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Chamber bids farewell

By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Over 50 people showed up to witness the changing of the guard and the promise of great things to come at an April 10 gathering of the Greater Bridgton Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce at the Campfire Grille.

They said goodbye to Jim Mains, who is leaving the executive director’s job to become General Manager of the Bridgton Highlands Golf Course, and said hello to his replacement, Barbara Clark, the former head of the Sebago Lake Chamber of Commerce.

Clark presented Mains with a stuffed bear wearing a golf outfit, which he held while he spoke to the crowd.

“Everything has come full circle. As soon as I decided to move on we set up a SURPRISED BY SLEET — William Troy’s 2006 Chrysler meeting at the Black Horse M300 lies under utility wires on its side after snapping off Tavern, and now we all know the result.” a utility pole near his home Friday on Deer Hill Road.

Mains said the cham(See story on page 4A.)

ber, with Clark’s experience behind it, is “now poised to move ahead, and that makes me really happy.” Mains later also celebrated his birthday by cutting into a big golfing cake.

“I feel really confident that we made a really great decision” in hiring Clark, said Mains, who plans to stay on the chamber’s board of directors.

Clark gave a brief introduction of her background, and said, “My passion is retention and growth of business.

Beyond that it is economic development and growth. So as you get to know me, I’m a doer and I’m a shaker and I’m so pleased to be here and to get to meet everybody I don’t know,” Clark said.

Chamber President Ken Murphy presented Mains with a plaque thanking Mains for providing friendship, stability and leadership to the chamber that is “beyond our expectations.

A GOLFING BEAR GOODBYE — Outgoing Greater Bridgton Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Jim Mains reacts to the golfing bear given him as a goodbye gift, while his successor Barbara Clark looks on, at an April 10 Chamber reception at the Campfire Grille. Mains, who left to become General Manager of Bridgton Highlands Golf Course, will remain active in chamber affairs as a board member. (Geraghty photo)

Seasonal repairs spring up Probing the

By Dawn De Busk Staff writer The snow melts. The earth thaws. Rain moves in for a while. Some gravel roads revert to a snarl of potholes.

Susceptible to frost heaves, some stretches of pavement bubble up and test vehicles’ suspension systems.

This is nothing new.

“That’s springtime in Maine. The roads have potholes this time of year.

The road where I live is as rough as a cob,” said Casco Town Manager and Road Commissioner Dave Morton.

In Casco, the company R.N. Willey and Sons is contracted with the town to take care of maintaining 47 miles of public easements. This week, the R.N. Willey crew has been filling the potholes on several of those gravel roads.

In April, the Casco Board of Selectmen reviewed a computer program that aids in keeping an ongoing inven-

criminal mind

On Tuesday, heavy equipment, owned by R.N. Willey and Sons, makes improvements on an unpaved public easement in Casco.

(De Busk Photo) tory of road conditions, and tracking which roads most warrant repair work. That computer software has not yet been purchased.

However, local elected officials do not need to consult a computer to figure out which roads to focus on first.

This summer, Libby Road has dibs on road improvements including culvert and drainage work. The selectmen specifically earmarked funding for Libby Road, and moved $10,000 from the paving account to fast track the project.

“The reasons are multiple.

It needs attention; the town has already invested in part of road; and there are a lot of people who live off Libby Road,” Morton said.

In addition, Point Sebago Road will be re-aligned and

By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Robert Carey knows what lies inside criminal minds.

For the past 33½ years, Carey, a forensic social worker, has probed deeply into minds that have lost regard for society’s rules, and are paying the price behind bars.

It is a huge responsibility, often stressful and disappointing, yet hugely rewarding, Carey said recently in an interview at his Bridgton office of Counseling Solutions, tucked discretely in the rear first floor of the historic William Perry House.

“You can’t fix the world,” said Carey, who has testified in court cases and spent his first 12½ years working with police on emergency calls, helping to talk down someone who has threatened to kill themselves or someone else.

“I was a very young man, and it was very exciting. It was an incredible learning experience, because you had to learn on your feet and there was no room for error.

Someone could get hurt.”

He has found it just as rewarding, however, to solve broader problems within the criminal justice system, especially those that keep people safe on both sides of the bars and help criminals turn their lives around.

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Mooring registrations to be established

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Timothy John Fowler, 69, walked away from an adult day care center in Largo, Md. April 8. Fowler grew up in Portland, has three adult children in MISSING, Page A

By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer CASCO — For those who own waterfront property, having a spot to anchor one’s boat is a necessity, and is often included in the property deed.

By the same token, moorings must allow other marine vessels to maneuver through the water safely.

Sometimes, moorings can be a source of conflict between neighbors. In one instance, a landowner constructed a dock in the Shoreland Zone and parked a pontoon there. Meanwhile, the two other families with deeded mooring rights could not even get a kayak by the dock, according to Casco Code Enforcement Officer (CEO) Don Murphy.

Wearing the hat of Harbor Master, Murphy provided the Casco Board of Selectmen with some highlights of the clarifications and changes to the town’s mooring ordinance.

On Tuesday, the board decided not to make too many waves with the new mooring

HE WEARS THE HAT WELL — Forensic Social Worker Robert Carey sits at his desk at his Bridgton counseling office located in the William Perry House.

School bus assault leaves boy injured Example of proposed mooring ordinance within 100’ of the shore in Casco. protocol.

The consensus was to introduce the mooring registration requirements during this summer. However, the board will waive registration fees for the first year.

Then, the town will implement a low-cost fee sometime in 2014.

Selectman Grant Plummer said he supported the idea of making these changes incrementally.

“We need to be clear about the time frame. It would be an important piece for people.

With the free registration, there would be a little bit of cost for people to get up to code with the blue and white buoy,” Plummer said.

A white buoy with a blue stripe is mandated by state mooring laws, according to Murphy. Also, when residents register their anchorMOORING, Page 12A

CASCO — Police are investigating whether bullying may have been a factor in a fight that broke out on a SAD #61 school bus April 11 between two male students riding home after school.

Captain Donald Goulet of the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office said the older male, age 16, has been issued a Juvenile Summons for allegedly assaulting and causing injury to a 13-year-old student as the bus was traveling on Meadow Road in Casco at 2:28 p.m. Goulet said the two male students ASSAULT, Page A

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It’s official ICE OUT for the Bridgton Community Center contest on Moose Pond was Friday, April 5. The drawing for the winning ticket will take place on Friday, April 19 at the Bridgton Community Center at 11 a.m.

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A WARM SENDOFF was given to outgoing Greater Bridgton Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Jim Mains by the crowd of around 50 chamber members and several Bridgton municipal officials.

Chairman thanks board for workshops and offers kudos.

By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer CASCO – With U.S. flags flying at half-mast around the nation, Tuesday night’s meeting opened with a moment of silence for the victims of the bombings during the Boston Marathon.

Then, Chairman Mary-Vienessa Fernandes thanked the members of the Casco Board of Selectmen for completing seven consecutive workshops.

“I realize 6 p.m. is a difficult hour,” she said.

“You are coming home from work. It’s family time.

It’s dinner time,” Fernandes said.

She continued, saying some of the workshop topics have been educational, while other items were emergency-related matters.

Since January, the board has been holding hour-long workshops before its regular meetings.

In fact, it has become such a habit that Selectman Tracy Kimball showed up to the Casco Community Center at 6 p.m., and wondered where everyone else was.

On Tuesday, the board conducted business during its regular meeting that started at 7 p.m.

Fernandes said that in addition to missing out on family time on Tuesday evenings, all of the selectmen have been attending Casco Finance Committee meetings on Wednesdays. That committee has been fine-tuning the 2013–14 budget.

More workshop topics are on the horizon including capital assets, road repair computer software, and reviewing the town’s annual audit report.

“I am trying to decide when to have a public hearing with Vision Government (Solutions) on revaluations,” she said.

Also, the board will schedule a public hearing on mooring registrations that are part of revisions to the Casco Mooring Ordinance.

In other business, the board unanimously approved two liquor licenses for Migis Lodge and Point Sebago Resort — both located on Big Sebago Lake in South Casco.

Point Sebago Resort hosts a variety of events such as weddings and family reunions, and golf tournaments.

Some of the events take place outside of the parameter of the regular liquor license, so the town provides a blanket liquor license to the resort.

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By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Bridgton Selectmen are crafting a policy to govern the sale of surplus land that would go beyond a typical closed bid auction with a minimum asking price. Town Manager Mitch Berkowitz has given them a list of parcels they might want to pay special attention to: • Land behind the West Bridgton Fire Station • Lot behind the Saunder’s Mill • Land behind Bridgton Hospital • Parcel(s) on Cedar Drive • Parcel behind the laundromat • Parcel off Wildwood Road Some of the land has the potential to be used by

the town as it improves its sewer infrastructure, or provide expanded facilities, Berkowitz said. There is also the potential to subdivide some of the parcels to realize a higher return — and, if so, it makes sense for the town to serve as its own developer, instead of passing the job along to someone else.

“The sale of surplus land should not be erratic or in reaction to something,” Berkowitz said. “It should be methodical and transparent, including a reasonable amount of public discussion.”

Just how much public discussion is “reasonable” became a point for debate at the April 9 Selectmen’s meeting. Wastewater Committee member Glen “Bear”

Zaidman said his committee recommended to the board to direct town employees to not be as forthright as they have been in describing specific parcels under consideration for future septic field expansion.

Zaidman said if a property owner is aware his land is about to be sought for purchase by the town, the response could well be “chaching, cha-ching,” with the result being the town must pay more for the land.

Zaidman did not specify which parcel was identified in writing by a town employee, but Berkowitz had mentioned land behind the laundromat on Portland Road in outlining sewer field expansion plans now underway.

A joint meeting was sched-

uled between the board and the committee for Tuesday, April 30, at 6 p.m. Topics will not only include field expansion sites, but also a policy to allow sewer users to sell back their unused allocations to other business developers and owners who need the extra capacity.

“I’ve had three businesses contact me who want more allocations,” Zaidman said.

“It’s time to move and correct these problems” of infiltration and inflow, he said, coupled with an accurate accounting of current sewer usage based on meter rates.

Selectmen complimented Zaidman for creating a spreadsheet to track allocations approved and compare them with capacity actually used.

Board balks over asst. fire chief stipend

By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Selectmen are reluctant to keep $4,100 in funding intact for the assistant fire chief position, even though the other chiefs have taken on the extra jobs that position requires without pay.

Assistant Deputy Fire Chief Todd Perreault said the four deputy chiefs “stepped up to the plate” following the retirement of former Assistant Fire Chief Tim Cook earlier this year. “These jobs have to be done, whether it’s four or five people,” he said.

But Selectmen Doug Taft said he wanted to see the plan for restructuring the depart-

ment in the wake of Cook’s departure before committing the funding.

“We don’t have the job descriptions. We did this once before, with the fire inspector,” said Taft, budgeting for a position before the position was in fact created. “And it was two years before something was done.”

It was well-known that Cook put in many hours and was responsible for many important jobs within the department. Some of the jobs he did will not be easily replaced at the same level of funding, since he often took care of things on his own time.

Perreault said the stipend

funding will still be needed whether four or five persons do the work, “unless you think the assistant chief was a superfluous person.”

The board tabled a decision until its meeting next Tuesday, April 23. On another recommended budget cut in the department, however, the board voted to uphold cutting $33,000 in funding from the West Bridgton Fire Station.

Perreault said the money would be used to build office and storage space on the back of the station, thereby allowing fire trucks to be worked on inside the truck bay with the doors closed.

“In order to do anything in

there, we need to pull the truck out,” he said.

Selectman Woody Woodward said the trucks could be taken to the Central Station if they needed to be worked on.

Again, Perreault, who spoke on behalf of Fire Chief Glen Garland who could not attend, defended the need for the funding. He said the station is old and deteriorating, often experiencing frozen water pumps and furnace breakdowns.

“Some point in time, you’ve got to start putting money aside,” Perreault said.

Not this year, selectmen said.

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Poland Spring Fleet Manager in Fryeburg FRYEBURG — Poland Spring is offering Fryeburg area residents an opportunity to meet and talk with the company’s tanker fleet manager. Tom Hathaway, who assumed the role of fleet manager a year ago, will staff the office at 639 Main Street on Thursday, April 18, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Hathaway will have information on hand about the company’s tanker fleet, and hopes to hear directly from residents about concerns and questions they may have about the tankers’ presence in their community.

“Safe trucking is a serious matter to the nearly 800 employees of Poland Spring. When it comes to transportation, being a good community member means focusing on safety and courtesy,” Hathaway said. “I’m looking forward to meeting the residents of Fryeburg and learning more about how we’re doing and ways we can continue to operate safely on the roads.”

The Poland Spring fleet has frequently been recognized for its exemplary driving record and safety program. Most recently, the fleet was honored with the Maine Motor Transport Association’s Grand Champion Award in

2012.

Hathaway has extensive experience in the transportation industry in New England.

He is a native of Rumford.

Poland Spring operates three Maine bottling plants, in Poland Spring, Hollis and Kingfield. The Kingfield facility, which officially opened in January 2009, represents a $60 million investment and dozens of jobs in rural western Maine. Poland Spring operates additional spring sources in Fryeburg, Poland, Dallas Plantation, Pierce Pond Township, Denmark and St. Albans. Most recently, Poland Spring invested $4.1 million in a spring water station project in Fryeburg. In addition, the company: • Employs nearly 800 fulltime and seasonal workers across Maine • Invested over $500 million in capital in Maine since 2000 • Contributes nearly $40 million to the economy in annual payroll • Spends almost $65 million directly with other Maine companies each year • Invested over $5.5 million in community giving since 2000 to support schools, fire and rescue, environmental conservation, and many local and statewide causes.

Bus assault, child injured (Continued from Page A) are acquaintances, and that the assault was physical in nature and did not involve any weapons.

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DEP is not alone in expanding its accessibility and assistance to job creators.

Earlier this week, the Maine Department of Economic & Community Development (DECD) announced use of its Business Answers online assistance portal had more than doubled in the past two years. In addition to the Business Answers service, DECD has a hotline for businesses to call to get assistance in state licensing, permitting and regulatory issues. The number for that Red Tape Hotline is 1-207624-7486.

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Use of the hotline, which is answered by DEP Small Business Ombudsman Julie Churchill, has surged since the LePage administration took office, as individuals and businesses have felt more comfortable calling the state’s leading environmental agency at 1-800-789-9802 and asking for help.

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If evidence of bullying is found, additional charges may be considered.

PTSD. Carey’s goals at ACJ are humble; as a cognitive therapist, he tries to help the inmates understand and cope with being in jail while they are there, and to begin to identify their problems and address them.

“It’s very solutions-oriented work. It’s very pleasurable. And it’s effective,” he said. Recently he was able to calm down an angry young man experiencing jail for the first time by explaining to him that jail is society’s “time-out.”

Carey sees too many people with emotional problems or who are mentally ill become “stuck in the system” because of policy decisions on deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill made decades ago. Jails have become the holding pens for society’s mentally ill population, comprising, by some estimates, over half of the jail population at any time.

“Right now there’s no mechanism, no safety net, that reaches out to these people. They languish — which is horrendous,” said Carey.

The National Association of Social Workers in Maine is trying to move the legislation to allow psychiatric transfers from jail forward this session, he said.

He is hopeful, but in the meantime, he does what he can. Looking outside the large window in his office that overlooks Shorey Park and Highland Lake beyond, Carey said he loves living with his wife Ellen and their horses in their capestyle Bridgton home, which reminds him of the friendlier, more rural life now lost to most of Massachusetts.

When he really does “retire,” he said, he just might leave his office long enough to take his fly-fishing pole down to the lake during a break in his day.

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(Continued from Page A) “There’s an old social work saying — you’re walking along and you see all these babies floating facedown in a stream. Do you run over and try to save the babies who are drowning, or do you run upstream and try to stop what’s causing it to happen?”

Having relocated to Maine three years ago to escape the urban sprawl of his former home in Massachusetts, Carey now works a slowerpaced 50–60 hours a week, compared to the 80 hours a week he worked for two decades as Clinical Social Work Supervisor at Taunton State Hospital.

He spends roughly half his time providing individual counseling in Bridgton, working mostly with people on probation or who are awaiting sentencing. The other half is spent working as a Clinical Social Worker inside the Androscoggin County Jail, both counseling inmates and staff, the latter on ways to identify and respond safely with inmates depending on their mental or emotional issues.

At Taunton State Hospital, he co-chaired a Safety Task Force that developed a safety-training program that was adopted throughout the state.

Jails and prisons are a much more controlled environment, but it takes less than a second for an inmate to strike out and hurt — or kill — a guard or fellow inmate. He’s seen it happen.

“We also have an old saying in the jail system: ‘If you’re still alive when you leave, it’s been a good day,’” he joked. Carey said the staff at ACJ are very dedicated and close-knit, and he is enjoying working with them.

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Car takes out BRIDGTON POLICE BLOTTER utility pole

By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer WATERFORD — A Waterford man escaped injury after he lost control in an April 12 sleet storm and slammed into a utility pole, toppling it over.

William Troy, 67, was shaken but unhurt in the 6:46 p.m. crash, which occurred as he was returning alone from Harrison to his home at the summit of Deer Hill Road. There wasn’t any ice or sleet on the road as he drove up the hill, but near the top a layer of sleet had accumulated and Troy lost control as he navigated a slight curve. The 2006 Chrysler M300 he was driving went into a skid and slammed into the pole, which sent it spinning around and over on one side while dragging the pole into the roadway along with its wires.

The crash happened in front of the home of Troy’s neighbor, former Bridgton Patrolman Marc Wagner, who heard the sound of crunching metal, and knew at once what that meant.

Wagner ran up through the snow to the Chrysler while using his cell phone to call the Oxford County Sheriff’s Department. He offered to

help Troy get out of the car.

But Wagner said Troy’s first priority was his small Corgi dog that was riding with him and who was quite upset.

“The dog was shaking more than him,” Wagner said.

Troy passed the dog through the driver’s side window to Wagner, and then Wagner helped Troy climb out of the window. A second neighbor approached and asked what he could do to help, noting that the right front body of the Chrysler had sheared off and that the car was a total loss.

Wagner said Troy told the man, “Well, it’s my wife’s car,” and asked him if he would go to his house and tell his wife what had happened. Wagner said the neighbor looked at him and replied, “Why don’t I drive you down there, and you can tell her yourself.”

Sheriff Deputy Matt Baker arrived on the scene and took charge of traffic safety and contacting utility companies and a wrecker service. Troy was evaluated for injuries and did not require transport to a hospital. Wagner said he was wearing a seat belt and that his air bag deployed upon impact with the pole.

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These items appeared on the Bridgton Police Department blotter (this is a partial listing): Tuesday, April 9 4:03 p.m. Police investigated a complaint from a Harrison Road resident who said his vehicle was just stolen.

5:39 p.m. A male caller said he found a large case in the road by Food City. The man brought the case to the police department.

10:59 p.m. Police issued a written warning to a woman for failing to stop at a stop sign on South High Street by Bridgton Hospital.

Wednesday, April 10 12:36 a.m. Police investigated a disturbance at a Pikes Farm apartment involving a 16-year-old male whose grandmother said was out of control, throwing and destroying things.

11:17 a.m. Police responded to a Pike Farm apartment to check on a woman who told her husband she had taken four days’ worth of her medication and was suicidal.

1:36 p.m. Arielle Nagy, 22, of Brownfield was charged on a warrant for failure to appear for theft by Bridgton Police Officer Todd Smolinsky.

Nagy was released on bail.

2:24 p.m. Tamela J. Risch, 51, of Mitchell Lane in Bridgton was charged with operating under the influence

by Bridgton Police Officer Todd Smolinsky. Risch was released on personal recognizance.

5:10 p.m. Police responded to a complaint by a Plummers Landing Road resident that her computer had a computer virus.

Thursday, April 11 4:27 p.m. Police investigated a report from a resident that tools had been found in the metal bin at the Transfer Station.

4:58 p.m. Police responded to a disturbance involving an argument between two persons at a Hio Ridge Road business.

9:42 p.m. Police issued a written warning to a male driver for a broken headlight at Rite Aid on Portland Road.

9:45 p.m. Police helped Fryeburg Police break up a fight involving four people at 90 Ice House Road.

Friday, April 12 3:01 p.m. Police provided traffic control for the Bridgton Fire Department with a report of a fire at the Antique Revival store on 186 Main Street.

6:59 p.m. Police investigated a South High Street resident’s complaint that her father was intoxicated and threatening to do harm to her boyfriend.

