the portland daily sun, tuesday, may 3, 2011

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This graffi ti message on a Portland-based Muslim community center sparked outrage and condemnation Monday. “The individuals who defaced the Maine Muslims Community Center in the City of Portland this morning dishonor this memory and dishonor the brave service-men who are engaged in the daily battle against terrorism and in support of core American values and freedoms,” said Mayor Nick Mavodones. “This kind of bigotry does not belong anywhere and it certainly does not belong in my home town.” (Photo courtesy of Jay York)

Two LearningWorks volunteers remove graffi ti from the Maine Muslims Community Center in Portland Monday afternoon, rapidly responding to the defacement. (MATT DODGE PHOTO)

'Spoiler' no more? Green Party sizes up mayoral race

Shrugging off the label of electoral "spoilers," members of the Maine Green Independent Party embraced Portland's new rank choice voting system as a third-party-friendly approach to electing the city's mayor.

"I think it will encourage people to run positive campaigns, and rather than

Enjoying a light moment at the Maine Green Inde-pendent Party convention in Brunswick Sunday, (from left) Whitley Newman, David Marshall and Tom MacMillan listen to party election results and awards. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

BY DAVID CARKHUFFTHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

BBQ goes offbeat at Deux Cochon

One new chef in town doesn't care if you like his pallet-bending pork creations — it just means more for him and the adven-turous epicureans willing to step up to the plate.

“I love pickled pig’s feet, they are so good, but people are kind of scared of them,” said Adam Alfter, owner of the

BY MATT DODGETHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

see BBQ page 6

see GREEN page 3

Police plan 'heightened' patrols amid Muslim center vandalismAnti-Islam message

widely denounced;

mayor weighs in

Portland Police are planning “height-ened” patrols around the city’s three mosques this week after anti-Islam graf-fi ti appeared yesterday on a Muslim com-munity center in East Bayside.

Chief James Craig said he spoke with offi cials at the Maine Muslim Community Center yesterday, telling them that offi -cers would “be in the area.” He also urged

BY CASEY CONLEYTHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

see VANDALISM page 15

Gogi leads list of blog’s looked-up restaurantsSee the Locavore section, page 6

U.S. foreign policy: The kings we crown

See Opinion on page 4

Portland fi refi ghters earn promotions

See the story on page 16

— THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Tuesday, May 3, 2011

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How happy are you?

SAYWHAT...The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”

—Dalai Lama

SOMERVILLE, Mass. — When they fi lled out the city’s census forms this spring, the people of Somerville got a new ques-tion. On a scale of 1 to 10, they were asked, “How happy do you feel right now?”

Surveys are asking resi-dents like Lee Simonds about their city, as well as questions that seem plucked from a personality test.

Offi cials here want this Boston suburb to become the fi rst city in the United States to systematically track people’s happiness. Like leaders in Britain, France and a few other places, they want to move beyond the traditional mea-sures of success — eco-nomic growth — to promote policies that produce more than just material well-being.

Monitoring the citizenry’s happiness has been advo-cated by prominent psy-chologists and economists, but not without debate over how to do it and whether happiness is even the right thing for politicians to be promoting. The pursuit of happiness may be an inalienable right, but that is not the same as reporting blissful feelings on a ques-tionnaire.

So far, more than 7,500 people have mailed back the survey, some of them clearly not limiting their answers to municipal con-cerns. In response to the question “How satisfi ed are you with your life in general?” one man gave himself only a 6, explain-ing, “I would like to be three inches taller and speak Quechua fl uently.”

In some ways, Somerville is a perfect test tube for such an experiment. Sandwiched between Harvard and Tufts Universities, the city is a blue-collar bastion with a growing population of young professionals and academ-ics. Somewhat less lovely than its upscale neighbor, Cambridge (but with lower rents), Somerville used to be renowned for crime and nicknamed “Slummerville,” but its reputation and priori-ties have been changing as it gentrifi es.

“We need to change our mind-set in how we serve people,” said Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, who has been hailed at the White House for the city’s pioneering program against obesity. He called the happiness survey “a no-brainer” that he approved as soon as it was suggested.

“Cities keep careful track of their fi nances, but a bond rating doesn’t tell us how people feel or why they want to raise a family here or relocate a business here,” Mr. Curtatone said.

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WASHINGTON — Calling it a “good day for America,” President Obama said on Monday that the death of Osama bin Laden had made the world “a better place,” as new details emerged about the overnight raid and fi refi ght in Pakistan that killed him.

“The world is safer,” Mr. Obama said as he appeared at a White House ceremony bestowing the Medal of Honor to two soldiers killed in the Korean War. “It is a better place because of the death of Osama bin Laden.”

Bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda and the most hunted man in the world, was found not in the remote tribal areas along the Pakistani-Afghan border where he has long been presumed to be sheltered, but in a large compound in the city of Abbotta-bad, about an hour’s drive north from the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.

The compound, only about a third of a mile from a military academy of the Pakistani Army, is at the end of a narrow dirt road and is roughly eight times the size of other homes in the area. It has no telephone or Internet connections. When American operatives converged on the residence early on Monday morning, Bin Ladeån “resisted the assault force” and was shot in the head and killed near the end of an intense 40-minute gun battle, senior administration offi cials said.

The raid carried extraordinary risks — and not just from Bin Laden and those with him in the compound. As the sound of battle shook the night, Pakistan scrambled jets to respond to a military operation that its military had not been informed was taking place.

“They had no idea about who might have been on there, whether it be U.S. or some-body else,” said President Obama’s coun-terterrorism adviser, John O. Brennan, in a

briefi ng on Monday. “So we were watching and making sure that our people and our aircraft were able to get out of the Paki-stani airspace, and thankfully there was no engagement with Pakistani forces.”

Mr. Obama and his national security advisers gathered in the White House to follow the raid, which had been planned and carried out in extreme secrecy. “It was probably one of the most anxiety-fi lled periods of time, I think, in the lives of the people who were assembled here yes-terday,” Mr. Brennan said. “The minutes passed like days.”

The tensest moment for those watching, he said, was when one of two helicopters that fl ew the American troops into the compound broke down, stalling as it fl ew over the 18-foot wall of the compound and prepared to land. The team blew it up and called in one of two backups. In all, 79 com-mandos and a dog were involved in the raid.

President Obama considered other options that would have been less risky, like an air strike, but ultimately opted to send in commandos because, Mr. Bren-nan said, “it gave us the ability to mini-mize collateral damage” and “to ensure

that we knew who it was that was on that compound.”

Even a day later, not all of the details of the operation were known; some may never be. Offi -cials did say that Bin Laden resisted arrest, but it was not clear, Mr. Bren-nan said, whether he opened fi re himself.

One of Bin Lad-en’s wives, who was living in the com-pound with him, identifi ed his body after the fi ghting

stopped, and offi cials said the Central Intelligence Agency analysis found a “virtually 100 percent” match between his DNA and that of several mem-bers of his family.

The whereabouts of Ayman al-Zawahri, Al Qaeda’s second-in-com-mand, were unclear.

The administration disclosed that military and intelligence offi cials fi rst learned last summer that a “high-value target” was being protected in the compound, and they began working on a plan for going in to get him. Beginning in March, Mr. Obama presided over fi ve national security meet-

ings at the White House to review plans for the operation. On Friday morning, just before leaving Washington to tour tornado damage in Alabama, Mr.. Obama gave the fi nal order for members of the Navy Seals and C.I.A. operatives to strike.

Three men besides Bin Laden were killed during the 40-minute raid, one believed to be his son and the other two his couriers, according to an American offi cial who briefed reporters under White House ground rules forbidding further identifi ca-tion. A woman was killed while shielding Bin Laden — Mr. Brennan said she was Bin Laden’s wife, but other offi cials sug-gested she was not — and two other people were wounded.

“No Americans were harmed,” Mr. Obama said in a late-night televised state-ment, adding that the American operatives “took care to avoid civilian casualties. After a fi refi ght, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body.”

Muslim tradition requires prompt burial, generally within 24 hours, but American authorities found a way to comply with that requirement while denying his followers a shrine. His body was washed in accordance with Islamic custom, placed in a white sheet and then inside a weighted bag, a senior defense official said. Aboard the air-craft carrier Carl Vinson in the North Arabian Sea, a military officer read religious rites — translated into Arabic — and then the body was placed on a board, tipped up and “eased into the sea,” the official said. Mr. Brennan said that the raid was intended to capture Bin Laden, though those who planned it assumed he would resist. “If we had the opportunity to take him alive, we would have done that,” he said.

American intelligence offi cials said that the team removed a large trove of docu-ments and materials from the residence, and that the C.I.A. was just beginning to go through it.

President Obama said at the Medal of Honor ceremony on Monday that the world was a safer place without Osama bin Laden (Doug Mills/The New York Times).

Obama: world ‘safer’ without Bin LadenBY STEVEN LEE MYERS AND

ELISABETH BUMILLERTHE NEW YORK TIMES

Osama bin Laden, here in Afghanistan in 1998, was killed in a fi refi ght with United States forces in Pakistan on Sunday (Rahimullah Yousafzai/Associated Press/The New York Times).

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Tuesday, May 3, 2011—

having the so-called spoiler, Ralph Nader effect, which is not true at all ... it will totally separate that, because there are no spoilers in rank choice voting," said Tom MacMillan, a Maine Green Party steering committee member who lives in the West End of Portland.

Portland this year embarks on an elected-mayor campaign that replaces a council-appointed mayor with one elected to an at-large seat. Through a city charter change, voters also will choose their next mayor through rank choice voting, where if any candidate falls short of a major-ity, then the "second choice" votes come into play in the tabulation.

MacMillan is working on the may-oral campaign for Portland's David Marshall, an incumbent city coun-cilor and Green Party member seek-ing the elected-mayor offi ce. Another Maine Green Party member, former state legislator John Eder of Port-land, announced in February his can-didacy for the Mayor of Portland.

Green Party members said rank choice allows people to vote their conscience instead of feeling they're casting a vote on a potential "spoiler" who could drain votes away from one of the two major parties.

