende r -shaming and upside-the-head-smacking the mainstream me-dia for sending tone-deaf men to ask about women’s issues. She really zapped and zinged ‘em, didn’t she?!

Well, only in her Beltway bub-ble-wrapped head.

Palmieri humiliated just one person: herself. In her faux-minist fog, she forgot that her own boss, the president, is a man. His vice president is a man. Their labor secretary is a man. In fact, 12 of 15 Obama cabinent members are dastardly men. And White House press secretary Jay Carney, sent by her male managers to answer questions about gender equity from the men Palmieri deemed insufficiently sensitive to wom-en’s issues, is a man.

Thankfully, sane journal-ists of both genders pushed back against Palmieri’s identity politics run amok. Fox News re-porter Ed Henry fired back: “WH sent man to podium, right?” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review re-porter Salena Zito retorted: “In your line of (thought) Jennifer, a woman should have taken the question for the White House not a man.” National Review’s Charles W. Cooke quizzed: “Would the answers have been different if the questions had been asked by women?”

Forced to respond, Palmieri grudgingly acknowledged that the press secretary carries XY chromosomes, but she rational-

The MelTDOwN OF The OBaMa GeNDeRhawkS

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From The State House Blah Blah

yawN Blah…There was

a recent ly issued re-po r t f r om the Nongov-e rnmenta l I n t e r n a -tional Panel on Climate C h a n g e ( N I P C C ) which, us-ing the same

models as the global warm-ing crowd, came to a very dif-ferent conclusion regarding global warming. This report was a peer reviewed, 1,000 page study authored by 47 renowned scholars and scientists. Basi-cally, the report refutes much of the supposed global warm-ing propaganda which we have been hearing for many years.

(http://nipccreport.org) Check it out for yourself.

The Heartland Institute re-cently discussed this contro-versy. “The big issue in the global warming debate is how large is the human impact on climate. And the report shows that it is very small, that natu-ral variability, the variability that is caused by natural cycles of the sun and other factors far outweighs anything that human impact could have.”

Now, let’s fast forward to UNH and Granite State Future who deny ALL information which has challenged data on “Global Warming” propaganda. A cur-rent UNH report sent April 4, 2014 warns NH of DRASTIC CLIMATE CHANGE. (Yawn…)

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a halO FOR SelFIShNeSSThe recent

Supreme Court decision over-ru l ing some Federal Elec-tion Commis-s ion restr ic-tions on politi-cal campaign contributions

has provoked angry reac-tions on the

left. That is what often hap-pens whenever the High Court rules that the First Amend-ment means what it says -- free speech for everybody.

When the Supreme Court de-clared in 2010 that both unions and corporations had a right to buy political ads, that was considered outrageous by the left. President Obama called the decision “devastating” and said it “will open the floodgates for special interests.”

Those unfamiliar with politi-cal rhetoric may not know that “special interests” mean people who support your opponents. One’s own organized support-

ers -- such as labor unions supporting President Obama -- are never called “special in-terests.”

All politicians are against “special interests,” by defini-tion. They all want their own supporters to have the right to free speech, but not those individuals and groups so be-nighted as to support their op-ponents.

Even in an age of polarization and gridlock, the one area in which it is easy to get bipar-tisan support in Congress is in passing campaign finance laws, restricting how much money can be spent publiciz-ing political candidates. What Congressional Democrats and Republicans have in common is that they are all incumbents, and they all want to keep their jobs.

Publicity is necessary to win elections, and incumbents get millions of dollars’ worth of free publicity from the media. Incumbents can all pontificate in Congress and be covered by

UNITED NA-TIONS—Syr-ia’s harrowing civil war has taken a new turn as the be-leaguered Mid E a s t c o u n -try now faces a deepening drought and food crisis in

the midst of an expanding con-flict. UN relief agencies warn that the drought may cut food production thus adding to the country’s woes.

With over nine million Syr-ian civilians already refugees or internally displaced since the conflict started three years ago, the UN’s World Food Program (WFP) warns that “Low produc-tion scenarios combined with the ongoing conflict, will further strain Syria’s already fragile food security situation. The main implications are an increased dependence on imports at a time when Syria’s import capacity is severely diminished by the col-lapse of real economic growth.”

Economists state that growth has been in a free fall with an almost 19 % annual drop.

In a troubling new report on the drought and food security, the WFP states, “During the decade preceding the conflict, drought had been the main event causing significant losses to the national wheat and barley production; since 2012, the civil war has had a market impact on the Syrian cereal production capacity.”

Even optimistic figures reveal that this year’s projected wheat production would be about two million tons, a fall of 17% from last year.

WFP’s coordinator for Syria, Muhannad Hadi said, “It has taken a massive effort from WFP and partners to reach 4 million people in March, but we fear now that a possible drought, if rainfall doesn’t pick up, could put the lives of millions more at risk.” He added, “Syria suffered from five years of drought right before the conflict broke out and vulnerable communities in affected areas hardly had time to recover before they were hit by the conflict.”

Tragically, some of the worst affected conflict areas such as Aleppo and Hama, account for

SyRIa CRISIS—FeaR aND FaMINe STalk The laNDabout half of the wheat produc-tion. According to relief agen-cies, more than six million Syr-ians may need emergency food aid, up from the current number of just over four million people.

