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If you look “Outside YourWindow” you will see thatspring is here and summercan’t be far behind. Andwhen summertime is men-tioned in this area many startto think about the NorthHaverhill Fair and wonderwho will be on the ThayerStage in late July.

That question is now halfanswered. Saturday, July 31will see up and coming singer,

songwriter and producerSarah Buxton singing abouther life. Her self titled debutalbum hit the charts in a big way in February of thisyear. The lead song “OutsideYour Window” became a songthat everyone could and doessing along with. CurrentlySarah is on tour with MartinaMcBride and Trace Adkins onthe Country Throwdown Tour.But Sarah has been signed

up for the 66th Annual NorthHaverhill Fair and promises toput on a show that won’t soonbe forgotten.

The other half of thequestion, “Who will performon Friday night?” is still beingsorted out. News of a firmcontract should come soon.

Elsewhere on the fair-grounds in 2010 there will bethe addition of “Horses,Horses, Horses”. This showhas toured many other ven-ues and will bring it’s multipleequine acts to the fair-grounds with multiple showseach of the five days of thefair starting on Wednesday,July 28 and running thruSunday, August 1.

Another popular eventthat returns for 2010 will bethe T-Bar-T Rodeo. Thursdaynight will see the cowboysand cowgirls taking over theMcDanolds Arena for somereal rodeo events. Bull riding,calf roping and barrel racingare just three of the spectac-ular events scheduled. Overthe past two years the crowdhas been well entertained bythis thrill a minute spectacular.

Other exciting news for2010 includes higher cashprizes for competitors in

the always popular Demoli-tion Derbies. Again this yearthere are three divisionsscheduled. A four cylinderclass, another division for sixand eight cylinder cars and athird class for mini-vans. Andthis year the winner of eachclass will take home $600

cash. It should lead to evenmore excitement for thecrowd and an increasednumber of vehicles signingup to participate. For detailsor to register check the website at www.nohaverhillfair.com or call Jim Aldrichat 603-787-6640.

Sarah Buxton To Perform

At North Haverhill Fair

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I'd like to thank everyone for all the calls, cards, visits& the sunshine baskets I received in the past months.It was really what I needed. You really picked up myspirits. To the Church, Friends of Bath, Pine GroveGrange #298 and my co-workers at Glencliff. You aretruely friends. I want to thank the staff of Cottage Hospital, Dr. MacAurter, Holly, and the Day Surgerystaff for the excellent care I received during my stay.Mom & Dad, thank you, you were always there. Andespecially Bobby you have been so supportive andcaring. I know I wouldn't have made it without you.

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PERSONAL: For Sale, Wanted, Lost, Found: $10.00 for up to 5 lines for 4 issues.BUSINESS: Help Wanted, For Rent, etc. $15.00 for up to 5 lines for 4 issues.MAIL: Trendy Times, 171 Central Street, Woodsville, NH 03785EMAIL: gary@trendytimes.com We accept checks, credit/debit cards or even cash!

The N.H. American Legion Riders Assoc. hosted the monthly state meeting at Ross-Wood Post #20 in Woodsville on Sunday, March 21st. They held a Run CoordinatorsSafety meeting at noon and the regular American Legion Riders meeting at 1pm. Themeetings were well attended with members coming from all over the state of N.H. A verygood luncheon was served after the meeting by Kathy Fitzgerald and Jaye Kenney, mem-bers of the Woodsville American Legion Riders. I want to thank all those for coming andall those who showed up to help out to make it a success.

Respectfully,Steve Pickens, Director

N.H. American Legion Riders Assoc., Charter Chapter

In the March 16 edition ofTrendy Times there were two“Letters to the Editor”. Onewas printed with the nameand organization included.The other letter did not con-tain a signature line. Insteadit offered the following: “Sub-mitted by a Haverhill Tax-payer who has requested tonot have a name published.”That statement, and the ab-sence of a name seems tohave ruffled some feathers inthe community. If you areone of those inquisitive aboutthe decision of the editorialstaff at Trendy Times, pleaseallow me to further explain.

The policy of TrendyTimes: (Any “Letter to theEditor” or any other submis-sion, must have a verifiablename attached. Names willnot be published if there is agood reason not to do so.{As printed in our November10, 2009 issue}) has beenpublished before. In this casethe source was identifiableand able to be confirmed.The author asked, with rea-sonable arguments, to nothave a name published.Though not the standard op-erating procedure, it wasagreed that not publishingthe name was the properthing to do.

This argument may notconvince some readers. Ican accept that. Not every-one is willing to take the ex-planation that a reasonableargument was made and adecision rendered. For thosereaders I can only ask thatyou agree to disagree. In thefuture there may be other de-cisions of this publicationthat do not make everyonehappy, or feel good. On theother hand, not every busi-ness decision of every busi-ness owner will be acceptedby everyone in the public.Many of those decisions mayor may not even be observedby the general public. In thecase of a publication such asTrendy Times, those busi-ness decisions are rightthere in black and white, andsometimes color, for all tosee, read, and express anopinion about. That is theway it should be.

Everyone has an opinionand should be given thevoice to express it. When ex-pressing that opinion couldcause adverse reactionsfrom others, then a means ofprotecting the author of thatvoice must be considered.

One of the missions of

Trendy Times is to make thegeneral public aware of asmany events, happenings, ornon-happenings as possible.To accomplish this mission wemust rely on members of thegeneral public to participate.Whether you have an opinion,or know about an upcomingevent, or have a story youwould like to share, TrendyTimes wants to be your voice.

To get your voice heardcontact us by calling 603-747-2887, fax 603-747-2889,email gary@trendytimes.com,stop in at our office at 171Central Street in Woodsville orvisit our website www.trendytimes.com. On the web siteyou will find our entire publica-tion from front page story tosmall advertisements. You canalso go back and read anyprevious article as all our is-sues can be found on the site.

In fact you can go backand see one of the other occasions when we did not publish an author’sname. That letter appearedin the November 10 issue. Itshould be pointed out thatthe following edition ofTrendy Times (November 17)carried a “Letter” in responseto the unsigned letter. That,my dear readers, is preciselythe intent and desire of

Trendy Times. Let the voicesfrom both sides be heard.Get all the facts out there foreveryone to read, and thenlet each reader make uptheir own mind about who is right or wrong, or if thetruth is somewhere in be-tween. And then maybe oneof those readers will give usall their opinion. Perhaps itwill agree with one or theother, or perhaps it will givea third point of view. What-ever the comment, good orbad, harsh or praising, wewill be happy to publish it (Of course there are alwayscertain legal issues that mustbe followed.)