9:53 p.m. A caller said he was almost hit head on around 25 minutes earlier by a late model pickup in the area of North High Street and Sweden Road.

9:57 p.m. Mark B. Kilgore, 18, of Main Street in Bridgton was summonsed for sale and use of drug paraphernalia by Bridgton Police Officers Phillip Jones and T.J. Reese.

Saturday, April 13 3:08 a.m. Police assisted the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department with a report of shots fired in a house on Taylor Road in Sebago.

3:38 p.m. A caller asked to speak to Animal Control Officer Kathleen Quinlan about a house on Holden Hills that the caller said has five or six dogs and half a dozen cats.

5:25 p.m. Police searched unsuccessfully for an older model black motorcycle being operated unsafely by an operator with a black jacket and helmet who was headed from Rite Aid toward downtown Bridgton.

7:09 p.m. A caller reported seeing a suspicious white van with lettering saying “Good Humor” on the back in the area of Rite Aid on Portland Road.

11:36 p.m. Matthew R. Castelli, 24, of Hazel Street in Auburn was arrested for operating under the influence

by Bridgton Police Officer T.J. Reese. Castelli was also summonsed for attaching false plates and was released on personal recognizance.

Sunday, April 14 3:37 p.m. Police responded to a minor twocar accident near Willett Road and South High Street. There were no injuries, and no report was taken.

11:05 a.m. The owner of the First and Last Motel at 461 Portland Road told police there was a couple inside the property who was not allowed to be there. Police advised the owner to call the court in the morning and start legal eviction proceedings.

11:48 a.m. Police were unable to locate two ATVs said to be racing around the block at Plummer’s Landing on Main Street without wearing helmets.

12:55 p.m. Police responded to a two-vehicle accident at Hannaford on Portland Road.

1:59 p.m. A woman asked police to check on a strange vehicle sitting in her driveway on Washington View Lane.

4:51 p.m. A caller reported a brown patch pit bull mix was chasing her son in the area of Cody’s Way. 8:05 p.m. A caller reported a possible Craig’s List scam.

Missing man might be heading to Maine (Continued from Page A) Maine and talked often about returning to the state.

Fowler suffers from Alzheimer’s, and had no money or a driver’s license and doesn’t own a vehicle. But family members think he may have found transportation to Maine. Fowler was born and raised in Portland, has children in Raymond and Harrison, and at one time worked at the Brunswick Naval Air Station and at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

Fowler is 5’10”, weighs 160 pounds, is bald with a long gray beard and wears glasses.

He was last seen wearing a black leather jacket, blue jeans and a black baseball cap.

Anyone who may have had any contact with Fowler should call Maine State Police in Gray at 657-3030.

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Locals abroad: A trip to Black Dragon River

By Jay Spenciner Special to The News Loraine and I arrived in China in early January.

After spending a few days in Beijing, a city of 17,000,000, we flew to Harbin. This city of about 6,000,000 in Hei Long Jiang (Black Dragon River) Province is in China’s far northeast, near the borders with North Korea and Siberia.

In winter, arctic systems race across Siberia and spill into Hei Long Jiang giving Harbin a frigid and dry winter. Temperatures of minus 30F to minus 35F are common. During our six days, the high was +4F and the low -4F. There was about a 6-inch ground cover of snow.

This city is worldrenowned for its snow and ice festivals. We spent about half a day each at the snow exhibits and ice sculptures and an afternoon/evening at the Ice Lantern Festival. The latter had ice sculptures with colored lights inside them.

Teams from throughout Asia and China competed in building the snow and ice structures. The scale was awesome. Some were hundreds of feet long and very high.

The lit-up structures were truly breathtaking. There was dancing PSI style with Disney characters like Mickey and Donald. We joined in.

Many Chinese were very friendly to us and tried to be helpful. Not many Westerners venture here. We had numerous requests to pose for photos with Chinese people.

Other Chinese say, “Hello,” the only English word they know. Loraine and I had studied Chinese in preparation for this trip. We found it toughgoing. But, it has paid off. We were able to buy train tickets and talk to the bus driver in Chinese. We could tell taxi drivers where we wanted to go and engage in rudimentary conversations with them sometimes assisted by hand

gestures. This was very exciting for us. A waitress told me in Chinese that my Chinese was not bad. I responded, “Ni shuo hua Zhong wen hen hao,” — Your Chinese is very good. For a moment she didn’t react; but then getting the joke she burst out laughing.

We visited Camp 731 with which all Chinese are familiar. When the Japanese invaded in the 1930s, they set up this experimental camp here in which they conducted experiments on Chinese, captured Russians and perhaps a few downed U.S. airman.

Some were dissected; others were injected with all kinds of diseases. Chemical weapons were developed here and tested on live subjects. The Japanese used weapons developed here in Hunan Province (which we will visit later) on soldiers and civilians.

A favorite dish was hot pot (huo guo). Platters of raw meat and vegetables that you begin by choosing are put before you for you to cook at the table in a boiling broth. It was delicious. I don’t know the name of some items but we did have lamb, lotus root and straw mushrooms among other things.

Other than at hotels the toilets are not like western ones; they are squat toilets.

It is easy to imagine how to use these. As no toilet paper is usually available, we carry our own as does everybody.

During my work career, I used to drive 50,000-plus miles a year throughout New England, New York, New Jersey, as well as the cities of Pennsylvania. I felt I could drive anywhere; but not in China. Traffic laws are good, but the important thing to remember is that they are only guidelines. They can be followed or not depending on what you want to do. Red lights can cause you to stop or not. Double lines separating the different traffic direc-

Jay and Lorraine Spenciner in front of an intricately sculpted wall of ice. tions can separate or not. Yes, one can cross double lines to pass. Likewise, one can pull into the breakdown lane to pass. And it is imperative that the horn be honked as much as possible. A cardinal sin is to stop for pedestrians; after all they are just targets.

Give a blast on the horn; that means watch out here I come.

A related topic is crossing the street on foot. It is not enough to wait for the green pedestrian light as cars may continue to come. We have solved the problem. We wait for a group of Chinese to cross and fall in with them. When they go, we go. Sometimes we have to wait on a line separating the different lanes as cars and motorcycles whiz by on both sides of you. You must check both directions as some bikes and motorcycles drive the wrong way. At night, some buses and other vehicles frequently have their lights off. Intersections are mad jumbles of cars, taxis, motorcycles, bicycles, carts, buses, three wheeled cars and pedestrians. And all have the right of way. Size is irrelevant.

We spent a couple of days in both Jilin City and

Standing in awe of the time and skill necessary to achieve entire cities of ice.

Changchun, arriving on comfortable trains. These also are cities in China’s northeast. The early morning ice along the Songhua River in Jilin was very scenic. In Changchun, we visited the palace of Emperor Pu Yi. He was installed by the Japanese as the puppet emperor of Manchuria when the Japanese invaded in the 1930s and was the subject of the movie, The Last Emperor.

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Calendar BRIDGTON Thur., Apr. 18 — Bridgton Rotary Club, talk by Bridgton Hospital President/CEO David Frum on being named one of top 100 Critical Access Hospitals in U.S. & the effects of Affordable Care Act, 7:15 a.m., Alliance Church.

Thur., Apr. 18 — Spring Family Scavenger Hunt by LEA, 9 a.m., Pondicherry Park, FMI: 647-8580.

Thur., Apr. 18 — Senior College, 1st of 4 sessions, The Great War, Canada, and My Uncle Harry, w/Allen Crabtree, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., Community Center. FMI: 647-5593.

Fri., Apr. 19 — Senior College, 1st of 4 sessions, Star Dust, take a journey thru the universe, w/Lega Medcalf, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., Community Center. FMI: 647-5593.

Fri., Apr. 19 — Free Sound Healing Workshop by Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Bridgton Hospital.

Pre-register: 795-8250, 1877-336-7287.

Sat., Apr. 20 — Visit with State Rep. Lisa Villa, 9:30 to 11 a.m., Morning Dew. Sat., Apr. 20 — Earth Day Cleanup, meet 1:30 p.m. at Community Center garage, cleanup to 5 p.m. around Stevens Brook, Depot & Main

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Sat., Apr. 20 — Baked Haddock Dinner to benefit Laurie A. Carter-Bergen field, 430to 6:30 p.m., Community Center.

Sun., Apr. 21 — Meet the Breeds event and Food Drive for Harvest Hills, bring donation of dog or cat food, noon to 2 p.m., Bridgton Veterinary Hospital, Rte. 117.

Mon., Apr. 22 — Comedian Jim Colliton, 7 p.m., Magic Lantern Theater.

FMI: 647-8592.

Tue., Apr. 23 — Open House After Hours, 6:30 to 8 p.m., North Bridgton Library.

FMI: 647-8563.

Wed., Apr. 24 — Bridgton Bookies, The End of Life Book Club, 3 p.m., library.

Wed., Apr. 24 — Author Series with Caroline Grimm, 1857 diary of young Bridgton girl, 7 p.m., North Bridgton Library.

Thur., Apr. 25 — Chamber After Hours, 5-7 p.m., Bridgton Historical Society, museum, Gibbs Ave. Sat., Apr. 27 — Ledges Trail Work Day by LELT & Appalachian Mountain Club, meet at Ledges trailhead 8:15 a.m.

Sat., Apr. 27 — CutA-Thon to benefit LRHS Cheerleaders going to summer camp, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Nu-Image Salon, Rte. 302 (opposite Sandy Creek Rd.) BROWNFIELD Sat., Apr. 20 — Brownfield Lions Dance w/Echo Tones, 21+, 8 p.m. to midnight, Lions Den, Rtes. 5 & 113.

Sun., Apr. 21 — Mason’s Breakfast to benefit Brownfield Rec, 7:30 to 9:30 a.m., Masonic Lodge.

CASCO Sat., Apr. 20 — Baked Bean Supper by Edes Falls Sewing Circle, 4:30 to 6 p.m., Edes Falls Community Hall.

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Things to do Sat., Apr. 27 ­— LRHS Baseball Coin Fundraiser, rolled or unrolled coins accepted, 12:30 p.m., or drop off at Shear Techniques prior to event.

DENMARK Fri., Apr. 19 — Difficult hike to Tuckerman Ravine, Pinkham Notch, N.H., watch skiers attempt the steep slopes of Tuckerman Bowl, by Denmark Mountain Hikers, meet 8:30 a.m. at Denmark Congregational Church. FMI: 756-2247.

Sat., Apr. 27 — Huskies Chinese/Silent Auction by Brownfield/Denmark PTA, doors open 2 p.m., ticket pulling 4 p.m., Brownfield/ Denmark Elementary School.

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FRYEBURG Thur., Apr. 18 — Public opportunity to meet with Poland Spring Tanker Fleet Manager Tom Hathaway, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., office at 639 Main St. FMI: 935-1514.

Wed., Apr. 24 — Opera Lecture Series on Giulio Cesare with Joe DeVito, 6 to 7:30 p.m., Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center, Fryeburg Academy.

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Fri., Apr. 26 — Hypnotist Roderick Russell, 7 p.m., Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center, Fryeburg Academy.

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Sat., Apr. 27 — Met Opera Live in HD, Giulio Cesare, noon to 4:30 p.m., Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center, Fryeburg Academy.

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HARRISON Thur., Apr. 18 — Yard Sale Collection, 2-4 p.m., Lakeside Grange, Harrison Village. FMI: 583-2960. Also Tues. 2-4 p.m., Sat. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Sat., Apr. 20 — Visit with State Rep. Lisa Villa, 3:30 to 5 p.m., Ruby Slipper Cafe & Bakery, 103 Norway Rd. Sat., Apr. 20 — Spaghetti Supper to benefit Harrison Lions Disaster Relief Fund, 5-7 p.m., Lions Den (Rear of Block bldg.)

Sat. & Sun., Apr. 20-21 — Hunter’s Safety Course

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Two shows next week Local performer, Brad Hooper, is back in town next week to kick off the spring season. He will be performing at Bray’s Brewpub on Wednesday, April 24, at 7pm and is also appearing at the Campfire Grille on Saturday, April 27 at 8pm.

Hooper has a unique voice all his own and performs songs that are raw and intuitive. If the past few years are any indication of Hooper’s potential you will consider yourself lucky to have been there for ‘the intimate shows’ as he makes his way.

Hooper will also be appearing at the Maine Blues Festival this summer. To find out more about the Maine Blues Festival go to www.mainebluesfestival.com. To view Hooper’s entire schedule visit his website at www.bradhooper.net.

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Wed., Apr. 24 — VFW & VFW Auxiliary, 7 p.m., VFW Hall, Waterford Rd. LOVELL Sat., Apr. 20-Fri., Apr. 29 — Spring $ A Bag Sale, Lovell Thrift Shop of Lovell UCC, Rte. 5, hours 10 a.m. to noon Mon., Wed., Sat. Sat., Apr. 20 — Visit with State Rep. Lisa Villa, noon to 1:30 p.m., Rosie’s, 234 Main St. Sat., Apr. 20 — Spaghetti Supper & silent auction by

Lovell Fire Dept., 4 to 7 p.m., Central Fire House.

NAPLES Thur., Apr. 18 — Kids & Kameras, 3 p.m., library.

Sat., Apr. 20 — Bean Supper, 4:30 to 6 p.m., Edes Falls Community Hall.

Sat., Apr.20 — Spring Fling Silent Auction & Supper, doors open 5 p.m., American Legion, Rte. 11.

Sat., Apr. 20 — Dr. Michael Coffman talk, meet & greet 5 to 5:45 p.m., talk 6 p.m., Lake Region High

School. FMI: deheuiser@yahoo.com Tue., Apr. 23 — American Red Cross Blood Drive, 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Lakes Region High School. FMI: 1800-733-2767.

Tue., Apr. 23 — Scrabble Club, 7 p.m., library.

Thur., Apr. 25 — Lego Club, 4 to 5 p.m., library.

Sat., Apr. 27 — LRHS Baseball Coin Fundraiser (rolled/unrolled coins accepted, 12:30 p.m., Community Center. Or dropoff at Shear Techniques prior to event.

RAYMOND Wed., Apr. 24 — Financial workshop, Time Management, 6 p.m., library.

Wed., Apr. 24 — Book Group, 7 p.m., library.

Sat., Apr. 27 — Free Community Meal, 4:30 to 6 p.m., Christ Chapel, 37 Northern Pines Rd. Sun., Apr. 28 — American Red Cross Blood Drive, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Aubuchon Hardware, Rte. 302. FMI: 1800-733-2767.

WATERFORD Sat., Apr. 20 — Roadside Cleanup Event, meet 9 a.m. at Waterford Town Office, return at noon for refreshments, contests, prizes. FMI: 5834403.

Sat., Apr. 20 — Waterford World’s Fair meeting & supper, 2 p.m., Town Hall. FMI: 595-1601.

AREA EVENTS Fri., Apr. 19-Sun., Apr. 21 — Hold On, Molly! by Schoolhouse Arts Center, 7:30 p.m. Fri., Sat., 2 p.m. Sun., 16 Richville Rd., Standish. FMI: 642-3743.

Fri.-Sun., Apr. 19-21, 2527 — The Originals present Maiden’s Progeny: An Afternoon with Mary Cassatt, 1906, 7:30 p.m. Fri. & Sat., 2 p.m. Sun., Saco River Theatre, Buxton. FMI: 929-5412.

Sat., Apr. 20 — SWOAM program on Maine’s Big Tree Contest, 9 a.m., Hebron Fire Station, followed by field trip to “famous” American Chestnut Tree at home of Ann Siekman and Roger Crockett.

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Sat.-Sun., Apr. 20-21 — 30th annual Gem & Mineral Show by Me. Mineralogical & Geological Society, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Alfond Ctr., Saint

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19th annual Denmark Sheepfest is Saturday DENMARK — Once again it is time for local shepherds to bring their sheep and other fiber-producing animals to Denmark for the annual shearing of the fleece. This Saturday, April 20, will mark the 19th year for this homespun event, where the whole family can watch sheepshearing and learn all about the things you can do with wool, angora and alpaca.

The event runs from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Denmark Arts Center, 50 West Main Street, and the shearing of the sheep and skirting of the fleeces takes place in the Bicentennial Park across the road.

Those wishing to have their animals sheared should call 452-2687 or e-mail linda@pinestarstudio.com to preregister them. Pens will be set up next to the pavilion so they can wait their turn under the buzzing shears. Jeff Jordan from Chichester, N.H. will be shearing, and you will be amazed at how deftly he handles each animal as he slides the shears down the belly, around the legs, and the whole fleece comes off in one bundle.

The bundle of fleece is then taken to the skirting table, where the team removes the soiled wool to get the fleece ready to be

rolled, bagged and tagged, ready to go to the processor to wash and prepare it for spinning.

This is a good opportunity to see sheep shearing, a craft that has been practiced for hundreds of years. The electric shears make shorter work of the job compared to when it was done with hand shears, which looked more like grass clippers. Some shearers still use this method. Visit the sheep, feel their wool before and after shearing, and learn about different kinds of sheep and their fleece. Get to know these gentle creatures that give us so much. They give us their wool every year. No animal is killed to give up its fleece; it is a yearly crop just like apples from a tree.

Make sure you visit at the Arts Center, too. Outside you will find the angora bunnies and the alpacas waiting to greet you. Inside you will find a number of local fiber farmers and artisans showing their wares and demonstrating various fiber arts. You will find a variety of different yarns, some in their natural colors or hand-dyed. There will be roving for spinning and felting, finished goods that make wonderful gifts, tools and books to help you make the most of your new yarn or fiber.

JEEPERS, THAT LOOKS REAL — Nantz Comyns will be coming to the Denmark Sheepfest April 20 with her sheep and chicken sculptures.

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Mark that calendar for this Saturday

If you haven’t put Saturday, April 20 on your calendar, do it now, so you won’t forget the Benefit Spaghetti Dinner for the David G. Fox Scholarship Fund. The dinner, silent auction and 50/50 will go toward assuring that the fund will be able to grant scholarships to Lovell Fryeburg Academy seniors who are eligible and graduating in June. The volunteers will be serving from 4 to 7 p.m.

It isn’t too late to donate an item for the Silent Auction by contacting Rosie at either the Lovell Village Store or at 925-1255. Her e-mail is rosemckenzie1@hotmail.com The Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library, the Literacy for ME Team, MSAD#72 and the Pequawket Kids Association are teaming up for a night of food and fun on Friday, April 26. Beginning at 5:30 p.m., there will be a tasting of stone soup, which will be cooked on site. Following the food, the fun begins with

games galore like Monopoly, Scrabble, Chutes and Ladders, Candyland and Chess. What, no cribbage?

That’s right; you can bring any games you favor for an evening of fun. This event isn’t just for kids, but the kid adults in town, too. To enjoy this evening, you have to sign up either at PKA or the library before April 24. See you there.

The VFW Ladies Auxiliary #6783 will be holding another Ladies Fair on Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the VFW Hall. This event has everything and anything that the ladies would want and need. Included in the products are my favorite (who we hope can be there) Lindt Chocolates, kitchenware like Pampered Chef, Tupperware, Juice Plus and Silpada.

Then there is Dollies Closet, Waters Edge, Bag Lady, Jewelry & Dog collars, 31 Handbags, Fryeburg Pottery, and Designs by Diana, Origami Owl, Party Life,

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by Ethel Gilmore-Hurst Lovell Correspondent 925-3226 ehurst3@yahoo.com Mary Kay, Project Graduation, Scentsy, Wildtree, Premier, Avon, and Velata. There will be a luck of the draw table and a 50/50 table. For those who would like to come to shop ‘til you drop and then have lunch, that’s an option.

The library will present one of the most interesting speakers in town, Bob Williams, on Tuesday, April 30. Bob will talk about his just-published book, The Forensic Historian: Using Science to Reexamine the Past. Many famous names are mentioned in the book, including King Tut, Joan of Arc, Napoleon, an alleged Anastasia, along with exami-

nations of the Shroud of Turin, the fake Hitler diaries, the hull of the Titanic and the Kennedy assassination. With so many popular CSI programs on TV and the many Discovery Channel programs examining the past for modern conclusions, Bob’s talk should be very interesting.

The evening will pique the interest of those who like to solve mysteries of the past and who will follow through to get Bob’s book. A Harvard Ph.D. scholar, Bob was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his 1980 book Russian Art and American Money.

A reminder that the Adult

Book Discussion Series continues in May, with the reading of Poland Springs: A tale of the Gilded Age by David Richards. This book is available at the library.

