Prince the War Dog of WWII

Jon St. Laurent Lovell

Teen Mob Violence

To The Editor:

Hearing the apologists for the rioting teens in Chicago recently is reminiscent of the Seattle’s “Summer of Love” comment by Seattle’s mayor and “…mostly peaceful protests…” comments by media during and after the violent,

Mayor Johnson’s solution is to provide safe places for the youths to gather with adult supervision. An idea reminiscent of school safe zones.

The problem is without 24/7 supervised safe places, these children have to deal with their real world of their neighborhood.

If mayors truly want to make a safe place for children they have to:

• Re-establish the rule of law and the concepts of responsibility and accountability.

• Re-establish the criminal justice system — back the police and let them police; insist that AGs prosecute criminals regardless of Party; reinstitute cash bonds.

• Re-establish academic excellence instead of dividing children into oppressors and oppressed based solely on race.

• Protect private property so

Clifford P. Daigle

Cliff, 81, passed away peacefully at home on April 18, 2023.

Cliff was born in Howland, Maine, on January 26, 1942. He was the son of Ivan and Tina Audibert Daigle. He grew up in Lee, Maine, with his father, mother, and little sister Norma, often helping his father in the family logging business. He was a doting big brother to Norma and would laugh out loud as he retold stories of their youth.

Cliff received his Forestry degree from the University of New Brunswick. He then started his career at the Great Northern Paper Company, where he worked as a research technician for almost 30 years.

Cliff was a true outdoorsman and proud NRA member. He loved being in the woods and told many stories of his hunting and fishing adventures.

Upon his retirement from “The Northern,” he planned to move south to Florida. However, fate was to intervene when he met his fiancée, Carmen Horton.

He did move south but only as far as Bridgton where he stepped into his role as a farmer with great excitement. Mowing and baling hay were among his favorite activities, but he often spoke fondly of just being “on the farm.”

Faith was very important to Cliff, and he was active in the Knights of Columbus in Lincoln and surrounding towns.

Cliff loved family, making his own when he adopted his son Jeffrey from an orphanage in Colombia. He was also the BEST father figure to Cass, Brogan, Cameron and Liam. He was a loveable Grampy to Amelia, Oliver, Rowen and Lee and a loving Pepe to Jackson, Leah, Aubrii and Freddie. He was also a beloved great uncle to Tyrone, Megyn, Ivan and Falyn

Cliff was predeceased by his brother-in-law Roy Voisine Sr., and by his nephew Roy “Joey” Voisine Jr. The three men truly enjoyed each other’s company, and shared many years of camping, hunting, and fishing together.

Cliff is survived by his “ sweetie” of 18 years Carmen Horton of Bridgton, his sister Norma of Chester, and his son Jeffrey of Chattanooga.

A celebration of his life well lived will be held May 27 at 1 p.m., Homeland Cemetery, 73 Middle Ridge Rd., Bridgton. Arrangements are under the care of Chandler Funeral Home and Cremation Services, 8 Elm St Bridgton. To make an online condolence please visit www.chandlerfunerals.com

Edward Ryan

There will be a memorial service for Edward Ryan of Lovell, who died in December 2022, at the United Church of Christ on Saturday, May 6 at 11 a.m. Friends, colleagues, and acquaintances from his half-century connection with Lovell are invited to share stories and enjoy some pie in his memory.

Lizabeth A. Kyllonen

Graveside services for Lizabeth A. Kyllonen will be held on Saturday, May 6, 2023, at 1 p.m. at the Harrison Lutheran Cemetery, 558 Norway Road in Harrison. Arrangements are under the care of Chandler Funeral Homes & Cremation Service, 45 Main Street, South Paris.

• Keep government programs that give those in need a hand up. Get rid of programs that make otherwise able people dependent on taxpayer handouts.

paper dated March 2017, states that “the predominance of human biological research confirms that human life begins at conception — fertilization. At fertilization, the human being emerges as a whole, genetically distinct, individuated zygotic living human organism…The difference between the individual in its adult stage and in its zygotic stage is one of form, not nature.”