Yet as the conflict churns on between the Assad family dic-tatorship, backed by Russia and Iran, and a gaggle of rebel groups, many of them Islamic fundamentalists and Al Qaida affiliates, a political settlement looms as elusive as ever. The UN Security Council, in diplomatic deadlock between the West and Russia/China concerning Syria, has frozen further in the wake of the Ukraine crisis.

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon stated, that he is “extremely concerned that groups listed as terrorist organizations by the United Nations Security Council continue to brutalize the civilian population”. He added that the tragic killing of a Dutch Catho-lic priest, Father Frans van der Lugt, SJ., who was shot by an unknown gunman, was an “in-humane act of violence.” The 75 year-old priest had been living in Syria for over forty years and had refused to leave the besieged city of Homs.

The Syrian civil war has seen a deliberate targeting of the coun-try’s ancient Christian minority by some rebel groups. Despite being out of the headlines, the conflict continues with at least 140,000 people killed in the past three years.

And beyond the widening refu-gee spill-over into neighboring countries especially Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, there’s the acute danger from foreign rebels returning to Europe and spread-ing terror. United Kingdom intel-ligence agencies estimates cite hundreds of British nationals who are currently fighting along-side the Syrian rebels, as pre-senting a radicalized and trained terrorist threat to the UK upon their return from the Middle East. The Syrian war serves as a magnet to home-grown Islamic militants throughout Europe.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon stated unequivocally, “There is a belief by too many in Syria and beyond that this con-flict can be won militarily. More violence will only bring more suf-fering and instability to Syria and

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sow chaos in the region.”Tragically this war will not end

until there’s the exhaustion of all parties to the conflict who will then grudgingly concede to a peace settlement.

John J. Metzler is a United Na-tions correspondent covering dip-lomatic and defence issues. He is the author of Transatlantic Divide; USA/Euroland Rift? (2010)


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Sheesh! Talk about grievances. Many Con-necticut women’s basket-ball fans were disappoint-ed that there was no riot when the Husky women won the NCAAs right after a similar triumph by the Husky men.

I recently chatted with New Hampshire native and Keene State grad Dale Ramsay, who works in the Sports and Rec field at the University of Louisville. In 2013 his boss put him in charge of “managing” the post-game “riot” fol-lowing Louisville’s NCAA hoop title triumph. Dale was up all night monitor-ing the mayhem. I’m sure that was NOT what he dreamed of doing when he was hired there.

Is this how things have evolved/devolved in our sports world? Obligatory celebratory riots when a team wins it all?

Or even when a team DOESN’T win. Remember how Vancouver erupted in violence after the Boston Bruins defeated the Ca-

nucks 3-0 there in Game 7 of the 2011 Stanley Cup playoffs? Over 140 people were injured. How bad would it have been if the Canucks had actually WON?

Remember V ic tor ia Snelgrove? She was a ju-nior majoring in journal-ism at Emerson College when she was killed by Boston police on October 21, 2004—just eight days away from her 22nd birth-day. She was out celebrat-ing the Boston Red Sox victory over the New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series.

Closer to home, there have been multiple inci-dents of mayhem at my beloved Plymouth State University, in 2004, 2007, and 2013—all related to celebrating BoSox tri-umphs. Why does a Red Sox championship cel-ebration require that fur-niture be hauled out onto a street and set ablaze?

When the Chicago Bulls were winning NBA titles, Michael Jordan always had to admonish the fans to celebrate nicely—to cut down on the inevitable violence.

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Did you know that most cavity nesting birds have more than one brood each year? Would you like to see the same birds reuse your nest box immediately after the baby birds have “flown the coup?”

Should you remove the old nest or leave it so that the adults do not waste energy building another one? What if the birds do not like you touching their home? If you do remove the nest, how can you be sure when to take action? What if the birds return

task. It is time for this box to assist the adults in an-other brood immediately after the fledgling stage has been completed.

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Just when you think it is Friday afternoon, t h e r e i s enough to write about and news breaks that r e q u i r e ana l y s i s and opin-

ion. I have been collecting quotes from Scott Brown and John H. Sununu that you possibly missed.

Sununu said Brown “will vote the way New Hampshire wants him to vote.”

That is not all Sununu said. “Elections are not about purity. They are about winning.”

Brown, in his announce-ment speech, noted the Granite State’s “indepen-dent streak” and touted his own “independent spirit in action,” making a “promise” to voters “I’m nobody’s yes man.”

“I will answer only to you, the people of New Hampshire. Every day that I serve, I will give the job all that is in me.”

I want to stop the im-pending death of America as much as any America loving person, but I think principles and an under-standing that your votes have to mirror mine 80% of the time, and not have a record of voting with the Democrats 53% as Brown himself has reported!

********Here is my kind of Sena-

tor: Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said today that Americans need to stand up to “a de-liberate plan by the presi-dent of the United States” to collapse the nation’s law enforcement system regarding illegal immigra-tion.

In a Senate speech, Ses-sions said: “Our law en-forcement system is in a state of collapse, and it’s a deliberate plan by the president of the United

States, and it’s wrong. And, people need to be aware of it and need to stand up to it and I believe the American people are beginning to do so.”

