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1THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, May 2, 2013

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When I was knee high to a grasshopper, my dad and granddad built a 14’ wooden skiff from plans published in Popu-lar Mechanix magazine. When it was finished, they painted the deck, seats and removable floorboards a beautiful forest green, and var-nished the white oak trim. The following spring, they hoisted it up onto the roof

of our ‘49 Oldsmobile and drove up Route 28 from our home in Waltham, MA., to my grandparent’s cottage in Alton Bay. I adored that boat! It had a beautiful jet black Martin outboard motor, and my grandfather would let me sit on his lap and steer. Sunday mornings, we’d motor up to Loon Cove, and walk the short dis-tance to the Mount Major store for the Boston pa-pers. On the way back, we’d often stop by and

visit our old friend Ruth Allen. To my mind, Ruth was the grand duchess of Alton Bay. She summered at her wonderful old lake house up there to Loon Cove, and always sported a deep tan from her win-ters in Florida. But what really caught my eye was the gleaming triple cock-pit Chris Craft runabout she kept in her classic two bay boat house. What a magnificent vessel. Bye and bye she’d take us out for a ride, and I’d marvel

at how we’d slice through the water at tremendous speed, leaving hardly a wake. The combination of power and elegance was breathtaking. Back in those days, very few people could afford a boat like that. And this gave rise to one of the most interesting and popular attractions ever on Lake Winnipesaukee: the pub-lic speedboat rides. Their heyday was in the ‘30s and ‘40s with boats like

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Cram’s Speed Boats in the 1940s, the Minute Man and The Yankee Flyer out of Alton Bay. They were part of the history of the start of public speedboat rides on Lake Winnipesaukee.

On Thursday, May 9, at 7 pm at the Rochester His-torical Society Museum on Hanson Street, Donna-Belle Garvin will present, “The Warp and Weft of a Lifetime: A New Hampshire Weaver and Her Work. “ A remarkable series of early nineteenth-century hand-woven coverlets, represent-ed in the textile collection of a number of important mu-seums around the country, are now known to have been the work of a talented, now forgotten, weaver who grew up in the part of Rochester that became Farmington. A single woman, the weaver left few written records. It is only as a result of her sur-viving handiwork that her story can now be told.

Piecing together her life story required patient re-search over two decades. Discovering the life and work of this important local woman is an exciting detec-tive story that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

For more information please call 330-3099 or e-mail [email protected].

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The Second Annual Music Fun Fest At Mame’s

The Second Annual Music Fun Fest To Benefit the Career Partnership Program will be held at Mame’s Restaurant in Meredith, Thursday, May 2nd starting at 6pm.

Musicians include Kyle Nickerson, Phil and Jan, Julia Velie, Chris Kelly, Chris Mega and Dr, Steven Kelley, Prin-cipal of Interlakes Elementray School.

Held in the upstairs lounge and function room, it will be a great night of music and fun and half the proceeds from meals sold that evening will go to benefit this important program.

The Career Partnership Program is a public/private partnership between the Greater Meredith Program and The Interlakes School District. It provides internships, job shadows, volunteer opportunities and job fairs for summer employment.

Mame’s is located at 8 Plymouth Street in Meredith. They can be reached at 279-4631 or visit them on the web at www.mamesrestaurant.com.

For more information on the Greater Meredith Career Partnership Program at www.greatermeredithprogram.org.

Mother’s Day Craft FairF a b u l o u s

h a n d c r a f t e d s c a r v e s b y H e a t h e r C o -hen who wi l l be among the exhibitors on May 4-5 at the Mother ’s Day Craft Fair at Laconia High Schoo l Gym-nas ium, 345 Union Ave., La-conia on Sat 10-4 & Sun 10-3.

Don’t miss this wonderful fair with over 60 exhibitors with great arts & crafts including beautiful quilts/quilted jackets/table runners, 3-D glass globes, beautiful hand-crafted scarves, fine jewelry, bat/bird houses, gourmet pickles/dips/jellies, handpoured soaps, unique wax room fresheners, American girl doll clothing & accessories, wall plaques, clothing and more. Music by Tim Janis and free admissio. For info Joyce (603)528-4014 www.joycescraft-shows.com.

Taming Of The Shrew in Wolfeboro

The six-time award winning Perform It! Young People’s Stage Company will be performing The Taming of the Shrew, May 8 through May 12 at The Village Players The-ater, Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.

One of Will Shakespeare’s funniest comedies about lu-natic lovers and the economics behind matrimony, this production of The Taming of the Shrew is set in modern day, with rap narration and lively songs and dance. The audience will find themselves in the city of Padua where a mother has two daughters in need of wooing and wed-ding.

Performances are Friday, May 10 and Saturday, May 11 at 7:30; and Sunday, May 12 at 2:00 at The Village Players Theater, 51 Glendon St., Wolfeboro. Tickets are available at The Country Bookseller in Wolfeboro, by phone 323-8991, or by mailing [email protected]. Prices for tickets reserved and paid in advance: adult/$12, kids 12 & under/$7. Paid at the door: adults/$14, kids 12 & under/$8. There is also a performance Wednesday, May 8 at 10:00 am; those tickets are $8.00, reservation only, and must be paid for in advance.

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Rummage Saleholderness community church, 923 us route 3, holderness. 9-6pm. 968-7643

Steve Earle and the Dukescapitol center for the arts, concord. 225-1111

Art Festival and Open Housecornerstone christian academy, ossipeee. 5pm. open house goes until 6:30pm. art Festival until 8:30pm. 539-8636

Grazing for Birdsnh audubon’s McLane center, 84 silk road, concord. Learn about the partnership with st. paul’s school and nh audubon pasturing cattle to benefit bird habitat. 224-9909

Huggins Hospital Aid Salecollection center Barn, 109a, wolfeboro. 10-2pm. art, collectibles, household, toys, 1800’s sleigh and more.

Friday 3rd

Rummage Saleholderness community church, 923 us route 3, holderness. 9-2pm. 968-7643

Rockapellathe Flying Monkey, 39 south Main street, plymouth. 536-2551

Lakes Region Singers ConcertFirst united Methodist church, rt. 11-a, gilford. 7:30pm. open to the public. donations at the door suggested. 524-0835

Rummage & Flea Market Saleunited Methodist church, tower street, weirs Beach. 8am-1pm.


saTurday 4Th Rummage Saleholderness community church, 923 us route 3, holderness. 9-2pm. 968-7643

Painting Your Historic HomeLane tavern, sanbornton. 1-4pm. presented by the new hampshire preservation alliance. reservations required. $15/members, $25/non-members. 224-2281.

Phil Vassarthe Flying Monkey, 39 south Main street, plymouth. 536-2551

Spring Family Daythe remick country doctor Museum and Farm, 58 cleveland hill road, tamworth. 10am-2pm. 323-7591 or www.remickmuseum.org

The Shaw BrothersFranklin opera house, Franklin. 7:30pm. 934-1901

Spring Fling Craft Fairharriman-hale american Legion hall, 142 center street, wolfeboro. 9am-

3pm. 569-4296

Mother’s Day Craft FairLaconia high school gymnasium, 345 union ave., Laconia. 10-4. over 60 exhibitors, live music and free admission. 528-4014. www.joycescraftshows.com

Tuckermans At 9 – Live A Cappellagarrison players arts center, 650 portland ave., rollinsford. 8pm. $18/adult, $15/under 18. 750-4art

Open International Footy RegattaBack Bay in wolfeboro. onsite registration begins at 9am. $15 per sailor. racing gets underway at 10am. 569-4554

Variety Basket Weaving with Ray LagasseLeague of nh craftsmen, Meredith. 9am-5pm. Bring a lunch. $95 per student. space is limited. pre-registration is required. 279-7920

Rummage & Flea Market Saleunited Methodist church, tower street, weirs Beach. 8am-1pm.

