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Reid Anderson, 7, (front) and Toby Harris, 7, both of the Earth School Co-op in Gorham, receive their trout “fry” in cups prior to a fish release in Trout Brook in South Portland Thursday. Recently, managers of the brook learned that the Maine Department of Envi-ronmental Quality had awarded them a $70,000 grant to implement a watershed plan, a bid to reduce pollution and runoffin the impaired watershed. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

World War II veteran reflects

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BEIJING — Name a target anywhere in China, an offi cial at a state-owned company boasted recently, and his crack staff will break into that person’s computer, download the contents of the hard drive, record the keystrokes and monitor cell-phone communications, too.

Pitches like that, from a salesman for Nanjing Xhunter Software, weren’t uncommon at a crowded trade show this month that brought together Chinese law enforcement offi cials and entrepreneurs eager to win government contracts for police equip-ment and services.

“We can physically locate anyone who spreads a rumor on the Internet,” said the salesman, whose company’s services include monitoring online postings and pinpoint-ing who has been saying what about whom.

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WASHINGTON (NY Times) — Presi-dent Obama on Thursday announced new restraints on targeted killings and nar-rowed the scope of the long struggle with terrorists as part of a transition to a day he envisions when the nation will no longer be on the war footing it has been on since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

In a widely anticipated speech at the National Defense University, Obama offered his most expansive defense of the drone war he has waged since taking offi ce, but he

signaled that he planned to wind down the strikes, which have stirred controversy at home and abroad. He imposed a higher stan-dard on authorizing such aerial attacks and shifted responsibility more from the C.I.A. to the military, and he suggested the creation of a secret court that would have to sign off on strikes in the future.

Obama also called on Congress to revise the authorization of force it passed in the aftermath of Sept. 11 to refl ect the chang-ing nature of the war on terrorism. And he

renewed his moribund effort to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, by saying that he would lift a moratorium on transfer-ring scores of detainees to Yemen.

Taken together, the president’s words and deeds added up to an effort to move the coun-try away from the perpetual war on terror-ism envisioned by his predecessor, George W. Bush, toward a more limited campaign against particular groups that would even-tually be curtailed even if the threat of ter-rorism could never be eliminated.

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OKLAHOMA CITY (NY Times) — Three days after one of the most destructive tornadoes to strike Oklahoma in decades, people here fi led into a mortuary chapel Thursday morning amid heavy rain and fl ashes of lightning for the fi rst of two dozen funerals.

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WASHINGTON (NY Times)— The House on Thursday passed legislation to head off a doubling of student loan interest rates on July 1, instead tying rates to pre-vailing market trends and ending federal subsidies.

The bill, which passed 221 to 198, kicks off what is sure to be the next fi erce showdown between House Republicans, Senate Democrats and President Obama, with a hard deadline looming in little more than a month. Republicans said they had a long-term plan that would get the

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Daley, a 90-year-old WWII veteran and resident at Scar-borough Terrace, said he will spend Memorial Day as he does many others, by being thankful for his long life and recalling the friends and col-leagues he lost along the way.

Daley served in the Air Force as a radio operator and waist gunner in a B-25 in the South Pacific.

“We had a couple of 50-cali-ber guns, one on each side of the plane,” he said. “We also had the radio receiver.”

A lifelong Westbrook resi-dent, Daley lost his first wife, Delma, in 1962. He later remarried and was with his wife, Anita, for 47 years before she passed away in December.

“I had two lovely wives,” he said, this week after a beano game. He thought back fondly on his life after wartime, reminiscing about how fortunate he was to survive the action that saw daily bombings and regular run-ins with the enemy.

He served in Guadalcanal and then in Manila, in the Philippines, and says, “that’s two years without seeing civilization, and two years without seeing a single woman!”

He remembers being in the Philip-pines, waiting for the war to end. He had a couple of brothers who were also in military — Earl was in the Navy and Charles served in the infan-try. Like Daley, they both survived the war. His brothers, now gone, add to his store of loved ones lost, but he remains upbeat and enjoys his days at Scarborough Terrace, an assisted living facility where he moved two years ago.

Asked about his most memorable wartime memory, Daley said he had quite a few, adding that it was diffi-cult to single one out. He did remem-ber one particularly harrowing experience.

“One night, I was on guard duty, guarding airplanes,” he said. “They

had ‘em spread out - 15 planes so they wouldn’t get hit, but the Japa-nese snuck in under and started strafing, They got a couple of planes, but they didn’t get me. I crawled under the back end of a Jeep to get out of the way. I was out there on my own, a 19-year-old kid. They hit three or four planes on the runway, set ‘em on fire.”

When he was in Guadalcanal, he said his unit got bombed every night.

“It was frightening,” he said. “There were many frightening nights and days. I was glad when it was over.”

Before he saw action, Daley spent two years of training in the United States, as an Air Force radio opera-tor and gunner. “Then our outfit got called to go overseas,” he said, begin-ning a stint of nearly four years in the islands of the Pacific. The time he spent there often seemed much longer, and the men would try to use routine and distraction to help pass the hours away.

“We played cards every night, played poker a lot,” he said. “I held my own at poker, and sent a little bit of money home. My mother put it away for me.”

When the war was over, and he

returned to the U.S., he was greeted with a warm reception from family

and friends.“I still had family, my

father and mother, a few of my friends. It was good to set foot on American soil,” he said. “I went to see the horse racing and ball games, drink-ing beer in the afternoon. I wasn’t looking for a job right away.”

He made the most of his post-war life, by enjoying the simple things and making good choices.

“I didn’t get into trouble. And none of my friends did either, until I got married,” he joked.

Daley understands all-too-well the pain of losing fellow airmen whom he respected. He keeps an eye on current skirmishes, by reading the newspaper and watching unfolding events on the TV.

“It’s too bad to have so much military action,” he said. “I’ll be glad when we get out of Afghanistan.”

On Monday, he will join fellow Americans in honoring those who have given their lives in defense of American

freedoms and values.

World War II veteran reflects on war and the life that came after

Marc Mailhot (left) and Henry Daley, a 90-year-old WWII veteran and resident at Scarborough Terrace. (COURTESY PHOTO)

By TimoThy GillisSPECIAL TO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN


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Cliff Gallant–––––

Daily Sun Columnist

On this Memorial Day, I can’t shake Myra Strach-ner and Bernie Staller from my heart.

At 10:30 p.m. on April 18, 1945, Myra, of 1510

Returned, unopened

Telly Halkias–––––

From the Stacks

Unionport Rd., Bronx, N.Y., settled in to write the nightly letter. Her window shades were down for a civil defense drill. This wartime restriction hid the steady drizzle from her view, but its rhythmic patter guided her pen.

Completing the note, Myra sealed it into an envelope, then scripted the recipient’s address: “Private Bernard Staller, Com-pany B, 255th Infantry Regi-ment, European Theater of Operations.”

The next morning, under a springtime sun, Myra walked to the nearest post office and dispatched her intimacy halfway around a perilous world.

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FlowersCurtis Robinson is taking the day off. See his Usually Reserved column back here in

The Sun.

Read somewhere once that Portland lies within a thin climatic belt circling the earth wherein the four sea-sons occur most distinctly. We can generally count on a cold winter, warm spring, hot summer, and cool fall.

Heraclitus, the Greek phi-losopher best known for saying that one can’t step into the same river twice, observed that change is the only constant in nature and in our lives and that we should we look forward to the change of seasons as a great opportunity for rebirth and renewal. Myself, I’m just happy that winter’s over.

Ah-h-h ... spring! Walking down Congress Street one day last week when out of nowhere the air filled with swirling bits of white. Looked like a snow squall, but turned out to be blossoms blown off trees by a gentle breeze. Amidst the traffic and conges-tion and grand affairs of the day. Got me thinking about green and growing and suddenly new growth seemed to be what the world is all about.

Truthfully, I hardly know one flower from another and generally walk by without giving them much notice, but when I started looking around for them I realized that the whole city is abloom. Some vari-ety of flower has been planted in every little bit of available space throughout the neighborhoods. One gets the impression that people have been waiting all winter to get out there and get their hands dirty, odd creatures that we are.

Any discussion of flowers in Portland has to include the Rose Circle in Deering Oaks. It’s one of the great attractions of the city and not to be missed, being internationally known for the number, vari-ety and quality of roses it contains. Its full name is the Karl Switzer Rose Circle, Karl Switzer having

been the Portland Parks super-intendent from 1937 to 1973, and known for his great love of flowers, especially roses.

There are thirty-eight vari-eties of roses and a total of six-hundred rose plants in the Rose Circle, and they are con-scientiously attended to, for sure. The park horticultural-ists follow a month-by-month

horticultural maintenance plan and their work is inspected by the Maine Rose Society, which assigns a letter grade to the quality of care. Evidently the horticultural staff gets honors grades because they are the regular recipients of Certificates of Excel-lence from the American Rose Society.

The Rose Circle is one of one-hundred and thirty-four public rose gardens in the United States that the American Rose Society uses to showcase its “All American Rose Selections.” Each year three plants each of three new varieties of roses are dis-played at the Rose Circle, enabling locals to view three varieties of brand new, not-yet-on-the-mar-ket, roses. Very cool.

The three new varieties, totaling nine plants, are contained in two appropriately marked spe-cial sections, so you can easily locate them. Just don’t pick any roses, from those sections or from anywhere else in the Rose Circle. Pilfering is a huge problem. Evidently some people seem to think that because the Rose Circle is public they can pick the roses. No, no. “Public” means they’re there for everyone.

There’s also a Deering Oaks connection to the pink tulips you see all over town. The Pink Tulip Project, a program of the Maine Cancer Foundation to raise funds to combat women’s breast cancer, was founded

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in the spring of 2006 by Robin Whit-ten, a breast cancer survivor and a member of Friends of Deering Oaks, an organization whose mission it is to preserve and protect the park. Robin conceived of the project in 2005 while attending the dedication ceremonies of the restored Castle in the Park, the intriguing small brick building by the pond. Last year the project raised over $120,000 in Maine and is gaining momentum as a national movement. If you’d like to help out, google The Pink Tulip Project and find out how you can buy some bulbs for planting this fall. The money couldn’t be going towards a better cause, and you can look forward to those sprightly pink tulips that will be coming up next spring.