So please, don’t stopwith the comments, don’tkeep all your opinions toyourself. If it’s worth thinking,it might just be worth writing.

Gary ScrutonPublisher/EditorTrendy Times

PS: It should be noted thatas of press time on Sunday,March 28 there had been noletters in response to the let-ter which appeared in theMarch 16 edition of TrendyTimes. If a letter is receivedbefore the April 13 edition itwill appear at that time.

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Annual Haverhill School District MeetingThe Annual Haverhill

School District meeting washeld on Thursday, March 18.A budget of over$13,000,000.00 (that’s thir-teen million dollars) waspassed with very little fuss or comment. It was passedby not much more than one hundred registeredHaverhill voters.

First and foremost a big“Attaboy” for all those whotook time out of one evening ayear to show up, listen andvote. Also a big “Attaboy” to allof the school board memberswho spend time almost everyday thinking about or workingon issues of the HaverhillSchool District.

Now, for the other side ofthe coin. Where were all ofthose other registered voters?Some will say, “My one votewon’t make a difference.” Astrue as that may seem, con-sider what would happen if allthose hundreds of voters whodid not show up this year, did

show up in 2011. There wouldbound to be more questions,more answers and more dis-cussion. Then the questionbecomes, would things be dif-ferent? It’s hard to know un-less or until it happens.

Or, how about if some ofthese voters took the time tovisit a regular school boardmeeting during the year?One night out of the year. It’snot a lot to ask of any voter.Just keep an eye on whereand how your tax dollars arebeing spent.

Now for my second pointregarding this year’s annualschool meeting. The SchoolBoard has over the last twoyears formed an advisorybudget committee. The the-ory, I thought, was two fold.One was to lesson the work-load on the school boardmembers. The second wasto get more input from mem-bers of the public.

First, again, I applaud thework these seven people did -

three members of the publicand four members from theschool board. My question is:how can the town find such alarge number of people (abouta dozen or more) willing andquite able to assist with thebudget, while the school boardcould only find three? Is that allthey could find that would vol-unteer, or were they the onlythree that were invited?

Either way, my feeling isthat this group should be ex-panded to a group of at leastten with most if not all beingmembers from the public, notschool board members askedto do double duty. There could,and probably should, be atleast one member of the schoolboard on the committee or atleast attending to answer ques-tions, but the school boardmembers should not outnum-ber the members of the public.It is not a formula for new ideas.

This is obviously myopinion. If yours differs,please let me know.

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Woodsville, NH – CottageHospital, in conjunction withthe North Country YMCA,have relocated StrengthTraining Classes to a newlyrenovated space adjacent tothe Woodsville Post Offices.“The new street level locationwill improve accessibility forparticipants,” says Lori Taylor,Cottage Hospital ExercisePhysiologist, who directs theprogram and modifies it tomeet individual needs.

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Have you ever consid-ered raising chickens in thebackyard? If so, spring is agood time to get started, andI have received a few calls onthis subject of late. Here area few tips to consider whileyou explore this subject.

Before you get started,check your local ordinances– even some rural townshave rules governing back-yard poultry flocks. Next youwill want to think about whatkind of chickens you wantand how many to buy. Somebreeds are better for eggproduction, others are betterfor meat. If you want eggs,remember that one hen willlay as many as 300 eggs in ayear and you do not need a

rooster to get eggs.Are you planning to build

housing for your flock or man-age them free range? If youbuild housing, you need toplan on 3 square feet ofspace per chicken, and onenest box for every 4 chickens.If you are thinking about freerange birds make sure you donot have neighborhood dogs,bears or birds of prey thatmay feast upon your flock. Ihave one friend who lost hischickens to a bear, so he nowlets his chickens roam aroundin a large fenced yard duringthe day and then puts themup in a sturdy coop at nightwith a bear proof door. Youwill also need to create a planfor how you will keep the

chickens out of your veg-etable garden. Tomatoes,squash, and lettuce are just afew of the human foods thatchickens enjoy too.

Chickens are social crea-tures, but do not always ac-cept newcomers graciously.If you add a new bird to theflock, do so in the evening.Chickens are also attractedto the color red so if yourchickens do begin peckingeach other, isolate injuredbirds and try hanging redcabbage or kale in the coopat the height of the birds’heads so that they can peckat it rather than each other.

The simplest way to en-sure proper nutrition for yourbirds is to purchase poultry

feed that is labeled for thetype and age of your birds.Also keep in mind that an av-erage chicken needs 1 cup ofwater per day. Hanging thefeeders and waterers will helpyou maintain cleaner food andwater sources for your birds.

One of the biggest rea-sons people raise chickens isbecause they like the taste offresh eggs. But fresh eggsneed to be refrigerated tomaintain their quality. In theheat of the summer it is bestto collect the eggs twice a day.

Raising a chicken flockcan be a wonderful hobby foryou, educational opportunityfor the whole family, or evena small business opportunity.However, chickens do

require a fair amount of careand like any activity the moreyou research it before youget started the more suc-cessful you will be.

For more in-depth infor-mation on this topic come toour Backyard Poultry FlockManagement Workshop onMarch 23rd. See http://ex-tension.unh.edu/Counties/Grafton/Docs/PoultryFlyer3-23-10.pdf for details.

The University of NewHampshire Cooperative Extension is an equal oppor-tunity educator and employer. University of NewHampshire, U.S. Departmentof Agriculture and N.H. counties cooperating.

Backyard PoultryBy Heather Bryant, UNHCE Extension Educator, Agricultural Resources

UNH Cooperative Exten-sion in Grafton County pres-ents an Apple Grafting andPruning Demonstration withspeaker Bill Lord, a retiredprofessor with UNH Coopera-tive Extension. This work-shop will be held on Thursday,April 1, 2010 from 5:30 to7:30pm at Cardigan MountainOrchard, 1540 Mt. CardiganRoad, Alexandria, NH.

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Anxiety, simply put isworrying. And we’ve all donethat! Anxiety disorders, how-ever, are when we worry forno good reason, or the wor-rying doesn’t go away, ortakes over our lives. Anxiety-related disorders are themost common psychologicaldiagnoses in this country,outstripping even depression.There are all sorts of anx-

iety disorders: generalizedanxiety disorder (worrying)and social anxiety disorder(worrying about social situa-tions) can both be termed“basic anxiety.” But there areothers that cross the linefrom anxiety into outrightpanic. With panic, that under-current of worry doesn’t haveto be present (although itoften is). Instead you can begoing along, content, whenall of a sudden some littlething triggers a panic attack.And, then it hits like bricks onyour shoulders, and yourheart starts racing, or youstart shaking, or your mouthgets dry, you stand there par-alyzed, stammering orsweating. Sometimes it lastsfor minutes, sometimeshours. Sometimes it wakesyou up in the middle of thenight and you need to paceuntil it subsides.

