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May 1, 2013 News of The City of Portland Vol. 11, No. 18

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IndexObituaries ................... 11Opinion ........................ 7Out and About ........... 24People & Business ..... 12

Police Beat ................. 10Real Estate ................. 34School Notebook ....... 19Sports ........................ 13

Arts Calendar ............. 22Classifieds .................. 29Community Calendar . 25Meetings .................... 25

Portland business brings composting to the massesBy William Hall

PORTLAND — Tyler Frank believes garbage bags may someday be obsolete.

The Vesper Street resident is one of the founders of Garbage to Garden, a community-based curbside composting service that was launched last summer.

For $11 a month, the service picks up food scraps from par-ticipating homes, works with an area farm to compost the waste into a high-quality form of soil, and then delivers as much of the finished product as members want.

By allowing residents to

recycle organic waste, just as they recycle paper, glass and other materials, the waste stream can be dramatically reduced, according to Frank.

“Portland is already good at recycling, so the majority of

Cory Fletcher, left, and Tyler Frank, two of the founders of Garbage to Garden, prepare to deliver fresh compost from their Portland facility to customers participating in the community composting service. Besides the city, Garbage to Garden also serves Cumberland, Falmouth, Yarmouth and South Portland.WILLIAM HALL / THE FORECASTER

Balancing act: Bikes, cars compete for city streetsBy William Hall

PORTLAND — It’s a sure sign of spring: bicycle riders, from kids wob-bling on their first two-wheelers to Spandex-clad athletes on high-tech racing machines, once again occupy city streets.

This year, several initiatives are mak-ing Portland a more bike-friendly place for cyclists.

But some wonder if it is becoming too friendly.

In February, the city was one of five communities in the country to receive federal assistance for creating a bike-sharing program, which would offer the public free or low-cost access to a shared pool of bicycles for short trips. A forum to gather public input on the idea is scheduled for Wednesday, May 8, at 5:30

p.m. in City Hall.In December, the city adopted a

“complete streets” policy, which calls for designing roadways to accommodate all users, including cyclists. It was recently named one of the country’s 10 best such policies.

And Portland has begun creating a net-

WILLIAM HALL / THE FORECASTER

A pack of cyclists crosses Washington Avenue on Ocean Avenue in Portland on Monday afternoon, April 29. The city’s efforts to become more bike-friendly are generating praise and concern.

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School budget raises taxes 3.7%By William Hall

PORTLAND — The City Council on Monday formally received a proposed $97.9 mil-lion budget for the School De-partment.

The spending plan for fiscal 2014 is about $3.7 million more than this year’s budget, and is based on raising the portion of property taxes that fund the schools by 3.69 percent, from $9.57 to $9.92 per $1,000 of valuation.

Pressured by state funding cuts proposed by Gov. Paul LePage, the department will cut 46 full-time positions, School Board President Jaimey Caron said.

“Tough budgets have become the norm,” and this budget posed greater challenges than normal, Caron said.

Under LePage’s proposal, the schools would have to pick up $1.3 million in costs for teacher pensions and $300,000 in tuition

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Congress Sq. Plaza proposal remains divisiveBy William Hall

PORTLAND — Eight months after a previous design was re-jected, a City Council commit-tee got a look last week at a new proposal for developing public

space in Congress Square Plaza.But regardless of the revised

design, interviews this week showed that the proposal con-tinues to polarize the neighbor-hood.

Representatives of Rock-Bridge Capital LLC and New Castle Hotels & Resorts, the owners of the adjacent Eastland Hotel, presented the design April 24 at a workshop with the

council’s Housing and Commu-nity Development Committee.

RockBridge and New Castle are spending $40 million to modernize and expand the his-toric, 86-year-old hotel, which

has been shuttered for over a year but is scheduled to reopen in December as the Westin Port-land Harborview Hotel. As part

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Dust to dust: Portland-area funeral homes go greenBy William Hall

PORTLAND — Some local businesses are helping Maine residents be kinder to the earth when they return to it.

New England Green Funerals, a group of four funeral homes that include Jones-Rich-Hutchins Funeral Home on Wood-ford Street and Lindquist Funeral Home in Yarmouth, began offering environmen-tally sustainable services in February.

They include burial in caskets made from biodegradable materials, embalming without the use of toxic chemicals, and coordinating with cemeteries that delib-erately minimize their impact on the land.

The funeral homes are all part of Dig-nity Memorial, a Texas-based network of 1,800 funeral, cremation and cemetery service providers in the United States and Canada. The formation of New England Green Funerals is the company’s first at-tempt to “go green,” a response to grow-ing demand in the area.

Jane Mullen, who conducts family education programs for Dignity in Maine, said she started receiving more questions about green funerals last year. “I was feeling empty-handed,” she said, “but this told us there was at least some interest.”

Mullen and a small task force began

exploring a green marketing strategy for the company in August. Six months later, a menu of earth-kind offerings was intro-duced at Jones-Rich-Hutchins, Lindquist, Veilleux Funeral Home in Waterville, and Ker-Westerlund Funeral Home in Brattleboro, Vt.

Prices are roughly comparable to those of traditional burial services and products, according to NEGF. The costs of its green caskets range from about $1,000-$1,500.

The homes haven’t sold any green goods to date, but Dignity expects that to change, especially as environmentally conscious baby boomers grow older.

“What we’re hearing from our funeral directors is that ... baby boomers are coming in, making arrangements for a parent, but they see the information about green burials and say, that might be interesting for me,” said Michael Martel, Dignity’s local market director.

Being eco-friendly is a new and grow-ing trend in the “death-care” business, as it’s sometimes called. The Green Burial Council, a nonprofit organization that provides green training and certification for end-of-life businesses, was founded in 2005. In 2008, there were only a dozen green funeral homes in the country, ac-

cording to Bloomberg Businessweek magazine; today there are 300.

But there are many definitions of green death care.

“It doesn’t have to be all or nothing,” Mullen said. “It’s just about making some greener choices among a range of options.”

Biodegradable caskets come in various forms. NEGF offers boxes made from willow, wool or pine, some with lin-ings of organically grown cotton. Metal screws are avoided in favor of wooden

pegs. Cremation urns are made from earth-friendly materials such as bamboo, paper or hemp.

Families can even have NEGF add a loved one’s cremated remains to concrete then used to create an artificial reef, pro-viding a home and feeding ground for marine life.

There are green final-resting-places on land, too, Martel said. Maine is home to dedicated, green burial grounds in Limin-gton and Orrington, two of several dozen in the United States.

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This “green” casket, displayed at Jones-Rich-Hutchins Funeral Home, at 199 Woodford St., Portland, is made of willow, a sustainably grown tree that doesn’t require fertilizers and replenishes soil nutrients. Jones-Rich-Hutchins and a Yarmouth funeral home recently began

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Career expo engages high school studentsBy Amber Cronin

PORTLAND — More than 300 stu-dents from Deering, Portland and Casco Bay high schools had the chance last Friday to see that there are opportunities in Maine after graduation.

The first ever district college and ca-reers expo at the University of Southern Maine allowed the students from the three city public high schools to explore colleges, certificate programs and career opportunities.

“We just want kids to see what their options are and to know how those path-ways conect and how to get there,” said Katy Foley, of Jobs for Maine’s Future.

The expo focused on three clusters

of career and education opportunities: the hospitality, medical and information technology fields.

The students were greeted at USM’s Abromson Center by Superintendent of Schools Emmanuel Caulk, and Chris Hall, the chief executive officer of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, before they broke into groups.

“The experience you are going to have this afternoon is really all about you,” Caulk said. “It’s all about connecting you with the career opportunities we have here in the city of Portland. I want you to be selfish; take full advantage of this opportunity and see how it connects to your own aspirations.”

Both Caulk and Hall told the students that they are the workforce that will drive the Maine economy in the future, and advised them there are opportunities in Maine; they don’t have to leave the state to find a career or quality education.

“I need you people,” Hall said. “You may not realize it, but you are in the driver’s seat. Every single one of you has a place in the economy and I know it doesn’t feel that way, but you do. It doesn’t matter if you have the best grades or if you feel you’re on top of it, there is

a place for you.”Foley noted that all 17 vendors and

businesses at the expo were from Maine.“We want students to understand that if

that is what they want to do, if they want to stay in Maine, there are great options both at the secondary education level, certificate programs and employers who need all of the above,” she said.

In her introduction, Foley challenged students to use their time wisely and to take the time to really think about where

Man arrested after standoff with police

PORTLAND — After a 4 1/2-hour standoff Monday in Bayside, police ar-rested a homeless man they believed was armed and was being sought in connec-tion with a domestic violence incident earlier in the day.

Kyle Upton, 28, surrendered to a SWAT team at 41 Alder St. shortly after 7 p.m. He was charged with criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, terrorizing, assault, and causing a police standoff, according to a police press release.

No one was hurt in the incident, and no hostages were taken.

Police said Upton was homeless, but staying with friends at the Alder Street apartment. He was alone when police arrived to investigate a report of domes-tic violence, and refused to come out of the building. Crisis negotiators talked for several hours with Upton, who was reportedly in possession of a firearm, before he surrendered.

Nearby buildings were evacuated and

neighborhood streets closed during the standoff, but they were reopened around 7:30 p.m.

City offers cancer forums for Latinos

PORTLAND — A pair of free forums will give the public a chance learn about preventing and detecting the three forms of cancer most commonly diagnosed in the Latino population.

The city’s Minority Health Program, the Maine Cancer Consortium and the Portland Community Health Center are sponsoring the forums, which are de-signed to educate the Latino community about the basics of breast, colorectal and lung cancer, according to a press release.

The forums will be held Sunday, May 5, from 1:45-3:45 p.m., at Sacred Heart Church, 65 Mellen St., and on Thursday, May 9, from 7-9 p.m., at El Sinai Church, 837 Brighton Ave.

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Youth Court aims to repair wrongs, not punish kidsBy Amber Cronin

YARMOUTH — A program in Maine is helping first-time juvenile offenders avoid the traditional justice system and repair any harm they’ve done to the com-munity.

The program, called Youth Court, is appearing around the country in an effort to provide what is known as “restorative” justice.

In Maine’s system, two teams of vol-unteer students hear cases in Portland and Yarmouth. Ryun Anderson, director of Youth MOVE Maine, which runs the program, said the organization receives referrals from the Department of Correc-tions, schools, police departments and the court system, most commonly for small crimes like theft, vandalism and posses-sion of drugs or alcohol.

“The idea is that it has to be a first-time, non-violent offense,” Anderson said. “(The respondents) are not deep into the corrections system. They are lower risk and the idea is to prevent them from being deeper in trouble.”

Anderson said the Youth Court pro-gram is an alternative to expulsion or suspension from school, and to traditional criminal sentencing for young people who have committed a first-time crime. The goal, she said, is to redirect negative behavior into something positive for the community.

“The Youth Court model that we have developed is focused on restorative prac-

tices,” Anderson said. “That means we are not looking always at a crime being something against a law or a rule, but when a crime happens, it has been done to another person and relationships have been harmed, and obligations exist from that harm.”

She said Youth Court volunteers are trained to understand the perspective of the juvenile who got in trouble, the com-munity members, and of the victims, and to look the obligations to repair the harm.

Anderson said the program can work wherever there is a challenge in connect-ing community with youth who get into trouble for the first time.

“The process right now is they get in trouble and are connected with a (juve-nile corrections officer) and they would get a suspension or some more traditional sanctions and then they would just move on,” she said. “The young people were saying that they don’t learn from that experience and they don’t get connected to the community. (We felt) there could be a better way.”