Wells Staley-Mays, an attendee at the Maine Green Party's annual con-vention Sunday in Brunswick, drew on history to illustrate another role of a strong third party.

"I always like to use the example of the Liberty Party," he said. "I'm sure the Democrats and the Whigs looked upon the Liberty Party as spoilers, but the Liberty Party people like our own Samuel Fessenden of Port-land, Maine, hung in there year after year after year. I know by the time it morphed into the Free Soil and then ultimately into the Republican Party, it had changed dramatically, but it kept the antislavery agitation going, just like I see the Green Party keeping the ecological and environ-mental focus going."

Founded in 1984, the Green Party focuses on environmental and social justice messages. The party counts itself the oldest state Green Party in the country. But for the nation's oldest, Maine's Green Party is skew-ing young, observers agreed.

"The new steering committee is much younger than the old one was," Staley-Mays said. "So I have a lot of faith in the future. I think the voting refl ected that. We elected younger leadership, and they're bright and they're dedicated. I feel great."

MacMillan, who is considered

one of the rising stars of the Green Party, won a seat on the party's steer-ing committee and was named New Green of the Year during Sunday's convention.

"I wanted to run because I think the Green Party is the best method for changing politics in Portland and across the state, and I want to be part of the change," MacMillan said, noting this was his fi rst convention.

John Rensenbrink, a steering com-mittee member whom Staley-Mays called one of the "gray-haired elders" elected Sunday, has discussed party strategy. In a statement on the par-ty's website (http://mainegreens.org), he urged a grassroots approach that

sought offi ce from the bottom up."Party activists, spurred by Ben

Chipman and Anna Trevorrow, the Party Chair, were able to recruit and assist 18 Greens around the state to gain qualifi ed ballot status as candidates for the state House and Senate," Rensenbrink wrote in a summary of 2010. But campaign-fi nance rules and other hindrances made it diffi cult for candidates to qualify, he noted.

"The party needs to re-focus its thinking on the grassroots and now turn its attention in a serious way to building the party starting at the town level and on up to the county level," Rensenbrink wrote.

Tom MacMillan, who lives in the West End of Portland, pours a cup of coffee just before winning New Green of the Year award at the Maine Green Independent Party convention in Brunswick Sunday. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Wells Staley-Mays comments on this year’s convention of the Maine Green Independent Party during a lunch break at the con-vention in Brunswick Sunday. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

GREEN from page one

Convention tilts young, focuses on grassroots success


Elks hoops contest information updated regarding Isabel Dawson

Editor,(To Jeff Peterson, who wrote about Isabel

Dawson, 9-year-old contestant in an Elks free throw contest, "Youngster aims for national free throw title," Saturday): You wrote a story in Satur-day's April 30, 2011 paper about Isabel Dawson who was competing in the Elks National Champion-ship in Springfi eld, Mass. She fi nished fourth in the nation with 21 out of 25.

The big winner was also from Maine Portland Lodge of Elks. His name was Henry Westphal who won the 8- to 9-year-old national championship for boys with 25 out of 25. He also won the top shooter for all age groups in a shoot off with an older boy. They both shot 25 for 25 in their divi-sions. Then in the shoot-off both made 40 for 40 before Henry won the overall title of best shooter for all age groups and earned another trophy.

Over 3 million kids started the contests at the beginning of this year which boiled down to 72 fi nalists for the National Championship in three boys and three girls divisions.

Thought you would like to know.

David H Chute, CFPSouth Portland

There is an old legend about a horse that starved to death. He died between two equidistant piles of hay, but could never bring himself to make a deci-sion over which pile to eat. Both looked so attractive and tasty, he just couldn’t make up his mind.

How does this remind me of Portland.

Last week, the city had two convention center/hotel projects dumped on the doorsteps on the planning offi ce. Like those leg-endary piles of hay, both have their relative tastiness merits.

Not since the famed politically connected Olympia Companies versus Ocean Properties Maine State Pier Project from a few years back has the city council found itself in such a position. That time around, the horse died as well.

With all my prognostication powers as Captain Obvious, I hereby proclaim the summer of 2011 to be forever known as “The Summer of Indecision.”

For those out of the loop last week, here is a brief rundown of both proposals.

Portland positioned between two piles of hay

First out of the gate was that pale horse from Shipyard Brew-ing. Fred Forsley, owner of the brewery and associated land located near the bottom of India Street tossed his proposal for a 100k-square-foot convention center, a 200- to 300-room hotel, a four-year culinary arts school, and some condominiums. All are to be built on his property around the brewery.

The next dark-horse came running out of the gate the very next day. John Jennings and William Ryan, both principal owners of the Maine Red Claws and managing partners in their proposal tossed out their plans for a 3,500-seat arena at Thompson’s Point, along with a 700-car garage, two offi ce build-ings, a 48k-square-foot conven-tion center and restaurant, and

a 125-room hotel.Jennings proposal comes with

a $100 million price tag, and he freely admits that it will be “diffi cult if not impossible to do without a TIF (Tax Increment Financing).”

Forsley’s proposal has no price tag, yet. He’s looking for a TIF, too.

Suddenly, Portland fi nds itself stuck between mono-rail and trombone salesmen. You might even think that the swiftness with which both proj-ects appeared was the result of somebody hitting the Powerball lottery, or fi nding some pirate treasure under a rocky Portland coast.

Nope. We’re still struggling with putting together the $200 million municipal budget. No doubloons here.

So what is causing this to happen so suddenly? A lot of folks are out of work. Construc-tion has never been cheaper, labor wise.

Banks that have money to lend on commercial loans will only back those with a good history,

see HIGGINS page 5

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Isabel Dawson fi nished fourth in the nation at the Elks National free throw cham-pionship, a reader reports. (COURTESY PHOTO)


but the money has never been cheaper to borrow.The real estate market thinks it has seen the

bottom, or at least felt the murky bits between the toes.

Municipalities seem eager to get involved in just about anything that promises to create jobs.

There are two forces left to contend with. The NIMBY’s and The BANANAS. The NIMBY crowd is easy to spot, wanting not a single project to be built “Not In My Back Yard.” They are easy to spot, but hard to win over to your development cause.

BANANAS are a tougher group, who gener-ally oppose everything. The acronym standing for

“Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Any-thing,” I expect they’ve examined both properties already looking for rare fl ora and fauna, looking for vernal pools, and various other forms of uni-corn-spotting.

The one big group that will be hard to win over is folks like me. I’m for development, but if you’re going to do it, do it yourself. Every time I hear of someone going to the city to ask for a TIF, I cringe. I remember the lessons of Old Orchard Beach and the famed ballpark for the Maine Guides. OOB was stuck with the loans for the ballpark construc-tion after Jordan Kobritz sold the Maine guides.

I look to the waterfront, and see the municipal albatross that is the $25 Million dollar Ocean

Gateway terminal. Would have been nice if that had worked out, but when the CAT high speed ferry to Nova Scotia decided Portland was off the list of stops, construction was half done, and the money already spent.

So here we are again, stuck between two piles of hay. To both parties involved, make that pile of yours as sweet looking as possible, for we are known around here as slow to move to one pile over the next. Asking for a TIF upfront on day one just covered that pile with bucolic end product, making it that less attractive.

(Bob Higgins is a regular contributor to The Portland Daily Sun.)

HIGGINS from page 4

When dueling developments arise, city leaders put to the test

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Mark Moyar–––––

The New York Times

Until very recently, no one would have predicted that Barack Obama would be forcing foreign leaders from power with greater regularity than George W. Bush. The president maintains that the United States is not playing kingmaker, but is merely enabling people to choose their lead-ers. But history indicates that the president’s choice of a provisional leader may have a much greater impact on a country’s political future than the desires of its people.

Nowadays, the United States has great infl uence when it comes to select-ing who rules between the collapse of an authoritarian regime and the hold-ing of elections. American support put Mohamed Hussein Tantawi in charge of Egypt’s provisional government in February. Libya’s National Transi-tional Council and Yemen’s Vice Presi-dent Abd al-Rab Mansur al-Hadi are most likely next.

Unfortunately, we have repeat-edly ruined transitions to democ-racy by backing provisional leaders who broke promises to govern virtu-ously and instead focused on staying in power and silencing their politi-cal opponents. Isaias Afwerki, whom Washington endorsed as head of Eritrea’s provisional government in 1991, went on to stifl e dissent and obstruct democracy with such effi -ciency that he remains in power 20 years later. In 1999, the West sup-ported Hashim Thaci as interim head of an autonomous Kosovo, only to watch him engage in ethnic cleansing and exploit his newfound power and prestige to win election as prime min-ister in 2008.

The Iraqi election of 2005 brought to power Ibrahim al-Jaafari, who combined ineptitude in governance with brutal persecution of Sunnis. His behavior proved so harmful that the Bush administration pushed him out. And the countries that anointed Hamid Karzai head of a provisional Afghan government in 2001 now deplore his 10-year-old regime for electoral fraud and corruption.

The danger of a perpetual provi-sional government has already sur-faced in Egypt. Last week, protesters demanded the resignation of Mr. Tantawi, their onetime ally, after he rounded up political dissenters. The same danger lurks in Yemen with Mr.

Hadi, who spent decades as a senior aide to an authoritarian ruler.

Transitions from authoritarian-ism to democracy also fail regularly because the provisional leadership lacks the will or ability to protect itself from enemies inside or outside the government. In 1917, Russia’s provi-sional leader, Aleksandr Kerensky, fell in four months because he could not match the political and mili-tary strength of the Bolsheviks. After the 1979 Iranian revolu-tion, the provisional government of Mehdi Bazargan — which the Carter administration supported in place of the shah — lasted nine months before Ayatollah Ruhol-lah Khomeini forced Bazargan’s resignation.

How can we avoid these pit-falls? For starters, we can spend more time researching prospec-tive candidates. We embraced Mr. Thaci, who, European inves-tigators now say, headed a crimi-nal organization that murdered Serbs and harvested their organs. In Iraq, we empowered Ahmad Chalabi, despite his conviction for embezzling millions of dollars in Jordan. American policymakers and diplomats must also avoid giving preference to intellectuals, technocrats and opposition politi-cians. We tend to favor those who wax eloquent about democracy and moderation, hold advanced degrees and speak English. But these traits are usually irrele-vant, or worse.

