The Forecaster, Portland edition, May 2, 2012

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AuthorCoach Palombo McCallie still beloved in MainePage 13

‘Marie Antoinette’ brings Falmouth actress back to PortlandPage 2

May 2, 2012 News of The City of Portland Vol. 10, No. 18

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Index Meetings ........................24Obituaries ......................12Opinion ............................7Out & About ...................22

People & Business ........19Police Beat ....................10Real Estate ....................34Sports ............................13

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Food truck panel sets aside differences to shape recommendationsBy Andrew Cullen

PORTLAND — The city's food truck task force is nearly ready to send its recommenda-tions to a City Council com-mittee.

Task force members said the

work represents a compromise between restaurant supporters and food truck proponents.

The recommendations, if instituted as city policy, would restrict food trucks from operat-ing on public property in much

of downtown during the day. But truck operators would be allowed to negotiate with private property owners to set up during the day anywhere in downtown.

After 10 p.m., the trucks would have free reign of the

city, except residential areas, but in all cases they would be required to remain at least 65 feet from operating restaurants.

Reaching that compromise was a challenge for the task force members, who represent

local restaurateurs, the down-town business district, city staff and food enthusiasts.

"There was a lot of protection-ism for brick-and-mortar estab-

Narrow Gauge Railroad’s tracks lead out of town

By Andrew CullenPORTLAND — More

than a year after officials announced they were look-ing for a new home for the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum, the organization is ready to begin raising money for the move.

The museum is looking to hire a fundraising consul-tant this month, said Brian Durham, vice president of the organization's board and chairman of its relocation

AndREw CullEn / ThE FORECASTERDaniel Maher, left, and Jodee Mosher, of Falmouth, watch Portland's Eastern Promenade roll by outside a

window on the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad on Saturday. Mosher said the location on the peninsula is more accessible than the railway museum's proposed move to Gray. "I wish it could stay," volunteer conductor Arthur

Hussey, right, added.

FilEThe Narrow Gauge Railroad awaits its a group of passengers along the

Portland waterfront last August.

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City to host community forum on parks initiativesBy Andrew Cullen

PORTLAND — The city will host its annual community discussion of parks and public space initiatives, the Green Space Gathering, on Thursday, May 3.

The forum, now in its third year, will provide an opportu-nity for the Parks Commission to present its work over the last year and its plans for the future. It also offers the chance to have a public dialog with the parks community, said Troy Moon, the city's environmental programs and open space manager.

The conversation is part of a re-

newed focus by the city in recent years to increase the quality of public life through environmental means, athletic facilities manager Ethan Owens said.

"Quite frankly, 10 years ago the city was not green at all," Owens said. Now the city emphasizes recycling, reducing energy con-sumption and reducing emissions, "and we're really trying," he said.

One of the issues to be dis-cussed at the forum is the need to identify space to expand the city's community gardens, Moon said.

School budget moves toward council OKBy Andrew Cullen

PORTLAND — Despite res-ervations on the part of some councilors, the City Council moved school and city budgets closer to enactment this week without major changes.

Councilors on Monday got their first look at a budget that reflects changes the Finance Committee requested last week.

The committee asked the School Board to reduce its proposed budget by $175,000, and suggested that a proposed four-year technology lease-

to-purchase investment, which accounts for $526,000 in fiscal 2013, be shifted to the city's capital improvement plan.

The changes reduce the school budget to $94.2 million, an in-crease of $5 million over current spending.

Combined with the city bud-get, it would mean a 2.9 percent property tax increase for city resi-dents, down from an originally proposed increase of more than 3 percent.

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‘Marie Antoinette’ brings Falmouth actress back to PortlandBy Amber Cronin

PORTLAND — Historic perceptions of Marie Antoinette more often than not paint the French queen as a frivolous woman, void of emotion toward the struggles of her people.

Falmouth-born actress Caroline Hewitt and the rest of the cast of "Marie An-toinette: The Color of Flesh" are trying to paint a more sympathetic picture of Antoinette at Portland Stage Company.

“I think it’s an interesting perspective about Marie Antoinette,” Hewitt said last week, as the cast was wrapping up re-hearsals. “You think you know someone from history and then you realize you don’t at all. Parts of it are true and parts of it are fictional.”

Hewitt, 29, graduated from Falmouth High School and studied acting at Vassar College and The American Conservatory

On stage"Marie Antoinette: The Color

of Flesh" opens Friday, May 4, at 7:30 p.m. at Portland Stage Com-pany, 25A Forest Ave., Portland. Performances continue through May 20.

Courtesy PsC/Mark roCkwood

Theater. She now lives and works in New York City and came back to Maine to bring real-life artist Marie Louise Elisa-beth Vigee, known as “Elisa,” to life.

Hewitt is not the only Maine-born actor to come back to Maine to work with Port-

Falmouth native Caroline Hewitt portrays artist Elisa in Portland Stage

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Grants expand after-school programs in public schoolsBy Gillian Graham

PORTLAND — Grants of more than $2 million will be used to open new after-school programs for students in Portland and Biddeford.

LearningWorks received two Maine Department of Education 21st Century Learning Center grants totaling $2.2 mil-lion to expand and start the public-school programs. The grants will be used for pro-grams expected to reach more than 1,400 students over five years.

In Portland, the grants will expand after-school programs to Ocean Avenue and Presumpscot elementary schools. Learning-Works currently runs after-school programs at East End and Reiche elementary schools.

Amy Pichette, director of after-school programming for LearningWorks, said 70 students will be enrolled in the new Ocean Avenue program, while 50 students will be involved at Presumpscot. Forty students are enrolled at each of the two existing Portland programs, with daily attendance averaging between 33 and 35 students at each school.

In Biddeford, a combined 120 students are expected to enroll in programs at the intermediate and primary schools.

The new programs will start with a four-week summer program in July. After-school programs will begin in September.

The programs will primarily serve low-income students, many of whom are Eng-lish language learners, Pichette said. The program focuses on science, technology, engineering and math because few Maine

students, and even fewer low-income stu-dents, pursue careers in STEM fields.

"This is a great day for hundreds of elementary students in Biddeford and Portland. Research is clear that extending the learning day is crucial for students who are falling behind," LearningWorks CEO Ethan Strimling said in a press release an-nouncing the grants.

LearningWorks and school officials say the after-school programs have successfully helped elementary school students improve their academic performance. During the past two years, 88 percent of students in the LearningWorks summer and after-school programs improved their standardized test scores in math, while 87 percent improved their scores in reading.

In Portland, LearningWorks Afterschool is offered free to students in grades three through five at East End and Reiche schools. Staffed by certified teachers, ed techs and volunteers, the program offers hands-on enrichment activities, field trips and guest speakers.

LearningWorks Afterschool staff col-laborate with school teachers to develop program curriculum that is STEM-focused and relevant to what students are studying during the regular school day.

Pichette said students spent 75 minutes per day focusing on math and science projects. A current project with the theme "My Dream Clubhouse" incorporates measurements, architecture, trips to the Portland Museum of Art and tours of the neighborhood.

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Pichette said school-day teachers have talked about how students who participate in the after-school program come out of their shells in the classroom. Teachers describe quiet students who "all of a sud-den raise their hand and spout out all this information," she said.

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Biddeford Mayor Alan Casavant, a re-tired teacher, said receiving the grants is exciting for his city and for Portland.

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Construction to close I-295/Forest Ave. ramps

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RTP a finalist in Toyota program

PORTLAND — The nonprofit Region-al Transportation Program announced Monday that it is as a finalist in Toyota's 100 Cars for Good program.

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Construction to slow Washington Ave. traffic

PORTLAND — Nighttime traffic on Washington Avenue will be slowed by a construction project during the month of May, city officials warned.

The project on a combined sewer over-flow system is expected to cause delays at the intersection of Washington and Allen avenues between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. throughout the month. Officials advised drivers to seek alternate routes during those hours.

Health center gets $500K grant

PORTLAND — The city's Community Health Center will receive a $500,000 grant for renovations via the Affordable Care Act, U.S. Rep Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, announced Tuesday.

The center at 180 Park Ave. serves 3,000 patients each year. Renovations funded by the grant will allow it to see an additional 1,000 patients. The center charges patients on a sliding scale based

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Tucker Ginn, 12, of Freeport will compete in his second Tri for the Y while Mike Cowell, 74, of Yarmouth, has done so many sprint triathlons he can't remem-ber what number this one will be.

Ginn said he got started with triathlons after his grandmother, a longtime mem-ber of the Casco Bay YMCA, saw a sign advertising the Tri for the Y last year. He will be competing in the Tri for the Y as a part of a team: Ginn will complete the swim, his father, Robert Ginn, will com-plete the 13-mile bike and one of Ginn's friends will complete the 3.1-mile run.

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Cowell, by contrast, is not too worried about the Tri for the Y, since he will be using it to train for his fifth Half Iron-man, The Eagleman Half Ironman in Cambridge, Md., on June 10.

“The goal for the Tri for the Y is to improve my transition times,” he said. “I spend too much time transitioning from the swim to the bike and the bike to the run and you can lose the race. I use the Tri for the Y sort as a tune-up.”

The Eagleman Half Ironman, which consists of a 1.2-mile swim, a 56-mile bike course and a 13.1-mile run will be his fifth Half Ironman, but he has been competing in endurance events for the past 35 years.

“I've done so many of these sprint triathlons that we're having here, I've lost count,” he said. “It would be like you asking how many half marathons I've done. I've completed 22 of the 23 full-length marathons I've tried. A full marathon at my age is quite an ordeal.”

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Amber Cronin / The ForeCAsTerMike Cowell, 74, of Yarmouth, will be the oldest participant in this year's Tri for the Y at the Casco Bay YMCA on May 19. Cowell has competed in several triathlons including four Half Ironmans.

train, usually the hardest thing is winter training. But this year's mild winter left him plenty of time to get outside.

“The least favorite, there's no question about it, in the winter, when you can't go out on the road and you have to do indoor training on your bike trainer. That is so soul destroying. It's so boring it makes lap swimming exciting,” Cowell said. “I hate it. An hour on that is like forever.”

But, he said, “this winter has been so mild I was out in February."

While Ginn gets into the pool for 45 minutes a day to train, Cowell's training for The Eagleman Half Ironman is more extensive.

“I'm doing most of the swim distance when I swim and I biked 67 miles over the weekend. I did a 20k run last week for 12 miles,” Cowell said. “I'm doing

each of the events now and I'm in the position that I'm doing double events, swim and then bike, bike and then run.”

Ginn will likely face much more age-group competition. Cowell said he would like someone his age to show up.

“I don't have to worry about competi-tion, I don't have any,” he said. “I wish I had some; I'd really like to compete with someone, but there's no one even close to 70.”

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PORTLAND — In a diverse, blue-collar part of East Bayside, fundraising can be a little difficult for the Mayo Street Arts center.

"We have great neighbors, but everyone's working," Director Blainor McGough said. "We're not as well-heeled as some."

To raise money for center programs that teach dance, writing, puppetry, and other performing arts to neighborhood youth, the organization is turning to superheroes – superheroines, really – for help, although they've largely had to invent their own.

The center has scheduled the first tourna-ment of its new Superhero Lady Armwres-tlers of Portland league – SLAP, for short – for Saturday, May 5.

Andrew Cullen / The ForeCAsTerAnnie Seikonia, a self-styled vigilante hero called Awful Annie, practices her technique with a

member of her entourage in preparation for the Superhero Lady Armwrestlers of Portland event on Saturday, May 5. The event to raise funds for the Mayo Street Arts Center promises to feature

theatrics, surf band The Beach Zombies, and eight tough competitors.

The alter-egos of eight local women, with names like Durga the Demonslayer and Lumber Smack Sally, will compete for the title of toughest arm in town.

The wrestlers have been gathering week-ly for the last month to train, talk technique, and watch videos about arm wrestling. (The 1982 and 1983 championships on Youtube are favorites, McGough said.)

The wrestlers have realized that the sport is about more than brute strength, said An-nie Seikonia, known in the ring as Awful Annie. A Gothic, self-styled vigilante hero who "doesn't mind breaking the rules," Seikonia started a training regimen of 50 push-ups a day, up from zero. Otherwise, she said, "there's a lot of strategy."

Most of all, McGough said, there will be drama.

"It's not really just about arm wrestling, it's about theatrics and raising money for

charity," she said.Each wrestler will bring an entourage,

also dressed in costume, whose job will be to amp up the crowd and collect "SLAP bucks," given to the audience upon en-trance, for their superhero.

The SLAP bucks will determine a fund-raising winner, a sort of moral victory potentially separate from the actual arm wrestling champion.

"I'm the getaway driver," said "Cutlass" Kimberly Convery from behind a pair of steam-punk style goggles last Saturday morning. "In case Annie needs someone to pick her up in a tight spot."

The theatrics are such an opportunity that the center had to turn interested participants away. Potential superheroes had to arm wrestle their way into the final spots, and Mayo Street Arts already plans to hold a second SLAP event in November.