Another unique aspect of the program is that the Youth Court system is essen-tially run by students.

Three student advocates, often chosen from the top students in local school systems, represent the community, the respondent and the victim, while a team of three students are the judges.

Dispositions from the student judges can range from writing a letter of apology

to community service, depending on the severity of the crime committed.

“There is a whole process that we have in choosing our dispositions, and it is really making sure that you are re-pairing the harm to the community and really working on (the offenders),” said Grace Mallett, a junior at Yarmouth High School who is one of the Youth Court participants.

Mallett said an example of a disposi-tion could be allowing a student with an interest in lacrosse to volunteer with a youth lacrosse program, so that they are using a skill set they already have to give back to the community.

“It is not a punishment,” Mallett said. “It is something to help the individual heal.”

In order to participate on the Youth Court, the volunteer students must at-tend a summer training session, which often changes the perspective of those volunteers.

Charlotte Eisenberg of Peaks Island, a sophomore at North Yarmouth Academy, said she was at first resistant to the notion of restorative justice when she attended her training session last summer, but she came around to the concept once she learned how the Youth Court operates.

“I thought, ‘why aren’t they getting in trouble, they did something wrong, shouldn’t they get in trouble?’ and I didn’t care to associate myself with peo-ple who were getting in trouble, because

I thought it would make me look bad,” Eisenberg said.

“(But) Youth Court doesn’t change that these things are wrong – I still feel that you shouldn’t steal or abuse drugs – but it is more of a situation where I want to help and listen to the facts,” she said. “I have more of an urge to understand and help, whereas before I just wanted to distance myself.”

Eisenberg explained that after respon-dents receive their disposition from the Youth Court, they are connected with a peer mentor who guides them to commu-nity-service opportunities and deals with the logistics of setting up work hours. The respondents then have three months to complete the prescribed sentence.

Mike Freysinger, restorative prac-tices program manager for Youth MOVE Maine, said that after their three-month stint is complete, respondents come back to the Youth Court to report on how the process was for them.

“We invite each of them to come back and go through a training to possibly be a youth advocate,” he said. “We haven’t gotten any yet, but that would be a really cool full-circle process.”

Freysinger is working on developing a third branch of the Youth Court system in the Bath-Brunswick area, and he said there has been a lot of support in the area from parents and administrators.

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Schools get revised Portland history guide from landmarks groupBy Amber Cronin

PORTLAND — A new edition of “The City is a Classroom,” published by Greater Portland Landmarks, gives third-grade teachers a new way to explore the city for their Portland teaching units.

Jen Pollick, the education program manager for Landmarks, said the organi-

zation worked with a graphic designer to create a full-color text book that outlines the social, architectural and everyday life histories of Portland.

“The main text is a linear history of Portland, and the whole back section of the book is a site-specific history page, so it becomes a pre-visit package for

each and every one of the sites,” she said. “One of the comments we have gotten from teachers is that they aren’t having to go out and find the information, we brought it all to them.”

The latest edition is the third itera-tion of the “City is a Classroom” series. Executive Director Hillary Bassett said Landmarks decided to revamp the book to offer students a more colorful and vi-brant text book, with more information on Portland historic sites.

“We really wanted to tie in Portland’s social history and some of the architec-ture, so that kids can realize that history really happened here,” Bassett said.

Marilyn Philbrook, a teacher at Lyseth Elementary School, said she uses the book as a part of her Portland unit every year.

“We make a time-line of Portland’s history in our classroom,” Philbrook said. “We use “City as a Classroom” as our guide and then each student chooses a landmark to research and presents to the class. Allowing them to take the “City as a Classroom” home allows them to share their knowledge with their families.”

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First Friday walk highlights Fireman StatuePORTLAND — The city’s First Friday

Art Walks continue May 3, and highlights include a discussion of Portland’s Fire-man Statue and an exhibit of political cartoons at the Meg Perry Center.

The walks are popular open-houses featuring city art galleries, studios and museums, sponsored by Portland’s Downtown District on the first Friday of each month from 5-8 p.m.

At 5:30 p.m. this Friday, Anthony Muench, a member of the city’s Public Art Committee, will share insights about the Fireman Statue, which is at Pearl and Con-gress streets, next to Central Fire Station.

The statue was sculpted in 1898 by Ed-ward Griffin, a Fire Department veteran who was known for carving figureheads of wooden sailing ships. The Fireman Statue was his first major work in stone,

and was originally installed in Western Cemetery.

Also on Friday, the Perry Center will display “Humor From My Pen,” a collec-tion of political cartoons by Gerardo Her-nandez, one of five Cuban men convicted in 2001 of espionage and other crimes after the group allegedly spied on Florida military installations and infiltrated Cu-ban exile groups.

The cartoons by Hernandez, who is serving two life sentences, tell the story of his prosecution and of alleged U.S. terror attacks against Cuba, according to a press release. His work has been pub-lished and displayed in Cuba for more than 30 years.

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Video game ‘firefighters’ rise to the ‘Call of Duty’By Dylan Martin

PORTLAND — In a small waterfront office, two programmers are working on some of the biggest titles on the video game market.

Wade Brainerd and Michael Vance work as a team for Activision, one of the world’s largest game publishers, in a state that is mostly alien to the industry.

Their recent credentials include “Call of Duty: Black Ops II,” a cinematic military shooter that grossed more than $500 million in its first day of sales, and an unannounced game expected to be revealed as the next “Call of Duty” title within the next week.

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Brainerd and Vance may not play a creative hand in the development of best-selling games like “Call of Duty: Black Ops II,” but their engineering work is considered integral to the games’ success.

They call it “firefighting.”When a game is weeks away from re-

lease, Brainerd and Vance jump into the internal code and make sure that everything checks out, which can be a rather intensive process.

“We built our names in California on coming in and fixing hard problems that other people couldn’t solve,” Brainerd said, “or at the end of a project just being able to quickly resolve issues. That’s what we mean by ‘firefighting.’ The only thing that people can notice of our work is that the game works.”

Brainerd and Vance said “firefighting” is the last line of defense against bugs, glitches or slowdowns in games before they are released to the world. It’s a job that can demand up to 80 hours of work a week.

But Brainerd said because of their of-fice’s independence, their work schedule is more flexible now, which enables them to spend more time with their families.

“There’s nothing more depressing than working 12 hours a day in (Los Angeles), then driving back to your place and being stuck in traffic,” Vance said, smiling. “... That was the worst feeling in the world.”Dylan Martin can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 100 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @

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Michael Vance and Wade Brainerd have been working in Portland for Activision, one of the world’s largest video game publishers, since 2008. They previously worked for the company in Santa

Monica, Calif.

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clusively Canadian, have been friendly and welcoming. So have the other people I have run across in To-ronto, for the most part. One exception occurred at a suburban movie theater, where a woman wheeled on me and said I was standing too close to her in the ticket line. That one was just weird.

The other happened when I checked my cell phone during a screening of “G.I. Joe: Retaliation.” I know. Guilty with an explanation, your honor. I do not want to miss an emergency call from home because my phone is off. I had it on vibrate, and it’s not like I was playing “Minecraft.” Not good enough for the

guy behind me. He interrupted the conversation he and his buddy had been having since the trailers began to tell me to turn off my phone.

Several people have gone out of their way to tell me everything that is wrong with America, as if they have been gunny-sacking their resentment for a lifetime, waiting to meet an actual American, so they can unload on them. Maybe they think that because I am living here, I must be “one of the good ones,” who does not mind people trashing his country. It is surreal, being surrounded by people who kind of look and sound like Americans, but do not think like them and don’t seem to like them all that much. Sometimes I feel like say-ing, “You know I am one of the people you’re talking about, right?”

The other side of the coin, or loonie (the Canadian dollar coin with a picture of a loon on it), surfaced in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings.

The same people who bashed the U.S. with no ap-parent concern about my reaction went out of their way to express their condolences. A particularly poignant example was a barista I have befriended at a local cof-

fee bar. He never missed an opportunity to tell me how arrogant and bullying we are around the world. When I ran into him the day after the bombings, I fully expected him to gloat about the U. S. getting a comeuppance.

Instead, he rather sweetly told me how sorry he was about the bombings, as if they had happened to me per-sonally. I think he wanted to tell the whole country how sorry he was for our loss, but I was the only one there. For a moment he wasn’t a Canadian who resented being forced to put up with a nouveau riche, gauche neighbor. It was as if Canada and The States were brothers who fight a lot and may not even like each other that much, but will go to the wall for each other against anybody outside the family.

My barista friend surprised me again with the violence of his feelings. He was furious that the police killed one of the alleged bombers. He wanted them both taken alive so somebody could torture them (strong language omitted). It was kind of shocking to hear this sentiment from a guy who derided America for charging around

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Hotel plan is an attack on a people’s parkBy Marian McCue

The argument over the fate of Congress Square Plaza has brought a fusillade of insults aimed at that small, but important piece of public property and the people who use it.

Developers want to take almost three quarters of the public space at the corner of High and Congress streets to build an event space at the historic Eastland Hotel, now undergoing renovation and soon to be rechristened a Westin.

An early story in The Portland Press Herald called the park “home to loiterers and a magnet for litter.” An architect and blog-ger, Michael Belleau, quoted in the same newspaper, called it “a sunken, empty, tar-covered space often filled with vagrants.” And last week’s Press Herald editorial picks up the theme, calling it an “unlovely parcel ... infamous for attracting litter and loiterers.”

Those are strong words.The object of these attacks is a well-located piece of

public property with a sunny southwestern exposure, currently underutilized because it has been neglected by the city. All this criticism will pave the way for the developers to eliminate the park and its inhabitants, and reduce valuable open space to a double-wide sidewalk in front of the hotel and its newly-expanded ballroom

space.The city has allowed the park, built initially using

federal grant money, to badly deteriorate, and has re-moved all but two benches. It is a significant piece of downtown real estate, just under half an acre (includ-ing the sidewalk). It can easily be improved and made more attractive. Even without expensive refurbishment,

if benches were added and the park was maintained and policed, it would be better used.

The park does not serve just the suspected “loiterers and vagrants,” but the many residents who live in the nearby apartment buildings. Many of the residents in the adjacent

Congress Square Plaza building are elderly and disabled, and for them the park has been the one easily accessible place to get out and enjoy some fresh air. They are not “loiterers” and “vagrants.” And with the southwest orientation that provides many hours of sunshine, even during the cold months, it is often now used on lunch break by people working in the surrounding businesses.

Because there are only two benches, those people now using it for quick visits are forced to sit on the steps leading down into the space.

The developers’ plan to take over almost three quar-ters of the present park for their ballroom and event facility was presented to a City Council committee last

week. The plan is set for public hearings and council action in late May.

It is true that the city needs strong economic develop-ment, and the Westin Hotel project is poised to provide a needed uplift to that area. But it should not come at the expense of giving up a key parcel of open space, with its important location. And if almost three quarters of this space is sold to the developer, a park will be lost forever. And there should be no doubt that the Westin will control access and use if it owns the property.

If the park is sold to the developers, a piece of sun-filled open space that can cheer those in downtown Port-land who walk through it or choose to linger for even a minute, will be gone forever. While city leaders have talked about substituting other spaces, such as the park-ing lot at Spring and High streets, to replace Congress Square Park, they would be less attractive and probably expensive to develop.

It should be possible to facilitate the development the hotel is seeking, while still ensuring public access to significant open space. The city should not be content with the present plan, which reduces the property to a glorified sidewalk. Councilors should drive a hard bar-gain, and preserve the public’s right to a large portion of the sunny, open space that is Congress Square Plaza.

