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A toned-down grafﬁti ordinance proposal?

Here’s an idea: Raise America’s taxes

Wabanaki Arts Festival at Bowdoin hosted by Native American students

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See Nicholas Kristof’s column on page 5

See the Events Calendar, page 13

FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2011 Mint condition: Elise Loschiavo's eden line of bath and body products will be featured tomorrow at the ﬁrst-ever Big Thaw art, craft and vintage sale at Mayo Street Arts. (COURTESY PHOTO)

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Debut craft fair buoys Internet retailers BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

When Elise Loschiavo started making natural bath and body products as gifts for friends and family four years ago, she followed her inclination to use organic ingredients. “Paying attention to the ingredients we put in our bodies is important to me. I’ve

always tried to go most natural route possible, so when I realized you could make the stuff yourself, it was kind of a revelation,” she said. Loschiavo’s preference quickly became the industry standard as the Portland marketing professional experimented with ingredients and tried to elevate her craft in her spare time.

“It’s not hard to make a lip balm, but it’s hard to make a good lip balm,” she said. “It takes several years to get the formulas down and make a quality product. It’s like cooking — except you are cooking lotion, not soup.” A contact at the Regency Hotel’s see FAIR page 9

Senate stalls plan to ease party status in Maine Green Party backs less stringent caucus rules BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

In what is today’s Monument Square, this Civil War-era image shows, on the left hand side of the square, the brick theatre building that once stood directly on the corner of Preble Street and Congress Street where John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, performed “Hamlet.” The building was called Deering Hall, Portland Theatre or Music Hall and later it was known as the Nickel Theatre. (COURTESY PHOTO)

John Wilkes Booth played here As Civil War broke out, future presidential assassin took a bow BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

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A century and a half ago, when a telegraph message brought the news that the Confederacy had fired upon Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, igniting the Civil War, a handsome, young actor was performing “Hamlet” in Portland. His name: John Wilkes Booth. Herb Adams, former state legislator and a Portland lecturer and historian, shared the connections between Portland and the man who, four years later on April 14, 1865, would

assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. Adams said the assassination that doomed the Booth family name to eternal infamy ended a career that intersected with Portland in the early 1860s. “Booth took away more than a memory of Portland, I think,” Adams wrote. “When he was ridden down and shot by the U.S. cavalry almost four years later to the very day, in Booth’s wallet they found pictures of six pretty young women — one of them was the daughter of the theatre manager back see CIVIL WAR page 6

A proposal that would make it easier for political parties to maintain their legal status is stuck in the Maine Legislature, much to the chagrin of the Green Party, a supporter of the legislation. In 2010, Anna Trevorrow served as chair of the state Green Party, making her the point person for convening caucuses, or party meetings. “We held caucuses in every county, but there were a couple of areas where it was a struggle for us,” Trevorrow recalled. Trevorrow Now, Trevorrow, secretary of the state Green Party and chair of the party’s Portland committee, is joining other Greens in support of legislation that would reduce the requirement that parties caucus in every county of Maine every two years. “This requirement has been around for a long time, the Green Party has been meeting this requirement every year, but what it means for the Green Party, is there’s such see CAUCUS page 15

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Tribeca Film Festival turns 10 NEW YORK (NY Times) — It was just 10 years ago the Tribeca Film Festival into the neighborhood and, despite its good will, was greeted with a raised eyebrow by snooty cinephiles for its free-for-all mixture of art, entertainment and community development. The grumbling about Tribeca, which runs from Wednesday through May 1 at movie theaters around Manhattan, has since subsided. Nowadays Tribeca is not considered a threat to the status quo but a useful cultural stimulant that has been good for movies and good for New York, particularly the Lower Manhattan neighborhood left broken in the wake of 9/11. Estimates of the economic activity it has generated since its inception exceed $600 million. “It wasn’t started as a traditional film festival,” said Jane Rosenthal, a Tribeca founder and its chief executive. “My sole goal was to bring people back downtown.” Sandwiched between the New Directors/New Films series presented by the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and the Cannes Film Festival, it has not seriously raided anyone else’s territory. A few movies being shown this year were previously seen at Sundance, Toronto or elsewhere, but not that many.

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year. The Republican defections, a result of opposition from conservatives who said the bill did not do enough to rein in spending, forced the House speaker, John A. Boehner of Ohio, to turn to Democrats to pass the bill and keep the government from shutting down. Afterward, the bill moved to the Senate, where it was expected to pass quickly and be sent to President Obama’s desk. After the budget vote, the House moved

onto votes on two measures — one to deny federal funds to Planned Parenthood and another to roll back the 2010 health care overhaul. Both passed overwhelmingly in the House, but were expected to fail in the Senate. Early in the debate over the budget bill, Mr. Boehner took to the House floor to defend it and encourage its passage. “Is it perfect? No,” he said. “I’d be the first to admit it’s flawed. But welcome to divided government.”

Libya highlights strains in NATO Search for bodies in Japan BERLIN (NY Times) — NATO’s foreign ministers, showing the strains of fighting two wars at once, tried to play down divisions over the intensity of the air campaign against Libya on Thursday, urging patience and resolve as the alliance carries out what one official called “a significant level” of attacks on Col. Muammar elQaddafi’s forces. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany in Berlin on Thursday. “As our mission continues, maintaining our resolve and unity only grows more impor-

tant,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said, responding to the unusually public divisions among NATO leaders over a military operation now nearly a month old. “Qaddafi is testing our determination.” As if to prove the point, Libya’s state television showed Colonel Qaddafi riding through the capital, Tripoli, in an open-topped sport utility vehicle. Presumably he did so in defiance of new NATO strikes there on Thursday, although NATO officials have said repeatedly that they are only defending civilians, and that the Libyan leader is not a target.

edges closer to nuclear plant (NY Times) — The Japanese police moved their search for bodies closer to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Thursday as workers continued to remove radioactive water from the facility. Police officials from Fukushima Prefecture said the search for bodies was being conducted in an area about four miles from the Daiichi plant. The police said radiation levels had dropped sufficiently to allow workers to safely look for victims of last month’s earthquake and tsunami. They also said the logistics of a search in a contaminated area, including having enough doctors to inspect contaminated bodies, now allowed for the search. Officials did not estimate how many bodies may be in the area being searched. The National Police Agency placed the death toll at more than 13,400, with the number of missing at more than 14,800.

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Juvenile charged in Bonny Eagle High bomb threat DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT On Wednesday at 7:28 a.m. at Bonny Eagle High School, School Resource Deputy Kim Emery from the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office received notification from a Bonny Eagle High School official that a “bomb threat” had been received via a text message, the sheriff’s office reported. The students and faculty were immediately evacuated, with the students being transferred to the middle school next door. An additional compliment of CCSO deputies, and the Standish Fire Department responded to the school to assist with the evacuation and subsequent investigation. The Maine State Police assisted

CCSO dispatching 3 bomb K-9 search teams for the purpose of searching the school and the grounds. During this time deputies learned that at least two additional students had received a similar text message indicating in substance, that a bomb had been placed in the school and that the recipient had better tell the “principle or they would be dead.” The received texts were initially untraceable as they appeared to have come via an unknown website, according to a sheriff’s office press release. John Moran, an employee with the Cumberland County Information Technology Department, was summonsed to the school to assist with deciphering the text and its source.

