the forecaster, mid-coast edition, november 26, 2010

November 26, 2010 News of Brunswick, Topsham, Bath and Harpswell Vol. 6, No. 48

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Super Sunday for BowdoinBowdoin College fans mob the field and the men’s soccer team

to celebrate Bowdoin’s win over Middlebury in the NCAA Division III regional final on

Nov. 21 in Brunswick. Bowdoin will face Lynchburg (Va.)

College in a national semifinal on Dec. 3 in San Antonio, Texas. Also Sunday, the Bowdoin field

hockey team won the NCAA championship. Sports, Page 10.

Education chief cuts $5K from cost to keep West Harpswell School openBy Stephanie Grinnell

HARPSWELL — State Education Commissioner Angela Faherty has told selectmen that the cost to keep West Harpswell School open will be reduced to about $191,000.

Selectmen sought a reduction from the original School Administrative District 75 estimate of nearly $196,000, based on a discrepancy in the cost of teacher salaries, Town Administrator Kristi Eiane said previously.

Brunswick downtownplan nearly finalizedBy Stephanie Grinnell

BRUNSWICK — A final draft of the master plan for downtown Brunswick is expected to be pre-sented to town councilors next month.

The plan is “a vision” for downtown, Councilor and Down-town Master Plan Committee Chairwoman Margo Knight said. Input has been gathered for the plan, in the works since 2008, through several public workshop meetings.

There are short-term and long-term visions. The short-term suggestions can be implemented for little to no cost, Knight said. Improvements to downtown, such as plantings, may be tackled by volunteers, she said.

“The short-term suggestions are low cost or no cost,” she said, “be-cause we don’t have the money.”

Brunswick will not pay for or be responsible for carrying out all improvements suggested in the plan, Knight said.

“If anything does require town funding, it will go through an ap-proval process,” she said.

The Village Improvement Asso-ciation already sponsors contests, such as a window box competi-tion, something Knight said will be encouraged further.

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who has lived in Brunswick for a while will probably recall radio station WCME. Now, a new owner of the call letters and frequency aims to resurrect the

ROGER S. DunCAn / FOR ThE FORECASTERA boat passes under the Cribstone Bridge, which connects Orr’s and Bailey islands in Harpswell. The bridge reopend last weekend after an $11 million

repair and reconstruction project.

station.Jim Bleikamp purchased the

frequency at 900 AM in April 2009 from his friend Bob Bittner, who owns WJTO in Bath. Blei-kamp said he will request a zone change from the Planning Board

in December to allow a telecom-munications tower. He declined to identify the property, but said it is in southern Brunswick, off Route 1.

If approved for a tower in the Oak Hill area, where there are

already five towers in place, Bleikamp said WCME will pro-vide local news and sports and a talk radio format. He said he hopes to receive input from the

The school district argued “the benefits are calculated correctly” and responded to the overstatement by saying there was an understatement the previous year and an equal overstatement in the current base year.

But Faherty confirmed the overstate-ment in a Nov. 17 letter.

A previous amendment of more than $4,000 for fuel charged to West Harpswell

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Bath museum launches eclectic maritime art exhibitBy Alex Lear

BATH — What is maritime art, exactly?Maine Maritime Museum’s latest exhibit

shows that it’s a tough concept to define.“Cross Currents: Visual Arts Distilled

from the Maritime World,” opened Nov. 20 and will run through Feb. 6, 2011. The exhibit features the works by four artists: print-maker Carroll Thayer Berry, painter Loretta Krupinski, photographer Claudio Cambon and sculptor Christy Georg.

“It was sort of time for an art exhibit, given our run of subject matter and themes before this,” Curator of Exhibits Chris Hall said Tuesday.

The museum has many works of Berry (1886-1978), whose prints document naval ships at Bath Iron Works and the pouring

Alex leAr / The ForecAsTer“Giant Monkey’s Fist” by Christy Georg looms over Maine Maritime Museum’s newest exhibit, “Cross Currents: Visual Arts Distilled from the

Maritime World.”

of the lead keel for America’s Cup defender Ranger in 1936.

“He did a lot of prints that many people are familiar with and are now well-loved,” Hall said, adding that other pieces of his are studies and preliminary drawings, such as on-site drawings at BIW.

The works of the other three artists on display add variety to the exhibit.

Krupinski, who lives in South Thom-aston, bases her oil paintings on historic photos, adding lush color to the black and white images of working waterfronts along the Maine coast.

Cambon, a documentary photographer for more than 20 years, snapped shots of the final slipways launch at BIW, when

Cumberland County to celebrate 250 yearsBy Heather Gunther

PORTLAND — The 250th anniversary of the creation of Cumberland and Lincoln counties will be the cause for celebration on Tuesday, Nov. 30, at the Cumberland County Courthouse.

The event, which is free and open to the public, begins at noon in the courthouse rotunda.

Period re-enactments will entertain his-tory buffs, including a traditional proces-sion led by Lincoln County Sheriff Todd Brackett in period garb.

Proclamations from the governor and

other elected officials will be read, includ-ing a special proclamation read by “Royal Gov. Pownall.”

The celebration will also include the unveiling of newly restored historical docu-ments.

One of the documents is a 25-square-foot framed parchment map of Cumberland County dating back to 1857. Additionally, a copy of the 9-square-foot original proc-lamation separating the two counties will be presented.

Jay Robbins, president of the Lincoln County Historical Association, and Port-land historian Herb Adams will address the crowd.


Music will be provided by Portland country-rock band North of Nashville, and the color guards from the Cumberland and Lincoln County sheriff’s departments will perform.

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the U.S.S. Mason took to the water in June 2001.

Georg adds movement to maritime pieces such as scrimshaw, tattoos, knot work,

lanterns, signals and horns. Her “Giant Monkey’s Fist” looms over the exhibition area. A monkey’s fist is a light heaving line, which is weighted at one end and simple to throw to a vessel or pier. Georg uses a 3-inch-diameter line in her piece to bring the piece to imposing proportions.

“I think people are generally surprised that we as a historical museum also have art in our collection,” Hall said. “... Our holdings are diverse enough that not only do we have pictures of ships, but there are a lot of other nice pieces that are related more indirectly to maritime culture and subject matter, so I think it’s helpful to point that out every now and then.”

Log onto mainemaritimemuseum.org or call 443-1316 for more information.

Alex lear can be reached at 373-9060 ext. 113 or [email protected].

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HARPSWELL — After being criti-cized for the way it changed coastal flood maps earlier this year, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is invit-ing Harpswell and other communities to participate in a new mapping process.

Town Administrator Kristi Eiane presented information about FEMA’s new RiskMAP program to the Board of Selectmen on Nov. 18. RiskMAP, which stands for Risk Mapping, Assessment and Planning, will replace Map Mod as the program used by FEMA to determine flood risk and to estimate insurance rates, according to a FEMA press release. Risk-MAP will be implemented all over the country, according to FEMA’s website.

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Topsham residents to vote on marijuana dispensary rulesBy Alex Lear

TOPSHAM — The Board of Select-men voted unanimously Nov. 18 to ex-tend the town’s moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries for up to six more months.

But the moratorium would end if vot-ers at a special Town Meeting on Jan. 12, 2011, support proposed ordinance lan-guage that would govern the dispensaries, Town Manager Jim Ashe said Monday.

The Board of Selectmen is scheduled to vote on warrant articles for the special Town Meeting on Dec. 16.

The Planning Board in October unani-mously recommended zoning changes that would permit the dispensaries as a conditional use in two parts of town.

The amendments define a dispensary and say where and when it can operate.

Maine limits the number of dispensa-ries to one in each of eight districts. The dispensary for District 4 – Sagadahoc, Lincoln, Knox and Waldo counties –


has been awarded to Northeast Patients Group, which plans to open its dispen-sary in Thomaston.

But Planning Director Rich Roedner noted that the state could expand the number of authorized facilities and that it is necessary to have local rules in place.

The Planning Board recommends that dispensaries not be within 500 feet of the nearest boundary line of a lot that is used as a residence, playground, school, nursery school, park, day-care center or church. The facilities would also have to be at least 1,000 feet away from the

boundary line of other dispensaries.They could be open at most 12 hours

a day, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., excluding time for medical marijuana cultivation.

Dispensaries would be permitted as conditional uses in Topsham’s Mixed Use Commercial and Business Park dis-tricts, which would essentially confine them to the Topsham Fair Mall and an undeveloped area on the northwest side of the interchange of Interstate 295 and

Route 196.Roedner has said that state law allows

a town to pass “reasonable regulations” that govern the number and location of facilities, but that dispensaries must be allowed.

Residents at Town Meeting in May approved a 180-day moratorium on the dispensaries, which gave the town time to develop a local ordinance. That mora-torium expired Nov. 19.

Alex Lear can be reached at 373-9060 ext. 113 or [email protected].

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counties followed FEMA’s previous mapping, which increased the number of properties that would require flood insurance and the insurance premiums for those with existing flood-prone properties.

Several municipalities, including Harpswell, hired Robert Gerber of Se-bago Technics to perform an independent study of flood risks. His study showed a high disparity in flood estimations, espe-cially in Harpswell.

FEMA said each town will have re-

sponsibility to provide information for RiskMAPs, and FEMA and the towns will collaborate to collect flood data to create the new RiskMAPs.

Eiane said Harpswell is “still in the process of finding out details of” Risk-MAP. She said residents should be aware there will be new maps issued by FEMA as well as a new 90-day comment period on the maps when they are released.

“The whole process has shifted some-what,” she said.

Eiane said she does not know what kind of data FEMA is seeking, but said it is most likely more technical than an-

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YARMOUTH — David Craig is plan-ning to put nearly $5,000 into his 25 Madison Drive home to improve its heat-ing efficiency, and he’s looking forward to getting a chunk of that back through energy rebates.

He’ll do it with help from the Maine Green Energy Alliance, a statewide non-profit organization funded by Efficiency Maine and the U.S. Department of Ener-gy, which is running a community educa-tion and outreach project in eight Maine communities through August 2011.

Those communities include Yarmouth, Cumberland, Topsham and Scarborough, but MGEA also wants to assist people in other areas who want to significantly

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decrease their energy usage, said Jed Rathband, who handles marketing and communications for MGEA.

“We would be able to help them figure out how to get (these improvements) done,” Rathband said.

The Home Energy Savings Program works in conjunction with the Property Assessed Clean Energy program, a $20 million revolving loan fund that Efficien-cy Maine also administers to help Maine homeowners pay for energy upgrades.

The loan fund is available at low interest rates to homeowners in PACE communities. By adopting a PACE or-dinance, as Cumberland and Harpswell have recently done, residents of those communities can access the loan funds. In the rebate program, homeowners

who achieve an energy use savings of 25 percent can receive a rebate for 30 percent of the project, up to $1,500. A homeowner who reaches an energy sav-ings of 50 percent can receive a rebate for 50 percent of the project, up to $3,000,

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according to MGEA Executive Director Seth Murray. The money comes from federal dollars administered by Efficiency Maine.

Energy assessments must be completed by nationally certified energy advisers. MGEA helps homeowners connect with local companies.

“Depending on how much your house needs to reach 50 percent, $3,000 could potentially represent a large portion of that amount,” Rathband said. “Of course, if you have a leaky 1700s house that needs all kinds of stuff, three grand is going to represent a smaller percentage of that.”

Landlords are also eligible for re-bates for up to four units per building. A four-unit building could earn $6,000 by achieving a 25 percent savings if the project cost totals $20,000.

The energy adviser will estimate home energy savings. Homeowners must re-serve their cash rebate before starting work, and submit an incentive applica-tion form to Efficiency Maine. Once a contractor has made the improvements, the energy adviser returns to inspect them and perform a blower door test to ensure that the improvements will reap the ex-pected energy savings.

When the test is completed, the home-owner and adviser will submit a project completion form to Efficiency Maine, along with a final contractor invoice that shows the homeowner has paid in full. Homeowners should receive their rebates about a month later.

Homeowners can also receive a federal tax credit on their April 2011 taxes. That credit covers 30 percent of materials used in the improvements, up to $1,500. While the credits do not require an audit, materials must be installed by Dec. 31 to qualify.


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ecdotal. She said there will be a public in-formation meeting hosted by FEMA before the end of the year.

“I think they are trying to do more public information,” she said.

Selectman Elinor Multer expressed con-cern that a press release issued by FEMA implied Harpswell has already agreed to participate in the RiskMAP process, but Eiane said a charter has not been signed between the town and FEMA.

“What they are asking for in terms of data and cost is still unclear,” she said.

A five-page draft charter offers many opportunities to tailor to each community, with multiple sections marked “delete as needed.”

FEMA describes RiskMAP as a multi-year, “collaborative program that enables participating communities to combine enhanced Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) that provide a greater analysis of risk with mitigation planning.”

“RiskMAP will deliver quality data that increases public awareness and leads to ac-tion that reduces risk to life and property,” according to FEMA.