Many unsuccessful provisional leaders — like Mr. Karzai, Mr. Bazargan and a variety of Iraqis — possessed all these traits. Grand in vision, they lacked the organizational ability and force of personality to translate ideas into reality. Preferring concilia-tion to confrontation in dealing with opponents, they were under-mined or thrown out by men

more devious and ruthless than they.Mahmoud Jibril, the leader of the

National Transitional Council of Libya, bears a disturbing resemblance to those failed leaders. An intellectual technocrat, he holds an American doctorate and has written several books, but has not shown an ability to manage or lead. Meanwhile, char-ismatic Islamic radicals are gathering supporters in the rebel armed forces and on the sidelines.

Very rarely do we fi nd a career intel-lectual like Vaclav Havel, who suc-ceeded in leading Czechoslovakia to democracy after the 1989 Velvet Rev-olution. Provisional leaders with the best records of success tend to have

executive experience, like Lech Walesa of Poland and B. J. Habibie of Indone-sia, or years of service in parties or legislatures, like Patricio Aylwin, who led Chile to democracy after the Pinochet dictatorship. Common to all of these successful leaders was a willingness to stand up to injustice and subversion — and personalities strong enough to sweep others along with them, but not so strong that they alienated fellow elites. These are the qualities President Obama must seek.

(Mark Moyar is the author of “A Question of Command: Counterinsur-gency From the Civil War to Iraq.”)

The kings we crown

(New York Times image by Otto Dettmer)


This style of pulled pork sandwich sold out by midafternoon in the fi rst three days of operation at Portland’s Deux Cochon. (Photo courtesy of FromAway.com)

Public Market House’s newest BBQ joint, Deux Cochon.

“Probably about three people will eat it and I'll eat the rest of them, but I'm cool with that, because those three people get to know what it's like,” said Alfter.

Coming to Portland by way of BBQ hot-spot Austin, Texas, Alfter has an extensive resume in food and a daring, artistic attitude toward meat. “I’m going to do some funky stuff here, I consider myself an artist … and a big food dork,” he said.

Alfter’s “funky stuff” will likely include (but by no means be limited to) pickled pigs feet or “trotters,” bone marrow and head cheese, a cold cut originating in Europe made with the fl esh from the head of a pig and often set in a gelatin. “The kind of people that are going to appreciate that are the kind of people I want to cater to,” he said.

Deux Cochon has already received considerable attention from the Port-land food blog set, including reviews by FromAway.com (“This is barbecue

unlike any we have seen in the Port-land area”) and Bryan Bruchman of Hillytown.com (“Deux Cochon is — and I need to breathe a sigh of relief every time I say this — an amazing BBQ joint. Yes, in Maine.”)

Alfter said the shop is set apart from traditional BBQ thanks to his propensity for pickling and curing meats. “People essentially did that in the past before massive refrigeration to make it last longer, so I’m taking on all these old, old methods of doing things,” he said.

Deux Cochon’s signature pulled pork sandwich comes topped with a curious garnish some New England-ers might not immediately recognize in pickled okra, and a little bit of plate-dressing speaks both to Alfter’s southern roots and antiquated preser-vation techniques.

The week-old shop located at the former location of all-day breakfast spot Peanut Butter Jelly is Alfter’s temple to porky goodness, and as its slaughter-chart signage would sug-gest, not a place for the meat wary.

BBQ from page one

see CAFE page 9

Eatery not for the meat wary

Every month, Portland food blog PortlandFoodMap.com releases a list of the restaurants looked up most often on their site. The list can act as a useful barometer in determining hot new dining spots around town, and this month, two brand-new, diffi cult to describe BBQ joints top the list.

Gogi, a Korean BBQ at 653 Congress offers something new to the local Asian food scene. Margo Maller reviewed the restaurant soon after its opening and said in a Daily Sun piece, “The Gogi menu is an homage to the Asian-Hispanic fusion of big cities like Los Ange-les. The kimchi vegetables are crisp and fl avorful. In wise defer-ence to the general Maine public, the kimchi heat is mild.”

Maller’s fi nal take on the new BBQ spot? “The folks at Gogi apparently looked at the fast-cheap-good trinity and refused to choose. As a consequence, they defy the business pundits in a pretty way: they’re pretty fast, pretty cheap and pretty good.”

Over at the Public Market House, Deux Cochon is something of a science lab for experiments in pork. (See the “BBQ goes offbeat at Deux Cochon” on page one for more on chef Adam Alfter’s fi rst eatery venture.)

Third on the list is Petite Jac-queline, a Steve Corry creation on the West End. Renovations at 190 State St., formerly Evangeline restaurant, on Longfellow Square, resulted in this French bistro style restaurant. Petite Jacqueline is owned by Steve and his wife, Michelle, and Liz Kayo.

Following are the 10 eateries looked up most often in April on Portland Food Map. The number in parentheses indicates last month’s rank.

1. Gogi (-)2. Deux Cochon (-)3. Petite Jacqueline (1)4. Figa (20)5. District (7)6. East Ender (3)7. Bar Lola (9)8. Caiola’s (4)9. Boda (6)10. The Merry Table (42)

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Gogi leads look-up stats on Portland Food Map



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Congregation Bet Ha’am in South Portland wel-comes the public to a plant sale fundraiser, and to observe and help with the planting of wheat and building of garden beds by the congregation’s stu-dents. The event will take place starting at 9 a.m. Sunday, May 15 at Congregation Bet Ha’am, 81 Westbrook St., South Portland.

The event schedule is as follows: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Annual Plant Sale. “A great selection of locally dug perennials, vegetable seedlings and shrubs, all at great prices.” 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. — Wheat Plant-ing. “The wheat planting will take place adjacent to the plant sale. Observe or help our students plant our very fi rst wheat crop.” 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. — Build Raised Bed Gardens. “Come join us for hands-on learning under the direction of the Cultivating Com-

munity. ... Last month’s Mystery of Matzah event explored the origins of wheat and the possibilities of growing it in our own back yards. We’ll be putting our new skills into practice by planting our very fi rst crop of wheat. Also, our annual plant sale will help raise money for our student-driven vegetable garden project in partnership with Cultivating Community. Plant sale items are cash or check only, please.”

During the fi rst weekend of April, the public par-ticipated in a “Mystery of Matzah” event. Elisheva Rogosa — scholar, organic farmer, artisan baker — was the special guset for “The Mystery of Matzah: Jewish teachings on farming, food and commu-nity.” The weekend focused on learning and matzah baking. Rogosa is the founder of the Heritage Wheat Conservancy (www.growseed.org). She works in the U.S., Israel and Eastern Europe to restore Heritage grains made nearly extinct by current industrial

farming practices. In a USDA-sponsored project at the UMass Crop Research Farm in Amherst, she is testing the viability of farming some 96 varieties of heritage wheat in New England.

The Mystery of Matzah events were part of a larger program at Congregation Bet Ha’am called Sowing Seeds, Braiding Community. The Congre-gation received funding for this program from the Union for Reform Judaism’s Incubator Grant, which selected the Sowing Seeds, Braiding Community program as one of only 20 grant recipients from a fi eld of nearly 170 applicants nationwide, organizers announced. Rare heritage wheats will be planted locally and harvested this summer, and the crop will be processed into fl our and baked into bread to share with the community.

For more information, visit Congregation Bet Ha’am at www.facebook.com/BetHaam.

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The Groceria Café above Pat’s Meat Market on Stevens Avenue closed last year, much to the alarm and concern of patrons of the restaurant.

Last November, a Facebook fan wrote, "Does anyone know if Pat's plans to reopen? I miss the charming movie set atmosphere, great service and fantastic food."

Owner Jaime Vacchiano has con-fi rmed the café is coming back.

"We may be fi ve, six weeks away," he said last week, while offering a tour of the renovated upstairs space.

"I had leased it for the last fi ve years, and now I have it back with Greg Gilman, who is the original chef

who built it with me. He's coming back. Everybody's excited," Vacchiano said.

The café won rave reviews in local media, and one patron who dined at the café in its early years said Gil-man's return is great news.

"We've missed him and it's won-derful that he's coming back because he's a really creative, wonderful chef. There are certain chefs that you click with and certain ones you don't, I always clicked with Greg," the patron noted.

For updates on the reopening, visit http://caféatpats.com.

— David CarkhuffThe interior of soon-to-open Groceria Café on Stevens Avenue underwent an extensive renovation, owner Jaime Vacchiano reports. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Owner: Groceria Café on the comeback trail

After her fi rst pilgrimage to Fore Street’s hottest new burger joint in Five Guys Burger and Fries, local penny-pinching blogger Alex Munier got to thinking about one missing ingredient to this foodie city.

“There are all these new restaurants opening up in Portland all the time, but there is one large gap being left in the market that i would like to see fi lled: affordable food with sit-down atmosphere,” she writes.

Blogging from Broke207 (see “Blog Watch: Young, hip, broke and frugal” 12/22/11) Munier attempts to master the art of living on the cheap, while feel-ing like you are still “living”, and sees the city’s lack of cheap, casual (but not too causal) dining to be in short supply.

“On the cheap is easy when you’ve got diners and pizza and burger places up the yaz. Upscale is easy if you can afford it. There also appear to be an inex-plicable amount of Asian restaurants cropping up on every corner… but when my mom refuses to eat

Indian food, and i only have $20, where do we go?” writes Munier.

In the age of “grass fed beef with walnut fennel chutney”, Munier pines for dining options more in touch with middle class economics.

“I would love to see people opening restaurants with a greater awareness of A) how many similar restau-rants already exist in the area, and B) the fact that we’re pretty much all [expletive] broke … we also need to be able to afford things that aren’t just pizza and french fries. oh, and we want the food to taste good.”

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Adam Alfter has always been a fan of “the other white meat.” Barbecue eatery Deux Cochon speaks to that love, offering a range of pork-based menu items, from pulled pork sand-wiches to plans more eclectic offerings such as pickled pig’s feet and “head cheese,” a gelatin-based cold cut made from flesh from a pig’s head. (MATT DODGE PHOTO)

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“I’m sure vegetarians will get it right away. This is not going to be a palace of carrots with a big pig on the sign — they know what they are getting into,” he said.