Longtime Portland resident Marian McCue is a free-lance journalist, and former editor and publisher of The Forecaster.


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Here’s the way I see the Great American Fault Lines running, sometimes as broad chasms that separate the radical few from the moderate many, but mostly as hairline fractures that may eventually develop into social disintegration if we don’t find a way of mending them.

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the world, getting its way at gunpoint. I do not agree with him, though I understand the urge.

It got me thinking: Now that a little dust has settled, what would constitute justice in this case?

I wonder if retribution would help the populace heal. I was in a sports bar when the news broke about Osama Bin Laden’s death. It was wall-to-wall televisions showing different programs. Within seconds, they all switched to news coverage. Management switched the biggest screens to a news channel. The customers were riveted. You could have heard a pin drop during the initial stories. Most people in the bar cheered when the president came on and made the official announcement.

The atmosphere in the bar became buoyant. I felt, more than anything else, a strong sense of relief and also release, as if I had thrown off a weight I had forgotten I was carrying. Since Bin Laden’s death, that weight has not returned. I do not like admitting it, but I confess to feeling more confident about our ability to defend ourselves. The U.S. feels a little less like the aging, overweight fighter who hasn’t kept up with the tactics the new kids are using. I wasn’t crazy about the vindic-tive glee, both mine and others’, when Bin Laden was killed, but it did make me feel better about the World Trade Center events.

I have never believed that an act of retribution con-tributed to a feeling of justice served, yet it did for me in the case of the perpetrator of one of the more heinous acts during my life. A barista in Canada who wears a keffiyeh as a fashion statement wants one in response to the Boston bombings. I do not agree, but I do under-stand. More than that, I empathize, which frightens me. It is disturbing to confront how much of the primitive still lurks within me.

Mike Langworthy, an attorney, former stand-up comic and longtime television writer, now lives in Scarborough and is fascinated by all things Maine. You can reach him at [email protected] and follow him on Twitter: @mikelangworthy.

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Albert Brenner Glickman, 79: Well-known philanthropistPORTLAND — Albert Brenner Glick-

man, 79, died peacefully April 27.He was known as a family man, philan-

thropist and business leader.Born in Portland, Glickman was raised

by his widowed mother Mildred Brenner. Brenner later married Joe Glickman and the family moved to California.

Glickman’s greatest love was his wife Judy. They met at UCLA, where Glickman was close friends with her brother Richard, and he skillfully wooed her away from all other suitors. Glickman and his wife were partners in life, family, travel and tennis. They were married for 54 years of romance and laughter, loyalty and love.

Glickman eschewed the practice of law to become a real estate broker. Soon he established his own company pioneer-ing the community shopping center. He built islands of retail in towns throughout California and the west. The idea and the company flourished.

He had a great zeal for life. He enjoyed traveling the world, sunset cruising on his boat L’Chaim and skiing from the top of the mountain to the bottom without stop-ping. Through extraordinary charm and chutzpah, Glickman convinced the staff at Aspen Mountain to allow him to ride up in the gondola each morning before the mountain opened. For years, he and four friends would enjoy the first tracks down the mountain.

Wherever he lived, Glickman was always surrounded by friends. His magnetism was contagious while family and friends flocked to his side. Because of his sincerity, caring and insights, many people considered him their best friend.

Glickman loved action and cherished being an insider among decision-makers. He was a friend and adviser to presidents, senators and governors.

Dedicated to his community, he had a tremendous impact on dozens of boards of charities, universities, hospitals and museums including Cedars Sinai Hospital, Federal Home Loan Bank Board of Boston, the Jewish Community Alliance, the Ken-nedy Center, Maine Public Broadcasting Network, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, the Portland Museum of Art, the Portland Symphony, Spring Harbor Hospital, Spurwink School, UCLA, the University of Maine System, the Univer-sity of New England and the University of Southern Maine.

As a leader in the Michael J. Fox Foun-dation, Glickman focused his energies and resources in the pursuit of finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease, knowing the benefit was for future generations, not himself.

His accomplishments notwithstanding, family was always his highest priority. He prided himself on being home for dinner with the family every night. He created a family retreat on Great Diamond Island where his kids and grandchildren reunite every summer.

From humble beginnings, Glickman cre-ated a life that was extraordinary. He leaves a legacy of generosity and goodness.

His family, friends and community will forever feel blessed.

He is survived by his children, Jeff and Mindy, Tigraw, David and Paige, and Brenner and Elaine; his grandchildren, Seth, Evan, Hanna, Naomi, Micah, Ilana,

Tal, Gurion, Bronte, Anna, Natalia, Ellis, Riley, Gavin, Zander, Mo, Leo, and Eden; his brother, Bob; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.

The funeral service for Glickman was scheduled for 9 a.m. Wednesday at Temple Beth El, 400 Deering Ave., Portland.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that those willing support the The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, care of Grand Central Station, P.O. Box 4777, New York, NY 10163-4777

Timothy John Fowler, 69PORTLAND — Timothy John Fowler,

69, of Fort Washington, Md., formerly of Portland, died unexpectedly April 20, in Bladensburg, Md.

He was born in Portland, a son of Chester and Barbara Fowler. Fowler attended local schools and was a graduate of Portland High School.

Following high school Fowler joined the Navy, where he served for more than two decades. He was awarded a Combat Ac-tion Ribbon for his service in the Vietnam War, a Vietnam Campaign Medal with six Bronze Stars and was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal, Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal and Ant-arctic Service Medal with winter over clasp, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal and several other awards and ribbons. His mili-tary career allowed Fowler an opportunity to see many locations throughout the world.

He retired and lived in Maryland where he continued to work as a military bus driver.

Fowler will mostly be remembered as a kindhearted man who enjoyed talking with people. He loved telling tall tales to his family and never missed an opportunity to meet someone new.

He was predeceased by his parents, a son Timothy Jr., in 1975 and a brother, William “Billy” Fowler, in 1981.

Fowler is survived by his wife, Bernice Fowler, of Ft. Washington, Md.; two daugh-ters, Laurie J. Hargreaves, and husband, Paul, of Raymond, and Teresa L. Lawlor, and husband, James, of Raymond; a son, Timothy J. Townsend, of Harrison; a sister, Nancy Foshay, and husband, Donald, of Scarborough; 12 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; two nephews and four nieces.

A funeral was held Monday followed by burial with military rites at Calvary Cem-etery, in South Portland.

Ernest P. Simard Sr., 74PORTLAND — Ernest P. Simard Sr.,

74, formerly of Portland, died April 22 at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough.

He was born in Van Buren, a son of Frank and Irene Simard. In 1956, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in Korea. After his two-year enlistment, he served 18 years in the Army Reserve, where he retired as a sergeant first class. He worked at New England Insulation for more than 25 years before retiring in 1985. He enjoyed playing bingo and cooking.

He was predeceased by his wife, Gwen-dolyn Simard; a son, Philip Simard Sr.; his brothers, Joseph, Lucian, Sylvio, Ralph and Reed; and his sisters, Alice Curran and Gertrude Hunt.

He is survived by his children, Irene Simard, and her boyfriend, Rey Dejesus, Charlene Simard, Tammy Burrington, and her boyfriend, Mike, Ernie Simard, Steven Simard, and his wife, Elizabeth, David Si-mard, Arthur Simard, and his wife, Kathy; his siblings, Lionel, Germain Simard, Doris Duprey and Marie Simard; a cousin, Irene Scott, and her husband, Richard; and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The family wishes to thank Darriana Simard for the wonderful care she provided to her grandfather.

A memorial service was held Monday at A.T. Hutchins Funeral & Cremation Services, in Portland, followed by burial at Forest City Cemetery in South Portland.


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The Associated General Contractors of America awarded Freeport-based CPM Constructors with a 2013 Build America Award for new municipal and utility con-struction at AGC’s 94th annual convention March 7 in Palm Springs, Calif. CPM won for its construction of the first phase of Ocean Renewable Power Company’s Cobscook Bay Tidal Energy Project in Lubec and Eastport, the first commercial, grid-connected tidal energy project to be built in the U.S.

Jonathan W. Brogan, of Norman, Han-

son & DeTroy, has been named a fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, an invitation-only trial lawyer honorary society. Membership is limited to 3,500 fellows, representing fewer than one-half of 1 percent of American lawyers. Cape Elizabeth resident Brogan is the chairman of the Portland-based Norman Hanson & DeTroy litigation practice group and has been a trial attorney for more than 20 years. He concentrates his practice in the trial of complex cases in personal injury, product liability, medical malpractice and commer-cial matters.

Vicki Kennedy, of RE/MAX Oceanside, in Cape Elizabeth, was awarded the Certi-fied Luxury Home Marketing Specialist Designation from The Institute for Luxury Home Marketing. The institute offers train-ing, special professional designations and marketing tools for agents who specialize in fine home and estate properties, and has members on four continents. Kennedy has

provided residential real estate services to the Greater Portland area for more than 13 years with a focus on the luxury home mar-ket. Kennedy is on the board of directors for the Greater Portland Board of Realtors, president-elect of the Women’s Council of Realtors, and a director on the Maine Real Estate Resource Center, and has been a member of the Junior League of Portland since 1998.

Marc Gup, an associate broker with Keller Williams Realty in Portland, was named the top producing individual agent of the 252 company agents at the com-pany’s annual awards ceremony. Gup had sales in 2012 of $12 million.

Portland-based lawyer Jay S. Geller was inducted as a fellow of the American Col-lege of Bankruptcy in a ceremony at the Smithsonian Institute Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture in Washington, D.C. The ceremony was presided over by D.J. Baker, chairman of the college. Geller was one of 39 nominees who were honored and recognized for their professional excellence and exceptional contributions to the law fields of bankruptcy and insolvency.

The Institute for Civic Leadership has recognized Jeffrey K. Jordan as Distin-guished Alumnus for 2013. Jordan accepted his award and spoke at the April 5 induction of this year’s ICL Upsilon Leadership In-tensive Class at the Freeport Hilton Garden Inn. He will also speak at ICL’s 20th An-niversary Celebration Thursday at Ocean Gateway in Portland. Jordan is deputy director of the Mid Coast Regional Rede-velopment Authority, which is responsible for the reuse master plans for Brunswick Naval Air Station and the Topsham Annex.

New Hires, Promotions and Appointments

The Policy Committee of the Portland Area Comprehensive Transportation Sys-tem elected new leadership for the com-ing year. Portland City Councilor David Marshall has been elected chairperson and Saco City Councilor David Tripp, has been elected vice chairperson. Both will serve through June 2014.

Gorham resident David Hamilton has been elected a vice president of Clark In-surance by the agency’s board of directors. Hamilton, a graduate of Husson College, is a stockholder in the agency and leads the employee benefits group. He has more than 25 years of experience in the life and health insurance business and was president of Hamilton & Associates before selling his business to Clark Insurance. He was also president of the southern Maine chapter of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors and treasurer and vice

president of Maine for the association’s state board of directors.

John R. Nelson, vice president and chief financial officer at Wright-Pierce, was appointed as the 2013-2014 chairman of the American Council of Engineering Companies Tax and Regulatory Affairs Committee. Nelson’s term began during the ACEC annual convention, April 21-24 in Washington, D.C., where he was a panelist for the seminar “The Impact of Tax Reform on A/E Firms.”