"Portland is full of creative ladies," Mc-Gough said.

While competitors said the event will be great spectacle, it should lack the demean-

ing aspect of some physical competitions often assigned to women, like mud wres-tling.

"In some ways, it's a parody of say, a beauty pageant, or mud wrestling, an irony that makes it fun," McGough said.

The league is the latest of more than a dozen women's arm wrestling organizations operating around the country, in cities like Charlottesville, Va., where the first one was started; New York City, and San Francisco. Each employs charity and drama to draw people in, but some very serious arm wres-tlers have been molded out of those festive beginnings, the SLAP organizers said.

The tournament will be held at 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 5, at Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St. The surf band The Beach Zombies will also perform. Admission is $5, and proceeds will also benefit the local arts supporter MENSK.Andrew Cullen can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 100 or at

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Your health should be your business, not the government'sBy Halsey Frank

Last month, I drove down to New York to have dinner with my mother for her birthday. We went to her friend Laura Maioglio’s family restaurant, Barbetta. It’s in the theater district. The place is elegantly decorated with antiques from Piemonte, staffed with friendly and atten-tive waiters, and serves classic Italian food. At the time of my visit, its website featured a picture of Laura and her husband with Bill and Hilary Clinton, so you can imagine that I felt right at home.

As is often the case when my family gets to-gether, the conversation turned to politics in gen-eral and my opinion of the Affordable Care Act, which was being argued in the Supreme Court that week, in particular. The liberal supra-majority at the table supported the act and hoped it would be upheld. It fell to me as the lone conservative to explain my reservations.

Over the gnocchi, my family wanted to know my opinion of the individual mandate. How could I not be for it? After all, it was originally a Republican idea. Health insurance is a market solution to the problem that health-care costs are incurred randomly, are hard to predict and plan for, and, when they do incur, tend to be large. Why not just improve the performance of health insurance by forcing everyone into the pool so that the risk and cost are spread over a larger population that can better afford it? Doing so would also keep much of the

cost off the government’s books.Well, I am wary of central government creating vast,

complicated new programs. I prefer a federalist ap-proach that develops government solutions from the bottom up, not the top down, and that uses the states as the testing grounds for new programs.

The Affordable Care Act fills thousands of pages. It’s so lengthy that members of Congress didn’t read it before they passed it and Supreme Court justices didn’t read it before they heard it argued.

In the act and its individual mandate, the federal government exerts control over a lot of very personal decisions. It assumes responsibility for the health-care sector, which by some estimates represents a sixth of our national economy.

I doubt that such a big, new government program will do a better, more efficient job of providing health care than the private sector. In general, I believe that free markets are a better, more efficient way to allocate resources and provide goods and services. The mar-ket for health insurance is not free if the government forces consumers to buy insurance, and insurers to cover people they otherwise wouldn’t.

The risk is that we wind up saddled with an expensive program that doesn’t solve the problem. Remember Dirigo Health, Maine’s solution to the health-care prob-lem? It wound up costing more, insuring fewer people, and having a highly problematic funding mechanism. I would like to see more conclusive proof of the ACA’s program’s superiority before we roll it out on a national scale. I don’t think Massachusetts has provided it.

Some at the table were disappointed in President Obama for not fighting harder for a more ambitious program like those in Europe. The Italian constitution makes the state responsible for citizens’ individual health and guarantees care for the indigent. Italy’s na-

tional health service provides universal care for citizens as a single payer. My relatives argued that compared to the U.S., it costs less and produces better outcomes in terms such as infant mortality and life expectancy. Isn’t health care a basic human right and how could I not be for such an obviously superior system?

I am skeptical of such claims of vast superiority, and mindful of anecdotes about problems with European national health services: rationing, long waits, and me-diocre services. I am also aware that European econo-mies are somewhat stagnant and weighed down with debt incurred to pay for their generous social welfare programs.

More fundamentally, I am not sure that health care is different from other needs and wants, goods and services. I suspect that people are healthier when they provide for themselves as much as they are able. Good health is a function of genetics, the environment we live in, our behavior and habits, and care when we need it.

Of these factors, our behavior and habits have the greatest impact on our health, cost the least, and are largely within our own control. For most people, eating a healthy diet, exercising moderately, and avoiding risky behaviors like smoking, drinking to excess, and driving without a seatbelt will do more to improve health than a lot of expensive doctors and therapies.

On the other hand, there are imperfections in the mar-ket for care when we need it. Bodies can be complicated when things go wrong and health care is a technical business that most of us are not qualified to negotiate on our own. Moreover, we are not always rational when we are sick and in need of care. Medicine is an imperfect

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It’s all about getting theah from heahBy Mike Langworthy

Being from away is unsettling sometimes, as if real Mainers are sharing a wonderful inside joke that I can never be in on. However, I recently saw a ray of hope for assimilation in my lifetime.

It was during a recent talk to a group at Highland Green in Topsham, a com-munity for active seniors (a lot more “active” than “senior,” by the way). The attendees were mostly from away. Seeing how much they felt at home here, it dawned on me I may have to adjust my attitude.

My first trip to Maine was 1980-ish, managing a skating safety show spon-sored by a soft drink com-pany. Physically, Maine was and is the most beau-tiful place I’ve ever seen. Before we left, Corporate warned me that the people could be standoffish, but I took that with a grain of salt. I was a nice guy. I was giving away free soda, the brand of choice for 70 percent of Mainers, according to Corporate. What’s not to like?

So I was a little taken aback the first time we stopped for gas, and I gushed to the gas station attendant some-thing like, “You know, ... (reading his name tag) Enoch. Really? Enoch? Anyway, you must love living in a beautiful place like Maine.”

Without looking up, Enoch said, “Ain’t nothin’ wrong with Maine that dynamitin’ the bridge tah Pahtsmith wouldn’t cuah.”

I didn’t decipher “Pahtsmith” right away, but I was pretty sure it was on the state line. He may have been

put off by our station wagon with New York plates jammed with gear and hauling a 25-foot-wide Plexiglas half pipe. Clearly, we weren’t from around those parts. Or it may have been our uniforms. We were required to wear red skater shoes, white knee socks, blue corduroy shorts (mid-thigh length), and red, white and blue polo shirts plastered with soft drink logos. Because, as the founder of McDonald’s might have said, when you’re

representing a large multinational, it’s critically impor-tant to look like a circus clown at all times.

None of this occurred to me at the time. Neither did how many times he had been patronized by summer people with New York plates. I might have cut him some slack instead of what I did, i.e., call him an incredible moron. Silently, because he was bigger than me, and I’m a coward. But I think he knew he was being chastised.

One of my skaters made fun of a bank teller while she was cashing his check, like nobody in Bangor had ever been told he had an accent before. It must have seemed surreal to hear, being told by a redneck from Mispro-nounce, Texas, that it was “rilly funneh haw y’all cain’t say yer ‘r’s!” Yeah, you keep telling the Mainers how to speak, Professor Higgins.

The interesting thing is how I started realizing all this during the Highland Green talk. What were supposed to be cute stories turned out to be revelations. Behaviors I always thought were quirks and idiosyncrasies seemed more and more like the ways that people who had cho-sen a life they liked dealt with people who didn’t get it.

A case in point is my favorite memory of that first Maine trip. We discovered a slow leak in one of our tires before a show. We had just enough time to get it fixed, so we drove into a service station, four lads dressed like packs of Fruit Stripe gum, with New York plates and an extremely unusual trailer, all in a big hurry. I approached a guy in the coveralls who was sitting on an old car back seat.

“Hi, how you doin'? We have slow leak, right rear tire, and we have to do a show in about 45 minutes.”

No response.“So ... you think you can put a plug in it, or sell us a

tire, or – ?”“New York plates, huh?”“Yep. Company car. It’s the right rear tire.”“You live in New York?”My mental clock was pounding like "The Telltale

Heart," but I managed, “Yes. Manhattan. And now we’re on our way – "

“I had a friend run off to New York once. Got tired of Bangoah. Too small, he said it was. Went to Rochestah. You know him?”

No name. I am not making this up.“Uh, no. I don’t think so.”He got up and did a slow walk around starting with

the left rear tire. Finally, he bent down by the right rear and said, “Well, theah’s ya problem, right theah. You got a flat tiah.”

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There is a debt farce, but not Newman’s

Perry B. Newman’s column “The farcical debt debate” was most enlightening. The government spends money by actually spending money, and “by foregoing revenue the government would otherwise collect through taxes, absent a policy decision such as a tax break, not to do so”? That is Orwellian language at it finest.

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We expect differences of opinion from presiden-tial opponents, but the 2012 election is shaping up to be the clearest delineation of the political divide in America since the Civil War. It’s not so much Republican versus Democrat as it is corpora-tions versus citizens. And Willard Mitt Romney is clearly running to be the president of Corporate America.

Romney is the ideal corporate candidate: the spoiled rich son of a former president of American Motors Corp. and former governor of Michi-gan, himself a former governor of Massa-chusetts, handsome, Harvard-educated, privileged, a man who makes a fortune on unearned income. The suits look at Romney and see PLU, People Like Us. He’s George W. all over again.

Romney is man who believes he is entitled to be president of the United States simply because he is rich and successful.

In his book "Death of the Liberal Class," Pulit-zer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges quotes Middle East scholar Norman Finkelstein distilling the very essence of the culture wars in America:

“There are two sets of principles. They are the principles of power and privilege and the principles of truth and justice. If you pursue truth and justice, it will always mean a diminution of power and privilege. If you pursue power and privilege it will always be at the expense of truth and justice.”

Mitt Romney is the apotheosis of everything that is wrong with America. To begin with he is a liar. He will say anything to get elected. He will look into the TV cameras and say the economy is getting worse when every indication is that it is getting better. President Obama has his faults, but he has done a masterful job of cleaning up the eco-

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science. There are few sure cures and what is standard practice today may be discredited quackery tomorrow.

We depend upon experts to advise us, so that we al-ready delegate a certain amount of responsibility from the outset in the market for health care. Beyond that, health-care costs tend to be lumpy and it makes sense to spread and share them over time and amongst people, all of which augers in favor of the ultimate cost spreader and sharer: government.

The problem becomes how to hold down costs and allocate care. What incentive is there to keep costs down when you know that the ultimate deep pocket is footing the bill? Do you want bureaucrats making decisions about who gets what treatment, or would you rather that people make them through the operation of the market for care?

I prefer markets, with government limited to setting and enforcing the ground rules and to providing a safety net.

Halsey Frank is a Portland resident, attorney and former chairman of the Republican City Committee.

nomic mess left by eight years of Bush asleep at the wheel. Romney just doesn’t want the economy to get better, because then President Obama will whip his permanent-press butt.

Romney believes in power and privilege. He expects to be congratulated for being rich and suc-cessful. But wealth is often moral failure beyond bucks. Romney made his money buying and selling businesses and putting people out of work. Now he wants to buy the presidency of the United States so he can hire and fire people on the biggest stage. He is the Donald Trump of presidential candidates (now that Trump himself has decided not to be).

Personally, I don’t see how Romney wins in November. Everything his GOP primary oppo-nents said about him is true. He is a liar. He is a flip-flopper. He is not a conservative. He has an Etch-a-Sketch value system. Obamacare, the big-gest knock against Obama, is essentially Romney-care gone national. He is out of touch with average Americans. He’s boring. He can’t win.

Amazingly, however, the political pundits and election odds makers seem to think it’s shaping up to be a close race in November, 49 percent-43 percent Obama in the most recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll. Frankly, I find that hard to believe. Who other than corporate CEOs, the country club elite, and trust fund kids could possibly take Mitt Romney seriously? I mean certainly the tea party conservatives who now form the base of the Re-publican Party have to realize that he is not one of them, that what he stands for is antithetical to what they say they believe. He’s about money buying elections, corporations having more rights than citizens, redistribution of wealth upwards.

If this country is about power and privilege then it will be a close election. If it’s about truth and justice, Romney will go down in flames, no doubt trailing a golden parachute as he crashes and burns.

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

The View From Awayfrom previous page

To him, I was just one more outsider trying to impose my way of doing things and my schedule on him with no understanding or consideration for how things were done in his world, and he was right.

The Highland Green people have looked beyond the postcard and lobster roll vision of Maine that I had on that first visit, and they have been drawn to the people and the sense of community I didn’t even suspect.

I think I’m getting closer to that now, so maybe, just maybe, I may not always be from away.

Portland resident Mike Langworthy, an attorney, former stand-up comic and longtime television writer, is fascinated by all things Maine. You can reach him at [email protected].

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She was born in London on June 11, 1906, the youngest of five children born to James and Alice Jennings Foster. She attended school in England and was sent to France in her teens to learn the language.

She lived in England throughout World War I and World War II and was trained to operate a "comptometer," an early version of the calculator. She worked at

Worthing Town Hall, where she super-vised the billing department – when she wasn't on air raid duty. She often looked back on those times as the best in her life.

After World War II, Foster moved to the U.S. and became a citizen. She first lived in New York City, but later moved to New Hampshire where she trained for and had a radio show for a number of years. She also lived in Florida and worked as a housekeeper for parish priests.