The eatery was born of a backyard BBQ blow-out Alfter hosted with a former room-mate (“Deux Cochons” or “Two Pigs” was the duo’s sly allusion to their own gluttony). Alfter soon envisioned his fi rst foray into res-taurant management as a chance to extol the virtues of “the other white meat” in all its forms.

“My fascination ini-tially was just because of taste — I actually prefer pork over cow,” said Alfter, though he adds, “though I do love a good steak, like any good, red-blooded American.”

“[Pork] is very versa-tile, you can really use everything,” said Alfter, who suggested that an aesthetic-centric atti-tude toward cooking has robbed many of the opportunity to expand their pallet.

“People are so used to cryo-vac pieces of meat. Good cuts look very pretty, so people don't have experience with

stuff like the bones,” he said. “You can take those and roast them and eat out the marrow with a baguette and it’s one of the best things ever — that’s my death row last meal. I want to share it with people and get them into it like I am.”

A journeyman who has hung his chef’s hat in kitchens from Puerto Rico to Canada, Alfter found his way to Port-land when a culinary school buddy and owner of Market House neigh-bor Karmasouptra con-vinced him to make a pit stop en route to Montreal to cook soup for the winter.

“Initially I thought it was a bad idea when I got here and realized how cold it is, but I acclimated eventually,” he said.

When the chance arose for Alfter to run his own Market House eatery, he jumped at the chance to ply his trade at one of Port-land’s busiest markets. “The second fl oor of the Public Market House attracts a very diverse group of people,” he said.

“I’ve met an incred-ible amount of artists, poets, musicians and other chefs — it’s just a cool place to hang out. I I just moved here and

didn’t work here, it’s probably where I would come for coffee or to get a bite to eat,” he said.

By networking with Market House regulars and other shops, Alfter has managed to draw on the location’s con-siderable traffi c to sup-port his own venture. Deux Cochon’s t-shirts, featuring the shop’s signature pig butch-ering diagram, was printed by Tim Goldkin of Infi ni-T’s, and Alfter has been experimenting with a new sauce which includes espresso from Market House Coffee.

Alfter’s plans for Deux Cochon’s future include a massive summer BBQ event, as well as a little animal husbandry — he hopes to buy several pigs from a local farmers, and is even considering keep-ing one for a pet.

“I won’t let him know about his friends. I understand they are very smart animals, so hopefully he doesn't speak English,” said Alfter.

(Questions, com-ments? Reporter Matt Dodge can be reached at [email protected].)

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HOROSCOPE By Holiday Mathis

ARIES (March 21-April 19). You go out of your way to get mental perspec-tive. No one can accuse you of missing the forest for the trees. You’ll see the trees, the forest, the continent they are on and the curve of the planet. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’re not sure how far to take an idea. There are expenses involved, and you’re not sure whether it would be worthwhile to incur those expenses. The answer is: not yet. Don’t put your money into this until you are certain. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Stay-ing on course will be a challenge. Your mind fi res in many directions at once. Your social interaction may feel unfo-cused. Yet the whimsy of your mood produces bits of creativity that turn out to be both interesting and lucrative. CANCER (June 22-July 22). There’s something you could do better if you had formal instruction in it. The training is not as diffi cult to get, time consuming or costly as you think it will be. Go for it! LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). There is a person who goes in after you clean, polish and present all the work you’ve done. Honor and praise this often-unsung helper. Make your appreciation widely known. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). If you have thoughts that are inappropriate or prejudiced, keep them to yourself and don’t worry too much. This is only a sign that you have let down your guard and are in a highly creative mode. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). What a bit of fun you’ll get into today. Some might even call it trouble, and they wouldn’t be far off, either. But it’s the kind of fun/trouble that bubbles up and

then recedes just as quickly. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You might take certain shortcuts when you’re walking alone, but you wouldn’t bring others down the same potentially treacherous path -- too risky. Your pro-tective nature emerges tonight. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You’ve worked hard to achieve a cer-tain standard in your work, and now you need to work just as hard to market it. The response you receive will be directly correlated to the number of times you put yourself out there. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You infuse your activities with the quali-ties that make you shine: attitude, vision and creativity. A little nuisance project could be the start of a huge enterprise. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You’ll have double the energy of yesterday, so don’t let it go to waste. Go beyond what you did yesterday. If you walked a mile, walk two. If you read an article, fi nish the whole magazine. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’ll benefi t by trying to see the other side of an equation. For instance, maybe it’s not the people involved in a problem who are to blame for it, but the situation and environment they are in. TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (May 3). You have skills, and the next 10 weeks bring several opportunities to apply them and gain maximum personal and fi nancial satisfaction. July brings the attainment of a treasured possession. Domestic life gains fresh energy in August. You’ll attract fans in September. You share a special connection with Scorpio and Cancer people. Your lucky numbers are: 7, 40, 18, 43 and 14.

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custard 14 Declare openly 15 Wed on the run 16 Actor’s part 17 Short note 18 Sailor’s beacon 20 Most common

conjunction 21 Frothy drinks 22 Oscar hopeful 23 Incite to action 25 Black-and-white

seabird 26 Red Delicious and

McIntosh 28 Gets the soap

suds off 31 Vexes 32 Part of a girl’s

school uniform 34 Edge 36 Classic board

game 37 “God __ you!”

38 Actress __ Flynn Boyle

39 __ and haw 40 Jet or Cessna 41 Apple drink 42 Whispered

confi dence 44 Stupefying 45 Chop down 46 Purple shade 47 Shoe bottoms 50 Falls behind 51 Muhammad __ 54 Dessert choice 57 Wineglass part 58 Pig’s noise 59 Musical sounds 60 “As ye sow, so

shall ye __” 61 Throw 62 Seashore 63 __ up; tallies

DOWN 1 Tibetan monk 2 Odd’s opposite 3 Pen name

4 __-part; dual 5 Large stringed

instruments 6 Interplanetary

visitor 7 Journals 8 Speedometer

letters 9 “Ready, __, go” 10 Dresses 11 Clumsy person 12 Additionally 13 __-do-well; loser 19 Place habitually

frequented 21 Ice __; frigid

historical times 24 Mirth 25 Haughtiness 26 Part of the foot 27 Stacks 28 Ascend 29 Wiped out 30 Fire engine’s blare 32 Bench board 33 Barbie’s beau 35 Actress

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TUESDAY PRIME TIME MAY 3, 2011 Dial 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 5 CTN 5 Lighthouse Jubilees Healthvw Community Haskell-House Bulletin Board

6 WCSHThe Biggest Loser The contestants receive makeovers. (N) Å

The Voice “Blind Auditions, Part 2” Vocalists per-form for the judges. (N) (In Stereo) Å

News Tonight Show With Jay Leno

7 WPFOGlee “Rumours” April comes back to Lima. (N) (In Stereo) Å

Raising Hope (N) Å

Traffic Light (N) Å

News 13 on FOX (N) Frasier (In Stereo) Å

According to Jim Å

8 WMTWDancing With the Stars “The Encore” (N) (In Stereo) Å

Dancing With the Stars Another couple is elimi-nated. (N) Å

Body of Proof “All in the Family” A father is found stabbed to death.

News 8 WMTW at 11PM (N)

Nightline (N) Å

10 MPBNNOVA Archaeologists explore Machu Picchu. (In Stereo) Å (DVS)

Frontline “Fighting for al Qaeda” Future of al-Qaida. (N) Å

Independent Lens “A Film Unfinished” Film about life in the Warsaw Ghetto. (N) (In Stereo) Å

Charlie Rose (N) Å

11 WENHAre You Being Served?

Keeping Up Appear-ances

As Time Goes By Å

Reggie Per-rin Å

Outnum-bered Å

The Red Green Show

Globe Trekker Markets in Tunis, Tunisia; Tamer-za. Å (DVS)

12 WPXTOne Tree Hill Jamie has his first little league game. (N) Å

Hellcats Savannah and Nasty Kathy butt heads. (N) Å

Entourage “Malibooty”

TMZ (N) (In Stereo) Å

Extra (N) (In Stereo) Å

Punk’d (In Stereo) Å

13 WGMENCIS “Baltimore” Tony revisits his time in Balti-more. (N) Å (DVS)

NCIS: Los Angeles Deeks must protect his main informant. (N)

The Good Wife “In Sick-ness” Patti Nyholm wants to hire the firm.