Fluid Imaging Technologies, Inc., manu-facturer and global exporter of the Flow-CAM imaging particle analyzer, hired Abel Plaud, of Portland, as laboratory and technical customer support technician at the firm’s Yarmouth, headquarters. Prior to joining Fluid Imaging Technologies, Plaud worked as a park ranger at the National Park Service at Acadia National Park. Ken-nebunk resident Kevin Grogan was hired as production manager. Prior to joining Fluid Imaging Technologies, Grogan was a fabrication supervisor at Westinghouse Electric in Newington, N.H., and a senior operations manager at Idexx Laboratories in Westbrook.

Timothy A. Kearins has been named a partner at Casco Bay Eyecare in South Portland, where he has practiced optometry since 2007. A graduate of Gettysburg Col-lege, he received his doctor of optometry degree from the State University of New York College of Optometry. Kearins is the vice president of the Maine Optometric As-sociation and is a member of the American Optometric Association.

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Sports RoundupPage 17

Editor’s noteIf you have a story idea, a score/cancellation to report, feedback, or any other sports-related information, feel free to e-mail us at [email protected]

Spring sports season in full swing(Ed. Note: For the complete

Cheverus-Deering baseball, Cheverus-Kennebunk softball, Cheverus-Deering, Cheverus-South Portland and Deering-Portland boys’ lacrosse and Waynflete-Kennebunk girls’ lacrosse game stories, with box scores and additional photos, please visit theforecaster.net/section/sports).

By Michael HofferThe calendar has flipped to

May and while summer is still several weeks away, Mother Nature has come around with increasing warmth and sunshine as the spring sports season got underway in full last week.

Local baseball, softball, la-crosse, track and tennis teams all created plenty of drama with much more to come.

Here’s a glimpse:

BaseballThe Cheverus baseball team is

up to its usual tricks, even after being hard hit by graduation.

The Stags opened with 3-0 win at Bonny Eagle (behind Mitchell Powers’ four-hitter with 11 strikeouts), then handled visiting Sanford, 10-0, in five innings, as Nate Smith threw a two-hitter and Powers, Drew Ferrick and Chris Tinsman all drove in a pair of runs.

Next up was a Deering squad which had split its first two games (losing, 4-0, at Massabe-sic, winning, 6-1, at Thornton Academy). Cheverus took the lead for good with two runs in the third inning and ultimately built a 10-2 lead, but the Rams refused to go quietly, scoring twice in both the fifth and sev-enth innings. Ultimately, Deer-ing couldn’t come all the way back and the Stags prevailed,

11-6, behind three hits apiece from Ferrick, Ryan Casale and Felix del Vecchio, as they scored in every inning but two. Derek Hammond earned the win.

“It’s always great to beat our crosstown rival,” said del Vecchio. “We hit really well. We saw the ball well out of the hand. We roped a bunch of hits together and ended up with a bunch of runs.”

“We got away with one,” Cheverus coach Mac McKew said. “Thank God we hit. We outhit them. That’s how we won. We didn’t pitch great or play great defense. We’re happy to come away with a win.”

The Stags improved to 4-0 Saturday with a palpitating 6-5 come-from-behind home victory over Thornton Academy in eight innings. Cheverus tied it with two runs in the seventh, then won it on an RBI single from Liam Fitzpatrick, his fourth hit of the day.

The Stags were at Wind-ham Tuesday and host Gorham Thursday and Westbrook Tues-day of next week.

Deering got a strong start from Sam Luebbert in the win over Thornton Academy and two hits apiece from Nick Car-michael and Pat Viola in the loss to Cheverus.

“I just told the kids they showed a lot of character,” Deer-ing coach Tim Eisenhart said, after the loss to the Stags. “They never gave up. We walked a lot of guys and made some errors, but we stayed together. I’m re-ally proud of the guys. I just told them it’s a victory in my mind.”

The Rams fell to 1-3 Friday with an 11-2 home loss to Massabesic. Deering was at Noble Tuesday, hosts Westbrook Thursday and welcomes Gor-

ham Saturday.Portland has lived up to pre-

season billing with a 3-1 start.The Bulldogs opened by

downing host Sanford, 12-4 (Nate Smart had three hits, two RBI and earned the win with 10 strikeouts), beat host Ken-nebunk, 4-3, and after losing at Gorham, 8-4 (despite a pair of hits from Nick Volger), blanked visiting Noble, 7-0 (behind a shutout from Ryan Dixon and three more hits from Volger).

Portland was home with Thornton Academy Tuesday (see theforecaster.net/section/sports for game story), wel-comes Windham Thursday and goes to Marshwood Tuesday of next week.

In Western C, Waynflete split its first two games, falling, 12-3, at Old Orchard Beach and beating visiting Sacopee, 13-7. Joey Schnier stole the show in the victory, hitting a grand slam and driving in six runs.

The Flyers were home with Greater Portland Christian School Monday, welcome GPCS again Wednesday and play host

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Lacrosse Super-Six PollBy Michael Hoffer

We’ll be presenting a boys’ and a girls’ lacrosse Super-Six poll weekly through the end of the regular season, with a final poll following the state championship games. The poll will appear Sundays at twitter.com/foresports, then in print. The poll includes teams from our core coverage area (Cape/Scar/SP up I-295 through Freeport) and is based solely on my opinion (no consultation with other media or coaches).

Girls’ Super Six1) Waynflete2) Cape Elizabeth3) Falmouth4) Yarmouth5) Scarborough6) Freeport

Boys’ Super Six1) Yarmouth2) NYA3) Cape Elizabeth4) Falmouth5) Scarborough6) Greely

Clockwise from top: Cheverus senior Ryan Casale attempts to make a

sliding catch during the Stags’ 6-5, eight inning home win over Thornton

Academy Saturday. Cheverus improved to 4-0.

Waynflete junior Walker Foehl eludes a Kennebunk defender Saturday.

Foehl had four goals as the Flyers dominated the Rams, 15-1.

Waynflete’s Isaac Salas returns a shot during the Flyers win over North

Yarmouth Academy last week.

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story in the early going.The Stags, who had never even started

a season 1-0 before, won their first four outings, 5-4 at Massabesic, 13-1 (in six innings) over visiting Deering, 3-1, in eight innings, at McAuley and 6-1 at home over Kennebunk.

Izzi Grasso saved the day at the Mus-tangs, working out of bases loaded jams in both the sixth and seventh innings. Katie Roy had the winning RBI. Against Deering, Brittany Bell had four hits (in-

cluding a double and two triples), scored four times and drove in two. Roy played the hero again against the Lions, as her triple broke a tie in extra innings.

Friday, against Kennebunk, Bell scat-tered eight hits while striking out 11, drove in the go-ahead run with a bases loaded walk and Jamie Dulac added a pair of RBIs, while Libby DesRuisseaux had three hits.

“It’s pretty awesome,” said Bell. “We’re really excited. The energy in the dugout is really good. We’re always upbeat and positive and we’re having the time of our lives.”

“It’s a really nice start,” said Cheverus coach Maureen Curran. “From Day 1, I’ve been impressed with these girls’ ability and willingness to compete. Last

year, we found ways to lose games. This year, we’re finding ways to win games. It’s nice that it’s not coming from one or two players. It’s coming from everyone. It’s nice to see the younger players per-forming and building confidence.”

The Stags were at Marshwood Monday and host Windham Friday. Monday of next week, Cheverus goes to Westbrook.

McAuley began with 3-1 losses at Marshwood and at home to Cheverus (in eight innings), then got in the win column with an 11-7 come-from-behind victory at Windham. Taylor Whaley struck out 13 against the Hawks and tripled in the loss to the Stags, while Sam Libby pitched a strong game. In the victory, Molly Mack had four hits and Megan Bailey and Lau-ren Coulombe two each, while Libby got

the win in relief.The Lions hosted Westbrook Monday

(see theforecaster.net/section/sports for game story), visit Biddeford Wednesday, welcome Portland Friday and play at reigning regional champion South Port-land Monday of next week.

Deering dropped its first four outings, 16-2 to visiting Marshwood, 13-1 (six in-nings) at Cheverus, 17-1 (six innings) to visiting Windham and 13-1 (five innings) at Westbrook. Isabel Doughty had three hits against the Hawks and two more versus the Stags.

The Rams sought their first win since the 2011 season Monday when they host-ed Biddeford. Deering plays at Portland Wednesday, welcomes South Portland Thursday and plays at Gorham Monday of next week.

Portland opened with losses to visit-ing Thornton Academy (18-1, in five innings), visiting Noble (14-2, in six innings), visiting Bonny Eagle (18-0 in five innings), visiting Sanford (14-1, in five innings) and host Scarborough (5-0). Against the Red Storm, the Bulldogs were no-hit.

Portland was at Noble Monday, plays host to Deering Wednesday, goes to McAuley Friday and welcomes Ken-nebunk Monday of next week.

Boys’ lacrosseLocal boys’ lacrosse teams have al-

ready played multiple games.Cheverus opened with a 12-6 win

at Deering, a 7-3 home triumph over Thornton Academy and after a tough 13-10 home loss to South Portland, downed host Noble (11-4) and Waynflete (19-12).

Jack Sutton had five goals against the Rams and added two more, including the go-ahead tally against the Golden Trojans. Thomas Lawson scored five times against the Red Riots, but the Stags couldn’t hold a 9-7 lead.

“We started with three tough games and the weather hasn’t been kind to us, so to come out of it 2-1, I can’t be too disappointed,” first-year Cheverus coach Bill Bodwell said.

In the win over the Flyers, Warren Murray scored five goals, while Lawson and Sutton each added four.

The Stags host Massabesic Wednesday.Deering bounced back from its opening

loss to Cheverus with wins at Marshwood (7-4) and Portland (10-3). Brett Harmon scored three times in the win over the Bulldogs.

“It’s always nice to beat the Bulldogs,” said Rams coach Jon Dubois. “It’s a big city thing. There’s a certain pride in beat-ing your buddies from the same city.”

Deering lost, 8-7, to visiting West-brook, then doubled up visiting Bonny Eagle, 10-5. Billy Farrell had four goals in both games.

The Rams host three-time defending Class A champion Scarborough Wednes-day.

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9-4 at Thornton Academy, 6-3 at Massa-besic, 10-3 at home to Deering, 10-8 to visiting Gorham and 18-1 at two-time defending Class B champion Falmouth.

“We’re just asking the next guy to step up every day,” said first-year Bulldogs coach Mike DiFusco. “Everyone has to be ready to play. The team we have right now isn’t the team we want to have a month down the road.”

Portland is home against Kennebunk Wednesday and goes to Scarborough Saturday.

Waynflete, under first-year coach Dan Thomsen, opened with a 16-0 home romp over York (Henry Cleaves had six goals, Zander Majercik four), then suffered a tough 11-10 loss at Greely (Majercik had three goals) and fell at home to Cheverus in a shootout Saturday, 19-12 (Majercik scored five times, Cleaves four).

The Flyers go to powerhouse Cape Elizabeth Wednesday and visit Freeport Saturday.

Girls’ lacrosseWaynflete’s powerhouse girls’ lacrosse

team, the defending Class B champion, is staking its claim to the top spot again.

The Flyers opened with a 14-2 win against visiting Wells (Sadie Cole and Ella Millard each had five goals), then romped at Yarmouth, 16-7 (behind five more goals from Cole and five from Martha Veroneau).

Saturday afternoon, Waynflete wel-comed a Kennebunk squad which usually gives it a close game, but the Flyers put together as close to 50 perfect minutes as you’ll see at this point of the season, racing to a 10-0 halftime lead en route to a 15-1 triumph. Veroneau had five goals and Walker Foehl added four.

“Our transition and our offense, every-thing seems to be coming together early in the season,” said Veroneau, the Miss Maine Basketball winner, who, as al-ways, deflected praise to her teammates. “It promising for where we can be in June. Team chemistry, which is vital to success, is there as well.”