New flood maps for Cumberland and York counties will be published following resolution of all appeals and comments, FEMA said.Stephanie Grinnell can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 123

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Rebatesfrom page 4

Craig’s energy assessment on his 1986 home has been done, and he said that the weatherization work recommended through that audit would begin Nov. 22 and run 2 1/2 days. The work should improve his home’s efficiency by more than 25 percent.

Craig, who serves on the Yarmouth Energy Savers committee, said he expects to receive a $1,500 rebate, plus $1,000

for signing up before Aug. 31 and a $700 federal tax credit. This $3,200 total offsets two-thirds of the $4,800 he anticipates pay-ing in improvement costs.

He currently pays almost $2,000 year in heating oil, and expects to save about $650 after the improvements.

The average Maine household spends nearly $3,400 on energy annually, and im-provements that decrease energy bills by 30 percent would save the average Maine resident more than $1,000 a year, accord-ing to MGEA. Common improvements to

home energy efficiency include improving insulation, upgrading heating systems, seal-ing air leaks, switching lighting, installing solar water heating and replacing windows.

Rathband said more than 40 homes in Cumberland and Yarmouth are in the pro-cess of being assessed or upgraded.

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Master planfrom page 1


Other options for funding downtown improvements include grants, private do-nations and business donations, she said. Funding options are included in the plan.

Larger proposals, such as improving pe-destrian and vehicle traffic flow on Maine Street, will require more research into funding as well as implementation, Knight said. Traffic flow was a recurring theme of public input.

“People really want major avenues to be more friendly to pedestrians, vehicles and bicycles,” she said, adding one recent experiment with Maine Street traffic flow was “not so much a success.”

Knight said other “low-cost traffic flow experiments” may be attempted pending approval from Brunswick public safety officials.

Another goal is for Brunswick to even-tually become a Main Street Maine com-munity, the first step of which has already been completed, Knight said.

Brunswick is already part of the Maine Downtown Network, which is a group for downtowns in the beginning stages of re-vitalization. Knight said Maine Downtown Network “brings a while structure of land-scape design and marketing” to encourage Maine cities and towns to become Main Street Maine communities.

“It dovetails well with our collaborative efforts,” Knight said.

Areas of downtown and Pleasant Street, which was added to the plan about a year ago, were addressed separately as part of the process, Knight said. Each section will be addressed in the final downtown master plan, like the draft downtown master plan.

Ideas like visual impact, traffic flow and improving neighborhoods were all consid-ered while developing the plan. Options for increasing availability of maps and better signs directing people to local businesses were also cited as important improvements.

One consideration for improving traffic

coming to downtown is to change exit signs on Interstate 295, directing through traffic to Topsham and inviting visitors to see “historic downtown Brunswick.”

“We want to direct people to ‘historic downtown Brunswick.’ That will make it easier for people to get to businesses on Pleasant Street,” Knight said.

Outer Pleasant Street is described in the draft master plan as the gateway to Bruns-wick, but not the image the town wants to present to tourists. A survey included as part of the background information in the master plan shows few Brunswick residents shop on outer Pleasant Street due to traf-fic and problems making left turns across traffic.

Many more residents shop at multiple places downtown, according to the survey included in the report.

A final draft of the plan may be presented as early as the council’s Dec. 6 meeting, Knight said.Stephanie Grinnell can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 123



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What I learned from the electionElection Day has come and gone and, for those of us

whose candidates did not prevail, we can either lick our wounds or look toward the future with optimism.

Losing an election produces an acute pain that in time subsides into a dull ache. It hurts, but you learn to cope. You live to fight another day and, if you fought the good fight, you take away from the experience a sense of what is good and what is important. You come away with some portion of your ideals and self-respect intact.

Everyone says this was an election of mandates and messages. Indeed, given the ubiquity of social networks and other online vehicles, it was much easier to gauge the mood of fellow voters.

Because of the echo chamber created by inces-sant polling, cable news, the blogosphere, and viral and social media, what was said, seen and heard seems to have cut deeper than in the past. This time around we witnessed unpleasant things that will likely stay with us. But what was good will also endure.

Here, then, is what I learned from the election.• Mark Twain was right: The great humorist noted that

a lie gets half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. In other words, by the time a myth is dispelled, the damage is done. And so it was with the disinformation campaign(s) against Eliot Cutler.

Cutler was forced to combat these slurs just as he was making measurable headway with undecided voters. The negative campaigns against him cost him time and may have delayed his surge in the polls just enough to cause him to come up short.

• Dave Barry was right, too: Cutler’s campaign may have been wounded by the negative onslaught, but the damage to those who circulated the offending mailers and “push polls” will be more lasting, which leads me to a quote from another great American humorist, Dave Barry: “Democrats seem to be nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.”

It cannot be good for the Maine Democratic Party to have countenanced the trashing of another candidate and then to have hidden behind the artifice of “unaffiliated” organiza-tions that orchestrated the effort.

I haven’t encountered too many Democrats who are cur-rently inclined to break out their checkbooks.

• People aren’t just angry, they’re mean: I can understand a frustrated taxpayer who feels that incumbents have had enough of an opportunity to improve the economy. I can understand expressing that frustration by voting out the old and ushering in the new, though the new may be untested and inexperienced.

I can’t, however, accept the visceral and grotesque anger that some voters feel towards other voters. Savage com-mentary towards candidates may be ugly if not unexpected, but vicious attacks against those who have the temerity simply to support another candidate have no place in public discourse.

No candidate is entitled to an office, or even a clear path to office, simply because he or she has put in the time and paid his dues. Dedication and commitment are surely

factors to be considered, but our electoral system, like our economy, depends upon and in fact thrives upon the influx of new ideas and new energy.

The last time I checked, we have elections in this country, not coronations.

I was disappointed to see so many descend into the abyss of anger and vitriol. As a recent president and formidable campaigner once said, “We can do better.”

• Our best days are ahead of us: You might think, given the foregoing, that this election has left me disillusioned and bereft of hope. Quite the contrary. During the course of the campaign, we had the opportunity to meet the can-didates. We poked them, prodded them and tried them on for size. We made our choices and we will live with the outcome. Ours is a resilient system, and Maine is a resilient state.

But resilience depends upon enthusiastic, energetic, com-mitted and, yes, idealistic people willing to work, sacrifice and believe in something larger than themselves.

In Maine, our future depends upon a commitment not only to building a just society, but to fostering a culture that rewards innovation and allows risk takers an honest reward.

Ours is a nation where ideas and ideals still matter. Few have prospered by betting against the people of the United States. Nor should anyone doubt the energy and will of the people of Maine.

I’m convinced our best days lie ahead of us, and I’m looking forward to the journey.

Perry B. Newman is a South Portland resident and president of Atlantica Group, an international business consulting firm based in Portland, with clients in North America, Israel and Europe. He is also chairman of the Maine District Export Council.

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Edgar Allen Beem

The goal should be consensusEdgar Allen Beem once more regales us with his divisive

thoughts on the tea party and the “Evil Empire” of the Republican Party. I have a suggestion: perhaps we can all start having intelligent, meaningful discussions to solve the current economic mess. Most of the anger by the tea party was directed at Congress, not President Obama. It’s true that the Congress along with George Bush spent money

like drunken sailors. The sad thing is that America looked to the new president for change. Presi-dent Obama told us

that he would change the way Washington has been operat-ing. That hasn’t happened.

Health care is an example of what went wrong. Instead of meeting openly with representatives from the insurance, pharmaceutical and health-care provider industries in July 2009, President Obama invited 100 doctors to the White House for a photo op. It wasn’t until February 2010 that he sat down with senators for a summit. Congress should have created a bipartisan committee to look at all the possible ways to cut the cost of health care. Instead, both parties fell victim to the same old partisan politics, and nothing was accomplished. What came out of this was a health-care bill that’s a huge pile of paper, most of which Congress didn’t read before it was passed.

I want smaller government and you want bigger govern-ment. We should be able to come to some consensus to save this economy.

Lin WhitePownal

the Applewood subdivision (which presumably was once undeveloped land itself) rose up to complain about traffic, pedestrian safety, inadequate buffers and setbacks, and loss of open space and wildlife habitat.

The truth, of course, is that they just didn’t want a bunch of new homes next to theirs. As I said, that’s the Maine way. Heck, local folk even objected a few years ago when Dickinson built her own home on Hillside Street. Woods should remain woods, fields fields.

Nearly 60 neighbors signed a petition raising objections to the proposed subdivision, to be called McKearney Village. The major complaint seemed to be that the developers proposed connecting their development to Applewood by extending a dead end street through to Hillside. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, cul-de-sac residential developments were all the rage nationally. These days, planners and develop-ers favor subdivisions that are part of the fabric of the community rather than enclaves.

On Nov. 1, the Applewood protesters, the suburban burgher counterparts of EarthFirst! wind-farm oppo-nents, won a temporary victory when the developers withdrew the concept plan for McKearney Village. Town Planner Vanessa Farr tells me, however, that in all likelihood the subdivision plan will eventually be resubmitted, albeit at about half the size and without the through street.

Am I anti-development? I’m a Maine native; you bet I am. I have woods beside and behind my house. I’d rather not see a McKearney Village or an Apple-wood constructed there. But they are not my woods, so assuming a subdivision is a permitted use, I’d have to think long and hard about objecting to one.

After all, I live in a 1950s subdivision of quarter-acre lots that was once pasture and woods. I’m sure someone at the time thought it was too bad to develop Newell Road, but back then people tended to keep their opinions to themselves.

Freelance journalist Edgar Allen Beem lives in Yarmouth. The Universal Notebook is his personal, weekly look at the world around him.

NIMBY, the way life should be

Beem misplaces the blameEdgar Allen Beem’s column, or should I say, “tirade”

(“Mainers immune to tea party hysteria”), showcases his own, as-well-as the rest of the extreme left’s, hysteria over the results of both the national mid-term elections, as well as Maine’s gubernatorial and legislative elections – results that were historically bad for his lefties.

He blamed the previous administration, corporate Amer-ica, the Supreme Court, the tea party movement – in fact everyone but where the blame belongs: President Obama and his cronies, Pelosi and Reid. The well-known reasons for the election results were directly related to Obama’s two years in office: ever-soaring and scary deficits, 15 percent combined unemployment and under-employment despite a $1 billion “stimulus,” and a health-care bill that most Americans just don’t want.

Jerry GordonPortland

Economic development officials, chamber-of-com-merce types and conservative politicians are forever complaining about Maine’s anti-business climate.

Does it ever occur to them that Maine makes development difficult through land use regulations, zoning ordinances and environmental impact laws because that’s the way we want it? When you come right down to it, most Mainers are pretty much anti-development.

In the best of all pos-sible worlds, no undevel-oped land should ever be developed. That’s why Maine residents sup-port Lands for Maine’s Future bonds. The best way to keep land undeveloped is to buy it. But even when the land doesn’t belong to them, most Mainers feel they should have a say in what happens on it.

We don’t want the massive Plum Creek development around Moosehead Lake. We don’t want wind turbines erected atop every mountain. We don’t want our rivers and streams dammed up. We don’t want big-box retail stores malling our towns. And we sure as hell don’t want anyone building a house next to ours. That’s the very definition of NIMBYism – not in my backyard.

Here in fair Yarmouth, neighbors not long ago suc-cessfully fought off a proposed Walgreen’s pharmacy on Route 1. Now a group of homeowners seem to have forestalled a major new subdivision on one the few remaining parcels of undeveloped land in town.

This fall, Michael Albert of Albert Realty and Wil-liam T. Conway of Sebago Technics proposed build-ing a 48-house subdivision on 58 acres of woodlands along Hillside Street, land that had been conveyed by Emily Dickinson to Albert and Peter Benard of Ledgewood Construction. Neighbors and abutters in

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Shirley F. Marshall Card, 90: 31-year teaching careerBOWDOIN — Shirley F. Marshall

Card, 90, died Nov. 19 at the Hospice House of Auburn.

A longtime resident of Bowdoin, she was born June 9, 1920, in Gardiner, the daughter of Mason and Carmalene Rog-ers Marshall.

In 1940 she married Robert T. Card.After she graduated from Brunswick

High School in 1937, she earned her bachelor’s degree in elementary education from the University of Maine, Orono, and her master’s degree from Gorham State Teacher’s College.

She taught fifth and sixth grade at Bow-doin Center School before teaching math for 31 years at Mt. Ararat Middle School, from 1957 to 1988.

She was predeceased by her husband Robert in 1986, a sister, Barbara Mar-shall, a brother, Harold Marshall, a son,

Clifford Card, a daughter-in-law, Nancy Pennell Card and a granddaughter, Becky Card Duval.

Survivors are three children: a son, Wendall Card Sr., and his wife Sherry of Bowdoin, Carlene F. Card and her husband Granville of Lisbon, Glenice Pomerleau Nurse and her husband Bob of Bowdoin; 15 grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren; and several great-great-grandchildren.

Memorial services were held earlier this week.

Arrangements are by Brackett Funeral Home, 29 Federal St., Brunswick.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Hospice House, 236 Stetson Road, Auburn, ME 04210.