Technician Moran was able to determine that the website of “Pinger.com” was the source of the text. “Pinger. com” is a text free application which can be downloaded to devices such as an iPod, iPhone, iTouch or Android. When the account is set up, a fictitious phone number is assigned to the account. When the message is received the number associated with the text is fictitious and difficult for the common user to trace, the press release stated. During the investigation, Technician Moran located the “Pinger” application on one of the students’ phones who Deputy Emery was interviewing. Moran then contacted “Pinger.com” which provided him with an e-mail address. That address was subse-

quently entered into “facebook.com” and the suspect was identified. When confronted with the information, the student admitted to sending the text to the recipients, the press release stated. The student in question is a juvenile and has been charge with the “Class-C crime of Terrorizing.” The student was summonsed and released to the custody of a parent. Due to the student’s age, their identity will not be released at this time, the press release stated. “It’s important to note the complexity of this case and the fact that the perpetrator would not have been located of it was not for the ‘dogged’ investigative work by Deputy Emery and Technician John Moran,” the press release stated.

Languages grew from a seed in Africa, study says BY NICHOLAS WADE THE NEW YORK TIMES

A researcher analyzing the sounds in languages spoken around the world has detected an ancient signal that points to southern Africa as the place where modern human language originated. The finding fits well with the evidence from fossil skulls and DNA that modern humans originated in Africa. It also implies, though does not prove, that modern language originated only once, an issue of considerable controversy among linguists. The detection of such an ancient signal in language is surprising. Because words change so rapidly, many linguists think that languages cannot be traced very far back in time. The oldest language tree so far reconstructed, that of the Indo-European family, which

includes English, goes back 9,000 years at most. Quentin D. Atkinson, a biologist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, has shattered this time barrier, if his claim is correct, by looking not at words but at phonemes — the consonants, vowels and tones that are the simplest elements of language. Dr. Atkinson, an expert at applying mathematical methods to linguistics, has found a simple but striking pattern in some 500 languages spoken throughout the world: A language area uses fewer phonemes the farther that early humans had to travel from Africa to reach it. Some of the click-using languages of Africa have more than 100 phonemes, whereas Hawaiian, toward the far end of the human migration route out of Africa, has only 13. English has about 45 phonemes. This pattern of decreasing diversity with distance,

similar to the well-established decrease in genetic diversity with distance from Africa, implies that the origin of modern human language is in the region of southwestern Africa, Dr. Atkinson says in an article published on Thursday in the journal Science. Language is at least 50,000 years old, the date that modern humans dispersed from Africa, and some experts say it is at least 100,000 years old. Dr. Atkinson, if his work is correct, is picking up a distant echo from this far back in time. Linguists tend to dismiss any claims to have found traces of language older than 10,000 years, “but this paper comes closest to convincing me that this type of research is possible,” said Martin Haspelmath, a linguist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

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Gulf spill aftermath needs congressional follow-through Editor, The BP Deepwater Horizon well exploded a year ago, April 20 — ultimately sending a record-breaking 200 million gallons of oil in the Gulf. And what has Congress done to help with restoration? Nothing. It’s time to get serious about restoring the Gulf. BP and the others will pay fines under the Clean Water Act for each barrel of oil spilled. These fines will reach into the billions of dollars — as they should. Right now however, the money from these fines will simply be deposited into the federal treasury and will not be used to restore the Gulf — at least not until Congress steps up. Oil is still oozing in the marshes, washing up on beaches, and covering sections of the Gulf floor. The full impacts of the disaster will be felt for years, even decades, to come. There is much we can do to make the Gulf of Mexico a cleaner and healthier place for people and wildlife, but we need to get started as soon as possible. Congress needs to stop sitting on its hands. Sincerely, Ms. Virginia Mellace York

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A toned-down grafﬁti ordinance proposal? Let me start by saying that I absolutely despise the graffiti writers in this city. The writing, prevalent for years on everything nailed down on the peninsula, and now, as an added bonus, becoming commonplace on my side of the city-halving interstate as far in as Woodfords Corner, is a huge problem that needs to be addressed and given the high level of attention that has recently been graced upon it. It’s too bad that the proposed “solution” has been placed in the hands of people who are obviously not personally or financially affected by the problem. The city of Portland and our police department last month told its residents that it was unable and unwilling to protect their properties without so much as a press release. They told us ‘You’re on your own, folks’ without so much as a public discussion on the matter. They sent us to the wolves to handle a large, criminal problem pervading our mini metropolis using our own crime-fighting techniques when they decided that No!, this is not a problem that taxpayers deserve to have solved on their behalf; No!, this is not a problem that should have the full attention of the investigative arm of the police department to arrest the self-proclaimed artists. Instead, to solve the problem they turned

Jeffrey S. Spofford ––––– Guest Columnist to the muscle-spasm-riddled back of the taxpaying property owner For it is us, you see, that are the criminals for not cleaning up this horrid mess and that it is us that are contributing to the degradation of our neighborhoods! And for that, my friends, you will pay. Councilor Ed Suslovic is leading this parade and knows full well that the police and city are unable to do anything to stop the writers, so why not go after the people who unless they sell and move, are captive to his regulation. Poor Ed, having to drive up Preble Street on the way to City Hall, has to see not only those feral homeless at the resource center, but the writings of teens on every utility pole, street sign, mailbox and building on the ascent. His only solace is that in his little dead-end enclave in Oakdale, so perfect in that it embodies everything about not living in a city except the inconvenient fact that it’s in the middle of one, the evil writers never lurk. But to Ed I say: The writers are two streets over already, and as the economy continues to decline,

which it will despite all attempts by city employees with a minimum 3 years Excel experience to optimistically project growth, your garage door is getting decorated, too. So we’re left to our own devices, those of us not fortunate enough to be off the beaten path. Tagged? Act fast, or prepare your word processor to create a “clean-up plan.” Can’t afford to follow through with your plan? No problem, the city will put you further into the hole with a fine or three. As for me, I’ll scrub the writing like a trained dog to avoid a lien on my home. I have to, the city won’t protect me. I’ll even go out and clean it up when marked a second time. But if the city and its police department don’t think that other ‘less evolved’ folks will take to vigilantism, camp out and wait for the writers to strike again and take care of the problem their way, they have another thing coming. So this June when this inevitably passes, save a few bucks and establish your own police department for your eighth of an acre. The city-sponsored police guarding the perimeter have apparently left the building. (Jeffrey S. Spofford, circulation manager for The Portland Daily Sun, lives in Portland and blogs about city government at spoffordnews.com.)