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50 years ago and lived there indepen-dently until she turned 100. She worked at Portland Glass for a number of years before retiring.

She was an avid gardener and many people became her friends after stopping to admire her gardens. Visitors were of-fered a cup of tea, some English biscuits and a story or two about her life in Eng-land. She entertained countless visitors with tales from her childhood years or of life during World War I and a trip to Lourdes in France. Her life experiences shaped her into an independent, deter-mined and focused person.

Foster was a great lover of animals; many dogs and cats were her companions through the years. She kept a bowl by the side of the road for thirsty dogs, couldn't stand to see any animal go hungry and often took in stray cats that needed help.

She was a longtime communicant of St. Christopher’s Church on Peaks Island.

Foster was married to William L. Foster, who predeceased her. She has no known survivors.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be given to The Preble Street Resource Center, St. Vincent’s Soup Kitchen, Boys’ Town in Nebraska, Friends of Feral Fe-lines or The Cleo Fund.

Her friends would like to thank the staff of St. Joseph's Rehabilitation and Residence for the wonderful care she received while in residence.

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Book it...Coach P's still beloved in MaineBy Michael Hoffer

"I think about the kids coming out of Maine. Their dreams and aspirations and me wanting them to believe they can do anything. I think this book is a way of giv-ing them a story that's touchable. There's nothing special about me, a kid from Brunswick High School."

Coach Joanne Palombo Mc-Callie.

All modesty aside, Joanne Palombo McCallie is extremely special, one of the greatest and most influential female athletes this state has produced, one who went on to steal coaching head-lines at a national level first at the University of Maine, then at Michigan State University and now at Duke University.

While McCallie has been gone from the Pine Tree State for over a

decade, she had an opportunity to return home last week and it was abundantly clear that as much as she still loves Maine, the feeling is indeed mutual.

McCallie, or Coach P, as she's affectionately known, was in the state promoting her book, "Choice not Chance: Rules for Building a Fierce Competitor," a unique look at her life and journey to becom-ing a premier coach while raising two children.

McCallie, thanks to the hard work of her agent and younger sister, Carolyn Clement, spent last week in Maine not just doing book signings, but also newspaper and radio interviews, as well as television appearances.

"There's a love and a passion for the state of Maine, my experi-ences in Maine and the people in Maine," said McCallie, who coached the University of Maine to national prominence from 1992 to 2000. "That'll never leave me. I'm glad that came out in the book."

The book stems from a promise McCallie made to her daughter, Maddie, when Maddie was four-years old. McCallie promised to write a book about her life expe-riences and explain decisions she made along the way. With Maddie set to graduate high school in June (she'll attend and play basketball at Miami University), McCallie knew time was of the essence and she spent last summer putting the book together.

"I think you have to wait awhile

courtesy carolyn clement

courtesy carolyn clementThe cover of coach McCallie's book,

"Choice not Chance."

to get perspective," said McCal-lie, who also has a son, Jack. "I got so busy with the transition from Michigan State (she left the Spartans two years after coaching them to the national championship game in 2005). I had taken notes on my computer in diary form since leaving East Lansing. The time seemed right. The caveat I had with my daughter in my brain was doing this before she gradu-ated high school. She graduates in June. I knew I had to get going."

This is no detailed autobiogra-phy or "how to succeed in busi-ness" tome, although there are elements of both within. McCallie

describes the birth of the "Choice not Chance" program when she was at Maine, which includes five components: making choices with care, little choices do matter, prac-ticing thinking and feeling deeply and clearly, keeping your power and "if it's meant to be, it's up to me," which emphasizes focus and embracing reason over emotion at all costs.

McCallie's story is one of dis-covering she was pretty good with a basketball in the sixth grade, striving to make the Brunswick High varsity as a freshman and later starring for the Dragons, playing at Northwestern Univer-sity, finding a real world job in telecommunications sales unsatis-fying, learning the coaching game as an assistant under Joe Ciampi at Auburn University, then becom-ing the youngest head coach (at age 26) in the nation when she came to Orono and her triumphs there and beyond.

Off the court, McCallie frankly talks about the difficulties of jug-gling a family with a career and her relationships with Michigan State men's coach Tom Izzo and legendary Duke men's coach Mike Krzyzewski, as well as such personal topics as a miscarriage, driving off the road while being distracted by reading a magazine, having Maddie wander off while

she was talking with a booster (she wound up unharmed) and her failure to fully read and under-stand her Michigan State contract (which included an onerous buy-out clause).

McCallie found the writing

process to be time consuming and rewarding.

"It was a lot of fun, but it was definitely grueling and it was humbling," McCallie said. "It's

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April triumph brings May optimism(Ed. Note: For the complete

Waynflete-Yarmouth and Wayn-flete-Kennebunk girls' lacrosse game stories, including detailed box scores and additional photos, as well as the complete McAuley-Windham softball and Cheverus-McAuley girls' lacrosse game stories, with detailed box scores, please visit theforecaster.net)By Michael Hoffer

The very short spring sports season is now underway for ev-erybody. Some teams have played several games, others just one or two, but it's becoming clear that preseason projections of excel-lence were right on the mark.

Here's a glimpse at what's oc-curred in the past week and what's to come.Baseball-Stags suffer a loss

The defending Class A state champion Cheverus baseball team won its first two outings, 11-3, over visiting Bonny Eagle, and 2-1 in 10 innings at Windham (junior Ryan Casale had the game-winning single, senior Harry Ridge earned the win with a strong nine-inning effort and

BrIan Beard / For the ForecasterWaynflete's Zander Majercik ducks under a Greely defender during last

week's 12-7 Rangers' victory.

sophomore Mitchell Powers got the save).

But Thursday, the Stags lost, 6-3, at Marshwood, their first setback since May 28, 2011. Cheverus failed to hold an early 3-0 lead. The Stags got back in the win column and improved to 3-1 Saturday with a 10-1 home victory over Noble. Casale earned the victory. Cheverus was home with Massabesic Tuesday, goes

to Thornton Academy Thursday and visits Kennebunk Tuesday of next week.

Deering, which blanked visit-ing Massabesic in its opener, 7-1, has dropped three straight, 6-4 at Gorham, 4-0 to visiting Thornton Academy and 6-2 at Westbrook. After visiting Bonny Eagle Tues-day, the Rams are at Windham Thursday. They host Noble Satur-day and go to Sanford Tuesday of next week.

Portland began the week chas-ing its first win. The Bulldogs followed up a 10-5 home loss to Sanford to start the year with setbacks to visiting Scarborough (5-3), host Noble (3-1) and visit-ing Marshwood (3-1). Junior Nate Smart pitched well in the losses to the Red Storm and Hawks. Port-land was at Biddeford Tuesday, visits Gorham Thursday, plays host to Kennebunk Saturday and goes to Massabesic Tuesday of next week.

In Western C, Waynflete began its season with wins over visit-ing Greater Portland Christian School (21-2 in five innings) and

Old Orchard Beach (5-4). Against the Seagulls, sophomore Joey Schnier got the win. Sophomore Nik Morrill earned the save, while also singling twice and driving in a run. Junior Tom Spagnola added two hits. The Flyers fell to 2-1 Wednesday after a 6-4 loss at Class B Gray-New Gloucester. Waynflete was at Old Orchard Beach Monday. It hosts Lake Region Wednesday, goes to West-ern B contender Cape Elizabeth Friday and welcomes Sacopee Monday of next week.

Softball-Lions roarMcAuley's softball program has

enjoyed back-to-back winning seasons, but after being hard hit by graduation and transfer, the Li-ons weren't mentioned in the same breath as other contenders at the start of the 2012 campaign. Re-gardless, McAuley has managed to win two of its first four contests.

After opening with a 15-0 loss at Kennebunk, the Lions blanked host Cheverus, 2-0, last Wednes-day. Sophomore Sam Libby

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earned the win with a five-hitter. She struck out 13 and also had a key triple to put her team on top. Freshman Taylor Whaley also had two hits. After losing, 10-0, to visiting Marshwood Thursday, McAuley hosted Windham Friday and earned another win, 2-1, in eight innings.

The Lions couldn’t score in the first five innings, but in the bottom of the sixth, they got a break, turning a dropped pop fly into the tying run on a Libby double which scored senior standout Shelby Bryant. Then, in the bottom of the eighth, Bryant got on base by virtue of a bunt, moved to

second on a Libby single and after a wild pitch, scored when junior Molly Mack reached on an error.

“I just had to get on base,” said Bryant, McAuley’s two-time reigning Spring Ath-lete of the Year. “I have great people behind me. If I swung for the fences, I’d strike out. I had to score.”

“I was just trying to make contact,” Mack said. “The pitcher was a little quicker. I’m better at hitting faster pitches. I thought I was going to get out. It’s my first game-winning hit. It’s exciting. Whatever works.”

“I’m tickled pink at 2-2,” added Lions coach Robbie Ferrante. “We got lucky. We’re not going to score many runs. It had to be very frustrating for (Windham). They

left 10 runners on base. The girls feel good about themselves.”

Libby gutted out the win, allowing four hits and eight walks, but just one run while striking out 13.

“I was in the strike zone,” Libby said. “I felt good. We’re working on things and making improvements.”

McAuley was at Westbrook Monday, hosts Biddeford Wednesday, goes to Port-land Friday and is home against South Portland in a playoff rematch Monday of next week.

“I think we have to keep it day-to-day,” Bryant said. “We have to keep level heads. We can’t get down. We’ll keep improving. At the end of the season, we’ll be so much better than we are now.”

Cheverus fell to 0-3 with a 2-0 home loss to McAuley last Wednesday (despite a strong effort from sophomore pitcher Brittany Bell). The Stags got their first win

for new coach Maureen Curran Thursday, downing host Deering in a 18-8 slugfest. Junior Staci Swallow had three hits, four runs scored and drove in a pair of runs. Junior Kelsey Dulac added three hits and three RBI. Cheverus fell to 1-4 on the year Friday with a 15-3 (six inning) loss at Ken-nebunk. Casey Simpson had a double and two singles. Cheverus hosted Marshwood Monday, goes to Windham Friday and is home with Westbrook Monday of next week.

Deering entered the week 0-4. Prior to the Cheverus loss, the Rams had lost, 11-3, at Windham. Deering was at Bidd-eford Monday, plays host to rival Portland Wednesday, travels to South Portland Friday and welcomes Gorham Monday of next week.

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On the heels of last year’s regional final appearance, the Deering boys’ lacrosse team is impressing once again. The Rams rolled at Westbrook (9-4) and Bonny Eagle (18-5) last week to improve to 4-1 on the year. Against the Blue Blazes, Matt Flaherty had three goals and Karl Rickett finished with a pair. In the win over the Scots, Flaherty and Anthony Verville both scored five times, while Rickett added three goals. Deering has a huge test Wednesday night when it visits two-time defending Class A state champion Scarborough.

Cheverus is also off to a hot start in 2012. The Stags made it four straight with home wins last week over Noble (17-0) and Waynflete (10-9, in overtime). Against the Flyers, Jack Sutton had three goals, Brent Green and Thomas Lawson two apiece.

“It was one of the most intense games I have been involved with,” said Cheverus coach Deke Andrew. “I don’t think we ever had the lead, but we were tied or down one most of the game.”

The Stags (4-1) are at Massabesic Wednesday.

Portland evened its record at 2-2 last Tuesday with a 14-6 triumph at Gorham. Junior Max Pierter had four goals, junior Joe Nielson and sophomore Mike Fuller both scored three times. The Bulldogs were home against defending Class B state champion Falmouth Monday, travel to Ken-nebunk Wednesday and play host to reign-ing Class A champion Scarborough Friday.

Waynflete fell to 0-2 with the overtime loss to Cheverus. The Flyers opened with a 12-7 home setback at the hands of Greely. Junior Zander Majercik had three goals, se-nior Chris Burke finished with two. Against the Stags, Burke scored three times, while Majercik added a pair. Senior Max McK-endry made 14 saves. Waynflete sought its

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first win Monday at York. The Flyers are home against Cape Elizabeth Wednesday and Freeport Saturday.Girls’ lacrosse-Flyers perfect so

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every challenge in the early going. After dominating visiting North Yarmouth Acad-emy, 15-5, in the opener, the Flyers earned wins last week over visiting Yarmouth (13-2) and at Wells (15-7) and Kennebunk (10-8).

Against the Clippers, junior Sadie Cole and sophomore Walker Foehl paced the at-tack with four goals apiece and sophomore Ella Millard scored twice as Waynflete avenged a loss in last year’s Class B state final.

“This was good,” Foehl said. “We picked it up. We kind of got in a rhythm and really wanted it. In the first half, we figured it out and in the second we went and did it.”

“It felt very close the whole game,” Waynflete coach Cathie Connors said. “Yarmouth has such good athletes, so it can turn around any second. They always play hard. They’re coached well. It’s always go-ing to be a good fight. I felt like anything can happen until the end.”