(Continued from Page 1B) White (32%), Hispanic (17%) and Asian (1%) victims.” — https://www.pewresearch.org/ fact-tank/2023/04/06/gundeaths-among-us-kids-rose50-percent-in-two-years/ The Republican supermajority offered “thoughts and prayers” and gun violence proliferation and atrocities against Tennessean children merrily continues.

It is not rocket science. Children need to be allowed to grow, discover right from wrong, learn academic studies, and learn how to play games and sports. Children do not need to be weighed down by adult insecurities and fantasies

Jock MacGregor Sebago

Life or Death voting

To The Editor: The American College of Pediatricians, in a position

Total firearm deaths in 2022 were 40,358.

Total abortion deaths in 2022 were 620,327.

(Even if you’re pro-choice you should be stunned by that number.)

Peter Bollen in his April 20 letter states, “voting Democrat is a vote for life.” Not being one to argue in disagreement with the American College of Pediatricians, and considering the Democratic Party’s overwhelming support of abortion, and the statistics quoted above, I believe a more correct statement would be “voting Democrat is a vote for death.”

Victor Detmer Harrison

Douglas M. Bosworth

CUMBERLAND — Douglas Marshall Bosworth, 86, of Cape Elizabeth, formerly of Naples, died Thursday evening, Apr. 20, 2023, at the Heron House in Cumberland.

He was born on Sept. 2, 1936, in Naples, a son of Roland and Phyllis (Marshall) Bosworth. He attended local schools, graduating from Bridgton Academy and went on to the University of Maine at Orono.

Doug served in the Army and was stationed in Texas and later in Gloucester, Mass., where he met and later married Patricia Ann Hopkins in 1961.

They soon moved back to his hometown of Naples, and alongside his father, developed a piece of land on Trickey Pond into Bosworth’s Family Circle Campground (now known as Loon’s Haven Family Campground). It was a labor of love until the early 1980s when they decided to sell.

Doug later worked for Lake Region Lumber and then moved on as a veneer log buyer for Commonwealth Lumber, retiring in the early 1990s.

Doug and Pat moved to Cape Elizabeth in 2022 living at The Landing.

Doug was very involved in the United Methodist Church of Good Fellowship in Naples over the years. He was an avid outdoorsman enjoying all of what the Lake Region had to offer. Doug enjoyed being on the lake boating, swimming and water skiing. His other favorite pastimes included gardening, fishing, hunting, snowmobiling and ice fishing. He also enjoyed woodworking and building furniture, pastimes which he taught his kids and grandkids the love for as well.

Doug was never a man that wanted for anything but he gave a lot and was an inspiration on how to live life. He was happiest going for a cup of coffee with friends, watering his garden, stacking wood, walking to a neighbor’s house for a quick hello or to lend a hand. Happiness for Doug came in the form of family, faith, friends and just being.

He is loved by his wife, Pat of Cape Elizabeth; children, Sandra Bosworth Gallagher of Fort Lauderdale, Kevin Bosworth and his wife, Anne of Cape Elizabeth, and Kristin Foster and her husband, Jason of Gorham; eight grandchildren, Jeremiah, Mehgan, Brianna, Sarah, Kate, Hannah, Hadley, and Braden; one great-granddaughter, Sophia; two brothers, Charles Bosworth and his wife, Charlotte of Auburn, and John Bosworth and his wife, Joan of Bridgton; a sister, Dail Allen of Norway; sister-in-law, Eleanor Jean Bosworth of Naples. He was predeceased by a brother, Theodore Bosworth.

Family and friends are invited to visiting hours from 4-6 p.m., Wednesday, Apr. 26, 2023, at the Hall Funeral Home, 165 Quaker Ridge Road in Casco. A memorial service will be held the next day on Thursday, April 27 at 1 p.m. at the Naples United Methodist Church of Good Fellowship, 1000 Roosevelt Trail in Naples. Condolences and tributes may be shared with Doug’s family at www.hallfuneralhome.net.

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