“Bowls For Mom”woodcraft, inc., 25 Fox run road, newington. 10am-5pm. seacoast woodturners club will be custom turning “Bowls for Mom” for a Mother’s day charity sale with proceeds to benefit the nh Food Bank. cash or checks only.

Open HouseMooulton Farm, Quarry road, Meredith. welcome spring and enjoy food, flowers and more. 279-3915

New Hampshire Daysquam Lakes science center, holderness. new hampshire residents pay only $3 for trail admission. 968-7194

Flea MarketMasonic hall, 410 west Main street, tilton. 8am-2pm. 524-0733

AerospacefestMcauliffe-shepard discovery center, concord. special planetarium shows, a ham-radio station, rocket launches, and lots of hands-on activities. 271-7827. www.starhop.com

sunday 5Th Beach to Bar 5Kstarts at sandwich town Beach. 10am. pre-registration required by calling 476-2476. $20/adults, $10/students, kids 5 and under are free.

Victorian Style Tea Party – Ages 5-12 the colonel paul wentworth house, water street, rollinsford. 2-4pm. young guests must be accompanied by an adult. rsVp 742-4747

Mother’s Day Craft FairLaconia high school gymnasium, 345 union ave., Laconia. 10-3. over 60 exhibitors, live music and free admission. 528-4014. www.joycescraftshows.com

Lakes Region Singers ConcertFirst united Methodist church, rt. 11-a, gilford. 2pm. open to the public. donations at the door suggested. 524-0835

Monday 6Th Free Skin Cancer Screening

Frisbie Memorial hospital, rochester. pre-registration is required. 332-3100 ext. 4120.

Opechee Garden Club Meetinggilford community church, potter hill road, gilford. 1pm. 387-5350

Responsible Lawn Care WorkshopBoacawen Municipal complex, 116 north Main street, 4th Floor, Boscawen. 6:30pm. cindy saka will discuss soil testing, different types of grass blends, seeding, fertilizing and the integrated pest management for a healthy lawn. 753-9188 ext. 301

Tuesday 7Th Author Peter Millerthe Meredith public Library, Meredith. Miller will read his original retelling of geoffrey chaucer’s famous “wife of Bath’s tale” from his book, “seven canterbury tales retold”. Free. For mature adolescents and adults of all ages. 279-4303

Wed. 8Th - sun. 12Th The Taming of the Shrewthe Village players theatre, 51 glendon street, wolfeboro. 323-8991 for tickets and show times.

Thursday 9Th Free Skin Cancer ScreeningFrisbie Memorial hospital, rochester. pre-registration is required. 332-3100 ext. 4120.

Pemigewasset Choral Society Performs gilford community church, gilford. 7:30pm. admission by donation. 764-5851

“The Foreigner” Franklin opera house, Franklin. 7:30pm. $14. 934-1901

Mother’s Day Plant SaleMoultonborough central school, Moultonborough. 8am-4pm. a variety of flowering plants, vegetable plants and herbs will be available for sale at reasonable prices.

Spies – Silent Film Thrillerthe Flying Monkey, 39 south Main street, plymouth. 536-2551

Thurs. 9Th – Mon. 13Th “MISTI-Con” – Harry Potter Fan Conventionthe Margate, Laconia. please visit www.misti-con.org for more information.

Friday 10Th Nitty Gritty Dirt Bandthe Flying Monkey, 39 south Main street, plymouth. 536-2551

Pemigewasset Choral Society Performs st. paul’s roman catholic church, Franklin. 7:30pm. admission by donation. 764-5851


Mother’s Day Plant SaleMoultonborough central school, Moultonborough. 8am-4pm. a variety of flowering plants, vegetable plants and herbs will be available for sale at

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Are you getting ready for that home remodeling project or just have a DIY problem that you can’t seem to figure out?

On Saturday, May 11th, the country’s leading home improvement ex-pert, Tim Carter, will be giving free advice to any-one with a home project question at a special event at the Funspot Bingo Hall on Rte 3 in Weirs Beach from 9:30-11am.

Tim’s popular “Ask The Builder” column is syndicated in dozens of newspapers around the country and his website, www.askthebuilder.com is loaded with thousands of written home improve-ment solutions and hun-dreds of DIY videos. Tim’s videos have been viewed over 30,522,246 times!

“I’m really looking for-ward to this event,” said Tim, who is a resident of Meredith, NH. “It’s the first of a just a few we will be doing in the coming months. I have done this all over the country but it will be nice to finally meet with my New Hampshire friends and help them with solutions and answer any questions they have about their home projects. I’ve discovered that people

really want personalized answers, and I specialize in just that.”

Originally from Ohio, Tim is a master carpenter, a licensed master plumber and a master roof cutter. He was selected as one of the top 50 remodelers in the United States in 1993 by Remodeling Magazine.

“Back then I wanted to write a book about the ho-meowner and contractor relationship,” said Tim. “My wife, Kathy, suggested that I turn that idea into a syndicated column.”

The column was im-mediately bought by the Cincinnati Enquirer and a month later it was ap-pearing in the Chicago Tribune and within nine months it was carried in thirty newspapers around the country. Today over 60 newspapers carry the “Ask The Builder” col-umn.

Once he set his sights on the newspaper column, Tim knew it needed to be his sole focus and he gave up his home remodeling business to help people focus on their individual problems by providing smart and efficient solu-tions through his weekly home improvement tips.

It didn’t take Tim long to

realize that he wanted to be his own publisher as well. In 1995, he started his now world famous website www.askthebuild-er.com.

“It was really the wild, wild west,” said Tim about those very early days of the Internet. “Most people were doing web sites with five pages. I launched

MeeT And “ASk The BuildeR”Country’s Leading Home Improvement Expert to Hold Free

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Tim Carter aka “Ask The Builder” the country’s leading home improvement expert for twenty years will be giving a free Q & A advice presentation at the Funspot Bingo Hall in the Weirs on Saturday, May 11th from 9:30 to 11am. Everyone is invited to this free event and Tim will do his best to answer all questions.


Walk In Their ShoesTo The Editor:Newfound Lake resi-

dents are outraged over New Hampshire’s decision, which goes against popu-lar vote, to move forward with these next three wind project developments. One hundred and twenty plus wind turbines in this area will surely have a negative impact on our tourism.

Outsiders, looking in, can clearly see that resi-dents are against these next three wind projects. Voters showed they clearly oppose them, surveys iden-tify that residents oppose them and “the talk of the town” clearly shows op-position to these projects. Many New Hampshire of-ficials have also stated that they are overwhelmed by the sheer number of letters they’ve received from resi-dents opposing wind farm expansion plans around Newfound Lake.

Residents are also start-ing to raise concerns that the wind farm develop-ers are offering so-called community benefits (also known as bribes and kick backs) to local institutions, business owners and resi-dents. It’s being seen as an inducement not to object. Residents are shocked that developers are pursuing their plans in this manner, especially since they clearly stated upfront in multiple public presentations “we will not build here if the people do not want us to”.