After getting five goals from Foehl and three each from Cole, Millard and junior Martha Veroneau in the win at Wells, the Flyers found themselves in their closest battle yet at Kennebunk. Four first half goals from Cole gave Waynflete a cushion, but the Rams battled back to tie the score at 8-8 in the second half. Veroneau put the Flyers on top to stay with a terrific indi-vidual effort and she added a free position late to help Waynflete survive.

“We went out and came together as a team and pulled it out,” said Veroneau, who nearly matched Cole’s five goals with four of her own. “Kennebunk’s a really good team. It went down to the final buzzer. This is the first time we’ve had to push ourselves mentally that far. It’s good experience, es-pecially moving on from here.”

“It’s very exciting,” Cole said. “We came out and executed well. Kennebunk’s one of the best teams in the state. I wasn’t surprised they came back. We just stayed

composed and played our game. These are my favorite types of games. I’m really proud to see everyone pull through. Getting an opportunity to play one of the best Class A teams is fun.”

“I’m really psyched how we were pa-tient,” added Connors. “The offense played well. We did a lot of work with the defense. Today, it clicked. That’s what we worked on in practice yesterday. I was glad to see them pull that together.”

Waynflete was home with Fryeburg Tuesday, then has another huge test at un-defeated and high flying Falmouth Friday night.

“I’m really excited for that,” Cole said. “That’ll be huge. It’ll definitely be a big test.”

In Western A, Cheverus has impressed in the early going. The Stags dropped their

opener, 12-9, at Massabesic (sophomore Elyse Caiazzzo did have five goals), but Thursday, they dominated visiting McAu-ley, 14-5, as sophomore Meredith Willard scored six times.

“It feels great, I think we all wanted it,” Willard said. “The team spirit drove us.”

“It was good to get in the win column,” said Cheverus coach Jamie Chamberlain. “We have a lot of newer players. It was good for them to get into a comfort zone today and be able to work on some things.”

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Chamberlain said. “That’s what we’re fo-cusing on.”

McAuley lost its first two games, 13-0, at two-time defending Class A state champion Scarborough and 14-5 at Cheverus. Seniors Sadie DiPierro and Clare McLaughlin both scored twice, while senior goalie Jaime LaCasse made 12 saves in the loss to the Stags.

“I thought we played much, much better in the second half,” Lions coach Jo-Ellen Rand said. “If we did that in the first half, it would have been a different game. It was a tough start. It’s hard to fight back from being down 9-1.”

McAuley got in the win column Satur-day, holding off visiting Deering, 11-9, as junior Sam Paglia had three goals, DiPierro scored twice with two assists and McLaughlin, senior Mary Leasure and sophomore Katherine Lake also had two scores. LaCasse made 18 saves. The Li-ons were home with Massabesic Monday, visit Biddeford Thursday and play host to Windham Tuesday of next week.

Portland cruised past visiting Biddeford

in its opener, 15-2, but lost at home to Kennebunk Thursday, 14-8. Saturday, the Bulldogs rolled over visiting Sanford, 15-6, behind six goals from junior standout Drew Barry. Portland was at Cheverus Tuesday, goes to Windham Thursday and hosts Bonny Eagle Monday.

Prior to losing at McAuley, Deering downed visiting Windham, 12-6, as seniors Veronica Mitchell and Anastasia Muca both had four goals, while sophomore Cole Spike added a pair. Mitchell and senior Maura Densmore both scored four times in the loss to the Lions. The Rams (1-2) were home with Thornton Academy Monday, welcome Cheverus Thursday and Biddeford Monday of next week.

TrackThe outdoor track season is underway.Cheverus’ girls’ team beat host Windham,

as well as Bonny Eagle and Sanford in its first meet. The Stags boys went to Bonny Eagle and edged Sanford by a single point to finish first.

Deering’s boys were second to host Thornton Academy, in a meet which also included Marshwood and Westbrook. The girls were third behind Thornton Academy and Marshwood, in a meet including the same teams.

Portland’s boys went to Noble, along with Kennebunk and Scarborough, and finished fourth. The Portland girls hosted McAuley, along with Kennebunk, Noble and Scarborough. The Red Storm was first. The Lions placed fourth and the Bulldogs fifth.

Waynflete joined Falmouth and Old Or-chard Beach at Poland. The boys came in

third. The girls placed fourth.City Class A boys’ and girls’ teams

squared off at the start of the week. Waynflete hosts Greely, NYA and Traip Friday.

TennisOn the hardcourts, Cheverus and Portland

lead the girls’ parade at 3-0. The Bull-dogs defeated Bonny Eagle, Gorham and Sanford by 5-0 scores. The Stags blanked South Portland and Thornton Academy and defeated Scarborough, 4-1. McAuley is 2-0 after 5-0 wins over Sanford and Marshwood. Deering began with losses to Windham (4-1), Massabesic (3-2) and South Portland (4-1). Defending Class C champion Waynflete opened with losses to Yarmouth (3-2), Falmouth (5-0) and Fryeburg (4-1).

Big matches this week include Portland at Cheverus Wednesday and Cheverus at Deering Friday.

On the boys’ side, Deering is 3-0 after downing Windham (3-2), Massabesic (4-1) and South Portland (5-0). Cheverus sand-wiched wins over South Portland (5-0) and Thornton Academy (3-2) around a 5-0 loss to Scarborough. Portland beat Sanford and Bonny Eagle and lost to Gorham. Reigning Class C champion Waynflete lost to defend-ing Class B champion Falmouth, 5-0, in its opener, then downed Yarmouth (5-0) and York (3-2).

The Flyers are home with Yarmouth Fri-day and go to Falmouth Monday. Cheverus is at Portland Wednesday and home against Deering Friday.

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harder to write than to coach. Writing's a tricky business. Getting down what you want to express. I learned a lot about deadlines and getting a publisher. I got a lot of nos from a lot of people, then finally got a yes. I enjoyed putting the thoughts together. I was doing it for love. Certainly not for money. I recognized the humble nature of writing. I was very pleased with the finished product. I love the way it came together. I'm proud of it. It was fun. I was slow in some areas. The (first chapter) letter to Maddie took me a week to write.

"The whole book is sort of a letter to my children. To my former players. That's who I was thinking about. I want-ed to share what it's like to be a parent and a coach and I wanted that message to get out because it's such an interesting one. (Coaching and parenting are) inex-tricably linked."

The book was published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc. McCallie's editor asked her to add questions at the end of each chapter, giving the reader an opportunity to consider their life choices.

"I wasn't totally comfortable with (the questions), but I'm grateful for that be-cause it turned out to be quite a bonus," said McCallie. "People have commented that they liked the questions and they like to think about it."

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lie said. "I suppose if people don't like it, they don't comment. I've gotten a lot of comments about (my) kids. I have people say it appeals to anybody. It doesn't have a shelf life. It's not just about one season. People have said that it's a great gradu-ation gift."

McCallie, 46, won't set a timetable on how long she wants to coach. She's come oh-so-close to winning a championship and after falling in the Elite Eight back in March (for the third year in a row), proj-ects to have a very talented team again

next season. While she'd love to win it all, it's not her biggest focus.

"I want it very much for my team and my school, but I recognize the difficulty," said McCallie, who has 457 career wins. "It's not something that's going to anoint me as a coach."

While the book appeals to the masses, it does feature many Maine connections and highlights, including the year McCal-lie coached the Black Bears to a tourna-ment upset of Stanford, a game in which her point guard, Amy Vachon, played a huge role in the victory.

"(Amy) was terrific," McCallie said. "Her basketball IQ was through the roof. She made every key decision when we beat Stanford in the NCAA tournament. She played 38 or 40 minutes in the game. She always had a demeanor of solving programs. She's one of the best point guards I've ever coached. Low mainte-nance."

Vachon, of course, is well known in Forecaster Country. She coached McAu-ley to the 2011 Class A state champion-ship. Her point guard was a freshman named Allie Clement, who happens to be Carolyn's daughter and McCallie's niece. By the way, there are two more Clem-ent nieces on their way to the hardwood limelight.

It just goes to show that McCallie's Maine connection runs deep and isn't about to end anytime soon.

"It's been fun reconnecting and letting people know they're appreciated," Mc-Callie said. "I've been able to personally sign a lot of books and thank people. There was storytelling. (Last week) was an impromptu reunion. Maine has a huge place in my heart."

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RoundupSMCC sparkles on the diamond

The Southern Maine Community College baseball and softball teams cap-tured Yankee Small College Conference championship crowns last week. Baseball downed Vermont Tech, 4-1, in the finale at The Ballpark in Old Orchard Beach. Andrew Richards had a no-hitter through six innings and settled for a three-hitter with 10 strikeouts. He was named the Most Valuable Player. Offensively, the Seawolves were paced by Mike Crow-ley's two-run home run. Crowley was named the Offensive Player of the Game. SMCC (19-16-1) finishes the season Saturday, when it hosts Navy Prep at 1 p.m. Softball made it three straight championships with a 14-2 romp over Vermont Tech in the semifinals and a 5-3 victory over rival Central Maine CC at Concord, N.H. Ashley Pulk went 4-for-4 against Vermont Tech, doubling twice and driving in two runs. Pulk was named MVP. Emily Bard earned the win, which was the 100th for coach John Moody at SMCC. In the finale, Charlotte Lewis earned the win after fanning seven. Jamie Moody was named Offensive Player of the Tournament after driving in four runs. The Seawolves finished 16-21.

Cheverus tennis clinic scheduled for Saturday

The Cheverus boys' tennis team is giving a free clinic to kids ages 7 to 10 from 10 to 11:30 a.m., Saturday at the Cheverus courts on Washington Avenue. FMI, [email protected].

Coaches vs. Cancer benefit games upcoming

High schools across the state are team-ing up with the American Cancer Society to host Coaches vs. Cancer baseball and softball games May 22-26. Teams interested in taking part should contact Erika Gould, 373-3728 or [email protected].

PAYSA tryouts set for Sunday at Deering

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Portland Symphony celebrates Kotzschmar centennialBy Scott Andrews

As April morphs into May, an abundance of excellent concert choices beckons music aficionados. The biggest of these is the final program of the Portland Symphony Orchestra’s 2011-2012 season, a celebra-tion of the 100th anniversary of the mighty Kotzschmar organ. Maestro Robert Moody has picked a pair of major works that fea-ture the King of Instruments. The concert will be presented twice, on May 6 and May 8.

The Greater Freeport Community Cho-rus presents a twin bill of concerts with a program that draws inspiration from two centuries of innovative American compos-ers. Catch these in Freeport on May 5 and Yarmouth on May 6.

Two topnotch singer-songwriters are holding CD release parties on back-to-back dates at Portland’s One Longfellow Square. Kentucky-born Darrell Scott appears on May 4, while Maine native Rachel Efron holds forth on May 5.

Portland Symphony OrchestraMaine’s cultural history is dotted with

milestones, but none is greater than the epic event of 1912: A mammoth pipe organ was constructed in the newly finished Portland City Hall, the gift of publishing magnate Cyrus Curtis, who dedicated the mighty instrument to the memory of Hermann Kotzschmar, his childhood music teacher.

Kotzschmar, a native of Germany, im-migrated to this country and settled in Port-land in the mid-1800s, becoming Maine’s leading musical figure – teacher, church organist, choral director, impresario and performer – for more than half a century. When Portland City Hall burned in 1908, Curtis decided to help the reconstruction effort by donating a massive organ for the concert hall that was incorporated into the new building.

When installation was completed in 1912, the Kotzschmar was the world’s second largest organ, and size-wise it re-

Scott Simontacchi Darrell Scott is a Kentucky-born country singer-songwriter who will be holding a CD release party

this Friday at One Longfellow Square in Portland.

mains among the leaders. For the past three decades, the organ has been maintained by an independent nonprofit support group, Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ. The most recent enhancements and improve-ments, spearheaded by FOKO, were a new console in 2000 and additional pipes in 2003. FOKO also produces a year-round series of concerts.

The organ contains 6,857 pipes in 101 ranks in eight divisions. The longest pipe is 32 feet, while the smallest is under an inch. If laid end to end, the pipes would stretch 3.6 miles, the same distance as Portland’s Back Cove Trail. Total weight is about 50 tons, with about 100 miles of electrical wiring.

The Kotzschmar forms the visual back-drop to all Portland Symphony Orchestra concerts, but its isn’t played very often in the orchestral setting. But the organ will pipe up dramatically May 6 and 8, when the PSO will wrap up its season with a concert dedicated to the Kotzschmar cen-tennial. Ray Cornils, who holds the title of Portland municipal organist – one of only two such positions in the U.S. – will preside at the keyboard.

The two biggest works are by European composers who were noted organists who understood the sonic horsepower of the instrument and its relationship with com-peting and complementary musical forces. Joseph Jongen was the leading Belgian composer of the early 20th century. His Symphonie Concertante for Organ and Orchestra was written in the 1920s and

premiered in Brussels.Jongen’s four-movement masterpiece

culminates in a memorable finale, accord-ing to PSO program annotator Mark Rohr: “Here the superhuman perpetual-motion organ part is matched by the power of the orchestra and the Symphonie Concertante goes out in a blaze of glory.”

