THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, March 25, 2010

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SOCIETY NEWS

A History of the Jeep

HISTORICAL

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On Sunday, March 28 at 2pm, the Wright Museum of

WWII History will continue its weekly speaker series with a lecture exploring the history of the jeep. Put into production just as the U.S. was beginning to prepare for WWII, the jeep was one of the most plentiful and versatile vehicles in the American military. Join us for this fascinating exploration of the quarter-ton truck that began as a staple of the WWII motor pool, and which is now among the vehicles with the highest brand loyalty among today’s drivers. Admission to the event is $5 and free for Wright Museum

members. Seating is limited and RSVPs are encouraged by calling 569-1212. The Wright Museum is located at 77 Center Street in Wolfeboro. For a full listing of the winter’s lectures, visit the events page at www.wrightmuseum.org.

“Traditions and Techniques of

Building New England Stone Walls”

On Thursday, April 8th, the Sanbornton Historical So-

ciety will host the program “The Granite Kiss: Traditions and Techniques of Building New England Stone Walls”, pre- sented by Kevin Gardner, at 7pm at the Old Town Hall on Meetinghouse Hill Rd in Sanbornton Square, Sanbornton. Kevin’s informal talk covers a few of the main topics

of his book about New England stone walls, The Granite Kiss (Countryman Press), touching on history, technique, stylistic development, and aesthetics. He explains how and why New England came to acquire its thousands of miles of stone walls, the ways in which they and other dry stone structures were built, how their styles emerged and changed over time, and their significance to the famous New England landscape. Refreshments will be provided The SHS meetings are open to the public, free of charge. For more information call 286-4526.

A Program on the Merrimack River

On Thursday, March 25th, the Hooksett Historical So-

ciety will present “The Merrimack: A Visual Appreciation of the River and its Tributaries,” at the Hooksett Public Library at 6:30pm. This video was made possible by the New Hampshire Historical Society, which has this video available in their museum gift shop in Concord. The program will also feature a “Name That Artifact”

activity. This program is free. For more information call 485-4951.

Red Hill Outing Club History in Moultonborough

“The Ups and Downs of a Small-Town Ski Area: the his-

tory of the Red Hill Outing Club,” will kick off the spring- summer-fall season of monthly programming at the Moult- onborough Historical Society on Monday evening, April

12, at 7pm.

Randy and Jim Huston were among the local kids who learned to ski at the local rope-tow on Sheridan Road, and they will present old slides from the 1950s and ‘60s, video of ski action from the ‘80s, and many great memories of how this local ski program got started. Refreshments will be served, and any who wish to stay

may join the Hustons in viewing a video of “Thrills and Spills of Skiing in New England.” The program will be at the Moultonborough Public Library program room and is free and open to the public.

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history@weirs.com, or mail to PO Box 5458, Weirs, NH 03247.

it all fall apart? We live in the moment,

but God lives in eternity. There will always be more to come, some good and some bad, but God knows what will happen. We just need to hang in there until we find the answers. Next week we will see the end 0f the story. No,

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“doctor fix” to Medicare to make their math fit. The first four years of Demcare clock in at $17 billion, which means the last six would cost a whop- ping $923 billion. As the CBO noted, it “does not generally provide cost esti- mates beyond the 10-year budget projection period” -- with second-decade pro- jections subject to “an even greater degree of uncer- tainty” than its projections for the first 10 years. Yet, over the past week, Democratic leaders blithe- ly jiggered and re-jiggered their plan to get below a trillion-dollar spending threshold. Like the chil- dren’s building-block game of Jenga, they stacked tax hikes and subsidies onto Medicare cuts and illusory

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insurance company may operate. The President and the majority in both houses supports such a measure while Republi- cans have opposed such an idea claiming: the proposal lacks not only clarity but it flies in the face of constitu- tional protection within the commerce clause and the tenth amendment (to be discussed another time). The President claims

now, that the government –run program or public option is not necessary to promote any health care reform. First, he insists it must be no other way. Now he claims it is not. Of equal import, numbers of costs to impose any such new health care reform get tossed back and forth like a volleyball match. First it was estimated to cost more than one trillion dollars by the time all Americans are insured and now it has been changed to just a tad shy of one trillion. Absent

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rather, not the end, but the next step……

Rev. Victoria Wood Par-

rish is the pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Gilford, NH, located on Route 11-A. It is a congre- gation of open hearts, open minds, and open doors. We invite you to worship

savings until a rickety tow- er of budget deception was formed. Then they gingerly slid out the priciest pieces, rearranged them all and pushed back the spending kick-ins until the resulting edifice stood steady long enough to stay beneath 12 zeroes for a passing moment. There’s an old saying

that “figures don’t lie, but liars sure do figure.” Every major Demcare statistic -- from the inflated num- ber of uninsured to the politicized junk-science statistic on the number of Americans who pur- portedly die from lack of health insurance to the mythical savings that will come from squandering “$940 billion” -- is a single- payer-promoting figment of liberal imagination.

from all of this rhetoric is an explanation of how such a measure would be paid for. Of course we all know the score: confiscatory tax measures—and forever. Mandating health insur-

ance seems like a threat- ening term in the context of health care reform, and it is. For a government entity to strip an individual of his/her Constitutional right to be left alone of gov- ernment interference sure- ly gives pause to what the Founding Fathers worked for in the form of the “Bill of Rights” and, of course, the Constitution itself. Now it can be acknowl-

edged that in many in- stances government indeed has qualified their inter- est in providing for those that can not provide for themselves, as well they should, and no American should object to such con- gressional approved lawful mandates. But those of us who are more fortunate than others can and must

with us on Sundays 10:30 AM. Children’s activities and nursery are available during morning 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 congregations who would welcome you to worship.

Mathematical corruption

is ideological corruption. The health care battle -- and the battle over truth in government accounting -- is not just about health care. It’s about the lies that will be used to ram through cap-and-trade, illegal alien amnesty and endless bailouts. As Pelosi vowed last week,

“Kick open that door, and there will be other legisla- tion to follow. We’ll take the country in a new di- rection.” Yep -- straight to a red-ink-stained hell in a handbasket.

Michelle Malkin is the au-

kinblog@gmail.com.

object to provisions within any health care reform, that would strip all of us of our Constitutional right to make decisions on our own, and work mightily to con- strain those in government that would require health care mandates to hang like a sword of Damocles over the “privacy and civil liber- ties” of its citizens. Good public policy means

reasoned and thoughtful legislation, that is neither drawn lightly or hastily. It also means health care at reasonable terms, with individual options to select which is best suited for that individual or individu- als.

George Hurt Gilford, NH.

George Hurt is a candi-

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