WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2011 VOL. 3 NO. 119 PORTLAND, ME PORTLAND’S DAILY NEWSPAPER 699-5801 FREE

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Ins, outs of outing a manager See Natalie Ladd’s column, page 7

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Number of Maine DEA agents to drop

In the early part of 2012, Maine's number of special agents working for the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency will drop from 54 to 47, a seven-person decrease, state offi -cials reported.

“In the next seven months we’ll lose seven positions statewide,

with the bulk at the end of the calendar year,” said Roy McKin-ney, Maine Drug E n f o r c e m e n t Agency director. Unless last-min-ute money comes from somewhere this is the situ-ation that will become an actu-

ality, “and there will be additional pressures in the next fi scal year,” warned McKinney.

Right now Maine has 54 special agents working for MDEA. That number is going to be reduced by seven — people assigned full time to the bureau. There are also some

Aidan Maurice, 9, gingerly reaches with his net to gather specimens from the pond at Baxter Woods Tuesday, part of the weeklong Explorer Camp Plus sponsored by Christ the Redeemer Presbyterian Church. The church is based at Breakwater School. The camp is being staged out of Ocean Avenue Elementary School and features activities such as archery, orienteering, wood building and fi rearms safety. With Maurice is Lois Callem, 87, a retired outdoors education teacher. For more photos of the camp, see page 8. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

BY MARGE NIBLOCKSPECIAL TO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

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Summer campers converge at Baxter Woods

City task force looks at fairness in storm water feeA city task force charged with making a recom-

mendation to the City Council regarding how Portland collects fees to pay for its growing water-pollution costs met Tuesday to discuss possible rate

hike options.The group considered different options ultimately

necessary to cover the costs of state and federal clean water standards.

The Sustainable Storm Water Funding Task Force was established by the council in March. Offi cials

agreed to have the group discuss possible funding alternatives in order to avoid having the additional charges simply tacked onto residents’ sewer bills — which would nearly triple to meet some of the neces-sary costs.

BY MATTHEW ARCOTHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

see TASK FORCE page 13

The Maine Turnpike Authority has fi led a law-suit against former executive director Paul Vio-lette seeking $450,000 in restitution related to personal expenses and reimbursements he is accused of charging to the agency between 2003 through 2010.

The lawsuit, fi led yesterday in Cumberland

County Superior Court, alleges that Violette mis-used or cannot account for more than $325,000 in agency funds and falsely claimed for more than $160,000 in sick pay and vacation time between 2003 and 2010.

“There is probably about $200,000 in there we have identifi ed as money we are owned,” said Scott Tompkins, spokesman for the turnpike authority, referring to the results of a recent forensic audit.

“Another $250,000 or so is money we can’t account for. If [Violette] can provide an accounting for that, and it was ... for legitimate purposes, then it goes away.”

Violette, a Portland resident and former state legislator, resigned from the turnpike authority in March after 23 years as executive director.

Turnpike authority seeks $450K from Violette BY CASEY CONLEY

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

see TURNPIKE page 3

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LONDON — In a grueling afternoon of testimony before lawmakers, Rupert Mur-doch and some of the most senior fi gures in his family’s media empire apologized pro-fusely on Tuesday for the phone hacking scandal that has convulsed British public life, even as they insisted they had not ordered or tried to cover up illegal news-gathering practices at their newspapers and were not directly to blame.

It was not clear whether their responses would satisfy skeptical lawmakers, who tried for nearly three hours to discover the extent of the Murdochs’ knowledge of events at the heart of the scandal. It exploded two weeks ago with the news that people working for The News of the World, a tabloid run by the Murdoch empire’s British arm, News International, had broken into the voice mail of a 13-year-old girl, Milly Dowler, who had been abducted in 2002 and was later found murdered. The fi restorm that followed brought Mr. Mur-doch down from the heights of infl uence here to what he called “the most humble day of my life.”

Adding to the drama, a protester disrupted the hearing by attempting to hit Rupert Mur-doch with a paper plate full of whitish foam. Mr. Murdoch appeared unhurt, and the hear-ing resumed after a 15-minute break.

The disruption happened near the end of nearly three hours of sustained questioning by lawmakers over the phone hacking scan-dal, which has raised questions about the behavior of the British police, politicians and the media elite in the worst crisis to confront Prime Minister David Cameron.

Mr. Murdoch, who is 80, appeared at the hearing with his son James, 38, sitting side by side facing their questioners without law-yers at their elbow. Each wore a dark suit, white shirt and tie, though Rupert Murdoch removed his jacket after the foam incident and fi nished his testimony in shirtsleeves.

After the Murdochs, the committee heard

testimony from Rebekah Brooks, who resigned as head of News International last Friday and was arrested and questioned by police on Sunday.

Ms. Brooks, a former editor of the News of the World, insisted that the Murdoch com-pany acted “quickly and decisively” against phone hacking once it saw new evidence of the extent of the practice in December 2010. She told the committee that while she was editor she employed private investiga-tors, but only for legitimate inquiries, not for hacking or other illicit methods, and she denied paying police offi cers for information.

At a hearing of the same committee in 2003, Ms. Brooks said her newspaper had paid the police for information — a comment she later retracted.

In a separate development, the BBC reported the existence of previously undis-closed indirect links between fi gures under investigation in the scandal and Prime Minister Cameron, who has been criticized by the opposition for hiring another former editor of The News of the World, Andy Coul-

son, as his head of communications.In a new disclosure that threatened to

bring the scandal closer to Mr. Cameron, the BBC said that in the run-up to last year’s elections, Mr. Coulson sought advice from another former News of the World executive, Neil Wallis, who has since been arrested in connection with the phone hacking investi-gation. Mr. Wallis worked for Scotland Yard after he left The News of the World.

The Murdochs spent much of their time before the committee, both before and after the disruption, insisting that while they were deeply sorry over the revela-tions of widespread unethical practices at their British newspapers, they knew little or nothing about them and had not tried to cover them up. Rupert Mur-doch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, the parent company of the empire, hit those themes again in a prepared statement, originally intended to open the hearing, that the committee allowed him to read aloud at the conclu-sion of his appearance.

Rupert Murdoch and his son James appeared before a parliamentary committee on Tuesday. (Reuters/The New York Times)

BY ALAN COWELL AND GRAHAM BOWLEYTHE NEW YORK TIMES

Radiation-tainted beef spreads through Japan’s markets

MINAMISOMA, Japan — Even after explosions rocked the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Kuniaki Sato, who raises cattle here about 20 miles from the crippled complex, said he had received no clear warning from the government about the possible dangers of radiation to his herd.

So six weeks after the accident, on April 23, he shipped 12 of his prized cattle from his farm to market.

Now Japanese agricultural offi cials say meat from more than 500 cattle that

were likely to have been contaminated with radioactive cesium has made its way to supermarkets and restaurants across Japan in recent weeks. Offi cials say the cattle ate hay that had been stored outside and exposed to radiation.

“I was a little worried, but we had to sell when we could,” said Mr. Sato, whose cattle were not fed hay and so were unlikely to have been contaminated.

When a precautionary order to halt all farm shipments was lifted soon after the accident, area farmers took it as a go-ahead sign, he said. “We all resumed shipments,” he said. “Of course we did.”

The revelations by the government this month that contaminated meat reached Japanese markets have intensifi ed food safety concerns in Japan, underscoring the government’s inability to control the spread of radioactive material into the nation’s food.

Radioactive material has been detected in a range of produce, including spinach, tea leaves, milk and fi sh. Contaminated hay has been found at farms more than 85 miles from the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, suggesting that the radioactive fallout has reached a wider area than fi rst suspected.

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SAYWHAT...Be less curious about people and

more curious about ideas. ”

— Marie Curie

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First-Place Sweep by American Girls

at First Google Science Fair

As a budding inven-tor and scientist, Shree Bose, in second grade, tried to make blue spin-ach. In fourth grade she built a remote-controlled garbage can. In eighth grade she invented a railroad tie made out of recycled plastic and gran-ite dust, an achievement that got her to the top 30 in a national science com-petition for middle school students. In 11th grade Ms. Bose, a 17-year-old in Fort Worth, tackled ovarian cancer, and that research won her the grand prize and $50,000 in the Google Science Fair last week.

For the winning research Ms. Bose looked at a chemo-therapy drug, cisplatin, that is commonly taken by women with ovarian cancer. The problem is that the cancer cells tend to grow resistant to cis-platin over time, and Ms. Bose set out to fi nd a way to counteract that.

She found the answer in a cellular energy protein known as AMPK, or ade-nosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase. She observed that when AMPK was paired with cisplatin at the beginning of treatment the combina-tion diminished the effec-tiveness of cisplatin. But added later on, when the cancer cells were grow-ing resistant, the AMPK worked to maintain the effectiveness of cisplatin, allowing it to continue kill-ing the malignant cells, at least in cell cultures. “That opens up a lot of new ave-nues for research,” Ms. Bose said. Her research was supervised by Dr. Alakananda Basu at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth.

More than 10,000 stu-dents from 91 countries entered the science fair, which was Google’s fi rst. Fifteen fi nalists presented their fi ndings to judges at Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters last week.

Ms. Bose’s research was named best in the age 17-18 category and best of show over all. Her prize includes $50,000 for future col-lege studies, a 10-day trip to the Galapagos Islands and a separate trip to visit the CERN particle physics labora-tory in Switzerland.

Girls swept all three age categories in the competition.

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WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sci-ences recommended Tuesday that all health insur-ance plans be required to cover a wide range of preventive services, including free contraceptives for women, under President Obama’s health care overhaul.

To reduce unintended pregnancies, a 16-member panel from the academy’s Institute of Medicine said that insurers should cover the full range of contra-ceptive methods approved by the Food and Drug Administration, as well as sterilization procedures and “education and counseling for all women with reproductive capacity.”

The panel said insurers should be forbidden to charge co-payments for these services because even small charges could deter their use. Defending its recommendation, the panel said that nearly half all pregnancies in the United States were unintended, and that about 40 percent of unintended pregnan-cies ended in abortion. Thus, it said, greater use of contraception would reduce the rates of unintended pregnancy, teen pregnancy and abortion.

Moreover, the panel said, “contraception is highly cost-effective,” saving far more than it costs.

The new health care law says insurers must cover ‘’preventive health services,” and cannot charge for

them. The Obama administration asked the Insti-tute of Medicine — a nonpartisan, nongovernmental organization — to help identify the specifi c services that must be covered for women.

