Forum, Feb. 20: Granite Staters about to feel consequences
Published: 2/19/2021 10:00:14 PM
Modified: 2/19/2021 10:00:12 PM
Granite Staters about to feel consequences
Winners say “elections have consequences.” My party was not a winner this last time in New Hampshire, but rest assured, there will be consequences. With the Trumpian Republican Party in control of the state’s legislative, executive and judicial branches, the following things are about to happen:
■ A budget will pass that will severely downshift costs to the property tax, and onto the people who pay it.
■ Women’s reproductive rights will be dramatically restricted by passage of new, misogynistic legislation.
■ Public schooling, one of the core elements of a decent society, will receive blows from which it may not recover, while public funds will be transferred to private, religious and home schooling.
CONVERSATIONS: Canton woman used a guiding hand, healing heart as a Cadet Nurse, instructor
Linda Thomas
Faye Berzon spends most of her time these days inside her condominium apartment at the Orchard Cove Retirement Community in Canton. Wheelchair-bound, the former Sharon resident is surrounded by books, computer, photos of her late husband, Harry, awards and recognitions and mementos of her days as a nurse that began 77 years ago,
Her perfectly arranged hair, radiant unlined skin and stylish attire belie her 94 years.There is a softness – even a kind of sadness – in her eyes reflecting how nurses of today have been answering the call to wage a war against the COVID-19 pandemic a war that can only be described as one where wounds and disease took as many lives as bullets.
James Benjamin Trembath, son of William and Ethel Trembath, was born October 1, 1925, in Eveleth, MN. He peacefully passed away at age 95 on January 7, 2021, at Autumn Lane Assisted-Living in Cohasset, MN. Jim grew up in Eveleth, graduating in 1943. At age 17 he enlisted in the U. S. Navy, serving as a Pharmacistâs Mate (corpsman) during WWII. Assigned to the 3rd Marine Division for the battle of Iwo Jima in 1945, he was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. He was within a half mile of Mount Suribachi during the famous Marine American flag raising. Jim brought home his helmet with a bullet hole and was known in his unit as âHole in the Helmet Trembath.â