After intermission, the PSO will play the coda for 2011-2012 with Charles Camille Saint-Saens’ Third Symphony, subtitled “Organ.” Saint-Saens, who worked in Paris most of his life, was recognized as Europe’s foremost organist and one of its top composers. His Third Symphony was written in 1886.

Rohr characterizes the four movements as “fury,” “serenity,” “propulsion” and “tri-umph.” He adds the following commentary to the whole work: “Saint-Saens’ Third is known as a sonic spectacular. A symphony orchestra and a pipe organ are each capable of shaking a room. Together they can make a glorious racket.”

Catch the Portland Symphony Orchestra at Merrill Auditorium at Portland City Hall at 2:30 p.m. May 6 and 7:30 p.m. May 8. Call PortTix at 842-0800.Greater Freeport Community ChorusAmerican musical traditions, with an em-

phasis on ingenuity and innovation, will be the over-arching theme when the Greater Freeport Community Chorus presents its spring concert on two dates this weekend.

The GFCC numbers approximately 40 voices hailing from 22 towns under musi-cal director Virgil Bozeman. All the pieces on the program were written by Ameri-cans, who date from the mid-1800s to the present. Stephen Foster is emblematic of old-time America, while Charles Ives and Aaron Copland represent of this country’s 20th-century classical tradition. Broadway and Hollywood are heard in the songs of Jerome Kern, Cole Porter and Harold Ar-len. Nick Page, a contemporary composer, represents a modern minimalist school.

Two performances are slated: May 5 at 7:30 p.m. at the First Parish Church in Freeport and May 6 at 2 p.m. at the Sacred Heart Church in Yarmouth. Call 865-3730.

Darrell ScottSinger-songwriter Darrell Scott was born

in Kentucky and lives in Nashville, where he writes for prominent artists such as Tim McGraw, Faith Hill and Martina McBride. He’s also copped a couple of major awards in the past few years, including the Ameri-cana Music Award for Best Album of the Year and the Independent Music Award for Best Country Album.

As a performer, his newest CD, titled “Long Ride Home,” features an older style of country music, characterized by hard-working, imperfect heroes and flawed hero-ines. Expect to hear much of that album when One Longfellow Square (corner of Congress and State in Portland) presents a Darrell Scott CD release party at 8 p.m. May 4. Call 761-1757.

Rachel EfronSinger-songwriter Rachel Efron is a

Maine native who lives and performs mostly on the West Coast. She’s returning to her home town this Saturday for a CD release party.

Efron describes her work as “piano-centric arty pop.” Her third and latest CD is titled “Put Out the Stars,” and it represents an intensely personal approach to often-overlooked aspects of human psyche and experience in a compelling melodic and lyrical style.

San Francisco Examiner music critic Chris Morgan described her work: “Ra-chel Efron combines a light, gentle touch on the piano with the eye and voice of a poet to make the loveliest music one has heard – soft, intimate, ethereal and strik-ingly genuine.”

Catch Rachel Efron’s hometown CD release party at One Longfellow Square (corner of Congress and State in Portland) at 8 p.m. May 5. Call 761-1757.

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Greater PortlandBooks & AuthorsWednesday 5/2Brown Bag Lecture Series pres-ents John MacDonald, 12 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monu-ment Square, Portland, 871-1700.

Thursday 5/3Ellen Alderman book discus-sion, 12 p.m., Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Road, Falmouth, 781-2351.

Michael Shuman book discussion, 7 p.m., SPACE, 528 Congress St., Portland, 828-5600.

Friday 5/4Local Author Series presents Jan Pieter vanVoorst van Beest, 12 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monu-ment Square, Portland, 871-1700.

Thursday 5/10Richard & Kate Russo Book Event and Art Print Sale, 7 p.m., None-such Books and Cards, Mill Creek Shopping Plaza, South Portland, 799-2659.

Friday 5/11Russel Warnberg Discussion on “Edge of Redemption,” 12 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monu-ment Square, Portland, 871-1700.

FilmSunday 5/13Marley, 7 p.m., SPACE, 538 Con-gress St., Portland, $7, 828-5600.

Tuesday 5/15Marley, 7 p.m., SPACE, 538 Con-gress St., Portland, $7, 828-5600.

GalleriesFrank Poole’s Holga Photogra-phy, runs through the end of May, Portland Photo Works, 2nd Floor, 142 High St., Portland.

“Smokin’ Hot,” through June 1, Merrill Memorial Library, 215 Main St., Yarmouth, 846-1336.

Friday 5/4“Art in Our Backyard:” Portland’s Public Art Collection, 5:30 p.m., Port-land Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, portlandmaine.gov/planning/pubart.asp.

“The HeART of the Home,” 5-8 p.m., runs through May, The Gal-

Bikers vs. the feds

“Pedal-Driven: A Bike-Umentary” will premier in Brunswick on May 30 at 7 p.m. at Frontier Cafe, 14 Maine St. The film examines the long-standing confrontation between

mountain bikers and federal land management agencies over bikers’ rights and access to public lands. Admission is $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Visit explorefrontier.com or

call 725-5222 for more information.

lery at Harmon’s & Barton’s, 584 Congress St., Portland, 415-2230.

“May Group Exhibit,” 10 a.m.-5 p.m., exhibit runs through May 27, Richard Boyd Gallery, Peaks Island, 712-1097.

“New Mainers” Photography Ex-hibit and Talk, 12-1 p.m., Lewis Gallery, Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700.

“Paint and Mud,” 7 p.m., runs through June, Daunis Fine Jew-elery, 616 Congress St., Portland, 773-6011.

“The Secrets That Objects Share,” 5-8 p.m., exhibit runs through May 26, Addison Wooley Gallery, 132 Washington Ave., Portland, 450-8499.

“Where Everything is Color,” 5-8 p.m., exhibit runs through May 26, 3fish gallery, 377 Cumberland Ave., Portland, 773-4773.

“Victorians Riding Dinosaurs,” 5-8 p.m., runs through May, The Green Hand Bookshop, 661 Con-gress St., Portland, 253-6808.

Saturday 5/5Hand Hooked Rugs, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Blue Point Church, 236 Pine Point Road, Scarborough, $5 for luncheon, bluepointchurch.org, 883-6540.

MuseumsVictoria Mansion open for tours starting May 1, 109 Danforth St., Portland, for more information on tours visit victoriamansion.org.

Thursday 5/3Portland Pathways to Contem-porary Art: Paintings Purchased at Temple Beth-El Art Exhibitions 1962-1973, 5-8 p.m., Maine Jewish Museum, 267 Congress St., Port-land. 329-9854.

MusicThursday 5/3Violinist Jennifer Koh, 7:30 p.m., Hannaford Hall, USM, Portland, $34 general public/limited $10 student tickets available, PortTix 842-0800, portlandovations.org.

Wren Saunders and Nicole Raba-ta, 12:15 p.m., First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, 425 Congress St., Portland, 775-3356.

Friday 5/4Darrell Scott with Mark Erelli,

8 p.m., One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland, $20 ad-vance/$23 door, 761-1757.

Saturday 5/5Burundi Drummers, 5:30 p.m., Congregation Bet Ha’am, 81 Westbrook St., South Portland, [email protected].

Cul de Sax Quartet presents “Any-thing Goes,” 7:30 p.m., Freeport Community Library, 10 Library Dr., Freeport, 725-6426.

Simple Gifts: American Musical Innovation, 7:30 p.m., First Parish Church, 40 Main St., Freeport, $10 adults/$8 students and seniors, Greater Freeport Community Cho-rus, gfccweb.org, 751-3601.

Sunday 5/6Foxy Shazam, 8 p.m., Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St., Port-land, $12 advance/$15 door, 18+, statetheaterportland.com.

The Kotzschmar Centennial Celebration, 2:20 p.m., Merrill Au-ditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland, $20-70, PortTix.com, 842-0800.

Primo Cubano, 8 p.m., Empire Dine and Dance, 575 Congress St., Portland, $6, 21+, primocubano.com.

Shape Note Singing, 1-4 p.m., The New Church, 302 Stevens Ave., Portland.

Simple Gifts: American Musical Innovation, 2 p.m., Sacred Heart Church, 326 Main St., Yarmouth, $10 adults/$8 students and se-niors, Greater Freeport Community Chorus, gfccweb.org, 751-3601.

Sunday Evening Blues Series, 7 p.m., The Big Easy, 55 Market St., Portland, $20, 775-2266, bigeasy-portland.com.

Wescustago Youth Chorale, 4 p.m., Freeport Performing Arts, 30 Holbrook Road, Freeport, $10 adults/$5 students, 846-0705.

Monday 5/7The American Folk Blues Festival, 7 p.m., One Longfellow Square, Portland, $7, 761-1757.

Wednesday 5/9Inner Strength CD Release, 6 p.m., One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland, 761-1757.

Friday 5/11Portland Chamber Music Festival, 8 p.m., Freeport Performing Arts, 30 Holbrook St., Freeport, $25,

freeportperformingarts.com.

Aztec Two-Step, 8 p.m., One Longfellow Square, Portland, $25 advance/$28 door, 761-1757.

Darrell Scott, 8 p.m., One Longfellow Square, Portland, $23, darrellscott.com.

Eric Taylor CD Release, 6-9 p.m., St. Lawrence Arts, 76 Congress St., Portland, $18 advance/$20 door, 347-3075.

Julia Feeney, 8 p.m., The Maine Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St., Portland, $20, maineirish.com.

Toroid Ensemble, 8 p.m., The Heart Opening, 227 Congress St., second floor, $5-$20, 615-1550.

Saturday 5/12Downeasters Annual Concert, 7 p.m., Scarborough High School, 20 Gorham Road, Scarborough, $18 advance/$15 students and seniors, downeasters.org.

Hattie Simon, 8 p.m., Dobra Tea, 151 Middle St., Portland, 210-6566.

Suzuki Violin Studios Perfor-mance, 1-2 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Port-land, 871-1700.

Sunday 5/13The Saint Mary Schola presents “Music for a While,” 4 p.m., St. Mary the Virgin Church, 43 Foreside Road, Falmouth, $20, stmaryscho-la.org.

Theater & DanceA Life in the Theater, runs through May 5, Thursday/Friday performances 7 p.m., Sunday per-formances 2 p.m., all Thursday performances are pay-what-you-can, $19 adults/$15 seniors and students, Freeport Factory Stage, 5 Depot St., Freeport, freeportfac-tory.com for showtimes and more information.

Thursday 5/3Circle Mirror Transformation, runs through May 20, Thu. 7:30 p.m., Fri./Sat. 8 p.m, Sun. 2 p.m., $22 advance/$20 student, Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland, 899-3993.

Student Shakespeare Festival, runs through May 5, for more in-formation on tickets and show times visit stagesacademy.com/shakespeare.

Friday 5/4Exhibit of Puppetry, 7-9 p.m., Mayo St. Arts, 10 Mayo St., Port-land, 615-3609.

Portland Playback: Life-Shaping Moments, 7:30 p.m., CTN5 Stu-dio, 516 Congress St., Portland, $7, portlandplayback.com.

Saturday 5/5Contra Dance, 7:15 p.m., Falmouth Congregational Church, 267 Falmouth Road, Falmouth, $10 adults/$7 children, 358-9354.

Sunday 5/6International Folk Dance, 7-9 p.m., Portland New Church, 302 Stevens Ave., Portland, $5, 776-5351.

Tuesday 5/8Page to Stage discussion of “Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh,” 12 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700.

Saturday 5/12Contra Dance, 6 p.m., Wescustogo Hall, Route 115, North Yarmouth, $3/$12 family.

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Wayside Food Programs, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., The Local Buzz, 327 Ocean House Road, Cape Elizabeth, 712-4928.

Zumbathon to benefit the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network, 1-4 p.m., Finley Gym, UNE, 716 Stevens Ave., Portland, $15/$10 students and faculty.

Friday 5/11"Sold On Kids," Sweetser's 20th Annual Auction, 5:30-10 p.m., Mar-riott Sable Oaks, 200 Sable Oaks Dr., South Porltand, $60, sweetser.org.

Saturday 5/12Cookie Walk for the Nancy King Memorial Scholarship Program, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Shaws, Route 1, Falmouth, 781-3354.

Maine Walks for Haiti, 8:30 a.m., Back Cove Trail, Portland, mainewalksforhaiti.org.

Bulletin BoardDrum Circle, every third Friday of the month, 6-8 p.m., Museum of African Art and Culture, 13 Brown

St., Portland.

Maine Academy of Modern Mu-sic is now accepting registrations for its summer camp, Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., maineacademyof-modernmusic.org.

The Maine Mustang Project is now accepting applications and deposits for its 10-week summer program. For more information call 590-1890.

Operation Overboard: Daring to Go Deep with God, Vacation Bible School now accepting summer registrations, $60, sofreeport-church.com, 865-4012.