Under the law, the secretary of health and human services, Kathleen Sebelius, will decide what to include in the minimum package of essen-tial health benefi ts that must be covered by all insurers.

Accepting the report Tuesday, Ms. Sebelius, said: “This report is historic. Before today, guidelines regarding women’s health and preventive care did not exist. These recommendations are based on sci-ence and existing literature.”

Ms. Sebelius said she would announce her deci-sion on preventive services “very soon.” Administra-tion offi cials said they were inclined to accept the panel’s advice. Ms. Sebelius signaled her preference in January when she said she wanted to “increase the proportion of health insurance plans that cover contraceptive supplies and services.”

Most private insurance, including employer-spon-sored health plans, includes contraceptive coverage, but co-payments have increased in recent years, the panel said.

The panel’s report touched off a fi erce debate.Obstetricians, gynecologists, pediatricians, public

health experts and Democratic women in Congress

hailed the recommendation.“We are one step closer to saying goodbye to an

era when simply being a woman is treated as a pre-existing condition,” Senator Barbara A. Mikul-ski, Democrat of Maryland. “We are saying hello to an era where decisions about preventive care and screenings are made by a woman and her doctor, not by an insurance company.”

Representative Lois Capps, Democrat of Califor-nia, said the recommendation would remove cost as a barrier to birth control — and in hard economic times like these, she said, cost can be a formidable barrier.

But the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and some conservative groups, including the Family Research Council, opposed the recom-mendation because, they said, birth control is not a preventive service in the usual sense of the term.

“Pregnancy is not a disease to be prevented, nor is fertility a pathological condition,” said Deirdre A. McQuade, a spokeswoman for the bishops’ Pro-Life Secretariat.

Jeanne Monahan, the director of the Center for Human Dignity at the Family Research Council, said: “Some people have moral or ethical objections to contraceptives. They should not be forced to vio-late their conscience by paying premiums to health plans that cover these items.”

BY ROBERT PEARTHE NEW YORK TIMES

Panel recommends all health plans cover contraception

agents that work as resident-agents from their own departments.

Two of the agents were grant-funded positions. U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud, D-Maine, secured a con-gressional award for agents to deal predominantly with prescription drug abuse, covering three coun-ties in the northern part of the state.

The other fi ve positions had been funded through federal stimulus money, which is ending. Federal

funding for state and local law enforcement is diminishing, and McKinney stated, “We knew after this two-year project things would not be good.”

This past January, a Bangor newspaper reported: “Maine tops nation in prescription drug abuse.”

McKinney is very aware of drug-related crime, stating, “Maine has a huge prescription drug abuse and diversion problem.”

Sergeant Kevin Cashman, whose offi cial title is Supervisory Special Agent for the Cumberland Dis-trict Task Force, a member of Portland’s depart-

ment, assigned to MDEA.Cashman said, “Any reduction in personnel would

be unfortunate. In six months we’ll go from eight to six agents for the entire Cumberland County,” which is his area of responsibility. It’s also an area encom-passing a lot of miles and a lot of crime related to drugs.

McKinney can only be philosophical when discuss-ing the statewide cuts. “We tried to balance needs and looked at the most critical areas. We’ll make our adjustments and we’ll do what we can,” he said.

Turnpike authority seeks $450K from its former chief

Federal stimulus money ends, leading to cuts in staff

Peter DeTroy, a Portland attorney representing Violette, declined to comment on the lawsuit yes-terday because the matter is still under investiga-tion by the Maine attorney general’s offi ce.

Indeed, during an April hearing before a state watchdog agency, Violette declined to comment on $160,100 in gift card purchases on grounds that his answers might incriminate him.

The lawsuit claims:• That between 2003 and 2007, Violette bought

more than $186,642 in gift cards to hotels and res-taurants, ostensibly purchased with the intent of donating them to Maine organizations for fund-raisers and other purposes. However, subsequent investigations have found that only $26,550 in gift cards were ever donated. Violette has either spent or failed to account for gift cards valued at $160,100.

• That between 2003 and 2010, Violette charged $24,819 to an agency credit card on flights,

hotels, meals and gas purchases deemed to be for personal use.

• During that same period, Violette charged to an agency credit card $143,479 in travel, hotel and meal expenses deemed “so extravagant as to con-stitute a deliberate abuse of the defendant's posi-tion,” according to the lawsuit. Court documents claim Violette has not provided any accounting to justify the charges, which include expenses for “lavish entertainment.”

• Upon retirement, Violette billed the agency for more than $314,000 in unused vacation time and sick leave, which would have meant he didn’t take a single sick day or vacation day in 23 years. Based on “conservative estimates” the agency believes Vio-lette was overpaid by $161,000.

Information included in the page lawsuit was gathered during separate investigations and audits and research into the turnpike authority’s books earlier this year, according to Peter Mills, interim executive director of the agency, in a sworn affi davit.

Despite the fi nancial irregularities discovered during that process, the turnpike authority says it received clean fi nancial audits from two accounting fi rms between 2003 and 2010.

In addition to the $450,000 in damages, the lawsuit also asks that Violette provide a detailed accounting of dozens of expenses related to the gift cards and the credit card use. The agency believes such an accounting would show that some of the expenses Violette accrued were for legitimate busi-ness expenses, court documents show.

Additionally, tens of thousands of dollars in gift cards have gone unredeemed, Tomkins said. He said it’s possible Violette still has some of the gift cards and could hand them back over to the agency.

DeTroy, Violette’s attorney, said yesterday in a phone interview that he couldn’t “substantively” comment on the case because of the pending crimi-nal investigation.

“With my client facing a potential criminal case, we are going to ask the court to stay the case until that matter gets resolved,” he said.

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NEW YORK — Peter Oborne, writing in the con-servative Daily Telegraph, recently suggested that the Conservative British prime minister, David Cameron, was not merely in a mess, he “is in a sewer.”

“We should all temper our glee with a bit of a real-

The Cameron collapse

ity check here. Rupert Murdoch will emerge from this just fi ne.”

That seems about right. Cameron lost it over Rupert Murdoch. He showed stagger-ing lack of judgment in hiring Andy Coulson, the former News of the World editor, as his fi rst director of communications at Downing Street, a hubristic decision made against the best advice and apparently with a dual aim: to show he was not an old Etonian “toff” and to get favorable treatment from the 37 percent of the British print media owned by Murdoch.

He then spent a fair chunk of time during his fi rst year in offi ce in 26 meetings with various News Corp. honchos, including Rebekah Brooks, who was arrested by the British police Sunday.

Brooks happened to be part of the Chipping

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We want your opinions For weeks, the signs were fl ash-ing on every freeway in Los Ange-les: 405 closed between 10 and 110/July 16-17. EXPECT BIG DELAYS.

For those who don’t speak “free-way,” it meant that one of the region’s busiest freeways, the San Diego freeway, would be closed from Friday night until Monday morning in the usually jammed corridor between the Valley (the 101) and West Los Angeles (the 10). Don’t go out, we were warned. Don’t plan on seeing friends on the other side of the great divide.

Carmageddon it was called.It didn’t happen.Oh, yes, the freeway did close —

but only for 53 hours. And the traf-fi c during that time was so light that the mayor took to the radio on Saturday warning people not to take the absence of traffi c as a sign that they should go out. Visit with your neighbors, he advised (this in a city where many people only meet their neighbors when an earthquake forces them out of their house). Take public transportation, he advised (this in a city where there are no subways that run to or from the Westside). Ride your bike (this in a city where riding a bike is perilous, to say the least, given the absence of almost any bike lanes). Walk. (How far?)

While Washington fretted about the debt ceiling, people here fretted about the weekend.

The weekend worked out better than the debt ceiling. It was like living in a better version of Los Angeles — a Los Angeles with fewer cars. Imagine how nice this city would be with less traffi c, we all told each other.

The traffi c was back on Monday. Already planners are worried that when we have to do this again in 11 months, no one will listen to their warnings, remembering how easy it was this time and think-ing they’ll be the only ones who remember. And we’ll be in gridlock.

There is a lesson in this, but I’m not sure it’s one the planners want to hear.

If we can manage to live without everyone climbing into their cars 24/7, why do we only do it on des-ignated disaster days? Imagine a city where there really were fewer cars on the road. It would be, in a word, great.

But that is not the city being built, not the reason the freeway closed. The project is to expand the freeway, and not to create a new trolley or subway or even a bus lane that would make for less

traffi c. To be fair, the idea of the expansion, in addition to creating jobs (Where are all those jobs, by the way? I see the workers; there seem to be a lot of them. But the job numbers certainly don’t refl ect that.), is to add more carpool lanes. Carpool lanes are as far as we are going in trying to get people out of their cars.

I have friends who have bought banged-up Priuses with carpool lane stickers as second (or third) cars so they can move faster on their commutes. I am not sure that is the solution to the region’s future. The supposed “subway to the sea,” which everyone has been talking about for years, is not, after all, going anywhere near the sea. It will stop miles away, either because it’s too expensive, or because people and schools and others closer to the sea don’t want a subway bring-ing others there, or both. You take your pick. And on its way to a few miles from the sea, it won’t be going through downtown Beverly Hills, a mecca for shoppers and tourists, for all the same reasons.

The short answer is simply this: We got out of our cars for two days so we could get right back in them on Monday, with an extra lane in the future.

Is this really the future we should be building?

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This week’s column has a differ-ent format. I receive parenting and relationship questions from readers and every now and then will answer one publicly. Other than experience, I make no claims to be an expert, but will answer as I would to a friend.

Hi Maggie,I am 24 and work at a summer camp

with tweens and teens. I am having a hard time b/c they are so rude. NO manners, everything is about them and they throw tantrums like babies if they don’t get their way. Is there anything I can do to teach them how to be polite?

Jessica, via email.Tweens think everything is about

them? Shocker!There are probably two groups of

kids here: One that is actually some-what polite but being away from the iron rule of their parents has them testing how far they can survive in the other direction. Think of your freshman year at college. I bet if you got one of these kids one-on-one they would revert to their Miss Manners upbringing.

The intrinsically rude other group may be doomed. Can we teach a rude teen polite tricks?

First, ask your 24-year-old self: Am I seen more as a peer or an authority fi gure? At your age, it could go either way, especially if you are trying to be

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their buddy one minute and scolding them the next. They may be rude to you, as they are to even their BFF’s, because they group you as one of them.