Congratulations to the Molly Ockett Middle School Odyssey of the Mind Team, who won the state Odyssey of the Mind Tournament April 6. With their win, the students are eligible to take part in the Odyssey of the Mind World Tournament at Michigan State University in late May. Odyssey of the Mind is a unique program opened to students from kindergarten to college. The purpose of the program is honing the skills of creative problem solving. The Molly Ockett students chose an original idea by building a replica dating back between 1000 and 1600 AD, Notre Dame. Their program included a mystery of three pieces of art that were stolen, and two individuals who had to search for them.

Each performance must include two songs and some form of dancing or choreography. Not an easy task, but students Will Davis, Ali Fraize, Jessica Frum, Chris Gorton, Mikayla Joubert, Ian MacGillivray and Haley Smith had the right combination to take first place.

The trip to Michigan is going to cost each student $1,000. This is not an easy sum to come up with, so they are seeking donations that will enable them to represent both Molly Ockett and SAD #72. If you wish to make a donation, you can send it to the Molly Ockett School at 25 Molly Ockett Drive, Fryeburg, ME 04037. Please write Odyssey of the Mind on the check’s memo line. Let’s make it happen.

The Lake Kezar Country Club will hold the 6th annual cleanup day on Saturday, April 27, from 8 a.m. and noon. At noon, there will be lunch and a social hour.

Bridgton’s Earth Day cleanup is Sunday Earth Day is right around the corner and this year in Bridgton, the cleanup effort will be held on Sunday, April 21, even though the official day is Monday, April 22.

Along with some diehard residents and nonprofit orga-

nizations, the Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts and Girl Scouts will be volunteering their time to help cleanup around Stevens Brook, Depot Street and Main Street. The area covered will be from the Monument at the top of Main Street down to

Food City and by the river.

The cleanup will begin at 1:30 p.m., with folks starting from the Bridgton Community Center garage, and will run until 5 p.m. For more information, call Ken Murphy at 242-9417.

Naples roadside cleanup Friday NAPLES — Volunteers in Naples are needed to help celebrate “Earth Day” a few days early this year. Clement Brothers Lawn & Landscape is sponsoring the Second Annual Naples Community Roadside Cleanup this Friday, April 19, from 9 a.m.

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TUESDAY Jeanette’s Free Clothing Closet, 9 to 11:30 a.m., First Church, (Continued from Page A) Congregational Bridgton.

Joseph’s College, Standish.

Sebago Food Pantry FMI: 893-6617. and Clothes Closet, Sat., Apr. 20 — Finnish- Nazarene Church, Rte. 114, American Society of Maine, 4th Tuesdays, 9 to 11 a.m.; 1 p.m., Heritage Ctr., 8 Maple clothes closet Saturdays, 10 St., West Paris. a.m. to 1 p.m.

Sat., Apr. 20 — Chinese Chickadee Quilters, 9:30 Auction to benefit Responsible a.m., Bridgton Community Pet Care, bidding 5-6:30 p.m., Center. drawings 6:30 p.m., Oxford Tai Chi Maine New Hills Comprehensive High Beginners’ Classes, 9:30 to School.

11 a.m., Bridgton Town Hall.

Thur., Apr. 25 — “Living Naples Food Pantry, 10 Well with Heart Failure,” 1st a.m. to 11:30 a.m., United of 5, 1:30 to 3 p.m., Harper Methodist Church, Village Conference Ctr., 193 Main Green. FMI: 595-2754 St., Norway. FMI: 1-866-609Preschool Storytime, 5183.

10:30 a.m., Naples Library.

Thur., Apr. 25 — Mother Goose Time, Mountain Poets celebrate Ben 10:30 a.m., Bridgton Library.

Hull, 7 p.m., Norway Library.

Bridgton Food Pantry, FMI: 743-9808.

11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesdays, Sat., Apr. 27 — Teal Methodist Church, 98 Main Ribbon Run/Walk to bene- St. FMI: 647-4476. fit R.E.A.C.H., registration 9 Sebago Senior’s Lunchon, a.m., 5K starts 10 a.m., 5K noon, Sebago Church of the Trail, Roberts Farm Preserve, Nazarene.

Norway.

Prayer & Meditation Sat., Apr. 27 — Pickwick Time, 12:15 to 12:45 p.m., Club, Little Dorrit, by Charles First Congregational Church, Dickens, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m., Bridgton.

Auburn Library. FMI: 778Bridge, 1 p.m., Bridgton 4510, 583-6957.

Community Center.

Sat., Apr. 27 — Potluck Youth/Teen Basketball Supper, welcome new min- Open Gym for G. 3-12, 3-5 ister, 5:30 p.m., Poland p.m., Bridgton Town Hall.

Community Church, Rte. 26.

Teen Sports Night, 6-8 p.m., Harrison Elementary Ongoing Weekly School gym. Follows school calendar; ends April 30.

Harrison Food Pantry, DAILY 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Alcoholics Anonymous, 9 Seventh-Day Adventist a.m., Clyde Bailey Drop In Church, 2 Naples Rd. FMI: Center, 224 Roosevelt Trail 583-6178.

(Rte. 302), Casco.

AA Step Mtgs., 7 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous, Clyde Bailey Drop In Center, noon to 1 p.m., American 224 Roosevelt Trail (Rte. Legion, Depot St., Bridgton. 302), Casco.

O/D Al-Anon, 7:30 p.m., St. MONDAYS Joseph Church, 225 High St., Senior Fitness Jumpin’ Bridgton.

Janes, 9-10 a.m., Bridgton WEDNESDAYS Town Hall, No. High St. FMI: Senior Fitness Jumpin’ 647-2402, 647-8026.

Janes, 9-10 a.m., Bridgton S torytime for Town Hall, No. High St. FMI: Preschoolers with Miss Liz, 647-2402, 647-8026. ages under five, 10-11 a.m., Free Well Woman Clinic, Lovell Library. by appt., 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., Baby/Toddler Playtime, Birthwise Community 10:30 a.m., Raymond Clinic, The Birth House.

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FMI: 647-5968, ext. 108.

Storytime, 10:30 a.m., Preschool Storytime, North Bridgton Library.

10:30 a.m., Raymond The Food Basket and Library.

Kyrie’s Kitchen, 1st & 3rd “Mini Me” Storytime, Mondays, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., for ages 2 and under, 10:30 Naples Town Hall gym. FMI: a.m., Bridgton Library.

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Sweden House Food Knotty Knitters, noon Pantry, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., Soldiers Library, 1st & 3rd Wednesdays, Hiram. FMI: 625-4650.

Sweden Church basement, Cribbage, 2 p.m., Bridgton 137 Bridgton Rd. FMI: Community Center.

647-4429, 647-5399.

Mousepaint Storytime, Gathering Place 2:30 to 4 p.m., Lovell Support Group, noon, Library.

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Program at LRHS, Naples, Senior Lunch, noon, 4:30 to 6 p.m., through May Bridgton Community 3. FMI: 647-3116.

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Coed Adult Pickup Pinochle, 1 p.m., Basketball, 6-8 p.m., Bridgton Community Harrison Elementary School Center. gym. Follows school calenKnitting Group, 1 to dar; ends May 20.

3:30 p.m., Charlotte Hobbs Casco Food Pantry, 6 to 7 Memorial Library, Lovell. p.m. third Monday of month, Discovery Kids, 3 Casco Alliance Church. FMI: p.m., LEA, 230 Main St., 344-5370.

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Narcotics Anonymous, Step Into Fitness 7 p.m. Bridgton Community Walking Program at Center, 15 Depot St. ODLH LRHS, Naples, 4:30 to 6 Narcotics Anonymous, 7 p.m., through May 3. FMI: p.m., Clyde Bailey Drop In 647-3116.

Center, 224 Roosevelt Trail Cope Group session, (Rte. 302), Casco.

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Narcotics Anonymous Women’s Meeting, 7 to 8 p.m., St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Sweden Rd. (Rte. 93) off Rte. 302, Bridgton.

AA Ladies Step-Meeting, 7 a.m. & 7 p.m., Clyde Bailey Center, 224 Roosevelt Trail, (Rte. 302) So. Casco.

FRIDAYS Senior Fitness Jumpin’ Janes, 9-10 a.m., Bridgton Town Hall, No. High St. FMI: 647-2402, 647-8026.

Parents and Children Activity Group, 10 to 11:30 a.m., Casco Community Center.

Brownfield Playgroup, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., Brownfield Community Center.

Tai Chi Maine Beginners’ Practice Class, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., Bridgton Town Hall.

Reading with Holly Dog, 3 p.m., Bridgton Library.

Step Into Fitness Walking Program at LRHS, Naples, 4:30 to 6 p.m., through May 3. FMI: 647-3116.

Adult Indoor Soccer, 5-7 p.m., Bridgton Town Hall.

Women’s Drop-In-Days, 6 p.m., Bridgton Community Center.

Bingo, early bird 6:30 p.m., regular bingo 7 p.m., VFW Hall #6783, Lovell.

Runs until Oct. 26.

Narcotics Anonymous, 7 p.m. Bridgton Community Center, 15 Depot St. ODLH Al-Anon, 8 p.m., Gibson Center, Grove St. & White Mtn. Hwy, No. Conway, N.H. SATURDAYS Table Tennis, 1 to 4 p.m., Bridgton Town Hall, all welcome, equipment provided free. FMI: 647-2847.

Adult Indoor Soccer, 5-7 p.m., Bridgton Town Hall.

AA Beginner’s & Group Mtgs., 7 to 8 p.m., Clyde Bailey Center, 224 Roosevelt Trail, (Rte. 302) So. Casco.

SUNDAYS Alcoholics Anonymous, 6:30 p.m., Harrison Congregational Church, corner Route 117 and Dawes Hill Rd.

Station Community Room.

FMI: 508-633-0159.

Bible Study, 6 p.m., Bridgton Community Center.

Catherine’s Cupboard Food Pantry, 6 p.m.

Wednesdays, Standish Town Hall, Rte. 35.

Square Dance Lessons by Swingin’ Bears Square Dance Club, Caller Ray Hilton, 6:30 to 9 p.m., Oxford Hills Middle School, 100 Pine St., So. Paris. FMI: 782-4050.

Wood Carving Group, 79 p.m., Ice Rink building, behind Bridgton Town Hall.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 to 8 p.m., Clyde Bailey Drop In Center, 224 Roosevelt Trail (Rte. 302), Casco.

Adult Children of Alcoholics (& other dysfunctions), 7:30 p.m., Ste. B, Eastern Slope Inn, 2760 White Mtn. Highway, No. Conway, N.H. THURSDAYS Bridgton Rotary Club, 7:15 a.m., Bridgton Alliance Church, Rte. 117.

Adult Children of Alcoholics, 10 a.m., Waterford Library.

Senior Wii Bowling, 10 to 11:30 a.m., Casco Community Center.

Storytime with Music, 10:30 a.m., Naples Library.

Brownfield Food Pantry, 1 to 5 p.m. third Thursdays, 701 Pequawket Trl. FMI: 935-2333.

Tai Chi Maine Set Practice, 2:30 to 4 p.m., Bridgton Town Hall.

Raymond Food Pantry, 46 p.m., 2nd & 4th Thursdays, Lake Region Baptist Church, 1273 Main St. FMI: 2325830.

Community Kettle, free supper, 5 p.m., Bridgton Community Center.

Pajama Storytime, 6 p.m., Naples Library.

Al-Anon, 6:30 to 7:45 p.m., Open Meeting, newcomers welcome, Naples Methodist Church, Village Green.

Chickadee Quilters, 7 p.m., Bridgton Community Center.

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LIKE WATCHING CIRQUE DU SOLEIL — Brent McCoy’s all-ages stunt comedy show, coming to Fryeburg Academy May 4, features a toolbox full of props, hilarious audience interaction, and breathtaking circus feats.

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FRYEBURG — World-travelling entertainer Brent McCoy is bringing his award-winning performance to the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center, 18 Bradley Street, Fryeburg Academy, on Saturday, May 4, at 7 p.m. It’s like watching Cirque du Soleil at the Home Depot!

Born and raised on a dairy farm in northeastern Vermont, McCoy is no stranger to hard work. He began juggling in high school and spent thousands of hours practicing during his studies at Bates College in Lewiston. Upon graduating, he ventured into the world with a degree in fine arts and 437 really cool circus tricks, the latter of which have kept him entertained and employed ever since.

McCoy has become an exceptionally versatile entertainer, equally comfortable doing shows on the street and on the stage. Since 2005, he’s attended numerous festivals, theaters, and special events around the world. When he’s not touring to theaters and festivals, he’s street performing at Boston’s historic Faneuil Hall Marketplace, teaching physical comedy workshops with YES! Theater, and producing variety shows with Vermont Vaudeville. People often remark on McCoy’s ability to relate to everyone in the audience, and they marvel at his combination of technical circus ability. He was the top-selling act at IndyFringe 2009, the People’s Choice at 2009 Vermont Festival of Fools, a Grand Finalist at the 2011 Kingston Buskers Rendezvous, and a nominee for Audience Choice best clown in the 2007 New York Downtown Clown series.

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will hold their 5th annual Earth Day Celebration on Sunday, April 21, beginning with a 5 p.m. supper in the church’s Fellowship Hall at 479 Main Street, Norway. The Earth Day Peace Concert will follow at 6:30 p.m. in the church sanctuary. The concert will feature performances by Heather Pierson, Leah Wolfsong, The Norway UU Choir (Continued from Page A) and more. Admission is $10. For more information, please three fundraising suppers on Saturday, April 20, at the East call 743-2828 or e-mail heather@heatherpierson.com Conway Community Hall from 5 to 6:30 p.m. The menu Multi-topic seminar for seniors will be a buffet “all you can eat” roast pork dinner with the The Bridgton Community Center and Representative Lisa fixings. The cost is $8 for adults and $5 for children 12 and Villa will host a free, multi-topic seminar for seniors on under. Sally Whitaker will host a live “Remember When,” Wednesday, April 24, from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Bridgton with a panel of people from East Conway after the supper. Community Center on Depot Street in Bridgton. All are All proceeds from the supper will benefit the restoration welcome to attend. Presenters from Legal Services for fund for the Society’s new home. For further information, the Elderly and Stan Cohen will address several topics, contact Diane Jones, president, at 697-3484 or e-mail including living wills and durable powers of attorney, ewjones@roadrunner.com how the Affordable Care Act works with Medicare, and

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HARRISON — The Ronald St. John VFW Post, 176 Waterford Road, Harrison, will hold its popular breakfast on Sunday, April 21, from 8 to 10 a.m. at the post. The breakfast features scrambled eggs, French toast, pancakes, biscuits and gravy, bacon, sausage, home fries, fruit cups, sweet breads, orange juice, and beverage. The cost is $6 per person for adults and $3 for children 10 and under.

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Participants will gather back at the town office afterward for refreshments, contests and prizes. For more information, call 583-4403 or Facebook Waterford, Albany, Stoneham Transfer Station.

Listen to music while you dine

CASCO — The Casco Village Church United Church of Christ, 941 Meadow Road (Route 121) in Casco Village, invites you to listen to the music while you dine, on Saturday, April 27, from 5 to 6 p.m. at their Saturday Night Supper presented by their choir and the Music Committee.

Feast on savory casseroles, baked beans, salads, homemade pies, and some great tunes for your listening enjoyment.

Cost is $7 adults and $4 children eight and under, with a max of $20 for families with young children, and that other issues important to seniors. The Southern Maine includes rolls and beverages. The Wings & Things Clothes Agency on Aging, Legal Services for the Elderly, and Closet will also be open downstairs from 6 to 7 p.m.

AARP will be represented. Participation by attendees will May Breakfast benefits camperships be encouraged.

FRYEBURG — Come to the First Congregational Church’s Cut-A-Thon will help LRHS cheerleaders annual May Breakfast on Wednesday, May 1, from 6:30 to 9 Nu-Image Salon on Route 302 in Bridgton is holding a.m. at the Masonic Hall on Portland Street, Fryeburg. The a fundraising Cut-A-Thon on Saturday, April 27, from menu is egg casserole and homemade muffins or pancakes 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to help the Lake Region High School and sausage/bacon, coffee or juice, all for $5, children $3.

Cheerleaders go to camp this summer. Donations are $5 for A continental breakfast costs $2. All proceeds will benefit kids, $7 for men and $10 for women. camperships to Pilgrim Lodge.

Rotary sending team to Nigeria Professionals who work with special needs children in Nigeria will be able to exchange ideas and techniques with their American counterparts this month, when Rotary District #7780 sends their annual “Group Study Exchange” team abroad.

The team is comprised of Kaitlyn Oddy, a recreational therapist from Kennebunkport; Bob Wallstrom, a registered nurse from Brownfield; and Steve Nappi, a special education teacher from South Portland. Rotary Assistant District Governor Sheila Rollins, a mental health counselor from Harrison, will act as Team Leader.

The team will spend three weeks in Abuja, Jada, and Yola, Nigeria, working in Nigerian schools, making presentations to local Rotary Clubs, and making formal

Free Community Meal

RAYMOND — A Free Community Meal will be served Saturday, April 27, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at Christ Chapel, 37 Northern Pines Road (off Route 85 near Crescent Lake) in Raymond. The menu is baked ham, veggies, casseroles, salads and desserts. Food is continually served, buffet-style.

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Country living

April 18, 2013, The Bridgton News, Page 11A

North Bridgton Library news Annual Earth Day hike

The Wednesday Night Author Series at the North Bridgton Library continues next Wednesday, April 24, at 7 p.m. with Caroline Grimm, local historian and author. Grimm will be reading and discussing the diary of Phoebe Beach, a young Bridgton woman that lived in 1857.

The night before, on Tuesday, April 23, there will be an After Hours event from 6:30 to 8 p.m., when patrons and the public are invited to meet the library trustees, volunteers and Librarian Heather Silvia.

Ways to help the library: • Donate books, audio books, movies and puzzles for the library’s Annual Book, Bake and Plant Sale.

• Create a CLYNK account. Come by the library to pick up a recycling bag, fill it with redemption items and take it to Hannaford.

All proceeds will go to the library’s account.

• Volunteer — the library needs help with its upcoming Annual Book, Bake and Plant sale. To find out how you can help please call the library at 647-8563. Library hours are Monday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Thursday from 1 to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Find them on Facebook by typing The North Bridgton Library or North Bridgton Library Mystery Book Club.

AUTHOR, AUTHOR — Walt Bannon of Bridgton, author of The White Pocketbook, met with Girl Scouts from Troop #1747 following a recent talk about his book at the North Bridgton Library. The Wednesday Night Author Series continues April 24 at 7 p.m. with Caroline Grimm, who will talk about the diary of a young Bridgton woman that lived in 1857.

Lawyers in Libraries event May 1 BROWNFIELD — The Brownfield Public Library, 216 Main Street, is among libraries statewide, including Naples, that will be participating in the free Lawyers in Libraries: Law Day on Wednesday, May 1. Shelley Carter of Fryeburg will be at the Brownfield Public library from noon to 2 p.m. to meet with members of the

public and provide general guidance and information on referral to legal resources. Call 935-3003 for more information.

Organizers of the series are the Maine Justice Action Group Collaboration on Innovation, Technology and Equal Access to Justice (the Collaboration) which includes the Maine State Bar

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In addition, some attendees will have the opportunity for a brief private consultation with an attorney about personal legal matters.

The names and locations of participating libraries, along with the scheduled times for the event, are available at www.lawyersinlibraries.org

Come join Loon Echo Land Trust for the annual Earth Day hike and celebration on Monday, April 22. Earth Day, founded in 1970 by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson, intends to inspire awareness and appreciation for our natural environment.

Locally, the fun begins with a family-friendly, moderate hike up Bald Pate Mountain in South Bridgton. Call up your friends and bring your whole family, even four-legged friends are welcome. The hike will be led by Loon Echo’s Stewardship and Volunteer Coordinator Jon Evans.

At the summit, hikers will be invited to pay homage to Mother Earth by sharing stories, playing music or reading poetry. Bring your love of nature, music and poems to share. Wear hiking boots and appropriate clothing, bring water, snacks, and meet at the Bald Pate parking lot at 3 p.m.

After the hike, head to Bray’s Brew Pub on Route 302 in Naples, where the Highland String Trio will perform and there’ll be an opportunity to try the famous “Bald Pate Celebration Ale.” For the past nine years, a portion of the proceeds from the sale of this special brew has gone to Loon Echo Land Trust, in part to care for the trails at Bald Pate Mountain.