Wednesday 5/2Scarborough Historical Society meeting, 7:30 p.m., 647 Route 1, Scarborough.

Friday 5/4The Big Night, The Telling Room's Anthology release night, 7-9 p.m., USM Abromson Center, 88 Bedford St., Portland, 838-5570.

Saturday 5/525 Cent Sale, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., Mor-rison Center, 60 Chamberlain Road, Scarborough, 883-6680.

Cinco de Mayo 5k, 5 p.m., starts on School St., Freeport, for more information on the race visit habi-tatportlandme.org.

Falmouth Trail System Informa-tion Session, 9:30 a.m., Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Road, Falmouth, 781-4727.

Yard Sale, indoor/outdoor, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., West Scarborough United Methodist Church, Route 1, Dunstan Corner, Scarborough, 883-2814.

Annual Mad Hatter Affair, Maine Historical Society, 5-11 p.m., The Woodlands, 39 Woods Road, Falmouth, 774-1822.

Auction, North Yarmouth Acad-emy's 28th annual, 6-10 p.m., Travis Roy Arena, 148 Main St., Yarmouth,

$30 advance/$35 door, 847-5422.

PATHS Annual Yard Sale, 8 a.m- 1 p.m., PATHS, 196 Allen Ave., Port-land, 874-8165 ext. 6529.

SLAP Superhero Lady Arm-wrestlers of Portland Inaugural Tournament, 7 p.m., Mayo St. Arts, 10 Mayo St., Portland, $5.

Spring Carnival, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., 99 South Freeport Road, Freeport.

WMPG's Annual Fashion Show, 6:30 p.m., Asylum, 121 Center St., Portland, $10/$5 students, port-landasylum.com.

Sunday 5/6Merriconeag Poetry Festival, 3-4:30 p.m., Merriconeag Waldorf School, 57 Desert Road, Freeport, merriconeag.org.

Tuesday 5/8Falmouth Memorial LibraryLunchBox Friends Annual Meet-ing, 12 p.m., Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Road, Falmouth, 781-2351.

Wednesday 5/9Portland Society of ArchitectsSpring Social, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Porthole Restaurant, 20 Custom House Wharf, Portland, portland-architects.org.

Saturday 5/12Electronics Recycling Collection, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Falmouth Shopping Center, Route 1, Falmouth, 781-2501.

Falmouth Family & Pet Walk, 8 a.m., Foreside Community Church, 340 Foreside Road, Falmouth, 781-2996.

World Fair Trade Day, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Karma Fair Trade, 570 Brigh-ton Ave., Portland, 831-4531.

Call for VolunteersASSE International Student Ex-change Programs need local host families for boys and girls from around the world. The students are 15-18 years old and are coming for the upcoming high school year or semester. FMI contact Joyce, 737-4666 or visit asse.com.

The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network needs volunteer weather observers, visit cocorahs.org for more information.

Help Someone Write Their Busi-ness Success Story, become a SCORE volunteer, 772-1147.

Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad needs a volunteer handyman to work around the museum; hours and days are flexible. For more information call 828-0814.

Portland Public Schools needs one parent and one student from each public high school to join an advisory council for The Pathways to Success Initiative. Candidates should submit a page about their interest and experience along with their e-mail address and phone number to Kim Lipp at [email protected] by April 25.

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Tuesday 5/8Hospice Volunteer Training,5:30-8:30 p.m., VNA Home Health and Hospice, 50 Foden Road, South Portland, 400-8714.

Dining OutWednesday 5/2Wednesday Night Meal, 5-6:30 p.m., VFW Post #832, 50 Peary Ter-race, South Portland, $6, 767-2575.

Friday 5/4Friday Lunch, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., North Yarmouth Congregation-al Church, 3 Gray Road, North Yarmouth.

Saturday 5/5Baked Bean Supper, 5-6:30 p.m., 20 Mill St., Yarmouth, $8 adults/$5 children, 846-4724.

Cinco de Mayo Pot Luck, 7-9 p.m., Centro Latino, 68 Washington St., Portland, $5.

Wednesday 5/9Wednesday Night Meal, 5-6:30 p.m., VFW Post #832, 50 Peary Ter-race, South Portland, $6, 767-2575.

Saturday 5/12Aserela 17th Anniversary Cel-ebration for the Children Dinner, 5:30 p.m., Cathedral of Immacu-late Conception, 307 Congress St., Portland, $20 adults, $5 children, aserela.org.

Lobster Roll Meal, 4:30-6 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 179 Ridgeland Ave., South Portland, $10, 767-2688.

Sunday 5/13Lions Club Breakfast, 7:30-11 a.m., Cape Elizabeth Lions Club, Bowery Beach Schoolhouse, Ocean House Road, Cape Eliza-beth, $5 adults/$4 children.

VFW Post #832 Breakfast, 8:30-10

a.m., VFW Post #832, 50 Peary Ter-race, South Portland, $5, 767-2575.

Garden & OutdoorsGuided Bird Walk and Exploration of Gilsland Farm, Thursdays, 7 a.m., Gilsland Farm, 20 Gilsland Farm Road, Falmouth, $5 members/$8 non-members, 781-2330.

Wednesday 5/2Maine Outdoor Adventure Club meeting, 7 p.m., Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church, 524 Allen Ave., Portland, moac.org.

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lishments," said Sarah Sutton, a South Portland resident who operates Bite Into Maine, a truck that sells lobster rolls at Fort Williams Park in Cape Elizabeth.

Sutton was not a member of the task force, but was invited to attend the meet-ings and join in the discussion, the only person present who operates a food truck. Sutton said she hopes to expand her op-eration into Portland.

Richard Groton, president and chief executive of the Maine Restaurant As-sociation, said Portland owes much of its current economic success to the risks and investments made by permanent res-taurants, who are also major employers and taxpayers.

The owner of a permanent restaurant has "had to take a serious business risk, that I think in my view, the food truck sort of avoids," Groton said. "We don't want unfair competition."

But even the restaurateurs on the task force were not easily stereotyped as pro or con food trucks. At least one, Steve DiMillo Sr., who operates DiMillo's on the Water on Commercial Street, said in February that he hopes to start his own food truck operation, possibly using his restaurant to do the prep work.

The task force has met four times since March 6, and the debate focused on dis-agreements, including where food trucks would be allowed until the third meeting, members said.

Since that meeting, however, mem-bers have made an effort to find areas of agreement. At the most recent meeting, recommendations were unanimously sup-ported, according to Andy Graham of the Creative Portland Corp.

"It's exciting to see us find common ground so easily," he said.

While Sutton said she wished that the recommendations opened more of the city's high-traffic downtown areas to food truck operators, and that they would be granted the ability to use public parking spots when meters stop running at 6 p.m., rather than waiting until 10 p.m., she also felt the restrictions were warranted given the disagreements that have surrounded food trucks in other cities.

Elsewhere, the mobile kitchen trend has raised all the same questions that Portland officials and restaurant owners have faced, including parking, permitting, noise and power, and competition.

"I think it's smart to look at what's hap-pened elsewhere and make a consensus, Sutton said. "So it doesn't bother me too much, as long as everyone agrees with it."

Task force members and participants like Sutton also agreed that food trucks are no more guaranteed to be successful than traditional restaurants, and that the city has a stake in the continued health of the dining industry and Portland's reputa-tion as a foodie city.

Even with a great seaside location in Cape Elizabeth, Sutton noted, her truck is "still responsible for letting people know we're here and how good our product is."

Abiding by normal parking regulations, as the recommendations would require, would make it virtually impossible for food trucks to operate efficiently on pub-lic property in most of the city anyway, Ron Gan, owner of the Skinny Cart BBQ food cart said. Gan said he has consid-ered starting a food truck of his own and has scoured the city for the best places to set up.

There are only a few parking spots in city center that would accommodate a

food truck in terms of size and access to potential customers, he said. Add in two-hour parking limits and the uncertainty of those spots actually being open, and "you physically can't do it," he said.

"Even a hot dog guy takes 40 minutes to set up," Gan said. "So imagine you were doing some really cool food. It wouldn't happen."

The recommendations in some ways direct future food trucks straight towards areas where they will likely be success-ful, like Compass Park on the Maine State Pier, where food truck licenses would be available via a request-for-proposals system.

"That is like a tailor-made location for a food truck," Gan said.

The task force has not finalized the public downtown streets that would be open to food trucks, but they will likely include parts of Spring Street and most of the Bayside area, as well as industrial ar-

eas off the peninsula – all neighborhoods with a significantly lower density of restaurants, although perhaps also fewer customers.

A disparity in licensing costs – $900 to park on city streets versus $500 to park on private property – would give eco-nomic incentive to food trucks to access the power grid rather than running less-clean electric generators, Graham said.

For now, the task force's recommenda-tions are far from set in stone.

The group will meet once more this month, at a so-far unscheduled time, to determine which public central areas will be designated for food trucks and to make final revisions to the other recom-mendations before sending them to the Public Safety, Health and Public Services Committee.

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committee.“We are going to move,” Durham

said. “We’re not sure when.” If funds allow, the move could begin as early as next year, he said.

The museum's board has selected Gray over Portland, Bridgton, and Monson as its most likely new home. Gray of-ficials have been "excited" to work with the museum, which offers rides on and preserves trains that run on 2-foot wide tracks that were virtually exclusive to Maine from the late 1800s to the 1940s, Durham said.

Talks with Central Maine Power Co., which owns the now-vacant right of way where the museum would likely lay new tracks, and Gray Plaza owner Dan Craffey, who could give the group work-ing space, have also been encouraging, Durham said.

Nothing has been finalized, but no bet-ter option has appeared than the move that could cost as much as $5 million, he said. Meetings are scheduled in Gray this week to further discuss the project, the town's economic development director Beth Humphrey said.

The railroad, operated primarily by volunteers, is now based at the Port-land Co. complex at 58 Fore St. It has a month-to-month lease, and owner Phineas Sprague, who was instrumental in the museum's formation, has the land up for sale. Museum officials expect it to be sold and developed when the economy picks up.

"We love our current location," along the Casco Bay shoreline, Durham said. "You can't do better than that."

But rather than wait for a 30-day evic-tion notice from the landlord, "we're try-ing to be proactive," he said.

There are few available alternatives near their Eastern Promenade rail line, which carries about 23,000 pleasure-seeking riders a year. The city and private property owners in the area are unwilling to carve out space from waterfront real estate for the nonprofit, partly because doing so doesn't fit cleanly into the city's master plan for the neighborhood, Port-land Economic Development Director

Greg Mitchell said. The move to Gray will likely change

the face of the museum's volunteer staff and, to some extent, it's riders, Durham said.

"I wish it could stay," said volunteer conductor Arthur Hussey said as he climbed onto a rail car Saturday. Hussey, who has spent 18 years riding the rails, said he would probably spend fewer days volunteering after the move. Even Durham said he would likely scale back his time at the museum, where he now spends several days a week.

On Saturday, Jennifer Thurgood, a second-time visitor and South Portland mother of two children, said she had just bought seasons passes for her family. "We were planning on coming a lot," Thurgood said.

A Gray location would "not be too far away that we wouldn't go," she said. "But not as much."

Durham tried to make the best of the situation, noting the Gray Wildlife Park gets 100,000 visitors a year. "If we could get half of that, that would be an increase in ridership," he said.

And though the museum would have to lay new track on the CMP right of way in Gray, which was once travelled by a trolley between Portland and Lewiston, the move could potentially allow the mu-seum to double the length of its tracks to about three miles, Durham said.

Since the Portland right of way is un-der lease from the state for another dozen years and was repaired in April, he said, it is even possible that the museum will move its flagship operation to Gray while maintaining a satellite rail line on the Eastern Promenade.

Just how much the organization ex-pands or changes depends, of course, on how much money the museum can raise.

"The underlying problem is money," Durham said. "It's always money. It's just going to be tough and it's going to take time. And here's the real bottom line: we've got to do it, or go out of business essentially."

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"It really depends on the needs of pro-duction and the demands of the role," she said. "We are constantly looking for the best talent and there is a lot of great talent out there that has come from Maine, is now living in Maine or is living elsewhere and has come back."

Hewitt, Harris said, auditioned in New York and the company didn't realize she was a Mainer until later.

Hewitt said she came back to work in Portland because of the fond memories she has of going to Portland Stage to see student matinees when she was in high school.

“At that point I sort of had an inkling that I wanted to be an actor, so it was su-per exciting to see these amazing produc-tions," she said. "When I got cast in this it really felt really exciting to literally be on that stage, where I had once so admired the actors."

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GOLDEN Retriever Stud. 2year old very gentle, loyal, fam-ily dog. Would like one maleAKC retriever puppy inexchange for service. 207-725-4141, [email protected]

ANNOUNCEMENTS

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT?GETTING ENGAGED ORMARRIED? HAVING ACLASS REUNION? Placeyour ad for your Announce-ment here to be seen in69,500 papers a week. Call781-3661 for more informa-tion on rates.