But if they look up to you as a cool, older gal there is hope. The best way to teach manners is for them to watch you demonstrate what good man-ners are. Just like parents model good behavior for their toddlers, you need to become the golden pillar of etiquette. Social graces are vital for success in the world and since you are in a leadership position, it is your duty to model what that looks like. (If you aren’t sure yourself, parenting coach Dr. Ferrara has a short video at livestrong.com/video/3014-teach-teens-good-manners/).

Some of these kids may honestly not know that they are being rude since their parents aren’t correct-ing, or worse, are modeling, that icky behavior.

And camp, where I assume you don’t permit hours on Twitter, may be

the fi rst time in a while where these kids are forced to be around each other on such an intimate level. It is easy to communicate behind a com-puter, much harder face-to-face, or in a canoe, when it is already quite unnatural for them.

When you interact with them and fellow counselors use good eye contact, complete sentences, respectful listen-ing, good sportsmanship and apolo-gize if you are wrong about something.

Some of these kids probably rarely sit down at a family dinner and don’t know proper table etiquette. Think about what your grandparents would tell you. During meals you should: sit with good posture, keep elbows off the table, only talk with an empty mouth, only leave the table when everyone is fi nished or with permission, don’t take more food that you plan to eat. “PLEASE pass the pepper,” is your mantra.

Have a no-tolerance rule for out-right rudeness. If they are pounding the table yelling, “Give me s’mores, now!” Just stare at them, silently, until one of them realizes the magic word must be said.

The big criticism of Gen Xer’s as parents is that we don’t want to squish our kids’ egos so we never criti-cize their behavior. We lead them to believe that their feelings are more important than everyone else’s. Thus

the spoiled, rude Gens Y and Z.I, too, have had a poor experience

with this age group’s low manner apti-tude. I had fi ve interviews set up with potential babysitters. Two no-showed, one was over an hour late because she “decided to get her hair colored fi rst” and one 17-year-old smoked a ciga-rette by the front door then fl icked the butt into the fl owers. Only one of the girls was even close to hirable. That is 20 percent.

Jessica, you are honorable for taking a step to teach these kiddos how to be polite members of society. Granted you only have them for a short few weeks, but I think you can make a difference in their behavior if you stay consistent and fi rm in your own. And to that end, I thank you.

To thank my readers, I am going all Oprah and giving away two copies—hard or to your e-reader — of my cur-rent favorite book, “The Tragedy of Arthur” by Arthur Phillips. Send me a question or comment at Maggie@port-landdailysun.me or LIKE my blog, Sexy Naptime, on FB. The randomly selected winners (one from each paper, so please specify which one you read) will be announced in next week’s column.

(Maggie Knowles is a weekly colum-nist for The Portland Daily Sun. Her column appears Wednesdays.)

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The Murdoch story is a cautionary tale for our timesCOHEN from page 4

Norton set, well described by Oborne as “an incestu-ous collection of louche, affl uent, power-hungry and amoral Londoners, located in and around the prime minister’s Oxfordshire constituency.”

When I was at Oxford University many decades ago, the surrounding countryside was still just that — countryside and a delight. That was before the masters of the universe starting acquiring their Cotswold gems as weekend homes and gentrifi ca-tion went into overdrive, complete with helipads, of course. Brooks and her husband live a few miles from Cameron’s constituency home. Matthew Freud, the PR guru married to Elisabeth Murdoch, also has a weekend home in the area.

Chipping Norton was the limestone British Camelot. Who would have dreamt it?

Cameron’s judgment is in serious question. His coalition’s earlier green light for News Corp.’s acquisition of the 61 percent of British Sky Broadcasting that it does not own — a deal now aborted — demands further scrutiny. It is hard to resist the impression that Cameron was com-pletely in the thrall of Brooks, Murdoch and his son James Murdoch. I had thought there was more to the prime minister than slickness.

But it is not only Cameron who is in the sewer. The culture of the United Kingdom as a whole has been reeking pungently of late — its venal, voyeuristic, reality-show-obsessed, me-me-me nature thrust under the magnifying glass by rev-elations about what the tabloid press would do to satisfy the prurience of its readers, hacking into phones at any price, even the phone of a 13-year-old murdered girl.

It may be debated to what degree Murdoch created this culture, or reinforced it, through his ruthless, no-holds-barred approach to jour-nalism — and its ultimate deviation into crimi-

nal activity.Certainly he had a signifi cant role. The police and

members of Parliament were compromised. But would Western societies, including the United States, be betraying these same characteristics — obsession with celebrities (and especially their sex lives); blur-ring of the lines between news and entertainment; extreme self-indulgence (I am my Facebook Wall); a dearth of political principle and a surfeit of political attraction to money — without Murdoch?

I suspect they would.The Murdoch story is a cautionary tale for our

times that goes well beyond the now-compromised fortunes of News Corp.

The United States, after all, has been doing its own good impression of life in the political sewers recently. Republican ideologues with no notion of the national interest do their brinkmanship number as the country hovers near an unthinkable default. The

only thought in their heads seems to be: How will all this play next year in the election and how can we hurt President Obama without being blamed for it?

Is the calculation of these Republicans that dif-ferent from Cameron’s? It’s all about the next news cycle, and spin, and ego, and where the money for political campaigns is, and a total absence of judg-ment. What it’s not about is responsibility and the commonweal.

Murdoch is a fl awed genius whose very ruthless-ness has now led him to his comeuppance. He knew, more viscerally than anyone, what postmodern soci-eties wanted to satisfy their twisted appetites and he provided that material in all its gaudiness. I don’t think he created those appetites. But he sure fed them.

Something deeply insidious and corrupt is at work that has been on view in both Britain and the United States. It involves the takeover of politics by money

and spin and massaged images and privileged coteries. It is the death of statesmanship.

Murdoch’s Fox News has played a big role. But all the major technological and other forces in Western societies are pushing toward polarization. Google is profi ling you through your searches and directs you to the material most likely to reinforce your worldview and ideology. Increasingly, we live in our political comfort zone. Debate and dialogue die.

The sordid dance of Cameron and Murdoch has ended up revealing deep fl aws in British society that are also deep problems in West-ern societies as a whole. Will the two men recover? Cameron is much younger and so in theory he should be able to claw his way out of the sewer. But I’m not sure he will get over this. Murdoch has more backbone and so a better chance, even at this late stage.

(You can follow Roger Cohen on Twitter at twitter.com/nytimescohen.)

Rupert Murdoch (left) and Tom Perkins, an independent member of the board of directors who supports the top management. (Jemal Countess/WireImage, via Getty Images/New York Times)

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Developers of a stalled condo project in the city’s India Street neighborhood now have until Sep-tember 2012 to begin construction under a new agreement approved Monday by the city council.

However, the one-year extension comes at a cost, as councilors voted to eliminate a second phase from the $30 million to $40 million project planned for 112-113 Newbury St.

The so-called Bay House project is being devel-oped by a Boston-based company doing business in Maine as The Village at Ocean Gate, LLC.

Under the new agreement, which extends the conditional zoning agreement until Sept. 22, 2012, the project has been pared down to 82 units. In 2006, when the project was fi rst approved, devel-opers planned to have more than 170 units

The agreement also requires the developer to provide regular upkeep on the site, improve side-walks and curbs and take steps to prevent erosion, among other things, as requested by city offi cials and some neighbors.

Nathan Smith, a former Portland mayor and local attorney who is representing the developers, said his clients are anxious to move forward. He predicted the new time line would hold “every-body’s feet to the fi re.”

He blamed the ongoing lack of progress at the site on the recession, which has hammered the housing industry and led to tighter lending restrictions on many condo projects.

A website for the Bay House describes the neigh-borhood as “The New Port,” a play on the city’s adjacent Old Port neighborhood. The name, like the condo project, has been slow to catch on amid sustained pressure on the city’s condo market.

According to the Bay House website, the “metro-politan style” condo units start at about $170,000 for studios and run to $550,000 for three-bed-rooms.

Councilor Kevin Donoghue, whose district includes the proposed condo site, said he was gen-erally supportive of adding new housing to the neighborhood. However, he called upkeep at the site “disappointing” and led the effort to eliminate the project’s second phase — which will allow just two buildings at the site.

Of the proposed second phase, Donoghue said there was “Not a lot of investment, not a lot of sunk cost [and] not a lot of fans.”

The zoning extension was approved unanimously.

Councilors vote to let city employees seek public offi ce

City councilors this week revised the city’s exist-ing personnel policy allowing municipal employees to run for city council, school board or elected mayor.

Prior to Monday’s change, the personnel policy prohibited city employees from running, an issue that came to light earlier this month when Chris-topher Vail, a city fi remen, was initially barred from running for mayor.

In that case, city attorney Gary Wood deter-mined that the policy couldn’t legally prevent a city employee for running for local offi ce.

City spokesperson Nicole Clegg described the change approved by city councilors Monday night as “the formality of fi xing the personnel policy.”

The new policy expressly allows city employees to run for offi ce and work on political campaigns, but prohibits any employee from those activities during work time, or with city facilities, resources or equip-ment.

Municipal employees who are elected to city offi ce are not allowed to keep their municipal jobs, Clegg said.

New city manager to start todayMark Rees will offi cially take

the reins today as Portland’s new city manager.

Rees, the former town man-ager in North Andover, Mass., was confi rmed by the city coun-cil in June, after being selected from a fi eld of more than 60 candidates during a nationwide search. Rees succeeds Joe Gray, who retired in February after 10 years as city manager and nearly 40 years with the city.

Assistant City Manager Pat

Finnigan has served as acting city manager since Gray retired. With Rees on board, she will return to her former post.

Prior to his role as Town Manager in North Ando-ver, Rees served as the Chief Financial Offi cer for Framingham, Mass., which has an operating budget of $145 million, compared to Portland, which has a $201 million budget.

During his fi ve-year tenure in Framingham, Rees developed the town’s fi rst fi ve-year capital budget plan and fi nancial forecast and is credited with reversing three straight years of defi cits.

SWAT team called to arrest South Portland robbery suspect

SOUTH PORTLAND — A Scarborough man accused of robbing a South Portland gas station Friday night was arrested Monday evening by local police with help from a regional SWAT team, authorities said.

South Portland police say Joshua Nisbet, 34, failed to leave a residence at 191 High-land Ave. Monday at about 6 p.m. when ordered to do so. A brief standoff ensued, and members of the Southern Maine Regional Swat Team were deployed, police said.

