November 3, 2012 Great Northwoods Journal Page 5

Letters to the Editor

Please Re-elect REPRESENTATIVE

EVALYN MERRICKSTATE REPRESENTATIVE COÖS DISTRICT 7

“I will continue to be a dependable, honest voice for the people I serve.”Evalyn Merrick will continue to fight

for families and businesses by:• Advocating for legislation that encourages and supports sustainable

job creation• Continuing to fight for critical services for our seniors, children, vet-

erans, and disabled citizens• Supporting access to affordable healthcare• Encouraging workforce training through educational funding

A Dependable Voice for the North Country who will…• Participate in efforts to halt the Northern Pass project• Help to protect the rights of workers and employers• Support legislation that ensures equal rights and personal choice

for all citizens.

Thank you for your vote on November 6, 2012Paid for by Evalyn Merrick for State Representative

Evalyn Merrick, Fiscal Agent • PO Box 48 • Lancaster, NH 03584

148 Main Street (Old Coös County Courthouse)Lancaster, NH 03584

(603) 631-0046www.centerforacupuncturenh.com

John S. Rodgers for Senate• Fifth Generation to Grow up on Family Farm in the Northeast Kingdom• Over 20 Years Experience as Small Business Owner-Operator• Lives in Glover with wife Brenda and sons John Finley, 19, and Derek, 18• Served 8 Years a State Representative on House Institutions Committee

Working:1. For Agriculture2. For Businesses of All Sizes3. For Working Vermonters and Families4. For Protection of Personal/Property Rights5. For Protection of our Heritage and Land

Endorsed by theNRA

Paid for by friends of John S. Rodgers, David Stoner, Treasurer, PO Box 217, Glover, VT 802-525-4182

“He would be a real asset not only for us, but also for the whole state of Vermont.”Senator Bobby Starr“John is always willing to work across party lines for the good of his constituents, that is what made him agreat Representative and will make him a great Senator.”

Representative Patti Casey Komline, Assistant House Republican Leader“John Rodgers has proven himself to be an effective legislator in the Vermont House of Representativesand his experience will serve Vermonters well in the Vermont Senate.” Senator Patrick Leahy“John Rodgers is one of Vermontʼs best examples of a citizen legislator: hardworking, engaged, thought-ful, independent and grounded. He is a person of high integrity and strong convictions, while at the sametime, able to remain open-minded and non-partisan. John particularly distinguished himself in Montpelieras a common sense voice for fiscal restraint and community safety.”

Former Commissioner of Finance, Commissioner of Corrections, and Secretary of HumanServices for Douglas Administration, Rob Hofmann

RodgersforSenate.com

More letters onPages 4, 20 & 21

more trillions of dollars in debt.It will take years and years toget back on track. Let’s makehim that—a one-term president.He promised that we’d haveunprecedented transparency.Nothing is further from thetruth. Lobbyists meet outsidethe White House with govern-ment officials so they will keepoff the visitor’s logs. The presi-dent used executive privilege tokeep congressional investigatorsfrom getting Justice Depart-ment documents on the agency’s

failed Operation Fast andFurious gun-trading effort.More recently, he has refused togive out information about thekilling of four people in Libya.He didn’t provide enough securi-ty for them and didn’t send peo-ple in to rescue them when theyasked for help three times inseven hours. Why did he go to afund campaign the very nextmorning after our Ambassador

To the Editor,This election will determine

which direction our country willgo. I lived through wars and dif-ficult times in my nearly 90years. President Obama prom-ised to bring this countrytogether. Never have I seen thiscountry so divided.

President Obama m a d emany promises during his 2008campaign and very few of themhave been kept. He felt becausehe was black, foreigners wouldlove us better and respect usmore; which is not so… he feltthat “The War on Terror” wouldfade away: killings would stop;Guantanamo would be closed;our diplomats would be respect-ed; and the whole world wouldrespect us. President Obamahas claimed that al Qaeda wason the run since Osama binLaden was killed. Al Qaedacells are springing up every-where.

