The Forecaster, Mid Coast edition, October 21 2011

October 21, 2011 News of Brunswick, Topsham, Bath and Harpswell Vol. 7, No. 42

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It’s playoff time in the Mid-CoastPage 15

3 compete for at-large seat on Brunswick Town CouncilPage 4

Index Meetings ........................20Obituaries ......................14Opinion ............................8Out & About ...................19

People & Business ........16Police Beat ....................12Real Estate ....................32Sports ............................15

Arts Calendar ................17Classifieds .....................27Community Calendar .....20

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By Emily GuerinBRUNSWICK — In July 2010,

Maine rolled out the red carpet to welcome Kestrel Aircraft to the former Brunswick Naval Air Sta-tion.

“The international appeal and worldwide demand we foresee for the Kestrel airplane will benefit jobs throughout the state, boost Maine’s economic competitiveness

and showcase Maine’s world-class innovation economy,” former Gov. John Baldacci told a crowd that in-cluded U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, and other dignitaries.

But now, because of difficulties obtaining financing, Kestrel may not build the composites for its turboprop airplanes in Brunswick after all.

In a worst-case scenario, Kestrel

Chief Executive Officer Alan Klap-meier said Wednesday, the com-pany won’t assemble the planes in Brunswick either, leaving only a maintenance and repair operation at Brunswick Landing.

Although Klapmeier said he was initially drawn to the area because of the concentration of composite

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Board OKs removal of buildings for new police stationBy Emily Guerin

BRUNSWICK — Three months after rejecting a request to tear down four vacant houses at the intersection of Pleasant and Stanwood streets, the Vil-lage Review Board changed course Tuesday and approved the demolition.

But it instituted a 90-day moratorium on another Pleasant Street demolition, of the former rectory at St. John’s Church.

This was the second time the request to demolish the build-

Panel: Town should privatize daytime EMTsBy Emily Guerin

HARPSWELL — A commit-tee formed to study fire and res-cue needs is recommending the town hire Mid Coast Hospital to provide daytime paramedic services.

The arrangement could cost the town an estimated $123,000 to $346,000 annually.

Volunteers would continue to respond to medical emergencies at night and on weekends.

The change in the way Harpswell provides emergency medical services to its residents is necessary, the committee concluded, because the town’s three volunteer fire departments

Logged in from Asia

EMily GuERin / ThE FORECASTERA group of loggers from Japan and China visited Brunswick on Monday to learn about sustainable forestry in Maine. They visited a woodlot with forester Tom Cushman, president of the Trust to Conserve Northeast

Forestlands, and asked him questions about the Northeast Master Logger Certification program, which they hope to replicate in their home country.

ings on the corner of Pleasant and Stanwood streets had been brought before the board by the landowner, the Brunswick Development Corp.

The BDC bought the build-ings for nearly $1 million with the intention of tearing them down and transferring the land to the town for the construction of a police station.

This time, the BDC came armed with attorney John Ban-nen, who examined each crite-ria for demolition and argued

that the board should allow the buildings to be torn down because redevelopment of the buildings would be costly and the rate of return on investment too low.

He also said two of the build-ings, 85 Pleasant St. and 3 Stanwood St., only contributed minimally to the character of the neighborhood and didn’t meet the board’s criteria for preservation.

Bannen also attempted to address the board’s concern

about what would happen to the property after demolition, by pointing to the town council’s unanimous Sept. 19 vote to af-firm its intention to build the police station on the site.

Initially, board members ex-pressed some concern over what the vacant lot might look like in the interim and about the changing character of the Pleasant Street corridor in light of another proposed demolition

Bath armory work could cost more than $300KBy Alex Lear

BATH — A basic renovation of the former National Guard Armory – enough to potentially allow the Bath Youth Meet-inghouse and Skatepark to use the building – could cost $308,000, the City Council learned Wednesday.

Ron Norton of Construction Management Consulting Ser-vices, the firm asked to come up with the cost, said in a letter to the council that a starting bud-get of $1.8 million created by Stephen Blatt Architects “was for a total transformation from an Armory to a like-new facility with design and aesthetic ac-couterments.”

Focusing on a “base-line” scope of work necessary to run the Skatepark, Norton whittled the cost down to $308,000. He said the savings came from “doing work only in the areas that are to be used for the skate board park. The lower level work is only to the level neces-sary for code compliance and safety. Work beyond this can be designed, priced and completed based on the actual future use of the space.”

He also said spending $308,000 would allow the Skatepark “to function as ef-ficiently as, and probably more

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The Forecaster wins regional award for restraint seriesNATICK, Mass. — The Forecaster and

staff writer Emily Parkhurst have received a prestigious Publick Occurrences Award from the New England Newspaper and Press Association.

The award was presented for a series of stories that illuminated the use of therapeu-tic physical restraints on students in Maine public schools.

The stories, published over several months last year, revealed questionable practices by school officials, the schools’ failure to report instances where students had been physically restrained, and the impact on students and parents.

The stories also led to a review of the practices by the state Department of Educa-tion, which resulted in proposed new regu-lations now being prepared for presentation to the Legislature.

Parkhurst’s series also won NENPA’s annual awards last February for education reporting and social interest feature writing, and her work received a Sigma Delta Chi

United Way campaign at 40% of goalBy Alex Lear

BATH — United Way of Mid Coast Maine is 40 percent of the way to its 2011 campaign goal of $1.9 million.

As of last week the organization had raised more than $760,000 since the cam-paign began last month. The endeavor wraps up Nov. 9.

“We are doing this on behalf of about 20,000 people who will need help in the coming year,” said campaign Chairman Earle Harvey, who is president and CEO of Border Trust. “We know that the more people who donate now, the more people who will get the help they need.”

Donations can be sent to United Way’s Mid Coast headquarters at 34 Wing Farm Parkway, or donors can call 443-9752.

A Leadership Giving Challenge matches the donations of people who increase their donation to $500 or more, as well as the increases of those already donating at that leadership or “Keel Club” level. Seven couples have jointly

award for investigative reporting last month from the national Society of Professional Journalists – the only such award presented to a weekly publication in the U.S.

The Publick Occurrences Award annu-ally recognizes the best work that New England newspapers produce – individual or team stories, series, spot news coverage, columns or photojournalism that ran in print and/or online. NENPA presents up to 16 Publick Occurrences awards to member newspapers.

The award was established in 1990 to recognize individual and team merit at New England newspapers to mark the 300th anniversary of the founding of Publick Occurrences, the first newspaper published in America. Four days after it appeared in Boston in 1690, Publick Occurrences was suppressed by the royal governor.

This is the second consecutive year The Forecaster has won a Publick Occurrences Award, and the newspaper’s third in the last four years.

Last year, the award was presented for former staff writer Steve Mistler’s cover-age of Oxford Aviation’s ultimately failed attempt to establish a base of operations at the former Brunswick Naval Air Station. Staff writer Randy Billings’ coverage of South Portland city government won the 2008 award.

Besides The Forecaster, the 2011 Pub-lick Occurrences awards were presented at NENPA’s annual fall conference on Oct.

6 to The Patriot Ledger, Quincy, Mass.; The Eagle-Tribune, North Andover, Mass.; Republican-American, Waterbury, Conn.; The Standard-Times, New Bedford, Mass.; Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass.; The Sun, Lowell, Mass.; The Herald News, Fall River, Mass.; Concord Monitor, Con-cord, N.H.; Valley News, Bristol, Conn.; Townsend Times, Townsend, Mass.; Groton Landmark, Groton, Conn.; South County Independent, Wakefield, R.I.; Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, Peterborough, N.H., and Vineyard Gazette, Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.

pledged $15,000 to supply that match incentive for added giving, the organi-zation said.

A food drive organized around United Way’s campaign kick-off at local work-places had secured 4,000 pounds of food as of last week to help those in need.

“This amazing result exemplifies not only the generosity of people in Mid Coast Maine, but also the power of what we can accomplish when we live united,” Harvey said, giving a nod to United Way’s slogan. “United Way is the partner that pulls us all together, to do what’s best for our community.”

Among campaign highlights so far are more than $169,000 from the Bath Iron Works Sustained Givers and $49,000 from Mid Coast Health Services sus-tained givers.

United Way funds 40 local agencies, according to the organization.

Alex Lear can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 113 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @learics.

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Landlords to Brunswick council: No new fire inspectionsBy Emily Guerin

BRUNSWICK — Town councilors agreed to consider revisions after landlords Monday thrashed a proposal that would require annual Fire Department inspections of all multi-unit apartment buildings.

Although the proposed fire inspection ordinance dominated the discussion, the Town Council also approved construction of a radio tower that will allow the owners of FirstWave Media to revive local AM radio and amended an ordinance to allow farm animals in the town’s growth zone.

The fire inspection ordinance was in-troduced by Councilors Margo Knight and Benet Pols in response to a series of destructive fires in downtown apartment buildings last winter and spring that dis-placed nearly 50 people and killed one man.

Although none of the fires could have been prevented by inspections, the events left many concerned that the Fire Depart-ment does not have the staff to proactively inspect multi-unit apartment buildings. Instead, the department only responds to complaints.

The proposal would add an inspector

who would inspect apartment buildings with three or more units. Building owners would pay a flat fee for the first three units in a building, plus another undetermined amount for each additional unit; the fees would eventually cover the inspector’s $77,000 annual salary.

Several councilors said they had received calls from landlords who opposed the frequency, cost and philosophy behind the ordinance.

Indeed, before opening the public hear-ing at Monday’s meeting, Knight and Pols acknowledged that the details of the inspection program needed to be rewritten, with input from property owners, about 10 of whom spoke against the ordinance that night.

Helen Nicita, who manages 91 units in Brunswick, read a letter on behalf of one of her landlords, Jonathan Shepherd, who said he “appreciated the protective spirit of the ordinance,” but found it flawed in many ways.

“The insurance company already per-forms the inspections required by the proposed ordinance,” Shepherd said, and suggested owners submit annual proof of

insurance instead of undergoing the inspec-tions.

Shepherd also said if forced to pay in-spection fees, he would have no choice but to pass the costs on to his tenants.

Other landlords objected to the ordinance on the grounds that many building fires are simply not the result of code violations.

Eric Herman, who owns the 12-unit apartment building at 84 Union St. that burned in February, said the blaze that con-sumed his building was a cooking accident.

“It comes down to, where is the personal responsibility?,” Herman asked. He said the ordinance is a good thought, but he is skeptical of the implications.

“I don’t see how it works without having some sort of Orwellian super-monitoring kind of thing,” he said.

Others objected to the additional cost of hiring another town employee.

Peter Footer, who said he is not a land-lord, told the council that “this is no time in history to be adding anything to the town of Brunswick’s grossly over-expensive budget.”

But two residents of the neighborhood around 16-18 Oak St., which was damaged when a fire swept through the six-unit building in April, urged the council to proceed with the ordinance and focus on property maintenance issues.

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BRUNSWICK — Two former School Board members are challenging the cur-rent District 7 town councilor in a three-way race for an at-large seat on the Town Council.

Benet Pols, who is finishing his first term as the District 7 councilor, Byron Watson, who served on the School Board from 2007-2010, and William Dana, who served on the board from 2000-2008, are vying for the council seat being vacated by Councilor Debbie Atwood.

Incumbent District 5 Councilor Gerald Favreau is unopposed for re-election. He is seeking a third three-year term.

In District 7, first-time candidate Sarah Brayman is also running unopposed. She

serves on the Police Station Subcommit-tee and the Maine Street Station Imple-mentation Committee.

Election Day is Nov. 8.E. Benet Pols

Pols, 50, was born in Brunswick and is an attorney. He is married and has three children under the age of 12, all of whom attend Bruns-wick public schools.

Although he could have run again in District 7, he said he decided to seek the at-large seat after Watson announced his candidacy.

“I don’t think there should be two out of nine members of a legislative body coming from the same family,” Pols explained. “There’s a perception that things are decided ahead of time without an open debate ... and I think people will lose faith if they think that one quarter of the votes are already determined by familial relationship.”

Watson’s father, David, represents Dis-trict 1 on the Town Council.

Pols said he considers himself a cham-pion of public education in Brunswick, and has an integrated view of school and municipal budgets from serving on the council, being a parent, and attending School Board meetings.

If elected, he said, one of his priorities is to renovate Jordan Acres Elemen-tary School to make sure Brunswick has enough space at the elementary level.

Pols said he believes maintaining the quality of education in Brunswick is es-sential to attracting families and business-es, and is one of the main ways the town can promote economic development.

He said the town should not meddle in the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority’s work attracting businesses to Brunswick Landing.

“I think that our business development

efforts need to focus to doing what we can to help them, or help them by not getting in their way,” he said.

Pols said the function of municipal government is to provide basic services like education and public safety, and “that’s where we need to focus our time and effort.”

He said it is important to complete con-struction of a new police station and edu-cate those town residents who continue to question the transparency of the process.

If faced with future budget cuts, Pols said he would want to avoid taking on some new construction projects to de-crease debt service and spending.

“I think that one of the ways for us to save money is to be cautions with capital expenditures that aren’t directly related to services to citizens,” he said, including a downtown parking garage.