Nisbet “eventually exited the apartment and turned himself in to waiting offi -cers,” South Portland police Sgt. Steve Webster said in a news release.

Nisbet is accused of robbing the Mobil station on Main Street in South Portland Friday night at knife-point. Offi cials said the suspect, wearing a bright orange shirt and a ski mask, fl ed on foot.

Nisbet is charged with one count of class A rob-bery and is currently at the Cumberland County Jail being held on $100,000 cash bail.

Christo-pher Vail (right), candidate for mayor, gets a briefi ng on how to gather signatures from elections offi cial Bud Phil-brick while picking up nomination papers at the City Clerks’ offi ce earlier this month. (CURTIS ROBIN-SON FILE PHOTO)

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Weighing the risks, rewards of outing a poor managerA tight-knit group of twenty-

to-life restaurant people I know are plotting the downfall of their worse than stereotypically bad manager. He makes their work-ing hours miserable and in some cases their precious non-work-ing hours as well via friendly texts that are thinly disguised demands for them to pick up shifts on their only full weekend off all summer. Saying no has ramifi cations felt only in industries where strategic scheduling is every-thing and your fi nancial fate is in the hands of the person with the Excel spreadsheet.

Bad management and revolutionary co-ops aren't exclusive to the restaurant/hospitality industry, but this is not a column about nine-to-fi ve offi ce cube life, or construction site-life. It's typically about what goes on in restaurants and because I've been on both sides of these overthrow attempts, I've encouraged the dissidents to make a coherent list of grievances and separate out the legit from the ego.

According to Steve Dublanica, genius writer of, "Waiter Rant" and "Keep the Change," one of the most diffi cult things to do is transition from one restaurant job to another. He discusses it at length and gives several examples of how horrible it is for a lifer to start over in an industry that places value on incompetent seniority over fair-and-equal treat-ment for all. The goal of serving good food to happy guests remains the same from place to place, but I reminded the aforementioned downtrodden of the probability that the parsley is not greener anywhere else.

However, their indignities and subsequent list continued to grow and the reluctant ringleaders had illusions that they were going to present it to the owners and they were actually going to care and take action. They hoped, "They'll talk to the manager

and straighten him out! They'll make sure we are all treated with respect and dignity"!

Oh, the naivete of the believers ... Owners who are not present physically working in the kitchen or out front greeting guests are absent for the obvious reason that they simply do not want to be there. This why they have a man-ager, good or bad in the fi rst place,

and anything short of the manager stealing cases of wine or voiding out guest checks and pocketing the cash (I've seen both these things happen) isn't going to motivate an owner to rock his own boat. As Spring-steen says, "You have to learn to live with what you can't rise above. ..." and I'm afraid this is the case with the unhappy group of list makers.

Their efforts took me back to my prized, Lydia's Liner Notes and a particular little pile of the random paper scraps I titled, Bad Management Voodoo. Here are a few of her observations that eerily echoed the list my friends were working on:

"Why am I being asked to train the new girl? Isn't that your job and the reason why you get a salary?" March 4, 2009

"Why is it OK for you to cover your weekend shifts, but when I do it you assume I don't care about my job or am not committed?" August 12, 2010

"You're also the bartender and are making a good hourly wage. Why do we have to tip you out 10 per-cent when I had to get all my own drinks anyway so you could fl irt with the Lolita at the bar?" October 6, 2009

"Why is the seating chart and head count done one way when you're waiting tables and another way when you aren't?" April 21, 2009

"Did you really just bribe someone to close the drawer for you so you could leave early?" March 22, 2008

"I'm really sick and you still want me to work? 'Hello, my name is Typhoid Mary and I'll be your server tonight...'" December 12, 2010

"How is it OK to belittle someone when they make an honest mistake? Just help fi x it so the guest expe-rience is rectifi ed and that new server isn't afraid to ask for help." July 9, 2010

"Why don't you ask the rest of us what we think about an operational way to do something before you go making changes that suit just you?" January 3, 2008

"Why do you get to give away drinks and bolster just your tips? Didn't someone else recently get fi red for that very same thing?" July 22, 2009

Hopefully just writing the list will give my friends

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Balloon Magic is owned and operated by a cer-tifi ed balloon artist, Robyn Allen, who lives in Topsham, but works extensively in the Greater Portland area bringing special event decorating to all kinds of private parties, life events, corporate functions and holiday gatherings. The name came from the “magical feeling” Allen got whenever she had the opportunity to do something ”really cre-ative and different for a bride,” a corporate mural for companies such as L.L. Bean or something as simple, yet meaningful, as an in-home, custom bal-loon-bouquet delivery.

“Everything is unique and geared to what the client wants. Each job is custom and personal for me ... creating ‘Balloon Magic’ all the way around,” she said.

In the summer of 1986 Allen owned Party Plan-ners, a party supply store in downtown Brunswick when she heard about a weeklong balloon design class being held in Atlanta. Fascinated by the bal-loon art she saw in a trade magazines, she took the class and has since taken and taught dozens of others. Keeping up with decorating trends, Allen recently earned a certifi cation in fabric draping, which is popular with brides and another outlet for her creative design talents.

As her children got older, Allen sold the retail store to focus exclusively on Balloon Magic and currently decorates for major road races, fundrais-ers, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, weddings, trade shows and corporate banquets from Bangor to Portsmouth. “I encourage people to look at my website for an idea of what balloon art really is. I’m always available and ready to talk about ideas and things we can do to make special events even more exciting.”

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a chance to release their frustrations like a breath of toxic air. They will need to take a look at the reality that even if they do gather up the chutzpa to present their document, the owners prob-ably won't think anything is broken, and their worst fears of retaliations are likely. They will also have to look inward and realize that perhaps they are the ones that may need to move on in the middle of this fi nancially less than stellar summer season, or scariest of all, see some of their managers' poor behavior in their own actions and thoughts.

I'm sure cubical life and job site pol-itics have their own unique circum-stances, but luck-ily for the people employed in those professions, they don't involve tip-ping out the man-aging offender.

The Down Low: One Sunday brunch about a year ago a young server named Lydia gave me a crumbled brown paper bag full of hundreds of small, dated pieces of paper, each with an observation or comment about her shift that day. I have categorized them and refer to them often in this column. Lydia is currently camping her way west and the last I heard had taken a tem-porary position in a resort area near Yellowstone National Park.

(Natalie Ladd is a Daily Sun contributor. Her column appears on Wednesday.)

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Lydia’s Liner Notes revisited

ABOVE: A frog peers out from the hands of Thomas Schaffeld during a weeklong Explorer Camp Plus. About 90 youngsters, grades one through nine, converged on Baxter Woods and its

pond to study water exploration. The camp, in its second year, is sponsored by Christ the Redeemer Presbyterian Church, based

at Breakwater School. The amphibian was returned to the pond at Baxter Woods after brief observation by campers. RIGHT:

Schaffeld demonstrates how to view water fauna close up for campers (from left) Harrison Kepler, 10; Aidan Maurice, 9; and

Andrew Pillsbury, 10, all participating in The camp is staged out of Ocean Avenue Elementary School and features activities such

as archery, orienteering, wood building and fi rearms safety. In its fi rst year, the camp drew about 50 children. This year, the

number nearly doubled, church offi cials noted. BELOW: Kepler (left) and Pillsbury inspect water specimens at Baxter Woods.

BOTTOM RIGHT: A salamander is among the specimens found by summer campers.

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In an auction Tuesday, 17 units comprising two troubled properties on Oxford Street brought a price of $375,000, and went to Marc Fishman of Fishman Realty Group. (MARGE NIBLOCK PHOTO)

Anonymous buyer purchases ‘disorderly’ unitsTwo houses that have the

reputation of being among the most infamous addresses in Bayside were sold at an auc-tion held Tuesday afternoon outside of 255/259 Oxford St.

The 17 units comprising the two buildings brought a price of $375,000, and went to Marc Fishman of Fishman Realty Group.

Fishman stated that he was representing a buyer whose name he was not at liberty to identify. That person was not present at the auction. Fishman said the buyer is an experienced property owner who has professional property management experience.

The closing is expected to occur within 30 days and once the new owner has taken pos-session, Trish McAllister, Portland’s Neighborhood Pros-ecutor, will be contacted so that all of the requirements that were imposed by a consent judgment can be discussed.

The properties auctioned Tuesday

were the subject of a legal proceeding that required changes to tenancy and management of the rentals.

More broadly, revisions to a city ordi-nance, which were approved by the

city council in April, made it easier for the city to classify a property as a “disorderly house” in an effort to curb trouble spots that required a frequent police presence.

The address of 259 Oxford St. is where a recent scuffl e with a suspect led to Port-land Police Offi cer Dan Knight, the department’s Senior Lead Offi cer for Sector 2, suffering an injury to his leg. Knight went into the unit looking for Mat-thew Tozier, 32, of Portland, who was wanted by police for several outstanding war-rants. According to police, Knight found him on the second fl oor of the building, but Tozier didn’t want to be taken into custody, and a struggle ensued at the top of a landing, with both men tumbling down the fl ight of stairs together. Then Tozier ran out the front door with

Knight in pursuit. Tozier was cap-tured on Elm Street, arrested and charged with assault on an offi cer and resisting arrest.

BY MARGE NIBLOCKSPECIAL TO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

After fi ve years of planning South-ern Maine Community College will offi cially announce the transfer of deeds from the Navy for two of the buildings at its new Midcoast Campus at Brunswick Landing (formerly the Brunswick Naval Air Station) and will commemorate the occasion with a demolition ceremony on Tuesday, July 26 at 11 a.m. at the site of the new campus, the college announced Tuesday.

The event will launch the renova-tion of the Maine Advanced Technol-ogy & Engineering Center (MATEC). Swinging the fi rst sledge hammer to begin demolition will be James Ortiz, president of SMCC, Sen. Stan Gerzof-sky of District 10 and Steve Levesque from Midcoast Regional Redevelop-ment Authority.

MATEC will be renovated for class-rooms and labs, and will be made ADA compliant with construction begin-ning next month, the college reported. The fi rst classes at the Midcoast Campus will be offered this fall and will be held in the second building, the future residence hall, temporarily until renovations of MATEC are com-pleted and the remaining three build-ings are conveyed to the college later this fall, according to an SMCC press release.

Sen. Gerzofsky sponsored the legis-

lation that established the Midcoast Campus and worked to pass the bond package and economic development incentives that are helping to fund the needed renovations.