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Raise America’s taxes President Obama in his speech on Wednesday After the Clinton adminisconfronted a topic that is tration began paying down harder to address seriAmerica’s debt, Republicans ously in public than sex or flatulence: America needs passed the Bush tax cuts, higher taxes. waded into a trillion-dollar That ugly truth looms war in Iraq, and approved over today’s budget battles, but politicians have mostly an unfunded prescription preferred to run from realmedicine beneﬁt ... ity. Mr. Obama’s speech was excellent not only for its ––––– content but also because The New York Priorities. To pay for tax cuts he didn’t insult our intelliheaped largely on the wealthiTimes gence. est Americans, Republicans in There is no single reason effect would gut Medicare and for today’s budget mess, but slash jobs programs, family it’s worth remembering that the last planning and college scholarships. time our budget was in the black was Instead of spreading opportunity, fedin the Clinton administration. That’s eral policy would cap it. a broad hint that one sensible way to • Low tax rates are essential to overcome our difficulties would be to create incentives for economic growth: revert to tax rates more or less as they a tax increase would stifle the econwere under President Clinton. That omy. single step would solve three-quarters It’s true that, in general, higher of the deficit for the next five years or so. taxes tend to reduce incentives. But Paradoxically, nothing makes the this seems a weak effect, often overneed for a tax increase more clear whelmed by other factors. than the Republican budget proposal Were Americans really lazier in crafted by Representative Paul Ryan. the 1950s, when marginal tax rates The Republicans propose slashing peaked at more than 90 percent? Are spending far more than the public people in high-tax states like Massawould probably accept — even dischusetts more lackadaisical than folks mantling Medicare — and rely on in a state like Florida that has no pereconomic assumptions that are not sonal income tax at all? merely rosy, but preposterous. Tax increases can also send a mesYet even so, the Republican plan sage of prudence that stimulates shows continuing budget deficits until economic growth. The Clinton tax the 2030s. In short, we can’t plausiincrease of 1993 was followed by a bly slash our way back to solid fiscal golden period of high growth, while ground. We need more revenue. the Bush tax cuts were followed by an Kudos to Mr. Obama for boldly statanemic economy. ing that truth in his speech — even if • We can’t afford Medicare. he did focus only on taxes for the very It’s true that America faces a basic wealthiest. I also thought he was right problem with rapidly rising health to say that we need spending cuts — care costs. But the Republican plan including in our defense budget. Mr. does nothing serious to address health Obama didn’t say so, but the United care spending, other than stop paying States accounts for almost as much bills. Indeed, Medicare is cheaper to military spending as the entire rest of administer than private health insurthe world put together. ance (2 percent to 6 percent adminAs I see it, there are three fallacies istrative costs, depending on who common in today’s budget discussions: does the math, compared with about • Republicans are the party of 12 percent for private plans). So the responsible financial stewardship, Republican plan might add to health struggling to put America on a sound care spending rather than curb it. footing. The real challenge is to control In truth, both parties have been health care inflation. Nobody is cerwildly irresponsible, but in cycles. tain how to do that, but the Obama Democrats were more irresponsible health care law is testing some plauin the 1960s, the two parties both sible ideas. These include rigorous seemed care-free in the ’70s and ’80s, research on which procedures work and since then the Republicans have and which don’t. Why pay for surgery been staggeringly reckless. on enlarged prostates if certain kinds After the Clinton administration of patients turn out to be better with began paying down America’s debt, no treatment at all? Republicans passed the Bush tax Ever since Walter Mondale publicly cuts, waded into a trillion-dollar war committed hara-kiri in 1984 by telling in Iraq, and approved an unfunded voters that he would raise their taxes, prescription medicine benefit — all politicians have run from fiscal realby borrowing from China. Then-Vice ity. As baby boomers age and require President Dick Cheney scoffed that Social Security and Medicare, escap“deficits don’t matter.” ism will no longer suffice. We need to This borrow-and-spend Republican have a frank national discussion of history makes it galling when Repubpainful steps ahead, and since I’m not licans now assert that deficits are the a politician, let me be perfectly clear: only thing that matter — and call for raise my taxes! drastic spending cuts, two-thirds of I invite you to visit my blog, On the which would harm low-income and Ground. 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Booth came to Portland “with misgivings,” Herb Adams wrote in a 1988 article titled, “John Wilkes Booth Won Hearts in Portland.” “A ﬂamboyant secessionist,” Booth was “devastatingly handsome,” boasting “swashbuckling success with women” while stunning audiences with his monthlong run in Portland.

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today, Deering Hall in 1861 opened its doors to audiences eager to see a performance of “Hamlet.” “Down East audiences rose as one, wrote a Portland paper in a ‘rapturous reception for one of the brightest ornaments on the American stage,’” Adams recalled in his 1988 article on Booth. “Philadelphia’s papers agreed: ‘The star of his destiny is set in blood.’ Gallant and gifted, the son of the great British tragedian Junius Brutus Booth, at age 23 John Wilkes was heir to a family tradition both brilliant and strange.” “His father Junius The siege of Fort Sumter is shown in this painting. (COURTESY IMAGE) Brutus Booth, was one of the most that is how the actor learned the famous actors in America and father of a whole news,” Adams continued in a narratribe of famous actors, Edwin Booth, Junius Jr. tive. “We can guess what the actor and John,” Adams elaborated in an interview. “All thought, because we know what the four Booths played Portland. Edwin Booth peractor did — he skipped town the formed in the same theater in 1872, years after next day without paying his printJohn and the tragedy that darkened the family er’s bill. This was not typical of John name.” Wilkes Booth, but then, after all, he On April 12, 1861, “a roaring pro-Union rally did many surprising things — and by torchlight filled Market Square, and likely finally, one great tragic thing.”

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Adams wrote that “a strain of strangeness ran through all the Booth family, like a flaw in fine oak. Booth’s father died insane; brother Edwin was melancholic, and John Wilkes burned with a bold, fierce ambition: ‘I lust for fame!’ he declared. ‘I shall have glory!’” After his assassination of President Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., it wasn’t glory but infamy that Booth secured. As Adams concluded in his 1988 article, “The news that he had assassinated President Lincoln amazed Mainers, remembered Nathan Goold in 1902, for ‘(Booth) was a man well known in Portland. ... Men looked in each other’s eyes and wondered what it all meant.”

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Proposal to reject REAL ID law up for vote in committee today A legislative committee will vote today on a proposal that rejects the federal REAL ID law in Maine. Sponsor of the legislation is Rep. Ben Chipman, I-Portland. The legislation would reject security mandates on state driver’s licenses imposed under the federal REAL ID law, a post-9/11 law that required states to meet federal security standards in designing and issuing driver’s licenses. Critics also contend it’s an unfunded federal mandate that will cost Maine tens of millions of dollars. A work session for LD 1068, an Act To Protect the Privacy of Maine Residents under the Driver’s License Laws, is scheduled for 9 a.m. in front of the Transportation Committee, Room 126.

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10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Second annual Flaws for a Cause Benefit Sale, April 15 to April 30, at Maine Potters Market, 376 Fore St., 774-1633. Buy perfectly usable, but less than perfect pots, to benefit Cultivating Community. The Maine Potters Market, 376 Fore Street in Portland’s Old Port, announces its second annual Flaws for a Cause Sale from April 15 to April 30. This is a unique opportunity to buy perfectly usable, but less than perfect pots. Last year’s sale was a big success, raising money for Cultivating Community, a Portland non-profit that grows food for the hungry and uses their work in gardens and farms for community development and empowering youth.