WGME News 13 at 11:00

Late Show With David Letterman

17 WPME Smarter Smarter Lyrics Lyrics Curb Saver Star Trek: Next

24 DISC Deadliest Catch Å Deadliest Catch (N) American Chopper Deadliest Catch Å

25 FAM Movie: “Lemonade Mouth” (2011) Adam Hicks Funniest Home Videos The 700 Club Å

26 USA Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law Order: CI

27 NESN MLB Baseball: Angels at Red Sox Innings Red Sox Daily Dennis

28 CSNE Ball Up Streetball Preview Celtics Sports SportsNet Sports SportsNet

30 ESPN Year/Quarterback Audibles (N) (Live) Baseball Tonight (N) SportsCenter (N) Å

31 ESPN2 Festival Football SportsNation Å Audibles (N) Nation Festival

33 ION Without a Trace Å Criminal Minds Å Criminal Minds Å Criminal Minds Å

34 DISN “Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior” Suite/Deck Suite/Deck Suite/Deck Wizards Wizards

35 TOON Looney Gumball King of Hill King of Hill Amer. Dad Amer. Dad Fam. Guy Fam. Guy

36 NICK My Wife My Wife Chris Chris Lopez Lopez The Nanny The Nanny

37 MSNBC The Last Word Rachel Maddow Show The Ed Show (N) The Last Word

38 CNN In the Arena (N) Piers Morgan Tonight Anderson Cooper 360 (N) Å

40 CNBC One Nation 60 Minutes on CNBC 60 Minutes on CNBC Mad Money

41 FNC The O’Reilly Factor (N) Hannity (N) Greta Van Susteren The O’Reilly Factor

43 TNT NBA Basketball: Celtics at Heat NBA Basketball: Grizzlies at Thunder

44 LIFE American Pickers Å American Pickers Å How I Met How I Met Steel Divas (N) Å

46 TLC Strongest Toddler Tallest Children Extreme Extreme Strongest Toddler

47 AMC Movie: ›››‡ “The Sons of Katie Elder” (1965, Western) John Wayne. Movie: “McLintock!”

48 HGTV First Place First Place Property Property House Hunters Property Property

49 TRAV Bizarre Foods Bizarre Foods Bizarre Foods Bizarre Foods

50 A&E The First 48 Å The First 48 Å The First 48 Å The First 48 Å

52 BRAVO Housewives/OC Bethenny Ever After Pregnant in Heels (N) Pregnant in Heels

55 HALL Little House Frasier Frasier Frasier Frasier Gold Girls Gold Girls

56 SYFY “Star Trek V: Frontier” Movie: ››› “Serenity” (2005) Nathan Fillion. Å Mutant Ch

57 ANIM The Blue Planet Å Blue Planet Blue Planet The Blue Planet Å

58 HIST Larry the Cable Guy Larry the Cable Guy How the States Modern Marvels Å

60 BET Movie: ››‡ “Barbershop” (2002) Ice Cube. Fa. Affair Fa. Affair The Mo’Nique Show

61 COM Ron White: Beh Tosh.0 Tosh.0 Tosh.0 Macdonald Daily Show Colbert

62 FX Movie: ›› “Death Race” (2008, Action) Jason Statham. Movie: ›› “Death Race” (2008)

67 TVLND All/Family All-Family Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond Roseanne Roseanne

68 TBS The Office The Office The Office The Office The Office The Office Conan (N)

76 SPIKE Repo Repo Auction Auction Auction Auction Repo Auction

78 OXY The Bad Girls Club Love Games: Bad Girls Love Games: Bad Girls Movie: “Phat Girlz”

146 TCM Movie: ›››‡ “A Day at the Races” (1937) Movie: ›› “Stablemates” (1938) Fast Comp

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Today is Tuesday, May 3, the 123rd day of 2011. There are 242 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:On May 3, 1911, Wisconsin Gov. Francis

E. McGovern signed the fi rst U.S. workers’ compensation law to withstand constitu-tional scrutiny. (Previous attempts in Mary-land, Massachusetts, Montana and New York were struck down.)

On this date:In 1791, Poland adopted a national con-

stitution.In 1802, Washington, D.C., was incorpo-

rated as a city.In 1916, Irish nationalist Padraic Pearse

and two others were executed by the British for their roles in the Easter Rising.

In 1933, Nellie T. Ross became the fi rst female director of the U.S. Mint.

In 1948, the Supreme Court ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks or members of other racial groups were legally unenforceable.

In 1960, the Harvey Schmidt-Tom Jones musical “The Fantasticks” began a nearly 42-year run at New York’s Sullivan Street Playhouse.

In 1971, the National Public Radio pro-gram “All Things Considered” made its debut.

In 1979, Conservative Party leader Mar-garet Thatcher was chosen to become Brit-ain’s fi rst female prime minister as the Tories ousted the incumbent Labor government in parliamentary elections.

In 1986, in NASA’s fi rst post-Challenger launch, an unmanned Delta rocket lost power in its main engine shortly after liftoff, forcing safety offi cers to destroy it by remote control.

In 1991, author Jerzy Kosinski was found dead in his New York City apartment; he was 57.

One year ago: BP declared it would pay all “legitimate and objectively verifi -able” claims related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad (FY’-sul shah-ZAHD’) was appre-hended aboard a fl ight preparing to depart New York for Dubai.

Today’s Birthdays: Folk singer Pete Seeger is 92. Actress Ann B. Davis is 85. Singer Frankie Valli is 77. Sports announcer Greg Gumbel is 65. Pop singer Mary Hopkin is 61. Singer Christopher Cross is 60. Coun-try musician Cactus Moser (Highway 101) is 54. Rock musician David Ball (Soft Cell) is 52. Country singer Shane Minor is 43. Actor Bobby Cannavale (ka-nuh-VAL’-ee) is 41. Music and fi lm producer-actor Damon Dash is 40. Country musician John Hopkins (Zac Brown Band) is 40. Country-rock musician John Neff (Drive-By Truckers) is 40. Country singer Brad Martin is 38. Actor Dule (doo-LAY’) Hill is 36. Country singer Eric Church is 34. Dancer Cheryl Burke is 27. Actress Jill Berard is 21.

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Goldblum 5 Juan Peron’s wife 10 Float on the wind 14 Iridescent

gemstone 15 Preferences 16 Vocalist Fitzgerald 17 George Harrison

song 20 “Schindler’s List”

star 21 Barber’s

sharpener 22 “Les Miserables”

author 24 “The Streets of

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Dawber 33 Test-pilot Chuck 35 __ Stanley

Gardner 37 Bye-bye! 39 Loose rock debris

40 Where one wanders

43 Shinbone 44 Egomaniac’s

obsession 45 List-ending abbr. 46 Very, very 48 After-hours 50 Pen on the farm 51 __ Moines 52 Hero, briefl y 54 Constellation

member 56 Choir members 58 Hebrew prophet 62 1959 hit by the

Drifters 66 Surrounding glow 67 Disunite 68 Elderly 69 Repast 70 Avian abodes 71 Lug around

DOWN 1 Mr. Doe 2 Fencing sword 3 Cab tab

4 Blood’s partner? 5 Stretch out 6 Vitality 7 Alibi __ (excuse

makers) 8 Trial runs 9 Off the track 10 Cry 11 Sharpton and

Gore 12 Grippe 13 Light brown 18 Stroke of brilliance 19 Trustworthy 23 Sharif and Epps 25 Long-plumed

waders 26 Eyeball

lasciviously 27 Without limits 28 Hoisted 29 Show up 30 Orbs 32 Kind of wool or

guitar 34 Suffer heartbreak 36 Abu Dhabi leader 38 Rand McNally

tome 41 Pester

persistently 42 Frequently 47 Use more

fi repower 49 Simple 53 Trailblazin’ Dan’l 55 Morocco’s capital 56 Caspian’s

neighbor 57 Matched groups 59 “Othello” role 60 Assist a

wrongdoer 61 Jekyll’s alter ego 62 __-o’-shanter 63 Shade of color 64 Time period 65 Take a chair

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The Argyle Sweaterby Scott Hilburn


The South Portland City Council voted to accept a lease agreement between the newly cre-ated nonprofi t, the Community Garden Collec-tive (CGC) and the city of South Portland for the development of a new community garden on the former Hamlin School property, the nonprofi t reported. The vote was held Wednesday, April 20.

Helen Slocum, vice president of the nonprofi t collective, stated that “the CGC is ecstatic with the outcome of the vote and we wish to thank the City Council and city manager for their efforts in getting the lease agreement in place. We are thrilled with the support we have received from the community thus far and wish to acknowl-edge everyone who spoke on the project’s behalf.

We are especially grateful to the South Portland Land Trust for the support the organization has shown thus far and for agreeing to be the CGC’s fi scal sponsor until our nonprofi t tax status has been achieved.”

Slocum said the new garden already has 74 Facebook fans, and approximately 18 families have already contacted the CGC to join the wait-ing list for a plot.

The community garden is to be located behind the former Hamlin School at 496 Ocean St. and will be opening in the spring of 2012, the collec-tive announced. The garden design includes 39 garden plots located within a fenced area.

Three plots will be set aside for the Plant-A-Row for the Hungry, an outreach program of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Ser-vice, and one plot will be reserved for use as a

Children’s Garden.The plots will consist of raised beds and all

gardeners will be required to use organic gar-dening techniques — no chemical fertilizers, pesticides or fungicides will be allowed.

The CGC will now begin fundraising to cover the costs of garden construction, estimated to be upwards of $24,000.

Individuals and businesses with an interest in the former Hamlin School community garden or the CGC are encouraged to visit the collective’s Facebook page (Community Garden Collective) or email the CGC board at [email protected]. A website for the CGC can be found at http://www.communitygarden-collective.org.

For further information, contact Slocum at 799-3574 or [email protected].

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Tuesday, May 3

East End Wastewater Treatment Facility Tour10 a.m. to noon. Portland Water District invites the public to cel-ebrate National Drinking Water Week, May 1-May 7. “Have you ever wondered what happens after you fl ush? What is fl ushable, anyway? Find out how PWD treats millions of gallons of wastewater every day, helping to keep Casco Bay clean for wildlife and people.” www.pwd.org

Hike Along the Sebago to the Sea Trail1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Join Sebago to the Sea Coalition partners Presump-scot Regional Land Trust and PWD as we take a hike on the newest section of the Sebago to the Sea Trail, designed to link Sebago Lake with Casco Bay. Naturalists will point out features, habitats, and other fun environmental facts along the trail. Hike is approximately 2 miles. Sebago Lake Ecology Center. www.pwd.org

‘Ethnographic research in the Yucatan peninsula’4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Last winter, three College of the Atlan-tic students travelled to the state of Quintana Roo on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico to pursue fi eld work into land management, government aid, and politics. The three seniors, Zimmerman Cardona of Belize, Adelina Mkami of Tanzania, and Neil Oculi of St. Lucia, will be showing por-tions of their senior project in an exhibit called “One State, Three Projects: Ethnographic research in the Yucatan pen-insula” in the college’s Ethel H. Blum Gallery from May 2 to 6. There will be an opening reception May 3 from 4 to 6 p.m. Ethel H. Blum Gallery of College of the Atlantic. Galleryhours, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 105 Eden St., Bar Harbor. For information contact [email protected], 288-5105 or 801-5733. Free.

‘The Final Inch — Fighting To Eradicate Polio’4 p.m. Polio, contrary to what people might think, has not vanished from our world. Throughout Asia and Africa, this highly contagious disease is still destroying people’s lives. At 4 p.m. on Tuesday, May 3, College of the Atlantic student Jesse Karppinen will be screening the fi lm, “The Final Inch — Fighting To Eradicate Polio,” followed by a discussion of public health efforts to wipe out the disease. The movie and talk will be in McCormick Lecture Hall as part of COA’s ongoing Human Ecology Forum.