“Without Senator Gerzofsky this project would not have happened,” said Ortiz. “He worked tirelessly in the Legislature to make this campus a reality and to drive economic recov-ery for the region when the naval air station closed.”

SMCC is also planning a grand opening of the Midcoast Campus in the fall of 2012 when all fi ve buildings are renovated and two thousands stu-dents will have complete access to the new campus.

The kick-off event on Tuesday, July 26 will take place at the SMCC Midcoast Campus site at the former BNAS.

Ortiz, who is retiring on July 29, became president of what was then Southern Maine Technical College in February of 2002. Under his lead-ership, the college transitioned to a comprehensive community college and became the fastest growing community college in New England, tripling its growth between 2002 and the fall of 2010, according to a college press release. Over the past several years, Ortiz has laid the groundwork for SMCC’s new Mid-coast Campus at the former Bruns-wick Naval Air Station.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Your progress will inspire others. But if you devolve instead, that will be inspiring, too -- someday and as long as you don’t give up. So accept where you are, and stay in the game. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You want the best teacher available and will get what you want when you are the best pupil around. Bring your curious and open mind, and check your ego and preconceived notions at the door. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Sometimes it seems like too much effort to prepare and enjoy your meals properly. That’s why it’s so wonderful to fi nd a new food or restaurant you like. You’ll make such a fi nd today. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You will create a bid for a job or perhaps for another kind of arrangement that is less formal. Do your research. Consider, compare and contrast the deals that others in a similar position have made. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Action begets action. You’ll be busy all day, and night brings the same high activ-ity level. Take pictures and write things down. There’s much you’ll want to remember in this fl urry of activity. TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (July 20). You will follow your interests with new passion and, in the process, bond with loyal friends. Your tremendous self-control and persistence are rewarded when you reach a personal goal in September. Autumn brings romantic adventures and diplomatic maneuvers. Look for opportunity in December, and move fast. Aquarius and Pisces people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 14, 20, 6, 32 and 18.

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11 WENHAntiques Roadshow A 19th century military saxophone. Å

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Abraham and Mary Lin-coln: A House Divided (N) Å (DVS)

The National Parks: America’s Best Idea (In Stereo) Å (DVS)

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13 WGMEBig Brother The veto competition takes place. (N) Å

Criminal Minds The team travels to North Carolina. Å (DVS)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation “All That Cremains” (In Stereo)

WGME News 13 at 11:00

Late Show With David Letterman

17 WPME Burn Notice Å Burn Notice Å Curb My Road Star Trek: Next

24 DISC Sons of Guns Å Sons of Guns (N) Å One Man Army (N) Sons of Guns Å

25 FAM Melissa Georgia Movie: “Cyberbully” (2011) Emily Osment. The 700 Club (N) Å

26 USA NCIS “Deliverance” Royal Pains (N) Å Necessary Roughness Burn Notice Å

27 NESN MLB Baseball: Red Sox at Orioles Daily Dennis Daily Daily

28 CSNE MLS Soccer: Revolution at United Net Impact Sports SportsNet Sports SportsNet

30 ESPN MLB Baseball: Cardinals at Mets Baseball Tonight (N) SportsCenter (N) Å

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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 BMW: A Driving Obs. American Greed Nightmare in Mad Money

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

43 TNT The Mentalist Å Franklin & Bash (N) Bones (In Stereo) Å Franklin & Bash Å

44 LIFE Pawn Pawn Roseanne Roseanne Dance Moms (N) Å How I Met How I Met

46 TLC Hoarding: Buried Alive Toddlers & Tiaras Toddlers & Tiaras (N) Toddlers & Tiaras

47 AMC Movie: ›› “Broken Arrow” (1996) John Travolta. Å Movie: ›› “Broken Arrow” (1996)

48 HGTV Property Income Income Property Brothers Hunters House Property

49 TRAV Man, Food Man, Food Man v Fd Man v Fd Conqueror Conqueror Man, Food Man, Food

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52 BRAVO Housewives/NJ Flipping Out Å Rocco’s Dinner Party Rocco’s Dinner Party

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56 SYFY Ghost Hunters Å Ghost Hunters Inter. Legend Quest (N) Ghost Hunters Inter.

57 ANIM I Shouldn’t Be Alive I Shouldn’t Be Alive (N) I Shouldn’t Be Alive I Shouldn’t Be Alive

58 HIST Third Reich A look at the rise of Nazi Germany. Third Reich The downfall of the Third Reich.

60 BET Movie: ››‡ “Romeo Must Die” (2000) Jet Li, Aaliyah. Å Fa. Affair The Mo’Nique Show

61 COM Chappelle Chappelle South Park South Park South Park Jon Daily Show Colbert

62 FX Movie: ››‡ “The Proposal” (2009) Premiere. Rescue Me “Menses” Rescue Me “Menses”

67 TVLND All-Family All-Family Raymond Raymond Cleveland Divorced Divorced Cleveland

68 TBS Browns Browns Payne Payne Payne Payne Conan (N)

76 SPIKE Deadliest Warrior Deadliest Warrior Deadliest Warrior (N) Deadliest Warrior Å

78 OXY Movie: ›› “The Wedding Planner” (2001) Å According to Paris Movie: “Clueless” Å

146 TCM Movie: ›››‡ “Pride and Prejudice” (1940) Movie: ›››› “Madame Bovary” (1949) Å

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Today is Wednesday, July 20, the 201st day of 2011. There are 164 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts

Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the fi rst men to walk on the moon after landing their lunar module.

On this date:In 1861, the Congress of the Confederate

States convened in Richmond, Va.In 1917, the draft lottery in World War I

went into operation.In 1944, an attempt by a group of German

offi cials to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a bomb failed as the explosion at Hitler’s Ras-tenburg headquarters only wounded the Nazi leader. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for an unprecedented fourth term of offi ce at the Democratic convention in Chicago.

In 1954, the Geneva Accords divided Viet-nam into northern and southern entities.

In 1960, a pair of Polaris missiles were fi red from the submerged USS George Washington off Cape Canaveral, Fla., at a target more than 1,100 miles away.

In 1976, America’s Viking 1 robot space-craft made a successful, fi rst-ever landing on Mars.

In 1988, Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis received the Democratic presiden-tial nomination at the party’s convention in Atlanta.

In 1990, Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, one of the court’s most liberal voices, announced he was stepping down.

One year ago: The Senate Judiciary Committee voted almost totally along party lines, 13-6, to approve Elena Kagan to be the Supreme Court’s fourth female justice.

Today’s Birthdays: Actress-singer Sally Ann Howes is 81. Rockabilly singer Sleepy LaBeef is 76. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski, D-Md., is 75. Actress Diana Rigg is 73. Rock musician John Lodge (The Moody Blues) is 68. Country singer T.G. Sheppard is 67. Singer Kim Carnes is 66. Rock musician Carlos Santana is 64. Rock musician Paul Cook (The Sex Pistols, Man Raze) is 55. Actress Donna Dixon is 54. Rock musician Mick McNeil (Simple Minds) is 53. Country singer Radney Foster is 52. Actor Frank Whaley is 48. Rock singer Chris Cornell is 47. Rock musician Stone Gossard (Pearl Jam) is 45. Actor Reed Diamond is 44. Actor Josh Holloway is 42. Singer Vitamin C is 42. Actor Omar Epps is 38. Actor Simon Rex is 37. Actress Judy Greer is 36. Actor Charlie Korsmo is 33. Singer Elliott Yamin (yah-MEEN’) (American Idol) is 33. Supermodel Gisele Bundchen is 31. Rock musician Mike Kennerty (The All-American Rejects) is 31. Actor Percy Daggs III is 29. Actor John Fran-cis Daley is 26. Country singer-ballroom dancer Julianne Hough is 23. Actress Billi Bruno is 15.

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Maine town 52 Peachy keen!

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“These are expenses that the city is compelled to make,” said Councilor Ed Suslovic, chairman of the task force.

“We’re not talking about growing the pie, we’re talking about fi xed expenses,” he said. “The only questions is what’s the most fair and most equitable way?”

A major challenge confronting the city is its $170 million Combined Sewer Overfl ow Abatement Proj-ect. "Combined sewer overfl ow" refers to the prob-lem of sewage fl owing into Casco Bay during heavy rains, due to the linkage of storm water and sewage systems.

In June, the council voted to set a 15-year comple-tion time line for the project aimed at reducing the amount of untreated sewage and rainwater that enters Casco Bay. Annual sewer bills for the average household will increase from about $460 in 2011 to about $1,350 when the project is complete, in 2028, according to city documents.

The CSO project is necessary under federal man-dates, offi cials noted. Task force members consented during last month’s meeting to look into different options to present to the City Council, agreeing that adding to the sewer rate or property taxes would not be the best method of collecting the funds.

“A big pressure, of course, is our combined sewer overfl ows,” said Mike Bobinsky, director of Portland’s Public Works department. “How do we pay for that?”

The 14-member task force — comprised of a wide range of residents, business leaders, conservation-ists and different property owners — is currently looking at different options for a storm water fee.

“In a nutshell, the task force is looking at alterna-tives to paying for the costs that we have in another way other than the sewer rate,” said Ian Houseal, coordinator of the task force. The task force is not a decision making body but will present a recommen-dation to the council.

Houseal explained that sewer rates are based largely on water usage and that much of the addi-tional costs the task force is charged with consider-ing are incurred by storm water runoff and the CSO abatement plan.

If no other funding option is adopted by the City Council to cover the costs associated with storm water, not only would average sewer bills nearly triple, but, as Houseal points out, different residents and businesses would be disproportionally affected by the new charges.

For example, apartments, hotels and health care facilities are relatively large water users. A high sewer bill for usage would mean those users would be billed larger amounts.

At the same time, roadways, parking lots and shopping centers use less water, but they contribute to storm water run off in a big way, Houseal said.

A fl at rate would charge each parcel of property a set amount. Tiered impervious rates would take into account the amount of area a property has that doesn't allow water to be absorbed into the ground.

The rates discussed ranged from charging prop-erty units about $850 annually for a fl at rate or about $472 per year for every 2,500 square feet of impervious surface.

Both of those models include 100 percent of the CSO allocation to storm water and an additional $3.49 per 100 cubic feet per in year in sewer rate costs.

Other models were given which took into account a smaller proportion of the CSO allocation and larger amounts of the sewer rates.