Dress for Success spring sale 8 a.m. Filene’s Basement may be gone, but great bargains on new or nearly-new women’s clothing may be found at Dress for Success Southern Maine’s annual spring sale! The sale will take place on Saturday, April 16, 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Catherine McAuley H.S., 631 Stevens Ave. in Portland. The event is open to the public and features new and nearly-new women’s clothing in all sizes, shoes, jewelry and accessories — casual, formal, and everything in between. Proceeds go towards Dress for Success Southern Maine’s annual operating budget. Donations of new or nearly-new (less than 2 years old), clean, ready-to-wear women’s clothing (from casual to dressy) for the Spring sale, are welcome. The dropoff site and times are: 51 Baxter Boulevard (in the Hannaford Shopping Center parking lot location) on March 19, April 2, and April 9 from 9 a.m. to noon, plus April 15, 5-9:00 p.m. at Catherine McAuley High School. Volunteers of all ages are also always welcome – whether at the sale or at the Congress Street, Portland boutique during regular hours. To volunteer, or for more information, please email southernmaine@dressforsuccess.org or call 780-1686.

‘Saving the Union’ Civil War remembrance 1 p.m. The Maine State Archives will present “Saving the Union: The Call for Volunteers,” at the Augusta Civic Center to commemorate Maine’s entry into the Civil War. The event is free and open to the public. “It was on April 15, 1861 that President Abraham Lincoln asked states such as Maine to raise 75,000 volunteer soldiers to defend the Union against southern states that were seceding, primarily over the issue of slavery,” said State Archivist David Cheever. “Maine answered Lincoln’s call with vigor and this event is representative of Maine’s key role in the Civil War.” Maine’s Secretary of State, Charles E. Summers Jr., Maine’s Adjutant General John “Bill” Libby, and Maine Governor Paul LePage will speak about how Maine rose to President Lincoln’s challenge to defend the country and the Constitution. Members of The Maine Legislature will also participate in the ceremony. “Saving the Union” will include readings of Civil War-era letters from Maine citizens; music by the 195th Maine National Guard Band and Civil War re-enactors; choral music by the Bowdoin and Colby College chorus’; and color guards from the Maine National Guard and Civil War re-enactment groups. For more information about this event, contact State Archivist David Cheever, or visit the Maine State Archives website at www.maine.gov/sos/arc/.

‘Bill Cunningham New York’

Biddeford Winter Farmer’s Market 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Biddeford Winter Farmer’s Market is held every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. At the former West Pepperril Mill on Main Street in Biddeford. Roy Guzman, 210-0123

Art Supplies Yard Sale 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. “Are you looking for that perfect picture frame? Do you want to try something new as an artist? You will ﬁnd all sorts of art making materials at the Art Supplies Yard Sale at Barn Gallery and the Ogunquit Museum of American Art. Look for frames, paper for drawing and painting, canvas and mat board, easels and drawing tables, art books and videos and other art supplies. All proceeds go to support Barn Gallery and the Ogunquit Museum of American Art.” Barn Gallery, corner of Shore Road Hand drumming and song by Watie Akins is part of the Wabanaki Arts Festival, hosted on & Bourne Lane, Ogunquit and Ogunquit Museum of Saturday, April 16 by Bowdoin’s Native American Students Association in Brunswick. (COUR- American Art, 543 Shore Road, Ogunquit. Contact Roz Fedeli 351- 3262 or rivercurrentart@myfairpoint. TESY PHOTO) com. Ogunquit Museum of American Art 646-4909

6:30 p.m. “Bill Cunningham New York” screens at Movies at the Museum at the Portland Museum of Art. Friday, April 15, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, April 16, 2 p.m.; Sunday, April 17, 2 p.m. NR “‘We all get dressed for Bill,’ says Vogue editrix Anna Wintour. The ‘Bill’ in question is 80 plus New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the Times Style section in his columns “On the Street” and “Evening Hours.” Documenting uptown fixtures (Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller—who all appear in the film out of their love for Bill), downtown eccentrics and everyone in between, Cunningham’s enormous body of work is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place, and individual flair. In turn, Bill Cunningham New York is a delicate, funny, and often poignant portrait of a dedicated artist whose only wealth is his own humanity and unassuming grace.” http://www. portlandmuseum.org/events/movies.php

‘The Greenhorns’ screening at COA 7 p.m. America’s young farming community will be celebrated at a showing of “The Greenhorns,” a movie about the current numbers of young people who have taken up farming. The screening will be in the college’s Gates Community Center, Bar Harbor. The film will be introduced by Severine von Tscharner Fleming of the Smithereen Farm in New York. Following the film will be a panel of young farmers including the manager of COA’s Beech Hill Farm, Alisha Strater, von Tscharner Fleming and others. In addition to the screening, there will be a Wild Herbs Walk and Workshop with COA alumna Rachel Randall from 5 to 6:30 p.m. The workshop is limited to 25 people on a first come-first served basis. To pre-register, or for more information on the 7 p.m. showing of “The Greenhorns,” contact Matthew Doyle Olson at 8015688 or mdoyleolson@coa.edu. www.coa.edu

Food+Farm: Anna Lappé 7:30 p.m. April 14 to April 17, FOOD + FARM 2011. A food and ﬁlm festival at SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St. in Portland. “This is the fourth year of Food+Farm, SPACE Gallery’s annual look at issues challenging our access to safe, sustainable food. ... Anna Lappé is a widely respected author and educator, renowned for her work as a sustainable food advocate. The co-author or author of three books and the contributing author to nine others, Anna’s work has been widely translated internationally and featured in The

New York Times, Gourmet, Oprah Magazine, among many other outlets. Named one of Time’s ‘eco’ Who’s-Who, Anna is a founding principal of the Small Planet Institute and the Small Planet Fund and has for more than a decade been a key force in the growing international movement for sustainability and justice in the food chain.” http://www.space538. org/events.php

‘Unaccustomed Earth’ concert at USM 8 p.m. Spotlight Concert Series: “Unaccustomed Earth.” Two Sides Sounding & South Oxford Six. Corthell Concert Hall, University of Southern Maine, Gorham. A part of Innovation Celebration, a partnership with the Portland Conservatory of Music, and USM’s New Music Weekend.

‘Blood Brothers’ at CLT in Auburn 8 p.m. Mark Brann of Portland, as the “Narrator” in Community Little Theatre’s “Blood Brothers,” tells the story of “Mrs. Johnstone, deserted by her husband and unable to cope with her oversized brood of children.” Played by Stefanie Lynn of Auburn, she reluctantly gives one of her twin boys to the wife of her wealthy employer. The adoptive mother, Mrs. Lyons is played by CLT veteran Cheryl Reynolds, also of Portland. Years later, the brothers meet and become inseparable friends, but their relationship is doomed. Whether it is a child’s inherent nature or the way he is nurtured that determines his fate is at the crux of the storyline. “A total of 12 talented singers and actors make up the cast of this hit musical by Willy Russell, which has accumulated a host of awards and has become one of the longest standing works of musical theater in history. The cast also includes, Adam Morris of Westbrook, Paige Berube of Gray, Andreas Wyder of New Vineyard, and Lewiston-Auburn residents, Chris L’Hommedieu, Sydney Browne, Guy Pilote, Andrew Leeman, Brandon Chaloux and Mary Turcotte. The show is directed by Celeste Philippon.” Ron Bouffard is the assistant director, Paul G. Caron is musical director, and Eileen Messina is the choreographer. “Blood Brothers” opens at Great Fall Performing Arts Center (Academy Street, Auburn) on April 8 and runs for two full weekends. Performances are at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. on Sundays and 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 15. Tickets are $16 in advance and can be purchased online at www.LACLT.com , at the