He said he also would have liked to have sold Longfellow School to Bowdoin College as a way to raise money, instead of exchanging it for the McLellan build-ing. He said he opposed the swap on the grounds that it primarily benefited town employees, not residents.

“I don’t really think that the average citizen that goes to pay his taxes will be pleased to have a nice lobby to walk into rather than the dingy 1962 lobby,” he said at the July 25 council meeting.

Pols said his track record of asking questions and speaking out against issues like this one distinguishes him from the other two candidates.

“I have generated a lot of questions about how things work that I think give people another view instead of the ‘take what they’re giving us and live with it’ sort of view,” he said.

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with his girlfriend and has two children under the age of 3.

H i s p r e v i o u s term on the School Board included three months as chairman, but he was removed from the leadership position in March 2010 after what other board members be-lieved was his inappropriate communi-cation with then-House Speaker Hannah Pingree, D-North Haven. Watson unsuc-cessfully ran for re-election last fall.

Watson said he regrets the Pingree incident, but thinks it was blown out of proportion.

“I’ve absolutely learned a lesson, but I think people need to be fair and they need to be honest with themselves about what really went down,” he said.

Watson is campaigning on keeping property taxes reasonable in town, some-thing he said can be accomplished by negotiating with Brunswick’s teachers over salary increases and scrutinizing the municipal budget for ways to save a little bit here and there.

“Every line has to be thoroughly gone through and checked out,” he said. “Nothing is off the table.”

Still, he said he supports public educa-tion and thinks it’s a great way to bring new families and businesses to town. He said he’d like to see developer George Schott make former U.S. Navy housing affordable for local families to purchase, and would encourage the town manager to pursue that if elected.

He also said Brunswick has a reputa-tion of being anti-business, which it acquired by over-analyzing the details of development projects.

“Sometimes the best thing to do is get out of their way, and let the businessmen and women do what they do best, and let them succeed,” Watson said.

He said he’d like to focus on making sure the police station is completed and the junior high school and Coffin School are renovated. He said he strongly sup-ported the Longfellow-McLellan swap and thinks it addressed many of the town’s facilities needs.

He also supports the construction of a fire substation in West Brunswick rather than “a big Taj Mahal-type central station,” which he thinks is a poor use of money.

Although he’d like to see a parking garage constructed downtown, Watson said he doesn’t think there is money in the budget to cover that expense, and would encourage town staff to continue applying for grants.

Watson strongly disagreed with Pols’s objection to having two members of the same family on the Town Council.

“It sounds to me like (Pols is) a des-perate politician who’s playing a fear-mongering game with the citizens of Brunswick,” Watson said. “I would hope that nobody would take my father’s ser-vice to Brunswick and try to turn it into a negative.”

Watson said serving on the council is his civic duty, and he’s “not the typical, same old candidate you get every year. ... I’m a young experienced leader and I live paycheck to paycheck, just like you.”

William DanaDana, 60, is a self-employed builder

and energy auditor. He is married, has two adult children, and has lived in Brunswick for 21 years.

He served three years as School Board chairman, and said he wants to serve on the council because he finds it fascinat-ing.

“I find it interest-ing to be enough on the inside to really understand the hard work that all our mu-nicipal employees do,” Dana said.

He said he believes the current town councilors work well together and he doesn’t intend to disrupt that chemistry.

“I’d like to be a positive contributing voice to the conversation,” he said, rather than someone who shakes up the council.

Dana said he is a strong supporter of

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Cumberland County candidates oppose Civic Center bondBy Alex Lear

BRUNSWICK — Two candidates are competing to be the county commissioner in Cumberland County’s new District 3, a seat created when the County Charter was approved last year and expanded the districts from three to five.

Mark Grover of Gray and Stephen Gor-den of North Yarmouth discussed issues facing the county during an Oct. 13 candi-date forum hosted by the League of Women Voters of Maine.

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One key issue, going to referendum Tuesday, Nov. 8, is whether the county should borrow up to $33 million to renovate the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland. Both candidates oppose the bond.

District 3 includes Brunswick, Freeport, Harpswell, North Yarmouth, Gray, New Gloucester and Pownal.

Stephen GordenGorden, 69, is married and has five sons

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His volunteer ex-perience includes being a trustee of the Yarmouth Water District and serving on the Cumberland County Charter Commission.

Gorden said he wants to prioritize county issues to serve citizens in a better way, as well as expand multi-community links among public safety services. He also wants to boost coordination at quasi-municipal, state and community levels, and to encour-age diminishing of what he called duplicate structural costs.

He said he envisions the county level of government “as an entity upon which a community may call to accomplish

what it considers the common, repetitive, heavy-lifting functions, freeing itself and you to maintain your distinct community culture and quality of life by performing those tasks and services which are uniquely yours.”

Gorden said the Cumberland County Recreational Center District, which he described as a quasi-municipal government run by appointed trustees, owns and oper-ates the Civic Center. He said the district has the authority to request bonding.

In recent years, he said, the Civic Center “government” and Cumberland County government “have become too entangled in one another’s affairs, and it needs to cease. They are not dealing with one another at arm’s length, nor are they operating in-dependently; that’s just plain wrong. It’s unfair to the citizens, as all transparency is lost.”

Gorden said voters outside the immediate Portland area do not stand to gain from the renovation plan.

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SCARBOROUGH — Supporters say it would be a boon to the economy and the tradition of harness racing in Maine. Opponents say it would make its owners a fortune, but have a negative effect on local economies.

Either way, officials in Scarborough say Question 2 on the Nov. 8 ballot could create a great opportunity to redevelop prime property along Interstate 95 and Route 1.

The referendum will ask voters throughout the state to allow two pro-posed harness racing tracks – one in Biddeford and one in Washington County – to also offer slot-machine gambling. If the referendum is approved, Scarborough Downs, a 60-year-old harness racing track off Route 1, will close and move to Biddeford.

In Scarborough, that could mean the redevelopment of the 485 acres now owned by Scarborough Downs.

“The Downs is part of Scarborough’s heritage,” said Harvey Rosenfeld, presi-dent of the Scarborough Economic De-velopment Corp. “As you lose something like that, you take something away from the community historically, which I hate

to see. But as Scarborough continues to attract residential growth, we have to find a way to pay for the services people want. The development possibilities there are beneficial to that end.”

An investment in MaineLast November, Biddeford residents

approved the construction of a racino in their city.

If voters statewide approve the racino question this year, proponents promise 800 temporary construction jobs to build the facility and another 500 full-time po-sitions to staff the Biddeford racino and accompanying resort hotel and entertain-ment facility.

Crystal Canney, a spokeswoman for the Yes on 2 campaign, said the full-time jobs will offer an average salary of about $35,000 per year and health benefits.

Scarborough Downs and its racino partner, Ocean Properties LLC, say their racino will attract customers from throughout northern New England and Canada, and will boost business for local restaurants, hotels and shops.

Proponents also argue that their racino proposals would support Maine’s harness racing industry with purse supplements and by protecting the need for 1,500 jobs in harness racing and accompanying industries – people like stable employees, hay farmers and veterinarians.

In Maine, a portion of net slot machine income is earmarked for various state funds. According to a May report from the Legislature’s Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs, the two racinos are expected to contribute more than $10 million to supplement harness purses and

A preliminary sketch design of the proposed

Biddeford Downs harness racing and slot-machine resort,

or “racino.” Question 2 on the Nov. 8 ballot

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I’ve been training and driving standardbred horses on racetracks for 25 years. It’s what I love best, and it’s pretty much all I know. If I have a choice, I’ll continue working with horses for as long as I can. There are plenty of others within the harness racing industry who feel the same way.

That’s why I’m asking you to vote yes on Question 2 on Nov. 8. If we approve this referendum, it will allow a brand new racino, with an all-weather racetrack, in Biddeford.

We need a racino in southern Maine to compete with other states. We can do that with the Biddeford Downs project. Be-sides the racetrack, the project will have a resort hotel, restaurants and other entertainment. It will create jobs and will be a big draw in this region.

Please help Maine’s horsemen and women compete. Vote yes on 2.

Drew CampbellScarborough

Question 2 is all about jobsWe have two companies in Ocean Properties and

Scarborough Downs that are ready to invest $120 mil-lion into a state-of-the-art entertainment complex in Biddeford. These companies already employ more than 1,000 Mainers, and they would employ hundreds more if we approve the Biddeford Downs racino by voting yes on Question 2 on Nov. 8.

I understand that some people are opposed to slot machines. Let me ask you this: What is the difference

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Yes on 2 to protect jobs, heritage

I urge the citizens of Maine to vote yes on Question 2. This referendum question allows Mainers to support

economic development without having to approve ad-ditional borrowing through the issuance of bonds.

Job opportunities will be created for the men and women in York and in Washington counties who are desperate for work. A yes vote will support a weakened construction industry during the building phases and then bolster the creation of new jobs.

A yes vote will support a segment of Maine’s agricul-tural community that has a strong heritage and will pro-tect thousands of acres of open lands. As a professional

farrier (horseshoer) for 30 years, my entire working life has been spent in the equine industry. My wife and I own and operate an equestrian cen-ter. Question 2 is about job creation and helping to maintain a way of life which is rooted in Maine’s history.

John W. TraftonBrunswick

between spending a dollar on the lottery and spending a dollar on the slots, or placing a bet on a horse? There is no difference.

Others say a racino will lead to more crime, drugs and vices of all kinds. Those are scare tactics. Biddeford Downs is a solid project backed by dependable, family-owned companies.

We should vote yes on 2 and let them get to work.Matthew McNally

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Neighborhood will bear cost of ‘Brunswick West’ train facilityBy Patrick Rael

We represent approximately 100 families in the Bruns-wick neighborhoods that will be negatively impacted by the construction of a proposed Amtrak maintenance and layover facility at the “Brunswick West” site between Church Road and Stanwood Street.

We remain deeply concerned that this is the wrong site for this project, and that this is the wrong way to bring healthy development to Brunswick.

Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority, which will build the facility, cannot guarantee that it has all funds necessary to construct it, nor to mitigate its envi-ronmental nuisances. In fact, given the weak state of federal budgets and the economy, Congress may not even continue to fund the Downeaster passenger service in the future, even after the facility is built. If a bill currently being considered in the U.S. House of Representatives passes, federal fund-ing for passenger rail will plummet, putting the Downeaster very much at risk.

Now it appears that riders for the trains the new facility is meant to service may not even materialize. As The Forecast-er recently reported, the need for long-term parking at the Maine Street Station “may not be as great as initially expect-ed.” According to Town Manager Gary Brown, NNEPRA’s initial ridership estimates have been revised downward. “We’re not going to see a sudden large spike in passengers the first day the train comes,” Brown has conceded.

Because funds may not exist to locate or build this project correctly, the 100 families who have invested in Brunswick will instead pay – with constant noise, trembling houses, declining home values, negative environmental impacts, and

a 60,000-square-foot eyesore that may easily stand empty in just a few years.

That is just not fair.We, like others in Brunswick, welcome the healthy devel-

opment promised by expanded passenger train service. But is it necessary to build a train garage in a residential neighborhood? Not when alternatives exist.

At best, the benefits attributed to this project are long-term, abstract, and unknowable. The costs, however, are clear and immediate, and will fall heavily on a small portion of the

community that has done nothing but pay its taxes and play by the rules.

Does it really make sense to burden so many for benefits so insubstantial?

Patrick Rael is a member of the Brunswick-West Neighbor-hood Coalition.

Experts disagree with smart-meter proponent

The letter from a Scarborough citizen deeming Edgar Allen Beem’s column about the effects of smart meters as wrong is just plain misinformed. His example of putting a person in a room, while in another room transmitting at random times and challenging that “sensitive” person to feel the transmis-sion, is ludicrous. That’s like smoking one cigarette and dying on the spot from lung cancer. RF exposure does not work

that way.Dr. David Car-

penter, a Har-vard Medical School-trained physician who headed up the

New York State Department of Public Health for 18 years, administering a program for electromagnetic fields, states that although there haven’t been studies of living with smart meters for long periods of time and what illnesses they may cause, there is a “substantial” amount of evidence showing that radio frequency radiation causes many illnesses such as cancer, nervous system disorders, reproductive disorders, etc.

Another expert in the EMF department, Dr. Magda Ha-vas, claims the radiation from cordless phones causes heart arrhythmia and tachycardia and alters the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. She is concerned with the biological effects of electromagnetic pollution including radio frequency, radiation, and EMFs.

I would like to see the letter writer’s information that proves his statement of “once you understand that there is no such thing as radio transmission sensitivity and that there are no valid health risks, all arguments against smart meters fade away.” National and international experts would strongly disagree.

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There’s no place like a home next to Tony and BeckyWhen we decided to put our house on the market, we

thought the hard part would be figuring out what to do next. “It’s a great house at a great price, the market has more or less hit bottom, it shouldn’t take long and then we’ll figure out what we’re going to do.”

Ha.The market had hit bot-

tom more or less. More for some houses, less for others, like houses at our “price point,” as our agent put it, I suspect in an at-tempt to depersonalize a deeply personal transac-tion. It becomes more personal as time goes by without much “market activity,” speaking of dep-ersonalizing.

You can’t help but take it personally, though. No mat-ter how well your brain understands the vagaries of a difficult economy, your heart just can’t understand why nobody seems to want something you liked so much you were willing to make it your biggest single purchase.

