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‘A story I had to tell’ “The goal should not be the eradication or abandonment of one culture in favor of another, but rather the connectivity of cultures. The best of mankind is distributed like a puzzle throughout all the peoples of the world, who, in the end, are not so different after all.” — Kevin Hancock, a quote from the inside cover of “Not for Sale: Finding Center in the Land of Crazy Horse.”

By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer Kevin Hancock never expected a leisurely trip to Pine Ridge would ultimately turn into an inspirational journey and a mission to create awareness.

Few venture to the poverty-stricken Indian reservation that stretches some 2.7 million acres in South Dakota.

Fewer take a serious interest to learn about the Lakota nation — some 40,000 people who occupy an isolated yet enchanting place, and who remain deeply committed to their history, traditions and values.

What was first thought of as a vacation aimed at relaxation, rediscovery of one’s own being and satisfying a curiosity about what has happened to this country’s Native people became much more for Kevin Hancock. Pine Ridge opened up Kevin’s mind and heart.

Initially, Kevin documented his visit by jotting his thoughts and experiences into a reporter’s-style notebook and snapping hundreds of photos that captured both the beauty and tragPINE RIDGE, Page 4A

Chief Stillman — Bridgton’s gain, Walpole’s loss

By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Bridgton may have just hit the jackpot in attracting the caliber of police chief that is Richard Stillman.

Just consider what people were saying in Walpole, Mass., when they learned Stillman was leaving the

chief’s job in that much, much larger city of 25,000 people near Boston: “I already miss him,” Deputy Walpole Police Chief John Carmichael said last week, after being promoted as Stillman’s replacement.

“Chief Stillman has been a huge mentor to me, he’s one

of the most genuine guys I think I’ve ever met in my life, a great leader, somebody that really cares about the town of Walpole. He’s going to be greatly missed.”

Lucky for Bridgton that it creates lasting memories for summertime visitors.

Stillman, a 38-year vet-

eran of the Walpole Police Department, who rose through the ranks and served 13 years as its chief, said he was drawn to the top job in Bridgton by virtue of his summers spent vacationing here. An official swearing-in ceremony will be held on Monday, July 27, at 6 p.m.,

in the downstairs multipurpose room of the Bridgton Municipal Complex, with entrance on Iredale Street.

Carmichael said it was a personal dream of Stillman’s to move up north, and predicted he “would do great things” for Bridgton, just as he has in Walpole, where he

led a force of 39 police officers, answering 23,000 incidents in 2014, while earning a 98% positive rating in terms of being responsive to individual needs.

Stillman was cited for his emphasis on community policing and building mutual CHIEF, Page 2A

Naples backs budget cuts

By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES — To everyone’s knowledge, Naples is the first town in Maine to have voters at a Town Meeting approve the budget, and then vote down a warrant article allowing the town to exceed the tax levy limit without making any adjustments to the just approved budget.

In most cases, after the secret ballots have been

counted — if residents vote against surpassing the stateset tax levy, then the budget warrant articles must be reopened so decreases can be voted upon that same night.

But, for various reasons, that did not happen.

So, 51 voters, including committee and board members, spent a July evening in the gymnasium of the Town Hall.

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By Emily Butterfield Contributing Writer FRYEBURG — The discussion on extending the existing lease with Fryeburg Rescue for space for the Police Department took a very different turn than what was anticipated at the last selectmen’s meeting on Thursday, July 16.

Selectmen were about to continue the existing lease when Bill Kane of Fryeburg Rescue asked whether or not

the board understood that extending it until February 2017 would only allow the police their current 440 square foot area they are operating in now.

Fryeburg Rescue plans on expanding their building, which they say would include additional space for the police if an agreement can be reached. Kane says that the rescue service was approved by the USDA for BUIILDING, Page 2A

Rescue, Police plan hits a snag

WAVING TO THE CROWD — Lovell Old Home Days parade marshals Ruth and Fred Mitchell wave to spectators lining Route 5 Saturday morning. Mother Nature cut Lovell a break as the parade rolled to the Lovell Athletic Fields without rainfall. (Rivet Photo)

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DENMARK — The Denmark Arts Center’s Something Rotten in Denmark project has been accepted as one of 69 National Endowment for the Arts “Our Town” projects across the U.S. selected for grants totaling almost $5 million.

The DAC was the only Maine organization that was awarded funding this year, the program’s fifth year of funding, and was among 275 applications for grants ranging from $25,000 to $200,000.

The Our Town grant program supports creative placemaking projects that help to transform communities into lively, beautiful, and resilient places, with the arts at their core.

The DAC’s Something Rotten project is a unique collaboration between the DAC and the Town of Denmark to create temporary, site-specific, locally-created works of art at the town transfer station, or dump. The Our Town proposal comes on the

heels of two pilot-iterations of this project, both funded by the Maine Community Foundation’s Oxford County Fund.

“We are pleased to have seen this program grow from the seed of a local idea, to a community-based project supported by the Maine Community Foundation, to a full-fledged initiative, national in scope, funded by the federal government,” notes DAC Artistic Director Jamie Hook. “The town was excited

to partner with the DAC in this unique project that takes something of little to no value — garbage — and creates something beautiful with it,” added Denmark Town Manager Dan Merhalski, who collaborated with Hook to craft the winning proposal.

Maine Senators Susan Collins and Angus King echoed that sentiment in a joint statement, saying, “The Denmark Arts Center’s innovative work benefits the surROTTEN, Page 7A

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BARE TO THE BONES — Workers from Doten Construction were adding rigid insulation Monday between the exposed framing on the rear of Bridgton Town Hall, after spending the first week shoring up deterioration in the foundation involving the entire rear half of the North High Street building. The building had to be jacked up slightly to level the floor space in the hall’s storage area and replace the deteriorated portions of the foundation. The workers say the damage was worse than they had anticipated, but that it should not result in added costs or delays to the project.

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Jacked up hall now level all recreational programming for the next few weeks.

When workers from Doten Construction began tearing off the siding in the rear half of the hall, they found that the rotting sills they knew were there had caused more damage than first suspected. Parts of the granite foundation had also begun to crumble.

“The support under that corner is pretty much gone,” Peabody said, referring to the Bridgton side of the rear of the building. “We didn’t want people in the building” while shoring-up work was going on, he added.

Doten called in a moving

company in order to jack up the building so they could replace the deteriorated portions of the foundation. That work has been completed, and now workers are installing rigid insulation board between the framing to replace the old foam insulation that had pretty much been destroyed by water intrusion from runoff.

The good news is that the Hall’s gymnasium flooring will not need to be disturbed even though the damage was worse than expected. The building is now level, and additional stabilization work and upgrading of the exterior can now proceed as planned.

Paid leave for PT staff?

By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer CASCO — The Chairman of the Casco Board of Selectmen said she was excited to have an updated personnel policy on its way to legal counsel for a final fine-tuning.

“This is going to be great.

We are going to have a 2015 on our personnel policy,” Chairman Holly Hancock said.

Some of the changes had been recommended by the law firm engaged by the town, Jensen Baird Gardener & Henry.

One amendment would move the personnel review from twice yearly to once a year.

Another change — which was recommended by Town Manager Dave Morton — would provide a few paid leave days for part-time yearround employees who have worked for the town for more

than three years.

“I am requesting the selectmen to provide a benefit for regular part-time employees, who are employed on sa yearround basis, at least 20 hours a week, for a period of three years,” Morton said.

“By year three, they would qualify for three paid leave days,” he said, adding the number of leave days would not exceed five days.

Full-time employees receive ten paid leave days, he said.

“Our part-time employees — they really fill the gap for us. We have hours of training and literally years invested in some of these people. I think it is appropriate to provide them with some sort of benefit,” Morton said.

Selectman Tom Peaslee asked if other towns offer this benefit.

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“It’s a mixed bag. Some towns offer a host of benefits for employees who work 20 hours a week. The further west you go, the more it is done like we have been doing it.” Morton said.

The more you go south, you see more benefits for part-time employees,” he said.

Selectman Grant Plummer cautioned that part-time employees are often called in to cover the vacation time of fulltime staff, which might prove problematic when scheduling leave days.

Morton said time off is coordinated through department supervisors.

The board asked about the cost.

“It is not an incredible expense,” Morton said, estimating the cost of paid leave days would not exceed $400 per person.

The board approved the changes to the personnel policy, pending legal review.

Upgrades for fire & rescue

By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer CASCO — The Casco Fire and Rescue Department is scheduled to get a new tanker truck next spring as well as a much needed replacement for its 1987 ambulance.

Also, well before winter arrives, the shingles on the fire station roof will be replaced, and water and ice guards and double-drip gutters will be installed.

On Tuesday, Casco Fire Chief Jason Moen reported to the Casco Board of Selectmen some of the department purchases that were approved at the Town Meeting.

For the new ambulance vehicle, Moen supplied two quotes, and recommended going with the slightly higher, and “higher quality” unit from Sugarloaf Ambulance/ Rescue Vehicles.

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By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Anyone who has renovated an old building knows the maxim: you never know what you’ll find until you have it uncovered.

So says Bridgton Town Manager Bob Peabody about the ongoing repair project at Bridgton’s historic Town Hall.

“It was always the hope that the building could remain open, but I own an old home, and you never know what you’re going to find until you get in there,” he said. The building was closed for safety reasons last week, temporarily suspending

(Continued from Page 1A) trust between the community and department. He also is credited with never giving up on the goal of building a new police station in Walpole, which will be going up next year.

Opiate addiction is a huge problem in Walpole, and Stillman took up the challenge by creating a community-based Strategic Drug Plan, consisting of a targeted patrol strategy, a prescription monitoring program and detailed treatment and recovery plan.

“Drugs are not a police problem — they are a community problem, and until the community wakes up it will continue to spiral out of control,” Stillman is quoted as saying upon his departure from Walpole. He also noted how important it is for police officers to be out in the community, and to make themselves known to the public.

The Walpole Police Department maintained its own website, complete with weekly police logs and regular news releases about activities within the department.

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On the website, Stillman stressed that “successful policing cannot be done without the support of the community,” A July 17 posting on the Walpole Police Department’s Facebook page had this to say about Stillman’s legacy: “Chief Stillman has served the community with distinction and honor for 38 years as a member of the Walpole Police Department. His leadership has been integral in developing the Walpole Police Department into the professional organization that it is today.

“During his time in law enforcement, Chief Stillman has been a key member of many organizations, including the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association and the Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council. He has

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(Continued from Page 1A) their loan on July 6 of this year.

Back in October of 2014, the board of selectmen attempted to move the police department to a facility on Porter Street in Fryeburg but it was discovered that such a task could only be accomplished with a town meeting and public vote. At the June 2015 annual town meeting, voters rejected Article 46, which would have allowed the town to enter into long-term leases without voter approval, many citing that they wanted to have a say in such an important decision.

“You’re doing nothing you said you were going to do,” Kane told the board. “The police stay in that small space.”

“If you hadn’t been building and Steve (Goldsmith) hadn’t come to us a year ago, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation,” said Chairman Rick Eastman. He added that the selectmen are still a full year away from having to give a specific answer to whether or not the police will continue their residency long-term. “It’s a continuing moving target.

The rules keep changing.” Eastman said that the day after one meeting the board had with Fryeburg Rescue a change was made to a lease agreement adding that the town would be penalized if they chose to terminate early.

Kane shot back saying, “You were ready to sign that lease,” referencing the lease for the building on Porter Street issued by Selectman Eastman himself. “You were only stopped because of a procedural problem. I said from the beginning that the shadow of that will cast its way forward.”

Kane also says there is no penalty to the town for continuing the police department’s residency with Fryeburg Rescue for at least three years, adding that if the select board chose that option the police would have the new 350 to 400 square foot space as soon as it became available. “You keep saying what’s important, but keep doing something that doesn’t make any sense.”

Eastman says that both the Rescue and the police department have grown over the past 27 years. “10 years from now, if we stay the course, we’re going to be hashing this all over again.” But, Kane said, that he expects the police to be gone in 10 years.

Dick Krasker remarked, “I think the voters have made it very clear they would like the town to continue to work with Fryeburg Rescue. I don’t understand why you’re so hesitant.”

While the selectmen had no direct answer to Krasker’s question, selectmen Jeff Cox added his thoughts and agreed with Eastman’s comments about a continuous target. “We went from 30 days notice to several months notice.” Cox said that at the last meeting with Fryeburg Rescue that comments were made from several members about the threat of space. “We have an obligation to take the right action the first round.”

Krasker said that “in a perfect world the police would have their own space. But this isn’t a perfect world. This is the best deal that the town is going to get. It‘s also the best location for a lot of reasons.”

“We’ve kicked this can as far down the road as it’s going to go,” said Eastman. “It’s time the town takes responsibility for its own departments.”

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Naples backs budget cuts at special town meeting be cut had been discussed during several workshops with the Naples Budget Committee, the Naples Board of Selectmen and Paraschak.

Ten sections of the budget faced cuts that totaled more than $215,000.

The voters — not wanting to pay more in taxes — quickly approved the monetary decreases.

The only item — other than the roads reserve — that came into question that evening was legal fees.

Resident Jim Grattelo said with lawsuits pending there was no logical reason to reduce the legal fees.

That line item was located in the administration section of the budget, which was being presented as Warrant Article 3.

“I cannot even begin to understand why we are cutting the legal budget,” Grattelo said of the $8,000 which was slated to be slashed from that line item.

The town spent $113,000 last year — based on the budget in the Annual Town Report.

The municipal budget, which first came before the

voters in June, proposed an increase from $21,000 to $42,000 to “catch up on old bills” — that was according to Paraschak’s statement, he said.

“And now, you have cut it from $42,000 to $32,000,” Grattelo said.

“You are being served and could owe $66,000,” Grattelo said, referring to the American Holdings Inc., lawsuit against the town. A judgment in the Maine Business and Consumer Court ruled in favor of American Holdings; and the lawyer has filed a motion, asking the Town of Naples to pay a portion of American Holdings’ legal fees that stemmed from appeals made by the town.

“Another lawsuit could be $100,000,” Gratello said.

Paraschak said, “For the current fiscal year, the town has spent zero dollars” on

legal services.

“Last year, it spent $117,000 in legal fees,” Paraschak said.

He cited the lawsuit brought against the town by American Holdings and the Begin Estate lawsuit involving salt contamination in that property’s well.

This year “the board is hoping any legal issues will be resolved quickly,” Paraschak said.

Also, on a related topic, Gratello asked about the process of moving money from one account to another to cover shortfalls for a line item — in this case the legal expenses.

Paraschak indicated that carryovers or money that was not spent in any line item could be transferred from one account to another by a vote of the selectmen.

In this fiscal year’s bud-

get, $25,000 had already been approved as Unanticipated Expenses. That was not mentioned during the Special Town Meeting.

Gratello asked why the voters approve specific line items if the town can spend more in one area by having the selectmen transfer money from one line item to another.

“Based on last year, that $34,000 was inadequate,” Gratello said.

“Last year, you asked for $20,000” and that was inadequate for real-life expenses, he said.

“There is no way I feel comfortable with $34,000,” set aside to cover future legal fees, he said.

Warrant Article 3 passed with about one-third of the voters opposing it.

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Warrant Article 8, which cut $10,100 from the Road Reserves got a quick review from residents.

“Will the cuts this year make it more difficult for next year?” resident Larry Anton asked.

“Part of the reason I recommended it is over the last several years, that town has built up a reserve for road construction, and it hasn’t been tapped. It would be great to have it,” Paraschak said.

“We banked a lot of money that hasn’t been spent,” he said.

After the budget cuts were approved as presented, Warrant Article 13 — which called for exceeding the tax levy limit — was tabled indefinitely.

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(Continued from Page 1A) only municipality to face this process, the town’s attorney could not answer some specific questions about how to conduct the second town meeting. After all, no other town had set precedence.

“Our lawyer said this has never happened in a municipality,” according to Naples Town Manager Ephrem Paraschak.

The Town Meeting had been held on June 1; and six weeks later, on July 15, a Special Town Meeting resolved the budget cuts.

Additionally, a debt service question had been omitted from the original warrant articles, Paraschak said. That item alone would have necessitated the special town meeting, he said.

Two zones changes also had to be addressed through a town meeting vote. One of those passed; the other was tabled because the person who initiated a citizen’s petition decided to withdraw the Warrant Article and reword the language.

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(Continued from Page 2A) Board member Janice Crawford said that she would abstain from voting on whether or not to continue the Rescue lease. “I don’t feel comfortable voting in this at all. I would prefer to abstain because if we cannot discuss those things we believe we could do, or be able to do, then that concerns me.” Crawford felt that transparency was an important issue for voters and that they have a right to know what the board is discussing in terms of options. “I understand it’s a tough one.”

When it came time for a vote, with Crawford abstaining, it was up to Cox and Eastman to decide. Eastman voted for extending the current lease, and after a brief and intense pause, Cox voted against the motion. The extension to the lease failed.

Selectmen Cox then motioned that the board table the discussion until the next meeting and also bring forward all options to the public on Thursday, August 13. Kane also offered to sit down again with the board and discuss options as well. So it seems yet again that there is no definitive answer on what will happen with the police department occupancy until a later date.

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Headquartered in Casco, the company has 10 retail stores and three sawmills, and employs 425 people. The company also owns and manages 12,000 acres of timberland in Cumberland and Oxford counties. In 2014, Timber Processing Magazine recognized Kevin as its forest products industry “Person of the Year.” He is a graduate of Lake Region high School and Bowdoin College.

Reviews: “If you had told me a couple of years ago that my friend, Kevin Hancock, would set off on a quest for enlightenment, sparked by a long-distance astrological reading which would lead him to a sweat lodge in a remote Indian reservation well, let’s just say that ‘skeptical’ doesn’t come close to covering it. What happened next is the amazing story Kevin tells here; part history (and not very pleasant history at that), part spiritual journey, part moving portrait of some extraordinary people, and part leadership manual, this fascinating book will touch you and teach you on many levels.” — Angus S. King Jr., U.S. Senator “What I have learned through my relationship with Kevin is to remain open-minded, look at everybody as equals and imagine the collective power we can create by coming together. In the beginning, I thought that Kevin and I couldn’t be more different. But, now, I realize that although our journeys started out differently, we are arriving at the same place. Like the Sacred Hoop of the Lakota medicine wheel, the beginning and the ending live in the same spot.

Strength comes from the realization that the differences that once tore us apart might now be the opportunities that bring us together. I think this is something that is beginning to happen around the world.”— Nick Tilsen, Askoka Fellow, Oglala Sioux Tribe “Kevin Hancock’s story touched me, heart and soul. As I read his words, I kept having to chase Amazing Grace out of my head. The archetype behind that song — the archetype of awakening and redemption — permeates every chapter.

His is the kind of tale that helps restore my faith in human nature — and gives me hope for the human future.” — Steven Forrest, author of The Inner Sky KH’s thoughts: Kevin on his first writing venture: I didn’t set out to do this. This book found me more than I found it. I just set out to visit. I didn’t know I was going to write a book until I started writing it…It’s fun to have an activity, which all that matters is what do I have to say and what am I experiencing. It’s liberating. I have no experience doing this. I have had no training in anything that I have done. I was never trained to teach, but I taught at Bridgton Academy. At Bowdoin at the time, you couldn’t take a class in education. I was never trained to coach, but I continue to coach. I had no experience with business or lumber, but I am running a lumber company.

I’ve always learned by doing. Usually, I learn by doing things wrong and wrong again, maybe I need to rethink what I am doing for it to work better. I am an experiential learner. That is how I am approaching this book. There is going to be a time I am going to get some professisonal help. I have deliberately stayed away from it so far because I don’t want to be boxed in.

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Pine Ridge: The untold story

(Continued from Page 1A) edy of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. In a short time, 60 pages were filled with descriptions of sites seen, people met along the way, and thoughts about a culture he was seeing up close and personal for the very first time. Through a series of successive, solo trips to Pine Ridge themes emerged for Kevin, providing powerful lessons along the way: • We all come from a tribe, and while the pull of the past is strong, the soul is here to individuate.

• Leadership in the new Aquarian Age is about doing less, not more. Those who hold the power often overreach; they go too far.

• Busyness is not living, and personal growth lies in looking inward, not outward.

• The boundaries that have been set to divide people are not real. In the end, we’re all one tribe.

This fall, Kevin will see an unexpected project come to fruition. His first book, Not for Sale: Finding Center in the Land of Crazy Horse, will be released.

“My journey to Pine Ridge and the life-changing learnings that followed have been organic and spontaneous. In today’s world, a single individual can create a lot of awareness. As my friend from Pine Ridge, Verola Spider says, ‘If we don’t share our stories, they die with us.’ I am excited to share this story with you!” said Kevin, president of Hancock Lumber.

“I didn’t see this coming. I feel connected to them, their story and their future and have come to appreciate the Lakota tradition, ‘Mitakuye Oyasin,’ meaning we are all related. I am not trying to do my civic duty; I have all kinds of things I can do here; I am not trying to fix them or save them or straighten them out and tell them how to do things (which is part of the reason I feel they have accepted me). I was just interested in them (the Lakota people). That’s all it was.”

The pull of the past is strong The first question, almost always, people ask Kevin is, “Where did this come from?”

“I am still searching for the answer to that. When I reflect back on my life, there has been a sequence of events going

all the way back to when I was a teenager — that I did not connect at the time — that have brought me to Pine Ridge,” Kevin said. “When I was a kid, we went on a family vacation West to the Rocky Mountains, and I loved it. I loved the West.”

When Kevin was in high school, biology teacher Eugene Whitney took the junior class on a hiking field trip.

“I loved it. I ended up going hiking and backpacking quite a few times. In college, I took one summer and went out to Yellowstone National Park. I worked in the park during my sophomore and junior years as a maid in a hotel, just because I wanted to be out West,” he recalled. “I hiked all summer.

In my early 30s, I went on an elk-hunting trip, and loved that. I’ve been back out West a few times again to do that.”

The other lure has been Kevin’s love of history. He was a history major in college.

His first job was at Bridgton Academy, where taught history.

His whole life, he has been a reader of history.

“Over the last 10 to 15 years, I have been particularly interested in American history from the period of 1840 to 1890 when western expansion and Manifest Destiny ruled the country and ran into the Great Plains. I found myself reading more and more about that period in history and the Plains Indians,” he said. “It is a really important, but little paid attention to part of our nation’s history, particularly what happened to the Plains Indians in the process of us becoming a two ocean nation. That part of the story is not told often.”

A few years ago, Kevin wondered what life is like on the reservation today.

“Just for fun, I thought about going to go see. There was no bigger agenda than that.

I spent several months online trying to find a contact on the reservation, which is pretty difficult because the Pine Ridge Reservation is a pretty insular place,” he said.

With so many reservations out West, why Pine Ridge?

Kevin was aware of Pine Ridge because the first book he read about Native American history was the famous book

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Pine Ridge Reservation was the site in December 1890 where the last armed conflict between the U.S. Army and the Plains Indians took place.

“1890 isn’t that long ago when you think about it. There are people alive on the reservation today, who knew people who were at the Wounded Knee massacre in December 1890.

So, I knew about Pine Ridge from Wounded Knee standpoint. It became known again in the early 1970s when the American Indian Movement (AIM) had their famous 70 to 80-day standoff with federal marshals over the way the reservations were being managed by the federal government. Wounded Knee became famous again, for that reason,” Kevin said.

Statistically, Pine Ridge caught Kevin’s attention because it is one of the largest Indian reservations and also one of the poorest and most desolate places in America.

Pine Ridge is a really big place with over 2.7 million acres.

Roughly 40,000, primarily Lakota Indians live there.

The word, Lakota, essentially means the same thing as Sioux Indians. The band that lives at Pine Ridge, the Oglala Sioux, has a rich history. They

are the descendants of Red Cloud and Crazy Horse. Their band defeated Custer and the Seventh Calvary at the infamous Battle of Little Big Horn.

“When you look at American history, you have this critical, but somewhat unknown, period of about 400 years from Columbus in 1492 and the colonization of the Americas to the Battle at Wounded Knee in 1890.

It is such an important story because there is the notion that Columbus discovered a new world. It is probably the most famous, basic elementary school sentences about American history, well, new for the Europeans. But, the truth is, people actually lived here,” Kevin said.

Personal interest and curiosity — no agenda — led Kevin to Pine Ridge.

“I just wanted to go and do something fun and do some learning that is outside of my every day work,” he said. “I sent a lot of different e-mails, most of which went unanswered until one woman named Pinky responded. She has since become a really good friend of mine.”

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‘Nobody goes to Pine Ridge’ (Continued from Page 4A) grocery store, and runs one of the nonprofit organizations that works with trying to help others find better housing. Pinky agreed to host Kevin, show him around, help him find a place to stay and introduce him to others on the reservation. So, Kevin picked a date, bought a ticket, and went.

“I remember sitting in an airport in Chicago in October, flying to South Dakota. I was nervous thinking, What am I doing? Where am I going?

I wasn’t sure about myself.

What was bringing me there?” he said.

Kevin visited for five days.

When he left and was on the plane headed back to Casco, Maine, Kevin discovered that he had written about 60 pages in his journal.

“I couldn’t go through pages fast enough. I was so captivated by what I saw and what I had experienced. It kept pulling me in,” he recalled.

Pine Ridge became a magnet for Kevin. The people, their way of life, the beauty of reservation, and a gradual calling seemed to pull Kevin back toward the West.

In the following years, he would make several return trips.

And, he slowly realized he

had an important story to tell — to anyone who might listen.

Insights and unfinished business “What struck me when I first got there was the beauty of the place. The Plains are so different from what we are used to here in Maine and New England. You can stand on a hilltop and look for 100 miles in all directions and see nothing but grass. It has this real rustic, core beauty to it,” Kevin said.

“You can’t see a sign of human life in some places there. It is extremely rural. Nobody goes there.”

The closest city to the reservation is Rapid City. Depending where one lives on the reservation, it is on average two hours from there. To the south, the next closest city is Denver. It is six hours away. One interstate highway runs about an hour north of the reservation and the other about three hours south of Pine Ridge.

“Nobody goes to Pine Ridge. It is unbelievably remote,” Kevin said. “What really struck me was the lack of businesses and infrastructure. There is no grocery store on the reservation. You can’t buy diapers on the reservation.

There is nothing. No economic activity. The lack of economic opportunity — the economic

poverty really struck me.”

Statistics at Pine Ridge are numbing, “so pronounced that they don’t make sense, Kevin pointed out.”

Consider the following: • Unemployment rate, roughly 90%. “We just went through a national crisis where unemployment hit 11%. On the reservation it is 90%. If there were 40,000 Lakota Indians living on the reservation, roughly 4,000 would have a job. Of the 4,000 that have a job, only 10% would have a job at a private business. Most of the jobs that do exist — teacher at the school, serve lunch at the school, drive a plow truck, work at the hospital, police department, prison — are government sector jobs. Only 1% has a job in the private sector — approximately 400 people.

The median income is $4,000.

• Lowest life expectancy in the Western Hemisphere: Haiti.

Not surprising to many. The second lowest is Pine Ridge, South Dakota, — male 48, female 52; suicide rate four times the national average; infant mortality rate five times; diabetes 10 times. “It is an economic, statistical disaster,” Kevin said.

“This is what caught my attention. These are Americans, living right in the middle of our country, and no one really knows about them,” Kevin added. “The biggest thing that is bothersome for them, spiritually, is that they feel forgotten.

It’s not so much that they are poor, it’s that they feel forgotten and totally pushed aside, marginalized.”

What caught Kevin’s attention is how they — the Lakota people — got to Pine Ridge. Their ancestors were put there. In the quest for Manifest Destiny, Europeans rounded up and colonized the Natives, forcing them from their nomadic lifestyle.

A quick history lesson The Oregon Trail opened in the 1840s, followed by the California gold rush. As white people sought fame, fortune and opportunity, they rushed from East to West in wagon trains along the Oregon Trail.

The Great Plains was referred to as the great American desert — a place of no value, just a crossing to get to gold country.

The first big treaty between the whites and Indians came

ONLY NEW HOUSE BUILT ON THE RESERVATION one year was through the efforts of Kevin Hancock and Hancock Lumber. in 1851. The Lakotas allowed white people to pass through a small amount of land — the width of a wagon. Then in the 1860s, the transcontinental railroad was created, and a new treaty enacted allowing just enough space for the track. In return for safe passage, the U.S. government acknowledged that the entire Great Plains would belong, forever undisturbed, to the Sioux Indians for as long as the grass should grow and the water shall flow.

In 1872, the U.S. government sent an expedition team into the Black Hills, right in the center of the Lakota territory, led by General Custer. Gold was discovered; prospectors started to rush into Indian territory. Government officials said treaty would no longer work, and the Indians would not be able to keep the land.

The Lakota referred to gold as the “yellow metal that makes the white people crazy.”

The U.S. government created reservations. One group, the Oglala Sioux under the leadership of Crazy Horse, refused to go to the reservation.

The Battle of Little Big Horn ensued in 1876. Ultimately, the Army won and the Indians were placed on reservations.

A “deal” was put in place.

Indians would reside on reservations and in exchange, the U.S. government would provide food, clothing, housing, basic tools of agriculture, and convert Indians to Christianity.

Everything the Indians needed, the government would provide,

so long as they stayed put on the reservations. The government also picked the least desirable pieces of land, far away from white people.

“What was eye opening for me was flash forward to present day — and, that’s how it continues to work.

Descendants of those people who fought Custer are still at Pine Ridge, on a reservation, where the government is supposed to take care of everything,” Kevin said. “The government has done, statistically, a terrible job of that. These people live there in crazy economic, financial conditions.”

One question people ask many Lakotas is, if conditions are so poor at Pine Ridge why don’t they leave for more prosperous areas that could offer better job opportunities?

“Some have. Statistically, they don’t have more success in urban areas. A number of Lakotas in the Minneapolis/ St. Paul area, don’t tend to do any better,” he said. “Those that stay, I am told respond, ‘This is where they put us; this is my home.’ Some of the talented people I have met could live somewhere else and succeed. They have said, ‘If you are Lakota, there is no other place on Earth that you can get what you can get here — your values, culture, language, heritage, tradition, family — it is home to us’. Another reason one man stayed after having left the reservation before, ‘I couldn’t get out of my head the life my people are living.’

Population is actually growing

on the reservation.”

What really caught Kevin’s attention is what he considers “not a pretty chapter” in U.S. history.

“If you look how the Indians were treated from 1890 to 1970s, it is hard to digest. Our government policy for almost 100 years was to remake them as white people.

I know people at Pine Ridge, who as children over 50 years ago, lived through this. The government would go onto the reservation, go to a house, take the kids without asking permission, ship the kids back East to Indian boarding schools (the most famous one was in Carlisle, Pa.), and ‘remake’ them as white people — cut their hair, change their dress, forbid their native language, and teach them Christianity.

The idea was by the time they were 18 to 19 years old, they could be released with white American values, and be able to function in our society,” he said. “It’s a chapter in our history that we haven’t come to terms with.”

For the Lakota people, there is unfinished business there.

“I have heard several times that despite all the things that have happened — everything taken and how they have been treated — what sticks to them most to this day is no one has ever apologized,” Kevin added. “There has never been a formal apology.”

In his book, Kevin offers an apology.

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(Continued from Page 5A) process for them, this country needs to be more aware and acknowledge what happened.

In the book, one of my favorite parts, is I write an apology.

There has been no official government apology, which would be appropriate and important.

In Lakota culture, no one person speaks for all. So, I give an apology and how I feel about what happened. Awareness is powerful. Acknowledgment is powerful. Interest is powerful. Those things can help the Lakota people,” Kevin said. “I have this feeling — how the Lakota function — that they still need to come to terms with what happened to them in order to move forward.”

A number of people following Kevin’s solo journey to Pine Ridge through his e-mails, photos and website have told him the Lakota’s story “really hit them emotionally.” Kevin commented, “Not because of anything I have done, but because the story tells itself. The story still needs to be told. To some degree, our country has come to terms with slavery; we’ve dealt with that topic, we can’t make it right, but it is open — it has been studied, talked about,” he said. “This reservation story is still in the closet.”