Contrary to what many believe - many residents here believe in “green en-ergy” and we have proof of that. Look at how many

biomass plants we have in our community already. Many residents also believe that wind farms should be limited - limited by how many turbines can or should be proposed for one community.

Newfound Lake should not bare sole responsibil-ity for the majority of New Hampshire’s renewable wind energy policy. That’s just not a fair green energy policy, it should be spread out. The current plan clear-ly marks Newfound Lake as “New England’s largest concentration of wind tur-bines.”

As developers and poli-ticians continue to push hard for these additional wind farms - I think it’s time for politicians to start thinking about and talk-ing “common sense”. Have some common sense on spreading your green en-ergy policy evenly across the state.

Wear our shoes for a day, stop looking at maps and come visit our beautiful lake. It’s time you came to us... we have much to show you both during the day and at night.

Raymond CunninghamBridgewater, NH.

Senate Bill 126 Will Destroy Auto Dealers

To The Editor:New Hampshire has al-

ways been governed by the “Live Free or Die” mentality: protect the state’s competi-tive business climate while keeping the needs and interests of consumers of

paramount importance. A Nanny State legislative ini-tiative now moving through state chambers, however, undermines such notions and negatively impacts the Granite State’s economy and consumer confidence. While it might not be a household name now, if Senate Bill 126 passes it could soon affect you.

The legislation seeks to assert greater government involvement in the relation-ship between automobile manufacturers and New Hampshire dealers, and will broaden regulations so that lawn tractors, farm, construction and forestry equipment are treated as automobiles. Up until now, the relationship between automobile manufacturers and New Hampshire deal-ers has been governed by fair, balanced and strict franchise agreements that protect each selling part-ner and help keep prices low for consumers. While proponents claim S.B. 126 is designed to help New Hampshire auto dealers, the reality is that the legis-lation simply allows deal-ers to ignore the contracts they’ve signed with auto-makers, which includes things like periodical show room renovations.

Those contracts, how-ever, play a valuable role in the marketplace, as they ensure both parties can be counted on to fulfill corporate commitments. In saying auto dealers no longer are required to hold

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Oh man! Have you heard the latest?

In Washington State, the governor recently passed a ban on gender specific words.

No longer will words like freshman and fish-erman be allowed. They will now be called, by law, first year students and fishers.

The word penmanship will even be outlawed and now only the word hand-writing will be allowed.

If you live in Washing-ton State you can only use words like this in hushed tones in the pri-vacy of your own homes so not to be subject to arrest.

Well, I’m not sure if it is that bad…yet. But I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets to that point.

When I hear stories like this I can’t help but think that this would have been a great scenario for one of those classic science fiction fantasy novels like “Fahrenheit 451” I loved it when I was younger. It told the story of a world where books were burnt and having smarts was considered a crime. It was basically against the law for people to think for themselves. All your thinking was done for you by the government.

“Wow!” I thought as a young man reading this tale. “What a crazy story. Thank goodness it’s only fiction. Nothing like this could ever happen for real.”

In the 1930s and 40s,

Flash Gordon’s tr ips to the moon were also looked at as something that could never hap-pen.

But if the rest of the country follows in Wash-ington State’s footsteps, and more already are, then be prepared for a real world where a lot of what you had learned will now, by political mandate, be changed. Of course, it won’t even be allowed to be called a mandate.

Going through the dic-tionary you can find a whole list of words that may one day be obsolete so as not to be consid-ered insensitive.

Some of them you may be able to one day tell your grandchildren about in a small closet in your house while the television blares in the other room so as not to be acciden-tally overheard.

Of course that’s silly; things like that only hap-pen in books.

For example, in the not too distant future, we may no longer be going to the airport in Manchester but instead will be travel-ling to “The Place Where The Airport Is” or, more simply, “Peoplechester.”

What about Manhat-tan?

It won’t be quite the same when a father sits down with his young son who is reaching a certain point of maturity, looks him in the eye and says: “It won’t be long now, my son, until you become a person.” Maybe it’s me, but it doesn’t seem to have the same impact. Is it possible that it may

one day be illegal to have a “man to man” talk?

If the Washington State example spreads, even simple things like asking for a manila envelope at work might turn into the more complicated “Do we have any of those yellow-ish rectangular envelopes anywhere? I need to mail a manuscript….opps…I mean these many pages of text.”

One of the great race-horses of all time may be referred to in histo-ry books as “Person O’ War.” And while we are on the subject of horses, I really have no idea what we will have to refer to manure as since this in itself was designed as a word to keep from using a more insensitive one in the first place.

The recent events on Boston have seen the word manhunt used a lot on television. In the future we may not be able to use this word, even if the hunt is actually for a man. Now, that would be weird.

No longer will people be known to live in man-sions instead they will be referred to as “ridiculous-ly large homes too big for the number of people that actually live there.”

Will the mandolin be-come just a musical in-strument that once ex-isted?

Is the manatee now on the endangered species list?

Will people ever be able to get a manicure again?

Today people might say I’m a maniac for manag-ing to mangle the man-ner in which mankind might manufacture and manipulate many new manifestations of words, Tomorrow, maybe they won’t.

Man, oh man!!

Brendan welcomes your comments at [email protected].

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Take the Red Sox . When you buy a ticket, you don’t know whether the team will win or lose. Now if you go to a play or a movie, there’s a prede-termined outcome. Even if you go to a concert, the music has already been written. But at Fenway, anything can happen. It’s called unpredictability, and its part of the magic of sports.

Consider Game 3 of the 2004 ALCS --Yankees at Red Sox. A friend paid big bucks for some tick-ets and was excited and confident about seeing Boston put on a show at home and get back in the series, after dropping two tough contests in New York.

“We won’t lose at Fen-way,” he predicted. “We’ll get right back into it.”

Final score: Yankees 19, Red Sox 7. New York took a 3-0 series lead.

“I paid all that money for nothing,” my friend lamented. “They broke my heart. It’s all over. I was nauseous when I left the park. I hate the Red Sox.”

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guessed on April 15 that a sporting event, the Bos-ton Marathon, would be the site of a horrific ter-rorist attack? I was at the 2012 Boston Marathon and remembered it as that special type of sport-ing event where specta-tors cheered for ALL the participants. Twenty-five thousand runners were embraced by a half mil-lion spectators as greater Boston came together as a community to celebrate one of the nation’s oldest sporting traditions.

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My dad is 86 years old and hadn’t been outside the house since last fall, but after the Red Sox won that day, he made his way out to the backyard to where my 82 year-old mother was raking leaves to tell her all about the Fenway excitement.

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In the after-math of the Boston Mar-athon k i l l -ing spree by foreign-born jihadists, see-no-evi l bu-reaucrats in Washington are stubborn-ly defending

America’s lax asylum policies. DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano told the Sen-ate Tuesday that the screening process is rigorous, effective and extensive.

These people can’t handle the truth. Or tell it.

The Tsarnaev brothers report-edly were granted asylum by “derivative” status through their parents. After entering on short-term tourist visas, the mother and father (an ethnic Chechen Muslim) won asylum and acquired U.S. citizenship. Next, younger son Dzhokhar obtained U.S. citizen-ship. Older son Tamerlan, whose naturalization application was pending, traveled freely between the U.S. and the jihad recruitment zone of Dagestan, Russia, last year before the bombers’ gunfight in Watertown, Mass., last week left the Muslim terrorist dead.

