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Page D, The Bridgton News, August 1, 2013
On a ‘gender spectrum’
Boys will be boys, right? Not necessarily. Not anymore. In today’s public schools, boys might be girls. Not really of course, but people in the school have to act as if they were. Any who might object will likely find themselves forced into “sensitivity training.” Students are being taught to deny their instincts. They know intuitively that there are two complementary sexes. They know what boys are and what girls are, but they’re being brainwashed into believing that male/female is a false dichotomy. Homosexual activists have become fluid-gender activists and they’re plying their propaganda playbook. They’ve been working very hard for decades to transform public schools and they’re at a point now where they dictate policy. Our children are being indoctrinated into believing that human beings are not male and female — that we’re all on a “gender spectrum” and we can change at will. It’s dangerous in many ways, but mostly it’s dangerous because we’re encouraging children to repudiate their very nature. That’s bound to interfere with the learning process at other levels as well. If a kindergarten boy wants to be seen as a girl, the whole school has to treat him as if he were a girl. If students, teachers, or anyone else thinks there’s something wrong with that, they better keep their thoughts to themselves. Give
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(Continued from Page D) There is a cemetery in New Hampshire with two adults and four children, and all the children died within a year or two or each other. There was probably an epidemic of some sort that took the lives of those children in such a short time span. There is a plot in the North Bridgton cemetery with headstones of two boys who died at ages of 1 and 3 years, with the inscription: “Of such is the kingdom of heaven” Tales of sadness: many of the headstones had compelling inscriptions. A headstone in the Chadbourne Hill/ Middle Ridge cemetery had
Front Row Seat by Tom McLaughlin BN Columnist voice to your thoughts and you’ll be told there’s something wrong with you. Other kindergarteners who know intuitively and instinctively that their classmate is a boy are taught not only to deny their instincts, but also that their instincts and their intuition are bad — hurtful to the boy — and must be repressed. Adults around them insist the boy who thinks himself a girl isn’t confused. Instead, it’s they who are confused. Our mainstream media is complicit in all this. When they report on such cases, they use personal pronouns “she” and “her” when referring to the boy as if there could no doubt he was in fact a girl because he said he was, and that’s all that’s required. They “self-identify” as the law in Maine states. Has it ever bothered you when the media does that? Have you repressed your instincts when reading or hearing those mis-assigned personal pronouns? Did you think there was something wrong with you for thinking that just because a man or boy says he’s really a woman or girl, that doesn’t make it so? Would it surprise you to learn
that if you didn’t believe the man was a woman because he said so, and instead you believed that he was a very confused man, you may be charged with a human rights violation? You must watch the emperor parade naked down the street and you must praise his new clothes just as everyone else does. If the emperor says he’s a woman, you must also call him “empress.” We all must celebrate “diversity,” like it or not — or else. Last December, after years of intense, drawn-out lobbying by homosexual activists, the American Psychiatric Association dropped “Gender Identity Disorder” from its list of psychological disorders. Was the decision based on scientific research? No. It was political pressure, just like its decision in 1973 to drop homosexuality from the list when homosexuals shouted down speakers they didn’t like at the annual APA convention. Political pressure drives APA decisions way more than science. The Catholic Church, the religion to which this writer belongs, still teaches that homosexuality is disordered. It refuses to
this to say: Behold & see as you pass by As you are now so once was I And as I am so you must be Prepare for death & follow me” The life spans tell another story. The life expectancy in the late 18th century was only 35 years of age, but that is misleading, as so many died in infancy and early childhood and so many lived into their 70s, 80s and 90s. A Bell curve depicting this phenomenon would be very flat. One family plot in New Hampshire I visited had five or six people buried there who were all 70, 75 and older. As to that “recent experience:” I was standing at Dea. (Deacon) John Peabody’s grave in the South Bridgton cemetery and I heard the distinct sound of breathing. I kid
you not. There would be a 2-3 second sound of wheezing/breathing, silence for 6-7 seconds, and then the wheezing/breathing; it stopped after a few minutes. I kid you not. Cemeteries are cool and tell many, many stories; you just have to — listen. Bob Casimiro Bridgton
Public Notice
Double standard?