Growth lies in looking inward, not outward Pine Ridge is often referred to as “first to worst.”

The Oglala Sioux were one of the proudest and strongest bands on the Great Plains, leading the charge against Custer and the Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of Little Big Horn. Now, statistically, they face some of the harshest social and economic challenges of any peo-

ple in our country — from their desperate housing conditions to their shockingly low life expectancy rates and dramatic unemployment status, the issues are real and unchanging.

Being in the lumber business, Kevin immediately took notice of poor housing conditions throughout the reservation.

“Housing is one of the biggest needs on the reservation,” Kevin said. “On my first day touring and driving around, four or five times during the day, Pinky tapped me on the shoulder and told me, ‘That is an ownership home’ — such a rare and unlikely event that it gets pointed out. Most homes are government or triballyowned rentals. The homes tend to be very small ranches consisting of a tiny kitchen, two small bedrooms, one bathroom and a crawl space in the basement.

“If you go to the crawl space, it is lined with bed sheets because there could be 30 to 40 people staying there on any given night on that cement floor,” Kevin said.

Charitable groups on the reservation build outhouses so people don’t have to use a bucket to go the bathroom and fix holes in rooftops.

Conditions are harsh in the winter. A number of people live with no electricity or heat.

After the Battle of Little Big Horn, a “deal” was put in place. In the Treat of Fort Laramie of 1868, the U.S. Government “promised”— among many others that were broken — to provide housing for the Indians. Currently, there is a 5,000-home shortage on the Reservation. At a cost

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Original promise, government responsible. Currently reality, inadequate and nonexisting housing. Pine Ridge needs 5,000 homes.

“You can look around at recent examples where the government has intervened, take Hurricane Katrina, for example. One hurricane destroys the East Coast and it becomes an inarguable call for relief.

Within a matter of days, the federal government committed $900 million in disaster relief funding,” Kevin pointed out.

“That would more than address the housing needs on the reservation, which has existed for over 100 years. This is a situation that we created, not nature, with the government taking the Native’s land in the first place, making them stay there, and mismanaging how it was to be taken care of. To me, that is an example what caught my attention for this story. We get so interested in what happens to people in other places such as Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, but we pay little attention to what is actually happening in South Dakota.

How little interest it gets. How little sympathy it gets. How little money it gets. That’s what really stands out, for me. The lack of interest in these people, the situation that we created.”

With support from his Hancock Lumber team, Kevin worked with the Lakota community to build a home there that locals call, “The Hancock House.” He also created “The Seventh Power,” a nonprofit organization committed to increasing awareness of the Oglala Sioux tribe, the broken promises made by our nation to all the tribes of the Northern Plains and to the current economic and social challenges of modern-day life at the Pine Ridge Reservation. In addition to awareness, the organization aims to raise funds for projects related to housing construction, healthier diets through a return

A FORGOTTEN PLACE — “We get so interested in what happens to people in other places such as Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, but we pay little attention to what is actually happening in South Dakota. How little interest it gets. How little sympathy it gets.

How little money it gets. That’s what really stands out, for me. The lack of interest in these people, the situation that we created,” — Kevin Hancock. to traditional food sources, clothing, education and private sector job creation. Last year, Kevin was a guest speaker at Bridgton Academy, and told students about his experiences at Pine Ridge. Touched by Kevin’s story, BA students and faculty members raised nearly $400 during a “Dress Down for Pine Ridge.” The money was earmarked to purchase hats, mittens and gloves to be sent to Pine Ridge.

“I went to Pine Ridge just to check it out for myself. I have now felt called to that place.

I have lots of friends there. I am interested, in a small way, of sharing a story that no one knows about,” Kevin said.

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He was in awe of the Plains and all of its splendor.

He was “touched” and developed a growing “appreciation” of the Lakota’s deeprooted culture.

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They consider themselves Americans — they proudly fly American flags on the reservation and celebrate their young warriors who go off and serve in the U.S. military,” Kevin said.

Pine Ridge is not governed by the state of South Dakota, but overseen by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a subdepartment of Department of the Interior. Pine Ridge has its own tribal laws, own court and prison systems, own schools, tribal council and the federal government administers the reservation.

“Everything comes through the government. When it comes time to do business, reservation leaders go to Washington, D.C.,” he said.

But, there is a rebirth taking place on the reservation. People want more independence and want to create more economic activity, thus decreasing total reliance on the government.

“I may be giving them a ‘fresh’ perspective. I have a purpose there, not a big role, a small one,” said Kevin of his discussions with tribal members regarding economic opportunities.

“The Lakota are returning to their core values; retaking control — in their own way — is the key to gaining their independence. They had a system imposed on them that just doesn’t work with their values. When original negotiators went out to talk with the Plains Indians, they arrived and asked that they be brought to their leader. The Indians wondered PINE RIDGE, Page 7A

but it was,” he said.

In describing the Lakota people, Kevin said, “They are the same as the rest of us.

Nice. Funny. Caring. Talented.

Smart. Resourceful. Good values. Fun to be around. Warm.

Just like us.”

So many “scenes” Kevin includes in his book could easily have occurred in his hometown of Casco.

“Behind me in line at Subway, two Little League-age boys just came in from a game, dirt on their knees. One kid played a great game and was congratulated by his teammate, ‘Great hit you had.’ They got sandwiches and left. What connects me is that even though they are so different, they are also just the same. Experiences with my work, everywhere I have gone, people are people.

We see all these differences, but when you break it all down, people are not so different from one another,” he said.

On the other side of the coin, the Lakota are very different culturally. In spite of all the oppression and a concerted, 100-year-long effort by the U.S. Government to “remake” them as white people, the Lakota have not been remade.

“The language, tradition, and values still exist. It is a communal place. Getting ahead, making lots of money, being busy, and other things that drive the American society are not values that drive them.

Their values consist of basic necessities, sharing resources, and living in a spiritually, healthy way. They talk about being a nation within a nation.

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Casco Fire & Rescue equipment upgrades

(Continued from Page 2A) Nashville, Tenn., Moen said.

Moen recommended accepting Sugarloaf’s offer because the fire department

has been using the company for three years and has established a good rapport with company representatives. He cited an excellent working

Fryeburg Police log

(Continued from Page 8A) engaged in a verbal dispute during a child exchange. The officer remained in the parking lot until the exchange was made and the parties left the area.

8:13 p.m. During a motor vehicle stop on Lovell Road, police issued Gayle M. Gilmore, 18, of Fryeburg, a summons for sale/ use of drug paraphernalia.

9:32 p.m. Police received a report of a dead moose on Portland Street, just over the town line in Brownfield.

Friday, July 17 12:52 a.m. Police received a complaint of possible drug activity in a Main Street parking lot.

11:25 a.m. Police checked a Bridgton Road shopping area after receiving a report of “used needles” left on the ground.

Police did not find any needles.

2:01 p.m. Andrew Derstine, 57, of Harrison, was issued a summons for failing to register a motor vehicle (expired in excess of 150 days). He was stopped on Lovell Road, near the Canal Bridge boat launch.

5:30 p.m. Caterina M. MacDonald, 19, of Somerville, Mass., was issued a summons for illegal possession of alcohol by a minor. She was charged at a Lovell Road campground.

7:45 p.m. Brendan Regan, 20, of Stoneham, Mass., was charged with illegal possession of alcohol by a minor. Regan was charged at a Lovell Road campground.

8:14 p.m. About a dozen people had set up tents at the Canal Town Beach, but were told by police they could not camp there.

10:45 p.m. Police waited at the intersection of Routes 160 and 113 after being informed of a stolen vehicle report.

Saturday, July 18 1:44 a.m. Two male subjects were issued warnings for drinking in public on Main Street.

9:10 a.m. Marcus T. Buzzell, 22, of Fryeburg, was charged with criminal trespass and violating conditions of release.

Buzzell was charged when police responded to a report of a subject refusing to leave a West Fryeburg Road location.

8:11 p.m. Police were alerted to watch for a blue Suburban, which was involved in a hit-and-run in Denmark and had sustained extensive damage to the front bumper.

Sunday, July 19 2:30 p.m. An officer assisted Bridgton Police with a possible domestic situation on Mountain Road. Police discovered that a young child was hiding under a bed playing a game and the parents thought they had lost him.

3:40 p.m. Police checked a report of a motor vehicle crash on Fish and Game Road. There was no vehicle there, but police did find evidence that a crash had occurred.

3:42 p.m. A Cambridge, Mass., resident was issued a summons for speeding and a warning for an improper pass after being stopped on Portland Street. The driver reportedly passed a Saco Bound van, traveling 21 mph over the posted limit.

relationship with the company.

Despite the high mileage and mechanical woes of the ’87 ambulance, the department got a good trade-in, he said.

Additionally, if the town pays upfront for the chassis, Sugarloaf will give a $1,000 rebate.

“We changed the paint scheme to match our other trucks. Now that we are a consolidated department, we wanted the rescue unit

to match the fire trucks,” he said.

There will be a turnaround of 270 days, or about nine months, before the ambulance is ready for the town.

The board voted to approve payment for the chassis. The vote was 3-0.

Selectmen Mary Fernandes and Calvin Nutting were absent.

Also, the department is ordering a custom-made tanker truck from Midwest Fire Equipment & Repair

Company.

“The chassis will be built in November or December.

The delivery date for the tanker should be sometime in May 2016. (It’s) a little later than I expected, about six months,” Moen said.

The board also gave the department the authorization to spend $26,375, which was already approved at the Town Meeting, to replace the shingles on the fire station roof.

The bid by Austin & Sons Roofing & Siding, Inc.

included 6 feet of ice and water shield plus commercial gutters to control water runoff and ridge vents, Moen said.

The bid included reshingling the roof over the fuel station, he said.

Selectman Grant Plummer made a motion to accept the bid, but add a double-drip edge to the specs.

“A double-drip edge is worth its weight in gold. It puts the water farther away from the building,” he said.

‘Rotten’ lands national grant

(Continued from Page 1A) rounding area and highlights our state’s vibrant culture.

This project not only supports the creative expression of local artists, but also engages the community on important topics like waste disposal, recycling, and protecting Maine’s environment. The NEA grant will help shine a light on this inspiring work.”

“The Denmark Arts Center demonstrates the best in cre-

ative community development, whose work will have a valuable impact on their community,” said NEA Chairman Jane Chu. “Through Our Town funding, arts organizations continue to spark vitality that support neighborhoods and public spaces, enhancing a sense of place for residents and visitors alike.”

Something Rotten will launch in earnest this coming October, via a nationally-dis-

tributed Request for Proposals.

Artists will then take residence in Denmark beginning in 2016. Endowment funds will be joined by private and other public funds to yield the total budget. The project is expected to deliver up to eight original works of art into Denmark’s public spaces, with artists residing in the town for up to one month to realize these works in collaboration with the town itself.

For a complete listing of projects recommended for Our Town grant support, please visit the NEA website at arts.gov. Project descriptions, grants listed by state and by project type, and resources are available as well. The NEA’s online resource, Exploring Our Town, features case studies of more than 70 Our Town projects along with lessons learned and other resources.

Pine Ridge — ‘Story is still in the closet’ (Continued from Page 6A) what they were talking about because they didn’t have one.

The Lakota heritage is the lowest amount of government control — no one speaks for all of us.,” Kevin learned.

“After 130 years of being told you are inferior, told you can’t take care of yourself, it weighs heavy on a tribe.

There’s a bit of a reawakening happening, which they are starting to rethink all of it. They are starting to think about how as individuals and a community they can gain their independence. My role there — it’s not an official or formal role.

I don’t work for a nonprofit,

whose job is to help them. I don’t work for a government agency, whose job is to help them. I am just a person who is interested,” he said. “People ask me what do I do there? Not much, really. I work on a few things while I am there, but mostly I talk to people and take in what I see. Right now, there isn’t a whole lot to do there. I don’t have a big agenda.”

His genuine interest and caring attitude have not gone unnoticed.

“They (the Lakota) are more interested in your heart than your head. As a compliment, you won’t hear them say you are a smart person, but a

person with a good heart. In our culture, that may sound funny. How would you know that? When they say it, they mean it because they have watched you, talked to you and feel who you are. When they see that you have a good heart, they grab you,” he said.

A key part that drew Kevin to Pine Ridge was a feeling that roles can be all consuming, and there has to be more than that in life.

“I’m a dad, I’m a husband, employee, businessman, member of a church. You wake up one day and those roles can totally consume you. They are necessary, valuable roles,

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but they can be all consuming. What I have been exploring within myself and writing about in this book is making sure we all still keep in mind — separate from those roles — there is a person, a soul, in there. When I am sitting on a hilltop on the reservation by myself in the middle of the Great Plains where you can see 80 miles in any direction, at that moment in time, I have no responsibilities to anyone,” he said. “Who am I? Not in a selfish way, but for all of us.

There is an independent person there with various interests, needs and spirit. At Pine Ridge, I was interested in reconnecting with myself — outside of my roles…inner reflection… being open to what calls us in life. What gives meaning to us in life? What is your Pine Ridge? What out there is trying to speak or call or be of interest to you that would be so easy to miss inside the busyness of our daily lives?”

There are lots of people on the reservation trying to help the Lakotas. Kevin Hancock is one of those people.

“The point is, what do you want to do with your life? You don’t have to travel thousands of miles to help others, it may be right in front of you,” Kevin said. “This experience for me has been a call to be connected with myself. There is this energy that has been brought to life within me to help others.”

Kevin Hancock never expected a simple trip to satisfy a curiosity would place him on a path that including trying his hand at being a writer.

“This book found me more than I found it. If no one ever reads this book, I would still do it. It’s called me to tell this story, share my thoughts, and share my experiences,” he said.

“Beyond that, if the book is of interest to others outside the Lakota community, inspires them to help our Native people or some other cause — their own Pine Ridge — that is a bonus to me,” Kevin said.

“If this book helps even one Lakota person to see that there are people who care about them to help them process their past and help them think about their future, that’s a bonus too.”

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Man flips canoe on Saco River, suffers injuries FRYEBURG — Fryeburg Police, along with Fryeburg Rescue, responded to Mile 13 of the Saco River in Fryeburg on Sunday, July 19, at around 1 p.m., after receiving a 9-1-1 call of a canoeist in distress.

A 55-year-old Rockland, Mass., man flipped his canoe

over at an area known as Walker’s Rips.

According to witnesses, the man went under the water, striking his head and knee on the rocks before being pulled to a nearby beach by other canoeists.

A Fryeburg Police boat

was on patrol and officers responded to the call within minutes.

Fryeburg Rescue also launched its rescue boat to the scene. Rescuers carried the injured man for about 150 yards before Fryeburg Rescue transported the

patient to Bridgton Hospital for head and knee injuries.

He was listed in stable condition.

“The canoeist had his life jacket in the boat, but was not wearing it at the time it capsized,” Fryeburg Chief of Police Joshua Potvin said.

“Walker’s Rips is a part of the river we patrol regularly by boat. This section is known for its rapids and capsiz-

ing inexperienced canoeists.

Overall, this was an excellent collaborative response by police and rescue personnel.”

On the Bridgton Police blotter 2:30 p.m. Officer Jones investigated a report of theft at the Big Apple on Portland Road.

7:03 p.m. A young male riding an off-road vehicle without plates was doing wheelies up and down Wayside Avenue, causing a noise disturbance.

7:08 p.m. Several juveniles were suspected in the theft of a TV from a Forest Avenue residence.

11:31 p.m. A prowler was reported on the back deck of a Zion Hill Road residence.

Thursday, July 16 4:33 a.m. Upstairs neighbors were heard screaming and banging things around at a Winslow Street residence.

11:42 a.m. A car collided with a pickup truck near the corner of Sandy Creek and Portland Roads.

6:27 p.m. Officer Reese looked into an ongoing issue with a seven-year-old riding a go-cart on Larrabee’s Run. Friday, July 17 3:07 a.m. A Main Street resident saw her neighbor walk through her yard with a flashlight, and doesn’t want him to do it again.

4:44 p.m. A burglary was reported at a Main Street apartment.

4:43 p.m. A woman said a product she purchased at a Bridgton business caused damage to her clothes and the back of her car because it had not been properly secured in its container. She requested police help in filing a complaint.

Saturday, July 18 6:10 p.m. Officers Muise and Hammond responded to a report of a fight in progress at a Plummers Landing Road residence. Two males left in a green vehicle.

7:10 p.m. An ATV hit a tree in the area of 842 South High Street, causing personal injury.

7:45 p.m. A navy blue Suburban with two males inside hit a gas pump at Jimbob’s Store in Denmark, then headed toward Bridgton.

10:35 p.m. A vehicle tried to run someone off the road on North High Street near Highland Lake Resort.

Sunday, July 19 2:23 a.m. Officer Hammond checked out a suspicious vehicle seen driving around the Vicki Lynn Campground.

4:26 a.m. Gunshots were heard in the area of Hemlock Point Lane.

8:25 a.m. Concerns were raised over parking on Main Hill and traffic from the NASCAR race going on.

10:06 a.m. A purple Jeep came off the snowmobile trail, and headed toward town, on the Upper Ridge Road.

3:53 p.m. Officer McCormick investigated a report of a loud Harley motorcycle leaving a Pond Road residence every morning around 6 a.m.

7:25 p.m. A pedestrian reportedly chased after and assaulted someone in a vehicle who was trying to leave a Main Street apartment.

10:16 p.m. Officer Muise investigated a report that a man in a green car was in possession of heroin on Main Street.

Monday, July 20 6:28 a.m. A man and woman were seen engaged in a verbal argument outside a car near the corner of Harrison Road and Iredale Street.

8:39 a.m. A North High Street man left on foot after displaying suicidal behavior.

12:43 p.m. The stepfather of two male juveniles said their biological father had supplied them with alcohol.

4:41 p.m. Loud party music was heard in the area of Meade Lane.

5:03 p.m. A woman was refusing to leave a Fowler Street residence.

5:38 p.m. Loud party music was bothering neighbors on North High Street.

6:34 p.m. Increased police presence was requested in the area of Maple Street.

8:11 p.m. Officers Muise and McCormick investigated a disturbance at an Ingalls Road residence.

8:47 p.m. A dark-colored van with Maine plates was speeding and passing people in the breakdown lane near Ovide’s Used Cars on Portland Road.

9:53 p.m. A girl’s bicycle was stolen from the bike rack at the Magic Lantern Theatre.

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These items appeared on the Fryeburg Police Department log (this is a partial listing): Monday, July 13 7:46 a.m. A caller reported illegal camping on Fish and Game Road, and asked police to remove the subjects. Police found no visible camping.

Tuesday, July 14 9:22 a.m. Flowers were stolen from the front gate of Fryeburg Fairgrounds.

Wednesday, July 15 9:43 a.m. A caller informed police that her child was being verbally harassed by classmates who live in Denmark.

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Tuesday, July 14 12:25 p.m. A sailboat capsized on Moose Pond, and was visible from the Moose Pond Causeway. The Warden’s Service was notified.

4:30 p.m. A vehicle rear-ended another vehicle on Main Street across from Key Bank.

4:21 p.m. The ex-girlfriend of an Alex Drive resident showed up and was taking his property.

6:44 p.m. Officer Muise responded to a case of phone fraud reported by a Highland Road resident.

7 p.m. An unwanted male was sitting in a vehicle parked in the driveway of Willis Park Road residents and was reportedly threatening to sue them.

7:43 p.m. A woman said someone borrowed her EBT card and hasn’t paid her back.

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10:51 p.m. Officer Muise was on the lookout for a vehicle that almost hit a telephone pole while being operated erratically on the Sebago Road.

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12:32 p.m. A Kimball Road resident said someone has been stealing boards from his barn and tools from inside.

1:32 p.m. A woman turned herself in on a charge of failure to appear in court, and was released after posting bail.

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Entertainment Gallery welcomes Richard Allen & Concerts

Thursday, July 23 Don Roy, who has been called the finest Franco-American fiddler in New England, will appear in concert at 7:30 p.m. at the Brick Church for the Performing Arts on Christian Ridge Road in Lovell. He’ll make his fiddle twang with his bluegrass, western swing and those mournful tunes of the Appalachians.

Deertrees New Repertory Company presents The Reluctant Dragon, a new adaptation from the story of the same name by Kenneth Grahame, at 7:30 p.m. at Deertrees Theatre in Harrison. For reservations, call 583-6747.

Arts in Motion Theater Company has its opening night for Shtick at 7:30 p.m. at the Eastern Slope Inn Playhouse in North Conway, N.H. The play will also be performed Friday thru Sunday, July 24-26, with repeat performances July 3031 and Aug. 1-2. FMI: 603-356-0110 or www.artsinmotiontheater.com Prepare yourself for the ultimate Eagles experience when The 7 Bridges Band gives tribute to the band The Eagles in a 7 p.m. Arts Jubilee concert at Cranmore Mountain in North Conway, N.H. Showtime is 7 p.m., and Chasing Asia will perform a pre-show at 6 p.m. Adults pay $10, seniors $8, students are $5 and kids 12 and under are free.

Thur.-Sun., July 23-26 Schoolhouse Arts Center is proud to present the good ol’ American musical comedy Annie Get Your Gun! Come enjoy those old familiar songs. Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and at 5 p.m. Sunday, repeating until Aug. 2. Tickets are $18 for adults and $16 for students/seniors. Reserve your tickets today at www.schoolhousearts.org or call 642-3743.

Friday, July 24 Check out the S.F. Jones Band at 7:30 p.m. during the 81st annual Casco Days on Route 121 in Casco Village.

Come learn what the Nite-Owl Club is all about, as the Denmark Arts Center offers its own take on the historic Odd Fellows’ speakeasy at 9 p.m. There’ll be stories from David Estey’s childhood, and live music from farmers Will and Liz of Black Mountain Farm in Sweden. FMI: 452-2412.

It’s opening night for Deertrees New Repertory Company’s production of Rounding Third by Richard Dresser, starting at 7:30 p.m. at Deertrees Theatre in Harrison.

Center Stage Theater presents an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic story, The BFG, at 7:30 p.m. at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center at Fryeburg Academy. The performance is the culmination of a week-long children’s theater workshop led by Mary Bastoni. Come enjoy a fun, family-friendly evening, for $3 General Admission, available at the door. FMI: 935-9232.

Boston’s Adam Ezra Group is returning to the Theater

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Gallery 302 is excited to have Richard Allen of Sebago join its group of talented artists.

Allen’s work includes drawing and mixed media/collage pieces. After earning a B.A. in History from the University of Vermont, he went on to study art at the Art Students League in New York. Richard has also taken courses at Mass Art, the Boston Museum School and MECA. He has exhibited work in regional shows in New England, most recently having a one-person exhibit at the AVA Gallery in Lebanon, N.H. Allen has been in group shows at the Cambridge Art Association and New Hampshire Art Association.

Richard’s primary working method is mixed media/ collage, using acrylic paint as both an element in the finished work and as an adhesive to attach materials to the working The works of Sebago artist Richard Allen are now on display at Gallery 302 on Main Street in Bridgton.

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Paula Poundstone in Brownfield BROWNFIELD — The Stone Mountain Arts Center in Brownfield welcomes comedian Paula Poundstone on Friday and Saturday, July 24 and 25. Poundstone arrives fresh on the heels of the release of the new Pixar film Inside Out, in which she lends her distinctive voice to the character “Forgetter Paula.”

From her start as a touring comedian at open mic nights and comedy clubs, Poundstone has risen to

become one of the great humorists of our time. You can hear her through your laughter as a regular panelist on NPR’s popular rascal of a weekly news quiz show, Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me. She still tours regularly, performing stand-up comedy across the country, causing Bob Zany with the Boston Globe to write: “Poundstone can regale an audience for several hours with her distinctive brand of wry, intelligent and witty comedy.”

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While there is no doubt that Poundstone is funny, the thing that probably separates her from the pack of comics working today and that has made her a legend among comics and audiences alike is her ability to be spontaneous with a crowd.

“No two shows I do are the same,” Poundstone said.

“It’s not that I don’t repeat material. I do. My shows, when they’re good, and I like to think they often are, are like a cocktail party.”

Paula’s interchanges with the audience are never mean or done at a person’s expense.

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Suppers & breakfasts Friday, July 24 The annual Casco Days Chicken BBQ takes place at the Casco Village Church at 5 p.m. in Casco Village. Join church members and let them serve you a delicious dinner. FMI: www.cascodays.com The Bradley Memorial United Methodist Church will hold its Annual Turkey Supper from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at the church at 454 McNeil Road in Fryeburg Harbor, on Route 5 between Fryeburg and Lovell. There’ll be fresh roasted turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, vegetables, rolls, coffee/drinks and homemade pies. The meal will be served buffet-style, and takeout is available. Cost is $9 adults, free for children under age 5.

Saturday, July 25 Help support local Lake Region graduates by enjoying a Benefit Breakfast for Project Graduation 2016 at the Casco Village Church on Route 121. The breakfast will be served from 8 to 10 a.m. and is a great place to stop by after you’ve run in the annual Casco Days Country Road Race.

An Appreciation Dinner for Albert Fox will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Waterford Fire Station, 366 Valley Road, Waterford, in gratitude for Fox’s many years of service to the town of Stoneham and surrounding communities. The menu is ham, beans, hot casseroles, salads, desserts and beverages. Cost is $10.

The Casco Village church will host its annual Casco Days Church Supper at the church on Route 121. Come at 5 p.m. and enjoy a delicious dinner of beans and hot dogs, chop suey and casseroles, salads, rolls, drinks and homemade pies. Cost is $8 adults, $5 children age eight and under, with a $21 max for families with young children. Afterward, you can take part in all the Casco Days fun starting at 6 p.m., when the midway games and rides open back up. FMI: www.cascodays.com A Bean Supper will be served from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at the North Sebago United Methodist Church on Route 114, North Sebago.

The 8th annual Baked Bean Supper is served up from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at the Lovell Masonic Hall, corner Routes 93 and 5, costing $7 for adults and $5 for children under 12. The menu is beans, hot dogs, coleslaw, biscuits, brown bread, dessert and beverages. Proceeds benefit the Sam Noftle/Charles Michlon Building Fund.

Wednesday, July 29 The third in a series of four Waterford Summer Breakfasts will be served from 7:30 to 10 a.m. at the Wilkins Community House at Waterford Flat, with freshly baked muffins, eggs, pancakes, donuts, coffee, tea, and orange juice and real Maine maple syrup. Cost is $8 adults, $4 for child-size portions and under 5 free. Take time to check out the Indoor Yard Sale in the basement, from 7:30 to 11 a.m. The final breakfast will be held Aug. 12. The breakfasts are a community-wide affair, involving around 50 volunteers in the kitchen and dining room, and support of local businesses such as Melby’s Market and Thunder Hill Farm. FMI: 583-2729.

A Free Community Dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m. at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 43 Sweden Road, Bridgton. All are welcome to this meal of summer favorites — pulled pork, summer salads and dessert.

Saturday, August 1 The Bridgton/Fryeburg Knights of Columbus will serve a Barbecue Supper at St. Joseph Church, 225 South High Street, from 5:15 to 7 p.m. The menu will be pulled pork or BBQ chicken, German potato salad, coleslaw, corn bread, desserts and beverages. Cost is $12 per person and tickets are available at the door.

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HORSEPOWER — John Plowden of Plowden Horse Logging, Stow, will be demonstrating horse logging on the Intervale Preserve as part of this year’s Back to the Past Celebration at Scribner’s Mill, Harrison, on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 1 and 2. Brian Grady of Sebago Custom Sawing will also demonstrate the use of a portable sawmill.

Wagon rides will transport Back to the Past ticket holders to and from the mill complex to the logging area on the preserve.

(Photo courtesy Plowden Horse Logging) from Scribner’s Mill to the logging area near the roadway.

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Curious Arts and more at Rufus Porter

The new and improved Cultural Heritage Series (now named the Curious Arts Series) sponsored by the Rufus Porter Museum in Bridgton will include classic favorites like Floorcloth Painting and Rufus Porter Style Painting, as well as new classes, including a full day of digital photography, both theory and practice. The classes will be held at Stevens Brook Elementary School in Bridgton.

Here is a brief overview of the offerings, dates and times.

For a full class schedule, registration and fees, visit www. rufusportermuseum.org or call 647-2828.

• Friday, July 24, 1 to 4 p.m. — Rufus Porter Inventions.

Delve into the inventive mind of Rufus Porter and get a better appreciation of his lifetime as an inventor and innovator. $25 • Friday, July 24, 1 to 4 p.m. — Growing and Using Herbs: Making Herbal Vinegar. Students will create their own vinegar blends and go home with a bottle of their own creation. $35 • Saturday, July 25, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. — Understanding Antique Homes. Learn all about antique homes in a daylong class with Les Fossel, Maine’s foremost expert on early buildings. Three antique homes will be visited. $45.

• Saturday, Aug. 1, 9 a.m. to noon — Digital Photography: Theory. Students will learn about different types of cameras, how to use aperture, shutter speeds and ISO and how they apply to pre-programmed image settings. Also covered will be lense settings and using the flash. $25.

• Saturday, Aug. 1, 1 to 4 p.m. Digital Photography: Practice. Using techniques learned in the theory class, students will go on a local outdoor photo shoot, and build on the principles learned in the first class.

• Wednesday and Thursday, July 22-23 — Floor Cloth Painting. Create a beautiful floor cloth with a Rufus Porter mural scene on it with teacher Lisa Mair, who will lead classes from 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Thursday. $185.

• Wednesday to Friday, Aug. 19-21 — Rufus Porter Style Painting. Go home with a completed painting with the look of a Rufus Porter mural, after learning a variety of painting techniques, traditional and nontraditional. $140, materials extra.

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purchased the 296-acre Intervale parcel, including 1.5 miles along the Crooked River, on June 30 in order to permanently preserve a working forest and wildlife habitat with public recreational access.

The logging and sawmill demo harkens back to the blowdown storm of 1938, when a friend of the Scribners set up a portable sawmill upriver in order to salvage all the felled trees that had been stockpiled on the Intervale land.

As you approach the old mill, you will hear the hum of old machinery turning out barrel parts, shingles and planed boards. Inside the mill, visitors will watch Rick and Randy making dry barrel parts, and they’ll even get the chance to help assemble their own barrel in the Cooper Shop.

Barrels will be available for sale. Matt will be at the lathe, turning out items on the wood lathe. Shinglemaking will be demonstrated inside the Long Shed, while out in front, a team of oxen will be demonstrating their amazing strength. The blacksmith will be working at the hearth Blacksmith Shop, creating tools for the mill’s operation and branding barrels.

On the mill pond site along Crooked River, where logs were collected after floating downriver, exhibitors will be cranking up their antique engines, tractors, trucks and autos, and Colleen O’ Connor will be demonstrating horseshoeing.

Tours inside the periodrestored homestead of the Scribner family will be offered. Visitors will also be welcomed inside the barn and woodshed to see the displays of old tools, and to see exhibitors at

work demonstrating the arts of spinning, weaving, basketry, broom making, tatting, jewelry making, chair canning and rug braiding.

New this year will be a vendor’s tent, showcasing period products such as handmade soaps, herbal cosmetics, sweets and preserves, knitted items, baked goods and handicrafts.

Next to the Corn House, children will be able to participate in children’s workshops from 10:30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 2:30 p.m. both days. At 2:30 p.m. the young at heart, will have an opportunity to turn the crank to make and sample homemade ice cream.

Hamburgers, hot dogs and lobster rolls will be available for lunch at the food booth. After lunch, make sure you stop by the Just Desserts Booth for a piece of homemade pie.

Refreshing fresh-squeezed lemonade will also be for sale. Scribner’s Mill shirts and hats will be available at the sales booth to remind you of this year’s event. Music will be provided by Walt Bannon and friends on Saturday and the Saccarappa Boys on Sunday.

A worship service will be offered on Sunday morning at 9:30 a.m. in the dining tent.

Admission to the festival is $8 for adults, free for children 12 and under.