“We’re really happy,” Foehl said. “I feel like we did all the little things right and it came together. We have seven people who can put it in the net.”

“I’m psyched and surprised,” said longtime Waynflete coach Cathie Con-nors. “When you have seven seniors and seven juniors, eventually it kicks in. Today, it kicked in. We’ve worked on a lot of different things. Everything came together today.”

After going to Fryeburg Tuesday, the Flyers have a highly anticipated show-down at Cape Elizabeth Wednesday.

At this stage, the Capers are the only team who appear to be a serious threat to Waynflete.

“We’re definitely pumped,” said Foehl, who beat the Capers with her “sudden victory” overtime goal last June in an epic Western Class B Final. “It will be a great game. They’re an incredibly strong team. We’re excited.”

“(The Capers) have a lot of star play-ers,” Veroneau said. “They’re really good. It will be a tough match, but we’re excited.”

Friday, the Flyers have another test and

another playoff rematch, at Falmouth.In Western A, Cheverus, a preseason

favorite, suffered a marathon 7-6, four overtime loss to visiting Massabesic in its opener. Meredith Willard picked up where she left off last year with four goals. The Stags then got in the win col-umn with an 18-5 victory at McAuley, as Elyse Caiazzo had four goals and Willard and Alex Logan both added three.

Cheverus was at Portland Tuesday and hosts Deering Friday. Dangerous Marsh-wood pays a visit next Tuesday.

Portland started with a 16-5 loss at Kennebunk (standout Drew Barry did have three goals), then handled host Sanford, 8-4 (as Barry scored five times).

The Buldogs were at Biddeford in a makeup game Monday, hosted Cheverus Tuesday and welcome Windham Thurs-day.

Deering lost its first two games, 14-2, at Windham and 14-7 at home to Gor-ham, before getting in the win column

Saturday, 16-9, over visiting McAuley. Samantha Sivovlos had three goals against the Rams. In the win, Nyalat Biliew and Julianna Salamone had four goals apiece and Maddy Mazjanis and Mony Prak both added three.

Deering was at Thornton Academy Monday and plays at Cheverus Friday.

McAuley dropped its opener, 17-2, at home to three-time defending Class A champion Scarborough, then fell to visit-ing Cheverus (18-5) and at Deering (16-9). Katherine Lake had two goals against both the Red Storm and Stags and scored four times versus the Rams.

The Lions were at Massabesic Tuesday

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Oudoor trackThe outdoor track season began as

McAuley and Portland competed against Gorham, Sanford and Thornton Academy (the Lions were third and the Bulldogs fifth in the girls’ meet, while the Port-land boys came in fourth), Cheverus

battled Biddeford, Noble and Westbrook (the Stags won both genders), Deering competed with Kennebunk, Massabesic and Windham (the Rams girls were sec-ond and the boys fourth) and Waynflete joined A.R. Gould, NYA and Yarmouth at Sacopee (the Flyers boys and girls both placed fourth).

TennisPortland’s girls’ tennis team has gotten

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Bonny Eagle, Gorham and Sanford by 5-0 scores. The Bulldogs will be tested when they host Cheverus Wednesday and Scarborough Monday.

The Stags sandwiched wins over South Portland and Thornton Academy around a loss to Scarborough in their first week of action.

Reigning regional champion McAuley lost to Sanford and beat Marshwood in its first week.

Deering lost to Windham to start, then beat Massabesic and South Portland.

Waynflete’s two-time defending Class C champions fell, 3-2, to NYA in their first match, then blanked Yarmouth and Fryeburg. The Flyers are at Cape Eliza-beth Wednesday.

Waynflete’s boys’ team, the five-time reigning Class C champions, cruised to a 3-0 start with wins over NYA, Yarmouth and Fryeburg. The Flyers host Cape Elizabeth Wednesday.

In Western A, Cheverus started with 3-2 losses to Scarborough, South Port-land and Thornton Academy.

Deering lost its opener to Windham, then beat Massabesic and South Portland. The Rams play host to Cheverus Friday.

Portland sandwiched wins over Bonny Eagle and Sanford around a loss to pre-season favorite Gorham. The Bulldogs go to Cheverus Wednesday.

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National Honor Society welcomes local students

Deering High School and Portland High School held induction ceremonies for students joining the National Honor Society and recognized the contributions of current members.

Portland seniors Gabriella Cardona, Michael Curran, Gabriel Doss, Anna Fisher, Maria Mirijanyan and Rebecca Ruesch were inducted into the Society.

Deering seniors Cecilia Bauer, Val-erie Carpentier, Jakob Chandler, Maren Crabill, Kiana DiBiase, Nathan Finberg, Jean-Louis Maccario, Kevin Masse, Mercedes Meyers, Samantha Sivovlos and Lillian Worthly were recognized for their service.

Portland juniors inducted were Kayla Berg, Aidan Bowe, Emily Burton, Andrea Chim, Kaitlyn Christy, Annette Denekas, Ryan Dixon, Eliana Finberg, Paul Fos-ter, Laura Frank, Sarah Gale, Charles Gauvin, Anthony Green, Elizabeth Har-

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Deering juniors Sudi Abdirahman, Hilal Ahmad, Thoalfakar Alsaady, Jenny Chiem, Kathryn Cleary, Claire Devlin, Colleen Donlan, Zsofia Duarte, Zachery Duperry, Alexis Elowitch, Emma Gar-celon, Katherine Heald, Heather Hod-son, Molly Kilbride, Amanda Lemoult, Josephine Luka, Benjamin Peterson, Moneypech Prak, Hannah Reidman and Luke Rogers were inducted.

The National Honor Society was established in the 1920s to recognize outstanding high school students who have demonstrated excellence in the areas of scholarship, leadership, service, and character. The organization and its junior affiliate have chapters in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, many U.S. territories and Canada.

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Thursday 5/2Meet the Author: George Daughan, 6:30 p.m., Prince Me-morial Library, 26 Main St., Cumberland, 829-2215.

Susan Dahlgren Daigneault: “In the Shadow of a Mountain: A Soldier’s Struggle with Posttrau-matic Stress Disorder,” 6:30 p.m., Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Road, Falmouth, 781-2351.

Sunday 5/5Merriconeag Poetry Festival, 3 p.m., Merriconeag Waldorf School, 57 Desert Road, Freeport, 865-3900.

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Friday 5/3“Tabu,” 6:30 p.m., Portland Muse-um of Art, 7 Congress St., Portland, 775-6148.

Saturday 5/4“Tabu,” 2 p.m., Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress St., Portland, 775-6148.

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Friday 5/3Phillip Barter: New Work, 11 a.m., Gleason Fine Art, 545 Congress St., Portland, 633-6849.

The Opulent Forest, jewelry by Aaron Patrick Decker, Daunis Fine Jewelry, 616 Congress St., Portland, 773-6011.

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OngoingA Fine Thing Gallery: Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts, 29 Forest Ave., Portland, 699-2919, edpollack-finearts.com.

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Cape Cottage Gallery, 179 Cottage Road, South Portland, 767-5700 or capecottagegallery.com.

Carolyn Walton Gallery, 39 Pleas-ant Hill Road, Freeport, 865-1585 or carolynwalton.com.

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Constellation Gallery, 511 Con-gress St., Portland, 252-9520.

Cooper Jackson Gallery, 70 India St., Portland.

Cygnet Gallery, 568 Congress St., Portland, 251-9925.

Daniel Kany Gallery, 24 Romasco Lane, Portland, 774-2100.

Daunis Fine Jewelry, 616 Con-gress St., Portland, 773-6011.

Dobra Tea, 151 Middle St., Port-land, FMI 210-6566.

Domaine Gallery, 223 Commer-cial St., Portland, 772-2270 or domainegallery.com.

Earth and Soul, indigenous art-ists from around the world and local artists, 34 Washington Ave., Portland, 775-1089.

Eli Phant, Munjoy Hill, Portland, eli-phant.com, Sally Struever, 253-9943.

Elizabeth Moss Gallery, 251 U.S. Route 1, Falmouth, 781-2620, eliza-bethmossgalleries.com.

Ember Grove Gallery, 247 B Con-gress St., Portland, 761-0408 or embergrove.com.

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Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Road, Falmouth, 781-2351.

Fiddlehead Center for the Arts, 383 U.S. Route 1, Scarborough, fcascarborough.org, 883-5720.

Filament Gallery, 181 Congress St., Portland, 774-0932 or filament-gallery.com.

Fore River Gallery, 613 Congress St., Portland, 252-6728.

Fore Street Gallery, 372 Fore St., Portland, 874-8084, forestreetgal-lery.com.

Forgotten Transport, photogra-phy by Jonathan M. Dunitz, 645 Congress St., Portland, 415-8462, jmdunitzstudios.com.

Four Walls Gallery for Fine Art, 564 Congress St., Portland, 221-3426 or fourwallsgallery.com.

Free Street Gallery at MECA, 87 Free St., Portland, Dee Adams, 653-7271.

Freeport Community Library, 10 Library Drive, Freeport, 865-3307.

Freeport Square Gallery, 140 Main St., Freeport, 865-1616.

Front Room Gallery, 378 Cottage Road, South Portland, 767-9070.

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The Green Hand Bookshop, 661 Congress St., Portland, 253-6808.

Harmon’s & Barton’s Gallery, 584 Congress St., Portland, 774-5948.

Heron Point Gallery, 63 Market St., Portland, Bonnie Faulkner, 846-0817, heronpointstudio.com.

Holly Ready Studio, oil and gouache paintings by Holly Ready, 146 High St., Portland, 632-1027 or hollyready.com

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Jameson Modern Art, 305 Com-mercial St., Portland, 772-5522 or jamesongallery.com.

June Fitzpatrick Gallery at MECA, 522 Congress St., Portland, 699-5083.

June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 112 High St., Portland, 772-1961, JuneFitz-patrickGallery.com.

June LaCombe Sculpture, by ap-pointment, Hawk Ridge Farm, 90 Minot Road, Pownal, 688-4468, junelacombesculpture.com.

The Kate Cheney Chappell Center for Book Arts, 7th floor, Glickman Family Library, USM Portland, Re-becca Goodale, 228-8014.

Lalo Boutique, 142 High St., Port-land.

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Larson Fine Art Gallery, new work by David Henning Larson, 331 Cottage Road, South Portland, 767-8221, larsonfineart.com.

Lewis Gallery at Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Port-land, 871-1700, portlandlibrary.com.

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Long Island Dodwell Gallery, Long Island, Maggie Carle, [email protected], 766-2940.

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Portland Arts and Cultural Alli-ance, 548 Congress St., Portland, portlandarts.org.

Portland Photo Works, 142 High St., second floor, Portland, Elliott Teel, 228-5829, [email protected].

Portland Public Library, Lewis Gallery, 5 Monument Square, Port-land, 871-1700.

Radiant Light Gallery, Thom Ad-ams fine art and documentary photography, 615 Congress St., Suite 409, Portland, 252-7258.

Richard Boyd Pottery Art Gallery, 5 Epps St., Peaks Island, 712-1097, richardboydpottery.com.

Rise Photography, 864 Broadway, South Portland, 799-4204, risepho-tography.com.

Rose Contemporary, 492 Con-gress St., Portland, 780-0700, rosecontemporary.com.

The Royal Bean Cafe, 18 Yarmouth Crossing Drive, Yarmouth, 829-5082.

Running with Scissors Gallery, 54 Cove St., Portland, 699-4242.

Salt Institute, 561 Congress St., Portland, salt.edu.

