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Newlyweds get an extremely white weddingBy Judy HarrisonBangor Daily News

PORTLAND — Karen Willis always wanted a winter wedding with plenty of snow.

Willis got her wish Saturday when she married Gregory Beal at Grace Restaurant on Chestnut Street at about 2:30 p.m.

A blizzard and a wedding is a bit of a family tradition, she said Sunday in a telephone interview.

Her parents, Dr. John and Lois Willis, were married Dec. 19, 1970, the day after a record-setting 22.8 inches of snow fell in Portland. That record still stands as the biggest snowfall in

December in Maine’s largest city, according to the National Weather Service in Gray.

“I grew up looking at my par-ents’ wedding pictures and all that snow,” Willis said. “I’ve always wanted that. I’d hoped we’d get a

Courtesy Bonnie Harrison / BDn

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Principal stands on his record at Scarborough H.S.Page 2

Indexobituaries ......................10opinion ............................5out and about ..............21People & Business ........19

Police Beat ......................8real estate ....................30sports ............................15

arts Calendar ................20Classifieds .....................24Community Calendar .....22Meetings ........................22 Pages 11-14

Pet store remains under quarantine after dog death

By David HarrySCARBOROUGH — A quar-

antine on animal sales at Little Paws pet shop on Payne Road continued this week while owner Barbara Shaw Cross obtains tests on 23 dogs at the store.

“We are trying to figure out what we need to do to get our-selves off quarantine,” said Cross, the store owner since last June.

Animal sales were halted (the store remains open for other business) Feb 1. by order of the

Maine Animal Welfare Program, overseen by the state Department of Agriculture, after a purebred husky puppy sold to Julie Thomas of Madison, N.H., tested positive for parvovirus.

The husky, named Shelby, was about 10 weeks old when it died Feb. 2 at the Fryeburg Animal Hospital.

The quarantine on sales will be lifted after each dog in the store is confirmed not to have parvovirus.

DaviD Harry / tHe ForeCasterLittle Paws on Payne Road is open, but dogs are quarantined after the diagnosis of parvovirus in a husky sold there on

Jan. 23. The puppy died Feb. 2 at the Fryeburg Animal Hospital.

Courtesy Julie tHoMasJulie Thomas of Madison, N.H., said she is certain this puppy, purchased

from Little Paws in Scarborough, did not contract parvovirus after she brought it home from the store. The

diagnosis led to a quarantine on dogs in the store until all are tested for the

virus and an intestinal parasite.

U.S. Senate confirms appointment of Kayatta to appeals court benchBy David Harry

CAPE ELIZABETH — The appointment of lawyer William Kayatta Jr. to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 1st Cir-cuit in Boston won overwhelming U.S. Senate approval Wednesday afternoon.

Independent Maine Sen. Angus King and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, were among the majority in the 88-12 vote in support of Kayatta’s appointment to the court that is one judicial rung below the U.S. Supreme Court.

Kayatta expressed gratitude Wednesday after the Senate vote.

“On this day of formal con-

f i r m a t i o n by the Sen-ate, I thank the president for his con-fidence in nominating me, Reps . Michaud and Pingree for proposing my nomination, Sen. King and former Sen. Snowe for their strong support in the Senate, and Sen. Susan Collins in particu-lar for her unwavering leadership in marshaling my nomination

South Portland High School principal mum about resignationBy David Harry

SOUTH PORTLAND — Par-ents and school staff said they were shocked by the resignation submitted Feb. 8 by high school Principal James Holland.

Holland was hired before the 2011 school year, and expressed excitement at the time about lead-ing the school while it was being renovated and expanded.

He did not return phone calls this week seeking comment about his decision to resign June 30.

At Monday’s School Board

meeting, high school office man-ager Sheryl Kieran asked board members to reject Holland’s resignation.

“There has never been a hint from Jim of anything less than being thrilled to be principal of South Portland High (School),” Kieran said.

Walnut Street resident Kelly Martin, who has two children in the school, said she came to the meeting seeking answers about

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SCARBOROUGH — After abruptly resigning as Scarborough High School principal, Dean Auriemma said he some-times regretted his approach to the job, but never doubted his efforts to lead and change the high school.

“At the end of the day I would say the principal is responsible for everything, but it was my role to share the respon-sibility. It’s called shared leadership,” Auriemma said this week, 2 1/2 years after he was hired. “But somebody has to be willing to put their name on it and stand up for it. It is who I was when I was interviewed and who I am today.”

Auriemma submitted his resignation on Jan. 25, citing family demands while offering to stay on as principal until his contract expires on June 30.

After discussions with School Superin-tendent Dr. George Entwistle III, it was decided Auriemma would step aside Feb. 1, and Entwistle appointed a leadership team of Curriculum Director Monique Culbertson, Assistant Principals Ray Dunn and Susan Ketch, and Athletic Di-

rector Mike LeGage.Auriemma wil l

continue “to fulfill the remainder of his contract performing work that will con-tribute to important, district-wide, quality improvement initia-tives,” Entwistle said.

On Wednesday, Auriemma said he started thinking about resigning after adopting two Russian children last Oc-tober.

“I don’t know if it was a life-changing experience, or the fact these toddlers are very much in need of the attention you normally give toddlers,” he said.

Entwistle, citing confidentiality issues, declined comment beyond a letter to par-ents published on the School Department website.

But Auriemma conceded he was not always well-received by parents and staff.

A no-confidence letter questioning Au-riemma’s leadership was circulated last fall; five of seven academic department

heads stepped aside by the beginning of this school year, and former School Board student representative Adam Co-hen wrote a letter to the board criticizing Auriemma’s style and demeanor.

Auriemma was shown the no-con-fidence letter by Entwistle, but said it played no role in his decision to resign.

“I saw it as an opportunity to address issues, that’s what you do,” he said.

In contrast, Auriemma said he had a good working relationship with Scarbor-ough Education Association President Crystal Goodrich, and was always open to discussing differences of opinion – al-though his willingness had limits, he said.

“It depends on how you chose to see things not in my perspective. People can work together when they disagree. I don’t have a lot of patience when people are trying to turn things into issues that don’t focus on students,” Auriemma said.

Before he was appointed to replace Patricia Conant in 2010, Auriemma was principal at Thornton Fractional South High School in Lansing, Ill., near Chi-cago. He arrived at a school that had increased enrollment over the last decade and said he found some resistance to change, including reminders that Scar-borough was not Chicago.

“Parents who went to school here are realizing it is not a 700-student school anymore,” he said.

The people moving to town for the schools and those in town already also provided a positive contrast to his prior job in Illinois, Auriemma said.

“There are many more families here who are still connected and still very functional in terms of interest in the child,” he said.

Auriemma noted he helped students print petitions opposing parking fees instituted by the School Board last year. He also worked with police and students to ensure the town mass-gathering or-dinance would not be violated during a signature drive outside the school last summer.

School Board members approved a $50 annual fee last August.

Former School Board Chairman Bob Mitchell and Board member Aymie Hard-esty said they were not aware former aca-demic “lead teachers,” including science teacher David O’Connor, foreign lan-guage teacher Erik Zavasnik, art teacher Joanne Allen and English teacher David Hebert, no longer led their departments.

Mitchell said those were matters left to Entwistle and administrators, and Au-riemma said the teachers stepped aside for a variety of reasons that sometimes included changes in approaches to teach-ing and curriculum.

Hardesty said she spoke with Au-riemma on occasion because she hosted an exchange student attending the high school. She said she knew the no-confi-

CorrectionA Page 3 story Feb. 8 about the

four candidates for South Portland City Council incorrectly identi-fied Planning Board member Rob Schrieber as board chairman.

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City Council ready for a committee on committeesBy David Harry

SOUTH PORTLAND — A land swap, an endowment fund for maintaining municipal properties and landmarks, and attracting residents to city commit-tees filled the bill at a two-hour council workshop Monday night.

Councilors, with Patti Smith absent, agreed to form a panel including School Board members, city staff and municipal committee members to address methods of attracting new committee members and effectively communicating commit-tee activities.

While Councilor Melissa Linscott joked about “a committee to talk about committees,” she is likely to be one of the councilors working on the tasks outlined by Mayor Tom Blake and City Clerk Sue Mooney.

Mooney surveyed committee members and compiled 17 pages of responses, including the need to attract younger resi-dents to committees on Energy and Re-cycling, Conservation and the Planning Board, by increased use of social media.

“People don’t even know they exist, let alone there is a vacancy on them,” Councilor Linda Cohen said.

Mooney said a redesigned city website is expected to be online by mid-spring, with improvements that will help resi-

dents become informed more easily.Blake said the review has been needed

for years, and was something he tried to address with a 10-point plan in his first council term.

Council establishes Cape library, town center panelsBy Will Graff

CAPE ELIZABETH — The Town Council has created new committees for the Thomas Memorial Library and town center planning.

The council on Monday also sent a proposed ordinance amendment for lim-ited summer day camps to the Planning Board.

The library planning committee will be tasked with organizing an effort to address the aging and disjointed library, and planning for the building, its uses and its patrons for the next 25 years.

In addition to seeking public input, the committee will also consider proposals less costly than the nearly $8 million project that was defeated by voters last year, when they rejected a $6 million bond.

The proposed library bond would have

built a new library to replace the current building due to failing conditions includ-ing mold, lack of space, code violations and accommodations to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The committee will have five voting members: three from the council, one from the School Board and one library trustee.

The council had originally planned to give the committee a $25,000 budget, but decided to have the committee establish a budget to start and then allocate funding out of the general fund.

In October, the committee will make a “substantial progress report” and at that point the council will consider future directions and actions, Town Manager Mike McGovern said.

The library committee will also look at utilization of space for other library

services and programs.Although plans to develop the town

center were created two decades ago, little progress has followed since zoning amendments were approved in 1995.

The new Town Center Committee will be tasked with reopening the town center discussion and developing a plan to support a more active, business- and pedestrian-friendly town center.

The committee will hold public forums and report back to the council within six months of its first meeting. Its recom-mendations should be complete by the end of the year.

The members will review the existing town center, including “land uses, lot and building vacancies, infrastructure (roads, sidewalks, storm water, sanitary sewer, etc),” according to the commit-tee’s charge.

The committee will have nine mem-bers. The council will appoint five resi-dents, including a town center business owner and a resident of the town center or an adjacent neighborhood. Two coun-cilors will serve on the committee and the Planning Board and School Board

will each appoint one of their members.Much of the committee’s budget will

be used to update the town’s storm-water management plan. Similar to the library committee’s budget, the town center committee will need to establish a budget and bring it before the council for approval.

Applications for the committees will be available on the town’s website. Inter-ested individuals can also contact Town Clerk Debra Lane at 799-7665.

In other business Monday, the coun-cil sent the Planning Board a zoning ordinance to allow limited summer day camps in residential neighborhoods.

Councilor David Sherman said the change is needed because the camps, run by teenagers and adults to provide entertainment for kids in previous years, were not permitted last summer due to an ordinance interpretation by former Code Enforcement Officer Bruce Smith.

The amendment could include a defini-tion that keeps the camps small and lim-ited, and allows them as a permitted use.Will Graff can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 123 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @W_C_Graff.

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Grand jury indicts South Portland, Saco residentsBy David Harry

PORTLAND — A Cumberland County grand jury returned indictments against a Saco man who allegedly took illicit photographs of women in dressing rooms at the Scarborough Wal-Mart last July.

A South Portland mother and daugh-ter and two of their acquaintances were also indicted for an alleged robbery last December in the parking lot at Mallside Plaza in South Portland.

An indictment is a finding there is enough evidence to prosecute. It is not a determination of guilt or innocence.

William Tibbals, 31, of Pepperell Street in Saco, was indicted on a Class C count of visual sexual aggression against a child and two counts of Class D violation of privacy, according to the Cumberland County district attorney's office.

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South Portland resident Meadow Col-lins, 19, of Soule Street; her mother, Elizabeth Collins, 53, of Latham Street; Haskell Avenue resident Gabriel Sobc-zak, 18; and Justin Fletcher, 38, of Peaks Island, are accused of taking $200 and a cell phone from a Saco man during an

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Ice cream vendor spot up for grabs at Fort Williams

CAPE ELIZABETH — The town is now seeking applications for the only available food vendor license at Fort Wil-liams Park this summer.

The town hopes to find another ice cream vendor to replace Gorgeous Ge-lato, whose owners decided not to return, Public Works Director Bob Malley said.

The permit will only allow the sale of cold beverages, snacks and ice cream. The minimum bid for the Ship Cove Beach area license is $3,000.

Interested applicants should reply to a request for proposals that is available on the town website. The deadline to submit proposals is 2 p.m. Thursday, March 7.

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Perhaps Beem should spend some time actually dis-cussing Gov. LePage’s policies and achievements, rather than his character and style. I for one care more about results, and so far I think that Gov. LePage has produced some good results. A bipartisan House and Senate passed legislation that has moved Maine in a positive direction. The state continues to face financial hurdles, and Gov. LePage is facing them head on. And although he may not move in your direction, he is moving to deal with these issues, and not kicking them down the road. That is progress.

Barry StephensBuxton

Our elderly deserve affordable in-home care

America’s elderly population has worked hard over the years to live the American dream. These individu-als have worked long hours so they could afford a nice home. Most people retire around the age of 65 and the cost of prescriptions and doctors’ visits grow increas-ingly expensive. Growing costs and lack of funding for elderly programs make it impossible for individuals to remain in their homes and community. Our focus should be on creating and supporting funding for programs that help support the elderly in staying in their home. We hear stories of elderly people having to sell their home

because they can no lon-ger afford the rising costs of living or because they are alone and feel unsafe. There are a few programs that are private pay that support the elderly in their own home.

Unfortunately, many elderly individuals cannot afford the luxury of living the last of their days in their home that they worked so hard for. Instead they have no choice but to sell their home and move into an assisted-living facility or nurs-ing home. These facilities can be very expensive. This amount of money could be better spent on having nurses or personal care assistants come to the individual’s home where they feel safe and comfortable. If we care about our elderly then we should support funding for programs that provide in-home care and support for them in their home.