Sen. Sessions rebuked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Vice President Joe Biden for their pro-amnesty efforts:

“So, you come into the country illegally and the attorney general of the United States declares that these individuals have a civil right to amnesty. How can this possibly be: the chief law enforcement officer in America?

********(CNN) -- A 20-year dis-

pute between a Nevada rancher and federal rang-ers over illegal cattle graz-ing erupted into an Old West-style showdown on the open range this week, even prompting self-pro-claimed members of mili-tia groups from across the country to join the ranch-er in fighting what they say is U.S. “tyranny.”

What began as a legal fight between longtime rancher Cliven Bundy and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has escalated as Bundy kept his cattle on the federal land, and the government has responded by begin-ning roundups of the live-stock.

Paul Joseph Watson, In-fowars.com: Clark County Commissioner Tom Col-lins has caused outrage by remarking that Utahns planning to travel to Ne-vada to support Cliven Bundy in his standoff against the feds “better have funeral plans”.

The comments were re-vealed by Darin Bushman, a Piute County, Utah, commissioner after he spoke with Collins about Utah ranchers and his colleagues on the County Commission complain-ing about tactics used by Bureau of Land Manage-

ment agents during their seizure of Bundy’s cattle in southern Nevada.

“I was just told by com-missioner Collins of Clark County NV that all of us folks from Utah are a bunch of “inbred bas-tards” and if we are com-ing to Clark Cointy NV to support Cliven Bundy we all “better have funeral plans”.

********Why would we allow our

military or law enforce-ment to turn their guns on other Americans?

FOUR American stu-dents killed at Kent State, Ohio May 4, 1970. THREE Americans killed at Ruby Ridge August 1992; a14-year-old boy, a 42-year-old mother, a federal mar-shal.

O n 4 / 1 9 / 9 5 T i m McVeigh murdered ONE HUNDRED SIXTY EIGHT of his fellow Americans.

Why did Americans kill SEVENTY SIX fellow Americans at Branch Da-vidian/Waco 4/19/93? Some reports have the number at 82 – ONE was too many!

******** The next meeting of the

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During the train ride to Boston my brother and I plotted our shopping strategy. The plan was to never like the first three outfits we tried on…or the next, and probably the next. We wore our mother down pretty quickly and it was easy to convince her that if we had an ice cream sundae break the rest of the shopping would go much smoother. It worked every time, and if our mother figured out what we were doing, she never let on.

After hours of shop-ping, I ended up with a dress with so many layers of crinoline that when I sat down, it rose up to my ears, and a see-

through Easter bonnet. If they made solid Easter bonnets in those days, I never did find one. At the time, my brother was in his blue period; he refused to wear anything other than navy. So there he was in his navy blue suit and snap-on bowtie, argyle socks and Buster Browns. My parents used copious amounts of Bryle Cream to slick down his cowlick in vain. The cow-lick always won. Eventu-ally, the cowlick would spring back, usually in the middle of the church service. Alfalfa in “Our Gang” didn’t have a cow-lick as impressive as my brother’s.

I remember our first…and last…visit to the Easter Bunny at Jordan Marsh. Frankly, it is hard to forget. As a reward for keeping our shop-ping trip down to four hours, our mother not only bought us a sundae, but she paid to have a portrait taken of us sit-ting on the Easter Bun-ny’s lap in our brand new outfits. This, of course, was a mistake. The plan was to have my brother sit on one of The Easter Bunny’s knees and me on the other. We stood in a long line of kids. On both sides was a picket

fence and a fake garden decorated with plastic Easter eggs. At the end of the visit, each kid got to pick an egg from the “garden” and take the inside prize home.

As Phil climbed up on the Easter Bunny’s lap, the heel of his brand new Buster Brown’s ground into the bunny’s foot. I heard a moan from be-hind his furry lips. In an attempt to peer down his throat because I could have sworn I saw an extra pair of lips down there, I slipped and fell off the Bunny’s lap, my bony knee digging into what must have been a very delicate spot, because the next thing I knew the Easter Bunny was hop-ping all around and hold-ing his tummy except that it wasn’t exactly his tummy he was holding. I figured that he had to go potty real bad. Little Boy Blue - the Easter Bun-ny’s assistant – informed us that we would have to wait because the Easter Bunny really needed to take a bathroom break…NOW!

It took the Easter Bun-ny ten whole minutes to get back on the job. We scrambled up on both knees without incident this time, but I was puz-zled. The Easter Bunny had a little vest on and since I wanted to cheer him up, I kept sticking my hand under the vest to tickle his stomach and make him laugh. When it didn’t work, the awful realization hit me hard: this Easter Bunny wasn’t the REAL ONE!

I still have the picture of me with my hand un-der the Easter Bunny’s vest and my little face crinkled up in a prelude to a good cry while my brother’s cowlick punc-tuated a mischievous grin. As for our plastic egg “prize”…we won an-other free photo session with the Easter Bunny!

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Friends of the Feral is a group dedicated to caring for the homeless cat.

They have been work-ing tirelessly for two years to reduce the feral cat population in the Lakes Region. In that time, they have worked within four-teen “colonies” and after their efforts, eight of those colonies have produced no more kittens. A feral animal is defined as “liv-ing in a wild state after domestication.” Some of

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Ask The BuilderFilling Wood Cracks Is An Art That Can

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These cracks in a butcher block countertop need to be filled and sealed before any additional water seeps into them.