CHARM PARTIES! Host aCharm Party today and inviteyour friends and family so youcan earn free products . CallCharms & Chocolates @ 207-892-8533 or find us @www.facebook.com/Charm-sandchocolate

ANTIQUES

ALWAYS BUYING, ALWAYSPAYING MORE! Knowledge,Integrity, & Courtesy guaran-teed! 40 years experience buy-ing ANTIQUE jewelry (rings,watches, cuff links, pins, ban-gles, necklaces and old cos-tume jewelry),coins, sterlingsilver, pottery, paintings, prints,paper items,rugs, etc. CallSchoolhouse Antiques. 780-8283.

ANTIQUES

ABSOLUTE BEST PRICESPAID FOR MOST ANYTHINGO L D . C U M B E R L A N DANTIQUES Celebrating 28years of Trusted Customer Ser-vice.Buying, Glass, China, Furni-ture, Jewelry, Silver, Coins,Watches, Toys, Dolls, Puzzles,Buttons, Sewing Tools, Linens,Quilts, Rugs, Trunks, Books,Magazines, Postcards, OldPhotos, Paintings, Prints &Frames, Stereos, Records,Radios, Military Guns, FishingTackle, & Most Anything Old.Free Verbal Appraisals.Call 838-0790.

ExperiencedAntique Buyer

Purchasing paintings, clocks, watches,nautical items, sporting memorabilia,early paper (all types), vintage toys,games, trains, political & military items,oriental porcelain, glass, china, pottery,jugs, crocks, tin, brass, copper, pewter,silver, gold, coins, jewelry, old orientalrugs, iron and wood architecturalpieces, old tools, violins, enamel andwooden signs, vintage auto and boatitems, duck decoys & more. Courteous,prompt service.Call Steve at Centervale Farm Antiques

(207) 730-2261

Top prices paid�

WANTED:Pre 1950 old postcards,

stamp collections,old photographs

and old paper items

799-7890 call anytime

�

I BUY ANYTHING OLD!Books, records, furniture, jewelry,coins, hunting, fishing, military,

art work, dishes, toys, tools.I will come to you with cash.

Call John 450-2339BOOKS WANTED

FAIR PRICES PAIDAlso Buying Antiques, Art OfAll Kinds, and Collectables.G.L.Smith Books - Collectables97 Ocean St., South Portland.799-7060.

AUCTIONS

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for more information on rates

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AUTOS

Body Man on Wheels, autobody repairs. Rust work forinspections. Custom paintingand collision work. 38 yearsexperience. Damaged vehicleswanted. JUNK CAR removal,Towing. 878-3705.

BOATS

23’ CHRIS-CRAFT 1987.350el GMC Rebuilt, OMC Out-drive Rebuilt with 2010 8’6”Inflatable Dinghy. Sleeps 2,Stove, Fridge, Sink, Hcad,GPS-Fishfinder. $7500. 233-1676.

SELLING A BOAT? Do youhave services to offer? Whynot advertise with The Fore-caster?Call 781-3661 for advertisingrates.

BOATS

26 ft. TIARA PURSUITCUDDY CABIN. Excellentshape, low hours. 350 MPIHorizon. Asking $20,000.Please call 207-272-0462.

BODY AND SOUL

Intimacy, Men and WomenSupport Group. Helping Peoplewith the Practice of Intimacy.Openings for Men. Weekly,Sliding Fee. Call Stephen at773-9724, #3.

BUSINESS RENTALS

ROUTE ONE YARMOUTH.Across from new MercyHospital. Easy access, gen-erous parking, great visibil-ity. 1000 to 3000 SF. Com-plete new build out to ten-ant specs. 846-6380.

OFFICE SUBLET- Main St.Yarmouth. Lovely office withwaiting room, wireless internet,phone. Perfect for therapist,other professional. Reasonablerent. Available Mon & Tues. CallJill at 846-0404 x2.

BUSINESS SERVICES

Administrative Assistance -Bookkeeping (QuickBooks),Consulting, Desktop Publishing(Flyers, Invitations, Newslet-ters), Filing (archiving, organi-zation), Mailings, Typing, BasicComputer Software Instruction.Call Sal-U-tions at (207)797-2617.

CHILD CARE

Early Bird Day Care Cumber-land day care has an openingstarting in July and Sept. for achild 12 months-5 years old.Meals and snacks provided.Kindergarten readiness pro-gram included in daily routine.Reasonable rates but moreimportant a fun, home-likeatmosphere where childrenthrive. Come join our family!Hours 7am-5:30 pm829-4563

BRINDLE BEAR DAYCARE06:30-05:30 Mon-Fri, $130.00per week full time Statelicensed 24 yrs exp. Breakfast,lunch and snack provided,Weekly progress notes, Activi-ties and outdoor play. Open-ings 1yr to school age. CallRenee at 865-9622. BRINDLE-BEARDAYCARE.COM

BABYSITTER SEEKING15-20 HOURS PER WEEK

mid June – mid AugustExcellent References

Reasonable Rates

Fun, Energetic 14 y.o.

Call 781-4916

CHIMNEY

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CLEANING

GrandviewWindow Cleaning

InsuredReferences

Free EstimatesGutters CleanedScreens Cleaned

Chandeliers CleanedCeiling Fans Cleaned

Satisfaction Guaranteed

“It’s a Good Day for a Grand View!”Call 207-772-7813

Shouldn’t you have itCLEANED your way?

Friendly, reliable, trustworthyand professional

Special rates for SeniorsLimited business cleaning

References providedCall today for a free estimate:

(207) 894-5546

It’s YourHOME!

HOME & OFFICECleaning

Daily, Weekly, biweeklyor One Time. Excellent Refer-ences. Satisfaction Guaran-teed. Free Estimates.Call Sonia 939-0983.Housecleaning Makes aGreat Gift.

FOR HOME/OFFICE, NEWConstruction, Real EstateClosings etc. the clean youneed is “Dream Clean” theclean you`ve always dreamedof with 15 years of expert serv-ice. Fully Insured. For rates &references call Leslie 807-2331.

WINDOWCLEANINGby Master’s Touch

846-5315Serving 25 years

Home CleaningReliable service atreasonable rates.Let me do yourdirty work!Call Kathy at892-2255

Great Cleaner looking toclean your house your way.Great References. Cape Eliza-beth and Saco areas. CallRhea 939-4278.

MAGGIE’S CLEANING SER-VICES covering all areas.Reasonable rates, great refer-ences. Mature, experiencedwoman. 522-4701.




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BOOKKEEPING***PLUS***

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Monthly Billing StatementsFinancial Statements Bank Reconciliation

Sales/Use TaxExcel Spreadsheets, Word Documents,

Errands, etc.One time setup, weekly, or monthly

[email protected]

152 US Route 1, Scarborough • www.comfortkeepers.com

885-9600

RESPECTED & APPRECIATEDIf these are important to you and you are a kind-heartedperson looking for meaningful part or full time work,we’d love to speak with you. Comfort Keepers is lookingfor special people to join us in providing excellent non-medical, in-home care to area seniors. We offer a vision &dental plan, along with ongoing training and continuoussupport.

SHARE YOURHEARTHome Instead Senior Care, the world’s leading provider of non-medical homecare for seniors, is looking for a few select CAREGiversSM

for clients around Cumberland County. If you are honest, reliable,professional, flexible, caring, and a creative thinker, you might just fillthe bill!We set the industry standard in professional training, competitivewages, limited benefits, and 24/7 CAREGiver support. Our CAREGiverstell us this is the best job they’ve ever had.

Call Kelly today to see if you qualify to join our team: 839-0441

Home Instead Senior Carewww.homeinstead.com/321

Bookkeeper Wanted:Town of Chebeague Island

8 – 16 hours per week. Duties include but arenot limited to monthly check reconciliation,accounts payable processing, and auditpreparation.

High school diploma or GED is required.

Please submit a letter of interest, resumeand three references to:

Town Administrator Eric DyerTown of Chebeague Island

192 North Road, Chebeague Island, ME 04017by May 11th, 2012.

For more information call 207-846-3148or email [email protected]

Public Services WorkerTown of Chebeague Island

Average of 30 hours per week. Duties includebut are not limited to vehicle and equipmentmaintenance, road maintenance and repair,marine infrastructure maintenance and repair, andmaintenance of town property. Possession of avalid State of Maine Commercial Driver’s License(CDL) is required.

Please submit a letter of interest, resumeand three references to:

Town Administrator Eric DyerTown of Chebeague Island

192 North Road, Chebeague Island, ME 04017by May 11th, 2012.

For more information call 207-846-3148or email [email protected]

DECORATING

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COMPUTERS

892-2382

25 Years Experience

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Certified TechnicianA+ Network+ MOUS

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Dave:

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GARDENS

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776-8812

FIREWOOD

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Contact Don Olden(207) 831-3222

Cut to your needs and delivered.Maximize your heating dollarswith guaranteed full cordmeasure or your money back.$175 per cord for green.Seasoned also available.Stacking services available.Wholesale discounts availablewith a minimum order.

BUNDLED CAMPFIRE WOODnow available.

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*Celebrating 27 years in business*

Cut/Split/DeliveredQuality Hardwood

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FOR SALE

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TELESCOPE BRAND CASU-AL OUTDOOR FURNITURE. 2seat Hightop Glider (Swing).White frame w/blue/greensling. Never used. Originalprice $1589. Now $600. Seri-ous inquiries only. 713-8880.

FOR SALE

Cost $6500. Sell for $1595.

207-878-0999

Maple Gla

ze

KITCHEN

CABINETSNever

Installed

BALDWIN HAMILTON studiopiano & bench. Very goodcondition, some cosmeticblemishes, needs tuning,$1500. Call 799-3734.

FUNDRAISER

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FURNITURERESTORATION

DON’T BUY NEW! RE-NEW:Furniture Repair, Stripping &Refinishing by hand. Formerhigh school shop teacher. Pickup & delivery available. 30years experience. References.371-2449.

FURNITURE RESTORATION-Place your ad here to beseen in 69,500 papers aweek. Call 781-3661 for moreinformation on rates.

FURNITURE

BRAND NEW MATTRESS Set(Full-$175)(Queen-$180)(King-$390) Call today 207-591-4927.

HEALTH

Alcoholics Anonymous Fal-mouth Group Meeting TuesdayNight, St. Mary`s EpiscopalChurch, Route 88, Falmouth,Maine. 7:00-8:00 PM.

HELP WANTED

Are you interested inmaking a difference in an

older person’s life?Opportunities available for

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for elders in our community.Responsibilities include non-

medical and light personal care.For more info and an application,

please go to our website atwww.homepartnersllc.com

HomePartners883-0095

Opportunities available forindividuals interested in

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include non-medical andlight personal care. Weekendavailability a plus. For more

info and an application,please go to our website atwww.homepartnersllc.com

HELP WANTED

SEEKING PERSONfor part time, in home non-medical

elder care position.Experience and certification

preferred; references andbackground check required.

Call Mon.-Fri. 2 to 5pm at 781-9074

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Why not Get Home, Get Paid,2012 tractors/trailers to boot?888-219-8040

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Pownal, Maine

Green Firewood $210(mixed hardwood)

Green Firewood $220(100% oak)

Kiln-dried Firewoodplease call for prices.

688-4282Delivery fees may apply. Prices subject to change.

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• Landscape Design/Installation • Tree Removals/Pruning• Driveway Sealing/Sweeping • Spring/Fall Clean-ups

• Reasonable Prices• Free Estimates • Insured

Dan Bowie Cell:207-891-8249

207-353-8818 [email protected]

Yankee Yardworks

Durham

You name it, we’ll do it!Residential / Commercial

• Storm Cleanups • Lawn Care/Installation • Fencing• Rototilling • Mulch/Loam/Gravel Deliveries • Tractor Work• Landscape Design/Installation • Tree Removals/Pruning

• Driveway Sealing/Sweeping • Spring/Fall Clean-ups

HELP WANTED

LifeStagesYour Chance To Do

Great Work!LifeStages is a rapidly growingprogram providing in-homecare to Older Adults. We arecarefully selecting individualsto work per diem providinga range of services including

companionship, assistance withpersonal care and hospice care.Daytime and overnight shiftsavailable. We offer competitivewages and flexible scheduling.

Our Companions must bededicated, compassionate andhave a passion for their work.Call LifeStages at 780-8624

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Call 699-2570for more informationand an application.

Are you looking to makea difference in the lifeof someone in need?

Advantage Home Care isseeking kind, dependableand experienced caregiversto care for seniors in theirhomes in greater Portland.We offer flexible hoursand part-time shifts days,evenings, overnights

and weekends. Experiencewith dementia care is a plus.

HOUSEHOLD MANAGERneeded Mon. & Fri. 5-6 hrs/day.Duties include: cleaning, shop-ping, coordination of homemaint. & auto care, errands,light cooking, pet & plant care.Flexibility required. Sendresume to: Household Mgr,P.O. Box 199, Yarmouth, ME04096

PCA FOR wheelchair boundBrunswick woman to help withpersonal care/ADL’s. Work is inpositive environment. Cleanbackground/Drivers Licenseneeded. Flexible part time. 590-2208.