The longer the process goes on, the harder it is to take. And our process went on, and on. You know your house has been on the market a long time when the “For Sale”

sign starts to tilt. It’s not surprising. It wasn’t meant to be a permanent fixture. Nevertheless, it’s depressing to see the smiling faces of your Realtors slowly start to lean until they resemble an election poster glued to the Tower of Pisa. By the way, if this ever happens to you, God forbid, don’t try to fix it; you’ll just make it worse. Not that my wife warned me and turned out to be right.

What really gets to you when it takes a long time to sell is how much time you have to realize what you’re giving up. We really do have a great house in a great neighborhood, and it’s going to be hard to leave. We moved to the East Coast to be near our son while he was in prep school, but we fell in love with Portland, and our street, and our neighbors. We live near the airport. In return for hearing maybe two planes a week, we have a two-minute drive whenever we have to fly, plus we get to be on the part of the power grid that gets restored first after an outage.

And it’s a cul de sac, so traffic is something that happens to other people. We have a block party ev-ery summer, where we get to experience how warm and funny our neighbors are. Maine has a reputation for a reserve that borders on standoffishness, but you couldn’t prove it by the people on our block. They’ve been great. They all deserve special mention. I hope they’ll understand that when I talk about our next-door neighbors, I’m talking about them as well.

Tony and Becky are people who see what needs to be done and do it. They mow the grass and landscape

The ViewFrom Away

Mike Langworthy

the middle of the cul de sac. After the first big snow in our first winter, while I was laying in bed paralyzed by flashbacks of shoveling miles of driveway in Michigan, I heard a rumbling outside my window. Tony and his snow blower were digging us out. He seemed embar-rassed when I went out to thank him.

“Well, I had to do my driveway anyway, so ... .” Yeah, Tony. You had to get up, put on a ton of uncomfortable clothes, go out into the freezing cold to do a lot of work anyway, so why not do twice as much? He may believe I would do the same for him. I’d like to think so, but I wouldn’t want to test the hypothesis. Of course, this was not an isolated incident.

Even more heroically, they are unfailingly gracious about our two miniature dachshunds, Ruby and Blackie, 20 pounds (combined) of atavistic canine fury who seem to live for the sole purpose of terrorizing Tony’s beauti-ful, friendly golden retriever. According to our dogs, Brady is not only not allowed in our yard, he’s not al-lowed in his yard when Blackie or Ruby are in our yard. They are not above taking a nip to enforce their will.

Despite this shabby treatment, Becky and Tony have said things like, “Brady knows he’s not sup-posed to be over here,” or “You’d think he would

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The UniversalNotebook

Edgar Allen Beem

Back to the moviesLately, Carolyn and I have taken to going to the

movies at the Nickelodeon in Portland on Tuesday nights when admission is only $5. We go with our good friends and fellow empty-nesters Don and Colleen. Even watching the latest hit films, there’s something very old-fashioned about actually going to the movies.

Going to the movies with friends is itself kind of an odd thing to do, since you can’t really social-ize during a movie. You can go out for a drink afterward, but we’re old farts now and head home to bed at 9 or 10. We just sit there in the dark together, shar-ing a bag of popcorn and a vicarious screen experience.

Fifty years ago, I was watching movies in Portland alone.

Back in the late 1950s, my Nana Gib-son, who lived on High Street, would some-times give me a quarter and send me two blocks up to Congress Street, where I could take my pick of the State, the Strand, the Empire or the Civic. You just kind of wandered in to continuously playing double features, watched matinee show-ings of kiddie flix like “Darby O’Gill and the Little People” and “The Shaggy Dog,” and wandered out again when they got to where you came in. Can’t imagine sending an 8-, 9-, 10-year-old kid to the movies alone today.

In the 1960s, going to the movies became a so-cial occasion. Every kid I knew in junior high went to the Star Theater in downtown Westbrook. It hardly mattered what the movie was. We were 12, 13, 14 and getting to sit in the dark next to a girl, strategically slip an arm around the back of her seat, and maybe even get to kiss her was the main attraction. Come Monday, who sat with whom, who made out and who broke up was big news.

The only time the wild boys of Westbrook stopped our cinematic seduction of the opposite

sex was when there was a movie in town that fu-eled our shared male fantasies. After seeing “The Hustler,” every kid in town fancied himself a pool shark and wanted a pool table for Christmas. When “The Cincinnati Kid” came to the Star, every kid in town became a poker player with an ace up his sleeve. (Why aren’t there any Steve McQueen movies on TV anymore?)

Movies mostly make sense for dating these days unless you’re a film buff who can’t wait for the DVD. Until our daughters grew up and fled the nest, I much preferred watching movies at home, where I could stop and start them at will. Funny now to think how VCR technology baffled me when I first experienced it in the early 1980s. How was it possible to watch a movie that wasn’t in a theater, to watch it anytime you wanted, and on your own television set? Incredible!

In those early days, we actually rented the vid-eocassette recorder at the supermarket along with the videocassettes. I guess I’m a late adopter, but the technology of film is constantly changing. VHS begat DVD, Netflix by mail turned into streaming Netflix and Hulu. I’m sure I’ve never even heard of whatever (or however) hip techies are watching these days. That’s another reason I’ve gone back to the movies.

The “Bowling Alone” phenomenon was well documented a decade ago. We are losing real civic associations and social life to the anti-social virtual reality of email, text messaging, chat rooms and online “communities” of “friends” we don’t know and never see.

So as I sit in the dark with my lovely wife, a couple of my best friends and a bunch of strangers, watching famous people on the big screen pretend-ing to be people they are not, I take some small satisfaction in thinking that I am doing my part to preserve a great American pastime, not to mention my own past time.

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

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have figured out by now that Blackie and Ruby don’t want to play with him.” Or that they’re borderline psychotics about their territory. OK, dogs probably don’t psychoanalyze other dogs. My point is that Tony and Becky handle an awkward situation gracefully.

You don’t want to give up being surrounded by people like that, and when the house doesn’t sell, you kind of fool yourself into thinking maybe you won’t have to. Then a few weeks ago the house went under contract. Moving became real again.

Last weekend a nonprofit that owns and oper-ates group homes for special needs adults, Port Resources, came to collect some furniture we were donating. Three of the movers: Tony and his sons. They happened to be home, they wanted to help out, and, oh yeah, Tony is on their board.

We’re excited about our move, but we’re also sad. We’ll find other neighbors, just not better ones.

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10/8 at 11:40 p.m. Shawn Lavoie, 28, of Oak Grove Avenue, was arrested by Officer Ted Raedel on Stacy Street on a charge of operating under the influence.10/10 at 1:45 p.m. Norma Greenleaf, 43, listed as homeless, was arrested by Officer Richard Ross on Front Street on a charge of theft and issued a summons on charges of possession of a usable amount of marijuana and unauthorized use of property.10/10 at 3:10 p.m. Norma Greenleaf, 43, listed as homeless, was arrested on Water Street by Officer Richard Ross on charges of assault and violation of bail. 10/11 at 4 a.m. Robby Purinton, 32, of Middle Street, was arrested by Officer Ted Raedel on Middle Street on a charge of violation of condition of release.10/12 at 2:30 a.m. Sarah Nicholas, 27, of Middle Street, was arrested by Officer Mike Lever on Middle Street on charges of domes-tic violence assault and domestic violence criminal mischief.10/14 at 11:45 p.m. Kenan Clinton, 40, of Eads, Tenn., was arrested by Officer Brett McIntire on Route 1 on a charge of operating under the influence.10/15 at 11 p.m. Jason Keenan, 32, of Denny Road, was arrested by Officer Ted Raedel on Drayton Road on a charge of trafficking in Schedule Z drugs.

Summonses10/9 Brittainy Nicole Mitchell, 21, of George Wright Road, Woolwich, was issued a sum-mons by Officer Ted Raedel on Dummer Street on charges of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer and violation of conditions of release.10/9 Melinda McKellar, 21, of Dummer Street, was issued a summons by Officer Jason Aucoin on Dummer Street on a charge of theft.10/11 Megan Bateman, 22, of Middle Street, was issued a summons by Officer Ted Raedel on Middle Street on a charge of domestic violence assault.10/16 Norma Greenleaf, 43, listed as home-less, was issued a summons by Officer Richard Ross on a charge of theft.

Bad traffic(king)10/15 at 11 p.m. Officers Jason Aucoin and Ted Raedel stopped the vehicle of Denny Road resident Jason J. Keenan, 32, on Drayton Road when they noticed he had a license plate light out. Following a positive identification for drugs on the vehicle by Officer Michelle Small's K-9 team, the officers searched Keenan's vehicle and discovered about a pound of marijuana and more $7,000 in cash. Keenan was arrested on a charge of trafficking in Schedule Z drugs. His passenger, Marcel C. Gosselin, 32, of Bath, was issued a civil summons on a charge of possession of a us-able amount of marijuana.

Fire calls10/11 at 6:12 p.m. Fuel spill at Cumberland Farms.10/12 at 5:21 p.m. False alarm at Hyde School.10/13 at 3:35 a.m. Furnace malfunction at Maine Maritime Museum.10/13 at 10:56 a.m. Electrical fire on Rich-ardson Street.10/13 at 7 p.m. Odor investigation on High Street.

EMSBath emergency medical services responded to 48 calls from Oct. 10-16.

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10/15 at 12:56 a.m. Aaron F. Fickett, 26, of River Road, was arrested by Officer Daniel Hebert on Maine Street on charges of refusing to submit to arrest or detention and carrying a concealed weapon.10/15 at 7:55 a.m. William T. Reagan, 61, of Beech Hill Road, Freeport, was arrested by Officer Paul Chenevert on Maine Street on a warrant.10/16 at 1:21 a.m. Kevin Michael Brown, 27, of Elmwood Road, Pownal, was arrested by Officer Kristian Oberg on Pleasant Street on charges of operating under the influence with three or more priors, operating after habitual offender revocation with one prior and on a warrant.10/16 at 8:41 p.m. John D. Lyons, 41, of Gurnet Road, was arrested by Officer Bran-don Ingaharro on Gurnet Road on a charge of disorderly conduct.

Summonses10/10 at 11:48 a.m. Gordon MacMullen, 55, of Old Bath Road, was issued a summons by Officer Gretchen Paxton on Hollis Lane on a charge of assault.

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Fire calls10/10 at 10:57 p.m. Burglar alarm on Pleas-ant Street.10/11 at 7:28 a.m. Medical emergency on Pejepscot Terrace.10/11 at 2:58 p.m. Check welfare on Davis Court.10/14 at 10:47 p.m. Vehicle crash on Pleas-ant Hill Road.

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10/8 at 7:40 p.m. Scott Compeau, 43, of Pleasant Street, Brunswick, was arrested by Sgt. Mark Gilliam on Middlesex Road on a charge of operating under the influence. He was also issued a summons on charges of criminal speed and possession of a usable amount of marijuana.10/13 at 1:41 p.m. Joyce Walters, 67, of Winter Street, was arrested on a warrant by Officer Robert Ramsay on Winter Street.10/16 at 12:10 a.m. Brandon Bibber, 24, of Marks Lane, Gardiner, was arrested by Officer Peter Kaminski on Lewiston Road on a charge of operating under the influence.10/16 at 8:46 a.m. Mark Glantz, 48, of Windham, was arrested by Officer Peter Kaminski on Madelyn Avenue on a charge of violation of conditional release.

Summonses10/12 at 12:11 a.m. Craig Bryant, 24, of Clearview Lane, was issued a summons by Sgt. Fred Dunn on Lewiston Road on a charge of operating after suspension.10/13 at 1:40 a.m. Nicolas Mesner, 36, of Willow Street, Bath, was issued a summons by Officer Peter Kaminski on a charge of operating after suspension.

pellet problems10/15 at 5:22 p.m. Officer Alfred Giusto responded to the report of a vehicle's driver's side window being shot out by a pellet gun while parked in a River Road driveway. A neighbor reported hearing the incident that afternoon, and it is believed that the shooting came from the area of nearby railroad tracks. The windshield cost about $200 to replace.

Fire calls10/12 at 10:40 a.m. Motor vehicle fire on Cardinal Drive.10/14 at 10:07 a.m. Fire alarm on Hubbard Lane.10/14 at 10:32 p.m. Motor vehicle accident on Lewiston Road.

EMSTopsham emergency medical services re-sponded to 12 calls from Oct. 5-12.

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enzie Galuza, 80, died at home on Oct. 11 with her daughters by her side after a short battle with lung cancer.

Galuza was born on March 6, 1931 to James A. Macken-zie and Grace Am-brose Mackenzie in New Haven, Conn. She spent her early years growing up on Fisher Road in Bow-doinham and often reminisced about the Coombs School, ice skating at Creek Hill or picking blueberries.

She married Alphonse Francis Galuza on Sept. 18, 1949 and the couple moved into a small apartment in Brunswick, where they had five children. After mov-ing into a larger home in Bath, she went to work making it their own. Together they made the apartment into a home and later bought their neighbors house and developed it into apartments.

The Galuzas joined the String-alongs in the early 1960s; Louisa was the lead singer while Francis played the Mando-lin. The band played many dance halls, grange halls and local clubs in its time. Galuza later cut her own record.