Hannah MihillPortland

Concerned about the tar sands scenario

By now most of us have heard something about tar sands oil. This oil is composed mostly of clay and sand and, unlike the crude oil we use for heating, needs to be mixed with chemicals and enormous amounts of water so that it can be pumped through pipelines. In that state, it has been compared to hot liquid sandpaper.

The problem for us is that our pipelines are over 60 years old and are used to taking crude oil from the port of South Portland up to Montreal. Now the process will be reversed and the tar sands oil will come down from Canada and be exported to China and other destinations.

As the pipeline goes through Maine, it crosses the Crooked River six times and follows the Andro-scoggin and Presumpscot rivers. Most significantly, it passes by Sebago Lake, which is the source of our drinking water. Should there be a break in this pipeline anywhere along its path the results could be dire, for, unlike crude oil, which floats, this oil sinks to the bottom, where it remains to kill fish and plants and pollute the water supply.

Two 70-foot towers will be built at the terminal in South Portland to burn off the toxins, and huge tankers unlike any we have seen here before will need to come into our waters to transport it.

Jean SheridanYarmouth

No reason not to have universal health care

Edgar Allen Beem’s recent opinion piece about health insurance struck a nerve. Recent events in my own life have shown me what shaky ground Americans are on when it comes to health care and our ability to pay for it.

Recently, a cancer diagnosis led me to major surgery, followed by two kinds of extensive (and expensive) therapies, one of which is ongoing.

I am very fortunate to be covered by my wife’s health-insurance plan. Had she lost her job (which she almost did, due to restructuring), things could have turned out pretty badly for us. This reality of living on the edge of losing our health coverage, therefore our ability to main-tain our health, is the same reality that most Americans live with every day. And those are the lucky ones among us – the ones who have health insurance to worry about losing. There are, of course, many Americans who have no health insurance at all.

The system we have is crazy. And it is immoral. We have the money and the brains to provide health-care coverage for everyone. What we don’t seem to have is the will to stop listening to those who say that we can’t implement a fair and decent system.

There is no reason for not having universal coverage so that everyone can have a decent level of health-care coverage. We simply can’t afford not to do this. Its time has come.

Ted MarkowBrunswick

U.S. health-care system is shameful

Thank you, Edgar Allen Beem, for writing sensibly about the U.S. health-care system. Contrary to those who claim that we have the best health care in the world, in fact we are near the bottom of the heap in nearly ev-ery measure, compared to the rest of the countries in the modern industrialized world. (Anyone who doubts this should read a book by T.R. Reid called “The Healing of America.”) We spend more per capita than any other country and have poorer health outcomes. And worst of all, ours is the least fair of them all, leaving many mil-lions of our citizens with no access to care. We should be ashamed.

No other country allows profit-making insurance companies instead of medical professionals to decide what will be paid for and what treatment we can have. No other country allows the astounding waste of time, money and energy that our “system” requires due to having to cope with so many different insurance poli-cies, employer programs, and individual choices. Those living in countries with a universal national system view ours not with admiration, but with fear of its savage nature.

We need a national health system that assures access for everyone on exactly the same terms. Medicare for all would be a great step in the right direction.

Nancy O’HaganPortland

Beem is right for the wrong reasons

Edgar Allen Beem occasionally supports a position with which I agree, most recently that the winner of a multi-candidate election should be chosen from the top three vote-getters in a run-off election when no one gets over half the vote. His primary reason for this position is that he doesn’t like Gov. LePage or his policies, and he expects this method to produce a majority in the run-off.

This is an important issue, but not for Mr. Beem’s reasons.

The issue is broader than that. Elected officials will be more effective when results reflect the views of a majority (over 50 percent) of the voting population, i.e. a run-off between the top two. But given enough can-didates, the top two might only have, say, 25 percent of the vote between them, and even if one wins 60 percent of the run-off vote, that candidate would still enjoy only 15 percent of the overall vote. This is hardly conducive to effectiveness.

The problem might be addressed by focusing on the candidates’ views rather than on the candidates them-selves. For example, the other candidates’ votes might be apportioned among the run-off candidates based on congruence of their platforms with those of the finalists. After all, most people aren’t particularly interested in

a candidate per se, but rather in their political philoso-phies.

So, Beem was correct, but should have considered the issue in broader terms. But, hey, it’s not the first time someone has been right for the wrong reasons.

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The second of two columns on “corporate welfare” in Maine proposes strategies for limiting the practice. Last month: Corporate welfare is unaffordable, the shameless pursuit of these benefits by corporations pitting one town against another is little more than extortion, and these give-aways do not grow Maine’s economy.

Threats by corporations that they will not come to, or remain in Maine unless tax subsidies are provided are little more than a bluff. In many cases the bluff is obvious. Wood products and paper making corporations (most receiving large tax sub-sidies) were here long before tax subsidies were available; they will be here if these subsidies are ended, because the trees are here.

L.L Bean and Bath Iron Works, also recipients of large tax subsidies, and also here before the subsidy era began, have a valuable identity with Maine, huge costs sunk in plant and warehouse facilities, and trained workforces; moving away is all but impossible. Their profit margins were born in Maine and will remain here without these subsidies.

Finally, the Wal-Marts, Targets, and Home Depots of the world have a proven business model, and a national or global growth strategy. They want their share of the Maine market. If tax subsidies did not exist, these corporations would still be knocking on our door; we don’t have to pay them to come to Maine.

In short, caving in to veiled threats is not necessary.Instead, elected officials should listen to experts in the

field of plant expansion and business location, who con-tinually point out that these decisions do not turn on tax subsidies. They are driven, first, by economic factors – the availability and cost of labor, raw materials, and transpor-tation for both inputs and final products going to markets. Also important are projected sales, profit margins, and increases in market share in locations being considered.

Second, quality-of-life factors are examined – e.g., the adequacy and cost of workforce housing, whether public safety needs are adequately met, the quality of public and/or private schools in the areas being considered, and the fairness, stability of state and local governments.

Corporations will weigh these factors slightly differently

as their individual business models and corporate values dictate, but the bottom line remains the same: they expand in, or move to, an area because they anticipate making money in that location. It’s that simple. They give little weight to tax subsidies in this decision-making calculus.

That said, it seems foolish for elected officials to con-tinue to believe that tax subsidies will create jobs. But it is also unrealistic to believe that these subsidies will simply go away – they won’t. Subsidies can, however, be reduced and our corporate welfare system can be refocused. Here is how we can achieve these ends:

• Existing Business Equipment Tax Reimbursement, Tax Increment Financing, or other annual tax disbursements to corporations in excess of $500,000 could be reduced by 50 percent; disbursements below $500,000 could also be reduced on a downward scale, leaving commitments below $100,000 intact.

• The duration of existing BETR, TIF or other tax dis-bursements to corporations could be reduced by 50 percent; if this results in ending a particular corporate disbursement, that’s fine; the era of 12-, 20-, and 30-year payout periods must end.

• For new commitments of state or local tax revenues to corporations, a “cap” (an upper limit on the total commit-ment) could be fashioned: $5 million-$10 million for capi-tal investments that exceed $100 million seems reasonable. The cap would be reduced for smaller capital investments.

• The allowable time-frame over which “capped” com-mitments of state or local tax revenues would be paid out could be limited: three to seven years seems reasonable, depending on the level of the “capped” commitment.

• For new “capped” commitments of state or local tax revenues to corporations, a “jobs” commitment could be fashioned. This commitment would be commensurate with the level of the tax subsidy, and should extend for the newly fashioned payout period (perhaps longer). Failure to meet a “jobs” commitment would terminate the tax subsidy.

• Aside from relatively minor tax-subsidy benefits, cor-porations could be required to select the TIF, income tax credit (or other) tax subsidy provision that works best for them; pyramiding subsidies (so-called double- or triple-dipping) must end.

• Corporations could be prohibited from negotiating with more than one Maine municipality (playing them off against one another) in an effort to maximize their corpo-rate subsidy benefits.

• A corporate “need” or “means” test could be fash-ioned to determine future eligibility for state or local tax

Maine doesn’t have to be a corporate-welfare state

PolicyWonk

Orlando Delogu

Braving the stormI think it was when my son took the bag of Goldfish and

swung it wildly around and over his head. As those yellow, smiling cheddar delights flew through the kitchen air and landed on the unwashed floor; as he solemnly began track-ing down every last piece of horrified snack food; as he lay on his stomach, nose-to-tile, the better to absorb crumbs into every pore of his sweat-er, jeans, and hair, it hit me.

I am not stopping him because I am just relieved he is occupied with something.

Were that scene to be set to screenplay or crime fiction, the italics would read: Day Three – Nemo Found Me and Won’t Let Me Outside.

I had been dreading the weekend storm since I heard about it, which was on or about Thursday. A brazen lack of awareness about significant news events has proved to be a side effect of my life as a mother of young chil-dren. I’m not sure my television gets any station other than Disney. I take it on faith that southern Maine still receives local news broadcasts, and I just hope I’ll overhear an adult conversation that includes the important bits.

And so it was that I arrived at my cubicle and caught a co-worker marveling at the feet of snow we were predicted to get. Surely I misunderstood, I reassured myself. I’m mishearing things as sympathy pain for my son’s recent ear infection, I soothingly whispered into the wind tunnel behind my forehead.

Alas, weather.com, cnn.com, and even people.com con-firmed that massive amounts of snow were on the horizon. Armed with the facts, I did what any mother worth her left-over baby weight does: I went to Shaw’s. Then Wal-Mart.

Friday dawned, as we all know, in a non-dawny sort of way. The snow had already started falling, and human ac-tivity was already canceled. School was canceled, driving was canceled, Starbucks was canceled.

I gathered my children. I looked them each – meaning-fully – in the eye. I told them stuff was about to get real, and they’d best do me the solid of not behaving like com-plete animals. We fist-pumped and went to our separate corners to get our minds right.

By 11:30 that morning, I had organized the playroom, purged their outgrown clothes, vacuumed, done two loads of laundry, and prepared lunch. I was exhausted and plum out of ideas for the next 60-70 hours. Then I remembered the bowling set.

Remember the trip to Wal-Mart? In a stroke-of-genius move, I spent that discount spree purchasing a plastic bowl-ing set. With the afternoon closing in, I began instruction in the finer art of knocking things over with a ball. Not to brag, but my kids caught on quickly.

We knocked pins over in the dining room, the playroom, the upstairs hall, and the downstairs hall. It wasn’t long before my kids signaled their ability to “transfer” knowl-edge. Soon they were knocking over books, plates of food,

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subsidies. Paying out millions to Fortune 500 corporations must end. Low-income people routinely face such tests to determine eligibility for welfare benefits.

• Decoupling TIF agreements from existing school aid, and county tax apportionment provisions, seems neces-sary. The majority of municipalities do not enter into TIF agreements. Current law penalizes them; they receive less school aid than they should, and pay higher county taxes.

These suggestions can be expanded or narrowed as the Legislature chooses, but their intent is clear: corporate tax subsidies must be smaller, extend for shorter periods of time, target smaller firms, and focus on jobs. The law should prevent corporations from bargaining with multiple towns to get the best subsidy deal, and should create greater fairness between towns that choose to grant TIFs and those that do not.

If retirement benefits for Maine teachers and state work-ers can be reduced on the theory that we can’t afford the commitments made, tax subsidies for wealthy corporations can/should be similarly reduced.

We can do this.Orlando Delogu of Portland is emeritus professor of law

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The UniversalNotebook

Edgar Allen Beem

Monkeying with the school calendarThe Portland School Department last week pro-

posed a series of changes to the school-year calendar that make some sense from the perspective of teaching and learning.

Whether the proposed schedule changes will make sense from the perspective of teachers, staff, parents and students is another story.

Among key changes being contemplated are:• Starting high school

an hour later because teenagers are not awake and alert early in the morning.

• Extending the school day by one hour to allow for more instructional time, and lengthening the school year for the same reason.

• Shortening the sum-mer vacation to reduce the loss of learning momentum from year to year.

• And rolling the tradi-tional February and April vacations into one March break, as prep schools do.

When I was on the Yarmouth School Committee in the 1990s, we considered some of these changes and even implemented a few. Most were nonstarters, as they probably will be in Portland.

Vacation consolidation was one of my pet causes. I’ve always thought the February and April breaks were a waste and a nuisance, but then I don’t ski or take vacation trips.

I imagine, however, that Portland will get the same pushback from its teachers and staff that Yarmouth did when we contemplated a March vacation. If you have children (or a spouse) in another school district, how are you supposed to manage suddenly being on two different vacation schedules?

The fundamental problem you run into when you start monkeying with the school calendar is that you can’t really do it alone. If you’re not on the same schedule as other local school systems, you’re asking for trouble.

If Portland and Deering high schools, for instance, start an hour later and lengthen the school day by an hour, students would be getting out around 4 p.m. That’s going to conflict with a lot of extracurricular

activities and interscholastic athletics. Unless your baseball and softball fields and those of your oppo-nents all have lights, for example, you can’t start a ballgame at 4:30 p.m. or 5 p.m. in May.

There is also the matter of cost. Lengthen the school year and the school day and you’re going to have to compensate teachers and staff accordingly.

One of the few calendar changes we did enact in Yarmouth was adding five teacher in-service days to enhance professional development and five student days to increase learning time, extending the school year from 180 to 185 days. The Maine Legislature has repeatedly tried and failed to do the same statewide.

Some countries do have much longer school years than the U.S., but at what cost? Japan, for instance, has 243 school days a year, but Japan also has a word for “death from overwork:” karoshi.

Even though President Obama has proposed a 200-day school year and there are periodic calls for year-round schooling, I don’t see that happening in Maine any time soon. For one thing, several studies have concluded that there is no significant correlation between instructional time and student achievement. For another, people in cold, dark, wintry Maine jeal-ously guard their summer vacations.

Just keeping kids in school a week longer in Yarmouth met with so many objections from families and students with summer commitments that we were forced to re-think the five extra students days. Teachers were natu-rally concerned about losing financial gains made when the year was lengthened, so we hit upon a compromise that, in retrospect, seems like one of the worst decisions of my 1995-2001 School Committee tenure.