Separation, Divorce & Dads6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. “This is a drop-in support group facili-tated by Al Barthelman where men can explore what is happening to them at this diffi cult time in their lives, in a safe environment. Separation, Divorce & Dads is for men who are in the process of separating, are already divorced, or who have never been married. Dads discuss whatever issues they like, such as concerns about co-parenting, coping with loss, and how to be the best father they can be. Join us and share your perspective on raising children as a single parent.” Kids First Center, 222 St. John St., Suite 104, Portland. $10 per session (fi nancial assistance is avail-able). Register: Call ahead or send an email or just drop-in.

Portland Symphony Orchestra fi nale concerts7:30 p.m. The Portland Symphony Orchestra will close its 2010-2011 season with music of Wagner and Mozart, and featuring Ravel’s luminously beautiful “Daphnis et Chloé.” Music Director Robert Moody will conduct the last perfor-mance Tuesday, May 3, at 7:30 p.m. at Portland’s Merrill Audi-torium. The PSO’s season fi nale concerts are sponsored by KeyBank, with media support from MPBN. Ticket prices range from $17-$70 and are available at porttix.com and by phone at 842-0800 or in person at PortTIX (20 Myrtle St., Portland). Special pricing may be available for students, seniors, and groups of 10 or more.

Wednesday, May 4

33rd Annual Living With Cancer Conference7:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. The American Cancer Society’s 33rd Annual Living With Cancer Conference will take place at the Augusta Civic Center. Volunteers and staff from the American Cancer Society created the fi rst Living With Cancer Conference in 1979. Each year cancer patients and survivors, family members, caregivers, and healthcare pro-

fessionals come together to attend this event. This year’s theme, “Facing Cancer Together,” is as a day of sharing personal stories and medical information designed to help cancer patients and their families as they continue along their cancer journeys. Attendees at this day-long confer-ence can participate in a variety of informative workshops, visit community resource exhibits, and share similar experi-ences and stories with others touched by cancer.

Moore Middle School planning session10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Moore Middle School in Portland invites parents and community members to participate in a charrette, or planning workshop, in the school’s library to discuss improvements to the school grounds. The informa-tion gathered at the charrette will be used by a landscape architect to create site plans for all stakeholders to view and vote upon. Moore plans to complete one small, high impact project before the end of the school year, with addi-tional projects prioritized and completed as funds become available. Those interested in participating in the charrette are asked to write to one of the following teachers by May 2: Julie Marshall, [email protected], Marga-ret Mountcastle, [email protected], or Carrie Foster, [email protected]. They also may call 874-8150 to leave a message.

Portland Symphony Orchestra preview5:30 p.m. Portland Symphony Orchestra Music Director Robert Moody will present a preview of the 2011-2012 PSO season at the Merrill Auditorium Rehearsal Hall. The event is free and open to the public. Robert Moody will provide an overview of the upcoming season’s concerts, including highlights of both Classical and Pops series, background on guest artists, and how the season evolved. The preview event will be followed by a Q&A with the audience. The PSO’s 2011-2012 season runs from October 2011 to May 2012 and includes nine Classical and four Pops programs. Subscriptions to the PSO’s upcoming season are now on sale, with prices ranging from $80 to $390 depending on series and seat location. Details are available through port-landsymphony.org or by calling PortTIX at 842-0800.

Friends of the Eastern Prom preview6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern Prom Preview — The 3 R’s: Relocation, Restoration and Recreation will be highlighted as Friends of the Eastern Promenade outline project pri-orities recommended within the Master Plan for the East-ern Promenade. “Expect more about our exciting summer event lineup. After all, Maine is Vacationland, and you’ll want to save some of these dates to enjoy the Prom with friends and family from near and far.” East End Community School.

Roof runoff, rain gardens, and rain barrels6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Take a guided tour of the Sebago Lake Ecology Center’s lake-friendly yard to learn about rain gar-dens, rain barrels, and other easy ways a homeowner can create a beautiful yard that reduces pollution. Sebago Lake Ecology Center. www.pwd.org

Rated Local ongoing fi lm series7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Nickelodeon Cinemas will present the second installment of Rated Local, an ongoing fi lm series showcasing eight new short works from Maine fi lmmakers. Organized by Portland’s Eddy Bolz, David Meiklejohn and Allen Baldwin,Rated Local will screen at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.

Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the Nickelodeon or online at http://patriotcinemas.com/nickelodeon.html.

Film: ‘Holy Wars’7:30 p.m. Film screening. “Touching down in four hotbeds of religious fun-damentalism — Pakistan, Lebanon, UK, and heartland America — ‘Holy Wars’ goes behind the scenes of the 1400 year old confl ict between Islam and Christianity. By fi lmmaker Stephen Marshall (Guerrilla News Network, Battleground) the fi lm follows a dan-ger-seeking Christian missionary and a radical Muslim Irish convert, both of whom believe in an apocalyptic battle, after which their religion will ultimately rule the world. Tracking their lives from the onset of the ‘War on Terror’ through the election of Barack Obama, Holy Wars shows that even the most radical of believers can be transformed by our changing world.” SPACE Gallery. $7/$5 for SPACE members, all ages.

Thursday, May 5

Report card on public higher educationnoon to 1:30 p.m. The Maine Heritage Policy Center presents Made In Maine,

A State Report Card On Public Higher Education, with spe-cial guest speaker, Michael Poliakoff, policy director for American Council of Trustees and Alumni.DiMillo’s On the Water, 25 Long Wharf, Portland. Made In Maine: A State Report Card On Public Higher Education takes a close look at the four-year public colleges and uni-versities in Maine, offering a Pass or Fail grade in four key areas. “At this pivotal time for Maine’s taxpayers-supported universities, ACTA’s report card fi nds that while Maine’s uni-versities are running in a generally transparent manner, they have real challenges to address in raising academic stan-dards, increasing graduation rates, and controlling rising tuition costs.’ Register online or contact Mrs. Amanda Clark at 321-2550 or [email protected] by Monday, May 2.

Connecting People, Place and Planet5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. “Join Westbrook resident Jan Schrock in a series of discussions in an enjoyable, supportive set-ting to examine personal values and habits, engage in stimulating conversation, create meaningful community, and consider ways to take action towards creating a more sustainable future. Sessions at Walker Memorial Library will begin on Thursday, May 5 and continue each week through June 9. Using a workbook from the Northwest Earth Insti-tute, we will explore ‘good health,’the connections between human health and the environment, and how we can sustain both. Each session includes readings from the Northwest Earth Institute video clips, short assignments and accom-panying group discussion questions. The course discusses limitations of the current medical model and its approach to health, then addresses the places where our personal health intersects with the environment — from our food and homes, to our communities and society. Throughout the course you will fi nd individual actions that promote good health and in turn, promote a healthier environment. The workbook includes related articles, about 1 ½ hr to read prior to our discussion group and costs $21.” To sign up, see Marian Peterson, MLIS, Adult Services, Walker Memo-rial Library. Discussion will be led by Westbrook resident Jan West Schrock, retired from Heifer International, and now a resident of Westbrook. Go to: www.nwei.org.

Friday, May 6

Owls of Maine10 a.m. to noon. “Owls have unique characteristics that set them apart from other birds. The Owls of Maine pro-gram introduces the audience to the habits and adaptations of Maine’s native owls. The special features of these nocturnal birds will be demonstrated through displays and live owls.” Jeff P. Nixon Development Center, 225 Douglass St., Portland.

Recent work by Kyle Bryant at Edward T. Pollack5 p.m. May 5 through June 25, Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts presents The Things We Carry: Recent Work by Kyle Bryant. Opening reception, Thursday May 5, 5-8 p.m. There will be a gallery talk by the artist in June. Please contact the gallery for further information. Also July 1 through Aug. 31, At The Shore, a celebration of activities performed on or near lakes, ponds and oceans. Edward T. Pollack Fine ArtsRare Books & Fine Prints, 29 Forest Ave. 699-2919, www.edpollackfi nearts.com.

Sandrine Bonnaire appears in “Queen to Play,” a fi lm by Caroline Bottaro. The fi lm will be screened this week at the Portland Musuem of Art. (Photo courtesy of Patrick Glaize)


Images of the Longfellow Garden5 p.m. to 8 p.m. First Friday Art Walk with Maine Histori-cal Society. Opening Reception: Images of the Longfellow Garden. “Join the local art community in celebrating the opening of our new exhibit (May 6-June 30) in the Shettle-worth Gallery, Images of the Longellow Garden. This exhibit is a showcase of historical images that document the evolu-tion of the garden through the years. The exhibit celebrates spring and the wonder that is shared by all who enjoy the garden. Mingle with friends, enjoy refreshments and music, and visit our ongoing exhibit, Zoom In: New Approaches to Maine History which closes at the end of May.”

The Telling Room’s annual writing and storytelling project on display at Portland Public Library5 p.m. to 8 p.m. As part of the First Friday Art Walk, three separate shows including highlights from The Tell-ing Room’s annual writing and storytelling project, Dunia Moja/One World: A Peregrine Press and Zanzibar Print Exchange, and social justice and memoir comics created by local middle school students will all be open to visitors to the Portland Public Library from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. In the Lewis Gallery is an exhibition of collaborative prints created jointly by the artists of Portland’s Peregrine Press and the artists of Women Networking in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The two resulting matched sets of collaborative prints are unique, showcasing the deep similarities — and mysterious differ-ences — between kindred spirits working “together” across a distance of 6,000 miles. Dunja Moja/One World is open through May 28. Next to the Lewis Gallery on the lower level are highlights from PLAY, The Telling Room’s 2010-11 community writing and storytelling project. Culled from work with nearly 2,000 students from Wells to Calais this year, the stories, poems, photographs, and videos featured accompany the release of The Telling Room’s fi fth anthol-ogy, “How To Climb Trees: 40 Poems and Stories About Play.” Among the highlights of the show are works by 12 immigrant and refugee high school students in the Young Writers & Leaders Program and winners of a statewide writ-ing contest. Following the Art Walk, much of this work will be on display on the lower level through the end of June. In the Rines Auditorium, social justice and memoir comics created by King Middle School students will be on display as part of the national Memento Nora Project.