“We’ve had a long partnership with Bray’s, and we’re grateful for their support every year,” said Executive Director Carrie Walia. “Our Earth Day celebrations are always fun, but they’re important, too, because they remind us that we have a responsibility to take care of our natural world. We’re the stewards of the land.”

Loon Echo Land Trust protects land in the northern Sebago Lake region of Maine. Its mission is to conserve the region’s natural resources and character for current and future generations. Currently, Loon Echo protects over 4,000 acres of land, and Bald Pate Mountain Preserve is one of six preserves that are open to the public. Other Loon Echo preserves include Pleasant Mountain Preserve in Bridgton and Denmark; Mayberry Hill Preserve in Casco; Hacker’s Hill Preserve in Casco; Sylvan Woods in Harrison; and Sebago Headwaters Preserve in Bridgton.

All Loon Echo hikes are free; however, donations are always welcome and will qualify you for a one-year membership. Since it is mud season in Maine, you may want to bring a change of shoes for the celebration at Bray’s. Find out more about Loon Echo by visiting www.loonecholandtrust.org. For more information about this hike or other Loon Echo events, contact Jon Evans at jon@lelt.org or call 647-4352.

Soldiers Library: To mulch or not to mulch?

HIRAM — Soldiers Memorial Library, 85 Main Street, Hiram, will hold a free gardening program, “To Mulch Or Not To Mulch?” on Wednesday, April 24, at 6:30 p.m.

Donations are welcome.

In a short film, 90-year-old Ruth Stout demonstrates her “no dig/no work” method of gardening and shares her fiercely independent philosophy of life and aging. Discussion and refreshments follow at the library. For more information, call 625-4650.

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Mooring registrations to be established

(Continued from Page A) age, they will receive a decal similar to a vehicle inspection sticker. The sticker will be placed on the mooring buoy. Registration will be done annually.

“I would like to get them registered during this boating season,” Plummer said.

Like other board members, Selectman Paul Edes favored getting the public on board with updated mooring rules. “By 2014, (the town should) be able to enforce it. I have read your proposal, and I agree with it,” he said. “We should give people an idea

of what will happen, and get them on the right path,” Edes added.

The selectmen voted 5–0 to place the mooring ordinance amendments on a warrant for Town Meeting in June.

A public hearing will be held prior to Town Meeting.

The date has not yet been set for a public hearing on the proposed changes and clarification to the Casco mooring ordinance.

“Your public hearing would give you a pretty good impression of what the citizens are feeling,” Murphy

said.

Chairman Mary-Vienessa Fernandez asked how many moorings there are in the Town of Casco.

Murphy said according to the underwater divers who set up and inspect the moorings, there are more than 1,000 moorings within Casco’s boundaries. Of those, about seven have been registered with the town office.

Murphy explained that the changes mostly had to do with making the language more clear, clarifying the exceptions that would allow property owners to moor in

the area 200 feet from shore, and creating a yearly registration requirement.

“Until we get everyone on board, we would have to subsidize,” Fenandes said, asking, “It has been a while since this ordinance has been enforced, hasn’t it?”

Murphy said, “We have not had a fee system in the past 10 years.”

“As far as amnesty (from fees or fines) you could try to get people to register, but waive the fee the first year.

Then, the second year, the fee would kick in. Don’t fine people for first few years —

(Continued from Page A) rebuilt this summer.

All towns have annual paving accounts and road repair budgets that try to keep up with the constant atrophy.

Springtime road maintenance comes on the heels of a wicked winter that kept plow crews busy dealing with snow and ice.

According to Harrison Town Manager Bud Finch, this cycle is to be expected.

“As I have noted over the past few meetings, this has been a tough year for some of our departments. Public works has experienced a long winter and now is about to face a shortened spring cleanup time frame. I realize it is the fact of life for those of us on the 45th parallel, where we live with the true four seasons of the year. But it doesn’t make it easier when the seasons overlap into each other,” Finch said during an April 5 workshop.

“We are into the mud and heavy load posting time of the season and are dealing with the problems that come with the unpaved roads. The weather will determine how long this particular phenomenon lasts, as it does each year,” he said.

The winds prevailed, and this week Finch said that the heavy load postings on Harrison roads would be removed by Friday.

“This is good timing, and it’s important to contractors.

The builders want to get in, and start work,” he said.

“Transition from winter equipment to summer equipment has begun and will continue as spring clean-up and summer maintenance becomes a reality,” he said.

In Harrison, once money is approved at Town Meeting, the objective is to work on three miles of road.

One year, a stretch of road is prepped with drainage work and road base. The following year, Finch determines how the road overwintered and if there were any problem areas.

“We prep the road and wait a year for it to settle,” he said.

Then, after any adjustments, and with fiscal approval, that three miles is paved.

This summer, Haskell Hill Road is slated to be paved, he said.

According to the Naples Town Manager Derik Goodine, over the past few years the town has upgraded several of the roads that gave drivers the most difficulty during spring breakup.

In recent years, the town rebuilt Chaplin Mills Road, Pearly Road, Walter Hill and King Hill roads, and Burnell Road, “I’ve had minimal pot

holes this spring. Our roads are in good condition,” Goodine said.

‘I’ve got a culvert on Lewis Road that is starting to wash out,” he said, adding the culvert appears to have a hole in it.

“I have three areas around town — including along Cooks Mills Road — that I am hoping to dig up this summer, and find out why they do what they do. I want to figure out a way to stop the frost heaves,” Goodine said.

“People believe there is a lot of clay in the road, and that is creating the heaving.

Clay captures the moisture.

Either way, those sections definitely have frost heaves,” he said.

Naples has fewer public easements than Casco does.

“If we did that many public easements, it would quadruple our budget,” Goodine said.

One way towns protect roads during late winter and early spring is to post heavy load limits. This deters the traffic that could do the most damage.

“On the gravel roads, I take my cue from other road commissioners on when to start pulling those heavy load limits. We don’t lock into a date to pull load limits,” he said.

Casco Code Enforcement Officer Don Murphy said all

Casco’s roads have been unposted, with the exception of Libby Road, which should have heavy load limits lifted

by Friday.

Also this spring, with the local budget planning process occurring and a decrease in state revenue sharing, it is uncertain how far paving funds will go and which repair project will be put on hold.

Naples Board of Selectman Christine Powers, who also serves in the State House of Representatives, has said she would like to champion Route 11 improvements. Powers sits on the House Transportation Committee.

On April 8, she said the first step was to finalize the state budget before pushing for Route 11 funding.

Morton does not think that Route 11 upgrades are likely in the near future.

“We have asked for a number of years that the state consider Route 11 as a high priority. But, it hasn’t risen to the top of the list,” he said.

The Maine Department of Transportation (MDOT) would shoulder the costs of revamping Route 11, also known as Poland Springs Road, he said. But, MDOT has so many projects and so many needs.

“They have stretches of highway like Route 11 all over the state,” Morton said.

Seasonal road repairs spring up

until they get accustomed to the mooring rules,” he said.

“I think fairness is the word we are trying to find,” he said.

In a related matter, the board discussed the annual re-appointment of Murphy as Harbor Master, and whether or not he could use part-time help with those duties.

“Certainly, it would take the experience of the code enforcement officer to deal with violations and technical reviews,” he said.

“If we had a seasonal harbor master that overlooked books, it would be of great

assistance. Also, there would be an extra presence on the Shoreland Zone,” he said.

Also, it will be time-consuming to establish mooring registrations. That includes contacting people by placing waterproof stickers on the buoys of moorings not in compliance, instructing residents to contact the town.

“I am sure it is going to be, ‘Where is he?’ ‘Oh, he’s canoeing from mooring to mooring when he should be in the office,’ ” Murphy said of the task of fulfilling both CEO and Harbor Master duties.

Q-Team Tree Service of Naples (also DBA Cook’s Tree Service) recently donated some time to Camp Sunshine in South Casco. Darren Cole & Josh Smith do the work.

Photo by Aaron Gosselin (Q-Team Estimator and Crew Manager).

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ry purposes, but will be used to help landowners and road managers recognize, and find ways to solve, erosion problems. These types of surveys are usually followed up with a grant-funded “implementation” program, which provides some funding to actually fix the issues identified.

Similar watershed surveys and implementation programs have been done in the past on the Keoka Lake and McWain Pond Watersheds,

and have greatly reduced the amount of erosion in those watersheds. Funding for this project, in part, has been provided by the federal Environmental Protection Agency under Section 604b of the Clean Water Act. The funding is administered by the DEP in partnership with the EPA. Oxford County SWCD Project Manager Michele Windsor is coordinating this watershed survey, and would

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Opinion & Comment

April 18, 2013, The Bridgton News, Page B

Medicare nugget

My Irish Up

by Mike Corrigan BN Columnist

Neologisms: Best of 2013

In 2012, we heard for the first time of “pink slime” (an allegedly appetizing additive to pink meat).

We also heard about “legitmate rape,” an infelicitous phrase coined by Cong. Todd (“Pink Slime”) Akins (ROuter Space). The term “legitimate rape” differentiated, the Congressman indicated, those women who don’t like being raped from those who apparently are able to laugh it off and, tra-la, tra-la, conceive anyway. (The worst part about the term was that it represented the most sensible thing any Congressman said all year!)

Anyway, neologisms have a shelf life. Who here wants to read or hear or even think of the phrase “fiscal cliff,” ever again? I thought so. And don’t you already want “sequester” to go back to being something Emily Dickinson might have done? Nevertheless, every December we are reminded by several organizations that in the preceding 12 months we have invented yet more words and phrases that bug the living sequestration out of everybody.

I provide below my advance nominations for the Best New Words and Phrases of 2013, before they’ve even been coined.

You’re welcome.

BEST OF, Page B

By Stan Cohen Medicare Volunteer Counselor Where does all the Medicare money go? A Kaiser Family Foundation fact sheet reports that in 2012 spending on health care for 50 million Medicare beneficiaries accounted for about 15% of the federal budget (about $556 billion).

Medicare accounted for 21% of total spending on health care in the United States. Roughly two-thirds of Medicare spending is for Part A — hospital insurance and Part B — medical insurance. More than 20% is for Part C (Medicare Advantage) payments and about 10% for the Part D drug benefit. The good news is that Medicare spending is projected to grow at a slower rate than private health insurance over the next CASTING A LINE AT THE LOCK — A lone fisherman tries his luck at the Songo Lock 10 years, and slower than it in Naples on Monday.

(De Busk Photo) did in the decade just past.

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Obama’s competing policies

Every modern president faces a trade-off between what he wants to achieve at home and what he must deal with abroad. FDR was an

by Dawn De Busk exception: the vast expenditures required to fight the BN Columnist second World War produced the impetus to lift us out of Depression when other stimuli had failed to restart the economy.

For the others, however, there was the choice of guns or butter. LBJ and Nixon Winter is dead. So long winter.

As contrary as I can be, I refuse to mourn winter’s passing thought they could manage both: waging war in while others clamor for the spring.

In fact – instead of spending days or weeks being sad Vietnam while maintaining about this winter cycle that is trying hard to exit — my new generous programs at home (Medicare, War on Poverty, objective is to celebrate its passage.

I’ve rejoiced in the absolute beauty of this winter’s snow.

I’ve reveled in many of the outdoor activities that were supported by the plentiful snow.

Many Mainers experienced a grand winter, especially those with snowmobiles, Nordic skis, ice-fishing gear, a chairlift pass at Shawnee peak, or a hankering for super-sized Can you remember the last sledding hills. time you looked up something Unfortunately, a cold and/or snow-laden winter usually on the Internet and didn’t find does have a fiscal note attached. Therefore, I am addressing it? I can’t. There were times mostly the (fun) recreational activities involved with winter, I had to approach my search rather than the higher fuel bills, and the millions of cords of using different key words, but wood that were burned, and the liberal use of sand and salt I’ve always been able to find on our roads, public parking lots, and the walkways leading something, and usually way to our homes. more than I thought there Here in Maine, the nuances and the aspects of every sea- would be. Often I’d consume son are worthy of appreciation. hours and hours drinking Winter is my hands-down favorite. in what others had learned Want to hear a cool winter story? before me. It’s a great time to I am a snow baby who was born in mid-January at a small be alive. hospital in Anchorage, Alaska. When my mother went into We live in an age when we labor, my father was contacted at his longshoreman’s job in can learn nearly anything and WINTER, Page 11B

It Dawned on Me

So long winter

Small World

by Henry Precht BN Columnist War on Drugs). They failed and left behind high inflation and a stagnant economy. The second Bush was, of course, the champ of spending freely. Two wars, tax cuts, an expensive drug program, costly Pentagon budgets and a balloon and bust economy were his legacy.

Now, it’s Obama’s time to be tested. Can he manage the demands from abroad without endangering what he wants to do at home? So far, he seems to be avoiding the foreign precipices and dismal swamps. In his first term, he won health care reform while starting to end commitments

to Iraq and Afghanistan. But, the game’s far from over.

Like every “liberal” Democrat president, Obama automatically inherits a reputation for being soft on national security — afraid to spend freely on defense and intelligence, to commit troops, to play the Great Power. That’s not an entirely bad thing when much of the public is war weary. Yet, nobody loves a perceived weakling. It seems typical of our Great Compromiser that he would seek the middle ground: No troops to fight, but air support and supplies POLICIES, Page 11B

Google Zeitgeist, not encouraging

Letters School character

To The Editor: The character of a school is a top down sort of thing.

If one takes the time to look, it is clearly visible. Fryeburg Academy is a perfect case in point.

As a Yale alum himself, Mr. Dan Lee is very much aware of what is required to achieve success at the very

highest academic level. He has put together a team that in the last several years has seen Fryeburg Academy seniors gain offers of admission to the very top colleges in the world. It was Mr. Lee that brought in the gentleman that emphasized, upon our very first visit, that my son was about to begin his college resume. That gentleman, Theodore Kneeland, asked the question, “What kind of school do you want to be able to consider when you graduate? Because what you choose to take for courses and extra curricular activities today is going to determine where you

can reasonably apply for college in your senior year.” The words may not be exact, but his message is. He made it very clear that they, at the Academy, would do everything they could to facilitate, encourage and enable each student to reach the highest possible level in whatever endeavor the student chose to pursue. Whether it was as a tradesman or academician, they would show you the way you could be your best.

With Mr. Lee leading the team, extracurriculars would gain regional and national recognition. Mr. Brent LaCasce and the now retired

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we don’t have to even leave our favorite chair to do so.

With smart phones, we can do it in the dentist’s office waiting for our appointment.

We can do it while sitting on

a park bench or on the beach.

When I say anything, I mean facts and figures concerning that part of the world subject to the laws of physics.

Learning in the spiritual realm

Mrs. Carol Kneeland are two teachers that jump to mind when it comes to changing lives for the better. Both of these teachers have mentored students that went on to win recognition in their programs with top regional or national rankings in their areas of expertise.

As the parent of an alumnus of Fryeburg Academy, I would like to say “thank you” to Mr. Daniel G. Lee Jr. — headmaster. The Academy clearly bears the image of the man that has spent the last two decades at its helm.

He has steered the Academy through both difficult and

good times and constructed campus buildings, a staff, a mindset and clarity of mission that I never imagined would be found in our little piece of “small town America.” The Academy image that I shall carry forever inside me is that of Daniel Lee. So, to the man that brought a mindset that would never allow a ceiling on what a student will be allowed to be taught, but rather provides them with a springboard upon which they may launch themselves to the greatest heights they may dare to explore, I say a very grateful thank you to Mr. Daniel G. Lee Jr., headmaster of Fryeburg Academy.

Ed and Deb Fulton Conway, N.H.

is different. The Internet can help with that too, but silence, meditation, and contemplation are better avenues. Many find that using the Internet can impede those time-tested methods; I wrote about those impediments about this time last year, in a piece called “Electronic Distraction.”

Learning in the 21st century can be decentralized, because all that’s needed is an Internet hookup and a mentor willing to guide one along a GOOGLE, Page B

Thanks for gift of life

To The Editor: A relatively successful blood drive was held at the Masonic Hall on Monday, April 8 where 31 units were drawn from the good people of the area. While we did not meet our goal this time, it does constitute a really good effort on behalf of the good people in the area. Many of our regular donors were excluded by the “Flu Two” or whatever is going around.

It is nice to be one of the very first remote sites to permit double red-cell donations.

We want to thank the American Red Cross staff.

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Earth Day, population and immigration Earth Notes

By Kenneth Roy Guest Writer April 22nd is Earth Day. How far have we ventured toward a “Earth Notes” is an outgrowth of much-improved environment? a deep ecology discussion group.

Sadly, not much at all. We Writers reflect a delight in and have rid ourselves of DDT, concern for the earth and are indicleaned up some toxic sites and vidually responsible for opinions laid plans for population stabili- and information. Community members are invited to submit zation here and around the world. articles. E-mail jschap@ localnet.com for details.

The last item showed promise and then failed miserably. I missions from 1978 to 1996. The Hesbergh believe if the United States had accomplished Commission: President Carter in 1978 created this, and we were the driving force, we all the U.S. Select Commission on Immigration would be in much better living standards than and Refugee Policy (SCIRP) called the we are presently. We threw the ball away on Hesbergh Commission after its chairman, the two-yard line and have retreated since. the president of Notre Dame. It was highly The U.S. Census Bureau projected a popu- relevant to population policy because immilation of 315 million on New Year’s Day 2013. gration was rapidly becoming, as it is now, On Nov. 20, 1967, we hit 200 million. We rang the primary driver of population growth. The up 115 million more people since 1967. This final report was a strong document calling for is anything but an accomplishment! I believe more resources for immigration control and most people realize this is a big problem, but for legislation making it illegal for employdo not have the resolve to solve. ers to hire people not legally entitled to work Let us examine some presidential com- here. Carter’s population policy was not com-

pleted until 1981 and fizzled as Reagan took over.

The USCIR, or Jordan Commission named for its chair, former Democrat Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, echoed the two last concerns about growth during President Bush’s first term and produced four reports from 1994 to 1997 under Clinton. It proposed to control illegal immigration, revamp legal immigration categories, limit family migration, favor skilled over unskilled immigrants and require the federal government to reimburse states for the costs caused by immigrants. It proposed an overall ceiling of 550,000 on all categories of immigrants including refugees. Had these proposals been adopted, they would have gone far to solve our immigration problems although the proposed 550,000 limit was quite high to offer hope for a turn around in population growth.

So, what have we learned after all this posturing and the costly commissions? Not very much I’m afraid. It’s a mess and getting worse. The “Gang of Eight” is a farce, which will cave to the whims of President

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(Continued from Page B) We want to thank Bridgton Subway for providing excellent sandwiches for donators, many of whom would have otherwise missed a meal. They also provided a free sandwich coupon to every donor. We want to thank The Bridgton News for providing publicity for the blood drive. We want to thank the volunteers, who made it happen; besides Lodge brothers, these non-Masons, Richard Knight, Louis Drisko and Dianna Whitehouse.

Especially, we thank the many good people who rolled up their sleeves and made the gift of life.

George Drisko Oriental Lodge

Barbara York. Thirty-nine blankets were kindly donated by the citizens of the town and were generously cleaned, free of charge, by the Busy Bee Laundromat & Cleaners in Windham. This project is an example of a community working together for beneficial results.

Also, kudos to Peg Dilley for finding homes for all the donated blankets; there are now 39 warm people due to Casco pulling together as a community for a positive outcome.

Lynne Potter Chairperson Casco Area Energy Committee

Thanks PFU

To The Editor: Thank you Paris Farmers Union!

Paris Farmers Union in Bridgton invited Rozzie May Animal Alliance to participate in a one-day Rabies Clinic at their store on Thursday, April 11. Eighty-one cats and dogs took advantage of the day.

These animals, thanks to Drs. N.D. Beury and M. Kramer, received rabies vaccinations as well as physical exams with distemper vaccinations.

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Obama. Debate will be scarce and rushed; the legislation will be railroaded through and the American people will be shafted once again with a flawed, unworkable, massively expensive immigration policy. More of the same is the name of the game, and it will solve nothing!

We cannot save the world, but we can save ourselves if we abandon wishful thinking and immigration policies that cannot and will not work. The president is pursuing a shipwrecking course with his “pie in the sky” immigration plans and his Gang of Eight lap dogs. He and they know it won’t work, and that is why it is being railroaded through without careful or hardly any kind of examination as to its merits or demerits. This is a stab in the back to future generations. Let’s be honest with our kids; they shall be saddled with the huge debt incurred by this massively irresponsible, unworkable immigration plan.