To preserve the extra class time and protect teacher salary gains, we came up with the brilliant idea of spreading the five extra days out over the school year in 15-20 minute increments by starting school a little earlier each day. I’m not sure we got the educational bang for the buck we had hoped for, especially given the current thinking that high school should start later in the day, not earlier.

One step forward, two steps back. Good luck, Port-land. Changing the school calendar is never as easy as one might think.

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

stools, and each other. They thought it was hilarious and they didn’t want me involved. I let it roll.

As the hours cooped up indoors stretched into days, I let them push even more boundaries. We baked a dessert I like to call a “brookie,” because it’s a combination brownie-cookie. They played “chase the sibling” around the living room table. I tested how many movies I could get them to watch at once.

I would love to say that Nemo, The Blizzard of Our Lives, taught my family how beautiful it is to be stripped of distraction and granted uninterrupted time together. I would love to say that I cherished every moment I spent wondering “now what?”. But all I can say is this:

To all you kids out there, if you ever had some crazy idea about something you’d like to try at home, wait for the next storm. Fifteen minutes in, ask either parent for permission to make that idea a reality, or at least a test case. I guarantee you’ll get a shrug and a “go ahead” hand wave in response.

Abby Diaz grew up in Falmouth and lives there again, because that’s how life works. She blogs at abbysleftovers.blogspot.com and hellogiggles.com/abby-diaz, and can be reached at [email protected]. Follow Abby on Twitter: @AbbyDiaz1.

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Cape elizabeth arrests

No arrests were reported from Feb. 5-11.

Summonses2/5 at 2:30 p.m. Benjamin Fox, 21, of Cape Elizabeth, was issued a summons on Old Ocean House Road by Sgt. Kevin Kennedy on a charge of improper display of registration plate.2/6 at 1:25 p.m. Michael Friedland, 41, of South Portland, was issued a summons on Shore Road by Officer David Webster on charges of failure to produce insurance and driving an unregistered motor vehicle.

2/7 at 1:50 p.m. Brian Gould, 32, of Cape Elizabeth, was issued a summons on Route 77 by Officer David Webster on a charge of driving an unregistered vehicle.2/8 at 3:12 p.m. Logan Clardy, 18, of Orange, Calif., was issued a summons on Route 77 by Sgt. Kevin Kennedy on a charge of driving an unregistered motor vehicle.2/11 at 5:18 p.m. Ryan Deane, 36, of Cape Elizabeth, was issued a summons on Eastfield Road by Sgt. Kevin Kennedy on a charge of driving an unregistered motor vehicle.

Rising tide4/9, no time reported. Police responded to a report that a vehicle on Two Lights Road was in danger of being swept into the ocean by the surf. No one was in the area to claim the vehicle and police said they were unable to contact the registered owner. A tow truck was called and the vehicle was safely removed.

Fire calls2/6 at 8:05 a.m. Carbon monoxide alarm on Deerfield Lane.2/6 at 1:08 p.m. Grass fire on Spurwink

Avenue.2/8 at 3 p.m. Fuel spill on Woodland Road.2/9 at 4:28 a.m. Smoke investigation on Oakview Drive.2/9 at 9:46 a.m. Water problem on Garden Circle.2/10 at 4:01 p.m. Gas alarm on Deerfield Lane.2/10 at 10:01 p.m. Electrical fire on Charles Road.

eMSCape Elizabeth emergency services responded to six calls from Feb. 5-11.

SCaRboRough arrests

2/7 at 2:30 p.m. Bobby M. Collins, 32, of Park Avenue, Portland, was arrested on Payne Road by Officer Brian Nappie on charges of unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs.2/7 at 5:56 p.m. Jennifer A. Arnold, 45, of Elm Street, Biddeford, was arrested at Route 1 and Broadturn Road by Officer Garrett Strout on a charge of violating conditions of release.2/8 at 1:03 p.m. Mary L. Beverage, 26, of Short Street, Portland, was arrested on Gallery Boulevard by Officer Melissa DiClemente on an outstanding warrant from another agency and a charge of theft by unauthorized taking.

Summonses2/4 at 8:02 a.m. A 15-year-old female, of Scarborough, was issued a summons on Mu-nicipal Drive by Officer Francis Plourd on a charge of sale and use of drug paraphernalia.2/4 at 11:36 a.m. A 17-year-old male, of

Standish, was issued a summons at Hannaford Drive and Route 1 on charges of possession of alcohol by a minor and sale and use of drug paraphernalia.2/6 at 3:48 p.m. Thomas L. McGinness, 67, of High Street, Portland, was issued a summons on Payne Road by Officer Michael Thurlow on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking.2/7 at 11:35 a.m. Jason S. Bennett, 26, of An-nies Way, Waterboro, was issued a summons on Payne Road and Bridges Drive by Officer Melissa DiClemente on a charge of failing to register a vehicle.2/8 at 8:16 a.m. George J. Gott III, 62, of Westmore Avenue, Biddeford, was issued a summons at Payne and Broken roads by Officer Michael Thurlow on charges of operating under the influence, failure to report an accident and leaving the scene of an accident.2/8 at 1:03 p.m. Samira M. Benjamin, 20, of Short Street, Portland, was issued a summons on Gallery Boulevard by Officer Melissa DiClemente on an outstanding warrant from another agency and a charge of theft by un-authorized taking.2/10 at 2:44 p.m. Bobbi Barker, 36, of West-brook Street, South Portland, was issued a summons on Gallery Boulevard by Officer Michael Beeler on a charge of theft by unau-thorized taking.2/10 at 2:44 p.m. Amanda Papapetrou, 27, of Westbrook Street, South Portland, was issued a summons on Gallery Boulevard by Officer Michael Beeler on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking.

Money talks2/4 at 1:32 p.m. An Ocean Street resident received a letter claiming he won $250,000 in an international lottery. When no one answered the phone at the number he called to activate the enclosed check, he reported a case of pos-sible mail fraud to police.

Courtesy call2/5 at 10:13 a.m. Staff at Maine Indoor Karting were alerted by South Portland police that a company trailer was found in a parking lot off Wallace Avenue in South Portland.

ask arlo guthrie2/7 at 9:38 a.m. Police looking into a com-plaint of illegal dumping found garbage and debris behind MBI Trailers off Rigby Road. Discarded mail in the garbage will be used to pursue the investigation.

all for a cause2/7 at 6:41 p.m. Police said a man seen ap-proaching homes on Regal Pines Drive while carrying a bag and flashlight was representing the Maine People’s Alliance.

Fire calls2/4 at 1:49 p.m. Smoke odor investigation at Pine Point Road and Route 1.2/5 at 9:23 a.m. Alarm call on Route 1.2/5 at 10:09 a.m. Alarm call on Sargent Drive.2/5 at 6:44 p.m. Structure fire on Oceanview Road.2/6 at 7:56 a.m. Alarm call on Bird’s Nest Lane.2/6 at 4:31 p.m. Alarm call on Running Hill Road.2/6 at 6:32 p.m. Alarm call on Pillsbury Drive.2/7 at 1:10 p.m. Smoke detector problem on Oakdale Drive.2/8 at 10:22 p.m. Smoke odor investigation on Oceanview Road.2/9 at 4:14 a.m. Monitor heater problem on Sandpiper Cove Road.2/9 at 5:16 a.m. Alarm call on Wentworth Drive.2/9 at 7:26 a.m. Alarm call on Wentworth Drive.2/10 at 6:03 a.m. Wire problems on Pleasant Hill Road.2/10 at 10:57 a.m. Propane odor on Indian Hill Lane.2/10 at 2:27 p.m. Alarm call on Broadturn Road.2/10 at 6:54 p.m. Vehicle fire southbound on

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2/2 at 2:50 a.m. Daniel G. Tucker, 34, of Buxton, was arrested on Westbrook Street by Officer Michael Armstrong on charges of assault and violating conditions of release.2/2 at 4:39 p.m. Ryan A. Gurney, 22, of South Portland, was arrested on Cottage Road by Officer Scott Corbett on a charge of operating with a suspended or revoked license.2/3 at 1:06 a.m. Edward J. Cianchette, 27, of South Portland, was arrested on Lincoln Street by Officer Kevin Sager on a charge of operating under the influence.2/3 at 2:18 a.m. Alex Fraser, 24, of Portland, was arrested on Route 1 by Officer Kevin Sager on a charge of operating under the influence.2/3 at 7:19 p.m. Kurtis G. Howard, 39, of South Portland, was arrested on Main Street by Officer Jared Nabel on an outstanding warrant from another agency.2/4 at 4:06 p.m. Timothy Pawloski, 30, of Cape Elizabeth, was arrested on Anthoine Street by Officer Patricia Maynard on an outstanding theft warrant.2/5 at 1:34 a.m. Ryan J. Sawyer, 29, of Gor-ham, was arrested on John Roberts Road by Officer Chris Gosling on a charge of operating under the influence.2/5 at 4:50 p.m. Irving J. Myrick, 46, of Windham, was arrested at Crockett’s Corner by Officer Scott Corbett on an outstanding warrant from another agency.2/5 at 9:12 p.m. Jeremy Putnam, 31 of South Portland, was arrested on Main Street by Of-ficer Jesse Peasley on an outstanding warrant from another agency.2/6 at 4:22 p.m. Jeffrey S. Pingree, 29, of South Portland, was arrested on Broadway by Officer Jeff Warren on a charge of operating as a habitual offender with a suspended or revoked license.2/6 at 5:18 p.m. Sarah Henderson, 21, of South Portland, was arrested on Main Street by Officer Jesse Peasley on a charge of domestic violence assault.2/6 at 11:15 p.m. Linda J. Annis, 26, of Portland, was arrested on Philbrook Avenue by Officer Andrew Nelson on an outstanding warrant from another agency.2/7 at 12:44 a.m. Nicholas C. Charek, 30, of Portland, was arrested on Pearl Street by Officer Shane Stephenson on an outstanding warrant from another agency.2/8 at 1:28 a.m. Jacob L. Mehurn, 22, of South Portland, was arrested on Main Street by Of-ficer Chris Gosling on a charge of exceeding the posted speed limit by more than 30 mph.

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Fire calls2/5 at 10:58 a.m. Accident, no injuries, on Gorham Road.2/5 at 2:28 p.m. Combustible, flammable gas or liquid condition on Main Street.2/6 at 11:04 a.m. Accident with injuries on Gorham Road.2/6 at 11:47 a.m. Off-road vehicle or heavy-equipment fire on Thadeus Street.2/6 at 7:56 p.m. Unintentional alarm activation on Western Avenue.2/6 at 8:24 p.m. Unintentional alarm activation on Ridgeland Avenue.2/8 at 8:07 a.m. Accident, no injuries, on I-295.2/8 at 8:58 p.m. Water or steam leak on Alfred Street.2/9 at 2:13 a.m. Unintentional alarm activa-tion on E Street.2/9 at 4:22 a.m. Unintentional alarm activation on Market Street.2/9 at 4:50 a.m. Carbon monoxide incident on Atlantic Avenue.2/9 at 6:11 a.m. Carbon monoxide incident on Westbrook Street.2/9 at 7:42 a.m. Unintentional alarm activation on Hall Street.2/9 at 10:27 a.m. Unintentional alarm activa-tion on Westbrook Street.2/9 at 11:47 a.m. Unintentional alarm activa-tion on Hall Street.2/9 at 3:52 p.m. Water or steam leak on Ocean Street.2/9 at 8:11 p.m. Unintentional alarm activation on Wallace Avenue.2/9 at 9:41 p.m. Unintentional alarm activation on Westbrook Street.2/10 at 5:24 p.m. Accident with injuries on Maine Mall Road.2/11 at 3:04 p.m. Unintentional alarm activa-tion on Broadway.

EMSSouth Portland emergency services responded to 55 calls from Feb. 5-11.

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SCARBOROUGH — Christine Ann Dorsey, 59, of Scarborough, died Sunday at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House, sur-rounded by family and friends.

Born March 20, 1953, in Lewiston, Dorsey was the daughter of Robert and Mildred Sansoucy. She graduated in 1971 from Edward Little High School in Auburn and from Trinity College in 1975, where she received a degree in special education and human services.

She met her husband, Steven M. Dors-ey, at a midnight Mass in Winooski, Vt., and they were married Aug. 17, 1974, at St. Phillips Church in Auburn.

While raising her duaghter in Auburn, Dorsey was an avid community volun-teer and served organizations such as the Lewiston YWCA, the Abused Women’s Advocacy Center and St. Joseph’s Nurs-ery and Parochial Schools.

More recently Dorsey worked as a so-cial worker for the Child Health Center in Norway and Auburn. For many years she worked with pregnant and parenting teens, and later served as the coordinator for the Central Maine Developmental Evaluation Clinic, serving children from infancy to age 5.

In 2005, Dorsey and her husband relocated to Scarborough and she refo-cused her energy on community service, volunteering with a dear friend at Dress for Success, a program designed to assist women re-entering the workforce with the job interview process.

Advocating for social causes, helping others, reading, entertaining friends and family were among her passions. Always full of vigor, she was a great source of strength for many friends and family. She loved the beach and skiing.

She is survived by her husband, Ste-phen Michael Dorsey of Scarborough; daughter Morgan Elizabeth Dorsey of

South Portland; and many beloved nieces, nephews and brother- and sister-in-laws.

Visitation will be held from 3-6 p.m. Friday at Conroy-Tully Crawford South Portland Chapel, 1024 Broadway. Prayers will be recited at 10:45 a.m. Saturday at the chapel, followed by an 11:30 a.m. Mass of Christian burial at St. Bar-tholomew’s Church, 8 Two Lights Road, Cape Elizabeth. Burial will follow in New Calvary Cemetery, South Portland.

Those desiring may make donations to the Cancer Community Center of South Portland, 778 Main St., South Portland, ME 04106.

Edward John Burke, 90SOUTH PORTLAND — Edward

James Burke, 90, of South Portland, died Feb. 2 at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarbor-ough.

He was born in Springfield, Mass., Sept. 23, 1922, the son of John and Car-rie Burke.

He grew up in the Portland area and at-tended Portland schools. From 1941 to 1945 he served proudly in the U.S. Army Air Corps, an early incarnation of the U.S. Air Force. During World War II, he served in the Burma-China theater as a tech sergeant.

