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Northwood NH News

August 6, 2014

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Just Like Mary

 

Mary Poppins (aka Linda Peck) will pop into the Chesley Memorial Library with her carpet bag full of hats, scarves, umbrellas that fly, a giant hat rack, and more…ready to tell magical stories that will delight audience members of all ages.  Join us on Thursday, August 7, at 6:00 p.m. for this FREE performance. Funding for the Kids, Books, and the Arts event is provided by the Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation, CHILIS, Cogswell Benevolent Trust, and is supported in part by a grant from the NH State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts as well as funds administered by the NH State Library and provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

 


 

Northwood Police Department Adds On-Body Video Capability

Submitted By Lucy Edwards

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The Northwood Police Department rolled out their on-body video camera program for every uniformed officer on July 23, 2014, joining several other police departments in New Hampshire in using this new technology. The cameras Northwood chose are made by Taser, and can be worn just above the ear using a headband, or on a pair of glasses, or shoulder mounted. Sgt. Shane Wells modeled the camera for us. 

 

The first question I asked was, “Do you have to get permission to record?” Chief Drolet explained that they notify the parties being recorded but permission is not needed when the officer is interacting in a law-enforcement encounter. For example, if you stop to talk to an officer at the supermarket, the recorder is not turned on, but if you are pulled over on the highway, the recorder will be on. 

 

Chief Drolet noted that having a videotape record of a law-enforcement encounter is good police practice for both the officer and the other persons involved. The experience of officers who have worn on-body cameras elsewhere is that it markedly improves behavior, of both the officer and the subjects. I asked Sgt. Wells what his experience so far has been like, and he immediately described it as good. He said that he found he was much more conscious of his words and actions, remembering his training as he worked. He also said he was a bit surprised that the reactions of the public were so positive. 

 

The Chief noted that being able to watch the tapes and see exactly what happened during the encounter makes writing good reports much easier. The videotapes are also excellent educational tools. The department will be reviewing them and using both the good examples and the not-so-good in their trainings. The information on the tapes is also going to save time and money when officers have to go to court to testify. 

 


 

Letter To The Editor 

Bombs Away

 

While I should be writing another letter to convince you that if you elect me to represent you in Concord this fall, I will solve all of the state’s problems and resolve all of its dilemmas, I feel impelled to comment on Mike Faiella’s recent letter about the decision to use atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to hasten the end of war in the Pacific.

 

Mr. Doucet’s letter last week addresses the source of Mr. Fiella’s revisionist views: a book of dubious scholarship, The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb by Gary Alperovitz.  But I will confine my remarks to a more personal view of those events.

 

Granted, I was only 8 months old at the time – August of 1945 – but my father was aboard a ship in Okinawa harbor, part of what might be the second greatest expeditionary naval force in history. Credit for Number One goes to the Normandy invasion fleet, but since the invasion of Japan never happened, historians haven’t weighed in on this issue.

 

And because the invasion was not needed, they never will.

 

But here’s the history as I know it from my father and a couple of other vets whom I discovered who were in Okinawa at the time. Having fought their way across the Pacific, island by island, against a tenacious enemy, many US military leaders were convinced that Japan would have to be invaded to be compelled to surrender.  Hence the build-up of the fleet and the decision to drop the bombs instead.  Japan surrendered unconditionally and was occupied by my father and others.

 

A side “benefit” of this action as nuclear weapons proliferated and became ever-more powerful was that leaders since have not used them.  Mutual Assured Destruction has kept the safety on.  Let’s hope that continues.

 

Tom Chase

Northwood

 


 

Letter To The Editor 

 

To the Editor,

“Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even where there is no river”, Nikita Khrushchev.

 

Disclaimer, I’m not running for anything, this year. In response to the article “Sign Slogans” I have some ideas to lower taxes. As they did in Britain, have everyone receiving a disability benefit submit to a medical test to confirm the need. A third did not show up and 55% of those that did were fit for work. Disability is the new welfare. Similarly if unemployment was run correctly the unemployment # would drop very quickly. Help the unemployed by assisting them to relocate where the jobs are such as Yuma, Arizona, North Dakota or Texas. As a business owner I was overrun with “disabled” and “unemployed” people quite able to work, under the table. Get unions out of the government. Only there are completely incompetent bureaucrats of failing institutions given incredible bonuses of taxpayers’ dollars, think veterans’ healthcare, the IRS. I could go on and on. Let me give you just two more. 

 

Clone Benjamin Netanyahu and put him in charge of enforcing our borders. Better yet, elect him President.

 

Re-elect Bruce Hodgdon. He is not a lawyer. He is not living off of taxpayer dollars. He is paying those taxes. He is an incredibly hard working family supporting man. He will be the first to say that we have a spending problem, not a revenue problem. He did not and will not raise your taxes.

 

Let’s help those that need it,

 

Tim Jandebeur

Northwood, NH

 


 

Letter to the Editor

Hiroshima, Once More 

 

I grew up in the decade after World War II, in a home that revered Douglas Mac Arthur alongside America’s Founding Fathers. We had a war atlas with his picture on the cover and a scroll of his West Point farewell speech. When he died I was only a teenager, but I trekked to the 7th Regiment Armory in Manhattan, where he lay in state, to pay him homage.

 

Like most Americans, for much of my life I believed we were justified in dropping atomic bombs on Japanese cities. It was only when I read a few years ago that General Mac Arthur disagreed with that decision that I rethought my position. As I researched the question I discovered that Mac Arthur wasn’t the only military officer who felt that way. So did Generals Eisenhower, Marshall, Le May, and Clark, along with Admirals Leahy, Halsey, Strauss, and Nimitz, among others.

 

I also learned, partly from Mac Arthur’s confrontation with President Truman during the Korean War, that it’s possible to criticize a President’s decision--even when he’s acting as Commander-in-Chief--and still love your country.

 

In the Stephen Vincent Benet’s story “The Devil and Daniel Webster,” the character Daniel Webster “talked of the early days of America and the men who had made those days….He admitted all the wrong that had ever been done. But he showed how, out of the wrong and the right, the suffering and the starvations, something new had come,” and that something was a free nation.

 

We love our country as we love our family, faults and all. We love our culture, history, founders, and ideals. We love our home, our town, our state. We don’t have to agree with every government action, in 1945 or 2014, to be patriotic.

 

Michael Faiella

 


 

 

 











 
 

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