DEAR TIM: I’ve never had great success filling cracks in stained wood surfaces. I’ve tried different wood fillers, and the crack looks the same or worse after the repair. When I use some fillers before I stain the wood, the stain is blotchy around the repair. I’ve just about given up. Is there a magic way to get invisible repairs when us-ing wood fillers? --Philip V., Dallas, Tex.

DEAR PHILIP: Don’t beat yourself up. What you’re trying to do, in my opinion, is one of the most frustrating home improve-ment jobs out there, right next to getting drywall seams perfectly smooth. Most homeowners simply don’t possess the required hours and hours of experi-ence needed to expertly fill cracks in wood and drywall so they’re nearly invisible.

I’ve struggled myself with wood crack repair for years, just like you, although I long ago discovered how to get professional drywall re-pairs accomplished. Once you understand what’s going on with what your brain is processing when you look at wood, you then should have a healthy re-spect and understanding of why it’s so darned dif-ficult to make wood cracks disappear.

You know that old say-ing you can’t see the for-est for the trees? I believe that’s the issue when it comes to repairing cracks in wood. You’ve looked at wood for so many decades that you’re looking past what you’re seeing.

Here’s what I mean. What makes wood so appeal-ing when compared to a

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The different colors of wood grain, the different shades and the random grain pattern all combine to give wood its unique ap-pearance. That’s why so many different products like laminate flooring, vinyl tile, composite decking, vinyl and fiber cement sid-ing, and fiberglass doors go to such effort to mimic the look and texture of natural wood.

A crack or separation in a piece of wood interrupts this random coloration. The crack is often a black line. You bet it stands out like a sore thumb.

You go to fill this crack with a filler, you just change the crack from black to some other solid color. Once again, the crack is still visible.

If you want to disguise a filled crack in wood, the material used to fill the crack needs to have the same random colors, tex-ture, graining, etc. as the wood immediately adjacent to it. I’m sure you can now understand how hard this

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epoxy in a random way to simulate the granite, thus disguising the seam.

The wood magicians can be found by calling the best furniture dealers in your area if you decide to pull the white surrender flag up the halyard at your home. The furniture deal-ers need these craftsmen and women to do repair work on their pieces of fur-niture that get scratched, chipped or damaged dur-ing delivery or while at a customer’s home.

You can try to do what they do, but realize it re-quires very specialized ma-terials and techniques. You may get lucky and have success right away, but I doubt it will happen.

The reason you had is-sues with filling cracks in unfinished wood is a sepa-rate issue. The chemicals in some wood fillers close up the pores in the wood wherever the crack or wood filler touches the wood. When you sand the wood filler smooth, the sealed wood pores are invisible to you.

BuiLder from 19 As you stain, the closed wood pores reject the stain. This is very apparent on softer wood species. To get really good results when staining softer wood spe-cies, you need to use a wood conditioner prod-uct that partially seals the wood pores so the wood doesn’t absorb so much stain.

To get really great results filling wood cracks and staining wood, you simply need to practice. You might do 10, 20 or even 50 at-tempts before you finally get pretty good results. If you want professional re-sults, expect to develop the skills over years.

That’s the voice of ex-perience and observa-tion speaking, just so you know.

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Range. Those bonds and good times just stay with you for life.” Tim and Jill have three children, Sarah, Daniel and Sa-mantha, and two grand-children, Allie and Noah. Jill’s dad was the past president of the Whitins-ville Golf Club, a private 9-hole course in Whitins-ville, MA, once rated as one of the top five 9-hole courses in the US.

When asked about any changes that may come about with the new own-ership, Mr. Noe replied “we are looking to main-tain the current manag-ers and staffing as last year, so members and guests will see familiar faces as the new season commences along with a few new ones. As soon as we can get the sun work-ing the snow on the fair-ways and greens, we will be performing an assess-ment of the course condi-tions, and developing a set of priorities with general manager, Craig Hale. The result will be short and long term goals for course maintenance, improve-ments, and growth” Mr. Noe further states that “in addition to the golf course improvements, we hope to expand use of the post and beam func-tion barn, create a more extensive menu offering, and create more oppor-tunity for winter recre-

ation at the facility.” Tim and Jill commented that, “our family is honored to continue the family tradi-tion that Waukewan Golf Club carries. We know this golf course has been enjoyed by thousands of Lakes Region residents and tourists for many years and our intentions are to build upon those experiences and hope-fully continue the legacy the Hale’s have created during their ownership of the golf course. We are excited to add to the his-tory of this property”.