President Obama said thathe would review budgets line-by-line for waste, fight pork andcut the deficit in half by his firstterm or he would be a one-termpresident. Instead, we are readyto go over a cliff with the hugedeficit and we are now many

She’ll be casting her vote for Romney

President --------------------(Continued on Page 19)

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Two-time Thunder Road“King of the Road” championDave Pembroke is now a two-time winner of Vermont’s mostfamous race, the Milk Bowl.Pembroke endured Sunday tokiss the beauty queen, win the50th running of the prestigiousrace, and take home more than$10,000 in prize money. Eight-time ACT Champion Brian Hoarcame up just short through aday of major adversity to finishsecond, and Maine’s Glen Luceearned third overall. 2012 ACTChampion Wayne Helliwell, Jr.battled to fourth, and seven-time ACT Champion Jean PaulCyr rounded out the top five. Inthe first segment of the unique,three-segment race Brian Hoarcruised to the section win withPembroke, 2012 King of theRoad Nick Sweet, and multi-time track Champion CrisMichaud on his heels. Jean PaulCyr powered through for the vic-tory in segment two, whilePembroke earned seventh,building an eight-point advan-tage over Hoar, Scott Payea,and multi-time Thunder RoadChampion Phil Scott. The glovescame off for the third segment,and on a late race restart,Pembroke held on to seventh,while Hoar battled Turner,Me.’s Glen Luce for the win.Finally, Hoar’s car gave up theghost and faded to second, giv-ing Pembroke a three-pointmargin, the slim overall victory.Pembroke was beside himself inVictory Lane. “I just took youradvice not to screw up, Ken.” Hesaid in victory lane to announc-er Ken Squier. “It’s been tenyears since we won one of these.I can’t believe it.”

Imagine going head-to-headwith a major racing eventagainst the famed Oxford 250—that’s exactly what theAmerican Canadian Tour andAirborne Speedway announcedon Sunday morning at ThunderRoad. The International 500, aLate Model Open event, will rolloff the line next July 20-21,2013. Highlighting the weekendwill be a $25,000 to win threesegment 300-lap Late Modelrace in conjunction with 100-lapDIRT Modified event and a 100-lap non-qualifiers Late Modelevent. It appears PASS DirectorTom Mayberry’s purchase of theOxford Speedway a coupleweeks ago, and the announce-ment that the Oxford 250 wouldmutate back to a Super LateModel event, has raised TomCurley’s dander. We’re going tohave the biggest weekend of rac-ing this region has ever seen oneither side of the boarder, ever,”American-Canadian Tour presi-dent Tom Curley said. “We’reexcited about the prospects of it.That’s fine, we lose one race andthat’s not an issue for us, we canreplace those races ten timesover,” Curley said. “We neverhad the 250, it wasn’t us. What

you saw was a blueprint of ACTon it with our influence over it.We fought with Oxford to getthe tires down from 14, to 12,down to eight last year. It both-ers me we lost that big race. Ifought hard to get it.” But upagainst the 250! “I trulybelieved I was going to retireafter (the 50th Milk Bowl),”Curley said. “I wanted to getthrough the 50th, and 35-years(in the business) will finish

today for me. I’m going to be 70years old and can’t do physicallywhat I’m used to doing. I thinkwe can thank Tom Mayberry forme sticking around for a fewmore years. I never had an issuewith Tom Mayberry, until hecame after these cars. Bookinghis races is one thing, and I did-n’t have an issue with themgoing to (Autodrome)Chaudiere. My problem waswhen they started messing withthe cars and then they want totake us and knock us out ofQuebec. My competitive juiceshave been (high). I like a goodfight and I’ve never backedaway from it. This is going to bea battle. And maybe I’ll lose thisone, but it’ll be another chapterin the book. It’s going to take biggonads and huge promotion dol-lars to get New England racefans to give up their 250 week-end, but if anyone can do it—afired up Tom Curley is probablythe man.

Jimmie Johnson ran pole-to-pole Sunday to win the TumsFast Relief 500, and shake up

Dave Pembroke wins the 50th Milk Bowl.(Photo by Steve Poulin)

the chase, grabbing the pointslead from Brad Keselowski.Johnson held off a determinedKyle Busch after a late restartwith five laps to go to win for theseventh time on NASCAR’sslowest, but toughest little race-track. Johnson made the occa-sion a points bonanza, leadingthe most laps and earning threebonus points for the victory.Busch was second, followed byKasey Kahne, Aric Almirola,Clint Bowyer, Keselowski, JeffGordon and Brian Vickers. Asthe championship battle tight-ened at the top, the five-timeseries champion moved twopoints ahead of BradKeselowski, who’s sixth placewas his highest career finish atthe track. But the race also basi-cally eliminated Denny Hamlin,who seemed poised to get in thethick of the points battle by put-ting on a driving clinic whilecoming from the rear of the fieldtwice, and then had an electricalmaster switch fail, that senthim to a 33rd place finish andout of title contention. After hisfirst pit stop, Hamlin was penal-ized for entering pit road too

fast, a penalty that relocatedhim to the back of the lead lapand 31st place. Instantaneously,he started quickly working hisway forward. After 200 laps, hewas contending at the front andessentially left pit road with thelead, but again, he was penal-ized for speeding entering pitroad, dropping him to the rear ofthe lead lap, this time 28th.Hamlin continued the driver’sworkshop worming his way intothe top five until his problemsdropped him 34 laps behind.