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grandson Eick Galuza; and her siblings Herbert Mackenzie, James Mackenzie, Ralph Mackenzie Donald Mackenzie, Phil Mackenzie and Virginia Williams.

She is survived by four of her chil-dren: Kathleen Kahrl, Bradley Galuza and his wife Jane, Jeff Galuza and his wife Andrew, and Deborah Jean; grand-children: Francis Allin Kahrl, Andrew James kahrl and his fiance Hilary Clark, Crystal King and her partner Jason Vil-larreal, Danielle Kloza and her husband Alex, Adrian King and his wife Tarsha, Benjamin Galuza and his wife Caitlin Ingle Hart; and great-grandchildren: Brayden Edward Kloza and Gage Daniel Kloza.

The family offers a special thank you to CHANS Hospice of Brunswick whose nurses and staff helped Galuza live her final days in comfort.

Visiting hours were held earlier this week at the David E. Desmond & Son Funeral home. A Celebration of Life was held on Friday at the funeral home.

To share thoughts and condolences with Galuza’s family visit: www.des-mondfuneralhomes.com.

Hilton F. Libby, 84BATH — Hilton F. Libby, 84, died on

Thursday, Oct. 13, at the Bodwell Unit in Brunswick.

Born in South Windham on Feb. 23,

1927, he was the son of Harry L. and Grace V. Libby.

He attended Bath Schools and was a graduate of Morse High School, class of 1945.

During high school, he worked part time for the U.S. Postal Service in Bath and played trumpet in the Morse High School marching band.

He served in the United States Navy Reserve and was on active duty in 1945 and 1946. After receiving an honorable discharge he took flying lessons at the Portland Municipal Airport and received his private pilot’s license in 1946.

On June 19, 1948 he married Dorothy A. Bradford.

Libby attended the Northeastern School of Accounting in Portland, after which he was employed at Bath Iron Works until 1966. He later worked in metal sales and marketing at American Steel and Aluminum Corporation, South Portland, until his retirement in March of 1992.

He served on the Bath City Council for two years in the 1960s as a council-man from Ward 1. He was a member of the Grace Episcopal Church, the Bath Country Club, and was a former member of Solar Lodge No. 14 of the Masons and Bath Lodge No. 934 of the Elks. Libby and his wife Dottie were very active in sports including golf, bowling, bicycling, skiing, swimming and dancing. They spent their winter months in Florida playing golf.

Libby was predeceased by his brother Harry L. Libby Jr. and his sister Priscilla V. Paisley. He is survived by his wife of 63 years and two children, daughter Gayle E. Libby of Bath and his son Greg H. Libby and his wife of Romansville, Penn.; two grandchildren, Andrew G. Libby and his wife Alicia of Phoenix-

ville, Penn. and Kelly Marvel and her husband KI. Andrew Marvel of East Fallowfield, Penn.; four great-grandchil-dren, Bernadette E. Libby, Lauren N. Marvel, Ashley B. Marvel, and Justin A. Marvel; brother, Herschel I. Libby and his wife Leona of Bath; and many nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his memory to the Bath Area Food Bank, P.O. Box 65, Bath, ME 04530.

Memorial services were held earlier this week.

To share your thoughts and condo-lences with Libby’s family please visit www.desmondfuneralhomes.com

Sonia Estele Black, 85BATH — Sonia Estele Black, 85, of

Brunswick, died Oct. 13 at Winship Green Nursing Center.

Black was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. on May 2, 1926, the daughter of Harry and Lillian Still Glickstein. She moved to Brunswick in 1991 and was a member of the Congregation of Jehovah’s Wit-nesses in Bath. She was a homemaker all of her life.

She was predeceased by her husband Seymour. She is survived by her daugh-ters, Robin Sickel of Brunswick and Lois Schmertzler of Brooklyn, N.Y. and six grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held at a later date. Internment will take place at the Maine Veteran’s Memorial Cemetery in Augusta. Arrangements are in the care of the Brackett Funeral Home, Bruns-wick. Condolences can be expressed at www.brackettfuneralhome.com.

Donations can be made in her memory to the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Wit-nesses, 22 Water St., Brunswick, ME 04011.

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Plenty of excitement at Bowdoin

BrIan Beard / For The ForecasTerThe Bowdoin field hockey team exults following Sunday’s thrilling home win over Amherst. The Polar Bears prevailed, 2-1, in penalty strokes.

BrIan Beard / For The ForecasTerBowdoin’s Pat Noone breaks a tackle during

the Polar Bears’ 20-7 Homecoming victory over Hamilton.

It’s playoff time in the Mid-CoastIf the postseason is your thing,

you’ll have no shortage of ex-citement over the next couple weeks.

Here’s a glimpse at where things stand as we make the turn into the latter half of October.

GolfThe Maine Principals’ As-

sociation held individual golf championships for boys and girls Saturday at Natanis Golf Course in Vassalboro.

Two Brunswick golfers took part in the boys’ Class A divi-sion, which was won by Deer-ing’s Joe Walp and Sanford’s Ben Bell, who shot a 75. Alex Viola tied for 15th with an 84. Brad Smith was 19th with an 89.

Field hockeyThe field hockey playoffs

are underway and Brunswick qualified.

The Dragons edged visiting Mt. Ararat, 1-0, in the regular season finale last Tuesday to finish 4-9-1 and leapfrog the Eagles for the eighth and fi-nal playoff spot. As a reward, Brunswick traveled to 10-time defending regional champion Skowhegan, which has won nine Class A state titles in that span. On Oct, 6, the Dragons gave the Indians a close game, falling, 4-2, in Skowhegan.

The Eagles finished 2-7-5 and ninth.

In Western B, Morse went 2-11-1 and wound up 12th (where just 10 teams qualified).

Cross countryThe Kennebec Valley Athletic

Conference cross country state meet was held Saturday in Au-

roger s. duncan / For The ForecasTerMt. Ararat Lindsey Smith drives the

ball during last week’s regular season finale versus Brunswick. The Dragons edged the Eagles, 1-0, to earn the final

playoff spot in Eastern A. roger s. duncan / For The ForecasTerBrunswick’s Allison Hill evades Mt.

Ararat’s Kristi Willey during the teams’ showdown last week. The Dragons held on for a 1-0 win.

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gusta.Mt. Ararat’s boys (ranked

seventh by the state’s coaches) won the Class A title with 80 points, while Brunswick was seventh with 156. The Eagles were paced by senior Andy Reifman-Packett, who was third in 17 minutes, 55.8 seconds. The Dragons’ top runner was senior Benson Worthington, who was runner-up to individual champion Harlow Ladd of Mes-salonskee in 17:52.5.

In Class B, Morse was 10th (Maranacook came in first) and junior Nate Stover was 28th individually (20:47.3).

On the girls’ side, in Class A, Brunswick (ranked eighth by the coaches) edged Mt. Ararat (ranked sixth) by a point to win the title. Individually, Dragons sophomore Teresa Murphy was second (21:30.1) and Eagles sophomore Kelly Lynch came in third (21:43.7).

In Class B, Morse was sixth (Camden Hills placed first)

as junior Charlotte Recknagel placed 16th (23:19.1).

The regional championship meet is Saturday in Belfast. The Brunswick and Mt. Ararat girls compete in Class A at 12:10 p.m. The Dragons and Eagles boys start at 12:45 p.m. Morse’s girls run in Class B at 1:20 p.m. The girls start at 1:55 p.m.

The state championships are Saturday, Oct. 29, at Twin Brook in Cumberland.

FootballFootball’s regular season is

rapidly coming to a close.The powerhouse Brunswick

Dragons rolled to their sixth successive win Saturday, 33-7, over visiting Oxford Hills, as they improved to 6-1. The Drag-ons (tied with Bangor for second in the latest Eastern Class A Crabtree Points standings) will take part in the “Game of the Year” Friday, when they go to

7-0 Lawrence, in a game that will likely determine the top seed for the postseason.

Mt. Ararat is still seeking its first win after falling to 0-7 Saturday with a 52-0 home loss to Messalonskee. The Eagles (10th in the Crabtrees) visit 4-3 Skowhegan Friday.

In Eastern B, Morse fell to 3-4 Saturday after a wild 64-33 loss at Mt. Blue. The Shipbuilders (clinging to the eighth and final spot in the Crabtrees) hosts 2-5 Oceanside in their finale Friday.

Boys’ soccerThe boys’ soccer regular sea-

son wrapped up Tuesday.Mt. Ararat went into its fi-

nal game at 7-1-5 (and second in the Eastern Class A Heal Points standings) after two ties last week, 3-3 against visiting Brunswick and 0-0 at defending Class A state champion Bangor. The Eagles closed at home against Edward Little Tuesday.

Brunswick was 6-3-4 and sixth entering its final game, Tuesday at home versus Lewiston. After playing host Mt. Ararat to a 3-3 tie last week, the Dragons beat visiting Oxford Hills, 2-0, and host Edward Little, 7-0.

In Western B, Morse is play-off-bound. The Shipbuilders won, 2-1, at Medomak Valley last Wednesday, then lost, 2-1, at home to Winslow to fall to 8-4-1 and fifth in the Heals. In the win, Cody Snyder and Michael Alvarez had goals in the win. Aaron Lapointe scored in the loss. Morse finished at Maranacook Tuesday, hoping to move into the top four to earn a

home playoff game.The playoffs begin with the

quarterfinals Wednesday of next week.

Girls’ soccerOn the girls’ side, Morse

will be the top seed in Western A. The Shipbuilders improved to 13-0 with recent victories at Leavitt (3-0), at home over Medomak (8-1) and at Winslow (7-0). Katie Henrikson scored twice against the Hornets, Bess Howell had two goals in the win over Medomak and Hen-rikson, Tori Field and Christina Stuart all had two goals against Winslow. Morse closed at home versus Maranacook Tuesday.

In Eastern A, Brunswick will be second to Bangor. The Dragons have won five straight, capped by recent victories over visiting Mt. Ararat (1-0), host Oxford Hills (1-0) and visiting Edward Little (4-0). Brunswick (12-1) closed at Lewiston Tues-day.

Mt. Ararat entered its finale at Edward Little Tuesday with an 8-4-1 mark. The Eagles (fifth in the Heals) lost, 1-0, at Bruns-wick and 4-2 at home Bangor last week.

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Encore Leadership Corps, a program of the University of Maine Center on Aging, has hired Patti Foden of Cape Elizabeth as program coordinator responsible for re-cruiting and training volunteers and Carol Hammond of South Portland as Marketing Coordinator.

Kerri L. Prescott of Topsham was hired by Priority Group LLC as its marketing & communications director. Prescott is the current State Representative from Topsham.

Androscoggin Bank recently added

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Jessica Vickerson has joined Mercy Health Care System of Maine as a palliative care nurse practitioner. She will be working closely with patients and their families to expand care options for patients with life-limiting diseases through palliative care and hospice programs.

Prime Ford in Saco recently hired Bobby Woods of Scarborough as a sales and leas-ing consultant. Prior to joining the Prime Ford team, Woods worked in the construc-tion industry as a home builder.

Pape Subaru hired Paul Adler as a mem-ber of their sales and leasing team at the new Subaru dealership in South Portland. Adler has an extensive sales background

working with Leavitt and Parris Awning Company and Sign Design Inc.

Colleen Farrell of South Portland has been promoted to vice president of human resources at Mid Coast Health Services. She served as the director of human re-sources at Mid Coast Health Services for the past 11 years.

Bernstein Shur Law Firm of Portland hired Kimberly McCall as marketing di-rector. McCall joins Bernstein Shur from MaineHealth, where she was the marketing and communications manager.

Crossroads for Women, a comprehensive substance abuse and mental health treat-ment facility, made the following hires and promotions: Carol Rico of Scarborough joined the senior management team as the agency finance director; Allyson Goldman-Putnam of South Portland was hired as a client services counselor at Greater Portland Counseling Center; Kiely Foley of South Portland, and Cindy Amrogne-O’Toole of Scarborough, were hired as outpatient clinicians at Kennebunk Counseling Center; Teresa Bendokas-Heinfeld of Freeport was promoted to outpatient practice man-ager and will oversee the administration of Crossroads for Women’s counseling centers in Portland, Windham and Kennebunk; and, Randi Sheehan of South Portland is now the clinical supervisor of Crossroads for women’s Residential Rehabilitation pro-gram in Windham.

Mid Coast Cardiology added Benjamin A. Lowenstein of Yarmouth to its practice. A graduate of Bates College, Lowenstein received his MD from the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burling-ton, Vt. He completed his fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine.

John Holdridge of Peaks Island was hired as the new creative director at the Telling Room. Holdridge spent several years as a performer, teaching artist, pro-fessional development facilitator and uni-versity instructor working in the field of creative literacy development.

Peter DelGreco of Brunswick has been appointed president and CEO of Maine & Company, a nonprofit providing services to companies relocating to Maine or expand-

ing within the state. Delgreco will work closely with Maine & Company’s board of directors to further the mission of bringing quality jobs and businesses to Maine.

Pierce Atwood LLP of Portland has hired Kyle N. Kirby as an associate in the firm’s Litigation Practice Group. Kirby completed his undergraduate degree at Carnegie Mel-lon University and continued on to the University of Maine School of Law.