Funds raised at this event are used for the restoration of the 1847-1962 sawmill.

Scribner’s Mill is found at 244 Scribner’s Mill Road, one mile south of Bolster’s Mills on Jesse Mill Road in Harrison. Follow the yellow and black directional signs from Routes 35 and 117 to the mill. For more information, call 583-MILL (6455).

Poundstone at SMAC (Continued from Page 1B) politics without provoking the pall of disapproval less artful comics have received.

Over the span of her career, Paula has amassed an impressive list of awards and accolades. In the early 90s she was the first woman to win the cable ACE for Best Stand-up Comedy Special and the first woman to perform stand-up at the prestigious White House Correspondents dinner, where she joined the current Paula Poundstone president as part of the evening’s entertainment.

Female Stand-up Comic, and Paula was honored with in 2010 she was one of a the 2012 Moment Magazine select group voted into the Creativity Award at their Comedy Hall of Fame.

35th anniversary sympoPaula is also a published sium and dinner. She has author and lecturer. Her 2006 starred in comedy specials book, There is Nothing In on HBO and BRAVO, won This Book That I Meant To an Emmy Award, served as Say is still in release on audio “official correspondent” for (Highbridge) and in paperThe Tonight Show during back. Other writing credits the 1992 presidential race, include the back page colpioneered the art of back- umnist of Mother Jones, stage commentary during The Los Angeles Times, an Emmy telecast, steps up Entertainment Weekly, and to the plate for causes she Glamour magazine. believes in, and is almost Showtime is at 8 p.m. always included in any com- both nights, and tickets are pendium noting comedic $55. For reservations, call influences of the 20th/21st 935-7292 or visit www. century. She is recognized stonemountainartscenter. as one of Comedy Central’s com. The Stone Mountain 100 greatest stand-ups of all Arts Center is located time. Paula won an American at 695 Dug Way Road in Comedy Award for Best Brownfield.

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Arts Calendar

Ongoing art exhibits A Summer Art Show of recent work done through the Studio Art Program at Opportunity Enterprises, Inc., will be on display through Sept. 9 at the Paris Public Library, Market Square, South Paris. OEI serves adults with disabilities and their families, with offices in Bridgton, South Paris and Auburn. FMI: 803-8130.

The work of Boston-based mixed media sculptor Mireille Clapp is on display until the end of the summer at The Old White Church, located adjacent to the Saco River Theatre, 29 Salmon Falls Road, Bar Mills.

Michael Everett of the Western Maine Art Group will be displaying his landscape painting of the Saint John and Allagash region from now until Aug. 15 at the Maine State Building on Route 26 in Poland. The building is open Wednesday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday 9 a.m. to noon.

Friday, July 24 The abstract art of David Estey will be on display at his

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Gallery Opening Reception at the Denmark Arts Center, 50 West Main Street, Denmark, from 5 to 7 p.m. Aroostook-born, and largely Maine-raised, Estey has been called a “pictorial linguist.” Wine and hors d’eouvres will be served, and he’ll lead a 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. workshop the next day on the basics of figure drawing. FMI: 452-2412.

Artist Sarah Baldwin will speak about her art, “Values in Value: Using Studio Practice to Communicate My World,” in a talk at 7 p.m. at the Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library on Route 5 in Center Lovell.

Saturday, July 25 Naples for the Arts showcases the original artwork of over 30 painters, photographers, mixed media, textile, wood crafts and jewelry artists on the Naples Causeway from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. There’ll be live entertainment by the Wrong Road Band at 1:30 p.m. at the Causeway Amphitheater, raffles, free giveaways and face painting for the kids. Prizes will be awarded in three categories.

Sunday, July 26 The Moore Park Art Show will offer fine art by over 30 area artists from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Moore Park, adjacent to Market Square (Route 26) in South Paris. Over $600 in ribbons will be awarded to artists in painting, photography and craft

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Casco Days starts today

Thursday-Saturday, July 23-25 Always the last Saturday in July, the 81st annual Casco Days event will take place at Casco Day Park in Casco Village, Route 121, on Thursday and Friday nights from 6 to 10 p.m., and, on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and 6 p.m. until close. Come enjoy the fireworks, free concerts, kiddie and grand parades, road race, chicken BBQ dinner and more. For a complete schedule, visit www.cascodays.com or Casco Days on Facebook.

Allen welcomed EXPLORING MOVEMENT — Hio Ridge Dance founders Cookie Harrist, bottom, and Delaney McDonough have been working all summer with two community groups — children as well as ladies over 55 — and the results will be showcased this Friday and Saturday, July 24 and 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Denmark Arts Center. with what is sure to be a powerful performance deeply grounded in their individual journeys.

The final piece of the evening is a duet choreographed and performed by Hio Ridge directors, Cookie Harrist and Delaney McDonough.

The pair met at Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston in 2012, and have been making original contemporary dances in Denmark ever since.

“Our artwork thrives on the quiet, focused nature of the place,” says Cookie, “but we

host residences for other artists so we can continue to be a part of the greater art community and conversation.”

The dance they’ll present this weekend, Porch, is inspired by the process of making dances. In rehearsal, dances are constructed, deconstructed and reconstructed, developed in chance happenings and improvised moments. In Porch, Cookie and Delaney build precarious structures together in an attempt to bring to the stage the kind of honesty and intimacy that is present

in rehearsals.

“Porches are vessels of possibility,” says Delaney, “A porch is a place for reflection, for quiet conversation, a long goodbye, a first kiss. At every moment of the dance, Porch is the container through which we remember, reimagine, and rebuild ourselves.”

Tickets can be reserved by calling 452-2412 or visiting www.denmarkarts.org. To learn more about Hio Ridge Dance classes, residencies and performances, visit www. hioridgedance.com

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(Continued from Page 1B) surface. He works on three primary surfaces — paper, canvas and hardboard. He is always on the lookout for materials that might enhance his work, but the materials used most frequently include graphic materials from magazines and advertising, recycled personal artwork and textured materials such as fabric, colored paper, vintage materials such as old postage stamps, natural materials such as sand and leaves, and drawing materials such as marker and pencils.

A strong need for order leads Allen to structure his work on an underlying grid, but at the same time, a desire to work insinctively in the manner of Abstract Expressionism leads to splashing and pouring paint onto the surface. He thinks of his work as being in a state of constant tension between order and chaos.

To view Richard Allen’s very interesting artwork, visit Gallery 302 at 112 Main Street in Bridgton. For more information, call 647-2787, visit gallery302.com or the gallery’s Facebook page.

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DENMARK — Local contemporary dance company Hio Ridge Dance will present an evening of new dances on Friday and Saturday, July 24 and 25 at 7:30 p.m. at the Denmark Arts Center, made in collaboration with community members aged four to 80.

Reasons for Moving features three original works built during an ongoing residency at the Denmark Arts Center and with the support of the Maine Arts Commission and patron of the arts Kevin Fickenscher.

Kaleidoscope Kids was made during the company’s two-week summer camp at the DAC. The eight young dancers from Fryeburg and Denmark took inspiration from improvisational experiments, playground games, props, and costumes to build a dance that highlights each of their strengths. Throughout the process, each camper, no matter their age or ability, developed original movement and worked in groups to build quirky, shifting structures.

They diligently explored the movement possibilities of dancer Star Young’s wheelchair, and even found ways to include four-year-old Holly Hook in the action. The resulting dance is a beautiful display of teamwork, topped off with a short fantasy dance film created by the kids.

Another exciting collaboration was sparked by the Maine Arts Commission’s Creative Aging Grant.

Through this program, Hio Ridge Dance and the Denmark Arts Center teamed up to provide a creative performance workshop for locals age 55 or older. Gail Geraghty of Norway, Karen Swanson of Bethel, Mari Hook and Katie Dunn of Denmark took on the challenge, working with the Hio Ridge directors for three months of rehearsals.

The culminating piece, Well, We’re Going, is “an exploration of what we can do, rather than what we can’t,” says the eldest of all the dancers, Mari Hook.

“I love the storytelling aspect of the work,” says yoga teacher Karen Swanson, “while I have been involved with dance off and on throughout my nearly 59 years, I have never had the opportunity to create movement so directly from my life experience.” These strong women brave the stage on Friday and Saturday night,

classes. There’ll also be homemade food and a free theater workshop for children.

FMI: 890-6386, mooreparkartshow.biz The works of Guest Artist Blue Butterfield will be on exhibit from July 26 to Aug. 14 at Gallery 302, 112 Main Street, Bridgton.

A Wine & Cheese Reception in her honor will be held on Friday, Aug. 7, from 5 to 7 p.m.

Saturday, August 1 The public is invited to the opening reception of the “Summer Show,” a three-artist exhibit of work by Wendy Newcomb, Neil Wyrick, and Darlene Furbush Ouellett, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Hole In The Wall Studioworks on Route 302 in Raymond.

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Area Events Chamber After Hours

The next Chamber Business After Hours sponsored by the Greater Bridgton Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce will be held on Thursday, July 23, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Packard Barn, 95 Sanborn Grove Road, Bridgton. The event is co-sponsored by the Chalmers Insurance Group and Richard Packard.

Come learn about Great Blue Herons

Come learn about the beautiful Great Blue Heron in a presentation at the new Maine Lake Science Center on Thursday, July 23, at 10 a.m. Wildlife Biologist Danielle D’Auria will talk about the life history of herons and why they need protecting, as well as the state of their populations in Maine. Space is limited for this event and preregistration is required. The Maine Lake Science Center is located off Willett Road in Bridgton.

For questions or to register, contact Mary Jewett at 647-8580 or e-mail mary@leamaine.org

Hobbs hosts forest rangers & Smokey Bear

LOVELL — This summer the Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library has been inviting a local hero to talk at the Friday morning summer reading club presentations for children age 5 and up. The Lovell Fire Department showed up in full force the first week, and last week Nurse Liz Como and Doctor Craig Smith visited. On Friday, July 24, at 10 a.m., Forest Rangers Joe Phillips and Nick DiGiacco will visit, accompanied by the U.S. Forest Service’s world-renowned spokesman, Smokey the Bear. The men will talk about the diverse career fields and areas of interest that are available through the Forest Service, from biologists to historians, foresters to law enforcement. And Smokey’s topic, of course, will be on preventing forest fires.

Annual ‘Gigantic Yard Sale’ at Grace Church

The Grace Christian Church at 11 Pinhook Road off Route 107 in South Bridgton will hold its annual Gigantic Yard Sale Saturday, July 25, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. There’ll be clothing, tools, toys, furniture and other household items — everything from A to Z, something to meet every yard saler’s fancy. No early birds before 8:30 a.m., please.

LRHS Class of 1985 Reunion

WINDHAM — The Lake Region High School Class of 1985 is gathering at Dena’s Lobsterhouse in North Windham on Saturday, July 25, at 7:30 p.m. to celebrate their 30th reunion.

For those looking for extra ‘85er time, a group will be running and walking in the Casco Days Road Race at 9:30 a.m. that morning. For more information or to connect with classmates, see the LRHS Class of 1985 Facebook page.

Texas Hold’em Tournament Saturday

HARRISON — The Harrison Lions Club will be holding their Texas Hold’em Tournament on Saturday, July 25, at the VFW Hall on Waterford Road in Harrison. There will be an $80 entry fee. Doors open at noon and play starts at 1 p.m. This is a BYOB event, with great food and refreshments available. The proceeds will be used to help support local children’s programs such as eye screening for school-age children, Christmas for kids, and scholarships. Remember, you cannot win if you don’t play!

Come dance to a boomer rock band

WATERFORD — The Waterford World’s Fair is sponsoring a dance on Saturday, July 25, from 8 p.m. to midnight with Montgomery Road, a “Boomer Rock Band,” at the Waterford World’s Fairgrounds, 36 Green Road, Waterford. This is a 21-plus event, and is BYOB. Cost is $10 per person. For more information, please call Lisa Scribner at 890-7669.

Community Band welcomes new members

The Bridgton Community Band welcomes new members to its practices this summer at Stevens Brook Elementary School, held at 7 p.m. The next practice will be on July 27. New players are invited, and there is no age criteria for players. If you are a student looking to play during the school break, a summer visitor, or a ready-to-be-born-again wind player, come along and join in the fun. If you have questions call Bob at 647 5266. If you need help getting yourself and/or that instrument ready for a joyful noise, call Bob. He and other band members can help you with small problems or put you in touch with professional repairmen and teachers.

Chamber music series offers gems with Jewish Roots HARRISON — The third concert of the Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival’s 43rd summer series, Jewish Roots, will be performed on Tuesday, July 28, at 7:30 p.m. at Deertrees Theatre in Harrison.

This is the surprise concert of the season, in a series where audiences have come to expect hearing some rarely performed gems. Music Director Laurie Kennedy has chosen works by five Jewish composers. To quote Michael White, one of the composers: “In their long history, the Jewish people have always expressed their deepest emotions through music.

At times exciting and joyous, at other times mournful and tragic, their music has always been intense and passionate.”

Program details are as follows: Michael White’s Songs of My People for string trio (2012) sets the atmosphere for the evening. Stunning arrangements of six traditional Jewish songs range from a Chassidic Nigun from the ghettos of 18th century Poland to Jerusalem of Gold, a well-known Israeli song, composed by a young girl in the early days of the State of Israel, to a Children’s Marching Game from the 15th-century Sephardic period.

They will be performed by Gerry Itzkoff, violinist from Cincinnati Symphony; Laurie Kennedy, principal violist of the Portland Symphony; and Eliot Bailen, principal cellist and assistant director of the New York Chamber Ensemble.

Eliot Bailen’s Perhaps a Butterfly for flute, strings and voices (2010) continues the theme of Jewish expression, particularly the children’s expression. Eliot is best known to SLLMF audiences as a cellist, performing with the Festival since 1994. In NYC he is also a well-known composer and producer of children’s music, and the founding director of Song to Symphony, a school residency program

which facilitates and presents original musicals by children.

Eliot was deeply moved by the art and poems of 15,000 children, incarcerated at the Nazi concentration camp in Terezin, of whom only 93 survived. He set four of their poems to music: Home, It All Depends, The Butterfly, and Dusk. Bailen explains, “The butterfly was the children’s frequent symbol for the freedom which they were denied.”

Featured artist is mezzosoprano Thea Lobo, hailed as “impeccable,” “stunning” and “Boston’s best.” Eliot is joined by his wife, popular SLLMF flutist Susan Rotholz, violist Laurie Kennedy, UCLA violin professor, Movses Pogossian and the Bailen’s daughter, Julia, singing the child soprano part.

The three living composers on this program explore ways that the Jewish people, at different times in history, have expressed themselves through music. Ernest Bloch and Gustav Mahler, revered composers of the last century, were influenced by their Jewish heritage. Listening to their compositions, juxtaposed with traditional Jewish songs and dances, one can hear a clear connection.

Bloch’s Concertino for flute, viola and piano (1950) is a showcase for all three instruments, beginning with flowing Jewish-sounding melodies, and ending with a “fugue humoresque” that evolves into a tongue-in-cheek polka.

Maine pianist Yuri Funahashi, on the faculty at Colby College and pianist with the Festival Chamber Music Society of NYC, joins Rotholz and Kennedy for the Concertino.

Mahler is best known for his massive symphonies, but in his early years as a concert pianist, he did compose a few chamber works. His warm, dark, mysterious Piano Quartet in A Minor (1876) will be performed by Funahashi,

Pogossian, Kennedy and Bailen.

The grand finale of Jewish Roots is Paul Schoenfield’s Trio for clarinet, violin and piano (1990), an exuberant piece based on chassidic songs and dance tunes. The trio opens with a freylakh (Yiddish for “festive”), a popular dance from the klezmer tradition, followed by a swaggering march, also with a klezmer flavor. Next is another chassidic nigun (also heard in Songs of My People), which is an improvised prayer with passionate outbursts, and finally a frantic Kozatske, which was originally a Ukrainian dance of the Cossacks, but, over time,

became a part of Jewish chassidic tradition. Wild and joyful music ends the celebration of centuries of passionate Jewish music.

This concert is generously sponsored by the Sam L. Cohen Foundation. Tickets are $25 for adults, free for anyone 21 and under. Visit www. sebagomusicfestival.org, the Deertrees Theatre Box Office, Bridgton Books in Bridgton or Books N Things in Norway. To make reservations by phone, call 583-6747. All tickets are for open seating and will be held at the front entrance box office. Tickets are available concert nights starting at 6:45 p.m.

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in the Wood in Intervale, N.H. at 7:30 p.m. The group was named the winner of 2013 Band of the Year from the New England Music Awards. They were also winners of Song, Album and Printmaking classes for kids Producer of the Year for 2012. The concert is a fundraiser for the DENMARK — Artist-in-residence Joanne Gravelin will Believe in Books Literacy Foundation. conduct a printmaking workshop for kids at the Denmark Arts Saturday, July 25 Center from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, July Families, don’t miss out on the free 7 p.m. concert with Rick 27-31. In this class, kids ages 10 and up will explore printCharette & the Bubble Gum Band during Casco Days, in making techniques such as screen printing and relief printing.

Casco Days Park on Route 121. As a singer and songwriter, Rick They’ll learn several fun ways to screen print, including using Charette has been capturing the hearts and spirits of young and their own drawings to create printed images. Kids will also learn old alike with his delightful and inspiring children’s songs. His EVENTS, Page 8B performances blend original contemporary pop music and lyrics with imaginative activities that generate all kinds of audience participation. Following Charette’s concert will be an 8 p.m. perforCheck out our mance by the Halfway Rock Band, new to Casco Days in 2015! selection of FMI: www.cascodays.com The second annual Pleasant Mountain MusicFest will offer eight bands playing over seven hours, with a wide variety of musical styles from noon to 7 p.m. at Shawnee Peak Ski Resort in West Bridgton. It’s a day of great bands, in a great outdoor location, for a great cause — Keeping Bridgton Warm. All proceeds See our ad in the Classified Section benefit the Bridgton Community Center Fuel Bank. The event is sponsored by Norway Savings Bank, the Maine Native American Center and Chandel Associates.

The Deertrees New Repertory Group presents Lettice & 9 to 5 Mon. through Fri., and 9 to 3 on Sat. Lovage, a play by Peter Shaffer, at 7:30 p.m. at Deertrees Theatre 824 Roosevelt Trail, Windham Phone: 207-893-0339 maineflag@hotmail.com in Harrison.

Music with a Mission presents A Night of Broadway: The Reunion Concert at 7 p.m. at the North Windham Union Church, 723 Roosevelt Trail, Windham. This special show will feature local favorites Kelly Caufield, Bryan McLeod, Jennifer McLeod, On the Causeway, Route 302, Naples, Maine and Matthew Small with Daniel Strange, musical director and pianist. Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for students, children and seniors. The church will host a lobster roll dinner for an extra $10 before the show at 5:30 p.m. FMI: 892-7149.

Friday & Saturday, July 24 & 25 Local creators Hio Ridge Dance present “Reasons For Moving,” an evening of dances starting at 7:30 p.m. at the Denmark Arts Center created in collaboration with community members both young and old. Hio Ridge Dance will perform, as well as children who took part in a two-week dance camp.

Lastly, four local ladies over 55 will premiere a work created in DAILY CRUISES through Labor Day a three-month collaboration with Hio Ridge Dancers Cookie and Delaney. FMI: 452-2412.

(207) 693-6861 • www.songoriverqueen.net The Stone Mountain Arts Center on Dugway Road in Brownfield welcomes the comedic brilliance of Paula Poundstone to 8 p.m. shows.

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Concerts on the Village Green in Naples welcomes Brian Curtis Johnson for an evening of easy listening and other songs at 6 p.m. In case of rain, the concert will be held in the vestry of the Naples Methodist Church.

Tuesday, July 28 The third concert of the Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival’s 43rd summer series, Jewish Roots, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. at Deertrees Theatre in Harrison. Featuring rarely-heard gems, the concert will immerse the audience in works by composers both living and dead whose music is intense and passionate, mournful and joyous. FMI: 583-6747, www.sebagolakemusicfestival.org The Milltown Road Show, a four-piece acoustic Americana band, will entertain at the Bradley Park Concert Series from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Bradley Park in Fryeburg. FMI: 441-8170.

Wednesday, July 29 The Bridgton Community Band will present a concert including a variety of music from film and broadway musicals, traditional overtures and marches. Highlighting the recent R.B. Hall Day (Maine’s March King) celebration, the band will feature some of R.B. Hall’s most popular marches. The band is in it’s 77th year, and it is Director Natasha Proctor’s 16th year conducting the band. The band is looking forward to the upcoming Aug. 5 concert, dedicated to Dale and Carol Honaberger, dear friends of the band who died in an accident early this year.

The Met Opera Summer Encore Series presents Aida at 7 p.m. at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center at Fryeburg Academy. Cost is $18 for adults, $15 for seniors or $10 for students. FMI: 935-9232. Thursday, July 30 An Arts Jubilee tradition, the Annual Pops Concert takes place at 7 p.m. at Cranmore Mountain in North Conway, N.H. This year’s concert by the Capital Jazz Orchestra presents a Frank Sinatra Centennial Salute. The first, and possibly the greatest American musical superstar, Sinatra was inarguably one of the most successful, multitalented entertainers of the 20th century.

The 6 p.m. warm-up concert sees the return of the Valley’s own Dennis and Davey. The evening climaxes with fireworks in celebration of Conway’s 250th Anniversary.

Friday, July 31 World-renowned classical pianist and violinist Sevimbike Elibay and Barnhard Hartog will perform in a rare concert appearance at 7:30 p.m. at The Old White Church, 15 Salmon Falls Road, Bar Mills. In addition to their 2003 Carnegie Hall debut, together this brilliant German-American duo has performed in Germany, across Europe, into Asia and in the U.S. Tickets are $23 for adults, $20 for students and seniors. FMI: 929-6472.

Saturday, August 1 The Saco River Theatre welcomes back the Rhythm Future Quartet, four young jazz virtuosos who are rising stars in the world of jazz and Gypsy jazz. The 7:30 p.m. concert will be held at the theatre at 29 Salmon Falls Road, Bar Mills. FMI: 929-6472.

Sunday, August 2 Concerts on the Village Green in Naples welcomes hometown favorite Tux Burke for an evening of 50s and 60s music as well as country tunes at 6 p.m. In case of rain, the concert will be held in the vestry of the Naples Methodist Church.

The renowned Duponte String Quartet will kick off a month-long free concert series by the Mahoosuc Arts Council with a 4 p.m. chamber concert at the United Methodist Church of Bethel, 75 Main Street, Bethel. The quartet is known for bringing to life the human context of each score’s creation. Future concerts on Aug. 9, 16, 23 and 30 will be held on the Bethel Common.

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July 23, 2015, The Bridgton News, Page 5B

Festival activity plentiful this weekend

What: Naples Village Green Summer Fest When: Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Where: The Naples Village Green by the U.S. Post Office and Town Hall Contact: To rent a booth space, contact Merry Watson, 693-6879 or by email napleshs@fairpoint.com

By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES — This region’s summer festivals are as plentiful as the Tiger Lilies, the wild berries and the produce growing in a gardener’s soil.

While many weekend

festivals, such as Casco Days, which takes place this Thursday evening through Saturday night, have been taking place over the span of a few generations, some are just taking root.

Casco Days draws crowds from everywhere in Maine and beyond in addition to operating through the volunteer work of community members.

The Naples Festival for the Arts takes place on the Causeway this Saturday. That juried art show showcases area talent in a multitude of genres. Other retail booths will also be set up on the

Causeway, giving people an opportunity to shop al fresco.

There is one first-timeever event to add to the list of festivities taking place within a 10-mile radius of the neighboring towns.

The idea for the Village Green Summer Fest sprouted as a way to keep people in town for a little bit longer, organizer Merry Watson said.

“This gives people another venue,” she said.

The Village Green provides a safe place for people, especially those with young children, who can play on the lawn or venture over to the playground. It’s the perfect

atmosphere for lawn chairs and a picnic, and there will be live music, she said. Parking should be ample since the vendors will leave close parking spaces open, and the Post Office closes at noon.

Watson is hoping the activities will pique people’s attention as they pass through Naples.

“It will be a mixture of things,” she said.

About 20 people have already committed to setting up booths for the event. There will be handmade crafts, jewelry, Linden boards made by a business from Denmark, and yard sale items and bake sale

goodies sold to fundraise for local groups like the Edes Falls Sewing Circle.

The Village Green Summer Fest is being sponsored by the Naples Historical Society, of which Watson is president. Local businessman Walt Bannon, who runs the Antique Bottle and Glass Museum on the green, plans to pick up his guitar and he has invited some musicallyinclined friends.

The jam session is on rain or shine.

“I will set up a tent: a 10’ by 10’ protective cover underneath the elm tree,” he said. “I have been letting musicians I

know to show up,” he said.

Bannon plays the guitar, the penny whistle, the flute, and the Irish drum. His son will join him, too. And, in a promise almost sent from heaven, a local harp player may show up sometime during the day.

“We are trying to keep people in Naples. That is what we are hoping, that people will come up to the green and see what is there,” he said.

The music tent is open to all ages.

“We could have someone sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” or something,” Bannon said.

Once Around the Lake makes splash in Lakes Region A rare gathering of six loons… a few wise snapping turtles… a hungry moose… a blue heron with attitude — that’s a motley crew of “neighbors!”

Susan Golder’s newly-published children’s book, Once Around the Lake, takes little listeners and early readers on a playful adventure with young paddler, Odie, and his frisky friend, Max. Together, they explore a quiet lake’s shores and coves and discover the wonders of nature, the joy of friendship, and some pretty interesting facts about the creatures that hang out on

the lake!

Dr. Susan Golder, the book’s author, will share a reading of Once Around the Lake at the Greater Lovell Land Trust’s Family Fun Day at the Heald and Bradley Ponds Reserve on Saturday, Aug. 1, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The reading will be just one of many fun-filled events and activities for the whole family designed to celebrate the wonders of nature and the role of humans in caring for it. A portion of the proceeds of books sold that day will benefit the Greater Lovell Land Trust.

Susan is no stranger to the

lakes and mountains region where the story is set. She has lived on Keewaydin Lake in Stoneham for the past 20 years, where nature and one’s connection to it has often been a focus for her writing. She is a former teacher, writing coach, and director of Curriculum, Instruction and Professional Development with a master’s and a doctoral degree in Educational Leadership.

Susan is passionate about the value of the “outdoor” classroom in children’s lives.

“The adventures of boat-loving Odie and his best-ever skipper Max encourage kids

to get out and play and to discover the lessons that nature provides.” To develop “wonderment” about nature, Golder believes “it’s important to slow down and take time to observe our surroundings… kind of like the turtles do in the story!”

Once Around the Lake is available for purchase at Bridgton Books, Harvest Gold Gallery in Lovell and Amazon.com. Visit www. susanwoodsgolder.com for free “around the camp” coloring downloads, activities and “fun-facts” about Odie’s intriguing lake neighbors.

Novelist Gerry Boyle to speak in Lovell LOVELL — Crime novelist Gerry Boyle will speak at the Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library’s annual meeting set for Tuesday, July 28, at 7 p.m.

After a short “State of the Library, board president Dell Foss will present this year’s slate of trustees. After the vote, Dell will introduce guest speaker, author Gerry Boyle.

Gerry Boyle is a crime novelist and creator of the acclaimed Jack McMorrow

mystery series, as well as the Brandon Blake crime novels, all set in Maine.

Like many crime novelists, Boyle began his writing career in newspapers — a place he calls the best training ground ever. After attending Colby College, he knocked around at various jobs, including stints as a roofer, a postman and a manuscript reader at a big New York publisher. He began his newspaper career in the paper mill town of Rumford. There was

a lot of small-town crime in Rumford and Gerry would later mine his Rumford time for his first novel, Deadline.

After a few months, he moved on to the Morning Sentinel in Waterville, where editors gave him a thriceweekly column. He wrote about the stuff he saw in police stations, courtrooms and in the towns and cities of Maine. All the while, he was also typing away on a SmithCorona electric typewriter, writing Deadline, which was

published in 1993. Since Deadline, he has written eight additional Jack McMorrow stories with a 10th, Once Burned, recently released.

Boyle is also a regular contributor to Down East magazine.

Boyle is an entertaining speaker and will be available after the talk to sign books.

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An American Sign Language interpreter will be present.

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Wow, Lovell, what an Old Home Days Lovell

Wow, what an Old Home Days — from the barbecue on Friday night, watching the runners in the 5K race to the wonderful parade. You have to admit that Lovell really puts on a great parade for a small town.

As for the grand marshals, we all have to agree that in no way does Fred Mitchell look 90, and loved that pink hat, Ruth. All the booths by the different organizations in town kept the folks busy. The Lovell Lions Club did their best to feed the crowd. The music from the Blue Willow Band was great. The Old Home Days Committee did another great job of organizing this year.

Just a short note about the traffic that went through the village during the race. It was not the committee’s fault.

There were detours all over the place, but drivers ignored them and were too ignorant to slow down for the runners. So the committee felt the wrath of the folks in the village yelling at them. As I always say, there are people, and then there are other people.

In a large crowd of runners in the 5K, the men’s winner was once again Silas Eastman; for the ladies, the winner was Fryeburg Academy student Emily Carty.

The Charlotte Hobbs

Memorial Library Annual Meeting will take place on Tuesday, July 28, at 7 p.m.

After a brief “State of the Library” update, the guest speaker will be author Gerry Boyle. Gerry is a true Mainer who just happens to be a crime novelist. He is the author of the Jack McMorrow mystery series, having just completing his 10th, Once Burned, which follows the ex-New York Times writer and his social worker girlfriend Roxanne Masterson as they solve yet another mystery. Boyle has written another crime series set in Portland featuring cop Brandon Blake. He has also just finished writing a crime novel set in Ireland, Dead Samaritan, with his daughter Emily Westbrook. The public is invited to the talk, which will be interpreted in American Sign Language by Margaret Haberman.

The next Greater Lovell Land Trust talk will take place on Wednesday, July 29, at 7:30 p.m. at the library.

The guest speakers will be Brian Fox and Hedi Dikeman, talking about longtime resident John Fox and his life in Lovell.

The Land Trust’s next walk will take place on Thursday, July 30, from 10 a.m. to noon. Those planning to take part should meet

at the library and carpool to and from Sabattus Road to Slab City Road. Walking through woods without seeing anything but woods is a novelty today. This walk on private land is an outstanding opportunity to see nature in its undisturbed state. It’s an easy walk, but don’t forget the water.

Bonny Boatman will give her wonderful talk about The Uncommon Common Loons on Friday, July 31, at the library starting at 1 p.m.

Anyone who has boated or spent time on Kezar Lake has heard or seen the loons.

Their life is very interesting, and Bonny knows it well. It’s a great program for the children.

Believe it or not, we are now entering August. The 10th Annual Tour de Lovell Bike Race will take place on Saturday, Aug. 1, covering 21.3 miles of beautiful scenery in Lovell. Hosted and organized by the Lovell

Recreation Department, the race starts and finishes at the New Suncook School, with an 8 a.m. starting time. It’s time to sign up — there are three categories and divisions for the riders. All this information is available on race brochures set out in places around town.

The Lovell Historical Society will be having a Historic House Tour on Sunday, Aug. 2, from 1 to 4 p.m. The four houses included in the tour are the Eastman Hill, Daisy Mountain Inn, Farnham Farm and the Hutchins-Walker House.

There will be a signup sheet at the Kimball-Stanford House beginning at 11 a.m. There is a $20 registration fee. After the tour is completed, there will be a cocktail party at the Pleasant Point Inn at 4 p.m.

This is another fun fundraiser put together by the historical society. It gives many of the folks in town an opportunity to see some of the history in Lovell and then enjoy

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BRIDGTON Thur., July 23 — Great Blue Herons, 10 a.m., Maine Lakes Science Center, Willett Rd. FMI: 647-8580.

Thur., July 23 — Dry-sand Casting, metalworking workshop, 3-5 p.m., Narramissic, Ingalls Rd. FMI: 647-3699.