To Denny Hamlin, it wasstandard operating procedure atMartinsville Speedway. To MattCrafton, it was an unjustifiedbulldozer move. Regardless ofthe point of view, Hamlin wonSaturday’s Kroger 200 with anaggressive pass after a restartwith eight laps left, and showedno regret in claiming his secondvictory at the .526-mile shorttrack and his second win in 15career NASCAR CampingWorld Truck Series starts.Hamlin, who started from the

Rumors-----------------------(Continued on Page 23)

ACT Tom Curley, Perrotteand Airborne Speedway to gohead-to-head with the Oxford250 in 2013.

(Photo by Steve Poulin)

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Dining Out & Having Fun

Sudoku a nswers from Page 6

Turkey Raffle!!75 turkeys to go!

Friday, November 9held at the

Groveton American LegionPost #17

7:30 till turkeys are gone…All members and bonafide guests are welcomed!

Come out to supportThe Heart &

Sole Mates Relayfor Life Teamand the drive

to find a cure for cancer!

Saturday, November 1010:00 a.m. till 4:00 p.m.

Jefferson Town Hall698 Presidential Hwy., Jefferson

The Heart & Sole Mates will have a craft table,homemade baked goodies, lunch and handcrafted

items for sale to go to their cause!Also, attending to support this cause: Scentsy, Grace Adele,Pampered Chef, Velata, Tastefully Simple, Jafra, Homemade

Fleece Wear, vendors with cards, hair pieces, handmadescarves, crafts and more!

Door Prizes & Great Deals! Contact: Joyce 603-991-9545

Third Annual Holiday Bazaar

Plan your office or family holiday party at the Skywood!

Paige & Kim’s Bakery & CaféWINTER HOURS: Fri & Sat. 7-2 & Sun. 7-12

Specializing in Homemade Foods!“Enjoy your breakfast or lunch in a warm, country setting!

720 Presidential Highway, Jefferson, NH • Tel. 603-586-4491Handicapped accessible

FRIDAY MORNING SPECIALPoached eggs w/asparagus, homemade toast, home fries, and beans

FRIDAY LUNCHSalmon pie and gravy • soup du jour—Nantucket Quahog Chowder

SATURDAY MORNING SPECIALStrawberry pancakes with whipped cream

and baconSATURDAY LUNCH

Meatloaf with gravy, mashed potatoes andcoleslaw

SUNDAY MORNING SPECIALS* Veggie, ham and cheese eggbake,with home fries, beans, corn muffins* Eggs, any style, crab cakes, home

fries, beans, toast* Pumpkin waffle with real maple syrup

whipped creamAlso serving from the menu

Rehearsals for the annualcommunity Christmas musicfestival will begin on Sunday,Nov. 18. This year, the concertwill be in the form of a pageant,telling the beloved story withmusic and narration. S i n g e r sfrom all over the Great NorthWoods are invited to share thestage as choruses of angels,shepherds, and villagers.

Additional special parts arebeing cast, and volunteers arealso needed to help with cos-tumes, lighting, and other“crew” jobs.

Those who would like to par-ticipate are asked to contacteither Sharon Pearson atSharon@jenkinsnewman.com or603-915-0879; or Melanie Reeseat mreese2009@hotmail.com.

All rehearsals are on Sundays,at the MonadnockCongregational Church inC o l e b r o o k . Specific dates andtimes will vary according toparts. The first rehearsal willbe from 4 to 6 p.m.

Music, schedules and otherdetails will be provided at thefirst rehearsal. Singers shouldbe able to read printed music.

The ecumenical festival is spon-sored by the clergy of the NorthCountry Cooperating Churches,also known as “theMinisterium.” The performanceof “O Little Town” will be at theMonadnock CongregationalChurch on Sunday evening,December 23, at 7 p.m. Freewilldonations will be welcomed.

“Community Christmas Pageant invites voices”