Speaking to the history of the property, Tom Dr-ouin, the buyer’s agent from Roche Realty Group, in Meredith, indicated that before this property was purchased by the Hale’s in 1948, it had been owned by the Dane family and operated as a gentleman’s farm rais-ing Clydesdales and Bel-gian horses. Dr. Melvyn Hale took possession of the farm in 1948 and changed the look of the farm buildings by chang-ing their painted color from white to red, and naming the property “Al-magra Farm”. Almagra, translated from one of the local Indian languag-es, means “red”. After some renovations to the houses, Dr. Hale moved his veterinary practice and family from Wolfe-boro, NH, to Almagra

Farm. Almagra was a true working farm; the Hale’s grew their own veg-etables, hayed the fields and raised various types of animals including pi-geons, chickens, hogs, horses, sheep and cattle. The farm also included a dog kennel with one long term boarder of 5 years. Around 1955, Dr. Hale purchased a bulldozer and tractor and began to rough out a nine-hole golf course. He spent three years clearing wooded land, moving rocks, shap-ing trees, fairways and greens. In 1958 nine golf holes opened to the public. In 1963 Dr. Hale closed his veterinary prac-tice and turned his full attention to the course. “Waukewan” was chosen

as the name because Dr. Hale felt people were fa-miliar with that name due to the nearby lake. In the late 60’s, Dexter and Allan, Dr. Hale’s sons, joined their father and together completed the next nine holes. This finished the transforma-tion of Almagra Farms to Waukewan Golf Club.

According to Tom Dr-ouin “Roche Realty Group has been a leader in the sale of commercial and development properties throughout the Lakes Re-gion.” You can review a copy of their “Significant Sales Report on the front page of www.rocherealty.com”.

( L to R) Att. Lee Mattson, Att. John Giere, new owners Tim & Jill Noe-Buyers, Tom Drouin of Roche Realty Group, Anthony Avrutine & Rob Wichland of REMAX, & Craig Hale.

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ized that he’s a man “who advocates for policies to reduce gender pay in-equality and appreciates seriousness of problem.” See, gals? Jay Carney feels your pain -- unlike those chauvinist pigs in the press corps asking pesky questions about bogus White House wage inequity stats! See, guys? If you pay lip service to caring, you can be hon-orary genderhawks, too.

Obama and his femme-a-gogue f lock aren ’ t fooling anyone. It’s not just evil men and right-wingers raising ques-tions about the Demo-crats’ Equal Pay Day theater. Reporters bom-barded Carney about a new American Enter-prise Institute study that found that the salary for the median female White House staffer is 12 percent lower than for a male staffer. Car-ney meekly replied that at least the White House pay gap is not as bad as the national average.

Both the left-wing Daily Beast and the free-mar-ket Wall Street Journal opinion pages debunked the “77 cents on a dollar” myth, which inflates the gender gap by failing to account for education, occupation and marital status. When challenged on the White House pro-motion of junk science, Carney sneered at a Re-uters reporter that he “would expect something a little more precise.”

While Palmieri runs in-terference for Carney and Obama, the cloud of sex-ism charges hanging over the White House hasn’t

maLkin from 6gone away. It’s liberal media outlets including The New York Times and Time magazine that have noted the “boys’ club” climate at 1600 Pennsyl-vania Avenue, epitomized by the glaring absence of women in featured Oval Office photos of Obama’s meetings with senior advisers. (Well, except for that one photo that showed a sliver of Valerie Jarrett’s leg.)

And it was a top fe-male aide, Anita Dunn, who very precisely told author Ron Suskind on tape that the Obama White House “actually fit all of the classic legal requirements for a genu-inely hostile workplace to women.”

Meanwhi l e , Obama genderhawk Jennifer Palmieri thinks squawk-ing about male report-ers is the way to achieve feminist social justice. Whatever we’re paying this unhinged, selective man-hating lady is way too much.

Michelle Malkin is the author of “Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies” (Reg-nery 2010). Her e-mail address is [email protected].

in New Hampshire: Past, Present, and Future,” were commissioned by the Granite State Fu-ture project and cover northern and southern New Hampshire. They are intended to provide deci-sion-relevant information (YIKES) as municipalities and regions face chal-lenging choices regarding future investments…The most striking result from the climate assessment is that the recent increase in extreme precipitation events is likely to contin-ue into the future,” says Cameron Wake, Research Associate Professor at the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Director of Climate Solutions New England (CSNE), and lead author of the study. BLAH BLAH BLAH…

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“The ‘Climate Change in New Hampshire’ re-ports are a resource for local communities to un-derstand the range of potential impacts that we may face in the near future,” says Kerrie Diers, Executive Director of the Nashua Regional Plan-ning Commission/Gran-ite State Future. “As many communities strive

to become more resilient, they need to be able to identify and implement cost-effective actions to both mitigate and adapt to changing climate pat-terns.” (Do you mean the POTENTIAL impacts we MAY face? YAWN.)

So, GSF and UNH now have become scientif-ic entities who need to instruct us all how we should live, so we can “mitigate” those changing climate patterns which even the international scientific community can-not agree about. (You get-ting this yet?)

Ms. Diers, I tell you what. Why doesn’t Gran-ite State Future go back to the Federal Govern-ment whence it came and leave New Hamp-shire ALONE. We don’t need junk science taking over our public policy any longer. No more fear-mongering, PLEASE. It just doesn’t work out well. We already know GSF and our Regional Planning Commissions have worked tirelessly to promote Smart Growth, Sustainable Communi-ties, Work Force Housing, and now Climate Change policy. Ms. Dier’s, YOU signed the NH Granite State Future agreement with HUD which tries (in its own language!) to miti-gate PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS here in NH. This has not worked out well in California, Colorado or in Nevada where folks have been driven out of their communities because of Federal overreach. Please just GO AWAY. And take your propaganda with you. New Hampshire would be MUCH better off. (Can I take my nap now?)

threatened some of our best hospitals’ existence, but that wasn’t my hos-pital.