Dr. Carol Seaver of Scarborough has been named as the Chairwoman of the Dept. of Nursing at Saint Joseph’s College.

Promotions

Lisa M. Rideout was recently promoted to executive vice president, Asset Manage-ment Group at Norway Savings Bank. In her new role at Norway, she developed and launched the newest division of the bank, the Norway Savings Asset Management Group, which provides investment man-agement, trust services and estate planning to clients throughout Maine.

Good Deeds

Eighteen riders from Brunswick’s Mid Coast Hospital’s cycling team completed the American Lung Association’s three-day, 180-mile Trek Across Maine, raising more than $12,000 for the American Lung Association in the process. The cyclists began the ride at Sunday River in Newry and made the three day trek to Belfast over Father’s Day weekend.

Hannaford Supermarket locations raised a combined $53,800 for 100 local charities with its Summer Celebrations 2011 fundraising barbecues held at several Hannaford locations. For a $1 donation to charity, each person received a meal pre-pared by Hannaford associates. More than 50 vendors joined Hannaford in sponsoring the barbecues. All of the proceeds went to charity.

Wright Express Corporation of South Portland donated a total of more than $30,000 to support fundraising events for three Maine health related nonprofits. Events included the Beach to Beacon and the Tri for a Cure. In March, Wright Ex-press announced a new matching program for its associates who donate time and mon-ey to charitable organizations. For Wright Express associates who donate financially, the company will match dollar for dollar, up to $100 a year, an associate’s contribu-tion to a charitable organization. Associates who volunteer at least 25 hours per year will have their time matched at a rate of $2 per hour. In addition, the company will pay the associates’ cost of participation in charitable events.

The Maine Inkeepers Association wel-comed record numbers this May for their eighth annual Hospitality for Habitat fund-raiser. Thirty-four MEIA member proper-ties located all over the state participated in Hospitality for Habitat this year, offering visitors to the state a 50 percent discount on room rates in May in exchange for a dona-tion check for $35 made out to Habitat for Humanity. This year’s fundraiser beat last year’s by over $2,000, raising $15,475 to help build homes for Maine families.

The 2011 Make-A-Wish Fantasy Auc-tion held at The Woodlands Club in Fal-mouth raised over $120,000 for the Make-A-Wish foundation. An auction committee led by Falmouth residents Judy Forsley and Beth Goodrich ensured that criti-cal funds were raised to help bring hope, strength and joy to Maine children fighting life-threatening medical conditions.

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Thursday 10/27”Love Hate Love,” 7:30 p.m., Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall, Bowdoin College, free.

GalleriesFriday 10/21Friday Art Walk, Bath, 5-8 p.m., last Friday artwalk of the season.

MusicSaturday 10/22Performance by Singer/Song-writers Lynn Deeves, Trina Hamlin and Coleen Sexton, 7:30 p.m., Fron-tier Cafe, Brunswick. Tickets $13 advance, $15 at door.

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Saturday 10/29Nor’easters Parade of Harmony, 6 p.m., Knights of Columbus Hall, Brunswick, costumes encouraged, tickets, $25, at Now You’re Cook-

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Theater/DanceThursday 10/27”Doll House,” 8 p.m., Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall, Bowdoin College, free.

Greater PortlandAuditions, Calls for ArtDurham Community School PTA, seeking crafters, business owners for a fair on Nov. 19 at the Durham Community School Gymnasium, 654 Hallowell Road, $20 for 8-foot table, proceeds support field trip funding, Nancy Decker at [email protected], 751-1323 or Laurel Gervais at [email protected].

Freeport Historical Society, seeks 6-8 actors for its “Ghosts of Freeport’s Past” event, Oct. 21-22, 27-29, FMI, Katie, [email protected], 865-3170.

Munjoy Hill Neighborhood Orga-nization, seeks food vendors, artists, street goods vendors, nonprofits for the We Love Munjoy Hill Festival on Saturday, Oct. 22, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at East End Community School, applications at munjoyhill.org.

Books & AuthorsSunday 10/23”A Life Turned Sideways:” The Breast Cancer Diaries, Ann Murray

Paige, 4-5 p.m. talk, book signing 5-6 p.m., UNE’s College of Phar-macy.

Tuesday 10/25The Yarmouth Historical Soci-ety Book Group, 7 p.m., Yarmouth Historical Society, 3rd Floor, Mer-rill Memorial Library, 215 Main St., Yarmouth, discussion of “The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience” by Kirstin Downey.

ComedyFriday 10/28”An Evening of Comedy” to ben-efit the Cancer Community Center, 8 p.m., USM Abromson Center, Portland, $35 reserved, $25 gen-eral admission.

FilmSunday 10/23”Soul Surfer,” Community Movie Night, 5 p.m., First Parish Fellow-ship Hall, 116 Main St., Yarmouth, open to the public, suggested donation, $3/person, $10/family, drinks/goodies provided, pizza slices $1.

Thursday 10/27“Travels by Canoe in Alaska’s Western Arctic,” wilderness jour-ney of words and photographs by emmy award-winner and docu-mentary filmmaker Richard Kahn, 7:30 p.m., 39 Harpswell Road, Schwartz Outdoor Leadership Center, free, 725-3396.

Sunday 10/30Premier of Bluestocking Films: Films by Women, 4 p.m., $5, St. Lawrence Arts Center, Portland.

GalleriesFriday 10/21“The Artisans Collective,” mixed media group exhibit and sale, 5-7 p.m. public reception, Royal Bean, 18 Yarmouth Crossing Dr., off Main St., Yarmouth, FMI, 846-7967.

Saturday 10/22”Drawing the Line #9” opening

reception 3-5 p.m., June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 112 High St., Portland, ex-hibit runs through Nov. 18.

Maine Artisans and Crafters Exhibit, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Falmouth American Legion Hall, 65 Depot Road, Falmouth, Rita Pomarico, 712-2788.

Friday 10/28Exhibit opening at the June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 522 Congress St., two days only, Oct. 28, 5-8 p.m. and Oct. 29 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Susan Amons, Todd Bezold, Kate Chappell, Lindsay Hancock, Pat Hardy, Robin MacCarthy, Gail Page,

Michael Stasiuk, Michael Walek, Diane Bowie Zaitlin.

Saturday 10/29Carlo Pittore: Day of 1000 Draw-ings, sale/silent auction; award ceremony for the Carlo Pittore Foundation’s artists’ grants win-ners; and a screening of the trailer for the upcoming film “Carlo Pit-tore: Maine Master,” 12-5 p.m., Fort Andross, 14 Maine St., Brunswick (in the Winter’s Farmer’s Market space; look for signs), carlopittorefounda-tion.org/news/ or 809-9670.

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MuseumsThe Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Garden, guided tours through October, 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 12-4 p.m. Sun-day, $12 adult, $10 senior/student, $3 child, garden is free to the pub-lic, Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St., Portland, 774-1822, mainehistory.org.

Friday 10/21”Tales of Terror from Victoria Mansion,” Lynne Cullen shares stories from nineteenth-century writers as the lights are dimmed to gaslight levels, “The Telltale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe and “Dracula’s Guest” by Bram Stoker, Oct. 21 and

22, 6 and 8 p.m., tickets orders at victoriamansion.org/events_rent-als/events.aspx, 772.4841 ext. 10.

Sunday 10/23Family Fright Night, ”King o’ the Cats” by Joseph Jacobs and other spooky folktales for kids 10 and under, 6 p.m., ticket orders at vic-toriamansion.org/events_rentals/events.aspx, or 772.4841 ext. 10.

Thursday 10/27”Gather up the Fragments:” The Andrews Shaker Collection, on view through Feb. 5, 2012, the Portland Museum of Art.

MusicFriday 10/21Portland Early Music Festival,

with 15 Early Music Specialists, through Oct. 23, Memorial Hall, Woodford’s Church, 202 Woodford St., Portland, 775-3356, schedule at portlandconservatory.net.

Saturday 10/22Taylor’s Grove, American roots music, 3 p.m., free, South Portland Public Library, 482 Broadway, South Portland, 767-7660, sponsored by Friends of the South Portland Public Library, FMI, 767-7660.

Wednesday 10/26Standard Issue performing at Grace Restaurant, 15 Chestnut St., Portland, 6-9 p.m., no cover, all ages welcome.

Sunday 10/30Portland String Quartet 2011-

2012 Season Opening Concert, Woodfords Congregat ional Church, 202 Woodfords St., Port-land, 2 p.m., pre-concert lecture 1 p.m., PSQ and special guest Earle G. Shettleworth will present the World Premiere of a string quartet by Portland native John Knowles Paine, composed in Portland c.1855. Also on the program is Walter Piston’s String Quartet No. 1, and Charles Ives’ String Quartet No. 1, “A Revival Service.” Reception will follow the concert.

Theater & Dance”Hansel & Gretel,” presented by Maine State Ballet, Oct. 22; 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, $15, Maine State Ballet Theater, 348 U.S. Route 1, Falmouth, mainestatebal-let.org, 781-3587.

“The Jungle Book,” presented by the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine, Oct. 14-23; Fridays 4 p.m., Saturdays 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. and Sundays 4 p.m., $8-$9, Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine, 142 Free St., Portland, 828-1234 ext. 231, kitetails.org.

”The Lieutenant of Inishmore,” presented by Mad Horse Theatre, Oct. 6-23; Thursdays 7:30 p.m.; Fri-days and Saturdays 8 p.m.; Sundays 2 p.m., $22 adults / $20 students and seniors, pay-what-you-can Thursdays, Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland, tickets, 899-3993, lucidstage.com.

”The Morini Strad,” presented by Portland Stage Company, daily performances Sept. 27 - Oct. 23, tickets $15-$39, Portland Stage, 25A Forest Ave., Portland, for

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”Snow White,” presented by The Theatre Company at Falmouth, Oct. 21-23, 7 p.m. Friday, 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday, tickets at door, $5 students and seniors/ $7 adults, Falmouth High School Theater, 74 Woodville Road, Falmouth, [email protected].

Thursday 10/27”Tigers Be Still” at the Studio Theatre at Portland Stage, 25A Forest Ave., Portland, through Nov. 6, $10-$20 with premium tickets also available, dramaticrep.org or 1-800-838-3006 for ticket infor-mation.

Friday 10/28”The Boy Friend,” presented by Oak Hill Players, Scarborough High School’s Winslow Homer Audito-rium, Oct. 28 & 29 and Nov. 3, 4 & 5, 7 p.m.; Oct. 29 and Nov. 5, 1 p.m., $9/adults, $6/seniors, students at the door, FMI, 937-2081.

Saturday 10/29Haunted House & Costume Ball, 7-11 p.m., Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St., Portland, $10 at the door.

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ing hours of sunlight are getting you down, you might try a sensationally funny musi-cal comedy as a psychological antidote. “Spamalot,” the funniest musical I’ve seen in years, is coming to Portland’s Merrill Auditorium for two performances, Oct. 20-21, as Portland Ovations hosts a national touring company.

There’s plenty of fine music this week-end. The Portland Symphony Orchestra continues its Sunday Classical season on Oct. 23. The Portland Conservatory of Music launches a new annual happening this fall, an early music festival that runs Friday through Sunday.

And Malcolm Holcombe, a gravel-voiced singer-songwriter, appears Oct. 27 at Port-land’s One Longfellow Square.

‘Spamalot’Between 2005 and 2009 one of the hot-

test tickets on Broadway was “Spamalot,” a wildly funny and very tuneful musical comedy based on the film, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” With a libretto by Eric Idle and music by John Du Prez and Idle, “Spamalot” was nominated for 14 Tony Awards, winning three, including “Best Musical.”

I’ve seen it several times, and plan to see it again as Portland Ovations launches its Broadway series when a national touring company visits Merrill Auditorium.

Idle’s book is solidly based on the leg-ends of King Arthur, the knights of the Round Table and the search for the Holy Grail, but his send-up of the oft-told tale and his uncanny ability to find hilariously comic twists in familiar characters is a truly amazing piece of comic craft.

The story arc follows King Arthur from the early years of his reign to his successful recovery of the Grail. Accompanying Ar-thur’s quest are his long-suffering sidekick and three very errant knights.

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Scott SuchmanA comic quest for the Holy Grail is the plot line for “Spamalot,” the 2005 Tony Award-winner for best Broadway musical that plays Portland

Oct. 20-21.

Lady of the Lake is the leading female in the cast. She has several incarnations, including a wonder-fully funny parody of Cher. Follow-ing Monty Python practice, several of these actors also get to demonstrate their talents in secondary and tertiary roles. Plus there’s a flying cow and a vicious killer rabbit.

Several of the songs are infec-tiously melodious. Examples are “The Song That Goes Like This,” a send-up of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s style of composition, and “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life,” which is the show’s most memo-rable song.

Portland Ovations presents “Spamalot” with two 8 p.m. per-formances Oct. 20-21 at Merrill Auditorium at Portland City Hall. Call PortTix at 842-0800.

Portland Symphony OrchestraThe Portland Symphony Orchestra con-

tinues its Sunday Classical series on Oct. 23 under the baton of maestro Robert Moody in a program that features works by two well-known 20th-century American com-posers, plus the symphonic masterpiece of one of the 19th century’s European giants.