HOME REPAIR

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ONE TIME JOBS WELCOME

653-7036

HOME REPAIR

BUILD or REMODEL WITHCONFIDENCEStart designing, or review yourplans with an experiencedarchitect and builder.David Mele, AIA, LEED APMaine Licensed Architect30+ years experience in design& constructionDesign new homes & additionsReview plans & specificationsProject ManagementAccessibility ReviewCode Review & Permitting3D modeling lets you previewyour finished [email protected]

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• Painting• Weatherization• Cabinets

CARPENTRY

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Residential & Commercial

Seth M. RichardsInterior & Exterior Painting & Carpentry• Small Remodeling Projects • Sheetrock

Repair • Quality Exterior & Interior PaintingGreen Products Available

FULLY INSURED – FREE ESTIMATES

Call SETH • 207-491-1517

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ContraCting, sub-ContraCting,all phases of ConstruCtion

Call 329-7620 for FREE estimates

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Foundation Repair & WaterproofingPainting & Gutters

20 yrs. experience – local references(207) 608-1511

www.mainechimneyrepair.com

HOME REPAIR

WEBUILDDecks, Porches

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Call 776-3218

JOHNSON’STILING

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Floors • ShowersBacksplashes • Mosaics

829-9959ReferencesInsured

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INSTRUCTION

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Svetlana, owner ofSvetlana

Custom Clothing & Couturein Yarmouth.

BEGINNER CLASSMay 12 to July 14

Saturdays, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.$225

INTERMEDIATE CLASSMAY 14 to July 16

Mondays, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m$225

Private Lessons also availableContact Svetlana at

846-5844or through her website,

www.svetlanadesign.com

ADVERTISE YOUR BUSI-NESS in The Forecaster to beseen in over 69,500 papers.Call 781-3661 for more infor-mation on rates.

LANDSCAPINGCONTRACTORS

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Call or E-mail forFree Estimate

(207) [email protected]

D.P. Gagnon Lawn Care& Landscaping

We specialize in residential andcommercial property maintenance

and pride ourselves on our customerservice and 1-on-1 interaction.

IT’S SPRING CLEANUPTIME AGAIN!

Residential & CommercialPROPERTY MANAGEMENT• Mowing• Walkways & Patios• Retaining Walls• Shrub Planting & Pruning• Maintenance Contracts• Loam/Mulch Deliveries

email: [email protected]

Stephen Goodwin, Owner(207) 415-8791

VASSALBORO BLUE ROCKfor Stone Work and Walls

$100/c.y.Approximately 100 c.y.

Available Random Sizes878-2806

LANDSCAPINGCONTRACTORS

GARDEN RESCUESERVICE

• Single clean up,weeding• Biweekly weeding service•Transplanting and planting• Spring garden care

829.4335

LAWN AND GARDEN

Lawn Care: Mowing • AeratingDethatching • Renovations

Landscape: Maintenance,Loam/Mulch •Year Round Clean-ups

Planting • Snow Removal

Aaron Amirault, Owner

(207) [email protected]

DB LAWN CARE

274-0761

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• Dependable• Reasonably Priced

•Free Estimates

LAWN AND GARDEN

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Commercial and [email protected]

SPRING CLEAN UPMULCHING & MOWING

Landscaping615-3152

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LawnSERVICES

for more informationon rates

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LAWN MOWINGPRUNING/MULCH& PLANTINGS

Brickwork & RepairsProfessional Work • Low RatesCall Ryan 317-6274

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Cleanups

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CALL (207) 699-4240

• SAND• STONE

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RICKER FARMS353-4513 or 576-4138

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loadingBags $3.00

Yard: $30.00

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FOSSETT`S ROTOTILLING-New and established gardens,large or small, reasonablerates, free estimates. 34 yearsof experience. Dan Fossett,776-9800 or 829-6465.

SPRING CLEAN-UP: Lawn &leaf raking, mulching. I cansave you $money. No job is toosmall. Available weekdays orweekends. $11.00 per hr. Callnow! 892-8911.

MASONRY

GAGNON CHIMNEY &Masonry Services. ResidentialM a s o n r y , C h i m n e y s ,Stonewalls, Patio’s, Walkways,Repointing Chimneys & Steps.Blue Stone Caps, StainlessSteel Caps. Reflashing, Chim-ney Cleaning. Expert, Profes-sional Services. Insured, Ref-erences available. Free esti-mates. Call weekdays. Scott749-8202.

MASONRY/STONE-Placeyour ad for your serviceshere to be seen in over68,500 papers per week. Call781-3661 for more informa-tion on rates.

MISCELLANEOUS

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MISCELLANEOUS-Place yourad here to be seen in 69,500papers a week. Call 781-3661for more information on rates.




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• Driveways• Walkways• Roadways• Parking Lots• Repair Work• RecycledAsphalt/Gravel

FAMILYOWNED &OPERATED www.mainelypaving.com

“Making Life Smoother!”“Your Full Service Paver”

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MOVING

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Rental Trucks loaded/unloadedOPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK

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MUSIC

VOICE LESSONSYarmouth and Falmouth area

Stella BaumannBachelor of Music, Master of Music

[email protected]

THE SUZUKI VIOLIN STUDIOis now accepting new students,age 5+. Come have fun whilelearning the violin. CallT e r r y . 8 7 8 - 5 9 9 1 [email protected]

ORGANIC PRODUCE

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PAINTING

JIM’S HANDY SERVICES,COMMERCIAL-RESIDEN-TIAL. INT-EXT PAINTING/SPRAY PAINTING/ CARPEN-TRY/DECKS/FLOORS/WALLS/DRYWALL/MASONERY/PRESSURE WASHING/TREE-WORK/ODD JOBS.INS/REF/FREE EST./ 24 YRS.EXP. 207-239-4294 OR 207-775-2549.

MAINE’S FINEST PaintingLLC.Over 10 years exp.EPA certified/State certifiedWall repair of all kindsInterior/Exterior/CommercialLight Carpentry etc.Lenny [email protected]

Exterior Painting & Staining• Power washing• Make the old look new• 15 years experience

My low overhead saves you moneyFree estimates • References

749-6811

HOUSE PAINTINGMold Wash, Repairs, Prime & Paint or Stain.“It’s all about the preparation.”

831-8354

WEBBER PAINTING& RESTORATION

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PAINTING

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www.stevejaynes.com

Hall PaintingInterior/ExteriorFamily owned andoperated for over 20 yearsFree and timely estimates

Specializing in Older Homes

Call Brett Hall at 671-1463

Interior/Exterior• Painting & Repairs• Over 25 Years Experience• Plaster, Sheetrock, Wood Repair• Free Estimates, InsuredExcellent Local ReferencesCall Joe (207) 653-4048

HOUSE PAINTINGInside and out25 years experience, Insured,Lead Cert.Larry [email protected]

PAVING

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PHOTOGRAPHY

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information on rates

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The Forecasterto be seen by69,500 readers

CATCHLIGHT IMAGES, Wed-dings, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, Por-traits, Events.www.catchlightimages.comNikki Dedekian 617-285-4064Boston, Portland.

PHOTOGRAPHY- Place yourbusiness ad here to be seenby over 69,500 Forecasterreaders! Call 781-3661 formore information on rates.

POOL SERVICES

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POSITIONS WANTED

MARK ABOURJAILY’S StoneConstruction and MasonryI Provide the best in service,building stone elements,objects and structures meetingyour vision of transforming andcreating positive living spacesusing all natural rock, dirt andaggregate.Specialize in stone wall con-struction and maintenance.Fully Insured, Friendly Service,Free Estimates.I want your business so callme, 207-653-3701 or email [email protected] me on Facebook underMark AbourjailyThank You in Advance

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MAINE- CLIFF ISLAND-Ocean Front, 4 bedroom, 2bath home on large lot. Viewsfrom all living areas. MasterVaulted Ceilings. VIEWS FAN-TASTIC. $549,000. 239-595-1622. RENTALS AVAILABLEJUNE-OCT. Minimum 2 weeks.

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MAINE- CLIFF ISLAND-Ocean Front, 3 bedroom, 2bath home on large lot. Viewsfrom all living areas. All Updat-ed. Master Vaulted Ceilings.VIEWS FANTASTIC.$1600/week. 239-595-1622.RENTALS AVAILABLE JUNE-OCT. Minimum 2 weeks. NoDogs.

DURHAM- (81 RunaroundPond Rd). Large, Sunny 2 bed-room apt. 2nd floor of farm-house. Huge yard (35 acres),Storage, Propane Heat. NS.$800./month. References,Security Deposit & Leaserequired. Call 846-6240 or 233-8964.

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YARMOUTH VILLAGE- Large1 bedroom apt. 3rd floor. Offstreet parking, washer/dryer onsite, heat/water included. Walkto Royal River Park.$835/month. N/P/NS. Refer-ences, Security Deposit &Lease required. Call 846-6240or 233-8964.

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Trailsfrom page 4

“If a trail looks like its being paid atten-tion to with the addition of small bridges when necessary and rocks or crushed stone, people understand where the trails are,” Hemphill said. “If things get really muddy people think, ‘Oh, we should go way around this and make a new trail.’ Proper maintenance clearly defines where the trails go.”

The trail stewards want the public to know the trails are open and that with proper continued maintenance, they will never have to be closed.

While they discourage “rogue trail build-ing,” they said they could use some help lugging wood out to the trail for the 12 bridges they will be constructing over the next several months. Some of these will replace old, improperly built bridges, and

others will be placed to help trail users traverse mud holes.

“Right now there’s a lot of bridges that have been built that are too low. Last week, when we got all that rain, I just went out there on Saturday, and there’s quite a few bridges that are just missing,” Carleton said. “We would like to build the bridges so they are going to stay; so they are going to be enough to get over all the wet spots and make it an overall experience for hikers and bikers.”

Allspeed’s work on the trails is expected to help the trust manage problems with the trails and keep the land open for trail users well into the future.

“With proper use and respectful use we anticipate that we can continue host-ing these trails for lots of uses, mountain bikers, hikers, snowshoeing and skiing,” Hemphill said.

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Parksfrom page 1


The city has 130 plots in four gardens, and a waiting list of more than 100 gardeners, he said. Gardens run by neighborhood groups in Riverton, Deering, and on Peaks Island also have waiting lists, he said.

The city is also in the process of complet-ing an inventory of trees on public land.

“There’s a huge need for maintaining the city’s street trees and some of the park trees,” and while the parks budget, like most in the city, have been tight, this years budget did allow for that to continue, Moon said.

Work over the next year will include the restoration of Fort Allen Park on the East-ern Promenade, which was approved by the Historic Preservation board last week, he said.

Over the last year, the city has made im-provements to a number of its parks, Owens

said, including:• Replacing bleachers at Fitzpatrick

Stadium.• Building basketball courts in East

Bayside.• Building playgrounds at the Taylor Street

Park and Ocean Avenue Elementary School.• Creating fitness trails at five city

schools and an adult fitness course at the Preble Street field in Back Cove.

• Moving the baseball and softball dia-monds at Dougherty Field.

• And completing construction of the city’s concrete skatepark.

City staff will be joined by community leaders including Barb Hagar, a force behind the Eastern Cemetery preservation effort, and Kara Wooldrik, the new head of Port-land Trails, and Anne Pringe of the Green Spaces Coalition, at the meeting Thursday.

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Schoolsfrom page 1

“I’m OK at 2.9 percent,” Councilor Nich-olas Mavodones said last week. “We’re below 3 percent by a small amount. I’d be willing to listen to what it would take” to reach an even smaller increase, he said.

But Councilor Jill Duson last week said she still thought 2.9 percent was too high. And Councilor Cheryl Leeman, in the spe-cial council budget workshop on Monday, said she has had a hard time simply doing her grocery shopping because residents ap-proach her with concerns about the nearly $5 million dollar proposed increase in the school budget.

Monday’s workshop and first reading of the school budget by the City Council was sparsely attended. Final approval and scheduling of a May 15 referendum is expected at the council’s next regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, May 7.

The city budget will also receive a first reading on that date. The council will vote on that spending plan at its May 21 meeting.

School Board members, including Chair-woman Kate Snyder, and Superintendent of Schools James C. Morse Sr. characterized the budget increase Monday, as they have since the beginning of this year’s budget process, as necessary to maintain school quality after several years of budget cuts.

“I think we continue to be prudent year to year,” but the school system has reached the point where it needs to stabilize the budget, Snyder said. The schools should help retain Portland residents and attract new ones, she said.

Even with the proposed budget increase, the schools will continue to struggle with facilities that need maintenance, particu-larly the elementary schools, Morse said.

Chris O’Neil, a consultant representing the Portland Community Chamber, added some support. “To sell Portland,” he said, “we need to be able to sell the schools.”

Still, O’Neil said he did not attend Monday’s meeting with “a ringing en-dorsement” of an increase in taxes. Rather, he said, the chamber endorses the budget “process,” and encourages councilors “to wring more savings out of it.”Andrew Cullen can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 100 or at