Since I opened my eyes to it all, in the last few days, more or less, I’ve dis-covered, what do you know, that tulips come in an endless variety of colors. There’s red and yellow ones around the new memorial to the city’s fallen firefighters at Central Fire Station, and the Loring family has planted a wonderful bed of pink, white, and, to

my surprise, black tulips, around the memorial to Major Charles Loring up on the Eastern Prom. Black tulips. I never knew they existed. There’s even striped tulips. Spotted some red and

white ones out in front of a house on the Eastern Prom.

Then, of course, there’s lilacs. Even I know that there’s lavender and white ones and that lilac bushes can grow

to a very old age. There’s an interest-ing story about the lilac bush in the garden behind the Longfellow house, actually.

The Longfellow Garden Club, which was founded in 1924 by a woman with the fetching name of Pearl Wing, has kept the garden to the rear of the Longfellow house in much the way the three generations of the Longfel-low family who lived in the house kept it. When the Maine Historical Society Library next to the garden was reno-vated in 2007 a lilac bush dating to the time when the Longfellow family lived in the house was uprooted from the garden to facilitate the renovation and was cared for by O’Donal’s Nurs-ery Center. With the completion of the restoration project the lilac bush was returned to the garden, many of the other flowers that the Longfellow family had in the garden were rep-licated, and today the garden looks remarkably similar to the way it did when the Longfellow family tended it.

Flowers. Then as now.

(Cliff Gallant of Portland is a regu-lar columnist for The Portland Daily Sun. Email him at [email protected].)

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I entered an exhibit hall named ‘War Letters: Lost and Found’In love since the early days of

the war at age 15, nearly 700 let-ters had passed between her and Bernie, many while they were city neighbors. In Feb. 1944, when drafted, he left college at CCNY. Myra remained at NYU, and the correspondence intensified. On that April day, Bernie had been missing in action for almost a month.

In the fall of 2006, with mid-term elections approaching, Myra’s drizzle pelted me as I walked along Massachusetts Ave. in our nation’s capital. The Iraq war was faltering, Americans were restless, and mili-tary coffins arrived stateside daily.

One of the casualties included my college roommate, Dominic, who died in Iraq 10 years ago this week.

Visiting Washington, D.C. for the first time in years, the air was charged with negative electricity. Off of work that morning, I set out for our seat of government to forsake the campaign’s malice in search of my own answers. Also, on my way to Congress, I tried to beat the raindrops.

Failing at the latter, I ducked into the National Postal Museum, and drip-dried in its lobby. Waiting out the showers, I entered a dimly lit exhibit hall named “War Letters: Lost and Found,” and sought a nearby bench. Leaning against the cool marble wall, my gaze fell onto the closest showcase.

There, Myra’s letter found its way home.“Darling — I was at your house tonight. They

showed me some pictures of you ... That hair is cropped close, but still it curled around my finger as if it were grasping it. I’ve kissed those lips. Those legs were pressed against mine. I’ve held those wrists with my fingers. My hands have been in those hands. My fingers have touched those sides and both

touched lightly and dug into those shoulders. My lips have kissed that throat. And I knew you had to be alive, because you’re so alive! Do you know what I mean? Someday when we have long night hours before us, I’ll tell you all about this — how I felt, and what people said ... Until then, love, your Myra.”

Neatly displayed next to her letter was the envelope. Huddled to the left of Myra’s handwrit-ing, an official stamp heralded the unthinkable: “Deceased 4/28: Returned Unopened.”

At another time in my life, I might have dis-missed this curating as thinly veiled romanti-cizing. After all, my own time as a young soldier didn’t register much introspection when quick action was the order of the day.

But as a civilian, the exhibit also made me consider

those outside the battlefield who are scoured in the cauldron of war. The blunt verdict to Myra’s appeal punc-tuated a centuries-old reality, urging me to finish that day’s journey. Ber-nie’s and Dominic’s weathered head-stones, along with a million others facing homeward, silently concurred.

Later, my research showed that Myra went on to have a family of her own as Myra Strachner Gershkoff, and died in 1997 at age 71. Bernie had been killed in an artillery barrage just two months before the war in Europe ended, and remained forever a teen-ager, left to the ages.

As Lynn Heidelbaugh, the exhibi-tion’s curator, wrote to me recently: “Strachner’s words of love and long-ing are heartbreaking when you learn her sweetheart had died before ever seeing them. Letters have the power to connect people in tangible and personal ways that can carry into history.”

Indeed. And the history of human conflict has a way of dismantling innocence forever.

Back at the museum, and feeling disturbingly voyeuristic, I left the two young lovers to the long night

hours before them.The rain quickly passed during this reprieve. I

ventured out into the September morning, Myra’s hopeful sunshine beckoning. Capitol Hill loomed ahead, and I resumed my cynical advance unfazed.

Behind me, however, Thanksgiving had come early. Not even the foreign mud in which a 19-year-old GI fell could sully his lover’s faith. And their lost letter, once returned unopened, was delivered to me after 61 years, just when I needed it most.

(Telly Halkias is an award-winning freelance jour-nalist from Portland’s West End. You may contact him at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter at @TellyHalkias.)

In 2011, Valerie Hanlon trims the crimson bouquet variety of roses at the Deering Oaks Rose Circle. Hanlon is part of the city’s Forestry Division. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

GALLANT from page 4

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A World War II V-Mail letter, returned to sender on the home front. (Source: Smithsonian National Postal Museum)


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Loose change and other ideasBeing stuck in a rut, I headed to one of the

numerous city meetings last week. I’m not busy until hosting duties require my pres-ence at the annual “Dudefest” at One Long-fellow on the 31st. (Hint, Hint, Wink, Nudge, Nudge.) Always good for a story, you never know what is going to happen at one of the oddball committee meetings, particularly the ones held in the basement of City Hall.

This one was the neighborhood organizations meeting. From time to time, all the varied neighbor-hood orgs meet for a task force kind of thing with the at-large council members, to share concerns and ideas.

Every neighborhood had folks there: East End, WENA, Bayside, East Bayside, Parkside, Deering ... all sharing their suggestions with Council members Jill Duson and Nick Mavodones.

Sounds like a snoozer, but it sort of resembled the famed 1957 “Apalachin Meeting” in Upstate New York, where members of the varied (alleged) Mafia families met to divvy up Gaul. Every neighborhood has its own issues, and only a few of them overlap.

Problems were discussed and prioritized, every-one present voting from a list or adding to the one posted on the wall. Top of the heap was the usual issue, of homelessness and panhandling.

Rather than try the same old ideas, maybe it’s time for Portland to consider some of the new stuff batted around at that meeting. One neighborhood rep vented his frustration at the panhandling situ-ation, particularly those that wander into traffic. “One of these days, someone is going to get killed.”

He threw out an idea for Portland that was a bit of a stumper for the uninitiated. Like others, he was

tired of getting braced on Congress St. (which coun-cil members have refused my idea of renaming “Shakedown Street”) for loose change and folding green he knows is going to be used for smokes and alcohol.

The idea was prompted by his experience in New Haven. A local “scrip” currency that you buy, that can be used at any number of local retailers (like Hannaford) that CANNOT be used for cigarettes or alcohol.

Donating on the street, free from guilt. That would be a new one for Portland.

There was talk of a crackdown on urban camp-ers, those who won’t stay at the shelter system but rather would live on the outskirts in the woods. It can be dangerous, but those seeking shelter from the shelter system still find it a better alternative. I still think Portland has to completely rethink the idea of what it considers affordable housing. As the rest of the state falters, the numbers of folks headed to the service center (Portland) con-tinue to rise.

There was talk of revisiting Portland’s overly complex and constantly tweaked zoning. Tying that issue to the homelessness stuff, there were com-ments made at the meeting that show one of the major issues. Bayside and East Bayside are getting pretty irritable about every “project” being located within the neighborhood. The load has to be shared.

At one point, the mention of a “map of services” from half-way houses to shelters to pre-release centers to

sober houses was mentioned. There was such a map that is “currently being updated,” since the original dates to somewhere in the late 1990s. IF it ever does get updated and distributed, the results may stun Portland ... hence the delay.

Another mention at the meeting was a bit of a shocker, a story that seemingly everyone in the local press (self-included) seemed to miss. There was apparently an issue with the growing of medical marijuana in multi-unit apartment building on the West End. The folks that had the card had set up a grow operation in the basement, much to the land-lord’s and other tenants’ dismay. Replies of concern from tenants, the landlord, and the Portland PD were allegedly met with an invitation to get bent. Expect a sharp and severe response on this one in the coming months.

Dog poop, cigarette butts in the streets and side-walks, trashed buildings and trashed streets all had their respective moments of glory. “A little enforce-ment goes a long way” was the rallying cry ... until I pointed out that this paper had not yet seen a single report of a person getting a citation for the new smoking ordinance.

Yeah, sometimes I can be mean. Who knew?SIDE NOTE: While we are considering statements

by state officials that promised funds to rebuild Portland’s elementary schools “will be coming in the next few years,” I remind the readers that this state doesn’t even have a budget yet, and the future looks dim.

(Bob Higgins is a regular contributor to The Port-land Daily Sun. Email him at [email protected].)

It is that time of year again.Some years ago, I was invited to speak at

the graduation ceremonies of a liberal arts col-lege. Later, many in the audience told me they expected a very political speech. Some of them were relieved; others were disappointed. I don’t do politics at graduation.

Graduation is about life.My high school graduation was OK. I gave a

speech. My family was there, intact, probably as happy as they ever were (But did I know?). We went out for Chinese food afterward.

College was not so great. I’d been raped 36 hours before. My father didn’t come because I didn’t have a ticket for his wife. He said he was

sick, but I knew the truth. We had bagels at my sister’s afterward. My father bought me a gift that he kept in the trunk of his car, but then someone stole his car, and the gift was gone.

I didn’t go to my law school graduation. My father died a few months before. I was already working and didn’t have the money for a plane ticket. Besides, the whole idea of it seemed too sad.

Graduation can be very hard.Here is what I know.It’s easy to forget how lucky you are. I should

have had more fun at my high school gradua-tion. I should have had a truly wonderful time. I remember feeling sorry for myself that I was

not going to my first (or second or third or fourth) choice college, all of which rejected me. As it turned out, it was fine. As it turned out, it was the last time I remember my family happy together. Why didn’t I enjoy it more?

