February 2025 Meet-up

Where is my ’embarrassed’ emoji? 😳

I’ve been away for a while so I have to assume there will be a gathering this Saturday, Feb. 15th for lunch at El Tequila in Gilford.

The last I knew, at noon there will be a gathering in the front left (as you walk in) dining area.

El Tequila
1458 Lake Shore Rd Suite 5
Gilford, NH 03249
(603) 712-5169

January Jury Outreach

Our next jury outreach is Monday, January 6 at 8:30.

We’ve been out regularly, every other week for each pool, for longer than I can recall. If you’d like to contribute to the effort we’ll be happy to accept a small donation.

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September Jury

Updated:

We had a pretty normal day for the first time out for the jury pool, about 70 flyers were distributed.

Thank you

We received a nice contribution to the flyer fund though a Bitcoin (Cash) donation.  We appreciate the funds and good thoughts that come with it.  Thank you!


A fresh new pool

Here are the dates for the upcoming month:

  • Tuesday September 4 at 8:30
  • Monday September 17 at 8:30
  • Monday October 1 at 8:30

The potential jurors are scheduled for 9:00, we start 30 minutes early to be there to greet them.  You can look up the dates for Belknap County, Carroll County or Coos County.

Trifolds

We received two boxes of freshly printed flyers in time for our last assembly of the last jury pool.  If you’d like to participate you can join us, or if time is an issue, make a contribution to the printing of flyers.

Paypal to m_j_sylvia@yahoo.com

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Thank you for your support.

August Jury

August 6, 2018

We received two boxes of freshly printed flyers in time for our last assembly of the current jury pool.  We handed out about 40, which is higher than usual for the last meeting of a pool.  I’ll dig up the dates for the next Belknap Superior Court jury pool and post it here.

If you’d like to participate you can join us, or if time is an issue, make a contribution to the printing of flyers.

Paypal to m_j_sylvia@yahoo.com

BitcoinCash: qp7f48aa70uth5x8jpnwz7z9ct83dpvnv5vd7m3wf4

Thank you for your support.

The Lunatic Left

Those who think there is never enough government have been sharing their low grade propaganda in the letters section of the Laconia Daily Sun.  This time they target the Honorable Raymond Howard for a vote in 2016.

Those on the attack say “It is hard for me to understand why someone would object to having our students learn about the US and state governments and constitutions and be tested on the subject.”  Now if I wanted to be deceptive, I might not have used the full quotation and left off the last six words.  You see the bill was not about teaching the material; that was already the law.  SB-157 did not add any new material to the curriculum, it added a testing requirement.

So the real issue with this bill is about testing not teaching.  As one who voted against this bill I can tell you why.  I listen to my constituents and often hear how much stress is put on our students.  They have busy days in school and plenty of homework to take care of.  So I had to stop and think; where will the time come from to add another test to their day.  Sure it is just one more test, but the legislature wasn’t adding time to the day.  Let’s also remember that much of the stress felt by young people surrounds testing.  I didn’t think jamming one more test into their school year was helpful at all.  One thing I remember about school and testing is that you focus so much on the test that once it is done, it is only a short time before the material studied is lost to the studies for the next exam.

I’m grateful to have served three terms with Rep. Howard.  He takes the time to study the bills and more importantly consider the possible poor consequences of passing a well intended but faulty bill.

Like dogs barking in the night; they all need to chime in.

Fun fact for LRP readers: our Commissioner of Education was in the legislature at the time and also voted no to testing for civics.  He knows it doesn’t help retention of the information.

And one final point for my opposition to the bill.  I took the time to consider the make up of our government school system, and had to wonder what exactly will they be teaching and how will they be grading the exams.

UPDATE:

My reply was printed August 2, 2018 which happened to coincide with a bit of support from an unlikely source.