Lemenade: Foodfest

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As children, the Lemen kids ate the food prepared for us: mostly by my mother and my father’s mother.  Grammie Lemen made Lithuanian food: potato pancakes and kielbasa and boiled cottage cheese dumplings and cabbage soup and borscht. For dessert we begged for  what we called twisters, but were actually Žagarėliai, or angelwings (why my grandmother did not call them angelwings is beyond me), a fried dough covered in powdered sugar. 

Yester-Heroes: Testing Equipment, a near catastrophe, and another burned fire house

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When today’s firefighters are not out extinguishing fires or responding to traffic accidents or any of the other vital duties they perform, they are training or maintaining equipment. Things were no different 100 years ago although; back then, there was probably more equipment maintenance than training.

Yester-Heroes: Police ‘professionalisation’

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The police department needed to be managed more professionally and become more efficient. The days of the three-man department was over. The police department could no longer afford to be swept whichever way the political winds were blowing. Social pundits and reformers of the day… “emphasized ‘professionalisation’ which usually meant a more military style of organization, higher education standards and better training, concentration on crime fighting, and administration independent of local politics.”

The Soapbox: Ben Ming will find common ground and deliver for all Granite Staters

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For the last four years, elected officials have prioritized extreme policies that attack our rights and freedoms, sow discord, and are fundamentally counter to who we are as Granite Staters. That’s why in this year’s election, I’m supporting Representative Ben Ming for State Senate, because he is the candidate who will focus on the issues that really matter to Granite Staters and he has a demonstrated record of delivering for his constituents.