It’s easy to think everyone around you knows just where they’re going. Maybe they think they do, but they’re probably wrong. If someone had asked me back when I graduated from law school (by mail) what I would not be, I quickly would have told them two things: I won’t be an academic (“Those who can do, do; those who can’t teach.”), and I certainly will never be a partner in a big law firm.

And guess what? I’m an academic and a partner in a big law firm.

It’s easy to think you’re the only one whose father didn’t come, who isn’t heading for a fancy dinner, who doesn’t have a job and a life all lined up.

You aren’t. If everyone around you looks happier than you, it may be that they’re just acting. Or maybe they’re counting their blessings. Or maybe you should.

In the months before I finished law school, when I was struggling to finish what I started, when I was living on my “bursar’s card” because I literally didn’t have a dime, I found a wonderful psychiatrist who told me to read a book called “Adaptation to Life.” It was a serious study by some long-ago college cohort to determine who found happiness and success in life. And the conclusion (and the reason the wise doctor recommended it) was that what mattered most was not the hand you were dealt, but how you played it, and that “adapting” to life was more important than anything else.

When I speak at graduations, that is what I say. Do your best. Adapt. Life is about change; living well means adapting to change. Your first job will not be your last. Your first love may not last. You will win some and lose some. You will fall down and get kicked. You will be treated unfairly. It happens to everyone. It’s what hap-pens next that matters. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill.

Life requires courage, when you’re young and when you’re old.

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Cities of Portland, South Portland announce their Memorial day parades

The city of Portland with the Ameri-can Legion Post 17 will host a Memo-rial Day parade Monday, May 27 starting at 10:30 a.m. in Longfellow Square, proceeding down Congress Street, and ending at Monument Square at approximately 11 a.m., the city announced. Speeches will then be made along with a wreath laying cer-emony at the monument.

The South Portland War Memo-rial Association will hold this year’s Memorial Day Parade, starting at 10:30 a.m. Monday from the South-ern Maine Community College main parking lot and will travel west on Broadway to the Service Monument in Millcreek Park, the city of South Portland reported.

Police in South Portland warned that Broadway will be closed from Benjamin Pickett Street (by SMCC) to Ocean Street (Route 77). Motor-ists should avoid that route between 10:30 a.m. and noon, the department reported.

In South Portland, volunteers are needed to help flag Veteran’s graves on Saturday, May 25, the city added. Interested members of the public should arrive at the VFW on Peary Terrace at 9 a.m. Flagging is usually completed by 11 a.m.

Maine State Police to add patrols for Memorial day holiday weekend

Maine State Police are planning additional patrols and several special enforcement efforts beginning Friday, May 24, for the long Memorial Day weekend, the Maine Department of Public Safety reported.

The Chief of the State Police, Colo-nel Robert Williams, said Troopers will be looking for drunk and aggres-sive drivers, speeders and enforcing Maine’s seat belt and no texting laws. The chief said the Maine Turnpike and Interstate 295, the state’s two busiest roads, will be a priority for the additional enforcement, but Troop-ers also will be heavily patrolling the state’s secondary roads, he said. The State Police plane will be assisting in the weekend enforcement efforts.

“Memorial Day weekend sets the tone for the summer driving season and the State Police’s goal is to make it a safe one,” Williams said.

Two people were killed in traffic crashes during last year’s Memorial Day weekend, and three people died during the holiday weekend in 2011.

In addition to the State Police enforcement effort, 83 other local and county police agencies are taking part in the annual “Buckle Up — No Excuses” campaign cracking down on those who don’t use their seat belts. The Maine Bureau of Highway Safety has distributed just over $178,000 in federal highway safety funding to assist in the effort, which will pay for

officer’s overtime. The Maine effort coincides with the national campaign called “Click It or Ticket,” which involves police from across the county, the state reported.

Maine lawyers contribute $70,000 to match Campaign for Justice donations in 2013

In honor of the 10th anniversary of the annual Campaign for Justice, 14 donors have come forward with a chal-lenge to match individual donations this year exceeding amounts donated in 2012, the campaign reported. Pledging up to $5,000 each, the group has created a potential pool of $70,000 to match donations.

“The donating lawyers have been extremely successful in their careers and served as role models within their communities,” said Bill Harwood of Verrill Dana and the 2013 chair of the Campaign for Justice. “They are once again stepping up with hopes of inspiring all Maine lawyers to follow in their generous footsteps. This effort offers a real opportunity to make a significant 10th anniversary state-ment for legal aid.”

The Campaign for Justice brings together well-known and respected lawyers from around the state to raise funds on behalf of six civil legal aid providers in Maine: Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic, Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project, Legal Services for the Elderly, Maine Equal Justice Part-ners, Maine Volunteer Lawyers Proj-ect, and Pine Tree Legal Assistance, according to a press release about the campaign. For more information about the Campaign, visit www.cam-paignforjustice.org.

realtors group announces double-digit sales increases in Maine during spring season

The spring real estate sales season in Maine has arrived with double-digit sales increases, according to the Maine Association of Realtors. Maine Listings reported a 13.71 percent rise in sales of single-family exist-ing homes during the month of April 2013. The median sales price for the 937 homes sold statewide last month reached $174,900, an increase of 4.14 percent, the group reported. The MSP indicates that half of the homes were sold for more and half sold for less.

According to the National Asso-ciation of Realtors, nationwide sales increased 9.0 percent in the past 12 months, while the national MSP jumped 11.0 percent to $193,300. Regionally, single-family existing home sales in the Northeast rose 4.9 percent and the regional MSP of $245,100 reflects a 5.1 percent increase.

“The market in Maine continues to improve; home ownership matters to our residents,” said Bart Stevens, 2013 President of the Maine Association of Realtors. “Due to extremely attractive mortgage rates, more buyers are also making ‘quality of life’ investments by purchasing cottages, camps and other recreational properties.”

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Harold Withee–––––

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The city of Biddeford is home to a his-toric, beautiful theater, dating back to the time of vaudeville. The theater was designed by John Calvin Stevens, the world famous Maine architect, opening in 1896. The space is majestic and orna-mented, yet lends a level of intimacy and wonderful acoustics to current production LEGENDS: THE MUSIC OF JUDY GAR-LAND.

Ms. Garland was a star in every medium available during her lifetime, movies, radio, television and, of course, she started, as a child, on the vaudeville stage. She was from a generation of performers who honed their craft traveling stage to stage, each night a different town, for that reason I believe Biddeford City Theater is the perfect set-ting for this evening of visiting the Great American Songbook.

LEGENDS is a collaboration between performer Kelly Caufield (written by), Victoria Stubbs (Musi-cal Director), and Brian Allen (director and co-written by). Mr. Allen is known in Portland as the Artistic Director of Good Theater. First, I should tell you what this show is not. It is not a musical, in the plot supported by songs tradition, though the show is full of music. This is not an impersonation of or a snapshot of Ms. Garland at any point of her life. Neither is the evening about the tragic biography of this soul, but rather the show is a celebration of music.

The early 20th century was gold with rich talent creating the standards of American music. The thread through the music is, of course, Judy Garland sang them all and many became sig-nature pieces in her career. She sang Rogers, Hart, Arlen, Berlin, Lerner, Loewe, Mercer, Harburg, Eubie Blake and both Gersh-wins. This show is full of some of the most memorable music ever performed and is a wonderful reminder of the legacy this era has contributed.

LEGENDS is a performance and Ms. Caufield is the heart and center of this show. We find out throughout the eve-ning why singing “Judy” was important and the journey of putting together this evening of tribute. Ms. Caufield has the vocals to stand center stage and

sing these songs, but she goes even further. Many singers today seem keen in the aero-batic use of the voice, Ms. Caufield reaches down and emotes the music. The music is timeless because the humanity and uni-versal emotions threaded throughout these songs speak individually to each audience member. Ms. Caulfiel is unique in her abil-ity to act out every word and ferret each shred of emotion, bringing new understand-ing and levels of awareness to songs heard hundreds of times. After “Over the Rain-bow” my partner in crime turned to me and mentioned he never knew the song was so sad before, many people around me wiping away tears.

The musical direction of Ms. Stubbs is flawless and has arranged an evening of music magic. She is allowed to impress the audience and convince them she is also at ease center stage in front of a symphony when she breaks out into Chopin. Mr. Allen’s direction gives the show move-ment and has created four specific areas on stage for Ms. Caufield to work with. One area is a chaise and when reclining and looking up into the light, Ms. Caufield, with hair and make-up, looks very much like Judy Garland. Speaking of lighting, the design by Florence Cooley was superb and added the depth this show needs to become an evening of theater. Vibrant colors and large flashing sign added to the

excitement of attending a perfor-mance and Ms. Cooley was able to become intimate as well, creating nice front lighting.

The very last of the evening the sound had a few issues and the banter between Ms. Caufield and Ms Stubbs at times seemed a bit staged and static, needing to be tweaked. This show is about the music though and only plays for one more weekend. Enjoy these songs again and introduce a new gen-eration to their heritage. I believe on the live Carnegie Hall concert album, Judy is heard saying “we’ll stay all night and I’ll sing them all.” I wish Ms. Caufield had made that offer. Don’t miss LEGENDS: THE MUSIC OF JUDY GARLAND at Biddeford City Theater. Through May 26. Box Office: 207-282-0849 www.citytheater.org

(Harold Withee is a member of Actors’ Equity and SAG-AFTRA.)


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game home stand on Thursday with an 8-4 victory over the New Hampshire Fisher Cats (23-25). After losing three of the first four games at Hadlock Field, the Sea Dogs, who remain in first place in the East-ern League’s Northern Division, won three in a row.

Portland was scheduled to begin a four-game series Friday night at second-place Binghamton (26-21), before returning home for another round with the Fisher Cats starting Tuesday at 6 p.m.

Catcher Christian Vazquez took over the team batting lead (among those with at least 90 at bats) with a .298 batting average. The 5-foot, 9-inch, 195-pound, 22-year-old, who was born in Puerto Rico, has a five-game hitting streak, including a 4-for-4 performance in Wednesday’s 5-4, 10-inning victory. Vazquez was named Red Sox Minor League Defen-sive Player of the Year in 2011 after throwing out 33 percent (37-of-111) of attempted base stealers while posting a .991 fielding percentage. In 2012 he was rated by Baseball America as the best defensive catcher in the Carolina League.