To The Editor: I am sending you a copy of the letter I wrote to the executive of Hannaford Supermarkets about the prices in the Bridgton store. I have yet to receive a reply from the office. Dear Hannaford Executive:
NEW STUDENT ENROLLMENT Grades 6, 7 and 8 Monday, Aug. 19th, 2013 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. No appointment necessary
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Renewal of a Liquor License Permit Application for Captain Jack’s, submitted by James Allen. 2T31
PLEASE BRING BIRTH CERTIFICATE, IMMUNIZATION RECORD, AND PROOF OF RESIDENCY. School address: 204 Kansas Rd., Naples, ME 04055 Phone: 647-8403 or 693-4784 Fax: 647-0991
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The Naples Board of Selectpersons will hold a Public Hearing at their regular meeting on August 12, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. at the Naples Municipal Offices located at 15 Village Green Lane, Naples, Maine. On the agenda:
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Casco Planning Board
August 12, 2013 Casco Community Center 940 Meadow Road 7:00 P.M. 1. Approve Minutes of April 8, 2013 2. Jeffrey T. Jones has submitted an application for an Amendment to an Approved Subdivision to relocate certain boundary lines on property known as Map 9, Lot 43-1. The property is commonly known as 27 Freeman Road, and is located in a Residential zone. 3. Other. 2T31 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
Board of Selectpersons
The Naples Board of Selectpersons will hold a Public Hearing at their regular meeting on August 12, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. at the Naples Municipal Offices located at 15 Village Green Lane, Naples, Maine. On the agenda: Renewal of a Liquor License Permit Application and a Special Amusement permit for Bray’s Brewpub & Eatery, submitted by Michael Bray. Public Welcome. 2T30
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE PURSUANT TO 14 M.R.S.A. §6323
By virtue of a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated April 9, 2013, entered in the Portland Superior Court, Civil Action, Docket No. PORSC-RE-2012401, in an action brought by the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA acting through the RURAL HOUSING SERVICE, USDA, f/k/a the FARMERS HOME ADMINISTRATION, Plaintiff, against ANTHONY CATALDI and LAURIE CATALDI, Defendants, for the foreclosure of a Mortgage Deed dated October 6, 2006, and recorded in the Cumberland County Registry of Deeds in Book 24446, Page 200, the statutory ninety (90) day redemption period having elapsed without redemption, notice is hereby given that there will be sold at public sale at the offices of the USDA, Rural Housing Service, 306 U.S. Route 1, Scarborough, Maine, on August 27, 2013, at 2:00 P.M., all and singular the premises described in said mortgage deed and being situate at 407 Duck Pond Road in Westbrook, Maine. The property shall be sold to the highest bidder at the sale. Ten percent (10%) of the purchase price will be required to be paid, in cash or by certified check payable to the USDA, Rural Housing
Service, at the time and place of sale. The balance of the purchase price is to be paid within thirty (30) days following the sale. Failure to pay the balance due within thirty (30) days following the sale shall be deemed a forfeiture of the successful bidder’s deposit. Additional terms may be announced at the time of sale. The above property is being sold “as is” and will be conveyed by Release Deed without any warranty as to the condition, size or location of the property or the state of title to the property. The property will be sold subject to utility easements and rights-of-way of record and utility easements and rights-of-way that are visible on the face of the earth. The property will be sold subject to real estate taxes assessed by and due and payable to the City of Westbrook. Information regarding the terms and conditions of the sale of this property may be obtained by contacting the offices of Broderick & Broderick, P.A. at (207) 794-6557. Dated: July 15, 2013 /s/ Richard H. Broderick, Jr., Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff
This letter is about my discovery that the Hannaford’s ad that I received in the Maine Sunday Telegram and the flyer distributed at the Bridgton store has remarkably different prices. Hannaford’s in Bridgton has been my “one-stop-shopping” store in Bridgton since it opened. I enjoy the quality of items and the friendliness of the employees. When I compared the ad I received in Sunday’s newspaper with the ad I picked up in the Bridgton store, I found the exact same items listed. (The ads were for the week of July 14 to July 20). However, the prices in the Bridgton store were significantly higher. The prices on the first page were the same although the “savings” amounts differed. Beginning on page 2 came the surprises. For example, Hillshire
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Public Welcome.