In obsessive-compulsivedisorder (OCD), panic canbe driven by very specific sit-uations or thought patterns,and people go to greatlengths to avoid these triggers, washing their handsrepeatedly against dirt andgerms, or never leaving thehouse. There’s also post-traumatic stress disor-der, where people relive atraumatic life event.

Simply put, a lot of people get anxiety because

of indigestion. Indigestioncan cause anxiety. Whenpeople begin to have ahealth problem – whatever it is, whether it’s somethingto do with digestion, or they start to have a problemwith arthritis – in some people that’ll trigger anxiety.The metaphor of the diges-tive system is “processingcenter.” In our bodies thissystem is our central com-puter, this is why most ill-health can be “rebalancedthrough” dietary changes,herbal compounds, vitaminand mineral supplementa-tion. Exercise is another veryimportant factor. The secretto exercise is that it’s everyday, ideally in the morningwhen it can “set the tone forthe entire day.” Anxiety forme arrived with the firststage of menopause. There-fore, hormonal changes canalso cause anxiety.The first step in “treatment”

is to find the underlyingcauses, the second would beto try and eliminate the is-sues to eliminate the symp-toms. Elimination musthappen everyday, this meansbowel elimination as well as

emotional elimination. Understress many people becomeemotionally constipated andwant to “shut themselvesaway from the world, this en-ergy can cause physical con-stipation also, so now one isconstipated on both levels.”Some eat under stress (usu-ally comfort foods), somedrink under stress (alcohol,soda, coffee all dehydrating)and others are “knotted” andnot able to consume any-thing. All of these relief pat-terns cause the digestivesystem to “shut down.”Obviously, stress can be a

major contributor to anxiety.There more to stress thanjust psychological stress;there are also physical stres-sors. Exposure to c old is aform of stress. Being in achronic disease state is aform of stress. And of espe-cial concern to anxiety, lowblood sugar, including hypo-glycemia, hypothyroidism,pancreatitis all are stress.When our blood sugar getstoo low our body mobilizesits energy reserves with hor-mones from the adrenalglands. The problem is, theseare stress hormones, and, as

their name implies theymake us feel stressed and jit-tery. (Coffee also mobilizesthese hormones).Most people get low blood

sugar because of high bloodsugar. The body, sensing lotsof sugar in the blood, oftenoverreacts and lowers sugartoo much. The answer to lowblood sugar, then, is often toavoid the things that willspike blood sugar: so sweetsand refined starches – or atleast eat them with plenty ofprotein, fat and fiber.Perhaps the best supple-

ments to help healthy peoplecontrol their blood sugar isChlorella, Spirulina, Dulseand Bee Pollen. My favoritesfor low thyroid are Bladder-wrack and Kelp. My favorite

way to ingest them is all ofthem combined in a veg-etable capsule. This ensuresthat I “eat” enough of thesedaily. If I rely on myself to eator drink two tablespoonsdaily, I will fall short as they“taste like dead fish.” I doLove this healthy mix in a“salt” shaker to add to mysoups, rice, vegetables,sauces… and this way I canassure that my children (whorefuse to take capsules) willhave plenty in their diets.Other amazing herbs to aid

anxiety: Kava Kava Root, Pas-sionflower, Oatstraw, Marsh-mallow Root, Valerian Root,Scullcap, St. John’s Wort (incombination with other herbs,this herb only works on verymild cases of anxiety).

Anxiety and Panic

Melanie Osborne is the owner of Thyme to HealHerbals and practices on Route 302 in Lisbon, NH. Shehas been in practice since 1991. Much of her work isprivate health consultations, teaching herbal appren-ticeships and intensive workshops, Reiki I, II, & III intomastership. In her shop located in Lisbon are over 200medicinal bulk herbs, teas and capsules, all made onpremise. Email: thymetoheal01@yahoo.com

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Pack 152 held its annualPinewood Derby today, 3/13,at Woodsville ElementarySchool.

Back row: CharlesChandler, Evan Irwin, Braydan Gonzalez, JoeD'Angelo, Myles Horton

Front row: Taylor Sartwell,Ethan Riggie, Ben Gwilt, Greg Vogel, Patrick ReardonEstes, Shea Ingerson

The results of the Derbywere: Racing:1st - Evan Irwin2nd - Joe D'Angelo3rd - Taylor Sartwell4th - Ethan Riggie5th - Ben Gwilt6th - Greg Vogel7th - Charles Chandler8th - Patrick Reardon Estes

Best Crafted:1st - Ben Gwilt2nd - Greg Vogel3rd - Shea IngersonAlternate - Patrick Reardon Estes

Most Original:1st - Myles Horton2nd - Ben Gwilt3rd - Greg VogelAlternate - Braydan Gonzalez

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• 3/4 cup butter, softened• 2/3 cup sugar• 1 egg• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract• 2 cups all-purpose flour• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder• 1/2 teaspoon salt• 1/3 cup raspberry jam

(or other jam of your choosing)

Place butter to soften in a large mixingbowl. In a separate bowl, combine the flour,sugar, baking powder and salt. In a smallbowl or cup, slightly beat the egg with a forkand add the vanilla to it. Dump the flour mix-ture over the softened butter and with yourhands; work into a fine, crumbly mixture. Addthe egg mixture and continue to knead it all

together in the bowl, until it all forms a uniform,cohesive mass. Remove dough to a lightlyfloured surface and divide into four equal por-tions; shape each into about a 12-in. x 3-in. x3/4-in. thick log (after forming in the generalshape, I lightly roll with a floured pin to the de-sired dimensions.) Place 4 inches apart ontwo greased baking sheets. Make a 1/2-in.depression down center of logs; fill with jam.Bake at 350°F for 15-20 minutes or until lightlybrowned. Cool for 2 minutes; cut diagonallyinto 3/4-in. slices. Remove to wire racks tocool completely. Yield: 30 servings.

NOTE: I purchase inexpensive food-gradeplastic gloves to use for recipes such as this;unlike bare hands, the dough does not ad-here to the gloves at all!