‘The Town that YES Made’5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Lalo Boutique at 142 High Street in Port-land hosts the artists of YES Art Works with “The Town that YES Made,” “a whimsical collection of buildings and vehi-cles designed and created with wood, cardboard, papier-mâché and paint. The miniature village refl ects the creative perception and joyful interpretation of the world around us by a group of artists with disabilities. LaLo will also premiere hand-screened t-shirts and aprons as well as showcase a selection of paintings, wall quilts, and hand-woven scarves from YES Artists.” Work will be on display from May 5 to 31 with an opening reception during Portland’s First Friday Art Walk on Friday, May 6 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Not Just Dance — A First Friday Event5 p.m. to 8 p.m. “Arthur Fink is best known in Portland as a dance photographer, and that is, indeed, a passion of his. But for this First Friday, on May 6, he’s assembling a show of other work — streetscapes, scenic images, signage, and portraits from Monhegan, Cape May, Holland, Scandinavia, and other places. Look for an eclectic and colorful mix, including many early works shot with — fi lm!” Fink’s studio is located at 145 Newbury St. (just off India Street, close to Coffee by Design). It will be open from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. for this event, and is also available for visits at most other times (contact Arthur Fink at [email protected] or 615.5722 to confi rm that he’s there).

‘Queen to Play’ fi lm screened at PMA6:30 p.m. “Queen to Play” screens at Movies at the Museum at the Portland Museum of Art. Friday, May 6, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, May 7, 2 p.m.; Sunday, May 8, 2 p.m. NR. “Oscar winner Kevin Kline (‘A Fish Called Wanda’) and the luminous Sandrine Bonnaire (‘Vagabond’) square off in this stylish and sophisticated dramedy of newfound passions and mid-life triumphs, set on the postcard-perfect isle of Corsica. Lovely, repressed, and quietly intelligent, French chambermaid Hélène (Bonnaire) discovers she has a knack for chess. This obsession-much to the chagrin of her hus-band and teenaged daughter-leads her to seek the clan-destine tutelage of a reclusive American doctor (Kline, in his fi rst French-speaking role)-a liaison that radically trans-forms both of their lackluster lives. In French with English subtitles.”

Couples Connecting: A Friday Night Date7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Aliveness, Connection, Understand-ing. An evening workshop with Nancy Hathaway. Simple Playful Mindfulness Exercises for Couples. Using Skillful

Techniques from many traditions-Zen, Tibetan Buddhism, Vipassana, Non-violent Communication. All exercises done in pairs with your partner. Center for Studying Mindful-ness, @Living Well, 836 Main St., Westbrook. To Register: [email protected]

Global Fight League in Portland7 p.m. “Bellum Combat Association is proud to announce a dual partnership with Global Fight League to bring New England’s premier MMA Promotion to Maine. Global Fight League is excited to bring their brand of Mixed Martial Arts to Maine for one of the fi rst MMA events ever held in the state. May 6 is the offi cial sanctioned date by the Mixed Martial Arts Authority of Maine to hold the Global Fight League’s 11th installment. Doors at 6 p.m. Fights begin at 7 p.m.” Portland Expo. http://www.bellumca.com/con-tact.htm

Portland Playback Theater First Friday7:30 p.m. This month’s theme for Portland Playback The-ater is “Growing Up.” “Our memories of childhood range from the sublime to the ridiculous. When did you realize you’d turned the corner from childhood to being a ‘grown up’? Or what times have challenged you to think if you’d grown up at all? Grow up all over again with Portland Play-back. Every month Portland Playback Theater puts fi ve tal-ented actors at your disposal to play back the moments of your life, unrehearsed and on the spot. Now in our sixth year, we have brought hundreds of audience stories back to life.” First Parish Church, at the intersection of Congress and Temple (just up from the Nickelodeon). $7 suggested donation. Find out more at www.portlandplayback.com.

Pianist plays ‘hits’ of Bach, Liszt and Beethoven7:30 p.m. Frank Glazer, one of Maine’s most eminent pia-nists, performs popular selections by Bach, Beethoven and Liszt at the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall at Bates College, 75 Russell St., Lewiston. On the program: Bach’s Chro-matic Fantasy and Fugue in D Minor, Franz Liszt’s Sonata in B minor and Beethoven’s 33 Variations on Waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, Op. 120. The performance is open to the public at no cost, but tickets are required. For more infor-mation, contact 786-6135 or [email protected].

Saturday, May 7

Brewing For A Cause8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sebago Brewing Company is pleased to announce they will be holding the second annual Brewing For A Cause. This event was conceived to raise funds for the Trek Across Maine, a three-day, 180-mile bike ride in support of the mission of the American Lung Association. This is the third year that Sebago has had an employee cycling team participating in the event. Sebago brewers and will be brewing “Trekker Pale Ale” and attendees will be able to participate in the brewing process as well as take a case of this special Single Batch Series home! It will be a full day of brewing (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and lunch will be pro-vided for all attendees. Tickets are $125 and are now avail-able to the general public on the Sebago Brewing Company website. This unique fundraiser sold out very quickly last year, so Sebago is encouraging people to purchase tick-ets early if they’d like to attend! For more information visit sebagobrewing.com, call 207-856-2537, or email [email protected].

Workshop on solar shower building9 a.m. On May 7-8, Mike Beaudry, a timber framer, timber hewer and log builder from Montville, will lead a two-day workshop at Newforest Institute in Brooks. The main proj-ect during this workshop will be the construction of a roof frame for a solar shower building. Starting with logs, partici-pants will hew out dimensional timbers, cut joinery, make trunnels, and raise and trunnel the frame. Workshop fees are a sliding scale from $90 to $180 depending upon ability to pay for two days including lunch and snacks. Attendees have the option to register for breakfasts and dinners and overnight accommodations or tenting space for a modest fee. For more information and to register, please contact Newforest at [email protected] or 722-3625.

Falmouth Rotary Club electronics recycling day9 a.m. The Rotary Club of Falmouth will host an electronics recycling day on Saturday, May 7 from 9-2 at the Falmouth Shopping Center parking lot on U.S. Route 1 in Falmouth. Items accepted include household electronics such as TV’s, computers, monitors (keyboard, mouse), printers, scanners, DVD players, VCR’s, radios, stereos, microwaves ovens, cell phones, game consoles, cords, circuit boards, and digital picture frames. “This event allows people to drop off their electronics so they can be recycled or dis-posed of in an environmentally friendly way”, says Anne Payson of the Falmouth Rotary Club. “We simply ask that people make a donation to Rotary at the time they drop their items off. Donations will go primarily to the our Rotary Youth Exchange Program.” Falmouth Rotary is a volunteer ser-

vice organization that supports a variety of community and international causes, including the Rotary Youth Exchange Program, polio eradication, Safe Passage, the FalmouthFood Pantry, Maine Childrens Cancer Center, and girls lit-eracy in Afghanistan. Items that will be NOT be accepted include appliances and white goods (ovens, washer/dryers, stoves), items with freon such as refrigerators and air con-ditioners, fl uorescent bulbs, and mercury-bearing items (thermo, thermostat).

New Gloucester quilt show9 a.m. to noon. A quilt show is to be held at the New Gloucester History Barn, Route 231, behind the Town Hall, New Gloucester. Local quilters working in a variety of styles will be featured. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the New Gloucester Historical Society.

Symposium on artist studios10 a.m. to 5 p.m. “Art On-Site: Studio Practice in 21st-Cen-tury Art,” hosted by Portland Museum of Art. Price: $35; members: $25. Auditorium and Portland Studios. “What role does an artist’s studio play in the creative process? From the 19th-century studios of Winslow Homer and Fred-eric Church to contemporary artists working on Congress Street, Maine has been a magnet for artists. This day-long symposium begins with artist and author Joe Fig, whose decade of interviews with artists resulted in his book Inside the Painter’s Studio as well as pushing him in a new direc-tion for his own work. Fig’s doll-housed sized recreations of artists at work in their studios ask us to think about studio, place, and practice. David Row, painter and 2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial juror will discuss how place relates to practice with illustrations of his New York and Maine studios. We will then break for lunch in the Museum Café before going on our tour of Portland studios in the after-noon. Studio visits will include: Joe Kievitt, Lauren Fenster-stock and Aaron Stephan, Charlie Hewitt, as well as The Artist Studio Building where many artists will be in their stu-dios for questions. The day concludes at SPACE Gallery with all the participating artists. Lunch at the Museum and a concluding reception at SPACE Gallery with participating artists is included in the registration fee. This symposium is the second of a series of three to celebrate the opening of the Winslow Homer Studio in September 2012.” http://portlandmuseum.org

Protest of Aegis destroyer at Bath Iron Works10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The Navy will “christen” another Aegis destroyer on Saturday, May 7 at Bath Iron Works. Peace groups in Maine plan to hold a protest at the event from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Following the protest people are invited to come to the Addams-Melman House (212 Centre St) in Bath for a pot luck lunch at noon. The protest is being sponsored by the Smiling Trees Disarmament Farm, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, Maine Veterans for Peace and CodePink Maine. For more information please contact 763-4062 or 443-9502.