budge in spite of the scorn heaped upon them continually by those same activists. Schools across the country are being forced to allow boys who say they’re girls to use the girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms. In California, the Obama Justice Department helped homosexual activists force a school there to allow a girl who thinks she’s a boy to sleep in boys’ rooms unchaperoned on school trips. “Equality Maine” is sending paid homosexual activists out here to rural Maine for “re-education” on “transgender issues” this year. They’re determined to convince us hicks out here in the sticks that we have a problem if we don’t believe men are women or women are men just because they think they are. For years, I claimed that homosexual activists were using government and schools to brainwash Americans into furthering their agenda, but I don’t think that’s accurate anymore. They are the government now, and since our public schools are government schools, they are the schools too. They’re so thoroughly interwoven into staff, curricula and school board policy statements that there’s no more separating the two. If any of this makes you uncomfortable, you better keep quiet unless you’re okay with being labeled a bigot. Tom McLaughlin of Lovell is a retired U.S. History middle school teacher.
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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL Exclusive Listing of Properties for Sale The Town of Bridgton seeks proposals from real estate agencies, who belong to the Maine Association of Realtors, to become the exclusive listing agent representing the Town for the sale of up to a dozen tax-acquired properties. The proposals should include the proposed commission to be charged to the Town, the promotion and advertisements that will be developed and implemented as well as the use of the MLS listing services and any other fees or obligations to be imposed on the Town. The Town intends on executing a contractually-exclusive relationship with the successful agent for the term of three months with an option to extend the terms. Inquiries should be made to the Town Manager at 3 Chase Street, Suite #1, Bridgton, Maine 04009, or by calling 6478786. All proposals must be received at the same address no later than August 7, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. Electronic proposals will be accepted by Fax 207.647.8789, or by e-mail to townmgr@bridgtonmaine.org. The Town retains the right to accept, reject or modify any proposals that it deems necessary to protect the best interests of the Town. Information is also available at www.bridgtonmaine.org 1T31
Mitchell A. Berkowitz, Town Manager
Bird Watch by Jean Preis BN Columnist
Moving along
It is seven o’clock in the morning and we are sitting by the big window, sipping hot tea and munching raisin toast. Normally, at this hour, we would be looking out at the view, but a cloud has settled down onto us, and soft gray mist veils part of the yard and most of the cove. The lake is missing entirely. It reminds me of a poem by Carl Sandburg, that begins “The fog comes on little cat feet…” We crank open the window to listen for birds, but the yard is quiet, muffled by the mist. Then we hear the sweet sound of the song sparrow, a triplet of notes followed by a musical trill, and the clear chirping calls of goldfinches. It is reassuring to know there are still birds out there in the gray world. We sip our tea, nibble our toast, and hope some other signal of the natural world will reach us. After a while, the rising sun warms the air and the mist begins to move slightly. It drifts up and out, first revealing the edge of the lake and then the top of the oak tree by the dock, where we discover a bird perched on a bare twig that sticks up from the tree’s crown. The light is poor and the bird is backlit, but we can see its upright stance, and that is enough to let us make an educated guess about its identity. I guess it is a cedar waxwing, a guess that is confirmed when I look through binoculars. The bird has no stripes or other strong markings, and it has a crest, which is folded down slightly. If the light were better I would see how sleek the bird is, with warm brown on the breast, a creamy yellow belly, and a narrow black mask through the eyes. I might also see the bright yellow tip of the tail and even the red waxy feather tips on the wings. Cedar waxwings can be found in Maine year round. They breed here, as well as across the northern United States and Canada. In winter, they move southward, dispersing across southern Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean islands. Highly social birds who live and travel in flocks, they tend to be nomadic, attracted to areas with abundant crops of berries and MOVING, Page D Farms Smoked Sausage was $1 more, organic grape tomatoes were $.80 more, Heluva Good Cheese was $1 more, Glad Cling Wrap was $.50 more and, worst of all, the deli prices were up to $2 a pound more! I cannot understand this extreme variation from Hannaford’s many other stores. Bridgton is certainly not a remote location, which would significantly increase transportation costs. While many of us are seasonal residents, these increases also affect the year-round residents of Bridgton, who shop at Hannaford’s. I have not compared the “off-season” prices. I certainly see this as unfair and would like to hear your explanation of this policy. Barbara Mercier Sebago
Above and beyond
To The Editor: On a recent July trip to Bridgton for my daughter’s wedding, I had the good fortune to contact Watkin’s Florist in a search of a bouquet of peonies — almost impossible to find I was told. Carol from Watkin’s Florist scoured local gardens and
created a lovely bouquet for our big day. She went out of her way to assist us, and I would like to acknowledge her great service and friendly, professional attitude. The Bridgton area is a beautiful place with great people! Carolyn Williams Mission Viejo, Calif.