Though they had convinced the U.S. that they faced deadly per-secution, the Tsarnaevs’ parents both returned to their native land and were there when their sons launched last week’s terror ram-page. Authorities will not reveal any details of the sob stories the Tsarnaevs originally spun to win asylum benefits for the entire fam-ily.

The whole thing stinks. And it’s an old, familiar stench. Immigra-tion lawyers have been working the system on behalf of asylum con artists for decades. The rack-

eteers coach applicants with pho-ny stories and documents from “chop shops” and game their way through “refugee roulette.”

Asylum and refugee claimants are being rubber-stamped at all-time-high rates. Government data analyzed by the nonpartisan TRAC website show that “the odds of an asylum claim being denied in Immigration Court reached an historic low in FY 2012, with only 44.5 percent being turned down. Ten years ago, almost two out of three (62.6 percent) individuals seeking asylum lost their cases in similar actions. Twenty years ago, fewer than one out of four (24 per-cent) asylum applicants won their cases, while three out of four (76 percent) lost.”

The game is rigged in favor of identity-group hustlers, who mau-mau adjudicators whose approval rates don’t meet their approval.

Soft-on-enforcement lobbying groups argue that it’s better to err on the side of allowing bogus asy-lum-seekers and refugees to stay than to get serious about cracking down on fraud and send undeserv-ing foreigners home. It’s not “prac-tical” or worth it, they say.

But what about the “if it saves just one life” standard set by President Obama? Why does it only apply to gun control? Why won’t Washington err on the side of public safety by reexamining and overhauling our fraud-riddled asylum, detention, deportation and visa issuance policies after the Boston jihad?

In case you’d forgotten, the Tsar-naevs were not the first murder-minded jihadists to benefit from ineffective policing of our asylum and refugee policies. As I’ve re-ported previously:

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I have weath-ered a very ex-pensive winter! Never before have we paid so much for our winter fuel (pro-pane/oil) and as we look at our household expenses, al-most everything

has gone up – groceries, utilities, taxes, medical expenses. I could go on and on. There are those who believe we are “coming out” of the financial doldrums. I am not so sure, so I did some research and will share some findings with you.

Consumer confidence in the United States decreased to 59.70 in March of 2013 from 68 in February of 2013. Consumer confidence in the United States is reported by the The Conference Board. Historically, from 1967

until 2013, the United States Consumer Confidence averaged 92.84 reaching an all-time high of 144.70 in January of 2000 and a record low of 25.30 in Febru-ary of 2009. In the United States, The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) is a ba-rometer of the health of the U.S. economy from the perspective of the consumer. The index is based on completed questionnaires re-flecting consumers’ perceptions of current business and employ-ment conditions, as well as their expectations for six months hence regarding business conditions, employment, and income. So, all in all, this is a well-respected economic indicator and in March 2013, our nation suffered a de-cline in consumer confidence.

How about jobs? The general consensus in the media is em-ployment is heading in the right direction. Let’s look at this data. Job unemployment went down

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Prime Minis-ter Margaret Thatcher said it all when she wrote that the world has “nev-er ceased to be d a n g e r o u s , ” but the West

has “ceased to be vigilant.”

Nothing bet-ter illustrates her point than the fact that the West has imported vast numbers of people who hate our guts and would love to slit our throats. Political correctness has replaced self-preservation. The Boston Marathon killer who set a bomb down right next to an eight-year-old child is only the latest in an on-going series of such people.

Senator Patrick Leahy has warned us not to use the Boston Marathon terrorists as an argu-ment against the immigration

legislation he advocates. But if we are not to base our laws on facts about realities, what are we to base them on? Fashionable theories and pious rhetoric?

While we cannot condemn all members of any group for what other members of their group have done, that does not mean that we must ignore the fact that the costs and dangers cre-ated by some groups are much greater than those created by other groups.

Most members of most groups may be basically decent people. But if 85 percent of group A are decent and 95 percent of group B are decent, this means that there is three times as large a proportion of undesirable people in group A as in group B. Should we willfully ignore that when considering immigration laws?

It is already known that a significant percentage of the im-migrants from some countries

U N I T E D N A T I O N S —“Asia Paci f -ic economic e c o n o m i e s will see sub-dued growth in 2013 a f -ter last year’s sharp slow-down caused by external

factors,” is the prognosis from a recent UN survey. “Economic growth in the developing coun-tries of Asia and the Pacific slowed to 5.5 percent in 2012 as a result of the double-dip recession in the Euro zone and the tepid recovery of the U.S. economy,” the report advises.

The Economic and Social Sur-vey of Asia and the Pacific/2013 outlines a cautious survey for the current year, “although growth is expected to inch up to 6 percent in 2013, this rate is still below the average of 7.8 percent achieved in 2010-2011 and the average of 8.6 percent observed during the pre-crisis period of 2002-2007.” The an-nual report is a product of the UN’s Bangkok-based Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).

China’s economy has lost its much of its luster. While Bei-jing’s official growth rate for 2012, stood at 7.8 percent, this year the GDP is expected to grow slightly to 8 percent. Importantly India whose growth dipped dan-gerously to 5 percent in 2012 should climb back to 6.4 per-cent this year. Export oriented economies have seen significant drops in demand especially from the USA.

Much of the improvements rests on “improvement in global demand arising from steady, although sub-par, growth in the United States, and a limited rebound in the performance of major emerging economies.”

But beyond the numbers, Ping-fan Hong Chief of the Global Monitoring unit at the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) stressed, “although global financial mar-kets had seen improvements in terms of equity prices, the ‘real economy’ lacked robust improve-ment.” China has slowed down, and “sluggish growth” was ex-

gloBAl eConoMiC doldRuMS SuBdue ASiA-pACifiC gRowThpected in South Korea. Seoul’s growth is expected to go from 2 percent in 2012 to only 2.3 per-cent this year.

Hong stated that “developing countries in Asia had suffered a loss of 3.7 percent in GDP over the last four or five years since the crisis had struck.”

The Survey suggests, “much lower growth compared to recent years could became a new nor-mal for many regional economies if present economic trends were to continue.” Equally despite years of past progress, the Sur-vey concedes that the Asia-Pa-cific region is still home to more than 800 million poor; in fact two-thirds of the word’s poor.

The survey advises, “‘the model of grow first, distribute and clean up later” was no longer accept-able. That’s so very true. Just view the environmental damage from China’s fast and polluting growth which seems blurred by a grey and choking haze envelop-ing most Mainland cities.

Nonetheless there still much impressive news from the region as the Survey illustrates.

Southeast Asia is expected to gain from “improved, although still tepid global trade.” Indone-sia is a regional powerhouse with growth expected to come in at 6.6 percent this year along with the Philippines at 6.2 percent and Thailand at 5.3 percent.

The Survey suggests a number of measures which would help regional economies expand. For example, China should reduce its reliance on exports and ex-pand its domestic consumption. The Survey states this would spur interregional trade.

Significantly boosting China’s domestic consumption would help American exporters too. Despite all the feel good statis-tics we see regarding the China trade, the facts remains that while American exports to the Mainland are at an all time high at $110 billion, what is not said is that Chinese exports to the USA are all the much higher. In 2012, the USA hit a $315 billion deficit with the People’s Republic and that’s in a recession. The year before the U.S. trade deficit with Beijing stood at an unac-ceptable $295 billion.

Though the USA’s economic re-covery and job creation remains

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tepid, expanding truly free trade with global partners can boost both American exports and the still underperforming U.S. econ-omy. It’s about time we do so.

John J. Metzler is a United Nations correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues. He is the author of Transatlantic Divide; USA/Euroland Rift? (Uni-versity Press, 2010).