These are my mother’s fa-vorite cookies. I’m not surewhy they’re called “Split Sec-onds” except to infer it isprobably because they arepretty quick to throw to-gether, as opposed to thetraditional cookie dough. Sheclipped the recipe from aYANKEE magazine yearsago, but as the thin paperpage became stained andfrayed, she copied it to anindex card. Being an old-time cook, who only reliesminimally on recipes andmore on experience and instinct, she never considered it important to note such trivial in-formation as, say, mixing directions, oven temperature, or cooking time…who needs thatstuff? Well, Mom, unfortunately, I do. So, after I made these little shortbread wonders fol-lowing her simple and easy hands-on instructions, I “Googled” the recipe, and found what Iwas looking for. Was I ever amazed to discover that all the on-line recipes involved a muchmore complicated process of beating softened butter with a mixer, adding the sugar thenthe egg, then the dry ingredients in increments. That’ll teach me for questioning the expertadvice of an octogenarian cook! In the future, I’ll just shut my mouth (and my computer)and stick to the easy-peasy method, thank you very much! Here is the mother-knows-bestversion for you:

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Pack 152 Pinewood derby Winners

The planning for the sev-enth year of Paddle the Bor-der is now well under way. Ameeting on Thursday, March25th brought some of theregular members of the plan-ning group as well as somenew people together to fleshout this year’s plan.

The date for the springpaddle was discussed and finalized as being Sunday,May 23, the Sunday beforeMemorial Day weekend. As before First Student willprovide transportation fromthe end site, Bedell BridgeState Park, to the launch site,the Woodsville CommunityField. The bus makes its firsttrip shortly after 10 AM and the final trip at about 11 AM. This allows paddlersto leave their boats inWoodsville and drive to Bedell to leave their vehicle.

The event is designed tooffer a great chance for pad-dlers of any ability to partici-pate. In past years therehave been first time paddlersin kayaks. There have beenfamilies in canoes. Therehave been experts or racers

out for the exercise. Andthere have been plenty offolks in between just soakingin the experience of being onthis beautiful stretch of theConnecticut River. The rivercurrent will get anyone to thefinish line, it’s just a matter ofhow quickly you want to getthere.

The planning group alsodiscussed their desire to ex-pand the event and get moreinvolvement from the localcommunity. This they hope toaccomplish by inviting localnon-profit groups to set updisplays of interest to thepaddlers, and to those whocome to watch the paddlers,at Bedell. Several groupshave taken advantage of thisopportunity in the past in-cluding the three major spon-sors of the event, TheCohase Chamber of Com-merce, the Newbury Conser-vation Commission and theHaverhill Recreation Com-mission. They invite others tojoin them. For further infor-mation contact any memberof those groups or call MikeThomas at 802-757-3960.

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LEBANON — More than twodozen works created bynorthern New Hampshireartists are featured in North-ern Light: Variations on aTheme, an exhibit in theJohnson Sisters Library at

the AVA Gallery in Lebanon.The show opens with a re-ception from 5 to 7 p.m. onFriday, April 9, and runsthrough May 8.

The Northern Light ex-hibit is a collaboration of theArts Alliance of NorthernNew Hampshire, AVA, Cam-erata New England, and theGallery at the Old Mill Studio,Whitefield. It was developedin conjunction with two con-certs by the Camerata NewEngland chamber ensemble,on Friday, April 23, at 7:30p.m. at the Lebanon OperaHouse, and on Saturday,April 24, at 7 p.m. at TrinityUnited Methodist Church inColebrook.

“We are delighted by thisopportunity to send art repre-

senting our region to anotherpart of the state,” says SueGradual of the Old Mill Stu-dio. “It's a significant chanceto show others the great tal-ent flourishing in northernNew Hampshire."

The show includes piecesby 28 artists from Columbia toCampton to the Mount Wash-ington Valley. Some of theartists featured in the juried

show include Michele Avery ofNorth Haverhill, Kristine Lingleand Dianne Taylor Moore ofLittleton, Ron Lippard of Lis-bon, and Paula Wolcott ofSugar Hill. Works includepaintings in oils, pastels,acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor, as well as photo-graphs, jewelry, a beaded bag,and a kaleidoscope. SarahChaffee of the McGowan FineArt gallery in Concord was thejuror for the show.

At the conclusion of theexhibit at the AVA Gallery,the show will continue at theFiddleheads gallery in Cole-brook from May 15-June 5,with an opening reception onFriday, May 14, from 5-8 p.m.

The Arts Alliance ofNorthern New Hampshire,one of the organizers, is anetwork working to promote,support and sustain culture,heritage and the artsthroughout northern NewHampshire. "We are alwayslooking for opportunities topromote the work of localartists," says Eileen Alexan-

der, Arts Alliance AssistantDirector. "This show allowsus to do that by bringing to-gether work from across theregion, and taking it to newarts audiences."

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It’s a perfect March day;highs in the forties, partlysunny and of course a stormin the forecast. Actually thatstorm must be coming soonbecause the birds in my yardare on a feeding frenzy in themiddle of the day, they sensethe falling barometer long be-fore the storm arrives. My fa-ther says that when the birdsmake an unexpected assaulton the bird feeder, that is agood time to go hunting. WellDad, since its March I’ll dothe next best thing; I’ll grabthe Lab and go for a walk inthe woods.

Jewell (the Lab) and Ipark the truck at the Blue-berry Mountain trailhead (shehas been sitting up and navi-gating since we pulled on toLime Kiln Road). As I get outof the truck, I look back tocheck the body language onthe old girl. All I see is a blackand gray streak jumping outright behind me; she stub-bornly refuses any assistancefrom the human. The fire inher cloudy eyes and the stiffyet determined movements ofher body tell a tale of thirteenyears and countless adven-

tures with me in the forest.She’ll never quit!

This winter deposited anun-impressive amount ofsnow on the ground (sadnews for some of us). How-ever the lack of snow doesmake the wood’s walkingmuch easier and you can seeevery detail of the forest nowwith no green leaves to get inthe way.

We start our walk on thelower slopes of the ridgelinethat is formed by BlueberryMountain, Jeffers Mountain,The Hogsback and SugarloafMountain. Down at this low el-evation there is an incredibleoak forest. These oak are talland have beautiful crowns;their diameters are anywherefrom sixteen to thirty inches.My best guess is that the old-est trees are about 160 yearsold. But how is it possible toknow the age of these treeswithout actually checking?There is one clue that tellsme…stone walls. The lowerslopes of this ridgeline arelaced with old stone walls andin many places the giant oaksgrow right out of the walls.

Jewel and I walk uphill

along the edge of one of thewalls, slowly now, this walk isfor her. As we ascend, mymind’s eye scans the land-scape and removes the treesentirely; this imagined tree-less landscape depicts thescene from 150 years agowhen sheep pastures en-veloped the New Englandcountryside. When you see astone wall in the river valley,farming or pasturing is thelikely culprit. In the rocky soilsof these mountains however,stonewalls are most likely asign of an old sheep pasture.