Portland Trails 10K ‘Trail to Ale’ registration 9 a.m. Online registration for the Portland Trails 10K “Trail to Ale” will open. “Because of the popularity of this race, registration will be limited to 2000 participants. Portland Trails will accept online registrations on a first come first serve basis, with spaces reserved for Portland Trails members. Runners register on the Portland Trails website, www.trails.org. Before online registration opens, runners will get a chance to register early at the Shipyard Summer Ale Party, held at Portland Pie Company at their Portland, Scarborough and Westbrook locations on April 14 from 5-8 p.m. For each pint of Shipyard Summer Ale sold that night, Portland Pie Company will donate $1 to Portland Trails. Runners who register for the 10K at the party get their first pint for free and will be guaranteed a spot in the ‘Trail to Ale.’ The Portland Trails 10K ‘Trail to Ale’ will take place on Sunday, Sept. 18 in Portland. The race starts on the Eastern Promenade Trail, loops Back Cove, and finishes at East End Beach. The course is exclusively off-road and offers beautiful views of Portland harbor and Back Cove. The first 400 registrants to the race will receive a complimentary running jersey. Registration for the ‘Trail to Ale’ is $20.”

Earth Day volunteer work party at MOFGA center 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) will host an Earth Day volunteer work party at MOFGA’s Common Ground Education Center in Unity. Volunteers are needed for the following projects on April 16: Spring garden clean-up; raking and mulching; orchard weeding; and light carpentry projects. The workday will take place rain or shine, so participants are asked to dress appropriately. Volunteers should bring work gloves and favorite garden tools. MOFGA will provide a hearty, organic lunch and volunteer t-shirt for each participant. “MOFGA has many engaging, year-round volunteer opportunities. For more information or to register for the Earth Day Work Day please contact MOFGA’s Landscape Coordinator Joe Dupere in the MOFGA ofﬁce by phone at 5684142, or by email at jdupere@mofga.org.” see next page

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Healthy Kids Day at the Y 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Cumberland County YMCA invites kids and parents to come play at Healthy Kids Day at its Greater Portland branch and Casco Bay branch in Freeport. Activities are free and open to all. “At Healthy Kids Day, the nation’s largest health day for kids, families will enjoy family group exercise classes, lacrosse clinics free healthy snacks, a climbing wall, an inflatable obstacle course, outdoor games, basketball, seed planting, fly fishing, a puppet show, and much more. There will also be raffle items and giveaways. Slugger will be at the Portland branch to give away gift bags. As the leading nonprofit for strengthening community, the Y holds Healthy Kids Day to bring families together to engage in fun, active play and learn healthier habits that help them grow and thrive. Kids Day takes place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Greater Portland YMCA and from 10 a.m. to noon in Freeport. Casco Bay YMCA, 4 Old South Freeport Road Freeport, 25 Campus Dr., Ste 100, New Gloucester. For more information on the Portland branch activities, call 874-1111, and for Casco Bay in Freeport 865-9600, or visit cumberlandcountyymca.org

Food+Farm: Wake Up the Farm 9 a.m. Food+Farm: Wake Up the Farm with Cultivating Community. “Come out to Cultivating Community’s Turkey Hill Farm in Cape Elizabeth and help them get ready for the 2011 growing season. You’ll help CC wake up the farm and you’ll get hands-on experience and an opportunity to ask the CC staff about your farming/gardening questions. Activities for all ages and skill levels and we’ll end the morning with a soup and bread lunch to thank you for your hard work. Cultivating Community’s mission is to strengthen communities by growing food, preparing youth leaders and new farmers, and promoting social and environmental justice. We use our community food work as an engine for high-impact youth and community development programs that reconnect people to the natural and social systems that sustain us all.”

Maine Photography Show opens 10 a.m. An exhibition of over 100 photographs by many of Maine’s best photographers will be open for public viewing April 16 through May 7 in Boothbay Harbor. New this year is the chance to win a framed and signed photograph by the show judge, Jay Stock. There will be a BRAF benefit raffle for the Jay Stock photograph titled “Massai Tribe, Kenya, Africa.” which will also be on view with three other photographs by Stock throughout the exhibition. Chances will be available until the ticket drawing on the last day of the show Saturday, May 7. The Maine photography Show is produced and presented by the Boothbay Region Art Foundation and is held at their gallery: One Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor in the center of town. The show’s hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursdays through Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays. The show is produced and presented by the MPS Committee of the Boothbay Region Art Foundation, a charitable, nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization. Free admission. School groups and buses welcome. Call 6332703 for Maine Photography Show bus parking directions.

The Big Thaw Arts, Crafts and Vintage Sale 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St., Portland. “The Big Thaw is an arts, crafts and vintage sale meant to celebrate the coming Spring and a wide array of talented and innovative vendors. Kick off those winter boots and join us to ﬁnd about a thousand things to brighten your closet, home, toy chest, kitchen and more in 2011. ... The Big Thaw is the brainchild of Portland artist Audrey Hotchkiss of Little Eye Designs. She has had the valuable support of Malaika Picard of Hand-Me-Down Designs and Shanna Tice of The Makings of Shanna Tice in making this a reality.” Website: http://thebigthawportland.wordpress.com

The Wabanaki Arts Festival 10 a.m. The Wabanaki Arts Festival continues to build the strong relationship between the Midcoast community and the four Native American Tribes in Maine (Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot). The festival brings together artisans, basketmakers, and traditional music as a celebration of Wabanaki culture. The music will be ongoing throughout the day and includes the Alamoosic Lake Singers, ﬂute and storytelling by Hawk Henries, and hand drumming and song by Watie Akins. Thirty artisans and crafters will offer their unique items for sale and will provide demonstrations of their crafts. The Wabanaki Arts Festival is hosted by Bowdoin’s Native American Students Association (NASA), and is partially funded by the Blythe Bickel Edwards Fund. For further information please call the Bowdoin information desk at 725-3375 or contact Leslie Shaw at lshaw@bowdoin.edu. Location: Smith Union, Sills Drive, Brunswick. 725-3815 www.bowdoin.edu

MPBN to air Spindleworks documentary 11:30 a.m. “Everything in Sight”, a 2007 documentary about Spindleworks Art Center in Brunswick, will be broad-

cast on Maine Public Broadcasting Network on April 16 at 11:30 a.m. and April 21 at 10:30 p.m. Directed by Nikolai Fox, the ﬁlm explores the history of the center and showcases video art currently produced by Spindleworks artists. A program of Independence Association, Spindleworks was founded in 1978 by local artist Nan Ross. Ross’ vision was to teach weaving and ﬁber arts skills to clients of the Independence Association, which they could use to create items to sell for income. Many of the original artists in the program were transitioning from living in Pineland, the state institution for persons with developmental disabilities. Over the years, the program has grown to include a variety of art forms and has represented several well-known artists in the state of Maine, including Betty Pinette and Rita Langlois. Today, artists working in media arts — video, photography, music, and sound — are also included in the Spindleworks program.