Kenneth Roy is a resident of Center Lovell.

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau and NPG (Negative Population Growth)

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Letters

THE DAY THE MOOSE CAME DOWN — We look forward to the outdoor café Beth Doonan will create this summer at the corner of 108 Main Street in Bridgton, but we’ll still miss the big moose mural. Cool Moose founder Peter Lowell, who sold the store to his daughter and husband, Adria and Fletcher Carr, said the moose mural will return, when the Carrs decide where and when the Cool Moose will reopen. For now, it will watch the cars drive by from a much more rural location — the side of the Carr’s barn on Upper Ridge Road.

Best of neologisms

(Continued from Page B) global norming (n.)

Scientific formula devised by climate deniers to average world temperatures from the last 10 years with the decades of the 1240s and the 1072860s B.C., thus “proving” that: “Everything evens out in the long term, so drill, baby, drill!” no-men; no-it-alls (n.) Tea Party members of the House no-menclature (n.) Terms indiscriminately deployed by no-men and no-it-alls, i.e, “new Hitler,” “tyrant,” “bankrupting America;” also, cf King Lear: “Never, never, never, never, never!” poll-tergeist (n.) A politician who won’t act until sure his position is popular, even if he or she knows it to be wrong potential Hitler (n.) Term applied by both Republicans and Democrats to anyone who holds an opinion contrary to their own reel estate (n.) Term describing the unstable condition of the U.S. housing market skeetish (adj.) Circumspect, yet ingratiating. See: President

Obama’s skeetish approach to the NRA and gun control. cf, “shot down,” “tyrant,” “potential Hitler,” etc.

(Something)gate (n.) A newsworthy scandal involving (someone in power in 2013) who screws up big time and subsequently tries unsuccessfully to cover it up (Something-else)gate (n.)

See above; various “-gates” occur on the order of twice a year tar baby (n.) Term applied to any policymaker who supports ever more desperate attempts to exploit the earth’s even marginally-usable carbon fuel content. cf, “Drill, Tar Baby, Drill!” tyrant (n.) Term applied to any duly-elected president who asks Congress to do the will of the people, particularly regarding gun control untitlements (n.) Basic conservative philosophy behind “reforming” Social Security and Medicare, in an attempt to turn all of the money in the country over to Wall Street Wall Loon (n.) Appellation applied to politicians in border states who propose build-

ing more and higher and more electrified and booby-trapped and possibly nuclear-powered fences along the border with Mexico (cf, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto’s statement, 5/5/13: “Mr. Obama, tear down this wall!”)

Phrase of the year: “What difference does it make” Secretary of State’s Hillary Clinton’s disingenuous dismissal of Congress’s horseand-puppy show Benghazi hearings, a phrase later mockingly applied by her opponents to: climate change, Hurricane Sandy recovery, Medicare benefits, America’s continuing presence in Afghanistan, the working poor, the U.S. government, use of drones against civilian populations, protests against any past, present or future war, Wall Street corruption, the continuing bipartisan, psychopathic pandering to lobbyists, Mrs. Clinton’s next Presidential run — and basically anything that isn’t taxes.

Mike Corrigan defines “column” as (n.) The last refuse of a scoundrel.

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(Continued from Page B) dogs as it is a human health issue, but distemper vaccinations are very important to not only the health of your pet, but also control of disease in those animal populations.

These vaccines contain protection against a variety of diseases (especially harmful to the young and old) depending on the vaccine administered.

An increase in the parvo virus has been reported in many areas, which can be deadly to puppies and senior dogs.

Call your veterinarian to make sure that your pet has all the protection it needs. Spring is in the air! Watch for a rabies clinic near you. Thank you again, Paris Farmers Union, for your commitment to community.

Roz Manwaring Conway, N.H.

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To The Editor: Many ask, “How can the government just take private property for open space or some other Agenda 21 public purpose?”

Imagine this scenario. You have purchased 100 acres of farmland in Utah. Spring arrives and you take your draft horses into the field to plow.

After days of hard work you sit on your front porch and look over your fields, now plowed and planted with seed. Two men from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service visit you on your porch where they threaten to fine you $15,000.

You sputter, “Uh…What…

Uh Why?????” USFWS says, “Farming this land will negatively impact the Utah prairie dog, a protected species in our state.” In a strong voice you say, “But there are NO prairie dogs on this land. I hired a professional survey done to make sure there were NO prairie dogs on this property so I could farm it! I hired a firm which YOUR office

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“It’s irrelevant,” says the USFWS agent. “It is theoretically possible for Utah prairie dogs to migrate onto your farmland and live here. You are harming a potential habitat.” You are stunned. Under the “precautionary principle,” you are guilty until proven innocent. The government uses regulation and ordinances to take away our private property rights using this precautionary principle.

The following two excerpts are taken from the 1998 National Directory of Environmental and Regulatory Victims.

1) Forty-four years ago, Milo Folley purchased 50 acres of land as a retirement investment. He was going to divide the land into house lots and sell them. After many years, the government declared his 50 acres to be wetlands. At age 82, Mr. Folley is stuck with a piece of property that has no economic value but he must continue to pay property taxes on it. His retirement investment has evaporated and the government has not made just compensation. What do you think will happen to the property?

2) Frank LaDue lost the right to use 29 of his 30 acres of land — or 96.7% of it — when the Washington Department of Ecology (DOE) designated most of it a wetland. LaDue’s troubles began when he filled four acres of his land with waste wood to build a garden and wooded area. The DOE charged that the wood dried up a wetland, seriously damaging the ecosystem. In response, LaDue removed the waste wood, pulling it towards his house. But because he failed to recover wood that had already decomposed into the soil, the DOE argued that he had not returned the wetlands to their original state and fined him $5,000.

But that wasn’t the end of LaDue’s ordeal. A specialist from another section of DOE determined that removing the waste wood could do more harm than good. So they instructed LaDue to make hammocks (elevated tracts of

land) of the fill and place it all on one acre.

LaDue was allowed to use that one acre for his garden, his house, and other uses. The remainder has been designated a wetland. Mr. La Due must still pay property taxes; however, his land is economically useless. The government has failed to make just compensation for his land. What do you think will happen to his property?

Our Founding Fathers recognized the dangers of a tyrannical government — a government that rejects the principle of “rule by consent of the people.”

A government that exists solely to perpetuate itself at the expense of the governed.

Today our government rejects many constitutional protections and rights for we the people; yet our president and Congressmen fiercely uphold those parts of the Constitution that protect them and their offices.

The precautionary principle denies us constitutional protection from tyrannical government and their bureaucrats. We have the right to habeas corpus (the right to be brought before a judge or into a court); the right to an attorney, the right to remain silent, and the right to private property. All are denied by the “precautionary principle” — a very effective tool for the continued implementation of Agenda 21.

Concerned? Dr. Michael Coffman, PhD will address the topics of the precautionary principle, open space, sustainable development and Agenda 21 on April 20 at 6 p.m. at Lake Region High School, Naples. Gov. Paul LePage will be there. Will you?

Elaine J. Heuiser Casco

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To The Editor: It is hard to understand how the United States of America can have such evil people LETTERS, Page B

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Bridgton – 3-bedroom, 2-bath well-cared-for sunny home in Knights Hill, with 3-season porch, fireplace, office, wood stove and garage. 3 bedrooms on lower level with full bath and open living upstairs. Many updates: roof, windows, Monitor heat, exterior paint, landscaping, paved driveway.......... ..........................................$169,000.

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Harrison – Exceptional waterfront home with 150 ft. of sandy beach on Long Lake. This custom contemporary has 3+ bedrooms, 3 baths and master suite. $925,000.

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Harrison – 15-acre wooded lot with 490 ft. of road frontage and plenty of room for privacy or for subdividing............................$39,500.

Fryeburg – Development potential! 20+ acres with 599 ft. road frontage and 79 ft. of frontage on Rte. 302. Nice sandy soil, close to town, many possibilities.......................................................................$135,000.

Harrison – Here’s the best deal for a building lot with access to Crystal Lake! Great level lot in a small waterfront association, with rights to 75 ft. sandy beach on Crystal Lake. Don’t miss this one!................$69,000.

Bridgton – Make your hobby pay off with this lovely 10-room intown home on 1.5 acres!

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Sunday, April 21 10 a.m. to 12 noon Naples – Fabulous 4-season home in one of Naples’ finest neighborhoods. 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 3-season sunroom, deck and hot tub.

Rights to 2 sandy beaches and boat dock. $309,000. MLS 1065215 Hostess: Wendy Gallant 615-9398 Directions: Naples, Rte. 302 to Rte. 114 toward Sebago. Follow Rte. 114 to 2nd Rolling Hill Drive entrance. #210 on right.

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Naples – Picturesque views from 3level turnkey unit. Deeded boat slip, sunroom, deck with awning and stone patio. Close to all amenities. $263,000. MLS 1081032 Hostess Lauri Shane Kinser 310-3565 Directions: Rte. 302W, left onto Winsor Green, stay left on Winsor Green Rd. 1st set of condos on right, #15

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(Continued from Page B) serving in the U.S. Senate and House or Representatives, or how so many states have Legislatures and oft-times governors’ mansions filled with some of the worst, most morally bankrupt, evil people in the country.

As I have said so often in the past and will once again, “for the Christian, the answers to every question are found in God’s holy and perfect word, the Holy Bible.”

Wednesday past I spoke to how the vast majority of those holding public office are oath breakers, committers of treason, and how for them, the only honorable thing to do would be to resign. None having resigned, leads me right into today’s thought, why we have such evil people in office.

God’s word does indeed have the answer to that question, as this online video shows: http://www.youtube. com/watch?v=U4rus979VFk &feature=youtu.be

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Plymouth, Mass. and I read recently in The So, please assure your Naples Bridgton News about blind cats up for adoption. Please tell your readers not to hesitate to adopt them. I have one, who is blind and deaf, from shelter/ foster care. She wouldn’t win any beauty contest, but would win the “sweetness of heart.”

I have two other cats and a sweet, black lab mix named “Lucy” (from Harvest Hills, July 2011). “Bitsey” gets along with all of them. She gives Lucy’s face a bath every day, not realizing that attached to that face is a body as big as a Volkswagen.

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Regional Sports

April 18, 2013, The Bridgton News, Page B

Spring sports previews Fryeburg Academy VARSITY SOFTBALL Head Coach: Fred Apt, 12th year Assistant Coaches: Chris Dutton, Wayne Rivet JV Coach: Kristina Stevens Last year: 15-1, won the Western Maine Conference title for the fifth straight year; lost in the Class B state finals; 16-2 overall Top Returnees: Senior Maddie Pearson (center fielder, all-conference selection), junior Sarah Harriman (pitcher, allconference), senior Carla Tripp, (catcher, WMC Player of the Year), Ellen Bacchiocchi (senior, left field), Sydney Charles, (junior, shortstop) and Kylie Locke (junior, first base).

Top Newcomers: Kristin Chipman (sophomore, third base), Makayla Frost (junior, utility), Elle Burbank (sophomore, utility) and Courtney Bartlett (senior, outfield).

Team strengths: Pitching, catching and team speed.

Question marks: Consistency, depth and mental toughness.

What has been the biggest surprise in preseason? This group has great overall work ethic, Coach Apt said.

What is your biggest concern? Depth and experience.

Team goals: “Get better each and every time we are on the field and be better in June than we are in April,” Coach Apt said. “Team communication is a key component. We need to communicate better on and off the field.”

And goal Number 3 is to make the playoffs. “It is always one of our goals,” the coach said.

Outlook: “We will have a successful season if…Great question, as we all measure success differently. To me, success is that we improve on the things we do as a team,” Coach Apt said.

Varsity Schedule Friday, April 19, at Poland, 1 p.m.

Saturday, April 20, Wells, 11 a.m.

Monday, April 22, at Greely, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, April 24, Sacopee Valley, 4 p.m.

Friday, April 26, Lake Region, 4 p.m.

Monday, April 29, at Falmouth, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 1, at Sacopee Valley, 4 p.m.

Friday, May 3, at York, 4 p.m.

Monday, May 6, at Yarmouth, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 8, Gray-New Gloucester, 4 p.m.

Friday, May 10, Cape Elizabeth, 4 p.m.

Monday, May 13, Poland, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 15, at Gray-New Gloucester, 4 p.m.

Monday, May 20, at Lake Region, 4 p.m.

Monday, May 27, Freeport, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 29, Greely, 4 p.m.

VARSITY BASEBALL Head Coach: Rich Ela, sixth season Assistant Coach: Stew Frost JV Coach: Todd Gallagher Last year: 9-7; lost to Gray-New Gloucester in the prelims.

Top Returnees: Seniors Tyler Saunders (outfield), Walker Day (first base), Tanner Wentworth (second base) and Ian MacFawn (pitcher).

Top Newcomers: Sophomore Trevor Henschel (third base) and junior Liam LeConey (pitcher) Undecided: Junior Nick Kiesman (outfield) and sophomore Brandon Ludwig (utility).

Team strength: MacFawn is one of top five pitchers in the Western Maine Conference. “He is the first player I have made captain and has earned it,” Coach Ela said. “He will be a good senior leader.”

Question marks: Team depth. “Although we have good numbers, we don’t have an abundance of varsity-ready ballplayers,” Coach Ela said. “Can our younger players learn new positions quickly enough to help us? Can Tanner Wentworth or Liam LeConey become the Number 2 in our pitching rotation that we need?”

Biggest surprise: “I am surprised at the way we have begun to swing the bats. In the past, we have lagged behind in offense, especially when we don’t get outside early,” the coach reported. Players who have caught the coach’s attention during the preseason are Henschel and Day. Biggest concern: “Our lack of depth. We can’t afford to lose any players for whatever reason,” Coach Ela said.

Goals: Make the playoffs again; develop the younger players; and have the seniors become good team leaders.

“We will have a successful season if we build team unity, if the players buy into the idea that they need to continue to work hard on fundamentals and if we can get quality playing time from our younger players,” Coach Ela said.

Varsity Schedule Friday, April 19, at Poland, 1 p.m.

Monday, April 22, at Greely, 4 p.m.

Friday, April 26, Lake Region, 4 p.m.

Monday, April 29, at Falmouth, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 1, at Sacopee Valley, 4 p.m.

Friday, May 3, at York, 4 p.m.

Monday, May 6, at Yarmouth, 4 p.m.

Friday, May 10, Cape Elizabeth, 4 p.m.

Monday, May 13, Poland, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 15, at Gray-New Gloucester, 4 p.m.

Thursday, May 16, York, 4 p.m.

Monday, May 20, at Lake Region, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 22, Waynflete, 4 p.m.

Monday, May 27, Freeport, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 29, Greely, 4 p.m.

Lake Region VARSITY SOFTBALL Head Coach: J.R. Warren Assistant Coach: Brian Clark JV Coach: Leanne Boody Overview: The Lakers return eight players with varsity experience. “We are still a younger team in many ways. We are very athletic in general with many players able to play multiple positions,” Coach Warren said. “We look forward to improving defensively and offensively because of the experience many of our players have at this level.”

Top Returnees: Kayleigh Lepage (second base), Kristina Morton (shortstop, outfield, pitcher), Jackie Laurent (first base), Amy Angelone (outfield), Samantha Marucci (catcher, outfield) and Casey Heath (shortstop).

Key additions: Kalor Plummer, Abby Scott-Mitchell, Brittany Perreault and Nicole Marucci.

Outlook: Coach Warren hopes the Lakers will use their athletic abilities to improve in hitting, fielding and base running this year.

“This group has a great attitude and work ethic, which should also benefit the team in the long run,” he said.

At this point, the Lakers have not been on their field and have only had two days on the field hockey field.

“We are behind as far as getting our reps and seeing live balls hit to us at game speed and working on game situations,” he said. “We also need to be able to get outside to do more live hitting and pitching.”

Overall, Coach Warren is very excited about this group CAN THEY MAKE IT SIX STRAIGHT? — Behind ace of players who seem to be motivated to improve upon many pitcher Sarah Harriman, the Fryeburg Academy softball things from last year.

“The great effort and attitude combined with ability will team will be shooting for their sixth straight WMC title go a long way in bringing the team together,” he said. “This and state Class B appearance. group has a lot of potential and should get stronger as the year goes on.”

Varsity Schedule Monday, April 22, at Gray-NG, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, April 23, at Greely, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, April 24, Yarmouth, 4 p.m.

Friday, April 26, at Fryeburg Academy, 4 p.m.

Monday, April 29, Poland, 4 p.m.

Friday, May 3, at Wells, 4 p.m.

Monday, May 6, Falmouth, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 8, Sacopee Valley, 4 p.m.

Friday, May 10, at York, 4 p.m.

Monday, May 13, Greely, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 15, at Cape Elizabeth, 4 p.m.

Thursday, May 16, at Freeport, 4 p.m.

Monday, May 20, Fryeburg Academy, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 22, at Poland, 4 p.m.

Friday, May 24, Gray-New Gloucester, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 29, Wells, 4 p.m.

VARSITY BASEBALL Head Coach: Randy Heath, second year Assistant Coach: Rich Hines JV Coach: Doug Banks Sr. Last Year: 3-13 Overview: The Lakers lost three varsity players from last year. Top newcomers include a group of outstanding freshmen, a sophomore and a junior. Players to keep an eye on are freshmen Jordan Williams and Nick Wandishin.

Team strengths: Coach Heath would point to the defense.

“We have our team returning from last season. We have IN A HOLE? — With several new faces in the starting pitching and we have strong hitters, with power,” Coach lineup, veterans such as Kristina Morton will need to rise Heath said. “We have five starters and we will carry four relief pitchers on the bench this year.” to the occasion for Lake Region this spring.

Question mark: The one question Coach Heath has is whether players will be academically eligible for a full season.

“For some reason, the male student athletes at Lake Region fall short in this area,” he said.

For the Lakers to improve, pitchers must stay healthy and keep their arms fresh.

“My biggest surprise would have to be how this team has grown to trust each other and to push one another,” Coach Heath said. “My biggest concern will have to be the grades.

That’s the biggest hit this team could take, to lose a couple of key players due to failing grades. We have a team contract that hopefully will take care of that threat.”

Varsity Schedule Monday, April 22, at Gray-NG, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, April 23, at Greely, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, April 24, Yarmouth, 4 p.m.

Friday, April 26, at Fryeburg Academy, 4 p.m.

Monday, April 29, Poland, 4 p.m.

Friday, May 3, at Wells, 4 p.m.

Monday, May 6, Falmouth, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 8, Sacopee Valley, 4 p.m.

Friday, May 10, at York, 4 p.m.

Monday, May 13, Greely, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 15, at Cape Elizabeth, 4 p.m.

Thursday, May 16, at Freeport, 4 p.m.

Monday, May 20, Fryeburg Academy, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 22, at Poland, 4 p.m.

Friday, May 24, Gray-New Gloucester, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 29, Wells, 4 p.m.

LOOKING TO TURN THE CORNER — RJ Legere is one of several returnees hoping to lead Lake Region to a better lacrosse record this spring.

VARSITY BOYS’ TENNIS Head Coach: Justin Chaffee, third year Last Year: 0-12 Top Returnees: Jonathan Burk (sophomore), Kevin Yeh (senior) and Brandt Xiang (senior).

Top Newcomers: Jamie Berned (sophomore), Pavle Bulatovic (junior), Alex Lazic (junior), Milos Mitic (junior), Ki-Ho Noh (sophomore) and Kevin Tang (senior).

Team strengths: Every year is a fresh start, and this year, the Raiders have a great blend of new additions and returning players.

“Our depth has improved a lot. We have a solid singles line up, that I think can challenge any team,” Coach Chaffee said. “With the return of Kevin Yeh and Brandt Xiang at doubles along with the new pairing of athletic duo of Milos Mitic and Jonathan Burk at doubles, I think we can rise to the challenges that the season will present us.”

Coach Chaffee says he has “a great group of kids, they get along well, and are passionate about the game.” He added,

LAKE REGION VARSITY BOYS’ LACROSSE Head Coach: Don White, fifth year Assistant Coach: Bob Gross JV Coach: Bob Gross Record last year: 2-10 Top Returnees: Seniors Lewis Morton (defense), Davis Cosgrove (defense), Tyler LaPlante (goalie), Jarid Pierce (goalie), Tyler Harnden (middie); Juniors Drew Shane (middie), Zach Tidd (middie), Dakota Russo (middie), Erik Christensen (defense), Drew Spaulding (defense) and RJ Legere (middie).