In the early 1800’s alarge number of textile millswere built in the ConnecticutRiver Valley. The purposewas to process merino woolwhich came from a specialbreed of sheep, importedfrom Portugal to a Vermontfarm around 1810. The earlyto mid 1800’s was a period inNew England’s agriculturalhistory commonly known as“sheep fever”.

To support sheep for thewoolen industry, hugeacreages of land werecleared for pasturage and lit-tle land, including steep

slopes and wetlands, wasexcluded. The soil in themountains is stony and notgood for many types of farm-ing, but sheep are not fussyand by 1840 nearly 75% ofthis region’s landscape wascleared and placed intosheep production.

The wool industry peakedaround 1840 and crashedshortly thereafter followed im-mediately by farm abandon-ment. By 1900, nearly all ofthe sheep farms had beenabandoned and the forests ofNew England, much like theone we’re walking through,began to grow back. The firstfarms to be abandoned werelikely the ones in the moun-tains, thus the trees here areolder than the trees in theriver valley.

Assuming the area alongthe Blueberry Mountain trailhad been abandoned in1850, that means the oldesttrees are close to 160 yearsold. Some of the trees, if theyescaped the pasturingprocess, might be pushing200 years or better. These oldoaks produced an abundantacorn crop last fall, and the

blue jays and gray squirrelsare now feeding on them inpreparation for the comingstorm. There is also sign ofdeer, turkeys and bear thatare foraging for food aftertheir winter, which was notthe worst winter that theyhave ever seen.

As we reach the peak ofour walk, the coming stormfront blows a March breezethrough the leafless forest. Iclose my eyes and listen asit sweeps through the treetops. I wonder; what did thatsame wind sound like on thistreeless landscape duringthe March of 1840? Judgingby her facial expression, myfour legged partner is notthinking about trees, acorns,or history; she is thinkingabout the warm truck we leftan hour ago, and the fire-place back at home.

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A Walk In The Woods – March 2009By Dave Falkenham, UNHCE Grafton County Forester

And the truth says Mc-Donalds on it, or Dunkin’Donuts, or it says Bud Light,Pepsi or Aquafina. Cups cans,caps, wrappers, straws, bagsand sacks. Styrofoam andtires. Roadside trash in Haver-hill. This truth ain’t pretty.

You can’t tell the folksthat trash from them thatdon’t just by looking at us be-

cause the ones that do it areafraid. They do it when therest of us aren’t around tosee it. That makes themcowards. I still can’t see thelogic about folks throwing thetrash from their vehicles in-stead of just hanging onto itfor proper disposal. Doing itright’s no more work itseems to me.

Also seems like there’smore in 2010 than when Icame to live up here 6 yearsago. The landscape haschanged in that time. Thecowards have changed it. Aflash of white on the side ofFrench Pond Road or 116used to mean a scrap ofwhite birch bark gleaming inthe sun - now it’s trash paperof some kind. The metallicgleam I once drove by wasmost often a spot of moistureor even ice tucked into leavesor some fallen twigs reflectingin the sun - but not now.

Between the beginningof spring, like right about nowwhen the snow melts, andthe beginning of green, whenthe growing starts, there’sthe refuse. Ugly as a politi-cian’s lie and just as hard totrack down. The summergrowth covers it up some,and the falling leaves of au-tumn too, then the followingsnows of winter. But the besttime to see the ugly is now.

Some people throw trashout for the same reasonsome people pick it up - it’sthe way they were raised.

Some folks I talk to areconvinced they know whodose it - “It’s the flatlandersup from the south who throwthat -------- out - don’t knowany better” they say. Nodoubt, that is true to someextent, but it’s not the wholestory. I’m a flatlander too, andnot only that, but also an out-lander, from way out KansasCity land , and I’m one ofthose peculiar people whopick up other people’s trashbecause it pains me to see itaccumulate. I’m not the onlyone - I’ve seen others do ittoo around here. But notmany. French Pond Roadand Swiftwater Road (GooseLane) are two of my regularruns and there’s some bodyup and down those laneswho likes their Bud Light.Doesn’t like it enoughthough, to keep the bluecardboard case that the beercomes in - throws it out on aregular basis - that’s no visit-ing flatlander. That’s us wholive here. Throws out theempty cans or bottles too,right there on the side whenno one’s looking.

Roadside trash tells us acouple of unhappy stories -the type of trash tells us whatfast food places are in townnow, and what the favorite al-coholic and soft-drink bever-age is. You know the names.I never see a Sam Adams orHeineken bottle on theground. The quantity tells usthe worst of the two stories -how far we have moved awayfrom caring about the beautyaround us.

Too many of us don’tcare anymore. Cowards ofthe roadside.

It is against the law of thestate - posted $250.00 fines- and the law can be and isenforced by the Town ofHaverhill and other localcounty and state police.Plastic bags of thrown trashoften contain informationleading to the owners of thetrash, and when citations areissued, the trashers can endup in court for prosecutionand fines.

It’s all about how wewere raised. Now, it’s also allabout how we are raising theyoung ones, isn’t it?

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As I have pointed out be-fore there appears to be anoptimal size of governmentand when taxes go beyondthat point the economy is in-jured. John Marshall's beliefthat the "Power to tax in-volves the power to destroy"supports that notion makingit reasonable to ask that weas legislators be carefulwhat we tax. With that inmind taxing the very job cre-ating backbone of our NewHampshire economy, smallbusiness LLC's, in a virtualdepression seems mis-guided indeed even if you'renot considering that frivolousspending remains the orderof the day.

However, I wanted to usethis column today to put be-fore you another aspect ofthe problem with the LLC tax(created by our legislaturewithout a public hearing bythe way) written by former,30 years, Commissioner ofthe NH Department of Rev-enueAdministration) G.Philip Blatsos, which youmay not have access to. It isspecifically related to thenew LLC tax's "fairness"which is the chief argumentfrom the Governor andHouse Democrats. Accord-ing to contrarian Blatsos:

LLCs’ and small busi-nesses do not have a tax ad-vantage. In fact, the deck isstacked against them. Whena big corporation pays a div-idend the maximum federaltax rate is 15%. A distribu-tion from an LLC has a max-imum federal tax rate of35%. Add the New Hamp-shire LLC tax at 5% and youget a huge 40% federal andstate tax verses 20% federaland state tax for the corpo-rate dividend. With the newLLC tax small business paystwice as much in taxes ontheir earnings as big busi-ness. This is not fair!

The LLC tax will only be

paid by New Hampshire res-idents. If a LLC owner runsa business in New Hamp-shire but has a Florida resi-dence they don’t pay theLLC tax. This gives out ofstate owners an advantageover in state residents. Thisis not fair!