Sandpiper Jewelry Gallery, 851 Sawyer St., South Portland, Mi-chael Hofheimer, 767-8090.

South Portland Public Library, 482 Broadway, South Portland, 767-7660.

Space Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland, 828-5600, space538.org.

St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St., Portland, 775-5568, stlawrencearts.org.

Stones & Stuff, 556 Congress St., Portland, rickgreenart.com.

Susan Maasch Fine Art, 567 Con-gress St., Portland, 699-2955 or susanmaaschfineart.com.

Sylvia Kania Gallery, 148 High St., Portland, 615-6019.

Thomas Memorial Library, 6 Scott Dyer Road, Cape Elizabeth, 799-1720.

Toby Rosenberg Pottery Gallery, 293 Read St., Portland, 878-4590, tobyrosenberg.com.

Thos. Moser Freeport Showroom, 149 Main St., Freeport, 865-4519.

TIME Gallery at CTN Studios, pho-tography by Dawn Herrick, 516 Congress St., Portland, HourEx-changePortland.org, Orion Breen, 874-9868.

USM Glickman Family Library, 7th floor, Glickman Library, USM Port-land campus.

USM Osher Map Library, USM Portland, usm.maine.edu/maps.

USM Wishcamper Center, USM Portland, 780-4270, 34 Bedford St., Portland.

Utopia Gallery, 468 Fore St., Port-land, www.utopiadesigns.com.

VoxPhotographs, for viewing in-vitation and location, 232-1214 or [email protected].

Whitney Art Works, 492 Congress St., Portland, whitneyartworks.com, 780-0700, whitneyartworks.com.

Yarmouth Frame Shop and Gallery, 336 Main St. Yarmouth, 846-7777; second location, 720 Route 1, Yarmouth, yarmouth-frameshopandgallery.com.

3Fish Gallery, 377 Cumberland Ave., Portland, 773-4773.

317 Main Street, 317 Main St., Yar-mouth, 846-6264.

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Shape Note Singing, 1 p.m., The New Church, 302 Stevens Ave., Portland.

Wescustago Youth Chorale, 4:30 p.m., Freeport Performing Arts Center, 30 Holbrook St., Freeport, 846-0705, $10, $5 for students.

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Contra Dance, with Sassafras Stomp, 8 p.m., Falmouth Congre-gational Church, 267 Falmouth Road, Falmouth, 358-9354, adults: $10, under 21: $7, children 5-12: $5, children under 5: free.

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Saturday 5/4“Oklahoma!,” 7:30 p.m., Falmouth High School, 74 Woodville Road, Falmouth, 781-7429.

Mid CoastGalleriesThursday 5/2Brad McFadden art exhibit re-ception, 4 p.m., Thornton Oaks Retirement Community, 25 Thorn-ton Way, Brunswick, 729-8033.

Friday 5/10Artist Reception, Sheer Madness group show, 5 p.m., Points of View Art Gallery, 18 Pleasant St., Bruns-wick, 729-6592.

MusicWednesday 5/1Songwriters in the Round, 7 p.m., Frontier Theatre, 14 Maine St.,

Brunswick, 415-505-8124.

Theater/DanceThursday 5/2“The Wiz,” 7 p.m., Crooker The-ater, Brunswick High School, 116 Maquoit Road, 729-7120, Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for students. Other showings: Friday and Sat-urday, 7 p.m.; and Sunday, 2 p.m.

Spring Dance Concert, 8 p.m., Pickard Theater, Bowdoin College, 5000 South St., Brunswick, 725-3375. Other showings: Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m.

Friday 5/3Folk Dance Brunswick, 6:30 p.m., People Plus, 35 Union St., Bruns-wick, 729-7402, $8 donation, $5 for students.

“Charlie and the Chocolate Fac-tory,” 7 p.m., Studio Theater at Portland Stage, 25A Forest Ave., Portland, 874-2107, $8 for adults, $5 for children. Other showings: May 4, 7 p.m.; May 5, 2 p.m.; May 11, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Saturday 5/4“James and the Giant Peach,” 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., Studio Theater at Portland Stage, 25A Forest Ave., Portland, 874-2107, $8 for adults, $5 for children. Other showings: May 10, 7 p.m.; May 11, 7 p.m.; May 12, 2 p.m.

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Maia Sharp, Big Sandy top the billBy Scott Andrews

May arrives this week with a plethora of sunshine and flowers, plus an equal bounty of arts and entertainment.

A superb singer-songwriter and a leading Americana-rockabilly band are two of the top offerings at Portland’s One Longfellow Square. First up is singer-songwriter Maia Sharp. Then it’s Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys, a four-man Americana band.

Three of southern Maine’s largest music producers and presenters are currently wrapping up their classical seasons. The biggest item is Portland Symphony Orches-tra’s finale, two performances of a program devoted to one work by Gustav Mahler, a classical composer who foreshadowed the modern era.

The final classical offering on Portland Ovations’ 2012-1013 calendar is Imani Winds, a fivesome whose program focuses on modern works.

The University of Southern Maine School of Music is wrapping up its spring semester, and professor Bruce Fithian is wrapping up his longtime teaching gig there. Recogniz-ing this milestone, Fithian Fest, a public celebration, happens in Gorham.

Maia SharpIt’s not schizophrenia, but there are two

sides to singer-songwriter Maia Sharp. Within the music biz, she’s known as tune-smith and lyricist who boasts a platinum list of performers: artists such as Cher, Bonnie Raitt, Dixie Chicks, Tricia Yearwood and Art Garfunkel.

Less known, unfortunately, is her con-siderable skill as performer of her own material. Maybe that’s starting to change, as Sharp returns from on a national concert tour as Raitt’s opening act. Mainers can learn firsthand about Sharp’s vocal and interpretive abilities when she appears in concert this Friday at One Longfellow Square in Portland.

Sharp will be promoting her newest album, “Change the Ending.” The first cut on the CD was released as a single: “Me After You,” is a driving, tuneful take on the emotional cost of a romantic breakup that greatly impressed me when I attended her OLS concert last July.

Catch Maia Sharp at One Longfellow Square, corner of State and Congress streets, at 8 p.m. May 3. Call 767-1757

Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite BoysOne of our country’s most successful

Americana bands will be visiting One Longfellow Square on May 9.

As explained by Allmusic critic Craig Harris: “Authenticity is the key to the mu-sic of Rockabilly Hall of Fame members Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys. Although they’ve moved from their rockabilly roots to a sound that encompasses folk, bluegrass, Western swing, Cajun, and mariachi influ-ences, the ... band continues to be faithful to the music of the past.”

Inspired by the rockabilly revival of the 1980s, the group’s eponymous leader found success writing and performing in the genre with various bandmates in southern California. The Fly-Rite Boys (initially two of them) began in 1988, and in various permutations of up to six they’ve been per-

forming with Big Sandy ever since. They’ve recorded nine CDs, the most recent being 2006’s “Turntable Matinee.”

The opening act will be King Memphis, the Port City’s own rockabilly favorites.

Catch this great double bill at One Longfellow Square, corner of State and Congress in Portland, at 8 p.m. May 9. Call 761-1757.

Portland Symphony OrchestraLast week, the Portland Symphony Or-

chestra ended its season of Pops concerts. This Sunday and Tuesday, it’s goodbye to 2012-1013 as the PSO makes its seasonal exit with two performances of a program featuring one major work.

Maestro Robert Moody has selected Gus-tav Mahler’s passionate Symphony No. 5. PSO program annotator Mark Rohr notes that this late 19th-century work is almost as well known as Symphony No. 5 by Ludwig van Beethoven.

“The ominous trumpet call that opens the symphony is one of the most memorable moments in Western music, every bit as distinctive as the opening of Beethoven’s Fifth,” explains Rohr. “The funeral march that follows is a relentless tragedy, harrow-ing and inconsolable. The faster middle section is even more anguished.”

By contrast, the work’s finale is relent-lessly cheerful, and Rohr comments that “Mahler’s music could express the depths of despair and the exhilaration of joy, often simultaneously.”

The performance will be dedicated to the victims of the Boston Marathon bomb-ings in a gesture of musical sympathy by

Moody, an avid runner himself.Catch the Portland Symphony Orches-

tra’s final two concerts of the season at 2:30 p.m. May 5 and 7:30 p.m. May 7 at Merrill Auditorium at Portland City Hall. Call Port-Tix at 842-0800.

Imani WindsPortland Ovations wraps up its classical

offerings for 2012-2013 with North Amer-ica’s premier wind quintet. Imani Winds is one of the most successful chamber music ensembles in the U.S. The ensemble has received many awards including the 2007 ASCAP Award, the 2002 CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming and a Grammy nomination.

The fivesome’s innovative programs and commitment to commissioning new works are evident in their Portland Ova-tions debut, which will include Carlos Franzetti’s “Serenata” and Jason Moran’s “Cane.” Noting the limited repertoire for wind quintet, Imani has also been active in commissioning transcriptions and adapta-tions of classical favorites written for other instruments and ensembles. These include Henri Tomasi’s “Cinq Danses,” Claude Debussy’s “Bruyere” and Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.”

Catch Imani Winds at 7:30 p.m. May 2 at the Abromson Community Education Center, 88 Bedford St. on the University of Southern Maine’s Portland campus. Call PortTix at 842-0800.

Fithian Fest at USMFor the past three decades, Bruce Fithian

has been at the center of southern Maine’s musical life in a variety of roles: organist, pianist, vocalist, choir director, composer, impresario and professor. This spring he’s retiring after 29 years at the University of Southern Maine School of Music, and a very public retirement party is planned this Saturday on USM’s Gorham campus.

They’re calling it “Fithian Fest,” and the evening of free music will include some of his compositions, a performance by several of the church choirs that he leads plus a few of his former students who have succeeded in opera, concert and musical theatre. Cur-rent USM students and colleagues will also take part, headed by professor Robert Rus-sell directing the school’s Chamber Choir. St. Mary’s Schola, an early music consort that Fithian leads, will also perform.

“The excitement in this program is gen-erated as we showcase many of the myriad talents that Bruce has developed throughout his professional life,” says Russell, a long-time colleague. “Bruce is a consummate musician, a beautiful interpreter of early music, and a colleague of the highest in-tegrity. I have been privileged to know him and to make music with him.”

Catch this free concert at 8 p.m. May 4 at Corthell Hall on the USM Gorham campus. Call 780-5555.

Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys, a top Americana-rockabilly band, will appear May 9 at One Longfellow Square in Portland.


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MeetingsPortlandWed. 5/1 10 a.m. Disability Commission CHWed. 5/1 5 p.m. Historic Preservation Board CHWed. 5/1 5:30 p.m. Transportation, Sustainabilty, Energy Comm. CHThur. 5/2 12 p.m. CDBG Working Group CHThur. 5/2 5 p.m. Joint School/City Finance Committee CHThur. 5/2 6:30 p.m. Zoning Board of Appeals CHMon. 5/6 5 p.m. Green Packaging Working Group Task Force CHMon. 5/6 5:30 p.m. City Council Workshop CHMon. 5/6 5:30 p.m. Martins Point Reconstruction Project CHMon. 5/6 7 p.m. City Council Evening Session CH

Greater PortlandBenefitsFriday 5/3Achieve a Vision Beyond Your Sight, 7 p.m., Hannaford Lecture Hall, 88 Bedford St., Portland, 475-7148, $10 suggested donation.

Saturday 5/4Superhero Lady Arm Wrestlers of Portland, a benefit for A Company of Girls, 7 p.m., Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St., Portland, $7.