Meet the Artist: 2011 Biennial Talks begin 11 a.m. to noon. Colleen Kinsella, Philip Brou, Robert Monroe and Carly Glovinski at the Portland Museum of Art. This is a series of informal artist talks to learn more about the process and inspiration of these artists and their work on view in the 2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial. 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Deborah Wing-Sproul, Marissa Girard and Lauren O’Neal; 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., Ellen Wieske, Alicia Eggert, Tyson Jacques and Andrew Thompson. The Portland Museum of Art Biennial showcases the best in today’s art world by artists associated with Maine, from digital video to painting, installation to photograPhilip Brou’s “Black Box, 2010” is phy, sculpture to prints, a winner in the Portland Museum and more. This exhibiof Art Biennial. (Lent by the artist. tion will feature 65 works Funded in part by a grant from the by 47 artists. As a series, Maine Arts Commission, Augusta) the Biennial exhibitions create a visual record of Maine’s evolving contemporary art scene and testify to the profound inﬂuence that the landscape, traditions, and people of Maine continue to have on living artists. http:// portlandmuseum.org/Content/5614.shtml

Lost in Lexicon: A Fantasy Book Event for Families 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Kids ages 8-14 and their families are invited to visit the nine villages of the Land of Lexicon, based on the fantasy adventure by Pendred Noyce. Families will untangle tangrams, anagrams, wordplay, and other puzzles to save the villagers of Lexicon. The event is a fundraiser for Maine’s literacy organization, Raising Readers. Open House, Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland. Free with a Suggested Donation. Details, call Curious City, 420-1126.

Record Store Day at Bull Moose 1 p.m. Originally conceived by Bull Moose staff, Record Store Day is celebrated on the third Saturday in April by more than 1,500 independent music stores worldwide. Prominent indie rockers The Decemberists, while on tour, will be releasing a CD titled “Live at Bull Moose” from their January performance at the Scarborough Bull Moose. All performances are Saturday, April 16. All performances are acoustic, free and open to the public. In Maine, The Lucid will be performing in the Bangor store at 2 p.m. They released a self-titled CD on Feb. 1. 683 Hogan Road, Bangor. At the Brunswick store, Marie Stella will be performing at 2 p.m. They are a Portland-based band, and are contributing a cover of “little lines” to the CD “Sing For Your Meat,” a Guided by Voices tribute album being released nationally for RSD 2011. They are a member of Portland’s Dooryard Collective and perform throughout Maine and New England. Bath band Yellow Roman Candles will be appearing at 3 p.m. 151 Maine St., Brunswick. At home in Central Maine, Uncle Jack will be performing at the Lewiston Bull Moose at 2 p.m. Lewiston Mall, 20 East Ave., Lewiston. The Portland store will host Sophomore Beat at 1 p.m. These Portland rockers are releasing an EP entitled “Party Like A Lobster” this day, which will only be available at Bull Moose. The Kenya Hall Band will be performing at 4 p.m. They are a Portland band with an intriguing, soulful, jazzy R&B sound with powerful female vocals. They released “Learning For Miles Vol. 1” in November 2010. 151 Middle St., Portland. Scarborough 456 Payne Road. Zach Jones will perform at the Scarborough Bull Moose at 3 p.m. on April 16. Of As Fast As and Rocktopus fame, Zach Jones’ quintessential, neo-classic pop is characterized by powerful

melodics, catchy lyrics, and foot-tapping rhythms, drawing inﬂuence from seminal artists such as Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, The Beatles, and the Beach Boys. He will be joined in Scarborough by other to-be-determined local artists. Educated Advocates will perform at 2 p.m. at the Waterville store. Educated Advocates are an innovative hip-hop trio drawing on the sounds of classic hip-hop through their DIY style, which has been described as “new vintage.” They will be releasing a new CD in May, and are signed to Spose’s Preposterously Dank record label. At 6 p.m., Cabaret Rock/Avant Americana band Bass Box will perform. They released their CD Mother Box this past fall. 80 Elm Plaza, Waterville. Portland- and Toronto-based selfdescribed indie-pop collective In The Audience will be performing at the North Windham store location at 3 p.m. The collective is releasing a new CD in May. They will give a free personalized CD single to customers who attend their performance. Spearheading the music of the born-in-the-90s generation of local music, SPACE gallery has called them “one of Maine’s most promising bands.” 771 Roosevelt Trail, Windham. In New Hampshire, the Portsmouth store, 82-86 Congress, is hosting the young Skyler, a York, Maine native and a favorite among teenage girls both for his looks and his catchy, pop-rock sound. Skyler is onstage at 3 p.m. 82-86 Congress St., Portsmouth, N.H. For updates, visit the Bull Moose site at http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home.

Food+Farm: The Greenhorns’ Young Farmers’ Mixer 3 p.m. April 14 to April 17, FOOD + FARM 2011. A food and ﬁlm festival at SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St. in Portland. “This is the fourth year of Food+Farm, SPACE Gallery’s annual look at issues challenging our access to safe, sustainable food. ... This afternoon mixer is an opportunity for young farmers to come and meet their peers and enjoy a little nosh. We’ll be providing good eats and beverages from Local Sprouts, Flatbread Co. and Maine Root in addition to volunteer massage therapists to ease sore farm muscles. Representatives from The Greenhorns and MOFGA will be on hand to discuss their work with the young farming community. The Greenhorns is an organization focused on recruiting, promoting and supporting young farmers in America — ‘young’ being loosely deﬁned as farmers under the national average age of 57. If you’re a farmer or intern currently working in agriculture, please come down and socialize with us from 3-5 p.m. If you’re interested in supporting or are considering becoming a young farmer, please consider coming to our Greenhorns evening event later with The Greenhorns at 7:30 p.m.” www.space538.org

Miss Maine Scholarship Program gala 5:30 p.m. The Miss Maine Scholarship Program proudly announces the 10 finalists for the third annual Maine’s Got Talent honors. They will compete at the Springtime Gala at the Hilton Garden Inn in Freeport. They are Roy Beck of Topsham (vocalist), Elexa DuBoise of Cherryfield (vocal and guitar), Fusion-dance team from the Biddeford area (dance group), Hannah Graham of Skowhegan (vocalist), Smokey Hicks of Bath (vocalist), Matt Houde and Julia Nadeau of Topsham (vocal duet), Adrianna Leonard of Pittsfield (ballet dancer), Drew Masse of Lewiston (vocalist), Hannah Rowell of South Portland (vocalist), and Nicolette Smith of Lincoln (vocalist). To obtain tickets to see the competition live, contact Patricia Crooker Mulligan by calling (207) 725-6009 or toll free 1-877-872-4321. Tickets are $40 in advance (April 11) or $50 at the door. Tickets can also be obtained via mail Miss Maine Springtime Gala, 23 Meadow Road, Brunswick, ME 04011. The Gala will feature Miss Maine 2010, Arikka Knights, a native of Chester, Maine and a Mass Communications graduate of Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire. The evening also offers both a silent and a live auction. The delicious buffet style dinner is provided by the Hilton Garden Inn. All proceeds of this event will benefit the Miss Maine Scholarship Program, the official state preliminary to Miss America, the largest source of scholarships for young women in the world. The 2011 Miss Maine Scholarship Pageant will be held at the Crooker Theater, Brunswick High School in Brunswick on Saturday, June 18. For more information about the Miss Maine Scholarship Program visit www.missmaine.org on the web.