A tribute of her life may be viewed and condolences may be expressed at brackettfuneralhome.com.

Nancy L. Marquis, 80BRUNSWICK — Nancy L. Marquis,

80, died Nov. 17 at Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick.

Born in Brunswick on Dec. 28, 1929, a daughter of Eddie and Yvonne A. He-lie Paiement, she was educated in local schools, graduating from Brunswick High School in 1947.

On July 4, 1953, she married Joseph F. Marquis at St. John the Baptist Church in Brunswick and they made their home in Grand Island, N.Y.

Following the death of her husband in 1965, she returned to Brunswick and worked at Drapeau’s Pharmacy for 23

years until she retired in the early 1990s.She adored animals of all kinds, knit-

ting, and watching her favorite soap operas.

She was prede-ceased by her hus-band, Joseph, on Nov. 16, 1965, and a broth-er, Philip Paiement.

Surviving are two daughters, Tina Si-mard of Brunswick, and Lisa Grauze and her husband Charles of Maryland, and three sons, Patrick Marquis and his wife Tina of Topsham, Joseph Marquis Jr., of Brunswick, and Alan Marquis of Tennessee; four grand-children, Timothy and Adam Marquis of Bath, and Katrina and Karlis Grauze of Maryland; four great-grandchildren, Anthony, Abigail, Casper, and Sadie; a sister, Lena Gilleland of Pownal; two brothers, George Paiement of New Hampshire and Robert Paiement of New York; and several nieces and nephews.

Memorial services will be private.Memorial contributions may be made

to Coastal Humane Society, 6 Range Road, Brunswick, ME 04011.

Condolences to the family may be expressed and a guestbook signed at desmondfuneralhomes.com.

Timothy A. Henderson, 62BATH — Timothy A. Henderson, 62,

died Nov. 21 at Maine Medical Center in Portland.

On Oct. 2, 1948, he was born in Bath, a son of Ralph F. and Eva M. (Fayle) Henderson and attended local schools.

He served in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Germany.

Later on, he worked at Stinson Can-ning Company in Bath and at Walmart in Brunswick.

His hobbies included painting by num-ber, spending time with his friends and his dog “Gabbie.”

Survivors are his mother, Eva M. Henderson of Woolwich; two brothers, Thomas S. Henderson of Bath and Sid-ney F. Henderson of Norman, Okla., and a sister, Cindy L. Brodeur of Woolwich;

and many nieces and nephews.A memorial service will be held at 12

p.m., Friday, Nov. 26 at Daigle Funeral Home, 819 High St., Bath.

Condolences may be expressed online at Daiglefuneralhome.com.

Jerome B. Creeden, 83TOPSHAM — Jerome B. Creeden, 83,

died Nov. 19.Born in Lewiston on April 9, 1927,

he was a son of Jeremiah and Margaret Murphy Creeden.

In 1952 he graduated from the Univer-sity of Maine, Orono, and began working in the field of computer science for gov-ernment and defense contractors.

On Nov. 16, 1957, he married Mary Petersen in Arlington, Va.

He was a lifetime member of the Knights of Columbus.

In 1991 he retired to Maine to be near his extended family.

He was predeceased by his wife Mary and a brother, James Creeden.

Survivors include a brother, John Creeden and his wife Miriam of Mt. Prospect, Ill.; a son, Dennis Creeden of Freeport, and two daughters, Ann Creeden of Topsham, and Patricia Bryant and her husband Darin of Topsham; five grandchildren, Megan Creeden, Molly Creeden, Joshua Bryant, Nathan Bryant and Seth Bryant; and a brother-in-law, Neil Hintze of Oshkosh, Wis.

A private funeral and interment was held Wednesday, Nov. 24.

Memorial contributions may be made to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, Church Street Station, P.O. Box 780, New York, N.Y. 10008-0780.

Arrangements are by Stetson’s Funeral Home, 12 Federal St., Brunswick.

Memorial condolences may be ex-pressed at stetsonsfuneralhome.com.

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Batharrests

11/18 at 3:43 p.m. Charles Gates, 29, listed as homeless, was arrested on a warrant by Officer Keith Jensen and issued a summons on charges of possession of a usable amount of marijuana and sale or use of drug paraphernalia.11/19 at 7:15 a.m. Anthony McCandless, 19, of Huse Street, was arrested on two warrants by Officer Keith Jensen.

Summonses11/16 David Mork, 52, of Main Street, Rich-mond, was issued a summons on a charge of terrorizing.

Fire calls11/15 at 9:40 a.m. Extreme carbon monoxide levels on Mill Pond Drive.11/15 at 2:03 p.m. Electrical fire on Wash-ington Street.11/16 at 12:35 p.m. Motor vehicle accident on Route 1.11/17 at 8:05 a.m. Wire down at Washington and Bowery streets.11/17 at 9:50 p.m. Public service call on Edwards Street Court.11/20 at 9:09 a.m. Motor vehicle accident at Centre and Middle streets.11/21 at 8:12 a.m. False alarm on Congress Avenue.11/21 at 11:01 p.m. Odor investigation at Winship Green.

EMSBath emergency medical services responded to 36 calls from Nov. 15-21.

BrunSwickarrests

11/18 at 9:06 a.m. Steve Andrew Miller, 49, of Union Street, was arrested on Union Street on a warrant.11/19 at 11:55 p.m. Scott Leighton, 18, of Goldenrod Place, was arrested on Harpswell Road on a warrant.11/22 at 12:09 a.m. Paul Driscoll, 30, of Bath, was arrested on Maquoit Road on a charge of operating under the influence.

Summonses11/18 at 3:22 p.m. Alicia Marie Aube, 26, of Greenwood Road, was issued a summons at Cumberland Farms on Pleasant Street on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer.11/20 at 10:20 a.m. Alicia Marie Aube, 26, of Greenwood Road, was issued a summons at Cumberland Farms on Pleasant Street on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer.

Fire callsThere were no fire calls reported from Nov. 16-22.

EMSBrunswick emergency medical services re-sponded to 21 calls from Nov. 16-22.

harpSwEllarrests

11/21 at 8:09 p.m. Gregory Goodenow, 26, of Woolwich, was arrested in Harpswell on charges of harvesting shellfish in a closed area and violating conditions of release.11/21 at 8:30 p.m. Benjamin Jeffrey Travers, 34, of Brunswick, was arrested in Harpswell on charges of harvesting shellfish in a closed area and violating conditions of release.

SummonsesThere were no summonses reported between Nov. 19-23.

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11/15 at 7:02 p.m. Christopher Poore, 30, of West Merrill Road, was arrested on a warrant by Sgt. Frederick Dunn and on charges of operating after habitual offender revocation, violation of conditional release and failure to give correct name and date of birth.11/20 at 12:46 a.m. Jonathan Coffin, 32, of Brunswick, was arrested on a warrant by Officer Peter Kaminski.11/20 at 2:21 p.m. Terry Elwell, Jr., 34, of Maquoit Road, Brunswick, was arrested by Officer William Collins on charges of domes-tic violence assault and obstructing the report of a crime or injury.11/22 at 12:50 a.m. Kevin Pham, 31, of Pine Street, Lisbon Falls, was arrested by Sgt. Frederick Dunn on a charge of operating under the influence.

Summonses11/15 at 9:30 a.m. Lisa Green, 44, of Bruns-wick, was issued a summons by Officer Peter Kamisnki on a charge of operating after suspension.11/21 at 11:11 a.m. Tyler Cyr, 18, of Bow-doin, was issued a summons by Officer Peter Kaminski on a charge of possession of a usable amount of marijuana.

Fire calls11/16 at 7:35 a.m. Smoke alarm on Curtis Lane.11/17 at 12:12 p.m. Utility problem on Lover's Lane.11/18 at 8:46 a.m. Fire alarm on Republic Avenue.11/19 at 8:07 a.m. Utility problem on Middlesex Road.11/19 at 8:18 a.m. Motor vehicle accident on Route 201.

EMSTopsham emergency medical services re-sponded to nine calls from Nov. 15-22.

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Zach Danssaert, center, drove this shot over the goal early in the game.

In the closing seconds of the first overtime, with the

score tied 1-1, his shot from the same location found the net and sent

Bowdoin to the Division III Final Four.

Casco Bay Sports offering December leagues

Casco Bay Sports is offer-ing several December sports leagues. Wednesday night in-door softball begins Dec. 1 at YourSpace in Gorham. Sunday co-ed floor hockey at Riverton

Fall sports season was simply awesomeFall 2010 Regional Champions

Mt. Ararat Eagles boys’ cross country, Eastern Class AMt. Ararat Eagles girls’ cross country, Eastern Class A

Fall 2010 Conference ChampionBrunswick Dragons golf, KVAC

FIle photoKeith Kitchens and the Brunswick football team made the playoffs and pulled

off a stunning quarterfinal round upset over top-ranked Lawrence.

FIle photoKate Spies and the Mt. Ararat girls’ cross country team won a regional title

and came in second at states.

FIle photoMax Rawson and the Morse boys’ soccer team had their best season in years,

reaching the Eastern A semifinals.

Bowdoin field hockey national champs!Men’s soccer off to Final Four

The Bowdoin field hockey team won its third Division III national championship in four years last weekend. The Polar Bears downed Skidmore, 5-0, in the semifinals (behind two goals and three assists from Cathleen Smith), then edged Messiah College, 2-1, on penalty strokes,

to win it all.

Bowdoin got a regulation goal from Ella Curren, then, after Messiah drew even, won the shootout, 3-1. Emily French, Kassey Matoian and McKenna Teague converted to give the Polar Bears the championship.

Men’s soccer is making his-tory as well. The Polar Bears got an overtime goal from Zach Danssaert Sunday to edge

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Middlebury, 2-1, and advance to the Final Four Friday, Dec. 3 in San Antonio where they will face Lynchburg, Va. Messiah and Wisconsin-Oshkosh are the other semifinalists. The winners meet in the national champion-ship contest Saturday, Dec. 4.

Bowdoin hosted the sectional finals last weekend and prior to downing Middlebury, beat Am-herst, on penalty kicks.

Community Center in Portland starts Dec. 5. Sunday women’s basketball starts Dec. 12 at Portland’s East End Community Center. Tuesday co-ed basket-ball starts Dec. 7. Thursday co-ed basketball begins Dec. 23. Wednesday co-ed bowling starts Dec. 22. There will also be co-ed dodgeball leagues Mon-

Roundup

The fall 2010 sports season was so good, we didn’t want it to end.

For the most part, the weather was good and the action on the field, pitch, trails and courses was nothing short of superlative.

Football produced a playoff team in Brunswick, which sprung the biggest upset in the playoffs in the quarterfinals be-fore being eliminated.

On the pitch, excellence was once again the theme even though the postseason provided a few doses of disappointment.

Mt. Ararat’s field hockey team made it to the postseason.

Cross country produced sev-eral great performances and a pair of runner-up team showings from Mt. Ararat at the Class A state meet.

Golf saw Brunswick return to the state match.

Before we bundle up for the long, cold winter ahead, here’s a one last appreciation for the autumn that was.

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Exploring Ridgewell Preserve in PhippsburgWould you believe my wife and I were

on our way to Popham Beach for a walk, but were captured by dinosaurs in route? There is a very plausible explanation.

We stopped by the Ridgewell Preserve in Phippsburg a few miles north of Popham Beach just to scope it out for a future hike. Our quick look-see turned into a three-hour exploration of the preserve, cul-minating in a wonder-ful walk through the aptly named “Dinosaur Rocks” maze. Here in the Town Forest, just south of the Ridgewell Preserve boundary, three parallel humped ridges sit amidst a vast pitch pine forest.

The easterly ledge offers a glimpse five miles south to the fortress-like island of Seguin. At 180 feet above the ocean, the flashing beacon of Seguin Lighthouse is the highest light above water in Maine. The view is a bit restricted through the tops of the trees, but with binoculars is nonetheless impressive.

The preserve is at Pride Rock Way on the left side of Route 209, approximately 2.5 miles beyond the Phippsburg Town Hall. It is easy to drive right by the road, so slow down at mile two from the Town Hall and be on the lookout for a small green street sign at the north end of the circular gravel entrance. You will see a green preserve sign at the edge of the woods, and a kiosk with informa-tion on all the trails (30 miles worth!) in Phippsburg.

There are two loop trails within the 50-acre preserve, the northerly one marked with red blazes and the adjacent loop marked with orange blazes. The red blazes are a bit hard to see at times, and with the leaves down it is easy to walk off the trail, so pay attention to the blazes. Detailed maps of the preserve are posted at most trail junctions, letting you know exactly where you are, and the choices before you. If you explore the two loops, then follow the white-blazed trail south into the Town Forest to the dinosaurs, you will hike a total of 4.5 miles.

As you start out you will skirt around North Creek marsh on a series of board-walks. Note on the right a huge red pine. At eight feet in circumference this is one of the larger red pines we have seen in the Mid-Coast region. This is but a sign of things to come. Throughout the preserve there are many pockets of red pine, their reddish, scaly bark glowing in the soft afternoon light. Like their more famous white pine brethren, the red pine were also used for ship masts. The British were still buying these tall, straight trees from us as late as 1875.