To The Editor: The American Lung Association thanks Maine’s Attorney General Janet T. Mills for signing a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency in support of the proposed Tier 3 Motor Vehicle Emission and Fuel Standards, which will make air healthier and save Mainers’ lives. Motor vehicles are a major source of air pollution, causing premature death, worsening asthma and other lung diseases and increasing the risk of cardiovascular harm. It is estimated that this proposal, which EPA estimates could prevent up to 2,500 premature deaths annually, will cost less than a penny per gallon. The new standards will clean up cars, trucks and LETTERS, Page D
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Thanks, Janet
) ) ) ) ) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, acting ) through the RURAL HOUSING SERVICE, ) USDA, f/k/a the FARMERS HOME ) ADMINISTRATION ) PLAINTIFF ) vs. ) MICHELLE A. RENY a/k/a MICHELLE ) A. TANGUAY ) DEFENDANT ) and ) WILLIAM T. TANGUAY ) and ) PORTFOLIO RECOVERY ASSOCIATES, ) LLC ) PARTIES IN INTEREST )
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT MAINE DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT NINE LOCATION: PORTLAND DIVISON OF S CUMBERLAND DOCKET NO. PORDC-RE-2012-418
ORDER FOR SERVICE BY PUBLICATION TITLE TO REAL ESTATE INVOLVED
On Motion of the Plaintiff for an order for service by publication of the Complaint for Foreclosure on the Defendant, Michelle A. Reny a/k/a Michelle A. Tanguay, pursuant to M.R. Civ. P. 4(g), it appearing that this is an action to foreclose a mortgage from Michelle A. Reny to the Plaintiff dated May 22, 1992, and recorded in the Cumberland County Registry of Deeds in Book 10076, Page 161, on premises located in Windham, Maine. It further appears, and the Court so finds, that personal service of the Complaint cannot be made upon the Defendant inasmuch as her present whereabouts is unknown and cannot with reasonable diligence be established, it is hereby ORDERED that service be made upon the Defendant, Michelle A. Reny a/k/a Michelle A. Tanguay, by publishing this Order once a week for three consecutive weeks in The Bridgton News, a newspaper of general circulation in Cumberland County. The first publication shall be made within twenty (20) days after the Order is granted. Service by publication shall be complete on the twenty-first day after the first publication. Within twenty (20) days after service is completed by the foregoing method, the Defendant, Michelle A. Reny a/k/a Michelle A. Tanguay, shall appear and defend this action by filing an answer with the Clerk of the Maine District Court at P. O. Box 412, Portland, Maine 04112, and also by serving a copy of the answer on Plaintiff’s attorney, Richard H. Broderick, Jr., Esq., at P.O. Box 5, Lincoln, ME 04457. The Defendant, Michelle A. Reny a/k/a Michelle A. Tanguay, is hereby notified that if she fails to do so a judgment by default will be rendered against her for the relief demanded in the Complaint. A copy of this Order is also being mailed to the Defendant, Michelle A. Reny a/k/a Michelle A. Tanguay, if the address of the Defendant is known to the Plaintiff. IMPORTANT WARNING: IF YOU FAIL TO FILE AN ANSWER WITHIN THE TIME STATED ABOVE, OR IF AFTER YOU FILE YOUR ANSWER YOU FAIL TO APPEAR AT ANY TIME THE COURT NOTIFIES YOU TO DO SO, A JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU IN YOUR ABSENCE FOR THE RELIEF DEMANDED WITHIN THE REQUIRED TIME. IF YOU INTEND TO OPPOSE THIS LAWSUIT, DO NOT FAIL TO ANSWER WITHIN THE REQUIRED TIME. If you believe the Plaintiff is not entitled to all or part of the claim set forth in the Complaint or if you believe you have a claim of your own against the Plaintiff, you should talk to a lawyer. You may ask the office of the Clerk of the Maine District Court for information as to places where you may seek legal assistance. Dated: July 5, 2013
s/Richard Mulhern Judge, Maine District Court
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