Right fielder Peter Hissey upped his batting aver-age from .270 to .284, before being placed on the seven-day disabled list after coming out of Monday’s game. The 6-foot, 1-inch, 23-year-old lefty continues to lead the team with nine stolen bases.

Third baseman Michael Almanzar hit three homeruns during the week, but saw his batting average drop from .292 to .276 The 6-foot, 3-inch, 22-year-old Eastern League rookie leads the team with eight round trippers and 30 RBI.

Outfielder Tony Thomas, second on the team with

29 runs batted in, upped his average to .275. Last year in AAA Pawtucket, the 26-year-old Thomas batted .242 with 10 home runs and 12 stolen bases in just 68 games.

Twenty-year-old shortstop Xander Bogaerts saw his batting average drop from.282 to .272.

Here is the Sea Dogs schedule for the coming week:

Friday, May 24 at Binghamton, 7:05 p.m.Saturday, May 25 @ Binghamton, 7:05 p.m.Sunday, May 26 @ Binghamton, 6:35 p.m.Monday, May 27 @ Binghamton, 1:05 p.m.

Tuesday, May 28 vs. New Hampshire, 6 p.m.Wednesday, May 29 vs. New Hampshire, 6 p.m.Thursday, May 30 vs. New Hampshire, 6 p.m.

New Hampshire’s lineup features right fielder Kevin Pillar, age 24, who is among the league lead-ers in batting average (.316), stolen bases (11) and runs batted in (22). Third baseman Ryan Schimpf, 5 feet, 9 inches, age 25, has 11 home runs and 27 runs batted in from the left side of the plate.

Sea Dogs games can be heard on WPEI 95.5/ 95.9 FM Portland, WEZR 1240 AM Lewiston/Auburn, WKTQ 1450 AM South Paris and WTME 780 AM Rumford. Coverage begins 20 minutes prior to the first pitch with the pre-game show. The talented and informative Mike Antonellis, the play-by-play announcer, returns to Portland for his ninth season (17th season overall) in Minor League Baseball. Honored as the 2009 Eastern League Broadcaster of the Year, Antonellis also serves as the host of the Saturday Morning Jab on Big Jab Radio (96.3 FM and 1440 AM).

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The Portland Sea Dogs were sched-uled to begin a four-game series Friday night at second-place Binghamton (26-21), before return-ing home for another round with the Fisher Cats starting Tuesday at 6 p.m. Here, players gather in the clubhouse at the begin-ning of the season. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)


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Steve Luttrell, founder and editor of the Café Review, just returned from the other side of the pond, where he spent three weeks in foggy England. The one-time poet laureate of Port-land was invited by Dennis Harrison, owner of the Albion Beatnik Book-store in Oxford, where Luttrell read from his trove of poems more than three decades in the making. Luttrell also read at the Catweazel Club, to about 50 or 60 people, mostly Oxford College students.

“I had never been to Oxford or Cam-bridge and was intimidated,” he said. “I didn’t know what to expect, but when I got there, they were very welcoming.”

Harrison had known about the Café Review, a quarterly journal Luttrell originally co-edited with Mark Soud-ers, and Luttrell’s own poetry. Luttrell leapt at the chance to read in England and rub elbows with some of the moth-erland’s finest living writers.

“He’s tuned into every poet,” Luttrell said of Harrison. “I left Portland for three reasons. To expose my own work to a broader audience, to interact with the English poets to see what they are up to. And I wanted to see where the Café Review could land. Now it’s on sale at the Albion bookstore in Oxford.”

The new drop spot can be added to such luminary stores as City Lights in San Francisco, the Grolier bookstore in Cambridge, Ma., St. Mark’s in the Bowery in New York City, and Shake-speare and Co. in Paris.

“We’ve pretty much got it covered,” Luttrell said of the Review’s worldwide availability.

While in England, he found that rhyming poetry is alive and well there.

“Here, everywhere you go, it’s basi-cally free verse,” he said. “That’s a cul-tural difference, and I was wondering if they would like my stuff.” He did not need to wait long to find out. Well received by a tough, critical crowd, Lut-trell met several big names while in the land of the lyric.

“The trip changed me as a poet, per-sonally. It has exposed me to a world of poetry I only knew about previously from reading about,” he said. He met Michael Horovitz, who stood for elec-tion as Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2010, but came second, out of eleven,

to Geoffrey Hill.He hung out with Heath-

cote Williams, a poet, actor, and award-winning playwright whose poem “Whale Nation” trans-formed the perceptions of the whaling industry and

whose North American copyrights were sold for $100,000.

“These are giants of English poetry,” Luttrell said. “The trip profoundly changed me as a person and a poet, opened my eyes to a whole tradition that wasn’t unknown to me, but I didn’t have first-hand experience. I had read their work, but had never sat down with them, spoken with them, or gotten this kind of feedback.”

Luttrell had published Horovitz in the Café Review in volume 6 (1995), and Williams’s work was in the Review last year.

“For me to read to an English audi-ence, the response was really grati-fying,” Luttrell said. “I wasn’t sure if my stuff would be culturally different, and they might not get behind it, but they really liked it. They gave me the confidence that I could go anywhere in the English-speaking world and be appreciated.”

He said friends are always going to say nice things, but the warm recep-tion of strangers was edifying. While he was there, he wrote half a dozen poems, including one on Hyde Park, which turns out to be the size of Port-land, and one about Heathrow air-port, “as I was waiting for the plane. It begins ‘This place is a theatre.”

Luttrell said he balances writing with editing. “That’s why it’s good to work with other people (on the Café Review). On any day, an editor brings a certain bias to what he’s reading, so we pass a poem around and try to get consensus that it’s good,” he said.

Both of his newfound friends, Horo-vitz and Williams, have agreed to do interviews for forthcoming issues, probably as part of the 25th anniver-sary special.

Portland Poet Laureate Luttrell travels to England to read in Oxford, Cambridge

By TimoThy GillisSPECIAL TO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

ABOVE: Steve Luttrell, founder and editor of the Café Review (right), is shown with Heathcote Williams, a poet and actor. LEFT: Luttrell with Michael Horovitz, who stood for election as Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2010. (COURTESY PHOTOS)

“These are giants of English poetry. The trip profoundly changed me

as a person and a poet, opened my eyes to a whole tradition that wasn’t

unknown to me, but I didn’t have first-hand experience. I had read

their work, but had never sat down with them, spoken with them, or gotten this kind of feedback.” —

Steve Luttrell

On Thursday, Portland Mayor Michael Brennan and other city officials toured several immigrant-owned and operated businesses in the Portland area, when the mayor met with owners and discussed the role that immigrants play in growing Portland’s economy. The business owners detailed the impact the nation’s broken immigration system has on immigrant communities and discussed the need for comprehensive immigration reform, according to a press release about the event from the progressive Maine People’s Alliance.

“I am very happy to be here today to talk to Mayor Brennan about my business. It is funny; before I came to America, I was an advisor for the Mayor of

Bujumbura, the capitol of Burundi. Now I am driv-ing the Mayor of Portland to visit businesses owned by fellow immigrants,” said Christophe Ndikuriyo, who owns High 5 Taxi. “I came to this country seek-ing asylum and had to start new. I have built this business with the hopes of being a happy and suc-cessful businessman in America. I am very grateful for the opportunity to do this.”

During a roundtable discussion at the end of the tour, Brennan recounted the experiences of his grandmother, who immigrated to Portland from Ireland, to underscore the impact that immigrants have had on the city.

“Portland has always had a history of people

coming from all over the world to settle in this city, and the reason we have this great city now is because so many people in these countries have chosen to be here, and want to be here, and want to be a part of that American dream like my grandmother did,” said the Mayor. “I welcome people who want to be here as new residents and we look forward to work-ing with them and helping them to take part in that American dream.”

“I believe this is the American dream, to come to this country, work hard and be successful,” said Ammar Rakin, an Iraqi immigrant who co-owns the Al Hudar restaurant with his brother Ali.

— Staff Report

Business owners support immigration reform during tour with Portland mayor


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Yesterday’s Answer

HOROSCOPE By Holiday Mathis

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 thru 9.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’re after a feeling today. Who or what can give it to you? That is the question. And the answer may come in the form of a fellow fi re sign (Leo or Sagittarius) on a similar mission. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Someone will try to convince you that what you’re con-tributing is very similar to what anyone would do. It’s not. Don’t be fooled. You’re a com-plete original and great in your very own way. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). The squeaky wheel will often get the grease. But some-times it goes on squeaking and squeaking, and everyone gets so used to it that they don’t even hear it anymore. That’s when it’s time to stop squeaking and blow out. CANCER (June 22-July 22). What feel-ing can you give to another? Do it. Being masterful at spreading emotion is a super-power more important than being able to turn invisible or leap tall buildings in a single bound. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). It is said that a mind can only hold one thought at a time, but you’ll challenge that notion today by main-taining opposing ideas simultaneously. It’s not confusion; it’s expansion. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Some feel that showing enthusiasm for ideas that are not self-generated is admitting weakness. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Weak is the one who can’t forget himself and sup-port his brother. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Your work may be completely superior to the work of others, but if you don’t present it in a way that allows it to be readily accepted, it will not get the fi ghting chance it deserves. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). In a new setting, it is only natural to want to fi t in. You may feel an eagerness to please those around you. They may or may not be worthy of your efforts. Stay removed. Wait and see. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Instead of looking for omens in the falling of leaves and the fl ocking of birds, consult a maternal fi gure. Those who know you and have seen you grow will prove more prescient than you might think.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). It’s said that no one gets a free ride. And yet you may note that some people, as it appears to you at least, have a mighty smooth deal. Don’t be jealous. Your disadvantage is actually an advantage. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Right now, you are not too worried about any of it. Why not seek maximum enjoyment from your endeavors? Who knows how, but you have always found a way to pull through. Trust that. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). The lower agenda seeks attention, craves com-ment and aches for acceptance. The higher agenda is too busy trying to solve, invent, fi x, create, heal and celebrate to care what others think. TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (May 24). Show off, even if you have to create your own opportunity to do so. People need to see you. Once they do, you’ll change their views and open their minds. June and July are the most romantic months. August is your chance at a big deal, but if you don’t nail it the fi rst time, don’t despair, because October brings more chances. Practice up! Scorpio and Pisces people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 7, 20, 14, 33 and 1.