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Almost everyone, every-where, is familiar with the traditional Four Seasons: Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. However, here in New Hampshire, we expe-rience an additional and very distinct 5th season that we lovingly refer to as “Mud Season”….AKA the time of year when the sun first begins whittling away snow banks the size of Mt.Washington. But while the surface is warm enough for melting, the underneath layers are much too stubborn to al-low for drainage, which in turn creates an interesting mix of run-off and mud, and the many pleasures (I say this tongue-in-cheek) that accompany it.

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WEIRS BEACH-Upholding a long tradition, the first public cruise of the M/S Mount Washington will be on Mother’s Day, Sun-day, May 12.

The Mother’s Day cruise includes a two and a half hour scenic cruise, a complete champagne brunch buffet and live entertainment. This spe-cial brunch is offered at two different times: 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Fares are $41 for adults and $20 for children 5-12. Children 4 and under are free.

The M/S Mount Wash-ington’s official season runs from May 18 through October 19. Daily cruises depart from Weirs Beach and service the ports of Meredith, Wolfeboro, Center Harbor and Al-ton Bay. With a capac-ity of 1,250 passengers, the Mount Washington

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The 141-year history of the popular cruise ship began with the Mount Washington I , which plied the water of the big lake until 1939. To-day’s vessel, the motor-ship Mount Washington, started her career on Ver-mont’s Lake Champlain under the name “Cha-teauguay.” Purchased by the Winnipesaukee Steamship Company in 1940, she was trans-ported in twenty sections via rail, reassembled, re-outfitted, and christened the Mount Washington II. Last years she was overhauled to get new engines, and upgraded public rooms.

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A couple of weeks ago, several of our retired pas-tors answered questions submitted by congrega-tional members. One ques-tion was an old one that we all struggle with, “Why do bad things happen to good people?” Rev. Randy Scheri answered well. “I don’t know why bad things happen to good people or why good things happen to bad people, but I know that God walks with us through it all.”

It has been a couple of weeks since the Boston Marathon bombing. Like you, I was tied to the TV and the radio. I saw the picture of the little boy who died and know there were other children hurt. People who love to run lost limbs.

Panic as people tried to find friends and family, and help the injured.

I learned how local people used Google to offer help, putting names and ad-dresses out, offering rooms, food and transportation – giving up anonymity to reach out to people who might need them.

I read a quote from one person – “There are more good than bad people in the world.” – and knew that God was walking with us through it all in the form of caring people.

The night of the bomb-ing, I fielded calls from people who had been in contact with doctors in the hospitals in Boston and from people who were upset and concerned. I called my brother to make sure he was safe. As in so many major events, we are all involved. All of us carry psychic bruises, and we care about those who are much more damaged.

Since that day, there has been an earthquake in China that took hundreds of lives, an earthquake in Pakistan, the factory explo-sion in Weeks, Texas and another in Bangladesh. We lost one of the young people in Laconia, struck by a car. There have been tragedies all over the world, and every person lost was important to their friends, families, society and to God.

How do we deal; with liv-ing in difficult times with-out becoming insular, bit-ter, or afraid?

Long ago I read an article about a policeman working with inner city crime. He was asked how he man-aged to go forward when he saw so much pain, crime, and death. His response was ”I believe that good will

win because good people work together and bad peo-ple end up fighting among themselves.”

When we maintain hope, we can survive more than we think.

Hope is looking beyond the grim reality of the day to a future that can be bet-ter. Hope is looking for the good in people and trusting that good will connect to good. Hope is believing that God truly does walk with us through it all and will not abandon us.

Hope rejects the belief that evil is stronger than good. Hope stands up to hatred and says “Hate cannot destroy me, be-cause my life with God is eternal.”

Hope can be hard to maintain in the face of all that happens in life, but I learned early that most good things take a lot of work to achieve and keep alive, and in the end all that work is worth it. Hope is worth it because it is for-ward looking and positive.

Remember, God is walk-ing with us. God is inspir-ing people to help. God will welcome home those who will not be returning to their earthly homes. God is with us.

Rev. Victoria Wood Parrish is the pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Gilford, NH, located on Route 11-A. It is a congregation of open hearts, open minds, and open doors. Worship is at 10:30 am on Sundays.Chil-dren’s activities and nursery are available during the 10:30 morn-ing worship. We also invite you to the United Methodist Church in the Weirs, 35 Tower St., which worships at 10:00 AM. There are also many other local congrega-tions who would welcome you to worship.

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W h a t m a k e s a person spe-cial? What is the mea-sure of self-lessness? W h a t i s that about f o r o n e who would lay down

their life for another? That is easy. Our military, men and women, law enforce-ment and fire fighters. Who would have guessed that it would be a young man from Plaistow, NH – a track and field star Senior at UNH? CAMERON LYLE, according to the NH Union Leader, will not compete in the final two Championship meets of his career.

Cameron: “I did think about what I was giv-ing up. But the kid who has leukemia has it a lot worse than me. This kid is dying.”

Cameron is a much bet-ter man than Barack Hus-sein Obama re: LIFE.

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member you for the mate-rial things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.” RICH-ARD L. EVANS is best known for his inspira-tional messages given in the long-running weekly radio program “Music and the Spoken Word” with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. One cannot say that about Barack Hus-sein Obama!

********At the end of an email a

listener/caller from San Francisco who is not re-lated to me or someone I know personally: “P.S. I thoroughly appreciate that you are a talk show host who leads discus-sions with grace. I guess she hasn’t heard me with Ray, Liberal Lady, or Terri Donovan of NH AFT.” They make it difficult to be a

calm host. ********QUICK HIT: Who is Zu-

beidat Tsarnaeva? She is the shoplifting mother of the two mass mur-derers. In addition her boys caused so many good people to suffer through the loss of arms and legs being exploded from their bodies while murder-ing two young women, one man in his twenties, and an 8 year old little boy on Patriots Day in Boston. She is also the lunatic who states that “America Took My Kids Away From Me”. There are millions of Americans who are hurting, and still asking why? And none of us give a bleep about YOUR kids”. Commenter Jaygee at boston.cbslo-cal.com/2013/04/25/mother-of-bombing-sus-pects-america-took-my-kids-away-from-me/ : “I think that this devout Muslim woman who is also a shoplifter has it a bit backwards. It was her & her husband who brought them to America under the guise of “politi-cal asylum” and then took advantage of all of the freebies in the “Sanctuary City of Cambridge. Hous-ing, food stamps, medical, and help with school-ing, not bad for political refugees, while Americans are looking for jobs and going to food pantries. Then, she and her hubby go back, yes, go back to the very area they fled because it was a ‘threat to their lives’. I think it’s time we stop allowing so many so-called ‘refugees’ into the country who do nothing for it but get ev-erything.” You better tell Obama how you feel.

********Unfortunately Mother’s

Day is a week away for what I am about to bring to your attention. Don’t send the children out of the room. The Obama girls

already know how their father feels about unborn babies – sometimes par-tially born babies. They are still open game.

With help from wash-ingtonexaminer.com with the headline: Obama: ‘Planned Parenthood isn’t going anywhere’. During a speech this morning at the Planned Parenthood gala, President Obama vowed he would never allow Republicans to cut taxpayer funds for the abortion provider.

“If there’s one thing the past few years have shown is that Planned Parenthood isn’t going anywhere,” Obama said as the crowd cheered. “It’s not going anywhere today - it’s not going anywhere tomorrow.”