Maine Gay Men’s Chorus ensemble 7 p.m. The seven-voice Touring Ensemble of the Maine Gay Men’s Chorus (MGMC) will sing at the First Universalist Church of Auburn, 169 Pleasant St. Their show, “As Long As You Love Me,” features a new line-up of songs including an a cappella arrangement of Toto’s “Africa,” the brand-new “My House,” and Mozart’s “Ave Verum” — one of the most beautiful pieces of choral music ever written. New arrangements of several songs make use of guitar, bass, keyboard, violin, and even a bright blue glockenspiel, all played by members of the ensemble. “The Touring Ensemble sings to fulﬁll the chorus mission of spreading the message of social acceptance and diversity.” Tix are $10 (suggested donation). FMI 783-0461 or www.auburnuu.org. see next page

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Portland Pirates in playoffs 7 p.m. The Portland Pirates shootout win over the Albany Devils combined with a Connecticut Whale 4-3 loss to the Bridgeport Sound Tigers Saturday night means the Pirates face the Whale in the opening round of the 2011 Calder Cup Playoffs. Game 2 of the best-of-seven series will be played Saturday, April 16 at 7 p.m. at the Civic Center with the series shifting to Connecticut for Games 3 and 4. Tickets for the first round of Portland Pirates Playoff Hockey MISSION: 16W, powered by Time Warner Cable are on sale at the Cumberland County Civic Center Box Office, by calling 775-3458, visiting the Cumberland County Civic Center Box Office or on-line at ticketmaster.com.

Cameron Carpenter on the Kotzschmar Organ 7:30 p.m. Cameron Carpenter will draw his concert repertoire from the following sources: jazz etudes for the piano of the Ukrainian classical-jazz genius Nikolai Kapustin; organ premieres of great piano encores by Vladimir Horowitz, Arcadi Volodis, and Cyprien Katsaris. Experience the Pipes of the Kotzschmar Organ in Portland. “The Kotzschmar Organ is the oldest working municipal pipe organ in the United States. ... Select from a wide variety of concerts including jazz, classical, and pops. Municipal Organist Ray Cornils has served Portland and the Kotzschmar Organ since 1990. Cornils performs several times each year and hosts the popular Kotzschmar Konversation with visiting artists prior to their concerts.”

Eliot Cutler on ‘The Nite Show with Danny Cashman’ 11:30 p.m. This weekend, Maine’s only local late night talk show will welcome former gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler to the show. Cutler will appear on “The Nite Show with Danny Cashman” for an interview scheduled to air Saturday at 11:30 p.m. on WABI-TV 5, Bangor and Saturday at midnight on WPME-TV 35, Portland. “The Nite Show with Danny Cashman” can be seen Saturday nights at 11:30 on WABI-TV 5 in Bangor, and Saturdays at midnight on WPME-TV 35 in Portland. The show is taped in front of a live studio audience at the Next Generation Theatre in Brewer and is produced by students and faculty from the New England School of Communications in Bangor. ““The Nite Show with Danny Cashman” returned to broadcast television in October. Using the formats made famous by Johnny Carson and David Letterman, the half-hour late night talk show features a monologue, comedy bits, guest interviews, performance guests, and the Jump City Jazz Band serves as the show’s house band.” Tickets for future tapings are available by e-mailing tickets@theniteshowmaine.com.

Sunday, April 17 Food+Farm: Urban Farm Fermentory Workshops 9 a.m. “We’ve asked our friends at the Urban Farm Fermentory to put together a couple of intensive learning

workshops for this year’s Food+Farm. Please feel free to bring snacks to share and vessel for hot or cold beverages. Each session $15. Class size limited to 15 participants. All experience levels welcome. All workshops are at the UFF - 200 Anderson St., Bay 4, Portland. Morning workshop, 9 a.m.-noon. Introduction to Urban Gardening. Afternoon workshop, 1 p.m.-4 p.m. Season Extension Techniques and Sheetmulching. $15/each session., All Ages. www. space538.org/events.php

Clothing Swap beneﬁt for St. Lawrence Arts Center 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. “Clean out your closets, collect all those old sweaters you haven’t worn in years, load up those Goodwill bags you’ve been meaning to donate and bring them here. We will be accepting men’s, women’s and children’s clothing as well as accessories (no non-wearable items please). Anyone who arrives with items to swap is able to take home whatever they wish. The event does have a suggested donation of $5-10 at door.” To schedule a time for clothing donations prior to the event, call 347-3075.

Sacred Living Gatherings 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Unity Center for Sacred Living, an open, interfaith, Oneness oriented Spiritual Community, is “here to evolve consciousness through what we call The New Spirituality. We know that the essence of Spirit is within each and every one of us, and our aim is to create a safe and sacred space for each person to explore their own perception of Spirituality. UCSL offers weekly gatherings that are informative, creative, interactive, and sometimes ceremonial followed by fellowship.” Sacred Living Gatherings on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Williston-West Church, Memorial Hall (2nd ﬂ), 32 Thomas St. Portland. For more information call 221-0727 or email centerforsacredliving@gmail.com.

Patriots Day 5 Mile Road Race 11 a.m. Boys & Girls Clubs Alumni Association’s 82nd Annual Patriots Day 5 Mile Road Race, noon; Kids’ Fun Run at 11 a.m. Portland Clubhouse, 277 Cumberland Ave. $15 entry fee or $18 on race day. First 500 registrants receive a free T-shirt. Cash prizes for the top three runners. Youth ages 7-18 who run the 5 Miler receive a free one-year membership to the Clubs. http://bgcmaine.org/page11753316. aspx

Ebune Spring Festival & Parade noon to 3 p.m. Celebrate Ebune Spring Festival & Parade and the procession of the Ram! The Ebune parade in Portland is noon. Meet at MECA, end at Eastern Prom. http:// www.museumafricanculture.org

Visiting monks to construct sand mandala 2 p.m. Sand Mandala for Compassion and Peace, April 11-17. The Mandala will be created by Geshe Gendun Gyatso, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, and Sonam Dhargyal a trained Mandala master. The mandala creation will be ongoing daily 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in The Maine College of Art Library on Congress Street, Portland. Opening Ceremony was April 11. Morning prayers at 8:30 a.m. daily. Evening

prayers at 4 p.m. daily. Dharma talks, also at Maine College of Art, 7 p.m. evenings. Closing ceremony April 17 at 2 p.m. Sponsored by The Healing Dharma Center, a Tibetan Buddhist Center in Newburyport and South Portland. (www.healingdharma.squarespace.com). Other sponsors include The Chaplaincy Institute of Maine (an interfaith wisom school), and Maine College of Art. All events are free and open to all.