Thur., July 23 — Children’s Hour, tour & activity, 3 p.m., Rufus Porter Museum, No. High St.

Thur., July 23 — Chamber After Hours, 5-7 p.m., Packard Barn, 95 Sanborn Grove Rd. Fri., Sat., July 24, 25 — Annual Gigantic Church Yard Sale, 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days, First Congregational Church, 33 So. High St. Rain or shine. FMI: 671-2678.

Fri., July 24 — Dragonflies program, 1 p.m., Maine Lake Science Center, Willett Rd. FMI: 647-8580.

Fri., July 24 — Making Herbal Vinegar, 1-4 p.m., Stevens Brook Elementary School. FMI: 647-2828.

Fri., July 24 — Rufus Porter Inventions, 1-4 p.m., Stevens Brook Elementary School. FMI: 647-2828.

Fri., July 24 — Joy of Singing, 3 p.m., Community Center.

Sat., July 25 — Summer Trail Maintenance, Ledges Trails, meet

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The Lewis Dana Hill Memorial Library will be holding a fun event in conjunction with their 70th anniversary on Thursday, Aug. 6, at 7 p.m. on the library grounds. The committee will be pitching a tent and their entertainment will be pitching some jokes and funny stories.

These former law enforcement officers, John Ford and Mark Nickerson, prove there is humor in the profession they followed. Telling stories about incidents that had them laughing will have the audience laughing too. Both men are Mainers and both are authors.

The Dave Mason Greater Kezar Lake Tennis Tournament will take place from Friday to Sunday, Aug. 7-9, on courts around town.

The events to be played are Men’s Singles, Men’s and Women’s Doubles, Mixed Doubles and Junior Single (16). This is a tournament open to only residents of Lovell, Stow, Sweden and Stoneham and their guests, as well as previous participants.

It is expected that those who sign up will respect the other players by planning to play the entire tournament. The first to sign up will make the list, but special priority will

be given to those who sign up as a team for double events.

Registration will be closed at noon on Tuesday, Aug. 4.

There is an entry fee of $5 per event, with two events being the maximum. The committee is hoping that more women and teens sign up and find out what a wonderful experience it is.

To register, contact Tournament Director Gary Heroux at 925-1001, Elliot Lillien at 925-2828 or Jim Carty, Junior Tournament manager, at 647-8478. Once again, Jim and Maureen from the Stow Corner Store have stepped up to the net and sponsored the tournament.

There will be an Appreciation Dinner for Albert Fox at the Waterford Fire Station, 366 Valley Road, Waterford, on Saturday, July 25, from 5 to 7 p.m. Folks from Stoneham, Lovell, and Waterford are getting together and throwing Albert a party.

They want to show how grateful they are for all that he has done through the years.

The menu is ham, beans, casseroles, salads, dessert and beverages. Tickets are $10.

If any organization has any events in August they want included in the column, please send them to ehurst3@ yahoo.com to get them on the list next week.

7:45 a.m. at trailhead, Mountain Rd. FMI: 647-4352.

Sat., July 25 — Understanding Antique Homes with Les Fossel, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Stevens Brook Elementary School. FMI: 6472828.

Sun., July 26 — Talk by missionaries Shawn and Becky McCabe, 9:30 a.m., Bridgton Alliance Church, Rte. 117. FMI: 647-2027.

Mon.-Fri., July 27-31 — Vacation Bible School, 6 to 8:30 p.m., Alliance Church. FMI: 6472027.

Mon., July 27 — Public Swearing-in of new Police Chief Richard Stillman, 6 p.m., downstairs room, Municipal Complex.

Mon., July 27 — Bridgton Community Band Practice, new members welcome, 7 p.m., Stevens Brook Elementary School. FMI: 647-5266.

Mon., July 27 — Early poems about Bridgton written by local residents, read by Margaret Reimer, 7 p.m., Narramissic Farm, Ingalls Rd. FMI: 647-3699.

Tue., July 28 — St. Joseph Food Pantry, noon to 2 p.m., St. Joseph Church, 225 So. High St. Tue., July 28 — Pokemon Club, 3 p.m., Community Center.

Wed., July 29 — Bridgton Community Band Concert, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., Gazebo at Stevens Brook Elementary School. FMI: 647-5266.

Thur., July 30 — Children’s Hour, 3 p.m., Rufus Porter Museum, No. High St. Thur., July 30 — Fresh locally-sourced vegetables served by Village Folk Festival volunteers at Community Kettle Dinner, 5 p.m., Community Center.

Fri., July 31 — Olde-Tyme Music with Fred and Deb, 6 p.m., Narramissic Farm, Ingalls Rd. Sat., Aug. 1 — “JustWalk” Walk With a Doc, walk with Dr. Peter Leighton, 9 a.m., meet at Pondicherry Park, Bob Dunning Bridge.

Sat., Aug. 1 — Legislator meeting/Phyllis Ginzler, 10 a.m., Community Center.

Sat., Aug. 1 — Free Crochet Classes, 11 a.m. to noon, Bridgton Arts & Crafts, Depot St. Also Aug. 8, 15 & 22. FMI: 515-1764.

BROWNFIELD Sat., July 25 — Brownfield Lions Dance, 8 p.m. to midnight, Lions Den, Rte. 5 & 113.

CASCO Tue., July 28 — Lake Region Writers Group, 5:30 to 7 p.m., library.

Tue., July 28 — Yoga for the Mind: The Work of Byron Katie, 7 to 8:30 p.m., Crooked River Adult Ed. FMI: 627-4291, ext. 21.

Fri., July 31 — Guided Full Moon Paddle, 7 to 10 p.m., register thru Crooked River Adult Ed. FMI: 627-4291, ext. 21.

Fri., July 31 — Free Film Friday, Spare Parts, 6:30 p.m., library.

DENMARK Fri., July 24 — Moderate hike to Nancy Pond, Crawford Notch, N.H., by Denmark Mountain Hikers, meet 8 a.m. at Denmark Congregational Church. FMI: 756-2247.

Sat., July 25 — Ledges Trail work day, meet at Ledges Trail 7:45 a.m.

Sun., July 26 — Dedication of Ora Brine Millstone, 1 p.m., Bicentennial Park. FMI: 4522239.

Mon.-Fri., July 27-31 — Printmaking Classes for Kids, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Denmark Arts Center. FMI: 452-2412.

Fri., July 31 — Moderate 1,000-mile party hike to the Roost and swim in Wild River, Evans Notch, by Denmark Mountain Hikers, meet 8 a.m. at Denmark Congregational Church. FMI: 756-2247.

Fri., July 31 — Guided Full Moon Canoe Paddle, 7 p.m., contact Nurture through Nature.

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Don’t miss the big, big yard sale at First Congo The First Congregational Church of Bridgton’s annual All Church Yard Sale, sponsored by its board of trustees, will take place Friday and Saturday, July 24 and 25, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The sale will be held rain or shine behind the church at 33 South High Street. Bridgton. There is plenty of parking behind the church.

But this is no ordinary yard sale. You can also enjoy a terrific breakfast or lunch both days at the sale.

“We want to encourage everyone to come to the yard sale,” said Trustee Jeff Frey.

“Whether you’re looking for a great bargain or a great breakfast or lunch, we want to see you at the sale. Our food — breakfast sandwiches, hot dogs and hamburgers — is truly delicious.”

Frey said lots of great merchandise has been donated for the church’s largest

fundraiser, including partial estate sale items. New this year is a reserved section that will hold higher-end objects with nonnegotiable prices.

Books, antiques, and sports equipment are examples of other items available for sale.

Proceeds of the yard sale benefit the church’s outreach programs like Jeanette’s Closet, where local families can find no-cost clothing; and the Adopt a Child for Christmas program, that last year benefited nearly 200 Bridgton children.

If you’d like to donate good, gently-used items to the yard sale, you can bring them to the church on Thursday, July 23 after 9 a.m., contact Jeff Frey at jeffreyafrey@ gmail.com at 671-2678, or the church office at 6473936. Pickup of large, highlysaleable items is available. NEW THIS YEAR at the First Congregational Church of Bridgton’s annual Yard Sale will be a reserved section, (Please no TVs, computers or where partial estate sale items will be displayed at nonnegotiable prices. The sale will be held July 24-25 from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at their 33 South High Street location. other electronics.)

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Contest, Silent Auction to benefit library, 4-8 p.m., Links At Laurel Ledge, Oak Rd., park at Church of Nazarene, Rte. 114. FMI: 7872321.

Mon., July 27 — Maple Grove Grange, potluck 6 p.m., meeting 7 p.m., 403 Bridgton Rd. (Rte. 107). Bring items for Acton Fair exhibit. Visitors welcome.

Tue., July 28 — Sebago Food Pantry, Nazarene Church, Rte. 114, 9-11 a.m. & 5-7 p.m. FMI: 274-1569.

SWEDEN Sun., July 26 — Open Farm Day, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Pietree Orchard.

WATERFORD Sat., July 25 — Appreciation Dinner for Albert Fox, 5-7 p.m., Waterford Fire Station.

Sat., July 25 — Waterford World’s Fair Dance with Montgomery Road, 8 p.m. to midnight, fairgrounds, Green Rd. FMI: 890-7669.

Mon., July 27 — Musical entertainment, 1 to 5 p.m., Waterford Farmers’ Market, Waterford Flat.

Mon., July 27 — Waterford Bridge Group, 6:30 p.m., library.

Mon., Aug. 3 — Socrates Cafe, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., library.

FMI: 583-6957.

AREA EVENTS Thur., July 23 — Adult Summer Reading Program, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, 6:30 p.m., Norway Library, Main St. FMI: 743-5309, ext. 1.

Sat., July 25 — Shaker Village Folk Workshops, Nature Walks, various times, Shaker Village, Rte. 26, New Gloucester.

FMI: 926-4597.

Sat., July 25 — LRHS Class of 1985 Reunion, 7:30 p.m., Dena’s Lobsterhouse, No. Windham.

Sun., July 26 — Open Farm Day, noon to 4 p.m., Shaker Village, Rte. 26, New Gloucester.

FMI: 926-4597.

Sun., July 26 — “What We wore: Fashion & History, 18391965,” 2:30 p.m., Bell Hill Meetinghouse, Bell Hill Rd., Otisfield. FMI: 539-2521.

Mon., July 27 — In Search of the Cumberland & Oxford Canal, 7 p.m., Windham Veterans Center, No. Windham. FMI: 8921306.

Wed., July 29 — Making Strides Against Breast Cancer kickoff rally and informational meeting, 5:30 to 7 p.m., No. Conway Community Center.

FMI: 603-370-8382.

Thur., July 30 — Farmers Market & Open House, 5-8 p.m., Maine Wildlife Park, Rte. 26, Gray.

Sat., Aug. 1 — L.L.Bean hands-on camping demos, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Maine Wildlife Park, Rte. 26, Gray. FMI: 5570118.

Sat., Aug. 1 — Re-creation of vintage Massachusetts Essex vs. Maine Dirigo baseball game

by Cornish Historical Society, 1 p.m., Cornish Fairgrounds. FMI: 625-3281, 625-3095.

Sun., Aug. 2 — Uptown Cruizahs Car Show, register 7:30 to 11 a.m., awards 2 p.m., New Balance, Rte. 26, Oxford. FMI:

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Narcotics Anonymous, 7 p.m. Bridgton Community Center, 15 Depot St. ODLH SATURDAYS Bridgton Farmers’ Market, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Depot St., beside Community Center.

Sebago Clothes Closet, 9 a.m. to noon, Warming Hut, Rte. 114, Sebago, next to Nazarene Church.

Ongoing Craft & Yard Sale, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Waterford Grange, Rte. 35, thru summer.

AA Meeting, O/BB/D/A/L, 7 to 8 p.m., Lovell Church of Christ, 1174 Main St., Lovell.

Al-Anon, 7 to 8 p.m., Lovell Church of Christ, 1174 Main St., Lovell.

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

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Table Tennis, Bridgton Town Hall, cancelled until repairs completed.

Free Community Kettle Supper, 5 p.m., Bridgton Community Center.

Bingo, doors open 5:30 p.m., early birds 6:30 p.m., regular play 7 p.m., St. Joseph Church, 225 So. High St. Thru Aug. 20.

Chickadee Quilters, 6:30 p.m. Community Center.

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

NA Women’s Meeting, 7 to 8 p.m., St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Sweden Rd., Bridgton.

FRIDAYS Ongoing Craft & Yard Sale, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Waterford Grange, Rte. 35, thru summer.

Harrison Farmers’ Market, 1 to 5 p.m., Rte. 117, Bridgton side of Village.

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Alcoholics Anonymous, noon to 1 p.m., St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Sweden Rd., Bridgton.

O/D Kids Summer Food Program, noon to 1 p.m. weekdays, Bridgton Community Center, Highland Lake Beach, Sawyer Circle and Woods Pond, Bridgton.

MONDAYS Sebago Food Pantry, 9-11 a.m., Nazarene Church, Rte. 114.

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Free Tai Chi in the Park, 9 a.m., Bicentennial Park, Denmark.

Bridge, 1 p.m., Bradley St., Fryeburg. Runs year-round.

Cribbage, 2 p.m., Bridgton Community Center.

Waterford Farmers’ Market, 2-5 p.m., corner Rtes.

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Coed Adult Basketball, 6 to 7:45 p.m., Harrison Elementary School. FMI: 583-2241.

Narcotics Anonymous, 7 p.m. Bridgton Community Center, 15 Depot St. ODLH Bridgton Band Practice, newcomers welcome, 7 p.m., Elementary School, Bridgton.

FMI: 647-5266.

Narcotics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Clyde Bailey Center, Rte. 302, Casco.

TUESDAYS Jeanette’s Free Clothing Closet, 9 to 11:30 a.m., First Congregational Church, Bridgton.

Chickadee Quilters, 9:30 a.m., Bridgton Community Center.

Naples Food Pantry, 10 to 11:30 a.m., United Methodist Church, Village Green. FMI: 5952754.

Bridgton Food Pantry, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Methodist Church, 98 Main St., Bridgton. FMI: 6474476.

Bridge, 12:15 p.m., Bridgton Community Center.

Harrison Food Pantry, 6 to 7:30 p.m., Adventist Church, 2 Naples Rd. FMI: 583-6178.

Adult Volleyball, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Brownfield Community Center.

AA Step Mtgs., 7 p.m., Clyde Bailey Center, Rte. 302, Casco.

Al-Anon, 7:30 p.m., St. Joseph Church, 225 High St., Bridgton.

WEDNESDAYS Gathering Place Support Group, noon, Bridgton Community Center.

Senior Lunch, noon, Bridgton Community Center.

Lovell Farmers’ Market, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., beside Wicked Good Store, Rte. 5.

Harrison Historical Society Museum & Farmhouse, open for tours 1-4 p.m. thru. Aug. 26, Haskell Hill Rd. Also open Sat., Aug. 1. FMI: 583-2213.

MOAL Cruise Nights, 5-8 p.m., Mack’s Place, 224 Portland Rd., thru Sept. 16, weather permitting. FMI: 935-3548.

Over 40 Pickleball, 5:30 to 7 p.m., Harrison Elementary School. FMI: 583-2241.

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

Pickleball, 7 p.m., Casco Community Center Gym. FMI: 627-4187.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 to 8 p.m., Clyde Bailey Center, Rte. 302, So. Casco.

THURSDAYS AA Ladies Step-Meeting, 7 a.m. & 7 p.m., Clyde Bailey Center, Rte. 302, So. Casco.

Casco Farmers’ Market, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., rain or shine, Village Green.

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

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HARRISON Sat., July 25 — Texas Hold ‘Em Tournament, doors open noon, play at 1 p.m., VFW Hall, Waterford Rd. Sat., Aug. 1 — Historic Demos of logging, portable saw mills, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Intervale Preserve entrance, Scribner’s Mill Rd. Sat., Aug. 1 — Book Club for Adults, 2 p.m., library.

LOVELL Fri., July 24 — Hometown Heroes, forest rangers & Smokey the Bear, 10 a.m., library.

Fri., July 24 — Using Studio Practice, talk by artist Sarah Baldwin, 7 p.m., library.

Sat., July 25 — Book signing

by Bil & Sue Mosca of Passing Along Our Dream, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., library.

Tue., July 28 — Annual Meeting, 7 p.m., library, talk by crime author Gerry Boyle.

Wed., July 29 — Talk on the legendary John Fox by Brian Fox and Heidi Dikeman, 7:30 p.m., library.

Thur., July 30 — GLLT walk to explore old mills & sporebearing plants, 10 a.m. to noon, Heald/Bradley Ponds Preserve, meet at parking lot on Slab City Rd. Fri., July 31 — Loons with Bonny Boatman, 1 p.m., library.

Sat., Aug. 1 — Tour de Lovell Bike Race, starts 8 a.m., New Suncook School.

Sat., Aug. 1 — Family Fun Day, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Heald/ Bradley Ponds Preserve, reading

by Susan Golder of Once Around the Lake.

Sun., Aug. 2 — Historic House Tour, 1-4 p.m., starts 11 a.m. from Kimball-Stanford House.

NAPLES Sat., July 25 — Village Green Summer Fest, craft/bake sale, anything goes, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Village Green.

Sat., July 25 — Naples Lions Club Songo River Queen II Cruise w/Golden Oldies music, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., leaves from Causeway. FMI: www.songoriverqueen.net Mon., July 27 — Summer Youth Program for grades 5-9, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Cornerstone Gospel Church, Rte. 35. Lunch provided. FMI: 803-2199.

Tue., July 28 — American Red Cross Blood Drive, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., 3 to 5 p.m., library.

FMI: 693-6841.

Sat., Aug. 1 — Friends of NPL, 10 a.m., library.

RAYMOND Sun., July 26 — Fun Knitting/ Crocheting, 1-3 p.m., library.

Mon., July 27 — Super Hero Police Show, 10:30 a.m., library.

Thur., Juy 30 — Book Group, 7 p.m., Hawthorne House.

SEBAGO Sat., July 25 — Putting

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Kate’s fame noted by southern reader Nick Bell from North Carolina called me to say that he was very proud of Kate Hall. He was a Lake Region High School graduate in 1979. His dad was Alton Bell. Mack and Ada Rollins and Debbie Bell are his uncle and aunts. He hasn’t been to Maine for many years, but catches up with The Bridgton News.

Condolences to Bonnie and James Canfield at the

passing of his daughter Terri.

She was taken too soon to heaven. She will be missed greatly by family and friends.

Casco Days, always a popular attraction, is set for Thursday through Saturday, July 23-25. The Midway opens at 6 p.m. Thursday with fireworks at 9:30 p.m.

Friday there’s a Chicken Barbecue at 5 p.m. before the Midway opens at 6 p.m., and the Children’s Parade

starts at 7 p.m. Saturday starts with an 8 a.m. Pancake Breakfast for Project Graduation 2016, followed by the Road Race at 9:30 a.m. The Midway opens at 10 a.m. Saturday, and the Grand Parade starts at 1 p.m.

The Midway reopens at 6 p.m., and Rick Charette and the Bubblegum Band perform at 7 p.m.

The Edes Falls Sewing Circle’s next endeavor is the

Naples

summer sale on the Village Green this Saturday, July 25, when they’ll be selling baked goods and handmade items from 9 a.m. to

by Cheryl Harmon 2 p.m. We will be sharing Naples Correspondent the Green with lots of other crafters, too. The space rent207-210-7337 al fee benefits the Naples scoopharmon01@gmail.com Historical Society’s efforts to keep their museum up to snuff. So come find us, your raffle tickets for our songs. If it decides to rain, as you peruse all the tables. beautiful quilt and match- the concert will move into Also, don’t forget to get ing pillows. Cost is $1 a the Methodist Church vesticket, or six for $5. The try. drawing for the quilt will be A bus trip is offered to held at our Ho Ho Sale in the Greenville International November. Even if you are Fly In Weekend on Saturday, from out of this area, we will Sept. 12, including a get it to you if you win. cruise on The Katadin on A Pig Roast will be held Moosehead Lake. Cost is on Sunday, Aug. 9, at the $62 per person. The bus will American Legion Post #155 arrive at the Legion at 7 in Naples. Tickets are avail- a.m. after picking up earlier in Westbrook. There will be able at the Post.

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POPULAR VIEW — Don’t forget Casco Days this weekend, July 23-25, in Casco Village.

Service to showcase restoration OTISFIELD — The 102nd consecutive summer service will be held Sunday, July 26, at 2:30 p.m. at the 1839 at the Bell Hill Meetinghouse in Otisfield, at the top of Bell Hill Road. This year’s program is titled “What We Wore: Fashion and History, 1839-1965.”

Written and choreographed by Polly Bartow, the program will feature models from the 3rd Maine, as well as several girls from Camp Arcadia. Most of the outfits worn will be vintage garments, some brought down from Otisfield attics, with a few faithful reproductions.

The clothing ranges from 1860s bloomers to a 1960s mod miniskirt ensemble. As the models parade up and down the aisles, Polly will explain why they wore what they did, and what was going on in Otisfield at the time.

The program will also feature special music by

how to easily make stamps and print multicolor lino-cuts. The class will culminate in a collaboratively-created backdrop for the Dam Jam, which will then be on view on Saturday, Aug. 1, at that event. This class is a great opportunity for children to explore their creative sides while learning a new technique. Visit denmarkarts.org or call 452-2412 to sign up. Cost is $50, and scholarships are available.

In Search of Cumberland & Oxford Canal

WINDHAM — The Windham Historical Society will present a program titled “In Search of the Cumberland an Oxford Canal” at 7 p.m. Monday, July 27, at the Windham Veterans Center, North Windham. There’s a $5 suggested donation, and refreshments will be served. Find out where the canal can be seen today, and where it went in the 1800s. Call 892-1306 for more information.

American Red Cross Blood Drive

NAPLES — An American Red Cross Blood Drive will be at Naples Public Library, 940 Roosevelt Trail, Naples, on Tuesday, July 28, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 to 5 p.m.

Make your appointment at 1-800-Red Cross or online at the library. Upon your arrival, please register in the foyer. Library hours are Tuesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Wednesday from 2 to 7 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information, call 693-6841.

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It took over 500 gallons of water and three consecutive coats of plaster this spring to restore the lofty curved ceiling at the Bell Hill Meetinghouse in Otisfield. The complicated work, which required heating the large space and letting each coat dry completely, was funded by an extraordinary anonymous gift, and the results are dazzling.

jazz pianist Dale Churchill the start of the service, Jim bell, and Ken Bartow will and soprano Chris Reid. At Washburn will ring the old follow with the invocation.

Following the service, an ice cream social will take Organic & Local Groceries…And More place on the common outside.

Soups & Sandwiches And next door, in the 1839 Bulk Bins, Spices & Teas schoolhouse, Ann Johnstone has set up a large display Fresh Local Breads & Produce of old photos, many from Fine Beer and Wine, Gluten-Free the archives of the Otisfield Hot Organic Coffees & Baked Goods Historical Society showing Friendly Atmosphere ✮ Great Prices Otisfielders and a few other dressed in the 17 Portland St. (Rte. 113) • Fryeburg • 207-347-1703 individuals same styles featured in the Where you don’t have to be Mon-Sat 8am-6pm; Sun 10am-3pm & Thurs to 7pm day’s fashion parade.

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GRAY — A Farmers Market will be offered within the boundaries of the Maine Wildlife Park from 5 to 8 p.m.

Thursday, July 30, and admission to the Route 26 park in Gray will be free during this time. A variety of local farmers and food vendors will be on hand to sell their local foods, crafts and other products. In addition, the Friends of the Maine Wildlife Park will be offering a hot dog and burger barbecue, with all proceeds supporting the wildlife park. On Saturday, Aug. 1, outdoors staff from L.L.Bean will offer hands-on camping demonstrations for families from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. They’ll also have raffles and information about Bean’s Outdoor Discovery School Adventures. For more information, call 557-0118.

Crochet lessons at Bridgton Arts & Crafts

Learn to crochet baby hats with free crochet lessons at the Bridgton Arts and Craft Store on Depot Street. The lessons will be held from 11 a.m. to noon on Wednesdays starting Aug. 1, and continue on Aug. 8, 15 and 22. The first lesson will be making baby hats, and you’ll need crochet hook F or G, one skein yarn, any color (Simple Soft by Caron suggested) or any baby-weight yarn. Sign up at the store, or call Pam at 515-1764.

Donations welcome.

Socrates Café Aug. 3 in Waterford

WATERFORD — The Socrates Café will meet Monday, Aug. 3, at the Waterford Library from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The topic will be, “What Characteristics Would You Choose For Mt. Rushmore’s Fifth President?” The café will be moderated

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July 23, 2015, The Bridgton News, Page 1C

WINNERS of the 11th annual Lovell Old Home Days 5K were Emily Carty and Silas Eastman.

(Photo by Pam Bliss)

Eastman sets Lovell 5K mark

LOVELL — Throughout the 11 years of the Lovell Old Home Days 5K, only three runners — David Hunt, Tim Even and Silas Eastman — have won the top prize.

This year, the tradition continued with Silas Eastman of Chatham, N.H., winning his fifth consecutive contest.

Silas, who will be entering his junior year at Colby College, set a course record with an impressive time of 15 minutes 30 seconds. The overall field was competitive as the top 12 runners all had sub-20 minute times.

This year’s race saw a young local runner win the overall female title. Emily Carty, 14, from Sweden, finished with a time of 20:36.

Both Eastman and Carty received awards designed by Conway glassblower, Nathan Macomber.

In addition to the top-performing runners, the Lovell 5K every year attracts participants who have never run in an event. It was great to see Kevin Freeman, Dianne MorseLeonard, Jordan Dutton, Drue Stern, Peter Stern and Carter Stern all smiling as they approached the last quarter mile.

At 80 years young, John Howe of Waterford was this year’s oldest finisher.

As always, Fryeburg Academy was well-represented with many students and coaches, both past and present.

Race proceeds are evenly split between the Lovell Recreation Department and the Old Home Days Parade.

The event would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors: Norway Savings Bank, Midtown Marketing Services, Muddy Moose Restaurant, Fieldstone Landscaping, Bennett Transportation, Bliss & Associates, Harvest Gold Gallery, Michael Friedman, Esq., Ski Sundries, JB Storage, Chet Rogers, Thurston Home Builders, Lovell Hardware, Dr. N. Scott Ferguson, North Conway Dental Associates, Rosie’s Lovell Village Store, Bob OLD HOME DAYS 5K, Page 3C

Older Lifestyles About the Writer: With these articles, Clay wishes to share a little of his story, as well as encourage and help older adults to have an active lifestyle.

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By Clay Johnson Guest Writer For the most part, active children, teens and young adults do not need to do a lot of special training to prepare for hiking. Those guys just lace up their boots, strap on the backpack and hike.

Now if your body is more mature, it takes a different approach.

If you have hiked the mountains around here, you know it is not a walk down Main Street. There are roots, streams, ledges and boulders to navigate. Your steps (weight) will not always be in a straight line. You will put pressure on the inside, outside, upside, downside of all of your muscles and joints. You will have to be prepared to step higher and longer than normal and may need to balance a few moments on one foot before completing the step. In some places you will find a need to scramble on all fours and pull or push yourself over or under barriers.

To meet these challenges, stay safe and have fun, you will need strength, flexibility, balance and endurance.

I am 71 years old with 50 years experience training people for physical activity. This is an attempt to help that same age group develop the strength for hiking. At this stage in my life, I tend to do exercises that utilize my own body weight plus a few more pounds (via light dumb bells, kettlebells, and elastic bands) along with something to step on and jump off of.

This is my general approach.

• Incorporate as many muscle groups as possible in every exercise.

• Move through a full range of motion. This requires an understanding of what each muscle and joint is supposed to do.

• Push and pull. Muscles work in pairs; work both sides equally.

• Use slow controlled repetitions (6-8 seconds), • Push and pull from various angles.

• Step side to side, high and wide.

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A hometown salute

Casco, fans honor track national champion Kate Hall HERO’S WELCOME — In a few weeks, Kate Hall will be turning the page on her track career when she heads to Iowa State University. But before she moves on, her hometown of Casco last Friday honored her accomplishments as a state champion in both indoor and outdoor high school track, as well as national champion in the long jump. Escorted to the Casco Community Center aboard an antique fire truck, Kate received a loud ovation from friends, family and fans, who lined Main Street wearing white t-shirts with Kate’s winning mark of 22-5. She was interviewed by WGME sports anchor Dave Eid as part of a live broadcast. Kate then was ushered inside the town gym, where Holly Hancock read a long list of records and accomplishments, followed by a few remarks from Matt Hancock, who unveiled a white stripe along the basketball floor sideline. 22 feet, 5 inches away were blue shoe prints with Kate’s name, commemorating her historic jump.

Kate spent several minutes signing her autograph on the back of fans’ 22-5 t-shirts.

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SATURDAY, JULY 25 Casco Days Country Run, 37th year Starting time: 9:30 a.m.

Website: www.cascodays.com Come run our 4.0 mile foot race and then enjoy the fun and festivities of Casco Days! This race is sponsored by the Casco Fire Association.

Registration will be taken the day of the race between 7:30 and 8:30 a.m. at the Casco Community Center on Route 121 in Casco Village. All contestants are required to check in at registration prior to the start of the race, even if they are preregistered. The first 250 preregistrants ($18 fee) will receive a Casco Days Road Race t-shirt.

Awards are given to the top two female and male race winners, and to all category winners and runners up.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 1 Tour de Lovell bike race will be held at 8 a.m.

Register online at www.bikereg.com.

The Tour is a scenic 21.3-mile bike ride through the town of Lovell. Sponsored by the Lovell Recreation Department, the Tour has three categories: Road (Performance-Racing Bicycle), Touring (MountainComfort Bicycle) and Kid’s Tour (Under 14-all bicycles). The Road and Touring categories will have age groups and gender divisions.

Course: The 21.3-mile out and back course begins at New Suncook School on Route 5, travels north to Route 5A, back onto Route 5 through North Lovell to the turnaround and heads back to the finish line. Along the way, cyclists will encounter beautiful vistas of the White Mountains as well as challenging terrain.

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THEY DIDN’T LET A LITTLE RAIN DAMPEN THEIR SPIRITS OR EFFORTS at the Sebago Days Fun Run Saturday morning. Left, Kevin Kavanaugh and Katie Kavanaugh approach the finish line, while Barry Woodbury is ready to glide home.

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Martin, Noble glide in rain

SEBAGO DAYS FAMILY FUN RUN 1. Erik Martin, 12:43 2. Brian Ladd, 12:44 3. Ben Drummond, 13:02 4. Dan Drummond, 13:04 5. Stephen Nickerson, 13:05 6. Brycen Hill, 13:18 7. Anna Noble, 13:37 8. Jordan Piechowski, 13:49 9. Owen Tighe, 13:57 10. Abby Kell, 14:06 11. Greg Sutcliffe-Kell, 14:07 12. Brad Donohue, 14:19 13. Addie Blais, 15:02 14. Ethan Chadwick, 15:42 15. Wesley Martin, 15:51 16. Nicole Lepre, 16:01 17. Arthur Donohue, 16:02 18. Olivia Tighe, 16:03 19. Lauren Noble, 16:05 20. Kimberly Kelly, 16:10 21. Joshua Kenney, 16:18 22. Hannah Chadwick, 16:26 23. Michael Goff, 16:28 24. Shelby-Lynne Sheldrick, 17:15 25. Aiden Bobkowicz, 17:23 26. Pauline Webb, 17:45 27. Peter Webb, 17:46 28. Della Blais, 18:12 29. Molly Christensen, 18:20 30. Samantha Richard, 18:21 31. Brian Kavanaugh, 19:05 32. Tim Donohue, 19:06 33. John Lynch, 19:28 34. Tracey Keenan, 19:44 35. Katie Kavanaugh, 19:55 36. Kevin Kavanaugh, 19:56 37. Colleen Lepre, 20:01 38. Colleen Lougee, 20:03 39. Jeremy Longden, 20:21 40. Helena Sheldrick, 20:27 41. Dave Sheldrick, 20:28 42. Nikki Donohue, 20:39 43. April Frost, 21:10 44. Robin Helfrich, 21:11 RUNNING SIDE BY SIDE are Helena Sheldrick and 45. Mary Noble, 21:22 Dave Sheldrick at Saturday’s Sebago Days Fun Run. 46. Allie Helfrich, 21:44

Land Trust talks, walks LOVELL — Talks and walks continue at the Greater Lovell Land Trust.