Then Obamacare told the poor and homeless they had to pay a “pen-alty” because they didn’t have health insurance, and told them they were “free riders”. I was nei-ther, so I said nothing.

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attack, and I wanted to cry out, but our politi-cians said “This is the way it has to be”. So I got a cheaper plan, or paid a Cadillac Tax, because Obamacare is always right.... or so they say.

Then Obamacare came to shut down insur-ance companies, so D.C. would become the “Single Payer” they promised the prized goal was, years ago. We were too horri-fied to say anything.

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Congressional staffs, paid by the taxpayers, are supposed to help members of Congress with the burdens of their office, but a major part of their staff’s work is to help get them re-elect-ed.

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The media are acces-sories to this scam. So long as the information and opinions that reach the public are selected by mainstream media people, whom polls show to be overwhelmingly on the left, the left’s view of the world prevails.

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It is fascinating to see how some people -- in both politics and the

media -- can depict their own narrow self-interest as a holy crusade for the greater good of society. The ability of the hu-man mind to rationalize is one of the wonders of the world.

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American Parkinson’s Disease Association DinnerBrookside Congregational Church, 2013 Elm Street, Manchester. Doors open at 5pm, dinner and presentation begin at 5:30pm. Featuring guest speaker Tameka Moore, Assistant Director for Tissue Processing at the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center. Learn who can become a donor and how the tissue is used for research. $20pp. RSVP to 724-5568

BRATT Update and Organization MeetingBelmont Corner Meeting House, 16 Sargent Street, Belmont. 7-8:30pm. The Belmont Recreation and Alternative Transportation Trail (BRATT) Committee is hosting this Trail Update and Organization meeting. Trail maps, the construction schedule and other information will be available. 527-9339

Friday 25Th NH Boat Museum’s Spring FlingInn on Main, Wolfeboro. 6pm. Cash bar, silent auction, dinner buffet and a live auction. $42/members, $45/non-members. 569-4554

Fri. 25Th – sun. 27Th Dollhouse Show Doris L. Benz Center, 18 Heard Road, Sandwich. 10am-4pm. Three dozen antique to contemporary dollhouses will be on display. $10pp. Children under 12 are free when accompanied by an adult. 284-7008

“Les Miserables”Inter-Lakes High School Auditorium, Meredith. Presented by the Streetcar Company. $15/adults, $12/seniors. 279-7408

saTurday 26Th Pure Prairie League The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. 536-2551

Cosi Fan TutteCapitol Center for the Arts, 44 South Main Street, Concord. 225-1111 or www.ccanh.com

Community Resource FairLoudon Center Free Will Baptist Church, 433 Clough Road, Loudon. 10am-2pm. Come find out what resources are available for the citizens of Loudon and the surrounding towns. Activities table for the kids and lunch items will be available. 708-1185


Lyme Disease ClassSunflower Natural Food Store, 390 South Main Street, Laconia. 10am-Noon. This class will be covering the basics of Lyme borreliosis, it’s pathology, the major physiological concern areas, and 6 herbs for consideration in support of the body. This class is not intended to treat, diagnose or cure Lyme borreliosis and is intended for personal education only. Free. 524-6334

“Bark in the Park: Canines for K-9”White Park, Concord. 10am-2pm. Free, family-friendly event with non-stop programming, demonstrations, competitions and educational opportunities. There will be a chance for family dogs to become part of the action, as they compete in the costume parade, best trick competition, best features dog show and obedience. Plenty of dog-related vendors will be on hand also.

Legends of the Lakes Region – Music JamVFW, 143 Court Street, Laconia. 8pm. Door prizes, raffles, 50/50. To benefit the Children’s Auction. $15pp. Tickets available at Café Déjà vu, Studio 23, Dr. Buckle & Mr. Hyde, Greenlaw’s Music and Patrick’s Pub. 998-1418

Breakfast and Bake SaleMasonic Lodge, 410 West Main Street, Tilton. Full breakfast, including eggs cooked to order. $7pp. 524-8268

sunday 27Th 19th Annual Model Train ShowCawley Middle School, 97 Whitehall Road, Hooksett. 10-3pm. Large collection of train layouts, various scales, over 50 vendors, kids activities and more. $4/adult, $1/kids or $10/family. 315-0084

Tuesday 29Th Ask a NutritionistConcord Food Co-op, 24 South Main Street, Concord. 12-2pm. Local dietician/nutritionist Traci Komorek will be on hand to answer your quick health and nutrition questions. Free. First come, first served. 410-3099

Tea & Talk – Linda GreenMoultonborough Public Library, Moultonborough. 12:30-2pm. “Perfect Storm” author, Linda Green will discuss her new book “Lifesaving Lessons”. $30 to reserve spot, includes copy of book. 253-8858 to register

“Why Does VT Grow Crops While NH Grows Rocks?”Taylor Community’s Woodside Building, Laconia. 11am. Dr. Bryon Middlekauff of PSU will explore

more than 1 billion years of history of the development of Vermont and New Hampshire landscapes and the reasons why the agricultural foundation of each state is so different. Free and open to the public. 524-5600

Wednesday 30Th Charlotte’s WebCapitol Center for the Arts, 44 South Main Street, Concord. 225-1111 or www.ccanh.com

Arbor Day CelebrationSquam Lakes Science Center, 23 Science Center Road, Holderness. 10:30am-12pm. Participants will learn how to identify trees and explore the many uses of trees and find out how to plant and care for them. Attendees will take home a sapling tree to plant. $7/member, $9/non-member. 968-7194

NH Poets to Read from New CollectionPortsmouth Library, Portsmouth. 6:30pm. This event will showcase some well-known NH Poets whose work appears in the collection “The Widow’s Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival”. The collection celebrates the strategies that widows must learn to deal with the shock of bereavement, the changes in their lives, and the realization that nothing will ever be the same. [email protected] for more info.