A blue-blazed side trail leads out to the marsh. Then the trail climbs 100 feet in elevation up a series of switchbacks onto a vast ledge-pocked plateau. There are a host of vernal pools on the plateau, critical habitat in the spring for wood frogs and spotted salamanders. Greenery abounds everywhere, from treetops to ground level. Shiny green wintergreen

leaves and their tasty red berries were everywhere. Oval laurel leaves held fast on their branches. Crunchy patches of reindeer moss dotted the forest floor.

Many species of mush-rooms had still avoided a killing frost.

Outcroppings of ledg-es were dotted with nub-bins of white quartz and sparkling flecks of mica. Some of the trail-side ledges were ergonomi-cally designed and in-vited us to sit and listen to the birds. Moss and pine needles provided the perfect cushion. (We were not going to make

it to Popham Beach on this perfect Indian Summer day!) A downy woodpecker landed above us on a slender branch, its red head patch clearly visible. Later

we would see two hairy woodpeckers chasing each other from tree to tree and calling back and forth.

The red-blazed northerly loop starts out by going through a narrow defile between two 20-feet tall vertical ledges covered with rock tripe. If you changed the rock color to red you might think you were in Utah canyon country. As the trail circled back around to the south we entered a dense grove of pitch pine. The gnarled and twisted trunks were spooky, and we laughed about not wanting to be in this forest on a full-moon Halloween night.

Eventually we made it down to the Dinosaur Rocks and enjoyed the trail maze created both between and up onto the humps. We felt like the Flintstones walking beside huge dinosaurs and then venturing right up their broad, curved

backs and back down again. Hidden deep within the vast pine wilderness between Route 209 and the Parker Head Road we were amazed that someone had found these unique formations and blazed a path to them.

The Ridgewell Preserve is one of many beautiful properties managed by the Phippsburg Land Trust. Check out their website (www.phippsburglandtrust.org) for further information about the preserve and other trust projects. With holiday feasting soon upon us, a good walk in a wild place can help counterbalance those extra wedges of pie.

Michael Perry is the former director of the L.L. Bean Outdoor Discovery Schools and founder of Dreams Unlimited, spe-cializing in inspiring outdoor slide pro-grams for civic groups, businesses and schools. Contact him at [email protected].

Meet Meg Wolff Meg Wolff’s earlier books are

“Becoming Whole: The Story of My Complete Recovery from Breast Cancer” and “Breast Cancer Exposed: The Con-nection Between Food and Survival.” She lectures fre-quently and blogs about healthful eating at becomingwhole2.com and huffing-tonpost.com.

You can meet her at these upcoming events:

• Saturday, Dec. 4, at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.: book signings at Whole Foods Market, 2 Somerset St., Portland.

• Sunday, Dec. 5, at 1–3 p.m.: book signing at Christmas Prelude at Ken-nebooks, 149 Port Road, Kennebunk (Lower Village).

• Tuesday, Dec. 7, at 6:30–9:30 p.m.: Five Seasons Cooking School, 78 St. Lawrence St., Portland, where she and school owner Lisa Silverman will teach a desserts class. A $40 fee includes samples. Call Silverman for information at 233-6846.

• Saturday, Dec. 11, at 10:30 and 1:30: book signings at Whole Foods Market, 2 Somerset St., Portland.


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studied with Lisa Silverman of Portland, who often teaches cooking classes in Portland and at the Cancer Community Center in South Portland, and with Aisha

Memon at the Kushi Institute in Becket, Mass.

She followed a healing macrobi-otic diet (based on grains, beans and vegetables) for nine years, and a macro-biotic-vegan way of eating for the past three years.

Wolff won the fight against cancer and remains in vibrant good health. “What I ate saved my life,” she told me, “and scientific evidence supports that belief.”

In 2009, she was certified by the Cancer Project to teach healthy vegan cooking classes. (The Cancer Project is a branch of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which was started by Dr. Neal Barnard.)

“A Life in Balance: Delicious Plant-Based Recipes for Optimal Health,” published this month by Down East Books of Camden ($19.95), is a 160-page collection of macrobiotic and vegan recipes Wolff used in her fight to regain her health. It can be used by everyone.

“If you eat meat,” Wolff says, “use these dishes as sides.” She eats brown rice and kale nearly every day and loves sea vegetables because they taste like the ocean. (Wolff grew up in Westbrook in the 1960s and ’70s, a member of the De-Coste family there.) Her favorite things to cook are roasted vegetables and hot and spicy soup.

Here are two intriguing and distinctive dishes from “A Life in Balance”:


Fighting cancer through cooking“Bout” and “struggle” are words we

use to describe what cancer patients go through when they are fighting for their lives against this deadly enemy. To an outsider, they are just words. To Meg Wolff, a Cape Elizabeth 52-year-old who has now written three books about cancer and c o o k i n g , t h e s e words are reality.

Cancer stole one of Wolff ’s legs when she was 33 and took a breast when she was 41. After she went through the mastectomy, chemotherapy and radia-tion to kill the invasive cells, her doctors told her it was not likely that she would live much longer.

But Wolff considered her options: giving up her life or starting a new fight for life. Wolff chose to fight by fol-lowing a healing macrobiotic diet. She

Hot & Spicy SoupWolff serves this soup with a side dish

of brown rice and steamed broccoli. Try this soup, she says, if you’re looking for something healthful that both adults and kids will really like.

1 teaspoon hot pepper sesame oil2 teaspoons sesame oil1 large yellow onion, cut in half and thinly sliced into half-moon pieces4 or 5 dried shiitake mushrooms, soaked to reconstitute, thinly sliced1 (8-ounce) package button or baby portabella mushrooms, thinly sliced8 ounces seitan (wheat gluten), sliced thinly, then sliced into matchstick pieces6 to 8 cups water2 to 3 broccoli stalks, peeled, sliced into thin coins, then sliced into matchstick pieces8 ounces tofu, cut into small cubes1 teaspoon soy sauce2 tablespoons mirin1/8 cup kuzu or arrowroot powder, dissolved in 1 cup cold water1-to-2-inch piece of fresh ginger, finely

grated (make into a ball in your palm, and squeeze a small amount of juice into each bowl of soup, stir, and serve)

2 to 3 scallions, thinly sliced on a diagonal, for garnishOptional: crushed black pepperWarm the sesame and hot sesame oil in

a soup pot over medium-high heat. Add the onion and saute for 2 to 3 minutes. Add the mushrooms and saute for another 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in seitan and add water. Cover, increase heat to high, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer. Stir in the broccoli and tofu, then cover and simmer for 25 to 30 minutes.

Season with soy sauce and mirin and simmer for 10 minutes. Add dissolved kuzu or arrowroot and stir until the soup thickens slightly, about 5 more minutes.

Ladle soup into bowls, squeeze ginger juice into each bowl, and stir. Serve pip-ing hot garnished with scallions. Add

a sprinkle of crushed black pepper if desired.

Serves 6 to 8.

Arla’s TrufflesWolff describes these truffles as “an

almost-sinfully delicious raw-foods des-sert.” The recipe is from Arla Casselman, a healthy vegan friend of Wolff’s daugh-ter Cammie.

Truffle coating (make first):1/2 cup Brazil nuts1/2 cup shredded coconutChop the Brazil nuts and coconut in a

food processor. Pour in a bowl and set aside for coating.

Then:1 cup Brazil nuts3/4 cup walnuts1/8 cup dates (about 3)1/2 cup dried apricots1 or 2 tablespoons brown rice syrup1/4 teaspoon vanilla1/2 cup shredded coconut2 tablespoons organic raw cocoa powder (omit if you’d prefer plain)Run the Brazil nuts, walnuts, dates,

and apricots through the food processor until evenly chopped. Add remaining ingredients and process until combined. Roll into balls, then roll each ball in the coating mixture to finish. Enjoy!

Serves 12 to 18.Note: These keep best if stored in the

refrigerator.Susan Lovell and her husband John, a

great cook, live near Pat’s Meat Market & Cafe in Portland, with a hungry Maine coon cat and a poodle who eats cat food. An eighth-generation Mainer, she likes shell-fish, steak, baked beans, cole slaw, corn bread, blueberry pie and Moxie. Her great great-grandfather, from Wellfleet, Mass., and his cousin founded Boston’s Union Oyster House and she really likes oysters and Guinness. And Boston cream pie.

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Thursday 12/2Annual Silent Auction Fund-raiser, Brunswick Downtown Association, auction of local goods and services, with refreshments, holiday music, 5-7 p.m., free admis-

sion, Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick, 729-4439, brunswickdowntown.org.

Friday 12/3Bowdoinham Guild of Artisans 7th Annual Show and Sale, 6-8 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Bowdoinham Town Hall.

Holiday Bazaar at Mid Coast Hospital, with 100+ evergreen arrangements $12-$40, baked goods, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Mid Coast Hospital, 123 Medical Center Dr., Brunswick, 373-6015 [email protected].

Saturday 12/436th Annual Christmas Craft

Show, 50+ juried craftsmen and artists, with Christmas Cafe, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., St John’s Parish Hall, 37 Pleas-ant St., Brunswick, 725-5507.

All Harpswell Holiday Event, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 4-5, Dec. 11-12, 18+ studios, shops, galleries open to celebrate Cribstone Bridge re-opening, maps available, Georgeann Kuhl, Gallery at Widgeon Cove, 833-6081.

Christmas Fair, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., with silent auction, luncheon, Bath Unit-ed Church of Christ Congregational, 150 Congress Ave., Bath, Priscilla, 371-2727

Bowdoinham Guild of Artisans 7th Annual Show and Sale, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Bowdoinham Town Hall.

Christmas Fair, handmade gifts, food, gently used items, to benefit the 2011 Walk to End Alzheimer’s, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Winship Green Nurs-ing Center, Bath, Julie, 443-9772, for more information.

Christmas Fair, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., crafts, jewelry, food, Woollawn Towers, 30 Water St., Brunswick.

Santa Claus at Skolfield-Whittier House, 10 a.m.- 12 p.m., free and open to public, bring own camera, 161 Park Row, Brunswick, 729-6606.

Sunday 12/5 All Harpswell Holiday Event, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 4-5, Dec. 11-12, 18+ studios, shops, galleries open to celebrate Cribstone Bridge re-opening, maps available, Georgeann Kuhl, Gallery at Widgeon Cove, 833-6081.

Tuesday 12/7 16th Annual Festival of Trees, hosted by the Bath Area Family YMCA, 9:30-11:30 a.m. “Tots & Trees,” children’s event, with Santa; 4-5:30 p.m. public viewing, all ages wel-come, with seasonal refreshments, 963 Washington St., Bath, 443-4112, bathymca.org.

Wednesday 12/816th Annual Festival of Trees Holi-day Gala, 5:30-8 p.m., silent auction, Oratorio Chorale performance, appetizers, drinks, $25, 963 Wash-ington St., Bath, tickets at Springer’s Jewelers, Now You’re Cooking, and YMCA, 443-4112, bathymca.org.

Saturday 12/11 All Harpswell Holiday Event, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 11-12, 18+ studios, shops, gal-leries open to celebrate Cribstone Bridge re-opening, maps available, Georgeann Kuhl, Gallery at Wid-geon Cove, 833-6081.

Sunday 12/12 All Harpswell Holiday Event, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 11-12, 18+ studios, shops, gal-leries open to celebrate Cribstone Bridge re-opening, maps available, Georgeann Kuhl, Gallery at Wid-geon Cove, 833-6081.

Good Deeds Ornament’s “Bags with Benefits” community partnership to benefit Sagadahoc Preservation Inc. for November and December, local businesses will donate 50% of tote bag sales, Ornament, 11 Center St., Bath, 442-6636.

Saturday 12/4Annual Tree and Wreath Sale, to benefit the Brunswick Junior High School Music Program, 8 a.m.-noon, Brunswick Junior High, 65 Colum-bia Ave., Lisa, 725-9436.

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Saturday 12/4“December Lights,” holiday read-ings presented by Center Stage Readers Theater, 2 p.m. Friday and Saturday, $5 donation, The Theater Project, 14 School St., Brunswick, Joanna Patterson, 729-8584.

Sunday 12/5Yuletide Celtic Harp Concert, with Julia Lane and Kristin Tescher, 3 p.m., $5 child / $10 adult, Winter Street Church, Washington St., Bath, 542-8564 [email protected].

Thursday 12/9 ”It’s A Wonderful Life,” presented by Studio Theatre of Bath, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday; 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Dec. 9-12, $15, Chocolate Church Arts Center, Washington St., Bath, tickets at box office, 442-8455.

Friday 12/10“It’s A Wonderful Life,” presented by Studio Theatre of Bath, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday; 2 p.m. Satur-day-Sunday, $15, Chocolate Church Arts Center, Washington St., Bath, tickets at box office, 442-8455.