Top Newcomers: Senior Mike Triglione (middie) and sophmore Ron Hall (middie).

New/Swing players: Seniors Mike Brooks (defense) and Derek Douglas (defense); junior Ben Roy (attack); sophmores Evan Kellough (attack), Ethan Green (attack) and Ansel Critchfield (attack); freshmen Nick Lepage (attack) and Mason LaPlante (attack).

Team Strengths: Coach White believes the Lakers should be a strong defensive team this year. LR returns most

RAIDER PREVIEWS, Page B

LR BOYS’ LACROSSE, Page B

VARSITY BOYS’ TENNIS Head Coach: Brook Sulloway, second year Last year: Lakers did not play at the varsity level Top Returnees: Sophomores Lucien Sulloway and Austin Kaeser.

Top Newcomer: Senior Adam Falk.

Team strengths: The Lakers will have three strong singles players this year.

Question marks: “We have one promising newcomer to the game, but he needs to stay on top of his academics to remain eligible to play,” Coach Sulloway said.

What has been the biggest surprise in preseason: Foreign exchange student, Adam Falk, could be the Lakers’ Number 1 player.

What is your biggest concern: “We have enough players for a varsity team. Everyone needs to be there all the time to build a strong tradition in tennis at Lake Region H.S.,” Coach Sulloway said.

Team goals: Consistently field a full team; win three matches, have one player make it past the preliminary round at the state tourney.

Outlook: “We will have a successful season if every team member has fun and improves his game,” Coach Sulloway said.

LAKE REGION PREVIEWS, Page B

Page B, The Bridgton News, April 18, 2013

Regional sports

Raider previews (Continued from Page B) “Everyone on the team has the desire to improve. This, with their desire to be out here, is a huge strength. Something that is great to see.”

Question marks: “We want to stay healthy physically.

Going from inside to outside and the shifting weather conditions sometimes gets tricky,” Coach Chaffee said. “This goes along with the first, but we want to make sure we have a full roster. We don’t have a large team like some other sports, which is a positive, but if something happens to the starters it makes things tougher.”

Another question is how the Raiders will match up against the tougher teams in the league.

Biggest surprise: The amount of depth. “I think we will surprise a lot of teams,” Coach Chaffee said.

Biggest concern: A full roster at all times. Last year, the Raiders struggled with this. “I don’t think it will be a problem this year, but it’s still something once you’ve experienced it, you hope it doesn’t happen again,” he said.

Team goals: To compete and give it the best each and every match; to develop mental strategy of the game; and to have fun.

Outlook: “We will have a successful season if we are able to stay healthy and positive, by taking it one match at a time,” Coach Chaffee said.

Varsity Schedule Monday, April 22, at Greely, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, April 24, at York, 4 p.m.

Friday, April 26, Waynflete, 4 p.m.

UP AND OVER — Senior Mason Kluge-Edwards will be a top competitor in the hurdles this spring. The Lake Region Wednesday, May 1, at North Yarmouth Academy, 4 p.m. boys’ squad has good numbers this season, leading coaches to be more optimistic as to the number of points the team Friday, May 3, at Yarmouth, 4 p.m. can collect at various meets.

Monday, May 6, Lake Region, 3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 7, at Freeport, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 8, Freeport, 4 p.m.

Friday, May 10, at Cape Elizabeth, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 15, York, 4 p.m.

Friday, May 17, Falmouth, 4 p.m. school records in all three relays.

GIRLS’ TRACK & FIELD Monday, May 20, Cape Elizabeth, 4 p.m.

Outlook: “We will have a successful season if hit all or Head Coaches: Mark Snow, 16th year and Dana Caron, SP w15 fa g tennis most of our goals,” the coaches said. fifth year Varsity Schedule Assistant Coaches: Sasha Kantro and Eric Hall VARSITY GIRLS’ TENNIS Friday, April 26, at Traip Academy, 3:30 p.m.

Last year: 7-7 regular season, sixth at the Western Maine Head Coach: Chris Chaffee, fifth year Friday, May 3, at York, 3:30 p.m.

Conference championships, third at the Class B State Meet.

Last year: The Lady Raiders reached their team goal of Monday, May 6, Falmouth, Fryeburg Academy, 3:30 Top Returnees: Kate Hall (sophomore), state 100m, making the playoffs and winning one round in the playoffs 200m and long jump champion; Kayla Gray (senior), WMC p.m. to finish with an even 7-7 record. “We had a strong team Friday, May 10, at Greely, 3:30 p.m. racewalk champion; Kelsey Winslow (senior), placed in the last year. This year, we have some returning players, but it is Friday, May 17, at Fryeburg Academy, 3:30 p.m.

400m at States and in the hurdles at WMC; Sydney Hancock Saturday, May 25, WMC Championships at LRHS, 9 about preparing well this year and just keep working that will (senior), placed at WMC in hurdles and multi-event state make the difference this year,” Coach Chaffee said. qualifier; Hannah Perkins (senior), placed at WMC in 400m a.m.

Top Returnees: Returning this year is Number 3 singles Saturday, June 1, State Finals and 800m; Molly Hook (senior), consistent scorer in the player and most improved player Chelsea Abraham (junior), Saturday, June 8, New England Championships throws and WMC third place finisher in the discus; and Sarah who will be playing #1 this year. “Moving two spots up Hancock (sophomore), state qualifier in the shot put. from number three shows great improvement from Chelsea,” BOYS’ TRACK & FIELD Top Newcomers: Zsofi Kaiser (senior), sprints; Sierra Head Coaches: Mark Snow, 16th year and Dana Caron, Coach Chaffee said. “Chelsea has the challenge of facing the Hancock (freshman), 400m and 800m; Mascha Kuhlman number one singles players on each team we face. She will fifth year (senior), 800m; and Audrey Blais (freshman), 800m. gain a lot of experience playing number one and will develop Assistant Coaches: Sasha Kantro and Eric Hall Other team members: Dani LaPointe (junior), 800m Last year: 1-13 regular season; eighth at the Western a better understanding on how to construct points and the and throws; Elizabeth Schreiber (junior), jumps; Luna importance of focusing and fighting for every point out there.

Zhang (senior), sprints; Courtney Yates (junior), jumps; Maine Conference championships.

Top Returnees: Mason Kluge-Edwards (senior), hurdles It will make her improve each match as a tennis player, which Julia Carlson (senior), throws and 800m; Maude Meeker (senior), 800m; Miranda Chadbourne (junior), sprints and and jumps; Mark MacDougall (senior), 1600m, jumps and is the most important thing. Chelsea is a positive player and jumps; Kate Cutting (senior), throws; Savannah DeVoe javelin; Quinn Piland (sophomore) 400m and javelin; Kyle wants to progress every year as a player. She is very athletic (senior) sprints and jumps; Josephine Elder (senior), throws; DeSouza (sophomore), javelin; and Gaelon Kolczynski so she won’t have a problem grinding out some wins.”

Sasha Azel (senior) and Alicia McDonald (senior) are Michaela Gagnon (junior), hurdles; Emily Hemingway (sophomore), sprints.

Top Newcomers: Mark Williams (junior), sprints and both in their final year of the team. (senior), sprints; Leanne Kugelman (senior), sprints; Carlee “They have played number one doubles all four years and MacVicar (freshman), throws; Hannah Parsons (freshman), jumps; Nick Scarlett (freshman), 800m; and Marcus DeVoe are the captains on the team. Sasha and Alicia have also have sprints; Natasha Snow (sophomore), throws; and Zoe Snow (freshman), sprints and jumps.

Other team members: Elijah Bouldin (sophomore), improved each year in their tennis abilities and their tennis (freshman), throws.

Team strengths: Kate Hall won state titles in the 100m, distance; Lexus Rodriguez (freshman), sprints and jumps; IQ,” Coach Chaffee said. “They are very good strategic dou200m and long jump and she had a better indoor season this Brendan Arsenault (freshman), sprints and jumps; Cam bles players and really know how to win. I have never seen Arsenault (senior), throws; Reed Bridge-Koenigsberg (soph- them ever give up in their four years. They will always fight year than last year.

“We have more talent across the events than in other omore), throws and distance; Ashton Cutting (senior), throws; till the end and try to figure out their opponents. It has been years,” coaches said. “This leads to a better practice atmo- Brian Butler (senior), sprints and shot put; Derrek Schrader awesome to see them progress the four years as a coach.”

Junior Morgan Bullard Hodge was the Number 2 doubles (senior), sprints; and Kolin Wyman (sophomore), distance. sphere and hopefully better results.”

Team strengths: Kluge-Edwards has always scored player last year and will play Number #2 singles this year.

The Western Maine Conference Championships will be at well in the hurdles and had a strong indoor season jump- “Morgan is a very knowledgeable player. She isn’t overLake Region on May 25.

Question marks: Will veteran team members try new ing. MacDougall, Piland and DeSouza practiced and per- powering, but is able to outsmart her opponents,” the coach formed well last year in the javelin. Our jumpers (Williams, said. “She understands how to use variety of spins and pace. events to help the WMC meet score total?

The Lakers have over six newcomers. Coaches aren’t sure MacDougall, Kluge-Edwards and others) are a talented Morgan is able to set up and work the points and stay more consistent then her opponents. She plays with an ‘old school’ group. yet what events they will ask them to do.

Question marks: Do the Lakers have enough firepower style of play that will win her a fair amount of matches.”

How will so many team members handle the late start Senior Hanlin Xu (Norlin) returns, but is starting this year to their training (due to the school musical and vacation to score at the WMC and state meets? Last year, the Lakers at Number 2 doubles with her freshman partner Catherine did not score at those meets. week)?

Will the boys continue to push at practice throughout the Ashley. “Cat” and “Norlin” were a surprise as the number What has been the biggest surprise in preseason? two doubles players because of how they clicked as partners, season?

Many girls are trying track and field for the first time.

Coach Chaffee said. “They never played a match or practiced Will there be a competitive 4x400m or 4x100m relay?

What is your biggest concern? Coaches are short on What has been the biggest surprise in preseason? The together before, but when I paired them up it seemed like a preparation time before the regular season starts.

Team goals: Have a winning record and possibly win a number of boys who came out has increased. Lake Region pretty good fit. Like any good doubles team, they have great FA PREVIEWS, Page 12B LR BOYS’ TRACK, Page B few meets; finish first or second at the WMC meet; and set

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April 18, 2013, The Bridgton News, Page B

Preview: LR girls’ varsity tennis VARSITY GIRLS’ TENNIS Head Coach: Kim Peterson, 12th year Last year: 4-8 Top Returnees: Alyssa Kepler (senior) and Frances Kimball (junior) are the only two returning varsity players.

Last year, they played second doubles.

Last year’s junior varsity players looking to make an impact at the varsity level are MacKenzie McHatton (junior), Elisabeth Waugh (junior), Isabel Scribner (sophomore) and Liza Wildey (sophomore).

Other returners are: Zoey Perham (junior), Sam Bolling (sophomore), Jade Facteau (sophomore) and Lily Barrett (sophomore).

Top Newcomers: Megan VanLoan, Whitney Harriman, Christina Engstrom, Maria Kolafsky, Madison Wildey, Lily Charpentier, Kendall Dinsmore, Kiana Paige, Tatiana Marainda and Ashley Witmer.

“As the preseason continues, many are moving their way up the challenge ladder,” Coach Peterson said.

Team strengths: Team unity, desire to improve and love of the game.

Question marks: With a shortened preseason due to snow, Coach Peterson is looking to determine a varsity lineup. Who will play singles? Who will be the doubles team?

What has been the biggest surprise in preseason? “How

competitively close my top tier players are, on any given day one could upset another,” the coach said.

What is your biggest concern? Finding the right place for each varsity player.

Team goals: Find one skill every day to improve upon; develop chemistry in the doubles teams; and beat Old Orchard Beach.

Outlook: “We will have a successful season if we have fun and make steady improvements in our play,” Coach Peterson said.

Varsity Schedule Tuesday, April 23, at York, 4 p.m.

Thursday, April 25, at North Yarmouth Academy, 4 p.m.

Monday, April 29, Waynflete, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 1, Falmouth, 4 p.m.

Friday, May 3, at Greely, 4 p.m.

Monday, May 6, Fryeburg Academy, 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 8, Cape Elizabeth, 4 p.m.

Friday, May 10, Old Orchard Beach, 4 p.m.

Monday, May 13, Freeport, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 15, at Yarmouth, 4 p.m.

Thursday, May 16, at Old Orchard Beach, 4 p.m.

Monday, May 20, at Freeport, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, May 21, Oxford Hills, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, May 28, at Oxford Hills, 4 p.m.

(Continued from Page B) of its defense from last year. Another strength is the team’s ability to clear the ball out of the Laker end.

“Our defensemen and middies have good stick skills this year which should help in clearing the ball to the attackmen,” Coach White said.

A third strength is overall fitness of the team.

“Our middies are fast and able to break free of their defenders,” Coach White said. “Our defense has good footwork to really make the other team work hard for anything they get.”

Three question marks: Scoring goals is something the Lakers will need to work on throughout the season (they were shut out in the season opener against Cape Elizabeth last Thursday). All three attackmen graduated last year.

“We will be looking for the younger players to find the confidence to step up and take shots,” Coach White said.

Coach White is still working on figuring out how to use the strengths of each player in the best way offensively.

Finally, working to stay out of the penalty box as a team by playing smarter defense. “If we are short-handed, it’s very difficult to score goals,” Coach White said.

What has been the biggest surprise in preseason? The stick skills of several of the players has improved a lot during the off season. The players worked hard to improve over the past couple of months, and it shows. The overall fitness of the team is also improved quite a bit from last year.

What is your biggest concern? Learning to play together as a team on offense. “Many of the players are new this year so we are still figuring out where the best place for each person will be,” the coach said.

Three team goals: Being competitive in all games, improving everyday in practice and games, and creating a program that will grow stronger each year.

“We will have a successful season if…” we play with

confidence,” Coach White said. “Several players have spent time in the off-season improving their stick skills and physical fitness. We need to replace our attack line, but several players look ready to step up to the challenge,” Coach White said. “Last year, we lost several games where we were tied or had the lead in the fourth quarter. With our improvement this year, we hope to be able to finish those close games on a winning note.”

Varsity Schedule Monday, April 22, at Fryeburg Academy, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, April 24, Bonny Eagle, 4 p.m.

Monday, April 29, Westbrook, 4:15 p.m.

Wednesday, May 1, Falmouth, 4 p.m.

Friday, May 3, Wells, 4 p.m.

Monday, May 6, at York, 4 p.m.

Thursday, May 9, at Yarmouth, 6 p.m.

Saturday, May 11, at Biddeford, 10 a.m.

Thursday, May 16, Fryeburg Academy, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 22, Freeport, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 29, at Wells, 5 p.m.

Preview: LR boys’ lacrosse

(Continued from Page B) had an extremely small (in numbers) indoor season.

What is your biggest concern? The coaching staff’s biggest concern is that not every team member will stick it out for the season. The Lakers are starting with higher numbers than usual, but will they all keep their interests up?

Team goals: Improve on the 1-13 record; score at the Western Maine Conference and state meets; and train hard and have so much fun that it is contagious.

Outlook: “We will have a successful season if we beat a few teams, set a bunch of personal records and keep having fun,” coaches said.

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(Continued from Page B) Varsity Schedule Tuesday, April 23, York, 4 p.m.

Thursday, April 25, North Yarmouth Academy, 4 p.m.

Monday, April 29, at Waynflete, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 1, at Falmouth, 4 p.m.

Friday, May 3, Greely, 4 p.m.

Monday, May 6, at Fryeburg Academy, 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 8, at Cape Elizabeth, 4 p.m.

Monday, May 13, at Freeport, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 15, Yarmouth, 4 p.m.

Monday, May 20, Freeport, 4 p.m.

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Public Notice Nomination papers will made available on March 18, 2013, at the Town Clerk’s Office located at 3 Chase Street, Suite 1, in Bridgton for the following offices: One (1) Selectman/Assessor/Overseer of the Poor for three (3) year term; Two (2) Planning Board Members for three (3) year terms; One (1) Planning Board Alternate Member for a three (3) year term; Two (2) MSAD 61 Director for three (3) year terms; One (1) Trustee of the Water District for a three (3) year term.

The nomination paper filing deadline is the close of business hours on April 27, 2013 (however, papers will be accepted until April 29, 2013 because of the weekend per 21-A M.R.S.A. Section 6).

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April 18, 2013, The Bridgton News, Page B

‘Lamb’s Blood’ a bit of everything — and more

By Mike Corrigan Special to The News Jerry Genesio, who has been a journalist, an activist for environmentalist and peace causes, and has written nonfiction books about wild animals, the natural environment and pathogens, as well as an historical novel set in Revolutionary times, clearly has had a writing career of depth and range.

Lamb’s Blood, set in 1978 in Nicaragua and points north, can itself be said to embrace a similarly impressive and wide-ranging variety of writing genres. In Lamb’s Blood he has written a thriller, fastpaced and sure-footed, that has elements of the crime novel, and also splashes of the mystery and the spy and the detective styles. If that’s not enough, there’s romantic interest as well. Add to that political intrigue and international medical shenanigans, and all told, it’s “…a big story. Really huge,” as a major character sums up the action. Genesio wraps it up tight in 214 pages, with not exactly a happily-ever-after ending, but maybe as close to one as all the multiple subjects entangled in powerful forces allow.

The book’s beginning sets a fast pace, with a sharp-eyed view of a Latin American blood bank of nefarious design, a sympathetic sketch of a Nicaraguan peasant, and lovely descriptions of the earth and sky in Central America. And then in a blink, in the next chapter, we see our friend Raul from the first pages in action a couple of months later — attempting an assassination of one of his country’s top officials at a Washington, D.C. airport!

This event triggers a private eye-type murder investigation by Mark Marino, an American journalist haunted by the fact that he was lied to during his reporting days in Vietnam, and that he repeated those lies to the American public. Investigation of the assassination attempt and the ensuing execution of the Nicaraguan national by the official’s bodyguard carries Mark from Washington, to Nicaragua, to Boston and other points. His girlfriend’s father is nearly killed in a bomb detonation — a plot turn ironically interrupted for me by the real news this past Monday from Boston, as bombs went off along the Marathon route.

Yes, the world comes in, no matter how much we wish it wouldn’t. Jerry Genesio knows that better than the next man; he lost a brother in Vietnam. Not so coincidentally, so did the book’s protagonist, Mark Marino.

What Genesio has done in this multi-faceted novel has been to illuminate some of the shadows of the world he knows sometimes too much about. Genesio, who worked for The Bridgton News more than a quarter century ago, also felt lied to about Vietnam.

So, a few years later, he wasn’t about to take “I don’t know” for an answer when the Department of Energy’s minions came calling to study the Lake Region for a possible nuclear waste site. The rest is, as they say, history.

Jerry retired in 2003 and now lives in Bridgton with his wife Judy.

So Lamb’s Blood, and some of the history in it, is personal. Genesio has had experience in Latin America, during the time of the Sandistas. He was employed as a Human Blood Specialist representing a major blood products manufacturer for two decades, and he traveled to Nicaragua during the Contra counter-revo-

lution. He returned to lobby the U.S. Congress in opposition to U.S. interference in that conflict.

In the book, Marino tracks the would-be assassin’s killer to a Boston-based manufacturer of human blood products. In the meantime, he’s falling in love with the daughter of the bomb victim, a former colleague, and Mark is dodging threats on his own life. He makes plans to visit Nicaragua, where he had covered the Managua earthquake in the early ‘70s. Genesio describes all the action vividly, and the chapters fly along from scene to scene, venue to venue, plot point to plot point. In Nicaragua he teams up with a former journalist contact and a good-hearted but conflicted priest — so many conflicts, so many victims, so many gray areas, so much darkness. There’s lots of action, and some plotnecessary violence, culminating in a commando-style raid against the barrio clinic that evilly trades in peasant blood for export. Instead of the bloody sky Raul appreciated in the first scene, we end with blood-soaked explosions at the climax. Of course, it’s the same corrupt clinic we

saw described so balefully and powerfully in the first few pages. So good triumphs.

For the nonce. For the nonce.