OngOIngSenior Ten Pin Bowling LeagueFunspot, Rt. 3 Weirs Beach. 10am every Monday morning. 50 years and older welcomed! Call Gail 569-1974 or Marie 494-8405

“Spirit Of Spring” Art ExhibitEpsom Public Library. Until April 19th, Presented by NH Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art. Call 736-9920 for times and more info.

Ridgewood Open for Snowshoeing and X-Country Skiing Ridgewood Country Club, 258 Governor Wentworth Highway, Moultonborough. Open daylight hours. Free to use the grounds. Tavern open 11-4 Friday – Sunday. 476-5930

Caregivers Support GroupLoudon Center Freewill Baptist Church. 2nd and 4th Monday of the month. 6pm. 708-1185.

Line DancingGilford Public Library, 31 Potter Hill Road, Gilford. 9am-10am Every Wednesday. 524-6042

Zentangle WorkshopVynnArt, Main Street, Meredith. Every third Friday. Call 279-0557to sign up.

Overeaters AnonymousFranklin Regional hospital, 15 Aiken Avenue, Franklin. Saturdays 11am-noon.

Line DancingMeredith Community Center, Meredith. Wednesdays 9:30-10:30am. 536-1179

NAMI-NH Family Support GroupPease Public Library, downstairs, Plymouth. 7pm. First and third Mondays of each month. Open to anyone who is dealing with a close friend or family member who has a mental illness. 254-5090 or 536-2699

Lakes Region Detachment Marine Corps LeagueMeredith Community Center, Rt. 3, Meredith. 6:30pm. Second Thursday of the month. New members always welcome. 455-0636

Genealogy WorkshopWolfeboro Public Library, Wolfeboro. 10am-Noon. The first Tuesday of every month. Featuring methods of jump starting genealogical research for both the beginner and the advanced genealogist. Free and open to all. 569-2428

Central NH Amateur Radio Club MeetingGilford Community Church, Gilford. Meets the first Tuesday of each month. Interested in amateur radio? New members welcome! Check website for details www.chnarc.org

Bible StudyOpen Door Bible Church, 2324 Rt. 16, next to West Ossipee Post Office. Every Wednesday at 6:30pm. 508-380-0471

Singles DanceDaniel’s Hall, Rt 4, Nottingham. Fridays from 8pm-12am. Casual dress. BYOB, free light buffet and drink set-ups. Smoking outside on the patio. $12. 942-8525

Acoustic Country Pickin PartyTilton Senior Center from 7pm-9pm every Wednesday.

Line DancingStarr King Unitarian Meeting House, Plymouth. Sundays 4-5pm. 536-1179

MahjongGilford Public Library, 31 Potter Hill Road, Gilford. 12:30-3pm every Monday. 524-6042

Meditation GroupUnitarian Universalist Society of Laconia, 172 Pleasant Street, Laconia. 6-7:15pm. A community where you can develop your own meditation practice in a friendly, non-judgmental community. No experience necessary. New comers arrive 10 minutes early for a quick introduction. 293-7211

Free Movie MatineeDover Public Library. Every Saturday at 2pm. Free screening of a family movie. Bring your own popcorn!

Preschool StorytimeMeredith Public Library, Main St. Wednesdays, 10:30-11:30am and Thursdays, 1-2pm. Ages 3-5. 279-4303.

Knotty KnittersMeredith Public Library, Main St. 10:30am - Noon. Every Thursday. All levels of experience welcome. 279-4303.

Social BridgeGilford Public Library, 31 Potter Hill Road, Gilford. 10:30am-12:30pm Every Friday. 524-6042

Woodside Carvers ClubWoodside Building at the Taylor Community, Laconia. Tuesday and Thursday 9:30-11:30am. Beginners welcome. 934-4265

30+ League BasketballTapply-Thompson Community Center, Bristol. 6pm. $1 per night. 744-2713.

Say Hello to SPECKLES! 8 Years Old • Female • Neutered Breed: Pekingese / Size: small

Waiting for a forever home since 3/24/14.Stately, refined, older lady seeks loving home far from the madding crowd. Speckles recently relocated to the Granite State from Texas - arriv-ing just in time to witness and experience snow, perhaps for the first time in her life. She is in her middle years and of mixed heritage, but of interesting breeding: we think Pekingese and possibly a dash of Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. She is a wonderful little dog, who enjoys the company of all and is jovial with other dogs. She’s never encountered a treat she didn’t like and is highly food motivated. We are fairly sure she hasn’t lived with the very young, so placement in a home with children 12 years and older, would be ideal. Come and visit Speckles, take a leisurely stroll around the property, we are convinced that will be all it takes for her to find her forever home.