Obama was wildly re-ceived by the audience when he entered the room - the first sitting president to address the nation’s largest abortion provider.

“Everybody sit down,” Obama said sheepish-ly. “You’re making me blush.”

From Weekly Standard: “As long as we’ve got to fight to make sure women have access to quality, af-fordable health care, and as long as we’ve got to fight to protect a woman’s right to make her own choices about her own health, I want you to know that you’ve also got a president who’s going to be right there with you, fighting every step of the way,” said Obama. “Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless.”

Did he say God? Bless who, the baby killers? Recall how he used the massacre at Sandy Hook school to talk about “the children”? How can you support the murder of 53 MILLION babies and say what you said to Planned Parenthood and even ut-ter the name GOD?

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moffett from 7Robinson’s life journey, as kind of a sports so-ciologist I still had to check out “42.” Sports movies tend to be disap-pointing, especially to knowledgeable fans, who know real from contrived – much like war veterans who watch war movies with discerning eyes. But “42” was enlightening and entertaining. And while Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field and New York’s Polo Grounds are long gone, they somehow re-appeared in the movie. I don’t know how they did it, but such special effects were pretty cool. The movie was pretty cool too.

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Meredith Village Sav-ings Bank Fund (MVSB Fund) is pleased to announce that it has awarded a $7,615 grant to Rumney Ecological Systems (RES) of Rum-ney. These funds will be used by the non-profit to support the second phase of trail and board-walk improvements along the Kent Ecologi-cal Trail at Quincy Bog Natural Area.

About 1 mile in length, the Kent Ecological Trail takes visitors around the perimeter of Quincy Bog, through wetlands, sandy floodplain, areas of bea-ver activity and forest. The repair work, slated to begin in May, includes areas of reconstruction to the trail and boardwalk, installation of observation benches and the replacement of Eagle Scout Bridge. The replacement bridge will be pontoon-based to allow it to rise and fall freely, eliminating the need to control water lev-els by opening nearby beaver

dams, maintenance that the RES Board normally attends to. These enhancements will provide greater public access and enhanced on-site learning opportunities at the natural area.

The mission of Rumney Ecological Systems (RES) is to

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in March from 7.7 % to 7.6% but, according to CNN Money, “What seemed like good news in Friday’s jobs report was a little less than that -- the unemploy-ment rate fell, but not be-cause more people found work. Instead, the rate was lower because the La-bor Department estimated that there are nearly half a million fewer people in the labor force -- the group that includes people with a job or looking for one.” It seems estimates from the nonpartisan Congres-sional Budget Office (CBO) show there are 3.9 million workers who should be in the labor force but are not because of the weakness in the job market. Count-ing them as unemployed would take the unemploy-ment rate up to 9.8%. (NH unemployment also went down from 5.8 to 5.7 but the rate was 5.3 for March 2012. So, NH unemploy-ment has gone up from this time last year.) If one looks honestly at these numbers, even as summer vacation time approaches, the U.S. and NH employment news is not particularly inspir-ing, to say the least.

There are those who be-lieve that money is some-how limitless. It is not. While our economy is still floundering, our govern-ment, at all levels, needs to be cognizant of its spend-ing. If “the powers that be” continue down this road of irresponsible spending, our nation will eventually hit the financial “wall”. At that point, retirement dollars may not be there for those who worked so hard and saved. 401K plans would not necessarily be a sure thing and Social Security (even though we now pay into it) may not be available to us. We ignore this truth at our own peril. Greece learned the hard way – I am praying America will not have to.

“The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression .” Thomas Jef-ferson

cormier from 8up their end of the bargain, the government would vastly expand its power, allowing politics to over-ride free-market principles and tilt policies in favor of one segment of an indus-try over the other. Such policymaking will lead to increased government in-volvement in the business process, the prioritization of litigation, and ultimately higher prices for products sold by the auto industry—all of which will contribute to rising prices for automo-biles that consumers will be forced to absorb.

Moreover, by enabling one party to ignore con-tractual obligations, the state government would set the stage for more le-gal disputes. This too in-creases the government’s involvement in the day-to-day business process, as the courts are now allowed to decide whether or not business contracts need to be honored. There is no doubt this will also strain the relationship between dealers and manufactur-ers.

The increased cost hur-dles threatened by this strained relationship may encourage many manu-facturers and dealers to withdraw from using cer-tain popular incentive pro-grams to avoid the added economic costs of inevi-table litigation—driving up the cost of purchase for the consumer. Of course, by diminishing such incen-tive programs and driving up prices for vehicles and repairs at New Hampshire dealerships, it won’t be long before New Hamp-shirites will head to border-ing states to buy their cars and avoid the added costs for repairs and production. Why would you pay a pre-mium in New Hampshire when a short drive to a Massachusetts, Vermont or Maine dealership will of-fer you a better deal?

The legislation also di-rectly targets an industry that employs more than 14,000 New Hampshire residents. With the auto-mobile industry already struggling in the state, we cannot afford to have even more uncertainty added to the sector’s economic out-look and bottom line.

mail boat from 4 When passing legislation that reforms existing busi-ness practices—especially business practices that already work well and are well engrained in commer-cial culture—it is impor-tant lawmakers make sure it will benefit all individu-als involved in the process – the most important of which is consumers. The fact of the matter is that S.B. 126 is not a “shop local” bill: It encourages a nanny state mentality, increases costs, and dam-ages the state’s economic competitiveness.

What New Hampshire needs is legislation that recognizes manufacturers and dealers as partners and creates pro-business advantages that are based on free-market principles. We must continue New Hampshire’s “Live Free or Die” tradition, rather than allowing the state to pick winners and losers among manufacturers and dealer-ships.

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and truly creepy attrac-tions ever on Winnipesau-kee and it will shortly play a scary part in our story.

McGrath’s store was directly across the street.

Originally W.P. Emer-son’s, McGrath’s burned to the ground in 1971 and is now the site of Gillian Marine. McGrath’s abut-ted the channel that led to the Merrymeeting River (Rt. 11) bridge, and it was here that Carl built his speedboat ride operation. (Note that Carl appar-ently first operated out of the Alton Bay Pavilion. Photos from the early 30s show a large Yankee Flyer sign on it’s roof, and no evidence of anything in

the channel.)Carl purchased his first

boat in 1930, and named it the “Yankee Flyer”. He soon replaced it with the “Yankee Flyer II”. Little is known about these first two boats. “Yankee Flyer III” was a Chris Craft with a cantankerous en-gine that melted pistons. Apparently it too proved unsatisfactory. “Yankee Flyer IV”, purchased in 1940, was the charm. It was a 28’ Dodge with a

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Sheldon Cram fresh out of Paris Island Boat Camp in 1943. courtesy sheLdon craM

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Carl Cram’s first boat was “The Yankee Flyer.” Above is the “Yankee Flyer IV.” courtesy nh Boat MuseuM

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350 HP Lycoming V-12 marine engine. It carried 9 passengers and could do 55 MPH while guzzling one gallon of high test gas per mile (this improved to 1.25 MPG at cruising speed!). In addition, Carl also bought the “Minute-man” from a Dr. Webster in 1937 for $480. It was a 29’ Hacker with a 225 HP Sterling Petrol, dual igni-tion inline 8. It could go 48 MPH, and could do 1.5 MPG at cruising speed,

a considerable improve-ment over the “Yankee Flyer”! Like “Yankee Flyer IV”, the “Minuteman” had no flame arrestor on the carburetor and no bilge blower, which ultimately doomed it.