"It's very conceptual at this point," Bobinsky said.The task force will meet again in August to dis-

cuss which, if any, of the proposals they would like to pursue. After a decision is made on what storm water fee would suit Portland best, the task force plans to host a city forum to discuss the draft pro-posal with residents.

The group will meet once a month until the end of the year, at which time it is slated to make a pro-posal to the council.

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Launch of Patriots license plate10 a.m. During a special ceremony at the Maine Mall in South Portland, New England Patriots representatives, including Pro Football Hall of Famer Andre Tippett and Patriots Cheerleaders, along with Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles representatives, will offi cially announce the open-ing of preorders of state of Maine Patriots license plates as part of the Patriots Charitable Foundation’s charitable license plate program. At the ceremony, the public is invited to be one of the fi rst to place a preorder and be part of the necessary 2,000 preorders needed to successfully bring the license plate law to the Maine legislature. The event will feature a Patriots plate unveiling ceremony and autographs with Patriots Cheerleaders from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. To cel-ebrate the launch of preorders, the fi rst 50 people to place an order at Wednesday’s event will receive a Patriots Chari-table Foundation commemorative mini-football. Maine Patriots license plates cost $35 on top of regular registra-tion fees, with $25 going to the state for start-up costs of producing the plate, and $10 going to the Patriots Charita-ble Foundation, earmarked for Maine nonprofi ts. The Maine license plate program marks the third Patriots license plate offered in the New England region, with existing programs in the states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Once the plate is approved and in production, which may take up to a year, each of the 2,000 pre-sale registrants will receive a BMV voucher, which they can take to their municipal offi ce or BMV branch to redeem for their plate. If the law is not successfully passed, refunds will be issued to each indi-vidual that placed a preorder. Vouchers will be mailed to the address provided when the order is placed, and vouchers are transferable. Vehicles must be under 10,000 pounds to be eligible. To place an online order or for more informa-tion visit www.patriots.com/community. Today’s event will take place at Center Court in the Maine Mall located at 364 Maine Mall Road in South Portland.

Hands-Only CPR training10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The American Heart Association and Hannaford Supermarkets in Maine are partnering to help people learn basic CPR skills by providing free “Hands-Only CPR” mini-trainings. Hands-Only CPR is CPR without mouth-to-mouth rescue breaths. It involves two easy steps: Call 911 and push hard and fast on the center of the chest. This technique is easy to remember and results in deliv-ery of more, uninterrupted chest compressions until more advanced care arrives on the scene. The mini-trainings will held from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on the following dates: Monday, July 11 — 77 Western Ave., Hampden; Monday, July 18 — 692 Sabattus St., Lewiston; Wednesday, July 20 — Forest Ave., Portland; Monday, Aug. 1 — 31 Han-naford Drive, Scarborough. Participants will receive educa-tional information and those who practice chest compressions will be entered to win free CPR Anytime kits and $50 Han-naford gift cards. The AHA hopes to increase CPR awareness so that more people will know the simple steps to save a life if someone suddenly collapses from cardiac arrest. If people are unable to attend one of the mini-trainings above, they can watch the Hands-Only CPR video at www.handsonlycpr.org.

Kid’s Activity Day with Dino Discovery10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Kid’s Activity Day — Wednesdays in Lobsterman’s Park, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Presented by the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine. Bring the kids to Lobsterman’s Park to enjoy a different activity each week and learn interesting facts! July 20, Dino Discovery. Investigate a life size t-rex jawbone and make a dough dino fossil to take home. July 27, Understanding Owls. Learn about an owl’s silent fl ight and other hunting techniques by exploring artifacts and making a craft. Brought to you by WPXT, WPME, WHOM, mainetoday.com, raisingmaine.com

Author Simon Van Booy visits Mainenoon and 7 p.m. Van Booy will read at noon at Portland Public Library’s Rines Auditorium as part of the celebrated Brown Bag series. Later that same evening, Van Booy will give a 7 p.m. reading at SPACE Gallery. “Acclaimed author Simon Van Booy will visit Maine for only the second time ever and give two readings in Portland hosted by the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance (MWPA), the Portland Public Library, SPACE Gallery, and Longfellow Books. In 2009, Van Booy won the Frank O’Connor Interna-tional Short Story Award — the largest short story prize in the world — for his collection ‘Love Begins in Winter.’ Now, in the elegant, seemingly Old World prose he has become revered for, Van Booy’s debut novel ‘Every-thing Beautiful Began After’ traces three lives set against the Mediterranean heat of Athens, Greece: drunken but brilliant Ameri-

can Henry, the searching French artist Rebecca, and British archaeologist Henry.”

The Kids Are Alright: In The Audiencenoon. “SPACE and the Maine Academy of Modern Music debut The Kids Are Alright, a new series of Wednesday lunchtime performances by local musicians for the whole family can dig! Stop by for a break after the Farmer’s Market, or before you hit the beach for a cool hour of music by great live acts tailored for the kids. Parents and kids will be able to meet the musicians, ask them questions, and even experience an ‘instrument petting zoo’! In this install-ment of this series, rising indie band In The Audience step up to the plate.” $3 adults/ $2 kids. http://www.space538.org/events.php

Money Works series at Curtis Memorial Library5:30 p.m. “Investing: How Do I Know What’s Right For Me?” talk by Bowdoin’s Sherry Mason and Sarah Paul, followed by a meeting of the Women’s Investment Club in Morrell Meeting Room. Curtis Memorial Library in Bruns-wick. Public invited. FMI 725-5242 ext. 216 or ehawkins@curtislibrary.com. www.curtislibrary.com

Free summer concerts in Portland7:45 p.m. Bring a chair or blanket, sit back and enjoy the music throughout the summer months. Portland Recre-ation, Families of the Western Prom Neighborhood, West End Neighborhood Association, Maine Red Claws, Quirk Chevrolet, Friends of Eastern Promenade, Kemp Goldberg Partners, Betty Winterhalder Fund, Trevor & Joe, Coyne Piergrossi Associates, Keller Williams Realty, SMRT, the Italian Heritage Center Concert Band and the Willey Trust sponsor these free outdoor concerts. FMI: 756-8275; Infor-mation and cancellation hotline: 756-8130.Sunset Folk Series At The Western Prom Park: Sponsored by Families of the Western Prom Neighborhood and WENA. Concerts last approximately 40 minutes. (During inclement weather, concert canceled.) Held Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. (or as announced) at Western Prom Park. July 20, 7:45 p.m., Mark Farrington; Wednesday, July 27, 7:30 p.m., Sorcha http://www.myspace.com/sorchasongs; Aug. 3, 7:30 p.m., Phantom Buf-falo http://www.myspace.com/phantombuffalo; Aug. 10, 7:30 p.m., Will Gattis http://www.myspace.com/gattistheband.Crusher’s Kids Concerts in the Park: Concerts last approximately 40 minutes. Concerts held Thursdays at 12:30 p.m. at the Bandstand, Deering Oaks Park. (During inclement weather concert relocated to Reiche Community Center, 166 Brackett Street). July 21, Tangletoons (Maine Songs); July 28, Sparks Ark (Wild Animals); Aug. 4, Sammie Haynes (Singer Songstress). Friends Of Eastern Promenade Concert Series: Sponsored by the Friends of the Eastern Promenade. Concerts last approximately one hour. Concerts held Thursdays at 7 p.m. at Bandstand, Fort Allen Park. July 21, Chandler’s Band (Marches & Big Band Era) sponsored by the Willey Trust; July 28, Sean Mencher and his Rhythm Kings (Rockabilly) sponsorship in Memory of Betty Winterhalder; Aug. 4, Big Chief (Rhythm & Roots Music) sponsored by Trevor & Joe Coyne Piergrossi Associates and Keller Williams Realty; Aug. 11, The McCarthys (Country Rock) sponsored by Kemp Goldberg Partners; Aug. 18, Banda di Nepi (Community Band from Italy) sponsored by the Italian Heritage Center (rain date at center). www.portlandmaine.gov/rec/summer.htm

The Psychic/Paranormal Faire kicks off Saturday and Sunday, July 23 and 24, at Fort Knox. The Faire will feature renowned cryptozoolo-gist Loren Coleman, TV personality and author of “Mysterious America” and curator of Portland’s International Cryptozoology Museum. (FILE PHOTO)

Rutger Hauer in “Hobo With A Shotgun” a Magnet Release. The product of a trailer competition held by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriquez for the making of their collaborative fi lm “Grindhouse,” this fi lm is screening at SPACE Gallery Friday night. (Photo courtesy of Magnet Releasing/Karim Hussain)

Come see a proposed Patriots license plate today at 10 a.m. in the Center Court in the Maine Mall located at 364 Maine Mall Road in South Portland. Pro Football Hall of Famer Andre Tippett will be in attendance. (COURTESY IMAGE)

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Thursday, July 21

‘Recession to Recovery’noon to 1:30 p.m. The Maine Heritage Policy Centerpresents “Recession to Recovery: A Budget That Gets Maine Working” presented by Richard Rosen, member of the Maine Senate. DiMillo’s On the Water, 25 Long Wharf, Portland. MHPC Member: $17 per person. Non-member: $22 per person. For additional information, please contact Amanda Clark at 321-2550 or aclark@mainepolicy.org.

Hot Water Bath Canning1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Cumberland County is offering workshops locally on (Pickling and Freezing), (Drying Fruits, Herbs and Vegetables) and (Fermenting pickles). Also, a workshop on low sugar blueberry jam workshop in Lisbon Falls. Next up: Falmouth workshop on Hot Water Bath Canning Pick-les and Freezing Fruit and Vegetables. UMaine Regional Learning Center, 75 Clearwater Dr., Falmouth. Time: Cost: $10 (Scholarships are available). Instructor is Kate McCarty, Food Preservation Program Aide, and Master Food Pre-server Volunteers. For more information: call 781.6099 or email Lois at lois.elwell@maine.edu. “If you are looking for ways to preserve your food from the garden, now is the time to sign up for one of these workshops. For more classes go to: www.extension.umaine.edu.