This week’s events include stories about the legendary John Fox and a walk at the Heald/Bradley

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Wednesday, July 29, 7:30 p.m. — The Legendary John Fox, hosted by Brian

Fox and Heidi Dikeman at Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library.

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Ages 50-59 Male - Brian Ladd Female - Pauline Webb Ages 60 & over Male - John Lynch Female - Sharon Osgood Thanks from the Directors Race Directors Marie and Jeff Cutting would like to thank all participants for coming out to brave the elements.

Thanks to volunteers Michele Rowe, Linda Christensen, Maureen Harriman, Harvey Dutil, David Juhlin and Michaela.

Thanks to Ben Mckenney for his donation.

Thank you to the Sebago Days Committee. Thank you to all sponsors: Jordan’s Store, Kurt Christensen Custom Homes, Greg Smith, dba Stone Surface, Osgood Electric, Treehouse Glass Studio, W.F. Treehouses, Inc., Don White & Son Inc., Douglas Hill Orchards, Gemmes Store, Alpha Water Systems, Mayberry Farms and Abrams Hardwood Floors.

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Lovell Old Home Days 5k (Continued from Page 1C) the Screenprinter, Micklon Tree Service and Kezar Realty. Poland Spring, Rosie’s and the Center Lovell Market all contributed to the post-race refreshments.

The AMC, Saucony Shoes, Stow Corner Store, Lake Kezar Country Club, Kezar Lake Marina and the Old Saco Inn provided wonderful prizes for the random awards.

“A big thank you goes to the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office, the Lovell Volunteer Fire Department and to the many volunteers providing support along the course,” Race Director Stan Tupaj said. “A special acknowledgment must be extended to the Lovell Old Home Days Committee for the outstanding job done in putting together not only a first-rate parade, but a great show at the Athletic Field.”

Here’s how they finished: 1. Silas Eastman, 20, Chatham, NH, 15:30 2. Patrick Carty, 17, Sweden, 17:30 3. TJ Rose, 18, Lovell, 17:55 4. Trevor Hope, 23, Lynchburg, VA, 18:22 5. Christian Bedell, 16, Lovell, 18:25 6. Sam Johnson, 32, 18:28 7. Chris Laporte, 44, Bedford, MA, 18:34 8. Gardner Waldren, 33, 18:47 9. Eric Hannes, 18, Fryeburg, 19:22 10. Arno Bommer, 55, Houston, TX, 19:29 11. James Carty, 46, Sweden, 19:34 12. Kyle Manlogon, 16, Amherst, NH, 19:50 13. Alfie Walker, 14, Fryeburg, 20:11 14. Emily Carty, 14, Sweden, 20:36 15. Martin Royle, 41, Lovell, 20:41 16. Clifford Strange, 25, Lovell, 20:57 17. Laura Pulito, 20, Bridgton, 20:59 18. Era Hill, 13, 21:04 19. Rich Hill, 56, 21:06 20. Bill Reilly, 68, Brownfield, 21:24 21. Sara Bradley, 35, Waterford, 21:41 22. Jaidan Turner-Lowry, 11, NC, 22:15 23. Gage Fowler, 17, 22:16 24. William Buick, 57, Chatham, NH, 22:23 25. Josh Rose, 12, Lovell, 22:37 26. Jesse Gildesgame, 24, 22:44 27. William Cla Cryer, 32, FL, 22:53 28. Jim Plunkett, 59, 23:13 29. Alan Sparn, 56, Madison, CT, 23:33 30. Randolph Rowe, 67, MA, 23:54 31. Mary Yearl, 42, Waterford, 23:57 32. Emily Grzyb, 15, 24:00 33. Molly Sebo, 44, Roslindale, MA, 24:57 34. Nicolas Sebo, 44, Roslindale, MA, 24:58 35. Merys Carty, 12, Sweden, 25:02 36. Jeff Stearns, 49, Whitinsville, MA, 25:21 37. David Stearns, 15, 25:26 38. Christine Carlstrom, 53, MA, 25:28 39. Charlie Monroe, 48, Lovell, 25:44 40. Nick Stinson, 44, Gorham, 25:49 41. Emily McDermith, 18, 25:51 42. Deanna Carty, 46, Sweden, 25:56 43. Sarah Ryan, 61, Olympia, WA, 26:28 44. Jaysen Strange, 32, Lovell, 26:48 45. Janice Richert, 47, Lovell, 26:50 46. Anne St. Pierre, 57, 26:52 47. Brooke Booth, 35, MA, 27:08 48. Jenny Hill, 20, Milford, MA, 27:13 49. John Howe, 80, Waterford, 27:16 50. Jennifer Smith, 38, Sweden, 27:19

51. Walter Stinson, 68, Windham, 27:21 52. Bruce Taylor, 66, Lovell, 28:09 53. Nora Hill, 11, 28:15 54. Amelia Bommer, 9, Houston, TX, 28:18 55. Yazi Azel, 23, Lovell, 28:20 56. Jason Candelora, 32, Lovell, 28:23 57. Sherri Walker-Towle, 32, Ctr. Conway, NH, 28:25 58. Alyssa Bommer, 12, Houston, TX, 28:34 59. Drue Stern, 17, Lovell, 28:59 60. Jordan Rowe, 25, 29:00 61. Doug Rowe, 55, Scarborough, 29:05 62. Carol Bell, McLean, VA, 29:11 63. Heath Strange, 26, Brownfield, 29:54 64. Wayne Hadlock, 71, Lovell, 29:57 65. Emma Jo Armington, 16, Lovell, 30:47 66. Sasha Azel, 20, Lovell, 31:13 Charlie Monroe of Lovell Ann St. Pierre 67. Jessica Cronin, 39, 31:16 68. Kevin Freeman, 45, Lovell, 31:42 69. Ryan Fowler, 38, Sweden, 32:02 70. Sharon Bort, 22, MA, 32:21 71. Jeffrey White, 70, Bedford, MA, 32:26 72. John Towle, 32, 32:29 73. Maggie Powers, 12, Lovell, 32:40 74. Joann Daly, 49, N. Conway, NH, 32:52 75. Jordan Dutton, 9, Lovell, 33:00 76. Colton McCarthy, 9, Lovell, 33:01 77. Peter Stern, 42, Lovell, 33:13 78. David Powers, 52, Lovell, 33:15 79. Carter Stern, 11, Lovell, 33:23 80. Sophie Gildesgame, 22, 33:25 81. Baraka DeCesere, 9, Lovell, 33:50 82. Jane Hadlock, 60, Lovell, 34:22 83. Dawn Crowe, 47, Lovell, 34:24 84. Libby Cororn, 40, Medfield, MA, 34:29 85. Caileigh Crowe, 11, Lovell, 34:30 86. Catharyn Gildesgame, 58, MA, 34:45 87. Kerry Jordan, 36, Lovell, 35:35 88. Diane Bilotta, 64, Grantham, NH, 36:22 89. Neva Fuller, 10, Medfield, MA, 36:33 Bill Reilly of Brownfield Wayne Hadlock of Lovell 90. Debbie Howe, 69, Waterford, 37:32 91. Tatyana Bommer, 11, Houston, TX, 39:11 92. Chet Rogers, 76, Hollis, 39:14 93. Jeff West, 68, 42:02 94. Amy West, 30, Naples, 42:03 95. Dianne Morse-Leonard, 57, Waterford, 42:45 96. Rhonda Twitchell, 43, Norway, 43:04 97. Lynn Hill, 51, 47:10 98. Linda Layman, 69, MA, 47:38 99. David Foss, 63, S. Hamilton, MA, 47:50 100. Ande Hall, 59, Hutchinson, KS, 49:10 101. Mary Adams, 79, Lovell, 50:51 102. Nancy Brown-Jamison, 69, Center Lovell, 50:52 103. Lopl Hill, 56, 51:09 104. Carmen Gentile, 75, 51:10 AGE GROUP AWARDS Female Overall: Emily Carty, 20:36 Male Overall: Silas Eastman, 15:30 Ages 1-15 Female: Emily Grzyb, 15, 24:00 Male: Alfie Walker, 14, Fryeburg, 20:11 Ages 16-19 Female: Emily McDermith, 18, 25:51 Male: Patrick Carty, 17, Sweden, 17:30 Ages 20-29 Female: Laura Pulito, 20, Bridgton, 20:59 Sasha Azel (#103) and Yazi Azel (#102) of Lovell exchange high fives with youngsters Male: Trevor Hope, 23, VA, 18:22 standing near the Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library.

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Prepping for a hike (Continued from Page 1C) The most common exercise mistakes you want to avoid: • Putting off getting started. Find your motivation, make it fun.

• Not going through a full range of motion. Think flexibility.

• Using too much weight. Think safety.

• Doing each rep too fast. Control, slow down and work the muscle both directions.

• Spending way too much time completing the workout. Keep the intensity up and get it done.

Let’s get a little more specific.

UPPER BODY (above the hips) — Push and pull a resistance from several angles. Example: perform pushups against the wall, from a bench and off the floor. Pulls from over head, chest high and at floor level.

During the week, do as many pulls as pushes.

LOWER BODY (hips and below) — Squats. Squat until your thigh is parallel to the ground and always keep your toes going forward. Vary your stance with feet close together, at shoulder width, and wider.

Hip adduction and abduction. Most gyms have a machine for this but you can use exercise bands, or do lunges right and left. Do not overlook this area, it is very important for hiking this rough terrain. I work these into my warm-up.

Steps. I usually do mine as part of my warm up. Step at various heights, up to at least, 24 inches. Step up and down, step up and jump off. I go for several minutes or if I use weights I go for at least 100 steps with each leg.

Example workouts: After a good 10 to 15-minute warm up.

Pushups and Squats: Alternate exercises doing 10 reps each holding the 10th rep for 10 seconds in the stressed position. Do as many sets as you can with little rest. Work your way to 10 sets. When you are done pat yourself on the back and go home.

Squat and Pulls: Using a pulley system (I use 20 to 25-pound resistance) or an elastic band, stand upright with hands against the chest. Squat extending your arms, as you stand up pull with your arms. Do 10 reps and if possible change the angle of the pull and repeat. Again, do as many sets as you can with little rest. Holding the last rep of each set for a 10 count. Holding in the squat position and the up position. You have worked your entire body — go home.

This is a good one if you have a bench and light dumbbells, kettlebells or a can of soup. Lie on bench performing bench press (15 reps), stand up and perform 15 squats, hold that last rep for 10 seconds. Repeat, alternating close and wide grip. Throw in a set or two of flies and bent arm rows. Mix it up for a total of 3 to 5 sets. If this was Friday, I’d have Jimmy Buffett on the iPod and now I’m heading for ice cream.

Next time we will work on flexibility and balance and endurance.

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Nancy Sosman (left) and Trudy Dunn offering a helpful hand up a tough spot on the Table Mountain trail to Susan Gassett.

(Photo by Allen Crabtree)

Table Mountain deserves a look Table Mountain is a moderate-sized peak just south of Bartlett, N.H., in the White Mountain National Forest.

This 2,675-foot mountain is a delightful day hike, and I believe that it should get more attention than it does.

Table Mountain lies between Bear Mountain to the west and Attitash Mountain to the east. A forest fire in October 1984 has left Table Mountain with three open ledges that offer excellent views to the south and southwest.

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a summertime peak because access to the trailhead is from Bear Notch Road, which is open only in the summer.

When this road is closed at Bartlett in the winter nearly three additional miles of snowshoeing are required just to get to the trailhead.

The main trail to the summit is the Attitash Trail, a delightful moderate hike of 1.9 miles that follows beside the musical cascades of Louisville Brook through a beautiful mature pine forest for the first mile or so of the trail. The final half-mile to the summit involves some moderately steep scrambling over gravelly open ledges near the top, but it is not too difficult.

The names of the trails to Table Mountain have changed over the years.

Formerly, hikers took either the Bear Mountain Trail from the Notch Road or the Cilley Brook Trail from the Kancamaugus Highway to summit Table Mountain. The

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by Allen Crabtree Cilley Brook Trail is now abandoned and the Bear Mountain Trail is now the Attitash Trail. Attitash, by the way, is Abenaki for “blueberry,” and Attitash Mountain was so named by Moses F. Sweetser in his 1891 White Mountains Handbook for Travelers.

I climbed Table Mountain on July 3, 2015 in the company of a congenial group of 12 Denmark Mountain Hikers. It was a cracker-jack day with bright blue skies, cool temperatures with a gentle breeze, and vistas from the ledges and summit that reached forever! All together, it was a perfect day to climb Table Mountain. Dianne, one of our Denmark Mountain Hikers, summed it up thusly, “This is just the right length and right difficulty for a fine hike — what could be better?”

Trudy’s dog Ollie, with

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All participants will receive refreshments and will be eligible to participate in a raffle. The first 50 21.3-mile tour entrants and the first 20 Kid’s tour entrants will receive a t-shirt.

Fee: If registered prior to July 31, fees are $25 for the road and touring categories and $10 for the Kid’s category.

After July 31, fees are $35 and $15, respectively.

Contact: Meg Dyer at 207-925-1440 for further information.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 8 Dole Three-Miler, Fryeburg Starting time: 8 a.m.

Where: The Mountain Division Rail Trail at the Maine State Visitor Center, 97 Main Street (Route 302), Fryeburg.

Fee: $20 in advance, $25 on Race Day Proceeds benefit: Fryeburg New Church Assembly, the Fryeburg New Church, and the Mountain Division Rail Trail Website: www.dole3miler.com Lake Region Boosters Color Run Starting time: 9 a.m.

Where: Lake Region High School Course: Lake Region cross-country course Fee: $25 per runner/walker; $15 per student runner/ walker; $30 day of race. Proceeds benefit the Lake Region Boosters Club and Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Entry fee includes t-shirt (those registering on race day will receive t-shirts on a first-come, first-served basis). Make checks payable to: Lake Region Boosters Club.

For more information, call 693-6221, ext. 226 SATURDAY, AUGUST 15 8th Annual Great Adventure Challenge, Bridgton Starting time: 9 a.m.

This one-of-a-kind event includes 2.5 miles of kayaking on Moose Pond followed by 16.5+ miles of mountain biking that takes you around Pleasant Mountain followed by a 2-mile trek/run/dash up to the top and down the face of Shawnee Peak ski area.

This event is in its eighth year and has received rave reviews for its professionalism and fun factor. The Challenge can be completed by individuals or teams of up to three. Each team member must complete a full leg of the event. Legs cannot be divided. This event is not for the “faint of heart” nor does it require “Iron Man” abilities.

Registration opens at 7:15 a.m. at Shawnee Peak. Preregistration online and is encouraged. This can be done at www.maineadventureracing.com or search The Great Adventure Challenge. There is an four-minute video/slide show on the home page that captures the essence of the event. It’s worth a watch.

Costs: Individuals $60 and teams $150. All entry fees go to the benefit of adults with developmental difficulties in western Maine. A wonderful lunch is provided for all competitors, as well as one support person. All competitors get a free t-shirt. Ice cream served free all day.

Trophies are awarded for top finishers at the end of the event.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 30 Naples Causeway 5K Walk or Run Starting time: 8 a.m., adjacent to Bray’s Brew Pub. Fee: $25, includes free t-shirt (for t-shirt, must register before Aug. 15, no refunds). Benefits Patrick Dempsey Cancer Center and local food pantries. Register at runsignup.com More information: Contact George Vooris at 693-7248 or e-mail to georgethepainter@gmail.com SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 Loon Echo Trust Trek, Bridgton Starting time: At Shawnee Peak Ski Area, West Bridgton Loon Echo Trek offers 25 to 100 mile rides, hike-bike combo plus gentler, family-friendly options.

The event features Maine’s toughest century bicycle ride, with 100 miles of terrain over roadways and through national forests. Other gentler 75-, 50- and 25-mile biking options are popular, as well as the hike bike combo and family-friendly hikes up Pleasant Mountain in Bridgton.

Website: For more information or to register, visit LoonEchoTrek.org.

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July 23, 2015, The Bridgton News, Page 5C

This week’s puzzle

Theme: Social Media ACROSS 1. Cockatoo’s cousin 6. Where you can be wrapped in seaweed 9. African migrants 13. Bakery smell, e.g.

14. Type of English course 15. Distinct time period 16. Smaller than an SUV 17. It marches one by one?

18. Memory break 19. *Makes it easy to find thematic messages 21. *Online self 23. Pine juice 24. Freight horse cart 25. *It hunts on social media for terrorists 28. Famous French couturier 30. Forty-niner’s reward 35. Tolkien creatures 37. Neuter 39. Fruit-peeling device 40. Common “pro” follower 41. Father of dialectical idealism 43. Edible root of Pacific islands 44. Soft palate hanger 46. RC, e.g.

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52. Snakelike fish 53. Type of stalk Jack climbed

55. Come into possession 57. *Noun now a verb on Facebook 60. *Content exchange 64. An excuse, especially in eyes of law 65. Bugling ungulate 67. Australian horse 68. MC Hammer’s “2 _____ 2 Quit” 69. Hawaiian dish 70. Dispatch boat 71. Bonny ____ 72. *Throwback Thursday 73. Used for raising DOWN 1. *____able 2. Acreage 3. Puts one over 4. Wet nurses 5. Found in classifieds 6. Smelting waste 7. *Pinterest action 8. Rose oil 9. Stairway to river in India 10. Wine valley 11. CCCP 12. “Monkey ____, monkey do” 15. Highlight 20. Imitative 22. Dread of some parent drivers 24. European soldier 25. *Discussion site 26. “Good job!” to performers

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Stars go 2-2 in Conn.

They didn’t win the title, but experiences local girls had at the New England Regional Softball tournament, held in Stamford, Conn., won’t soon be for-

Lovell 5K race

(Continued from Page 3C) Ages 30-39 Female: Sara Bradley, 35, Waterford, 21:41 Male: Sam Johnson, 32, 18:28 Ages 40-49 Female: Mary Yearl, 42, Waterford, 23:57 Male: Christopher Laporte, 44, Bedford, MA, 18:34 Ages 50-59 Female: Christine Carlstrom, 53, Boxford, MA, 25:28 Male: Arno Bommer, 55, Houston, TX, 19:29 Ages 60-69 Female: Sarah Ryan, 61, Olympia, WA, 26:28 Male: Bill Reilly, 68, Brownfield, 21:24 Ages 70-99 Female: Mary Adams, 79, Lovell, 50:51 Male: John Howe, 80, Waterford, 27:16

gotten.

The Andy Valley U10 team — the Maine champions — went 2-2 in the Regionals held July 15-19.

Five Bridgton girls — Kasey Johnson, Melissa Mayo, Kathryn McIntyre, Caydence Riley and Emily Rock — were among the Andy Valley squad. The team qualified for the regional tournament by winning the state championship tournament in Richmond, earlier this month.

Andy Valley had a strong showing in the initial pool play. They defeated the Merrimack Magic of New Hampshire 9-8, then knocked off New Milford, Conn. 11-1. Those two wins seeded the team first in their division.

Three games in the hot sun proved to be too much for Andy Valley in their third game of the day, losing 22-19 to tourney host, Stamford, Conn.

Andy Valley then went on to lose 8-4 to the same Merrimack Magic team they had defeated in their first game. That second loss eliminated them from the tournament.

“I think it is pretty exciting that we were able to compete and win against

the best teams from around New England. Some of the teams we played against are tournament teams that play together for months at a time. The Andy Valley allstar teams aren’t selected until the end of the regular softball season and this team only had three practices prior to the state tournament,” Andy Valley Coach Amy Mayo of Bridgton said. “The team’s ability to pull off a state championship title and be successful at the next level in such a short time really indicates the talent and commitment of these players.”

Coach Mayo added, “This was an experience that our girls will never forget. They were upset about the losses because they are true competitors, but they were more upset that the experience and that their time together as a team was over.”

Those memories were made possible by the support of family, friends and local communities in the form of time and money.

“I hope they all know that it was truly appreciated and worth it. This is an experience that I will never forget as a coach, and no doubt, these girls will never forget it either!” Coach Mayo said.

ANDY VALLEY STARS — Front to back, left to right, Sierra Carson and Kasey Johnson; Kathryn McIntyre, Kaylee Chamberlain, Melissa Mayo, Natasha Mason; Bree Heikkinen, Caydence Riley; Emily Rock, Taylor Truman, Atlantis Martin and Caitlin Hunnefield. The team was coached by Amy Mayo, Tracy Smith and Kelly Johnson.

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Regional sports

Page 6C, The Bridgton News, July 23, 2015

Bocce scores

In Game #9 of the Harrison Bocce League, Caswell beat Ace’s 3-2; Mentus defeated Searles 3-2; Henry’s nipped Ruby’s 3-2; and Worsters blanked Long Lake 4-0.

North Division: Worsters +16, Ruby’s +5, Searles +2, Caswell -10 South Division: Henry’s +10, Ace’s +2, Mentus -6, Long Lake -19

Golf for vets Denmark Mountain Hiker Susan Gassett enjoying one of the many views on the climb to the summit of Table Mountain.

(Photo by Allen Crabtree)

Hike up Table Mountain

(Continued from Page 4C) couple on the trail to the summit. These trailside encounters are always a welcome chance to take a break from hiking and meet new people.

These folks were going up as we were coming down, so we had an opportunity to offer advice on the trail to the summit they had before them. We didn’t share Rick’s brownies, however — they’ll have to bring their own!

We made an obligatory stop at the ice cream shop in Bartlett on Route 302 heading back home, always a “must” stop after a hike.

What a wonderful way to conclude a perfect hike on a

perfect day!

Information about Table Mountain in Carroll County, Bartlett, N.H. Difficulty – Moderate Hiking distance– 1.9 miles to the summit Hiking times – 1 hour 45 minutes to the summit Elevation – 2,675 feet.

Vertical Gain – 1,350 feet Coordinates – 44° 01’ 54”N 71° 15’ 47”W Topographic Map – USGS Bartlett 7.5-minute quad / 44.10567; -71.094 Directions to the trailhead: Go north on Routes 16 and 302 in North Conway and take the left (Route 302) fork towards Bartlett. Once in

Bartlett, turn left onto Bear Notch Road (closed in winter) and the Attitash Trail trailhead is located 2.7 miles south of Bartlett, on the left side of the road at the beginning of a curve. This is just before reaching the height of land on the road. There is a small dirt parking lot for a few cars at the trailhead.

The Western Maine Veterans’ Advisory Committee of the Maine Veterans Homes continues to prepare for the 5th annual golf tournament to be held on Saturday, Aug. 22, at Springbrook Golf Course in Leeds. The golf tournament raises funds for the activities program at the Maine Veterans’ Home in South Paris.

During the tournament, a winning ticket will be drawn to receive a brand new John Deere riding lawnmower.

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July 23, 2015, The Bridgton News, Page 7C

Fryeburg Academy to add 7 to Hall of Excellence Fryeburg Academy will be inducting seven members into the Sixth Annual 2015 Hall of Excellence at a ceremony on Saturday, Sept. 26, at 10:30 a.m. in the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center.

The public is welcome to attend this free admission presentation.

The six alumni and one supporter being inducted this year are: Eva Dunn Ward ’49, Jeffrey Brown ’81, Kristen Russell McDermott ’83, Robyn Dunham Ela ’87, David Turner ’88, Wendy Dunham Pope ‘91 and Joseph “Buck” Austin (Significant Supporter).

Eva Dunn Ward Eva Dunn Ward is a graduate of the Class of 1949, having graduated at the age of 15.

Eva completed four successful years at the Academy, having excelled in academics, athletics, student government and the arts.

While at the Academy, Eva played four years of varsity basketball, four years of varsity softball, three years of tennis and one year of volleyball.

She served as the Girls Athletic Council president in her senior year. Eva was also a member of Student Council and was proud to be elected Class Secretary soon after school

Eva Dunn Ward

started her freshman year, a position she held throughout all four years.

Eva enjoyed the arts, as well as having participated in the One-Act Plays, receiving the Best Actress award. Eva participated in Prize Speaking and was a member of the National Honor Society.

Eva attended Westbrook Junior College, graduating in 1951 with an associate’s degree. Eva began working as a medical assistant before deciding to return to college to complete a teaching degree at the University of Maine in Portland, graduating magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in 1972. Eva taught fourth and fifth grades in the

Benefit golf

(Continued from Page 6C) Street in South Paris. Tickets are $5 each or 6 for $25.

Tickets may be purchased through the mail by sending a check to Joe Cooney, Chairman, 477 High Street, South Paris, ME, 04281. There will only be 800 tickets sold.

There are limited slots left to sign up for the golf tournament, but more information can be obtained by calling Ron Snow at 744-9156. For more information about Maine Veterans’ Home, call 743-6300 or visit www.mainevets.org

Jeffrey Brown

Fryeburg school district.

After retiring, Eva worked for the Fryeburg Fair for many years, as well as Lake Kezar Country Club. Eva has volunteered countless hours to the community, having served the Brownfield Public Library and Fryeburg Fair as Trustee, Chaplain for the VFW Auxiliary, Brownfield Historical Society, Brownfield Community Church and the Eastern Star. Eva also volunteered for the Literacy Volunteers of America, tutoring adult nonreaders.

In 2006, Eva published a children’s book titled, “Calvin C. Waxwing,” about the rescue of a hatchling Cedar Waxwing by three young children. Although this attempt to interfere with nature was successful, the author raises questions about whether it is a wise practice, since most often the animal is not truly abandoned.

Eva was truly honored in 2010 when her beloved hometown of Brownfield asked her to be their honored Grand Marshall of the parade down Main Street for Brownfield Day Celebration.

Eva and her late husband

Kristen Russell McDermott Howard raised three daughters — Deborah, Diane and Rebecca, all graduates of Fryeburg Academy — and she continues to live in her beloved town of Brownfield.

Jeffrey Brown Jeffrey Brown is a 1981 graduate of Fryeburg Academy.

Jeff was a three-sport standout at the Academy, where he played football, wrestling and track all four years; totaling 12 letters in all of the sports.

While playing football, he was chosen for second-team running back for the Southern York County League (SYCL) in 1979 and in 1980 secondteam linebacker and Honorable Mention running back to the All State Football Team.

He was as equally successful on the wrestling mat. During his four years of wrestling, he received a second place in his weight division at the 1979 Regionals. The next year, he was not only the regional champion, but also the SYCL champion. He placed second at the State Meet. During his senior year, he made a clean sweep including winning the state championship.

Robyn Dunham Ela

During the track season, he was not to be denied, coming in second place in 1980 at the State Prep-School meet and his senior year, he was the State Prep-School champion.

After graduation, Jeff married his high school sweetheart, Denise Sanborn Brown ’82, and they moved to Elemendorf AFB, Anchorage, Alaska, in 1985, where Jeff was self-employed as a carpenter. There, he could do the things he loved such as hunting, fishing and hiking.

They returned to Maine in 1992 to continue his profession, such as designing and building a 4-foot window of a Flying Eagle for a church in Lovell; as well as sharing his love of wrestling by coaching the Fryeburg Rec Youth Wrestling program from 1992 to 1998. He became Assistant Wrestling Coach at the Academy in 2000. The next year, he moved up to Head Coach from 2001 and 2002. As Jeff describes his most memorable experience at Fryeburg Academy, “It would have to be coaching my son, Buck Hunter Brown, to his 2001 and 2002 state championship titles.”

Wendy Dunham Pope His love of the outdoors and profession led him to be involved as a representative on the planning board, Saco Corridor Commission and administrative policy guidance along the river corridor.

The three of them returned to their beautiful Alaska, in Delta Junction, where Jeff built their home and was head wrestling coach at Delta Junction High School for a year. He had taken up Recreational Dog Mushing racing from 2010 to 2012, and continues his hunting, fishing and hiking.

Kristen Russell McDermott Kristen, a member of the Class of 1983, lives in Fryeburg with her husband, David. She pursued her degree in English Literature, graduating from McGill University in 1987. Her competitive skiing career ended at McGill as a result of an onhill collision.

In addition to her athletic prominence while at Fryeburg Academy, she starred in oneact plays, was a member and vice president of the Honor Society, was in the Latin Club, and was co-editor of the yearbook.

Kristen experienced a stellar athletic career, topped by winning the state skimeister crown in her senior year. She lettered in all four years, while winning the prestigious Julie Grace Award in 1983. She was an early all-conference skier at McGill, when her career was cut short by her accident. AllState in her senior year was accomplished. She won a total of 11 varsity letters in alpine skiing, cross-country skiing and field hockey.

Kristen is the founder and president of Good Earth Gardening, where she counts as her clients Fryeburg Academy, The Fryeburg Fair, Memorial Hospital, Quisisanna, as well as several private gardens. She has been the recipient of many gardening awards.

Among her many civic community activities, she served seven years on the Fryeburg Planning Board, the Bradley Park Committee, as a land monitor for the Upper Saco Valley Land Trust, as well as on the fundraising committee of the Fryeburg Historical Society.

Robyn Dunham Ela Robyn Ela, Class of 1987, participated in soccer, softball and alpine skiing while at the Academy.

Robyn received the Julie Lynn Grace Award twice and was a state champion in both the slalom and giant slalom in 1986-87. Robyn was nationally-ranked in USSA in the top 50 in slalom and giant slalom while competing in open and FIS alpine races all over New England.

Robyn shared her passion for skiing as a coach of the Lake Region Alpine Team, as well as a junior race coach and head coach for the King Pine Ski Team for nine years.

She coached junior racing at Wildcat for three years.

After graduating from Fryeburg Academy, Robyn attended Plymouth State College and the University of Southern Maine as a Psychology major.

Robyn worked as a Customer Service representative at a local bank for nine years, was an Education Technician in SAD 72 for five years and also worked with adults with disabilities for the State of New Hampshire.

Robyn is also a volunteer at Special Olympics.

Currently, Robyn is a realtor who resides in Fryeburg with her husband, Rich, and their two children, Courtney and Ethan. Her daughter Courtney carries on the skiing tradition, competing in Special Olympics and capturing the Maine State championship and FA HALL, Page 8C

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FA Hall of Excellence (Continued from Page 7C) gold medal.

Wendy Dunham Pope Wendy is a 1991 graduate of Fryeburg Academy. While at the Academy, she participated in softball, soccer and alpine skiing.

Wendy was a member of the 1989 state champion soccer team, an All-Conference soccer player and captain of the soccer and ski teams her senior year.

Skiing is where Wendy shined. She was the Maine slalom (S) champion in 1988, ’90 and ’91, and giant Slalom (GS) champ in 1988 and ’90. She did not compete in the 1989 Maine State Championships since she was invited to compete in the USSA Eastern Junior Championships. She won the Eastern High School Slalom championship, the New Hampshire Junior1 slalom and GS championships, and had a 12th ranking in the USSA S1 and 14th in GS. Wendy was nominated as the Portland Press Herald Female Athlete of the Year in 1988. In

her senior year, she received the Fryeburg Lions Club Award, the Kiwanis Plaque for outstanding athletic performance and the Julie Grace Award for outstanding skier.

Wendy continued her skiing at Keene State, where she was a two-time NCAA Division II Sl and GS champion. After transferring to Plymouth State in 1993, she was a two-time USCSA Eastern Regional Champion, and was named to the USCSA All American Alpine Ski Team. She was also a member of the Plymouth State soccer team that won the national title. Wendy competed in the Junior Olympics, FIS events and the Nor-Ams in US/Canada as well as training and competing in Austria with the Atomic Ski athletes.

Wendy continued her skiing after college as an alpine racing coach for the Attitash Racing Junior Program in 1997.

Wendy graduated from Plymouth State with a bachelor’s degree in Health Education and was employed

by SAU 9 since 1996 in Bartlett, N.H. middle school, and is now currently in Special Education and Program Assistant at Kennett High School. She also tutors for Kennett High School in their special tutoring program.