This Sunday’s concert opens with Ameri-can composer Samuel Barber’s enthralling

one-movement “First Essay for Orches-tra.” Second on the program is Ernest Bloch’s “Suite He-braique,” which spot-lights PSO principal violist Laurie Ken-nedy as the soloist. Bloch was born in Switzerland and emi-grated to this country during World War I and finished his life as a mainstay of our country’s musical culture.

Following inter-mission, the after-noon wraps up with Franz Schubert’s majestic Symphony No. 9 in C Major. In-novative and highly melodic, No. 9 is widely considered Schubert’s greatest work.

Principal violist Laurie Kennedy is celebrating her 30th season with the PSO. Kennedy is well known as a chamber

music artist throughout the northeast, plus she’s also the long-time artistic director of the Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival, a summer chamber music series in Harrison.

Portland Symphony Orchestra plays at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 23 at Merrill Auditorium at Portland City Hall. Call PortTix at 842-0800.

Portland Early Music FestivalMaine has a very vibrant classical music

scene, but the state’s experience in the sub-genre of early music – Renaissance,

Baroque and other styles that pre-date the late 1700s – is far less successful. Several fine ensembles have come and gone over the past 20 years, and aficionados such as myself have to make do with the occasional visit by a touring ensemble – or make the trek to Boston, which is a global center of early music.

I’m hopeful that that’s about to change. The Portland Conservatory of Music is launching its inaugural Early Music Fes-tival this weekend, featuring three public concerts Oct. 20-23 plus a menu of other presentations.

The artistic director is Tim Burris, a me-dieval lutenist and a PCM board member. He and 14 other musicians he’s engaged will treat audiences to music once played in the courts and salons of 16th, 17th and 18th century Europe.

The sounds of the lute, harpsichord and viola da gamba will reverberate once again. Tenors, basses and sopranos will describe the Baroque Age in song. Featured compos-ers include Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Pachelbal, Girolamo Frescobaldi and Henry Purcell.

All events take place at PCM’s digs at Woodford’s Congregational Church, 202 Woodford St. in Portland. Friday’s 7:30 p.m. concert focuses on English songs accompanied by lute. Saturday’s 7:30 p.m. program features music from 18th-century Saxony, while Sunday’s 4:30 p.m. presentation is titled “The Soul of Italy,” and explores the music of the birthplace of Baroque. Call PCM at 775-3356.

Malcolm HolcombeCountry blues is his forte and a gravelly

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A reminder to the voters of the City of Bath - if you areunable to go to the polls on Election Day please requestan Absentee Ballot. Absentee Ballots can be requestedfrom October 8th - November 3rd. After November3rd, Absentee Ballots can only be issues for SpecialCircumstances. Voters will receive the State ballot,Municipal ballot and RSU #1 ballot where applicable.Ballots can be sent in the mail or voters may come intothe Clerk’s office and vote in person. City Clerk’s Officeis open Monday through Friday 8:30AM – 4:30PM.

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BrunswickMon. 10/24 7 p.m. Master Plan Implementation Committee BSMon. 10/24 7 p.m. Staff Review Hawthorne SchoolTue. 10/25 7:30 a.m. Brunswick Downtown Association MBTue. 10/25 7 p.m. Planning Board BSWed. 10/26 4:30 p.m. Conservation Commission Workshop BSWed. 10/26 6 p.m. School Board Workshop BSThu. 10/27 9 a.m. People Plus Border Trust, TopshamThu. 10/27 7 p.m. Bicycle/Pedestrian Committee BSThu. 10/27 7 p.m. Recycling and Sustainability Committee Hawthorne School

HarpswellMon. 10/24 8 a.m. Board of Appeals THMon. 10/24 2 p.m. Comprehensive Plan Implementation THMon. 10/24 7 p.m. Watercraft Task Force THTue. 10/25 7 p.m. Marine Resources THWed. 10/26 6:30 p.m. Board of Appeals THThu. 10/27 6 p.m. Selectmen’s Meeting Th

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Mid Coast BenefitsSaturday 10/22OktoberFestival benefit dinner to support Hope Village Orphanage in Haiti, buffet provided by No. 10 Water, The Restaurant at the Cap-tain Stone Inn, and Family, 5-7 p.m., $25 adult, $10 children 18 and un-der, St. Charles Church, Brunswick, FMI Doris Ouellette, 725-3464, tick-ets on sale at the church and at Hannafords in Brunswick.

Bulletin BoardVeterans Benefits Assistance, third Tuesday of each month, forms, information on obtaining benefits, free, but appointment required, Spectrum Generations, 12 Main St., Topsham, 729-0475.

Write On! writers group, led by Bon-nie Wheeler, Wednesdays 12:30-3

p.m., donations appreciated, People Plus Community Center, 35 Union St., Brunswick, sign up, 729-0757.

Saturday 10/22Navy Birthday Ball, formal attire, friends, family and members of U.S. Navy invited, 5 p.m., $60/person, the Inn at Brunswick Station, 4 Noble St., Brunswick; tickets, Mas-ter Chief Bruce Sandy, 442-3058, [email protected], FMI Kristin Mason, 442-2684, [email protected].

Saturday 10/29Craft Fair & Yard Sale, bake sale, raffles, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m., table rental $10, call by 10/22, 666-5752, 666-5974, Bowdoin Fire Department, 23 Cornish Dr., Bowdoin.

Call for DonationsChildren’s Books Needed for Curtis Kids book sale, Nov. 12, do-nate outgrown books, CDs, DVDs,

audio books, puzzles, games, all proceeds to benefit Curtis Kids programs, Curtis Memorial Li-brary, Brunswick, FMI, 725-5242 or [email protected].

AniMeals is accepting dog and cat food donations for homebound se-niors that receive Meals on Wheels, to donate or volunteer, call Sarah, 729-0475.

Call for VolunteersThursday 10/27Volunteer Opportunity Fair, 35+ local nonprofits, free, door prizes, 2-7 p.m., Morrell Meeting Room, Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleas-ant St., Brunswick, FMI, [email protected].

Dining OutSaturday 10/22Wicked Good Bean Suppah, Boy

Scout Troop 202, 5-7 p.m., adults $7, children 6-12 $3.50, children under 5 free, American Legion Hall, Post 202, Foreside Road, Topsham.

Baked Bean and Casserole Sup-per, 4:30-6 p.m., adults $7, children $3.50, The Bath Area Senior Citizen Center, 45 Floral St., Bath, 443-4937.

Sunday 10/23Vegetarian Community Meal, sponsored by Brunswick Food Not Bombs, most Sundays, 12-3 p.m., free, all welcome, in front of Brunswick Savings Bank (next to Joshua’s), FMI, foodnotbombs.net.

Gardens and OutdoorsSaturday 10/22Fall Birding Roundup, Doug Suitor, meet at Brunswick Han-nafords, 7:30 a.m., Merrymeeting Audubon, maineaudubon.org/merrymeeting.

Tuesday 10/25An Adventure at the Bottom of the World, Derek & Jeannette Lo-vitch of Freeport Wild Bird Supply recount their trip to the Falklands, South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsula, 7-9 p.m., free, open to the public, Curtis Memorial Library, Morrell Room, Brunswick.

Saturday 10/29Hermit Island, Carol Jack, annual outing along Head Beach, meet

8:30 a.m., Bath Plaza near CVS or 9 a.m. at Head Beach, Hermit Is-land, Route 216, Phippsburg, FMI, Carol Jack, 729-0220, Merrymeet-ing Audubon, maineaudubon.org/merrymeeting.

Saturday 11/5Waterfowl of Sabattus Pond, John Berry, meet at Hannafords, Brunswick, 8 a.m. to car pool, FMI,

John Berry, 725-2051, Merrymeet-ing Audubon, maineaudubon.org/merrymeeting.

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Wednesday 10/26Learning Express Introduction, new online information resource for Maine citizens, 6 p.m., free, open to the public, 2nd floor com-munity room, Patten Free Library, 33 Summer St., Bath, 443-5141, Roberta Jordan ext. 25.

Dowsing, what is it and how does it work? Glenn Johnson, 1 p.m., $2 activity fee, call to reserve spot, FMI 729-0475, Spectrum Generations, 12 Main St., Brunswick.

Saturday 10/29Get Published! Writing for Money and Fun, workshop on how to sell articles and where to find markets, Sherry Hanson, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m., Mer-rymeeting Adult Education, sign up, merrymeeting.org, 729-7323, FMI Sherry Hanson, 721-0955, [email protected].

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Health & SupportFriday 10/21”The Art of Being Human,” Shambhala Training Level One, weekend introduction to sitting meditation, Oct. 21-23, free public talk Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday/Sunday 8:30 a.m. - 6 p.m., $110 weekend program, pre-registra-tion required, shambhalabp.org, Shambhala Meditation Center, 19 Mason St., Brunswick, FMI James Prentice, [email protected], 837-8431.

”Raising a Modern Day Knight,” registration deadline for 6-week DVD series to help fathers connect with their sons in life-changing ways, Monday evenings starting Nov. 7; 7-9 p.m., $30 includes all books, Flaming Physical Therapy, 11 Elsinore Ave., Bath, register, 215-435-4625, email [email protected].

Monday 10/24Maine Kids-Kin program, Cathy Paglio from Families and Children Together will show a video and speak about services available to

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Thursday 10/27Free Flu Shot for all RSU1 students and their families, 2-6 p.m., Bath Middle School.

Just for SeniorsBath Area Senior Citizens, bridge club, cribbage, crafts, line dancing, bocce, bingo and more, 45 Floral St., Bath, 443-4937.

Chair Yoga, Shannon Elliott, Tuesdays 10:30 a.m., $10/class or pay what you can, Spectrum Generations, Topsham, FMI and to preregister, 729-0475.

Meals on Wheels, delivery avail-able for homebound seniors and disabled adults, offered by Spec-trum Generations, 12 Main St., Topsham, 729-0475.

Money Management Program, help low-income seniors with rou-tine financial matters, Spectrum Generations, 12 Main St., Topsham, 729-0475.

People Plus Community Center, multipurpose multigenerational facility provides recreational, so-cial, informational, educational and personal services to seniors as well as people of all ages, 35 Union St., Brunswick, 729-0757.

The Retired and Senior Volun-teer Program seeks volunteers age 55 and over for various opportuni-ties, 396-6521.

Spectrum Generations Coastal Community Center, support groups, lectures, socials, activi-ties, 521 Main St., Damariscotta, for daily schedule, 563-1363 or spectrumgenerations.org.

Spectrum Generations Southern Midcoast Community Center now open for classes, activities, trips, health & wellness, 12 Main St., Topsham, 729-0475, or datwood@

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Topsham Merry Meeters Senior Citizens, all ages 50 and over welcome, bring a dish to share for potluck meal, noon, Westrum House, Union Park Road, Topsham; 729-7686 or 725-2425; meets third Tuesday except July and August.

Greater Portland BenefitsFriday 10/21Live Benefit Auction, to support

church missions, 6 p.m. viewing; 7 p.m. live auction, with auctioneer Harold Sutherland, food avail-able for purchase, Peoples United Methodist Church, 310 Broadway, South Portland, 799-1413, people-sumcnews.blogspot.com.

The Rat Pack, tribute concert to benefit CASA, with Mickey Joseph as Joey Bishop, Drew Anthony as Dean Martin, Kenny Jones as Sammy Davis, Jr., and Brian Duprey as Frank Sinatra, 8 p.m., $45/$35, State Theatre, 609 Congress St.,

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Saturday 10/22The Blue Star Mothers Breakfast supporting members of the military and veterans, 8-10:30 a.m., Freeport Community Center, 53 Depot St., Freeport; eggs, sausage, fried po-tatoes, muffins & biscuits, juice and coffee, suggested donation $8/adults; $6/children and seniors.

”It’s Time to Pick Apples for Charity,” 8-10 a.m, Thompson’s Orchard, 276 Gloucester Hill Road, New Gloucester; picking fee waived for up to 18 people pick-ing apples for the Good Shepherd Food Bank.

Benefit Dinner and Silent Auction, for Bob Roy, co-owner of Frank’s Truck-Kaps, fundraiser to help pay for his cancer treatment, 4-7 p.m., $10 adults/ $5 children, Val-Halla Golf & Recreation Center, Greely

Road, Cumberland, donations of dessert appreciated, tickets at Corsetti’s Market in Windham, Windham Automotive, and Val Halla, FMI, Joe Mains, 892-3130.

“Easy as Pi” Road and Trail Race, fundraiser for The Woodard & Cur-ran Foundation, 3.14-mile course, with kids Fun Run, pie, music, 8:30 a.m., Fun Run for Kids 10 and un-der, 9 a.m. Race Start, Woodard & Curran, 41 Hutchins Dr., Portland, registration, $15 through Oct. 20; $20 Race Day registration, FMI, woodardcurranfoundation.org or Althea Masterson, 774-2112.

SailMaine Soiree Auction, to benefit local community sailing programs, 7-10 p.m., silent auc-tion, live music, food, $30 advance/ $40 door, Portland Yacht Services, Portland, sailmaine.org or Sarah Helming, [email protected].

Ghoulwill Ball: A Benefit for Good-will’s Supported Employment Services, costume contest with cash prizes, 7-11 p.m., $25 tickets,

$40 for two, Port City Music Hall, Portland, tickets, goodwillnne.org/ghoulwill.