Little Red Riding Hood reimagined4 p.m. This summer, Little Red Riding Hood and her grand-mother fi nd themselves facing not just one wolf, but two! The Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine kicks off its 2011-2012 theatre season with Little Red Riding Hood (or Grandmother Slyboots), a twist on the well-worn tale of a fl ighty girl and conniving wolf. In this story, Little Red’s nemesis, the wolf, is an arrogant young prankster. A sage older wolf advises him to give up his foolish impersonations of humans and just be the best wolf he can be. The Chil-dren’s Museum & Theatre’s Dress Up Theatre has been home to more than a dozen productions since 2008, but the staging for Little Red Riding Hood will offer audiences a uniquely immersive experience: the show will take place in the center of the room, with rows of seating (some elevated) along two opposite walls. A troupe of nine young actors ages 8 to 16 have spent the not-so-lazy days of summer rehearsing almost daily. The cast features newcomers in the roles of Little Red Riding Hood (Phoebe Little, 13, of South Portland) and Young Wolf (Even Laukli, 13 of Yarmouth). The show runs for two weekends, July 21-31: Thursdays and Fridays at 4 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Tickets are $9 each ($8 for members) and can be reserved at the front desk (142 Free St.), at kitetails.org or by calling 828-1234, ext. 231. Advance reservations are encouraged.

Alive at Five free outdoor concert5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The much anticipated Alive at Five free outdoor concerts kick is taking place each Thursday in Monument Square. “What better way to spend a summer night than to kick back, listen to free music in the summer sun and enjoy a cold drink in the beer garden, presented by Sebago Brewing Company.” July 21 — The Fogcutters Big Band (Big Band/Swing) and Sly-Chi (Funk/Soul/Jazz); July 28 — Marion Grace (Singer-Songwriters) and Gypsy Tail-wind (Americana /Roots); Aug. 4 — The Modest Proposal (MAMM SLAM High School Band Winners) and The Kenya Hall Band (Rhythm and Blues). For more information and a full schedule of free summer events, visit portlandmaine.com or call 772.6828.

Capisic Pond Park discussion6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The Portland Department of Public Ser-vices and City Councilor Ed Suslovic will host an informa-tional meeting to discuss next steps for Capisic Pond Park following the completion of work for the West Side Sewer Interceptor project. The public will get an overview of the sewer separation project, learn about the Capisic Brook Watershed Study, currently underway, and park restoration work completed to date. Following presentations, a dis-cussion of potential next steps for the wetlands and pond will be led by a panel of city staff and offi cials, consultants, and experts on natural spaces. Deering High School Caf-eteria, 370 Stevens Ave.

Concert at Fort Allen Park: Chandler’s Band7 p.m. “We’re putting the band back in the bandstand at Fort Allen Park!” In July and August, Friends of the East-ern Promenade scheduled seven Thursday evening con-certs. Chandler’s Band (Big Band Era), sponsored by the Willey Trust. Other concerts: Thursday, July 28 — Sean Mencher and his Rhythm Kings (Rockabilly), sponsorship in memory of Betty Winterhalder. Thursday, Aug. 4 — Big Chief (Rhythm & Roots Music). Sponsored by Coyne Pier-grossi Associates, Keller Williams Realty. Thursday, Aug. 11

— The McCarthys (Country Rock). Sponsored by Kemp Goldberg Partners. Thursday, Aug. 18 — Banda di Nepi (Community Band from Italy). Sponsored by the Italian Heri-tage Center.

Friday, July 22

Jimmy Fund/Deering High School Classic10:30 a.m. The Jimmy Fund/Deering High School Classic to benefi t the Deering High School Golf Team and the Jimmy Fund will be held July 22, at Riverside Golf Club in Portland. This tournament is part of the Jimmy Fund Golf Program. The Jimmy Fund Golf Program is one of the oldest and larg-est charity golf programs in the country. Now in its 29th year, The Jimmy Fund Golf Program has raised more than $80 million for life-saving cancer research and treatment for adults and children at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The 2011 presenting sponsors for this year’s program include American Airlines, Callaway Golf, Dunkin’ Donuts, Forty Seven Brand, HomeGoods, the International Golf Club, and GateHouse Media New England. Registration Time: 10:30 a.m. Shotgun Time: noon. Registration Fee: $100 per golfer. For more information, visit www.jimmyfundgolf.org or call 866-521-4653.

Little Red Riding Hood reimagined4 p.m. This summer, Little Red Riding Hood and her grand-mother fi nd themselves facing not just one wolf, but two! The Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine kicks off its 2011-2012 theatre season with Little Red Riding Hood (or Grandmother Slyboots), a twist on the well-worn tale of a fl ighty girl and conniving wolf. In this story, Little Red’s nemesis, the wolf, is an arrogant young prankster. A sage older wolf advises him to give up his foolish impersonations of humans and just be the best wolf he can be. The Chil-dren’s Museum & Theatre’s Dress Up Theatre has been home to more than a dozen productions since 2008, but the staging for Little Red Riding Hood will offer audiences a uniquely immersive experience: the show will take place in the center of the room, with rows of seating (some elevated) along two opposite walls. A troupe of nine young actors ages 8 to 16 have spent the not-so-lazy days of summer rehearsing almost daily. The cast features newcomers in the roles of Little Red Riding Hood (Phoebe Little, 13, of South Portland) and Young Wolf (Even Laukli, 13 of Yarmouth). The show runs for two weekends, July 21-31: Thursdays and Fridays at 4 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Tickets are $9 each ($8 for members) and can be reserved at the front desk (142 Free St.), at kitetails.org or by calling 828-1234, ext. 231. Advance reservations are encouraged.

‘Yoga and Walking Meditation on the Fore River’5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. “Yoga and Walking Meditation on the Fore River.” Rebecca Stephans leads a yoga walk on the Fore River Trail. Beginning with gentle stretches, breathing exercises, and yoga postures the walk will con-tinue with a walking meditation. The walk will end with a closing meditation and check-in. No yoga experience nec-essary, and all levels of fi tness are welcome. Meet at the Fore River Trail head on Hobart Street off outer Congress Street. Parking is available along Hobart Street. Free for Portland Trails members, $5 suggested donation for non-members ($5 can go toward new or renewed membership.) Reservations suggested. Call Portland Trails: 775-2411. For a full schedule of Portland Trails Discovery Treks, visit http://trails.org/events.html

SPACE screens ‘Hobo With A Shotgun’10 p.m. “Celebrating the classic American ‘Grindhouse’ genre, ‘Hobo With A Shotgun’ is the product of a trailer com-petition held by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriquez for the making of their collaborative fi lm ‘Grindhouse.’ A hobo (played by Rutger Hauer) rolls into town hoping for a fresh start but instead fi nds himself trapped in an urban hell ruled by a murderous crime boss and his sadistic sons. As the brutality rages around him, the hobo realizes the only way to make a difference in this town is with a pawnshop shot-gun in his hands. Viewer discretion is strongly advised.” $7/$5 for SPACE Gallery Members, 18 plus.

Saturday, July 23

Philosophy at the Edge conference in Camden9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Camden Philosophical Society will hold its fi fth annual Philosophy at the Edge conference in Camden, “on one of the hottest new topics in the fi eld — Experimental Philosophy — and will be featuring some of the stars of the new movement, while also questioning whether this is the best way of tackling all the age-old issues that constitute philosophy. The regular meetings of the society are hosted by the Camden Public Library throughout the year, but the Experimental Philosophy Conference will be at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Camden.” www.library-camden.org/

Psychic/Paranormal Faire10 a.m. to 4 p.m. A popular event returns to Fort Knox when the second Psychic/Paranormal Faire kicks off Saturday and Sunday, July 23 and 24. The Faire will feature renowned cryptozoologist Loren Coleman, TV personality and author of “Mysterious America.” Joining Coleman will be author of “Ghosts of Acadia,” Marcus LiBrizzi, East Coast Ghost Trackers paranormal investigation group, UFOologists, and psychic, Sky Taylor. Visitors to the Faire will also be able to consult various psychics that will be on site for the event. The Friends work in partnership with the Maine Department of Conservation’s Bureau of Parks and Lands for the benefi t of Fort Knox. fortknox.maineguide.com.

What About Whales? on Peaks Island11 a.m. to 3 p.m. What About Whales? presented by the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine at Brackett Memo-rial United Methodist Church, 9 Church St., Peaks Island. “Istar, the life-size infl atable whale model that lives in the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine, wows thousands of visitors each year when they climb inside her and discover just how massive humpbacks are. On July 23, Istar will visit Peaks Island to wow islanders and travelers alike. Guided trips inside the whale will take place on the hour from 1-3 p.m.” Istar’s voyage is part of Science at Sea, a program created by the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine and funded by the Peaks Island Fund of the Maine Community Foundation. The program was created to increase island-ers’ access to science programming and educate Casco Bay residents about their ocean-dwelling neighbors. This event is the concluding celebration of a series of educa-tional science programs in Peaks Island schools and pre-schools. The Brackett Memorial United Methodist Church is located at 9 Church Street, a half-mile walk from the ferry.

Breakwater Creative Arts camp fi lm screening12:30 p.m. “Tova Kemmerer is not your typical eight-year-old summer camper. Sure, she can weave a friendship bracelet and play a mean game of Duck Duck Goose, but at Breakwater Creative Arts (BCA) summer camp, Tova also gets to make movies. In fact, three fi lms that she and her Cinematic Storytelling class made last summer at BCA have been selected for viewing at the 34th Maine Student Film and Video Festival, held in conjunction with the Maine International Film Festival, in Waterville,” the arts program announced. The three narrative works — “Rhonda’s Pillow Adventure,” “The Pencil Dilemma” and “Mystery Shack” — will be screened on July 23 at 12:30 p.m. at the Railroad Cinema in Waterville. The fi lms were conceived, developed, acted, fi lmed and directed entirely by students in grades K-6. Located in Portland, Breakwater is an independent day school and after-school enrichment center for students, pre-K through grade 8.

Little Red Riding Hood reimagined1 p.m. This summer, Little Red Riding Hood and her grand-mother fi nd themselves facing not just one wolf, but two! The Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine kicks off its 2011-2012 theatre season with Little Red Riding Hood (or Grandmother Slyboots), a twist on the well-worn tale of a fl ighty girl and conniving wolf. In this story, Little Red’s nem-esis, the wolf, is an arrogant young prankster. A sage older wolf advises him to give up his foolish impersonations of humans and just be the best wolf he can be. The Children’s Museum & Theatre’s Dress Up Theatre has been home to more than a dozen productions since 2008, but the staging for Little Red Riding Hood will offer audiences a uniquely immersive experience: the show will take place in the center of the room, with rows of seating (some elevated) along two opposite walls. The show runs for two weekends, July 21-31: Thursdays and Fridays at 4 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Tickets are $9 each ($8 for members) and can be reserved at the front desk (142 Free St.), at kitetails.org or by calling 828-1234, ext. 231. Advance reservations are encouraged.