Burke married his wife, Mildred O’Donnell, on Jan. 28, 1946. He worked for EG Foden Co. in Portland from 1946 to 1966, Ametek Co. from 1966 to 1970, and Commercial Distributors from 1970 until he retired in 1984. After his retire-ment he volunteered for five years with Meals On Wheels. Burke was also a faith-ful communicant of Holy Cross Church

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ObituariesChristine Ann Dorsey, 59: Dedicated to community service

in South Portland.In addition to his parents, Burke is

predeceased by his daughter, Elizabeth Burke; a brother, Wendall Burke; and two sisters, Dorothy Acker and Laura Geissler.

He is survived by his wife of 67 years, Mildred Burke; two daughters, Carolyn Lane of Augusta, and Diane Bonville and her partner Mark Cronkite of South Port-land; seven grandchidren, Brian Spencer of South Portland, Todd Rutherford of South Portland, Alison Rutherford Martin and husband Miguel of Midlothian, Va., Tressa King-Libby and husband Chuck Libby of South Portland, Alan Bon-ville and partner Jesica Childs of South Portland, Amanda Griffin of Augusta, and Adam Bonville and partner Brittni Wishart of Saco; 16 great-grandchildren, Jenna, Zachary and Degan Weitzell of Augusta, Lucas Griffin, Jr. of Augusta, William, Jack and Katie Martin of Midlo-thian, Va., Justin King of South Portland, Josh, Jonny, Joey and Nick Libby of South Portland, Adrienne Childs of Old Orchard Beach, Eli and Emily Bonville of South Portland, and Arabelle Bonville of Saco; and nephew Gary Lawsure and wife Carolyn of Scarborough.

A Mass of Christian burial was held Feb. 7 at Holy Cross Church in South Portland, followed by burial in Calvary Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Burke’s honor may be made to the Boys and Girls Club of South Portland.

Mary Carol Loud, 92SOUTH PORTLAND — Mary Carol

Loud, 92, died Jan. 31 at South Portland Nursing Home.

She was born June 14, 1920, in Yon-kers, N.Y. to Phillip and Ethel Nelson.

She grew up in New York City and Newton, Mass., and was a 1937 gradu-ate of Newton High School and a 1941 graduate of Middlebury College. After college, she taught French, Spanish and English at Ilion High School in upstate New York, returning eventually to Bos-

ton and working for several years at John Hancock Co. During that time she met her husband, Will, whom she married in 1949.

When their chil-dren were born, Loud stayed home to care for them but con-tinued doing volunteer work, substitute teaching and tutoring in foreign lan-guages.

She was a member of the Wellesley Village Congregational Church, where she was a deaconess, and the Middlebury Alumni Association, of which she was a president of the Boston chapter. She enjoyed her neighborhood reading group and French classes into her late 80s.

She will be remembered as an intel-ligent, loving mother, grandma and sister.

In addition to her parents, Loud was predeceased by her husband, Willard H. Loud Jr. in 1996. She is survived by a sister, Elizabeth Cary of Scarborough; a daughter, Cynthia L. Rice and her hus-band John of South Portland; son Philip N. Loud and his wife Jennifer of North-port, Mich.; six grandchildren, Lindsay Rice of Newton, Mass., Abigail Rice of Brighton, Mass., Molly Rice of New Or-leans, Jacqueline Rice of South Portland, Christopher Loud of Los Angeles and Nicholas Loud of Los Angeles.

A graveside service will held in the spring at Blue Mountain Cemetery, Rye-gate, Vt.

Those wishing to remember Loud may make a donation to the South Ryegate Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 151, South Ryegate, VT 05069.

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The Forecaster has the basketball tournament covered

The Forecaster will have blanket coverage of the boys’ and girls’ basketball tournaments from the Portland Expo and Cumberland County Civic Center. Get in-game updates on Twitter at twitter.com/foresports. Our website will have the most descriptive game stories, with historic perspective, detailed box scores and photo galleries, within 24 hours of the completion of each game.

Cape, Scarborough, SP boys begin title bids(Ed. Note: For the complete

Scarborough-Gorham game story, with photos and a box score, please visit theforecaster.net)By Michael Hoffer

Forecaster Country boys’ bas-ketball teams promise to bring plenty of excitement to the ancient Portland Exposition Building this weekend as the Western Class A and Class B tournaments heat up.

South Portland will be the top seed in Western A for the first time since the first Clinton Ad-ministration.

After a historic win, Scarbor-ough brings its bombs-away style to the Expo for just the second time.

Cape Elizabeth, after missing out on the fun last winter, is back and primed to make a run at favor-ites Falmouth and York.

Party like it’s 1984Since joining the Southern

Maine Activities Association in time for the 2003-04 season, Scarborough made it to the play-offs seven times, but had to play a prelim on six of those occasions. The Red Storm lost every one.

Tuesday evening, Scarborough bucked history.

The Red Storm finished 12-6 (its best record since 2007-08) and

earned the No. 6 seed in Western Class A after last Thursday’s 60-31 win at Kennebunk (Sam Terry had 16 points, Brendan Hall and Kevin Manning 13 apiece).

Scarborough earned the right to host No. 11 Gorham in the preliminary round Tuesday and took advantage, trailing for all of nine seconds. It went ahead to stay on a 3-ball from Dillon Russo and had a comfortable 12-point lead after one quarter. The Rams rallied in the second and got within seven, 19-12, but the Red Storm responded and took a 10-point lead to the break. Then, with Gorham still hanging around midway through the third period, Scarborough pulled away, thanks to clutch hoops from Sam Wessel and Terry to make it a 20-point game. The Rams got no closer than 15 from there and the Red Storm went on to a 65-46 victory, its first ever postseason triumph in Class A and first playoff win at any level since 1986.

Terry led all scorers with 20 points, do-everything senior Bren-dan Hall added 15, Russo had 10 and John Wheeler added seven on his 18th birthday as Scarborough made nine 3-pointers, improved to 13-6 and set up a delicious West-

ern A quarterfinal round date with third-ranked Bonny Eagle (15-3) Saturday at 7 p.m.

“We finally got a big victory,” Hall said. “It feels good. Coach has said all year that we have to run. We got to them (with our defense), got open 3s and knocked them down.”

“It means a lot,” Wheeler said. “It means we’re building as a pro-gram. Nerves come with a playoff atmosphere, but then we hit shots and we got comfortable in our press. We got stops and pushed it. That’s how we’ve won. It worked tonight.”

“I’m happy with the effort over-all,” added first-year Scarborough coach Tony DiBiase. “I thought we played well. Gorham had us on the ropes for a little while, then we got into a flow and knocked down shots. We started out well, then hit a lull, then played our game. The past is past. We’ve had a lot of success this year.”

On Feb. 1, at Scarborough, Bonny Eagle eked out a 59-58 overtime win over the Red Storm. The teams have no playoff history. Scarborough likes its chances to spring an upset.

“I’m excited,” said Terry. “It’s going to be a good one. It was a

MIke Strout / For the ForecaSterScarborough senior John Wheeler, who played a key role Tuesday on his

18th birthday, scoops a shot toward the basket during the Red Storm’s 65-46 win over Gorham in a Western Class A preliminary round playoff game.

Scarborough advanced to face Bonny Eagle in the quarterfinals Saturday.

Girls’ teams primed to turn heads at tournamentBy Michael Hoffer

It was a banner year for girls’ basketball in Forecaster Country and four teams will take part in the upcoming tournament.

In Western A, Scarborough and South Portland are on a quarterfi-nal round collision course.

In Western B, Cape Elizabeth is as hot as anyone going in and has shown for weeks it is capable of beating anybody.

In Western D, Greater Portland Christian School is hoping to make some noise.

Seeing redScarborough and South Port-

land were among the top teams in Western Class A all year and will square off in a quarterfinal round showdown Monday at 7 p.m., at the Portland Exposition Building.

The Red Storm went 15-3 in the regular season, good for the No. 4 spot. Scarborough finished with a 58-34 home victory over Ken-nebunk last Thursday behind 18

points from Mary Redmond and 15 from Ashley Briggs.

“I’m very pleased going 15-3,” said Red Storm first-year coach Ron Cote. “The girls came to play every game and had great attitudes. In the games we lost, we kept it close at McAuley, we came out flat in the first half, then played better in the second against Deering and Cheverus (a triple overtime setback) was a battle the whole way. Our other closest games were 10 or 12 points. We won most of the others handily.”

The Red Riots, hindered down the stretch by the loss of senior standout Danica Gleason to a knee injury, wound up 12-6 and fifth in the region following a 53-11 loss at two-time defending Class A state champion McAuley last Thursday (Samantha Munson had a team-high four points).

“We had the toughest schedule in the league, playing (McAuley and Deering) twice,” said South

Portland coach Mike Giordano. “To be 12-6, I’m really proud of the kids.”

Scarborough beat host South Portland in the lone regular season matchup, 42-30, Jan. 2. The teams met in both the 2009 and 2010 quarterfinals, with the Red Storm prevailing both times, by scores of 53-26 and 40-22.

Both coaches respect the op-position.

“When Gleason went out, they still played tough,” Cote said. “Mike is as good as any coach in the league. They’re fundamentally sound. They have more height than we do. We’ll need some luck to have a run like we did last year (when Scarborough reached the regional final). We have to play our fast game. If we can get teams to play fast, it’s an advantage for us. I expect a tough battle.”

“Scarborough is very disci-plined and is extremely well

FIle PhotoScarborough’s Ashley Briggs and South Portland’s Maddie Hasson are hoping

for big things as the Western Class A girls’ basketball tournament kicks off.

nailbiter here. I hope it’s another nailbiter and we come out on top. It’s a great experience. I’m going to enjoy it.”

“We’re the top two scoring teams in the league,” DiBiase added. “We have the same phi-losophy. We could have beaten them the first time. It’s going to be a tough matchup. A lot of people

are picking (Bonny Eagle) to win it. For some reason, we’re under the radar. We’ll go there, give a good account of ourselves. We’ll play hard. It should be an exciting game.”

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Mother Nature decimates postseason scheduleBy Michael Hoffer

A weekend that was supposed to crown state champions in wrestling, conference champions in Nordic and Alpine skiing, another round of Southwesterns winners in swimming and produce a round of girls’ hockey playoffs instead turned into a washout.

Or more aptly put, a whiteout.The record-setting snow that swept the

region Friday and Saturday erased the high school sports slate in the process, frustrat-ing schedule-makers and lengthening the season.

Wrestling’s state meet was supposed to be Saturday at the Augusta Civic Center. It will now be contested this coming Saturday in Sanford.

The Southwestern swim meet, which included Cape Elizabeth, Scarborough and South Portland, which was scheduled for Friday (boys) and Saturday (girls) in West-brook, was postponed to Monday (boys) and Tuesday (girls).

In the boys’ meet, Cheverus came in first with 327 points. Cape Elizabeth (180) fin-ished fourth, while Scarborough (177) was fifth. South Portland (53) came in eighth.

The Capers were paced by Evan Long, who won the 100 freestyle (49.71 seconds) and was runner-up in the 500 free (22.28) and their 200 freestyle relay team (Griffin Thoreck, Jordan Petersen, Ian Riddell and Long, 1 minute, 35.7 seconds).

The Red Storm saw Jerry Gravel set a new meet record in winning the 200

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individual medley (1:57.11). His brother, Robby, held the old mark. Gravel was sec-ond in the 100 backstroke (52.08). Divers Jonathan Alas (273.20 points) and Nate Erickson (208) finished third and fourth respectively.

The Red Riots were seventh in both the medley (2:30.52) and 200 free (1:42.47) relays.

Tuesday, Cape Elizabeth took top honors in the girls’ meet with 278 points, seven better than Greely. Scarborough (108) was seventh. South Portland (62) placed eighth.

The Capers didn’t have an individual winner, but captured both the medley (Han-nah Homans, Sadie Stiles, Sydney Wight and Caroline Herriman, 1:52.02) and 200 free (Sierra Bates, Sarah Loring, Taylor Herrera and Elle Richards, 1:51.94) relays. Wight was runner-up in both the 200 free (2:04.55) and the 100 fly (1:00.03). Stiles finished second in the 100 breaststroke (1:10.38). Homans placed third in the 50 free (25.18). Michaela Pinette was third in diving (201.05).

The Red Storm featured Mackenzie Wood, fifth in diving (179.10), and a third-place 200 free relay team (Lucy Iselborn, Maya Ahluwalia, Aleeza Barkas and Hallie O’Donnell, 1:54.28).

The Red Riots were paced by Lauren Halvorsen, who was fifth in both the 200 free (2:15.87) and 500 free (6:06.53).

The state meets will be held Monday (Class A boys at Bowdoin College in Brunswick) and Tuesday (Class A girls at Bowdoin).

While Scarborough and South Portland’s indoor track teams gear up for states, Cape Elizabeth took part in the weather-delayed

Western Maine Conference championship meet Monday (it was originally scheduled for Friday) at the University of Southern Maine in Gorham. The Capers boys tied Sacopee for seventh place with 33 points (York won with 165). The girls (29) were ninth (Greely was the champion with 193).

Individually, Cape Elizabeth was led by Liam Simpson on the boys’ side. Simpson was runner-up in the mile (4 minutes, 35.22). Kyle Kennedy came in third in the two-mile (10:31.66). Tim Brigham placed third in the junior 400 (57.64 seconds). Laura MacKay led the girls with a third-place showing in the senior 200 (28.36).

The Class A state meet is Monday at USM. The Class B meet is at Bates College in Lewiston.

The Western Maine Conference Nordic championships began last Wednesday with the skate race. Cape Elizabeth’s girls were fifth (Merriconeag was first) and the boys eighth (Yarmouth placed first). Individually, Dana Hatton was sixth in the girls’ race (18 minutes, 47.2 seconds over the 5.8-kilome-ter trail). The boys were paced by Julian Pelzer (15th, 17:14.7).