Sunday 5/5Walkathon for Environmental Illness, 1 p.m., Green Building Supply Store, 11 Fox St., Portland, 495-2031, $25 per person, free for children under 14.

Saturday 5/10Spring Bash to benefit the Hunger Initiative, 6:30 p.m., The Portland Club, 156 State St., Portland, 956-8943.

Bulletin BoardThursday 5/2Sacred Stories: Stories from refugees and immigrants, 4 p.m., South Portland City Hall, 25 Cot-tage Road, South Portland.

Saturday 5/4Indoor/outdoor yard sale, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., West Scarborough United Methodist Church, 2 Church St., Scarborough, 883-2814.

Give Us Your Poor and Indigent, 1 p.m., Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 29 Ocean House Road, Cape Elizabeth, 767-3391, free.

Renewable Energy and Efficien-cy Fair, 10 a.m., Southern Maine

Community College, 62 Fort Road, 741-5758.

Sunday 5/5Cinco de Mayo cruise, 3 p.m., Cas-co Bay Lines, 56 Commercial St., Portland, 647-4534, $30.

Tuesday 5/7East End Wastewater Treatment Facility tour, 10 a.m., East End Wastewater Treatment Facility, Marginal Way, Portland, 774-5961 ext. 3324, registration required.

Wednesday 5/8Eggs and Issues with Gov. Paul LePage, 7:30 a.m., Holiday Inn by the Bay, 88 Spring St., Port-land, visit http://portlandmecoc.weblinkconnect.com/events/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=548 to register, $17 for members of the Portland Veterans Network, $27 for non-members.

Call for VolunteersRefugee and Immigration Servic-es, a program of Catholic Charities Maine, has ongoing needs for com-mitted volunteers who will assist new Mainers in their search for employment, FMI, Paul Mullaney, [email protected].

ActionBasedCare.org needs vol-unteers to expand organization, ABC believes in empowerment through sailing, and action-based activities to relieve depression, check website or 831-4151.

Allegiance Hospice is looking for volunteers to visit patients under hospice care in nursing homes in York and Cumberland Counties, volunteers receive formal training, Katharyn LeDoux, 877-255-4623 or [email protected].

Alzheimer’s Association, Maine Chapter, has ongoing volunteer

opportunities for caring people who can offer 3-4 hours per week, 383 U.S. Route 1, Suite 2C, Scarbor-ough, 772-0115.

American Red Cross needs vol-unteers in the disaster services, health and safety and administra-tion departments, 874-1192 ext. 105.

The Cedars welcomes volunteers to help with activities and special events, including young child/par-ent and pet visits, 630 Ocean Ave., Portland, 772-5456.

Compass Project needs volun-teers with tools, carpentry or boat skills for the boat building festival and youth boat building classes, 774-0682 or [email protected].

Cumberland County Extension Association seeks people to serve on its executive committee, meets third Wednesday every month from 7-9 p.m. at Barron Center, Portland, 800-287-1471 or [email protected].

Deliver Meals on Wheels, mileage reimbursement, flexible days and weeks, one to two hours a day, FMI 800-400-6325.

Fiddlehead Center for the Arts is looking for volunteers for ongo-ing projects and special events, earn credits in exchange for classes, ages 16-plus, Fiddlehead Center for the Arts, 383 U.S. Route 1, Scarborough, 883-5720, fcascar-borough.org.

Freeport Community Services and Center needs people to help make a difference, FMI 865-3985.

Freeport Historical Society needs ongoing help cataloguing collections, greeter/reception-ist at Harrington house, garden helper, poster delivery assistance, administrative help, handy-person,

865-3170 or [email protected].

Friends of Feral Felines needs hardy volunteers to feed hungry cats on the Portland waterfront, 1-2 hours per month, training pro-vided, 797-3014.

Greater Portland Mentoring Partnership needs adult mentors for school-age children, 888-387-8758.

Guiding Eyes for the Blind needs volunteer puppy raisers in the Cape Elizabeth, Portland, Yarmouth, Freeport, and Bath/Brunswick areas, keep puppy from age 8 weeks-16 months, free training, support. FMI, Kathleen Hayward, [email protected], guidingeyes.org.

HART, Homeless Animal Rescue Team, a no-kill cat shelter in Cum-berland, is looking for volunteers who love cats to help in the shelter, 3-4 hours in the morning, one or two days a week, call 829-4116 or 846-3038.

Hearts and Horses Therapeutic Riding Center volunteers needed to help people with disabilities experience riding, call Vickie 929-4700, or 807-7757.

Homeless Animal Rescue Team seeks direct care volunteers, fa-cilities maintenance, fundraisers, cleaning supplies, canned cat food, 302 Range Road, Cumberland, 829-4116 or 846-3038.

Hospice Volunteers needed for Allegiance Hospice, to visit pa-tients in nursing homes in York and Cumberland counties, Nicole Garrity, 877-255-4623 or [email protected].

ITNPortland needs volunteer drivers, help seniors and visually impaired adults enjoy indepen-dence and quality of life, commit

to one or more hours per month, 854-0505.

Literacy Volunteers of Greater Portland needs volunteers for stu-dent-centered tutoring, education for non-literate adults and English as a Second Language instruction, 780-1352 for training information.

Melanoma Education Founda-tion seeking used car donations, call Cars Helping America, 866-949-3668, skincheck.org.

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VolunteerMaine AmeriCorps VIS-TA Projects seeks members; living allowance, health care, education award; apply online AmeriCorps.gov; Meredith Eaton 941-2800, ext. 207, [email protected].

Dining OutSaturday 5/4Public supper, 4:30-6 p.m., Cape Elizabeth United Methodist Church, Ocean House Road, Cape Elizabeth, 774-7241.

Bean supper, 5-6:30 p.m., The Tri-angle Club of Casco Lodge #36 A.F. & A. M., 20 Mill St., Yarmouth, 846-4724, $8 for adults, $5 for children ages 5-12, free for children under 5.

Gardens & OutdoorsSaturday 5/11Foreside Garden Club Plant Sale, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., Falmouth Public Library, 5 Lunt Road, Falmouth, 878-9087.

Monday 5/13Mushroom Identification, 11 a.m., St. Mary’s Parish House, 43 Fore-side Road, Falmouth, 358-9312.

Getting Smarter Wednesday 5/1Getting Found First with Local SEO; Propel to the top of the search engines, 2 p.m., SCORE offices, 100 Middle St., Portland, $35, call 772-1147 to register.

Thursday 5/2Always On: Family Life in the Digi-tal Age, 7 p.m., Wishcamper Center, 34 Bedford St., Portland, 781-6321, free.

Sunday 5/5Famine Ships and Famine Times, 2 p.m., Maine Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St., Portland, 899-0505, free.

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Wednesday 5/8Being a Professional: Responsi-bilities and Expectations, 6-9 p.m., Osher Hall, Maine College of Art, 522 Congress St., Portland, [email protected], free for MECA students, alumni and staff, $10 for the public.

Thursday 5/9Managing by the Numbers: How to use them profitably, 2 p.m., SCORE offices, 100 Middle St., Port-land, call 772-1147 to register, $35.

Health & SupportSunday 5/5Cancer in the Latino Community, an educational forum, 1:45-3:45 p.m., Sacred Heart Church, 65 Mel-len St., Portland, 874-8752.

Tuesday 5/7Living Well for Better Health, 1 p.m., Southern Maine Agency on Aging, 136 U.S. Route 1, Scar-borough, registration required, 396-6583, free.

Cancer in the Latino community, an educational forum, 7-9 p.m., El Sinai Church, 837 Brighton Ave., Portland, 874-8752.

Tuesday 5/14Living Well for Better Health, 1 p.m., Southern Maine Agency on Aging, 136 U.S. Route 1, Scar-borough, registration required, 396-6583, free.

Kids & FamilyMonday 5/13Family storytime, 10:30 a.m., Scarborough Public Library, 48 Gorham Road, Scarborough, 883-4723 ext. 3.

SeniorsWednesday 5/8National Senior Health and Fit-ness Day, 9 a.m., OceanView at Falmouth, 20 Blueberry Lane, Fal-mouth, 781-4460, free.

Mid CoastBenefitsSaturday 5/4Habitat for Humanity 5K run, Reg-istration begins 7:30 a.m., Habitat for Humanity office, 108 Centre St., Bath, 386-5081, $15.

Sunday 5/5Habitat for Humanity Spring Walk, 2 p.m., Habitat for Humanity office, 108 Centre St., Bath, 386-5081, $15.

Friday 5/10Talent Show benefit for the Bath Area Soup Kitchen, 7 p.m., Bath Holiday Inn, 139 Richardson St., Bath, 522-6797, $5.

Theater Project Benefit Auction, 6 p.m., auction begins 8 p.m., The Theater Project, 14 School St., Brunswick, 729-8584, $10.

Supper to support teen mission trip, 5-7 p.m., St. Charles Borromeo Church, 132 McKeen St., Bruns-wick, 725-2624, $8 for adults, $4 for children.

Bulletin BoardWednesday 5/1Lawyers in Libraries, 12-2 p.m., Patten Free Library, 33 Summer St., Bath, 207-443-5141 ext. 25.

Saturday 5/4Plant and Bake Sale, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., Bath United Church of Christ, 155 Congress Ave., Bath, 442-0420.

Maine AllCare Mid Coast Chapter Meeting, 10 a.m., Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick, 721-8344.

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Such cemeteries try to keep a low environmental impact by refusing to install burial vaults, which delay the natural decomposition of the body. Green cemeteries usually are not landscaped or mowed, and often require grave monuments to be made of locally found stone.

“A green burial is like going back to our roots. It’s not a new invention. ... There’s no vault, and you’re just lowering a very simple casket into the ground,” said Martel, a licensed funeral director.

In Freeport, more than an acre of Burr Cemetery was reserved last year for green burials. But only a couple plots have been sold so far, according to Chris Stilkey, president of D.C. Stilkey & Son, the company that oper-ates the cemetery and an on-site crematory.

Stilkey’s green burial services take green to the ex-treme. No monuments are allowed in the space, and grave-digging is done by hand, without heavy equip-

ment. That’s one of the reasons burying a casket in the space is three times as expensive as it is elsewhere in the cemetery.

“Instead of taking me a half hour with a backhoe, it takes about three hours,” Stilkey said.

He also questions NEGF’s claim of being green, noting that Lindquist Funeral Home contracts with a crematory in Auburn, nearly 30 miles away, rather than ones closer to Yarmouth – such as his. The extra corpse-carrying that’s necessary increases the business’ carbon footprint, he claimed.

“If you’re going to talk green, let’s talk green,” he said. “Is (NEGF) doing everything it can to be green?”

Martel admits there’s more that could be done.“Right now, we want to serve families who are green-

oriented ... but in terms of turning our entire operation green, we’re not there yet,” he said. “It’s a really a fine line for us to walk, whether it’s the crematories we use, or the gas we put in a hearse.”

The eco-friendliness of cremation itself is also debat-able, according to Martel.

“We didn’t spend a lot of time on the cremation side, frankly, because using a lot of carbon fuel to cremate a body just didn’t seem very green to us to begin with,” he said.

Stilkey, on the other hand, claims that his cremation services are environmentally responsible, with pollutant emissions 10 times less than the maximum allowed by most standards, according to his website.

“Sure, cremation isn’t completely green. You’re burn-ing fossil fuels,” he said. “So does a Prius (car), but it still gets better mileage than an SUV.”

William Hall can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 106 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @hallwilliam4.

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they want to go in the future.Two Deering students, Brittney Hanna and Morgan

Dacey, said they are already looking at what they want to do after graduation, and staying in Maine is definitely part of the plan.