Sunday 10/23Chicken Pie Sale to benefit the Bath United Methodist Church, $13/pie, order at 443-4707 by Oct. 23, 4 p.m.; pick up Thurs. Oct. 27, 1-5 p.m. at the Bath United Meth-odist Church, 340 Oak Grove Ave., Bath.

Toy 5k and Fun Run, Falmouth Community Program, to ben-efit Southern Maine Toys for Tots, 8:30 a.m., Falmouth Community Park, bring a new, unwrapped toy to the event, FMI, runreg.com/net/registration/register.aspx?EventID=2845 or e-mail Kev-in Grover, [email protected].

Friday 10/28Fall Card Party to benefit the Falmouth Historical Society, 11:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m., the Holy Mar-tyrs Church, 266 Foreside Road,

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Saturday 10/29Camp Sunshine Pumpkin Festi-val, all day, L.L. Bean, Freeport, kid’s activites, entertainment, food, cos-tume parade, pumpkin carving challenge, more; participants can help raise money for Camp Sun-shine by sponsoring a pumpkin for $10.

Dining OutSaturday 10/22Pancake Breakfast, 8 a.m. - 1 p.m., Bath Parks and Rec Dept., 4 Sheridan Road, Bath, $5/person, $10/family, to benefit Fields 4 our Future.

Public Baked Bean Supper, 5-6 p.m., First Parish Church UCC, 9 Cleaveland St., Brunswick, $7/adults, $3/children ages 6-12, chil-dren under six free.

Tuesday 10/25Food Safety Training, for those involved in handling food at fundraising events, two separate 5-hour workshops, Oct. 25 and Nov. 9, UMaine Cooperative Ex-

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Friday 10/28Chicken Pie Dinner, 5:45 p.m., First Congregational Church, 3 Gray Road, North Yarmouth, adults $12, Louise, 926-5675.

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”Smart Choices in Retirement,” 10 a.m. -2 p.m., Edward Jones, Falmouth Shopping Center, reser-vations, 781-5057.

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On Oct. 27 he’ll visit Portland with a one-night stand at One Longfellow Square.

This year’s tour is in support of “To Drink the Rain,” his eighth full-length al-bum which was recorded in Austin, Texas, and released last February. Rolling Stone reviewer David Fricke characterized the CD: “Not quite country, somewhere beyond folk, Holcombe’s music is a kind of blues in motion, mapping backwoods corners of the heart.”

I’m spinning the CD as I write this, and

heartily concur. Holcombe is both a percep-tive writer and a skillful interpreter. Plus there’s lots of variety on the album. I like the rollicking jug band style of the open-ing number, “One Leg at a Time,” and the modern take on the time-honored train song genre expressed in “Behind the No. 1.” And it’s not all country. “Comes the Blues” la-ments the legacy of some unfortunate urban experiences. The concluding song on the CD, “One Man Singin,’” exudes a positive and uplifting personal touch.

Catch Malcolm Holcombe at 8 p.m. Oct. 27 at One Longfellow Square, corner of Con-gress and State in Portland. Call 761-1757.

Candidatesfrom page 6

Grover

from 2008-2011 and was a representative from Gray to both the Greater Portland Council of Governments and the Central Corridors Coalition of area municipali-ties. He also served on the Cumberland County Budget Ad-visory Committee, the Gray Public Li-brary Board of Trust-ees and the Gray Comprehensive Plan Committee, and has volunteered with Gray Fire-Rescue.

Grover says this experience, plus his work as an engineer, “gives me experience as a member of teams that get things done.”

He said he believes in thoughtful and moderate governance.

Regarding the Civic Center bond, Grover said the plan is responsibly written, but he does not think now is the time for the

project. He noted that there would be up to $22 million in interest on top of the bond amount.

“I don’t think most people in District 3 are prepared for the burden (of the project) for something that’s non-essential,” he said.

Grover said the economy could improve to the point where such a project were more viable, that there could be a more modest proposal, or that Portland could contribute a larger share of the cost.

He also noted that the fiscal 2012 county budget includes $300,000 to fund the “red ink” of the Civic Center’s operating budget. Grover pointed out that the center’s trustees should plan to balance their budget this year, no matter how the bond vote goes, and that subsidies each year should be phased out.

“Even the proposed plan says that they don’t expect big profits until 2016, even with the improvements,” Grover said.

Election Day is Nov. 8.Alex Lear can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 113 o

r [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @learics.

Inspectionsfrom page 3

before the horse,” said Claudia Knox, “but I want to say this is important.” She criticized the complaint-driven system now in place, which she said “fails before it starts because tenants are afraid of the consequences of making complaints.”

Vicky Marr, who previously petitioned the council to do something about the Oak Street building, which has not been torn down or rebuilt, said an inspection program could protect neighborhoods from deterioration.

Support for the ordinance on the coun-cil also appeared to be mixed. Chairman Joanne King and Councilor Suzan Wilson criticized the proposal both for its content and potential cost. Wilson said she par-ticularly opposes the “one-size-fits-all” approach to inspecting all multi-units an-nually, instead of just problem properties.

“If you cannot figure out what the

problem really is ... then really it is just a total waste of time,” she said.

After hearing the criticism, Pols said he would meet with landlords and the Fire Department to refine the proposal before bringing it back to the council for a workshop.

Other businessThe council also unanimously amended

the town’s ordinances to allow in-town residents to keep domesticated farm ani-mals. The changes allow no more than two animals to be kept on a two-acre lot and requires manure to be removed every 30 days.

Additionally, the owners of FirstWave Media received the go-ahead from the council to build a 199-foot AM radio tower on Old Portland Road. The tower would broadcast WMCE 900 AM, resur-recting a local community radio station that existed from 1955 to 1972.

Emily Guerin can be reached at 781-3661 ext.123 or [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter:

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At-largefrom page 5

public education and believes schools are key to economic development.

“Our kids are our future, and if we want economic development in town we have to continue to support education,” he said.

Renovating Coffin Elementary School and the junior high school was critical 11 years ago when he joined the School Board, he said, and is even more important now. He said he believes those renovations could be possible without a tax increase because the bond for the high school matures in 2013, meaning the amount the town has been spending towards that

Kestrelfrom page 1


File photoA Kestrel airplane sits on display in Hangar 6 at Brunswick Naval Air Station last February

during a ceremony to transfer the airport from the U.S. Navy to the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority. The ceremony was

attended by Gov. Paul LePage, U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree and other state and local

government officials.

companies and an experienced labor pool, he said Kestrel has been unable to secure the financing to keep the entire aircraft production arm of the company in town.

Now the company is looking at places including Berlin, N.H., to do what Klap-meier in September 2010 told the Town Council he would do in Brunswick: build composites.

Trouble with tax creditsWorking through Coastal Enterprises, a

Wiscasset-based private, nonprofit commu-nity development institution, the company was hoping to fund its $100 million project through the federal New Market Tax Credit program. The program helps bring jobs and investments into low-income or distressed areas, as identified in the U.S. Census.

If awarded the full amount, Kestrel would have received $39 million in tax credits that CEI could turn around and sell at a discount to investors.

But Kestrel has only received a fifth of the amount it was seeking. In April, the company was allocated $7.8 million in tax credits, enough to get Kestrel Aeroworks – the maintenance and repair operation – off the ground, but not enough to start manu-facturing airplanes.

According to Charles Spies, chief execu-tive of CEI Capital Management, there are no more tax credits available at CEI until January 2012. But even then, Spies isn’t sure CEI will receive any more credits to allocate because the New Markets program is so competitive.

That’s bad news for Kestrel.“The financing we’ve gotten to date is

not the amount or the schedule we’d origi-nally anticipated,” Klapmeier said.

As a result, he has started looking around to see if other states may be able to provide more funding to get the project off the ground.

What makes Berlin attractive is that, like the former BNAS census tract, it qualifies for New Market. But because it is more rural than Brunswick, and 20 percent of New Market’s allocations must go to non-metropolitan areas, Klapmeier said Kestrel would have a better chance of receiving the rest of its tax credits.

Moreover, Berlin is designated a severely distressed area, while the census tract in Brunswick is merely eligible for the tax credits. Additionally, there may be other funding opportunities in New Hampshire separate from New Market, Klapmeier said.

Berlin also has a new biomass energy plant that could supply cheap heat and pow-er to Kestrel. Because building composites is the most energy-intensive part of the airplane construction process, Klapmeier

said it makes sense to consider putting a plant close to the energy source in Berlin.

“We’re looking at New Hampshire, (and) we’re looking at several other locations” where there are tax credits available that are not available in Brunswick, Klapmeier said, although he wouldn’t say where.

Some is better than noneEven if Kestrel builds composites in Ber-

lin, Klapmeier said he intends to transport the finished parts to Brunswick for assem-bly – a geographically dispersed business model he said is common in the aircraft industry. He said he also expects to utilize Southern Maine Community College’s composite program to train employees.

“Part of our view of Berlin is that it’s close to (Brunswick), 67 nautical miles in the airplane,” he said. “We would still be training people here, moving people back and forth, we would see this as being rela-tively co-located.”

But he acknowledged that building a composites plant in Berlin would mean fewer jobs in Brunswick.

“There are jobs that would end up in Berlin that could have been in Brunswick if all of the financing had worked,” Klapmeier said, but “getting part of the jobs or most of the jobs is still better than getting none of the jobs.”

He said there is a possibility, although not a certainty, that more than 300 jobs would still be created in Brunswick. If Berlin falls through, however, Kestrel could move not only its composite plant, but its entire aircraft manufacturing company out of Brunswick Landing.

Steve Levesque, executive director of the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Author-ity, the public municipal corporation created to redevelop the former air base, doesn’t believe that will happen.

In an Oct. 14 email to Town Manager Gary Brown, Levesque said “this doesn’t affect the final assembly facility in Brunswick.” The message was a response to Brown, who previously sent Levesque the text of a New Hampshire Public Radio story reporting that Kestrel was considering Berlin. Brown sent Levesque’s four-line response to the entire Town Council the next day.

But Klapmeier said the company has been wooed by several states in addition to New Hampshire, and all options are on the table if the Berlin deal doesn’t work out – a result that he admitted is undesirable, but not out of the question.

The Berlin deal “is clearly our first choice,” Klapmeier said. “We’re not going to say it’s our only choice and we’re not going to go out of business if we can’t get the financing.”

Klapmeier admitted that he may have been naive to think the company could do everything at Brunswick Landing. Now that he realizes he can’t, he said he’s try-ing to find the next best possible deal for Brunswick, which he believes would be a plant in Berlin.

“What nobody understands or believes is, we’re committed to Maine because this is where we want to be,” he said.

At the very least, Kestrel Aeroworks has to stay at Brunswick Landing for seven years under the conditions of the New Mar-ket tax credits already received. Klapmeier has also signed a 20-year lease for half of Hangar 6 at the former air base.

Even so, MRRA may end up owing hundreds of thousands of dollars if Kestrel pulls part of its company out of Brunswick Landing.

Impact on MRRALast year, the town helped Kestrel apply

for a $300,000 community development block grant that was awarded in July.

According to a Feb. 23 memo from the town’s economic development specialist, Brian Dancause, the grant was supposed to fund Kestrel’s plan to “design, develop, certify and manufacture 6 to 8 passenger carbon composite turbo-prop aircraft at Hangar 6, Brunswick Landing” – spe-cifically, the installation of a paint booth, electrical and plumbing upgrades, and compliance with the Americans with Dis-abilities Act.

Part of the agreement is that Kestrel must create 10 more full-time jobs before June 30, 2013, in addition to the 16 in place as of July. Six of the additional jobs have to go to people from low-income households. As of Sept. 20, the company employed 21 people, according to MRRA.

If the company fails to comply, nor-mally the town would have to repay the full amount of the grant to the state. But because MRRA and Brunswick signed an indemnification agreement, MRRA is on the hook for the $300,000, not Brunswick.

Klapmeier estimated that even if Kes-trel Aircraft (the aircraft manufacturing company) pulls out, leaving only Kestrel Aeroworks behind, an additional 25 jobs will still be created.

Levesque said the grant has not been used and none of the scheduled work at Hangar 6 has been done.

“If they’re not going to go forward,” he said, “we’re going to use money for other projects.

Mobilizing to keep KestrelAccording to state Sen. Stan Gerzofsky,

D-Brunswick, Maine’s congressional del-egation and state officials are mobilizing to try and keep all of Kestrel in Maine.

“We’re not losing jobs to New Hamp-shire, period,” Gerzofsky said Wednesday.

Gerzofsky has proposed that Kestrel put its satellite manufacturing facilities in more rural parts of Maine, in order to take advantage of the rural preference under the New Market Tax Credit program.

“I’ve been working hard these past cou-ple of weeks to try and make sure we can be in a position to offer them anything any-body else can,” he said. “If they’re having trouble with these tax credits in Maine and not New Hampshire, I want to know why.”

U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, has also recently met with Kestrel representa-tives. In a statement issued by a spokesman Wednesday she said she will “continue to work with them to do everything we can to make it possible for them to locate those jobs here in Maine. Brunswick has the people and the facilities to support the kind of work Kestrel wants to do and I think this is the right place for those manufacturing jobs.”