The Classic race was scheduled for Saturday, but was moved to Monday and then to Tuesday at Stark’s Hill in Fryeburg. There, the girls were sixth (and came in sixth overall), while the boys moved up to seventh (but still came in eighth overall). Merriconeag took the team titles in both genders. Tuesday, Hatton was seventh for the girls (21:24.5) and Pelzer was 19th for the boys (19:54).

The SMAA Alpine championships were also affected by weather, being postponed

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Above: Scarborough’s Kristen Murray finds herself amid several Cheverus defenders during the teams’

West Region semifinal Monday afternoon. Murray got a lot of attention for good

reason, as she had four goals in the Red Storm’s

6-1 win.

Right: Cape Elizabeth’s Liam Simpson heads for a second-place finish in the mile at Monday’s Western Maine Conference

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from Friday to Tuesday at Shawnee Peak. Scarborough won both the boys’ and girls’

crowns. The boys were led by Andrew Mills (fourth in the giant slalom, a two-run combined time of 1 minute, 8.86 seconds) and Kevin Dryzga (fifth in the slalom, 1:44.84). The girls featured Abby Mills

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from Tanner Hyland), at Cheverus last Thursday, but still wound up 15-3 and first in Western Class A. The last time that hap-pened was the 1993-94 season.

“You never like to lose, but I hope the kids can learn from the loss,” said Red Ri-ots coach Phil Conley. “We preach coming to play every game. We came out flat and credit to Cheverus.

“I’m very happy with how our season has gone. (Hyland, who averaged 19.7 points, 6 assists and 5.5 rebounds per game) is a three-year starter at point guard. He got bet-ter as the season went on. He shared the ball and got open looks for teammates. Seniors (Trevor Borelli, Ben Burkey, Calvin Carr, Conner MacVane and Jack Tolan) played really hard, rebounded well and played well defensively. Sophomore Jaren Muller (12.1 points, 5.2 rebounds per game) had an outstanding first year of varsity.”

South Portland will meet No. 9 Sanford (which edged eighth-ranked Marshwood in a preliminary round thriller, 52-49, to improve to 11-8) Friday at 9 p.m. in the quarterfinals. The Red Riots beat visit-ing Sanford, 56-43, in the regular season. South Portland has won all six of the prior playoff meetings (dating to 1975) between

the schools. The most recent was a 71-55 regional final triumph in 1993.

“Sanford is a good team,” Conley said. “They’re well coached. They have good scorers. We have to be ready to play. We look forward to the challenge. I don’t feel pressure as the one seed because the league is so balanced. We just have to share the ball on offense, play good defense and rebound on both ends. If we do that, we should be successful. We hope to make a good run.”

Party like it’s 2011Last winter, Cape Elizabeth failed to take

part in the quarterfinals for the first time in 15 seasons, but that could be forgiven con-sidering how much talent they’d graduated from teams who had played in the Class B Final in 2008, 2009 and 2011 (and lost in the regional final in 2010). This winter, Cape Elizabeth has returned to its accus-tomed perch as one of the best teams in the region, finishing 13-5 and third in Western B after closing with a 54-46 win at Greely (veterans Henry Babcock and Chris Robi-cheaw combined for 31 points).

“I’m pretty pleased with the season be-cause we’ve been in a lot of close games and we found a way to win a better share of them than we did last year,” said longtime Capers coach Jim Ray. “We hit big shots at

Boysfrom page 15

(third in the GS, 1:11.39; fourth in the sla-lom, 1:48.75).

The ski state meets are the week of Feb. 18.In girls’ hockey, Scarborough, the top-

ranked team in the West Region, was scheduled to host No. 4 Cheverus in the semifinals Friday, but that game was moved to Saturday and ultimately to Monday due to poor weather. When the teams finally squared off, Kristen Murray had four goals to help the Red Storm to a 6-1 win, sending Scarborough to the regional final Wednes-day to meet No. 2 York. If victorious, the Red Storm will play either defending state champion Greely or Leavitt/EL in the state final Saturday at 7 p.m., at the Colisee in Lewiston.

Boys’ hockey is the lone sport still play-ing its regular season.

Scarborough holds the top spot in the Western Class A Heal Points standings and takes a 13-1 record and 12-game win streak into a home game versus South Portland Friday (it will be the Red Storm’s first game in 13 days). Scarborough hosts Biddeford

Monday, goes to Falmouth for a makeup showdown Tuesday and closes the regular season Thursday at Cheverus.

South Portland was 14th at 2-11 after recent losses at Kennebunk (8-1) and Marshwood (11-4). The Red Riots go to Scarborough Friday and Noble Saturday, host Portland Monday and close at home versus Kennebunk Thursday.

In Western B, Cape Elizabeth clings to the fifth and final playoff spot at 5-10-1 after last Thursday’s tough 5-4 home loss to defending Class B state champion Greely. The Capers led much of the way, but fell just short despite two goals from Curtis Guimond. Cape Elizabeth is home with Leavitt Saturday and plays at Gar-diner Monday. Senior Charlie Laprade was named January’s Rookie of the Month by the Western Class B Coaches’ Association after scoring five goals and adding two assists.

The boys’ hockey playoffs begin Feb. 23.Sports Editor Michael Hoffer can be reached at mhoffer@

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

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Scarborough names new baseball coach

Former assistant Ryan Jones has been named the new Scarborough varsity base-ball coach. Jones, a former Bangor High standout, who played at the University of Southern Maine, succeeds Mike Coutts and inherits a program which made it to the Class A state game a year ago.

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big times. I hope we can maintain our level of confidence.”

Cape Elizabeth doesn’t have an easy quarterfinal test, facing sixth-ranked Wells (11-8) in the quarterfinals Saturday at 11 a.m. The teams split in the regular season, each winning on the road (the Capers, 70-65, and the Warriors, 80-75). Cape Eliza-beth has taken three of the previous five playoff meetings (dating back to 1964). The last was a thriller, a 49-44 Capers triumph in overtime in the quarterfinals two years ago.

“There’s very little margin for error,” Ray said. “We’ll have to show up and ex-ecute and not get outworked. If we knock down shots, we can be successful. (Wells) has stepped up. They’re not afraid to get on the floor. They’re a handful. They’re quick and strong and have a balanced attack. I suspect they’ll come after us.”

Maybe next yearGreater Portland Christian School wound

up 0-15 and 14th in Western D (only nine teams made the playoffs) after a 60-33 loss at Acadia Christian in its finale.

ScheduleLooking ahead to the semifinal round,

Western A plays Wednesday evening at the Cumberland County Civic Center. The Western B semis are Thursday night, also at the Civic Center. The Western A and Western B finals are Saturday, Feb. 23, at the Civic Center. The Class B state final is Friday, March 1, at the Civic Center. The Class A state game is Saturday, March 2, at the Augusta Civic Center.Sports Editor Michael Hoffer can be reached at mhoffer@

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

coached,” Giordano said. “They have great senior leadership and they know how to win. They force you to play at an uncom-fortable tempo. We’ll try to dictate the tem-po a little ourselves. It’s a challenge. I think our kids are up for it. All year, our goal has been making it to the Civic Center (for the semifinals). We’re 32 minutes away.”

Quite a rideCape Elizabeth, which missed the play-

offs last winter, was 1-5 entering the new year when its season took a sudden turn for the better with a stunning overtime win at Western C power Waynflete. That started a run which saw the Capers go 9-3, finish 10-8 (their best record since 1995-96) and

earn the No. 7 seed in Western B (their best finish since that aforementioned 1996 campaign).

“When we were 1-5, I never thought we’d go 9-3 the rest of the way,” said Cape Elizabeth coach Chris Casterella. “I don’t even know how we did it. We were doing the same things as earlier in the year, but we weren’t getting wins. Winning at Waynflete gave the kids the picture that we could do it. It propelled us forward. It was our big-gest win of the year. The kids believe in what we’re doing and we’ve played great defense. It’s been fun to watch the kids step up. We had a great last two-thirds of the season.”

The Capers hosted No. 10 Oak Hill (11-7) in the preliminary round Wednesday night. The teams don’t play in the regular

season and had no prior playoff history. Cape Elizabeth was seeking its first post-season win since beating Greely, 57-48, in the 1996 Western B semifinals.

“We don’t know much about Oak Hill other than they’re scrappy and like to push the ball up the floor,” said Casterella. “We’ll try to prepare based on what we know, but we have to be mentally prepared to play. It’s built up to this all season. We want to get to the Expo.”

If the Capers took care of business and advanced, they’ll face powerhouse No. 2 seed York (16-2) in the quarterfinals Tues-day at 3:30 p.m., at the Expo. Cape Eliza-beth lost at York, 52-35, Jan. 25, but took the visiting Wildcats to overtime in dramat-ic fashion before falling, 59-51, Feb. 1. The last time the Capers played York in the post-

season with the 1994 quarterfinals (a 61-57 Wildcats’ victory). The schools also met in the 1979 (32-31 York), 1986 (55-39 York) and 1988 quarterfinals (49-40 Capers).

HopefulGreater Portland Christian School, which

made it to the quarterfinals last year, fin-ished the 2012-13 season with a 12-5 record after closing with a 64-23 loss at Waynflete and a 23-7 win at Acadia Christian. The Lions earned the No. 5 seed in Western D and advanced to the quarterfinals at the Augusta Civic Center to face No. 4 For-est Hills (15-3) Tuesday at 10 a.m. The teams didn’t meet in the regular season.

ScheduleLooking ahead, the Western B semifinals

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New hires

The Maine chapter of the American Civ-il Liberties Union recently hired several new staff members. Rachel Myers Healy, who worked as a field organizer for the ACLU for five years, is the organization’s first director of communications. Healy, an Auburn native, most recently served as a senior communications strategist with the nationwide ACLU Center for Justice. Jill Barkley, who joined the organization as its marriage project coordinator in April, has been named public policy advocate. Barkley led the effort to establish Re-publicans United for Marriage as part of the successful 2012 campaign to secure marriage equality for same sex couples statewide. Oamshri Amarasingham, a graduate of Northeastern University School of Law, will serve as public policy counsel. Amarasingham formerly served as a legal intern at the ACLU of Maine, the ACLU of Northern California, Gay & Lesbian Advo-cates & Defenders and the law firm Kotin, Crabtree and Strong. She was a law clerk at the National Center for Lesbian Rights.

Mortgage Network Inc., a Portland-based independent mortgage lender, hired Hal Inman as a loan officer. Inman, a Houlton native, is a graduate of Univer-sity of Southern Maine and brings more than 12 years of experience to the team.

Public Affairs Group, an affiliate of the Portland law firm of Curtis Thaxter, recently hired political strategist Patricia Eltman and attorney Regan Haines. Elt-man was most recently director of the Maine Democratic Party’s 2012 campaign. Haines will assist on lobbying efforts in the areas of health care, energy, real estate, tax and finance. Public Affairs Group provides government relations, public relations and lobbying services be-fore federal, state and local governments.

The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office introduced its newest K-9 team, Deputy Corey Plummer and his canine

Bill Sowles, left, the general manager and owner of Morong Falmouth, is joined by Dorothy Blanchette, president of Falmouth Food Pantry, and Peter Sowles, the vice president and owner of the dealership, for the donation of $1,000 to help the pantry feed local families.

partner, Jaeger. Plummer began his law enforcement career in 1999, and has been with the Sheriff’s Office for seven years. He is a member of the Emergency Services Unit as a negotiator, an emergency vehicle operators course instructor, as well as an officer in charge. Jaeger, whose name means “hunter” in German, is a 2-year old shepard mix. He comes to the United States from Holland via the International Canine Exchange program, and has received basic training. The team will be attending the Maine Criminal Justice Canine Academy next month before joining the two cur-rent K-9 teams of Deputy Al Winslow and Paco, and Deputy Matt Tufts and Rocky.

Grants

The Maine Health Access Founda-tion announced a grant of $300,000 to Lewiston-based Maine Community Health Options to assist in developing and mar-keting a new patient-centered, affordable nonprofit health insurance plan that will be available on the new Health Insurance Exchange in Maine as early as Oct 1.

Good deeds

Students at St. John Catholic School in Brunswick participated in Pennies for Patients, a program in which students collected spare change and compet-ing among grades to see who raises the most money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, the world’s largest nonprofit health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research and providing education and patient services.

Students at the St. Brigid Catholic School

in Portland collected donations of socks, toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant and other essentials and prepared care packages for the St. Vincent de Paul Soup Kitchen.

Promotions

United Insurance, one of the largest independent insurance agencies in Maine, announced recently Peter Clavette, se-nior vice president and managing partner of the United Insurance Ezzy Agency in Madawaska, has joined the company own-ership team. Clavette joined the agency as a manager in 2005 following several years of sales and management experience with Enterprise Rent-A-Car in Ontario, Canada.

Recognition

Bauer Financial Inc., a national bank research and rating firm, recently awarded Norway Savings Bank a five-star rating for “serving the commu-nity in a prudent and responsible manner.”

Mary Holmes and David Sparta, in-vesment representatives with Northeast Financial, earned certification as certified financial planners from the Certified Fi-nancial Planner Board of Standards Inc. The certification credential is recognized industry-wide as the standard of excellence for education, experience, personal ethics, and responsibility in financial planning.

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McAuley Residence, a comprehensive housing program serving single mothers and children is about to move from its Portland location at 91 State St. to the former Children’s Hospital of Portland at 68 High St. The Sisters of Mercy founded the program 25 years ago and has been operated as part of Mercy’s community mission. In the newly-renovated space, owned by Community Housing of Maine, the McAuley Residence will expand from seven to 15 apartments ranging from stu-dios to two-bedrooms along with spacious common space for the residents to gather.

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Saturday 2/23Steve Grover Birthday Bash, 8 p.m., Woodford’s Congregational Church, 202 Woodford St., Port-land, 828-1310.

Theater & DanceFriday 2/15“Peter Pan,” 4 p.m., Children’s Museum and Theater of Maine, 143 Free St., Portland, 828-1234 ext. 231.

Saturday 2/16“Peter Pan,” 1:30 p.m. and 4 p.m., Children’s Museum and Theater of Maine, 143 Free St., Portland, 828-1234 ext. 231.

“The Sound of Music,” North Yar-mouth Academy, 148 Main St., Yarmouth, 846-9051 for show times.