Lamb’s Blood, copyright 2012, by Jerry Genesio,

Google Zeitgeist, not encouraging “Zeitgeist” means “the spirit of the times.” Beginning in 2001, Google began publishing data on what sorts of knowledge its users were accessing in searching the Web. Given the World Trade Center attacks in September, it’s not surprising that the top five were: Nostradamus CNN World Trade Center Harry Potter Anthrax However, 2002’s results indicated abrupt decline in what people most wanted to learn about: Spiderman Shakira Winter Olympics World Cup April Lavigne Spiderman is frivolous in my opinion, and I was ignorant of who Shakira and April Lavigne were until I clicked on them to discover they looked alike and were two blondes who sang. It seemed appropriate that Lavigne was famous for singing: Here’s To Never Growing Up. Was that the eponymous slogan for a generation of Americans?

Maybe I’m the one who is culturally illiterate here, but I don’t think so.

Decline continued in 2003 with: Britney Spears

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Harry Potter Matrix Shakira David Beckham Could any of those be at all edifying in the furtherance of cultural literacy? Well, maybe. At least Harry Potter is a character in a book.

2004 results are even worse: Britney Spears Paris Hilton Christina Aquilera Pamela Anderson Chat The first four are dumb

Scholarship Applications for the Jean Murray, Ernest Murray, Josephine Caswell, Gerald Forest, Horton-Ricker, Blake and the Susan Adamen Beck Memorial are now available at the Town Clerk’s office. These scholarships are for the residents of Harrison continuing their education at a college, university, vocational or trade school.

Applications must be received at the Harrison Town Office no later than May 1, 2013.

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TOWN OF LOVELL NOTICE TO LOCAL CONTRACTORS On April 23, 2013, at 7:00 p.m., the Selectmen will hold a Public Meeting at the Lovell Town Office with local contractors interested in using our stump dump.

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NOTICE Truck For Sale By Sealed Bid Sealed bids are being accepted for a 1978 Ford F-600 4x4 with approximately 11,700 miles. Vehicle can be seen at Raymond Public Safety Building located at 397 Webbs Mills Road. Minimum bid is $5,000. The Town reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Bids are due May 2, 2013 by 2:00 p.m. and will be opened publicly at the Raymond Town Office on May 3, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. See website www.raymondmaine.org for bid form and contact Chief Bruce Tupper 655-4742 x207 for more information. Send completed bid form to:

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TOWN OF BROWNFIELD The Town of Brownfield is accepting sealed bid proposals for mowing at the Town Office, Community Center, Baseball Field, Outer Baseball Field, Dunn Memorial Park and the Bean Spring Park. Please include proof of insurance with your sealed bid.

All bid proposals for this 3-year contract are to be submitted in a sealed envelope marked “Mowing Bid” to the Town of Brownfield, 82 Main Street, Brownfield, ME 04010 by April 30, 2013 at 5:00 p.m.

For more information, please contact Frank at 207-935-2152 or Julie at 207-935-2007.

The Town of Brownfield reserves the right to accept or reject any and/or all bids.

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TOWN OF NAPLES Board of Selectpersons & Planning Board The Board of Selectpersons and the Planning Board will hold a Public Hearing on April 22, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. at the Municipal Office Buildings located at 15 Village Green Lane. On the agenda: Proposed amendments to the following Ordinance: Site Plan Review Ordinance Proposed Ordinance: Town Property Ordinance Copies of proposed changes and a copy of the new ordinance can be mailed to you, found on our website at www.townofnaples.org or obtained at our offices during normal business hours.

Public welcome.

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Nomination papers are available at the Town Office for the following offices: • Two (2) members of the Casco Selectboard.

• One (1) member of the MSAD #61 School Board • One (1) member of the Open Space Commission.

• One (1) member of the Transfer Station Council.

The filing deadline for nomination papers is by the close of business hours at the Casco Town Office on April 26, 2013.

Public Notice

TOWN OF NAPLES PUBLIC HEARING

The Naples Board of Selectperson will hold Public Hearing at their regular meeting on May 6, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. at the Municipal Office Buildings located at 15 Village Green Lane. On the agenda: An application for Liquor License renewal for The Naples Lobster Pound, Inc. Public welcome.

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The Naples Board of Selectperson will hold a Public Hearing at their regular meeting on May 6, 2013, at 7:00 p.m., at the Municipal Office Buildings located at 15 Village Green Lane.

On the agenda: Renewal of a Liquor License and Special Amusement Application for Casino Projects Inc. d.b.a. Rick’s Cafe.

Public welcome.

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The Town of Casco is accepting bids for a “lot” of items the town salvaged from a dangerous building that was razed by the town.

The “lot” may be inspected at the former Casco Memorial School, so called, located at 877 Poland Spring Road (Route 11), on April 24, 2013, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Bids will be received at the Casco Town Office, 935 Meadow Road, Casco, Maine until April 25, 2013, at 12:00 noon.

All bids must be contained in a sealed envelope clearly marked “Bids for Salvaged Goods.”

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blondes famous for being dumb blondes. That’s the “spirit of the times”? Dumb blonde obsession? You can Google subsequent years if you want to depress yourself, but it doesn’t get any better.

Remember, we 21st century Americans can learn virtually anything we want just by reaching in our pocket for our smart phone.

A question asked by columnist Mark Steyn is haunting me at this point: “Can a country be too stupid to survive?”

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(Continued from Page B) path of Cultural Literacy in the tradition of E.D. Hirsch’s book of that title published in 1987. There is a body of content knowledge with which any educated person must be familiar in order to interact with other educated persons around the globe. Call it “Liberal Arts” if you will — with the understanding of “liberal” in the classic sense of being broad-minded and wide-ranging in our acquisition of knowledge.

The best example of what happens when one lacks grounding in cultural literacy or the liberal arts would be a young person who, when in the company of his elders a double entendre or pun is made, and those who get it laugh appreciatively. The young person realizes he doesn’t understand something others do, and, after a delay, awkwardly forces a laugh as though he does.

The American education establishment is moving steadily away from classic liberal arts education but pretends it isn’t, and that’s what prompted Hirsch to write his book. Unfortunately, that trend continues and it’s best measured today by something called Google Zeitgeist.

We all know Google, but for culturally illiterate readers,

214 pages, and is available from Amazon’s Kindle Store for $2.95. The hard copy is also available at local bookstores. The ISBN# is 9781481292191.

Nomination papers for the following positions will be available Monday, March 18, 2013 at the Town Clerk’s Office: One (1) Selectmen/Assessors for 3-year term Two (2) Planning Board Members for 3-year terms One (1) Planning Board Member for a 1-year term One (1) Appeals Board Member for a 5-year term One (1) MSAD #17 Board of Directors Member for a 3-year term Nomination papers are due back in the Harrison Town Clerk’s Office by 4:30 p.m. on Monday, April 29, 2013.

Town Elections will be held on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at the Harrison Town Office from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. The Annual Town Meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at the Harrison Elementary School.

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Obituaries

Raymond P. Cushing Jr.

Mildred L. Davis

Alice R. Rideout

SCARBOROUGH — Raymond P. Cushing Jr., 86, of Cape Elizabeth, passed away on April 7, 2013, at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House after a brief illness.

He was born on July 20, 1926, on Cushing Street in South Portland, the son of Raymond P. Sr. and Lydia (Oliver) Cushing. He attended South Portland Schools.

Raymond was a Navy veteran, having served in World War II and the Korean Conflict. He enjoyed spending time with his wife and family. Nature and birds were his passion.

Raymond was predeceased by his parents; and his wife Geraldine, who passed away in 2012.

He will be sadly missed by his daughters, Raylene Reid of East Baldwin, Carol Duran of Biddeford, Donna Mailman of Windham, Linda Beaulieu of Raymond and Carlene Kinney of Scarborough; 11 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

There will be a celebration of life, with military honors at a later date. Arrangements are under the care of A.T. Hutchins Funeral and Cremation Services, 660 Brighton Ave., Portland. To offer condolences and share memories with the family, please visit www. athutchins.com In lieu of flowers, please consider donations in Raymond’s memory to: Gosnell Memorial Hospice House, 11 Hunnewell Dr., Scarborough, ME 04074.

WEST PARIS — Mildred Leora Austin Davis, 82, left this world on Saturday, April 13, 2013 after a valiant struggle to recover from open heart surgery.

She was born on July 7, 1930, in North Norway. She was the first born of Chester Alton and E. Arlene Whitman Austin.

On March 26, 1951, she married Arthur Francis Davis in a double wedding with Roger and Marion Leavitt.

She had two children, Gordon and Brenda. She moved to the farm just before Brenda’s birth and was less than enthused to be moving out of town and would not have done so if she was not convinced it would be the best move for her children. As is often the case in life, she grew to love that old farm.

The greatest joy of her life was her family. She was a devoted mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was the rock and the cornerstone of her family and would have walked through fire for any one of them. She was the best grandmother ever, shuttling the kids here and there and always welcoming them into her house anytime of the day and night. Christmas at Gramma’s was a gala affair! She was the real deal, an old-fashioned homemaker straight out of the 50s. The second love in her life was her love of going out to eat and the societally that goes along with it. She was a friendly and familiar face at many local eateries.

She was a mother and a homemaker first and foremost and she worked at many various jobs over the years when she could fit it in with her family life. She did housekeeping at Crystal Lake Shores rental cabins on Saturday when her kids were small. She later ran a laundry out of her barn for Camp Ticawa in the summers. She picked and packed apples and later worked in the office at Paris Manufacturing when her children were older. She also worked at Cornwall’s in Norway, making wood products. She was a dedicated and dependable worker no matter what she did.

Life changed for her yet again at the age of 48 when she suddenly found herself a widow. It was in picking up the pieces of her broken heart that she discovered her affinity for painting. She did many lovely pieces. She was also a fine knitter, making dozens of Christmas stockings, afghans, scarves and mittens. It was also at this time that she went back to work as a waitress, first at the Cracked Platter and finishing up her career at the Caswell House in Harrison.

She loved to be around people. She finally hung up her waitress shoes at the age of 70.

Millie was a member of the United Parish Church of Harrison, where the pastor has been a faithful visitor and a great comfort to her over the past few months. She was also a member of the Rebekahs, VFW Auxiliary and the Red Hat Society. She was also a regular face at the Bridgton Community Center soup kitchen, the Bridgton Hospital coffee shop and The Golden Oldies. She regularly went to exercise class at Bridgton Town Hall until her health would no longer permit it. Many will remember seeing her walk around town daily until her knees gave out.

She was predeceased by her husband, Arthur, in 1979.

Besides her many friends, she is survived by Gordon and Brenda of Harrison; five grandchildren and two great-granddaughters; three sisters, Natalie Damon and Sandra Breslin of Gray and Jeannine Paterson of Pearce, Ariz.

Online condolences maybe shared with her family at www. chandlerfunerals.com. Funeral service were held Wednesday at 1 p.m. at the United Parish, Congregational Church of Harrison-North Bridgton, Harrison, with interment following at Stuart’s Corner Cemetery. Arrangements by Chandler Funeral Home.

In lieu of flowers donations may be sent to: The United Parish Church, P.O. Box 95, Harrison, ME.

PORTLAND — Alice “Becky” Rebecca Rideout, 87, passed away peacefully on April 15, 2013, in Portland after a brief illness.

She was born on Nov. 11, 1925, in Cumberland, to Thomas N. and Alice M. (Romans) Brown. Becky was the seventh of 10 children.

After graduating from Greely High School in 1943, she worked at Western Union.

On Sept. 11, 1948, she married her husband of 50 years, Arnold C. Rideout.

Before starting her family, she worked at Standard Romper on Canco Road in Portland. Once the children arrived, she was a stay-at-home mom, selling Avon and working out of her home for James Bailey Co., which supplied the athletic uniforms for the local schools. She would cut out the numbers and letters and sew them on the uniforms and, when it was really busy with multiple orders, she enlisted the help of her children, who would take on part of the job by tracing the numbers, cutting them out and pinning them on for her.

In 1968, when the youngest of the four children was settled in school, she started working for the City of Portland as a baker for the school lunch program at Lyseth School. She continued working, in the Central Kitchen and finally at Deering High School, where she retired in June 2005, just before her 80th birthday.

She loved baking and on any given day you would see cookies or a pie on the kitchen counter cooling. At Christmas, everyone waited for Needhams, sugar cookies or chocolate-covered peanut butter balls. In the winter, she enjoyed snowmobiling and in the summer, camping at Sebago Lake. Her love and skill of sewing led numerous people to seek her out for alterations and repairs to many garments, as recently as January of this year.

Becky was predeceased by husband of 50 years, Arnold C. Rideout in 1999; a grandson in 2011; and five brothers, Harry, Maurice, Thomas, Ralph and John Brown.

She was a lifelong member of 53 years at Stevens Avenue Congregational Church, where her recipes were published each month in the church bulletin. When her husband became active in the Masons Becky became a member of the Deering Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star.

She is survived by her son, Gerald “Jerry” Rideout; three daughters, Terry J. of Greensboro, N.C., Carol L. Cabral of Lake City, Pa. and Susan L. Dodge of Raymond; seven grandchildren; a brother, Howard Brown of California; three sisters, Joan Ranger of Falmouth, Marion Meader of Bath and Virginia Rideout of Millinocket; as well as many nieces and nephews.

A time of visitation will be held on Thursday, April 18, from 4 to 8 p.m., at Jones, Rich & Hutchins Funeral Home, 199 Woodford Street, Portland, where at 6:30 p.m. the Deering Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star will conduct a ritualistic service. A funeral service will be held on Friday at 1 p.m. at the funeral home. Interment will follow at Brooklawn Memorial Park.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in Becky’s memory to: The Stevens Avenue Congregational Church, 790 Stevens Ave., Portland, ME 04103.

Paul A. Gallinari

PORTLAND — Anne MicKanin, 89, died Thursday morning, April 11, 2013.

She had been a resident at the Barron Center in Portland for the past several years, charming those who worked with her by a persistently clever wit.

She was born in Lakewood, Ohio, on Sept. 3, 1923, but lived in Southern California for most of her life.

Her only child, Deborah, was born on her birthday in 1947. She moved to Maine to be with her daughter and grandchildren about 25 years ago and lived with them for several years, becoming a stalwart Red Sox fan.

She worked for many years in the food service industry, enjoyed cooking and eating, country music, and was an avid crafter. An animal lover, she rescued many creatures and enjoyed the company of her dogs and turtles.

She is survived by her daughter, Deborah Gideon of Raymond; her granddaughter in New York City; her grandson in Sausalito, Calif.; and a sister who still lives in California.

A private memorial service will be held in her honor off the coast of California. Arrangements are under the direction of Advantage Funeral & Cremation Services, 981 Forest Avenue, Portland.

Please visit www.advantageportland.com to sign Anne’s guestbook.

Charles A. McKenney FALMOUTH — TMC Charles “Mac” A. McKenney, USN. Ret., 92, formerly of Auburn and a resident of Portland, died early Tuesday morning of congestive heart failure at Falmouth by the Sea with his loving family by his side.

He was born in Auburn on May 26, 1920, the son of Herman E. and Winifred I. (Poole) McKenney. He was a 1939 graduate of Edward Little High School participating as a high school track star, football fullback, as well as a cross country and alpine ski Olympian hopeful. He was trained and loved by ELHS coach, Zeke Dewelly.

He then began a 33-year active duty career with the United States Navy, retiring as a senior chief torpedoman in 1973. Following his Navy career, he retired to his home in Portland with his wife and family beginning his new career in finish carpentry.

He was a charter member of the original First Universalist Church of Auburn, was also a charter member of the Fleet Reserve of South Portland and was a member of the American Legion and VFW. His hobbies included camping, climbing and skiing in the White Mountains. He also was well known for rebuilding antique and muscle cars. He competed in many organized car shows throughout Maine. He also had a talent as a realist painter whose paintings were so detailed.

Survivors include his wife of 57 years, the former Goldie Knight of Bridgton, residing in Portland; two daughters, Dianne McKenney Morin of Kingman, Ariz. and Eleanor “Ellie” K. McKenney of Portland; one sister, Ruth McKenney Ecklund of New Jersey; nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Funeral services honoring Charles’ life were held on Tuesday at 1 p.m., followed by United States Navy Military Honors at the First Universalist Church, Pleasant Street, Auburn. Burial will be held later in the spring at the McKenney family lot on Linden Lane in Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Auburn. Arrangements were by Dillingham & Son Memorial Chapel, 62 Spring Street, Auburn. Flowers may also be sent to this address. Online condolences and sharing of memories may be expressed at www.lynchbrothers.com Memorial donations in Charles’ memory may be made to: The U.S. Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society, 875 N. Randolph St., Suite 225, Arlington, Va. 22203 and/or Greater Androscoggin Humane Society, 55 Strawberry Ave., Lewiston, ME 04240.

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AUBURN — Paul A. Gallinari, of Bridgton passed away on April 10, 2013, at Androscoggin Hospice Center peacefully with his wife by his side. He was born on Sept. 19, 1940, the son of Anselmo aka Sam and Olga Gallinari of Bridgton.

Paul graduated from Bridgton High School the class of 1959; joined the Air Force and was Honorably discharged in 1963. Paul worked at Saunders Dowell Mill in Bridgton, Joe Metiver building roads at Sebago Harbor Shores in Naples. He worked for Burnham Brothers and P&K Sand and Gravel in 1970. He started Paul A. Gallinari Excavation Co. in 1971, where he worked until he was forced to retire in 2008 from cancer.

He is survived by four children of the deceased Ann Gallinari Wheaton: Son Paul Mark and wife Penny of Bridgton, Son Joe and wife Arlene of Bridgton, Son Tony and wife Julie of Bridgton and Daughter Debra Gallinari-Dutton of Bridgton; five grandchildren, Paul Allen, Mason, Dominic, Briana and Laura Anne.

I married Judy Newhall Gallinari on April 30, 1989. We worked hard and prayed hard to make for a wonderful life and marriage including three stepchildren, Wanda Ross of Saco, Steve Newhall of Bridgton, and Tammy Newhall of Westbrook.

Graveside services were held Saturday, April 13, 2013 at 2 p.m. at Forest Hills Annex Cemetery on Kansas Road Bridgton.

Arrangements are under the direction of Chandler Funeral Homes & Cremation Services, 8 Elm St., Bridgton. Online condolences may be shared with his family at www.chandlerfunerals.com

Celia Jacobson HARRISON — Celia Heino Jacobson, 91, of Harrison, passed away peacefully on Saturday, April 13, 2013, at Stephens Memorial Hospital. She was born on Jan. 21, 1922, the daughter of Finnish immigrants Kalle (Charles) and Liisa Heino. She was one of twelve children.

Celia married Frank Jacobson on June 21, 1941, and they purchased the farm house on Town Farm Road in Harrison, where she resided until her passing. She worked as a welder at the shipyard during the war. She later remained home, working the vegetable gardens and helping with the chickens that they raised for Fort Halifax. Celia liked fishing and growing vegetables and flowers in her gardens. She enjoyed baking cookies and Finnish pastries. She enjoyed playing many different board and card games with family and friends and she loved playing bingo.

Celia was predeceased by her husband Frank; a son, Royal; brothers William, Victor, Carl, Albert and Robert; sisters Louise Asperen, Liz Reynolds, Lina Reynolds, Linda Heath and Martha Kyllonen. She is survived by daughter Loraine Isenberg and husband William of Holly Hill, Fla.; son Ronald Jacobson and wife Robin of Farmersville, Tex.; son Donald Jacobson and wife June of Harrison; granddaughter Kelly Mannette and husband William of Windham; grandson Joshua Jacobson of Harrison; grandson, Michael Jacobson and Jannel of North Bridgton; great-grandchildren Macy, Mya and William Mannette of Windham; a sister, Hilda Peterson of Bridgton; and many nieces and nephews. Online condolences may be shared with her family at www.chandlerfunerals.com There will be a graveside service in late June. In lieu of flowers the family has asked that memorial contributions be made to the Harrison Lutheran Cemetery Association, c/o Daphne Chaplin, 588 Norway Rd., Harrison, ME 04040.

Arrangements are under the direction of Chandler Funeral Homes & Cremation Service, 45 Main St., South Paris, Maine.

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George A. Hill AUBURN — George A. Hill, 71, of Sweden passed away on Saturday, April 13, 2013 at the Hospice House.

He was born in Bridgton on March 27, 1942, the son of Clifford and Minnie E. Moore Hill. He faithfully served in the U.S. Army and had been employed at C. N. Brown and Lovell Lumber. He was an avid fisherman and hunter.

He is survived by his sister, June Hill; his brother, Robert Hill; and a nephew, Peter Hill. Arrangements are under the direction of Chandler Funeral Homes & Cremation Service, 8 Elm St., Bridgton. Online condolences may be shared with his family at www.chandlerfunerals.com

DAVID P. HUNT

GRAVESIDE SERVICE WITH MILITARY HONORS

CELEBRATION OF LIFE In remembrance of the life of David P. Hunt a military graveside service will be held on Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. at the Crooked River Cemetery on Route 11 in Naples.