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Yesterday’s Answer

DAILY CROSSWORDBY WAYNE ROBERT WILLIAMS

Today is Friday, May 24, the 144th day of 2013. There are 221 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:On May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge, link-

ing Brooklyn and Manhattan, was dedicated by President Chester Alan Arthur and New York Gov. Grover Cleveland.

On this date:In 1775, John Hancock was elected President

of the Continental Congress, succeeding Peyton Randolph.

In 1844, Samuel F.B. Morse transmitted the message “What hath God wrought” from Wash-ington to Baltimore as he formally opened Ameri-ca’s fi rst telegraph line.

In 1918, Bela Bartok’s one-act opera “Blue-beard’s Castle” had its premiere in Budapest.

In 1935, the fi rst major league baseball game to be played at night took place at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field as the Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-1.

In 1937, in a set of rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Social Security Act of 1935.

In 1941, the German battleship Bismarck sank the British battle cruiser HMS Hood in the North Atlantic, killing all but three of the 1,418 men on board.

In 1959, former U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles died in Washington, D.C. at age 71.

In 1961, a group of Freedom Riders was arrested after arriving at a bus terminal in Jack-son, Miss., charged with breaching the peace for entering white-designated areas. (They ended up serving 60 days in jail.)

In 1962, astronaut Scott Carpenter became the second American to orbit the Earth as he fl ew aboard Aurora 7.

In 1976, Britain and France opened trans-Atlantic Concorde supersonic transport service to Washington.

In 1980, Iran rejected a call by the World Court in The Hague to release the American hostages.

In 2001, 23 people were killed when the fl oor of a Jerusalem wedding hall collapsed beneath dancing guests, sending them plunging several stories into the basement.

Ten years ago: Furious crowds hurled debris and insults at Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Boutefl ika when he visited a town devastated by a deadly earthquake. The U.S.-led coalition ordered Iraqis to give up their weapons by mid-June.

Five years ago: British actor Rob Knox, 18, who had completed fi lming a minor role in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” was stabbed to death during a brawl in London. (His attacker, Karl Bishop, was later sentenced to life in prison.) Comedy performer and director Dick Martin of TV’s “Laugh-In” fame died in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 86.

One year ago: President Barack Obama doubled down on criticism of rival Mitt Romney’s background as a venture capitalist, telling a rally at the Iowa State Fairgrounds there might be value in such experience but “not in the White House.” Brian Banks, a former high school foot-ball star whose dreams of a pro career were shattered by what turned out to be a false rape accusation, burst into tears as a judge in Long Beach, Calif., threw out the charge that had sent Banks to prison for more than fi ve years.


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SAN FRANCISCO — Sanket Sant, a citizen of India, came to the United States at age 21, earning a master’s degree in engineering, followed by a doctor-ate and then landing a well-paying job at a company making semiconductor equipment.

Then, he waited for the American government to decide if he could stay.

“I know this country better than my own country, and I still feel like an outsider,” said Mr. Sant, 35, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2006, and has been waiting for federal officials to approve his green card application for six years. “That’s the thing that bothers me.”

That is also the predicament of tens of thousands of workers here in the heart of the tech industry who were born overseas and educated in the United States. Though not living in poverty or in the shad-ows, as are migrant workers who are here illegally, they are nevertheless in a bureaucratic limbo while

they wait in a long line for a green card.Now, though, Congress is poised to end their

uncertainty.The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday

approved a broad overhaul of the nation’s immigra-tion laws on a bipartisan vote, and sent the mea-sure to the full Senate. The bill would make it much easier for science, math and engineering graduates of American universities to become permanent resi-dents.

Crucially, it would also lift the limits on how many immigrants are allowed in from each country, which has meant that citizens of populous countries like India end up waiting far longer than others.

The provisions to ease the green card process enjoy bipartisan support, reflecting a stark reality: Nearly half of all engineering graduate students at American universities are from abroad.

Technology companies, like Facebook and Micro-soft, want to hire many more of them, which is why they have lobbied to make it quicker for them to get

permanent residency. So has the Institute of Elec-trical and Electronics Engineers, a group that cam-paigns for American workers.

Still, not everyone is a fan. Mark Krikorian, execu-tive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington-based research and advocacy group, who has testified against the legislation, said easy, unlimited access to green cards for math and sci-ence graduates could encourage the emergence of “visa mills,” or schools established just to sell access to the United States. Also, he said: “American young people with bachelor’s degrees see these occupations distorted by large-scale admissions of foreign work-ers. That then changes their own decision making about what to do in the future.”

The green card provisions have been obscured by the louder, more polarizing fight between industry and labor over foreign guest worker visas, known as H-1Bs. But they stand to have a far greater impact on the men and women who drive this industry.

Mr. Sant, like many of his friends, was drawn to the United States for higher education. In 2010, the most recent year for which data is available from the National Science Foundation, a government agency, 45 percent of master’s and doctoral students in engineer-ing were from abroad, up from 35 percent in 1990 and 24 percent in 1980, according to the agency.

At some universities, the share of foreign students is even higher. At Carnegie Mellon University, which has one of the most prestigious engineering schools in the world, 62 percent of engineering graduate students came from abroad, and at the Rochester Institute of Technology, 56 percent.

This year, at the University of Southern Califor-nia, the figure is 68 percent, according to university officials.

Among those who come to study in this country, about one in three end up staying on temporary work visas, mainly through the H-1B program. An analysis by the Brookings Institution concluded that in 2010, 30 percent of those who were work-ing on H-1B visas were former students at American universities. Their wait for permanent residency can be frustratingly long, depending on their homeland.

According to data from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, more than 150,000 of them have filed for green cards since 2010; nearly a third of them are from India, the largest single block.

Kartik Shah, 29, was among them. A native of Mumbai, he went to the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, for a master’s degree in electrical engineering. He graduated in 2007 and swiftly landed a job as a software engineer at Cisco’s headquarters in San Jose, just south of here.

The company soon filed a green card application on his behalf, which it says it does for the vast major-ity of its H-1B workers. The government cleared his application, essentially ruling that his skills were needed. Then, it told him to wait.

So far the wait has been six years, and he has no idea when it will end. He is nervous about explor-ing other job options, for fear of losing his place in the green card line. (The draft bill would free up workers from their green card sponsors.)

Mr. Sant, a native of Ahmedabad, in western India, came here to earn a master’s degree, then a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, specializing in semiconduc-tors. He got a job at a company making semiconductor equipment, published papers in academic journals and earned several patents.

His wife gave up her career as a surgeon back home in India when she came to this country as his bride; under current law, a spouse of a temporary visa holder is barred from working. The draft law would grant them work papers.

Going back home is not an option for Mr. Sant. His specialty is semiconductor equipment research, and not much of it happens in India. And anyway, he says, India has changed so much in the 13 years he has been away, and he has become so much more of, well, an American. “I went to India last year. The whole culture is different. I don’t relate to it any more,” he said. “I feel home is here.”

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This meeting will be an orientation for the PAC in preparation for an upcoming Phase 2 Feasibility Study.

The May 29 meeting will include an intro-duction of new PAC members to the study process, a review of key findings from the Phase 1 study, and an over-view of the three con-cept plans previously developed.

The meeting is open to the public.

Turnpike board retains E-ZPass discount program

The Maine Turn-pike Authority Board on Thursday voted unanimously to keep the current E-ZPass Volume Based Dis-count Program in place indefinitely, the agency reported. The current discount rates were ini-tially approved by board members as a phase-in plan set to expire on July 1.

Maine E-ZPass account holders who take at least 40 one-way trips a month get an additional 50 per-cent off their entire bill for that month. Those who make between 30 and 39 one-way trips get a 25 percent dis-count. Maine E-ZPass rates are already set lower than cash tolls for most Turnpike trips, even before the Volume Discount is applied, the authority noted.

“We listened to com-muters very closely and recognized their con-cerns. It is clear that the new discount plan is popular and working well, so we are going to maintain it long-term,” said Executive Director Peter Mills. “We’re rais-ing just enough revenue to meet the needs of the Turnpike while still allowing us to deliver a very substantial dis-count to commuters using a Maine E-ZPass,”

he continued.The new discount plan

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Over 27,000 Maine E-ZPass commuters had their toll rates low-ered 50 percent in April. Another 9,600 received a 25 percent discount, an MTA press release noted.

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ABOVE: A trout “fry” swims in a cup before being released in Trout Brook in South Portland

as part of a Portland Water District project Thursday.

RIGHT: Patrick Marass, urban watershed coordinator with the Cumberland County Soil

and Water Conservation Dis-trict, talks to students about

watershed ecology.

BELOW RIGHT: Cups contain-ing fish await distribution to

elementary students.

BELOW LEFT: Reid Anderson, 7, (right) and Toby Harris, 7,

homeschooled students who attend the Earth School Co-op in Gorham, listen to a science presentation during the trout

release Thursday. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTOS)

With $70,000 state grant, water-improvement plan for Trout Brook moves closer to implementation

All eyes — and aid — turned to Trout Brook

By DaviD CaRKhuffTHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

A $125,000 water-improvement effort is trying to take small steps to reduce pollution in Trout Brook in South Portland, a 3-mile-long waterway that ulti-mately flows into the Fore River and Casco Bay.

Appropriate to its name, the brook is home to trout, some as long as 10 inches, according to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wild-life, but Trout Brook has been listed as an “urban impaired stream” by the Maine Department of Envi-ronmental Protection. Polluted runoff and increased storm flow volume from impervious surfaces such as rooftops, parking lots and roads are the culprits, officials say.

Recently, managers of the brook learned that the Maine Department of Environmental Quality had awarded them a $70,000 grant to implement a watershed plan. With matching funds from munici-palities, the total investment is estimated to be $125,000.

“The plan recommends doing a lot of small-scale (improvements), a lot of education, because of the cumulative impact of people in the neighborhood,” said Patrick Marass, urban watershed coordinator with the Cumberland County Soil and Water Con-servation District. “It’s not really big commercial developments here, it’s just a lot of neighborhoods, so people helping to add a riparian zone or buffer along the stream, working with landowners to do that, stabilizing some shorelines that are eroding; working with the city to implement a couple of best management practices (for stormwater mitigation).”