Wendy lives in North Conway with her two children, Gabriella and Dalton.

Gabriella was just accepted to Salem State University this fall in their Chemistry program, and Dalton is a junior at Kennett and plays for the Kennett High School football team.

David J. Turner David Turner is a 1988 graduate of the Academy.

A 12-sport athlete in football, basketball and baseball, David was a leader among his peers not only in athletics, but through his involvement in student government and SADD (Students Against Drunk Driving).

He was named AllConference in both football and basketball. When he graduated, he was the recipient of the

Buck Austin Football Award, the Harry True Basketball Award and the Cliff Gray Baseball MVP Award. In addition, he received the Graustein and the Erikson Awards. After graduation, David spent a year as the New Hampton starting quarterback and then went to the University of Maine before ending his college career as the Plymouth State starting quarterback and a Plymouth State College Scholar Athlete in 1994.

Currently, David is a Dean at Fryeburg Academy and head football coach. He resides in Fryeburg with his wife, Nicki, and beautiful daughter, Avery.

Joseph “Buck” Austin This year, the Academy honors, posthumously, its Significant Supporter, Buck Austin, a longtime educator and coach.

Mr. Austin was born in Franklin, Pa., attended school at Madison Memorial in Madison, Ohio, and Bellefonte Academy in Bellefonte, Pa. In 1937, he received his bachelor’s degree from Denison University, Granville, Ohio, where he participated in football, basketball and track. His specialties included English, History, Bio-Science, Math and Physical Education.

Buck married the former Evadne Cragin, a Denison University schoolmate.

He taught and coached football and basketball for nine years in Ohio. He was a founding member of the

David Turner Western Ohio Football League and later the Maine High School Football Coaching Association.

In 1946, he left teaching and coaching briefly to help his father-in-law at his Packard Motor Dealership. He moved his family to Bridgton, where they had summered since the late 30s. He taught and coached football at Bridgton Academy, while Evadne taught at Bridgton Elementary School.

During Buck’s 31 years of coaching (nine of them at Fryeburg Academy), he gave Johnny Pont (FB CoachIndiana), Tommy Harp (FB coach-Duke), Robert Mitchell, ’64 (FB coach-Vermont) and F.A.’s own Colin Hurd their start up the ladder. At all three schools where he was the head football coach, he was credited with reviving the respective programs, organizing booster clubs and invigorating each

Joseph “Buck” Austin community. His trademark was stressing the fundamentals of the game. As one sportswriter for the Zanesville Signal wrote, “His boys who play for him will learn more than just the details of the game.”

At Fryeburg Academy, Mr. Austin’s teams won the state Class C championships in 1963 and the state Class B cochampionship in 1965. They won 47 games, lost 21, and tied 3. His 1963 state football championship team was honored at the 2013 Homecoming with players reliving and celebrating fond moments of that year and time with him.

Buck demonstrated in all his teams — basketball or football — a gift for coaching and his ability to inspire young boys with a consistent level of competitiveness, organization and enthusiasm that also has inspired his three sons’ interest in sports and their coaching careers.

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Registration 8-9 a.m. • Walk/Run begins at 9 a.m. • Rain or Shine

Race Fee: $30 WORKING ON LEADERSHIP SKILLS — The Fryeburg Area Rotary Club sponsored three Fryeburg Academy students to attend the RYLA Camp (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) this summer at Camp Hinds in Raymond. This is a Rotary-sponsored leadership conference for rising juniors from the State of Maine. Pictured are Alexandria Fraize of Brownfield, daughter of Kathleen and Darrell Fraize, and Andrew and Dominic Malia of Fryeburg, sons of Katie and Peter Malia. All three students are members of the Fryeburg Academy Interact Club, a high school Rotary service club.

Free T-shirt to all who register and pay by August 1, 2015.

Fryeburg Visitor Information Center Fryeburg Biking/Walking Trail 97 Main Street, U.S. Rt. 302, Fryeburg, Maine 04037

Children under 12 are free but must be accompanied by an adult.

Participants 18 years or younger must have permission and liability form signed by parent or guardian.

Proceeds from this event will go to The Gaige McCue Memory Scholarship. This scholarship will benefit a graduate from the Alternative Program at Fryeburg Academy who is pursuing higher education. Due to the success of the 2014 5K Walk Run, we were able to donate a portion of the proceeds to Angels and Elves and Special Olympics, as well as the Scholarship in honor of Gaige.

If unable to attend, donations may be made to Gaige McCue Memory Scholarship Fund at Norway Savings Bank, 557 Main Street, Fryeburg, ME 04037.

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Opinion & Comment

July 23, 2015, The Bridgton News, Page 1D

Front Row Seat

by Tom McLaughlin BN Columnist

Sailing on the imagination

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Letters Time to say thank you

To The Editor: The Sweden Food Pantry recently held the “Second Night on the Town” raffle to raise money to make improvements to the kitchen area.

Thank you to The Black Horse Tavern for a $75 gift certificate for the first prize, won by Melanie Eldracher.

Thank You to Campfire Grille for a $50 gift certificate for the second prize won,

by Carol Madsen and Ted Gerber.

Thank you to SebagoLong Lake Music Festival

for two tickets to a concert for the third prize, won by Barbara and Dan Harris.

Thank you to Deertrees Theatre for two tickets to a performance for the fourth prize, won by Heinrich Wurm.

Thank you to Magic Lantern for the “Family Theater Package” for the fifth prize, won by Kay Lyman.

Thank you to the following volunteers who accomplished the goal of selling 75 tickets at $15 each in two weeks: Kathy Reilly, Alberta Ridlon, Claudia Blondell, Nancy Michaud, Echo Lowell, Kathy Gowen, John Crowe, Carol Madsen and Jane Gibbons.

Finally, thank you to the 75 people who bought tickets.

The Sweden Community Church and Sweden Food

Medicare nugget

By Stan Cohen Medicare Volunteer Counselor Hospice care, covered under Medicare Part A, is for terminally ill patients and includes pain management, counseling, and prescription drugs. It also covers inpatient and outpatient care. To qualify: • You must have had a face-to-face encounter with a hospice physician or nurse practitioner to determine your eligibility.

• Your doctor and the hospice medical director must certify that you have a terminal illness, meaning that your life expectancy is six months or less. There are consecutive “add-on” benefits periods, however, so that terminally ill Medicare beneficiaries can live more than six months, and not fear loss of coverage for their hospice care.

• You sign a statement electing to have Medicare pay for palliative care, (pain management), rather than care to try to cure your condition.

• The hospice agency must be Medicare-certified.

Hospice can be provided in the home or in an inpatient facility. You do not have to be homebound to qualify for the hospice benefit. Even if you have a Medicare Advantage plan, Part A will cover your hospice care. You can end hospice care at any time and elect to receive curative treatments for an illness.

By the way, home health and hospice agencies are now quality rated by Medicare. You can find the agencies and their scores by zip code on www.medicare.gov Medicare volunteer counselors are available for free, one-on-one consultations. Call the Bridgton Community Center at 647-3116 to arrange for an appointment.

A longing for the fork Views from the Uppermost House

by S. Peter Lewis BN Columnist High from the north the new summer dawn slants in early, golden and burning above the distant ridge and slicing through a muggy haze over the meadow and blazing in through the window, streaking and glinting across the top of our dining room table.

I bought the table 16 years ago, new but unfinished, sanding it for hours, kneeling low to eye its surface for every imperfection, running my hand over the things I couldn’t see, then sanding again.

I didn’t stain it, but left it natural, having on good authority the trust that over time it would deepen and darken under all the layers of clear finish. And deepen and darken it did, richly into shades of russet and copper and bronze and gold.

At first it was perfect, flat and shiny, without mar or ding or scratch. But that didn’t last. Life happened on that table, particularly when our children got their hands on it. My son and my daughter, homeschooling for a decade, a bit cavalier with sharp and pointy things and only dimly aware of the value of time and fine furniture.

Dents from dropped forks and carelessly tossed calculators, stains from drink glasses, staple dings, the crisscrossed Pantry continue to be open twice a month on the first and third Wednesdays. A Sweden Community Garden is now growing on the church lawn.

We continue to be “Neighbors helping Neighbors.”

Shirley Crowe Sweden

ten on poor ole’ Harriet (age at death: 91) did not get Sen. Collins’ half-page billing for Chase-Smith on these pages, along with an immense 3.5”x4.5” pic. But never mind; Harriet Tubman will win the day.

Tubman should appeal to many Mainers as someone who travelled trails at night guided only by the North Star, her faith in God, and her trusty revolver.

Bob Casimiro To The Editor: Bridgton Well, well, well. So Senator Collins is trying to upstage my efforts to make Harriet Tubman the first woman to appear on our currency by plumping for Margaret Chase Smith (Worthy tribute to To The Editor: ‘Woman of Firsts’), July 16, Sincere gratitude and 2015, page 3D). appreciation to Camp EncoreNice try, Susie Q. But it Coda of Sweden, its direcwon’t work. tors Jaime and Ellen Saltman, You may have a staff of conductor Christopher over 30 people to do your Ramaekers, and the camp’s bidding, and the glitter of outstanding musicians for your never-ending photo ops, another memorable concert at but Harriet Tubman, a slave Harrison’s Deertrees Theatre turned “conductor” on the for the benefit of the Lakes Underground Railroad, is still Environmental Association. the gal to be the first woman What a wonderful proon our currency (Make room, gram of classical music we July 2, 2015, page 5D). were treated to by Maestro My humble offerings in Ramaekers, a concerto for the four letters I have writ- two violas by Telemann and

Nice try, Suzie Q

Thanks from LEA

and indecipherable ghosts of handwriting pressed through thin paper, the word “List” discernible, but with nothing under it, scratches from objects slid, pinpricks from compass points, faint knife scores, tiny round shotgun impressions from a tattooing pen during a physics test, and a host of other and sundry blemishes, nicks, whorls, and ingrained flourishes.

And then the children grew and fledged and left, off into the world discovering their own lives and sanding their own tables.

The house is quiet now. My wife and I alone, growing old together. Just as it should be.

In these childless years, it has become my barely-conscious habit to run my hand along the southwest corner of that old table as I pass by. And sometimes, when the low light arrests me in my traverse of the dining room and all those life-marks rise up and glint at me, I stop and kneel low and eye that roughened plane and run my hands across the lovely imperfect surface. I’m so thankful that I never gave into the annoyance that triggered the temptation to refinish the old table.

It reminds me of the beautiful monologue of Craig Morrison in the sweet movie Still Mine, as he reminisces about the dining room table he built.

“Well, there were a lot of times I regretted not making that table out of oak. But as the years went by the scars added up. The imperfections turned that table into something else.

That’s the thing about pine. Holds a lot of memories.”

The last time I caressed my table was three days ago, very early as a pewter dawn reddened the east. I stood still with my hand resting on that faintly battered surface as the breathless quiet ebbed about my knees. And I longed for the clatter of a dropped fork. flute, and two piano concertos by Mozart.

The faculty soloists, Joyce Chan Grabell and Peter Neubert on viola, Elzbieta Brandys on flute and Andrei Baumann on piano were truly dazzling and so very professional in their performances.

What talented musicians, both staff and campers, attend Camp Encore-Coda. How lucky we all are to have such a well-known and highlyrespected facility in the Lake Region!

Special kudos to Maestro Ramaekers. Besides his superb conducting itself, he treated his audience to lucid, interesting commentaries on each rendition. What a superb resource he is for Camp Encore-Coda!

Thanks to our host Deertrees Theatre and its executive director, Andrew Harris, for making this “cathe-

dral in the pines” available for this very special event.

How grateful we are once again to Kirsten McKenzie, manager of Food City in Bridgton, for supplying sumptuous platters of fruit, cheese and crackers, and to Todd Pelletier, manager of Hannaford, for the tasty cake.

The performers and guests were treated to these at the back stage reception after the performance.

Mary Jewett, educator and naturalist at LEA, made this all happen with her organizational, logistical, and people skills once again!

This benefit concert by three of the Lake Region’s most visible and important resources is an annual tradition now. How very fortunate we are to have LEA, Camp Encore-Coda and Deertrees LETTERS, Page 2D

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In South Portland, it’s nice to walk out my door in the morning and smell the sea. During summer, it’s a sweet fragrance. I hear the ferries sound their horns as they leave the pier in Portland and head to one of the islands, and I hear the deeper, base sound of tankers as they’re leaving the harbor — a longer blast, not unlike that of cruise ships that come and go in summer and fall.

Several tall ships came down the shipping channel last weekend, and I watched them from a high point on the old Fort Preble, now the campus of Southern Maine Community College. I could see down to Cape Elizabeth’s Fort Williams and Portland Head Light, where they entered the channel and started trimming sails to navigate the narrower passage under power. Some kept a few up though and the effect was stunning, mostly because I could imagine how it was for previous generations, who stood and watched from where I was standing. Here was this huge ship, even taller than it was long, using wind and water to move along silently and elegantly.

Would those long-dead people have been as enthralled as I was? More so?

For them, it would have been routine, not so special to see stately sailing ships passing by but I’m not used to it.

I’m accustomed to what sailors call “stinkpots” — motorized vessels. I even own one that I keep on Kezar Lake in Lovell.

Motorboats are not what anyone would call beautiful compared to sailing ships. Nonetheless, I like to watch the big tankers come and go from the various tie-ups of the Portland Pipeline Company on the South Portland side of the harbor.

Tugboats help them get around tight corners and then turn around back to port and the tankers head for open sea.

Perhaps though, those 19th century Mainers appreciated the scene even more than I did. Their world wasn’t as rushed as ours. They were accustomed to waiting for things and didn’t try to jam too much into a day as we do. Perhaps their unhurried life put them in a better state of mind, more able to appreciate the classic lines of a sailing ship — or several of them — all up and down the channel.

At least 10,000 people watched the tall ships last weekend, but the big ships were surrounded by smaller, motorized pleasure boats and that made it difficult to imagine myself back in the 19th century. Browsing the Maine Historical Society’s picture collection last winter, I studied many images of Portland Harbor in the days of sail. Some tall schooners in those pictures were tended by motorized tugboats but other, smaller vessels visible were sailboats too. On the South Portland side of the harbor, down the street from where my house is, were shipyards with enormous schooners under construction.

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In the works in Bridgton this summer

I hope everyone is enjoying the weather – I ordered great weather for you (if only I could do that, right?)

Last month, I went to the American Planning Association’s Region I (covers the northeast United States) conference in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Saratoga is one of my favorite places, so it was a real treat. I took some great classes in economic development and form-based codes, as well as presenting a session on “Why This Work Matters,” which emanated from the published book I worked on by the same name. I was able to sneak in a long weekend trip to see my Mom in Syracuse so it was a productive trip!

The workshop I am planning with the Small Business Administration and SCORE is coming together for Aug. 20 out at Shawnee Peak.

There will be more details to come. We are targeting the session to our second homeowners, who love it here and thinking maybe this is a great place to expand, relocate or open a business.

We will have resources and lenders there to show anyone thinking of a new business for Bridgton to come and speak to the people that can help make it happen!

Plans for an electric vehicle charger at the garage by the Bridgton Community Center are coming along.

We hope to have it up and running soon, so look for a notice on celebrating its installation. The chargers

make a traveler’s trip more convenient as they can walk around downtown while their car is being charged. It’s a win-win for everyone!

We have been meeting with Maine Department of Transportation officials on the downtown streetscape project for Main Street, as well as adding more on-street parking on Main Hill. The streetscape project’s RFQ will go out later this month.

Please note the board of selectmen will discuss parking on Main Hill at their next meeting on Tuesday, July 28 beginning at 5 p.m.

BikeMaine plans are now being finalized. I am preparing a downtown map with bike routes on the back; looking for downtown businesses and institutions to stay open and hold events and specials (and consider free shipping as cyclists have weight limits on what they can bring, but they do shop so don’t miss out), and looking for volunteer help that day. They will be cycling in on Sept. 14 and leaving the next morning.

Cyclists will be camping out on the Bridgton Community Center lawn.

Carrye Castleman-Ross of the Depot Street Tap House has a great entertainment line-up set to go and Carmen Lone of the Community Center and Dan from the Campfire Grille have the food all worked out.

Look at the route map on bikemaine.org to see if you live or work along the route – plan to come out and welcome the cyclists as they ride

Planning Front

by Anne Krieg Bridgton Director of Planning, Economic & Community Development

by – cowbells, ukuleles and other musical instruments playing are encouraged!

Nelle Ely is coming along with her signs, pointing folks around town. We hope to have some up soon!

The Land Use Zoning Committee is coming along with their work. Right now, they are focused on the corridors, looking at a formbased code method to allow for development along this important corridor in Bridgton. We will be holding public meetings to show progress this fall, but don’t be shy about coming in to a meeting to see how things are going! The committee meets every other Wednesday in the conference room downstairs here at the Municipal Office.

You may have seen me around town with a videographer; don’t be alarmed. I was working on a video for economic development in Bridgton. I will let you know when it’s completed; we had a perfect day to film so I know it will be gorgeous!

We have a new police chief! His name is Richard Stillman, coming here from Massachusetts. I met him briefly and I know you will be pleased with the appoint-

ment. A swearing in reception is planned for Monday, July 27 in the downstairs room on the Iredale Street entrance to the Municipal Office beginning at 6 p.m.

Come meet the new Chief!

I am also busy getting this year’s advertisements put together and preparing for the fall trade show circuit. The conference I am planning for is the Northern New England Chapter of APA, Oct. 1-2 in Portland.

I am now looking for sponsorships, but I have a great committee to help with that endeavor!

The grant for culvert improvements for fish passage in North Bridgton is in!

Keep your fingers crossed as these culvert improvements have many benefits for infrastructure beyond making it easier for fish to pass through.

I am also working with Maine Historic Preservation Commission on restoration of soffits at the Community Center, using the Community Development Block Grant funds. Recreation Director Gary Colello and I will also be working with the Community Development Committee on a Recreation

U.S. and Iran reach agreement

Last week, I offered a column presenting a sharp analysis of the current Middle East by quoting the views of a broadly experienced and wise former ambassador.

Today, for a discussion of the U.S.-Iran deal on the latter’s nuclear program, I aim even higher: To obtain an authoritative and detailed accounting of the deal I suggest you go to the New York Times columnist Tom Friedman’s interview with President Obama at www. nytimes.com/2015/07/15/ opinion/thomas-friedmanobama-makes-his-case-oniran-nuclear-deal.html?acti on=click&pgtype=Homepa ge&module=opinion-c-colleft-region®ion=opinionc - c o l - l e f t - r e g i o n & W T. nav=opinion-c-col-leftregion&_r=0.

It is eloquent and long on the pluses of the agreement (I don’t recall any minuses mentioned) and quite persuasive. As one commentator observed, the achievement of the agreement finally justifies the Nobel Peace Prize Obama received not long after he was

Small World

by Henry Precht BN Columnist

sworn in for his first term.

I could now return to weeding my beans and tomatoes, but the urge to add my leaky faucet of words to the flood of rhetoric is too much pressure. Here, follow a few points that Mr. Obama was too presidential to discuss.

For starters, without saying so, he made the case that this agreement is important for American security first and foremost. It is our country that is concerned with how the development of an Iranian nuke might affect our position in the strategic Middle East. Other nations might also share this concern and reach a different conclusion on what we should do about it. But our negotiators — while aware of these differing perspectives — did not

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yield to them.

Polls report that the American people support a negotiated agreement with Iran rather than a prolonged stalemate and the very real threat of yet another Middle Eastern war. Obama listened to them. He put American interests first — unlike a long list of presidents — in front of Israeli and Saudi demands.

There are exceptions to that large majority, to be sure: Republicans in Congress persist in rigid opposition to Obama as they have these past seven years whether the cause is foreign (Cuba) or domestic (health care). The fact that some very big bucks are waved under their noses by moguls (Sheldon Adelson, Haim Saban), who prefer Netanyahu to Obama, is generally ignored by the national press.

Another bunch, who oppose a deal with Iran, are those in the armaments industries who have vested interests in the prolongation of a state of strife for the United States. Perhaps it is overly cynical to suggest that arms sales depend on the failure of diplomacy. Alas, would that the resources and energy they consume were devoted to environmental issues and the strengthening of the weaker elements in our communities.

Even more meekly, let us ask the deal’s opponents what route they would recommend for neutralizing the Iranian “threat?” I suspect we would hear similar rhetoric to that from the health care debate: rigid opposition without a

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Dr. Hubert I. Caplan, Harrison Former president, honorary director Lakes Environmental Association • This concert was dedicated to the memory of three recently departed LEA board members and dedicated supporters — Will Holt, Ed Rosen and Joe Wikler.

thought given to a substitute, improved plan. As history bears witness, democracies work best when both sides have constructive ideas.

But let us lift our eyes to a horizon of hope for our fortunes in the region — despite Obama’s injunction against letting our wishes influence our expectations. Nations change — not always for the better. My hunch is that Iran will behave quite differently in the years ahead unlike the criminal country that, fired up by revolution, sought to bring down the structures of the region, whatever the damage to ordinary people. Other nations — traditional friends of ours — will also change and not always in ways that we might wish. The important thing is not to be beholden to the past, but to examine trends and conditions honestly and coldly measure them against our (repeat our) national needs.

Finally, let me applaud one side remark in Obama’s interview: He is keenly aware of how the prolonged crises of the region are affecting its coming generations. It is essential that we allow young Iranians, Saudis, Egyptians and Israelis to have opportunities to influence the direction their governments take in the future — without outside interference.

My concluding judgment on this long negotiation is shared by neither its supporters nor opponents: I don’t think Iran has ever planned to produce a nuclear weapon.

Iranians are no fools and they know possession of a nuke would be suicidal against U.S. power. Their innocence of evil intent made concessions possible in the talks because they were giving up positions they never seriously sought.

Henry Precht is a retired Foreign Service Officer.

Bird flu devastating egg industry

To The Editor: The U.S. egg industry is reeling from a colossal outbreak of avian flu, mostly among egg-laying chickens. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 48 million birds, accounting for 11% of the nation’s egg-laying hens, have been slaughtered for fear of infecLETTERS, Page 3D

Plan outline to help plan for future recreational needs of the town.

Work is also underway at the Town Hall, as you can see driving by the building.

Closing the building for this phase of the construction is regrettable; however we need to ensure the safety of folks on the property. Please stay clear of the roped-in areas.

Depot Street is almost done — we have a few punch list items to complete. Final paving will occur after the heavy equipment for rebuilding Vivo has completed their work. I am almost done with getting donations for the benches on Depot Street. You will see company

logos placed on benches that were paid for through donations. We do have one bench remaining so let me know if you want to donate!

I hope to see you at the Pleasant Mountain Music Fest at Shawnee Peak this Saturday, July 25 and at the Village Folk Fest on Aug. 21-22 as I will be volunteering at both!

Let me know how things are going by e-mailing me (ecodevdir@bridgtonmaine. org) or calling (647-8786) and also on Facebook (BPECD), Twitter (BridgtonPECD) and LinkedIn (annemkrieg) Best wishes for fun, relaxation and prosperity during these weeks of summer!

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Writers reflect a delight in and concern for the earth and are individually responsible for opinions and information. Community members are invited to submit articles. E-mail beepbeep207@roadrunner.com for details.

Hummingbird medicine

By Jen Deraspe The bullfrog stared out intently through black pupils surrounded by golden yellow rings reflecting the July morning sun. He let me get close. Real close. Pale yellow throat pulsing with each heartbeat, his ancient rhythm sent out ripples across the still, surrounding waters.

I got a little closer. Too close, seeing if I could stroke his back as if petting my cat hello. Two hops away with a quarter turn and he stopped. I relocated to a respectful distance and we sat together, facing one another on the shore of this spring-fed pond I came of age on.

I pay close attention to wildlife sightings and experiences that seem remarkable, well out of the ordinary, even in this place I live, steeped in nature. If, for example, a great blue heron shows up in the middle of the woods, rock hopping up the brook, a second time leading me down a stream as I paddle and then flying just over head while driving in the car, I listen. I feel there is a message there for me to pay attention to, like guidance from this friendly Universe symbolized through the natural world.

Recently, while sitting over my morning cup of coffee reflecting about some major life changes on the horizon, a hummingbird caught my attention. She visited in a window facing in, hovering. Then, she flew horizontally across all the windows still facing me until she disappeared. Shortly after that, she returned, traveling across all the windows again back where she began, still facing in toward me. This was unusual. I used it as an opportunity to see if the hummingbird was trying to get a message to me.

I discovered that the hummingbird has much to teach. Its name comes from the vibration its wings make as it flies and hovers. The rapid rate at which the wings move causes internal massage, restoring health and balance. The hummingbird reminds us to do that and also reminds us to find joy in what we do.

Hummingbirds could not live without flowers, extracting nectar through its long bill. Many flowers could not live without the pollination that hummingbirds provide them.

This reflects the mysteries of cause and effect and teaches us about extracting our own nectar from life.

The hummingbird is the most skillful of all flyers, able to hover, fly backwards, sideways and forward. They remind us that if we enjoy what we are doing, we become light as a feather and life becomes rich with sweetness.

Very playful, hummingbirds like to be alone and free, seeming to revel in that freedom.

The ruby-throated hummingbird is a wonder of migration.

Every winter, it makes an amazing journey, flying for days as far as 2,500 miles or more. Scientists are still unsure about how they can store so much energy to make this journey. For that reason, it is a symbol for accomplishing that which may seem impossible. It will teach you how to find the miracle of joyful living from your own life circumstances.

That morning, the hummingbird showed up to remind me to lighten up, remember the sweetness in life and not take what is on the horizon so seriously, to extract what is there for me to learn, in balance and in harmony.

I am very grateful for the reminders given along the way.

(Source: Animal Speak, Ted Andrews, 1998) Jen Deraspe, owner of Nurture Through Nature, is a holistic retreat facilitator and life coach. She lives off the grid on Pleasant Mountain in Denmark.

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(Continued from Page 2D) tion during the past few months.

The effects are far-reaching, from how to dispose of millions of potentially infected bird carcasses to job losses and rapidly rising egg prices. More than 40 countries have restricted U.S. poultry imports.

Although the precise cause of the outbreak remains uncertain, the horrendous conditions in today’s factory farms make egg and chicken production extremely vulnerable to disease outbreaks, and therefore, not sustainable.

A number of innovative companies have stepped in to offer plant-based alternatives that mimic closely the taste, texture, and cooking properties of eggs and chicken. They are available in the frozen food section of every supermarket.

Many of us favor replacing polluting fossil energy sources with clean renewable ones. That takes concerted national action. But every one of us has the power to affect that same transition for our food sources every time we shop for food.

Brandon Newcomb Bridgton

A lot like us

To The Editor: “Ich bin stolz, ein Neanderthaler zu sein!” (I’m proud to be a Neanderthal!)

So reads a souvenir T-shirt

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in a gift shop in Germany’s Neander Valley, near where the first remains of Homo neanderthalensis were unearthed in 1856. Since then, Neanderthals have gotten a really bum rap. They’ve been depicted as stupid, grunting brutes, i.e., “cave men.” But in recent years, a very different picture has emerged.

Neanderthals were at least as intelligent as their Homo sapiens cousins. They had larger brains, made equally sophisticated tools, communicated in spoken languages, produced art, and buried their dead with religious rituals. In other words, they were a lot like us.

How much like us remained a mystery until 2009, when Dr. Svante Pääbo at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig successfully sequenced the complete Neanderthal genome for the first time. His results have answered several questions about how Neanderthals and Early Modern Humans interacted. It’s long been known that the two species lived in close association in Europe for at least 40,000 years, but did they interbreed?

Their DNA answers unequivocally, “Yes, they did, and quite a lot.” We now know that every human population group alive today, except one, inherited between 2% and 5% of its genetic makeup from Neanderthal ancestors.

The only exception is black Africans from south of the Sahara Desert. Apparently their distant ancestors never crossed paths with Neanderthals. Every other population group on earth did, hence that souvenir T-shirt.

So forget all the blather about our “pure white race” being “mongrelized” by mating with

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people of darker skin hue. It’s nonsense, and it always was.

Genetic science blasted away the foundation of white supremacy. There’s no such thing as “pure” racial ancestry.

Perhaps you saw the recent story about a white supremacist, who volunteered to take a DNA test to prove his “pure white ancestry.” The poor doofus almost fell out of his

BUSINESS DIRECTORY

Chandel Associates Accounting, Taxes Audits, Full Service Payroll 3 Elm St., Bridgton Office 647-5711 Jones & Matthews, PA Certified Public Accountants Accounting and taxes Roosevelt Trail Prof. Bldg.

Route 302, Bridgton 647-3668 cpas@maine.com

CHIMNEY LINING The Clean Sweep LLC Chimney Cleaning Service Supaflu and Stainless Steel Chimney lining and relining Dana Richardson 935-2501

CLEANING SERVICES First Impressions Cleaning Inc. Residential & Commercial Seasonal 647-5096

DENTAL SERVICES Mountain View Dentistry Dr. Leslie A. Elston Cosmetic/restorative & Family Dentistry 207-647-3628 MountainViewDentistryMaine.com

DOCKS Great Northern Docks, Inc. Sales & Service Route 302, Naples 693-3770 1-800-423-4042 www.greatnortherndocks.com

Servicemaster Prof. Carpet Cleaning – Home/Office ELECTRICIANS Fire/Smoke Damage Restoration Northeast Alarm Services Inc. 1-800-244-7630 207-539-4452 Installation-Service-Monitoring Bosworth Electric Inc. ADT Security Services 647-4646 Quality electrical contractor TLC Home Maintenance Co. cindi@northeastalarm.com Commercial/Industrial/Residential Professional Cleaning and Generators/Todd Bosworth/207-838-6755 Property Management WAM-ALARM Systems bosworthelectricinc@hotmail.com Housekeeping and much more Installation, Service, Monitoring 583-4314 Burglar-Fire-Temperature Sensors D. M. Electric Inc. & Sons Free Security Survey 647-2323 Dennis McIver, Electrical Contractor COMPUTERS Residential/Commercial/Industrial APPLIANCE REPAIR Licensed in Maine & New Hampshire Bits & Bytes Bridgton 207-647-5012 Jones Appliance Service/Repair LLC 222 Main St., Lovell, ME 04051 207-925-1076 Quality service you deserve J.P. Gallinari Electric Co. stephen@bitsnbytes.co All major brands Residential - Commercial - Industrial jonesappliances@aol.com 595-4020 Grammy Geek Aerial - Auger - Lifting Service Tech support for seniors (jr’s too) Bridgton 647-9435 ATTORNEYS 1-1 support at your home Malware & virus removal/PC repair McIver Electric Shelley P. Carter, Attorney Free pick-up & delivery 207-310-0289 “Your on time every time electricians” Law Office of Shelley P. Carter, PA 221 Portland Rd, Bridgton 110 Portland St., Fryeburg, ME 04037 Ms. C’s Computer Repair 647-3664 935-1950 www.spcarterlaw.com Virus and spyware removal www.mciverelectric.net PC repairs 207-228-5279 Michael G. Friedman, Esq., PA 27 Zion Hill Road, Bridgton R.W. Merrill Electrical Contractor 132 Main St. 24 hour Emergency Service P.O. Box 10, Bridgton, ME 04009 Naples Computer Services 647-8360 PC repair/upgrades – on-site service Residential & Commercial Harrison 583-2986 Fax 583-4882 Virus and spy-ware removal Hastings Malia, PA Home and business networking David K. Moynihan 376 Main Street – PO Box 290 Video security systems Fryeburg, ME 04037 71 Harrison Rd., Naples 207-693-3746 Master Electrician 935-2061 www.hastings-law.com Licensed ME & NH Bridgton 647-8016 CONTRACTORS Robert M. Neault & Associates Attorneys & Counselors at Law EXCAVATION Jeff Hadley Builder Corner of Rte. 302 & Songo School Rd. Remodeling, Additions P.O. Box 1575, Naples Snow’s Excavation Tile work, Wood flooring 693-3030 Complete site work Kitchens, Drywall, Painting Foundations-Septic-Lots cleared 30 yrs experience 583-4460 CARETAKERS jhadley44@gmail.com 207-647-2697

ALARMS

Caretake America Managing and Patrolling Kevin Rogers, Owner/Manager Rte. 35, Naples 693-6000

CARPENTRY Robert E. Guy General Carpentry – Additions Repairs – Remodeling www.bobguy@myfairpoint.net Harrison 743-5120 239-4804 (cell) Jerry’s Carpentry & Painting Carpenter & General Contractor Log homes – decks – remodeling Fully insured – Free estimates 207-527-2552

CARPETING Thurlow’s Carpet & Home Center Sales & Service Meadow Rd. (Sandy Creek Junction) Bridgton 647-5562, 800-310-5563 www.thurlowscarpet.com

Quality Custom Carpentry From start to finish and from old to new Jeff Juneau Naples 207-655-5903

DANCE INSTRUCTION The Ballroom Dance - Exercise - Yoga - Aikido Main St., Harrison, Maine 207-583-6964

DENTAL SERVICES

once, but twice), white racist violence has exploded in the United States like it was 1935 all over again.