A Tribute to the Music of Kermit Goell8 p.m. Maine Singers Atelier (MSA), directed by Julie Goell, will present “My Love Serenade: A Tribute to the Music of Kermit Goell,” at the 5th Maine Regiment Center (http://www.fi fthmainemuseum.org/). Between 1940 and 1980, Kermit Goell wrote the lyrics to over 200 songs, including the hit, “Near You.” His songs have been recorded by a wide range of artists from Johnny Cash, Andy Williams and Frank Sinatra to the Andrews Sisters, Sarah Vaughan and Barbara Streisand. Some have appeared in the soundtracks of movies, including “Mask” and “Practical Magic,” and on TV shows, including “Six Feet Under” and “The Sopranos.” Kermit Goell also happens to be the father of MSA director Julie Goell. Tickets to the event are available at the door for $10. Maine Singers Atelier (www.juliegoell.com/singing.php) is a lab-style workshop held in Portland, for singers in any genre of music to hone skills in performance, pre-sentation and expressive power, in an atmosphere of sup-port and collegiality. The workshop is directed by performer, singer and director Julie Goell (http://www.juliegoell.com/).

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Sunday July 24

Old Port Half Marathon & 5K Road Race8 a.m. to 2 p.m. In its fi rst year, this event is organized by GiddyUp Productions. The expected number of runners overall this year is 700, according to a city agenda item. Proceeds from the races benefi t Habitat for Humanity and Independent Transportation Network. The race will start on the Eastern Prom and fi nish at the Maine State Pier. The half marathon starts fi rst at 8 a.m. The 5K race starts at 8:15 a.m. www.oldporthalfmarathon.com

Sunday Shindig on the Bay.1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Diamond’s Edge Restaurant, Great Diamond Island. A large group of land conservation prac-titioners, supporters and families will gather at Diamond’s Edge Restaurant to celebrate 25 years of land conserva-tion in the Casco Bay region at the Sunday Shindig on the Bay. The event, which is a fundraiser and to which all are invited, is family friendly and as such will feature games, activities and a juggler for the young kids. Additionally for the kids of all ages, there will be lawn games like badminton and croquet, and a great band called Local Circus. Tours of the Fort will also be offered during the event. Food, beer, wine, soft drinks and juice will be served and there will be a raffl e drawing featuring one-of-a-kind gifts with great value. The tickets are $40 with 12 and under Free, and can be purchased at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/181685. The hosts of the event are three local land trusts: Che-beague & Cumberland Land Trust, Falmouth Land Trust and Oceanside Conservation Trust of Casco Bay. Each of these land trusts has worked diligently over the past 25 years or more to protect and steward many places in and around Casco Bay. Some of the protected properties of these land trusts include Basket Island, Daveis Cove on Peaks, Rines Forest in Cumberland, Blackstrap Hill Preserve in Fal-mouth, Higgins Farm on Chebeague Island, The Bluffs on Cliff Island, Wreck Cove on Long Island and many more. The board members of the three land trusts are coordinat-ing inter-island transport enabling islanders to travel from Long, Cliff, Chebeague, Peaks and Cushing Island directly. Names and numbers can be found by calling 699-2989 for more information. Portlanders can take the 1:15 ferry from Casco Bay Lines to arrive at Diamond’s Edge at 1:35. Char-ter sponsors are Bayside Print Services, Diamond’s Edge Restaurant, JWA Holdings, Casco Bay Island Development Association, and the David Banks Team of Remax by the Bay. Silver Level sponsors include Handy Boat, Dummond Woodsum, Warren Currier & Buchanan LLC, Wright-Ryan, Lionel Plante Associates and Horny Toad/Nau.

Monday, July 25

Learn from the Pros Summer Basketball Camp9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Learn from the Pros Summer Basketball Camp by the Maine Red Claws, July 25-29, Portland Expo. Boys and girls ages 7-12; all skill levels are welcome. Camp features: Camp to be held at Portland Expo, home of the Maine Red Claws; expert instruction from Red Claws staff; special guest lecturers; stations, drills, skills contests and live games; 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily, 8:30 a.m. dropoff wel-come; camp t-shirt; ticket to a 2011-12 Red Claws game; pizza party; award ceremony; $185 for the weeklong camp. www.nba.com/dleague/maine/jrredclawscamp.html

MECA Master of Fine Arts lectures6:30 p.m. Each summer, the Master of Fine Arts program at Maine College of Art invites guest artists, curators and scholars to participate in the curriculum. All visiting artists deliver a free public lecture in Osher Hall at 6:30 p.m. July 25: Lee Boroson; Boroson’s airy sculptures give viewers the chance to experience the ineffable impossibilities of the world. Aug. 1: Hamish Fulton; Since the early 1970s, Fulton has been labeled as a sculptor, photographer, conceptual artist and artist. Fulton, however, characterises himself as a “walking artist.” Aug. 8: Lisi Raskin; Raskin handcrafts whimsical recreations of military command centers. This summer the MFA’s Moth Press is also releasing Mapping the Intelligence of Artistic Work; An Explorative Guide to Making, Thinking, and Writing by Anne West. West is an educator, writer and independent curator. She teaches in the Division of Graduate Studies at Rhode Island School of Design, where she supports students across disciplines in conceptualizing and writing their master’s thesis. www.meca.edu/mfa

Presentation on Complete Streets6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Portland’s Department of Public Services and Planning and Urban Development will host a public presentation on Complete Streets facilitated by experts from the National Complete Streets Coalition. Complete Streets is a transportation policy that calls for the

construction, maintenance and operation of roads that are accessible to all users, including motorists, pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit riders. The event will include a pre-sentation on the fundamentals of Complete Streets, as well as strategies utilized in other cities with an opportunity for the public to discuss and provide feedback on the policy. For information about this month’s presentation, contact Bruce Hyman, Bicycle and Pedestrian Program Coordina-tor at the City of Portland Public Services Department (email bhyman@portlandmaine.gov or phone 874-8833). Portland Public Library, Rines Auditorium, 5 Monument Square.

Tuesday, July 26

Rapid River Races, 1940.noon. Screening: Rapid River Races, 1940. Zip Kellogg, Author and Paddler. Join the Maine Historical Society for a special screening and story. This 17 minute silent color fi lm provides a treasure trove of images, incidents (yes!), and windows into canoe and kayak racing equipment and techniques of another era. It documents the 1940 National Whitewater Canoe & Kayak Championships which were held on the Rapid River in western Maine. The fi lm had been thought lost since it was produced 70 years ago; Maine paddler Zip Kellogg had been on the lookout for it for thirty years, holding out little hope that it had survived. And only by utter chance and a twist of fate did it turn up! Zip will share this wonderful story of historical serendipity. Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St.

Free events in the parks of Portlandnoon to 1 p.m. With a full schedule of diverse free events, there is something for everyone to enjoy each week in downtown Portland. Post Offi ce Park, Congress Square and Lobsterman’s Park provide perfect venues for live music, talented local performers and activities for kids. Whether during a lunch break or with the kids, downtown Portland’s free events are not to be missed. Weekday Performance Series — Tuesdays, noon to 1 p.m.Enjoy your lunch outside and be entertained by Portland’s best talented performers! Post Offi ce Park: July 26, Fire dancing with Melle. Come and see a variety of fi re dance and fi re arts. Poi, fans, hoop and fi re breathing as well as regular hoop routines. Take part in a few hands on activities with us! Congress Square: Aug. 2, Music from the Andes with Inca Sun. The richness of Peruvian folk lore comes alive with Inca Son. Haunting melodies that will transport the listener clear to the Andes Mountains. Aug. 9, Samuel James acoustic blues. A roots troubadour of the highest order, James will sing you a song with raw, sweat-pouring

soul, all the while playing the guitar with such commanding virtuosity you’ll swear he’s reinventing it. Then he’ll tell you a story enrapturing you to the point where you’ll almost forget he’s a musician. Aug. 16, West African rhythms with Anne-gret Baier. Annegret Baier will present West African rhythms and songs on authentic drums and percussion instruments! Brought to you by WPXT, WPME, WHOM, mainetoday.com, raisingmaine.comFor more information and a full schedule of free summer events visit portlandmaine.com or call772.6828.

DEPA ‘Business After Hours’5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The DownEast Pride Alliance “Busi-ness After Hours” Networking Event at Harbour’s Edge Room, 6 Custom House Wharf, Portland. Cash bar, lite food & media table provided. Bring business cards to share. Free. See you there for “cocktails and conversation!” The DownEast Pride Alliance (DEPA) is a GLBTQ business net-working group in Southern Maine meeting monthly at local establishments for “Business After Hours” events that pro-vide a safe forum for, and help strengthen, the local gay & gay-friendly business community. Bring business cards to share on our Media Table. No fees or RSVP to attend. www.depabusiness.com

Friends of Evergreen Docent Training5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Introductory Meeting for docent training. “Become a Docent for Evergreen Cemetery! If you would enjoy learning more about Evergreen Cemetery and working with the Friends of Evergreen in developing this new program please join us! An evening discussion and introduction to our new Docent Training program will include a slide show and walking tour of Evergreen Cemetery led by Janet Morelli. Light refreshments will be provided.” This event will take place at Wilde Memorial Chapel in Evergreen Cemetery, 672 Stevens Ave., Portland. Parking is available on Stevens Avenue. www.friendsofevergreen.org

Wednesday, July 27

Kid’s Activity Day with Owls10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Kid’s Activity Day — Wednesdays in Lobsterman’s Park, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Presented by the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine. Bring the kids to Lobsterman’s Park to enjoy a different activity each week and learn interesting facts! July 27, Understanding Owls. Learn about an owl’s silent fl ight and other hunt-ing techniques by exploring artifacts and making a craft. Brought to you by WPXT, WPME, WHOM, mainetoday.com, raisingmaine.com

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Young fi lmmakers (from left to right) Emma Hindall, Katie McCabe, Connor Dearborn-Boulay, Carli Bliss, Tova Kemmerer and Sumual Kemmerer are part of the Breakwater Creative Arts summer camp program. Their works have been selected for viewing at the Maine Student Film and Video Festival, held in conjunction with the Maine International Film Festival in Waterville, on Saturday. (COURTESY PHOTO)