Carl hawked tickets up by the bridge, under a large sign that adver-tised the rides. Passen-gers walked down the path from the bridge, past the canoe rental area, and gathered under a giant canopy that said Yankee

Richard Cram, Bob Wood and an unidentified man aboard the Minute Man. courtesy nh Boat MuseuM

The Minute Man up on the rocks in Loon Cove.courtesy nh Boat MuseuM

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Flyer on the roof. The Downing’s Legionnaires were directly across the water on the other side of the channel. There was a juke box under the can-opy, and Carl’s nephew Sheldon figured out a way to bypass the coin mecha-nism with a wire, so there was music all day! In the early years, passengers could ride out to Little Mark Island and back for $0.35. In the 40’s, the ride was shortened to Loon Cove and the fare increased to $l. A special round trip of the lake was also available for $10 (approximately $150 in today’s money). Carl’s son Richard was one of the drivers. His 1942 general license certificate states that he was qualified as a master, pilot and engineer and was authorized to op-erate any gasoline boat 50 ft. or under.

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hydroplane powered by a 180 Hp. Hispano Suisa (Hisso) aircraft engine with direct drive to the propeller (fire up and go!). It could blow right past the fastest of the Legion-naires, which bothered the Downings no end. The boat leaked badly and had to be kept out of the water when it wasn’t running. Bob also had a 1935 Ford Fordor that Sheldon put away every night in the gas station. One night the garage door wouldn’t close, so Shel-don reached down to re-move the length of rope

that was stuck in the jamb. The rope wrapped itself around his arm, and Sheldon screamed loud enough to be heard in La-conia. It was a rattlesnake that had escaped from the reptile zoo! Young men were offered early gradua-tion in 1943, and Sheldon joined the marines and headed off to the Pacific.

The boys often angered Carl by throttling up before they passed the bandstand, or by gener-ally driving too fast. But the only known accident occurred in 1941, when

Postcard of the Reptile Zoo and Gift Shop in Alton which was next to Carl Cram’s Atlantic gas station he started around 1930.

Alton Bay Speed Boat docks. The Minute Man in background. The Legionaire, owned by the Downings, in the foreground. More on the Downings in the next issue.

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wide open throttle as soon as the boat was untied, and put the rowboat float-ing at the end of the dock right up on the shore!

Carl sold the speedboat business in 1947, and the new owner continued operations at the same lo-cation through 1949. An interesting incident oc-curred during that period. As I mentioned earlier, the “Minuteman” had no bilge blower and no flame ar-restor on the carburetor. One day Ed Downing was watching from his dock directly across the chan-nel when he detected the strong smell of gasoline. He knew the new owner wasn’t too familiar with proper starting procedure, so he grabbed a nearby fire extinguisher. Soon there was a loud explo-

sion that blew the hatch cover right off the “Min-uteman”, and the boat was engulfed in flames. Ed dashed across the bridge and got the fire un-der control, but the boat was a total loss. After he sold the speedboat busi-ness, Carl opened a Nash dealership in Concord, NH. He died in the early 60’s in Laconia, where he’s buried.

I hope you’ll join me here next time when we’ll visit the Downings and learn about their fascinating history. We’ll also go for a ride on the fastest public speedboat that was ever on the lake; a boat driven by its former owner Elinor Corby to a world speed record on Winnipesaukee

Edra Cram aboard the Yankee Flyer III.courtesy nh Boat MuseuM

in 1929.

(This story was adapted from a series of articles that originally appeared in the New Hampshire Boat Museum’s house publi-cation, “The Boathouse News”. I’m grateful to Sheldon Cram for making this story possible. Dur-ing a recent interview, he said “You know, all those people we talked about are dead. I’m the only one left.” I said “I know, that’s why I’m talking to you!” Sheldon and his lovely wife, Barbara, now live in Tuftonboro.)

Richard Cram’s boat pilot license - 1942.

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My college degree was

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If you think about our planet on a very large scale and take into consider-ation gravity, you quickly discover that Mother Na-ture is doing her best to constantly carry all soil, rock, your house, your car, your posses-sions and you down and into the oceans. She’s a very patient woman, but she’s also got a split per-sonality as her evil twin is constantly building mountains where two crustal plates crash into one another. This is why the Earth has dry land that we build upon.

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Your builder, or possi-bly the subdivision devel-oper, undoubtedly moved dirt on your lot to pre-pare it for building your home. This process dis-turbed the natural slope of your lot, as virtually no undisturbed land is perfectly flat. Almost all land has some natural fall to it that’s caused by natural erosion. When you do encounter marshy land, it’s because of some temporary geomorpho-logical process. Lakes are a great example. You can find marshes next to lakes. Realize that lakes are temporary geological features. Mother Nature is constantly trying to fill lakes in.

Adding soil to the low spots is usually not a good method to fix poor drainage problems. Pond-ing water on your lot tells me that you don’t have low-slope culverts sur-rounding your house like a moat surrounds a castle. These depres-

sions, or culverts, should have been created by the builder so surface water always flows around your house toward the lowest spot of land on your lot.

To provide great drain-age around your home, you should always have the ground slope away from your home. The building code used to require that the ground have 6 inches of fall in the first 10 feet of hori-zontal run away from your home. That can be confusing to some.

All it means is that with-in 10 feet of your founda-tion, the ground should slope at least 6 inches. This change in elevation could happen within a foot, meaning it would be a very visible slope very close to your foundation walls.

The builder should have then created an artificial channel around and away from your home that also has a slope to it. The

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without a visa to inspectors. He was briefly detained for illegal entry and finger-printed, but was allowed to remain in the country after invoking the magic words “political asylum.” Yousef was released for lack of de-tention space and headed to Jersey City to plot the deadly 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

--Gazi Ibrahim Abu

Mezer, a Palestinian bomb-builder, entered the U.S. illegally through Canada in 1996-97. He claimed political asylum based on phony persecution by Is-raelis, was released on a reduced $5,000 bond posted by a man who was himself an illegal alien and then skipped his asylum hearing. In June 1997, a federal immigration judge ordered Mezer to leave on

a “voluntary departure or-der.” Mezer ignored him. He joined the New York City bombing plot before being arrested in July 1997 after a roommate tipped off local police.

--Mir Aimal Kansi, con-victed in 1997 of capital murder and nine other charges stemming from his January 1993 shoot-ing spree outside the CIA headquarters in McLean,

Va., also exploited our in-sane asylum laxity. Despite his history as a known Pakistani militant who had participated in anti-Ameri-can protests abroad, Kansi received a business visa in 1991. After arrival, he claimed political asylum based on his ethnic minori-ty status in Pakistan. While his asylum application was pending, he obtained a driver’s license and an

malkin from 8 AK-47, murdered two CIA agents and wounded three others.

--Somali national Nura-din Abdi, the al-Qaida shopping mall bomb plot-ter convicted in 2007, first entered the U.S. in 1995 using a false passport. He entered again illegally from Canada in 1997 and secured asylum on false grounds. Abdi then was able to fraudulently obtain a refugee travel document, which he used to fly to Ethiopia and, yes, Chech-nya for jihad training.

--Among the convicted Fort Dix (N.J.) jihad plotters were three ethnic Albanian illegal alien brothers, Dri-tan, Shain and Eljvir Duka, who snuck into the country through Mexico with their parents. In 1984, the father applied for asylum, but the feds ignored them for two decades. In the meantime, as America showed the Dukas’ refugee community unmatched compassion and generosity, the Muslim trio returned the favor by planning to massacre U.S. soldiers.