Sunday 2/17“Peter Pan,” 4 p.m., Children’s Museum and Theater of Maine, 143 Free St., Portland, 828-1234 ext. 231.

“The Sound of Music,” North Yar-mouth Academy, 148 Main St., Yarmouth, 846-9051 for show times.

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Works like the diptych “Close-up,” above, will appear at an exhibit by Noriko Sakanishi at the June Fitzpatrick Gallery at MECA, 522 Congress St., Portland. The exhibit opens Feb.

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GalleriesFriday 2/22Noriko Sakanishi: Confluences, 5 p.m., June Fitzpatrick Gallery at MECA, 522 Congress St., Portland, 699-5083, through March 23.

Mid CoastAuditionsBrunswick 2013 Hometown Idol is seeking participants for this year’s contest, held April 27 at 7 p.m. at the Orion Performing Arts

Center in Topshams. Applications are available in Brunswick, Topsh-am and Harpswell schools and at Shaw’s at Cook’s Coner and Riley Insurance. For more information visit brunswickmainerotary.org or e-mail [email protected].

FilmTuesday 2/19Courtroom Drama Series: “And Justice for All,” 6:30 p.m., Patten Free Library, 33 Summer St., Bath, 443-5141 ext. 25.

Saturday 2/23“Here Comes the Sun,” 2:30 p.m., Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleas-ant St., Brunswick, 371-2030.

Tuesday 2/26Courtroom Drama Series: “Twelve Angry Men,” 6:30 p.m., Patten Free Library, 33 Summer St., Bath, 443-5141 ext. 25.

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Portland Ovations, which has been presenting stellar touring acts since 1931, is hosting two of the most intriguing con-certs on southern Maine’s performing arts calendar this weekend.

First up is this Saturday, when French-Canadian classical pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin performs an eclectic program at an unusual afternoon concert.

The next day Portland Ovations hosts The Bad Plus, a modern jazz trio, per-forming a “deconstruction” of one of the 20th century’s classical musical land-marks: Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.” It’s the second, and most adventurous, of Portland Ovations’ four-part centennial celebration of the work.

Jonathan Edwards, the “Sunshine” boy from southern Maine, returns to One Long-fellow Square for a midwinter concert.

Marc-Andre HamelinA Canadian-born classical piano

virtuoso who lives in Boston will be performing a varied program of mostly 20th-century works this Saturday in Portland. His afternoon concert in Merrill Auditorium, presented by Portland Ova-tions, was originally scheduled for Feb. 9.

In a professional career that spans more than a quarter-century, Marc-Andre Hamelin has earned a reputation for championing and recording the works of many lesser-known composers as well as specializing in late 19th-century Roman-ticism. He’s also known as a composer in his own right, mostly writing solo pieces for the piano.

A graduate of Montreal’s prestigious Ecole Musique Vincent-d’Indy and Phila-delphia’s Temple University, Hamelin has performed around the world, including an annual European tour. He has released more than two dozen records and CDs, mostly on the Hyperion label.

International honors include the Vir-ginia Parker Prize, Carnegie Hall Inter-national Competition for American Music and the Juno (Canada’s Grammy) for Best Classical Album. He’s also collected nine Grammy nominations.

Saturday’s program will feature Alban Berg’s Piano Sonata plus works by Ga-briel Faure, Maurice Ravel and Hamelin himself. A series of three pieces by Ser-gei Rachmaninoff, perhaps the 20th cen-tury’s most popular Romantic composer for the piano, will conclude the concert.

Portland Ovations presents Marc-An-dre Hamelin at 3 p.m. Feb. 16 at Merrill Auditorium at Portland City Hall. Call PortTix at 842-0800.

The Bad PlusPortland Ovations is marking the

centennial of Igor Stravinsky’s pioneer-ing ballet, “Rite of Spring,” with four programs during its 2012-2013 season. The culmination will be a March 21 performance of the full “Rite of Spring” by the Joffrey Ballet. Leading up to that are three variations and take-offs that focus on different aspects of Stravinsky’s masterpiece.

The most adventurous variation is slated for this Sunday when The Bad Plus, an avant-garde jazz trio, performs a “deconstruction” of the work, reinter-preting Stravinsky’s celebrated score via a radically different idiom.

Originating in Minneapolis, pianist

French classical pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin will perform an eclectic program Saturday afternoon, Feb. 16, under the aegis of Portland Ovations.

Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson and percussionist Dave King have been performing together as The Bad Plus since 1989. The trio specializes in break-ing down the walls of convention that separate the jazz, rock, country, classical and electronic genres.

Fueled by a deep appreciation of improvisation, the trio has long been praised for affixing its own signature to compositions of others. A prime example is “On Sacred Ground,” which is based on Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.” With a video synchronized to the trio’s live per-formance, “On Sacred Ground” becomes a multimedia event.

Portland Ovations presents The Bad Plus’ “On Sacred Ground” at 7 p.m. Feb. 17 at the Abromson Community Education Center, 88 Bedford St. on the University of Southern Maine’s Portland campus. Call PortTix at 842-0800.

Jonathan EdwardsAnother artist who got started in Min-

nesota is Jonathan Edwards, a singer-songwriter who burst onto the national scene in 1971 with a breezy, upbeat and uplifting tune titled “Sunshine,” which sold more than a million copies and is still a staple of Triple-A radio. “Sun-shine” launched Edwards’ career, which

continues to the present.After leaving Minnesota, Edwards has

lived mostly in New England, including Massachusetts, New Hampshire and (cur-rently) Maine.

Since “Sunshine,” Edwards has re-leased 14 albums and he has collaborated on recordings and television shows with artists such as Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Cheryl Wheeler. One Edwards album, “Little Hands,” was cited by the National Library Association as a notable children’s recording. He has also scored two movie soundtracks, “The Mouse” and “The Golden Boys.”

Theatrical gigs included playing the leading male role in a national touring production of the Broadway musical “Pump Boys and Dinettes.”

Jonathan Edwards appears at One Longfellow Square (corner of Congress and State in Portland) at 8 p.m. Feb. 15. Call 761-1757.

Behind the scenesOver the past few years, the biggest

story on Portland’s arts and entertainment scene has been the emergence of One Longfellow Square as southern Maine’s premier small music room and the venue of choice for folk singers, singer-song-writers, roots-oriented musicians, jazz

and Americana.Geographically speaking, One Long-

fellow Square is the bedrock western an-chor of the Congress Street Arts District. It’s the major performing arts venue in a quarter-mile stretch that also includes two other busy spots: Port City Blue and Local Sprouts.

Seating about 200 in a very intimate concert setting, One Longfellow Square began about a decade ago as the Center for Cultural Exchange. Cabaret seating is occasionally used and sometimes the main floor is cleared for dancing. Light refreshments are available for all shows.

One Longfellow Square’s claim to preeminence was solidified about a year ago when it converted to a nonprofit organization, allowing it to solicit mem-berships and grants. The goal was to free itself from the strict dictates of box-office receipts.

Four months ago, OLS announced that Kippy Rudy would become the first full-time executive director of the nonprofit. A resident of Bath, Rudy was selected after a thorough national search conducted last summer. She was picked on the strength of her 20-plus years of experience in fund-raising and nonprofit arts management in Maine.

Rudy has held key positions at several major Portland arts institutions includ-ing general manager at PORTopera, marketing and development director at Portland Stage, and director of corporate and foundation relations at the Portland Museum of Art.

I’ve had several chats with Rudy dur-ing her first four months on the job, and I’m impressed by her knowledge of the Maine arts community and her under-standing that business acumen is needed if OLS is to remain among Portland’s top performing arts venues.

She’s off to a good start. Since Octo-ber I’ve noticed that OLS shows sell out much more frequently and much earlier. Don’t count on being able to walk in without tickets and get in.

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Greater PortlandBulletin BoardFriday 2/15General Meeting, El Centro Lati-no de Maine, 6 p.m., Centro Latino, 68 Washington Avenue, Portland, 749-8823.

Saturday 2/16French Story Time, 10 a.m., Prince Memorial Library, 266 Main St., Cumberland, 829-2215.

Music and Muffins. 10:30 p.m., Prince Memorial Library, 266 Main St., Cumberland, 829-2215.

Tuesday 2/19Foreclosure Forum, 6:30 p.m., State Street Church, 159 State St., Portland.

Call for VolunteersOpportunity Alliance is looking for foster grandparent and senior companion volunteers, 15 hours a week, 55 or older, for more infor-mation call 773-0202.

Dining OutSaturday 2/16Bean Supper, 5 p.m., People’s United Methodist Church, 310 Broadway, South Portland.

Pasta Dinner, fundraiser for build-ing repairs, 5 p.m., First Parish Congregational Church, 40 Main St., Freeport, 865-9288.

Kids & FamilyFAFSA assistance available through May at the Portland Pub-lic Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, one week’s notice and appointment required, 871-1700 ext. 772.

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Mid CoastBulletin Friday 2/21Ice Bar with DJ Larry Moore. 5 p.m., through Sunday, Feb. 23, Inn at Brunswick Station, 4 Noble St., Brunswick, innatbrunswickstation.com.

Call for VolunteersAndroscoggin Home Care & Hospice has a growing need for hospice volunteers in the Bruns-wick area, training, call 777-7740, AHCH.org.

ArtVan Program seeks volunteers to help with art therapy program-ming with children and teens, promotional support and fund-raising efforts, contact 371-4125 or visit artvanprogram.org.

Big Brothers Big Sisters seeks volunteer mentors (must be 18+) willing to commit one year and spend eight hours a month with a child 6-14 who lives in a single parent home, contact Brunswick office at 729-7736 or [email protected].

Chocolate Church Arts Center seeks volunteers for the art gallery and more, 798 Washington St., Bath, 442-8455.

The Greater Bath Elder Outreach Network, a program of Catholic Charities Maine, is looking for volunteers a few hours a week to assist seniors by providing companionship, transportation, assistance with errands and tele-phone reassurance for elderly and disabled people who live in Saga-dahoc County and the Brunswick area, Martha Cushing, 837-8810; meetings 6-7:30 p.m. the third

Wednesday of the month, Patten Free Library, Bath, 837-8810.

Habitat for Humanity/7 Rivers Maine needs volunteers at ReStore in Bath, minimum four-hour shift commitment, 386-5081 or [email protected].

Home to Home, an organiza-tion providing a safe place for parents to exchange children for visitations, needs volunteers, com-mitment of 1-2 hours per exchange period, police check and train-ing required, Mid-Coast Hospital, Brunswick, Rich Siegel, 837-4894, mainehometohome.org.

Meals on Wheels drivers urgently needed, Wednesdays and Fridays, information, 729-0475, Spectrum Generations, 12 Main St., Topsham.

Mid Coast Hospital, dozens of positions at the café, gift shop, or greeting patients, 123 Medical Center Drive, Brunswick, 373-6015.

Mid Coast Senior Health Cen-ter needs volunteers for various activities with seniors Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, welcome desk openings, 373-3646.

Parkview Adventist Medical Cen-ter, gift shop needs volunteers, four-hour shifts mornings, after-noons and early evenings Monday through Friday, every other Sun-day 1-4 p.m., will train, 373-4518 or visit the gift shop at 329 Maine St., Brunswick.

Pejepscot Historical Society needs volunteer tour guides for Skolfield-Whittier House and Josh-ua L. Chamberlain Museum and volunteer staff for Chamberlain Museum gift shop, 729-6606.

People Plus Center, ongoing op-portunities, 6 Noble St., Brunswick, 729-0757.

Red Cross training, Disaster Action Team, free, basic classes provide foundation for delivering assistance in emergency situa-tions, weekday evenings, course schedules at midcoast.redcross.org, register on line or call 729-6779, 563-3299, MidCoast-RedCross.net, 16 Community Way, Topsham.

Road to Recovery, American Cancer Society’s transportation program seeks volunteers to help cancer patients get to their treat-ment appointments, call Janice Staples, 373-3715, [email protected], American Cancer So-

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Spectrum Generations has vol-unteer opportunities in program development, outreach, and re-ception at its new Community Center at 12 Main St., Topsham, Dave, 729-0475.

Sexual Assault Support Services of Mid Coast Maine needs vol-unteers to provide support and information to callers on 24-hour hotline, 725-2181.

Dining OutFriday 2/15Lenten Haddock Supper, 5 p.m., St. Charles Church, 132 McKeen St., Brunswick, 729-3509.

Saturday 2/16Roast Pork Supper, 4:30 p.m., Bath United Methodist Church, 340 Oak Grove, Bath, 443-4707.

Sunday 2/17Public Breakfast Buffet, 7:30 a.m., Knights of Columbus Hall, 807 Mid-dle St., Bath, 443-6015.

Friday 2/22Lenten Haddock Supper, 5 p.m., St. Charles Church, 132 McKeen St., Brunswick, 729-3509.

Saturday 2/23Free community breakfast, 7:30 a.m., Bath United Methodist Church, 30 Oak Grove Avenue, Bath, 443-4707.

Gardens & OutdoorsOrganic gardening methods, Jan. 13-March 17, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 27 Pleasant St., Brunswick, 729-7694.

Getting SmarterSaturday 2/16Town History Talk: “Captain James F. Murphy and His Peripa-tetic Family,” 10:30 a.m., Patten Free Library, 33 Summer St., Bath, 443-5141, ext. 18.

Thursday 2/21Civil War and the Movies, 7 p.m., Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleas-ant St., Brunswick, 729-6606.

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Saturday 2/23Our Lady of Hope Parish Dinner, 5 p.m., St. Pius X Hall, 492 Ocean Avenue, Portland, 774-2635 ext. 8108.

Getting Smarter Tuesday 2/19SCORE workshop: Writing a Busi-ness Plan, 2 p.m., SCORE Offices, 100 Middle St., Portland, $35, sco-remaine.com.

Friday 2/22The Editorial Board: Church and State, 5:30 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Port-land, 797-7891.

Health & SupportFriday 2/15Blood pressure clinic, 10 a.m., free, Freeport Community Ser-vices, 53 Depot St., Freeport, 721-1278.