Cape Elizabeth and South Portland developed a Trout Brook Watershed Based Management Plan in collaboration with the conservation district.

Fred Dillon, stormwater program coordinator with the South Portland Water Resource Protection Department, said the goal is to implement “fairly simple but effective fixes, planning buffers along streams, rain gardens,” and other improvements.

Last year, a planning grant allowed creation of the plan, which is available online at http://www.cum-berlandswcd.org. Kate McDonald, project scientist/project manager with the district, was instrumental in overseeing the planning effort, Marass noted.

Dillon said partners needed to know what chal-lenges they faced before trying to improve the watershed.

“The Trout Brook Watershed Management Plan is an effort to identify what those impairment sources were, the sources of pollution to Trout Brook, and try to prioritize them so that we could figure out which ones to work on first,” Dillon said.

Now, it’s time to implement the plan.

Marass said high temperature can be an issue because pavement heats rainwater, which then flows into the brook, and incremental erosion can cause problems as well.

“In the more urbanized areas like this, stormwa-ter runoff is typically what causes a whole suite of problems,” he said.

“We’ve got the grant money, so it’s a 50-50 match, so when we work with a lot of landowners, if they put in the work and buy the materials, they’ll be reimbursed for 50 percent of that cost,” he said.

Landowners also can provide an in-kind match for time put in, he explained.

In a separate educational program, on Thursday, South Portland students arrived at the brook by the busload to release hundreds of baby brook trout back into the local stream in the culmination of the Portland Water District’s Classroom Hatchery Pro-gram — The Release.

Students from Dyer Elementary and Skillin Ele-mentary schools, as well as homeschooled students from Earth School Co-op in Gorham, received brief lessons on water testing and stream management before taking their small “fry” to the streambank for

release. Students had been raising brook trout since January.

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North of Nashville with Ryan Flaherty and the Burners at Big Easy, 55 Market St., Port-land, 9 p.m.www.bigeasyportland.com

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Joe Walsh, Darol Anger, Grant Gordy, and Karl Doty at One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland, $22 adv/$27 door; 8 p.m. www.onelongfellowsquare.com

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Matt Abts is shown grooving with Gov’t Mule. Pronounced Government Mule, the group is a rock and jam band formed in 1994 as an Allman Brothers Band side project. They released their debut album Gov’t Mule in 1995. Gov’t Mule has become a staple act at music festivals across North America, boasting members from other notable bands. They will perform at Merrill Auditorium on Thursday, May 30. (COURTESY PHOTO)

Isobell’s “Sea Spells” is described as “moody, haunt-ing, sometimes joyous, some-times raucous.” An album release show is Saturday, June 1 at SPACE Gallery. (COURTESY IMAGE)


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Friday, May 24

Young Athletes Festival9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Special Olympics Maine will offer its first annual Young Athletes Festival for children ages 2 ½ to 8 who have Intellectual Disabilities or Autism. The Festival will take place at the Frank H. Harrison Middle School In Yarmouth and will be conducted by Special Olympics Maine and the eighth grade students from the school. Young Athletes is an introduction to the sports offered by Special Olympics, for young children with Intellectual Disabilities and Autism. Participants will learn about catching, balance, striking, kicking, jumping, throwing and more. The students at Frank H. Harrison Middle school will run the children through a variety of fun stations throughout the event. The children will also have a chance to enjoy parachute time, bubbles, face painting, a snack and more. Each participating child will also receive a T-shirt and a medal at the end. The best part about the Festival … it is free! And you can bring similar aged siblings or class mates along also.”

Sabbathday Lake Shaker Museum10 a.m. The 2013 season of the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Museum, Route 26, New Gloucester, will open on May 24, at 10 a.m. The museum is open Mondays through Satur-days (closed Sundays), 10-4:30 through Oct. 14. Tours. Exhibits. Special events. Museum shop 926-4597. www.shaker.lib.me.us.

‘Wired’ exhibit final weekend10 a.m. to 4 p.m. “This exhibit explores the electrification of Maine during the 20th century, and how a rural state became modern. The story begins with efforts to har-ness the energy of Maine’s rivers to power small mills. It spreads as entrepreneurs, tinkerers, and investors sought to transmit that energy further and further, and to sell it to businesses and homeowners. Finally, it’s the story of Maine people: of engineers and ingenious line-men who figured out how to safely, dependably, and efficiently deliver power to the masses, and of people everywhere who overcame initial fears to embrace and then rely on electricity for almost every aspect of their daily lives.” Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St., Portland. Final weekend; $3 for children $8 for adults $7 seniors and students. www.mainehistory.org

‘Do Your Divorce Right’ authors at PPLnoon. “Justice Andrew Horton and Justice David Kennedy to speak about their book “Do Your Divorce Right” at the Portland Public Library’s Local Author Series, Friday, May 24 at noon in Meeting Room No. 5. “This book is written for people who aren’t lawyers and who are thinking about going to family court, who are already involved with a family law case, or who have a family member or friend involved in a pending or active family law case. As judges, the authors have presided over more than 10,000 trials or other court-room events in family law cases. Divorce is one of the most significant life changing experiences a person will ever live through. However, it is a process, not an event. The pro-cess goes on long after the legal aspects of the divorce are complete. The process operates on at least four levels — legal, emotional, financial, spiritual. This book attempts to address all of these levels in an interrelated manner.”

Slides of two-week visit in Israel/Palestine7 p.m. “Five New England Episcopal activists, members of the 800-strong women’s organization The Outreach Com-mittee of the Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross, will make a talk/slide presentation of their two-week visit in Israel/Palestine earlier this year. Their trip was sponsored by Sabeel, the Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in East Jerusalem. Topics to be covered include home demolitions, refugee camps, the separation wall, the spirit of the Pales-tinian people, Kairos Palestine, Rabbis for Human Rights and interfaith nonviolent direct action. Wishcamper Center, 42-44 Bedford St., room 133, University of Southern Maine, Portland campus. Sponsored by a coalition of peace and justice and religious organizations. Q/A session will follow the talk. Palestinian olive oil will be on sale. FMI: 239-8060; [email protected].”

Kierkegaard’s 200th birthday7 p.m. “This May 24-26, St. Ansgar Lutheran Church in Portland will be celebrating Soren Kierkegaard’s 200th birthday and exploring his philosophies. The centerpiece of the weekend will be ‘Seducer/Philosopher/Pietist: Reflec-tions on the life and thought of Kierkegaard,’ a presentation by Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth, Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Mount Mary College in Mil-waukee. Among the panelists are Jeremiah Conway, USM Philosophy Professor and author of the recent book The Alchemy of Teaching. The presentation will be followed by lunch and a panel conversation. All events, including lunch, are free of charge. For a complete schedule of events or list of speakers, call 774-8740, email sk@saintansgar.

org, or go to www.saintansgar.org. Happy 200th Birthday, Kierkegaard! (free film; presentation and panel discussion; lunch; worship with Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth, guest preacher). Friday, May 24 at 7 p.m. — ‘The Seventh Seal,’ the Kierkegaard-influenced film by Ingmar Bergman, with free popcorn! Saturday, May 25 at 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pre-sentation by Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth, followed by complimentary lunch and panel discussion. Sunday, May 26 at 10 a.m. Worship with Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth, guest preacher. St. Ansgar Lutheran Church, 515 Woodford Street, Portland (corner of Woodford Street and Brighton Avenue). Cost: All events are free. RSVP to [email protected] or 774-8740. (RSVP appreciated but not required.)”

Saturday, May 25

Limington Extension Yard Sales8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Limington Extension Yard Sales on Sat-urday, May 25 and every dry Saturday in June, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., 476 Sand Pond Road, Limington. Shower gel 25 cents, jeans $2. Hundreds of 25 cent items. Benefits BEHS scholarships. FMI 692-2989.

Friends of the Maine Wildlife Park plant sale9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. “It must be spring, because it’s time for the Friends of the Maine Wildlife Park annual and extremely popular annual plant sale on Saturday, May 25 through Memorial Day Monday, May 27. The Friends volun-teer group helps out the wildlife park in so many ways; this year’s fundraising is specifically for a new and more spa-cious Canada lynx exhibit. Learn more about the Friends’ ongoing projects and enjoy great bargains on spring plants, including annual and perennial flowers, vegetables & floral baskets grown in their own greenhouses! There are hun-dreds of geraniums this year — so make a point to stop at the park first when you get ready to plant your Memorial Day baskets!” The Maine Wildlife Park has over 30 species of native wildlife on display, plus wildlife gardens, nature trails, a fish hatchery and other interactive exhibits and dis-plays. The park is open daily from April 13 through Nov. 11 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; visitors must leave the prem-ises by 6 p.m. www.wildlifeparkfriends.org

Creator Expo at Casco Bay High10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sam Pierce, a senior at Casco Bay High School in Portland, is hosting a Creator Expo on May 25 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the school, located at 196 Allen Avenue. The event is free and open to the public. Sam is seeking people who explore the possibilities of what they can dream up and build using their minds and tools, and the minds and tools of their friends. They could be garage inventors, sculptors, artists, engineers, chefs, scientists, crafters, artists or others who don’t fit into any category. The expo aims to bring together families and individuals to celebrate the Do-It-Yourself mindset and showcase all kinds of incredible projects. For additional information, questions or a desire to participate in this event, please contact Sam Pierce at [email protected].

Guided Nature Hikes in New Gloucester10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Guided Nature Hikes through the fields and woods of Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, Route

26, New Gloucester, will be available at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Highlights include Loon’s Point on Sabbathday Lake, Aurelia’s Cascade, Old Grandfather and the Old County Road. Fees: $5, adults; $2, children; under 6, free. 926-4597. www.shaker.lib.me.us.

Kierkegaard’s 200th birthday luncheon10:30 a.m. “This May 24-26, St. Ansgar Lutheran Church in Portland will be celebrating Soren Kierkegaard’s 200th birthday and exploring his philosophies. The centerpiece of the weekend will be ‘Seducer/Philosopher/Pietist: Reflec-tions on the life and thought of Kierkegaard,’ a presenta-tion by Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth, Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee. Saturday, May 25 at 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pre-sentation by Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth, followed by complimentary lunch and panel discussion.”