Saturday 12/11“It’s A Wonderful Life,” presented by Studio Theatre of Bath, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday; 2 p.m. Satur-day-Sunday, $15, Chocolate Church Arts Center, Washington St., Bath, tickets at box office, 442-8455.

Sunday 12/12“It’s A Wonderful Life,” presented by Studio Theatre of Bath, 2 p.m., $15, Chocolate Church Arts Center, Washington St., Bath, tickets at box office, 442-8455.

Friday 12/17“Ms. Scrooge,” The Theater Project’s Young Peoples Theater production, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 17-19,

Holiday Gift Guide and Seasonal Events$6 suggested donation, 14 School St., Brunswick, 729-8584, theater-project.com.

Saturday 12/18“Ms. Scrooge,” The Theater Project’s Young Peoples Theater production, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 17-19, $6 suggested donation, 14 School St., Brunswick, 729-8584, theater-project.com.

Sunday 12/19 ”Ms. Scrooge,” The Theater Project’s Young Peoples Theater production, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 17-19, $6 suggested donation, 14 School St., Brunswick, 729-8584, theater-project.com.

PortlandFairs, Food, FunSaturday 11/27Len Libby Candies Annual Candy Cane Event, make your own candy canes, horse-drawn wagon rides and caroling and more, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., free, Len Libby Candies, 419 U.S. Route 1, Scarborough, 883-4897, lenlibby.com.

“Music in the House:” Holiday Tours of Longfellow House with sea-sonal music on chickering piano, 1-3 p.m. Saturdays, Nov. 27; Dec. 4, Dec. 11, Dec. 18, Wadsworth-Longfellow House, 489 Congress St., Portland, 774-1822 or maine-history.org.

Sunday 11/28“Tiny Timber” Tree Lighting, 4:30 p.m., with musical program, New Gloucester Public Library and His-tory Barn Open Houses, Town Hall, U.S. Route 231, New Gloucester, Leonard L. Brooks, 926-3188.

Thursday 12/2Victoria Mansion Holiday Gala, with mansion tour, festive food and drink, 6-8 p.m., $50, must register, Victoria Mansion, 109 Danforth St., victoriamansion.org, 772-4841.

Friday 12/3Exhibit Opening: ”The Art of De-cember: Original Holiday Cards by Maine Artists from the Mildred Bur-rage Collection” 5-8 p.m. reception, Maine Historical Society Museum, 489 Congress St., Portland, 774-1822 or mainehistory.org.

Holly Jolly Fair, “Cake Party” 6-8 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday fair, with silent auction, crafts, First Parish Church UCC, 40 Main St., Freeport, Andrea Conner, 865-3573.

Society for East End Arts Holiday Art Sale, 80+ artists, 6-9 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Saturday; 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Sunday, East End Community School Center, 195 North St., Port-land, SEAportland.org, Solange Kellermann, 577-0648.

Saturday 12/4Annual Christmas Fair, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., silent auction, handmade items, Sacred Heart Church, 326 Main St., Yarmouth, Cathy 846-1039.

Christmas Fair, 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m., crafts, wreaths, children’s room, silent auction, Foreside Commu-nity Church, 340 Foreside Road, Falmouth.

Coastal Christmas Fair, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Maine-made items, jewelry, luncheon, more, Peoples United Methodist Church, 310 Broadway, South Portland.

Christmas Fair, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., First Parish Congregational Church, Main St., Yarmouth.

First Universalist Church Holiday Fair, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., baked goods, evergreens, handmade items and more, First Universalist Church, 97 Main St., Yarmouth, 846-4148.

Holiday Fair: ”A Winter Won-derland,” 9 a.m.-2 p.m., crafts, eco-friendly gifts, children’s ac-tivities, Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church, 524 Allen Ave., Portland, Ann Hitzrot, 272-4939.

Holiday Fair and Poinsettia/Wreath Sale, sponsored by the Morrison Center, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. crafts, plant sale, kids activities; 10 a.m-

noon Santa; Morrison Center, 60 Chamberlain Road, Scarborough, 883-6680.

Holly Jolly Fair, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., with silent auction, crafts, First Parish Church UCC, 40 Main St., Freeport, Andrea Conner, 865-3573.

“Music in the House:” Holiday Tours of Longfellow House with seasonal music on chickering pia-no, 1-3 p.m. Saturdays, Dec. 4, Dec. 11, Dec. 18, Wadsworth-Longfellow House, 489 Congress St., Portland, 774-1822 or mainehistory.org.

2010 Shaker Christmas Fair, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, U.S. Route 26, New Gloucester.

Society for East End Arts Holiday Art Sale, 80+ artists, 6-9 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Saturday; 11 a.m.–4

p.m. Sunday, East End Community School Center, 195 North St., Port-land, SEAportland.org, Solange Kellermann, 577-0648.

“Sparkles Fair,” with antiques, household treasures, jewelry, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., St. Mary’s Church, 43 Foreside Road, Falmouth.

St. Bart’s Christmas Fair, wreaths, resale shop, crafts, 9 a.m-2 p.m., 396 Gilman Road, Yarmouth, stbartsyar-mouth.org.

”A Walnut Hill Christmas,” Hol-iday Gift Show, 9 a.m – 4 p.m., Wescustogo Hall, U.S. Route 115, North Yarmouth, food served by the Cumberland/North Yarmouth Lions’ Club.

Sunday 12/5Levey Day School Hanukkah Par-

ty, 2-4 p.m., $3 suggested donation, open to public, with food, games, entertainment, Levey Day School, 400 Deering Ave., Portland, 774-7676 or [email protected].

North Yarmouth Holiday Events: No. Yarmouth Historical Society An-nual Holiday Party, 1-3 p.m., NYHS’s Old Town House, U.S. Route 9, North Yarmouth; North Yarmouth Com-munity Potluck, 5 p.m., bring dish to share; Christmas Tree Lighting 6:15 p.m., Wescustogo Hall, U.S. Route 115, North Yarmouth, 846-4379, [email protected].

Holiday Art Sale, Society for East End Arts, 80+ artists, 6-9 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Saturday; 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Sunday, East End Community School Center, 195 North St., Port-land, SEAportland.org, Solange Kellermann, 577-0648.

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PORTLAND — The Downtown Portland Corporation presented its 15th annual business awards on Thursday, Nov. 18, to three local businesses that

have played a major role in developing Portland’s economic vitality.

Maine Red Claws was presented with the 2010 Economic Development Achievement Award in recognition of its successful first season last year. The professional basketball team led the NBA D-League in season ticket sales and over-all revenue.

B&M, a Division of B&G Foods, received the 2010 Business of the Year Award for its more than 140 years of success in the city. The company employs approximately 150 people.

The 2010 Small Business of the Year Award was presented to Allagash Brew-ing. Growing from a one-man brewing company in 1995 to a company that em-ploys 25, Allagash Brewing has received national awards for its premiere beers. Additionally, the company gives back to the community through its Allagash Trib-ute Series. For every bottle sold, a dollar has been donated to local nonprofits, with recent donations of $10,000 given to the St. Lawrence Arts Center, Victoria Mansion and Maine Pediatric Nurses Association.

Planting seeds of awarenessVolunteers from Town & Country

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Whitten, John Spritz, Dave Libby, and Robin Whitten, founder of the Pink Tulip Project.

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Kevin Mackell has recently opened a sports massage therapy center, Athlete’s Touch, at 23 Ocean Ave., Portland. Ath-lete’s Touch specializes in two distinct massage therapy services, PRO Therapy and Relax and Recover Massage. PRO Therapy is a combination of sport-specific massage techniques tailored to the indi-vidual’s needs; its goal is to promote opti-

mum performance, injury-free training and to minimize post-event injuries. For more information about Athlete’s Touch, includ-ing self-scheduling of appointments online, please visit athletestouch.org.

The new Marvin Design Gallery by El-dredge has recently opened its showroom at 317 Marginal Way in Portland. The 4,500 square foot window and door showroom

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Cynthia Talbot of Falmouth has opened CJTalbot Services, providing project support to environmental and energy con-sulting firms and governmental entities. CJTalbot Services specializes in techni-cal writing and editing, management, data analysis and presentation, and other administrative services. Visit the firm’s website at cjtalbotservices.com.

Independence BioFuel, ReVision En-ergy and ReVision Heat have recently established a strategic partnership based on the companies’ shared mission to help Maine homes and businesses transition to clean, renewable energy. Independence BioFuel is a southern Maine provider of BioHeat fuel and markets compressed wood bricks and pellet fuel. ReVision Heat, now Independence BioFuel’s recom-mended service provider, performs heating system maintenance, efficiency upgrades, including designing and installing bio-mass-fueled heating equipment. ReVision Energy offers professional design, installa-tion and service of solar energy solutions, including solar photovoltaic electric, and solar-thermal hot water systems. For more information contact: Independence Bio-Fuel at 1-800-228-1883, ReVisionHeat at 989-8500, or ReVisionEnergy at 221-6342.

Hope Hoffman is now offering violin/fiddle lessons at a new studio in Portland, in addition to her Bowdoinham studio. Hoffman’s Portland studio is part of the new Lucid Stage arts center, located at 29 Baxter Blvd. Students of all abilities and ages are welcome. To register, call 332-3459, or visit hopehoffman.org.

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cacy for Maine has recently launched its new program that will offer free or greatly reduced PR services for area businesses demonstrating need. Services available in-clude media relations, political campaigns, special projects, program design, grant-writing, event planning, conflict mediation and employee or investor relations, PAM will offer these contracted services, among others, at reasonable rates to groups that are making a positive community impact and are dedicated to embracing compas-sion and diversity. Interested organizations can contact Melissa Gates at [email protected]. for more information.

Thrifty Kitty Thrift Store is now open for business at 651 Forest Ave., second floor, in Woodfords Corner, Portland. The store sells books, videos, housewares, glassware, seasonal items and more. All proceeds benefit nonprofit Friends of Feral Felines. For more information, call 797-3014 or visit feralfelines.net.

Passionflower Farm of West Bath now

has year-round retail space at Ornament, a home and garden boutique located at 11 Centre St. in Bath. Kathe Mickunas, proprietor of Passionflower Farm, will of-fer a selection of pre-arranged take-away bouquets. As a full-service florist, the store will also sell fresh arrangements, indi-vidual stems, gardening supplies, artisan gift cards, vases and pots. Passionflower Farm also offers garden design, seasonal decorations, floral services for area busi-nesses and local delivery. Learn more at passionflower.com.

Happy Teriyaki, at 630 Congress St., Portland, has renovated the exterior fa-cade and has reopened as Korea House, an all-Korean cuisine restaurant. Myung and Kum You, husband and wife owners, have revamped the menu to include a wide range of authentic Korean dishes.

Brenda Bechtel of Cape Elizabeth re-cently published a 120-page cookbook, “Old World Organics: From the old to the new…healthy and sustainable living through traditional Sicilian cooking.”

The cookbook features recipes from her mother’s Sicilian and American heritage based on using simple, pure and organic ingredients.

Summit Adventure Systems of Maine has opened an Extreme Family Entertain-ment Center in the old Linens ‘n Things space at the Maine Mall in South Portland. The center, owned by Jeff Hunnewell, features a rock climbing wall, laser tag, bungee trampolines, human hamster balls and other extreme sports simulators and attractions. Summit Adventures is open seven days a week.

Winters Gone Farm & Alpaca Store has expanded its operations with the opening of Winters Gone Alpaca Fashions retail store in Bath’s historic district at 104 Front St. Owners Skip and Judi Taylor established Winters Gone Farm & Alpaca Store eight years ago in Wiscasset and will continue to operate the farm and its store. The new retail location in Bath celebrated its grand opening Monday, Nov. 22.

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Community CalendarAll ongoing calendar listings can now be found online at theforecaster.net.Send your calendar listing by e-mail to [email protected], by fax to 781-2060 or by mail to 5 Fundy Road, Falmouth, ME 04105.

Arts CalendarAll ongoing calendar listings can now be found online at theforecaster.net.Send your calendar listing by e-mail to [email protected], by fax to 781-2060 or by mail to 5 Fundy Road, Falmouth, ME 04105.


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See our Holiday Gift Guide for listings of seasonal activities and fundraisers

Mid CoastBenefitsThursday 12/2Silent Auction Fundraiser, Bruns-wick Downtown Association, auction of local goods and services, with refreshments, 5-7 p.m., free ad-mission, Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick, 729-4439, brunswickdowntown.org.

Bulletin BoardFriday 12/3Bowdoinham Guild of Artisans 7th Annual Show and Sale, 6-8 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Bowdoinham Town Hall.

Saturday 12/4Bowdoinham Guild of Artisans 7th Annual Show and Sale, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Bowdoinham Town Hall.

Health & SupportSupport Through The Holidays, sexual assault support group for women, begins mid November, to schedule pre-group appoint-ment or additional services, call 725-2181 or e-mail [email protected]; 24-hour support line, 1-800-822-5999, sassmm.org.