Our economic growthhas relied on businessesmoving to New Hampshirebecause of our low tax struc-ture. The LLC tax removesthis advantage. If you own abusiness in Massachusettsand are about to expandthen relocating to NewHampshire made businesssense. By moving to NewHampshire you would freeyourself of the burden of theMassachusetts income tax.The LLC “income” tax at 5%removes this advantage.The LLC tax discourages job

and economic growth. Thatis not good economic policy.

LLC have no tax forms oftheir own, they file tax re-turns as Proprietorships,Partnerships, and Corpora-tions. Some politicians havetried to make you to believethat when New Hampshireallowed LLCs to form it cre-ated a loophole to avoid thetax. This is not true.

The ratio of proprietor-ships and partnerships tocorporations has not materi-ally changed since the LLCswere introduced. Essentiallythis means that no one isusing the fictional “loophole”.The whole concept is basedon a false premise. A lawbased on a false concept isnot fair!

Two identical businessesfile New Hampshire andFederal proprietorship tax

returns, one is an LLC andthe other is not. The LLC fil-ing as a proprietorship willpay the 5% LLC tax whilethe proprietorship will not.They file the same formsand are the same in everyway yet one pays the tax the

other does not. This is notfair!

Don’t be fooled by politi-cian’s trumped up examplesto support the LLC smallbusiness income tax. Whenyou look at all the facts theLLC tax just isn’t fair."

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Wednesday, march 31ANNUAL FACULTY/SENIOR CLASSBASKETBALL GAME6:30 PMOxbow High School, BradfordSee ad on page 4

thursday, april 1NOONDAY CONCERT12:10 PMAll Saints’ Church, 35 School St, LittletonVictoria Cole, Soprano & Joyce Roy, Piano

UPCOMING APPLE GRAFTING ANDPRUNING DEMONSTRATION5:30 PM – 7:30 PMCardigan Mountain Orchard, AlexandriaSee article on page 6

MAUNDY THURSDAY7:00 PMWells River Congregational ChurchSee ad on page 13

MAUNDY THURSDAY – HOLY EUCHARISTAND STRIPPING OF THE ALTER7:00 PMSt. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Woodsville

friday, april 2MEDITATION12:00 Noon – 5:00 PMWells River Congregational ChurchSee ad on page 13

GOOD FRIDAY – ECUMENICAL SERVICE12:00 Noon – 3:00 PMSt. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Woodsville

ANNUAL EVENING OF ENTERTAINMENT6:30 PMOxbow High School, BradfordSee ad on page 4

GOOD FRIDAY – LITURGY7:00 PMSt. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Woodsville

saturday, april 3WELLS RIVER EQUINE RESCUECAR RAFFLE9:00 AM – 2:00 PMWells River Chevrolet, Wells RiverSee ad on page 11

REIKI SHARE10:00 AMOld Village School, Wells River

8TH GRADE AUCTION5:00 PM Preview; 6:00 PM – 9:00 PMBarnet School, Barnet

easter sundaysunday, april 4EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE5:45 AMEASTER SERVICE10:00 AMWells River Congregational ChurchSee ad on page 13

EASTER SERVICE LIVE RE-ENACTMENT10:00 AMChurch At The Crossroads, North HaverhillSee ad on page 3

EASTER SUNDAY –FESTIVAL EUCHARIST10:00 AMSt. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Woodsville

EASTER SERVICE11:00 AMEast Peacham Baptist Church, PeachamSee ad on page 14

tuesday, april 6NH STATE VETERANS COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE8:00 AM – 12:00 NoonRoss-Wood Post 20 American Legion,Woodsville

CONNECTICUT VALLEY SNOWMOBILECLUB MONTHLY MEETING7:00 PMMorrill Municipal Building, North Haverhill

Wednesday, april 73 RIVERS BUSINESS ASSOCIATION MONTHLY MEETING8:00 AMWells River Savings Bank, Wells River

friday, april 9NORTHERN NH ARTISTS FEATURED5:00 PM – 7:00 PMJohnson Sisters Library, AVA Gallery,LebanonSee article on page 9

saturday, april 10MONROE INDOOR YARD SALE8:00 AM – 2:00 PMMonroe Town Hall, MonroeSee ad on page 11

sunday, april 11BATCHING & MANAGINGFOR WOODCOCK3:00 PM – 8:00 PMBridgewater Town Hall, Bridgewater

monday, april 12HAVERHILL SELECTBOARD MEETING6:00 PMMorrill Municipal Building, North Haverhill

tuesday, april 13BACKYARD WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT3:30 PMSlade Brook Farm, Etna

Wednesday, april 14MONTHLY MEETING - ROSS-WOODPOST #20 AMERICAN LEGION6:00 PMAmerican Legion Home, WoodsvilleSee ad on page 4

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It’s now less than 100days until one of the biggestholidays of the year. TheFourth of July celebrates thebirth of our nation more thantwo hundred years ago.

In the Woodsville/WellsRiver area the Fourth of Julymeans a gathering of thou-sands of people to partake ina day full of activities. Thiscelebration has now beengoing on for thirty years.

One of the first publicsteps to this celebration is thechoosing of a theme for the2010 event. That decision wasmade at the monthly meetingof this civic minded and regis-tered non-profit committee.This year’s theme will be “Cel-ebrating our Community” andwas submitted by LasellBartlett from North Haverhill,NH. Lasell will receive a$25.00 prize from the commit-tee for the theme picked out ofover thirty submissions.

Now that the theme hasbeen picked, float builders canstart planning. There is no feeto enter a float, or any otheritem in this parade. Floats arejudged in two divisions,

commercial and non-profit/family entries. There are alsocategories and prize money forwalking entries and bicycles.

If any business wouldlike to offer a trailer or truckto be used by a float builder,please contact the commit-tee. It could be a win-win asthe business can get somefree exposure and the groupcan have a means of trans-porting their idea.

Though the 4th of July pa-rade marks the kick-off for theday’s activities, it does not endthere. The Woodsville/WellsRiver Fourth of July Commit-tee has also scheduled livemusic on the Community Fieldbeginning at 1 PM with theBack Shed String Band. They

are followed by White Rose. At5 PM the tent will be filled withmusic by one of two newgroups this year, Sweet Jam.They are followed at 7 PM bythe other new group the MadHatters. Capping off theevening will be the return ofthe Gully Boys.

Also on the field will bebingo as players play for theirchoice of prizes. Or you cantry Critter Chip Bingo for acash prize. Buddy the Clownwill entertain with balloon an-imals, etc. Plus D&L Amuse-ments returns with rides andother games of chance. Anddon’t miss the Travelin’ Barn-yard for all those pet-able an-imals. There will also beplenty of food and drink, plusother vendors with plenty tolook at and purchase.