Rich Woodall at Coast City Comics1 p.m. to 6 p.m. “Rich Woodall, the artist for the Phantom Variant cover of IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles No. 22, will be in the store for an exclusive signing event! We are the only store in Maine that carries these extremely limited covers, so this is a unique opportunity to have one of these special covers signed by the artist! Rich modeled the TMNT No. 22 Phantom Variant off of Todd McFarlane’s cover art for Hulk No. 340! It’s a great cover, and we’re really excited to host Rich for this event!” Coast City Comics. http://coastcitycomics.com

March Against Monsanto2 p.m. “On Saturday, May 25, tens of thousands of activ-ists around the world will March Against Monsanto. Events are planned to occur simultaneously at 2 p.m. Eastern in 47 U.S. states, six continents, at least 41 countries, and over 338 participating cities.” In Portland, the rally and march will take place in Monument Square. “With the rise in awareness of the harmful effects of genetically engineered foods, the corrupt political favoritism highlighted by the recent passing of the ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ in Con-gress, compiled with the ever-growing monopoly Monsanto has on the agricultural industry leaving organic and small farmers jobless and with a drastically increasing suicide rate, activists are springing up worldwide to take back our food and our lives,’ stated Whitley Newman, lead organizer of Portland’s march, Vice-Chair of the Maine Green Inde-pendent Party, and co-founder and President of the Green Initiatives Education Fund. ‘The concern is proven and the consequences of sitting back are serious. We will not back down until we’ve reclaimed our land, our democracy, and our bodies!’” . .... Prior to the march, co-sponsoring mem-bers of ARRT! (Artist Rapid Response Team- a project of the Union of Maine Visual Artists), the Green Initiatives Edu-cation Fund, Food and Water Watch, and MOFGA (Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association) will be meet-ing in Deering Oaks Park from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. during the Farmers’ Market to make signs and banners while educat-ing the public about GMO. The rally will begin at 2 p.m. and end around 3:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.greeninitiativeseducation.org, [email protected] or call (207)766-6448.”

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Old Port Festival, known as Maine’s largest one-day festival. Kick off summer in Portland’s Old Port on Sunday, June 9 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)


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‘I’m your neighbor’ reading event3 p.m. to 6 p.m. The City of Portland says “I’m your neigh-bor” with a city-wide read of “New Arrival” literature; kick-off event Saturday, May 25 in Rines Auditorium, Portland Public Library. “In the midst of a national conversation about immigration and assimilation, the refugee resettle-ment city of Portland, Maine, is debating, not policy or safety, but which book to read first. ‘I’m Your Neighbor, Portland,’ a collaboration between Portland Public Library and Curious City, will kick off at the Main Library on Monu-ment Square on May 25. The year-long, city-wide read and series of public events is designed to promote a sense of community among the diverse people who make the port city their home, featuring nine books for children and adults that are set in Maine’s ‘new arrival’ communities. The char-acters and subjects of these books made Maine their home in the last several decades and helped transform Portland into a vibrantly multiracial and multicultural community.”

Civil War talk by MacIsaac at the Fifth Maine7 p.m. Kim MacIsaac, Fifth Maine Regiment Museum Cura-tor, Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, 45 Seashore Ave., Peaks Island. $5 per person. “The Civil War exacted an enormous loss of life and property on Americans, both North and South. How did those on the battlefields and at home cope with the war and its aftermath? What was the emotional toll paid by civilians and soldiers? Fifth Maine curator, Kim MacIsaac, looks at how the soldiers and their families dealt with death and loss on the battlefield and at home both during and after the war. The Fifth Maine Regi-ment Museum is a nonprofit museum and cultural center housed in the 1888 Fifth Maine Regiment Memorial Hall. Its mission is the preservation of Civil War and local history. To that end the museum offers a wide variety of lectures, concerts, tours, youth education programs, and commu-nity activities. Membership is open to the public.” For more information call 766-3330 or email [email protected].

Sunday, May 26

Sea Dog Dash8 a.m. “Time to dust off those running shoes, and get moving! That’s right, it will soon be time for the first annual Sea Dog Dash for Independence. On Sunday, May 26 at 8 a.m. put your best foot forward in our 5k, 10k or 1-mile fun run starting and finishing at the Brunswick Junior High School. More information and online registration is available at www.SeaDogDash.com.”

Worship with Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth10 a.m. “This May 24-26, St. Ansgar Lutheran Church in Portland will be celebrating Soren Kierkegaard’s 200th birthday and exploring his philosophies. ... Worship with Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth, guest preacher. St. Ansgar Lutheran Church, 515 Woodford St., Portland (corner of

Woodford Street and Brighton Avenue). Cost: All events are free. RSVP to [email protected] or 774-8740. (RSVP appreciated but not required.)”

‘Transforming Water’ with ChIME10:30 a.m. “‘Transforming Water,’ an invitation to allow yourself to be soothed by this most fundamental of all ele-ments. Come explore how water nourishes us over and over again through ritual, music, meditation and story. Our lead-ers in worship will be ChIME students Carol Gosselin and Lori Whittemore. All are welcome. This worship service will be held at the Portland New Church, 302 Stevens Avenue in Portland. NOTE: This will be the last service of the ChIME school calendar. Services will resume every other Sunday with the beginning of the 2013-14 school calendar. For more information, please contact ChIME by email or visit our website at www.chimeofmaine.org.”

Monday, May 27

Memorial Day parade in Portland10:30 a.m. The city with the American Legion Post 17 will host a Memorial Day parade Monday, May 27 starting at 10:30 a.m. in Longfellow Square, proceeding down Con-gress Street, and ending at Monument Square at approxi-mately 11 a.m. Speeches will then be made along with a wreath laying ceremony at the Monument. http://www.ci.portland.me.us

South Portland’s Memorial Day parade10:30 a.m. South Portland’s Memorial Day parade is sched-uled for Monday, May 27, beginning at 10:30 a.m. The route is from Southern Maine Community College to the Service Monument in Millcreek Park. There will be significant traffic impacts along the route, starting around 10:30 a.m., until approximately noon. Along with other road closures in the area, Broadway will be closed from Benjamin Pickett Street (by SMCC) to Ocean Street (Rte. 77). Motorists should avoid that route between 10:30 a.m. and noon, but should be able to use Highland Avenue to skirt the closures. For additional details about this event, contact Charlie Gavett at 899-3159 or 671-7092.

Tuesday, May 28

‘Democratization ... Recent Kenyan Elections’noon to 1:30 p.m. Global Connections Lunchtime Series: “Democratization and the Recent Kenyan Elections” with David Zarembka, at CIEE, 300 Fore St., second floor, Port-land. Presented by the World Affairs Council of Maine. Bring your lunch. Free, donations appreciated. For more informa-tion visit www.wacmaine.org or call 221-4386.

DEPA ‘Business After Hours’5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The DownEast Pride Alliance “Busi-ness After Hours” Networking Event, Tuesday, May 28, The Salt Exchange, 245 Commercial St., Portland. “Join us this month for business networking for GLBT & gay-friendly

business professionals. Free. Cash bar, lite food & media table provided for sharing business cards. Sponsored by Proactive Resources, Norman, Hanson & DeTroy, Liz Win-feld of RBC Wealth Management and Diane Newman of State Farm. FMI www.depabusiness.com.”

Flatbread benefit for Women in Harmony5 p.m. to 9 p.m. “Flatbread Pizza benefit for Women in Harmony, a 60-plus chorus of women’s voices singing for social justice. Please join us at Flatbread’s Pizza, 72 Commercial St., Portland on Tuesday, May 28 from 5-9 p.m. Kids’ music and activities from 5-6 pm; wonderful acoustic music with Pretty Girls Sing Soprano from 7-9 pm. A portion of all pizza will be donated to Women in Harmony. Please join us! “

DownEast Pride Alliance networking5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The DownEast Pride Alliance “Busi-ness After Hours” Networking Event at the Salt Exchange, 245 Commercial St., Portland. “Join us this month for busi-ness networking for GLBT & gay-friendly business profes-sionals. Free. Cash bar, lite food and media table provided for sharing business cards. Sponsored by Proactive Resources, Norman, Hanson & DeTroy, Liz Winfeld of RBC Wealth Management and Diane Newman of State Farm. FMI www.depabusiness.com

Cancer & Faith: Facing the ‘New Normal’6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. “A cancer diagnosis can lead to a deeper faith or inspire us to seek new spiritual resources. Join this interfaith panel to discuss the crossroads of cancer and faith: Jennifer Mancini, Buddhist Hospice Chaplain; Rosie Wohl, Communal Jewish Chaplain; and Rev. Jill Job Saxby.” To register call 774-2200. Cancer Community Center, 778 Main Street (Route One), South Portland. http://www.can-cercommunitycenter.org/ProgramRegistration.htm

Peacemaking after Deadly Conflict7 p.m. “David Zarembka, coordinator of the African Great Lakes Initiative of the Friends Peace Teams, will speak on Tuesday, May 28 at 7 p.m. at the First Parish Unitarian Uni-versalist Church of Portland, 425 Congress St., Portland. His topic will be Peacemaking after Deadly Conflict: Healing and Reconciliation in Rwanda, Burundi, and Kenya. David has worked in the African Great Lakes region for over forty-five years, and currently resides in Kenya. Since 1988 he has been the coordinator of AGLI, a Quaker based orga-nization which organizes peacemaking activities through local groups in that area. Based on the Alternatives to Vio-lence Project (AVP), the group’s Healing and Rebuilding Our Communities program has helped hundreds of individuals and communities heal from the Hutu-Tutsi genocide as well as more recent trauma experiences. The event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church, First Parish Church of Port-land, and the Portland Friends Meeting. For further informa-tion contact Cushman Anthony, telephone 781-4591, or at [email protected].”

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Wednesday, May 29

‘The Truth of All Things’ at PPLnoon. Kieran Shields to speak about “The Truth of All Things” at the Brown Bag Lecture Series Wednesday, May 29 at noon in the Rines Auditorium. “Shields will appear at the Portland Public Library’s Brown Bag Lecture Series on Wednesday, May 29 at noon to speak about his book ‘The Truth of All Things,’ a chilling debut novel set in Port-land, Maine in 1892. In the book, Shields weaves a page-turning tale of ritualistic serial killings inspired by the Salem witch trials and introduces readers to a pair of unforgettable investigators. It’s as a riveting and wholly original start to a fascinating new series.”