I recently had my DNA tested. My ancestors include pre-Roman Britons, Angles and Saxons from Germany, Normans from France, Scandinavians, Irish, Iberians and traces of people from the Black Sea region. I already

realized some of this. The rest was brand new. I’m delighted to learn from what glorious “mongrel” racial stock I descend, clear back to my distant Neanderthal grandparents, maybe 50,000 years ago. Ich bin stolz, ein Neanderthaler zu sein. Natürlich!

Rev. Robert Plaisted Bridgton LETTERS, Page 5D

TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME — The Cornish Historical Society is recreating a Vintage Baseball Game as it was played and clothed at the turn of the century, and everyone is invited to bring a blanket or chair and come watch. The “Maine Dirigo” team will play “Massachusetts Essex” in the re-creation on Saturday, Aug. 1, at 1 p.m. at the Cornish Fairgrounds. Food and concessions will be provided by the Cornish Fairgrounds Committee, which is helping to host the event. Cost is $5 for adults, $3 for ages 12 to five, under five free. For more information, call Kate at 625-3095 or Diann at 625-3281.

CONSULT OUR LISTING OF BUSINESS SERVICES AND LET AN EXPERT DO THE JOB! ACCOUNTANTS

chair when the test showed his genome to be nearly 25% black African. Thanks to his Neanderthal ancestors, he isn’t even pure Homo sapiens, much less pure white. But the myth of white supremacy is like crabgrass. Every time you think it’s dead, back it comes.

Since Barack Obama shattered white supremacist mythology by being elected president (not

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EXERCISE/FITNESS Dee’s BodyCraft Personal Training, Aerobics, Pilates Certified – Experienced Bridgton 647-9599

FLOORING Abrams Hardwood Floors Sanding/Refinishing/Installation Sales & Service Tile – LVT – Hardwood 5 Otter Pond Rd, Bridgton 803-8221

Bridgton Dental Associates Dr. Paul Cloutier Complete dental care 138 Harrison Rd, Bridgton www.bridgtondental.com 207-647-8052

Bolsters Decorating Center Carpet – vinyl – ceramic Always free decorating consulting bolsters@megalink.net 9 Market Sq., So. Paris 207-743-9202

Bridgton Dental Hygiene Care, PA Complete oral hygiene care – infant to senior Most dental insurances, MaineCare 207-647-4125 www.BDHC.me

J & M Wood Floors Installation/Sanding/Refinishing Fully insured – Free estimates 207-337-5623

FOUNDATIONS Henry’s Concrete Construction Foundations, Slabs, Floors Harrison Tel. 583-4896 J. B. Concrete Bill O’Brien Poured Foundations 207-647-5940

GARAGE DOORS Naples Garage Door Co. Installation & repair services Free estimates Naples 207-693-3480

LAWN CARE North Country Property Services Lawn Care Property Management www.ncpsllc.com 207-713-0675

LP GAS Bridgton Bottled Gas LP Gas Cylinders/Service Route 302 Bridgton 207-647-2029

MASONRY D & D Masonry Chimneys/fireplaces/walks/etc.

Fully insured Free estimates Darryl & Doug Hunt 693-5060

Roberts Overhead Doors Commercial/residential – free estimates MOVING Now offering Master Card & Visa Bridgton Moving 207-595-2311 Residential & light commercial bridgtonmoving@verizon.net HAIRDRESSERS Glynn Ross 240 N. High St. – 647-8255 The Hairitage 671-2556 (cell) One Beavercreek Farm Rd. (top of Packard’s Hill – Rte 302) MUSIC LESSONS Vicki Crosby Owner/Stylist Up Scale Music Studio 647-8355 Piano Lessons – All Levels Composition-Theory-Transcription HARDWARE Evan 647-9599 L. M. Longley & Son OIL DEALERS Hardware/Plumbing/Heating/Metal Shops Electrical/Welding supplies/Housewares Dead River Co. Range & Fuel Oil Main St., Norway, ME 743-8924 Oil Burner Service Tel. 647-2882, Bridgton HEATING

RUBBISH SERVICE Bridgton Trash & Rubbish Service Bridgton/Naples/Harrison/Fryeburg Weekly & 1-time pickups – Cleanouts Tel. 207-595-4606 The Dump Guy Insured – Junk removal Basement and attic cleanouts 207-450-5858 www.thedumpguy.com

SELF STORAGE Bridgton Storage 409 Portland Rd 28 units & 4000’ open barn Bridgton 647-3206 JB Self Storage Rt. 5 Lovell, Maine Monthly/yearly secure storage 207-925-3045

SEPTIC TANK PUMPING Dyer Septic Septic systems installed & repaired Site work-emergency service-ecofriendly 1-877-250-4546 207-583-4546

SURVEYORS F. Jonathan Bliss, P.L.S. Bliss & Associates Surveying, Land Planning 693 Main St, Lovell 207-925-1468 blissinc@fairpoint.net

Maine Survey Consultants, Inc. Land info services – Surveys Boundary/Topographic/Flood elevation PO Box 485, Harrison, Maine Off: 583-6159 PAINTING CONTRACTORS D. A. Maxfield Jr. PLS Bass Heating Over 10,000 surveys on file Jerry’s Painting Service Oil Burner Service Quality Painting – Interior/Exterior Sales and Installations TAXIDERMIST Fully Insured – Free Estimates Waterford (207) 595-8829 Trapper’s Taxidermy 207-527-2552 Jason Pingree Thurlow’s Carpet & Home Center PLUMBING & HEATING 112 Bush Row Rd Monitor Heaters Sales & Service Denmark 207-452-2091 Meadow Rd. (Sandy Creek Junction) A Plus Plumbing & Heating Inc. Bridgton 647-5562, 800-310-5563 Plumbing Supplies – LP Gas TREE SERVICE www.thurlowscarpet.com BBQ Gas Grill Parts & Access.

Portland St., Bridgton 647-2029 Q-Team & Cook’s Tree Service Removal-pruning-cabling-chipping HOME INSPECTION Collins Plumbing & Heating Inc. Stump grinding-bucket work-bobcat Specializing in repair service in Crane-licensed & fully insured ACW Inspection Services The Lake Region 647-4436 Q Team 693-3831 or Cook’s 647-4051 Certified Home Inspector Toll free 207-693-3831 www.Q-Team.com Ken Karpowich Plumbing 20 years in Real Estate Repairs/Installation/Remodeling Fryeburg 207-256-2574 Rice Tree Service – Sheldon Rice Master Plumber in ME & NH Complete tree service – free estimates Over 20 years experience 207-925-1423 INSULATION Removal-prune-chipping-stump grinding PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Licensed and insured Utility and Landscape Arborist Western Me. Insulation Inc Clement Bros. Lawn and Landscape Waterford ME – 583-2474 Batts, blown or foamed Organic lawn & garden maintenance Over 30 yrs experience Top Notch Tree Service, LLC Shoreline restoration Free estimates – fully insured All aspects of tree care & removal Creative stonework, property watch 7 days a week – 693-3585 Fully-licensed and insured Snowplowing & sanding Excellent references 207-693-6646 www.clementbros.com INSURANCE 207-357-WOOD (9663)

REAL ESTATE

Ace Insurance Agency Inc. Home and Auto 43 East Main Street Denmark 1-800-452-0745

Chalmers Real Estate 100 Main St., Bridgton Tel. 647-3311

Chalmers Ins. Agency 100 Main St., Bridgton Tel. 647-3311

Lakes Region Properties “At the Lights in Naples” Waterfront, Residential Commercial & Land 207-693-7000

Oberg Insurance Auto, Home, Business, Life 132 Main St., Bridgton Tel. 647-5551, 888-400-9858

Oberg Agency Residential, Business, Lake Shore Property 132 Main St., Bridgton Southern Maine Retirement Services Tel. 647-5551, 888-400-9858 Medicare Supplements & Prescription Plans RUBBISH SERVICE Life and Senior Dental Insurance 150 Main St., Bridgton 1-866-886-4340 ABC Rubbish Weekly Pick-up Container Service KENNELS Tel. 743-5417 Bridgton Veterinary Kennels AM Enterprises Inc. Boarding Trash & snow removal Route 117, Bridgton, Me. Serving Harrison & Bridgton Tel. 647-8804 ameinc@outlook.com 207-749-2850

VETERINARY Bridgton Veterinary Hospital Small Animal Medicine & Surgery Rt. 117, Bridgton, ME 647-8804 Fryeburg Veterinary Hospital Small Animal Medicine & Surgery Route 302, Fryeburg 207-935-2244 Norway Veterinary Hospital Naples Clinic Corner Rte. 302 & Lambs Mill Rd.

By Appointment 693-3135 Rozzie May Animal Alliance Low-cost spay/neuter www.rozziemay.org - Conway, NH By appointment 603-447-1373

WINDOW TREATMENTS Bolsters Decorating Center Custom window treatments Always free decorating consulting bolsters@megalink.net 9 Market Sq., So. Paris 207-743-9202

Classifieds

The Fair Housing Act of 1968 at 42 U.S.C. 3604(c) makes it unlawful “to make, print, or publish, or cause to be made, printed, or published any notice, statement, or advertisement, with respect to the sale, or rental of a dwelling that indicates any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.

CHALMERS INSURANCE &

REAL ESTATE

Part of the Chalmers Group

100 Main Street, Bridgton, ME 04009 Phone: 207-647-3311 Fax: 207-647-3003 www.chalmers-ins.com

DAYCARE

OASIS CHILDCARE/CASCO — Weekly summer field trips to the State Park/Beach, pool, zipline, bounce house and more.

Children are afforded exceptional, quality care in a nurturing, fun and loving environment to help expel BN 30 their energy thru play. See us on Facebook or call/text Kelly Kaeser ATTENTION at 207-329-2658 for more info.

Classified line ads are now posted 10t26 on our website at NO EXTRA CHARGE! www.bridgton.com

FOR SALE

AUTOMOTIVE NEW INSPECTIONS & 14-DAY PLATES

Buying and Offering US Coins Gold & Silver Bullion

2007 Saab 9-3 Wagon, loaded, brand new condition, 160k...................$5000 2002 Volvo XC-70, CrossCountry, AWD...........................$3800 2006 GMC Sierra 3500 4x4, Crew Cab, Utility Body...............$6500 2006 Honda Civic 4 dr sedan, auto, 146k..................................$5000 214 Casco Road, Naples, Maine

838-9569

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142 Main Street Conway, NH 603-447-3611 Metal Detectors

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HELP WANTED

VOLUNTEERS WANTED — Gallery 302 needs responsible high schoolers or active retirees to help set up/tear down events, serve food, simple housekeeping, restock supplies, in pleasant environment. Flexible summer schedule 207-583-9112.

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Paying TOP DOLLAR for Junk Cars

STUART SALVAGE

AUTOMOTIVE TECH — ASC-certified helpful. State inspection license required. Driver’s license and clean driving record.

Full-time. Contact Portland Street Auto & Body, 487 Portland Road, tf26 Bridgton. 647-8134.

WANTED ENERGETIC — Reliable experienced housekeepers on Saturdays from 11 to 3 during July/August. One single property

Bridgton Highlands Country Club

10' x 10' Unit $50.00 per month

Bridgton Highlands Country Club is seeking energetic and outgoing persons to work in our snack bar.

Please forward resumes to: Bridgton Highlands Country Club 379 Highland Rd. Bridgton, ME 04009, apply in person, or e-mail to: bhcc379@aol.com

BUSINESS SERVICES

HEAP HAULERS — Towing service. Cash paid for junk cars.

Call 655-5963. tf12 RON PERRY CARPENTRY ­— Renovations and new construction.

35 years of experience, no job too small or too big. Bridgton, Me. 978-502-7658.

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DJAY SERVICES — Events, birthdays, graduation parties, school dances, corporate functions, company picnics, beach parties.

Call 207-595-4606. tf18 HOUSE — DEN­MARK Painting, Inc. Inter­ior and Exterior Paint­ing. Also, Paper­hang­ing. 40 years of painting ex­pe­ri­ence. Call for esti­mates. Call John Math­ews, 207-452-2781. tf49

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

MT. WASHINGTON — view lot, 5 acres, So. Bridgton. Driveway and underground conduit in place.

Deed covenants $99,000. Tele: 207-205-6349; 207-637-2260.

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207-515-0415

A&D

JDN ENTERPRISES

RESTORATION Painting Interior | Exterior Powerwash Carpentry | Flooring Roofing | Siding Landscape Tree Work | Yard Care

• General Contracting • Water Lines • Excavation • Septic Systems • Bush Hogging • Retaining Walls • Firewood “ONE CALL DOES IT ALL” 207-647-8146 JACK KOSTKA “JK” jdnenterprisesllc@yahoo.com

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DENMARK SELF-STORAGE

Snack Bar Help Wanted

These are flexible positions, May – October, and require some weekend and evening shifts. Duties include light food preparation, serving, and bartending.

FOUND PADDLE BOAT — Harrison side of Long Lake. Call 207-583-4801 t30x

Residential / Commercial Repairs – New Ceilings 23 Years Experience Free estimates

207-595-9249

207-452-2157

Help Wanted at Pietree Orchard!

• Parking Lots • Roadways — Tar and Chip • Grading Camp Roads • Seal Coat & Striping • Hot Rubber Crack Filling

Steve or Dave 207-653-0582

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Full-time Packing House/Farmstand Associate Weekends required, starting pay $10.50/hour

Part-time, Seasonal Weekend Pizza Baker

Now through December. Kitchen experience preferred. Starting pay $10.50/hour

NIGHT WATCH PERSON Required for small family-oriented Inn and resort located in Lovell/Stoneham, Maine. Shift work, 10 p.m.–8 a.m. No flexibility in these shifts. Must have excellent people skills, able to multitask re duties that are required. The successful candidate will have to be reliable and references are a must and police checks will be conducted. If interested please send resume to: margcrown@rogers.com or call (207)928-3300 and ask for Sue. 1T30CDX

HOUSEKEEPERS Required for small family-oriented Inn and resort located in Lovell/Stoneham, Maine. Must have previous experience working in a B&B or resort environment. Must be able to work flexible hours. This is a seasonal position, June–Nov. Please send resume to margcrown@rogers.com or Evergreenv@fairpoint.net. Or call (207)928-3300 and ask for Sue.

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70 Fairview Drive Fryeburg, ME 04037 Phone 207-935-3351 Fax 207-256-8303

LICENSED CHARGE NURSE

Part-Time 7–3 Shift / 1–2 Days Week (No Weekends) Interested applicants should stop in for an application at Fryeburg Health Care Center, 70 Fairview Drive, Fryeburg, or download one at www.fryeburghealthcare.com 2T30CD

803 Waterford Road, Sweden, Maine or e-mail resume to businessofficemgr@pietree-orchard.com

FRONT DESK/RECEPTIONIST Required for small family-oriented Inn located in Lovell/ Stoneham, Maine. Successful candidate must have excellent computer and customer service/people skills. Must be able to multitask, and assist with other duties including light housekeeping. If you possess previous resort experience, that would be a definite asset. You will be required to work flexible shifts and must be reliable and mature. This position is available immediately. Please send resume to Evergreenv@fairpoint.net or margcrown@rogers.com. Or call (207)928-3300, and ask for Sue.

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LAKE REGION SCHOOL DISTRICT

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$225/cord green ~ cut/split/del.

• Tree Removal • Logging • Fully Insured

• Lots cleared • Buying Standing Timber

Bob Mitchell

(H) 647-3584 ~ (C) 583-7438 TF41CD

ANTICIPATED OPENING 2015–16 SCHOOL YEAR

Residential & Commercial

SPEECH PATHOLOGIST

• Driveways • Parking Lots • Roadways

(Predominantly Elementary Focus) 1. APPROPRIATE LICENSURE – REQUIRED 2. PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS WORKING WITH STUDENTS K-12 WITH SPEECH/LANGUAGE DISABILITIES – REQUIRED 3. PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE WITH VARIOUS SERVICE DELIVERY MODELS AND WORKING COLLABORATIVELY WITH A TEAM OF EDUCATORS – PREFERRED 4. PROFICIENT IN COMPLETING EVALUATIONS AND OTHER TIME-SENSITVE SPECIAL EDUCATION PAPERWORK INTERESTED CANDIDATES SHOULD VISIT SCHOOLSPRING.COM TO APPLY

Saccuzzo Asphalt

JAMES SACCUZZO Owner Operator

DEADLINE: Open until a qualified and suitable candidate is found.

EOE

• Recycled Asphalt • Seal Coating & Striping • Grading & Gravel Camp Roads

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Serving The Lake Region Proudly

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We are a small family facility with an excellent reputation for providing quality care while enjoying a home-like atmosphere. If you enjoy fulfilling and meaningful relationships with your residents and their families, then this may be the place for you. Currently accepting applications for:

Make application at

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ON EAGLES WINGS — Looking for a massage therapist that wants to join our wellness center in Bridgton. We need someone with lots of heart and can do hot stones.

Please call Ann Ruel 207-415tf18 9166.

693-5499

LOST & FOUND

Plaster - Drywall

Andrew Fogg

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WITS END CHILDCARE — Center is now accepting resumes for a teacher’s aid position. This position is full time M-F 9 to 5:30.

Candidates must have CPR/First Aid Certification, be registered with the QRS and have or be working toward their CDA or ECE. Candidates must be dependable, able to multi-task, and love working with children ages 3 months to 12 years. FMI please contact the director at 207-615-4098. 2t29x

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FOR RENT

BRIDGTON — Slope-side condo, 3 levels, sleeps 8. All amenities including cable and WiFi. Fullyfurnished and beautifully-decorated. Enjoy lake views and mountain breezes. Available through November. Weekly/monthly. Please call for rates. 671-8189. tf26

Wallboard Specialist

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PART-TIME OFFICE HELP — wanted. QuickBooks and Excel experience a plus. Q-Team Tree Service in Naples. Stop by, call 693-3831 or e-mail Jan@Q-Team. com to request an application. tf30

FOR RENT

RED’S FIREWOOD — Cut, BRIDGTON — Nice two-level, split and delivered. Any amounts. 4-bedroom, 1.5-bath home located Call 615-6342 for details. tf35 in the Knights Hill Association in West Bridgton. The top floor: open LOAM & FIREWOOD — kitchen, living room/dining area Firewood delivered in 1/2 cord with high ceiling, skylights, cherry loads. Please call Ron Robinson hardwood floors, Fisher woodstove between 4 and 8 p.m. 595-8359. with tiled hearth, 2-bedrooms and

19t21 1.5-baths and a screened porch.

GOT WOOD — Selling wood Lower level: Pergo flooring with that will be ready to burn for knotty pine interior, 2 bedrooms, the 2015 season. Call today to family room area, mud room and schedule your delivery. $250 per sauna. Front yard, cable/Internetcord. 207-647-8146. Jack. tf16 ready, AC, W/D. Just a short walk to the association pools, tennis and JERRY’S SPORT SHOP — basketball courts. Half-mile from in Denmark is restocked and the association beach area. The reopened. We are open 7 days a home can be rented furnished/nonweek but call before coming 452- furnished $900/month plus util.

2320. We also sell hunting and Plowing included. 1st and security fishing licenses.

4t28x deposit req. ($1800) 1-year lease.

FIREWOOD — $225 per A credit application is required cord green. Ask about volume with a $15 application fee if you discount. 2 cord minimum are interested in applying. 1 dog for delivery. 207-925-1138. considered with pet deposit. Cats are not accepted under any circumwesternmainetimberlands.com

tf13 stances. Call 207-647-4000. 2t29 VILLAGE — 2-bedVEHI­CLES FOR SALE NAPLES room, 1-bath townhouse availJESUS IS LORD – new and able August 1st. Security deposit used auto parts. National locator. and references required. $850 per Most parts 2 days. Good used cars. month includes heat, appliances, Ovide’s Used Cars, Inc., Rte. 302 off-street parking, snow removal Bridg­ton, 207-647-5477. tf30 and garbage pickup. Call Khris at 693-6255 weekdays 8 to 5. No aniFOR RENT mals sorry.

1t30 HARRISON — 2-bedroom trailer COMMERCIAL OFFICE — with 8’x9’ storage room. Off-road, Space in modern office building private, pets ok. $700. Call 207- located in downtown Bridgton, 583-0906.

1t30 885 sq. ft., heat and lights included.

BRIDGTON — 2-bedroom, split- $1250 per month. Call 207-647tf29 level apartment with screened 2900. porch, full bath, trash, plowing, CASCO — Completely furnished yard and water included. $750 rooms, heat, lights & cable TV inmonth plus electric. Security de- cluded. $120 weekly. No pets. Call posit required. No pets. Call 603- cell, 207-595-4946. tf37 494-0325. tf27

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Discriminatory Advertising under the Fair Housing Act

DAYCARE

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Classified advertising is sold in this space at the rate of $3.50 for 20 words or less and 15¢ a word over 20. All ads are payable in advance.

Repeats are charged at the same rate as new ads. Ads taken over the phone must be called in by Monday with payment arriving by Tuesday. A charge of $1.00 per week extra is made for the use of a box number if requested. A charge of $1.00 per classified is made if billing is necessary. Cards of Thanks and In Memoriams are charged at the same rate as classified ads. Poetry is charged by the inch.

Classified display is sold at $6.50 per column inch. Classified advertisers must furnish written copy.

The Bridgton News assumes no financial responsibility for typographical errors in advertisements other than to reprint that part of any advertisement in which a typographical error occurs. Advertisers will please notify the business office promptly of any errors that may occur, phone 207-647-2851.

HELP WANTED

on Anderson Road, Sebago. Great ABC ACADEMY PRE-SCHOOL pay. Call or text 207-400-6441. — has openings for the upcoming

4t27x school year. The 3-year-old session is on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIAN 4-year-olds on Mon., Wed. & Fri. — For local established electrical Class hours are 9 a.m.-noon. Your company, Lake Region area. Call child will have tons of fun while 838-6755. tf29 developing basic fundamentals, TREE WORKERS NEEDED skills and working on academics — Experience helpful but will that will be beneficial when starttrain the right individuals. Apply ing kindergarten. Excellent referonline at www.Q-Team.com/em- ences! FMI call Sandy at 207-8075t29 ployment-application or in person 0122 or 647-3040. at Q-Team on Route 11 in Naples.

FOR SALE 693-3831. tf19 WESTERNMAINEFIREWOOD.com WORK WANTED — Seasoned hardwood. Aged 12 LAWN CARE — Brush and tree months or more. Cut, split and removal. Garage cleanups, light delivered. Cord $300; Half cord trucking, and bark mulch installa- $160, 583-4113 or 595-5029.

55t31x tions, and more. 595-8321. 8t24x ODD JOBS — By the hour, day, $5 FOR TATTERED — U.S. week or job. Also power washing. Flag when purchasing new U.S. Free estimates. Call 627-4649. Flag 3’x5’ or larger. Maine Flag

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tf46 SEMI-RETIRED CONTRACTOR — looking for plumbing work in WINTERIZED EFFICIENCY the local area. Call 647-8026. tf30 — cottage. Kitchenette area with gas stove, exhaust fan, microwave EXCAVATING — Have hoe, will oven and refrigerator. Bathroom travel. Snowplowing, removal and with shower, toilet, exhaust fan sanding. Site work, foundations and small sink. Hot water on dug, back filling, septic systems, demand and gas monitor heater. sand, loam, gravel. Call Brad Slide out windows for easy Chute, 653-4377 or 627-4560. tf3 cleaning. One open room with small closet. 16.5’x16.5’, 17’4” at NATURALLY NICE — Land- eaves. In Naples, must be moved scaping. Free estimates. Weeding off property at buyer’s expense. of gardens, weed whacking, lawns $7000 firm. 693-1038.

4t30x mowed, cleanups, shrubs cut. Call Tony at 647-2458 or 595-5485. HOT TUB WITH COVER —

2t30x 2-Man, 250-gal. Solana 2007 Model. Excellent condition. 207RENT READY — Professionals. 925-1164 Bob Eastman. Hours We setup your rent — apartments, available 8:30-noon & 7-9 p.m. homes. Paint, carpet, floors, clean- Price $1300.

3t28x ing, very handy. Smoke alarms. No hassle. This does not cost a lot. Call 4t30x today 376-5480.

STUARTS

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CLASSIFIED DISPLAY ADS Deadline: Friday 4:00 p.m.

CLASSIFIED LINE ADS Deadline: Monday 5:00 p.m.

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Opinions

Classifieds WANTED

PLEASE CONSIDER — donating gently used furniture, household items and more to Harvest Hills Animal Shelter.

FMI, go to our website www. harvesthills.org for details or call 935-4358, ext. 21. tf44

YARD SALES

LARGE YARD SALE — Sunday, July 26, 8-4, 125 State Park Rd., Naples. Rain or shine.

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COMMUNITY FLEA MARKET — Every Sunday all summer starting May 24 at the Fryeburg Fairgrounds. Something for everyone. Antiques, collectibles, general merchandise, tools, sports cards, hunting and fishing equipment and more. Inside and outside vendor spaces available.

Please call 603-447-2679 for information.

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GARAGE SALE — Antiques, glassware, linens, prints, furniture and lots more. Sat. 9-5, Sun. 9-5.

Rte. 37, 563 N. Bridgton Rd., Bridgton. 1t30x GRACE CHRISTIAN CHURCH — annual yard sale. Sat., July 25 9-1, rain or shine. 11 Pinhook Road, Bridgton (off Route 107).

Too many great bargains to list them all. Something for everyone.

Come find your treasure at Grace Christain Church.

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BARN SALE — Saturday, 7/25 and Sunday, 7/26, 8 a.m.–5 FAMILY BARN & YARD SALE p.m. Lovell, near New Suncook — Antiques and collectables, tools School. 1t30x galore. July 25th & 26th, 8 to 3. 60 Sweden Road, So. Waterford. No early birds please.

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I first heard about the campers from a friend, who lives on the shores of Highland Lake, and who had seen flames on a tiny island in the middle of the lake.

My friend reported that two men had paddled their canoe out from the west shore of the lake, had set up camp on the tiny island, and had a campfire burning. The blueberry bushes, shrubs, and trees, which they had cut down to make room for their camp, were piled high on the newly-stripped ground. It was Fourth of July weekend, and the men had come here to spend a few days enjoying themselves. What they apparently did not realize is that Shoreland Zoning laws strictly limit cutting vegetation within a hundred feet of the lake, and that in cutting vegetation along the shore of that particular island, they had destroyed a loon nest.

This summer, two pairs of loons are known to have nested on Highland Lake, and one of those nests was on the tiny island. The loons were extremely lucky that their two eggs hatched the day before the men arrived, and since loon chicks are taken into the water about an hour after hatching, they avoided being trampled by the campers.

Unfortunately, according to my friend’s report, the men cut so much sheltering vegetation around the nest site, that loons who have nested there for at least four years probably will not nest there again.

The loon family had narrowly escaped disaster, and

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Harper Lee controversy

To The Editor: Coming from southern ancestry, I could not be more fascinated with the controversy surrounding the publication of Harper Lee’s first book, Go Set a Watchman.

Indeed, like so many others, I adored Harper Lee’s book To Kill a Mockingbird.

It is particularly fascinating to me because there have been so many (during the course of my 75 years) who have questioned

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me about the possibility that Atticus Finch, the quintessential decent white southern hero, was a fictionalized hero based on the life of my father, Clifford J. Durr. Like Atticus Finch, my father was a model parent for his four daughters — the “preferred” and “idealized” parent on whom we children could count on for reliable guidance when it came to navigating divisive family conflicts. Like Atticus, my father often described himself as an “old-fashioned Jeffersonian.” Like Atticus, my father instructed his children to take another look at “ghosts,” to look beyond myth and stereotypes, to see people for who people are beyond status, race, wealth, IQ, rank and privilege.

Both of my parents taught

their children that divisive, unjust economic and cultural paradigms (including race) are deadly. He advocated the necessity to manage one’s emotional and spiritual intelligence in the service of balance and sanity. Indeed, differences in approaches to stereotyping and/or what constitutes culturally acceptable behavior often lead to polarization, scapegoating, incredible psychic pain and permanent estrangement of family and community, whether it is one’s local community or the larger one. Sometimes, when tensions are at their extreme, the slightest metaphorically-burning lit match can lead to a conflagration of grievances made more manifest in violent and deadly warfare.

It was not just the civil rights struggle that propelled my parents outside the magic circles of approbation, where they once traveled as “well-educated, well-bred elitists, chosen to serve the public interest.” It was the civil liberties struggle going on through America during the 1940s and 50s — a time in which government agencies such as the FBI and CIA roamed government and even private neighborhoods in an

effort to scout out “Russianloving communists and traitors.” There were a few here and there, but often those chosen for ostracism from employment and social networks were people wanting to read and speak to better understand the forces of nature, politics, tribal loyalties, etc.

So, I will not go on and on. However, I do want readers to know that my own father — although he spoke in a southern accent and often said “Negra” instead of “Negro” and had to learn to say “African American” — was not a racist, nor did he become part of the “Dixiecrat Party” led

by Strom Thurmond, nor did he become a “Goldwater Republican” (I am now referring to Joseph Crespino’s piece in the July 16 edition of the New York Times).

My father usually voted Democratic (sometimes with huge reservations) even though my mother voted for Eisenhower. I think I understand Atticus in context of those times. I want to know more.

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by Jean Preis BN Columnist

DENMARK — The Friends of Ora Keller Brine and the Board of Directors of the Denmark Historical Society has invited the public to the dedication of the Ora Keller Brine millstone gift to the Town of Denmark on Sunday, July 26, at 1 p.m. at Denmark’s Bicentennial Park (west side).

The large three-ton granite millstone, which stood in front of Ora Keller Brine’s house on Main Street until it was moved, is one of Denmark’s unique historical features. It is one of a matching pair that was used in a 19th century gristmill on Moose Pond Brook. It is 14 inches thick and weighs around 3,000 pounds.

Voters agreed to accept the millstone gift at this year’s Town Meeting. The millstone is distinctive by its so-called “sickle” cutting pattern, which are the lines cut into the surface to facilitate grinding.

The gristmill stone harkens back to Denmark’s industrial past, when numerous mils operated along Moose Pond Brook. Its companion was sold and moved out of Denmark, and the Denmark Historical Society sought to preserve the remaining stone. Fritz Von Ulmer was instrumental in negotiating the gift, along with Brian Grennan.

At its new location, the millstone stands near a 19th century water-powered turbine that also came from an early mill on Moose Pond. A plaque acknowledging the gift and identifying the stone will be installed at the site.

Light refreshments will be served at the Bicentennial Hall, directly opposite the millstone location. For more information, e-mail phf@fairpoint.net or call 452-2239.

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ing at it and trying to drown it, or it may grab all the food, as the sibling who is not fed grows weaker. The adults do not intervene. If a chick cannot fight back, grab food, or keep up with the family, it is abandoned.