A Matter of Balance classes begin Feb. 13 and run through Apr. 4, 1-3 p.m., Southern Maine Agency on Aging, 136 U.S. Route 1, Scar-borough, registration required, 396-6583.

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Willis, 32, and Beal, 36, who live in Manchester, N.H., became engaged in October. They met online through the website Christian Mingle, she said.

The blizzard did prevent some cousins and friends from attending the wedding, but more than 80 of the 120 people who had said they were coming were able to make it.

“Direct family members were able to beat the storm and all arrived by Friday morning, but numerous flights and road trips were canceled,” Willis said. “Guests from Colorado and California had their flights canceled before the snow even started and there was no other way to

Maine, since even the trains from Boston were not running Friday afternoon.”

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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

YARMOUTH VILLAGE OfficeSpace for Rent: 1400 SF+ ingreat location, adjacent toInterMed Health Center.Additional space available.Perfect for healthcare/ chiro-practors/ any business pro-fessionals. Very competitiverates. 207-712-9178. BRO-KERS PROTECTED.

BUSINESS RENTALS

BRIGHT, AIRY, renovatedoffice space on Main Streetin Yarmouth. Utilitiesincluded, access tokitchen. 450 sf, rent thewhole space or just onedesk.207-798-1091

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CHILD CARE

DONNA’S DAYCARE

FMI 415-4314

Full & Part timeSummer Care openingsw/ trips to the lakesbeaches & state parks

School Age before & afterLicensed Daycare on Cumberland/

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CHIMNEY

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Call your nearest location to schedule a career planning session:

InterCoast, Kittery275 US Route 1,

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InterCoast Portland Maine Campus207 Gannett Drive S.

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ELECTRICAL TRAINING PROGRAM

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Do you enjoy going out to eat,attending community events,making crafts, or just visitingwith others? Do you have a fewhours each week to volunteeryour time? Come and join in thefun times at the Portland Centerfor Assisted Living (PCAL).

For more information,please call 772-2893 Ext 21.

CLEANING

LOPEZ Cleaning ServiceWe offer many differentkinds of Cleaning Services:House Cleaning, Office &Apt. & Condo, Banks &Store Cleaning. Free Esti-mates, Fully Insured, Low-est Rates.

Abel & TinaCell: 207-712-1678

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.

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

NEED HELP CLEANING?Looking to fill a few spots. If youneed your home cleaned by aprofessional then I’m your gal.References & resonable rates.229-5050. Melinda.

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ELDER CARE

EXPERIENCED Non-Medicalcompanion or disabled positionwanted or light housekeeping.$9.00 hr. ASAP. Call Lauren653-0809.

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Green Firewood $210(mixed hardwood)

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

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VISA • MC

$220

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$220(mixed hardwood)




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Eastern Maine HomeCare d/b/a Bangor Area Visiting Nurses iscurrently accepting applications for the following positions:

REGISTERED NURSESFull-Time

$500 SIGN-ON BONUS

Must have a minimum of one year clinicalexperienceandacurrentMaineRNlicense.Musthavetheability to observe, assess, plan, implement andevaluate individuals and families using the nursingprocess; must have good communication skills; musthave knowledge of the team concept in providinghealth care; must be detail-oriented and able to workindependently.

The community health nurse provides and promotescomprehensive health services to individuals andfamilies in the home for the purpose of promoting,maintaining or restoring health or minimizing theeffect of illness and disability.

BangorWeekend Registered Nurse and an Evening (Noon-8:00pm)Registered Nurse to work from our Bangor office.

Apply online atwww.easternmainehomecare.org

Qualified applicants should submit a cover letter and provide a relevantresume with three references with names and addresses.

Bonnie Turck, HR, Director, Eastern Maine HomeCare,14 Access Highway, Caribou, ME 04736Tel (207) 498-2578 * Fax (207) 498-4129

E-mail: [email protected]

MAINE VETERANS’ HOMEScaring for those who served

Maine Veterans’ Homes is a public, not-for-profit organization committed to providing skilled nursing andrehabilitation, long-term residental and dementia care to veterans, their spouces, widows, widowers, and goldstar parents.We Offer Excellent Wages& Benefits Including:• Medical, Dental, Life, STD & LTD• Generous Earned Maine BenefitTime

• Participation in Maine StateRetirement

• 403(b) with Employer Match• Continuing Education• Tuition Loan assistance

Med TechFull-time & Part-time night shiftMust have valid State of Maine CNA certification

Maine Veterans’ Homes-Scarborough is an exemplary150 bed facility with approximately 240 employees. Weoffer an excellent working environment with generouswages and shift differentials.

Interested applicants should mail, fax or email a resume with cover letter to:Assistant Director of Nursing, Maine Veterans’ Homes, 290 U.S. Rte. 1, Scarborough, ME 04074

Email: [email protected] • Fax (270) 289-3482

Benefit information & applications available atwww.mainevets.org EOE





CNAsFull-time, Part-time & Per Diem All Shifts.





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HEALTH

IFYOU USEDTHE MIRENA IUDbetween 2001-present and suffered

perforation or embedment in the uterusrequiring surgical removal, or had achild born with birth defects you may

be entitled to compensation.Call Johnson Law and speak with

female staff members.

1-800-535-5727

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

HELP WANTED

Part-time Bookkeeper (morn-ings) for small Yarmouth office.Must have experience inQuickbooks, Excel & Word.Please send resume with qualifications to: D.C., PO Box480, Yarmouth, Maine 04096.




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ARCA

DIAHO

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NOW HIRING!

PSS

Portland, 207.883.6010

HOME CARE NEEDED!]LOVE

If you are interested in joining an agency focused on sharing loveand warmth with the elderly, we’d like to speak with you. ComfortKeepers is a non-medical, in-home care agency that is dedicated toboth our Caregivers and our clients. Quality care is our mission, hiringcompassionate and dependable staff is our focus. Our Caregivers havefound:

• An agency that truly appreciates their hard work.

• Some are retired and have embraced a wonderful way to stay busy.

• Many have discovered a passion for serving the elderly.

• All know that they belong to a caring and well respected agency.

Experience is always helpful, but not necessary. Our training helps all ofour caregivers to become skilled professionals.Discover for yourself justhow different we are. Please call to find out more!

152 US Route 1, Scarborough www.comfortkeepers.com

885 – 9600

Growth Opportunity

Paris Farmers Union at 64 Auburn Street in Portland is looking to filla store manager trainee position. The successful candidate will possessstrong leadership and organizational skills. Honest, motivated, hardworking team player only. You must enjoy working in a fast paced retailenvironment and possess a genuine, strong desire to provide outstandingservice to our customers. Knowledge and/or experience with animals,farming, gardening, yard care, landscaping, plumbing, electrical,hardware,etc. or a combination thereof would be a plus. We are a solid,stable organization that’s been around for 94 years. We offer an excellentbenefits package and a competitive wage structure. Opportunity for ad-vancement is there as we currently operate 10 retails stores, a WholesaleDivision, Farm Sales& Service Division, Warehouse and Trucking, and aMunicipal/Contractor Sales Division..

Please send your resume with references to:Fred Rolfe, V.P. Retail StoreOperations and Marketing

Paris Farmers UnionP.O. Box D

S. Paris, ME 04281EOE

BEST OF THE BEST

Do you want to leave work knowing you’ve made a real difference insomeone’s life? Are you the kind of dependable person who won’t let a perfectsummer day (or a winter blizzard) keep you from work? Are you trustworthyenough to become part of someone’s family? We’re looking for natural bornCAREGivers: women and men with the heart and mind to change an elder’slife. Call us today to inquire about joining the greatest team of non-medicalin-home CAREGivers anywhere! Flexible part-time day, evening, overnight,weekday and weekend hours.

Call Home Instead Senior Careat 839-0441 or visit

www.homeinstead.com

HOME INSTEAD SENIOR CARE IS LOOKINGFOR THE BEST OF THE BEST.

Caring and Experienced♦

Call Laura today at699-2570 to learn about arewarding position with our company.

550 Forest Avenue, Suite 206, Portland, ME 04101www.advantagehomecaremaine.com

Advantage Home Care is looking for caring and experiencedcaregivers to provide in-home non-medical care for

seniors in the greater Portland, Maine. If you possess aPSS or CNAcertificate, have worked with clients with dementiaor have provided care for a loved one in the past, we wouldlike to talk with you about joining our team. We have part-timeand full-time shifts available weekdays, nights and weekends.

We offer competitive wages; ongoing training and support;dental insurance; supplemental medical benefits and a

401k plan with employer match.

Sun Journal is a division of the Sun Media Group

COPY EDITORThe Newsroom department is looking for a versatile, experi-enced full time copy editor. The qualified candidate must beable to multitask, be able to make quick decisions and betech-savvy enough to prepare and post content online. Theposition will require working nights and weekends.A four-year college degree is required or equivalent experienceand training.If you are interested in working for a dynamic publishingcompany with a comprehensive benefit package, please forwardcover letter and resume to:

Sun JournalAttn: Human ResourcesPO Box 4400, Lewiston ME 04243-4400

Or email to:[email protected]





Licensed NursesFull-time night position (RN preferred) & per diem allshifts





Sun Journal is a division of the Sun Media Group

The Pressroom department is seeking a full time web pressoperator to work nights. The ideal candidate will have webpress experience and a strong background in printing. Somecomputer knowledge a plus. Work hours are from 8:15 p.m.to 4:15 a.m., with two rotating days off. Pay commensuratewith experience.

If you are interested in working for a dynamic publishingcompany with a comprehensive benefit package, pleaseforward cover letter and resume to:

Sun JournalAttn: Human ResourcesPO Box 4400, Lewiston, Me 04243-4400

Or email: [email protected]

Web Press Operator

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DOWHATYOU LOVE!LifeStages is hiring a part-time Geriatric Care Managerto provide care management services to older adultsand their families. RN or MSW required. Certificationin Case Management preferred. Competitive wages -benefits - great team!

Apply on line athttp://www.mercyhospitalstories.org/cms/careers/

HELP WANTED

STITCHER/SEAMSTRESS - For window treatments.

Custom drapery workroom in Lewiston is

seeking an experienced seamstress. Willing to

train the right person, but sewing experience is

required. Competitive pay and compensationpackage. Full time

position Mon. - Thurs.Apply in person to Kathy

at Decorators Supply808 Main Street, Lewiston

782-1390.3

HELP WANTED

Apply online athttp://www.mercyhospitalstories.org/

cms/careers/or call 400-8763

We are a thriving programproviding in-home supportto older adults. Our per diem

Companions offer socialization,light personal care and end of lifecare. We see skills and experiencebut are willing to train. If you arecompassionate, mature and a

helper by nature call LifeStages.All shifts available, particular need

for evenings and week-ends.Competitive wages.




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Hardwood, Laminate,Ceramic Tile, Linoleum, Carpet etc.

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829-9959ReferencesInsured

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Residential & CommercialGenerators-Kohler • Honda

All calls returned!

BOWDLER ELECTRIC INC.

Chimney Lining & MasonryBuilding – Repointing – Repairs

Asphalt & Metal RoofingFoundation Repair & Waterproofing

Painting & Gutters20 yrs. experience – local references

(207) 608-1511www.mainechimneyrepair.com

EXPERT DRYWALL SER-VICE- Hanging, Taping, Plaster& Repairs. Archways, Cathe-drals, Textured Ceilings, Paint.Fully Insured. ReasonableRates. Marc. 590-7303.

HOME REPAIR

846-5802PaulVKeating.com

• Painting• Weatherization• Cabinets

CARPENTRY

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

Repair • Quality Exterior & Interior PaintingGreen Products Available

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Call SETH • 207-491-1517

Dr.DrywallQuality workmanshipat Affordable Prices

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Maintenance, Yard Work &Plowing. Portland & West-brook

References, Insured.Call James 207-420-6027.

INSTRUCTION

GUITAR, BASS, BANJO,MANDOLIN AND UKULELElessons. Yarmouth &Brunswick. Berklee TrainedInstructor. Rich Keene 576-4540.

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

LANDSCAPINGCONTRACTORS

SERVICES• Leaf and Brush Removal• Bed Edging and Weeding• Tree Pruning/Hedge Clipping• Mulching• Lawn Mowing• Powersweeping

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We specialize in residential andcommercial property maintenanceand pride ourselves on our customerservice and 1-on-1 interaction.

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LANDSCAPINGCONTRACTORS

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

LOST AND FOUND

LOST CAT “BUSTER”Orange &White Neutered Male

Lost from Falmouth Vet Hospital nearWaldo’s on Route 1

Missing since Feb. 7th, Last seen atFalmouth Colonial Village

Buster is sweet but very scaredHis home is 5 miles away on Town

Landing Rd.Please call Paula 781-7554

with information

MASONRY

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MISCELLANEOUS

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MOVING

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Office Relocations Packing ServicesCleaning ServicesPiano MovingSingle Item Relocation

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207-210-0605

PAINTING

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Exterior/InteriorGreater Portland Area20+ years expAlso cleaning out basements, garages,attics & barnsWilling to possibly trade part of or all services forcertain antiques/old items. References Insured

Call Joe (207) 653-4048

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

Specializing in Older Homes

Call Brett Hall at 671-1463

Violette Interiors: Painting,tiling, wallpaper removal,wall repairs, murals andsmall exterior jobs. Highestquality at affordable rates. 26years experience. Free esti-mates. Call Deni Violette at831-4135.

PAVING

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PERSONAL CARESERVICES

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REAL ESTATEWANTED

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SEEKING MULTIPLE HOMESor Camps on the same lot with-in an hour of Portland. Payingcash, Referrals compensated.Brokers protected. 749-1718.

RENTALS

ELDERLY, SECTION 8APARTMENT- 2 BEDROOMNOW AVAILABLEApartments at Yarmouth Fallsnow has an opening for a 2BRqualified applicant. Our com-plex is located on Vespa Laneand Bridge Street. Applicantsmust be 62 or older, handi-capped or disabled. Certainincome limits apply as well.Non smoking unit; pets allowedbut limited in size and quantity.Security Deposit; credit & crim-inal check references andlease is required. Rent is basedon 30% of adjusted income perthe Section 8 HUD guidelines.EHO. Contact Emerald Man-agement, 752 Main St., West-brook, ME 04092; 1-207-854-2606, ext 100, or TDD 1-800-545-1833.Email:[email protected]

FALMOUTH HIGHLANDLAKECozy private 2 bedroomhome with hardwood floors,new deck, screened porch,newly insulated and newwindows. Beautiful lake set-ting with beach. Large stor-age area. $1200 mo. plussecurity deposit and utilities.References. Call 232-7181.