Peace Action Maine 2011 Peace Supper4 p.m. This year’s Keynote Speaker for the Peace Action Maine Peace Supper will be Medea Benjamin. Supper at 5 p.m. Woodfords Congregational Church, 202 Woodford St., Portland, $20. “Medea Benjamin is a cofounder of both CODEPINK and the international human rights organiza-tion Global Exchange. She has been a tireless advocate for social justice for more than 20 years. Described as “one of America’s most committed — and most effective — fi ghters for human rights” by New York Newsday, and called “one of the high profi le leaders of the peace movement” by the Los Angeles Times, Medea has distinguished herself as an elo-quent and energetic fi gure in the progressive movement. In June of 2005, she was one of 1,000 exemplary women from 140 countries nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Prize collectively, on behalf of the millions of anonymous women who do the essential work of peace worldwide. Since the September 11, 2001 tragedy, Medea has been working to promote a U.S. foreign policy that would respect human rights and gain us allies instead of contributing to violence and undermining our international reputation. In 2000, she was a Green Party candidate for the California Senate. During the 1990s, Medea focused her efforts on tackling the problem of unfair trade as promoted by the World Trade Organization. Widely credited as the woman who brought Nike to its knees and helped place the issue of sweatshops on the national agenda, Medea was a key player in the campaign that won a $20 million settlement from 27 US clothing retailers for the use of sweatshop labor in Saipan. She also pushed Starbucks and other companies to start carrying fair trade coffee. A former economist and nutrition-ist with the United Nations and World Health Organization, Benjamin is the author/editor of eight books, and she cur-rently lives in Washington, D.C. Her speaking topic at the Peace Action Maine Peace Supper will be ‘From Egypt to Washington D.C.: How to Build a Peoples’ Movement for Peace.’” Call Peace Action Maine 772-0680.

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The Mad Hatter Affair by MHS5 p.m. to 11 p.m. The Mad Hatter Affair at the Woodlands Club in Falmouth. “Consider this an offi cial invitation to the Mad Hatter Affair, MHS’s gala fundraiser. Now in its 15th year, the Mad Hatter is a festive Kentucky Derby party, a spirited way to welcome spring, and great opportunity to support MHS. The Mad Hatter offers a chance for friends of MHS and guests to gather, dress up in derby attire (out-landish hats encouraged!), sip mint juleps, watch the race live from Churchill Downs, and to dine and dance the night away. Activities include a hat parade and contest, and live and silent auctions. For more on this wonderful evening, includ-ing photos from last year’s event, visit the MHS blog. Tickets: $100/person.” FMI and to buy tickets, contact Elizabeth Nash at 774-1822, ext. 206 or [email protected].

‘Seascapes’ art reception in Cape Elizabeth5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Cape Elizabeth painter Etsuko Lee-aphon will present. “Seascapes from Japan, Thailand and Maine” at Thomas Memorial Library May 2-31. An opening reception will be held at the library on Friday, May 6 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The event is open to the public. Thomas Memorial Library, 6 Scott Dyer Road, Cape Eliza-beth. 799-1720.

Reindeer Records’ Off-Ramp: Exit 267 p.m. The accomplishments and performances of nine high school rock bands from across the state who, for the past six months, have been participating in Reindeer Records’ Off-Ramp: Exit 26 competition will be showcased and saluted in a red-carpet fi nale at the Westbrook Performing Arts Center. Each band will perform a fi nal brief set which

will include their original composition entitled “I Scream At Walls” they each created for the competition, and the audience will also be treated to the band’s music video of the same song, projected on the WPAC’s huge hi-defi ni-tion screen. After the fi nal set, an Awards Presentation will highlight the top achievers in some of the many tasks and categories that the bands were evaluated on during their Off-Ramp journey, and will include some special guest pre-sentations. One band will walk away with Reindeer’s title of “Best Young Band in the State of Maine” plus $1,000 for each musician. The nine bands include: Beware Of Pedes-trians — Gorham HS, Scarborough HS; Crossed Out — Gorham HS; Midnite Haze — Telstar Middle/HS; Phantom Companion — Falmouth HS, Waynfl ete; Stuck In Neutral — Boothbay Region HS; The Modest Proposal — Freeport HS; The Resistance — Erskine Academy, Maine Central Institute, Warsaw Middle School; The Study of Wumbo — Scarborough HS, Kennebunk HS; and Where’s Robert? — Mt. Ararat HS, Morse HS, Brunswick HS. The fi nale is open to all ages. Tix are $10/adv, $12/door. FMI, contact Rein-deer at 857-9002 or reindeergroup.org. For complete info on the bands and the competition, visit keepmecurrent.com and click on the Off-Ramp: Exit 26 icon.

‘Piano Men: The Music of Elton and Billy’7:30 p.m. The Southern Maine Symphony Orchestra will perform the world premiere of “Piano Men: the Music of Elton and Billy,” dedicated to the array of hits created by the two pop music icons Elton John and Billy Joel, on Saturday, May 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the State Theatre, 609 Congress St., Portland. “Elton John and Billy Joel have sold more than 350 million records combined. This tribute performance mixes a four-piece pop group with a full orchestra in song arrange-ments rarely heard before. Performers include longtime

Billy Joel drummer Liberty DeVitto and Joseph Boucher on piano and vocals. Arrangements by Christopher Eastburn. For song selections and information on performers, visit www.pianomenmusic.com.” Tickets cost $16.50 and are available through the State Theatre: www.statetheatreport-land.com, by phone at 1-800-745-3000, or in person at the Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland.

Asbury Shorts exhibition in Fryeburg7:30 p.m. Asbury Shorts, New York City’s longest running short fi lm exhibition, will present its acclaimed program known as “The Short Film Concert” at the Leura Hill East-man Performing Arts Center. The theater is located at 18 Bradley Street in Fryeburg on the campus of Fryeburg Academy. Tickets cost $10 general admission/ $7 for stu-dents. Call 935-9232 for all show information and directions or email: boxoffi [email protected]. The presenta-tion is recommended for ages 16 and above.

Sunday, May 8

UMF Community Chorus Spring Choral Concert3 p.m. The University of Maine at Farmington Community Chorus performs its spring concert in Nordica Auditorium, UMF Merrill Hall on the University of Maine at Farming-ton campus. Under the direction of Dr. Bruce McInnes, the chorus will present “King David,” composed by Arthur Honegger. The concert is sponsored by the UMF Depart-ment of Sound, Performance and Visual Inquiry. Tickets are available at the door at $8 for adults, $6 for seniors, free for children under 12 and UMF students with I.D. For more information, please call 778-7072, or email [email protected].

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mosque members to be vigilent about reporting sus-picious behavior in the neighborhood and promised to keep the lines of communication open.

Craig believes the incident is an “anomaly,” but said the department would pay “special attention” to Islam centers citywide.

“We don’t believe this is any kind of trend, we think it is isolated, (mosque offi cials) think it is iso-lated, but certainly it causes concern,” the chief said.

Graffi ti that celebrated Osama Bin Laden’s death and also appeared to threaten local Muslims was scrawled onto the community center at 118 Ander-son St. sometime yesterday morning. The message, which misspelled the word “tomorrow,” also cited the confl ict between Greek and Turkish communi-ties on the island nation of Cypress, in the Mediter-ranean Sea.

Graffi ti Busters, a program of LearningWorks nonprofi t agency, painted over the messages shortly after 10 a.m.

Abdiaziz Mohamed, treasurer at the Maine Muslim Community Center, said Monday the facil-ity had never been vandalized during his fi ve years working there. Overall, he said the mosque has good relations with neighbors and the surrounding com-munity.

Reaction to the vandalism was mixed, he said.“We take this really seriously, but at the same

time, we don’t want to overreact,” Mohamed said, adding, “I don’t feel unsafe; we are in the safest place in the world.”

He said some members fear anti-Muslim senti-ment will escalate into violence, while others are more concerned about how younger Muslims will interpret the message.

Mohamed blamed the graffi ti on media-induced fervor late Monday night after word broke that U.S. commandos had killed bin Laden during a raid in Pakistan.

“This person, whoever he is, might be trying to label us with what is going on outside” of the U.S., Mohamed said, adding that Muslims at the center “just want to be peaceful.”

The mosque vandalism was widely condemned by local offi cials and anti-hate groups.

“Acts of hate and bias like this have no place in our city,” said Steve Wessler, executive director of the Center for Preventing Hate, a local advocacy group, in a statement. “Muslims in Maine and across the

U.S. deserve the same respect as all others who live here.

“They serve in our armed forces, teach in our schools and care for our sick. On September 11, Muslim fi refi ghters and paramedics courageously stayed in the Twin Towers trying to save lives.“

“This kind of bigotry does not belong anywhere and it certainly does not belong in my home town,” Mayor Nick Mavodones said in a statement. He added that Muslims “are welcome members of our city and are entitled to respect and the same hope and feeling of closure everyone else carries in their hearts today.”

As of late yesterday, police hadn’t announced any arrests in the case.

The Muslim community center and mosque was established in Portland in 2005, and has been located in East Bayside for at least the past three years, according to its website. The center offers pro-grams on Koran study and interpretation as well as Arabic language classes. It has a library and serves as a wedding hall, counseling center and also has an in-house travel-booking service.

According to city records, the community center bought the building on Anderson Street last June for $690,000. Mohamed said the center made its fi nal payment in March.

The center’s website says the mosque is the larg-est of its kind in Portland, with up to 500 worship-pers attending Friday prayers on a given week.

“Acts of hate and bias like this have no place in our city. Muslims in Maine and across the U.S. deserve the same respect as all others who live here.” — Steve Wessler, executive director of the Center for

Preventing Hate, a local advocacy group

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Graffi ti found on Maine Muslim Community Center


The band “Late Night Dynamite” performed for a gathering in front of the Maine School of Law on Deering Avenue Saturday. The band, which covers popular songs from the 1980s, frequently performs at Bubba’s Sulky Lounge on Portland Street. (JEFFREY S. SPOFFORD PHOTO)

Late Night Dynamite in broad daylight

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Local fi refi ghters earn promotions

Portland Fire Chief Frederick LaMontagne has announced the promotions of three fi re-fi ghters to the position of deputy chief, fi re captain and fi re lieutenant.

Captain David Pendleton, a career fi refi ghter with the city since 1985, has been promoted to deputy fi re chief. Pendleton has served as island liaison and was most recently the marine division captain, oversee-ing the operations of the city’s water-based fi refi ght-ing crews. LaMontagne said. Pendleton was instrumental in the design, purchase and delivery of the city’s new fi reboat, City of Portland IV.

Lieutenant Christopher Goodall has been promoted to fi re captain. Goodall, a 12-year veteran, a member of the Fire Investigative Team, the Weapons of Mass Destruction Team, served as lieutenant on Engine Company Six (located at the Bramhall Station).

Firefi ghter Christopher Alves has been promoted to fi re lieutenant. A 13-year veteran, Alves also serves Engine Company Six.

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