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ContributedL.L.Bean’s Thanksgiving Weekend Holiday Celebration will feature three performances by Canadian Brass, a popular brass ensemble.

The concerts, which are free and open to the public, will be held at 5 p.m., 6 p.m., and 7 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 27, at L.L. Bean’s

Discovery Park, next to the flagship store on Main Street in Freeport. Other activities include a performance by the Don Campbell Trio on Friday, Nov. 26, at 5 p.m., as well as old-fashioned horse and carriage rides, light sculptures, holiday decorations and more.

Mid CoastBooks, AuthorsSaturday 11/27Roland Wallace, author of chil-dren’s book “Maney the Sneezing Moose,” Borders Books, 147 Bath Road, Cooks Corner, Brunswick, FMI, jstwrite.com or 729-3600.

Wednesday 12/1“So You Think You Don’t Know One: Addiction and Recovery in Clergy and Congregations,” au-thors Rev. Canon Nancy Platt and Bishop Chilton Knudsen, 6-8 p.m. book signing, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 330 Maine St., Brunswick.

Music Friday 12/3Vanessa Torres, with Emily Dix Thomas on cello, and Ramblin’ Red, 7 p.m., $10 advance / $12 door, Frontier Cafe and Cinema, Fort Andross Mill 3, Main St., Brunswick 725-5222.

Greater PortlandAuditions, Calls for ArtTuesday 11/30 Maine Jewish Film Festival seeks local films about Jewish mothers, 10 minutes max, submissions due by Nov. 30 for juried competition, download entry form, details at mjff.org.

Monday 12/6Audition for “Rent,” the musical, presented by Lyric Music Theater, 6-9:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday; callbacks 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 11, ages 17+, 176 Sawyer St., South Portland, 799-1421, 799-6509, lyricmusictheater.org, for audi-tion details, requirements, Kristi McHugh at [email protected].

Books, AuthorsSaturday 11/27Carol Lambert, author of “Sea Glass Hunter’s Handbook,” 2 p.m. Book Signing, Nonesuch Books & Cards, Mill Creek Shopping Center, 50 Market St., South Portland, 799-2659, nonesuchbooks.com.

”From The Land: Maine Farms at Work,” book reception to celebrate publication by Maine Farmland Trust, 3-5 p.m., The Quimby Colony at the Roma, 769 Congress St., Portland, presented by Rabelais, 774-1044, RabelaisBooks.com.

Sandy Seeley Walling, author/illustrator, “Emily Goes To Camp Lobster Claw,” Herman, the Hermit Crab,” and more, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., L.L. Bean’s Flagship Store, Main St., Freeport.

Monday 11/29 Reader’s Circle Book Discussion, Barbara Kingsolver’s “The Bean Trees,” 7 p.m., free, open to public, Merrill Memorial Library, 215 Main St., Yarmouth, 846-4763.

Tuesday 11/30Meg Wolff, author of “A Life in Balance: Delicious, Plant-Based Recipes For Optimal Health,” 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., book signing, Lois’ Natural Marketplace, 152 U.S. Route 1, Scarborough.

Wednesday 12/1“Write? Now.” workshop on new media, blogging with Justin El-lis, 6-9 p.m. Dec. 1 and Dec. 8, $100, proceeds support student

programs, The Telling Room, 225 Commercial St., Suite 201, Port-land, register at tellingroom.org, 774-6064.

Films Thursday 12/2“Race to Nowhere,” documentary on high pressure school culture, 7 p.m., $10, Merriconeag Waldorf School, 57 Desert Road, Freeport, tickets at rtnmerriconeag.event-brite.com, 865-3900, ext 105.

Friday 12/3 1930s Night at the State The-atre: vaudeville tunes by Over a Cardboard Sea, 5 p.m., followed by screening of “The Wizard of Oz,” 7 p.m., $5, State Theatre, 609 Congress St., Portland, statethe-atreportland.com.

Galleries”Homegrown,” benefit sale of fine art and crafts for Skyline Farm, bid-ding on silent auction items now through Dec. 4, Skyline Farm, 95 The Lane, North Yarmouth, Pamela Ames, 829-5708, skylinefarm.org.

Friday 12/3 Ember Grove’s 7th Annual Holiday Show, 5-9 p.m. Opening Reception, show runs Nov. 26-Jan. 1, 247 Congress St., Portland, Em-berGrove.com, 761-0408.

”Italy Inside/Out” oil paintings by Brita Holmquist, 5-7 p.m. artist’s reception, exhibit Nov. 4-Dec. 31, Daunis Fine Jewelry, 616 Congress St., Portland, 773-6011.

”Winter Works: Glorious Winter as interpreted by Tom Curry, Ralf Feyl, Bjorn Runquist, Andrea Pe-ters, Kevin Beers, Mitch Billis, and more,” 5-8 p.m. reception, exhibit Nov. 5-Jan. 29, Gleason Fine Art, 545 Congress St., Portland, 699-5599.

Museums Friday 12/3Exhibit Opening: ”The Art of De-cember: Original Holiday Cards by Maine Artists from the Mildred Bur-rage Collection” 5-8 p.m. reception, Maine Historical Society Museum, 489 Congress St., Portland, 774-

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MusicSaturday 11/27 The John Lennon Song Project, tribute concert, 8 p.m., $27 ad-vance/ $30 door, One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland, 761-1757, onelongfellowsquare.com.

Monday 11/29Nashville Songwriters Asso-ciation International Portland Chapter Meeting, 7-9:30 p.m., free, members and nonmembers wel-come, The 317 Main Street Music Center, 317 Main St., Yarmouth, 272-2748.

Tuesday 11/30“Two Old Friends,” Celtic mu-sic concert with Mac McHale and Emery Hutchins, 7 p.m., free and open to public, Thomas Memorial Library, 6 Scott Dyer Road, Cape Elizabeth, 799-1720.

Thursday 12/2Pete Miller, 8 p.m., with Monique Barrett opening, 8 p.m., $8 ad-vance / $10 door, One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland, 761-1757, tickets, Bullmoose Port-land, onelongfellowsquare.com.

Saturday 12/4Childsplay, fiddle masters, 8 p.m., $22 / $17, Portland High School Auditorium, 248 Cumberland Ave., Portland, 874-8250.

Lynn Deeves, singer-songwriter, 7:30 p.m., $10 adult / $5 senior or child, Village Coffeehouse, First Congregational Church, 19 Gloucester Hill Road, New Gloucester, villagecoffeehouse.org, 926-3161.

Theater & DanceSaturday 11/27 “Rory Raven: Mentalist and Mindreader,” 8 p.m., $12, Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland, 899-3993.

Sunday 11/28Contra Dance, with 3 bands, 12-6 p.m., $14 before 1 p.m. / $16 after 1 p.m., Wescustogo Grange, U.S. Route 115, North Yarmouth, 685-8141, deffa.org.

Greater PortlandBenefitsSaturday 11/27 Alumni and Friends Sports Fund-raiser Dance, to benefit DHS, PHS Athletics, 8 p.m., music by Color Blind, $15, Italian Heritage Club, 40 Western Ave., Portland, Lisa Sprague, 797-6803.

Sunday 11/28Lucid Stage Flea Market Fund-raiser, with live music, food, raffles and more, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland, 899-3993.

Monday 11/29“Bowl a Strike for the HOME Team,” fundraiser for the Homeless Outreach and Mo-bile Engagement Team, 4-10 p.m., Bayside Bowl, 58 Alder St., Portland, reservations at bayside-bowl.com or 791-2695.

Thursday 12/2 “108 Angels,” art installation of 108 angels by artist Eva Goetz, all angels sold will benefit The Center for Griev-ing Children, 5:30-8 p.m. reception, Elizabeth Moss Galleries, Falmouth Shopping Center, 251 U.S. Route 1, Falmouth, 781-2620.

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‘Annie Get Your Gun’ is right on targetBy Scott Andrews

Thanksgiving week marks the cusp between the “regular”-season offerings of southern Maine’s arts and entertainment producers and presenters and the blizzard of Christmas and other “holiday”-season happenings.

On the “regular” side of the ledger, there’s “Annie Get Your Gun,” which opened last weekend in South Portland. It’s the best of Irving Berlin’s many Broadway musicals, and Lyric Music Theater has mounted an extraordinarily fine commu-nity production.

On the Christmas side of the ledger, there’s Maine State Ballet’s “The Nut-cracker” in Portland, and the company promises one of its biggest-ever produc-tions.

University of Southern Maine School of Music has another “holiday” offering, titled “Joyous Sounds For A Festive Sea-son,” slated for Nov. 30 in Portland.

‘Annie Get Your Gun’“There’s No Business Like Show Busi-

ness” is the opening number of one of the happiest Broadway musicals ever written, Irving Berlin’s “Annie Get Your Gun.” It is the masterpiece of the Russian-born composer-lyricist who enjoyed one of the longest and most successful careers in Broadway’s long and glorious history.

With book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields and produced by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, “Annie Get Your Gun” opened in 1946 and ran three years and 1,147 performances, the most of any of Berlin’s creations. (A 1999 revival, with the book revised by Peter Stone, also stayed on the boards for more than 1,000 performances.)

Last weekend, Lyric Music Theater opened an outstanding community produc-tion of the show in South Portland. Over the years I’ve seen quite a few community productions of “Annie Get Your Gun,” and Lyric’s current offering is definitely the best.

It’s a show about show business, spe-cifically Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West, a traveling circus-like spectacle that featured cowboys, Indians and horses that played all over America and Europe during the late 1800s into the early 20th century. Top draws included Chief Sitting Bull (of Battle of Little Bighorn notoriety) and two ace sharpshooters, Annie Oakley and Frank Butler.

Oakley and Butler were strong-willed characters who were married for nearly 50 years. How did they hook up? Their monumental battle of the sexes, suitably enhanced for theatrical purposes and lushly scored for the musical stage, is the heart of “Annie Get Your Gun.”

This retrospective framing is one of Stone’s principal revisions to the book; the other is recasting Cody’s troupe of show-biz Indians as real people. In real life, Cody loved the Indians, gave employment to many of them in his Wild West Show and was a champion of their causes.

The score is considered Berlin’s best. The opener is the big ensemble number, “There’s No Business Like Show Busi-ness,” a rousing tune that has become the unofficial anthem of American theater. There are two comic gems. The first is “Doin’ What Comes Natur’lly,” which highlights Annie’s dirt-poor beginnings in

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rural Ohio. The second is “You Can’t Get a Man with a Gun,” Oakley’s droll lament on her failures in the romance department.

“The Girl That I Marry,” Butler’s state-ment of his rather highfalutin expectations of women, and “They Say It’s Wonderful,” a joyous Oakley-Butler duet, are a pair of lushly romantic tunes.

Lyric has a fine cast of community actors, led by Cory Bucknam in the title role. She’s got a good voice, wonderfully articulate body language and an real em-pathy and enthusiasm for the part. She’s paired with David Allen Van Duyne as her love interest. Van Duyne sports a fine swagger – essential for the role – and the chemistry between him and the leading lady is palpable.

There are several fine supporting roles. One of the best is Janie Downey Maxwell as the deliciously disportive woman who unsuccessfully competes for Frank’s love. I also liked the secondary romantic pairing, Rebecca Washko and Brandon Pullen, and the four principal male character roles: Vince Knue as Buffalo Bill, Adam Noor-mand as his general manager, Jeff Newick as arch-rival showman Pawnee Bill and Louis Perrotta as Chief Sitting Bull.

Wil Kilroy, a professor of theater at the University of Southern Maine, directs. Re-bekkah Willey music directs and Vanessa

Beyland choreographs this large cast.Lyric Music Theater, 176 Sawyer St. in

South Portland, presents “Annie Get Your Gun” through Dec. 4 with 8 p.m. perfor-mances Fridays and Saturdays and 2:30 p.m. Sundays. Call 799-6509.

‘The Nutcracker’Among ballets, by far the most popular

is “The Nutcracker,” a Christmas spectacu-lar told in glorious music and dance. It’s also big, and Maine State Ballet’s annual productions in Merrill Auditorium are the region’s largest. Artistic director/choreog-rapher Linda MacArthur Miele likes to involve the maximum numbers that she possibly can.

Try 435. That’s the total number of dancers (270), singers (120) and musicians (45) who will take part in seven perfor-mances slated for Thanksgiving weekend and the following. (But not all at once; there are some wholesale cast rotations involved.)

Over the course of the two-weekend run, 270 dancers from Maine State Ballet and other dance schools will perform onstage. They range in age from preschool to ad-vanced adult and live throughout southern Maine, coming from 36 different towns from Arundel, north to Norway and west to Lovell.

The singers come from two ensembles, 90 from the Musica de Filia Girlchoir, and 30 from the Westcustago Youth Cho-rale. The 45-member orchestra mostly comprises professional musicians, includ-ing members of the Portland Symphony Orchestra.

Seven performances are scheduled for Merrill Auditorium at Portland City Hall: Nov. 27 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.; Nov. 28 at 2 p.m.; Dec. 3 at 7 p.m.; Dec. 4 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.; Dec. 5 at 2 p.m. Call PortTix at 842-0800.