Dacey, who will be attending the University of Maine at Farmington in the fall, said she thought about that when she was looking at schools.

“I want to stay in Maine, but I also want to travel (at some point),” she said.

Hanna said she has not decided for sure where she wants to go, but is looking at the University of New England’s physical therapy program and hopes to stay in Maine after college.

Foley said that the hope for next year is that a bigger representation of all options is available to students. She said she hopes that they can add more industry clusters, events such as mock interviews and group challenges to next year’s expo.

Expofrom page 3

such an amazing program, and parents ask why don’t all kids have to go through this when they get in trouble for the first time?” he said.

An added reward is that the program not only benefits those who are find themselves in trouble for the first time, but the people who are involved in their sentenc-ing process.

Both Mallett and Eisenberg said they have gained a greater understanding of, and have more sympathy for, individuals going through the court process than they did before their Youth Court training.

“Before, I would look at these scenarios and it was very black and white,” Mallett said. “But now that I have been through Youth Court, I see everything about the situation, how many different factors there are going into an incident like that, and repairing the incident.”

The program is really about this connection, Anderson said. It is about how the community, the victim and the respondent can move on from the harm that was done.

“We really want to make sure the focus of our Youth Court is on the community change that is happening,” she said. “The change is happening for the students, for community members and the kids who are getting in trouble.”

Youth Courtfrom page 4


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Windham—Clean, furnished,safe, waterfront single occu-pancy room with kitchenette-$595.00. Rooms with sharedkitchen and bath with only Iother room-$450.00. Utilitiesincluded. Close to shopping,restaurants and laundromat.Available to May. 892-2698.

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expense for students attending Baxter Academy for Technology and Science, the charter school planning to open on York Street in the fall.

But while the school budget anticipates the impact of the state cost-shifts, the city’s proposed $216 municipal budget, presented to the council April 1, assumes those changes will be rejected by the state Legislature.

In a workshop before the council meeting, councilors, School Board members and Mayor Michael Brennan questioned the wisdom of the different assumptions.

At the meeting, so did Holm Avenue resident Robert Hains.

“We don’t know what the Legislature is going to do, so to talk about the (state) budget at this time is a fool’s errand,” he told councilors.

Deering resident Chris McDonough wondered why some portions of the budget, such as human resources spending, included large increases over last year, while

school enrollment remained flat.“You’re asking me to pay more, and I don’t get it,”

he said.Answers to such questions may become clearer as the

council’s Finance Committee meets to consider the pro-posed budget this week. The full council is scheduled to take action on the budget after a second public hearing on Monday, May 6. A required public referendum on the budget will take place Tuesday, May 14.


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work of “neighborhood byways” – secondary streets with traffic-calming signs, medians and other infrastructure designed to create safer, more enjoyable routes for cyclists and pedestrians.

The network, recently piloted with five miles of byways in Deering Center, could someday stretch for 29 miles throughout the city, according to Bruce Hyman, Portland’s bicycle and pedestrian coordinator.

The byways are one part of a new plan to promote cy-cling and walking in Portland. The plan, under development for more than a year, was added to the city’s Comprehen-sive Plan in December.

No wonder that local cyclists – and even the city’s web-site – tout Portland as a great place to ride.

But with the city welcoming more and more cyclists, some people wonder if there will be more problems on the road. Indeed, other cities may already be experiencing more accidents and road rage as they become more bike-friendly.

In New York City, which has added nearly 300 miles of bike lanes since 2002 and started bike-sharing last year, concerns about added traffic have led neighborhood groups to oppose some of the new bike-friendly measures. And the city’s comptroller released a report claiming that the bike-sharing program would lead to more accidents, injuries and potential lawsuits.

In Boston, a 2012 accident that killed a cyclist prompted

the Boston Globe to publish an editorial in February about increasing hostility toward bicycle riders.

“Sharing the road with increasing numbers of cyclists can be frustrating for drivers. But disregard for the safety of cyclists has reached pathological levels among some drivers,” the Globe opined.

In Portland, there is little evidence of increasing dangers or road rage. Still, accidents happen.

From 2005 through 2010, there were 208 collisions reported between cyclists and motorists, Hyman said, an average of about 35 a year. In 2012, there were 56 accidents involving cyclists, according to information obtained from police.

And many cyclists report scary near-misses.“I was riding here today and a driver blew past me, honk-

ing his horn and screaming something out the window,” said Chris Sawtelle of Portland, as she left the Great Maine Bike Swap at the University of Southern Maine on April 28. “I guess I was moving too slow for him. He nearly side-swiped me.”

Motorists have said that cyclists can be a safety hazard, too. That worry prompted former state Rep. Ralph Sarty, R-Denmark, to introduce a bill in the Legislature two years ago that would have placed a 2 percent tax on bike sales, with the proceeds used to build new bike lanes.

“In recent years, recreational bicycling has put thousands of new bikes on our highways, increasing the potential for accidents,” Sarty wrote in 2011. “ ... The current laws regarding bicycle use on public ways place little if any responsibility or liability on the bicyclists. Almost all the

responsibility and liability is on motorists.”The legislation was killed, but concerns about sharing

the road remain.Jim Tasse, education director for the Bicycle Coalition

of Maine, noted cyclists are allowed to ride on all Maine roads, except interstate highways and a portion or U.S. Route 1 between Brunswick and Bath.

“Motorists should expect cyclists to be on the roads, and they have every right to be there,” he said.

Motorists must leave at least 3 feet between their vehicles and cyclists, according to state law, and are allowed to drive in the opposite lane when necessary to safely pass a cyclist.

Cyclists, for their part, must obey the same traffic rules as motorists, and must ride as far to the right as “practicable.” But the law also allows them to ride two abreast, and to ride in a road’s travel lane when making a left turn or to avoid a vehicle or safety hazard.

Tasse acknowledged that it’s easy to get frustrated when driving behind a slower-moving cyclist or a large group of riders that is difficult to pass.

“But the conflicts often arise because (a motorist) feels a need for speed,” he said, noting that drivers should obey the speed limit and be patient.

Most of all, he said, motorists and cyclists should “exer-cise some restraint and courtesy” and realize the dangers a two-ton vehicles poses, regardless of who is at fault.

“When cars and bikes get too close,” he said, “it’s like juggling a loaded gun.”


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what’s left (in household waste) is food,” he said. “When you take that out, there’s practically zero waste. Can you imagine how little trash there would be if the whole city was doing this?”

While composting is not a new practice, it’s usually difficult for urban dwellers and even suburban residents to do well on their own. A compost heap takes up scarce yard space and often produces unpleasant odors. It takes months to properly “cook” the garbage. And it’s usually impossible to compost meat scraps and some other types of organic matter.

GTG avoids those difficulties by allowing members to dispose of their food waste in large, secure buckets that are picked up each week and replaced with clean ones. And because GTG works with Benson Farm, a commer-cial composter in Gorham, it can accept meat, bones and dairy waste.

Since starting GTG with a few friends, 12 buckets and a pickup truck, Frank said his business now serves about 1,000 households in Portland, South Portland, Cumberland, Falmouth and Yarmouth. He hopes to expand to other

southern Maine towns if there is enough demand.At the Portland Farmers’ Market, which held its first

summer market in Deering Oaks Park on April 27, GTG signed up nearly 40 new members in one day.

Mike Milliken, a West End resident, signed up in Febru-ary.

“(GTG) makes a ton of sense in urban centers, where there’s not a lot of room to compost,” Milliken said. “And it just seems like the right thing to do. Why put these things in a landfill, when we can be putting them back in nature?”

Milliken estimates that he has reduced his household waste by more than half since he began using GTG’s ser-vice. “That’s been the most significant benefit I’ve noticed,” he said. “There’s a lot less trash each week.”

To Frank, who grew up in North Yarmouth and whose family kept a compost heap, community composting is “an opportunity to make a big difference.”

And unlike composting services in some cities, which charge expensive fees and market themselves as a high-end convenience, GTG is a community-based group that welcomes participation.

The organization has a modest facility on Riverside Street and does little advertising, in order to keep its fees low, Frank said. Members can even join for free by volun-teering with GTG.

“My goal is to get people composting who otherwise probably wouldn’t,” he said. “This is important, and some day everyone will realize that.”


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Cory Fletcher, of Garbage to Garden, picks up a bucket of food waste from a home on Bridge Street in Yarmouth. The waste will

be recycled into high-quality compost.


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of the project, the owners hope to acquire some of the plaza in order to create an event center that would host conferences and large meetings.

Acquisition of the public space hinges on the city approving the design. But two previous plans were rejected after draw-ing sharp criticism from members of the public, who wanted to see the city keep the plaza and improve it.

With an uninviting appearance and a reputation for attracting illicit behavior, the plaza is now widely regarded as a failed public space. Nevertheless, opposi-tion has been strong.

“Portland has never sold a public

park to a private developer. ... It would be shameful to sell any one of them,” a group of residents, the Friends of Con-gress Square Park, wrote in a brochure.

The scaled-down design presented last week pictured a contemporary, 5,000-square-foot event center with a glass-fronted side facing Congress Street. The center would occupy most of the plaza, leaving about 4,000 square feet of it, and would require the removal of three parking spaces.

Artwork could be displayed inside the glass wall, and a rendering showed benches and small trees dotting the re-maining public space.

The goal of the design is to “reinvent” the plaza so that it relates to Congress Square and creates an “urban room,” project architect Patrick Costin said. “This will be the front hall of our city.”

No public comment was taken at the workshop, but Bruce Wennerstrom, the Westin general manager, invited people to provide feedback by contacting him at 850-2156 or [email protected].

The city’s comment period expires May 28, and the Housing and Communi-ty Development Committee is scheduled to meet again May 29, when a recom-mendation to the full council is possible.

In the meantime, public opinion re-mains divided.

“It’s a no-brainer ... Portland could turn it into a better use,” said Brendan Evans, who runs a retail shop, Strange Maine, at 578 Congress St. “This part of Portland is generating a lot of revenue for the city, and I think some of that could be reciprocated by those tax dollars going into the park and not just giving a major corporation what it wants.”

But a couple doors away, the general manager of Harmon’s & Barton’s florist said the plaza can’t be used as a park and attracts people who are bad for business.

“It’s not a big spot. To put a real park in there is just not going to work. People are just going to use it to let their dogs go to the bathroom,” Rhonda Davis said. Her business has been suffering while the Eastland has been closed, she added.

Davis also claimed people who use the plaza sometimes harass her. “They’ll come in to use our restroom, they loiter, they litter,” she said. “I’ve felt threatened, and our (customers) have felt threatened.”

Across the street at 605 Congress St., O2 Salon owner Jennifer Leigh had mixed feelings about the project.

“It can be a fun park for people-watching at times, but I feel like it’s under-utilized,” she said. “It’s also lower than the street, and it’s too deep. So if a police cruiser comes by here, they can’t see what’s going on.

“I’ve seen guests from the hotel come out, sit on a bench (in the plaza), and all of sudden they seem to realize it’s not the best place to hang out, and leave.”

Leigh said she is also not happy about the possible loss of the parking spaces, and feels the new, more modest design is still too large.

“I wish it was like three-quarters of the size it is. The way it is now, it just leaves a tiny bit of the sidewalk,” she said. “I don’t think this design looked all that different from the earlier ones.”William Hall can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 106 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @

hallwilliam4.

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An artist's rendering, looking from across Congress Street, of the event center proposed for Congress Square Plaza. A new design for the center, which would adjoin the Westin Portland

Harborview Hotel, was presented April 24.

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