Immediately, my friend contacted Kappy Sprenger, a licensed wild bird rehabilitator, who gave instructions over the phone on how to capture the abandoned chick and take it to her. In a kayak, assisted by children with good eyesight, my friend found the chick huddled against some vegetation along the shore.

The chick swam out, pecked the side of the kayak softly a few times, and swam into an outstretched fish net. It was soaking wet, since down feathers do not shed water, and was close to drowning.

The little loon was rescued on July 11 and taken immediately to Kappy Sprenger, who discovered it suffered from internal bleeding, which she was able to treat successfully.

One leg had a painful hairline fracture. She knew the chick had not been attacked by its sibling because there were no external injuries. Its injuries could only have been caused by the chick being hit, perhaps a glancing blow from a passing boat or by hav-

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for the next week and a half, lakeshore residents and boaters enjoyed watching the two fluffy little black chicks as they swam beside their parents or rode on a parent’s back. My friend watched them frequently through binoculars and learned their daily patterns of behavior, as they spent much of their time in a quiet cove away from the increasing boat traffic.

Sometimes, the loon family swam across the middle of the lake to the opposite shore, a dangerous crossing because loons can be hidden by waves, and even on smooth water a chick is nearly invisible.

One day, my friend was chatting with two passing kayakers, who mentioned they had just seen two loons with a chick swimming across the lake. My friend knew at once something was wrong. Where was the second chick? A binocular scan of the water near shore revealed the chick, alone. The parents and the sibling were on their way across the lake, and had left this one behind to fend for itself. It is not unusual for loons and other birds to abandon a youngster, who is ill, injured or has some other problem. Often a larger or stronger loon chick will attack a smaller sibling, peck-

ing been thrown by a strong wake into some hard object like a rock. With 24-hour expert care, the chick is gaining weight, and soon may be feeding itself rather than just accepting food that is placed in its mouth. As its fractured leg heals and becomes less painful, the little loon should become more active, and have a stronger will to live.

The little loon was very lucky to have hatched a day before two men destroyed its nest site. It was lucky to have been watched by a human, who was paying close attention, and who noticed when it was abandoned by its parents. It is lucky to be in the hands of an experienced loon rehabilitator. If the little chick continues to improve, some time in October it should be released into the ocean, where it will live for years until it is mature enough to return to a lake, find a mate and breed. If all that comes to pass, this will have been one very lucky loon. The tiny dot of an island, and the adult loons who nested there, are not so lucky. According to my friend, much of the island’s vegetative cover has been destroyed, and most likely loons will not be able to use that nest site again.

The men, who camped there, later moved to a slightly larger island, but they may not realize the serious, long-term damage they caused when they first arrived at the tiny island. With luck, someone who knows them will fill them in and, if they return, will guide them to a proper campground.

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Sails of imagination

(Continued from Page 1D) The bones of a schooner that wrecked over on nearby Higgins Beach in Scarborough are another reminder of those days. They’re all that remain of the schooner Harold W. Middleton that was carrying coal from Virginia and hit ledges offshore. It finally came to rest on the sand near the outlet of the Sprurwink River. Locals made off with the coal and the insurance company salvaged what it wanted, then left the rest in place. Storms have covered and uncovered the wreck in the century since.

As a boy in elementary school, I loved drawing squarerigged sailing ships. It gave me pleasure to sketch the sweeping lines of the hull and bowsprit, the straight masts and rectangular sails that weren’t perfectly rectangular as they billowed in the wind. I’d draw waves breaking against the bow and imagine how they might appear from high up on one of the masts. Sometimes, I’d draw triangular sails on schooners, but I liked the square rigs better and I’d always include a flag atop the tallest mast.

Though I’m semi-retired, I still have a compulsion to keep busy, to accomplish something every day. Plagued by this lingering need to be productive, I seldom give myself enough time off to just walk around, think, feel the breeze, smell the air, stop and appreciate beauty in whatever form it should present itself. Gotta change that. Though I had writing to do last Saturday, I went over to SMCC and waited with thousands of others for the tall ships to appear over the horizon. 18th and 19th century Mainers waited there for loved ones to return from long voyages and became anxious if they were overdue. The local cemetery I walk through contains many headstones declaring someone “lost at sea,” telling me it wasn’t all tranquility and elegance to go “down to the sea in ships.”

Tom McLaughlin of Lovell is a retired middle school U.S. History teacher.

Obituaries

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Page 6D, The Bridgton News, July 23, 2015

Alice A. Best

A Celebration of Life

PORTLAND — Alice Alberta Best, 94, a longtime resident of Portland, passed away on Wednesday, July 15, 2015, at the Barron Center.

She was born in Fryeburg, the daughter of Walter and Ida Bemis. Alice graduated from Fryeburg Academy, Class of 1938.

Alice was one of seven children and the last surviving. She was predeceased by her brothers, Glenn and Sherwood; sisters, Ethel, Marion, Beatrice and Alteen.

She is survived by her husband, Arthur Best; a son, Norman Best; as well as many adoring nieces and nephews.

A graveside service will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 25, 2015, at Brooklawn Memorial Park, 2002 Congress Street, Portland.

Please visit www.jonesrichandhutchins.com for additional information and to sign Alice’s online guestbook.

Richard J. Bouchard GORHAM — Richard J. Bouchard, 79, of Gorham passed away Sunday, July 12, 2015 at Maine Medical Center.

Richard was born in Caribou, the son of Maxime and Cecile (Fournier) Bouchard, and was raised in Eagle Lake.

Richard spent his career as a machinist in the military, serving in the Army, Air Force and Coast Guard.

He enjoyed fishing, hunting and loved to collect coins. He was very creative and had a passion for inventing. His greatest joy was being around his family, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Richard is survived by his loving wife of 54 years, Theresa J. McCartney Bouchard; a son, Rick Bouchard of Scarborough; a daughter, Theresa M. Bouchard of Windham; three grandsons including Brad Bouchard of East Baldwin; eight great-grandchildren; a brother, Joseph Dube; a sister, Nancy Gagnon; and several nieces and nephews.

Visiting hours were on Friday, July 17 at Blais & Hay Funeral Home, 35 Church Street, Westbrook. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Saturday at St. Anthony’s Parish, 268 Brown Street, Westbrook.

Online condolences can be expressed at blaisandhayfuneralhome.com

will be held in memory of Clair Heal, who passed away May 29, 2015.

Please join us on Saturday, August 1st, at 1 p.m., at his home on 264 Lambs Mill Rd., Naples, for sharing stories and remembrances of Clair.

All are welcome.

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Thelma Lowell BROWNFIELD — Thelma “Burnell” Lowell, 94, of Brownfield, entered into eternal peace in her sleep, surrounded by her family and friends on Sunday, July 19, 2015, in her home.

Thelma was born on July 17, 1921, in Brownfield, to Millard and Bernice Johnson Burnell. Thelma attended Bean Memorial Grammar School and graduated from Bean Memorial High School in Brownfield. She worked at Hall N. Smith Mill. She taught Sunday School in the Brownfield Church for many years. She worked at Dan’s Lord Market, and then she worked at Village Variety in Fryeburg for over 20 years for Paul Mutrie. Then she moved on to work at Boviens in Brownfield, from where she eventually retired. During retirement, she enjoyed spending time with family and friends, doing puzzles, yard work, and collecting cardinals.

Thelma was the wife of the late Wallace Lowell and the mother of the late Cecil Lowell, also of Brownfield. She is survived by and leaves behind two brothers, Jean and Keith Burnell of Brownfield; her four grandchildren, Laurie Henry, Neal Lowell, Kimmy Lowell and David Lowell; four great-grandchildren, Allan and his wife Vanessa, Jim and wife Jenn, Little David and Johnny; and three great-great-grandchildren, Brady, Nathan, and Chase Reed. She also leaves behind a lot of wonderful friends.

A graveside service will be held at 1 p.m., Saturday, July 25th, at Pine Grove Cemetery, Brownfield. Arrangements are made with Wood Funeral Home, Fryeburg. Online condolences may be expressed to the family at www.woodfuneralhome.org

Robert L. Foster III In Loving Memory of

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John Bennett

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Those we love don’t go away They walk beside us every day Unseen, unheard, but always near Still loved, still missed, and very dear Love, Belinda, Jason & Jolie, Kristen & Shaun, Ainsley, Kendyll, Elle, Kaitlyn

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To my beloved John, an awesome drummer, self-taught. At the age of 16 you were good enough to play in professional bands at Serenity Hill.

There are no words meaningful enough to tell you how much your family and friends miss you.

Stanley E. Brown ELIOT – Stanley Edward Brown, 82, passed away on Friday evening, July 17, 2015, at Seal Rock Health Care, Saco. He was born in Fryeburg, on March 16, 1933, the son of William and Leona Capron Brown.

He was brought up and attended school in Fryeburg. After graduation, he enlisted in the United States Air Force, serving our country from 1953 to 1957. Stanley was a self-employed welder and fabricator for many years.

He was well-known for his love of oxen-pulling and his handcrafted yokes. In the 1980s, he raised a buffalo and the family named his street “Buffalo Lane” to honor him.

He was predeceased by his first wife Ampara “Sylvia” Brown in 2008; a son Steven Brown in 2007; brothers Roger, Howard and Ernest; and a sister Barbara.

He is survived by his wife, Bette Cole Brown of Eliot; his children, Lori Brown, Dwayne Brown and his wife Eulla, Stanley Brown and his wife Kim, all of Buxton; a brother Gordon; two sisters, Beverly and Judy; five grandchildren, Conrad, Derek, Dylan, Stacy and Peter; and three great-grandchildren, Dylan, Lily and Noelle.

A graveside service will be held at the South Buxton Cemetery on Saturday, July 25, 2015, at 11 a.m., where he will be laid to rest by Sylvia and Steven. Dennett, Craig and Pate Funeral Home, 13 Portland Road, Buxton, is in charge of the arrangements.

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PORTLAND — Robert L. Foster III, 67, of Bridgton, died unexpectedly, Thursday, July 16, 2015, at Maine Medical Center, in Portland.

He was born on July 11, 1948, in Portland, a son of Robert L. and Suzanne Foster Jr. He attended and graduated from Portland schools before enlisting in the U.S. Navy.

Upon his discharge from the service, Bob married, Maureen Griffin at the St. Dominic Church in Portland on Nov. 14, 1970. They made their home in Portland while he commuted to Bridgton to work for Federal Foods. Tired of the commute, Bob and his wife moved to Bridgton in 1978. In 1986, however, he took a job with the U.S. Postal Service in Portland and he once again was making the same commute. He retired from the Postal Service as the Supervisor of Distribution in 2008.

In his retirement, Bob could be found puttering at the Bridgton Highlands Country Club as he once was an avid golfer. He was also a former member of the Bridgton Lions Club.

Bob was loved by his children, Christopher Foster and his wife, Caitlin of Brownfield, Sarah Dodge of Bridgton, and Meagan Foster of Bridgton; three grandchildren, Ayden Paul Robert Foster, Ainsley Catherine Foster, and Mackenzie Maureen Dodge; and a brother John P. Foster and his husband Ray Rhule of Biddeford. He was predeceased by his wife Maureen on Dec. 18, 2014; and brothers, David and Paul Foster.

Family and friends were invited to visitation from 6 to 8 p.m., Wed., July 22, 2015, at the Chandler Funeral Home, 8 Elm St., Bridgton. Funeral services will be held at the funeral home at 10 a.m., on Thurs., July 23, with Rev. Craig Hacker officiating.

Interment will follow at the Forest Hills Cemetery in Bridgton.

Gifts may be given in his memory to the Bridgton Highlands Country Club Junior Golf Program, 379 Highland Rd., Bridgton, ME 04009. Words of tribute and condolence may be expressed at www.chandlerfunerals.com

Ralph L. Millett AUBURN — Ralph L. Millett, 80, of Waterford, died Saturday afternoon, July 11, 2015, at the Androscoggin Hospice House in Auburn, surrounded by his loving family.

He was born on January 6, 1935, in Waterford, a son of George Raymond and Grace (Dearborn) Millett. He attended Waterford schools and, at a very early age, started working on the family farm.

When Ralph was old enough, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, returning home to marry his beloved Betty Jean Eaton, which he did in Norway on June 15, 1957. They made their home in Norway for a few years until settling in Waterford.

As a young married man, Ralph worked alongside his brother logging nearby woodlots, which he continued to do even after taking on work in the AC Lawrence Leather Company in South Paris.

When the “Tannery” closed he went to work for Howell Laboratories in Bridgton, retiring at the age of 72 in 2007.

Ralph enjoyed the outdoors, hunting, fishing, vegetable gardening, and birdwatching. He will be fondly remembered for his quick wit and lovable sense of humor.

He is survived by his children, Donna Scribner of Standish, Rusty Millett and his wife Brenda of Waterford, and Ray Millett and his significant other Kristin Allen-Bent of Naples; five grandchildren, Jason Brown of Standish, Jessica Cotton and her husband Rocky of Norway, Sunny Millett of Waterford, Nina Miller and her husband Brent of Concord, N.H., and Ashley Millett of Asheville, N.C.; four great-grandchildren, Haley Scribner, Mariah, Ryan, and Hunter Cotton; two sisters, Gladys Emery of Mechanic Falls and Eva Barker of Waterford. He was predeceased by his wife Betty on Aug. 27, 2013; a son Rick Millett in 2009; brothers, Vern and Elmer Millett; sisters, Nina Bisbee, Mildred Murch, Katherine Millett, and Maisey Murch.

Condolences and tributes may be shared with Ralph’s family at www.oxfordhillsfuneralservices.com Graveside services will be held at 1 p.m., Sunday, August 9, 2015, at the Pulpit Rock Cemetery in Waterford. Gifts may be made in his memory to: Special Olympics Maine, Attn: Linda, 125 John Roberts Rd. #5, South Portland, ME 04106, or to the Office of Development, Shriners Hospitals for Children, 2900 Rocky Point Dr., Tampa, FL 33607. Arrangements are in the care of Oxford Hills Funeral Services, 1037 Main St., Oxford.

From Washington

by Angus King United States Senator

Improving education

Knowledge is perhaps the best gift we can give our children, and no one knows the importance of education better than the teachers, administrators, and parents who support our students every day.

So as the Senate worked on a bill to reform and replace No Child Left Behind, I made it my mission to connect with Maine teachers and visit schools in our state in order to better understand how federal legislation can effectively support and improve education in Maine. In those many conversations, two particular themes have arisen: first, teachers and administrators need flexibility and discretion — rather than strict and burdensome federal requirements — in order to directly and positively impact our children’s future. Second, income disparities and geographic barriers create a digital divide between those students with access to the Internet outside of school and those without it.

I took these concerns back to Washington with me and worked to address them as the Senate considered the Every Child Achieves Act — a major rewrite of the failed No Child EDUCATION, Page 7D

Views from Augusta

by Paul LePage Governor of Maine

Crime down, drug trade grows

Maine is one of the safest states in our Nation. We can all be proud of that.

Every year, the Maine Department of Public Safety releases information on criminal statistics, and this year there are many signs of encouragement. Crime in Maine decreased nearly 15% during 2014, the largest drop in 40 years.

As governor, I am determined to decrease domestic violence. Our society must not tolerate it. We may not be able to eliminate this abuse, but we can be committed to talking about how to detect early signs of abuse and share with people the resources and help available for victims.

During the past four years, I have spoken to thousands of young people around the State highlighting the dangers of domestic violence and how to identify the signs. I’m pleased to say there were fewer domestic violence assaults and three fewer homicides in 2014 compared to 2013.

However, we must always remember that behind the number is a family member, a loved one, a friend, neighbor or coworker. They are not statistics.

There are other signs of improvement. Crimes involving aggravated assaults, robberies and burglaries declined last year. The number of arson cases decreased, as well.

However, drug trafficking is on the rise. Drug arrests went up, and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency continues to see significant abuse of prescription drugs and heroin, as well as an increase in out-of-state drug dealers.

Democratic Senator Ann Haskell said we have already lost the war on drugs. Democrats have given up on getting drugs off our streets. Their solution is simply ignore the problem.

To be successful fighting Maine’s drug problem, we must have a plan. We need to fund more agents at the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency. If we want drugs off the streets, we must be willing to fight the root of the problem: drug dealers.

There were 208 drug-induced deaths identified in Maine in 2014. It’s likely more go unidentified. The use of heroin is increasing. Nearly twice as many people died from a heroin overdose in 2013 than in 2014 – 34 in 2013, 57 in 2014.

Even more troubling, there were 961 drug-affected babies born in our state last year.

Drugs are the driving force for most of the crime in Maine. But Democrats continue to undercut the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and its ability to hire an adequate number of agents. These agents are the only way to hunt down these drug-dealing thugs and put them behind bars.

Democrats choose to turn a blind eye on our drug problem, but I will not back down in my support for more agents, prosecutors and judges to fight this major problem.

I want to thank our law enforcement officials for all the work they do to keep us safe. Local and state police put their lives on the line for us every day. On behalf of all Mainers, I thank you for making our state a safer place.

Letters

(Continued from Page 5D) as an unsung prophet of our times. He had no use for sanctimonious, self-righteousness of any kind as he was aware that white, black, rich and poor, we are children of God. I can’t wait to read Harper The Bridgton News

Lee’s, Go Set a Watchman.

The disentanglement of this complicated history is essential to achieve some understanding with regard to how to bring about peace and justice. We cannot change what happened in the past, but we sure can learn from it, to make better decisions for ourselves, both in the present and in the future.

Virginia (Tilla) Durr Bridgton

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July 23, 2015, The Bridgton News, Page 7D

Paddle Auction is family affair

Engagement Lyndsay Gammon and Philip Denison of Norway have announced their engagement. The couple will marry on Oct. 10 at Fernwood Cove in Harrison.

The bride’s parents are Kevin Gammon and Charmae Gammon of Buckfield and Tim and Dee Williams of Sumner.

The groom’s parents are Hobart and Martha Denison of Harrison.

Lyndsay attended Buckfield Junior and Senior High School and then the University of Maine at Farmington. She is a fifth grade Humanities teacher at Harrison Elementary.

Philip attended Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School and then Central Maine Community College. He is an electrician for Tuomi Electric of Bridgton.

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(Continued from Page 6D) Left Behind Act. I’m pleased to say that we were able to make significant progress.

First, I crafted an amendment to improve the bill’s assessment pilot program, which will grant states greater opportunity to pursue innovative testing systems. Maine schools are already on the forefront of developing proficiency-based assessment systems that may eventually replace existing federally-mandated statewide tests; I am glad to support their innovative efforts at the federal level. This amendment, coupled with the Every Child Achieves Act’s overall de-emphasis on standardized tests, will ensure that teachers will be able to refocus their efforts in the classroom on the things that truly improve student learning. I’m pleased to say my amendment was accepted in the bill.

Second, the Every Child Achieves Act contains two key amendments I authored with Senator Shelly Moore Capito (R-W.V.) to address the digital divide, often referred to as the “homework gap,” that exists for students who don’t have access to the Internet outside of their school day. The homework gap is one of the most pressing inequities in our education system.

By some estimates, teachers in 96% of districts assign homework that requires Internet use, yet about one-third of lowincome kids in the United States lack a high-speed connection at home. Imagine a middle school student who isn’t able to watch a video that explains metamorphosis, or a ninth grader who can’t access math resources which demonstrate new ways of solving algebra problems, all because they don’t have the Internet at home.

Right here in Maine, the Cherryfield Public Library in Washington County has teamed up with Axiom Technologies, an innovative local company to tackle that very problem. As part of their “Check-out the Internet” initiative, students may check out a mobile Wi-Fi device to provide them with Internet access outside of school. This type of program is absolutely critical for rural areas in Maine and the United States, and one of digital learning amendments I offered, and which was accepted, opens the door for similar programs to launch around the country.

My other amendment authorizes a study of how the homework gap is impacting teachers in the classroom and the ability of students to complete their assignments and stay engaged in their work. Bringing the Internet to students and acquiring better information on this challenge will allow us to close the homework gap and ensure that the next generation of learners — particularly those in rural America — aren’t left behind.

Former U.S. Education Secretary Richard Riley summed it up best when he described education as “a national priority, a state responsibility, and a local function.” I agree. Washington should be a partner in education, not a roadblock. With the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, we return our educators’ focus to teaching, and give our students the power to achieve.

Steven also share an amazing artistic ability. Their paddles will be available for viewing at the library or on the library’s website.

Another family of artists picking up a paintbrush to help raise funds for the library is the mother/daughter team of Andrea Dacko and Lily Charpentier. Andrea is a former member of the library’s board of trustees and Lily grew up attending the library’s Children’s Story Hour every Tuesday morning. An added family twist to their participation is Lily’s dad, Paul Charpentier, will act as auctioneer for the evening.

Even though the Naples Public Library receives support from the town, it still must raise a significant portion of its yearly operating expenses through fundraisers such as the Paddle Auction Gala. Twenty-five local artists have stepped forward to paint beautiful scenes and images of the Lake Region on Maine-crafted canoe paddles. The theme for this year’s auction is “Flights of Fancy.”

Participating artists have embraced this idea and created images as they have interpreted the theme. As you might imagine, many paddles feature birds and other fanciful winged creatures. A dragon with a golden threedimensional tail, a loon family and a magical “flight” over

LOON FANTASY, a family of loons by Linda Cerosimo.

Naples’ famed Causeway are but a few of these amazing works of art that will be auctioned off on Aug. 15.

View all of the paddles and make plans to attend the auction. Tickets are $10 each

and include hors d’oeuvres and dessert. Tickets are available in advance at the Naples Library or at the door the night of the event. For more information, please call the library at 693-6841.

Lobster roll sale to benefit Deertrees

Thanks to Deertrees Theatre, the summer Lobster Roll Sale sale is back in the greater Bridgton area! What better way to enhance the season with family, friends, co-workers, and neighbors than with a delicious lobster roll, chips and whoopie pie for just a $10 donation.

Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Masci All proceeds to benefit the Harrison’s treasured Deertrees Theatre, Maine’s Most Enchanting Playhouse, as volunteers continue to bring an eclectic offering of performances, both musical and theatrical all summer long. Call Barb at 5834445 by July 31 to place your order or for more information.

Hannah Tomkinson Fairbank of Charlotte, Vt. and Michael Your lobster rolls will be ready for pick up or delivery on Bernard Mascia, Ph.D., of Sweden were married in Santa Fe, Friday, Aug. 7, at The Greenwood Manor Inn, 52 Tolman Road, Harrison, or the Bridgton Community Center, Depot New Mexico, on April 10, 2015.

The bride is the daughter of Louise B. Fairbank and Street, Bridgton.

Jonathan T. Fairbank, M.D., of Charlotte, Vt. Her father retired as a radiologist from FAHC and professor of Radiology at the University of Vermont in Burlington. Her mother retired as a social worker specializing in hospice with the Visiting Nurse Association.

Samantha Berke and Erich Shultz of Harrison have a The groom is the son of Elizabeth G. Mascia of Fayetteville, girl, Vienna Nicole Shultz, born June 25, 2015 at Bridgton N.Y., and Michael F. Mascia, M.D., of Sweden. His mother Hospital. Maternal grandparents are Fran and Peter Dumont teaches reading at Jamesville-Dewitt Middle School in of Waterford. Paternal grandparent is David Shultz.

Jamesville, N.Y. His father is a medical doctor on the faculty Valiree Nure and Tyler Plummer of Bridgton have a in Critical Care Medicine at Geisinger Medical Center in girl, Amelia Evelyn Martha Plummer, born June 17, 2015 Danville, Pa. at Bridgton Hospital. Maternal grandparents are Megan Hannah and Mike live in Washington, D.C., where he Crawford of Lewiston and Chris Nure of Casco. Paternal directs social science programs at Conservation International grandparents are Stacy and Andrew Plummer of Sebago. and she is a senior international environmental policy advisor Ashley (Thibodeau) Levesque of Bridgton has a girl, for the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Jade Catherine Rayne Thibodeau, born June 24, 2015 at Bridgton Hospital.

Jade joins a sibling, Lyndon Brackett, 8. Maternal grandparent is Catherine Knight of Norway.

Kelsey and Christopher Candelora of Chatham, N.H. have a boy, Jasper Coban Candelora, born July 8, 2015 at Memorial Hospital in North Conway, N.H. Maternal grandparents are Carl and Heather Drew of Stow. Paternal grandparents are Michael and Linda Candelora of Lovell.

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NAPLES — It has been nearly 20 years since the Naples Public Library undertook a huge building project that doubled the size of the old library, yet still kept the character and charm of its old self intact. It was a true community effort, with many townspeople pitching in whenever and wherever they could to bring the project to fruition.

Every project needs a “clerk of the works” and the person who filled those shoes for the library was wellrespected local carpenter, Freemont Merriam. Under his guidance and watchful eye, the project took shape and was completed giving the town of Naples its beautiful library building.

Now, a new generation of the Merriam family has stepped forward in another capacity to help out the Naples Public Library.

Three of Freemont Merriam’s sons — Sam, Seth and Steven — will be painting paddles for the library’s biannual Paddle Auction Gala to be held Saturday, Aug. 15, at the Naples Golf and Country Club.

One of their brothers, Dan Merriam, is an internationally-recognized artist who has had solo shows all over the world. But, the family’s artistic talents don’t stop with him. Sam, who manages the family’s business, Great Northern Docks, Seth and

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BHS Class of ’47 celebrates 68 years Bridgton High School’s Class of 1947 celebrated their 68th anniversary June 20.

Among the 14 persons who joyfully gathered at Tom’s Homestead in Bridgton to celebrate 68 years after graduating from Bridgton High School were Gordon S. Durfee and daughter, Diane Senez, of Enfield, Conn.; Rev. Ronald A. Murch and wife, Carol, of Lewiston; Carleen Libby Nelson of Clinton, daughter, Carolyn Nelson Corey of Albion, and daughter-in-law, Diana A. Nelson of Clinton; Rubie Haughn Sandus of Bridgton; Claudia Moynihan Shapiro and husband, Lester, of Waterford, Conn.; Carlo I. Viitala and wife, Glenys, of Harrison; E. Maurice Edwards ‘48 of Naples; and Betty Moynihan Cross ‘50 of Bridgton.

Unable to attend the reunion, and greatly missed,

were Gertrude DeWitt Holladay of Santa Maria, Calif.; Marion Linscott Littlefield of Pittston; Beverly Rand Koenig of Lisbon Falls; Wilma Ridlon Irish of Naples; and Victor R. Stevens of Waterford, Mich.

Fondly remembered were deceased members Maxine Ayer Hiscock, Malcolm Bacon, Lewis E. Barker, Melvin D. “Mickey” Boutilier, Horace Cockburn, Gerald E. Hatch, Winnifred Hilton Perkins, Lee C. Moynihan Jr., Ellis Nason, Doris Packard Zwolenski, Dean K. Perham, Everett C. Robbins, Alice Wentworth Harmon, and Richard “Dick” York.

A brief business meeting was led by the president, Rev. Murch, who also led the group in prayer. The secretary and treasurer’s reports, given by Mrs. Nelson, were

accepted as read. She also brought a message from Wilma Ridlon Irish, who is recovering from an illness.

No one volunteered to fill an office; consequently, Rev. Murch and Mrs. Nelson will continue as the class president and secretary-treasurer.

A reunion banquet followed the business meeting.

A prize for naming the presidents who were in office during the high school years of 1943-1947 (Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman), was won by Claudia Moynihan Shapiro.

Friendships were renewed and new memories made, while sounds of laughter filled the room. As the party broke up, the alumni of the BHS Class of ‘47 vowed to meet again in the summer of 2016, God willing, with the date and place to be announced in the spring.

Members of Bridgton High School’s Class of 1947 who attended the June 20 reunion were, back row, left to right: Ronald A. Murch, Rubie Haughn Sandus, Carlo I. Viitala and Gordon S. Durfee. In front are Carleen Libby Nelson, left, and Claudia Moynihan Shapiro.

Best Bridgton Beard search

There is a beard search going on in Bridgton, Maine; and it is serious!

The Village Folk Festival in downtown Bridgton is having its first-ever “Best Beards” contest on Friday, Aug. 21, at the Bridgton Community Center at 15 Depot Street. The Festival runs Friday and Saturday, Aug. 21-22, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Festival volunteer Bob Casimiro is directing and managing the contest. He was inspired, he said, “by the prolifera-

Santa quilt raffle WATERFORD — Come purchase your raffle tickets at the Wilkins House Breakfasts on either Wednesday, July 29, or Wednesday, Aug. 12, from 7:30 to 10 a.m. Tickets may also be purchased at the Waterford Town Office or by e-mailing waterfordsanta@yahoo.com The winning ticket will be drawn on Columbus Day weekend, after the Waterford Fall Foliage 5K. The Sun Bonnet Sue design quilt measures 96”x70”, and was generously donated by the Allen family of Norway. All monies raised go toward the purchase of Christmas gifts and winter wear for Waterford children in need. The tickets are $1 each or six for $5. The quilt can be shipped if you live away.

For questions or if you would like to help Waterford Santa (a 501(c)3 organization), please e-mail waterfordsanta@ yahoo.com or call 583-2446.

tion of beards we see — small, large, long, short, trim, and bushy — that reflect the unique character of our neighborhoods and the personalities that live here.” So he decided to highlight the beard-culture connection with this new event.

There will be three categories: “Best Big Beard;” “Best Sculpted Beard,” and “Best Mustache.”

When you are out and about and someone approaches you and invites you to enter the contest, smile at them… that’s one of the volunteers, or maybe someone who read about the contest. The entry fee is just $5, and fees will be pooled for cash prizes for the winners.

Whether you live far away or down the road a bit, registration forms are easy to obtain. Best Beards registration forms can be e-mailed to you via villagefolkfestival@ AS WITH BEARD, SO WITH MAN — Bob Casimiro, gmail.com, or picked up at the Bridgton Community organizer and manager of the Village Folk Festival’s firstCenter on weekdays. You can also pick up a form at several ever Beard Contest, poses with Amy Millar of The Loft local hair dressing and cutting establishments, including Salon, one of the judges.

The Loft Salon. You may also contact Casimiro for the registration form and with any questions you may have, by e-mailing arcasimiro@msn. com DENMARK — Come Mountain Farm in Sweden. Denmark Arts Center at 452learn what the Nite-Owl Rounding off the evening 2412 for more information.

The Nite-Owl is always Club is all about this Friday, will be dramatic readings July 24, as the Denmark Arts of “awkward e-mails” from looking for local performers.

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The third incarnation al awkward e-mail readings Would you like to showcase of the event kicks off at 9 welcome — e-mail niteowl@ your talents for a late-night p.m., and will feature stories denmarkarts.org). The event evening on a local stage? If from David Estey’s child- will be cabaret style, BYOB, you fit into any of these cathood in Aroostook County, pay-as-you-wish, and the egories, the Nite-Owl club taken from his book Whoop Denmark Arts Center will be wants you! E-mail niteowl@ and Driver. Following will serving complimentary slices denmarkarts.org or call the be live music from farm- of Brooklyn Blackout Cake, arts center at 452-2412 for ers Will and Liz of Black baked in-house. Call the more information.

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Baldwin at Hobbs Library

LOVELL — Hewnoaks artist Sarah Baldwin will visit the Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library in Lovell this Friday, July 24 at 7 p.m. to give a talk entitled, “Values in value: Using studio practice to communicate my world view.”

The mission of the Hewnoaks Artist Colony is to give artists time and space to work within a natural, rustic environment. Last summer,

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Sarah Baldwin was one of the 60 artists able to spend a residency in a cabin on Kezar Lake.

Baldwin is a Maine-based multidisciplinary artist. Her work combines experimental drawing technique with new media applications. She attended the University of Southern Maine, where she earned her bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in drawing and print-

making.

Baldwin works as the studio manager of the portfolio design studio Mullenberg Designs. She will be taking a look at her working practice in the studio, how it evolved at Hewnoaks, what her practice means to her everyday life, how it reflects her values and articulates her goals.

She will discuss and show ongoing projects and have art on display as well.