‘Joyous Sounds for a Festive Season’

The second big holiday offering is the University of Southern Maine School of Music’s annual “Joyous Sounds for a Fes-tive Season.” It’s put on in Portland by the USM Chamber Singers, representing the school’s top vocal artists. Chosen through a careful audition process and committed to choral excellence, these undergraduates have accepted a responsibility for musical distinction.

The ensemble, conducted by prof Robert Russell, will perform a cappella music from Renaissance to modern times. Following intermission the singers will perform a selection of seasonal favorites plus the premiere of Jesse Wakeman’s “O magnum mysterium.” Wakeman, of Belfast, is a junior in the music education curriculum at USM.

One performance is slated: Nov. 30 at 7:30 p.m. at Immanuel Baptist Church, 156 High St. in Portland. Call the USM music box office at 780-5555.

Ballerinas twirl and snowflakes swirl in Maine State Ballet’s production of “The Nutcracker,” which runs through Dec. 5 at Portland’s Merrill Auditorium.

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He said WCME will be “full service,” featuring local news, Brunswick High School football and basketball games, other local high school sports and community announcements.

Bleikamp has been in radio for most of his working life, he said, and has spent the past 10 years as a news anchor for Wall Street Journal Radio in New York.

“But to me, the magic of radio and it’s real value is very much at the local level,” Bleikamp said.

Part of the attraction in Brunswick is it’s political nature and community involve-ment.

“I’ve always wanted to figure out a way to live in Maine and do radio,” he said. “This opportunity I more or less stumbled on by accident. It was really a wonderful quirk of fate.”

Bleikamp said he was searching through Federal Communications Commission records and found the 900 frequency was available. Following the purchase, Bittner called to let him know the call letters WCME were available, too. Bleikamp seized the opportunity with the intention of restoring the old station.

WCME existed in Brunswick between 1955 and 1972, Bleikamp said. Because written records of radio stations are rare, most of what Bleikamp has learned has been from former employees, he said.

The station used to be on River Road in Brunswick, where there was a studio and office. Bleikamp said several disc jockeys began their careers at WCME, including na-tionally known Top 40 host and Brunswick native J.J. Jeffrey, who now owns WLOB in Portland after selling WBLM and WOKQ a few years ago to Citadel Broadcasting.

“He’s probably the biggest name to emerge from that station,” Bleikamp said.

Another Brunswick native and longtime radio host, Russ Caron, is returning home to host the morning show at WCME.

“We expect very quickly for the whole town to know who Russ is,” Bleikamp said.

Caron said after a 20-year career in New Jersey, he and his wife decided it was time to return to his hometown. He was contacted by Bleikamp, who heard rumors Caron was retiring to Maine.

Caron said he never worked at WCME, but as a child he was “addicted” to radio and listened to WCME from sunrise to sunset. He said at the age of 9, he requested newswire sheets from the station, which he would take home and read as part of his own personal radio show performed for his parents. He said WCME was instrumental in forming his radio career.

Bleikamp said WCME will broadcast 24 hours a day.

“I truly believe the more we focus on the community and serve the community, the better we will do and the more we will win,” he said. “We will air all points of view on all issues. We have no political agenda.”

Bleikamp said the station plans to an-nounce community items, including lost dogs.

“There are a lot of smaller stations that would view (lost dog announcements) as too small. We don’t,” he said. “There is vir-tually nothing too small to pay attention to.”

Bleikamp said his goal is to have every resident of Brunswick on the radio at least once.

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EXCAVATIONSiteWork • RoadwaysDrainage • Loam/Fill

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Pick-up and Delivery Available

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Advice You Can “Bank On”• Cut through the “red tape” with a 30 year banking pro inyour corner.

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Great Holiday Estate AuctionSutherland’s Northern Lights Auction Hall

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ALTERATIONS

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Phone Miriam at865-4299

ANIMALS

DOG TRAINING for the bestresults in the shortest timehave your dog train one-on-onewith a professional certifieddog trainer. First your dogtrained; then you. Training timeaverages 7-9 days and threeone hour follow up lessons areincluded.Your dog will play andtrain in parks as well as down-town Freeport. Both hand andvoice commands will be taught,find out just how good your dogcan be. Goals and cost will bedetermined after an individual-ized obligation free evaluation.Call Canine Training of South-ern Maine and speak withDavid Manson, certified dogtrainer, for more details. 829-4395

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Make your holiday reservations early!

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Scarborough, MELic # F662

Paul CarrollDog Walking/Cat Care, Feeding

CumberlandNorth Yarmouth

Cell 400-6465 20 plus years experience

Dog Walking

“Dogs of allcolors welcome!”

RT 136N Freeport1 mile off Exit 22 I-295

865-1255www.browndoginn.com

The Brown Dog InnBoarding, Daycare & Spa

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cell:650-2962

Mi Mi:dog’s best friend

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New OwnerChris Abbe

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Pleasant Hill KennelsFreeport, ME

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ANTIQUES

ALWAYS BUYING, ALWAYSPAYING MORE! Knowledge,Integrity, & Courtesy guaran-teed! 35 + years experiencebuying ANTIQUE jewelry(rings, watches, cuff links,pins, bangles, necklaces andold costume jewelry),coins,sterling silver, pottery, paint-ings, prints, paper items,rugs,etc. Call SchoolhouseAntiques. 780-8283.

ANTIQUE CHAIR RESTORA-TION: Wooden chairs repaired.Tightening, refinishing, caning,rushing, shaker tape. Neat anddurable repairs executed in aworkman like manner on theshortest notice for reasonableor moderate terms. Will pick-upand deliver. Retired chairmaker, North Yarmouth, Maine.829-3523.

CUMBERLAND ANTIQUESbuying most older items. JEW-ELRY, SILVER, GLASS,CHINA, POTTERY, OLDBOOKS & MAGAZINES,POST CARDS, LINENS,QUILTS, TRUNKS, TOOLS,BUTTONS, TOYS, DOLLS,FOUNTAIN PENS, MILITARY.Call 7 days a week. 838-0790.We can come to you!

I BUY ANYTHING OLD!Books, records, furniture, jewelry,coins, hunting, fishing, military,

art work, dishes, toys, tools.I will come to you with cash.

Call John 450-2339ANTIQUE WOOD COOK-STOVE. Beautiful 6 burnerwood cook stove in excellentcondition. Noyes and Nutter,Grand Herald, 1899.Appraised at $3000. Canassist with moving. $2400 orbest offer. 831-8651.

FOR SALE EDEN PUREHEATER USED ONCE$150.00, Toy horse onsprings $20.00, Antiquestandup Philco radio $40.00,Singer sewing machine cabi-net $20.00. Call 207-7729690

BOOKS WANTEDFAIR PRICES PAID

Also Buying Antiques, Art OfAll Kinds, and Collectables.G.L.Smith Books - Collectables97 Ocean St., South Portland.799-7060.

AUCTIONS

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ASK THE EXPERTS

PART TIME OPTICIANExperienced to call onIndustrial accounts in theAuburn Lewiston area.Great hourly rate 10-15hours per week. Contractposition. Must have reliabletransportation. Fax resumeto 866-889-4440

AUTOS

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Kennebec Street, Portland

CARMOTORCYCLESMALL BOAT

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MAINEJUNKYARDS.NET -Buying Junk Automobiles Deador Alive - Cash Paid on TheSpot! Snow is Coming Soon!Submit Your Car Online atMaineJunkYards.net or Call207-449-2288

WANTED DAMAGED VEHI-CLES- Non-Inspection, MiniVan Transmissions. Call BodyMan on Wheels, auto bodyrepairs. Rust work for inspec-tions. Custom painting/collisionwork. 38 years experience.878-3705.

RANGE ROVER $19,0002004, red, 96 K miles. Loaded-heated steering wheel, frontand rear seats, nav. system etcetc! Tows great. Call 286-5414.

BUSINESS RENTALS

YARMOUTH. One or Two newfully furnished ProfessionalOffices plus shared kitchen,reception area, secretarial sta-tions and conference room.$650-1300 includes internet,heat/AC, janitorial, garbageremoval, landscaping, snowremoval, parking. Call Brendaat 846-4000.

ROUTE ONE YARMOUTH.Great space for Office orRetail use. Easy access,lots of parking, great visi-bility.1000 to 3000 SF. Joinother happy tenants. 846-6380.

NEW GLOUCESTER 85X34,14 Ft O/H door, good shop,garage or storage space.$850/Month. Lease. 233-0506.

BUSINESS SERVICES

Administrative Assistance -Bookkeeping (QuickBooks),Consulting, Desktop Publishing(Flyers, Invitations, Newslet-ters), Filing (archiving, organi-zation), Mailings, Typing, BasicComputer Software Instruction.Call Sal-U-tions at (207)797-2617 or (207)893-2931.

CARPENTRY

GROWING COMPANY.Looking for laborers.

Hand tools a bonus trans-portation a must. Pay isbased on experience andperformance.

Contact: (207) 522-3944Email [email protected]

CLEANING

COASTALCLEANING SERVICES

Discounted HolidayGift Certificates Available!

“We put the H in finishso you don’t have to!”

Bonded & InsuredResidential House Cleaning

Vacation/Executive Rental CleaningPre-Showing Cleanings

We free up your time so you canconcentrate on the important things inlife - family, friends, career and hobbies.

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FOR HOME/OFFICE, NEWConstruction, Real EstateClosings etc. the clean youneed is “Dream Clean” theclean you`ve always dreamedof with 15 years of expert serv-ice. Fully Insured. For rates &references call Leslie 807-2331.

Customized cleaning • LaundrySuperior serviceAffordable Prices

Eco-Friendly Products

[email protected]

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For your special eventsor parties Or if you

are looking fora one time cleaning

Holidays areComing!

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Call Sonia-939-0983

WINDOWCLEANING

byMaster’s Touch

846-5315

HONEST, HARDWORKING and reliableMAINELY CLEANWe’re looking for a fewmore residential accountsto fill our scheduleReasonable rates • References available

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Home CleaningReliable service atreasonable rates.Let me do yourdirty work!Call Kathy at892-2255




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Local artisans offering a variety of beautifully handmade pieces, Seasonal bulbsand greenery, goodies for the birds, wooden kitchen ware, unique local treats,lots and lots of bags, pottery and stone buttons, soaps and sachets, whimsical

baby gifts, fiber in every form- roving, hand dyed and spun yarn and knitted wear-beeswax candles, practical pottery, a variety of special cards, handcrafted silver

and beaded jewelry, handwoven kitchen linens, and lots of surprises!Sat and Sun Nov 27 and 28 9-5

33 Litchfield Rd. Freeport 865-9840Watch for Bessies signs on the way toWolf Neck Farm.

For directions: bessiesfarmgoods.com

BESSIES FARM GOODS - HOLIDAY SALE!

If you are interested in working for a dynamic publishing companywith a comprehensive benefit package, please forwarda cover letter and resume to:

Sun JournalAttn: Human ResourcesPO Box 4400, Lewiston, ME 04243-4400or email: [email protected]

Sun Journal is a division of the Sun Media Group

One of Maine’s premier media corporations providing years of reliable newsand information is searching for qualified candidates to fill the position of:

The Newsroom is looking for a highly motivated individual to join our staff.This position is responsible for organizing and preparing community news,responding to reader concerns and tracking corrections on aday-to-day basis. This editor also assists with contest entries,and making arrangements for newsroommeetings and functions.

The ideal candidate must have strong customer relations skills andcommunicate effectively. Computer literacy andWeb research skills a must;and writing, spelling and grammar skills.

Community News Editor Full-Time

MAINE SURGICALCARE GROUP

We are expanding our secretarial staffand seeking a dedicated, full-time patientcare coordinator for one of our vascularsurgeons. Only candidates with presentmedical/surgical office experience andmedical terminology background will beconsidered. Excellent organizational andtelephone skills, ability to multi-task andbeing a team player are required. Dutiesinclude scheduling patient office visits,tests and surgeries. Experience withinsurance pre-certs and referrals desired.

Forward resume to:Maine Surgical Care Group

Attn: Human Resources Coordinator887 Congress Street, Suite 400

Portland, ME 04102Fax (207)771-5474

email: [email protected]

LOOKING FOR A GREATCLEANER? To make yourhome shine? Look no further! Ioffer pro cleaning servicesdone your way. Great refer-ences. Call Rhea: 939-4278.

COMPUTERS

892-2382

25 Years Experience

Laptop & Desktop Repair

Certified TechnicianA+ Network+ MOUS

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Dave:

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Wireless NetworksTraining

Seniors Welcome

All Major Credit Cards Accepted

COMPUTER REPAIR

Mon-Sat 8-8 • 799-7226Repairs on all Makes & Models

&B J ELECTRONICSEst.1990

“Why buy new whenyours can be re-newed!”Call Jim @ B&J Electronics

Computer Sales & Service

865-0555

CRAFTS

749-7443or [email protected]

I teach Beginner or Intermediate

Watercolor PaintingReasonable Rates

AM and PM classesavailable

CRAFT SHOWS/FAIRS

CRAFT SHOWS & FAIRS-HAVING A CRAFT FAIR ORSHOW? Place your specialevent here to be seen in69,500 papers a week. Call781-3661 for more informa-tion on rates.