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munity though a three step process known as TNR.

Stage One is Trapping the cats, which takes hours of patience. Traps cannot be left out over night, they can only be set for short periods of moni-tored time.

Stage Two is Neutering/Spaying, vaccinating and Ear tipping the cats.

The Final Stage is Re-turning the cats, or re-homing them.

Not every cat can be socialized and kept as a pet in someone’s home after years of living in the wild. The ones that can, after many months of hard work and socialization, are placed in loving homes. However, the ones that are not able to become happy pets are re-released into the wild once they are spayed or neutered and vaccinated. This prevents their ability to reproduce and multiply the number of cats in the feral cat colonies. Once the cats are released into the wild they are still dependant on the care of volunteers for food and further medical as-

sistance.Last summer when their

story was first shared with public, there was an out-pouring of generous dona-tions. The time has come again where Friends of the Feral has to ask for help again. Every doctor visit, bag of food, medicine, etc

has to be purchased by volunteers when no dona-tions are coming in the cost falls to them. While they are rich in their hearts, the case is not so for their wallets. So, they come to you, the public, to ask for help. It is through the as-sistance and generosity of

Interlakes Animal Hospital and Rozzie May Animal Al-liance that your donation can help a multitude of cats. For further informa-tion on how to help please contact Karen LaFlamme email her at [email protected] or call her at at 603-455-8202.

It is often said that a person’s character can be judged not by how they treat their equals, but how they treat those in a sta-tion below them. This is most certainly the case when we look at our own reactions to a situation like this. It is easy to turn away, drive by and ignore the haggard looking cat. We can tell ourselves that it probably has a home or that’s it simply not our problem. When the sad case is most do not have homes and the feral cat colonies are a direct result of irresponsible pet owner-ship. Therefore, without question, it is our duty to help. All of us want to do good work and to help those in need. It is easy to do good when you do everything with honor, humility and humanity. This is your opportunity to honor a being in need, give of yourself and show the great capacity of hu-mans ability to love. Your donations will be serving a wonderful cause.

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Jetpack Comics at 37 North Main Street and the Rochester Main Street volunteers are busy preparing for another fun day in downtown Rochester as thou-sands of comic book fans gather to celebrate National Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, May 3 at the largest Comic Book Day cel-ebration in New England . Using the Scavenger Hunt Map, they can then proceed to visit participating businesses to collect a free comic book and get their card validated.

In addition to the ongoing quest for comics, visit with special guest artists Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird (originators of Teenage Mu-tant Ninja Turtles) at the Knights of Columbus Exhibition Hall.

Participating businesses and or-ganizations include Laurel Mae’s Cottage, Studley’s Flower Gardens, Happy Pappy’s Country Store, Tri-City Bicycles, Bella Fresca, Dos Amigos Burritos, The Portable Pantry, At Peace Body Arts, Project

ROCheSTeR CeleBRaTeS NaTIONal FRee COMIC BOOk Day

Pride, Jetpack Comics, Fat Tony’s Italian Grill, Lilac City Grille, Skele-Tones, Collectiques, The Sticker Station, Rochester Public

Library (sponsored by Norm Vetter Foundations), At Peace Body Arts, First United Methodist Church, The Garage At The Governor’s Inn,

Cocheco Equipment Company, The Public House, and Union Street Antiques and Collectibles.

The Cocheco Equipment Com-pany will also be hosting an Open House on Saturday with special offers, demonstrations, and a concession stand, and comic fans can visit with the Neville Medieval re-enactment Group at Happy Pappy’s Country Store, take Hula Hoop Lessons and face painting at Laurel Mae’s, chill out at the First United Methodist Church Spring Fair (8:00 am to 2:00pm), or enjoy the garden selections and specials at Studley’s Flower Gar-dens. Free Comic Book Day runs from 10am until 4pm on Saturday, May 3 in the heart of downtown! For more information contact Jet-pack Comics at 603-330-9636 or online at www.jetpackcomics.com or Rochester Main Street at 603-330-3208.

Come on down to downtown Rochester on Saturday, May 3rd for Free Comic Book Day at Jetpack Comics and around the city.

Call 603-569-1212 or visit www.WrightMuseum.org for additional information.

Save the Date to Celebrate!

Wright Museum’s 20th Anniversary!

Sentimental Journey BallSaturday, July 26th

7pm - 10pm

Antique Auto & Motorcycle ShowSaturday, August 16th

10am - 2pm

Enjoy an evening of dancing, live swing band, desserts & celebration at the Museum

Enjoy an evening of dancing, live swing band, desserts & celebration at the Museum

Limited to 100 cars or motorcycles - registration is now open so don’t delay.

Autos or motorcycles must be at least 25 years old and in authentic condition, no hot rods or customized vehicles allowed.

Registration forms can be downloaded at http://www.wrightmuseum.org/media/pdfs/carshowregistrationform.pdf

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CELEBRATING Experience the past, and be inspired by a nation united.

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for Generations to Come...

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Engaging exhibits illustrating1940s home life and a vastcollection of fully operationalmilitary vehicles bring to lifethe American World War IIexperience.

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