A Celebration of Life will be held immediately following the service at the American Legion Hall on Route 11 in Naples until 4:00 p.m.

His children respectfully request the presence of his friends and family.

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Obituaries Anthony F. Webster WINDHAM — Anthony F. Webster (“Webby”), 68, of Windham, died on Sunday, April 14, 2013.

Anthony was born in Portland on May 17, 1944, to Walter and Mary (Gagnon) Webster. He grew up in the Portland area and was a graduate of Portland High School. He worked as a Union Welder with Local 537 at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, and Bath Iron Works amongst other places, and was affectionately known as “Dummy.”

Anthony enjoyed many games of chance. Whether he was at the track watching the races, playing cards with friends, or spending time at the casinos, he reveled in the thrill of a good win. He was an avid baseball and Red Sox fan, and was quite a storyteller, too.

Surviving are his ex-wife, Elizabeth “Betty” Webster of Windham; two daughters, Bibiana Narcissa of Detroit and Nicole Smith of Windham; two sons, Anthony Webster of Windham and Chris Webster of Naples; his eight grandchildren; and his mother, Mary of Portland.

A celebration of Anthony’s life will be held privately by his family. Care for Anthony and his family has been entrusted to the Jones, Rich & Hutchins Funeral Home of Portland.

In lieu of flowers the Webster family suggests memorials be made to: The Gosnell Memorial Hospice House, 11 Hunnewell Rd., Scarborough, ME 04074.

Opinions

April 18, 2013, The Bridgton News, Page 11B

Obama’s policies economies.

To keep Netanyahu moderately quiet and his fans in the Congress subdued, Obama is obliged to hang tough with Tehran. Continuing negotiations with no result (certainly not a deal that might displease Netanyahu) seems to be the answer. Talk, talk and more talk without results, while back on Capitol Hill a chance is preserved that Obama will get a budget, maybe some gun control and immigration reform from a Congress that isn’t stirred up by the hardline pro-Israel lobby.

For the same reason, don’t expect the administration to pull off a peace deal with the Palestinians. Obama came to the task apparently convinced that he could persuade or bully Netanyahu into a freeze on illegal settlements in the occupied territories. He learned the lesson of others before him: Don’t mess with the Israelis, they can outgun you on your own turf.

The danger of disguising an empty foreign policy agenda behind fancy speeches and fake negotiations means threats are not ended but only deferred. Putting off risky and hard foreign ACROSS policy challenges, however, 1. It’s a wrap only lays up more aggravat6. *A call to being green, ed problems for the future… acr. but they will be the task of 9.

Fog effect another president.

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Solo Henry Precht is a retired Foreign Service Officer.

14. Mother, sister or daughter 15. “_____ truly” 16. Teacher’s pet, e.g.

17. Radio knob (Continued from Page B) 18. Consume Even with the government covering a large proportion of 19. Bungle the health bill for seniors, beneficiaries incur significant outof-pocket cost, including premiums, deductibles and uncov- 21. *Biology branch ered items such as long-term care, eyeglasses, hearing aids 23. Long time and dental services. One in four beneficiaries spends 30% or 24. Niels Bohr’s study more of their income on health expenses. object Stan Cohen, a Medicare Volunteer Counselor, is avail- 25. Cleopatra’s killer? able for free, one-on-one consultations at Bridgton Hospital 28. Christening acquisition on Tuesdays from 8 to 11 a.m. No appointment is necessary.

Alternatively, call the Southern Maine Agency on Aging 30. On which Romney and Obama were found (800-427-7411) and ask for a Medicare advocate.

35. It must go on?

37. *Like animal near extinction 39. Marilyn Munster to Herman Munster, e.g.

40. Delhi dress 41. Sends by posts 43. Imitator 44. Are not 46. Mosquito net fabric 47. End of the line 48. Noontime 50. Give certain impression 52. DNA transmitter 53. Boll weevil, e.g.

55. Car display 57. *Garden helper 61. Iron Man’s robotic nemesis 64. French farewell 65. Galley tool 67. Vociferously praises 69. Choral composition with sacred lyrics 70. Fix a game 71. He lives on Sesame Street 72. *You do it to your garden’s soil before planting 73. “... ___ he drove out of sight” 74. Homes are often tested for this

(Continued from Page B) in Libya, Mali and Syria.

An air power demonstration and anti-missile deployment when North Korea goes rhetorically berserk. (A bit of geopolitical irony: deploying anti-missile missiles that don’t work against a North Korean threat that doesn’t exist.)

It’s also typical of Obama that he prefers the drone for targeted killings, rather than risk U.S. casualties in hunting down alleged terrorists in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia. Act tough, but at arm’s length.

The trickiest set of Obama’s choices are in the Israel-Iran and Israel-Palestine arenas.

Obama started out with noble aspirations, perhaps not fully aware of the power that Israel exercises inside the United States, especially on Capitol Hill (otherwise known as Israeli-occupied territory).

YARMOUTH — Conrad Paul Berger, With Iran, Obama proposed 87, of Yarmouth, died Tuesday, April diplomatically to bargain 9, 2013 at Bay Square Senior Living away the risk of a nuclear Center. threat. He didn’t allow for Paul was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. the pride and nationalism on March 26, 1926, a son of Charles of ever-distrustful Iranians. and Cora Lang Berger. He was a 1944 The result is stalemate and graduate of Stroudsburg High School in Stroudsburg, Pa. an unhappy Israeli Prime Following high school, Paul served Minister Netanyahu who with the U.S. Navy during WWII. Upon seems eager for the United returning from his military service, he States to exercise military attended college and was a 1951 graduate muscle in his defense. War of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa. with Iran would be the last On May 31, 1947 he married the forthing Obama wants, for it mer Jean G. Lee of Stroudsburg, Pa. Paul was vice president in charge of sales for Adamation, Inc. would bring ruin to the fragof Newton, Mass., until 1975. In 1975, he founded Berger Brothers ile United States and world

Conrad P. Berger

Service Systems of Ashford, Conn. He retired in 1987. Following his retirement, he and his wife moved to Alford, Fla. Paul was predeceased by his wife in 2006; and two brothers, Joseph and Fred Berger.

Survivors include four daughters, Judith Yost of Falmouth, Mass., Catherine Davis of Bridgton, Susan Berger of Gorham and Linda Pollock of West Granby, Conn.; three sons, Timothy Berger of Bridgton, Richard Berger of Watertown, Mass. and Peter Berger of Chattanooga, Tenn.; a sister, Margaret Reed of Ocala, Fla.; 12 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

A Mass of Christian Burial was held at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at Holy Martyrs Church, Route 88, Falmouth Foreside. Burial will be in Stroudsburg, Pa. Those desiring may make donations to: Disabled American Veterans, P.O. Box 14301, Cincinnati, OH 45250-0301.

Arrangements are being handled by Conroy-Tully Crawford Funeral Homes and Cremation Services, 172 State Street, Portland.

Saying so long to the cold of winter (Continued from Page B) Whittier, which was one of the only ports left standing after the 1964 Good Friday earthquake.

My dad boarded the next train out of town to be at the side of his wife when she gave birth to their first child.

So the story goes, my dad jumped off the slow-moving train, at the spot where the tracks were below the hospital on the hill.

Anyhow, the snow was so deep that he ended up chest deep in it. By the time he dug himself out and trekked to the hospital, I’d already been born.

I put equal measure of pleasure in the winters that have been barely there, and those that have given residents barely a breather between foot-deep snowstorms.

In December 2011, the ground was dry and bare, the sun was out, and the thermometer read 55 degrees.

Summer tents and camping mats adorned our yard in Raymond, while the skis and snowboards sat idle.

Also, I recall with fondness the timeframe in December 2006 when my daily dog walks on a Kennebunk beach did not involve wearing long johns. (That is something that cannot be said for summers in Seward, Alaska, where thermal undergarments are a requirement.) That year Southern Maine was graced with a warm winter with very little snow.

Luckily, it snowed substantially one evening in February 2007; it was the night before a community fun day that involved ski excursions at the Laudholm Farm reserve. With that stroke of precipitation-related luck, attendees were given a sunny day with a nice layer of snow.

Within days, the snow had transformed into a soupy gruel.

At the time, I considered that New England winters had succumbed to global warming, and I would never see another snowflake.

Thank goodness: no two

winters are alike.

During the winter of 2007-08, the heavens snowed down. It seems like every Wednesday and every Saturday, the weather forecasts proved themselves true as between 12 and 18 inches of snow plummeted from the sky like Clockwork White.

During the winter of 201213, the billowing storms built a landscape that was consumed with snow. Some days, it was simply breathtaking.

What makes me most melancholy about the passing of my favorite season is that I go through the process of questioning whether or not I took advantage of each day that was blessed with whiteness. Did I fully appreciate the magnitude of this winter?

March’s snowstorm answered the prayers on my lips.

However, that incredible layering of snow is gone.

Now, it is April; and I will join the rest of the population in bringing in the spring.

Medicare nugget

This week’s puzzle Theme: Earth Day

DOWN 1. Maple syrup precursor 2. Reunion attendee 3. Lariat, e.g.

4. Used in some liquors 5. *Earth Day founder 6. Please get back to me 7. 17th letter of Greek alphabet 8. Rent again 9. Delivered by a mare 10. *Its emissions are regulated 11. Pharma product 12. Grammy of sports 15. Tower of London guard 20. Render harmless 22. *Corn holder, often left behind to protect soil quality 24. Most aerial 25. Indian state 26. Harry Belafonte’s daughter 27. Focused or riveted 29. “Yes, ___” 31. One who fabricates 32. _____ colony, middle ages 33. *An earthly body 34. *Earth to ancient Romans 36. *Prop pusher 38. Do it “or ____!”

42. Beach souvenir 45. To give up or bow out 49. Up and down nod 51. *______ earth 54. Mercantile establishment 56. Kate Middleton’s head gear 57. Barack’s David 58. One wafting 59. Possible indoor allergy cause 60. Voyeur’s glance 61. Impulse 62. “____ your manners” 63. Assortment 66. *Clean ___ Act 68. Congressional title

Solutions on Page 4B

Sports continuations

Page 12B, The Bridgton News, April 18, 2013

Fryeburg Academy previews (Continued from Page B) VARSITY GIRLS’ TENNIS teamwork skills that improves every practice,” the coach said. “Cat has a solid forehand and has some easy power on her shots. Norlin has the ability to flatten out her forehand in the mid court. I look for them as a team to provide some of those much-needed deciding match wins, when it comes down to second doubles deciding the outcome of the match.

For them, it is about getting comfortable up at the net and being aggressive, because they have good strokes from the backcourt. I am confident they can do it.”

Becca Mann and Megan Vitters are returning from last year. Although they are the swing players, they play a vital role as players on the team. Their support and showing up every day doing the work, shows great heart commitment, the coach said. “The whole team and I appreciate their loyalty,” he said.

Sophomore Gulsen Oztosun is a first-year player on the team. “She is always looking forward to the next challenge and really wants to achieve. I like her attitude and outlook.

Her will and dedication is important to have with the team on and off the court. She is another important swing backup player,” Coach Chaffee said.

Freshman Emery O’Connell is new to the team this year.

“Emery is not only a great athlete, but shows great anticipation to the ball. She picks up things very fast and will be a key role in the future for the team,” Coach Chaffee said.

Lucy Kneissler is also new this year as a sophomore.

“Lucy shows great eagerness to learn and improve each day. Emery’s and Lucy’s commitment to improve is greatly respected and shows a great example to the team,” the coach said.

Senior Jovana Jeremic is also new to the team. “She has a lot of power in her shots, that once she can control can be a tough Number 2 and 3 singles player,” the coach said.

“Currently at Number 3, Jovana has powerful flat ground strokes that she can hit for winners at any time. Jovana has a great positive attitude to give her best on and off the court.

She is in the gym working on the hard yards and on the court always looking to improve and be better than last session.”

Team strengths: This year’s girls’ varsity team strength is their attitude, teamwork and ability to improve.

“The girls have a great positive attitude. They are always willing to find and take the positives. They are able to know and understand what they need to work on and are willing to improve,” Coach Chaffee said. “Finally, they really get along very well with each other. This is important because they aren’t only out there to play for themselves, but for their school, and their teammates and you can really see how much that means to them. It is great to see.”

Biggest surprise: The new players that made the team.

“I wasn’t sure what to expect after having our Number 1 and Number 2 singles players not return from last year. It is always great to have girls that not only can hit the ball, but can think their way and analyze their way through the matches.”

Question marks: Some of the question marks and concerns will be a little bit of experience. Some of the girls have never played in certain pressure or match situations, which you can only really get great at by match play and those match situations. It will be challenging also, against the teams that have more depth than the Raiders.

“We don’t have a clear Number 1 or 2 player on the team.

They are all around the same ability or so. I believe that our singles players will be challenged and will compete, but that could be a concern against the better teams with more depth and experience,” Coach Chaffee said. “The doubles this year will be our strengths. I think Sasha and Alicia set a great example to everyone on the team how to compete well and how to communicate as a doubles team.”

Team goals: Keep building as tennis players technically and tactically, but also enjoy the experience.

“I want them to work hard, improve, and enjoy the experience. Because there will be some matches where it will be going good and when that happens we have to stay humble and hungry. And there will be matches when it isn’t going as well,” the coach said. “We just have to keep training and stay level headed by not getting too low or too high (Win or lose).

We will just always prepare the best we can and try our best.

No one can take that away from us.”

Varsity Schedule Monday, April 22, Greely, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, April 24, York, 4 p.m.

Friday, April 26, at Waynflete, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 1, North Yarmouth Academy, 4 p.m.

Friday, May 3, Yarmouth, 4 p.m.

Monday, May 6, at Lake Region, 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 8, at Freeport, 4 p.m.

Friday, May 10, Cape Elizabeth, 4 p.m.

Monday, May 13, Old Orchard Beach, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 15, at York, 4 p.m.

Friday, May 17, at Falmouth, 4 p.m.

Monday, May 20, at Cape Elizabeth, 4 p.m.

VARSITY TRACK & FIELD Head Coach: Kevin McDonald, first year Assistant Coaches: Stephanie Miller (middle distance), Joe McMurdo-Minnich (throws) and Bobby Collins (sprints, relays and jumps).

Overview: The Raiders have 62 athletes out for the team and the coaching staff is very pleased with the numbers.

The Raiders appear strong in throws, middle distance and distance, relays and pole vault. FA needs work in the dash hurdles, high jump and sprints.

“We lost a lot from last year, but I see this team as one that could be very successful,” Coach McDonald said. “We are very young with strong leadership. I believe we’re headed in the right direction.”

Athletes to watch: Distance competitors include Eric Hannes, TJ Rose, Patrick Carty, Felix Oldin, Tyler O’Keefe, Liz Gryzb, Anna Lastra, Juliet Fink and Sarah Welch.

Throws: Will Price, Bailey Friedman, Andrew Lyman, Walker Mallory and Winston Richards.

Sprints and jumps: Jamie Gullikson, Oriagna Inirio, Forrest Stearns, Nico Mauer, Bright Amoako, Luka Tesan and Elijah Thompson.

Outlook: “We look to have as good, if not a better, team at states this year with the points coming from a wide variety events,” Coach McDonald said.

Varsity Schedule Friday, April 26, at Poland (Greely, York), 3:30 p.m.

Friday, May 3, Traip, Freeport, Yarmouth, 3:30 p.m.

Monday, May 6, at Lake Region (Falmouth), 3:30 p.m.

Friday, May 10, at Cape Elizabeth (Waynflete, NYA), 3:30 p.m.

Friday, May 17, Waynflete, Lake Region, Sacopee Valley, 3:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 25, WMC Championships at Lake Region, 9 a.m.

Saturday, June 1, State Championships VARSITY BOYS’ LACROSSE Head Coach: Scott Lees, third year Assistant Coach: Luke Ray Overview: Coach Lees has seen tremendous improvement in talent and dedication to the sport of lacrosse in his three years.

“Many players played throughout the fall and winter at different programs around Maine,” which Coach Lees believes will make a difference as the Raiders look to improve upon last year’s record.

Question mark: The Raiders’ biggest problem is depth.

“We have a strong starting lineup,” Coach Lees said. “We are young and talented.”

Sophomore Malik Mobley is one of the best goalies in the state. Captains Tyler Legoff, Jared Schrader and Hanness Schneider will lead FA through a promising season. AJ Worcester, Ryan Carrocciolo and Mike Legoff will also add to the Raider strong attack.

In the season opener, the Raiders lost a 6-5-overtime decision to Bonny Eagle. The Scots scored the game winner with 1:22 left. Fryeburg had goals from Tyler Legoff (two goals) and Worcester in the final three minutes to force overtime.

Outlook: “It looks good for the future of our program with only three seniors,” Coach Lees said.

Varsity Schedule Monday, April 22, Lake Region 4 p.m.

Wednesday, April 24, at Wells, 5 p.m.

Friday, April 26, Marshwood, 4 p.m.

Monday, April 29, North Yarmouth Academy, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 1, Freeport, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, May 7, at Waynflete, 4 p.m.

Saturday, May 11, at Westbrook, 10 a.m.

Monday, May 13, at Yarmouth, 6 p.m.

Thursday, May 16, at Lake Region, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, May 21, Cape Elizabeth, 4 p.m.

Thursday, May 23, Wells, 4 p.m.

VARSITY GIRLS’ LACROSSE Head Coach: Bob Cobb JV Coach: Johanna Billington Last year: 1-11 Overview: The snow has been slow to uncover practice fields, but this year’s edition of the Raider girls’ lacrosse team has made the best use of indoor practices.

The team is younger than previous groups. Sophomores dominate the team and will have to step up early if the team is to realize success.

The few seniors on the team have already shown great leadership during practices as the younger players are inte-

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ONE OF THE LEAGUE’S TOP HURLERS — Fryeburg Academy senior Ian MacFawn is the ace of the Raiders’ staff, and will be a key to just how far this year’s team goes. grated into the system. “Tremendous leadership has come from tri-captains Kendra Fox, Kyra Hunsicker and Amber Dindorf,” Coach Cobb said. “Without them, coaches would have been stretched to the max. Through their efforts the team has made progress in basic skills, strategy and team cohesiveness.”

With hard work, newer players such as Samantha Sroi, sophomores Mackensie Hill, goalie Jasmine Ramsey, Allison Watson, Shelby Heelein, Mary Shea, Jordan Hikel, Cayle Johnson and freshman Molly Ekland have easily integrated with more experienced players.

At this moment, the work of the senior captains has brought the expectation of a much more balanced scoring attack than FA has had in the past.

Most of the defense returns from last year. Gabrielle Napolitan, Alexis Delacruz, Courtney Batchelor, Alexa Maddox, Eliza Neidlinger and Jenny Sundgren bring a steady feel to the defensive end of the field. New to her position, senior Kiley Joliceur is filling the need for a backup goalie.

“In every practice, you can feel and hear the anticipation for this season,” Coach Cobb said. “At the same time, there is a sense of fun that pervades the group.”

A tough midseason set of games against last year’s playoff teams will provide excitement and a good measure of the post-season potential of this team.

Varsity Schedule Friday, April 19, at Noble, 11 a.m.

Thursday, May 2, at Freeport, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, May 7, York, 4 p.m.

Thursday, May 9, Falmouth, 4 p.m.

Saturday, May 11, Biddeford, 9 a.m.

Tuesday, May 14, Yarmouth, 4 p.m.

Friday, May 17, at North Yarmouth Academy, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, May 21, Cape Elizabeth, 4 p.m.

Thursday, May 23, at Greely, 4 p.m.

Thursday, May 30, Wells, 4 p.m.

‘Sample the Region’ benefits Project Grad FRYEBURG — Fryeburg Academy Project Graduation is holding a Sample the Region event at the Wadsworth Arena at Fryeburg Academy on Sunday, April 28 from 4 to 6 p.m.

Several Maine and New Hampshire restaurants are participating including Beth’s Kitchen Café, Quinn’s Jockey Cap, Pizza Shed, 302 West Smokehouse and many more.

Tickets are $10 in advance and can be purchased at Fryeburg Academy’s Main Office, Badger Realty in North Conway or from any Fryeburg Academy senior. They are also available at the door for $15.

Entertainment will be provided by talented Fryeburg Academy senior musicians.

A Silent Auction will also be held with many exciting items.