DECORATING

JOHNSON’STILING

Custom Tile design available

Floors • ShowersBacksplashes • Mosaics

829-9959ReferencesInsured

FreeEstimates

ELDER CARE

Caregiver Wanted(So. Portland)

Mature, responsible, caring womanto care for delightful, friendly,and very social elderly lady.

Resides in secure modern, spacious2 bedroom apartment overlooking

Portland Harbor.• 24/12hrs shifts available.• LPN/CNA experienced

preferred.• Must have comfort level

performing trach care.• Training will be provided.• 1 year commitment necessary.• No Smoking.Criminal background check & 3

professional references required.Please contact Ellen at

732-887-4676 or email [email protected]

FARMS

GARDENING/FARMS- Placeyour ad here to be seen in69,500 papers a week. Call781-3661 for more informa-tion on rates.

FIREWOOD

Custom Cut HighQuality Firewood

Contact Don Olden(207) 831-3222

Cut to your needs and delivered.Maximize your heating dollarswith guaranteed full cordmeasure or your money back.$175 per cord for green.Seasoned also available.Stacking services available.Wholesale discounts availablewith a minimum order.

BUNDLED CAMPFIRE WOODnow available.

DRY FIREWOODCut, split and delivered in

2 ½ cord loads @ $230.per cord toThe Forecaster’s Northern edition townsOther towns may have extra delivery fee

[email protected]

*Celebrating 25 years in business*

Cut/Split/DeliveredQuality Hardwood

State Certified Trucks for Guaranteed MeasureA+ Rating with the Better Business Bureau

$205 Green $260 Seasoned$305 Kiln Dried

Visa/MC accepted • Wood stacking available353-4043

www.reedsfirewood.com

Pownal, MaineFormally Maine Custom Firewood

FIREWOODGreen Firewood $195

Seasoned $265688-4282

Delivery fees may apply.Prices subject to change.

VISA/MASTERCARD order online:[email protected]

cash price - quanity discounts availableprices subject to changeVISA MASTERCARD

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DRY HARDWOODCut/Split/Delivered

for 2or more

Guaranteed MeasureCall 240-6505

$240 cord $230

FIREWOOD

State Certified truck for guaranteed measure

Quick DeliveryCall 831-1440 in Windham

Quality HardwoodGreen $180

Cut- Split- Delivered

LEE’S

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GREEN$175$250 SEASONED

COAL & FIREWOODSELLING BULK

OR BAGGED COALAll Types • Delivery AvailableFIREWOOD ALSO AVAILABLE

CALL TODAY FOR PRICES

289-4286FLEA MARKETS

THIS IS OUR NEWEST CATE-GORY! Advertise your FleaMarket here to be seen inover 69,500 papers. Call 781-3661 for advertising rates.

FOODS

Got a Function or Specialityin Food? Let readers knowabout all you have to offer inour Food category to beseen in over 69,500 papers.Call 781-3661 for rates.

FOR SALE

BRIDGEPORT MILLS, 13”,15”, 19” lathes, SurfaceGrinder, Bandsaw, 4’, 8’ 10’pressbrakes, 3’, 4’, 6’ & 12’shears, punch, and [email protected] See www.risons.com forimages.

MAPLE BUREAU 34”H 54W20”D $100. Needs refinishingwhite bureau 51”H 27”W 16”D$50. Black barstools $20 each.Twin bed frame $100. 846-0764 after 6pm.

2002 ARIENS SNOW BLOW-ER. 10 HP, 24” cut. Electricstarter, handle heaters. Gascan. $525. Brunswick. 207-725-5892.

FURNITURERESTORATION

DON’T BUY NEWRE-NEW: FURNITURE REPAIR,STRIPPING & REFINISHING by handFormer high school shop teacher• Pick up & delivery available• 30 years experience• References

371-2449FURNITURE RESTORATION-Place your ad here to beseen in 69,500 papers aweek. Call 781-3661 for moreinformation on rates.

FURNITURE

3PC LEATHER SOFA set.Brand new Original value$1795. Asking $899. Call 899-8853.

KING CHERRY SLEIGHBEDw/mattress set. Worth $1099.Take $499. Call 396-5661.

$240 QUEEN PLUSH mattressset. New in plastic. Must sell396-5661.

Twin/full bunk bed. Solid woodNew in box. $299. Call 899-8853.

QUEEN ORTHOPEDIC MAT-tress set factory sealed w/war-ranty. $175. Call 396-5661.

$115 MATTRESS SET. Neverused. Twin or Full 899-8853.

GIFTS

DO YOU HAVE SOMETHINGto advertise under GIFTS?Place your ad here that willbe seen in over 69,500papers! Call 781-3661 foradvertising rates.

HEALTH

HYPNOSIS WORKS!

874-9859

Specializing in workingwith adolescents,

smoking cessation,anxieties, weight loss

Clinical Hypnosisof Southern Maine

www.hypnosis-maine.comPatti Rutka Stevens, CH

Portland - Old Railway Bldg

Swedish Massage TherapyNatural Relief from

mental, physical& emotional stress

Darby Babson, CMT$40 for 1 hour

office hours by appointmentweekends available

232 Coombs Road, Brunswick, ME 04011725-5987

Yarmouth Yoga Studio374 US ROUTE ONE

YARMOUTH, ME 04096846-0777

“Be the changeyou wish to seein the world.”

– Gandhi

YOGANOURISHESTHE BODY

&THE SOUL

COMPASSIONATE EXPERIENCED TEACHERSSee all of our classes at:

WWW.YARMOUTHYOGA.COM

YYSWelcomes Sanctuaryteachers and students

Amanda: Gentle-Monday at noon

& Tuesdays at 5:30 PMSherri: Level 1/11

Wednesday at 6:00 PMLydia: Vinyasa,

Saturday at 8:00 AM

For info or to register callMeredith 721-0071 or [email protected]

(PersonalSupportSpecialist)PSS

Nov. 30 - Feb 1st, Tuesdays, 9-2Earn a state certificate

and be eligible to work in assisted livingor home care $325.Classes are held at:

Spectrum Generations, Main St., Topsham

Alcoholics Anonymous Fal-mouth Group Meeting TuesdayNight, St. Mary`s EpiscopalChurch, Route 88, Falmouth,Maine. 7:00-8:00 PM.

HELP WANTED

HART, A NO-KILL, all volun-teer, cat only shelter is lookingfor an intake Coordinator toassist with taking in surren-ders. Requires a flexible sched-ule, the ability to work on ateam, basic computer & phoneskills and the absolute love ofcats! Please call 829-4116 oremail:[email protected]

HOMEOWNER SEEKING reli-able individual to help w/choresevery other week. Heavy lifting,leaves from gutters, mulch inSpring and odd jobs. Ratesnegotiable. 781-4103.




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Everyone Needs SomeoneWe need your help to make a difference in the lives of older adultsin Cumberland County. We are looking for proactive, flexible people,both men and women, who are looking for a challenging and satisfyingpart-time job. If you love the idea of being a “difference maker” calltoday to inquire about joining the greatest team of non-medical in-home CAREGivers anywhere. Part-time day, evening, overnight andweekend hours. Overnight and weekends especially needed.

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KIND HEARTEDIf this describes you and you are looking for meaning-ful part-time or full-time work, please give us a call.We bring love, comfort, and hope into the lives of ourelderly clients every day through non-medical, in homeservices. Become a part of something special.

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Custom Framing to Fine Carpentry“Where Integrity Means Business”

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Vindle Builders LLCFully

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Certified Green

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NEED SOME REPAIRS OR HELP?HANDYMANGiveme a call! GORDON SHULKIN

Reasonable hourly rate

handymanready.biz

Four Season Services

CertifiedWall and Paver InstallersCALL FOR A CONSULTATION

[email protected]

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MARKETING MANAGER$32K

Looking for organized, outgo-ing individual to cross promotewith area businesses. Must beable to work independently in afast-paced environment. Travelrequired. Qualificationsinclude 2-3 years experience inpromotional marketing and PR.Quick Service Restaurantexperience is a plus. Collegedegree preferred.To apply: please email yourresume to

[email protected], please write Promotional

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MED TECHneeded for per diem shifts

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a long term care facilityPlease call us for info846-2250

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Earn full time incomeon a part time basis

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WORK FROM HOMEWITH FLEXIBLE HOURS

MATHEMATICS TEACHERwanted:Coastal Studies for Girls, thecountry¹s first residential sci-ence and leadership semesterschool for grade 10 girls, locat-ed in Freeport, is looking for ahigh school math teacher toprovide academic support andteaching for Algebra 2 andGeometry for our SpringSemester, 2011. Small class-es, bright, motivated girls, 16hours per week. For details andapplication instructions pleasevisit http://www.coastalstudies-forgirls.org/Faculty_postings.htm

COASTAL MANORNURSING HOMECOASTAL MANORNURSING HOMEin Yarmouth is looking for anattendant to work part time inour independent living sectionCall Tammy for details at

846-5013LOOKING FOR depend-able people to join busi-ness development team.

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WORK FROM HOME- Unlimit-ed income potential with 15 yr.old TOP RATED Company. Forinterview call 373-0445.

HOLIDAY ITEMS

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HOME REPAIR

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CARPENTRY

Designed to enhance your home & lifestyleInterior & ExteriorRestoration & Remodeling

Custom Stairwork & AlterationsFireplace Mantles & Bookcase Cabinetry

Kitchens & Bathrooms

All manner of exterior repairs & alterations

207-797-3322

Brian L. PrattCarpentry

DAVID D. JOHNSONCOMPLETE HOME REPAIRSPECIALIZING INWATER

DAMAGE &WOOD ROT REPAIR32 years experience • Fully InsuredAffordable Rates • Materials at cost

Recent References207-256-9070

BOWDLER ELECTRIC INC.799-5828

All callsreturned!

Residential & Commercial

Chimney lining & MasonryBuilding – Repointing – Repairs

Asphalt & Metal RoofingFoundation Repair & Waterproofing

Painting & Gutters20 yrs. experience – local references

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Seth M. RichardsInterior & Exterior Painting & Carpentry• Small Remodeling Projects • Sheetrock

Repair • Quality Exterior & Interior PaintingGreen Products Available

FULLY INSURED – FREE ESTIMATES

Call SETH • 207-491-1517

INTERIOR/EXTERIOR PAINT-ING & CARPENTRY: 30 Yearsexperience. Residential &Commercial. Insured. Free esti-mates. Mike Hamilton, 829-3679.

GEORGE, JACK All TRADE,himself. Redecorating, Remod-eling. All trades. Carpentry,Drywall, Tile, Painting, even alittle Plumbing & Electrical.Many references available.Over 30 years experience. CallGeorge 415-7321.

CARPENTER/HANDYMAN.All aspects of home workings,including INSULATION, ROT,GUTTERS CLEANED. No Jobtoo small! SENIOR DIS-COUNTS. Serving 10 milesfrom Falmouth. 949-0963.

TheHOUSEGUY

Home repairs • PaintingPlaster & Sheet Rock Repairs

Small Carpentry Jobs • StagingOrganizing Services

No Job Too SmallReasonable Rates/Prompt ServiceTOM FLANAGAN

Yarmouth 319-6818

Serving Greater Portland 18 yrs.

New Construction/AdditionsRemodels/Service Upgrades

Generator Hook Ups • Free Estimates

207-878-5200

CARPENTER/BUILDER

Roofing Vinyl / Siding / Drywall / PaintingHome Repairs / Historical Restoration

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Schoolfrom page 1

School, but delivered to Bowdoinham Community School, had already been approved by both SAD 75 and Faherty.

A referendum vote on the proposed closing of West Harpswell School, and whether the town will have to repay SAD 75 if the school remains open, is sched-uled in Harpswell on Feb. 1, 2011.


Faherty in the five-page letter also responded to other points made by the Harpswell School Closure Cost Review Team, as well as questions from select-men and the public.

But she did not respond to questions about overstated charges from last year, saying comment is only allowed regard-ing the current year. Several questions about one-time expenses, actual expendi-

tures during the base year and additional costs of phone service, trash removal and administrative supplies were answered with the same response:

“Pursuant to statute, expenses to keep the school open must be actual expendi-tures. All expenses incurred during the base year will be considered in the cost savings calculation – the only exception per rule is additional costs for transporta-tion may be included.”

Faherty did not respond favorably to

increasing the time-line for municipal review of cost savings estimates, citing a 20-day time frame imposed on the De-partment of Education. The review team had argued the 10-day review period was a challenge and should be lengthened.

The response letter from Faherty is posted online at www.harpswell.maine.gov with the rest of the documents re-lated to West Harpswell School closure.

Stephanie Grinnell can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 123 or [email protected].


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