Of course no 4th of JulyCelebration is complete with-out a fireworks display. This Gi-gantic Display goes in the airat 10 PM (weather permitting).

The entire day takesplenty of planning and plentyof money. If you would like tomake a donation you can buya raffle ticket ($10 each) orput your name in the annualsouvenir booklet. For moredetails, check out our web-site at www.wwr4thofjuly.comor call 603-747-2878.

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If you all would indulge me, Iwould like to do somethingthat is long overdue. I wouldlike to write an open letter tomy Dad. There are so manythings I have wanted to tellhim, and I think of them allthe time, but every time wehave gotten together, forsome reason or another, itjust didn’t seem like the righttime or place, or I didn’t knowhow to start. And, if I don’t doit now, I don’t know if I everwill. Maybe there are some ofyou that are in the same sit-uation, and maybe by read-ing this you might get up the

courage to just go and do thesame thing yourselves.

Dear Dad,I can’t believe how nerv-

ous I am, just writing this. Youhave always been bigger thanlife to me, and I can’t remem-ber one thing you ever did tomake me think otherwise.

I want to tell you, no, Ineed to tell you that I loveyou. I know that we nevertold each other things likethat. As a matter of fact Idon’t think I ever heard yousay it, even to Mom, but wealways seem to know that

you did. When we wereyoung, watching you comehome from the foundry andblow the dust and dirt fromyour nose, take a showerthen go to your night job, justto make sure we had food onthe table and decent clotheson our backs, we knew. I justwanted you to know that.

As I sit here writing, I canthink of so many things youwondered if you would everget thru “my thick skull”, andI want you to know that youdid. You taught me the twothings you hate, a liar and athief that day you took medown to the basement after Igot caught stealing a can ofmodel spray paint from thestore, then lied to you aboutit. Now, I do too. I wasn’t veryhappy about it then, but Ithank you now.

Some things, you didn’thave to tell me. You showedme by your actions. I remem-ber the day you got homefrom the store and realizedthat the cashier gave you toomuch change. It was only acouple dollars. I rememberthinking it wasn’t that big adeal, that it wouldn’t makethat much difference. But itdid to you, and you got rightback in the car and drove allthe way back to that store,just to give it back. It makesperfect sense to me now.

You probably forgot about

it as soon as you said it, but Istill remember the day I spentsome time mowing and rak-ing the front lawn, and whenyou got home I showed youwhat I did. I was hoping to geta few bucks to buy a modelcar I think. All you said was “you forgot the side yard.”How did you know that I fig-ured I would just do part of it,the front part that showed,and that would be enough?Then, I thought I just couldn’tmake you happy, no matterwhat I did. Now I realize whatyou meant when you saidthose hundreds of times that”a job worth doing, is worthdoing right.”

I have tried to model mylife after yours, and the moreI try, the more I realize howhard it is. You always made itlook so easy to earn the re-spect of all those you camein contact with, but it’s not!Dewey Paterprin who ownedthe garage you worked atnights, once told me whenyou were out of earshot, thatif I grow up to be half theman you are that would bedoing pretty good. I remem-ber thinking that shouldn’t beso hard, but the more I ma-ture the more I realize justhow right he was.

Your word is your bond. Ifyou tell someone you aregoing to do something, youalways do it, or got in touch

with that person and ex-plained why you couldn’t,and I only heard you do thatone time. If you borrowedsomething, just as soon asyou were done with it, youmade sure it got back to theperson you borrowed it from,like that time you borrowedthe neighbors ladder to paintthe windows. And, when yougot done you not onlycleaned the paint you got onit, but took the time to cleanall the paint off it and whenyou returned it, it looked bet-ter than when you got it. Theynever mentioned what youdid when we took it back tothem, and I thought at thetime that you didn’t get theappreciation you wanted fordoing it. But, that wasn’t whatyou were looking for was it?You knew you did it, and thatwas all that mattered.

I could go on and on, cit-ing hundreds of examples, ineverything you did, thingswhere you went just little bitfarther, trying to be just a littlebit better, taking a little moretime to make sure it was thebest you could do, not pride-ful either, but done with pride,everything and anything justas important as everythingelse, each thing deservingthe best you had to offer.What a way to be! I am stillworking on being like that.

I don’t ever rememberyou ever taking a day offfrom your job, even when youwere sick. I watched you getup every morning, comedown and put the coffee on,go back upstairs, getdressed, shave, brush yourteeth, come back down,drink a cup and go off towork. That day you were sick,you put the coffee on, wentupstairs, shaved, threw up,brushed your teeth, camedown, passed on the coffee,but still went to work. Maybethat’s why, with little educa-tion, you were able to workyour way up from thefoundry, to Senior SpecialTester of Pontiac Motors. Itwas your total dedication towhatever you were doing atthe time. I want you to knowthat I still brag about the factthat on my Fathers wordalone, General Motorsstopped production of one oftheir models. “Don’t do anyless on the things you haveto do, than you would do onthe things you want to do.” Iwant you to know that I thinkI am doing pretty good in thatarea, and I also learned thatit is also a new decision withevery situation, and that

Something To Think About

If I could Take A MomentBy David Turner

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each time, you have to makethe right decision, even if ithurts. Pretty good huh?

I always have marveledat the way people have al-ways wanted to be aroundyou, to be recognized by you,and how relaxed and com-fortable they always seemedto be, when talking to you.It’s in the way you can makeeach and every person feelimportant, like they aresomebody. And I am juststarting to understand that itis because of the respect youshow them. No matter who orwhat they are or what theydo, you never make anyonefeel anything other than im-portant, and that you aregenuinely glad to see them.Now, I know, it’s becausethey are, and you taught methat Dad!

Now that I am openingup, something that has al-ways, always bothered me,that I never apologized for, Iwant to do now. The dayCraig Olson and I burned upthat pile of hay bales playingwith matches. Yea, I was light-ing them too. You were at theowners’ house with Craig’sdad, offering to pay the manhalf of the value of the hay,even though your son wasclaiming not to have done it.

You never did believe thatI was innocent, as much as Iproclaimed it, and I was madbecause of it, or acting like itanyway. Craig was trying totalk me into confessing alongwith him, and asked me if Icared what you thoughtabout me. I boldly told himthat I didn’t care what youthought. He looked behindme and I turned around tosee that you had been stand-ing behind the screen door,listening to us. That look ofdisappointment on your faceas you turned to go back in-side the house, and the factthat I couldn’t tell you rightthen and there, that it was alla big lie and I did care every-thing about what you thought,will still bother me, even if youdo forgive me for it.