Westin Portland Harborview proposal5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Portland City Council Chamber, Hous-ing and Community Development Committee public meet-ing. This will be a single-item agenda to receive public input on the Eastland at Westin Portland Harborview presenta-tion/proposal, for purchase of a portion of Congress Square Plaza for development of an event facility. At this meeting, the HCDC members may vote on a recommendation to the City Council or outline a process for further consideration. http://www.ci.portland.me.us

Author talk with Beth Harmon6:30 p.m. Author talk with Beth Harmon, Chimney Pond Tales. Refreshments will be served. Prince Memorial Library, 266 Main St., Cumberland. FMI 829-2215

Thursday, May 30

‘Beyond the Arab Spring’noon to 1:30 p.m. Global Insights Noontime Ambassador Program: “Beyond the Arab Spring: A Moroccan Perspec-tive” with Rachad Bouhlal, Ambassador of Morocco to the United States, at University of Southern Maine, Wishcam-per 133, Portland. Presented by the World Affairs Council of Maine. $10 suggested donation at the door. Bring your lunch. For more information visit www.wacmaine.org or call 221-4386.

Maine Literary Awards ceremony6 p.m. “The winners of the 2013 Maine Literary Awards will be revealed live at a ceremony on Thursday, May 30 at 6 p.m. at SPACE Gallery in downtown Portland. The event is free to Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance members with a suggested $10 donation for nonmembers.” For more infor-mation or questions about the awards, call 228-8264 or email [email protected]

‘Duck and Cover’ with Acorn 7:30 p.m. The New York Theatre Company in collaboration with Acorn Productions, presents Michael Kimball’s Duck and Cover, opening May 30 at the Acorn Studio Theatre in West-brook. Michael Kimball, author of past Acorn Studio Theater hits ‘Best Enemies’ and ‘The Secret of Comedy,’ introduces his new play ‘Duck and Cover,’ winner of the 2013 Northern Writes Festival’s ‘Best Play’ award, to area audiences in this new production, directed by Acorn Acting Academy faculty member Stephanie Ross. The play features a ‘Father Knows Best’ family, happily sheltered in 1962 suburbia, who tries to maintain its innocence during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the arrival of eccentric jazz trumpeter Uncle Bunny.” Performances of “Duck and Cover” take place Thursday through Sundays from May 30 to June 9. The production runs May 30 to June 9, Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $15 ($12 for students and seniors), and they may be purchased on-line at www.acorn-productions.org or by calling Acorn at 854-0065.

Friday, May 31

The Portrait Show at Constellationnoon to 4 p.m. “Portraiture has been an accepted part of the art canon since cave people made pictures of animals on walls. Today with the expansion of digital culture, a portrait can be many things and represent many things — countries, animals, people, even ideas. Come see how the members of the Maine Artists Collective (MAC) reinterpret the theme in assemblage, painting, mixed media, water-color, sculpture, photography and digital art. The Portrait Show runs from May 31 to June 24, at Constellation Gallery, 511 Congress St. in Portland. Gallery hours are Monday to Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. A reception is planned for First Friday, June 7 from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.” about.me/ann.tracy

Westbrook Together Days4 p.m. Annual Westbrook Together Days May 31 to June 1. “Westbrook Together Days is a two-day festival that is fun for families and residents of all ages! The event begins on

Friday at 4p.m. to 10 p.m. and all day on Saturday from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday the event begins with a 5k run/kid’s 1/2 mile fun run and concludes with a 30 Minute fire-work display. This event typically attracts 15-20,000 people and this year is Westbrook’s 34th annual Together Days event.” http://westbrooktogetherdays.com/schedule

‘Tip-A-Cop’ event at Applebee’s4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. “South Portland Police Officers will be working a ‘Tip-A-Cop’ event at Applebee’s at 200 Running Hill Road on Friday, May 31 from 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. The prceeds will go to Special Olympics. Bring the whole family and come out for a great meal, get served by some great South Portland Police Officers and leave a tip for Special Olympics.” https://www.facebook.com/southportlandpolice?fref=ts

League of Women Voters of Maine5:30 p.m. “The League of Women Voters of Maine (LWVME) will host its Biennial Convention on Friday, May 31 and Sat-urday June 1 in the Burton Fisher Meeting Room at One City Center in downtown Portland. The event will feature a series of speakers on voting issues including money in elec-tions, recent efforts to limit voting and allow early voting, and what that all this means for Maine voters. ... Conven-tion kicks off on Friday evening beginning at 5:30 with a presentation by Posie Cowan from Blue Hill, who recently stumbled upon a piece of American history while cleaning out a space in her father’s attic. What she assumed was just an old box of dusty drapes and loose scrap material was actually a box filled with banners used during the women’s suffrage movement of the early 1900s. She dis-covered that her great-grandmother was one of the origi-nal suffragists who marched on Washington for women’s right to vote and who were arrested for their efforts and beliefs. On Saturday, Convention reconvenes at 9:30 a.m. and the agenda features three important speakers talking about elections and voting: Amy Fried, political science professor at the University of Maine and columnist for the Bangor Daily News; BJ McCollister, Program Director for Maine Citizens for Clean Elections; and Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap. For additional details go to: www.lwvme.org. The meeting is open to the public. Registration is $40, which includes breakfast and lunch on Saturday. For registration information, visit http://www.lwvme.org/con-vention.html.”

‘Guys and Dolls Jr.’ in Standish7:30 p.m. “Schoolhouse Arts Center will present ‘Guys and Dolls Jr.’ from May 31-June 2. Guys and Dolls Jr. is based on a story and characters by Damon Runyon, music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. Come to Damon Runyan’s mythical New York City and be re-introduced to the colorful characters who have become legends of musical theater: the upright, uptight mis-sion doll Sara Brown; Sky Masterton, the slick high-rolling gambler who woos Sara on a bet; Adelaide, the nightclub performer whose chronic flu is brought on by waiting 14 years for a proposal from Nathan Detroit, her devoted, but commitment-phobic fiancé. ‘Guys and Dolls Jr.’ is directed by Bruce Avery. Performances of ‘Guys and Dolls Jr.’ will be held May 31 at 7:30 p.m., June 1 at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m and June 2 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults $8 for students and seniors and $5 for children under 5. School-house Arts Center is located at 16 Richville Road (Route 114) in Standish, just north of the intersection of Route 114 and Route 35. Call 642-3743 for reservations or buy tickets on-line at www.schoolhousearts.org.”

Film: ‘The Source Family’7:30 p.m. “The Source Family was a radical experiment in ‘70s utopian living. Their outlandish style, popular health food restaurant, rock band and beautiful women made them the darlings of Hollywood’s Sunset Strip; but their outsider ideals and the unconventional behavior of their spiritual leader, Father Yod, caused controversy with local authorities. They fled to Hawaii, leading to their dramatic demise. Years later, former family members surface and the rock band reforms, revealing how their time with Father Yod shaped their lives in the most unexpected ways. ‘The Source Family’ provides an intimate, insider’s view of this incredible group of people through their own archival photos, home movies and audio recordings, and through contemporary interviews with members of the family. Serving as a highly personal guide to the counter-culture movement of the early ‘70s, the film is inspired by the cult-classic book ‘The Source: The Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13, and The Source Family’ (Pro-cess Media) which was written by Isis Aquarian and Elec-tricity Aquarian and edited by director Jodi Wille.” SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland. 828.5600. Doors open at 7 p.m., film begins at 7:30 p.m. Admission $8, $6 for SPACE members and students w/ ID.

Maine Maritime Museum in Bath offers “Instruction: About Boating Safely Class,” Tuesday and Thursdays, June 11 to June 20, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Nonmembers pay $80; members pay $75. “Gain the basic knowledge to safely trailer, navigate and operate a small vessel, needed in some states to obtain a boat license or a safety certificate. Taught by members of the Coast Guard Auxiliary. Register by June 4. For more info or to enroll visit www.MaineMaritimeMuseum.org or call 207.443.1316, ext 0.” Above is a view of Peaks Island. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

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A pug named General Chesty enjoys a stroll with his master through Fort Williams in Cape Elizabeth Thursday morning.

ABOVE: The Portland Farmer’s Market in Monument Square bustles on Wednesday. A Saturday market operates in Deering Oaks Park. LEFT: Buds come alive in a view toward Ram Island Ledge Light at Cape Elizabeth.

At Fort Williams, Connecticut residents Ted Dobieski (left) and wife, Donna, are joined by son, Steve, of Cape Elizabeth (right) at an overlook near Portland Head Light. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTOS)

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CMP offers tree planting advice

Central Maine Power reported that it observed Arbor Week, May 20-24, by distributing nearly 7,000 free seedlings to schools and community organizations throughout its 11,000-square-mile ser-vice area.

But the utility cautioned that trees can interfere with power lines, disrupt-ing electric service and even posing safety haz-ards, so the utility urged people to “plan before they plant.”

“Keeping trees away from power lines enhances safe, reliable service, so our tree crews prune along almost 4,800 miles of lines each year, ” said Tom Irwin, head of vegetation management for CMP. “As an arborist, I know the best way to have healthy trees and reliable service is by choosing the right trees for your location.”

Proper selection and placement of trees near overhead power lines can eliminate potential haz-ards and improve the appearance of your prop-erty, the utility noted. CMP encouraged people who would like to plant a tree to “plan before you plant,” and offered the fol-lowing tips:

• Before planting, look around the area for power lines and other hazards, and keep in mind that today’s sapling will even-tually grow into a mature tree many times its cur-rent size.

• Avoid planting trees directly underneath power lines or too close to electric facilities.

• Trees like white pine, maple, ash, fir and spruce that will be 60 feet or taller when mature should be planted no closer than 60 feet from the nearest power line.

• Trees like crabapple, juniper, and dogwood that will be no more than 20 feet tall at maturity may be planted as close as 15 feet from the power line.

• If plantings must go beneath lines, consider shrubs such as common lilac and burning bush or dwarf trees that will not grow up into the lines.

Seedlings were distrib-uted to schools and com-munity organizations in the following cities and towns: Appleton, Belgrade, Camden, Falmouth, Farm-ington, Greene, Guilford, Hope, Lewiston, Mount Vernon, New Gloucester, Oakland, Oxford, Port-land, Sabattus, Saco, San-ford, Searsport, Solon, Topsham, Westbrook and Yarmouth.

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