But Klapmeier, whose prototype airplane and leased Hangar 6 were the backdrop for last January’s ceremonial first transfer of U.S. Navy property to MRRA, emphasized that he doesn’t want anyone to have false hope that it will be possible for Kestrel to keep all branches of its company in Bruns-wick, or in Maine.

“I’m not sure that, given the learning process that all of us have gone through on this,” he said, “that there’s a rabbit in the hat that could be pulled out.”

emily Guerin can be reached at 781-3661 ext.123 or [email protected]. Follow her on twitter: @

guerinemily.

debt service could be applied to another project.

For Dana, building the police station is the most pressing facilities need on the municipal side of the budget. He said he also thinks it is important to consolidate town functions under one roof, and sup-ported the McLellan-Longfellow School swap with Bowdoin College.

Once town government moves into McLellan, he said he’d like to see the cur-rent town offices leveled and turned into green space and additional parking.

If faced with further budget cuts next year, Dana said he’d like to “see strong support of the school budget” while main-taining public services, something that he

acknowledged may result in tax increases.“It’s very often not feasible to say we

won’t raise taxes,” he said. “Unless people want to give up some of the services we all enjoy, costs go up.”

Dana said the current council has done a good job developing Maine Street Station, and he would like to encourage further in-fill development downtown, at the in-dustrial park, and at Brunswick Landing.

“I think any encouragement we can give companies to land in Brunswick rather than elsewhere is a good thing,” he said.

Although he said he believes Brunswick needs a strong business base, he said he wouldn’t characterize himself as a shill for business.

“I think reasonable development and responsible development are good things,” Dana said, “but unfettered development is not always a good thing.”

He said he believes his willingness to listen and work with others distinguishes him from his opponents in the election, and thinks his time on the School board gave him a unique perspective on the re-lationship between schools and the town.

“During those eight years I spent time working to be a consensus builder, and if I was elected I would try to continue to build consensus on the town council,” he said.

emily Guerin can be reached at 781-3661 ext.123 or [email protected]. Follow her on twitter: @

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do not have enough members to cover the daytime shift.

In addition, Harpswell’s volume of emergency calls is increasing, along with the percentage of elderly residents, who have a greater need for the services.

For the past few months, the Fire and Rescue Committee has been interview-ing various emergency medical service providers to determine which would work best for the town. They spoke with area

hospitals, private medical transportation companies, the town of Brunswick, and considered hiring a paramedic as a town employee.

But a majority of committee members concluded that only one, Mid Coast Hos-pital in Brunswick, meets all the criteria.

Harpswell already utilizes the hospi-tal’s paramedic “fly car” service to sup-plement volunteer EMTs when more ad-vanced medical care is needed, and many

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efficiently than, in its current location.”That location, the old YMCA on Sum-

mer Street, is dilapidated and pegged for demolition early in 2012. Earlier this month the council gave unanimous first approval to borrowing up to $450,000 to demolish the building, and the bond ordinance is expected to receive final approval next month.

The council had also authorized the Parks and Recreation Department to move the existing assets of the Bath Youth Meetinghouse and Skatepark to the Old Brunswick Road armory for stor-age until a use for the building has been determined.

Besides being a possible new home for the Skatepark, another proposed use for the armory is to have it house the local

Box 19 Club’s antique fire trucks.City Manager Bill Giroux said after

Wednesday’s meeting that the council on Nov. 2 will consider authorizing borrow-ing the $308,000. With interest included over a 10-year loan, the estimated cost could be between $35,000 and $40,000 a year.

Jackie Dwinal of Washington Street agreed that the Skatepark needs a place, but expressed concern about the impact on Bath taxpayers.

“I think all of this has to go out to the voters,” she said, adding that the city’s purchase of the armory should have gone that way, too.

Parks and Recreation Director Steve Balboni, whose department maintains the old Y, said the Skatepark board is willing

to forgo its $40,000 annual subsidy from the city so that the cost of the borrowing would not fall on taxpayers. He expressed confidence in the board’s ability to make up the lost funds through fundraising.

Balboni said the Skatepark’s revenue and use should increase if it moves to the armory, because that building is closer to Bath Middle School, which many of the Skatepark’s young patrons attend.

He said it’s important for teenagers to have a place to go in their free time, and said the Youth Meetinghouse and Skate-park is an arts, film and music center, with a computer lab, cafe, and mentoring and tutoring opportunities.

“At this point the ball is truly in your court,” Balboni told the council. “... Some decisions need to be made in order for us to plan the next step.”

Giroux said there could be a separate order Nov. 2 concerning whether the

Skatepark should move to the armory.The council approved borrowing up

to $175,000 last year for the purchase, bu councilors Wednesday also discussed sending the armory question to a referen-dum vote, and that option could come up again next month.

Norton said the renovation work could take about three months. The biggest expense would be a $55,000 sprinkler system for the building. Other major components are $41,000 for drywall and insulation, $25,000 for flooring, $24,000 for plumbing and $17,000 for accessibil-ity improvements.

“I feel real good about the pricing,” Norton told the council. “... At the end of the day, if this is what you choose to do, when you walk in you’ll be proud of what you got.”Alex Lear can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 113 or alear@

theforecaster.net. Follow him on Twitter: @learics.

residents are familiar with the hospital.In addition to the annual cost of the ser-

vice, Mid Coast is asking the town to build a heated garage with phone and Internet connections to house a paramedic and emergency response vehicle. The garage is estimated to cost between $150,000 and $200,000, and would be located near the town offices on Mountain Road.

The committee also recommended that the new service arrangement be finalized as soon as possible so that it could start up shortly after the annual Town Meeting in March, when Harpswell voters would

have to authorize the new expenditures.The town would conduct an indepen-

dent review of the service once it starts up to evaluate its effectiveness.

Harpswell Neck Fire Chief David Mer-cier presented the findings to selectmen on Oct. 13. Before the issue returns to the board, the Budget Advisory Committee will weigh in.

The committee report is available on-line under the link to the Oct. 13 select-man’s agenda.


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Question 2from page 7

in Bangor.Canney said racetracks that have com-

bined other forms of gaming in states like Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and New York have flourished. Hollywood Slots raked in $61.6 million in net slot income in 2010, according to documents filed with the state Gambling Control Board. Of that, $28.3 million was ear-marked for state funds.

Ed McColl, attorney for Scarborough Downs, said he’s seen the booming busi-ness that combined racinos attract.

“I went to the original Penn National race course (in Grantville, Pa.) last Janu-ary,” McColl said in a recent interview. “They recently added a gaming facil-ity and have a full-fledged racino. They knocked down and rebuilt their grand-stand with tiered dining and seating. I showed up at a Saturday evening and asked for a table for two, and I couldn’t get it.”

A raw deal for Maine?Opponents of Question 2 say the com-

plexes are a threat to local economies and question whether the money raked in by the proposed racinos will really do any-thing to help Maine’s struggling harness racing industry.

“We’ve heard all of these arguments in 2003 (when voters approved the racino in Bangor), about how this was going to be an economic engine in Bangor and re-vive harness racing,” said Dennis Bailey, spokesman for CasinosNo!, a group lob-bying against casino expansion in Maine.

“It’s a scam for these owners to get a lot of money out of people,” he said.

State harness racing bets and atten-dance are down, even after the opening of Hollywood Slots in 2008 and the money it pumped into the harness racing industry. Since 2007, the Bangor racino has contributed more than $35.1 million to the harness racing industry in Maine. That money has supplemented purses and gone to general funds used to boost the sport.

Despite all that money, live bets in Maine dropped 43 percent from 2003 to 2010. Money bet on Maine races at off-track betting facilities also dropped, by 50 percent, since 2003.

Charles Colgan, an economist at the University of Southern Maine, also won-dered whether slot machines would do much to meaningfully help the struggling harness racing industry.

“You’ve got a product with a falling demand, and you try to diversify around it to increase the attractiveness of it,” he

said in a recent interview. “That’s one of the oldest strategies in the book.”

But, he said, the demand for gambling opportunities in Maine is relatively sta-ble, and the supply to meet that demand keeps growing with each new casino allowed in the state – not to mention the lotteries, bingo and travel to other “destination” casinos, like Foxwoods in Connecticut.

“If there were no other gambling ex-cept at horse racing tracks, as there once was, then adding slot machines would clearly be a boon,” Colgan said. “But to-day, with the population of gamblers not growing and more competition coming up, it’s a risky bet.”

Bailey also said people should think twice before agreeing to allow the raci-nos because of the promise of money for the state.

“It’s a misnomer to think the state makes out well here. It’s the track own-ers and horse owners,” he said. “It’s just a bribe. It’s pennies compared to what the track owners will get.”

Last year, Maine’s harness racing in-dustry received more than $9.8 million from Hollywood Slots revenue, accord-ing to the state Gambling Control Board. Money sent to other state-designated funds totalled $17.9 million.

The one area where CasinosNo! says it agrees with backers of the proposed plan is on job creation.

“There’s no question that it’s jobs,” Bailey said. “... I don’t know any other business that comes to town and must immediately devote money to the addic-tion programs.”

An opportunity for the futureScarborough town officials and

Scarborough Downs owner Sharon Terry have been in talks to develop a plan that fits in with the goals set in the town’s Comprehensive Plan and also makes the parcel attractive to potential buyers.

Currently, most of the Scarborough Downs land is in the town’s B2 Business zone, which allows for large-scale retail and strip malls. Town Manager Tom Hall said that when the zoning was done 10 years ago, that was the direction the economy was headed. But with the reces-sion, he said a new approach is needed.

“The economy has turned 180 de-grees,” Hall said. “Ten years ago, big boxes were the thing. But they’re not building them anymore.”

Scarborough Downs is in an area the Comprehensive Plan calls “The Cross-roads Mixed Use Development District.” The plan describes the district as “the new heart of Scarborough,” and calls for the development of efficient neigh-

borhoods, small retail (and no big-box stores), municipal and community service uses, recreational facilities and business and professional offices.

“This is an opportunity that the town has been looking forward to,” said Ed McColl, Scarborough Downs’ attorney. “A largely blank 500-acre canvas right by the Maine Turnpike gateway to town with an owner who’s willing, if she’s relocat-ing, to work with the town to help paint a picture for the development they want.”

Hall said the location of the Downs, the operation of which takes up about a quarter of the parcel in the center of the property, has made it hard for Terry to sell other portions of the land to de-velopers. If Question 2 passes and the Downs moves to Biddeford, development becomes easier.

“The nostalgia and history of having Scarborough Downs in Scarborough is legendary in the state,” Hall said. “That will be a loss. But from a development point of view, it may ready the site for quicker development than it might be otherwise.”

Over the past five years, Scarborough Downs has paid nearly $600,000 in prop-erty taxes. That’s a large sum, but falls far short of Piper Shores, the town’s No. 1 taxpayer, which paid nearly $770,000 just last year.

“It’s not insignificant, but I don’t be-lieve it’s even in the top 10 of our tax payers,” Hall said. “The plan we’re talk-ing to them about has the potential of adding vast additional value.”

Colgan, the USM economist, agreed that Scarborough may be in the best posi-tion to benefit if Question 2 is passed and Scarborough Downs moves to Biddeford.

“It’s a fast-growing, essentially urban community with a lot of office space and commercial industrial space,” he said, “so that land will probably be used pretty quickly once the economy gets going again.”

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further down the street.But eventually they voted unanimously

to allow the BDC to go ahead with the demolition.

BDC President Larissa Darcy said that with the board’s approval in hand, the organization could now entertain bids for demolition and asbestos abatement.

She didn’t know how soon the buildings would be gone, but said she hopes it would be as soon as possible.

Church rectoryJust down the block from the BDC’s

demolition site, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland wants to knock down the former St. John’s rectory and replace it with handicapped parking.

Charles Wiercinski, of the engineering firm Sitelines, said the church no longer has a need for the building, which used to house nuns and priests who worked at St. John’s school. It has been vacant for 10 years, and he said the church has tried unsuccessfully to find someone to buy the structure and move it.

Don Leaver, the business coordinator of All Saints Parish, said parishioners have been unable to attend church servic-es because they can’t park close enough to the first-floor entrance, which is next to the rectory.

But four residents from the surround-ing neighborhood urged the board to prevent the demolition.

Kevin Twine, of Oak Street, cited the architectural legacy of the rectory, which was designed by Samuel Dunning and built in 1900. He also questioned the visual impact of the demolition on the neighborhood, and compared removing the rectory to pulling a tooth.

Chris Ludwick, of High Street, said the church is already surrounded by surface parking and doesn’t need any more.

“St. John the Evangelist is not the patron saint of asphalt. I’m not sure who the patron saint of pavers is, but they’re doing pretty well at the moment,” Lud-wick said.

He said the proposal to tear down the building for a parking lot showed “a lack of imagination” on the part of the parish.

Village Review Board members agreed, and encouraged the parish to try harder to find a way to move or sell the build-ing, or to create handicapped parking in a way that the rectory doesn’t have to be destroyed.

“I’m just not convinced the parish tried everything it can to keep that,” Brooks Stoddard said. “I feel that to get handi-capped access and take that away is not a good change.”

Although the church may take demol-ish the building in the next 90 days, it can return to the board sooner to make another request.


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