We never talked aboutthe military, even though weboth fought in wars, you inWW2 and myself in Vietnam.I do remember the pride inyour eyes when you droppedme off at the bus station theday I left to go in. It was prob-ably the best satisfaction Iever felt in my life! But, I alsoremember that I didn’t see itwhen I came home. Sure,you were happy I made itand glad to see me again,but, and it didn’t take long forme to realize just how thiscountry felt about that warand my participation in it, Inever saw that same “eye toeye” look that made me re-ally feel for the first time, thatI was doing something rightfor a change. Mom told me along time later, one timewhen they were showingsome old news clips on TVand one was of some heli-copters flying in that war, youquietly said to no one in par-ticular, “That’s what Daviddid.” I knew then that youknew and you had to some-how understand. That has al-ways been enough. I don’tblame you and I even under-stand that you did give methe best anyone in this coun-try had to offer. But I wouldreally like to be able to sitdown and just talk to youabout it all.

I would start by telling you“Thank you for your service!Thank you for making sure Ihad a free country to grow upin and have the life I have sofar! What you and others didfor us all, we can never showyou enough gratitude!” That’swhat I would say.

You know, your stillteaching me things. Situa-tions happen in my life and ifI'm not sure what to do, I findmyself wondering what youwould do, and it seems tohappen a lot. And, if I comeup with an answer, it alwaysseems to be the right thing.Without realizing it, I havemade you the standard of mylife, and as life goes on, I seemore and more things thatyou did as I was growing up,that now make so muchsense! I guess if I can sum itup, you taught me the differ-ence between right andwrong! And the thing is, Ithink you knew you weredoing it all along!

I am happy with myselfDad, happy with the way Iturned out. I still got a lot ofwork to do, but I now knowthat most of what I am, cameas a result of all the thingsyou did, or made me do, liketake that paint back to thestore and tell them I stole it,in front of everyone. Thingsthat I hated so much at thetime were things you did be-cause you cared about theway I would turn out. Youhave a good name, and rep-utation, and you wanted tomake sure it stayed that way.I promise you that not onlywill I do my best to keep itthat way but I have and willkeep on teaching my kids todo the very same.

There have been manytimes where you said some-thing or acted like youwanted to try to talk, I meanreally talk, but I wasn’t sureyou really wanted to, or it justdidn’t seem like the right

time. But lately, for some rea-son, I really feel the need tomake sure you know, justhow much of an impact youmake on my life! Had youbeen anyone, or anythingelse, I can’t imagine where Iwould be now.

Looking at this letter, andhow easy the words all cameout and the things I wanted tomake sure you knew, werecoming to mind faster than Icould type them, reasons whyI am so proud, thankful, andappreciate every single thingyou ever did for me. I don’tknow why I can’t just sit downand feel that you would listento me, as I tell you all of themin person. Why I have alwaysbeen so afraid for some stupidreason or another to have thistalk, man to man, and maybeeven hug, except for the factthat you passed away eightyears ago.

I was with you when youwent. You were trying to tell

me something but couldn’tspeak. I whispered in yourear that you didn’t need toworry, that I understood, andthat I would take care ofeverything, that there wasnothing more you needed todo or say, but say hi to Mom.But, if I could, if I could justhave a minute or more withyou, I would tell you that thereare times that I feel a little lostwithout you there to tell mewhat to do, but that the life Isaw you live, will continue tobe an inspiration to me, andwill be my guidepost, until theday that I too, leave nothingbehind but my accomplish-ments. You’ve given meeverything I need to go outinto life and stand. Now I justhave to remember what itwas you said. Thanks Dad!

David Turner is a freelancewriter, living in Groton. Hehelps his wife operate “TheVariety Store” in Woodsville.

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Recently there havebeen a healthy number ofbackyard bobcat sightingshere in Grafton County andsome people have beenlucky enough to get pictures.Contrary to popular belief,bobcats are quite common inNew Hampshire thus a sight-ing, although rare and excit-ing, is not entirely unusual.The recent rash of sightingsis seasonal and likely relatedto food (or lack thereof) andthe time of year.

Bobcats are extremely ef-ficient and fierce predators,feeding almost exclusively onrabbits and other small mam-mals. However, survival in the

wild is no place for pickyeaters so Bobcats commonlysupplement their diets withgrasshoppers, crickets, frogs,ducks, fish, birds, berries,fruit, and grasses. During thespring, summer and fall thesefood sources are plentiful soa full grown male bobcat typ-ically has a summer range ofup to 25 square miles. The fe-male’s territory is muchsmaller because she is busyraising 1-8 kittens who can’ttravel as far.

During the winter monthsmany foods are not available;therefore bobcats must survive on mostly rabbits,squirrels, carrion and the

occasional deer (yes bobcatscommonly prey on deer). Withthe scarcer food suppliescomes a search for food thatrequires more roaming andthe bobcat’s range increasesdramatically, sometimes up to60 square miles. The kittens,which were born in April orMay are almost independentand can now travel greaterdistances with their mothers.

With an increased winterrange and a more intensesearch for food, the likelihoodof actually seeing a bobcatincreases, thus so do photographic opportunities.Anybody who raises smallfarm animals or free rangepets is offering a rangingbobcat an easy meal. On thebright side, these folks havean increased chance of seeing our most elusivelarge predator.

Another reason for com-mon winter sightings is thatthe breeding season for bob-cats is in February. Thebreeding season for anypolygamous animal in-creases wandering and thepotential for sightings in-creases as well. Many of thecats that people see this timeof year are big males lookingfor a mate or a pair of cats (ifyou are lucky enough).

Bobcats, similar to ourfree range domestic cats, arevery territorial and they do notlike to share their toys withany other cats. Territories aremarked by pungent scentspraying through urinationand anybody who happensacross a scent marking in theforest will know it; the smell isunmistakably cat-like.

Bobcats typically grow to be about 25-30 poundsand 40 pounds is huge, butnot out of the question. De-spite their typical antisocial

behavior, bobcats are a vocalanimal, communicating mostcommonly during the breed-ing season. Cat-like piercingscreams and a coughingbark are common soundsthat can be heard in the for-est at night.

Bobcats do swim. To datemy most memorable wildlifemoment was to watch a fullgrown bobcat launch itself offa beaver lodge and belly flopinto a pond. It then pro-ceeded to swim 70 yards toshore where it shook like adog and disappeared into thewoods. The best part of theexperience was that my wifewas with me and also fullywitnessed this event.

Bobcats are unmistak-able; tawny colored, lots ofblack/brown spots, white un-derbellies, short tails (3-6inches long), short tufts onthe ends of their ears andvery muscular with a toughbusiness-like attitude. Theyare magnificent animals witha keen predatory presenceand they are cat-like in everysense of the word. If youspot one, enjoy the moment.

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