‘The Thinking Heart’ in Portland 2 p.m. Four performances of “The Thinking Heart: the Life and Loves of Etty Hillesum,” will be presented in the Portland area during April, May and June at Sadhana, the Meditation Center; First Parish Church; the Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church; and at the University of Southern Maine’s Glickman Family Library. Conversation concerning the work will follow performances. Sadhana, The Meditation Center, 100 Brickhill Ave., Suite C, South Portland, on Sunday, April 17, at 2 p.m. Admission: Requested donation, $5 to $15. 228-8263.

Portland Ovations presents ‘The Mikado’ 4 p.m. Portland Ovations is proud to present New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players (NYGASP), America’s pre-eminent professional Gilbert & Sullivan repertory company performing one of the most popular musical pieces written in the English language, “The Mikado” at Merrill Auditorium. NYGASP’s production of this comedic favorite is in the traditional mold, combining a modern playfulness with a respect for the creators’ original intent. Described by the New York Times as, “Colorful and lively...stylish...the production, like so many from this dedicated company, conveys a sense of affection for the work...masterfully updated...witty and clever.” “Ovations Offstage is offering a Pre-Performance Lecture: ‘Creating the Mikado’ with Albert Bergeret, the Artistic Director of the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, on Sunday, April 17 at 3 p.m. in the Merrill Auditorium Rehearsal Hall. Bergeret will offer an overview of Gilbert and Sullivan, their process of creating this work, and the company’s success in keeping ‘The Mikado’ new and fresh.”

St. Augustine of Canterbury Anglican Church Holy Week services at Old Orchard Beach 4 p.m. St. Augustine of Canterbury Anglican Church, located at Cathedral Pines Chapel, 156 Saco Ave., Old Orchard Beach, has announced its Holy Week Schedule. Every Wednesday until April 20, there will be at 6 p.m. Stations of the Cross. On April 17, Palm Sunday at 4 p.m., the parish will have the Blessing and Distribution of Palms and Mass followed by the Service of Tenebrae. During Holy Week, on April 21, Maundy Thursday at 7 p.m., there will be Holy Communion and Stripping of the Altar. On April 22, Good Friday, from noon until 3 p.m., there is the remembrance of the Sacriﬁce of Christ on the Cross called Tres Ores. It begins at noon with the Stations of the Cross and Meditations on the Last Words of Christ in the Cross. Holy Week wraps up on Sunday April 24, with the Great Celebration of Easter and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ at 4 p.m. The Rev. Jeffrey Monroe MM is Rector.

Bill easing political party rules tied up in Senate CAUCUS from page one

variance between population in counties of the state ... for a third party, it’s significantly more difficult to organize caucuses. It isn’t to say we can’t do it, we’ve been doing it, but it has become an archaic, kind of a monotonous task for us every year,” Trevorrow said. “We see it as outdated and not the best measure of support for a given party,” she said. LD 142 removes the requirement that, in order to participate in a primary election, a political party must hold at least one municipal caucus in each county in the state. In a compromise, the legislation requires caucusing in only 12 counties every two years. “We spent some time on it, and we came to a good comproChipman mise that I thought everyone was happy with,” said Rep. Ben Chipman, I-Portland It had a unanimous recommendation from the House Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee, including the support of Rep. Diane Russell, D-Portland, Chipman said. The bill went to the Senate and took an unexpected turn, he said. The Senate voted to indefinitely

postpone the bill, a procedural move which would effectively kill the bill, Chipman said. “It’s a way of derailing a piece of legislation,” he explained. “Nobody debated it or objected,” Chipman said. “I was a bit thrown off by it to be honest.” This week, Chipman was still trying to find out which members of the Senate had concerns and why. The legislation is tabled in the House so Chipman can find out what the Senate’s objections are. “At some point, they’ll want to take it off the table. ... I’m just doing what I can to try to keep it alive,” he said. “I think there’s maybe a misunderstanding about what we’re trying to do with the law,” Chipman said. Trevorrow said a party still must hold a convention every two years, and 10,000 voting members must turn out in the general election to keep the party viable. The past November’s election was the first time to test out the 10,000-voting-member requirement. The Green Party usually has over 30,000 registered voters, and 20,000 typically vote, so “we’re well over what the requirement is,” she said. The 16-county caucus requirement, if unchanged by the legislature, may not weather a legal challenge, Trevorrow said. “Maine is the only state that has a requirement like this for party status, and in all other states that have had this requirement, it’s been ruled unconsti-

tutional,” she said. Chipman agreed, “Maine is the only state in the country that has this kind of requirement, there were a dozen states that used to have this requirement but they were struck down through court challenges. ... It’s never been challenged in Maine, but if it were, it would probably be struck down here, too.” Until that happens, a 12-county standard would still prevent the kind of provincial politics that critics fear could emerge with no geographic standard, Chipman said. “You can’t be a southern Maine party or a northern Maine party and still cover 12 counties,” Chipman said. The 16-county requirement, however, is outdated, he argued. “It doesn’t really serve a meaningful purpose, when the party members get together and meet in these counties ... they meet, they don’t have to do anything. Some of them are just five minutes long. .... I think it goes back to the days when candidates for House and Senate were nominated through caucuses, but now they get signatures. It just makes no sense to continue to have it on the books. It ties up all the parties,” he said. Chipman said he would continue working to revive the bill and break the current stalemate. “I’m optimistic we can work out the differences on it,” he said.

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Friday, April 15 The Gay Blades / Marie Stella / if and it 8 p.m. The Gay Blades are a made of magic and they are almost always on the road sending magic to new friends everywhere. Let’s dance naked together. Local indie rockers Marie Stella and if and it round out this night at Bayside Bowl. $5, all ages.

Jeffery Foucault at One Longfellow Square 8 p.m. Longtime disciple of the rich and strange music that sings behind the American veil, Jeffrey Foucault has spent the last decade mining the darker seams of country and blues, producing a string of spare and elemental albums of rare power while garnering accolades across the United States and overseas for a tersely elegant brand of songwriting set apart by its haunting imagery and weather-beaten cool. $15/$18

Tax Day Extravaganza with Jeff Beam / Bass Box / Sea Level / the Vanityites at Empire 9 p.m. 9:30 – 10: The Vanityites, 10:15–11: Sea Level, 11:15-12: Jeff Beam Philharmonic, 12:15-1: Bass Box. $6, 21 plus.

Saturday, April 16 Melissa Ferrick at One Longfellow Square 8 p.m. Melissa Ferrick, a native New Englander, is a powerhouse vocalist/ guitarist who has steadily released DIY projects since her prior stints on Atlantic and W.A.R.? Records. A six-time Boston Music Award and GLAMA Winner, her combination of raw intensity and consummate musicianship ﬁrst caught the attention if MPress founder Rachael Sage several years ago when Ferrick was appearing at the GLAAD Media Awards in New York City. Her extraordinarily passionate, grassroots fan base began when she opened for Morrissey in 1991, and has grown into one of the most loyal followings in recent indie memory. $20/$25, all ages.

Tuesday, April 19 Glass Fingers / Of the Trees / Michael Stoltz at Slainte Wine Bar 9 p.m. Prepare yourselves for a night of excellent Maine electronic music. You’re sure to be dancing and nodding your head to the sweet sounds of Glass Fingers, Of the Trees, and Michael Stoltz late into this Tuesday night.