As always, political cor-rectness and political pan-dering are the handmaid-ens of terrorism.

Michelle Malkin is the au-thor of “Culture of Corrup-tion: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies” (Regnery 2010). Her e-mail address is [email protected].

Hey Barack, I know you are busy with your golf game, and your obvious crusade to protect the kill-ing of babies, BUT could you tell us what you are doing about the slaughter of Americans at Benghazi last September? What is your perception of what is happening in Syria, Afghanistan, standing by our friend Israel? We know you are working hard to free all ILLEGALS and have them get into the welfare line – hey, it means votes for your plan, correct? If readers wish to respond to this column please use “Mail Boat” or [email protected].

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Salome’s Stars HoroscopeARIES (March 21 to April 19) You’ve set a fast pace for yourself. But as you approach your goal, you might want to slow down a bit in order to take time to reassess your situa-tion and make changes while you can.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Patience continues to be a virtue for the Divine Bovine. So as eager as you might be to get things moving, remember that time is on your side. Make good use of it.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) There’s a wee bit of uncertainty in the early part of the week. But things clear up as more facts come to light. Spend quality time this weekend with family and friends.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) An old friend’s return could open new possibilities for both of you. But don’t let yourself be rushed into anything. There could be some factors you haven’t yet explored.

LEO (July 23 to August 22) This week offers a challenge you’re raring to take on.

And while eager to get started, do so slowly so that you can focus those sharp Cat’s Eyes on every detail.

VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Put your skepticism aside and listen to advice from colleagues who’ve been where you are now. What they say could be helpful as you get closer to a decision.

LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) A family matter might again require your reassuring touch. Handle it, as always, with kindness and fairness, even if some of your kin prove to be especially difficult.

SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Your ability to tackle even the most intricate details of a project is likely to impress some very important people. A relative shares news later this week.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) The Archer’s aim might be focused on the big picture this week, but don’t overlook checking for those details you might have

missed.

CAPRICORN (December 22 to Janu-ary 19) You might feel awkward asking for assistance, but who would refuse the charming Goat’s request? Do it, then go ahead and enjoy a musical weekend.

AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Pour some cold water on that simmer-ing misunderstanding before it boils over. The sooner things settle, the sooner you can move ahead with your plans.

PISCES (February 19 to March 20) You’re in a highly productive period, which you feel can go on forever. But you could be courting exhaustion. Take time out to relax and restore your energies.

BORN THIS WEEK: You can combine a sense of adventure with a penchant for practicality. Have you considered a travel-related field?

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quicksand-like muck that lurkingly awaits the oppor-tunity to suck these boots right off of me again. The ducks on the other hand, have these conveniently webbed feet that aren’t just good for swimming, but also seem to “walk on water” (and mud)….and I mean this literally. Noth-ing is quite so humbling as a pair of ducks gliding effortlessly toward me in hysterical laughter (that’s right….I said laughter…..have you ever listened to ducks quacking?), while I balance on one foot, feel-ing around in the mud for my missing boot. This, I’m sure, is a regular source of amusement for my ducks during mud season. I don’t think it’s mere co-incidence that their little duck faces seem to be

eating, splashing, and any other duck-like activity you could think of.

Their contented waddling about the muddy paddock occasionally makes me stop to wonder if maybe I simply can’t see the forest for the trees….or is it the pond for the puddle? In any case, the next time one of us complains about mud season, perhaps we should try seeing it from a duck’s perspective in-stead…..there just might be a lesson in there for all of us…..And remember, it could be worse…..it could be black fly season.

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fixed with a perpetual grin during the months of March and April, as opposed to other times of the year.

Mud season at the farm also finds me spending far too much time with shovel in hand, digging trenches and building culverts to drain murky water out of the paddock and away from our barn. But while I am diligently digging, and diverting, my ducks are using my freshly-dug trenches as slippery-slides, making a ruckus of gleeful noises, like pre-schoolers at a summer birthday party. And just

for added effect, while I strategically try to avoid any and all skin contact with this sludgy mess, my feathered friends con-tinually splash and sub-merge themselves….ON PURPOSE….in this very same substance, happily dipping their tail feathers and bills in it, as if it’s soap bubbles in a bath-tub.

While I attempt to create dry spots for feeding hay to the rest of my livestock, the ducks look at me like I’m a complete idiot for overlooking these won-drous swamp-like pud-dles as the perfect spot for

water flowing away from your foundation would enter this channel and then flow, by gravity, completely around your home. There should never be any ponding in this shallow channel. A slope of at least 1/8 inch per foot is required. More slope is better if you can tolerate it on your lot.

Surface water is but one challenge around your home. You also need to deal with subsurface water that flows through the soil toward your foun-dation and crawlspace walls. You can capture and divert this subsurface water by digging a narrow trench in the center of the

artificial channel around your home.

This channel should be about 2 feet deep and 6 inches wide. The bottom of the trench should be parallel with the top of the artificial channel until it gets around your home. The trench extends past your home towards the lowest point of your lot. Once the trench passes your house, the slope can be reduced so the pipe eventually pops out of the ground.

You install a 1 inch lay-er of rounded gravel that’s the size of large acorns into the bottom of the trench. Perforated drain pipe is laid on this gravel. The entire trench is then

filled with the rounded gravel. This system read-ily collects subsurface water before it attacks your home. Water will flow from the end of the drainpipe, where it even-tually breaks through the surface of the ground.

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The Rochester Opera House doors are open for the third season of Summer Theatre Camp, a joyous hands-on theatre experience for students ages four through teen. The program, offering all levels of training in theatre techniques, is a great opportunity for children around the region to dance, sing, learn and grow on the stage at the grand historic theatre. On the fi-nal day of each camp session, stu-dents showcase their skills with an evening performance for family, friends and the public.

Summer Theatre Camp Sched-ule: Broadway Kids I: (Ages 4-7) June 24-July 5 (excluding July 4) on M-F from 9-2. Students sing, dance and learn theatre tech-niques through games and im-provisation and spend quiet time learning theatre related arts and crafts. Theme days such as Crazy Hair Day, Inside Out Day and Su-per Hero Day enhance the enjoy-ment of the learning process.

Spotlight on Musical Theatre: (Ages 13 and Up) July 8-19 on M-F from 9-4. Students fine tune their acting, singing and dancing skills by learning twelve Broadway show stoppers for an original pro-

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page to stage through theatre tech-niques, games and improvisation. Students showcase their skills for an audience on the last evening of camp. Theme days such as Crazy Hair Day, Inside Out Day and Su-per Hero Day enhance the enjoy-ment of the learning process.

Broadway Kids II: (Ages 4-7) Aug. 5-16 on M-F from 9- 2 Stu-dents sing, dance and learn the-atre techniques through games and improvisation and spend quiet time learning theatre related arts and crafts. Theme days such as Crazy Hair Day, Inside Out Day and Super Hero Day enhance the enjoyment of the learning pro-cess.

Registration forms and camp information are available at the ROH Box Office on M/W/F from 10-5 and, for download at Roches-terOperaHouse.com. The Roches-ter Opera House is located in City Hall, 31 Wakefield Street, Roches-ter NH. Please contact Martha at [email protected] or call (603) 335-1992 for more information. Experience the happy sounds of children singing, dancing and experiencing the wonders of the performing arts.

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