YARMOUTH VILLAGE- large2 bedroom apt. 2nd floor. Offstreet parking, W/D hookupavail. Heat/Water included.Walk to Main St/Royal RiverPark. $1,000/month. NP/NS.References/Security Depositrequired. Call 846-6240 or 233-8964.

Windham waterfront, fur-nished efficiencies. Singleoccupancy through May. Shop-ping nearby. $595.00 monthly.Utilities, wifi, cable tv and park-ing included. Call 892-2698.

Apt for rent- DowntownFreeport. Large, 2 room effi-ciency. parking. Gas monitorheat & stove. Electricity & HWincluded. $675.00/mo + secu-rity/references. 207-329-2718.

GRAY- CABIN FOR RENTFurnished. No pets. All utilities,cable, wireless internet.$175.00/week. 657-4844.

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Professional writer who canreally tell it like it is, seeksWRITING JOBS.Writes on general subjects –whatever someone needs tohave written – also policyanalysis and fighting for acause. In addition writes aboutmedical practice reform andprepares arguments and otherdocuments for court hearingsand trials. Reasonable rates.Please contact CK Jack [email protected] or attel. (207) 233-7634.Free consultation.

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We Recycle & Salvageso you save money!

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dence letter was written, but she added she also saw students “who really liked (Auriemma)” and appreciated his efforts to take care of all students.

Auriemma arrived as a supporter of the curriculum changes overseen by Culb-ertson and said he leaves as an advocate because his research shows the changes will reap positive benefits. It was not an easy sell, he said, because teachers were required to use more conforming curriculum.

“We were teaching the same class, but did not have a common syllabus, (so) the change could be interpreted as taking away individuality,” Auriemma said.

An area Auriemma said he made a pri-mary focus was eliminating bullying. He said after seeing freshmen intimidated on the first day of school in his first year, he set out to make education accessible and equitable while improving safety.

Scarborough police logs show stu-dents have been issued summonses for issues including assaults and posses-sion of alcohol, tobacco or drugs. This year, Auriemma was awarded the Virdie Montgomery Award as 2012 Principal of the Year by Rachel’s Challenge, an anti-bullying foundation named in honor of Rachel Scott, the first victim of the shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999.

Entwistle has asked Pleasant Hill Primary School Principal Kelly Mullen-Martin and Scarborough Middle School Principal Barbara Hathorn to lead the search for a new high school principal.

He said he hopes to hire a new princi-pal by July 1.

Uncertain of what the future holds when his contract expires June 30, Au-riemma said he and his family will stay in the area.

“We’re not going to be more than 10 miles from here,” he said.


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“The problem was is it was a 10-point plan,” Blake conceded.

While Councilor Jerry Jalbert sug-gested the Civil Service Commission may be outdated because the city has a Human Resources Department for per-sonnel issues, Cohen, who served on the commission before winning her council seat in November, said it has a very clear purpose.

It is needed for appeals “by employees looking for fairness and equity,” she said.

Councilors will also move forward on the basics of creating an endowment fund for upkeep of city properties and landmarks. Gailey presented a rough draft of an ordinance that would appoint a committee to oversee private donations to the fund.

Blake said the city lacks the public funds needed to pay for all required maintenance and upkeep. He noted it might be decades before an endowment reaches a level to effectively achieve its purpose, especially as Jalbert noted the goal of fund management is to spend less than an annual rate of return.

Councilors will continue with their own research on endowment funds be-fore more workshop discussions.

At the Feb. 20 council meeting, coun-cilors will vote on a swap of parcels of about 600 square feet. Gailey and Planning Director Tex Haeuser said two city-owned parcels will be swapped for parcel of equal size now owned by Hornby Zeller Properties adjacent to the Greenbelt near Mill Creek.

The land gained by the city would pro-vide a buffer of open space, and Hornby Zeller would gain two parcels and re-solve a boundary encroachment issue at their 373 Broadway property.

The Planning Board unanimously en-dorsed the swap.


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through the Senate from beginning to end,” Kayatta said in a prepared statement.

Collins and King reiterated their sup-port for Kayatta and their pleasure in his confirmation.

“I was proud to vote in favor of Bill’s confirmation today,” King said in a news release. “His installation on the First Cir-cuit Court of Appeals, although long-await-ed, is certainly a well-deserved victory.”

“Maine is proud of its history of sup-plying superb jurists to the federal bench,” Collins said. “With his exceptional intel-ligence, extensive experience, and demon-strated integrity, I am confident that Bill will continue in that tradition.”

Kayatta waited more than a year and through two nominations to gain the seat. He will replace Judge Kermit Lipez, a South Portland resident who will continue to hear arguments as a senior judge.

A civil litigation specialist at the Pierce Atwood law firm in Portland, Kayatta will be joining the court that hears appeals of federal cases from Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Puerto Rico.

Lipez said Kayatta will be a good fit on the six-judge bench that hears appeals spanning the breadth of federal law.

“I am thrilled. Bill will be a superb addition to the court, he’s enormously talented,” Lipez said.

Kayatta’s experience with federal cases will suit him well, said Lipez, who was ap-pointed July 1, 1998, after serving as a jus-tice on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

“There’s no one right way to get to a position like this. In Bill’s case, he was a law clerk to (former U.S. Court of Ap-peals) Judge Frank M. Coffin. Bill already has a good sense of what this job requires,” Lipez said.

Coffin’s widow, Ruth Coffin, said she is thrilled the Senate finally approved the nomination.

“(Kayatta) is just very bright, very stable, very knowledgeable and wise,” she

said “He has all the qualities a good judge should have.”

Keeping the benches full is critical, Lipez said, noting that he and former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter of New Hampshire are among four judges who will participate in reduced roles be-cause of their senior judicial status.

“We are the smallest of the circuit courts with six active judges,” Lipez said. “When you have a court that small, and one judge reducing a workload, it adds considerably to everyone else’s work.”

Lipez said he expects Kayatta will enjoy the varied case load, which spans civil, criminal and federal agency appeals.

“Over time there is some repetition, but every case offers challenges to sort through legal complexities and get to the facts,” the judge said.

Kayatta was renominated to the court last month by President Barack Obama after his nomination in 2012 was stalled. It was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee, but never given a full floor vote last year.

“It was agonizing he wasn’t appointed right away,” Ruth Coffin said.

She has high hopes for the man who clerked for her husband more than 30 years ago.

“He’ll make a new name for himself. Who knows, he may get on the Supreme Court someday,” Coffin said, adding that her late husband would be very proud of his former clerk.

Republican Sens. Roy Blunt of Mis-souri, James Inhofe and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, Tim Scott of South Carolina, Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul of Ken-tucky, Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Marco Rubio of Florida, John Boozman of Arkansas, James Risch of Idaho, and David Vitter of Louisiana voted against Kayatta’s confirmation, according to The Hill website.


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Dogs will also be tested and treated for giardia, an intestinal parasite that infected Shelby, before sales resume.

According to the Humane Society of the United States, parvovirus is an easily transmitted virus that attacks the canine intestinal tract and possibly the heart.

In its most severe form, parvovirus can kill a dog 48 to 72 hours after the first signs are exhibited. The virus is transmitted through dog feces and vomit, and can live in cages or on floors “for many months,” according to the society.

Thomas, who has owned huskies for about 13 years, said she typically bought huskies from private breeders, and was not really looking to buy another dog when her family visited the Scarborough store.

But in part because she had just lost a 12-year-old husky, Thomas said she put down a $200 deposit on Shelby and paid almost $1,100 more before taking her home Jan. 23. Cross said Shelby was sold for $1,386, including tax.

Shelby arrived in the store on Jan. 16, from Kansas breeders John and Linda Fromm. State law requires animals import-ed into Maine for resale to be quarantined for five days if age 6 months or under, and for 48 hours if older than 6 months.

It was the first time Cross bought a husky from the Fromms, and she admitted she ignored her usual procedures by acting on

a reference from a breeder who sells her about 85 percent of her husky puppies.

Cross said she regretted not interviewing the Fromms to learn more about their prac-tices and to obtain pictures of their breeding operation.

“I wish I had done business as normal,” she said. The documentation shipped with Shelby showed two vaccinations against parvovirus, she added.

Thomas said Shelby at first appeared healthy.

“She looked good from the outside,” Thomas said.

Six days later, Thomas said she spent the night on the floor next to her sick dog, who was lethargic, vomiting and had diarrhea. The next day, she took Shelby to Fryeburg Veterinary Hospital.

Thomas said doctors there did not sus-pect parvovirus because of the vaccination records.

According to the Humane Society, pup-pies can be protected from parvovirus in the first six weeks after birth by maternal immunity, and are most susceptible to in-fection between 6 and 24 weeks.

After the diagnosis, Thomas said she alerted Cross and the Animal Welfare pro-gram, directed by Liam Hughes.

Animal Welfare spokesman Jay Finegan said Thomas’s complaint was one of “sev-eral complaints each year that involve a disease outbreak at a licensed facility or other populations of young dogs or cats.”

Thomas said animal hospital staff tried

to rehydrate and treat Shelby while Cross urged her to bring the dog back to the store. Thomas said she trusted the animal hospital staff, but Cross said she urges customers to bring dogs back because she trusts her own veterinarian and can assume the cost of care.

Cross and Thomas remain at odds about where Shelby contracted parvovirus.

“It didn’t come from here, I believe that,” Thomas said.

Cross said the 23 dogs in the store and 13 sold since Shelby arrived show no symp-toms of parvovirus.

Thomas said Shelby’s care cost $915, and she eventually relinquished ownership back to Cross in order to get a refund. Cross is under no legal requirement to reimburse Thomas for the medical fees, Finegan said.

Shelby was the second dog sold at Little Paws to die in the last month. Cross said a dachshund bought by a Rockland cus-tomer should have been kept at the store longer and she asked the owner to return it, because it was possibly suffering from hypoglycemia. But it died before it made it back to the store.

Finegan said earlier this week his office knew of that death, but did not receive a complaint from the dog’s owner.

Little Paws, and Pawsitively Pets before it, have been targets of protests by Maine Citizens Against Puppy Mills, a group that last summer asked Scarborough town councilors to enact an ordinance banning the sale of puppies raised by large-scale

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of the storm.The only person who did not make

it to the wedding was the disc jockey the couple had hired from Boston. Gov. Deval Patrick issued a travel ban from about 2 p.m. Friday to 4 p.m. Saturday.

“He was stopped twice by the Massa-chusetts state police and they threatened to arrest him,” Willis said. “But he called a DJ contact in Portland and he came for us and was wonderful.”

Willis, who plans to change her name to Beal, said that her family knows what is to blame for the winter weather that has impacted marriage ceremonies for two generations.

“It’s the dress’s fault,” she said. “I had my mom’s wedding dress modified, so we decided that had to be what made it snow for both our weddings.”

Willis and Beal were scheduled Sun-day to fly out of Logan Airport for their honeymoon in Switzerland and Austria.

“We really do love the snow,” she said.

breeders.By a 2-1 vote last July, discussion of the

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why Holland is leaving.“I thought I would come here and hear what this crazi-

ness is,” Martin said, adding she told her children to stay off Twitter because she thought they had confused Hol-land’s resignation with that of Scarborough High School Principal Dean Auriemma, who resigned Feb. 1.

“I guess this is unexpected for everybody else as well,” Martin concluded.

Martin said her children were enjoying school, even during disruptions caused by construction. She praised Holland for his steadiness and enthusiasm.

“I thought on the leadership end we didn’t have any questions,” Martin said.

Holland came to South Portland from Livermore Falls High School, where he was principal for one year. Prior to that, he was assistant principal at Cony High School in Augusta for six years and taught science there for 18 years.

Holland replaced Jeanne Crocker, who was the school principal for 13 years before she left to become an assistant executive director with the Maine Principals’ Association.

Kieran said she did not know what might have led to Holland’s resignation, but said he stepped in very well after Crocker.

“What has never been in question is Jim’s sincerity decency, and commitment to do what is best for our stu-dents,” she said. “Come to the high school and experience the atmosphere under Jim’s leadership. Things are good.”

Ralph Newell has been teaching science at the high school since 1967, and said he learned at a faculty meeting

that Holland was resigning. He, too, is perplexed, he said.“I liked the guy, I think he was a good guy,” Newell said.Kieran urged the board to show more support for Hol-

land, and work to help as it might for students needing enhanced services.

“Ask (yourselves) how well we have supported and in-vested in Jim Holland’s success, which is our community’s success,” she said.

Board member James Gilboy’s attempt to discuss the resignation in more detail in the meeting was turned aside because it was not on the new business portion of the agenda.

David Harry can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 110 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @DavidHarry8.

School Board OKs volleyball team

SOUTH PORTLAND — High school girls will be able to compete in volleyball next fall, but only if boosters can raise an estimated $10,000 needed to fund a team.

The opportunity to add the sport was approved Monday night during a 55-minute School Board meeting. By a unanimous vote, the board ap-proved elevating the sport from club level to one sanctioned by the Maine Principals’ Association.

“We are not going to be adding volleyball to our costs this year, it is not in our projections at all,” School Superintendent Suzanne Godin said.

Athletic Director Todd Livingston said matches will likely be held in the Community Center be-cause Beal Gymnasium will be closed at the end of next month for renovation and expansion and is not expected to reopen for at least six months.

The board also approved an updated emergency operations plan detailing specific roles at city schools for staff and outlining specific prepared-ness exercises, ranging from table-top simula-tions to full-scale drills involving other municipal departments.

Board members approved eliminating six policies on administrative issues, including a job description for the superintendent.

— David Harry

FileSouth Portland High School Principal James Holland outside

the school in an August 2011 photo. Holland submitted his resignation on Friday, Feb. 8.

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