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My sister, Betty Bonneau of Canaan, recently sent me a copy of the Sunday Valley News article about the restoration of the cannonball statue in front of the Lebanese Soldier Memorial Building ("One A landmark undertaking: As the upper valley statues deteriorate, their future is still in doubt," November 28). When I read this article, I thought I could provide a "human interest" perspective on this story.

It involves my family's story about my father and his efforts in the 1960s and 1970s to take care of statues called infantrymen. There is a long article about this work on Granite State Free Press, but I regret to say that we have never saved a copy of this tribute, and it has been lost over the years. In any case, our family remembers the story of our father George Corrette and his close friend Billy Hubbard (both long-term residents of Lebanon) and their efforts to repair The Infantryman after it was severely damaged. They immediately discovered that their traditional welding method was not up to the task, and consulted scientists at Dartmouth College to come up with a way to reassemble the statue. This is the basic story. From that day on, Corret's children referred to the infantry as the "daddy's statue".

My dear father passed away more than 20 years ago, but every time I visit Lebanon, I still drive around Colburn Park and pay my respects. When I first retired, I took a Photoshop course at a local university. One of my masking projects is to add my face to another person or object. I decided to see what it would be like to be a "daddy's statue". In many ways, it was a great learning experience. The whole project became my New Year's card that year. This is how the story happened.

Thank you for letting a piece of Lebanese history live in light

The members of Thetford Conservation Committee would like to thank the many partners who worked with us this fall to plant 817 young trees and shrubs at the Taylor Floodplain Preserve in Post Mills.

Thanks to the generosity of Tim and Janet Taylor of Crossroads Farm, this protected natural area-an abandoned field and former gravel pit on the banks of the Ompompanoosuc River-is now owned by the town of Thetford. This is the second year of the multi-year project of the Conservation Committee to restore native vegetation in the reserve.

Professional forester Ehrhard Frost negotiated with Kiley Briggs of Orianne Society and Vermont botanist Brett Engstrom to design a planting combination of silver maple, black willow, red willow dogwood, cherries and other native species. Saplings and shrubs were purchased locally in Vermont and planted by hand by five staff from Corinthian Redstart Natural Resources Management. Neighboring landlords Alan Bieber, Larry and Travis Godfrey, Mark Ransburg, Tim and Janet Taylor are all allowed to walk or drive into their property.

Grants from the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Vermont Natural Resources Reserve (White River District), and the United States Department of Fish and Wildlife, as well as funds from the Thetford Township Land Management Fund, provided funding for the project. These grants specifically support plant materials, labor, and invasive plant suppression to improve the water quality of Ompompanoosuc and wildlife habitats inside and outside the river.

Kylie Briggs (Kylie Briggs) played an important role in the fish and wildlife "watershed" grant application, Lisa Niccolai (Lisa Niccolai) "trees for streams" in the White River Natural Resources Reserve Funding also played an important role. The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Fund comes from the state's conservation license program.

The author is a member of Thetford Conservation Committee.

My name is Representative Josh Adjutant. I live on Main Street in Enfield, and I am one of the two state representatives currently serving Enfield in the New Hampshire State Assembly. Today, I announced that I intend to seek re-election.

I am honored to serve alongside Congressman Roger Downtonville for the past four years, and he has provided outstanding service to our community during his tenure. I am very grateful for his guidance. Since he has decided not to seek re-election, I plan to run for his electoral district, which covers only Enfield, not the entire floral district in southern Grafton County.

Every decision I made during my four years in Concord was based on how it would affect ordinary people, not just the privileged few. When I argued vigorously about the minimum wage in the House of Representatives, it was because in American history, the working class has never performed better than the great presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and John Kennedy to raise the minimum wage to maintain the support of our society. dignity. When I passed the 2020 Housing Security Act in the House of Representatives and the Senate, it was because I understood the difficulty of paying rent and housing in Upper Valley. This problem has been made worse by the pandemic. When I introduced the "Stop Corporate Welfare Act" this year, it was because I refused to allow big companies to use great programs like Medicaid and Social Security because they are appendages to their bottom line. I have worked overtime in my 2019 budget to increase corporate profits tax and fund education equity in New Hampshire so that children in our poorest schools have the same education as children in wealthy schools.

In these uncertain times, I want to return to Concord, fight for ordinary people, and do my part to ensure that working people are not left behind during the recovery from COVID-19. I’m running to continue to represent Enfield in the New Hampshire Legislature, and I ask for your support in 2022.

The locals who do not have the upper river valley are unfamiliar with the use of road salt on our icy winter roads. However, we are not the only native species in the area. Road salinity also affects amphibian populations, and it is more negative than its impact on us.

Due to the humid nature of winter in the northeastern United States, runoff is inevitable when the temperature exceeds the freezing point. When road ice melts and mixes with nearby melted snow and snow, it will go downhill and find itself in fresh water. In winter, this runoff contains high concentrations of salt from nearby roads.

In these freshwater bodies, especially lakes and ponds, amphibians such as frogs, salamanders and salamanders inhabit. The introduction of salt into lakes and ponds constitutes habitat disturbance: fresh water undergoes chemical changes. In addition, according to researchers at Binghamton University, due to this interference, native frogs are more affected than non-native frog species. The presence of salt in some ponds can lead to population reduction and even large-scale migration. In a study of amphibians in Nova Scotia conducted by researchers at St. Mary’s University in Halifax, data confirmed that in certain areas vulnerable to runoff, salt intolerant amphibians were excluded from lakes and lakes. Outside the pond, thereby reducing their habitat range.

Another unexpected effect of salt pollution is related to the reproduction of amphibians. According to a study by Yale University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the sex ratio of frog species in the salt lake has changed, and the proportion of females exposed to road salt has decreased by 10%, "indicating that salt has a masculinizing effect."

These are just some of the effects we can see when amphibians use freshwater bodies for reproduction this winter and the coming spring. Will we see changes in the populations of frogs and salamanders in the Upper Valley next year? If the use of road salt this winter is the same as before, the only possible answer is yes.

Imagine this: the Federal National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a warning about a common problem with ball bearings in American cars that caused axle failures. The government announced a recall, and it would take 15 minutes to replace the bearings with the new quick repair technology. You will receive a message from the distributor and the government that they will replace the bearing for free. You haven’t heard any questions from your friends, and the videos and channels you watched claim that this is an exaggeration. You read that there are problems with replacing the bearings, you don't have time to drive in the car, and you want to know if the mechanics are colluding just to make money. Your car club promotes the freedom of car owners and drivers to make their own decisions and condemns the consideration of patrol cars. People say that spraying WD-40 on the axle is the most effective repair method. You believe you have completed your research.

Soon you are driving on the highway, the car fills the faulty lane, and the drivers are kicking the wheels. Vehicles rush to other vehicles and occasionally deviate from the road into the woods. In your mind, you think maybe you should drive in, but you just don't know where to go or have time. What would the car club think?

Yes, this is fictitious, and the car is not a person. However, people advocate the same fictitious reasons for refusing to wear masks in schools or indoor public places or avoid vaccinations. In fact, our hospital was crowded with COVID-19 patients, delayed elective surgery and affected the care of other serious diseases. I hear the fictitious reasons of those who will fill up these beds soon.

All of us should pause, reconsider and evaluate the views we hold, especially when it affects the health of others and those we love. In the face of this real pandemic, with real consequences, please be fully vaccinated. Who knows what omicron will bring, but delta variants are currently shaping people's lives, if not their cars.

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